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Meet The New Miss Florida, Suzanne Charles: Pg. 1-D rlanfro en tint Inside Headlines Irish Vigilantes Blamed For 3 Executions Pg. 3-A McGovern Rules Out Bolt As Independent Pg. 4-A Today's Question And Answer On Jake Gaithcr Pg. 10-A GOLDEN JUBILEE Vol.

ItO No. 50 44 Pages lis a Privilege to LiVc in Central Florida Orlando, Florida, Monday, July 3, 1972 Record 97 In Orlando izzles Holiday Crowds wf i' 4 4 I BLISTERING HEAT MADE GRASS CUTTING MEAN WORK Horten; 13, Orlando mops brow in 97 degree heat fs- V7 -'V 4 2aL-OtorfU i. A Truman Enters Hospita Condition 'Satisfactory 10 Cents Deaths Low Despite Jam On Roads By GEORGE McEVOY Stntintl Stiff Beaches were jammed, roads packed and people broiled to a crisp this weekend as Independence Day sojourners fled the cool confines of their air-conditioned homes for the great," stifling outdoors. Temperatures hit marks such as 97 in Orlando, 94 in DeLand and 94 in Kissimmee as a scorching sun dominated Sunday. The mark of 97 was the hottest July 2 in Orlando on record.

THEN, AS night fell, the skies rumbled and scattered storms whipped through Central Florida and along the Gulf Coast. The state's death toll on the highways rose to 11 Sunday. But, across the nation, the grim total stood at more than 300 as the halfway point of the four-day weekend was reached. Before the long weekend ends at midnight Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol predicted 32 persons would die in highway accidents. BOAT ACCIDENTS also played a tragic part in the weekend.

The Coast Guard Sunday began a search for a 40-foot shrimp trawler, with three persons on board, reported in trouble about 40 miles south of New Smyrna Beach. The boat reportedly had a disabled engine and had been drifting for three days. When the boat's radio went dead at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, crewmen were reporting it was taking on water. Although no positive identification of the craft was made, the Coast Guard said it believed the trawler was the owned by someone named Sharp.

By late Sunday night, there was still no sight of the stricken vessel. ORLANDO POLICE reported numerous incidents of downed trees and burglar alarms being set off during a hard-hitting, half-hour storm. Several businesses, including a downtown new car dealer, reported plate glass windows were knocked, out. A College Park bookstore lost its front window when a tree limb hurtled through" the air, police said. Both city police and the Orange (Continued On Page 2-A, Col.

5) The Weather Partly cloudy with chance of thundershowers. High in middle 90s; low in middle 70s. Variable winds, strong and gusty near thundershowers. Probability of rain 20 per cent. Sunris 4:32, Suns.t 1:17.

Moonriio 11:14 Moons tt 1:07 o.m Mornin, Start Vomit, Soturn. Ev.mn. Start M.rcury, Mart, Juplt.r. For 34 Hour, Ended I p.m. Yott.rdayt T.mp.ritur.t, 7, Low M.an It, Norma 13.

Relative Humidity 7 a.m. II par ontj I p.m. 41, p.m. JO. Precipitation, Month'! Total .01 In I normal lor July, 1.00 in.) Yt.r'l Total 22 S4 In.) oc.it through Juno .71 In.

Hioh.st Wind Velocity, It m.p h. at 1 m. from wttl Batom.t.r, 7 a.m. 30.11 1 p.m. 30.10 in.

(Map and Oth.r Rtportt on Pas. 3B.) Index Astrology Classified Comics Crossword Editorial Financial 5D 2B 4D 5D 14A 6C Movies Obituaries Opinion Sports Television Weather Women 6D 2B 15A 1C 7D 3B Guidcposts 2B A Iffl Mnltnl Star Company (Stntlncl Photo by Ed Stout) HARRY S. TRUMAN Stomach ailment mansion in Independence, Mo. He was admitted at 3:05 p.m. EDT and taken in a wheelchair to a private room.

John P. Dreves, a hospital spokesman, said Truman was "in good spirits and talked with hospital personnel as he was taken to his room." Dreves indicated Truman was in no danger and there would be no (Continued On Page 2-A, Col. 4) THE ONEMENT was made primarily to protect the Icelandic financial backers of the match and to preserve the image of the game itself, Euwe said. If Fischer does not appear for the drawing of lots now scheduled for Tuesday at noon (8 a.m. EDT) he will be disqualified and lose his right to challenge the 35-year-old Russian for the world chess title, Euwe said.

The match between Fischer, 29, and Spassky originally was have begun at 5 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT) Sunday in a Reykjavik theater especially outfitted to suit the X. Fvom Out Of R. P.

Price of 2351 Windward Way, Naples, prepares for start of 273-mile Mackle Antique and Classic Auto Tour Sunday from Ormond Beach to Marco Island. Dressed in duster and cap, Price is in spirit of his car, 1929 Packard 640 roadster. Antique automobile enthusiasts from throughout South took part in holiday classic. (Sentinel Photo by Gary Gardiner) Passenger Kills Asian Skyjacker SAIGON MB A young Asian tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi on Sunday, but the aircraft landed instead in Saigon where the pilot and two passengers clasped him in a strangle hold and an armed passenger pumped five bullets into his chest. The pilot then heaved the dead hijacker's body to the concrete taxiway at Tan Son Nhut Airport.

