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3m Teen-Age Saturday, July 15, 1972 Action Line Dial CO 3-7000 PTFW13 nsT-jiywi 1 1 4... 4 ss Shapp Aghast i At Ceiling on U. S. Flood Aid I Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Dial CO 3-7000 between 8 A.M.

ani 8 P.M. Monday through Friday, or write Action Line, Box 8300, Philadelphia, 19101. Mom Deserves Special Birthday; Vacation Weekend Set at Hotel The 12 of us thiak our mom's the greatest. What would be a super birthday gift for her? Kathleen Foley, age 15, Had-donfield, N. J.

Escape weekend. Marriott Motor Hotel, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. thinks mother of 12 deserves weekend of fun and relaxation away from her brood. Mom and dad will be guests at hotel for weekend of July 29. They'll enjoy swimming, miniature golf and shuffleboard during the day.

Saturday night there's dinner and show. Sunday morning they'll be treated to breakfast in bed. Besides caring for family, your mom devotes time to several hobbies: participates in church groups and PTA. I'd like to apply for an apprenticeship in one of the building or construction trades. Where do I start? Glenn Dunman, age 19, Barrington, N.

J. At union headquarters. Action Line got names and ad By WILLIAM VANCE From Our Washington Bureau Milton Shapp, disturbed and disappointed, told White House officials Friday that President Nixon's request for $1.7 billion to aid six flood-stricken states "doesn't begin to cover our losses." Shapp was aghast when informed that Pennsylvania's share of the proposed $1.7 billion would be $1,042 billion. "Oh my God," he groaned, "we suffered 80 percent of the losses. This just isn't going to be sufficient." SHAPP VOICED his complaints at a special conference at the White House attended by about 400 mayors, county executives and other officials from the six-state area hardest hit by the flooding from tropical storm Agnes.

Shapp figured Pennsylvania should receive at least $1.3 billion of the sum Mr. Nixon asked Congress to appropri CP i dresses of various locals from Building and Construction Trades Council i Philadelphia. List is on the way. All apprenticeships are handled through individaal trade unions, you apply directly through local. You can also get details by applying to the Apprentice ship Information Center, 1221 N.

Broad st. Whether working on the job or at home, strange accidents can AP Wireptxpto Fighting Begins Again in Northern Ireland "ast PROFILE happen. One guy in Portland, Ore. fell from a tree while pruning it. He didn't get a scratch, but his' wife got a lump on her head, bruises and other injuries.

He landed right on her. Utah Party Leader Loves Glamor, Grind of Politics Line Action BOBBY FISCHER upset again FischerPlea For Replay Is Denied REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP). Bobby Fischer charged on Friday that tournament organizers seemed to "upset and provoke me" deliberately, but an appeals committee rejected his request to replay the chess game he forfeited to Boris Spassky. The world champion fr6m the Soviet Union was awarded Thursday's second game in the championship match when Fischer refused to appear, staying in his hotel suite because he objected to three moving picture cameras in the hall. THUS SPASSKY, who won the first game, was 2-0 in the 24-game series.

He needs 10 more points to retain the victory counts one point and a draw half a point. Fischer said if the forfeit ruling were reversed and all cameras were removed, he would go ahead with the match. This demand came despite the fact the movie and television rights allowed the Icelandic Chess Federation to offer a record $125,000 purse for both players. Gumundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic federation, said the cameras would be removed, but that Spassky's game point would stay. That still left the future of the championship in doubt.

THORARINSSON said if the match was stopped by Fischer's disqualification, the organizers would not pay the loser's share. This meant that Fischer could not only lose his chances at the title but a great sum of money. As the loser he would be entitled to $46,875 from the chess federation, $45,000 from a purse of about $120,000 offered by British financier James Slater, and $27,500 from television and movie rights. In a seven-page letter to Lothar Schmid, the chief referee, the American said he was told the cameras would be silent and invisible but "nothing could have been far IRA Slays 3 in Worst Fighting Yet BELFAST (UPI)-A British soldier and two civilians were killed Friday in a day of gun-battles and bombings which pushed Northern Ireland to the brink of what British Defense Secretary Lord Carring-ton termed "disaster." Adding to the increased gravity of the situation was the report that the Irish Republican Army used bazooka-type rockets against British forces during an overnight battle in Belfast's Suffolk housing estate. A British Army spokesman described the fighting as the heaviest yet in Northern Ireland's three years of violence.

ft tfft' A. fw I'm running a carnival Saturday to raise money for the Easter Seal Society but I don't have enough prizes yet. Could you help me get son Maryann Passarella, age 13, Philadelphia. By the carton. Kiddy Toy Center, Stenton ave.

and Washington Philadelphia is giving you 30 games to use as prizes. Carnival's being held today at 2 P. M. on 2000 block of S. Simpson st.

in Philadelphia. There'll be games of skill and chance, plus hotdogs and other goodies. Neighbors have chipped in homemade baked xds to help raise money for Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Society helped over 381,000 crippled people last year, thanks to folks like you. For more information on Easter Seal Society, call GR 7-4437.

