The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana • 1

Northwest Montana's Only Afternoon Daily and Sunday Morning Newspaper The Daily Inter Lake SIXTEEN PAGES 65th Year Vol No 72 The Daily Inter Lake Kalispell Montana riday July 7 1972 Hijacker Loses Nerve Jiarar 4 think he felt Nature Puts On Spectacular Early Morning Show Await Court Word Burn Victim Loses Arms Please Call Again for the asked Turner the hijacker federal of the process center 13th annual lathead Rose 10 this morning in the because of limited in the deluge which the lathead late night and early this This has been one of those days when telephone repair men Live had to cope with line difficulties The Inter Lake telephones were out of order this morning If you attempted to reach the Inter Lake and did not get an answer please call again that we may serve you The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the Cali fornia delegates after deciding that the 271 he won in the winner take all primary should be apportioned among all the candidates according to their share of the vote The appeals court held that changing the rules after the A time exposure by Inter Lake staff photographer Del Lyonais caught four solid lightning strikes HELENA (AP) A Helena man hospitalized in Chicago has had both arms amputated following a June 30 burn acci dent in Missoula Authorities at the Cook Coun ty Hospital said the condition of James Haag 22 who was criti cally burned on the arms legs and face from a high voltage wire has changed from critical to serious Haag had been helping in the moving of a mobile home when he came in contact with the wire He was transported to Chicago shortly after the in cident the 14 judges here for the show are from left Howard Hubert Mrs Helen Silver and Mrs Les Colby Missoula (Inter Lake photo by Phyllis dark) The lathead orest had a report late last night of a fire on Blaine Mountain behind Lake Blaine Plans to send in a crew last night were postponed until today because of the ruggedness However two aerial checks today failed to find the blaze which may have been supressed by the rain accompanying the storm orest Service officials reported a general rain ranging from 1 inch at Condon to 55 inch at Glacier View State officials reported one fire in the Hubbart Dam area at midmorning however they anticipate there may be others as the state forests took a and fog in some areas this morning may be covering up small fires Rain was scattered and ranged to light to heavy they reported or the public utilities the storm caused sporadic minor outages of electric service lathead Electric Co operative reported one and Pacific Power Light reported several fuses blown by lightning strikes The effects of the storm on telephone services was larger as is the case in lightning storms however no total outages were reported but numerous individual service outages may require service crews to work into the weekend a telephone official said Judging Show began at community room of the irst National Bank Hie show will be open for public viewing at no charge until 9 this evening Three of escape to Siberia A passenger was shot and killed by one of the hijackers the BI said and two other passengers were wounded The Oakland air pirate gave up his guns to California High way Patrol Capt Lloyd Turner who he held as a hos tage on the flight The hijacker had a pistol tak en from the officer and a 765 caliber pistol of German make when arrested the BI said (the hijacker) started to act rather nervous and pur suant to suggestions with the captain and the pilot talking to him together and individually after 2 12 hours he finally surrendered his weapons and surrendered to the Geb hardt said Later newsmen why he thought gave up Turner said sure in his own mind he would lathead County Commissioner Joe DeLong and administrative assistant Harland Peschel will attend a meeting of the Western Montana Regional Planning Association Monday in Missoula to discuss financial alternatives for the organization A proposed $675112 grant submitted to Housing and Urban Development this spring for regional planning has been denied the organization think the problem the organization had with the proposal was that it proposed the funds be spent within a Commissioner Clifford Haines said The regional planning association includes members representatives from nine western counties mand better security measures never get from the plane to the It was the second nijacxing for PSA an Intrastate airline in two days On Wednesday BI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San rancisco International Airport killing two hijackers who had de Invite Viewers To Rose Show which he had or dered and which was waiting on the runway think he thought he would be shot by the BI if he exited the He explain why he and Blakely left the plane in hand cuffs Turner a passenger on the flight had volunteered to stay aboard the three engined jetlin er as a hostage with three crewmen after the 53 oth er passengers and crew were allowed off in San Diego Ear lier reports that there were two passengers being held as hos tage were erroneous the BI said US Atty James Browning Jr authorized a complaint for air piracy against Goodell and recommended $100000 bail The Boeing 727 100 originally with 58 persons aboard in cluding the hijacker was seized while on a short flight Thurs day from Oakland to Sacra mento Today's Chuckle Most men need two women a secretary to take everything down and a wife to pick everything up OAKLAND Calif (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet liner for $150000 ransom which he said would be given to groups in the Mideast crisis" and ordered the plane 1000 miles up and down California before surren manded $800000 in ransom and dering early today to his hos tage a law officer authorities said The air pirate who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oak land International Airport was identified by the BI as rancis Goodell 21 of Ma nassas Va AWOL two days from the Army BI agent in charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell including one from Riley Kan The entire $450000 was recovered the agent said The hijacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money obtained from PSA along with one parachute be given to two organ izations involved in the Mideast crisis" a ederal Aviation Ad ministration official said The note continued: actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused con sternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action" Some ALPA members last month took part in a one day work stoppage to protest the re cent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to de The federal and state forest fire officials today were making periodic checks of their domains for possible lightning caused fires in the wake of last storm WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen George McGovern a first ballot presi dential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court The court must decide wheth er to convene a rare special session to consider an appel late court decision which re turned to McGovern 151 Califor nia delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight Chief Justice Warren Bur ger Thursday suspended imple mentation 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 Should Burger call the court into emergency session the jus tices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a deci sion before the Democratic Na tional Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night On the other hand Burger could refuse the appeal thus letting the Appeals Court deci sion stand Or he could delay implemen tation of the Appeals Court or der 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 orces of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower court deri sion which upheld the com authority to reject 59 Illinois delegates including Da ley In asking for Supreme Court action the party maintained that the US Qrcuit Court of Appeals for the District of Co lumbia provoked a funda mental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this of the judgment below is necessary to ensure mat hereafter the courts will stay out American political rather than seize its the petition read primary was over violated right to due proc ess The ousted Illinois delegates said the committee decision and the court ruling that sup ported it disenfranchised the Democratic voters who elected delegates only to see them re placed by challengers Two To Attend Missoula Meet Rain Blinds Driver Vehicle Ends Up Off Road James Kallowat 74 Dayton was taken to the Kalispell General Hospital for treatment of lacerations and a shoulder injury following a single vehicle accident at 12:15 am today on US 2 just east of Marion Kallowat lost control of his vehicle visibility crossed Thursday morning His car went off the roadway over a bank and did a complete roll Damage was set at $1100 and investigation is being continued by the Montana Highway Patrol Weather Thunder Showers Weather Table Page 14 Troops Push Into Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City and seized control of two thirds of the northern provincial capital But field reports and senior US military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon ield sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city from two sides but were meeting tough resistance The advancing ground troops were being covered by a huge American air and naval armada Bomb Rocks Belfast BELAST Northern Ireland (AP) A 50 100 pound bomb exploded between a Roman Catholic church and its school in Belfast early today It was the first major explosion in Northern Ireland since the Irish Republican Army declared a truce 10 days ago but police were reluctant to speculate who was responsible The bomb gouged a crater 10 feet wide and two feet deep sent four persons to a hospital to be treated for shock and did extensive but superficial damage to the church school and surrounding homes Resume Negotiations MINNEAPOLIS Minn (AP) Negotiations resumed at 8 am today in the week old strike of pilots against Northwest Airlines Harry Bickford of the National Mediation Board said session would concentrate on of the latest He refused to elaborate Bickford said negotiators were after the fourth straight day of marathon bargaining sessions No progress was reported after 12 hour meeting conducted by the federal mediator Society Helps HELENA (AP) Any Montana Historical Society help necessary to preserve valuable documents damaged by fire or water will be offered to Madison County officials today by State Archivist John Coleman Coleman was directed to travel to Virginia Qty location of the oldest county courthouse by Historical Society Director Sam Gilluly The Madison County Courthouse was recently damaged by fire and the visit is designed to gain first hand information on varying reports about damage to some historic records World Chess Match inally On REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby ischer lost the draw Thursday night giving Boris Spassky the first move and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday The on again off again meeting billed by chess lovers as the match of the century was delayed for months by disagreements over a site prize money and personal hurt feelings on the part of the participants Sue Hughes or Slander LOS ANGELES (AP) Billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes is accused in a $51 million damage suit of slandering Noah Deitrich his 83 year old biographer and former aide It was the second slander suit filed as the result of a derogatory statement allegedly made by Hughes in a televised news conference last January suit filed Thursday charged that Hughes made the statement about another associate and likened Dietrich to that individual triggers for utility difficulties today Heavy rain one before one after midnight leaving more than half accompanied the two storms which crossed the area an inch of rain in place's '1? 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