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AmrilU Thursday, January 1972 The Muskie Image By THOMAS THOMPSON I recall wrlllng four years as a post election comment. Braniff executive; bard, president of Imperial Savings Loan, and Richard Boise, cldy Ware, assistant vice president that the Democrats should have of Amarillo National Bank, reversed the ticket. Sen. Kd- nmnd Muskie should have head- Hie Weather Elsewhere By IV Ajsodilrtl Albany, clear Albu'que, clear Amarillo, clear Anchorage, snow Asheville, clear Atlanta, clear Bob llulv Birmingham, cldy Blimarck, cldy Boston, cldy Bulfalo. snnw Charleston, clear At thli stage In my life I had Charlolle, cldy ed he llcket Instead of Hubert rather bowl game or the Chicago, clear II.

Humphrey. On TV Tuesday night, Musklo was hlltcr, derisive, negative. He scowled, he was up tight, he duelled too long on Vietnam, which Ihe Republicans can pros play while sitting before a olored TV than be at a game make i dead election. playbacks on IV. What you do miss is whole field of play, You arc at Issue before the tlie mercy of the Sports Editor Fred Worthnin A politician Isn't expected to said augh in a dentist chair and be greeable In private, but when fs In public ind especially on Thomas was in the clear three ir I 10 wr ii person.

You get to sec the Cincinnati, clear Cleveland, clear Denver, cldy Des Moiucs, clear Detroit, snow ll Duluth, cldy Fort Worth, clear last Sunday Duane Green Bay, snow lelona, cldy lonolulu. cldy )r four times, but quarterback ioger Staubach apparently nd'apolls, cldy 'acks'ville, cldy TV he must to think dldn'l see him. Neither did TV Kansas City clear nd smile above his anguish, viewers, Rock clear Fred doesn't take It amiss Angeles, clear bat Duano Thomas won't talk Ixiulsville, clear reporters about his perform ance after a game, Fred figures that Thomas knows he lopped off too much before the season started when he called FDR could, during Ihe trying nd ghastly days of World War I. Harry Truman was good for wisecrack when the going s'as rough. Four years ago Mus le could regard the Irialj am ribulallons of political life wilh ome detachment anr! humor lut the Abraham Lincoln image gone.

If Tuesday night's $32,000 per ormance on TV Is a sample he new Muskie, he Is a political Thomas may be frustrating tas been. He'll never win the and obnoxious to sports wrilers, Coach Tom Undry plaslic New Orleans, cldy man" and boasted in July that Npw York, cldy he Cowboys "could never get to Ihe Bowl again" without him. 1'homas nomination. T-T Aetna Ut Casualty claims but apparently he gets wiUi Ilia fellow players. year In hat $3 billion i insuranc aved ance Assodalioji no-faull insur- Wortbam said, "IBs locker Is between Calvin Hill's and Cor- premiums couM he nell Green's, and lie is sociable a Ljke cldy the American Insur- enough with them.

Duane was San Dieeo clear TM.i..,i, lne Usl min lhe dressing San a members If not all, of ha1 the leading Insurance compa- omobde i insurance. i a has COT- tilk DuaIlfl said that alon Fred HUfcUwrr, -M 31 It 44 22 I 41 II 24 39 21 23 32 24 41 12 24 7 69 40 25 13 12 25 12 31 10 40 18 22 12 23 2 7 -1 36 25 14 0 34 22 78 64 42 30 20 5 81 48 clear Memphis, clear Miami, clear Milwaukee, clear cldy Okla. City, clear Richmond cldy Lows cldy up arrangements Washington." clear doubUi(1 tllat he anythtog out of Duane Thomas for attribution, but, "I just ig pushed by Aetna provdes: 1. Immediate benefita to accident victims regardless of was at fault. 2.

Automatic payment by the own insurance companies of medical and hospital ex- lenses, rehabilitation costs, lost ncome and property damage. 3. Payment expenses occur luring IrMlment and rehablll ation. Optional additional cover age for permanent disability or disfigurement benefits over and above economic losses. Why the hangup? Well, one of the 1 difficulties Is practicing lawyers and slate legislatures throughout the country.

