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7822 Sesquicentennial Celebration 1972 Member The Assocloted Press JACKSON, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 124th YEAR, NO. 159 28 Pages Price TEN CENTS FINAL South And North Korea Agree To Work For Reunification JU Uu r'fci Breaking Through The Crowd Icelandic policemen moved back the to meet the Russian titleholder Boris crowd to make way for Bobby Fischer's Spassky in the world chess championship auto as he departed Iceland's Keflavik series slated to begin later In the day. Airport today. Fischer arrived in Iceland Story on Page 8. ap wirrphou) (Picture on Page 8) (AP) South and North Korea announced to their surprised citizens today they have agreed in high-level secret meetings to set up machinery to work for unification of the long-divided peninsula.

Simultaneous announcements in Seoul, the South Korean and Pyongyang, capital of Communist North Korea, said a new accord provides for a telephone hotline between the two cities to prevent accidental war and for a joint political committee to open exchanges in many fields and to promote unification of North and South through peaceful means without outside interference. The two governments also agreed to refrain from armed provocations and from slandering or defaming each other and to avoid accidental military incidents. The agreements were reached at meetings in Pyongyang, May 2-5 and Seoul, May 29-June 1. It was the first such contact reported between North and South Korea since before the 1950-53 Korean War that took 2 million lives, including 54,246 Americans fighting for the South. The three-year conflict ended in an armistice July 28, 1953, and the two Koreas are still officially at war.

First friendly contact between the two nation's began last September when Red Cross officials of South and North Korea opened talks to arrange communications between divided families, involving an estimated 10 million persons. The governments agreed to cooperate in bringing these talks to an early and successful conclusion. Korea a Japanese colony from 1910 through World War II, was divided into U.S. and Soviet occupation zones after the defeat of Japan. The zones became separate republics in 1948.

South Korea has a population of more than 32 million and a 5 6 0,00 0-man army. North Korea, with a larger area, has a population of only 14 million and an army of 340,000. rath Dtas)in Pmh Mm IF tairogj Tri CiiSy Quang Tri tomorrow if ordered to go. However, there were signs of stiffening North Vietnamese resistance around the town. Field commanders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was be- lieved to be a heavy line of fortification.

"The enemy appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every tree line, every village," said an American adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32. of Urbana, Ohio. U.S. jets knocked out two 130mm artillery pieces and five truck on the western flank of the advance.

Behind the front lines, officers said government troops had finished mopping up small groups of North Vietnamese soldiers who had been "overloked" in the rapid South Vietnamese advance. Hundreds of refugees from areas liberated by the South Vietnamese made their way south on Highway 1. They gathered at Phong Bien, 20 miles north of Hue, where Continued on Page 8) SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers drove to the southwestern edge of Quang Tri City today in a lightning assault against North Vietnamese troops manning defensive strongpoints, military sources said. Several hundred troops with U.S. advisers made -the attack, killing at least 20 North Vietnamese and recapturing 12 artillery pieces lost in earlier fighting.

At nightfall, the South Vietnamese were reported occupying positions about half a mile from the center of the provincial capital which the North Vietnamese captured May 1. Government spokesmen in Saigon claimed the recapture of two district headquarters: Mai Linh, 1.2 miles southeast of Quang Tri. and Hai Lang, six miles southeast of the capital It was the first recapture of any of the 14 district towns lost to the North Vietnamese in their three-month-old offensive. The marines on the eastern flank of the Saigon drive to recapture Quang Tri were reported within four miles of the city, and marine officers said their men could be in California And Illinois Convention Cases 1 Move Toward Federal Appeals Court 0 By MARGARET GENTRY si i I 2 I I i M3Pi Graves Is Seeking Another Term Magistrate Robert Graves Jr. will be a candidate for re-election in Madison County Court District 3 as a resident of the 6th Civil District.

Squire Graves, who was first elected to the County Court in 1966 and re-elected in the special election in 1968, faces North Side Junior High principal Bur-russ Nichols in the Aug. 3 voting. Graves is a member of the County Court Agricultural Committee and also serves on a special committee on Civil Defense which is reorganizing the county fire departments. He is a member of the Madison County Farm Bureau and the Antioch Baptist Church where he has served as an (Continued on Page 5) Ted Cunliffe Is Candidate John R. (Ted) Cunliffe, Railroad employe, today formally announced his candidacy for magistrate in the Aug.

3 general election. He will be on the ballot for one of the two seats in County Court District 9 as a resident of the City of Jackson. Cunliffe is a lifelong resident of Jackson and a descendant of early settlers of Madison County. He was educated in the Jackson city schools and Perk-ington Junior College where he lettered in baseball. He has been employed by the Railroad for 25 years and for the past five years he has been president of Local 900, I.B.E.W.

