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A Friday, Jtilv 11. 1072 Tmf. shhi pom Timh 1'nsurr of What to Do A Day of hc Sinter A Digest of Today's Important News Stories (if)l972 Th Tim. i Publnhmg lid. All Rightt Rrvad First Meet of Tax Panel Flounders in Confusion 9 2 'JS: By Kdgar Coltharp Times Capital Bureau BATON ROUGE The initial meethig of Gov.

Edwin Ed A middle-aged house painter, his hands stained purple from marked ransom money and tears streaming down his face, was charged with air piracy after surrendering his unloaded pistol to a stewardess. He wept as he told the U.S. magistrate about his six children, his divorce, his debts and swindling charges against him in Texas. (Page 17-A) wards' property tax study com mittee here Thursday floun J. comprehensive reports to the constitutional convention and the 1973 legislature, he said.

The final opinion of what the committee's target should lie came from Son. Fritz Windhorst, whose district is split between Orleans ana; Jefferson parishes, with the weight on the Jefferson side. "What we need," he said, "is a new formula for distribution of the PTRF to submit to the federal court." He said there will be plenty of time after the special session to delve into other aspects of the property tax mess, such as equalization of assessments between parishes. Prime Offender Jefferson Parish's assessment practices were a prime offender cited by the federal court last month when it ruled the present PTRF distribution unconstitutional. "In Jefferson Parish," the court said, "in 1969 urban residential property was assessed on the average at 8.1 per cent of its retail sale value, and the parish as a whole had only 6.4 of the state's total residential assessments.

"But it received 11.3 per cent Bobby Fischer forfeited Thursday 's chess game with world champion Boris Spassky. He stayed in his hotel room, sulking because of movie cameras in the playing hall. His balk for the second in a 24-game schedule left the score 2 to 0 in the Russian's favor. This gave Spassky a powerful psychological advantage over Fischer, who has never beaten the champion. (Page 9-A) Chrysler corp.

became the first victim of a new Price Commission strategy aimed at trimming price increases sure to have a large adverse impact on the cost of living. Chrysler announced in Detroit a it is withdrawing part of a request to raise the prices of 1973 models by about 5 per cent. The part withdrawn would have covered economic cost increases, and would have amounted to about $70 per vehicle. (Page 20-C) troops knocked out 25 Communist tanks in the battle to recapture Quang Tri Wednesday, then pulled back to make room for U.S. air strikes.

(UPI A Destroyed Recoilless rifle lies in the foreground as South Vietnamese airborne troops aboard a tank continue the drive toward the provincial capital of Quang Tri City. South Vietnamese S. Viets Say 118 Enemy Killed In Fighting Outside Quang Tri Two air pirates surrendered at a small airfield at Lake Jaekson, ending a 21-hour marathon that began with the forced flight of a jetliner to Philadelphia where the men received a new plane, ransom and parachutes. They were trapped when they landed at Lake Jackson. The little airport had no jet fuel and its runway was too short.

Also, two of the plane's tires were blown out from the impact of landing. (Page 1-A) The. initial meeting of Gov. Edwin Edwards' property tax study committee at Baton Rouge iloundered in contusion over what it's supposed to accomplish between now and the special legislative session Aug. 20.

When it finally adjourned alter two hours of talk, the only things that had been settled where who was going to be on which subcommittee and when the full committee would meet again. Edwards warned a full soluion to the property tax problem would be very difficult from a political standpoint. (Page2-A) The Vietnam peace conference reopened at Paris after a 10-week break, with both the Communists and allies clinging to old positions. But the U.S. delegation spokes-.

man termed the session businesslike. And the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday. (Page 15-A) Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, one of Sen. George McGovern's most persistent Southern critics, said the Democratic presidential candidate may be able to carry the South in November.

Carter told newsmen in Miami Beach McGovern is moving closer to positions that could be accepted by Southern voters. He said McGovern appears to be willing to seek what Carter called equal treatment of the South under federal civil rights laws. (Page 3-A) McGovern forces are asking wealthy individuals for $4.5 million in loans this week, kicking off a fund-raising strategy partly styled after Republican methods that have brought millions from the rich to President Nixon's campaigns. A private meeting of select fund raisers for Sen. George McGovern was told the election campaign is $36.5 million, with $15 million of that to come from large donors.

(Page 18-A) The Detroit Board of Education was ordered to wait until at least Monday before ordering 205 buses for use in integrating the city's largely black schools with those of 52 nearly all-white suburbs. The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Cincinnati, Ohio, issued a temporary stay of an order by a U.S. district judge that the buses be purchased for use in September. (Page 2-A) South Vietnamese marines battled enemy infantrymen in a third day of heavy fighting north and northeast of the city of Qu-ang Tri, field reports said.

Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that the marines claimed they killed 118 enemy and knocked out five tanks in a series of clashes several miles outside the northern provincial capital. (Page 2-A) of the total PTRF in that year. "Caddo Parish," the court continued, "with a residential assessment ratio of 25.3 per cent, received only 7.9 per cent battalion takes a rew more bunkers, a few more houses, and kills 60 or 70 enemy. But the North Vietnamese are putting up stiff resistance despite constant pounding by air strikes and artillery. Field reports said an American jet accidentally bombed In the air war, American fighter-bombers and B52 Strato-fortresses pounded North V'iet-namWednesday in their heaviest raids in more than a week, leaving fuel depots, and warehouses in flames.

The U.S. Command reported more than 340 fighter-bomber of the PTRF." The court gave the state until Sept. 1 to come up with an By Michael Putzel SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines battled enemy infantrymen Thursday in a third day of heavy fighting north and northeast of the city of Quang Tri, field reports said. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that the marines claimed they killed 118 enemy and knocked out five tanks in a series of clashes several miles outside the northern provincial capital. Marine casualties were said to be eix equitable PTRF distribution for government lines south of the strikes were flown against the Three battalions of British troops supported by armored vehicles, swept into a Roman Catholic stronghold in Belfast after a raging gun battle with guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army.

Army headquarters reported about 1,800 troops quickly established control of a four mile-square area of the Andersonstown Catholic "no-go" zone. One soldier was believed killed in the assault. (Page 1-A) mula. The PTRF is intended to reimburse parishes for local ad valorem tax income lost due to the state-granted exemption on city and U.S. air strikes were temporarily suspended to coordinate the scores of planes dered in confusion over what it's supposed to accomplish between now and the special legislative session Aug.

20. When it finally adjourned after two hours of talk, the only things that had been settled were who was going to be on which subcommittee and when the full committee would meet again. In a brief appearance, Gov. Edwards made it plain what he expects the 38-member panel to do. "I would like for this committee to review the problem wholly and with reference to the entire fabric, rather than just limit yourselves to solving the dilemma which has been thrust upon us by the court decision," he said.

"I believe," he continued, 'that we should move steadily and steadfastly in the direction of getting out of the property tax business on the state level." Difficult Solution He warned the committee that a full solution to the property tax problem will be very difficult from a political standpoint. "I believe somwhere between the radical, useless and stupid ideas that have come up," he said, "there is a legitimate and reasonable approach and avenue that can be taken." The committee was formed to come up with recommendations to the Aug. 20 special session, which was mandated by a federal court ruling that knocks out the present method of distributing money to the 64 parishes from the state property tax relief fund (PTRF). Wednesday, Edwards said he will net rely solely on the committee but will put his staff to work independently on drafting legislation that will satisfy the court. After the governor's departure Thursday, at least half a dozen questions were raised about the committee's mission.

Victor Bussie, state AFL-CIO president said he doubts the committee will be able to accomplish anything in the time frame outlined by Lt. Gov. James Fitzmorris, its chairman. "To solve the short term problem by Aug; 14 will be next to impossible," said Bussie, a man experienced in the workings of state government. Make Haste Very Slowly "We've going to have to make haste very slowl if we are not going create more problems than we solve," he cautioned.

Aug. 14 is the date Fitzmorris set for the committee to deliver i recommendations to the governor. The full panel will next get together Aug. 3. In the meantime, its subcommittees will be at work.

Fitzmorris said he thinks the committee should continue its review of the property tax situation after the special session. It should present more homesteads. striking the area. killed and 27 wounded. The U.S.

Command confirmed that one soldier was killed and one wounded in the but a spokesman said he couldn't Government paratroopers on North, some of them within a mile of the port city of Haiphong. The raids against two big fuel deDots 35 miles northeast of Hanoi further depleted North Vietnam's fuel stocks, an Air Force Spokesman said, but he could give no estimate of the quantities destroyed. The spokesman added, however, that reconnaissance photos showed many direct hits and pilots reported numerous secondary explosions and fires in the tank farms. the southern and eastern outskirts of the city said they killed 13 enemy in two clashes at a cost of one airborne soldier killed and four wounded. confirm the report of a susoen-tion of the bombing.

The Viet Cong's radio Thursday claimed the government battalion that landed in the area "was wiped out with 450 killed and wounded, including many George McGovern accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a promise to unite the country by campaigning in all parts of the nation, and to end the war and rebuild America after taking office. Calling his ascent to the top of the party a nomination of the people," the South Dakota senator said the United States is entering a new period of important, hopeful change comparable to the political ferment in the era of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt." (Page 1-A) Ranking military sources on the northern front said the government drive into Quang Tri Province has There was one change In committee membership made Thursday. Minden Mayor Tom Colton, president of the Louisiana Municipal Association, replaced LMA executive director Marvin Lyons. Colton brings the number of North Louisiana members up to nine. Subcommittee chairmen named by Fitzmorris are Sen.