I love' sports lut track and field is my favorite. Someday I'd like to enter the Olympics. Who can help me? Nancy Ro-pars, age 14, Philadelphia. Amateur Athletic Union. Middle Atlantic Association of AAU is sending you application and information on how to register with club nearest you.

Group trains and sets up meets to help develop young athletes. Outstanding AAU athletes can enter Olympics tryoits and try to win spot on U. S. team. Summer Olympics are for Munich this August; 1976 Winter Olympics will be held in Denver.

Others interested in Amateur Athletic Union can write them at Room 738, Land Title Building, 19110. ate. But he told Frank Carlucci, deputy director of the office of management of the budget, even that wouldn't do the job. "Our losses in Pennsylvania alone are over $2.5 billion, perhaps close to the $3 billion mark," Shapp said. SHAPP SAID later that he would try to work through Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Rep.

Dan Flood, a Democrat and member of the House Appropriations Committee, to pump more money into the Nixon proposal. He said the Congressional delegation and particularly Sen. Scott and Sen. Richard Schweiker Pa.) "have been magnificent through the crisis. Hopefully, through them, we'll get what we need." Carlucci, who presided at the conference, is a native of Wilkes-Barre, one of the most devastated communities in the six-state region.

HE APPEARED sympathetic to Shapp's complaints and, at one point, promised direct action to untangle red tape surrounding the Small Business Administration loan program in Pennsylvania. After hearing assurances the SBA would not extend one official, "does not discriminate because of age" in extending recovery loans to homeowners, Shapp, the only governor attending the conference, leaped to his feet. "I've been listening to your answers, and I can tell you it just isn't working that way," he said. SHAPP EXPLAINED that the SBA would not extend low-interest loans to elderly residents unable to come up with a $500 down payment. And he said SBA had refused the state's offer to guarantee the down payment.

"If you can locate these senior citizens," said Carlucci, "you send them back in. I assure you they'll get their loans. "You're having trouble with red tape? Give us the ics and we'll take action." United Pres International Jean Westwood, the platinum blonde chosen to lead the Democratic National Committee, loves hard work and the glamor of national politics. "When I lost a race," she said of one of her early political defeats, "I just took the next job and kept on working that's what I want to do, keep on working The heavy-voiced 47-year-old grandmother, an officer of two family business firms in Utah, has been active in most major Democratic campaigns in the state in the last decade and has been a party worker all of her adult life. SHE HAS BEEN a leader in McGovern's come-from-behind campaign since June 1970.

"The senator called me asking me to be his national co-chairman," she recalled. "I told him I'd need three or four weeks to think it over, but I really didn't. I knew all along that I wanted to work for him. "I told him I didn't want this to be the sort of job where all I did was attend teas and do things like that. He told me I would be right in there making decisions and working hard." A FRIEND of the thin, intense Mrs.

West-wood said in Salt Lake City Friday: "Jean has often been asked to enter Utah state politics but she prefers the excitement of working at the national level. She will take the new job in stride and is not one to complain about the flurry of activity and the hard grind of campaigning." Mrs. Westwood was elected in 1968 and 1972 as Utah Democratic national commit-teewoman. She has served on the national party committee since 1969, was vice chairman of the Western States Democratic Conference from 1968 to 1970 and field secretary for Rep. David S.

King from 1964 to 1966. "I have been in politics all my life," she often has said. SHE SAYS much of the distrust in government and public officials would disappear if "more people really understood how much difference they can make by actively working in politics, expressing their opinions Line Action Chairwoman Jean Westwood just keep on working' and working to elect officials they feel would really represent their views." Mrs. Westwood lives, in West Jordan, a farming community and suburb of Salt Lake City. Her husband Richard is prominent in the mink raising industry and she is an officer of the Westwood Mink Farm and Westwood Enterprises, both family concerns.

The Westwoods, who have two children and four grandchildren, plan to move to Washington when Mrs. Westwood takes over as the first woman to head the national party organization. My friend and I are fans of the late Tyrone Power. We've looked desperately fir pictures of him, to no avail. What can you do? Vikki Holliday, age IS, Havertown, Pa.

Scout one up. Action Line got photo of swashbuckling movie star for you. Tyrone Power III followed in family footsteps when he began actin? career. His great-grandfather and father were well-known actors. Power achieved stardom with picture "Lloyds of London" in 1936.

Career included films like "Alexander's Ragtime "Rose of Washington Square" and "The Razor's Edge." Married three times, his romances with Hollywood leading ladies made headlines. While filming movie "Solomon and Sheba" in Spain in 1958, Power suffered heart attack and died. I've been trying to get a recent picture of the Pittsburgh Pirates but can't i id one anywhere. How can I get one? Eleen Gibson, age li, Philadelphia. With players' signatures.

