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WEATHER MILD TODAY THE DANVILLE REGISTER HOME DELIVERY Doily Sunday SOcWEEK Iff FOUNDED FEBRUARY, 1847. NO. 29,341 LEASED WIRES) -ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SERVICE- DANVILLE, FRIDAY 1972 (AP NEWSFEATURESJ" PRICE: TEN Tangled California Case Goes To Highest Tribunal Democrats Left In Legal Limbo As Party Awaits Court Action I Sen. George McGovern's con- tested California delegates, while the politicians did busi Fla. A on them hinge another man's right," heidelegation among all the The Democratic party np- Court received.hopes for first-ballot victory inlsaid.

i a candidates on the basis a to the Supreme Court on angled case of his quest Cor House nomi- Pierre Salinger, a McGovernitheir popular vote shares. the Credentials Com- MIAMI BEAC.H Fla. A on The Supreme Thursday the tangled nation. Chief Justice Warren E. Bur- ger stayed implementation of a act as aide, said the front-runner's! The U.S.

Court of Appeals had the power to forces are operating on the a i D.C., rulediil did. sumption that there will he a a that the party com- The Democratic brief con- ness as usual and lined up rivaltlower court ruling returning vote on the seating'mittee acted unconstitutioiiallyjteiKlcd the appeals court had forces to battle the issue at the McGovern the 151 votes the) issue. i denying McGovern 151 of the "thrown the country into a con- mo a li National Con-iDemocratic Credentials Com-' That means counting delegates. ENTER SMILING--Mrs. Patricia Nixon walks into Chi- cago's International Amphitheater, escorted by dancers in Li- thuanian folk costumes.

Mrs. Nixon was in Chicago to open the i i i a WnIL- i a a i i I A Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival. (AP Wirephoto) vention, I mittee took away. Courts Or Convention? Contacting Others But it remained unclear Burger was contacting whether the courts or the eight to deter- vention would deliver the whether there was suf- I gates, checking commitments, land applying political per- the suasion. Both sides were at it.

stitutional crisis" bv ruling on the selection of delegates to a political convention. In another political appeal, the forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley asked the Su- preme Court to overrule a Cre- dentials Committee ruling, sus- See POLITICS, Page 2-A Think They Have Enough "We think we have the votes mate verdict in a delegate-seat-ificient support for an win," Salinger said, ing dispute important to the'dinary special session of the: Mike Maloney, a top Humph- contest for presidential nomi-jcourt, something that has hap-jrey strategist, claimed "the nation. pened only three times before, coalition majority" of rivals Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey's Chestnut said Humphrey a a critics aligned against campaign manager, Jack L.jhis_allies in the effort to denyjMcGovern would fashion a sub- Chestnut, said there may yet be a convention floor fight over the California delegate sweep McGpvern won in a primary election, lost in the party Cre- dentials Commitee, and re- gained in a federal appeals court ruling. At least 151 of the 271 Califor- nia delegates are at stake, and McGovcrn the 151 California stantial margin to deny him the votes will abide by the law of; disputed California votes, the land, once the courts decide; At issue in the seating con- and their lawyers interpretUroversy is the what it is. But he indicated that Humph- rey lawyers will be looking for leeway to take their case to the convention floor. "What's one man's loophole i McGovern's California i a plurality awarded him all 271 nominating votes. The Credentials Committee voted instead to apportion the Says Controversial Act Unconstitutional On Its Face SCC Strikes Down Insurance Law RICHMOND (AP)-The State Corporation Commission in a 2- to-1 decision Thursday struck down Virginia's controversial new competitive pricing insur- ance law.

Virginia's attorney general had said earlier that some forms of insurance could not be written under the new law. "The act is unconstitutional on its face and it is the duty of the commission to refrain from enforcing an unconstitutional statute," said SCC Chairman Ralph T. Catterall in an opinion in which Commissioner Junie L. Bradshaw concurred. In a dissenting opinion, Com- missioner Preston C.

