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ttmm SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1972 STEVENS POINT, WIS. 54481 10c ASSOCIATED PRESS 77TH YEAR 12 PAGES mint Daley Loses Delegate Job Social Security Benefit Increase Up To Nixon pays this year is $468. The maximum, for a person earning at least $10,800, would go to $594 next year and, for a person earning at least $12,000, to $660 in 1974. Employers pay a matching amount. i I I 7 1 I I i tnl i i v- ii -r r- 1 i IK 1 'JrV i-v i I I 1 -mm-- I i If mittee ruling.

In Chicago, Daley did not disclose his immediate plans, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leader of the challenge, said he hoped a compromise could be worked out before the convention. "Rather than having a fight in Miami, there should be a solution in Chicago," Jackson said. "It is clear we have the power to cut him off, and he has the power to cut us off," said Jackson. "The question is how can we survive together." Daley called the vote "regrettable and a great disservice to the Democratic party." Although there had been talk in the committee of a compromise on the Illinois challenge, the mood changed abruptly to bitterness following the California vote.

The challenge to the Daley; delegation was based on the re- port of a hearing examiner appointed by the Credentials Committee to investigate the dispute. The examiner, Cecil F. Poole, concluded that the Chicago Democratic organization had violated nearly every party guideline for delegate selection. Those guidelines, drafted by a reform commission launched by McGovern after the 1968 convention, require states to give the proper representation to women, youth, blacks and other minority interests, and to select delegates in open well-publicized meetings. Poole found "deliberate, covert and calculated" violations in the WASHINGTON (AP) Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley, boss of the biggest Democratic organization in the country, has been shorn of his convention seat in a move that left the party teetering on the edge of discord. The convention's Credentials Committee, firmly controlled by supporters of Sen. George McGovern, voted 71 to 61 Friday night to deny seats to Daley and 58 other uncommitted Illinois delegates. The committee voted instead to seat a rival slate of 41 delegates pledged to McGovern and another 18 leaning toward him. The vote was the second explosive challenge decided by the committee, triggering extreme emotional responses and setting the stage for a discordant convention floor fight.

But, after the Daley vote, a leader of the insurgents called for a healing compromise. McGovern also picked up eight convention votes in another successful challenge involving downstate Illinois delegates and so, gained back at least 49 of the delegates he lost Thursday when the Credentials Committee outlawed California's winner-take-all primary, stripping him of more than half its 271 delegates. All of the committee's actions are subject to final approval by the national convention, which opens in Miami Beach July 10, and both the California and Illinois challenges are expected to be refought there. The Daley delegation is also planning a court fight to overturn the com difficulty Nixon would face in vetoing it are provisions for future automatic Social Security increases to cover cost-of-living rises. It also includes procedures by which those who suffered from the floods of Hurricane Agnes and the earlier disasters in South Dakota can get prompt tax refunds.

The bill would make the 20 per cent across-the-board increase in Social Security payments effective in September. It would be reflected in checks received Oct. 3. Republicans, who vainly sought to cut the increase to 10 per cent as Nixon recommended, accused Democrats of playing politics with the measure. Nevertheless, the Senate approved the boost, 82 to 4, and the House, 302 to 35.

Payroll taxes would be increased in 1973 and again in 1974 to finance the higher benefits. From $9,000 this year, the base would go to $10,800 in 1973 and $12,000 starting in 1974. The maximum tax a worker South Viets Meet Stiffer Resistance CHARGED AS HIJACK ACCOMPLICE Walter John Petlikowsky, 31, of Ecorse, is taken to arraignment Friday afternoon by FBI agents, charged with providing transportation and a machine gun to Martin J. McNally, the 28-year-old Wyandotte man who was arrested Thursday as the sky pirate who leaped from the plane over Peru, Ind. (AP Wirephoto) Hijack Plan Better Than The Execution Flight Recorder Found In Lake WASHINGTON (AP) Congress has disregarded warnings that President Nixon might veto a 20-per-cent increase in Social Security benefits and has sent the measure to the White House.

