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Weather Forecast Alexandria-Pinavill nd vieinityi tittle change through Friday; iO per-cent chance of showers tonight, m-creasing to 40 percent Friday" (Mop, details on Page D-3). Price 1 0 Cents BuiimN Comici D-2 Dr't, Column C-4 Cditorialt A 4 Entertainment B-8 Obituariet B-l Social 3 Sportj A7 Want Ad D-3 Vol. XC-No. 117 Alexandria-Pineville, Thursday, July 1 3, 1 972 AP, UPI, Newspaper Enterprise Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Four SocHon Thirty-Six Parjei 1 Departmental Index Govern Winner Hijacked Plane Lands At Small Texas Field By Bruce E. Hicks FREEPORT, Tex.

(UPI) A jetliner skyjacked by two heavily armed men for $000,000 ransom blew four tires landing at a small Texas commuter field today. Federal agents surrounded the plane but the hijackers refused to surrender. Three crewmembers were injured in the hijacking that began over New York Wednesday night. Utee i Running Mate Choice Mulled MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S. McGovern inched toward selection of a running mate today, with close advisers unable to agree immediately on who he should be.

McGovern faced a 4 p.m. EDT deadline in his search for a vice presidential candidate acceptable to both the coalition of discontent which nominated him and some Democratic old pros who doubted he could beat President Nixon Nov, 7. Convention rules require that he submit his choice three hours before tonight's closing session starting at 7 o'clock EDT. if McGovern's Fund-Raising Plan Revealed i I wv' 4 i If" i :1 This is an old photograph, but it tells a story of the tables being turned. The year was 19G8.

Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic presidential nomination that year. He is shown being joined on the Democratic National Convention podium in Chicago by one of the losers, Sen. George McGovern. (AP Wirephoto) Melvin Martin Fisher, 49, of Norman, Is shown wearing handcuffs en route to a hearing in Oklahoma City early today on an air piracy charge. Fisher hijacked a jetliner, received $550,000 in ransom and parachutes, then changed his mind and surrendered shortly after the plane took off from Oklahoma City.

(AP Wircphoto) about Nixon's Latest Peace Plan Rejected by Reds in Paris PARIS (UPI) The Vietnamese Communists today rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum and said they will settle for nothing except acceptance of their own plan aWving the Okla. Hijacker Gives Self Up To Jet's Crew Bv Douglas Stanglin OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)-A gray haired gunman, claiming he had a bomb in a suitcase and waving a gun that turned out to be empty, hijacked an American Airlines jet with 57 other persons on board Wednesday night. lie received a ransom package in a mail pounch today, freed, the 50 passengers, ordered the plane to leave for an unknown destination and then sur prisingly handed over his empty revolver to a stewardess and surrendered. The plane landed and the hijacker, Melvin Marvin Fisher, 49, of Norman, was taken to jail. Federal agents searched the plane and found the ransom package but no bomb.

He demanded $550,000 and parachutes in exchange for the passengers. The plane returned to Oklahoma City and landed, but the hijacker forced it to take off again and circle the city while the ransom was being delivered. The FBI said the hijacker was given one parachute and $200,000 in an oil mail pouch and in turn released the 50 passengers unharmed. The jetliner took off again with the seven crewmembers as hostage and a short time later the hijacker surrendered to the stewardess. "We recovered every penny," said an FBI agent.

Fischer Again Fails to Show (Earlier Story on Page D-8) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Temperamental American chess champion Bobby Fischer failed to show up at the scheduled starting time today for his second game in the $250,000 world championship match but he had one hour to beat the clock. His aides said he was still asleep. If he does not show up by 6 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) he forfeits the game to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

McGovern staff members and advisers, including actress Shirley MacLaine, sat around a conference table in McGovern's 17th floor penthouse for nearly two and a half hours this morning with McGovern elsewhere in the suite going over at least a dozen names of potential No. 2 candidates. The meeting broke up without priority recommendation being agreed on, according to McGovern aides. There was one firm no to the nominee from Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy. But Kennedy said he would fly from Massachusetts to the convention hall, once the speculation over No. 2 was ended, to endorse McGovern in person. Mills Considered High up in speculation about veep possibilities were Rep. Wilbur D.

