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i News Summary The World REBELS ATTACKED warplanes raided insurgents Tuesday along Phnom Penh's threatened southern defense perimeter, where field reports said at least three government positions were encircled by Coriimunist troops. The reports said American planes, including B52 bombers, concentrated much of their firepower late Monday and early Tuesday along Highways 2 and 3 south of the capital, AMERICANS RELEASED More than 100 members of the U.S Peace Corps rested Tuesday in Kinshasa, in the capital of Zaire after being held for 51 hours in Uganda. A chartered flight brought the ill Americans to Kinshasa here Monday night after President Mobutu Sese Seko vouched for them and Uganda's President Idi Aram let them go. Amin said he thought they might be mercenaries on their way to fight in Burundi's tribal war or Israeli agents. The Nation COURT CLOSED Jury selection in the mass murder trial in Santa Cruz, of former high school honor student Herbert Mullm will be closed to -the public and news media because of the "scandalous nature" of the crime, the judge ruled Monday Mullin, 25, Feiton, a i has confessed to slaying 10 persons DOUGLAS PLANS VISIT More than 20 years affer President Harry Truman advised him to tell the Chinese Communists "to go straight to hell Supreme Court Justice William 0 Douglas is going to visit the People's Republic of China.

Douglas, 74, said Monday Goose Praine, Wash that he and his'wife, Cathy, will fly to Hong Kong Aug 9 and go on to China on.an invitation from the Peking government RUSSIAN SALE BLAMED Last year's massive sale of wheat to the Soviet Union nearly doubled the domestic price of the gram and caused U.S food prices to use, according to a report to Congress The General Accounting Office (GAO) said Monday the wheat sale increased prices for bread and other Hour- based products, and beef, pork, poultry, eggs and dairy products, because it caused higher feed gram costs. The State HODY I I I -The decomposed body of a man discovered by two fishermen near Lake Ray Hubbard Monday has been tentatively identified as that of 30-year-old Henry J. McCluskey a Dallas attorney who has been missing since" June 28. The body was found in a ditch eastern Dallas County, but was in such a state that immediate identification was difficult INSURANCE HEARING The State Board of Insurance holds its annual public hearing today on automobile insurance rates, with Texas motorists hoping for rate reductions for the second straight year Joe Christie, chairman of the board, said last week he was hopeful that evidence presented at Tuesday's hearing would result in reductions for most of the state's 40 statistical territories The Weather 3000 THE FORECAST During Tuesday night, shower activity is indicated throughout scattered areas of the Atfentic coastal states Elsewhere, mostly fair should prevail with skies ranging from clear to partly cloudy. I I A A a a 71, Boston 68, Chicago 63, Denton 74, Denver 64, Duluth 52', Jacksonville 73, Kansas City 71, Us Angeles Miami 74, Minneapolis 64, New Orleans 74, New York 82 San Francisco 54, Seattle 54, St.

Louis 70, Washington 72. Stock Markets NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Selected tabulation of stock rirtsasof 10:00 a.m. New York today as quoted by Paine. JacKson and Curtis include last sale and cnange from previous day's close. Alcontabs 31 Vi up Hi AmeraceEsna unch American Motors un i Artec Oil 4 Gas unch' Amer.

TeliTe? sift up 34 Branitf up Brown S-Sharoc dn Collins Radio 1714. UD OrPepoer up Ennis Bus. Forms up 1st Int'l Bancsnares up 48 up General Motors up Genera Tel. 29'i unch unch Int'l Harv. up Josttn's up Kertler unch Kroner 14 dn up' 1,4 Star Gas 261'a up "-j; CrPenncy 7 3 up Vi Pepsi 7Wt up Safeway 14 Sears up IB Texaco dn Texas Industries dn Texas Instruments 87 up Texas Utilities unch Union Off of Calif 36 up 'OTHER STOCKS Castle LSLCorp.

3i GPO" 3V, Zales Jewelry a unch OVEH-THE- Quotations from the National Association of Securities Dealers are representative inlerdealer as of 10:00 a.m. New York time. Interdealer marfcet change throughout retail markup, mark- down and commissions. Merc. Nat'! BanK 32 Moore Corp.

Ltd. 55 inc. 23 3 N. Western Nafi Lite 8 'Pacific Lumber Republic Nan Bank Republic Nat'! Life 9 Southland Paper Sancshares Southwestern Life 37 37Vj and 35 Tex. 33V? 3JVj DowJofiei 30 Industries 8W.82 up 9.56 JO Transportation up futilities 101.3* up .32 Today's Volume to a.m shares.

