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Friday, July 7. 1972 Tnr, SnnEVf port Timfs Hughes Sued for 851 Million A Day of Qthe OlimeiS A Digest of Today's Important News Stories 172 The Times Publishing Ltd. All lighlt titrvea' LOS ANGELES (LTD -Howard Hughes was sued for $51 million Thursday by his the Bahamas to newsmen in Los Angeles, was called to i hratul as a fake a purported Smg'iZ0l bv Cliffni'd In the course of (he question-the suit said Hughes criticized a "certain named DCl'SOn." anivnvmlK, i former chief lieutenant, Noah Dietrich, who charged that he was slandered by Hughes during the recluse's telephone news conference last January. The suit said that Hughes called another former associate Nevada aide, Rohert Maheu and then said "it's a duplicate! history repeating itself in a "no good s.o.b." and then likened Dietrich to that individu al. I 0mmiiil i iff vc in iMs proniems with Dietrich and then Maheu.

Dietrich, 83, who headed Huches' business interests from the 1920s until the two had a falling out in 1957, sought at least $51 million damages or "in PUBLIC NOTICE Sam'i Air Conditioning, Heotinj Refrigeration hoi moved to a new and ptrmantnt locarioo: 3313 W.rk St. Ph. 636-0743 a greater amount according to proof of his wealth." The news conference, in whirh Hughes spoke from his retreat Something Nov Miss Maude N. LeHlanc of a honoring her as "Louisiana Retired Teacher of the Year." Miss LeBlanc taught the fourth grade in Houma until her retirement in 1964. (UPI Telephoto) and useful our Baby Sitters Instruction Book! receives'an engraved citation from Gov.

Edwin'. Edwards (left) and state Sen. Claude Duval (right) of Houma during ceremonies yesterday in Baton Rouge A.17-year-old Bossier City native with a family history of Army service became the one-millionth trainee to graduate from Ft. Polk since the base was designated training center 10 years ago. Jackie G.

Edwards and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James G. Edwards, sat alongside Maj. Gen John Wheelock, Polk commander, as 1,099 trainees passed in review.

(Page 1-A) Three days and nights of torrential rains in western Japan have left more than 200 persons dead, injured or missing. Thousands more were left homeless. In the worst single incident more than two feet of rain in two days caused a landslide burying 51 persons who were working on a washed-out road. (Page 12-A) In an attack on the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said Sen.

George S. McGovern was advocating a "give away now, beg later" defense policy which could be ruinous for America. At a Pentagon news conference, Laird abandoned the traditional rronpolitical nature of his office to lash out for a second time at what he called McGovern's "white flag of surrender" proposal to cut $30 billion from the Defense Department's budget by 1975. (Page 12-A) Passenger in the Pacific Southwest Airlines skyjacking, in which three persons were killed and two wounded, blamed the airline for ineffective security. Airline president J.

Floyd Andrews said in San Diego that responsibility for airport security against air piracy should be assumed by the federal government. For that purpose, he said "substantial amounts of tax dollars must be diverted." (Page 15-A). Sally Pace, blonde, pretty and 16, told a congressional committee at Miami that 80 per cent of the 'students in one of south Florida's largest high schools are on drugs and steal to support their habits. Sally, former student at Fort Lauderdale's Plantation High, told the U.S. House Select Crime Committee, headed by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, that most of her teachers would just let her sleep when she came to school stoned on drugs.

(Page 18-A) The Democratic, party, already facing one of its strangest conventions in years, has seen another weird ingredient added a public fight over the nomination for a job once described as "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." The vice presidential nomination is traditionally held to be the personal choice of the party's choice for president, but this year two men are waging a battle between themselves for the position: Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska and former Mass- achuseiits Gov. Endicott Peabody. (Page 18-A) The perfect gift for Changes Few in French Government 30 With their national convention fast approaching, Democrats were left in a legal limbo as they waited for Supreme Court action on an issue that could win or lose a presidential nomination. Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger issued an order blocking a lower-court decision that returned to Sen. George McGovern 151 California delegates to the party convention. Burger ordered the delay as he attempted to contact the other eight vacationing justices. (Page 1-A) Western diplomats said in London there is no evidence to suggest that China and Moscow are exerting any effective pressures on Hanoi to negotiate a settlement in Vietnam, despite the Asian missions of U.S. and Soviet officials.

Spokesmen for the Soviet and Chinese embassies in London declined formal comment on a report that their governments have been pressing North Vietnamese leaders to end the war soon. (Page9-A) The Nixon administration announced it is trying to, put 779 drug traffic bosses out of business if not behind bars tax prosecution. It won only six criminal tax convictions and 15 indictments bf illegal drug importers and wholesalers during the first year's efforts, Assistant Treasury Secretary Eugene T. Rossides said in a year-end report. (Page 5-A) A new satellite soon to be launched promises to help farmers control insects without the use of pesticides, improve mine safety -and pinpoint pollution sources.

