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DAILY WORLD Opclousas, July tf 72 4 r- iff' I. a I I. I 3 I Highest Rank in Scouting 17 -W i Signed into Law SIGNING OF the Atchafalaya Basin Act left, Rep. Risley C. Triche, Sen.

Act 365 of 1972 took place in the office of Paul J. Hardy, Sen. Edgar G. Mouton Gov Edwin Edwards. Above watching the Sen.

Carl W. Bauer, Secretary of State Wade governor put his signature to the bill are from 0. Martin Jr. and Rep. J.

Burton Angelle. Eagle rank. His tatner ana mother received a tie clasp and pin and "Chip" was presented a certificate signed by President Nixon on his attaining the Eagle is a student at Belmont Academy and this year won first place on his exhibit in the St. Landry Parish, regional and state science fairs. GEORGE "CHIP" BRIGGS, 15, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Briggs of Opelousas, receives his Eagle Scout badge from his father while his mother beams with pride. George is a member of Boy Scout Troop 165 and the presentation of the highest rank in scouting came after he earned 23 merit badges and completed requirements for the SHAD21LY TREATED KIT BY CAR Second Yculh failed In Churdi Point Area Swim Fans from AH Over SWIMMING FANS from 15 swimming clubs in nine major Louisiana cities all over the state converged Friday and Saturday at the olympic-size pool of the Opelousas Tennis and Swimming Club. Some of the crowd can be seen here along one pool-side vantage point, urging on their entries. The occasion is the SAAU-sanctioned David Diesi Memorial Invitational Meet, one of the most popular meets in the state each year.

(Staff Photo) Edwards Vetoes Only 1 8 Legislative Acts Gov. Edwin Edwards vetoed only 18 of the 804 bills which reached his desk from the 1972 Legislature, he has reported to the secretary of state's office. Edwards' Reasons Good For Early Departure COMPUTERS KEEP THINGS ALL LIT UP NEW YORK (AP) At the foot of Manhattan island, two of the world's tallest buildings blaze with lights night and day, and the Port Authority which owns the twin towered 110-story structure can't turn them out. Blame it on the computers, they say. All electricity for the buildings is controlled by computers and there are no light switches.

The computers aren't working. and former White Ifouse press secretary, who withdrew from contention after black Democrats from Mississippi nominated Paterson. While originally endorsing Salinger, McGovern said after Paterson was nominated that either man would be acceptable to him. French, Spanish To Be Taught in Morrow Program MORROW Beginning Monday, July 17, two new classes will be offered in the Morrow Summer Recreational Program. Miss Merlene Pitre, who holds her Masters in French, will teach a Beginners French class from 4 to 6 p.

Mondays and Wednesdays. The Spanish Class will be taught by Mrs. Doris White at the same time on Mondays and Wednesdays also. The Summer Recreation Program which is sponsored by Southern Mutual Help Asso-ciaton also offers classes in knitting, ceramics, and crochet as well as sports activities Monday through Friday from 4 to 8 p. m.

All adults, high school and upper elementary students from the Morrow area are invited to attend free of charge. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Louisiana- Gov. Edwin Edwards, discouraged and not wholly without bitterness, left the Democratic National Convention three days early. There was business at home, he told a scattering of the state's delegation the morning after the marathon opening of the convention.

And besides, he conceded to newsmen as he left, Sen. George McGovern, had been assured of the party's presidential nomination, something which displeased him to no end. Edwards hardly had set foot outside the damp, musty smelling hotel where the Louisiana delegation was lodged before the reasons for sudden departure began to come into sharp focus. "There was a lot of feeling that the governor was treated one veteran politico said. Then, displaying the same let-down countenance Edwards had shown, he added: "Several people just tried for some reason to disregard his total effort to make this a good delegation." The effort-and there were those on the delegation who questioned the governor's motives apparently was destined for failure from the start.

Not once in four or five tries was a serious political discussion undertaken. One whole meeting was devoted to transportation problems, and the sharing of scarce guest passes to the evening madhouse. The 19 blacks on the delegation-20 after Edwards left-caucused by themselves, but newsmen, and the white delegates were not allowed inside and no one would say later what went on. Edwards' efforts to bring some cohesion to the group substances. H339, income tax deductions for self-employed contribution funds.