Mills of Arkansas, President Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers Union, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, and Gov. Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin. Mills, who earlier had said he could not share a ticket with a man he differed with ideologically, remained silent.

But his aides stood by at his hotel, dearly hoping the powerful congressman would be tapped. While advisers haggled over who they thought the No. 2 man should be, McGovern worked on a plan to take his appeal for campaign funds to the American people. He plans a direct mail effort designed to raise $25 million outside regular and perhaps foreclosed party channels. No Third Party Some of the men McGovern bested for the nomination, including Sen.

Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, remained unreconciled. But Wallace at least reported backing away from the third party effort his aides had earlier called a growing possibility.

While the McGovern camp tried to consolidate its victory, President Nixon's operatives were already in Miami Beach attempting to cash in on anti-McGovern discontent. Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton a member of the Nixon re-election committee said there was a "fertile field" of dissatisfaction which the GOP could work. A prime tactic Nixon will use against McGovern in the election, Morton said, was to try to disprove McGovern "has a magic wand that can cure all (Turn to Page A-2) un hurt and the hijackers held three others aboard the stranded jetliner on the small airstrip 50 miles south of Houston.

FBI agents attempted to negotiate through bullhorns as a steady rain fell. The hijackers demanded another, smaller airplane, a pilot and swimming trunks. They said they would leave the ransom money behind if their other demands were met. All 113 passengers aboard the National Airlines jet, originally commandeered on its planned final approach to John F. Kennedy International airport, were released unharmed at Philadelphia where the skyjackers transferred to another plane and took off eight hours later with their ransom, three parachutes and six hostage crew members.

Before taking off for Texas, a seventh hostage, pilot Elliott M. Adams, 55, dived through a cockpit window "like a sack of potatoes as the jetliner taxied 100 yards from the terminal building. Police dramatically pulled Adams into a speeding car and the jetliner tookoff with the co-pilot, flight engineer and four stewardesses. The jetliner bypassed Dallas three hours later and headed for Houston, a regular National Airlines stop, circling down to $14,000 feet. Then they made the surprise landing at 5,000 foot long Lake Jackson Airport at Freeport.

Co-Pilot Pistol-Whipped The co-pilot, pistol-whipped by the hijackers, and the flight engineer, shot in the side, managed to flee from the jetliner. A stewardess also fled safely and unharmed. The Boeing 727 jetliner came to a halt at the end of the 75-foot wide runway designed only for twin-prop airliners. It was not known whether the tires blewout on impact or partway down the runway as the jetliner came down in what looked to witnesses like a crash landing. "I saw the plane approach from the southwest," said Joe Donnell, 18, a mechanic's helper.

"He was pretty low. I was trying to figure out what he was doing when all of a sudden he brought her right in to the field." Eight FBI agents armed with high-powered rifles surrounded the jetliner as Sheriff Robert Gladney and state and local police sealed off the area for a radius of a mile. The FBI snipers were positioned on both sides of the runway. The hijackers allowed wound- (Turn to Page A-2) Pastoral Research and Practices Committee is supposed to make some recommendations when its research is completed, but declined to predict when this might be. Archbishop Hannan said earlier this week that the New Orleans Archdiocese is awaiting the decision of the bishops' committee, adding that "a decision is expected shortly." Rev.

Joseph P. Mullin, secretary of the marriage court in the New Orleans archdiocese, said, "Hopefully, something like the Baton Rouge decision will eventually be approved for this archdiocese." Bishop Tracy, in a pastoral letter, said that in the future, the Baton Rouge diocese could officially recognize the possibility of "good conscience" on the part of some Catholics who have divorced and remarried. The letter said that after three years of a second marriage and complicated hearing procedure, the remarried couples may be allowed to receive the sacraments without an official decision on the validity or invalidity of a previous marriage. The procedure was authorized before Vatican II, the spokesman said, but only three dioceses in the nation had adopted the policy and Baton Rouge was the first in Louisiana. A' Baton Rouge spokesman said that Deus Dux (God is out-leader), "a right wing group," had opposed the new policy, saying that it had not been sanctioned by Pope Paul VI.

