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(Pje VOL. 176 NO. 213 CANANDA1GUA, N.Y. MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1972 SINGLE COPY--15c Hanoi Suggests 14 Nixon Playing i i i i i A I A Politics On Peace Politics Enters Last Lap By United Press International Sen. George S.

McGovern, with the election only eight days away, pledged Sunday not tti be bound by any administration commitment to continue military aid to South Vietnam. President Nixon said Mc- QUIET YARD No more switching will go on at the Lehigh Valley Railroad yard in Manchester, cut in recent years to a fraction of its former activity. (Messenger photo) Yordm asters Phased Out Skyjacks To Cuba, Turkey ByKATHY BAILEY MANCHESTER --Today at 3 p.m. the padlock snapped shut on the door of the Manchester railroad station. The bun.khouse closed.

The yardmasters, with more than Govern's defense policies could 10 years' railroad experience lead to "one of the greatest the Manchester yard, went tragedies in history." McGovern, who made television appearances in Washington and Hartford, Sunday, said that if he won the election Nov. 7 lie would "reserve the yardmasters and the five-man righl to try to renegotiate" any bunkhouse crew, peace treaty signed by the administration if it called for continuation of military aid to South Vietnam. McGovern said home. They won't be back. The closing conies as no real surprise to the nine men directly involved, the four Not Unexpected "We've been expecting this for the past two years," said yardmaster Charles he'would "honor" the agree-' Quinter, who was given the final ment but would try to order from Lehigh Valley Railroad management on Oct 20.

Quinter said the only the five-man crew which operates renegotiate it. McGovern appeared on "Meel the Press" on NBC. The South Dakota Democrat resumed his chase for votes with, campaign Ihe Manchester- fibch'e'ster- Lima-run will be left four westbound, Quinter said, but they won't stop anymore. Quinter celebrated his 5Mh anniversary with the railroad in July. He said there have been many changes in that many years.

He's seen the station through the "roaring" 20s, the depression, and the war-time boom. Hub of Line "During World War II, Manchester was a hub of the Lehigh Valley. Railroad," Quinter said. The war-time industry of the area moved through Manchester along with the heavy passenger trade and the troop trains. "We handled 32,000 cars in 24 hours many, many times.

We'd get 10 engines on each of three shifts, round the clock," lie said. He said that the railroads responded to the country's need during the war. CHICAGO (UPI) A northbound Illinois Central Gulf railroad commuter a i crashed into the rear of a second train during the morning rush hour today, driving about 25 yards into the rear coach, and trapping dead and injured inside. The accident occurred near Michael Reese Hospital, near the 27lh Street slop. The Cook County morgue reported' 14 bodies by 11:30 a.m.

EST. Mercy Hospital reported four persons dead and 102 admissions from the accident. Michael Reese Hospital reported three dead with 94 persons taken to the emergency room. Cook County Hospital reported six dead. It was not certain how many of the.

dead at the hospitals were taken to the morgue. This correspondent, who was on one of'the trains, believed the death total would continue to rise. The ICG, a heavily patronized By United Press International Two Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an airliner over Turkey Sunday and succeeded in obtaining the release of three Arabs accused of killing 11 Israeli Olympic learn members commuter service for passen- al Munich. In Houston, four gers from Chicago's South Side gunmen seized a jetliner and and its suburbs, is electrified, after killing one man and Officials cut off the power wounding another on the ground around the wreck area to forced it to fly to Cuba. safeguard passengers, some of The double hijackings, both them dazed, leaving the wreck- involving Hoeing 727s, were age.

The tracks are al ground separate incidents. The plane level. hijacked over Turkey belonged Traffic on nearby highways to the German Lufthansa fleet became jammed as scores of and the Houston takeover ambulances sought to reach the involved an Eastern Air Lines scene, flight. Most of the fatalities were in Nixon, who a strong blast at McGovern's defense policies Sunday, was expected to remain at his Camp David, mountain retreat today. He has scheduled a campaign appearance Tuesday in Chicago- In a paid political broadcast, the President did not mention McGovern by name, but he did refer lo defense policies the Democratic candidate has put forth.

