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PAGE 2 Enhrtd as stceni class matter. Pest OHice, Arizona A I I I TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 Millions face he gets sent away. It's ihat simple. So it was belisevd. It is remarkable how many people thought that to tamper with the tag was to tempt the anger of the bureaucratic gfds who, long ago.

innocently devised a tagging system so th? consumer could be assured of the of his "bedding" a term that has come to induce almost anything stuffed. Hence, in The name of simple human compass-ion, adjustments had to be made. Mercy had been shown. The legend on the tag has undergone revision. "UNDER PENALTY OF LAW." it now instructs, "THIS TAG NOT TO BE REMOVED EXCEPT BY THE CONSUMER." By the consumer! Oh, how sweet the words.

Exactly where and when tagging began in America is difficult to establish. But the label itself mentions several tagging acts, the earliest of which is one passed 49 years ago in Kasnas. Whether Kansas is inde3d the birthplace of the tag, however, was not known in the attorney general's office of that prairie state. "It's hard tc believe it happened here first," one official said glumly. Once, the story goes, a state bedding inspector touring a New York department store asked a woman if she could think of a single practical use for the tag.

"Why, yes," she answered. "I put the tag in my mcuth to hold the pillow when I change the case." It all seems so innocent. But the power of fear is boundless. Taeomania has touched every corner of the country. Certainly it has reared its ugly head in New York, a tagging state since 1933.

"People were afraid that if they tore it off, they would be arrested in bed," said Rose York of the New York State Department's Upholstery and Redding Advisory Board. The moment came when panic seemed imminent. Somebody had to do something. Until 1960, New York's tagging law was administered by the Labor Department. Now section 25-A is handled by Secretary of State John P.

Lomenzo, who participated in- one of the most momentous sessions the Upholstery and Bedding Advisory Board has ever held. For background, it should be noted that five years ago there was agitation in the land. The upholstery and bedding industry, noi to mention a group known as the Association of Bedding and Furniture Lav; Officials. was press- is for new wording on the tag. And besides, the state was getting letters from little old ladies with antique chairs pleading for the right to get rid of that idiot thing hanging below.

Also, people like Shelley Barman were making jokes. At home in Beverly Hills, Berman remembered, for the sake of posterity. "Let's see." he said, "I haven't done the bit for so long. Let me try and he began the famous old routine: "The other night, I looked at my pillow and was seized by the uncontrollable desire to remove the pillowcase. I know this sounds obscene, but I had to see what was underneath.

I didn't rip it off like a brute. I edged it out. I was kind. And I must say, the pillow was pretty. But it did have one flaw.

"On one edge of the pillow there was a tag, and in very bold print it said: 'Do not remove this tag. 55,000 fine or five years in jail, or "I may as well tell you. I tore off the tag. Not only that, I went to the other pillow and tore the tag off on that one. Then I ripped off my bedsheet and found a tag on the mattress and I tore that off.

Then I went through the house and I found tags under sofas and foldaway beds and on cushions, and I ripped off every tag in the household. "Now I want to give myself up. Someone call the police and stop me." End of bit. So the stage was set. At 2 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 14, 1967, John P. Lomenzo came before the advisory board and struck a blow for mental health in the nation's most populous state. He said the tag's threat should be modified. "Time and time again, consumers have hesitated to remove the tags," he said, "for fear they might be in violation of the law." And so it was.

And so it is now on tags in every tagging state. These days, bedding tags virtually cry out to be ripped off. In the privacy of the consumer's home, naturally- Still, the past dies hard. Just the other day, for instance, at home in Beverly Hills, Sarah Berman looked beneath a Tests for suspect denied ZRIFIN, Israel (UPI) A three judge military court refused a defense request today to order psychological tests for Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto. Only 90 minutes earlier Okamoto said he didn't want the tests because he was as normal as anyone else.

"From a psychological point of view I'm a normal man and there is nothing wrong with me. I don't want any sort of examination," Okamoto said. World chess match opens REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) American Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally squared off today for the world championship of chess the richest and most publicized match of all time. Spassky had the first move. Last- minute adjustments were made on the stage of Reykjavik's sports hall.