11826, eliminate tax stamps on all tobacco products except cigarettes. H1426 exempt firms reconstituting lubricating oils from paying tax on oils for tax had beenpaid previously. Senate Bills 5102, provides a different method for opponents to replace persons whose proposed legal tutorship is challenged. 5103, deletes priorities of certain relatives in appointment of legal tutors. S283.

provide for court appointed attorneys to represent indigent juveniles in juvenile cases the same manner that attorneys are appoint to represent indigent non-juvenile defendants. S510, increase membership of Louisiana Racing Commission. Tunic Protest' Planned in tl.O. NEW ORLEANS "picnic protest" is scheduled for Sunday by members of a local civic organization objecting to what they term "Government behind closed doors." Plans by Gov. Edwin Edwards to hold a closed meeting to discuss an uptown corridor for a bridge across the Mississippi River have been denounced by the Coliseum Square Improvement Some of the measures were purely local in nature, including additional district judgeships in four parishes, and fireworks regulatory permission in four parishes.

The governor issued a list of his vetoes, including several previously announced ones. The list included his rejection of a bill to give areas where horse races are conducted more representation on the Louisiana Racing Commission. Explains One Edwards issued an explanation of only one of the 18 vetoed pieces of legislation. He said he struck down a bill to provide additional state tax for retirement funds of self-employed persons because "there is absolutely no benefti to lower-income or the mass of employed persons." Another Edwards veto erased a bill which would have required multi-level merchandising companies to repurchase stock remaining unsold after three months at 90 per cent of original price. It would have prohibited the operation of such companies unless they signed such agreements with par-ticpating purchasers.

The list of vetoed acts follows, omitting those of purely local application to areas of the state outside the Daily World circulation area: House Bills H51, allow other than a certified copy of a birth certificate as proof of age in obtaining marriage licenses. H174, prohibit single contracts for both design and construction on public works. H179. eliminate Board of Healtn tee tor licenses to dispense controlled dangerous He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Wingate, of Church Point, four brothers Phillip Keith, Marvin Charles, Eric and Harold Wingate one sister Paula Wingate; all of Church Point the paternal grandmother Mrs. Willie Wingate; Rayne; maternal grandmother Mrs. Rubie Johnson, Church Point, maternal great-grandmother Mrs. Leo Pole of Church Point. Draft Vfalhcc love Is Begun By 3rd Party DOVER, Del.

(AP) T. Coleman Andrews, national chairman of the American Party, said Saturday he plans to ask Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace to accept the party's nomination for president. Andrews tola the Delaware American Party convention he plans to meet with Wallace in a Birmingham hospital within the next week.

Andrews told the convention he discussed the possibility with Wallace two weeks ago and said he believes if Wallace's health continues to improve, he will accept the nomination. Wallace is recovering from gunshot wounds received in an assassination attempt May 15 during a campaign appearance in Laurel, Ma. "Wallace speaks for an underlying current that knows life in America is not what it should be." Andrews said. The party official said the national convention will be held Aug. 3-5 in Louisville, Ky.

Democrats' Chairman Is Woman WASHINGTON (AP) The new Democratic national chairman is Jean Miles Westwood, a 48-year-old grandmother from West Jordan, Utah, and the first woman to head a major political party. Mrs. Westwood, a principal adviser to Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern, replaces Lawrence F. O'Brien.

Sen. McGovern's selection of Mrs. Westwood was unanimously ratified by the Democratic National Committee Friday in Miami Beach, Fla. The committee, in another precedent-setting move, selected Basil Paterson of Harlem, N.Y., as vice chairman. Paterson, 45, a former state senator, is the first black to be picked for such a top post in a national party.

McGovern's choice for the vice-chairmanship was Pierre Salinger, a campaign adviser CHURCH POINT Paul Wingate, 8, of Church Point became the second child in three davs to be killed by an auto while crossing a highway in the Church Point area The Wingate youth was killed Friday when he was struck by a car as he tried to cross La. 95 ir front of his home. According to State Police Troop I in Lafayette the car was driven by Walter Hundley Jr. of Lafayette. The case is under investigation by the State PoIice Troop J.

Funderal services were held Saturday at Our Ladv of the i. Pnint at FT. POLK. La. (AP) -Brig.

Gen. Arthur S. deputy commanding general atf Ft. Polk since August 1971, ends more than 29 years of Army service when he retires July 31. Hyman, a native of Seattle, came to Ft.

Polk from Vietnam where he was deputy senior advisor of Military Region III, U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam. He served in three wars, earning such decorations as thfvas Silver Star, Legion of Merits with two oak leaf clusters, anoe Bronze Star Medal for Valor 0f with three oak leaf clusters, iic win uc sucxeuufu ai l. Polk, by Brig. Gen.

Albert G.er Hume, who has been mander of U.S. Army Combatrai Developments Command Combat Arms Group at Ft. he Leavenworth, Kan. er Hume also has been in the se Army for more than 29 and is a veteran of three wars.re 1941 W. AshEunice.

Hollier was driving west on Creswell Lane shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday. Mire was traveling south on U.S. 167. Tfc.

