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"NEWS AND ENQUIRER FEC30NAL FRIDAY, July 7, 1972 Serving South Central Michigan 15 cents BATTLE CREEK if from Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Con-v i opens in Miami Beach Monday night. On the other hand, Burger could refuse the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. Or he could delay implementation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends. In that case, McGovern might be expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Committee and return the 151 California votes to him. Forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower-court decision, which upheld the committee's authority to re wfwmM Mr I 1) ASTi I Tii VlW lfMUi4t! 1 II Wilts 5f 1 i 1 mmwwtm it I ii, I HI 4 I Alabama Gov. George Wallace and his family leave Silver Spring, Holy Cross Hospital. (UPI Photo) rices rise; Florida for Dems heading tioned among all the candidates according to their share of the vote. The appeals court held that changing the rules after the primary was over violated McGovern's right to due process. In a brief opposing the party request, McGovern forces declared: "It is particularly important that the process in which the nominees of the two major political parties are selected conform to the dictates of due process, equal protection of the law." The ousted Illinois delegates said the committee decision and the court ruling that supported it disenfranchised the Democratic voters who elected delegates only to see them replaced by challengers.

"Irreparable harm will be clone if election laws can be nullified and the losers substituted for the winners as representatives of the people," the brief continued. The Credentials Committee had found violations of party guidelines in the selection of the ousted delegates. The party is opposing the Illinois suit on grounds it "does not involve an unprecedented judicial intrusion into the internal decision-making processes of a national political party." McGovern aides say the senator's first-ballot nomination will be assured if he keeps all the California delegates. The Associated Press count gives McGovern of the 1,509 needed for nomination. V.

-II" Ll' si 1 Ni mfS i V'l, Mil" ''ii -i "H'W''iH'i" 'H I i Fourth title Billie Jean King of Long Beach, won her fourth women's singles title at Wimbledon, England, today with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia. Mrs. King went ahead wth the second set tied at 3-3 when the defending champion had service problems. (Another story on B-2.) worn WASHINGTON (AP) The tale of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight.

With their convention only a weekend away in Miami Beach. Democrats found themselves faced with an agenda whose main item was uncertainty. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session. ess WASHINGTON (AP) A renewed surge in livestock and meat prices led an overall rise of five-tenths of one per cent in wholesale prices of food and industrial products in June, the government said today.

The unemployment rate dropped during the month. It was the second straight substantial monthly price increase, following a three-fifths of one per cent hike in May for the largest two-month increase since last January and February. The Labor Department also reported that the nation's unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent of the work force last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. The improvement was entirely due to seasonal factors. But the actual total of jobless Americans climbed 1.1 million to 5.4 million in the annual summer flood of school youngsters seeking work.

Because the rise in the I i i i i 1 i. i jA't SO hiLL 11 I i i ip 1 l'V 'Hut lB i 1 I i 1 1 fi j' tmJ ill i I I "ta -is 1 II ii i I flit "Ii. IP' 'Hf La, jtt uh UT I'l 1 I I I hli'iil "i I rfU' ill I 11 'i'r ii iii i 'ni Ii 'r'lU', hi i i'ii i 'i I i 'i', I 'j 1 1 i' 1 1 Sf i 1 I' 1 ii i ii, T- 'i 1,1 1 i 11 r'l'j'i i i i' HI "Ri 1 Kennedy MIAMI BEACH (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice presidential nomination if Sen.

George McGovern captures the Democratic presidential nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator said today. Despite Kennedy's repeated statements he won't be available, the offer will probably lx made becaues polls show he would strengthen a McGovern-led ticket, the sources said. The sources discounted. the value of polls ordered by McGovern on other possible running mates, declaring it is impossible to measure the value of possible candidates who are not so well known, such as Govs. Reubin Askew of Florida and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas.

Both have been mentioned by McGovern as leading possibilities. Activity in this steaming Democratic National Convention city, which has been limited this week to advance logistical preparations by the candidates and a half-dozen protest groups, picks up today as the parley heads for an opening Monday. Most of the major presiden-t i a 1 candidates except McGovern fly here today ject 59 Illinois delegates, in-including Daley. I asking for Supreme Court action, the party maintained that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia "has provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this court." "That action threatens the legitimacy and orderly operation of the entire national political process and invites further judicial intervention into the presidential politics.

