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-s-ir-- -j -iB 33RD YEAR NO. 171 OPELOUSAS, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1972 28 Pages -2 Sections TWENTY CENTS Whj j) Jl ft (SHdreen FSee Be Wsnrae i Nearly 5,000 Now Gone Violence in Upsurge By COLIN FROST Associated Press Writer BELFAST (AP) -More than 1.000 women and children fled Roman Catholic areas of Belfast on Saturday and took trains for Ireland, fearing an upsurge in Northern Ireland violence. Their exit followed hours of shooting in which two soldiers and two supposed gunmen died. Almost 5,000 now have headed south to escape the continuing violence in Belfast and other centers. The evacuation was organized by politicians who have close links with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, fight- NICE GUY WHO COULDNT As ing to with Catholic The charges that organizing against Catholics, were through which strongholds.

One of the dead soldiers was a bomb disposal expert killed as he sought to defuse a milk churn packed with explosives on a country road near the border with Ireland. The other was a soldier shot dead in the Suffolk district of western Belfast, where troops have battled IRA gunmen over the past five days. Their deaths and those of the two presumed merge mainly Protestant Northern Ireland predominantly Ireland. departure brought from Protestants the IRA would be a weekend push the British army. by contrast, contended that the British planning sweeps Catholic areas had become IRA Power's Mantle Passes; White House Quest On Opclousas Is Swim Mecca STARTER'S GUN blasts off a heat in the 100-yard free style Saturday when Opelousas was jammed with swimmers and followers from 15 swimming clubs in nine cities, from New Orleans and Lake Charles to Shreveport.

Occasion was the SAAU-sanctioned David Diesi Memorial Invitational Meet, staged Friday and Saturday at the Olympic-size pool of Opelousas Tennis Swimming Gub. Starter here is Dr. H.M. Ruiz of Morgan City, whose blast set off the electronic timer. Swimmers in this race, from left: Prissy Patrick, Lafayette; Ellen Hunt, Lake Charles, Evelyn Boudreau and Lisa Vige, Opelousas; Ann Orlando and Sonia Johnson, Morgan City.

Some SAAU records fell. For details see sports pages. (Staff Photo, Savoie) MASSIVE RAIDS B52 Homage Is Heavy By WALTER MEARS AP Political riter MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) And so the mantle of Democratic power passed to George McGovern, the nice guy who couldn't win but did. The men who challenged him, and one who helped subtly, were left to applaud and watch as the Democratic presidential nominee began his quest for the White House.

There stood Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who helped from a distance, who in other circumstances might have been his party's choice. There stood Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey, the candidate who had been. And Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, a towering early favorite when McGovern was only a decimal at the bottom of the public opinion polls. In the emotional tumultuous climax of the 36th Democratic National Convention, they watched from the side and the rear of the as the waves of cheers engulfed McGovern and running-mate Sen.

Thomas F. Eagleton, the Democratic ticket. Ahead for McGovern was the monumental task of uniting a party whose conservatives bitterly opposed him. But behind was a campaign from nowhere to the top of the party. As the convention acclaimed McGovern in the hours before dawn JTlcany Girds for WASHINGTON (AP) Labor patriarch George Meany girded Saturday for a bruising internal battle over whether the 13.6 million member AFL-CIO will endorse Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, or give President Nixon the political advantage of a virtually neutral labor movement.

"It's going to be a real bloody mess," predicted one AFL-CIO headquarters source of next Wednesday's meeting of the labor federation's 35-man ruling executive council to decide the issue. The 77-year-old Meany and the once- V. gunmen brought the total in three years of violence to at least 439, of whom 231 died this year. In Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second city, gunfights and riots forced the army to stop building permanent barricades around their controlled Bogside and Creggan districts. As troops moved in to build the barricades, Catholic women staged a sit-down protest and youngsters pitched in with rocks and bottles.

Within minutes the troops came under sniper attack but none were injured. Earlier Saturday vacationers returning home I See No. 2 Back Pg. this Sect. 'CRAZIEST DAMN CONVENTION' IS UNDERSTATEMENT MIAMI Fla.