Speaking from the White House library, Nixon "For the United States to abdicate its leadership role in the world or to attempt to meet its responsibilities through good intentions alone, without- the backing of a strong defense, would be one of the greatest tragedies of history." He also repeated his pledge Eight trains will pass Ihrough each day, four'eastbound and Cosmonauts Plan Delayed that "there will be no amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters after the war." "Millions of Americans chose to serve their country in Vietnam, many gave their lives for their choice," Nixon said. "The few hundred who refused to serve or who deserted their country must pay a penalty for their choice." In other campaign developments: --Democratic vice presidential hopeful Sargent Shriver made appearances in St. Louis, and Albuquerque, N.M., where he again attacked alleged corruption within the administration and Nixon's failure to halt inflation. Needed "I think the government will. working out' of the 'Once-busy be sorry some'day if they don't Manchester terminal.

help the railroads out'now," he said. "As far as I can see, Amfrack has had no effect," he continued. "The railroads are in bad shape; this is happening in a great many places." What happened? Quinter said SPACE CENTER, Houston that ne and the others, who are (UPI)--The Soviet manned a natives of Shortsville and space program was delayed, but not terminated by a fatal Russian spaceflight in 1971, says astronaut Thomas P. Stafford. Stafford, who returned last week from a two-week meeting in Moscow to discuss the 1975 U.S.-Soviet spaceflight, said he expects the Russians to launch several, more space missions before the joint flight.

He said the Soviet space program was delayed because of extensive design changes and ground tests on the Soyuz spacecraft, such as the one in which three cosmonauts were killed during re-entry to the earth's atmosphere June 30, 1971. 'Terrible Deed' Manchester, have seen it all from close up. About a dozen or 13 years ago, Lehigh curtailed passenger service. Manchester was a switching and classification center, with a computer tie-in lo other centers on the Lehigh line, one of the largest in the country, according to Quinler. Through the late 1960s, more than 125 people were employed Ihere, i i clerks and yard crews.

Whole families worked on the railroad, husbands and wives and sons. Decline in'GO Then, in 1969, Ihe big lay-offs came. The order came to tear out the tracks. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) Israel Protests To German Envoy came from the Washington Star-News, the Baltimore Sun, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Des Moines Register.

--McGovern's national security advisers released a position paper calling for a sweeping reform of the armed services. --American Independent par- By KENNNETH L. LUCOFF JERUSALEM I Foreign Minister Abba Eban --Four major newspapers summoned the West German endorsed Nixon's reflection bid ambassador today to make Sunday. The endorsements dear Israel's dismay at what it considers a surrender by Bonn of three Arab prisoners to Palestinian guerrilla hijackers. Ambassador Jesco von Puttkamer made the trip from Tel Aviv to Eban's office in Jerusalem as the nation's newspapers joined Israeli officials in condemning the release as a "terrible deed" that ty presidential candidate John cannot be condoned.

G. Schmitz said in Cleveland he Foreign Ministry sources said does not agree with the terms a i wnile not a i an of the proposed peace treaty. official protest (o th? ambassa dor, was elaborating on an Wrong Gimmick earlier communique that said capitulation to hijackers "en- EVERSHAM, England (UPI) courages and increases their --Nick Roberts plopped four ferrets into his pants Sunday They said Eban was asking and set off on a 12-mile walk to the ambassador for an explana- raise money for charity. He tion on why Bonn surrendered quit after covering only two the prisoners almost without miles. delay.

The prisoners were Extracting Ihe sharp-toothed awaiting trial for alleged animals from his pants, he role in the kidnaping and said: "The blood from bites murder of members of the all over my legs was coming Israeli Olympic team Sept. 5, through my trousers." The hijackers seized a Lufthansa airliner over Turkey Sunday and threatened to blow it and its passengers up unless their comrades were freed. Israel called the release a "lerrible deed" which set a dangerous precedent. In Bonn the government called the Israeli criticism unjustified but conceded it might strain relations between West Germany and Israel.) Israel's official reaction was voiced by Israel Galili, a minister without portfolio and Prime Minister Golda Meir's closest adviser. "This surrender to the threats of Black September terrorists is a terrible deed from every said.

"It is an act that could not be condoned in whatever country it might have occurred--but in particular since it happened in Germany so shortly after the abhorrent murders of Sept. 5. "It is astonishing that no real attempt was made to thwart the Arab terrorists in their act. To give in to them is dangerous in the international context and as a precedent and certainly cannot be forgiven from Uie Jewish and Israeli viewpoint." The freeing of the terrorists by West Germany provoked the wrath of Israel, which called it a "terrible deed." Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir had urged the Bonn government nol to give in to the hijackers' demands and tile Foreign Ministry later said Israel would raise the issue "in all its urgency and gravity" with the West German government." The EAL plane, after a refueling stop at New Orleans, landed al Havana with the original 33 passengers and seven crewmen aboard. The hijackers turned over their guns to Cuban authorities and were led away.

