Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

Mo i- 'W' y- Mtf i -r -'l-' ttAnSu nnnmiiy 43rd jjrear No 69 52 pages Price 10 cents CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS TUESDAY JULY 4 1972 Np-bosing rider put back in bill Conferees kill funds for Truaiis bilingual program After the rider was removed Sen A Schwartz of Galveston said he had learned there would be problems getting the compromise bill through the House without the rider and suggested that it be restored The conferees saved $27 million by voting $77 million for a new food stamp program for the needy the same amount See NtKbuslng page 14A touches on the bill in a final hectic conference session attended by Lt Gov Ben Barnes and Speaker Rayford Price The conferees will return at 10 am Wednesday to put finishing touches on their work and reach a decision who hires attorneys for the Board of Optometry and Railroad Commission The committee agreed to the House plan to block construction of an 11-story Texas Highway building in downtown Austin by instructing the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to buy the land for $15 million and turn it into a state park Sen Tom Creighton of Mineral Wells said he opposed the proposal but Rep Neil Caldwell of Angleton said the House might reject a compromise bill if the park plan is deleted A busing rider added by the House AUSTIN (AP) Senate House negotiators on the no new taxes $41 -billion state budget scratched then restored a controversial antibusing rider Monday and among other puts knocked from the bill $22 million for bilingual and adult education programs which Rep Carlos Truan of Corpus Chisti managed to insert during House debate The negotiators put all but the final Saturday night prohibits the Texas Education Agency from spending appropriated funds to bus school children for the purpose erf racial balance unless required to do so by a court order or by statutes eitherstateorfederal far as I am concerned it (the rider) can be burned to a turn" remarked Rep Hilary Doran of Del Rio who added that the rider was meaningless Texas delegation is after 16 challenges Corpus Christi People who just feel up to braving the traffic and crowds at county parks and Padre Island can choose from several other activities scheduled in the city and area in connection with the July 4 holiday A Voters will be given a choice of two sites in the Sept bond election to finance construction of a courthouse Total cost estimates range between $12 million and $14 million IB A 1-6 scale model of the almost completed Intracoastal Canal bridge was tested for stress capabilities and passed with flying colon IB Texas Texas House and Senate conferees continued work on adjusting differences between their respective budget bills Among other actions they restored an antibusing rider knocked out funds for a bilingual program and accepted the higher funding proposal for Texas University 1A A two year study of criminal justice by a Lutheran group has resulted in the finding that putting lawbreakers in prison makes both them and society worse Lutherans at the Dallas convention will decide whether to adopt the report as policy 13A Texas appears to be recovering from economic recession but the threat of inflation is still strong a University of Texas professor has reported 5C National A US district judge in Washington refused to enter the California Democratic delegation fuss but he told lawyers that the US Court of Appeals would hear arguments in that and a similar case Tuesday 1A President Nixon will address the nation by radio at 11 :05 today The speech will be carried by all networks 1A The Star Spangled Banner that traditionally is believed to have inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became the National Anthem "was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole" the director of the Maryland Historical Society said 1A The FBI despite most intensive application of resources" has not been able to locate ex-CIA agent Howard Hunt who has been linked to the raid on the Democrats' headquarters A warrant for his arrest is expected by tomorrow officials said 2A By PEGGY SIMPSON WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic Credentials Committee voted overwhelmingly Monday night to seat the Texas delegation defeating 16 challenges which said it lacked enough women and minorities Supporters of Sen George McGovern split their vote to give the Texas party delegation an easy 76-40 victory Fourteen of the McGovern allies voted to seat the challenged Texans and another 11 abstained Janet Jones of Dallas a McGovern supporter since May 1971 said she asked district and state party officials for1 a "fairness resolution guaranteeing the senator his due representation on the convention slate "and I was told that I was naive and that the deals had already been made" Helen Cassidy of Houston representing the Texas Women's Political Caucus said that 14 of the record 16 challenges claimed women were under represented The caucus asked election of 14 women to replace men of similar presidential Koreas discuss reunification Outing for Wallace Alabama Gov George Wallace is wheeled by security agents back to his Holy Cross