The spokesman said the group was in eVror One stewardess escaped U.S. Summons Five City Aides Five personnel in the Finance Department of the City of Alexandria, including Secretary-Treasurer Ray R. Allen, have been subpoenaed to appear in federal court here Aug. 7 in con- nection with the trials of former mayor W. George Bowdon former commissioner Leroy G.

Wilson and former city warehouseman Tom Fuglaar. The names of the other four summoned were not disclosed. The finance personnel are to bring with them certain records which the U.S. prosecutors apparently intend to use in arguing the cases against the three former city officials, all of whom are charged with income tax evasion. Reportedly, a number of officials of various firms that did business with the city during the Bowdon administration have also been subpoenaed to appear in court Aug.

7. A list of their names was not immediately available. It couldn't be immediately determined whether the government will try Bowdon, Wilson and Fuglaar jointly or separately. Bowdon was recently released on parole from the Louisiana State Penitentiary where he served time on a state court theft conviction. Wilson has been convicted of theft and is awaiting sentencing as result of state court charges.

Fuglaar is to be tried sometime this year in state court on theft charges. He was tried once but it ended in a mistrial. The three were indicted along with seven other former city officials and employees in the spring of following a special grand jury investigation of City Hall affairs. Editor's Note: H. L.

Schwartz III and Dick Barnes, two mem' bers of The AP Special Assignment Team, sat in this week on a strategy meeting called by Sen. George McGovern's presidential campaign fund-raisers. Following is their report. By The Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Sen.

George McGovern's financial advisers quietly are planning to raise $36.5 million for the presidential campaign, depending in part on successful big-doner Republican fundraisers for President Nixon. Even before the South Dako-tan had sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination, the money strategy for the fall campaign had been outlined to about 35 select McGovern fundraisers. The private meeting was held this week one floor above the candidate's command complex in the Doral Hotel. That session alone reportedly netted $1.3 million from its well-heeled participants. More than 80 per cent of McGovern's money since he announced for the presidency 18 months ago has come from thousands of small contributors, federal records show.

But McGovern's people hope to raise $15 million or nearly half of their projected campaign budget in the category known to both parties as special gifts. This generally means contributions of $5,000 or more. Miles Rubin, a New York lawyer heading the special-gifts efforts, told the finance com-mittee meeting: "Sen. McGovern now realizes the vital need to move into the special-gifts area." Increasing public awareness of campaign finance has brought mounting criticism of dependence on large contributors. "He didn't fully realize it until a week ago when Morris and Henry talked with him and explained the full costs of a national campaign," Rubin confided to the meeting.

Morris is Morris Dees, a Montgomery, lawyer who raised $4 million in small contributions for McGovern's pre-convention campaign. Henry is Henry Kimelman, a Virgin Islands importer and campaign finance manager as well as the second-largest campaign con- (Turn to Page A-2) in two days of balloting were Dr. Robert E. Goodrich, 63, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, Dallas, Dr. Ernest P.

Dixon, 49, assistant general director of the church's program council, Nashville, and Dr. Don Holler, 66, president of St. Paul's School of Theology, Kansas City, Mo. Bishops and their assignments announced today are Eugene M. Frank, W.

McFarrin Stowe, Dallas-Fort Worth; Kenneth W. Copeland, Houston; Dixon, Kansas; Goodrich, Walter, Alsie H. Carleton, Northwest Texas-New Mexico; Paul W. Milhouse, Oklahoma; and 0. Eugene Slater, San Antonio.