Nixon was expected to act on the bill before leaving today for a two-week stay in San Cle-mente, Calif. The Senate and House acted Friday night before recessing until July 17 for the Fourth of July holiday and the Democratic National Convention. The Social Security measure, the biggest money increase in the program's history, was tied to a bill extending the $450-bil-lion debt ceiling through October. Without such action, members were told, the government would have to stop paying its bills by Thursday. Also included in the hybrid measure and increasing the Adventure In Good Eating -B Battery Complaints about Army food shouldn't be forthcoming from members of Battery, 1st Battalion, 120th Artillery, a i 11 i i 1 aievens ruini iauonai uuaru unit which completed two weeks of summer training today at Camp McCoy.

The battery received an award for the best garrison mess in competition with all units of the 32nd Infantry Brigade. And it came "within an eyelash," a brigade spokesman said, of winning the award for the best field mess as well. A Chippewa Falls infantry took that honor. The winners were picked by an inspector general team which not only checked the kitchens but ate the food. The battery's mess steward is Sgt.

1-c Alfred Frasch, 3007 Post Road, Whiting, a guardsman since before World War II. Capt. Frederick Comacho of Wisconsin Dells is battery commander and 2nd Lt. Raymond Weber of Wisconsin Rapids is mess officer. Bart To Give It Another Year GREEN BAY.

Veteran quarterback Bart Starr announced today that despite arm and shoulder problems he would be a part of 1972 Green Bay Packer team in the National Footbal League. "I was prepared to retire," the 38-year old Starr told a newsconference. "However, this club has asked me to stay, fully aware of my limitations, so that I may contribute to the success of the '72 Packer squad." 5-f V.1 the case will be turned over to a grand jury in St. Louis where the hijacking began and the money was handed over to the pirate. It was later found in a farmer's field near Peru.

The FBI said McNally and Petlikowsky developed the hijacking and made "a number" of trips to St. Louis to scout the area. When the skyjacker jumped, the FBI said, the wind blast was greater than he had anticipated. That's when he lost the submachine gun, the money' and his pants. of $100,000 bond each.

Welch said Petlikowsky told agents he assisted McNally, making several trips to St. Louis, to further the plot; helped shorten the machine gun used in the hijacking; drove McNally to St. Louis for the heist; and picked him up after he parachuted in Indiana. Welch said Petlikowsky's statement, contained in a complaint filed Friday in St. Louis, could not be termed a confession.

The Justice Department said Only One State 'No' On Social Security WASHINGTON (AP) Here is how Wisconsin congressmen voted Friday when the House approved a 20 per cent Social Security benefit increase: Aspin, yes; Byrnes, no; Davies, yes; Kastenmeier, yes; Reuss, yes; Steiger, yes; Thomson, yes; Zab-locki, yes. WASHINGTON (AP) Wisconsin's William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson were among Democrats who voted Friday against an amendment to reduce a 20 per cent Social Security benefit increase to 10 per cent. The Senate defeated the amendment 66-20. between the old front and the captive provincial capital. Associated Press Correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the battlefront that heavy rains flooded river fords today, holding up supply vehicles, including ammunition trucks.

Some 30 miles below the front, enemy units shelled positions on Hue's southwest defense line and the Saigon command reported other shellings north of the national capital. Besieged An Loc and its southern approaches, about 60 miles north of Saigon, were hit by at least 350 rounds in three shelling attacks and one ground attack. Twenty-five miles to the northeast, enemy forces attacked with shellfire and' ground advances Friday night in three spots in and around Phuoc Binh. Fresh action also appeared to be shaping up in the Parrot's Beak area of eastern Cambodia, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The U.S.

