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TUB KVEMNG 8TANDAHI) PAGE 6-UNIONTOWN, SATURDAY, JULY 1972 S. Viet Offense Slows By IUC1IARI) BLYSTONE Associated Press Writer SAIGON A South Viet- a northern counteroffensive slowed down today, hut forward elements were within three miles of enemy- held Qnang Tri City, field reports said. Meanwhile, scattered enemy attacks to the rear and in the south showed a the North Vietnamese offensive--now in ils month--is far from finished. Action reported today in the far north ranged from six lo miles from Quang Tri City and included one enemy artillery attack against a position on the coastal "Street Without Joy 1 "east of Quang Tri and a battle just north of the old northerr front of the western flank of the My Chanh River line. Field sources said South Viet namese troops wore meeting stiffer resistance as thej jieared Quang Tri and that the advance also was slowed by the lack of bridges over two rivers -between Ihe old front and thi icaptive provincial capital.

Associated Press Correspond "ent Holger Jensen reporlei Irom the battlefront that tains flooded river fords today holding up supply vehicles, in eluding ammunition trucks. Some 30 miles below tb front, enemy units shelled posi on Hue's southwest de line and the Saigon command reported other shellings of the national capital. Beseiged An Loc--and its southern approaches, about 60 jniles 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. 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 Vietnam spokesmen also reported that Highway 14 between Pleiku and Kontum in the central highlands had been opened lo military traffic for the first time since mid-May. Daley Loses Convention Seat I i i By JOHN BECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, boss of the biggest Democratic organization In the country, has been shorn of his convention son! In a move that the party teelerlng on the edge of discord, The convention's Committee, firmly Credentials conlrolled by supporters of Sen.

George McGovern, voted 71 to 61 Friday night lo deny seats to Da ley and 58 other uncommitted Illinois delegates. The committee voted Inslead to seat a rival slate of 41 delegates pledged to McGovern and anoiher 16 leaning toward him. The vote was the second explosive challenge decided by the committee, triggering treme emotional responses anc selling Iho stage for a discordant convention floor fight, But, after the Daley volo, a leader of the Insurgents called for a healing compromise, McGovDrn 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 Us 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 II linois challenges are expected to be refought there.

The Dale delegation is also planning a courl fight lo overturn Iho com- uittee ruling. in Chicago, Dnlay did nnl Is- lose his Immediate plans, mil he Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leader of the challenge, said he hoped a compromise could he worked out before the convention. "Rather than having a in Miami, there should be a solution in Chicago," Jackson "It Is clear we have Ihe power to cut him and he has the power lo cul us said Jackson. "The question how can we survive loficlhcr." Dalev called the vote regrettable and a great disservice the Democratic parly." Although there had been talk in the commillco of a com promise on the Illinois cnal lenge, the mood changcc Abruptly blltPi'iicss following he California vole, Tiie challenge to Iho Unlay legation was based on Iho re- of a hearing examiner ap- Mlulcci by Hi" Committee to Investigate tho dispute.

Tho examiner, Cecil Ponlc concluded that llm Chi- -iigo nemnerntlfi organisation had violnlcil nearly every party guideline for delegate selection. Those guidelines, drafted by reform commission launched McGovern after tho IfiBfl convention. require- stales lo Dive (he proper representation youth, blacks and other minority interests, and lo select delegates in open woll- puWicixcd meetings. Poole found "delihornle, covert, and calculated" violations In (lie Chicago delegation. lo women, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER Two young men in New York City's Washington Square Park let off some steam in their own particular ways as Ihey begin the long holiday weekend.

In the foreground a lot tries the vocal method, boy wearing baseball cap climbs into the pool In the center of the park where a bahv is cavorting. That's what happens when the rains slop. A Wlreptioto) Price-Gouging Complaints Flood Aid (Continued from Page One) 20 using emergency supplies. -The slate Welfare Depart merit said 10 banks in Luzern County will be open today, Sun 'day and Tuesday for dis tribution of food stamps. Th banks would normally closed.