Shannon disagreed with the majority that "the new law is so vague that it is impossible to adminis ter." Fischer Apologizes In Writing On-And-Of Chess Match Will Begin Next Tuesday REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)jeration--FIDE--announced that Bobby Fischer apologized iniboth players had agreed to be- writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for "disrespectful be- havior" that threatened their championship chess match, and Moscow's Tass news agency said "all demands of the Soviet delegation have been satisfied." It was an- nounced that the first game gin play on Tuesday. The brief ceremony Thursday night was the first face-to-face meeting between the two con- tenders in the pre-game prepa- rations. Like everything else it started late. Spassky was the first to ar- rive, coming 10 minutes before the scheduled start. The first Shannon conceded the stat- ute, which became effective July 1, contained a number of flaws'and omissions but said he felt the omissions did not affect the constitutionality of the law.

The decision by the commis- sion means the old laws the new statute was designed to supplant will remain in effect subject to a review of the rul- ing by the Virginia Supreme Court. Suggest Repairs Catterail and, Shannon both suggested in separate opinions, however, that the 1973 General Assembly meets in January and can make what legislative repairs to the bill it deems nec- essary--presumably before the Supeme Court acts on any ap peal in the case. Del. Carrington Williams, D- See CHESS, Page 2-A would be played Tuesday. Fischer, the American chal- lenger, and Spassky, the Soviet) world champion, met Thursday; night to draw for the first move MolIIitieS in the 5300,000 series of 24 games.

Fischer drew the black pawn, giving Spassky the first move with white and a slight advantage. The draw was done the same way park-bench chess players would do it. Spassky took two pawns, one white, one black, juggled them his back extended his close hands to Fischer. Without hesitation, Fischer hunched forward and pointed a finger to Spassky's right hand. With a smile Spassky opened it.

Fischer delayed -the opening of the match, which was to have begun last Sunday, in a holdout for more money. More prize money was donated, but Spassky then demanded a writ- ten apology for Fischer's con- duct before the champion would play- In his letter to Spassky, Fis- cher called his attempt to grab and an assocation of mutual in- surance agents brought the matter before the commission for a declaratory judgment on its validity. Bradshaw, in a separate ma- jority opinion, agreed with Shannon that the repeal ol regulations dealing with home owners policies and fidelity anc surety insurance had no effect on the constitutionality of the statute. But he said the fatal flaw in the bill lay in the conflicting language dealing with automo bile bodily injury and property damage insurance. One section specifically re fers to the applicability of the act to this insurance and anoth er part of the section expresslj reserves automobile liability to what Bradshaw termed "the Fairfax, sponsor of the heart of the bill." j.

a.iLj.u*^ i i said the measure will bet reintroduced in the General As- "We have no power to trans sembly---with some changes-- They a share of gate receipts "my petty dispute over money," and asked the Russian to accept his "sincerest apology." Their Camera MONTREAL (AP) say the Mounties always get their man. Well, their camera anyway. Last year, Per Sands mark of Stamford, lost a $300 camera while ona fishing ex- pedition north of Yellowknife in Ihe Northwest Territories. He didn't report the loss and just wrote it off. A year later, he received a letter from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Yellowknife asking if he had lost a camera and he wrote back to ciaim his property.

A spokesman for Scandina- vian Airlines System in Mon- treal Sandsmark works for SAS in New York said police had found the camera, devel- oped the. film and spotted the registration of the seaplane rented by Sandsmark. The RCMP then asked the bush pilot for the name of his passenger and traced the cam Harry Golombek, an official era owner to his home in Stam of the International Chess Fed-'ford. next January. Williams said her had planned some changes in the bill, anyway, but felt it would have been workable.

