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NEWS AND Serving South Central Michigan BATTLE CREEK 15 cents TUESDAY, July 4, 1972 GUESSER mm I iiti mm The VNT ill t. i I I Tighi 1 fHrjr i -4 i 11 lliiii-'ifef' i iit WW Wmvk I 1 1 mmMMfi I lit: t-tfi'-Hmj As security agents pushed his wheelchair back to the hospital Wallace waved a for victory sing. He is scheduled to leave this weekend for the Democratic National Convention. McGovern was spending the holiday weekend at his farm on the eastern shore of Maryland. Sen.

Hubert II. Humphrey flew home for the holiday at Waverly, Minn. Sen Edmund S. Muskie of Maine was in his home state at Ken-nebunkport. That left the Democratic-political stage to the court case and the continuing Credentials Committee proceedings in Washington.

The credentials panel still was plowing through a record array of challenges to the seating of delegates at the Democratic National Convention which opens at Miami Beach July 10. McGovern held a runaway Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates to the convention. In anticipation of appeals in lxjth cases, Hart told the contending lawyers before giving his rulings that the U.S. Court of Appeals would hear arguments in the cases today despite the Independence Day holiday. The losing attorneys in each case told newsmen they will appeal.

In Silver Spring, it was announced that Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace had left the hospital for the first time since he was wounded May 15. Press aides said he had" dinner in Mrs. Wallace's hotel room Sunday night and dined Monday at the home of his physician, Dr.

Joseph Schanno. Returning from the f'jur-hour visit in Bethesda, Monday, Wallace waved from the back seat of a limousine. His wife, Cornelia, was seated next to him. WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S. District Court Monday refused to enter the dispute over the alloting of California delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

While the candidates re-1 a forces of George McGovern asked Judge George L. Hart, Jr. to restore the more than 150 delegates stripped from the South Dakota senator by the Democratic Credentials Committee. Hart declined to act, saying the question of whether the state's winner-take-all primary was fair and equitable is a matter to be decided by the party convention, not by the courts. He said the judiciary should intervene in party conflicts only when they involve a clear constitutional principle.

In a parallel and similar ruling delivered at the same time, Hart refused to upset the Credential Committee's notion in unseating Chicago i- II I 1' wiifflwi? i 'iiliiiiiim pal beneficiary of its ruling that the delegates should be apportioned among primary candidates on the basis of their shares in the total Democratic vote. Joseph L. Rauth ar-g i for McGovern, told Hart the committee action violated constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law. "It might not be cricket, it might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" Hart asked during the hearing. A fight over the makeup of the Rhode Island delegation was stifled Monday when the Credentials Committee approved a compromise offered by supporters of McGovern.

Challengers argued that the 22 McGovern delegates were chosen in a winner-take-all primary. The committee ruled last week that a similar primary in California was usc-6 to award delegates improperly. By a 73-to-70 vote, the committee accepted the ccm-promise which allowed McGovern delegates to keep their seats but get only 15-22nds of a vote each. Added to the delegation would be the Rhode Island governor, the four members of Congress and two others. The compromise received-support also from a few backers of Humphrey, and Rep.

Wi'bur Mills. D-Ark. President Nixon has all but a dozen of the 1.167 Republican delegates selected so far, with only 674 needed for nomination. Eleven are uncommitted one belongs to Rep. Paul N.

McCloskey. hap mis Judge George L. Hart won't intervene lead in delegate strength. The California credentials battle, in court and later on the convention floor, is likely to determine whether he can convert it into a first-ballot nominating majority. That would take 1,509 votes.

The Associated Press count of delesate strength Monday McGovern at 1,281.9. Humphrey had 498.5, Gov. George C. Wallace of Ala-b a a 381, Muskie 225.55. There were 454.9 uncommitted delegates.

The court test stemmed from the decision of the Credentials Committee to deprive McGovern of at least 151 of the California nominating votes he captured in a winner-take-all primary. The committee ruled that he should have no more Hian 120, and possibly as few as 118. on the basis of his plurality in the June 6 primary. Humphrey was the princi Joe and Rosie Bevans: Now it's prizes, not man uess a gain People want prizes, not ycle The death Sunday night of. a Burlington man raised Michigan's traffic death toll for the Fourth of July holiday weekend to 20.

The victim, Cecil Ray Sal-er. 30, of Route 1." Burlington, was found dead about 8 a.m. Monday by an unidentified citizen along 11-Mile Road near Drive S. State police at the Battle Creek Pot said Salver was killed between 4 and 11 p.m. Sunday when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle and ran off the road.