--The stale Transporlatio Department said it had report that miles of secondary road previously believed una fected by the flooding hav serious subsidence problem; On many such roads, only loca travel is permitted. PennDot director, Jacob Kassab, recom mended that Pennsylvanian stay home over the July 4 hoi day. As countless families carric on the tedious job of riddin their homes of mud and debri the Pennsylvania Electric Ass Icialion said eleclric service ha 'ieen restored virtually evety- in the slate. The association said 215.000 'of Ihe slate's four million electric customers had service interrupted 1 during the flood. An initial stale Denarlrnenl "of Education survey estimated to educational institutions at $55,463,697.

The damages struck every level of Educational facility from grade schools through universities. In one of the 'worst-hit areas of Ihc slate, police rescinded an evacuation order for the southern part of the city Friday after determining was no danger from chlorine gas, as had been feared. The order affected about persons working to clean up Ihe scelion of the city. The leak came from a chemical plant 'shout, a mile south ol center HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania consumer complaints of price-gouging in the wake of the flood, especially by plumbers, are being filed in considerable numbers.

One plumber was reported to have charged $250 to pump water out of a residential basement. The complaints are coming in to flood information centers, the press and the slate. The Associated Press made uov. Wallace Release Is Set Friday By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL SILVER SPRING, Md.

(AP) Gov. George Wallace plans leave the hospital next Fri- ay--in time to filfill his pledge attend the Democratic con- ention. He will fly first to Montgomry, the Alabama state capital, address well-wishers at the airport. Then he'll ontinue lo Miami where he vill be host at a reception foi onvention delegates the follow- ng day. 'The Alabama governor's ilans were announced Friday )y Billy Joe Camp, Wallace'; iress secretary.

The waystop in Montgomery expected to last about an hnur IBS a legal purpose also. Stale aw confers Ihe duties of chief i executive on the lieutenant governor if the governor is out of Alabama more than 20 days. Wallace has been Holy Cross Hospital in this District anonymous calls lumbers to get friday to basement- i estimates. Some rices were far above Ihe aver- ige costs quoted by the slate Consumer Prolection Bureau -110-14 an hour on weekdays, $20 an hour on weekends. The calls vere made at random.

I Pittsburgh, Dinucci 'lumbing Heating Co. said it charged $100 for use of the ump and other equipment plus 24 an hour on weekdays and an hour on weekends. G. A. Dice Son $17 a weekday lour, $25.50 a weekend hour in addition to the cost of the pump, which the employe didn't know offhand.

Marchase Plumbing $16 a weekday lour, $24 a weekend hour plus cost of the pump, again un- nown. In Harrisburg, H. L. Bowman was charging $10 an hour for abor and $10 an hour for a gasoline pump. The employe vho answered the phone said a smaller, electric submersible lump could be used at $5 an nour but might actually cost more in the long run because of mg) that contractor I contacted for job, the job would have run $25," said Mendenhall, adding that one engineer, basing his calculations of a 20 40-foot cellar, figured 46,000 gallons of water meant eight feet of water in the basement.

Mendenhall also said he had photostats of bills from Fells Green to anoiher customer showing that the basement of that house was initially pumped for $140. A day later Fells Green pumped "residual" water from the same basement for $100 and the third day pumped it again for $50, Mendenhall said. Some plumbers, like 0. L. Jacobs in Harrisburg, pointed out that a person could save himself money if he rented a pump and did the work himself.

Consumer Protection Bureau Director Joel Weisberg said his investigators were checking the plumbing complaints and that if substantiated would be filed with the Internal Revenue Service for further action. None has reached the IRS so far. of Columbia suburb since May 15, when he was struck by four or live bullets fired at point blank range by an assailant at a Laurel, Md. shopping center. It was the day before the Maryland and Michigan primaries--two of six won by Wallace in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Doctors removed all except one of the bullets and took out that one from ils place near the spinal cord June Since the second operation, doctors say, Wallace has made a good recovery, he has gamed six pounds and is undergoing daily physical therapy aimeti at restoring use of his crippled more pumping time. The question of pumping time was another matter. Mist plumbers contacted could give only a rough estimate, depending on stated size and water depth in the basement. In York, Ron Mendenhall, a reporter for the Daily Record, said he had photostalic copies if several cuslomer hills from Fells Green Septic Service. The bill for pumping out the me house was $250 46,000 gallons of water was pumped Me denhall said.