In Final Hour The new insurance bill, de- signed to bring competitive pricing to rates on types sf insurance, was passed in the hour of the 1972 General Assembly after the addition of a number of amendments. The SCC and Atty. Gen. An- drew P. Miller cited flaws, omissions and apparent con- tradictions in the bill and urged! See SCC, Page 2-A MORMON LEADER DIES President Joseph Fielding Smith, above, leader of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, died in Salt Lake City.

in prayer, this young woman raises her arms during one of several religious ceremonies at Strawberry Lake, 48 miles west of Denver, Colo. Mora than 10,000 people have gathered at the marshy Rocky Mountain meadow for the festival. (AP Wirephoto) Saigon Troops Moving On Qnang Tri Rescue 800 Refugees East Of City SAIGON (AP) South Viet-1 High way 1 on the southeastern! Other airborne units and ma- namese forces advancing slow-jedge of th city. jdnes in the task ly on Quang Tri batttled North I The paratroopers were taking: force were moving on the city Vietnamese infantrymen andUii'c from bunkers hidden'from the southeast and east but tanks on the flanks of the city and rescued 800 refugees, the Saigon command reported Fri- day. South claimed to Vietnamese 50 Enemy Killed among the houses, and thclwcre still 1.8 to 2.2 miles from planes were attempting to citadel.

a path into the city that fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. In the afternoon, lead ele- Capt. Gail 32, said the airborne task force he is advising could have pushed into Vietnamese of the task forc enemy-held city Wednes have killed 50 North still slightly more than a milejday. but it had to secure th troops and de- His likely successor is Harold jstroyed four tanks in the action B. Lee, who has been first counselor to the president and president of the Church's Council of Twelve.

(AP Wirephoto) Patriarch Anlhenagoras Was Death Claims Leader Of Orthodox Church ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) --jtempted- to prove it with his south of the city center, a road to prevent the moated citadel, and moving the enemy See INDOCHINA, Page 2-A on Thursday. Four South Viet- namese soldiers were reported! South 6 Vietnamese forces'. NC'W Of also reported seizing a big am- munition stockpile. The refugees were picked up two miles cast of Quang i PARIS A New Finance Minister Valery and taken to My Chanh to i Pierre MessmerjGiscard D'Estaing. Defense south, spokesmen said.

inamed a government ThursdayiMinister Michel Dcbrc and In- Completes His Cabinet Behind U.S. Air Shield Vietnamese a a 0 elections within the next cellin. troopers were pushing slowly months. Several senior on Quang Tri behind a shield of ministers in the outgoing Cain- A i a fighter-bombers inet were retained. Patriarch Alhenagoras who led his Orthodox Church into a dialogue with Roman Catholi- cism after centuries of es- Gov.

Lmwood Holton to veto it. ran gement, died Friday of kid- With some reluctance, Holton signed the measure shortly be- fore the bill-signing deadling. Suggested Extra Session Miller later suggested the governor should give serious consideration to calling a spe- cial legislative session to cor- rect the new law before it be- came effective, Holton turned down the suggestion, indicating he felt the bill would work if those who administered it want- ed to make it work. The chief critics of the meas- ure argued that some forms of insurance--homeowners pack- age policies among them-- could not be written under the new law. In addition, the regulation of fidelity and surety bonds was omitted and there was conflicl of language in the sections dealing with automobile casu- ney failure.

He was 86. ally insurance. work. When Pope Paul visited Is- tanbul in 1967, Athenagoras joined him in the celebration of Mass in th Catholic Cathedral. The gospel for the day included a phrase over which the two See DEATH, Page 2-A The' ecumenical patriarch, leader of the world's 250 million churches had originally split.

