Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 1

iff" l-f Legislative or 's Pay Boost By GARTH JONES AUSTIN (AP) Ecorfomy-' minded negotiators working on' the $4.1 billion appropriations bill decided today the state could notafford a fire ant eradication program but could afford to raise the governor's pay. The five' senators and five representatives trying to wipe out a $13 million difference in the Senate andSlouse versions appropriation to apply The committee also approved a compromise in the building of border import-export stations for quarantine of cattle and other livestock; They voted to build two quarantine facilities, at El Paso'and Brownsville, Instead of the three recommended in theSenate bill or the one in the House bill! Repl Hilary Doran, Del Rio, pointed out that Laredo, the third proposeo: site fop a quar million the next year in bujld- ing a statewide telephone system for state agencies and legislators similar to the Wide Area Telecommunications Service (WATS) lines used by a number of state agencies now. Staff members of the Legislative Budget Board estimated the move might save the state $8 million over the next' 10 years in communications sav ings. "I want lo be recorded as voting 'no' on this," said Sen. A.

M. Aikin, head of the Senate negotiators. "I don't need a telephone line from Paris to Austin and I don't believe other legislators need one. I don't think the system is needed, I don't think it will be economical and I think it will actually be of the state budget next year met for the second time. There was guarded optimism they might finish their compromise" talks late tonight and -have a settlement ready whejWolh resuggi'Sessfohs Wednesday.

"I' think it wait for one rr" Red Neil Caldwell of AI-viii said of a $300,000 proposed secucme to km fire ants in antine station, wasyclose to East "And what's mor Eagle Pass, which already had the retaining Mexico recently threatened to cut off livestock xports from Texas until adequate facilities for quarantine were built to prevent the spread of livestock diseases. The confereesalso agreed In I don't think the House would ever approve another A few minules later the 10-man conference committee approved the $63,000 salary set for Texas' governorm the Senate bill instead or the $58,500, the present salary level, in the House bill. the House plan to spend $3.6 I 'I Panel i. i JULY FOURTH PARADE Plan to. be in Longview for the big Fourth of July Parade at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday. Partly cloudy and continued warm with a chance of showers. Temperatures will range from the lower 70s to the lower 90s. AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIELD Nfw York and AmertcaD Stock Ezrhant Reports ic ic 16 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS LONGVIEW, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3,1972 NEA Flur Stri UPI T.lwholo 101ST YEAR NO. 131 Nixon's Deadline Met is Troop Withdra wa Ahead Of cneduie i'; 1-'.

-h I'r A A 1 L-J 4 lost 4.000 men from its rolls last -week, spokesmen said, and now has 31.200. Navy strength dropped by 300 to 2.20(1. The strength of the U.S. Coast Guard remained steady at 100. The United States flies regularly out of more airbases in Thailand than it does in South Vietnam.

Seven bases handle U.S. military traffic in Uio kingdom, while in Vietnam U.S. warplanes 'fly only to three. Military spokesmen said that the strength of S. forces Jn Vietnam last week was the lowest since April 1905, when there weie 36.000 I's.

servicemen based there. SAIGON (I The U.S. command Thursday beat by onp day President Nixon's deadline of lowering U.S. troop strength to below 49,000 men in South Vietnam by June 30, spokesmen said today. i The command last week withdrew 6,000 men from its Vietnam-based U.S.

force, to beat tie Friday deadline py a single' day, spokesmen sauf. sounds said about of the I servicemen were simply lo neighboring Thailand. Ivhere Iir Parade Ihw Thursday, there were 48.000 Americans based in Soutff Vietnam. Nixon had ordered U.S. troop strength to below 49.000 by Friday.

In addition to the Vietnam-based Americans, approximately 55,000 airmen are based in Thailand and Guam, and another 42,1100 men are serving, offshore with U.S. 7th Fleet aiicral! earners, cruisers, 'destroyers and other warships. U.S. officers said Air Foee strength in Vietnam dropped last week by 1.4110 men to a total of 13,100. They said about 1,000 of the airmen simply switched to Thai bases.

Another 300 Marine were pulled out o. Vietnam, reducing the. number of leathernecks to 2,200. All of those who left South Vietnam went to officers-said. The U.S.

Army in Vietnam they were assigned to aidlin air DRESS REHEARSAL The Fife and Drum Corps at Thomas Benoit, L'xbridge, Sgt. James Casey, Ft. Meyer, Va.J rehearses for the upcoming Fourth of Smithville, Sgt. Thomas Eberhardy, Milwaukee, July, Independence Day, celebration. From left are Sgt.

and Sgt. Gary Shanak, Wausau, Wis. (UPI)- Tuesday Morning ft Honor University Groduote war over Indochina. Spokesmen said that List $3.3 Million Boost Seen For County Nation Celebrates Attpmnt 196lh Birthday Kllle(l 111 AttcmPl The big annual Fourth of paricfe will wf-nd its way through downtown Long-view beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

All participants will gather -onTirst Street at 9 a.m., near ijj "Longview High Sctiool campus. The route uill go To -Hijack Aircraft World Chess Match Hangs In Balance '-wi MetY.in J-'redonia, to halcv, I einf-r. back onto Miihvin. ihen stop on Fredon-ia at courthouse square. The parade is co-sponsored by the Captain William Young Chapter, DAR, and the Long-vice Chamber of Commerce.