The playing table was shortened, the green and white marble chessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed. Rites held for Patriarch ISTANBUL (UPI) Sobbing leaders of Eastern Orthodoxy standing side by side with Roman Catholics and Anglicans ttn day buried the man who sought to end their 900-year estrangement from western Christianity, Patriarch Atlienagoras I of Constantinople (Istanbul). Sixteen metropolitans and nine bishops of the Eastern Orthodox church in Turkey, turning their heads aside to hide their tears, conducted the Patriarch's funeral in the tiny church at Fener in the Byzantine sector of Istanbul. Ex-Texas official charged FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI) Former Texas Atty.

Gen Carr and six others were charged yesterday with using funds from one of their own insurance firms to pay off personal debts in excess of The firm, National Bankers Life, went bankrupt. The federal indictment was the first crimi nal action against Carr to come out of the Texas stock fraud -scandal although he was a defendant in a civil suit'filed 18 months ago by the Securities and Exchange Commission Violence wanes in N. Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) The British administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, flew back to the province today in a bid to stave off possible civil war as Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen fought in Belfast. His arrival from London brought a temporary lull in widespread fighting that has raged in the province's capital since the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army called off its 13-day cease- lire Sunday nijrht. chair and found a tag.

In the home of the most famous tag-tearer of all time. "Take it off. Sarah, take it off," commanded Sarah's hus- bazd, Shelley, while quietly making a confession via transcontinental phone: "Frankly, I LIED when I told the audience that I removed all those tags. I NEVER removed a tag. And right now.

my wife is hesitant. We're still intimidated." It's all right, Shelley, it's all right. Things like this take time. Michi fan to fight busing rale DETROIT (UPI State officials rallied today for a fight against a federal court miing requiring them to buy 295 buses for possible cross-district busing to achieve racially balanced metropolitan schools. Ally.

Gen. Frank J. Kelley called an abrupt halt to his stay at the convention in Miami Beach and flew back to Michigan to take charge of the state's legal response to the ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Stephen j. Roth.

In his ruling, Roth ignored protests from state attorneys who argued the purchase request was unreasonable and that the stale could not afford the SI million in would cost for the buses. Instead, Roth indicated he and the 11-member panel he commissioned to devise a workable integration plan would move at a fast pace to Integrate Detroit and its suburban schools. He also denied the state's request to delay further action on the Detroit case pending the outcome of appeals of his ruling last September that Detroit's predominantly black schools are deliberately segregated. The 295 buses, at about $10,000 apiece, could be used to transport approximately 20.000 students to an interim desegregation plan for Detroit and 52 predominantly white suburbs. The purchase of the buses was recommended by the panel created lo draw up a city- to-suburb desegregation plan involving only elementary schools this fall and a "full and complete plan by September 1973." The plan would involve a huge metropolitan district of about 800,000 students one- third of the state's student enrollment in Detroit and its suburbs.

The judge's order put a stop to claims that the desegregation ruling was inconceivable from an operational standpoint because the state did not have enough vehicles to transport students from school to school. Banana split multiplied, not divided CERRITOS, Calif. (UPI) The world record for the longest banana split has been claimed several times in recent months, and new challengers keep appearing, armed with truckloads of ingredients. The latest, claimants are three troops of Boy Scouts who made a split that was 400 feet long. It included 750 bananas, 114 gallons of ice cream in equal portions of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate -33 gallons of pineapple, strawberry and chocolate topping, 23 gallons of whipped cream, 23 pounds of almonds and three gallons of maraschino cherries.

New president of the Pima County Muscular Dystrophy association is Waller Hall of 1082 N. Swan Road. Hall was elected last night along with other new officers: Robert Smith, vice-president; Anthony J. Pelligrino, treasurer and Barbara Spaulding, secretary. Talks set 25-28 U.S.

seeks way to reverse trade deficit with Japan WASHINGTON CAP) The United States will be seeking wavs to cut its mounting trade deficit with Japan now running at about i3.5 billion to S4 billion this year at the first economic talks to be held with Japan's new government July U.S. Ambassador William Eberle, the special trade representative of President Nixon, will head a delegation representing the Departments Skyjacker sentenced to 45 years Jubilation in Illinois AP Wirephoio These Illinois delegates express their joy over the victory of Sen. George S. McGovern's forces in the crucial challenge on the California delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. They felt it presaged victory for them in a challenge involving the Illinois delegation.