The plane returned almost immediately to Miami with the passengers and crew. The leader of the gunmen was identified as Charles A. Tuller, 48, of Alexandria, a former Commerce Department executive charged wilh his son Bryce, 19, with the holdup attempt last Wednesday of an Arlington, branch bank in which the manager and a policeman were killed. Bryce, William White Graham, 18, and an unidentified youth accompanied Tuller on the hijacking, authorities said. An Eastern Air Lines spokesman said it appeared the four men lurked near the boarding gate until the plane was loaded and then forced their way past gate agent Stanley Hubbard, 30, who was killed by the bandits.

Hubbard's body, hit by at least five 9-mm bullets, was found on the ramp leading to the plane by Eastern maintenance man Wyatt Wilkinson, 26, who raced to the plane and opened the door but one of the gunmen standing inside the plane fired three shots at Wilkinson, wounding him once in the right arm. "That's all I remember. I turned around and ran and ran and ran," said Wilkinson, who was reported in good condition at a Houston hospital. (Continued on Pages, Col. 3) the rear coach of the lead train and the first coach of the second.

Bodies dangled in the wreckage of both, which were knocked off the tracks by the impact, about 8:35 a.m. EST. The first train was a Highlirier, a double-decker designed primarily tor commuter service. Firemen put up ladders to work at cutting into the wreckage to free victims trapped inside. "We don't know if they are living or dead," one fireman panted.

Some could be heard screaming for aid. The waiting room at Michael Reese rapidly filled to standing room only with persons seeking treatment. At the wreck scene, some of the injured whisked to the hospital had lost limbs. Efforts to cut into Ihe wreckage went on for more than two hours after the crash. The railroad meanwhile brought a train back from the downtown terminal and passengers were shepherded into it to complete their trip to the city.

The 27th street platform was taken over as a temporary morgue and treatment station. Medical personnel from nearby hospitals worked their way into the coaches to administer to injured. By United Press International North Vietnam renewed its call today for early signing of a cease-fire agreement ending the fighting in South Vietnam and questioned whether President Nixon might be delaying the ceremony for political reasons. Diplomatic sources in Saigon said President Nguyen Van Thieu and Hanoi would agree on a truce simply because both sides want the war to end. The North Vietnamese position as stated repeatedly is that no further negotiations are necessary and that the agreement should be signed in Paris on Tuesday.

Vice President Spiro T. Agncw said Sunday it could not be that soon because "there are a few matters to be made crystal clear," and presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger said last Thursday there must be another negotiating session. There was no report from the White House today on Kissinger's activities and it was not known whether he was in Washington or had made another of his secret trips to Paris for further talks with Lc Due Tho, a member of the Hanoi Politburo, and Xuan Thuy, the chief North Vicl- namese negotiator. The State Department said Secretary of State William P.

Rogers had no appointments today but there was no indication whether he was in Washington or Paris. The Communists said Saturday they thought he would fly Into the French capital Tuesday for a signing ceremony wilh the i a foreign minister. Despite official silence, U.S. mililary sources in Saigon disclosed another, conciliatory gesture loward North Vietnam. The sources said Ihe U.S.

7th Fleet had halted bombardments north of the 20th Parallel and the mining of North Vietnamese ports above that parallel. Hanoi itself is about 65 miles north of the 20lh Parallel. Air strikes above the 20th hailed last week. The official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan said today in an editorial that if the United Stales does not sign a Vietnam cease-fire agreement, North Vietnam will continue to fight until it wins the war. The editorial broadcast by the Vietnam News Agency and monitored in Tokyo also raised the possibility that the Nixon administration was negotiating the end of the war for domestic political purposes.

The editorial said in part: "They (the Nixon Administration) speak of difficulties in Saigon, but everybody knows that their puppets and lackeys cannot resist their decision. How can the tail wag the head? Or do they negotiate just to serve their political ends al home? "The U.S. has only these two choices: to end its ruthless agrcssion, withdraw all its troops and military personnel from Soutli Vietnam' respect Vietnam's independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity and the right to self- determination of the South Vietnamese people, or to continue its unjust, costly and issucloss war. UPI correspondent Arthur Iligbcc, reporting from Saigon, said diplomatic observers in the South Vietnamese capital were convinced both North and South Vietnam would agree to a cease -firo and abide by it simply because both want the war to end. Higbcc said that if either side did not want peace then it made no difference what any I Continued on Col.