Aetna doesn't say this, nor does AIA, but It is true. Hie present lawsuit system is bread and butter to lawyers and as long as they outnumber olher occupational in the state legislatures (they do in Texas), the most extreme kind of prcs sure by voters must be exerted before bonafide no-fault bill can be passed. As far as I am concerned, Ihe lime may have arrived. I am going lo ask every statewide candidate how he stands on no- fault car Insurance. Massachu- has a lot for Bulfalos up herc who interested in 28 IS 31 18 67 48 27 14 7 26 16 82 70 13 6 15 -1 48 34 40 15 ie 32 15 41 20 59 30 35 18 24 4 48 40 36 14 54 22 22 15 30 28 63 41 54 44 5 44 34 32 75- 66 44 25 Treatment Of Drunks Is Softened setts now has a fault insurance Reds Blast U.S.

Chess Champion MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union's leading sports newspa- er today accused U.S. chess master Bobby Fischer of a mercenary altitude loward his malch against Russia's Boris Spassky for lhe world crown. Sovielsky charged Fischer with "anarchy" and "disrespect" because he said he woidd only meet Spassky in a city thai offered to pay them enough. The papers's chess commen- ator, A. Roshal, expressed fear thai Fischer's demands will lhe world chess community to raise the slakes al future International competitions.

"Olher players will probably share his point of view to see chess primarily as a means modified no- of enrichment," Roshal wrote. (inadequale' and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller says he Is going to push no fault insurance in New York. T-T As it Is written now, the law permits only "physically fit male" students to be members of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. A bill by Sen.

Lloyd Benlsen would specifically re. move the word "JROTC high school programs today include classes valuable to both sexes and both should therefore be allowed loj participate," Sen. Bentsen said. 1 Young women rendered a valuable Army World War 11 and In the Korean conflict. Since visiting Israel last winter I have ceased to have any reservations abonl women In the military.

In Israel, military service is manda tory for physically fit members of both sexes. Women bear arms except in Ihe Israeli Navy. They know how to lake 1 care of themselves and they hitchhike around the country without fear of molestation. I doubt if women of any nation are as physically fit as the Is raeli women. T-T Girls, here are other Leap Year targets: Bud Harris, DUNAGIN'S PEOPLE AUSTIN (UPI) of the Texas HOUM aad Sedate uld.

Kill meet separately to Ixy to "B-. the state's public school Isequiiiei exist and these ibould financing crisis. U. Gov. Ben Barnes called a meeting for later today of an expanded Senate Study Commit- Antique Robbers Kill Woman, Child KOUNTZE, Tex.

(DPI) was that two men from legislative Groups To i cj i Sclwol "It It not a total (allure," School board, to tee, and Speaker Gus Mutscher Cr Independent School. Oil i whatever UK at Supreme Court finally Johnny Clark supermiefldtnt of the COOK obbers knifed to death a fight-! ng grandmother and drowned er 3-year-old granddaughter in toilet Wednesday to steal lousands of dollars worth of nliques. "She must have put up a hell if a fight," said Hardin County herlff Billy Payne, who inspect- tf the combination home-anti- shop of Mabel McCormick, 3, after the crime. Mrs. Mc lormiclt was beaten and her liroat.

was slashed. Her grand- aughler, Leslie rowned. iuspl clous ly. Then she hung up. An insurance representative who happened to be in the shop knowledgeable people available ust before the murders took should explore both the strength ilace gave the sheriff descrip ion of the two suspects.