"According to one (plumb- Hi jack Attempt Not Successful PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) FBI agents in Portland arrestec Daniel Bernard Carre, 25, ol Tacoma, Friday nigh and charged him with the attempted hijacking of a Hughes Airwest flight from Seattle to Portland. Lee Pitt, spokesman fo Hughes Airwest, said Cam boarded Flight 775 in Seattle bound for Salt Lake City vi; Portland. The airline said (hi DC9 was carrying 37 passen gers. During Ihe flight, Pitt said Carre mumbled lo hostess Jud Frasier, 27, that he had a knif and wanted $50,000 and a para chute.

iank Robbed onrth Time For Pood Aid WASHINGTON A I Congress has approved a $200 million emergency appropriation bill intended for use in areas devastated by i a Agnns and by floods in South Dakota, The Senate approved Ihe measure Friday by a voice vote jusl hours before a 17-day recess was to begin. The House had approved the measure 355-1 just an hour before the Senate acted. The funds are lo be given to public agencies by the Office of Preparedness, a i for a housing, road and bridge repairs, debris clearance and Ihe repair or replacement of public facilities. The U.S. Department of Agri- said it has provided B24 Ions of food to the major disaster areas.

The department also said 'had authorized Ihe Issuance of 'emergency food stamps in hboul two-thirds of Pennsylvania 's 67 counties. So far, II said, JI.25I persons have received roupons valued at $141,325. MARIANA TRENCH The Pacific Ocean is deepest in Ihe area known as the a i a a Trench. Alan a Al i a Ray Redmond Jr. of Lyn Station, Grindstone, was treate at Brownsville hospita yesterday for lacerations of th hcaci and a following altercation.

Redstone police sai Redmond was pushed through storm door, Investigation continuing, said I patrolmen II a a an Shumor. Hospital News UNIONTOWN Admissions: Jimmy U. Dotson, Masontown; Sharon L. Van Sickle, Markleysburg; Kalie Kelly, Uniontown; Charles W. Humbert, Fairchance; Jacqueline Riggar, Uniontown; Dr.

William H. Newton, Lemont Furnace. John G. Novolny, New Salem; Frances Stockwell, Uniontown; Asunta C. Peshko, Republic; Ray S.

Uniintown; Harry M. Gray, Nemacolin; Mary Lou Uniontown; Joseph C. Gordon, Mount Braddock. Jean Ellen Ziegler, Chalk Hill; Dana L. Fayock.

Uniontown; Catherine M. Spangler, Uniontown; Eugene Funk. Fairbanks Kcrrie Elizabeth Miller, Uniontown; Hazel Mary Cunningham, Lcckrone. Cecil Close, Uniontown; John Onesi, Uniontown; Susan Marchinchin, W. Leisenring; Barbara Ann Jeffries, Uniontown.

Discharges: Marguerite Coddington, Julia Dugan, John Gmutza, Montgomery Goodwin, Nannie Hixson, John Holub, Frances Hustin, Chris Jim, Joe Knapp, John Kovach, Bernard Kremposky; Mrs. Sherry Logan and daughter, Deborah Morrison, Marie Mounayar, Ralph a Michael Petrus, Eugene Reed, Barry Riggin, Timothy Sheranko, George Tulley, Mrs. Sandra Vesnesky and daughter, Anna Wallencheck, Mary Cocciardo, Robert Lazaran, Nira Woleslagle, Alberta McManus. BROWNSVILLE Admissions: Mrs. Justina Kostal, Fayette City; Mrs.

Rosie Tassone, Republic. Discharges: Robert Martin, Louis Hayges, Mrs. Cynthia S. Security Bill Passed 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 While House. Nixon was expected to act on Ihe bill before leaving today for a two-week stay in San Clemente, 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 lied to a bill extending the $450-billion debt ceiling through October. Without such action, mem bci-s were told, the government vould have to stop paying its bills by Thursday. Also included in Ihe hybrid measure--and increasing the difficulty Nixon would (ace in vetoing it--are provisions for future automatic Social Secur- increases to cover cosl-of- living rises. It also includes procedures by which (hose who suffered from the floods of Hurricane Agnes and the earlier disasters in South Dakota can get prompt lax refunds.

would make the 20 across-the-board in- Social Security pay- The bill per cent crease in menis 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 Domorrals of play- ng politics with the measure. Nevertheless, the Senate approved (he boost, 82 to 4, and the House, 302 lo 35.