Orthodox Christians, broke his hip in a fall a week ago. Doc- tors said his death at the Ba- Hkli Greeek Orthodox hospital in Istanbul followed a loss of blood pressure. Athenagoras was to have been flown to Vienna on Friday or Saturday for orthopedic gery. Until Thursday, night to carry France throughjterior Minister Raymond Mar- Debre is currently on an offi- jcial visit to Washington and 11 Schumann is talking with Chi- pounding entrenched North; He announced a list of taSg "cUrt Vietnamese troops guarding the.mmisters and 10 junior minis- access routes to the Northerners less than 36 hours after provincial capital. President Georges Pompidou Associated Press correspond-i fired Premier Jacques Chaban- ent Dennis Neeld, with the a a A series of scandals elements of the airborne a i a rocked the confidence of force, reported that Navy dive the Gaullist party, bombers dropped hundreds of.

Messmcr held over from the small antipersonnnel bombs on a.outgoing administration For- D'Estaing is involved in com- plex international negotiations over the world monetary prob- lems. Mcssmer, a long-time Gauil- ist and a former defense minis- ter. was called in by Pompidou to form the new government in row of tree-shaded homes along cign Minister Maurice Schu-i Another Jetliner Hijacked By Man Asking 58 On Board had expressed optimism aboutj SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) The plane was diverted to agents Wednesday at San Fran- his health, aside from the frac-jp a ifi Southwest Airlines Diego on the instructions of cisco International Airport. ture.

jli ri Jin A spokesman at the patri-landed here Thursday. Ihrcejadded. fi i iner with 58 persons aboardjthe hijacker, the spokesman; A passenger was fatally here Thursday. Ihrcejadded. jwounded by one of the hijack- archate on the Golden "Horn! hours after it was hijacked by I An earlier report from before being gunned down here said the Holy Synod, a gunman who demanded ajFederal Aviation the FBI said.

Two oth- governing body of world of $450,000, the airiineitration in Washington said passengers were wounded. thodoxy, would meet Fridayjsaid. persons were aboard the plane.j The gunmen in Wednesday's morning to decide on details of' xho hijacker, who also 389. ihijacking had demanded the patriarch's funeral. jf Or one parachute, consented oj II the second hijacking pfjooo and passage to Siberia, au- The body will be taken from release women and children, a the hospital, which is spokesman said.

Laird Says McGovern's Fund-Cut Proposal Would Pose Dangerous, Calamitous Risk WASHINGTON (AP) Sec- retary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen. George McGovern's proposed $30 billion slash in military spending would pose "a dan- gerous and calamitous risk" for U.S. security and world peace. "The so-called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of give-away-now, beg-laler for a philosophy of strength and willingness to negotiate," Laird to curb defense out- Good Morning Section Page Amusements Classified Ads 10 Comks 11 Crossword 4 Editorials A 4 Local News 1-2 Markets 8 SpMto A 11-12 9 News 4 said.

After Laird made his com- ments, McGovern issued a statement saying "there will be no white flag flying if I become President of the United States. I will never permit the United States to become a second rate power. "My proposed military budg- et will make certain that the United States is the strongest nation in the world. But I do not believe in wasting the tax- payers' dollar on needless cost overruns and careless planning. It seems strange to me that the result of Mr.

Nixon's arms agreement is a request for a more costly military budget next year," McGovern said. A gloves-off campaigner in his past career as a Republican Congressman, Laird said with obvious relish that the Demo cratic platform committee hac "repudiated" the McGovern a Pacific Southwest jetliner inUhorities said. days. Two armed hijackers! A mutual insurance 'e city" wails of to the Boeing" was taken were sn to ath by FBIi patriarchal Church of St. over as it approached Oakland' for lying in state.

Airport. It was the second hi- Athenagoras' successor willlj jacking of a PSA aircraft in as be chosen by the Holy Synod, many days. which comprises 12 metropoli-i The air pirate, described as a tan archbishops of the ecume-jwhite male, ordered the plane nical patriarchate. (to fly to San Diego after The tall, imposing Athe- manding the ransom, Sce HIJACK, Page 2-A an apparent move to restore Gaullist Party unity before the upcoming elections, and in the face of Communist-Socialist unity moves on the left. Mcssmer also retained centr- ist Rene Pleven as justice min- jister.