Payne said one was about 35, lad a dark moustache and dark Payne said Mrs; HcCormick place. alked. to her.husband, who was Louisiana at the time, by telephone: when the men en announced Wednesday he was appointing a ipVcial House eon to study UK The ttate'i Khool funding irogram was ruled unconstitutional by a federal co'urt in Sail Antonio last Dec 24 Gov Preston Smith hid pre viously announced plans to appoint a similar confmlttee, and the Texas-Research League is already at work on coming up with an alternative financ ing plan. Barnes (aid Wednesday he Is expanding the Senate Study Committee to provide a broader base for a full-scale examina- ion of all problems arising rom the court ruling. "I support the eral's efforts for- a speedy ap louston.

seemed to be acting peal to the United States Supreme Court," Barnes said ''In the meantime, the mos' trlct of BiU Stewart Hainr, D-Datlu. of Luflun, president of the Texas School Assessors Association; HOT. uu B. Barbee," superintendent same direction shoulder length blond hair. Other witnesses saw a''gray and silver rented pickup true! parked in front of the bouse LUBBOCK, Tex.

(UP!) iwain Rogers of Lubbock took a shortcut through a downtown alley a lunch Wednesday, rtiirty seconds later, about 20,000 bricks falling from the top of a skyscraper struck the buildings evacuated until fur- and weaknesses of the prescnl school financing system and sug gest possible alternatives." Barnes said present horn- rimmed glasses and the minimum foundation program other one was about 20 with brought; progress to Texas schools for the past 22 years about the lime the crime look Police said several thousand dollars worth of antiques furm lure plus clocks, ered the shop. But all she told other merchandise was stolen. 2 Texas Lawmakers Supporting Muskie service in the Navy, and Marine Corps In He said Fischer was pulling money before the game and thus "Inflicts damage on the art o( chess." Roshal also, complained that Fischer ruled out Moscow as the site of the championship match. Is unjust that the International Chess Federation did nol stipulate the match slmuld be held in Ihe reignin? champion's motherland," he added. To date, Belgrade has put un the highest bid with $152,000.

Snnsskv has said that if he cannot play in Moscow, he would prefer a Scandinavian stlc where the climate is close to that of his native AMABUO OtOM-TlMil MMMIO putt mm Ex-State Official Dies of Gunshot CENTER. Tex. (UPI) ohnny Schillings, retired super- for the Liquor Control lonrd in was found hoi lo death in the driveway of Center funeral home Wednesday. Justice of Ihc Peace Wesley lailcy said suicide was suspccl- ed, but held nn inquest Ui reach a formal verdict. The director of the funeral ionic, Vcrnon Rartle, said he noticed a car In his drivewaj as he arrived a I work Vednesctay.

There was Iditlent 4 lisHinf ComfWfty, Ninth TIMS, ISM) 37S HfllTIENIUKO. hit- IFtrier XM OMerU JIM hi PmWeM THOMAS THOMPSON, totter early SAN FRANCJSCO (AP) -For Ihe skid row drunk a health worker instead of a co a "drying-out" center insles of the drunk tank, an "alcoholic community" Instead of a jail term. This Is Ihe radical plan proposed by the city health department to make reality out of tl phrase that alcoholism Is an i ness not a crime. The plan Wednesday by the department's bureau of alcohol- sm drew immediate support Police Chief Donald Scott, who welcomed replacement of police with health workers in Job of collecting drunks. That way, he said, policemen "can get back to the Job of preventing 1 As outlined at a meeting around 100 city and priva agency leaders, the plan woult --Gradually shift collection serious drunks on the streel to health workers.

--Drunks would be taken to Skid Row "drying-out centers" instead, of to the drunk tank at the city jail. 1 1 communities would be established in Skid Row hotels where alcoholics would receive supportive therapy if they want to stay sober. The Health Department officials said an estimated i alcoholics live among San Francisco's 750,000 people, bui only some 3,500 of Ihese usually are publicly visible. In 1898 the U.S. and Spain signed a treaty in Paris offi cially ending the Spanish-Amer lean war.

WASHINGTON (AP) Two Texas congressmen allended Sen. Edmund Muskic's news conference Wednesday-- one as i committed campaign worker, he olher lending only moral Support. The occasion was lhe Maine a first Washington meeting with reporters after announcing his candidacy for president Tuesday. all out for Ed," said Bob Casey; a- Houston Democrat who has an a cross-the-slreet of since they" came to Washington 13 years ago. Rep.