Payroll taxes would be increased in and again in 1974 to finance the higher benefits. From Ihis year, the base would go lo $10,800 in 1073 and $12,000 starting in 1974. The maximum tax a worker pays Ihis year is $468. The maximum, for a person earning at last $10,800, would go lo $504 next year and, for a person earning at least $12,000, to $6GO in 1074. Employers pay a matching amount.

PITTSBURGH (AP) A unman wearing a red-and- ilack ski mask, leather jacket nd golf gloves, walked into the First Federal Savings and Loan on the South Side nd announced, "Here I am again." Friday was the foiirlh time his year that the office had een robbed. The FBI said thai photographs show the same man icld up Ihe branch a week ago. The office was held up by 'our men on Jan. 27, three men on March 8 and two men on June 22. Police said Ihe gunman Friday thrust a nickel-plated revolver at a teller, demanded money, then ordered the teller and a bank manager to lie on floor while he made is getaway.

He got $1,300, About an hour later, police said they took a man and woman into custody, but did not identify them. The money was not recovered. Shutsa and son, Stella Staggers, Mrs. Mcri Gadus, Theresa Pietrantoni. Mrs.

i i i a Meese, Mrs. Rose Ortosky, Henry Taylor. CONN ELLS I Admissions: Mrs. Olive Watson. Dickerson Run.

Discharges: Alex Cameron, Mrs, Susan Polidora and daughter, Mrs. Jennie Shroyer, Theodore Martin, P. Francis Ruggiere. Scholarship Aid To Vets HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania's veterans would be eligible for scholarship aid if up to $1,200 annually under a program approved by the House.

The $1.4 million measure, sent to the Senate Friday after unanimous House a a would apply to veterans honorably discharged from 1955 on after at least 180 days service, or to those discharged from active duty because of a service- connected disability. In either case, the veteran would have lo be a resident of Pennsylvania for the year preceding his service and have taken up residence in Pennsylvania following discharge The scholarships would apply only to those attending higher education facilities within the stale. The scholarship amount would be equal to tuition and fees for a full academic year or $1,200 whichever figure is less. The House Appropriations Com mitlee expected about 1,750 veterans to qualify. Financial Dispute Over Chess Battle Conditions (Cnnllnurd frnm Pafre One) Joseph J.

Bleilevens, administrator of Ihe Fayette County Board of Assistance, said his office yesterday approved applications from 15 more households for emergency food stamps. Nine of the applications were taken in the public assistance office in Unionlown, and six at the employment office in Conncllsvilie. A total if 75 persons are involved. Value of (he free food coupons was set at $926. Mountains (Continued from Page One) p.m.

daily and never open on Sundays or holidays). She finds shopping in air conditioned comfort in the evening most exhilarating. She is also impressed with the American custom of "buying everything in a can." She was amazed the first time she saw noodles that come in a plastic bag become hash brown potatoes magically after being put in a pot. Package buying, night-time shoppng, and splendid surroundings. Taken for granted, even expected and demanded by Americans, but quite marvelous lo a lady from another land.

Child Working Law Liberalized HARRISBURG, Pa. A -The House has voted unani mously to liberalize state law: on child labor, by pcrmillini minors under 16 lo work until I 1 p.m. during their summer va cations. The law presently permit minors under 16 to work onl; between the hours of 7 a.m. an 7 The legislation, already ap proved by the Senate, was sen on lo Gov.

Shapp Friday. CAR DAMAGED Paul Rubish of Perryopoli reported to State Police that li car was damaged while parkc in parking lot at Sobck on Route at a.m. today. Damage was i a at $250. BORIS SPASSKV Man On Micyele Early Tills Mornhif; Paul Hetcofsky, 21, of 40 Summit Uniontown, was injured at 4:45 a.m.

today the bicycle he was riding wenl out of control on Sheldon Avo. in Fairchance, State Police said. Rctcofsky landed in the yard of Joseph Davis of 125 Sheldon and he struck his head on a stone, losing several teeth and suffering facial cuts. He refused hospital treatment, troopers said. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -Considerable progress a reported Friday night in IHh hour negotiations over Bobby Fischer's demand for more money from the world chess championship wilh Boris Spas- sky of Russia, Officials of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation met with Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer and confidant, hut said there was still no guarantee that (he 29-year-old American would show up.