It also may help timber cutters in more judicious harvests of forests. Known as the earth recpurces technology satellite, it is scheduled to be sent aloft July (Page 7-A). U.S.! Ambassador Kenneth B. Keating announced in New Delhi he is giving up diplomacy for politics and will return to the United States to work in President Nixon's re-election campaign. The 72-year-old ambassador released a brief statement confirming reports of his departure circulating in the United States, and said he planned to go back home before the Republican National Convention next month.

(Page 13-A) South Vietnamese paratroopers advanced slowly on Quang Tri City and U.S.' fighter-bombers pounded entrenched North Vietnamese troops guarding the access routes to the northern provincial capital. Navy dive bombers dropped hundreds of small antipersonnel bombs on a row of tree-shaded homes along Highway 1 on the southeastern edge of the city. (Page 2-A) President Nixon's chief congressional lobbyist accused the Democratic-controlled Congress of engaging in a cynical election-, year strategy by passing popular but inflation-feeding legislation. He said Congress already had exceeded Nixon's full-employment budget by more than $6 billion and promised the President would veto all future measures if they substantially exceed his budget requests. (Page' 17-A) i parents.

Washable red or white vinyl cover. (retained respectively the fi By Michael J. Dennigan PARIS "(UPI (-Veteran Gaul-list "Pierre Messmer completed his second dav as nrimo minis. 2.50 ter Thursday by unveiling a new government that showed few major changes from his men as he left the Elysee Palace. "It is thus a government from which I expect cohesion and efficiency." Messmer was i 1 of Defense for 10 years under the late Gen.

Charles de Gaulle. Pompidou dropped him when he was elected to replsce de Gaulle in 1969. Messmer's recall now indicated a return to a hard-line Gaullist stance by France. It was timed to rally the nation's Gaullist faithful before South field Children's nance, a dense and foreign affairs portfolios. Messmer's cabinet was an-n after he held two consultations with Pompidou and spent the day conferring with high Gaullist figures.

The only significant change from Chaban's outgoing administration was the return of former Premier Edgar Faure. Faure was given the newly created post of "super-minister" in charge of all social welfare affairs. "My government is formed of 20 ministers and 10 secretaries of state," Messmer told news 56, took over from Jacques Chaban-Delmas Wednesday as prime minister. The shift was ordered by President Georges Pompidou who is faced with parliamentary elections by early next year. There were no major changes from the outgoing lineup.

Valery Gischard D'estaing, Michel De-bre and Maurice Schumann parliamentary elections due next spring at the latest. Mess mer is known as the most faithful Gaullist of them all. MawaajaMMfttMBja S'mji 'W i i ii i 1" i lii'iiiii i'ii'i i ii iiii if iiiiiiii i ms riiiiiiiiiimiiiii. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiii If iiiiiyii inniiifniiiinir Bobby Fischer apologized in writing to Boris Spassky for "disrespectful behavior" that threatened their world championship chess match, and Moscow's Tass news agency, said "all demands of the Soviet delegation have been satisfied." It was announced that the game- would be played Tuesday. (Page 17-A) -nwr on.

Ir. Enemy Troops Pounded Farm Bills Regular savings account deposits mads on or before July 10, earn full interest from July 1. rS. iet Paratroopers" Get Approval: Of Senate Move Slowly on Capital By Michael Tutzel SAIGON (AP) South Viet Times Capital Bureau BATON ROUGE The Senate okayed measures affecting farmers, as it acted on House bills in the last hours of the 1972 STATEMENT OF CONDITION June 30,1972 took up positions on the southeastern edge. A spokesman for the South Vietnamese command said the objective first was to destroy the enemy forces around Quang Tri and "then naturally Quang Tri will be taken." The enemy forces holed up in the bunkers among the houses were estimated at two companies, possibly 200 or more men.

One prisoner said they had called for reinforcements. Furrow expressed doubt that the reinforcements ever could reach the bunkers because of air and artillery blows. The Saigon spokesman, Lt. Col. Do Viet, said two companies of paratroopers controlled ASSETS namese paratroopers advanced slowly on Quang Tri City Thursday and U.S.

fighter-bombers pounded entrenched North Vietnamese troops guarding the access routes to the northern provincial capital. Associated Press correspondent Dennis with the lead elements of the airborne task force, reported that Navy dive bombers dropped hundreds of small antipersonnel bombs on a row of tree-shaded homes along Highway 1 on the southeastern edge of the city. The paratroopers were taking fire from bunkers hidden among the houses, and the planes were attempting to clear a path into the city that fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. Close City Center In. the lead elements 'of the task force were OFFICERS Samuel M.