Jim Wrighl. a Fort Worth Democrat who was a stalwart campaigner in '1968 fdi ie (Hubert ticket, said 'he's. uncbmmitteij at this point, but came; to give Muskie moral support 'because le realized few congressmen were in town. i Wrighl, who's using the recess to. update his book on the ob as a congressman, said he bought Muskie did an excelled ob of responding 'to the questions "and handled himself exceptionally well." Wright has said recently he Humphrey, Muskie or Sen.

Henry Jackson of Washington could carry Texas. Casey and Muskie came to Congress in 1959 and within months had chosen two-story houses on the outskirts Washington large enough to accommodate their sizable families: Muskie has five children and Casey 10. Rep. Omar Burloson, a conservative Anson Democrat, has 0 'Purple Gang' Man Ends 37 -If ear Term COLUMBUS. Ohio (UPI) Thomas Licavoli, once head the "Purple Gang," begins new career as a stamp dea today when he ends 37 years imprisonment mnrked by char gcs of favoritsm which led 3 lhe resignations of two priso s- officials.

Tiie charges, persislenti recurring while Licavoli servo his murder conviction, a were brought up during Ih unsuccessful 1970 senator) a campaign of then Gov. Jamc A. Rhodes. Once head of the notoriou Delroil-Toledo "Purple Gang during lhe Prohibition era Licavoli plans to live quietly i suburban Gahanna wilh hi wife and work as a professions rare stamp dealer. He bccam an avid slump collector in Ih Ohio Penitentiary.

Licavoli, now 68 and in fniiin he health, was sentenced lo life i Department as a member of the Detroit underworld. 1 But the Ohio Parole Aulhoril granted him parole Dec. 7, view of his changed residence plans, age and health. 1 Licavoli recently suffered a heart attack and has a kidnev ailment and calaracls on bo eyes. Joseph Palmer, of the Parole Authorily, sa 0 "further confinement couh mean a further substantla burden of this care for an agc person by (he slate of Ohio." Following numerous reports of favoritism, Prison Warden Preston Smith was tired in the 1 1930s.

Two decades reports of favoritism led to'U 1 resignation of LI. Thomi Crow, commander of prik honor camp where Licavoli was Iransferred in 1958. Citizens Panel Tackles Plans For Amarillo A'comimftee of Amarillo clll zens will begin making plan; his afternoon for projects -tc help revitalize.their city. More than 100 Amarilloahi iave been asked by the City Commission to serve with th iroup, which has the responsi bility for implementing the re cent recommendations of th Revitalize Amarillo Committee The Revitalize Amarillo Com-' mittee studied the cily's needs during- i the -summer and fall months and presented 120 suggestions for improvements to-the City Commission." The gathering 'scheduled at 5:15 p.m. in the Sham rock Auditorium of the First National Bank Building, will be tlie first meeting'of the implementation committee.

Earl Herring, who was vice "of 1 Revitalize, thi another Senate OB revenue studies to icrre on the advisory ptnd to the sAooJ committee by Sen. Oscar 1 "My ii of these ioterta (tudlei pointed in -the direction to the Bionle School District; Jay avoid duplication," laid. Perry, superintendent of Flores "Before this is over ttw people vilie schools; and Dr George and (he legislature may be fac Jser of Houston, Immediate Ing of the touihett deci- past president of the Houston ijon of ttti Lubbock Skyscraper Rains Tons of Bricks stood around in amazement wondering if the nrhoje building was going to come down," Police, fearing that parts of the structure crumble today, ordered adjacent ground where he had "walked. "I'm lucky to be alive, that's all," Rogers said. The bricks fell from the out side wall of a 270-foot-tall skyscraper damaged in May of 1970 jy a tornado.