Dr. Dixon's election is an historic event since he is the first black ever elected to the bishop's post by this geographic jurisdiction since the elimination (Turn to Page A-2) 2 Candidates Drop Out of Area Races Two candidates today withdrew from the Aug. 1 Democratic primary. Joe D. Smith decided not to run for Wards 9 and 10 marshal, and David Word dropped from the Rapides School Board race In which lie had qualified as a candidate for a six-year term in District Wards 1 and 8, Alexandria Diocesan Policy On Sacraments Unchanged North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy and Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, turned down Nixon's plan and pushed their own, long-rejected peace package, when the Vietnam Conference resumed after a 10 -week suspension.

The Communist delegations' stand, coupled with a violent condemnation of U.S. air strikes in Vietnam, failed to move the conference off dead center as had been hoped in Washington. Taking an unusually harsh tone, Madame Binh charged that President Nixon's eight-point plan proposed Jan. 25 and calling for new presidential elections in South Vietnam, was aimed merely at maintaining U.S. control of the country.

"The demand for an immediate ceasefire to come before an accord on military and political questions on conditions put forward by Mr. Nixon on May 8 and June 29 is in fact nothing but an unreasonable and absurd ultimatum," she said. She said the ceasefire called, for again today by U. S. negotiator William J.

Porter and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self-defense," Madame Binh said. Flier, the Saigon delegation bluntly told the Communists it will never accept their plans for South Vietnam's political future. Today's 150th session was the first since May 4 when Nixon broke off the talks because the Communists showed no willingness to negotiate in public or in private. The United States agreed to return to the conference table today. equitable rates are agreed on.

The study committee, is to report back to the commercial establishments representatives within 3(1 days. Mathews reportedly favored the setting of more" equitable rates and remaining in the commercial garbage collection business for another year to test them, and that at the end of the year the rates could be adjusted if necessary. However, Karst and Lanier reportedly favored "doing something now." The meeting, held at the Alex-andna-Pineville Chamber of Commerce conference room and sanctioned by the chamber, was not open to the press. Reports of what transpired differ. The city Is trying to eliminate a growing deficit in the commercial garbage collection operation thus the reason for trying to turn that service over to private jiaulers.

It was reported that Karst and Lanier emphatically insisted that the city will not continue to "subsidize" the businesses that are provided garbage Good evening, Short of constructing what one designer scornfully calls "a womb with a view," there isn't much beyond seat and shoulder belts that the U. S. auto industry can do to protect drivers in collision situations. That is the industry's position in the current debate over the air bag and other proposals for the protection of motorists. The continuing controversay is brought up to date in a Los Angeles Times report on Page B-2.

Children Who Play for Keeps National mental health authorities have given little attention thus far to the problem of violent crimes committed by children. An estimated 18,000 major crimes will be committed throughout the U. S. this year by youngsters under 15 years of age, including such acts as rape and assault with a deadly weapon. The problem is examined in a Washington Post report on Page A-10.

Reunion of 'Veterans of '68' Art Buchwald, in his column on today's Editorial Page, reports on a veterans' reunion. It is a reunion of the "Veterans of '68" at the Democratic national convention in Chicago. And the battle-scarred clan takes a dim view of the docility of "the kids" who went to Miami as delegates. Inconsistency on Equality The Louisiana legislature at its 1972 session repealed the Jim Crow segregation laws. But it would not create a state-level Fair Employment Practices Commission.

This inconsistency, due largely to the efforts of Sen. Claude Duval of Houma, is discussed by Adras LaBorde in his column on today's Editorial Page. ASH Band's Week in Europe The Alexandria Senior High school band is due in Vienna, Austria, late this week for the first International Band Festival. Since flying last week to Amsterdam, the band has performed in that city and traveled by bus across Holland and West Germany. Linda Mann, one of the students on the trip, provides an account of the band's experiences thus far on Page C-4.

Country Doctora Vanishing Breed Not many doctors make house calls any more, and even fewer actually enjoy doing it. Dr. Sam Adams docs both, has been doing so for the past 24 years in Fauquier Country, Va. "Dr. Sam," as his patients and acquaintances call him, is one of a vanishing breed, the country doctor.