"Reversal of the judgment below is necessary to ensure that hereafter the federal courts will stay out of the American political process rather than seize its center stage," the petition read. The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates after deciding that the 271 he won in the state's winner-take-all primary should be appor- wage-price controls, a larger increase than the 5.2 per cent rate of increase in the eight months prior to the Phase I wage-price freeze imposed by Nixon last August. The report listed increases for gasoline, electric power and some other fuels; wood products; motor vehicle parts; machinery; textiles, clothing and shoes; paper products; rubber and plastics; drugs and paint. There were price declines for natural gas; major house-h 1 appliances television sets; chemicals and glass. The price of fruits and vegetables increased nine-tenths of one per cent; eggs were up 1.4 per cent and sugar rose four-tenths.

There were declines of seven-tenths of one per cent for milk; 1.8 per cent for over-all dairy products and seven-tenths of one per cent for vegetable oils. The report on unemployment said the jobless rate for men declined from 4.3 to 4 per cent with a total of 1.9 million. The rate for women dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent with a total of 1.6 million and the rate for teen-agers declined from 15.7 to 14.5 per cent with a total of 1.9 million. yac OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plan 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said.

The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army. FBI agent-in-charge Robert Geb-hardt said military cards were found on Goodell. including one from Ft. Riley, Kan. The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said.

The hijacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom monej, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, "would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast crissis," a Federal Aviation Administration official said. The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused consternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALPA members last drops and of McGovern's has been furnished with physical-therapy equipment. Special ramps built to accommodate Wallace's wheelchair have been installed at the connvention hall. He remains crippled from a spinal wound, but can walk with the aid of braces and a walking bar. McGovern visited Wallace Thursday for what aides described as purely a social call.

Later, Wallace, a Methodist, participated in a Catholic mass at the hospital chapel by reading the 23rd Psalm aloud as he faced the congregation in his wheelchair. McGovern later crossed verbal swords with Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird over the senator's proposals to cut U.S. defense spending sharply. Laird issued an analysis of McGovern's proposal for a $32 billion reduction by 1975 and called it "tantamount to a white flag of surrender." McGovern rejected that characterization and said, "My proposed military budget will make certain that the United States is the strongest nation in the world." In Miami Beach, meanwhile, heads of three largely-black organizations threaten to crash the convention sessions unless 750 delegate seats are provided for poor people.

The threats were made by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, George A. Wiley, executive World rare work force was not as large as expected, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics figured it as a decline in the jobless rate on a seasonal basis. Livestock prices climbed 4.7 per cent, poultry rose 6.9 per cent and processed meats, poultry and fish rose 3.6 per cent, the report on wholesale prices said. Industrial raw materials rose three-tenths of one per cent and consumer-finished goods those ready for ie-t a i 1 markets increased five-tenths of one per cent.

The increases pushed the government's Wholesale Price Index up to 118.8 of its 1967 base, meaning that it cost wholesalers $118.80 in June for every $100 worth of goods five years ago. The index was 3.9 per cent above a year ago. The report said wholesale prices had climbed at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent in the seven months so far of President Nixon's Phase II I I I i I 1 I IK I 'I I'' I Ir VvC 1 i Villi, "Si!" "i i Mi TK: I I VI, I I i I II 'H' 1 11 1 Hi i i lif1 1 1 'I l' l' IHw i liii1 'ttwOXilail i I I 'kmiLJf ii ii i ii ii wm t' I1 'ifify I i 0 I-, i I'l I1 ,1 I I II ,1 I -in 'i ii'ipi'i1 'V i I III No. 2 list director of the National Welfare Rights Organization and Jesse Gray, director of the National Tenants Organization. Richard J.

Murphy, the convention manager, said after meeting with the three Thursday he was unable to comply with their request "because the rules don't permit it." In other developments: A Terry Sanford for President Citizens Committee to boost the candidacy of the former North Carolina governor w-as formed by a group headed by Atty. Gen. Andrew Miller of Virginia. Others on the committee include former Gov. Richard J.

Hughes of New Jersey, former Harvard University President James B. Conant, Mississippi Democratic leader and publisher Hodding Carter and former Undersecretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy. Former Gov. Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts said he has a one in four chance of winning the vice presidential nomination next week. In Washington, Sen.

Mike Gravel of Alaska, joined Peabody as an active contender for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket. The Baltimore Sun reported that Muskie had tentatively agreed four weeks ago to endorse McGovern under a shortlived agreement worked out by aides. McGovern's na-tional political director, PYank Mankiewicz reportedly agreed that the South Dako-tan's forces would assume Turn to Paso A-2 Today Stock Markets B-4 Television A-7 Today's Almanac A-10 Women's News A-6 ker ives up still at the top to start wooing arriving delegates in their bid to overtake the t-running South-Dakota senator. Sens.