The 24-game match starts Sunday. Meanwhile, Fischer missed a flight Friday to Reykjavik, He booked a reservation ami checked his baggage, but after holding the plane up for two hours demanded his luggage back nnd disappeared from New York's Kennedy International Airport. The financial dispule with the Icelandic Chess Federation involves Fischer's demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts at Ihe 2,500 Sporls Palace where the matches will be held. Tickets are $5 apiece. A federation spikcsman said Davis was seeking a com- romise over the money snarl.

But Gutmundcr Thonirisson, 3F president who lalked wilh 'ischer's representatives in (he i Slates for much of Fri- ay night, said Jaler that nothing had been settled." previous a 'ischer and Spassky arc to di- idc the $125,000 purse, wilh the 'inner getting five-eighths, and ecciving 30 per cent of the sales television and film rights. HURT IN CRASH Richard Ball, 33, Crucible was treated at Greene County Memorial Hospiatl, Waynes- berg, early this morning after being hurt in a one-car accident. FMXKMARM Uniontown i answered a false a a fiox 22!) at Wayne SI. and Cleveland Avc. al a.m.

today. A I A WATER Fairchance Borough officials announced Ihis morning that persons residing in Ihe borough should boil their i i water i furlher Police. A A KIMONO The kimono has served as the national dress lor Die female population of Japan nince the eighth century. DEM CLUB MEETING Mountain Democrat Club will meet al 8 p.m. on Wednesday at Braddock's Inn.

GATHERING TODAY Members of the class ol 1022 nl Wayneshurg High School will celebrate Ihc 50th a i a ol their gradiialinn al a reunion dinner loday at p.m. in Ihe Mansion House. PAINT THROWN Barbara L. Fields, 22, of Con- ncllsvllle li. I), I reported to Stale Police a someone paint on her IOT2 Ford sedan al about 2 lxlay i it was parked In i Twp.

CZECH VISITORS Czechoslovakia had record 17 i i foreign visitors last year, up from .1.5 million in 1970. In Hijacking Of A i i Second Suspect Arrested DKTROIT A -The man who Initially lold the FBI he had unwittingly driven skyjacker suspect Martin McNally from Peru, Detroit after an American Airlines 727 jet was hijacked last week has been charged with aiding and abetling in the crime, tho FBI said Friday. Walter John Pcllikowsky, 31, of Ecorsc, has been a il "with direct participation wilh McNiilly in plan to hijack American Airlines Fllghl 119 al St. Noil Welch, special agent In charge of Iho Detroit FBI, said Friday, McNally, 31, of Wyandotlc, i Is being held In lieu of $100,000 bond on a charge of air piracy In Ihc plol fo hijack Iho piano for $502,000 ransom last week. 'ITic money and a machine gun allegedly used in the hijack were rccivercd in a field near Peru.

Pctlikowsky, an unemployed housepainter, was lo be brought before a magistrate. The government is asking $100,000 bond. In announcing Petlikowsky's arrest, the FBI gave its fullest account yet what it believes happened before and after the hijacking and of the events leading up lo Ihe two arrests. Pcllikowsky and McNally togelhcr developed the plan to hijack a plane and made "a number" of trips lo SI. Ixiuls lo plwn Ihc crime, Welch said.

He said St. Louis was chosen rather than Detroll, he said, because the men thought security was looser (here nnd because ibey fcnrcrl recognition here. Tim FBI account conllnur.d: Petlikowsky drove McNally to St. Ixiuis June 22, where McNally hoarded Flight 110, carrying Ihc machine gun In an altache case. After he commandeered the plane on the ground, FBI Bgenls came aboard dressed as mechanics hut "11 wasn'l possible for them lo slop the hijacking," Welch said.

When the plane took olf, Ihc pilot, unknown lo tho hijacker, circled SI. Louis a couple of limes. Welch said McNally had made extensive nlrspocd- llmedlslancc cnluclatinnR i equipment found In a search of his house. The FBI agent said MeNnlly had planned to Jump near Monroe, i but the lime spent circling Ilirow him of nnd he landed about 200 mllcn short of his Inrget, HOBBY FISCIIEll HAS CIIKST PAINS i i A. Carney, 25, of Bclln Vnrnon suffered chesl pains In 11 onc-cnr accident yesterday al 12:15 p.m.

nl Iho Intersection of rural cowl find Moiioilgiilir.lii SI, In Prlcednlo, Stnlc I'ollcu.