7) War Activity Increasing liy AHTUUlt I I I SAIGON' (DPI)--'Hie fighting increased in the three Indo- chincsc countries of South Vietnam, Laos and Camlxidia during the weekend and today, with the Communists apparently trying to seize as much territory as possible before the expected cease-fire. Al the same lime, military sources said the U.S. Navy hns halted Ixmihardmcnls and the sowing of mines above the 20th parallel, 05 miles south of Hanoi. The halt of aerial bombing nlxivc the parallel was announced last week in what U.S. presidential adviser Henry A.

Kissinger said was a gesture of "good will." In South Vietnam, government troops recaptured the district capital of Dak To, deep Iwhind Communist lines in the rugged Central Highlands, field reports said. However, the Communists overran a nearby base, and government forces failed to recapture another district town, The level of fighting increased for the fifth consecutive day as both sides jockeyed for position. In l-ios, informed military sources said that the North Vietnamese and Pathct Lflo forces captured the town of Keng Kok, a military camp and a i position in the southern part of the country during the weekend. 'Hie loss of the three positions was interpreted as a Communist move to capture as much populated territory as possible l)cfore a cease-fire. Keng Kok, the most important of the three positions, is 175 miles southeast of the capital of Vientiane.

In Cambodia, the fighting The Weather Overcast tonight wilh chance of showers by early morning, low tonight in the upper 30s. Rain tomorrow wilh high in the low 50s. Northeast winds today 5 to 15 mph becoming easterly 5 lo 10 mph tonight. Probability of precipitation nearzeroloduy, 50 per cent tonight, DO per for tomorrow. (See weather map page 2.) The Canandaigua Weather Station reports a 24-hour high of 50; low, 33.

The temperature at 8 a.m. was 35. There was .38 of an inch precipitation. This date lasl year (he temperature was, high, 70; low, 43. Al 8 a.m.

It was 51. LAKE LEVEL Oct. 20, 1972 687.48 Oct. 29, 1971 681.00 TRAIN DISASTER--Chicago Firemen struggled early today to rescue passengers (rapped In the wreckage of Iwo Illinois Central Gulf Railroad commuter Iralns. More than 90 persons were Injured and there are eight known dead, wilh more feared dead in the twisted tars.

I I was on a different pattern. Communist gunners fired five 122 mm rockets into on ammunition depot five miles southwest of 1'hnoni Penh early today, killing al least five soldiers and detonating a scries of explosions which shook the capital until dawn. Simultaneously, sappers infiltrated the country's telecommunications and knocked out three huge antennas with plastic charges. All contact wilh the outside was cut off (or several hours. In South Vietnam, military sources said despite Ihe hall in mine "seeding" south of Ihe 20th parallel, Ihe three harbors ot Haiphong, Com Phn and Hong Gai, the most ports for Ihe delivery of war equipment, will bo dangerous for shipping for al least (hrco months nr until they are cleared.

There was activily all pround Saigon, but the heaviest fighting was in the Central Highlands, 270 miles north of the capital, al Dak To and nearby. The govcrnmenl drive came as Communist attacks throughout South Vietnam exceeded the 100 murk for the i consecutive day. Mililary sources viewed it as an intensified North Vietnamese campaign to gain as much ground as possible before peace is declared. Hanoi's deadline for Washington lo sign a settlement was only a day away and Ihe sources said today's 10-1 attacks culminated the longest series of widespread Communist thrusts since the 1968 Tct offensive. Ilelicoplcr-borne troops of South Vietnam's 23rd Infantry Division were lifted to Dak To district town, drove out Ihe Communist defenders in a Ihrec -hour battle and raised their flag over the district headquarters, mililary spokesmen said.

Another government unit was dropped off outside Tan Canh, a former regimental headquarters base Ihrcc miles from Dak To. By dusk Ihe infantrymen had driven within a mile of that district town, field spokesmen said. The two bases were captured by the Communists April 22. Spokesmen said, however, the Communists closed out Ihe seventh month of their current offensive today by capturing the Dak Seang border ranger camp 10 miles north of Dak To. U.S.

B52 bombers blasted Communist (roops along the north perimeter of Dak Seang i Ihe night to cover Ihe retreat by a a defenders. UI'I reporter Mall Franjola said al least 100 of Ihe 350 rangers escaped from the former U.S. Green Beret camp and reestablished radio contact with government forces. UPI reporter Ed Basset! said three rounds of 122mm artillery shells destroyed two homes in Ihe old imperial capital of Hue 400 miles north of Saigon early today, killing two civilians, it was the first shelling of Hue in two and a half months. Bassctt also reported that a North Vietnamese captain was among two prisoners captured in a 21-hour battle today 28 miles southwest of Da Nang.

Government infantry killed.21 Communists in the fighting..