E. Venable stated that Hollier failed to heed the stop sign at the junction and proceeded into the path of the truck. Mire, who was unhurt, was reportedly unable to avoid colliding with the car. Hollier was cited for disobeying a stop sign, the trooper said. Weekend Arrests Listed by Deputies In Sheriff's Office Deputies in the office of Sheriff Adler LeDoux listed the following early weekend arrests made during the period ending at noon Saturday: Robert McBride, 36, of Baker, booked at 12:52 p.m.

Friday with the theft of a revolver and threatening the life of Larry Manuel. Earl George Kidder, 35, of Arnaudville, booked at 9 p.m. Friday with contributing to the delinquency of his juvenile daughter. Ozie Felix, 23. 1319 N.

Liberty booked at 4 p.m. Friday with fishing without a license with a rod and reel. At 2:45 p.m. Friday, a 16-year-old Port Barre juvenile was brought in by Port Barre Police Chief Melvin McGee and booked with aggravated assault. were genuine, those close to them said.

At one point, he paid the difference in hotel rates after some delegates contended they were overcharged. The day he left, he set up a breakfast for the group. Some of the delegates, though, were embittered that he had not stayed at the hotel they were stuck in. The delegation's troubles persisted after the governor had gone home. The caucuses were sparsely attended and the discussions were off the point.

On one occasion, the rift led to a brief but heated confrontaton on the convention floor. The issue: a "Chisholm for President" campaign poster. Twenty miles away, at another of the beachfront's small-room, hard-bed hotels, the Mississippi delegation eneaeed in a lively, though at times, heated debate on the issues and the candidates. The atmosphere was one of mutual respect, often to the point of friendliness. The makeup of the two delegations was similar but there the comparison turned to contrast.

The Mississippi delegates were experts at political infighting, able to grapple in of-ten-times name-calling debate for hours, then pack a convention center shuttlebus with little hint of antagonism. The Mississippians they call themselves Loyalists have been at it for years and are proud of it. The civil rights-oriented Loyalists won seating for the second convention in a row. The Mississippi Regular Democrats, headed by Gov. Bill Waller, failed in a pre-convention credentials fignt to regain seating.

There was a studied effort by the Loyalists to avoid race in votes) Marion White, Opelousas; Rev. A.J. McKnight, Lafayette; Wilfred Pierre, Lafayette; Mike Dupre, Eunice; Mrs. Jessie Tavlor, Lafayette. For Sen.

Jackson (10.25 votes) Evelyn Gianfala, Church Point. The Louisiana Democratic delegation also gave Wallace 3 votes and Sanford 2 votes. On the final balloting, all area delegates but Miss Gianfala switched to McGovern. Miss Gianfala stayed with Senator Jackson, who got 8.25 of Louisiana's 44 votes. In the final balloting, Louisiana gave McGovern 26.75 votes; Chisholm Wallace Sanford 1 and Jackson 8.25.

the discussion unless it was important to an issue at hand. "Let the cause clash and not the individual," was the way one white delegate put it. True, the Mississippi delegates were of like mind, all of the liberal leaning on social, economic and political matters. Louisiana delegates, on the other hand, ran the gamut of Eolitical persuasion, from a die-ard George Wallace faction to an equally dedicated group supporting Shirley Chisholm. Number 2 from Spain by plane were caught in an hour-long gun battle at Belfast's Al-dergrove Airport.

As passengers were walking from the terminal building to their cars, terrorists opened up on airport police. More gunfire came from a white panel truck parked near the airport. Police returned the fire as the vacationers dived for cover. The shooting stopped when Royal Air Force marksmen were rushed in from the military part of the airport. The gunmen made their getaway in the predawn darkness.

Bombs wrecked two electricity transormers in Armagh, Ireland's ecclesiastical capital, and a service station near the town center, Number 1 lounge. Dodge and two customers required medical attention for injuries sustained when they were clubbed and beaten by the armed gang. detective division of the sheriff's department said Saturday that Calcasieu officials are holding a second suspect in the case, but are withholding his name pending further investigation. The unidentified suspect is reportedly wanted for car theft and armed robbery raps by Lake Charles and Beaumont, lawmen. Storm Lounge At approximately 4:30 a.m.

June 11, six white males, five of them wearing ski masks, entered the lounge carrying two sawed-off shotguns and a pistol. After holding up the barkeeper and several customers, the bandits went on a rampage of destruction, firing a 20-gauge shotgun blast through the wall behind the bar and tumbling rows of whiskey bottles onto the floor. The cash register was smashed and tables overturned. A shotgun burst was also fired through the fender of an occupied car on the lounge parking lot. All six suspects fled the scene in a single car.