Also Co sponsored will be the" program on the courthouse square scheduled to begin immediately after the parade, or about 10 a.m. City 'Commissioner William Rice will speak on a patriotic Mayor Robert H. Smith 'will lead in the Pledge of Allegiance .1 Earl Sharp -gl act as master of ceremonies, a prayers will come Irom the Revs. Warrin t- ry arid Kenneth Mann. Musical selections will lie presented by the Second Air Force Band from Barksdale Air Force Base.

I.a.. and the youth choir of ite Mobberly Avenue Baptist -Church. (See PARADE. 1'a-e 2-A) SAIGON (UPI)-A month ago Nguyen Thai Binh graduated from the University of Washington with honors. Sunday he died attempting to hijack a Pan American 747 to North Vietnam with "bombs" made out of Simons.

The 24-year-old Vietnamese, a vehement antiwar protester while in college, took a The recently passed bill to increase Social Security benefits may mean an extra to $275,000 for the economy of Gregg County, according to a "guestimate" from Russell B. Patterson, chief of the local Social Security office. this could amount to an annual monetary injection of up to $3,290,000 for the county. Patterson noted that the estimate was based on figures as of Jan. 1, 1971, concerning the total number of persons receiving benefits.

figures are-expected, he added, within a few weeks. The number of persons receiving benefits, Patterson said, has not changed by a large degree in the past year. The fig-ure remains, fairly stable be (See MILLION, Page 2-A) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fireworks, patriotic pageants and family picmcs are among the traditional Fourth. of' July Jiighlights as the nation celebrates its 196th birthday over a four-day weekend. An audienee-Tlressed in red, white and blue was on hand Sunday in Oklahoma City for "The 1972 Stars and Stripes Show" featuring comedian Bob Hope, singers Anita Bryant and Nancy Wilson and baseball's Mickey Mantle.

Tickets to the $300,000 extravaganza were free but the ticket holders had to come dressed the colors of the flag. NBC taped the show for broadcast at 9:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday. 'The National Yankee Doodle Dandy" will be selected in Philadelphia from among 13 teen-agers who were born tin the Fourth and who represent the 13 original colonies, The youngsters competed in an essay on "What My American Freedoms Mean To Me." Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III will deliver Tuesday's festivities at Independence Hall.

While the Dandy hopefuls declaim, President Nixon and his wife plan to spend a quiet holiday at the Western White House in San (See NATION, Page 2-A) liar gain FestivaK REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer's time runs out at 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Fischer, the 29 year old Brooklyn chess genius, must turn up in Reykjavik by then or lose the right to challenge Soviet titieholder Boris Spassky for the world championship, a match that has generated wider interest than any chess game in history. Hold Suspect In Robbery Those Fourth of July sales are In, full swing in Longview, and bargains galore are being of-, fered throughout the business community! Watch the advertisements In this paper for the best buys in clothing, shoes, furniture, appliances, automobiles, tires, housewares, sporting goods, lawnmowers and scores of other items! Fischer, apparently bargaining for more money, was hiding out New York while -the great debate of "will he show up or won't he?" raged. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The (Icelandic Chess Federation refused today to meet chess a 1 1 Itbby Fischer's demands for (tore money to play Uie Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world championship.

The 24-game series was to Have started Sunday. But when Fischer didn't show the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), 1P. Max Euwe. announced that, he was postponing the deadline until (See WORLD, Page 2-A) Where To Find: One Vehicle Crash Kills Houston Man stewardess hostage while the plane with 149 persons aboard was on the last leg of its San Francisco Guam. Manila -Saigon flight.

He sent a note to the pilot, 'Gene Vaughn, demanding to be flown to Hanoi. Hanoi. When Vaughn. 53, of Scotts-dale, did not immediately comply he sent, another note written in his own -blood saying "you have failed to comply with my first demand. The blood indicates how serious (See HONOR, Page 2-A) Pakistan, India Reach Agreement SIMLA, India (UPI) Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani President Zulfi-kar Ali Bhuto signed an agreement today in hopes of bringing to an end a 25-year-old era of conflict which has led to two wars.

The agreement was signed in a five-minute ceremony at this Himalayan hill station 240 miles north of New Delhi. It capped five days of intense summit conference talks by the leaders of the-two nations. Under agreement, India will return to Pakistan all territory- lost along the "western front" during the two-week war which ended last December, except the areas along the Kashmir cease-fire line The agreement also calls for withdrawal of all troops from their mutual borders and renunciation of the use of force in settling future disputes. Early Paper In observance of Independence Day, The Longview Daily News will be published earlier than usual' on Tuesday. Subscribers and carriers are advised that newspapers will be available at noon Tuesday for the beginning of delivery.