(AP) -They may have to amend those marble inscriptions on the urn versity and library walls because Ihe past was not prelude to much this week among the palm trees, the plastic credit cards and the plastic Greek statues of Miami Beach. "Craziest damn convention I ever saw," George Meany kept saying. One can easily imagine the old labor leader, at 17, biting viciously on his cigar, growling out orders to command posts of the ABM but McGovern Orders, pressures, threats, favors recalled, arm twisting. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, in the wee hours of a Tuesday morning, comes the grim bulletin: California is lost; Franklin Delano Roosevelt is really dead; long live George who? A party is being transformed.

Perhaps a country, too, say the zealots. Outs are in. Ins are out. A sleeping bag pariah of Grant Park, Chicago, now orders up broiled kipper and eggs in the neo-classic splendor of the Fontainebleau. Averell Harriman, bent with honors, wanders lonely as a cloud, beaten for a delegate's seat by a 19-year- old.

As symbols, the two examples should not be over-weighted. Besides the young and the blacks who are newly important in Democratic politics, there is a growing breed of the middle-aged, larger in number, who have moved from the neutrality of the League of Women Voters, the insulation of professorial chairs, and abstract stance of the "office liberal," and the intellectual comfort of suburban discussion groups into the sweaty nitty-gritty and not always inspiring hurly-burly of active partisan politics. Regardless of age, color or class, the spirit of this convention was change. Old coalitions die. Old muscle now has no clout.

Nothing ages faster than age in the new politics. The past, both the long ago and the recent, is badly bruised. Crossword Puzzle Due on Daily Basis There is no Sunday Crosswords Puzzle in today's Daily World, but crosswords fans can take heart. Beginning Monday, the Daily World will feature a daily crosswords puzzle prepared by experts from King Features Syndicate. This will be found each day on the same page as the daily comic strips Beetle Bailey, Steve Canyon, Dick Tracy, and crosswords, too.

How about that? ft Foundation Head JOSEPH ONEBANE, Lafayette attorney and native of Opelousas, is the new president of the University of Southwestern Louisiana Foundation With him is Dick Dowty, Lafayette, first vice-president. Another Opelousas native, not shown, Herbert Abdalla, was elected to the foundation board of directors. The nonprofit foundation encourages financial aid from persons and firms to enrich the university program. (USL Photo) WSN Hi McGOVERN ACCEPTS: "American Politics will never be the same again." Friday, the nominee stood, beaming and waving, at the rostrum. The delegates sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," clapping rhythmically.

A few ranks away stood Joseph (See No. 3 Back Pg. this Sect. Mean Lcbor Row vaunted political strategists of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education (COPEl left the Democratic. National Convention in bitter disarray after badly losing their effort to block McGovern's nomination.

"I never saw such a confused, unrealistic group in my life," said one labor official who disagreed with COPE'S efforts to push Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund Muskie or Henry Jackson to the nomination long after it was apparent that McGovern had it locked up. Villa Robbing Suspect Held One month after a gang of six bandits stormed the Villa Lounge, the first arrest in the case was announced Saturday by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Department.

Booked at 2:21 p.m. Friday with armed robbery and jailed here was Patrick Willie Thomas, 19, a Lake Charles laborer. He was transferred from Calcasieu Parish where he had been held since June 12, the day after six men robbed and ransacked the popular roadside nightspot. Bona was set at $25,000. He is the first suspect arrested since the holdup, in which over $200 cash was taken from bar owner Cyril Dodge and several early morning patrons in the (See No.

1 Back Pg. this Sect. it Pi-mess twDtiSTooo bcs, TUEV'D OH.Y THE CLUBS TWEf nam Thursday, but there was no confirmation in Saigon. No B52s have been reported lost to enemy fire, although at least one has been damaged. On the northern front, military sources said a South Vietnamese paratrooper battalion had moved to within 700 yards east of the Citadel in the heart of Quang Tri.