Credentials Demos to resume fight has left scars lengthy debate Sparling, Sandee Massetto, State Rep. Leon Thompson, Maclovio Barraza, Larry Enos and Jacqueline Ashford. John Ahearn of Phoenix, leader of the Arizona delegates in favor of McGovern, was "pleased and excited" by the vote on the California delegation. The othe 11 Arizonans who voted along with him to uphold the minority report were Robert Allen, Sister Clare Dunn, Norma Hermanson, Ed Pastor, Renz Jennings, Betty Patrick, Erin Miller, Tom Espinoza, Anna Chavez, Richard Wilks and Herbert Ely. In voting to keep the anti- Mayor Daley candidates seated, the convention took a different type of risky step.

Arizona's delegates were vociferous in the voice vote that shouted down the minority report which favored the Chicago mayor's position. Situation normal-all fouled up MIAMI BEACH (UPI) So far as Arizona's delegation to the Democratic National Convention was concerned, the situation was normal all fouled up. A messenger accompanied by an armed guard knocked on a delegate's door at 7:30 a.m. on the first day of the convention to deliver the delegation's credentials needed for entry to convention hall. About half the delegates' credentials were missing -including those of Arizona Chairman Rep.

Morris K. Udall. After three hours of phone calls, still no credentials. "It's a zoo," moaned Everett King, the man whose job it was to straighten out such messes. "I'm ready to cry." Then it was found that special bus tickets given the Arizona delegates to get from their hotel to the convention hall 15 miles away actually belonged to the New York delegation.

Besides, complained one woman delegate, when she had tried to use her green delegate ticket to ride the bus the driver had told her that she had to have a blue ticket. said King, "the green pass allows you to ride at any time." "Maybe somebody ought to tell the drivers that," persisted the delegate, who paid $10 to ride a cab from the hotel to the convention afler having paid $8 for the one-week bus ticket. MAM BEACH (UPI) Democrats who talked the nation to sleep in a credentials battle early today may do it again tonight in a dispute over platform planks on busing, welfare, gun and birth control and gay liberation. After a nine-hour credentials wrangle that went on until 4:54 a.m. EDT a modern record the delegates were to resume deliberations at 7 p.m.

and hoped to get to the platform by 10. Philip Zeidman, executive director of the platform committee, said that even if no roll calls were demanded an unlikely possibility consideration of the basic document and 20 minority planks could take as long as 8 hours. As drafted in advance by a 150-member committee, the proposed policy statement commits the party to end the Vietnam War, fight inflation, restore full employment, end the draft, close tax loopholes, reform welfare, end the sale of cheap handguns and assure "the right to be different." It also supports busing as "another tool to accomplish desegregation." Tonight's big- gest fight, to be mounted by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in a personal appear- ance at the convention, is ex- pected to be about that.

I Charles Snider, Wallace's campaign manager, called the busing language a party "suicide note" for November. He and other Wallace supporters were proposing a substitute plank calling for a constitutional amendment to outlaw busing as related to school integration. Wallace forces also were seeking language to affirm the right to keep guns, restore prayer to public schools and subject federal judges to periodic review. Other minority planks with varied support included proposals to raise welfare payments to $8,500 a year, protect homosexual rights, close all tax exemptions and substitute a steeply graduated income levy and guarantee the right of abortion. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -A federal court has sentenced Richard Floyd McCoy, a Vietnam veteran and former Sunday School teacher, tc 45 years in prison for a $500,000 skyjacking and parachute jump three months ago.

McCoy was sentenced yesterday. He had been convicted of. taking over a United Air Lines 727 over western Colorado April 7 and forcing it off its Denver-Los Angeles path to San Francisco where 85 other passengers were let off and the ransom put aboard. He then ordered it on a zigzag course across the West, ending over his hometown of Provo, Utah, where he bailed out. FBI agents arrested him two days later in the neatly kept house where he lived with his wife and children.

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The trade deficit amounted to billion last year and it appears headed now for increases of million to possibly $800 million as the result of heavy U.S. purchases of Japanese consumer goods such as automobiles, steel, textiles and consumer electronics. The talks Eberle will join in are a continuation of a meeting in Honolulu last December which was followed on Dec. 18 by a session devoted to trade during the historic Smithso- nian conference here on monetary realignment. At that conference, Japan revalued the Yen by 16.88 percent.

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