No one was hit jy the bricks, but several can everywhere," were damaged. 'Bricks -went Rogers said. of.brick, diist and tar paper simply were shot into the air. Everybody just ceri pushing the candidacy of ays aiid Means Chairman ilber Mills of Arkansas, most others have been si- nt on preferences. "In my part at the state, 1 ink Ed got us more votes ah Huphrey Casey, said, forcing Lo the 1968 campaign; hunting with him id we occasionally see each her working in the.

yard," Ca ey said in an interview. He introduced Muskie at a re- eptipn i pur the 1968 campaign, Casej enl wilh' Muskie on his first Amarillo Committee, has been In. to Texas to speak at San named by the City Commission ntonio, as chairman'of the Implementa "I think he's got the best tion The vice chair- Stiff Is Attending Meeting in Austin Amarillo City Manager John Stiff is Austin today attend tog the first raeellng of the Tex as Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Stiff was appointed to the 24 member commission by Gov, Preston Smith. Purpose of the commission is to evaluate slate's role in sisttog its political subdivi ons and to serve as forum the discussion and resolution intergovenmienlal problems spokesman for the governor id.

Stiff is expected to return to hance of any of. our prpspeC: ve candidates of tKe nomination and win ng, 1 said. "And personally-1'think he's put forward," he added. Casey's wife and two of theli conference. 15.

got out of school es for the occasion. He at- man-of: the group is attorney niB 'to implemented by the committee deal principally with improving best man for the Democrats living conditions in some of the city's residential areas and reversing the deterioration of the lildren came with.him to the downtown section. The Revital ends a military high nd wore, his uniform. ize Amarillo Committee su( gested in report that a fet crally financed urban renewal atherine, 28, a Roman Catho- nun who is a graduate stu- cnt in counseling and guidance the University of Texas, also ttended. Casey he didn't know the rest of the con- would line up.

ichool program might be undertaken Sister accomplish the improve Area Road Repair Projects Slated ilghway winding through five rea counties, will ibout $456,000. amount to FDIG Sues Former Partner of Wilson HOUSTON (UPI) A for mer law'partner of Will Wilso was sued Wednesday by the Fee eral Insurance Corp (FDIC) for $21,686.48 the agehc; said he owes the defunc Koad repairs on 24 miles of Sharpslown State Bank. Hnerary yet for the Amarillo rea," said a spokesman, with tie Texas Department of Agri ulture (TDA) at Austin. Commissioner, White said Resurfacing will begin about April 1,. said C.

W. "Chili" imith, chief engineer with the Amarillo District of the Texas lighway Department. Smith said Wednesday that financial dealings with. Fran he Highway Department willW. Sharp, the central figure The FDIC said Joe B.

Riding borrowed the money betwee March 20 and June 18,1970, am $2,500 note with 10 shares of now worthless Nation al Bankers Life Insurance Co stock. Wilson, who had legal in bids on four contracts, leadline for bidding Is 9 a.m, Jan. 26 at the Austin headqiiar- Three sections of road along Texas 15 in Lipscomb County the Texas stock fraud case, re signed last year as head of th justice department's crimlna investigation division, The la irm of Wilson, Osborn Ric ngs was dissolved when Wilson wilLbe resurfaced at a cost of a 'ornier Texas attorney gene ticking from under the' car. Barlle said, and he thought omcbody had car trouble an! vent to help. IJartlc said he found Schilling vho was a friend of Bartlc's.

under the car. A .38 caliber pis- ol lay near the body. Schillings worked for lijuor board in Longrlew for nson for ln Killing of four many years, lie had nlso been members of a rival bootlegging a deputy sheriff in Shelby Coun- Sang. Four members of his in Center, PARIS OlMa rte Haviland lias separate quarters here. Brolhcr ton tf Mr.

tni Un. Jnt CM- nle, M7 Vun lervM Uorw Cemettry 1W gang were sentenced with him. He became eligible for parole when commuted his conviction to second-degree murder in 1968. Life magazine published an article entitled "The GoVcmor the Mobster," which hinted a deal had been made to free Mcxvoll. Rhodes sued life for $10 million but later dropped the case.