Roadblocks were thrown up shortly afterward by lawmen but no arrests were netted. Deputy Miller said that a combined probe by the Calcasieu and St. Landry Parish sheriffs' departments is continuing. v- Area's Delegates Vote For Chisholm, Jackson Official delegates sent by the Democratic party from St. Landry and nearby parishes voted on the first ballot either for Rep.

Shirley Chisholm, black congresswoman from New York, or for U.S. Sen. Henry Jackson, according to a tally of the Louisiana delegation. None voted for victorious Sen. George McGovern nor for Gov.

George C. Wallace who carried Louisiana four years ago nor for North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford. All but one switched on the second and final ballot for McGovern, however. The initial vote for the candidates, with the total given each by the Louisiana delegation: For Rep.

Chisholm (18.5 five per cent in the polls. McGovern's campaign cadre was fashioned at first around his Senate aides and veterans of the presidential bid oFthe late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. They went out to find those new political pros of whom Eagleton spoke.

They rallied thousands of door-to-door campaigners to work for McGovern in the primaries. When the voting and the caucuses began, they were ready. Before "the national convention began, there were some within and many outside the McGovern camp who feared that his new-look delegates would be uncontrollable, might force into the platform planks that would only hurt the ticket, might make trouble on seating disputes, might generally tear things up. It didn't happen. A convention in which 80 per cent of the delegates were newcomers was far more orderly than the old fashioned kind.

But when it really counted, McGovern's control was solid. He gained it with a campaign that peaked at just the right moment, at the end. In that, McGovern had the subtle assistance of Kennedy. The senator from Massachusetts kept his distance, personally and politically. But there is no question he helped McGovern in the final stages of the campaign for nomination.

The one thing he would not do was join the ticket and run for vice president. He declined McGovern's quick offer of that nomination. It appeared that both men were following a script; that both knew the offer would be made and declined. But in the final weeks of the campaign, there were signals aplenty that Kennedy was trying to help McGovern without letting it show. That assistance went to the point of hint, a month before the convention, that Kennedy just might be available for vice president on a McGovern ticket if that appeared the only way the Democrats could win.

When all the nominations were settled, but only then. Kennedy flew from Hyannis Port. to join McGovern. A spokesman said Kennedy had stayed away until then because of the speculation that would have accompanied an earlier appearance. The roar of the delegates when Kennedy walked to the microphone indicated there likely would have been far more than speculation had he come while the ticket remained open.

Number 4 prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. He wouldn't say what the evidence was. Fischer's failure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave Spassky, a 2-0 lead Spassy needs 12 points to retain the title, Fischer 12' i. Each game won counts a point. A draw is half a point.

Fischer is refusing to play game No. 3 Sunday unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet. The deadlock seemed unbreakable, but Fischer's attorneys and his second, the Rev. William Lombardy, were trying to find a way out. One official connected with the International Chess Federation FIDE said he thought it was impossible to take the point away from Spassky.

The Icelandic organizers earlier agreed to remove the television and movie cameras, although revenue from the rights helped to raise the total prize money to $300,000, the richest chess championship in history. Asked if Fischer planned to pack up and go home. Marshal replied: "No. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." The feeling was that Fischer would not play the scheduled third game on Sunday. But no one knew for certain.

Number 3 Grandmaison, 27, of Nashua, N. who managed the campaign to persuade New Hampshire voters to support a South Dakota senator whose name meant nothing against Muskie of next-door Maine. Muskie himself was near the rear of the platform, clapping mechanically and forcing a smile. Wisconsin was the first of McGovern's 10 presidential primary victories, Massachusetts the one that installed him as the leader among Democratic candidates. But before the primaries, McGovern struggled through bleak weeks of winter while Muskie reaped the endorsements of party leaders ana sat far atop the polls.

Eagleton, McGovern's running mate from Missouri, recalled those days as he accepted the vice presidential nomination: "Most of the delegates in this hall did not expect to be the political pros of 1972." Eagleton said. "Most of us did not expect to nominate a man who begn with only 1 1 'iuumw I MM HIMH i I i I 5 I -nil Annivcrsary Is Celebrated Pups at City Pond THESE TWOdogs are among six at the city dog pound this week. Dogs are kept at the pound for a certain length of time, then destroyed unless they are claimed by owners or bonded out as pets. The pound is located at the east end of Grolee St Information about these two pups can be obtained by calling 942-6274. celebration was selections by a rhythm band composed of residents (at right), and serving of a big birthday cake.

(Staff Photo by Savoie) THE SEVENTH BIRTHDAY of Prompt Succor Nursing Home was observed by residents and employes at a party Friday afternoon. A highlight of the afternoon's.