Pittsburgh Pirates are sending you two team photos. Players will pen names on picture before it goes in the mail. World champs, the Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles in World Series last year. Pittsburgh fans were so jubilant, 100,000 of them took to streets to celebrate. In aftergame melee, 98 people were arrested and 128 were injured.

Others can get photo of Pittsburgh team by writing: Pittsburgh Pirates, 600 Stadium Circle, Pittsburgh, 15204. ther from the facts." HE PREVIOUSLY had told Schmid that although he could not see or hear the cameras, the knowledge that they were there made him nervous. THE DEATHS Friday raised the overall toll in the strife-torn province to 435 including nine in the past 24 hours. The Army said 34 gunmen were hit in gunbattles since 8 P. M.

Thursday. The British Army said an unidentified woman was killed when snipers fired on an Army post in Belfast's Springfield road, once referred to as the "peace line" between hostile Protestant and Catholic communities. A British soldier and a civilian were killed and three soldiers and three civilians wounded in another gunbattle in the Catholic Ardoyne district. Snipers wounded two more soldiers in other incidents. CARRINGTON said the introduction by the IRA of heavy-caliber weaponry such as the rocket-launchers was a "dangerous escalation" of the violence.

He said "one can only hope that the people of Northern Ireland themselves realize how near they are to disaster. This is a position of the utmost gravity." Security sources said rocket launchers had been used against the British Army before, as far back as mid-1971. But Friday's report to the House of Commons by government spokesmen was the first official acknowledgement. WILLIAM WHITELAW, British secretary of state for Northern Ireland, told the House of Commons that the use of rocket-launchers by IRA forces "greatly multiply the risks of damage and casualties." A British Army spokesman said "so far we have been lucky and the enemy has generally been off-target but soon there could be serious casualties." 372 Books Banned SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP). Government censors examined 890 books and magazines in 1971 and banned 372 of them, officials reported.

Tired, Teary Wallace Returns to Alabama McGovern Woos Pros, Hails O'Brien rev I Person to Person WE WERE FLOODED with requests for the "Alias Smith and Jones" television wanted posters. We sent all we had. Please tell Action Line readers we're sorry we didn't haye enough for all. Bob Palmer, Universal Studios, Hollywood. i By PHIL GAILEY Special to The Inquirer MIAMI BEACH.

Gov. George Wallace, near tears as his wheelchair was rolled past staff and supporters waiting in the lobby of his hotel headquarters, left Miami on Friday and flew to a rehabilitation' center in Birmingham, Ala. "I don't have anything to say at the moment about politics," he told reporters before he was lifted into the back seat of a green Chrysler Imperial by security agents. "WHAT'S ON MY mind now is going to the rehabilitation center and learning to be able to be independent in getting around and going back to the governor's office." His 1972 bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination was over and his tired face seemed to reflect that fact. He reached out to limply shake hands with a few news- men and members of his staff who lined the way.

Choking back tears, Wallace told them: "Ya'U come to see me in Alabama. I'm still alive and kicking." THE CRIPPLED governor, the victim of a May 15 assassination attempt, said he felt that "we accomplished a good bit" at the Democratic National Convention that ended Friday. "We heard a lot of candidates talk about tax relief, a strong national defense, law and order and a lot of other things you wouldn't have heard if I hadn't been involved," Wallace said. Wallace flew to Montgomery for his first night in Alabama since early May. He was shot May 15 at Laurel, Md.

He traveled home in a military hospital plane. Continued from First Page year term as chairman for "compelling personal sons." But an O'Brien assistant, just before the chairman went up to McGovern's suite for their meeting, said O'Brien, was inclined to accept a new term if he was assured that he would not be simply a titular leader but would retain full powers. It was further learned that McGovern, although happy with O'Brien's chairmanship of the party during the last two years and at the convention, wanted control of the party machinery for his Presidential campaign. THE OUSTER of O'Brien, however, leaves open the breach between McGovern and party regulars. Ironically, McGovern spent almost all of his last day in Miami Beach going to meetings of party regulars, feeding them soothing syrup and praising O'Brien.

After the national committee meeting, he flew to Washington, and will fly to South Dakota today for a vacation and to plan his fall campaign. Ex-Sen. Gruening Is 'Satisfactory MIAMI BEACH (AP). Former Alaska Sen. Ernest Gruening was reported in satisfactory condition Friday, two days after undergoing emergency abdominal surgery.

A spokesman at Mount Sinai Hospital said Gruening, 85, was transferred out of the intensive care unit Thursday. 5 EASY WAYS TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In Philadelphia, calk 665-9350 9 In Pennsylvania, other than Plriadelphia, cai: TOIL FREE: 800-222-2765 In New Jersey and Delaware, 2 call TOLL FREE: 800-523-9068 Use these direct lines for fast, efficient service GEORGE WALLACE 'alive and kicking'.

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