ThomM, Jr. i Chairman of the Board Enoch T. Nix President W. 0. Lacy Senior Vice President stack P.

Bryson Vice President Cashier Donald C. Moseley Vice President Robert G. Lunn Vice President Samuel W. Gipaon, Jr. Assistant Cashier the southern edges of Quang Tri south of Highway 1, including the railroad station.

Most of Quang' Tri lies north of the highway. Viet reported no government troops had yet moved session. One bill exempts farm vehicles used primarily in the field from vehicle registration. Rep, J. C.

Gilbert of Sicily Island authored the bill. Another measure approved by the Senate increases the time allowed for filing liens against farm machinery for repair costs from 90 days to one year. Rep. H. M.

Fowler ofCoushatta introduced the bill. Ameasure exempting log trailers from brake requirements also received the Senate nod. It was sponsored by Rep. Carl Guuter of Natchitoches. The Senate killed a measure by Rep.

Lantz Womack of Winnsboro that would have prohibited district attorneys from receiving retirement bene-, fits if they become employed in another state job. Another bill by Fowler that passed the Senate provides salary increases for reg'strars of voters in parishes with populations under 14,000. Sen. a 1 W. Williamso amended the bill to provide for, a fourth deputy registrar in Caddo Parish at a salary of $5,100.

Six South Louisiana parishes received additional deputies. mWUhe northern sector. slightly more than a mile south of trio riftr Paper Carrier 1972 1971 ASSETS: Cash on Hand and Dee from Banks 1,119,246.10 1,033,159.37 U.S. Government Securities 4,087,131.60 3,557,436.40 Securities of U. S.

Government Agencies and Corporations 1,000,000.00 650,000.00 State, Parish and Municipal Bonds 1,245,400.00 1,085,684.05 Loans and Discounts 6,153,992.12 4,357,580.42 Federal Funds Sold 800,000.00 1,350,000.00 Banking House-Furniture, Fixtures Equipment 241,083.27 120,712.02 Other Real Estate 2,859.64 Other Assets 22,000.00 12,000.00 Total Assets $14,668,853.09 $12,06931.90 LIABILITIES LIABILITIES: Deposits 13,350,700.23 11,359,409.73 Capital 400,000.00 250,000.00 Capital Debentures 400,000.00 Surplus 175,000.00 175,000.00 Undivided Profits Reserves 343.152.86 284,932.17 Total Liabilities $14,668,853.09 $12,069,431.90 V. lfl I moated' citadel and moving cautiously 'r Other airborne units and marines in the task force were moving on the city from the southeast and east but were still 1.8 to 2.2 miles from Age Bill Okayed BATON ROUGE (AP) Boys 10-years-old or more living in Louisiana's smaller parishes would be allowed to deliver newspapers under a bill okayed Thursday by the i i a a House of Representatives. The vote was 7-0 on the measure by Sen. B. B.

Rayburn of Bogalusa, which appbed to parishes of 30,000 or less in population. The bill goes to Gov. Edwin Edwards for his i a e. the citadel. Capt.

Gail Furrow, 32, said the airborne task force he is advising could have pushed into the enemy-held city Wednesday, but it had to secure the road to prevent the enemy from cutting the troops' supply line. Some paratroopers did enter Quang Tri on Tuesday, then Qht Mhreneport Pubtitlwd continueuily doily and Sunday MwtpaiMr line Nov. 21, 1171, by Th. TimM PuW.th.no 222 lot Shrtr.oort. la.

71130. DIRECTORS J. L. Bicknelt Peal Estate R. F.

Gat Certified Public Accountant W. O. Lacy Sr. Vice President P. L.

Lashley Lashley Warehouse Distributors, Ine. R. L. Leaderbrand Electrified Water Company Barnard B. Lobel Investments J.

M. Love Investments Donald C. Moteley 1 Vice President Enoch T. Nix President AMERICAN BANK AND TRUST CO. Local Schools Among Winners Captain Shreve High School and St.

Vincent's Academy were among winners in a yearbook planning and editing contest that was part of a workshop held at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Captain Shreve captured third place in the state in the superior planned yearbook category for schools with over 1,000 enrollment, vhile St. Vincent placed eighth in the under 1,000 enroll ment category. Captain Shreve students who won in the individual categories were Edna McMillan, first for best planned cover by an Individual; Lisa O'Neal, first for best planned introduction by an individual: Edna McMillan, first for bft planned curriculum by an individual; Chris Douget, first for best planned activities by an individual: Steve McDonald and Kay Branton, first and second, respectively, for cpy by an individual. Tht Shrvport Timt' Washington Bureau, ktoaad by Bascom N.

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