The hijacker had claimed he was North Vietnamese. A PAN AMERICAN spokesman in Hong Kong said, As far as we can tell now, the hijacker's name is believed to be Nguyen Thai Binh, but no passport or ticket for him has been found. It is believed he boarded the plane at Honolulu." The man carried a package he claimed was a bomb in one hand and a long knife in the other. He said he intended to blow up the aircraft after it reached Hanoi in a "revenge act" for the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the pilot said.

After landing at Saigon on a pretext of refueling, the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, and two passengers got the air pirate off guard, knocked the "bomb" from his hand and wrestled him to the floor. DURING THE struggle, Vaughn rolled away and ordered the passenger with the gun to "kill him." The passenger, identified as a former Richmond, policeman traveling to a job with a U.S. firm in Saigon, fired five shots into the hijacker from a .357 Magnum pistol. His name was not given out in Saigon.

ALL PASSENGERS and crew, numbering about 150, slid down inflated, plastic emergency chutes to safety. Some received minor bruises and scratches and one passenger, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Louis Seig, Colorado Springs, broke his leg leaving the plane.

The crew said in Saigon that the plane carried 136 passengers and 17 crewmen. Vaughn gave this account: ABOUT 43 minutes after Pan (Continued On Page 2-A, Col. 1) demands of both players. Spassky arrived early last week. IN ANNOUNCING the decision to postpone the opening of the 24-game match, Euwe said an Icelandic friend of Fischer, Frcys-tein Thorbergsson, was flying to New York "to try to persuade Fischer to come here and play the "If he does not show up at' noon on Tuesday for the drawing of lots," Euwe said, "he will be disqualified and lose the right to play for the title.

Fischeri unharjpjr over the finan South Viets Press Drive; Enemy Rockets Hit Hue KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) Former President Harry S. Truman, 88, was hospitalized in a wheelchair Sunday suffering a gastro-intestinal ailment. Doctors said he was in "satisfactory" condition. Dr.

Wallace H. Graham said the "lower gastro-intestinal problem" was related to the ailment for which Truman spent, 12 days in the( hospital last year. "He is doing quite well but a reexamination is indicated periodically," Graham said. "RO UTINE EXAMINATIONS are planned to include X-ray studies of the lower gastro-intestinal tract." Graham said he decided to hospitalize Truman "to check his status with his condition when he was hospitalized in 1971." Truman's wife, Bess, 87, was at his bedside at; Research Hospital and Medical Center. Graham said the intestinal problem was related to Truman's 1971 bout with colitis, an inflammation of the large intestine.

THE NATION'S 33rd president was driven in a car 15 miles to the hospital on Kansas City's south side from his 17-room Victorian SAIGON South Vietnamese paratroopers battled enemy troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri Sunday and other clashes broke out along the western flank of the northern counteroffensive. Thirty miles to the south, the enemy sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its southern and western perimeter. However, the shellings were not followed up by any attempt to take the old imperial capital. ASSOCIATED PRESS correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the far north that paratroopers a eading the five-day-old counteroffensive were in contact all day within three miles of the The Past enemy-held Quang Tri, capital of the province of the same name. Along the lengthening western flank of the counteroffensive, 150 enemy soldiers were reported killed in several battles near the foothills three to five miles west of Highway 1.

South Vietnamese losses were put at nine men killed and 25 wounded. Vietnamese marines on the eastern sector of the front reported killing 37 North Vietnamese while losing one man killed and six wounded in a fight six miles east of Quang Tri on the "Street without Joy." THE LATEST reports brought (Continued On Page 2-A, Col. 1) but he said both had been lost. He indicated that the cablegrams called for a postponement because of the state of Fischer's health. Euwe said the postponement was made after he and the official arbiter for the match, Chess Grand Master Lothar Schmid of Germany, asked Spassky and his assistants if they would concur.

Neither promoters nor Cramer's representatives would say whether the financial problem had been settled. Chess sources said this was the major stumbling block. Fischer Absent; Chess Opener Postponed 2 Days cial terms arranged for the match, three times cancelled flights from New York last week and he failed to board the last direct flight that would have gotten him to Iceland on time Saturday night. EACH PLAYER is permitted three postponements for medical reasons but these must be certified by the official match doctor. Fred Cramer, representing the 29-ycar-old challenger, said two cablegrams had been sent from the United States to Reykjavik one from Fischer's physician and one from the U.S.

Chess Federation REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer failed to appear for the opening game in his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Sunday but the match was postponed for two days to give the American challenger one more chance to play. "The simplest and maybe correct way to deal with this would be to disqualify Fischer from championship play," Dr. Max Euwc, president of the Internation-al Chess Federation said in jouncing the postponement,.

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