Salyer reportedly never showed up for work Sunday night at Eaton Manufacturing Marshall, where he had worked for several years. Police said reports on the accident were incomplete but said they believed an autopsy would be ordered. Burlington NAACP president raps move to bar like me to see our talent. Xow they just want the merchandise." So, to compensate, Joe misses more guesses than his experience belies. "Sometimes I guess only three out of ten, because that way, the people keep coming back for the prizes." "I work more nonchalant, now," Joe says.

If this bothers Joe, he doesn't let it show. This week the carnival trail has led him back to home Battle Creek. He has been with the W.G. Wade amusement company of Mason for the past 22 years. That company is set up at Bailey Park for the holiday weekend, sponsored by the George A.

Custer Post 54 of the American Legion. When he's not on the road, Joe and his wife, Rosie, live at 897 E. Michigan Ave. Joe, now 64, got started in the age-weight guessing game about 1925 at Coney Island. "Here I was, just sitting on this bench and I admired a young fellow who was guessing peoples' weights.

And I said to myself, 'If I don't do anything else in life, that's what I want to He began by helping the fellow he'd admired; simple things like unpacking the mm ilsl it i talent. (Photo by Don Nelson) age, weight prizes and backing up the a act. Within three weeks. Joe was doing full-time guessing. Joe says the trick to the game is memorizing builds with weights.

He says he can get a pretty good idea of a person s-weight at first glance. Grasping the person's arm to tell muscle tone and bulk adds to the calculations. "As far as guessing weights goes, I guess I'd call it mental telepathy," he says. Joe used to travel across the country with various railroad shows, usually working a full six months-a-year. He has now cut back to working about four months.

He has lived here since 1946, but permanently since 1952. "I've got some things going for me," he says. "Like I've got a poweiful pair of pipes," referring to his booming voice, "and in this game, I've gotta be simple and kind of a comic character." Joe went "off the road" for a year several years ago. He had a couple of more conventional jobs. "But I didn't like that feeling, you know, of being caged in.

All my life, I've wanted to be outdoors," Joe says. "And that's what I've got." Social Security benefit changes which have approval of the House, to benefit the widows and widowers and post-retirement workers. Flemming said that Nixon did not approve the 20 per cent Social Securitj' increase reluctantly, as had been reported. Ttie President felt, Flemming said, that provision should have been made to provide money for the increase. Nixon favored a 5 per cent pension increase.

Flemming quoted Nixon as saying the bill "jeopardizes the integrity of the Social Security Trust Fund." Questioned about this, Flemming said that the increased pensions would result in a trust fund deficit of about $10 billion annually, if taxes aren't increased. pion Frisbee hurlers can flip a Frisbee at a velocity in excess of 60 miles per hour. All guts catches must be one handed. Fuscias Bob May, Jay Shel-ton and Ines Sam captured individual honors. May captured the men's distance division by tossing his Frisbee 252 feet.

Miss Sam captured the women's distance title iniiiiniir'rfrifaMfflill- ilf Tim Fischer flies to Iceland as banker sweetens prize whites in DETROIT (AP) The president of the National Association for the Advance-in of Colored People (NAACP) said Monday that a proposal to bar whites from the group's top job was a "racist move." The president is a white man; the proposal came from a black chapter president. "The NAACP is not a racist organization It has always been based on the principle of integration," said organization president Kivie Kaplan, arguing against the proposal made by Jack E. Robinson. The dispute surfaced as the NAACP opened its week-long national convention. Robinson, president of the Boston chapter, said he sought to bar whites from the national presidency because over the past decade "there has been some sort of subsurface disenchantment with the fact that we've always had a white president.

"Many black youths throughout the country who w-ant to join the NAACP," he kills lision in Amboy Township, Hillsdale County As of 10 p.m. Monday, the nationwide holiday traffic toll stood at 484. Funeral services for Cecil Salyer will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Spencer Funeral Home in Athens. Salyer was born in Fos-toria.

Ohio. He is survived by a son, Ricky and a daughter Rhonda, both of Athens; his parents Mr. and Mrs. Chal-mer (Grace Brown) Salyer of Route 1, Burlington; sisters, Mrs. Sam (Dora) Vantrease of Athens and Mrs.