BATON -ROUGE One suspect in the two man- bank robbery at Tenyha. Toxas las! Tuesday was to be -arraigned Monday before a Federal magistrate here." Kenneth Ray Clements, about 31 years old, was apprehended city of 'Louisiana Sunday and was held in he Baton Rougo jail under federal bank robbery charges FBI agents their search for the- second suspect in both EasM'exas and Louisiana, according to Richard Long, assistant special agent of' thcj Dallas office. "We have recovereil some of the Long said. Total aniount taken from the Citions State Bank of Tenaha was if ported at $41,098. (See HOLD, Page 2.A) was construction supervisor for the Baker Construction Co.

of. Houston, and was a member of the Faith Missionary Baptist Church of Houston. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Baker of Houston; one son, Cecil Darren Baker and two daughters, Melissa Baker and Kimberly Baker, all of Houston; parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.

C. Baker of Mount Enterprise; two brothers, Charles Baker of-La Porte- and William Baker of sister, Mrs. Mary Boyd of 5-A 54-7-B 4-B 4-A 3-B 4-A 4 3-1? 2-B 1-2-B 4 '5-A Abby Classified Comics Editorials Longview Skies Markets Movies Solunar Tabfes Sports .4 TV SrhedWs By DONNA KNOX The Fourth of July, 1972, in Longview may well be most reminiscent of earlier Independence" Day holidays. There will be a downtown parade (at 9:30 a.m.) followed by a patriotic program on the courthouse lawn. Many families also have picnics and-lake gatherings on their agendas, much as in years past.

Dr. Lynn A. Boatner of Dallas has been cited for inclusion in the biographical publication. "Personalities of the, South." Dr. Boatner is the son of Fred and Nlla Boatner of Longview.

New Feature Will Appear Starting' Tuesday, another popular feature will appear regularly in this newspaper. It is a "Do It Yourself" column; and it offers men, women and children the "chance to put something of themselves into their homes. Now appearing in more than 450 newspapers in four countries, the column, written by Steve Ellingson, had its- beginning after World War II when the ex farm boy who had discovered California during military service decided he wasn't to go back to settle in his hometown of N.D: He bought a few acres in San Fernando Valley and out of financial necessity began to build the household furniture, drawing designs on paper and then working them out in wood. Friends began asking for patterns thus the idea for the feature. "Just as sewing columns satisfy a real need among women newspaper readers, so does our column for men, women and children," said Ellingson.

It offers illustrated articles running the gamut from i.il.f 4 The first fatality in Gregg County during the long holiday weekend was reported her Sunday morning whelu D. Baker, 35, of 9914 Telephone Road, Houston, was killed in a one-vehicle accident on U.S. 259 between Longview and Kilgore, according to Department of Public Safety officers. The mishap occurred a 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 3.7 miles south of Longview on i a 259.

Highway patrolman C. V. Welch, who investigated the ac-' the Chevrolet, pickup Baker was driving hit a bridge railing in the south bound lane on 259. Baker was. thrown out of the vehicle and was pronounced dead cm arrival at Good Shepherd Hospital.

Baker was alone in the vehicle at the. time, of the accident. Funeral services for Baker were held Monday afternoon at the Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Mount Enterprise, with the Rev. Raymon Alexander, the Rev. Jack Strickland and the Rev.

Frank Summers officiating. Interment was in Woodlawn Heights Cemetery in Mount with arrangements under the di-reCtion of the Crawford-A Funeral Home of Hondouon. Holiday Weekend Violence. Has Grim Start In Texas vJWeekend guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

B. G. Rook were their son and daughter-in-law, Moreland and Carolyn Rook, of Tulsa and their' daughter, Deborah. Deborah; whose birthday falls on the Fourth of July, celebrated early with a party here. Her cake had three candles.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell of Lansing Acres entertained Miss Dianne Thomas and Dr. Kenneth Glaze one evening last week with' an informal seafood buffet. Mr.

and Mrs. Clark Mitchell of Dallas and Dr. and Mrs. William Bussey of Longview were The Thomas-Glaze wedding wiU be solem- Curtis 5, of Lubbock. Officers said two vehicles collided while one was passing a third auto, which then was struck also.

George William Ogan told peace officers he found the bodies of his parents and a sis-ter lying side by side Saturday continue until midnight One of the worst auto accidents involved cars just north of Littlefield and it. claimed four lives Saturday. The dead were Robert K. Walker, 18, and Melissa Ellen Bail-ey. both of Irving, and Curtis Black wy ana nis son By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With July 4 still to come, the violent death toll for the extended holiday weekend is off to a grim headstarj in exas.

The. count stood today at 44 fatalities, including 27 in traffic accidents. Tahnlatinn nf the deaths gan at 6 p.m.. Friday and 'will murais ana tooio uikui aunm iu, nized July 7th. we wish tor everyone a safe mountain cabins, as well as furnitare patterns.

(See TODAY, Pago 2-A) A native of DeKalb, Baker and happy Fourth of July..