Command reported that two American spotter planes and a helicopter had crashed in Svay Rieng province this week from "unknown causes" and one pilot was missing. South Vietnamese spokesmen also reported that Highway 14 between Pleiku and Kontum in the central highlands had been opened to military traffic for the first time since mid-May. Missing Link In Long Weekend For most working folks, the long 4th of July holiday will have an interruption. Independence Day is on Tuesday, and government offices and most businesses will be operating Monday. The County-City Building and the Post Office will be open Monday, the Retail Division of the Chamber of Commerce is recommending that stores observe normal hours, and the Journal will be published.

Tuesday, of course, will be a general holiday. The Journal will not publish. The Weather Chicago delegation. was equipped with a flight recorder for automatic logging of travel conditions and maneuvers. FAA officials said the recorder was recovered and was being shipped to Washington, D.C., for its role in the investigation of the accident.

A ruling on the cause of a crash isn't normally returned for six months. Wreckage of the turboprop airliners was being hoisted from the lake and carted to a hangar at Wittman Field near Oshkosh for reassembly by investigators. Dreyfus said most of the debris had been located and sonar equipment was being used to help find the remainder. But only about one-third of the Air Wisconsin craft had been recovered, he said, and much less of the North Central plane. The FBI sent a special in-dentification team to help Winnebago County authorities identify victims.

The body of Frances Rabb, 21, the North Central stewardess from Flint, was identified today. The other bodies recovered had been identified Friday as those of Alton of Bloomington, a North Central copilot, and Kenneth Koenig, an Air Wisconsin passenger employed by a Nee-nah firm who had moved to Neenah a week ago from Portland, Ore. DETROIT (AP) The FBI said last week's airliner hijacking was well planned but the hijacker lost his pants, submachine gun and the $502,500 ransom he got from American Airlines. In addition, Neil Welch, head of the FBI office in Detroit, said Friday, the hijacker was identified by two FBI agents who boarded the plane and he left the ransom note fingerprints and all on the plane. The hijacker wound up in Peru, instead of Monroe, where the FBI said he had intended to land.

The FBI said it was led to Martin McNally, 28, of Wyandotte, by the fingerprints and by an informant's tip. McNally, an unemployed high school dropout, was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of air piracy. John Petlikowsky, 31, of Ecorse, went to the FBI Friday and told the agents he had unwittingly driven McNally back to Detroit. Agents said Petlikowsky later gave a complete account of the hijacking. He was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an air piracy.

He and McNally are being held in lieu NEENAH, Wis. (AP) A recording device containing the final diary of Flight 290 was recovered Friday from Lake Winnebago where two passenger planes crashed Thursday after colliding. Bodies of three of the 13 crewmen and passengers presumed dead in the collision had been recovered by this morning, and a fourth body was reported sighted by a diver today. Recovery operations in about 15 feet of water about three miles from shore continued today in light rain. Spokesman Douglas Dreyfus of the National Transporation Safety Board told a news conference priority would be given for the next two days to locating the bodies of the victims.

A North Central Convair preparing to land at Oshkosh and an Air Wisconsin DeHaviland en route to Appleton crossed paths during what was described as satisfactory flying weather. The Federal Aviation Administration said there was no immediate suggestion to the cause of the crash. Not even a faint haze over the vast lake seemed thick enough to have obscured a pilot's vision, a spokesman said. North Central Flight 290 from Green Bay, carrying three crewmen and two passengers, Chess? Who Knows REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Organizers of the world chess championship were unable today to report any break-through in their deadlock over money with Bobby Fischer. On the eve of Fischer's scheduled challenge match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia, officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation said they still had no assurances that Fischer would appear.