His story is told in a Washington Post report on Page A-5. Women Solidly Entrenched at Convention Work of National Women's political caucus created a year ago was in dramatic evidence this week at the Democratic National Convention. A story in the Women's Section today tells that 118 percent of the total number of delegates are women. There is also a women's rights plank in the party platform and new rules to insure women's meaningful participation in future conventions. There Are Dave and Dean and Dan There are some more at home like Dave Roberts, the No.

1 draft choice who has made the San Diego Padres team as a rookie. Bill Carter reports in his column today that Roberts has two brothers who are outstanding players, Dean, a sophomore at the University of Oregon' who hit nine homers his senior year in high school, and Dan, a lefthanded pitcher who had a 12-1 record with the American Legion team that won the slate championship Dr. Crutchfield Appointed Louisiana Methodist Bishop A Further Study of City's Involvement In Commercial Garbage Pickups Hinted By Helen Derr Town Talk Religion Editor) Bishop Charles P. Greco, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Alexandria, today had no comment on a report that Catholics who have divorced and remarried could possibly be allowed to receive church sacraments soon. The bishop siad, "The Church has not spoken, and of course, abide by the Church." By the Church, he means, the bishop explained, "The Holy Father (Pope Paul VI) and the bishops loyally connected with him." Bishop Greco's statement come in response to inquiries after an announcement by Bishop Robert Tracy of Baton Rouge that remarried Catholics in his jurisdiction could be given such permission.

Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans said this week that his archdiocese is awaiting the decision of the U. S. Bishops' Pastoral Research and Practices Committee, which is studying the matter. Catholic laymen of the Alexandria diocese have privately expressed indignation at Bishop Tracy's statement.

While Bishop Greco said he "preferred not to comment" on the possibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving the sacraments, he pointed out' that the teachings of the Church have for centuries forbidden It. "Our Lord Himself in the Holy Scriptures says that whosoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery," the bishop reminded. He said the S. Bishops' By Helen Derr (Town Talk Staff Writer) HOUSTON, Tex. Dr.

Finis A. Crutchfield was named bishop of the Louisiana conference of the United Methodist church here today. Louisiana Methodists at the South Central Jurisdictional Conference said they were delighted at Dr. Crutchfield's appointment as the head of the state's 133,706 Methodists. He replaces Bishop Aubrey Walton who will retire at the close of the meeting here Friday.

Rev. Clyde Clark, superintendent of the Alexandria district, said today, "We got the bishop we wanted." Clergy delegation head Dr. Ben Oliphint of Baton Rouge declared, "We are delighted at Dr. Crutchfield's ap-p i to Louisiana." Bishop Crutchfield was one of four new bishops elected by delegates to the eight-state meeting here in Houston this week. The four then joined six other bishops for episcopal appointments in the ten conferences of the jurisdiction.

Assignments are made by an episcopal council composed of one clergyman and one layman from each conference. Louisiana's representatives on the council are Dr. Oliphint and Tom Matheny of Hammond. Elected with Crutchfield, 55, pastor of Boston Ave. United Methodist Church, Tulsa, A group of about 50 persons representing Alexandria commercial establishments met with the City Council Wednesday afternoon and appointed a seven-man committee to work with city officials in conducting a study of commercial garbage collection rates, it was reported today.

The commiltee, to be headed by Joe Lipsey, is to complete the study within 3(1 days and recommend more equitable rates for commercial establishments receiving city garbage collection service. If new rates, satisfactory to city officials and businessmen alike, are proposed there is a possibility the city will postpone adoption of an ordinance that would put the city out of the commercial garbage collection business. However, City Hall sources said that all the council members agreed on was the study. Other sources said that Mayor Ed Karst and Commissioners Carroll Lanier and O'Hearn Mathews indicated they would consider staying in the commercial collection 'business if.