This was the closest government troops had come to the fallen provincial capital. A government spokesman reported two new engagements Saturday outside Quang Tri and said 11 enemy were killed. He characterized South Vietnamese losses as light. Thirty miles to the south, there was fighting west of Hue, and the old imperial capital was hit by eight enemy artillery shells that killed one person and wounded three. An unusual broadcast by the Viet Cong's radio said its forces had taken more than 200 prisoners from the 23rd Division's 45th Regiment after they were wounded and left behind during ground fighting in Kontum Province between July 2 and 4.

The South Vietnamese prisoners were treated for their wounds and moved to a spot identified as Hill 616, where U. S. Air orce B52s dropped tons of antipersonnel bombs in raids the following two days, the broadcast said. It claimed all the prisoners were killed. A U.

S. Command spokesman said he had no report of such an incident, and the South Vietnamese reported no major battle in the area during that period. Street Hurrah To Greet COP MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Large and militant street demonstrations will likely greet the Republican National Convention when it rolls into town next month. Police and protest planners say they want a repeat of the peaceful demonstrations that accompanied the Democratic National Convention, but no-bodv is taking bets on it.

Before the Democrats convened, the word from both sides was that there would be no violence. Everyone gave a little all week, and there was no trouble. But police and protesters are more aggressive now as they talk about the Republican gathering Aug. 21 to 23. Instead of, "There will be no trouble." what one often hears in, "We don't want trouble, but we'll be ready for it." In addition to more protesters and more militant actions, several additional factors could combine to produce a highly volatile situation.

BRANDT WINS IN SPORTSWRITING MONROE, La. Roger Brandt, sports editor of the Daily World, won a third place in Class II competition for all newspapers over 10,000 circulation at the annual awards banquet Saturday night of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association convention." Brandt's award, in the College Division, was for spot news written on deadline. His entry was an account of the LSU-Colorado football game. Chess: On-Off REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobbv Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind.

Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being See No. 4 Back Pg. this Sect, i I In Ward 1 CHARLES BRYANT, St.

Landry Parish and Louisiana educator, seeks a Ward 1 seat on the St. Landry Parish School Board in the Democratic primary of Aug. 19. See Pg. 2.

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B52 Strato-fortresses shattered bunkers and inflicted heavy casualties on North Vietnamese around the provincial capital of Quang Tri, the U. S. Command said Saturday. It estimated the bombers killed about 300 enemy in two massive raids. A U.

S. Command communique said South Vietnamese paratroopers searching one B52 strike area about eight miles south of Quang Tri "found 60 destroyed enemy bunkers containing approximately 250 enemy dead and their equipment." Three antiaircraft artillery pieces and two trucks were destroyed in the same area, the command said. If accurate, the number killed would indicate that a North Vietnamese battalion was knocked out by the strike. The North Vietnamese claimed a B52 bomber was shot down over North Viet- Cattle Elides xporfs Cut WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration put a ceiling on exports of U.S. cattle hides Saturday in a move to curb mounting price pressures on shoes and other leather goods.

Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson, citing foreign and domestic demand which has pushed hide prices to a record high, announced at a news conference that: Effective midnight, shipments abroad of U.S. cattle hides will be limited to last year's already-high export level of 16 million hides. To carry out the program, export tickets will be issued to U.S. cattle hide producers according to their percentages of total hide production.

Under this system, he said, any financial benefits from selling hides at higher foreign prices will be retained by U.S. cattle producers and consumers. Peterson declined to predict flatly that the new effort will reduce shoe or meat prices in the United States, though he portrayed costs to the consumer as lower on these items than they would be without the program being imposed. Aides said shoes already have climbed 1 per cent since January and were projected for another 3 to 10 per cent increase by this fall if there were no hold on hide price rises. "We believe it will result in a reduction of the price of American-made shoes," Peterson said without giving a precise figure.

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19. This will be, if elected, his "retirement See Pg. 2. Announces GEORGE C. BARKER, LeMoyen civic leader lumberman, is a candidate from Ward 4 for a on the St.

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