Hospital room in Silver Spring Md after a four-hour outing Monday at his physician's home in nearby Bethesda Md Related story is on page12D (AP Wirephoto) SEOUL (AP) North and South Korea have held top-level meetings aimed at peaceful reunification of the peninsula split by World War II and ravaged by the Korean War five years later the two governments announced jointly Tuesday Agreements were reached at meetings in Seoul and Pyongyang to refrain from slanderous statements or armed provocation and to install a telephone hot line between the two capitals order to prevent the outbreak of unexpected theannouncement said Charges of war preparations have flown in both directions across the 38th parallel recently raising the specter of renewed hostilities The three-year conflcit that began in 1950 cost two million lives Of the dead 54246 were Americans The South Korean negotiator Lee Hu-rak told a news conference at which he issued theannouncement: is only A Brooklyn man charged with eight others in an alleged plot to overthrow a foreign country was linked by federal authorities with the Carlo Gambino family which has been indentified as being involved inorganized crime 8A International China probably will send engineer battalions to North Vietnam to aid in the reconstruction of bombed out railroad links to China intelligence reports in Washington indicate 12D American chess master Bobby Fischer has reportedly agreed to appear in Iceland today to begin his much delayed world championship matches against seated beaten "We had to balance the delegate list the same way you did in New York City Troy said "and from the at-large category we had to add IB women and 15 men and we did it And I'll be damned if I'm going to allow Texas to do anything different than we had to do in New York Purnell said that Credentials Committee hearing officer Burke Marshall concluded that the state party had tried to involve women and minorities "Now when the women of Texas decide to take over the government they have to ask the Texas Women's Political Caucus how to do it" Purnell said the women of Texas are just as smart as those in any other state But for some reason the people of Texas decided to vote for two thirds more male delegates than women delegates" The Texas challengers had agreed Sunday night to present a single petition for relief which would have substituted two black women supporters of McGovern See Texas page 14A North Korea always has insisted on that point repeatedly rejecting US suggestions that the United Nations help resolve the issue According to the agreement- a "South-North coordinating committee" chaired by Lee and Kim Young-joo the North's negotiator will be formed to carry forth the negotiations Kim is director of the Organization and Guidance Department of North Korea and younger brother of Premier Kim Ilsung Lee director of South central intelligence agency said he first proposed a bilateral political meeting with North Korea in March through an unspecified channel and obtained Pyongyang's agreement He said he made the proposal after the Seoul government came to the conclusion that North Korea was set for a military invasion of the South and that a frank exchange of views might be the only solution The two sides began bilateral contact last September in the form of Red Cross talks aimed at reuniting about 10 million members of Korean families broken up by the partition in 1945 The joint statement stressed the SeeKoreaspage I4A Papers today are combined uly 4th editions of the Caller and The Times are combined into a single edition of The Caller-Times for subscribers of both newspapers this morning There will be no afternoon edition published today The classified want ad advertising department will be open from 8 to 11 today During that period' want ads may be placed corrected or canceled by calling 882-9401 The business offices of the newspaper will be closed transferred to their own sloop which was taken under tow by a British frigate as the fleet entered the Patapsco River From an anchorage eight miles from Ft McHenry Key watched as 16 British vessels crept to within two miles of the target maneuvered into bombardment formation and opened fire with cannons mortars and rocket launchers on the morning of Sept 13 All day the fort suffered heavy shelling During the night Key's anxiety increased He and his friends paced the deck straining for the moment when the flash of a bursting shell or the glare of a rocket might reveal whether the huge flag still waved Then dawn broke through the mists and "on the shore dimly was the flag above the fort Actually it could hardly have been waving Filby said It had been raining that night It would have taken a gale to unfurl the wet flag which was 30 feet in See Francis page 14A President sets radio broadcast candidate affiliation to bring the ratio of women up from 30 per cent to 42 per cent The caucus also would add two black women who support McGovern in place of two uncommitted white men Eddie Bernice Johnson a newly elected black state legislator from Dallas who is a member of the Credentials Committee spoke on behalf of a minority challenge and asked that blacks be namJ to replace five white delegates