(AFL-CIO). He is a member of the Park-. (Continued on Page 5) At A Glance SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. tonight mid 60s, highs Wednes- (AP) President Nixon issued day low and mid 80s. Probabil- a broadcast invitation to the ity 0f rain: 40 per cent tonight, world today to visit toe United.

30 per cent Wednesday. States on its 200th birthday in 1976. "Let America be known throughput the world as the TEMPERATURES land of the open Nixon said in a live holiday radio Yesterday Today broadcast from the Western 1p.m. 79 1a.m. 74.

White House. 2 p.m. 82 2 a.m. 73 3 p.m. 82 '3 a.m.

72 By JHE ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 p.m. 83 4 a.m. 71 The number of traffic fatal- 5 p.m. 83 5 a.m. 70 ities reached 530 early today 6 p.m.

82 6 a.m. 70 with the return trip home still 7 p.m. 80 .7 a.m. 70 ahead of many Fourth of July 8 p.m. 79 8 a.m.

71 holiday weekend The 9 p.m. 77 9 a.m. 71 count of traffic deaths began at 10 p.m. 73 10 a.m. 71 6 p.m.

Friday and will end at 11 p.m. 73 11 a.m. 72 midnight Tuesday. The 102-hour Midnite 73 noon 73 period is generally considered four days. A.

Precipitation IhflP Precipitation last 24 hrs. .07 Precipitation this month 1.25 PAG, Precipitation this year 33.11 BILLY GRAHAM .13 Normal to date 30.51 COMICS Sun rises 5:45 sets 8:14 DAILY REPORT .16 DEAR ABBY 7 DR. CRANE ..5 Stato Taoiporaturts fSotae the assorted' press L. M. BOYD ...3 City Low High Pr.

OBITUARIES ............16 5 Memphis 71 82 1.49 SPORTS 10-12 Nashville 69 87 .04 THAT'S POLITICS 20 Chattanooga i'. 65 85 .87 WOMEN TODAY Knoxville ,69 80 .40 Tri Cities 61 82 WEATHER Millington 83 WEST TENNESSEE: Cloudy Dyersburg 70 84 and mild with showers and Crossville 67 81 .02 thundershowers diminishing to-' (6 a.m. to 6 a.m.) night and Wednesday. Lows Missing WASHINGTON (AP) Parallel efforts to upset the California and Illinois decisions of the Democratic Credentials. Committee moved toward a federal appeals court" today.

Attorneys fighting the committee decisions said they would appeal U.S. Dist. Court Judge George Lj Hart's 'ruling Monday that the 1 judiciary should not get involved in the debate. Anticipating the appeals, Hart told the lawyers that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had agreed to hear arguments today, despite the holiday.

Hart's decision came in these cases: The move by Sen. George McGovern's camp to overturn the Credentials Committee vote stripping him of more than 150 California delegates. Attempts by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 5ft of his allies to upset a committee vote depriving them of seaft? as -convention delegates. The Illinois vote gave McGovern at least 41 supporters among those seated in place of the Daley contingent.

McGovern forces first sought a compromise in the Illinois dispute, but after the California upset, they stood firmly against Daley. Supporters of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey initiated the challenge to the winner take all aspect of California's primary, and Humphrey picked up most of the delegates taken from McGovern and apportioned (Continued on Pag. 8) 6 i i 1 i And No Monkey Business Zippy, four-year-old chimp, approached 14- holiday weekend.

At the time of the photo, month-old Mindy Perilla in Bryant Park, N.Y. Zippy seemed on the verge of tome old-fashion Zippy puts on a bike and skate exhibition for ed baby-kissing, obviously an encroachment on spectators who didn't fit New York City for the the prerogative of politicians In an election year. It's Natural Place For Kids To Get Lost I I i sixth annual festival of American Folklife. By the time it ends its five-day stand tonight, an estimated three-quarters of a million people, will have visited it. At the main music stage, devoted primarily to the blues, Carl Martin sings, "Nobody know you when you're down and out." He gives way to Sam Chatmon, 73, of Hollandale, introduced as "one of the original Mississippi Shieks." A couple hundred feet away By DONALD SANDERS WASHINGTON (AP) So many and varied are the sights and sounds on the National Mall these days that it is a natural place for kids to get lost.

When the public address system blares, "Will Tommy Smith please go to the Maryland tent," it is no Aside from lost children, some rainstorms and mud, nothing has gone wrong so far at the' Smithsonian Intuition's members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners are showing their skills, as part of a demonstration by five AFL-CIO unions. The Lithographers and Pho-toengravers union has another tent, with high speed presses turning out schoolbook covers. In the section set aside for the Indians of the Southwest, young men and women keep adding decorations to the (Continued on Page 20 8 "9.

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