W. D. Brown of Monroe, assessment practices, State Treasurer Mary Evelyn Parker, ad valorem taxes; Rep. Risley Triche of Napoleon ville, legal; Ed Stagg of the Council for a Better i i a tax exemptions; State Revenue Collector Joe Traigle, revenue sharing, and Secretary of the Senate Bill Robers, drafting. Shreveport Rep.

B. F. O'Neal wound up on the legal subcommittee. Caddo Parish Assessor Charles Henington is on the officers." made some progress during the past week but conceded the enemy remains control of the city. Delay Ordered in Detroit Busing Case "Indications are that the North Vietnamese are going to defend Quang Tri right down to the wire," one source said.

"He who controls the Citadel controls the city, and the North Vietnamese still 1 the Citadel." He was referring to a 19th century walled fortress in the heart of Quang Tri that served as a government military head In addition, the suburban districts filed separate appeals in Detroit based on a congressional moratorium on ousing that was enacted as part of the Federal Higher Education Act. assessment practices subcom Four Americans Killed The U.S. Command reported four Americans were killed in action last week, 18 were wounded and five died of nonhostile causes. Five were added to the list of missing. The figures were down sharply from the previous week, when 14 were killed and 23 wounded.

The South Vietnamese command reported 661 government soldiers killed and 2,585 wounded last week and claimed 3,320 enemy killed. The figures were up from the week before, reflecting the fighting around Quang Tri. The allied commands now have reported these total casualties for the war: Americans 45,810 i 1 1 in action, 303,208 wounded, 10,234 dead from nonhostile causes, 1,639 missing or captured. South Vietnamese 149,526 killed, 384,398 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Conf 861.420 killed.

mittee. Stanford Jordon of Winnfield, president of the Louisiana Sheriff's Association, is on The marines acknowledged more than 100 killed and wounded in two days of heavy fighting after the landing. Both sides have been known to exaggerate enemy losses and minimize their own. North Vietnamese gunners fired about 50 122mm artillery shells into the old imperial capital of Hue, 32 miles southwest of Quang Tri. First casualty reports indicated at least two civilians were killed and seven wounded Despite the shelling, military authorities said they believe the enemy threat to Hue has lessened in the past week.

The big Da Nang air base also was shelled, the allied commands reported. One Vietnamese was killed, and four Americans and one Vietnamese were wounded. The U.S. Command said two more Americans were wounded in the shelling of a government position 20 miles northwest of Saigon. The Detroit case could become the first test of the the ad valorem tax group.

Ben Johnson, Natchitoches funeral director, is on tax exemptions, as is Sen. James Brown of i a y. Leroy Youngblood of Colfax, president quarters until the city fell last Mav 1. It has been heavily fortified by the North Vietnamese with captured howitzers and Soviet-made antiaircraft artillery. Capt.

Gail Furrow, a paratrooper adviser at the front on the southern edge of Quang Tri, told Associated Press correspondent Richard Blystone that progress has been slow but measurable. Every day, Furrow said, his DETROIT (UPD-The Detroit Board of Education Thursday was ordered to wait until at least. Monday before ordering 295 buses for use in integrating Detroit's largely black schools with those of 52 nearly all-white suburbs. The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, issued a temporary stay of an order by U.S.

District Judge Stephen J. Roth that the buses be purchased for use in September. The temporary stay remains in effect until at least Monday when a three-judge panel of the appellate court will hear arguments by the state ot Michigan. In Lansing, Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley, who asked for the apellate court stay, called the court's order "very significant since it indicates the urgency and importance of this matter.

of the state police jury associa "This is a point we have been trying to make all along," he said, "That before final actions are required to take place, an appellate review is allowed." The school board met Thursday, but took no action on purchasing buses. Being Built Board attorney George Rou-mell said at least 265 buses could be purchased by Oct. 1, if the board is ordered to buy them. He said 179 are in the process of being built now and another 86 may be possible after Oct. 1.

A school spokesman said the board would continue the process of preparing to purchase the buses, but would wait until the outcome of the appellate court's hearing Monday at 1 p.m. Meantime, 33 of 52 suburban districts that would be involved in the metropolitan desegregation plan filed concurrent appeals Cincinnati Thursday. tion, is on the revenue sharing subcommittee with Colton. Speaker of the House E. L.

'Bubba" Henry of Jonesboro congressional busing moratorium that critics say is an infringement on the judicial branch of government. President Nixon has said he doubts the moratorium, which calls for prohibiting school busing for racial balance for 18 months pending all appeals, applies in the Detroit situation. In another development, Roth's desegregation panel included the wealthy Grosse Pointe school system high on its priority list for a fall integration plan with inner city Detroit schools. Many of the Motor City's social and business elite live in the five Grosse Pointe suburbs northeast of Detroit. was named vice chairman of the whole committee.

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