Llcavoli's first application for rxrole wai rejected because be wanted lo live with a Mother In Michigan. The brother liter listed by JutUce about $270.000. A Gray County contract will rovide for resurfacing of U.S. 60 from the Carson County line lo Pampa at an estimated cost of In Hans ford County, the cost of resurfacing Texas 15 from north of the city limits of Spearman lo the Ochlttree County line will- be about $133,400. Six projects in the fourth tract will include work in Sherman and Dallam counties at an estimated cost of $39,700.

Most of labor involved, Smith said, will be Skilled, bul some trainees may be hired as rotary broom operators, hol mix plant operators and spreading machine operators, all unskilled categories. JOfS OonlH Calvin Padjfoi. Body taken to PocVicoh twvlcet and burial. JtWv Flovd Nipper, South Hughes. Services held o.m Trvnaoy, RldaMrnt Baptist Church service, was held 1 Tea Thursday, WlHIem D.

Teylof, el, IH. p.m. Ctmtttv. the justice post MtMOMAl. CHAHI Texas, Hutiwn, 7101 FalrfleJd.

Se vices" Thursday, Blocfcbui Mmoilol Chopet. H. nw', U. Eolt istli Htflrv J. Hunter, 1M Booortv Service Service MAKT.N KOAPCHAm ROBBER USES HOST, LAKE CHARLES'; u.

(UPI) --An armed bandit holding up the Home Credit Co. Wednesday ordered the woman cashier! to take off her panty' hose. He used them to tie her up and then escaped with (1,200. LRATHBRS BEAUTIFUI.LY CLEANED JUST A BETTER BANK BANK of the SOUTHWEST MEMBER marillo tonight. other might her notice.

The bricks sliced power linei and cut off electric power to parts of the downtown area for a while. Authorities said a wind gust of probably less than a minute caused the bricks, already loosened by moisture from'recent snow and ice storms, to crumble and fall. It left a large hole in the northeast corner. of the Pete Brawn of Midland said be was standing a block west of the building when part of the upper wal- 'I don't see anybody kept from gelling hurt," Brown said. "Cars'were on the parking lot on the west side.

Bricks were scattered all around. It was scary. The first thing that hit my mind was to get out of there," he said. The building is owned by Really Equity Corp. of New York.

The owners said the entire ouler layer of bricks would he stripped from the building by the end of the wpek; The lorna- do. that, hit Luhbock May 12, 19W. nec'ed. off bricks- from a lower level, but they were re- and-engineers said the building was safe. Mexican Stockmen To Visit Amarillo Key Mexican stockmen 'will ze up their give-and-take rela-j onship with High Plains cattle reeders Jan.

14 in Amarillo. The Amarillo stopover, com- ele with luncheon, will follow morning four, of Missouri eef.Packers, operations The visits are part of a Texas ur, beginning Jan. 12, which ate Agriculture Commis oner John C. While will en ineer. The Mexican delegates inspect cattle marketing rograms at points across the ate.

"We don't have a definite i sponsor to act as. host for the imarillq luncheon. Commission- ir White will serve as host for he Stale of Fields mentioned tentative ilans for the group to tour Randall County Feed Yard. Delegates will include Ramon rellacohe, of ivestock; Dr. Eloy Tover.

live- tock director; Dr. Gabriel Ar- stain, chief of the" Department of Packing-Houses, and Mariano Cantoral, a leading Mexican agribusinessman. The tour will start' in louston area. Oh Jan. 13, stockmen will dairy operations in the.

Sulphur Springs area, then go to Dallas. After the. Plainyiew-Amarillo they will make final stop at San is our besl uslomer for purebred live in 'turn, our stale eads in "the importation lexican feeder catlle. 'Both Texas and Mexico de wnd on each other for specia vestock "needs. thi: our, acquaint.oui Mexican friends wilh our pro fram, which can be of grea wnefit to Texas cattlemen." Mike Fields, TDA marketin representative at Lubbock, said 'We're trying right now to fin WREN Robtrt Wren, 61, 1316 Eatt 5tti.

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