Almost at the last minute the 29-year-old American grand master sent word that he wouldn't play Spassky in Iceland unless a new condition was met: 30 per cent of the gate receipts for the 24 games in addition to a share of a $125,000 purse and a piece of television and film income already contracted for. Chess Federation officials met until nearly midnight with Andrew Davis, Fischer's friend and attorney, who arrived Friday to negotiate for his truant client. The 24-game match is supposed to start Sunday. SAIGON (AP) South Viet- a offensive northern counter-slowed down today, but forward elements were within three miles of enemy-held Quang Tri City, field reports said. Meanwhile, scattered enemy attacks to the rear and in the south showed that the North Vietnamese offensive now in its fourth month is far from finished.

Action reported today in the far north ranged from six to 12 miles from Quang Tri City and included one enemy artillery attack against a position on the coastal "Street Without Joy" east of Quang Tri and a battle just north of the old northern front of the western flank of the My Chanh River line. Field sources said South Vietnamese troops were meeting stiffer resistance as they neared Quang Tri and that the advance also was slowed by the lack of bridges over two rivers Bloodmobile Here 2 Days Next Week The Red Cross Bloodmobile makes a summer visit to Stevens Point next week. The Bloodmobile will be at the Elks Club, 1132 Clark from 12 noon to 6 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Friday. There will be free parking for donors in the Whiting Motor Hotel lot across the street. The quota is 280 pints, and the Bloodmobile will be trying to repeat its success at its last community and university visits. Wayne Jinske, Tom Goltz and Dave Olson are co-chairmen of the Portage County Blood Program, which sponsors the Bloodmobile visit. Jinske said there is a need for registered and licensed practical nurses to work at the Bloodmobile, "even if only for an hour or two," to take blood pressure readings and health histories.

Nurses who wish to volunteer are asked to call the Red Cross office. East-Central Plan Group Ok'd MADISON, Wis. (AP) Gov. Patrick J. Lucey has approved creation of a 10-county east-central Wisconsin regional planning commission.

The agency will comprise of Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Menominee, Outagamie; Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago counties. Some of the counties were part of the old Northeast Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. tr'-: i tHvr: '-f lrzZ I t. i I wu mmmm, -HMt Fast Recovery For Rapid City RAPID CITY, S.D. AP) Just three weeks after a June 9 flood claimed more than 230 lives in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills area, the city is in "remarkably good shape," says Mayor Donald Barnett.

Much of the debris has been hauled away and the streets are clear, said Barnett, and the main problem remaining is finding housing for persons who lost their homes to the water. "We've located housing for more than 200 families," Barnett said, "but that still leaves nearly 1,000 more to find shelter for. They're living in temporary homes, with friends. "We have a massive program under way to construct mobile home areas for these people," Barnett said. "We're moving in all the mobile units we can get, and we're going to take care of our own.

"We've had a problem keeping some people from moving back into their damaged homes until we can check the structures to see that they are sound. The people are just so anxious to get back in the business of living a near-normal life. "We're not letting anyone move back into a place and begin repairing it if there is more than 50 per cent damage," he said. "It will be quite a while before things are settled, but I think for only three weeks after the flood we're in remarkably good shape." First estimates last week indicated that the city lost more than $1 million in property tax revenue because of the flood damage. The emotional shock from the disaster cannot be measured.

But Curt Paulsen, director of Lutheran Social Services, says work activity what he called relentless, frantic efforts to clean up and restore property was the way Rapid City citizens overcame the shock of the disaster. 'V SVU' 4 Mostly cloudy tonight, thunderstorms likely. Lows 50s northwest, 60s southeast. Sunday mostly cloudy, showers or thunderstorms likely. Highs 70s extreme north to the middle or upper 80s extreme south.

Temperatures (24 hrs. ending this noon) High, 85. Low, 54. 11 a.m. today, 64.

Precipitation, .05. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:17. Sunset tomorrow, 8:47. FLOOD AFTERMATH Three weeks after the raging flood that took more than 230 lives in Rapid City, S.D., the Canyon Lake Dam is a point of special interest for visitors to the city. The collapse of the dam across Rapid Creek sent a wall of water crashing through the town.

(AP Wirephoto).