Pair Held By Police In Fracus Two brothers -uere in Denton Count) jail Tuesday a i $20,000 for aggravated assault on a Louisville police ojfficer The two, one of and one of surrendered to Lewisvgle police early Monday after a short gun battle the 13IJO Week of Ins. Charges of a a a assault with murder a police officer were expected to be filed Denton district court, according to Police Capt, Billy Edge The incident unfolded afier i Raphael a a answered a civil disturbance call and found a iMbman, ho had apparenfly been assaulted, and' a i emerging from an alley. The woman and child got into the police vehicle, and the vehicle was fired upon by one of the subjects, Edge said. From a residence, the subjects abo fSred upon additional officers Sgts a i Fowler, Glen Glasstock and ttuss Hud- dieston and Officer Gary Am burn who were called lo the scene, Edge sjid Four rounds were fired by the subjects, and two rounds were returned by officers, Edge said The two men, 23 and 25. bin rendered Ooc subject received a head injury as officers attempted to subdue him, Edge said That subject was treated at a local clinic No injuries were reported because of gunfire The two men were transported later Monday 'morning to Denton County jail Burtons' Paths Parting Further LOS ANGELES I -E i a Taylor and i a already divided by a continent since their break-up, will get a apart, a least temporarily Miss Taylor, currently in beclusion here, plans to visit relatives in Honolulu, a spokesman for the actress said Monday Burton, staying at his lawyer's Long Island beach home at Quoque.

is planning to fly to Europe for a film festival in Moscow, the lawyer said Miss Taylor also plans to head for Europe later, her spokesman said. -She is due Rome by July 22 to start work on.a movie there. Denton Man Beaten, 'Robbed A 21-year-old man was found by police Monday at 11 p.m., on AVoodrow Lane, the a a victim of an assault and robbery. The man' was' beaten and his a -was missing Police said he (oW them four men stopped their car and asked if he wanted a ride They jumped him and took his wallet, -containing $15 cash. Police said he was treated at flow nnd released National Crime (UPI) With Britain embroiled in another nationalizing industries and losses in state- owned; the following letter-quoted in full-- from Lt; Col.

W.E.C. Pettman appeared today in The; London Times: "Sir, not nationalize crime? Then' it won't pay." AFFILIATED SECURITIES Firtt Buildmg Con Execute In Af)y Counter Sfock 3812-2432 Jdy it, SWt A RING-IN CEREMONY -President Niawn, left and new, FBI introductions Busy Week Ahead Attends Stvearing-In Of FBI Director WASHINGTON (AP President Nixon, back in the White House after a 17-day California stay, has a busy week ahead A Cabinet meeting, sessions with economic advisers and a meeting with Republican congressional leaders are on his calendar Nixon returned to Washington Monday night via Kansas City, where he witnessed the swearing of new FBI Director Clarence Kelley The session with top Senate and House Republicans, with whom he meets regularly, was set for today Meetings with his Cabinet and with economic advisers who are helping him prepare Phase 4 wage-price restraints arc scheduled for later the week, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Nixon told his Kansas City audience, gathered around a plaza at the federal building, that the United States is entering "a new era achieving peace at home Declaring that "enormously significant" foreign policy developments "may obscure the progress we have made moving toward peace at home," Nixon cited a recent re- duction in street crinie, a quieting of campus unrest, absence of major noting in cities and a lessening of the drug abuse problem as evidence of what tie termed the domestic new eara. Police estimated Nixon's audience if 12,500. A sizable number of anti-Nixon demonstrators were segregated behind rope 1 barriers across a street Kelley, 61, a former FBI man who had been Kansas City's police chief for the past dozen years, said that as FBf director he would "always keep mind we are servants of the law and not its masters The first permanent director since the death of Edgar Hoover May 1972, Kelley promised to enforce fedTral statutes with vjgor and said: "I believe they can and should be enforced fairly and equitably No matter what is the position of the citizen affected, he should be accorded thejfull rights guaranteed him but more than that the dignities and courtesies owed free and proud people Area Deaths L. B.

Reedy Services were heM for Reedy, 77, of 513 Frame SI at 2 Tuesday at Schmitz Floyd Hamlett Funeral Chapel Lonnie Yarbrough officiated with burial at Oakwood Cemetery Pallbearers were George Bush, Red Buttons, Jack Morns, Joe Sprayberry, Don Patterson and Olen McBride. George T. Rains a services were held at 2 Monday at Jack Schmitz and Son Funeral Chapel for George Rains, 61, of Hi? McKmney The Rev Phillips Walker and the Rev Clarence Carter officiated with burial at Roselawn Memorial Park. Pallbearers were Andy Anderson, Rex a a i Hugh Taylor, a i Harrison, Wayne Ryan and Dutch Lowrahce. Matfie Crubaugh Funeral services i be at 2 Wednesday the Schmitz Floyd Hamlett Funeral Chapel for Matlie Crubaugh of Seagoville The Rev Fred Cassell will officiate with burial at Shiloh Cemetery in Corinth.

Mrs a died Monday a a Hospital. She was born Oct 20, 1885 in Corinth, was a member of the Presbyterian Church and married Crubaugh 1910 in Corinth. Survivors include several nieces and nephews. Ataertv Funeral services be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Schmiti Floyd Hamlett Funeral, Cnapel for Alvera Adeline Niggemyer, 72, of Denton Nursing Cente.