including three men over 50 years old and one woman over 40 years old Charles Purnell representing the Democratic nominee for governor Dolph Briscoe and the state party leadership said vigorous efforts had been made to get more women and minority group members on the slate but that the delegates elected were the preferences of the people He asked that the Credentials Committee not upset these elected delegates Matthew Troy of New York City said he thought the committee should put more women on the Texas delegate list even at the expense of those already chosen the beginning We now enter a confrontation with dialogue while we had a confrontation without dialogue in the past" Lee said South Korea did not consult its including the United States and prior to the meetinp with North Korea with which it still is technically at war despite the 1953 armistice He added however that he believed South Korea's allies had been told of the impending joint announcement In Washington State Department press officer Charles Bray called the agreement "most He said the United States had no role in the negotiations but that the South Korean government kept the Nixon administration informed The agreement pledged that reunification would be negotiated by Koreans with no outside interference He conferred Monday with his chief foreign and domestic advisers Henry Kissinger and John Erhlichman signed 13 congressional acts for the relief of private individuals and declared portions of Arizona and West Virginia as disaster areas qualifying them for federal assistance The White House also issued Nixon's annual Independence Day message which cited America's heritage as the of the free and the haven for the weak and oppressed from other parts of the world" "Great trials and greater triumphs still lie ahead for us as a people' the message said There are still wrongs to be righted and new goals of peace prosperity justice and a better environment to be met" In words Nixon is expected to expand upon in his radio address the message added: "But as long as we remain true to the ideals of America as long as our energy does not flag and our faith does not fail no problem is too great and no evil is too strong to be overcome by a united American After putting the torch to the Capitol the President's Mansion the Treasury and the Navy Yard the British withdrew to prepare an attack on Baltimore From his law office in the Georgetown section of Washington Key traveled to Baltimore and joined John Skinner a civilian employe of the US Commissary General for Prisoners Under a flag of truce they sailed from Baltimore Sept 5 and found the British fleet far down the Chesapeake near the mouth of the Potomac River on the evening of Sept 7 Aboard the Tonnant the flagship of Vice Adm Alexander Cochrane Key and Skinner obtained from the British army commander Maj Gen Robert Ross a promise to free the elderly Beanes But because of the imminent attack on Baltimore Ross ordered the whole American party detained until after the battle That was how Key got to see the bombardment of Ft McHenry At Skinner's insistence the Americans were seekers have in city area 10:50 am today at Sherrill Park along Shoreline Drive The 40-minute program will begin with the Navy band playing several numbers A group from ARADMAC will raise the flag Col Robert Dillard commanding officer of ARADMAC will be the principal speaker Mayor Ronnie Sizemore and several members of the City Council also will appear Services will end with a flyover by several Army helicopters about Meanwhile the Lions Eye Bank will sponsor a chicken barbecue About 4000 chickens will be sold at several locations The locations are Moravian Hall Knights of Columbus Pavilion Padre-Staples Mall Woodlawn Shopping Center Parkdale Plaza and Drug Store There will be no sales on Padre Island as during previous years Price is $150 a plate Serving will be between 8 am and 4 pm The annual Robstown Homecoming Picnic will be held in the Nueces County Memorial Agricultural Center beginning at 10 am today The 1922 Robstown High School grad'iating class will couple its 50th anniversary celebration with the event A Wallace appreciation barbecue honoring winkers for Alabama Gov George Wallace will be held between 4 and 9 pm today at Kunitz Ranch miles See Holiday page 14A Weather Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with hot afternoons are forecast for Corpus Christi and vicinity through tomorrow Winds will be southeast at 10 to 16 miles an hour at night increasing to 14 to 22 miles an hour and gusty during the afternoons The high temperature today and tomorrow will be in the mid 90s with the low tonight in the upper 70s Holiday fun plenty to do Large crowds are expected at county parks and the Padre Island National Seashore today as Day weekend draws to a close Although today is the only federally recognized holiday many persons sandwiched in yesterday between their regular holiday weekend and Independence Day Officials at the Nueces County Park and Padre Island reported a slack in holiday traffic yesterday but said they were expecting large crowds today They said crowds would be near capacity but not as crowded as most three-day holiday weekends