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(Minneapolis 15q Single copy 3 Sections 1A Volume CVI Number 44 Mmnrfpoln Star tfwf Trtburw Cxmpny MMJ. Friday July 7 1972 miimiim yyapawwa 'Iff' voiair5Pt A A 'A Burger delays delegate decision Private school tax credits ruled valid Judge says state law aids parent, not school; appeals are expected Staff Photo by Richard Olsenius Frank Ouilici sat in the dugout at empty Metropolitan Stadium Thursday after being named manager of the Minnesota Twins. After years of ups and downs Quilici named Twins manager 250 debate ways to get NSP plant 'out of box' By Dale Fetherling Staff Writer By Jon Roe Staff Writer "It's ironic," Frank Quilici said Thursday as he surveyed Metropolitan Stadium, "but just a few days ago I was talking with my wife, Penny, telling her that maybe it was time we got rid of a lot ot our outside stuff and dedicated ourselves to baseball. Let the kids know where dad was and why, get them familiar with the stadium, get our family thinking baseball. At least until baseball gets rid of us." By Greg Pinney Staff Writer Minnesota 's 1971 Tax Credit Law, which allows parents of private school students to recoup some of the money they spend on tuition, is constitutional, Judge J.

Jerome Plun- kett ruled Thursday. The Ramsey County District Court judge said that the law gives aid to parents rather than to the private schools and therefore is not a violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against an "establishment of religion." The plaintiffs who had challenged the law argued that giving aid to the parents was nothing more than a subterfuge and that the money really goes through an established "conduit" to the schools. The decision means that parents of private school students may continue to get reductions in their state income taxes and will not have to pay back any reductions they received in the recent tax-filing season. But Judge Plunkett's decision is far from the last word on the matter.

William B. Korstad and Lynn S. Castner, the plaintiffs' attorneys, said they will appeal the decision to the State Supreme Court. Castner and Timothy P. Quinn, one of the defending attorneys, said they would appeal to the U.S.

Supreme Court if either side loses at the state level. Korstad was not certain about a further appeal. Even without appeals, the decision is expected to take on national importance because it upholds the tax credit technique. It comes at a time when just about every other known device to give general aid to the ailing Catholic school system and its patrons has been declared illegal in courts across the nation. Minnesota was the first state to enact such a law, and other states and Congress are looking closely at the tax-credit technique in their own search for constitutional ways to satisfy their Catholic constituencies.

The Minnesota law, which was used by parents for the first time when they Quilici takes over a team which started with a flourish, but lately has floundered, losing its last four games. The Twins, after leading the West Division early in the season, have fallen 9'2 games behind the Oakland A's and are in third place. "I think maybe our club got a little too gay early in the year," Quilici said yesterday. "We were winning, but still making a lot of mistakes. When you're winning it's easy to overlook those And when you're losing it's tough to bring them up because the players think you're picking on them.

But we've got to get the proper Quilici continued on page 1 1 A Gunman hijacks jet in California At 33, Quilici has had numerous chances to think baseball was already rid of him. He has spent 1 1 years in the Twins organization bouncing around the minor leagues, bouncing between being a minor leaguer and a major leaguer, bouncing between being a player and a coach. Even as recently as last spring baseball was going to shuffle him into a corner as manager of the Twins farm team at Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. But he told owner Calvin Griffith he wanted to stay with the Twins, and maybe learn something about managing from Bill Rigney. By Al McConagha Staff Correspondent Washington, D.C Chief Justice Warren Burger Thursday temporarily delayed implementation of a lower-court order restoring at least 191 disputed California and Illinois delegates to Sen.

George McGovern. This gave Justice Burger more time to obtain the views of the eight other vacationing members of the high bench on a request for a special court session on the credentials controversy. A spokesman for the court said yesterday's stay was "routine" and "temporary." Joseph Rauh, attorney for the McGovern delegates, said the delay was of "no significance." The Democratic National Committee earlier yesterday asked that a rare special Supreme Court session be called to overturn a Court of Appeals decision to intervene in the delegate issue. The appeals court Wednesday handed McGovern a double victory that enormously enhanced his chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot at the national convention. The appeals court overruled both a federal judge and the Democratic Credentials Committee to return to McGovern 151 contested California delegates chosen in a winner-take-all primary June 6.

The appeals court also ruled that Mayor Richard Daley's 59-member Chicago delegation was disqualified. This paved the way for reinstating an uncom-rnitted group believed to include at least 40 McGovern votes. 1 Attorney John Kester, representing the Democratic National Committee, said that the appeals court holding "has thrown the country into a constitutional crisis." The courts have never made such an intrusion into political disputes, Kester contended. He asked the Supreme Court to restore the wrangle to Court Continued on page 11 A Associated Press nni Rigney filed their state tax returns this spring, grants a tax reduction of up to $50 for each child enrolled in a private-school kindergarten, $100 for an elementary child and $140 for a secondary child. The limit will rise in the future as the percentage of state aid to public schools rises.

It is expected the tax Credits Continued on page 11 A Fischer Spassky Fischer, Spassky to begin play Tuesday Associated Press Reykjavik, Iceland Bobby Fischer offered his "si nee rest apology" in writing to Boris Spassky Thursday for "disrespectful behavior" that threatened to torpedo their $300,000 match for the world chess championship. After the apology, Fisher and Spassky agreed to begin the delayed match Tuesday. Later, the two met face-to-face to draw lots on who would play white in the opening game. Spassky won and will have the advantage of the first move Tuesday. The American challenger's apology was delivered to the Russian champion during the morning in a move that opened the way for the start of the 24-game series, plagued by delay, confusion and bad feeling.