Gale (Dorothy) Richardson of Marshall; brothers Charles of Burlington, Chester of Union City, Clarence of 43 S. 31st Carl of Marshall. Chal-mer Jr. of 294 S. Wattles Road and Clvde of 15 Crosby St.

issue with Fischer never had been money. 'It was the principle," Marshall said. "He felt Ice-1 a wasn't treating this match or his countrymen with the dignity that it and they deserved. And he was furious about the press censorship. He was flying around the room." Marshall said Fischer told him: "They're trying to stop America from reading about it! That's what they've done all along." The sponsors announced restrictions in move-by-move and photo coverage of the 24-g a match because the rights had been sold.

Slater made his offer after the Icelandic Chess Federation's board rejected Fischer's demands for 30 per cent of the gate receipts. This would have amounted to considerable sums for both Fischer and Spassky because the match could last as long as two months. The original terms call for the winner to receive $78,125 and the loser $46,875, plus 30 per cent for each of the income from sale of television and photographic rights. Slater's private enrichment of the pot could be used to up the winner's prize to $156,000, with the remainder of his funds going go boost the loser's share. He said another alternative would be to add the entire $130,000 or 50,000 pounds to the winner's cut for a total of $208,125.

ordered now By GREG he I "EVER Tilings aren't the same for Joe Bevans. There was a time when people appreciated him, and others in his trade, for their talent. Now, the people want the prizes. For several months of the year, Joe travels from city to city across Michigan. Throughout sunbleached days and muggy summer nights he beckons the crowds.

''Your age within two years. Weight within three pounds. "Right here. Fool the gues-ser." And an occasional person wades through the debris of the carnival to Joe Bevans' stand. There, Joe draws upon 47 years of experience.

In a glance, he sizes up the person. Height, build, muscle tone all blending in a matter of seconds within Joe's head. Joe believes he could be accurate on at least eight out of every ten people who mount his scales and subject themselves to his visual evaluation. But that "doesn't pay anymore. "The crowds are different nowadays," Joe says.

"Years ago, they'd come to fellows Aide says for Social WASHINGTON (AP) An adviser said Monday that President Nixon will press for legislation to boost incomes of the elderly beyond what they won in a new Social Security benefit increase. Dr. Arthur Flemming, special White House consultant on aging, said Nixon in addition to the 20 per cent pension increase in the bill he signed Saturday will ask Congress to: Give widows and widow State police still had failed to identify late Monday the third victim of two-car, head-on collision on "Deadman's Curve" on U.S. 12 in Hillsdale County early Monday. Killed in that accident were Gloria J.

McKendrick. 19. and Kevin C. Anderson, IS. both of Detroit.

The three victims had been attending a hippie-type commune near Moscow, State Police reported, adding that the unidentified victim carried no identification whatever. The only other area victim was Max McCallum, 39, of Charlotte, who was fatally injured Friday night in a two-car collision in Benton Township, Eaton County. A Pittsford teenager, Karen Sorgenfrie. 17, was injured fatally Sunday when a car in which she was a passenger was involved in a two-car col Fischci had had one reservation for a flight last week, only to run from the plane at the last moment. When he failed to show up for the start of the 24-game series on Sunday, the International Chess Federation granted a two-day postponement but warned of foit'eituie if he missed the new deadline.

Earlier Monday, the sponsors of the championship match turned down Fischer's bid for a cut of the gate receipts in addition to the prize money previously agreed on. Marshall quoted Fischer as saying of Slater's proposal: "I gotta accept it. It's a stupendous offer." He said Fischer considered the gesture "incredible and generous and brave." Slater said in London he received confirmation of Fischer's acceptance by telephone. The Russians, from Spassky in Iceland to the Soviet Chess Federation in Moscow, protested the fact that the World Chess Federation FIDE granted a postponement of Fischer's appearance. When Slater offered to put up his own money as an extra inducement to American grandmaster, he stated: "Fischer has said that money is the problem.

Here it is. What I am saying to Fischer now is 'come out and Marshall claimed that the Panel wants buses Nixon will ask Security boost top pos 4- said, stay away because of "this specter that hangs over them." Robinson said Kaplan, a retired Boston industrialist and philanthropist, is doing his job well, but contended there are blacks who can take on the task. "The theory was that the president should be a white person who is financially well off. therefore having access to financial commitments. "There are now blacks who have the same financial profile," Robinson added.

