Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 10

PAGE 10.SECTION A IDAHO STATE JOURNAL POCATKLLO. IDAHO. WKDNESDAY. MAY 25.1S77 NRA Reinforces Anti-Gun Control Efforts CINCINNATI A The National Hide Association is cutting hack on its conservation and wildlife programs to devote most of its energies fo fighting gun control. Some top NRA staffers see the decision as akin to "pinning a bullseye on and inviting the anti-gunners to take potshots at you." iVUij.

Gen. Maxwell Kich was ousted from his position as executive vice president in a weekend move he called a coup. He was dumped by a coalition of dissident NKA members called the Federation for NRA, who installed past president Harlon Carter, 63, in the top staff job. The dissidents accused the organization of going soft on gun control under Rich's direction. "It was a coup," Rich said.

The Federation "used lists of life members to get the right ones to come to the meeting and vote the way they wanted." Only life members can vote at the annual meetings. About 1,000 of about 200,000 life members attended the sessions. Carter, a former head of the U.S. Border Patrol, was given a a a a organization back to the forefront of the battle against gun laws. The NRA has long been a major lobbying force against gun control legislation.

One Carter supporter said, "People who are interested In conservation can join the Sierra Club If they're interested in i a i there's the Audubon Society. But this organization is for people who want to own and shoot Lucille Lorenz of New Philadelphia, Ohio, made a hole-m- one with her right arm in a cast. sweetest Tennis star Bjorn Borg concentrates on winning table tennis match with squash champion Sharif Khan Monday night in Spring Glen, N.Y. The action was part of the first World Racquets Championship open to champions in five racquet sports. Bjorn won his match, 21-18 (AP Wirephoto) Another Racquet Solomon Shakes Illness, I Turns Back Englishman PARIS A Harold Solomon came back from illness Tuesday and survived his first match in the French Open Tennis Championships on the gruelling slow clay courts of the Roland, Garros Stadium.

The little star from Pompano Beach, defeated John Feaver, a lanky Englishman, Solomon reached the final of this prestigious tournament last year. His illness, which baffled the doctors, prevented him from touching a racket for three weeks, and he admitted the two- hour match against Feaver drained his energy. "1 could have done with a long rest after the second set, I was that tired," Solomon said. "Now I shall have a day off before the next round, and I hope I shall get back into the Whitworth Tabs Baseball Coach SPOKANE (AP) Paul Merkel has been named to replace Spike Grosvener as head baseball coach at Whitworth College, says a school spokesman. Merkel, the Whitworth snorts information director, was coach from 1956 through 1971.

The a i a a Tuesday after a poll of baseball players. The 1960 Pirate team won the NAIA championship. Merkel, who is also an assistant football coach and associate physical education professor, compiled a record of 177 wins, 167 losses and four ties during his term. Grosvener resigned Monday, citing personal reasons. swing of tournament play." The French Championships are not the best form of recuperation after illness.

Matches follow the traditional five-set formula, and the long rallies on the slow surface are a challenge even to the fittest. Dr. Renee Richards, the transsexual player who once competed in the men's singles at Forest Hills, withdrew from the women's event here after being given the results of one more sex test. Dr. Richards failed an Olympic-style chromosomes test before the Italian Championships in Rome, and was told she must undergo another examination in Paris.

Tournament officials did not make the results of the test public but merely said the findings had been sent to Dr. Richards by the hospital, and she had withdrawn. Clearly, she had failed the test again. Meanwhile, 18-year-old John McEnroe, winner of the Orange Bowl International Junior Tournament, made an impressive European debut with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 victory over the experienced Australian, Alvin Gardiner. McEnroe, from Douglaston, N.Y., a left-hander with flowing ground strokes, got the Riverside Men Slate Meeting The Riverside Men's Golf Association will hold a general meeting tonight at 8 p.m.

in the Riverside club house. If weather permits, a putting competition will also be held, announced Owen Stanley. measure of his opponent toward the end of the first set and long before the end of the match was in complete control. Hie Nastase of Romania, one of the likeliest challengers for the title in a depleted field, defeated Lito Alvarez of Argentina 7-6, 6-3, 6-2 before a big crowd on the center court. Nastase looked subdued and uncertain in the first set and was taken to 6-aIl in a tiebreaker before winning it.

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