Hubert II. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M. Jackson Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills all scheduled afternoon arrivals. McGovern is due Saturday afternoon. Wallace planned a brief stop in Montgomery, to resume the governorship, which technically passed to Lt.

Gov. Jere Beasley on the 20th day of Wallace's absence from the state. Wallace has been at Holy Cross Hospital in a suburb of Washington, D.C., since May 15 when he was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination at a Laurel, shopping center. Billy Joe Camp, the governor's press secretary, said Wallace's Miami hotel room guns hijacker came out of the plane with his hands over his head. He was hustled into an unmarked sedan.

In addition to the pilot, two flight officers were also held aboard the plane. The first warning that a hijacking was under way came as the plane was preparing to touch down in Sacramento on a flight Thursday night from Burbank. The pilot radioed the control tower, "we've got a problem." He told the passengers over the intercom that there was "a young man aboard who doesn't want to land in Sacramento." Described as "sloppily dressed," the gunman talked to the pilot from the rear of the plane over the stewardess' intercom, ordered the jet to San Diego 500 miles south. Throughout the hijacking the passengers remained calm, some of the children even singing to keep spirits up, said George Moran, one of the passengers released. At San Diego, FBI agents armed with rifles with telescopic sights waited as the plane remained on the runway about a half-mile from the terminal.

Bills of $20, $50 and $100 denominations were put together to meet the $450,000 ransom demand. The money and the parachute were delivered and the plane took off foy Oakland. ransom, surrenders Samuel G. Johnson, HUD general assistant secretary, said Thursday in Detroit that six state presidents of the' NAACP are working for President Nixon's re-election though the association itself officially condemned Nixon's antibusing views. A-3.

Chess grand master Bobby Fischer lost the draw. So the Icelandic dul with Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky will begin Tuesday maybe. A-7. The Resurrected Whig Party, pointing out that the; igy performances in "Shane" and other movies, died in a dates must be living, Thursday night at Baltimore acclaimed Millard Fillmore, who served in the White House from 1850 to 1853, as their standardbearer. The fun party is an offshoot of the Students' Committee for the Glorification of Millard Fillmore.

A-2. Major problems facing a coordinated state battle against alcoholism and drug abuse are fragmentary funding and incomplete data. That was the substance of a report submitted to Gov. Milliken Thursday. And a member of his own task force on the drinking driver problem criticized the governor for signing a bill easing bar owner liability for damages caused by over-serving drinkers.

A-3. month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security mea- sures. It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco International Airport, killing two hijackers who had demanded $800,000 in ransom and escape to Siberia. A passenger was shot and killed by one of the hijackers, the FBI said, and two other passengers were wounded.

The Oakland air pirate gave up his guns to California Highway Patrol Capt. Lloyd T. Turner, who he held as a hostage on the flight. The hijacker had a pistol taken from the officer and a 7.65-caliber pistol of German make when arrested, the FBI said. "He (the hijacker) started to act rather nervous and pursuant to suggestions, with the captain and the pilot talking to him together and individually after 2 hours he finally surrendered his weapons and surrendered to the FBI," Gebhardt said.

Turner, a passenger on the flight, had volunteered to stay aboard the three-engine jetliner as a hostage with three crewmen after the jet's 53 other passengers and. crew ere allowed off in San Diego. Earlier reports that there- were two passengers being held as hostage were erroneous, the FBI said. U.S. Atty.

James Browning Jr. authorized a complaint for air piracy against Goodell and recommended $100,000 bail. The Boeing 727-100, originally with 58 persons aboard including the hijacker, was seized while on a short flight Thursday from Oakland to Sacramento. The plane was ordered 500 miles to San Diego where the hijacker got the money and parachute, then ordered it to Oakland. He asked for a helicopter he had demanded to be waiting for him there.

"This is nothing personal it had to be done. It's been planned," stewardess Maria Ring quoted the hijacker as saying. Turner had volunteered to be a hostage while the jet was in San Diego. The hijacker allowed all but Turner, and three crewmen to get off there. Witnesses said Capt.

Jerry E. Blakely, pilot of the jetliner, and the 42-year-old highway patrol officer both were handcuffed before they walked off the plane. It was believed they had been handcuffed by the hijacker. A man believed to be the Comics Deaths Editorials Sports B-8 A-10 A-4 B-2, 3 i ii 'ld Tastes familiar! QUANG TRI, Vietnam (UPI) A refugee boy in Quang Tri city samples a free drink of water and mugs for the camera in exchange as South Vietnamese troops pass through on their way to retake Quang Tri province. CAT II I It Showers possible tonight; high Saturday in 70s.

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