Kelly Alexander, 23, of Durham, N.C.. a youth member of the NAACP national board, said, "Any resolution to bar anylx)dy from office based solely on race is illogical based on the doctrine of the A A "It's a counterproductive move." Alexander and others said similar resolutions had been offered before. Robinson said the election of a black president would be more symbolic than anything else because the real power is vested in the executive director, currently Roy Wilkins. Sports B-2 Television A-8 Women's News A-6, 7 World () Today Jiv Combined News Sources NEW YORK Bobby Fischer, who held out right down to the line for more money for his world championship chess match in Iceland, got it from a British banker Monday and flew to Iceland with only hours to spare. Paul Marshall, a lawyer for Fischer, said the 29-year-old American challenger had accepted banker James D.

Slater's offer of extra prize money of As Fischer was airborne from Kennedy Airport a few minutes after 9 p.m., he had just 10 hours to make the five-hour flight and prepare himself for the 7 a.m. deadline today for the start of preliminary activities before beginning the match in Reykja-v i with Soviet champion Boris Spassky. The 29-year-old Fischer, whose dislike of press coverage and photographs in particular is well known, was sneaked aboard the plane a half-hour before the scheduled 8:30 p.m. take off. After telling newsmen he would probably take a private plane, Fischer made his way with three companions by back roads to Kennedy Airport, there he transferred to an Icelandic Airlines station wagon and was in effect smuggled aboard an airliner out on the tarmac.

Icelandic's flight was delayed a half-hour because another line's plane had an emergency landing. with a throw of 187 feet. She also captured the women's international accuracy crown by tossing it through a 14-inch tire from a distance of 15 yards. Shelton captured the men's accuracy title. The Humbly Magnificent Champions of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor was the best-finishing Michigan team.

They were fifth. Nixon to address nation today SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) President Nixon will address the nation by radio Tuesday in a July 4 holiday speech expected to call for unity to meet the "great trials" the President sees ahead for the American people. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Monday the chief executive's speech will be broadcast live at 11:30 EST Tuesday from the White House.

Nixon will talk for about 10 minutes, Ziegler sid. A quarter century after a Yakima, Wash, flying businessman came down to earth and said he saw nine flying saucers in formation, no one has ever grounded one. He invented the description and around the world since then strange lights have been called visitors from outer space and men from Mars. But two men still say it's not silly to keep track of sightings. A-9.

While the Dakotas knew poverty in the Great Depression, George McGovern's home town of Mitchell, S.D. today has little of the nation's problems, few on unemployment compensation, half as many as New York City per capital on welfare, hardly any drug problem, and very little hoopla about George in the town where he wras a preacher's son. A-8. The Meteor, one of the last whaleback Great Lakes ships is being saved from the wreckers to be a marine museum at Superior, where its keel was laid in 1896. A-9.

A Nashville, Tenn. baker has produced the nation's newest breakfast food fad, "Crunchy Granola." But while it may be a super-nutritious fad taken up by ecologists, long hairs and diet faddists, it is hardly Dr. John Harvey Kellogg produced "Granola" at least SO years ago, and his was not the first. A-8. ers of Social Security beneficiaries full pension payment instead of the 822 per cent they now receive.

Liberalize the Social Security law to permit retirees to earn more money and still receive pensions. Grant guaranteed incomes of $150 a month for individuals and $200 a month for couples. Flemming told a news conference the Senate would be urged to accept two proposed pionship best-of-three play, 13-31, 21-18, 21-13. The Aces were last year's champs. Guts Frisbee is played by i e-member teams.

The players form two parallel files, 15 yards apart, and propel the rubberoid discs as swiftly as possible in attempts to cause the opposition to miss them. Tournament officials claim cham It takes guts to accept this trophy Comics Deaths Editorials A-10 A -3 A-4 DETROIT (AP) A panel charged with drafting a metropolitan Detroit school desegregation plan said Monday it will request U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Roth to order the immediate purchase of 295 school buses. Under the scenario to be finalized Wednesday the state would pay for the $3 million $10,000 apiece purchase.

According to the panel, a check of manufacturers revealed 295 to be the number of buses suppliable by September. The panel stressed any delay in the bus order w-ould mean fewer buses would be available. The kinJ of integration plan implemented this fall depends on the number of buses available, the panel said. COPPER HARBOR (AP) The highly coveted Julius T. Nachazel Memorial Trophy a beer can soldered to a coffee can was retained by the Highland Aces Frisbee Team today at the 15th Anil a 1 International Guts Frisbee tournament here.

The Wilmette, 111., team, outgutsed the Berkley, Calif. Fuschias in today's cham ULVaSBIK Partly cloudy and cool today; continuing through Wednesday. Details on A-3..