Pleven has been dealing with a major reform of the French prison system in recent months. The new premier chose as his social affairs minister Edgar Faure, a former radical--centr- ist premier now aligned with the Gaullists. He took the tough job of education minister after the May 1968 student riots which almost toppled the De Gaulle government. Messmer gave Faure a spe- See FRENCH, Page 2-A ays to $54.8 billion by fiscal 975. The Democratic Platform Committee rejected recently hawkish and dovish de ense planks.

It said "the mili- ary budget can be reduced substantially with no weakening of our national security." Bui nagoras first met' with Pope 1 Paul VI of the Roman Catholic Church in 1967. It was the first meeting of a Pope and a patri- arch since the 15th century, the air- line said. Communique Fails To Dispel Suspicion Moscow Dissatisfied With Castro Record An AP News Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP SPccial Correspondent are On board the PSA flight from; The communique ending Fi-isoviet benefactors, who Burbank to Oakland and Castro's visit to Moscow is edgy about how he uses their mento were 51 hostage a good example of the uses of) economic aid, and annoyed by gers and six crew members--Aesopian language, the jargon "jefe claims (o leadership of (ha i chief--has been a big; "liberation" movement in Latin. and expensive headache to nisi America.

The communique abounded in See ANALYSIS, Page 2-A See LAIRD, Page 2-A and it led to the revocation of ithree men and three women, use to cloak meaning. The mutual excommunications im- the airline said. I statement fails to dispel a sus- posed nine centuries ago. The airline had reported ear-; i 5on that Moscow still is dis- I Athenagoras contended thatjlier that 99 persons were on' a tj fi ith the prime min lonly a "dialogue of love'" could board the plane. It later ter a recorc Havana.

reunite the churches, and he at-l reeled the figure to 58. Finding Of 'Funny Bug 5 On Dog, Memory Of Old News Story May Have Saved Child MIAMI, Fla. (AP) A smalliday and told Mrs. David Frame boy's discovery of "a funny bug'" on the family dog and a mother's memory of a -nine- year-old newspaper story may have saved 9-year-oW Cynthia Frame's life. The red-haired girl tottered into her parents' bedroom Mon- that she couldn't walk properly, Mrs.

Frame told Cynthia, "Your legs are probably still asleep." Hours later, Cynthia still could not walk properly, so Mrs. Frame took the child to a pediatrician. Mrs. Frame said the pediatri- cian referred them to a neuro- logist, and he could find no rea- son for her problems. When Cynthia awoke Tues- day, she was worse.

woke up and couldn't turn See TICK, Page 2-A TJie Weather Readings From Atop Register Building The communique seemed i VIRGINIA: Friday consider-, cool again Friday night with fact, an assertion by the Rus- a cloudiness east in 50s. Becoming partly sunny west portion Iou mountains, otherwise -n sunny Saturday. Warm- to clients who should willingly 0s Friday night er ih Mghs gQs accept the idea that "Big Brother knows best." Castro probably wanted ex- planation and assurance with regard to current Soviet pos- tures toward the United States in the light of President Nixon's visit. The communique suggests that Castro had to bow to supe rior Russian wisdom. The vol- Low in 50s and low 60s.

Salur-i day increasing cloudiness with'DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOCr a chance of thundcrshowcrs in' mountains west portion and, partly cloudy central and casj-j 7 em portions. High in 70s andj low 80s. NORTH CAROLINA: Becom- ing partly cloudy coastal sec- tions and most sunny inland Friday and mild with highs in 70s. Clear and unseasonably Hour 7 p.m. 9p.m.

11 p.m. 1 a.m. Thursday Temp. Bar. 75 30.25 72 30.28 65 30.29 Friday 62 30.29 24-hour low (to 1 a.m.) high 78 24-hour precipitatkm, Wind NE-8 N-4 N-4 W4.