The Rev Fred Cassell will officiate the services with cremation to follow. Niggemyer died Monday at the Denton Nursing Center She was born June 6, 1901 in A Minn She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and married George 1 Niggemy- er Nov 27, 1925 at Watertown, She was a member of PEG and a social worker for the Houston Harris County Board of Public Welfare for 17 years Survivors include her hus- bjnd of Denton, one daughter, Mrs James Hicks of Denton, two sons, John Niggenner and George David Niggemycr, both of Houston, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Hot Check Suspect Placed In Custody Seventeen cases of forgery of prescriptions here have been cleared by the arrest of a 27-ycar-oW Argyte man, police said Tuesday Further investigation after his arrest revealed he had $400 worth of hot checks outstanding in the county, according to police Also, police said, the man was in possession of a number of blank Oklahoma drivers licenses The suspect was released on $2,500 bond for forgery and $1,000 bond for theft under the value of $5 When he was trnasferred to county jail, his wife also was ja iled on a count of theft under $5 and released on Jl ,500 bond Police hav contacted Oklahoma authorities who may join Denton officers the investigation Fuel Critical, Says Briscoe A I Cm, I Gov Dolph Bnscoc Monday the United States should develop and rely on its own energy sources and stop i i about importing fuel oil. "In my judgment, our a i already dangerously dependent on foreign oil imports at a rate of more than one third of what we Briscoe; said during a meeting of the i Governor's Conference. Family Injured In Accident 'A husband, wife and son riding a motorcycle were injured Monday, night when their cycle collided with a car at the intersection of Linden and Bryan Cecil Ajron, his wife Judy and son Tracy, 7, of 405 Westua, were westbound on Linden their motorcycle hit a car driven by Karen Jenkins, of 322 Texas, police said According to police, the Jenkins auto, southbound on Bryan stopped for a traffic sign, but turned left into ihe path of the motorcjclc Aaron was dismissed from Flow Hospital with a broken nose and cuts and bruises to the face and head, authorities said, while Mrs Aaron was listed in good condition Tuesday at Flow with bruises on the legs.

The child was listed fair condition with a broken left leg Miss Jenkins and passengers with her, Ann Peterson, 16, of 3200 Santa Monica, and Liz of 201 Buckingham, were not injured. Court's Activity i i- Increases The number of filed in district 1 courU Denton County during)972 increased than I per cent from the number filed during I97t, according Judicial Council. Cases filed during the last calendar year totaled 1,637, including 341 criminal and Judge'W Boyd of the 16th District Court and Judge Bob Scofwld of the 158th District Court have i i in Denton County also serves Cobke County. local disposed of- 1,426 ca'ses during 1972,52 per cent of the cases filed during the year or carried the end of the year" cases were pending "on the docket i- Of the 585'criminal casej on the docket last year, 313 were disposed of, primarily defendants' guilty pleas Probation was granted in 154 cases, and 32 probations were revoked There were 250 guilty pleas in cases "and 15 guilty verdicts rendered by juries in 1972, One jury registered an acquittal" Three not "guilty pleas were "judged guilty in non- jury cases Cases dismissed prior to trail numbered 52 Seventy attorneys uere appointed as counsel Divorce was the most prevalent civil a brought before Denton County courts, with 667 cases filed last year to add to the 235 cases pending from ihe previous year A total of 450 divorces uere granted a i dispositions in 1972 totaled 23 of docket numbering 59 i compensation cases were disposed of in 1972, with nine more pending at the year's end. Nine a granted in 1972 Thirty cases of dependent and neglected or delinquent children were handled in 1972, with 19 more pending at the end of the vear The 49 cases on the docket represented 35 cases filed during the year and 14 cases pending from the year prior.

Tax suits on the 1972 docket totaled 147, of which 13 were disposed of during the year Fund Project Opens Friday LAKE DALLAS The Lake Dallas majorettes will conduct a carnival Friday evening to raise funds for new i and attendance at training camp The fair will be 6 30pm. to 9 30 Friday on the tow. square. HEARIPIG TESTS HEARING AIDS SERVICE ON ALL MAKES In-tfM-Ear Akff Cyeflns modtft Aids Body A Mi BB 710 Elm 387-9031 Texas is considering the construction of an offshore port to accommodate supertankers but "I think it is imperative that the United States strive to regain its lost ability to meet most of its own domestic needs from domestic sources, and ihis should be part of our national policy; Briscoe said a concerted national mobilization effort could solve the energy crisis. RAMEY 4 KING SALUTES ivtw director I Dorothy Of the North Tcxos Chapter of the Bank Marketing I Association.

I Ramey A King KIRBY VACUUM CLEANERS 0 7 Locusl evt ry evening and on Sufttjy by FUtUSH'lNG CO 3HE Hrckory Sf ADDRESS 34t. Denton. a paid ponTon, "Telephone AC 117 P.O. Telephone: Ar A I BUREAU Drawer Austin, Telephone: Area Bureau Of United NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC errwwtm trie corrected beinf -to trrori or errors TtMT Mtwr onwr to correct, in it.

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