They said most of the visitors are expected from the Corpus Christi area "Most of- the people have to go back to work tomorrow so they wont be coming from too far Padre Island Seashore officials said the crab problem is diminishing since the water began to dear The crabs had been covering the water's edge fix' several days and giving waders biting problems Seashore officials reported only minor accidents and said they would be enforcing the rule Corpus Christi State Park officials in Mathis said they were having heavy camping crowds V' Meanwhile throughout Corpus Christi residents will have several activities to choose from today a-Fourth of July services will be held at Mr not need to be told about To Anacreon in He knew it as well as anyone He had used the tune for anearlier song" Another tradition that Key wrote the original version on the back of an envelope has been discounted for years but it still persists In some quarters Filby dismisses that legend this way: "Francis Scott Key Rid not pull an old envelope out of his pocket Envelopes were not in general use until about 1840 Most likely Key wrote some notes on the back of a letter Filby said And Sirhaps the tune to which the Anthem was ter set an English drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven" was flitting through Key's mind as he saw with elation that the flag was still there and that FL McHenry had survived the British bombardment Filby could not accept however the popular notion that all four stanzas suddenly emerged full blown during favored inspiration "He didn't come running ashore crying By GAYLORD SHAW SAN CLEMENTE Calif (AP) -President Nixon will address the nation by radio Tuesday in a July 4 holiday speech expected to call for unity to meet the "great the President sees ahead for the American people Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Monday the chief executive's speech will be broadcast live at 11:05 am CDT Tuesday from the Western White House Nixon will talk for about 20 minutes Ziegler said The speech which Ziegler said would be carried live by all radio networks fits Nixon's pattern of using holidays as occasions for nationwide addresses He made radio broadcasts last Labor Day and Veterans Day Ziegler said the President would discuss in the speech plans for the Bicentennial observance of the nation's Independence in 1976 and "touch on other matters appropriate to the 4th of After the speech the President will spend the holiday with his wife at their Spanish-style ocean-front home him years before (Key died in 1843) While the Taney version contained no "glaring according to Filby it was vague enough to foster the "false that Key came ashore on the 14th or 15th Filby insists that Key did not land in Baltimore until the evening of Friday Sept 15 Filby said there was not much dispute over Key's movements prior to the attack on Ft McHenry one of the forts that successfully defended Baltimore from the British fleet during the War of 1811 Early in September 1814 Key was sent to the British fleet then prowling Chesapeake Bay to secure the release of his friend Dr William Beanes who had been taken prisoner following the American rout at Bladensburg Md on Aug 24 Filby recounted That humiliating debacle dubbed the "Bladensburg Races" left Washington DC defenseless British troops entered the city sending President James Madison and his wife Dolly into precipitous flight Francis Scott Star Spangled Banner story debunked I've just produced the National Filby said dryly With Edward Howard vice president and consultant on rare books erf the Maryland Historical Society Filby has compiled a monograph (Star Spangled Books $1250 Maryland Historical Society) that challenges some statements made in encyclopedias and generally accepted by historians It took some courage Filby a former senior researcher at the British Foreign Office and before that director of the Cambridge University science library has been living in the United States only since 1957 Howard too is rather suspect for he comes not from Maryland but Ohio That these outlanders dared question Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney's version of how the anthem was bom has aroused some local indignation Besides being Maryland's foremost local son Taney was a brother- in-law of Key's But Taney was 80 when he set down (in 1856) his recollection of what Key had told By HOMER BIGART New York Times News Service BALTIMORE A former British intelligence officer Monday disputed the tradition that Francis Scott Key saw the Star Spangled Banner over Ft McHenry and that someone other than Key had discovered that the English drinking tune "To Anacreon in would fit the words William Filby director of the Maryland Historical Society who served through World War II as an officer in British intelligence said he had been trying for years to separate fact from fiction in research on the origins of the American National Anthem "I don't see why kids should have to believe inaccurate stories" Filby said It would have taken a gale to make the flag wave Filby said because of its size and the rainy weather "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole "And when Key wrote the words he did.