Fischer delayed the opening of the match, which was to have begun last Sunday, in a holdout for more money. The stakes then were an official purse of $125,000 and a share of TV and film re-Chess Continued on page 11 A Today's weather Clearing Details page 5B 6 53 6 7 54 7 8 9 10 11 57 58 60 57 8 9 10 11 Noon 56 Midn 54 55 55 56 55 55 55 Sports Theaters TV, Radio 1-4C 6-1 0B 11B 372 4141 News General 372 4242 Classified 372 4343 Circulation Tribune Wire Services San Diego, Calif. An armed man demanding $450,000 hijacked a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) jetliner with 57 persons aboard late Thursday and then released about 30 passengers and a stewardess at San Diego airport. The hijacker earlier had said he would release the women and children when he got the ransom. A PSA spokesman said his company was gathering the money.

Women, children and several left the plane and were laken to the terminal in buses. A PSA spokcs- Yesterday, Quilici was suddenly named to replace Rigney. Griffith, obviously, had been doing a lot of thinking the last few days, too. (Other stories on page 1C.) "A lot of things had been running through my mind the last couple weeks," said Griffith. And last night I didn't sleep very well.

On the way to work this morning I made up my mind. "The thought about last year (when the Twins finished a dismal fifth in the West Division of the American League) went through my mind and I didn't want to have another 1971. Frank gave us a spark in 1965 (when the Twins won the American League pennant), and I think Frank can give us that spark again. I think he can give baseball back to our fans." "ftiZT' ywwwywwMwiamw Scientists, politicians, environmentalists and state officials Thursday night tussled with Northern States Power Co. (NSP) and among themselves as to how the firm can best, in its words, "bite the bullet" on the issue of radioactive gaseous emissions from the Monticello nuclear plant.

Often highly technical knowledge and sometimes stiff verbal counter-punches were exchanged on the question of whether NSP should be released temporarily from its pledge to meet limits on gross beta gamma emissions from the plant, or shut the plant down. About 250 persons attended the meeting which mirrored the diversity of opinion about the health effects of nuclear-plant emissions. "In a sense, we are in a box," said Roland W. Comstock, NSP's director of environmental affairs. "On the one end there is the moral commitment concerning releases from the plant.

"On the other end there is another commitment and responsibility to supply reliable energy to the community," he told the gathering, which was called by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (PCA). On Monday the PCA board is to decide whether to release the firm from its earlier pledge, which it says it. cannot now meet because of unavoidable delays in installing emission-reducing devices. To continue to operate means a broken pledge, Comstock said. To shut down means "the probabilities are significantly increased" that NSP won't be able to meet its customers' electric demand.

"1 hope you don't feel we are fear-mongering here," said Comstock, outlining a contingency plan of how customers would be forced to cut back power use if Monticello were to shut down and other supply problems were to develop. What's more, a Monticello shutdown would cost $17 million in fuel costs alone and "impair" the firm's financial position, he said. Challenging him was St. NSP Continued on page 1 1 A Almanac Index man said there was "no panic" aboard the plane and all the passengers were "fine." Two FBI agents moved in under the plane after it landed. The Boeing 727 was parked at a remote corner of the field, San Diego's principal airport.

(Hijack deaths seen as deterrent. Page I IB.) Authorities said the hijackers was holding a pistol to the head of a stewardess. The plane was refueled, but the FBI said the man has not given an indication of where he wanted to be flown. An airline spokesman said the Boeing 727 landed about 10:35 p.m. Minneapolis time, about three hours after it was hijacked between Oakland and Sacramento.

The women and children had to walk about half a mile down a deserted runway from the jet to the terminal building. "We're not exactly sure, but we think that there are about 30," an airline spokesman said. "The FBI grabbed them right away and started questioning them. We know one of the stewardesses was released." Ho said that airline officials had assembled part of the ransom money. "We'll get it," he said.

Still aboard (he plane were five crew members, including two stewardesses, and about 20 other passengers. The plane carried 51 passengers, including the hijacker, and' six crewmen. It was the fourth hijacking of a PSA plane this year. The airline operates entirely within the confines of California. On April 9, Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, of San Francisco, was captured with- llii.uk Continued on page 1 1 A Friday July 7 1972 189th day 177 to go this year Sunrise: 5:34 am Sunset: 9:02 pm Thursday's temperatures am 1 2 3 4 5 temp 58 56 56 55 53 om 1 2 3 4 5 temp 58 58 58 56 55 Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with a chance of a brief shower or thundershower are forecast for the Twin Cities area today.

Skies are expected to clear tonight. The high temperature predicted for today is 78, with alow tonight of 54 and high Saturday of 78. The high temperature on Thursday of 60 was the lowest maximum recorded on a July 6 in the Twin Cities, according to weather records which date back to 1891. Other predicted high temperatures for today: Minnesota, 70s; North Dakota, 70s; South Dakota, upper 70s to low 80s; Wisconsin, 70s northwest, 77 to 83 southeast. It has a steering wheel, too! A recent ad for the sale of an automobile listed "WSW" as an abbreviation for white-side-wall tires.

A Richfield man asked what WSW meant. His roommate replied, "Wind-shield-wipers." Wallace feted by hospital staff in farewell party Business Comics Editorial 8-1 OA 4B 6, 7A Telephones hid convention in Miami Beach. From left wore Wallace wife, Cornelia, Wallace, his daughter Peggy Sue, and Sister Helen Marie, hospital administrator. Sen. George McGovern visited Wallace earlier yesterday.

The stall of Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, presented Alabama Gov. George Wallace with a cake and1 their best wishes Thursday night al a dinner on the eve of his departure for the Democratic national.