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Ntiebook Accordlnj to John Eleuthere du Pont founder of new Delaware Museum of History, his museum is "the Wtt to optn in the United Slates since Come, now, Mr, DuPonl! The mhindte-PUins Historical Museum at with its unique muHlmlllion-dol- ttr collection of artlfacls, art and nalu- history, opened many years alter M10. And how about Lubbock's magnificent new Texas Tech Museum, which even includes a planetarium In its ultramodern complex? Even a Yankee should be impressed, by the Blackwalef Draw Museum, near PortalCB, established about years ago. Not to 'mention all the facuialing area museums In Panhandle, Borger, McLean, Clarendon, which have been founded during the past decide. GEORGE TURNER One evening. recently, it looked like the, performance of "Texas" in the 1M- o'necr Amphitheatre was about lo gc-t failed ouU Dark blue, clouds rose over the canyon rim that serves as a dramatic backdrop tx the' musical drama.

They were so beautiful, said one member of the audience that night, lhal the crowd: spontaneously stood up and began singing "America, the-Beautiful." LOO ANN GARRETT If a property owner in Amar- Ulo, the chances are good that you are breaking a city law the weed 1 City Manager John Stiff estimates that about now there arc 25,000 pieces of property in violation of the ordinance (leaving 18,000 or so In compliance). I What most people don't realize. Stiff out, is'that the ordinance holds the landowner responsible for weeds in tile alley and along the street curbs. -BOB DAVIS A lady pointed out a tall, western- suited man to a youngster with a list full of political pamphlets he had been hired to hand out at the parade. The man would like a sample of Ihe literature, she said.

The man in the cowboy hnt was in the middle of a crowd, but the boy was small and he went determinedly to its center. "Here," he said, thrusting a Rep, Bob "Price folder into the stranger's band, Hep. Graham Purcell smiled, took it, and gave the boy a handout of his own. ANN MAUCY psychological warfare at lite Fischer-Spassky chess match in Iceland is mild compared to some encounters in the hisldry of the game. Chess buffs say the mental combat occasionally becomes physical.

The WUi'century Engish chess, player Joseph Henry'Blackburne once 'became so enraged during a game with the Austrian piaster.Wilhelm Stcintz.that he picked his opponent'up and'almost threw Mm out the window. BARBARA BOONE. Famous last words, A magazine printed in 1896 referred lo the last decade of the Mth century as "the age of noise," mainly, from the clatter of iron hoofs, steel tires and ball- bcaringlcss axles. Then it said, "When the motor vehicle comes in, with its rubber tires and improved bearings, and the sound of iron hoofs becomes infrequent in our streets, then we shall realize lhat one of die blessings of the motor vehicle, and one, perhaps, had not fully anticipated, is thai it is a conqueror of noise." BETTE THOMPSON Did you know, asks John Henry, public relations director for Amarillo Hospital District, lhat Texas Institutions hire a record number of Licensed Vocational Nurses in comparison with olher stales? The Lone Star slate has 287 working lA'N's per 100,000 population more than double the national average ot 135. Texas also leads the nation in vocational nurse training, wilh 148 programs.

MARY ELLEN LEAHY The statute of limitations on a traffic ticket in Dallas is 20 years. PUTT POWELL, A letter which urrived at (he USDA Serewworm Eradication Laboratory in Mission was as humorous lo the observer is it was to tha labor personnel when a common housefly compared in size lo. ttif family dog. A lady felling Hie lab people that lighting scrcwworms was probably a worthwhile project, but they really ought to.tackle the coyote problem. The lab's activities center on aerial drops of sterile male scrcwworm (lies -FRED WOHTHASf JR.

A cemetery lot salesman is now called a broker In subterranean condom- Inums. HAL MABSH Actor Wally Cox, who's usually hard to slump on the TV show Hollywood Squares, didn't know the answer when asked why Mark Donolinc was in the news recently. I lohl a friend 1 was surprised didn't know lhat Donohue won the Indianapolis 500 auto race. My friend remained silent for con- pie of second and then admitted Dial he didn't know it either. JIM SIMS.

A unique situation faced the young sixth-grade teacher his first year on the Jjb. of his students Vas his 12-year old brother. DIANNE WlflSEWAND. AMARILLO GLOBE-TIMES 49lli Year, No. 108 Price 10t Thursday, July 1972 im Ctc-Hem otmpow, Inc.

Final Edition Reds At Pe Terms PARIS (AP) The United States' and North Vietnam remained split today on the issue of a cease-fire and political settlement for Vietnam despite a new round of secret talks. There was no indication al the 151st session of Ihe peace conference that Ihe secret rendezvous in Paris Wednesday between Henry A. Kissinger, presidential adviser, and Norlli Vietnamese leaders had made progress In settling basic issue of who should control power in Saigon. Debate on the issue of a cease-fire marked much of (he argument in the plenary session. U.S.

Ambassador William J. Porter asked llie Communists to sny "what is wrong" witli President Nixon's May 8 proposal for an internationally supervised cease-fire throughout Indochina. In another mild speech similar to his now style of last week, Porter asfced Hie North Vietnamese ami Vicl Cong: "Why not tell us frankly why it is tlifficull for you to entertain Ihis proposal, which would end Ihe killing promptly 9 Brien Teams With WASHINGTON A Democratic presidential nominee George S. Jfcd'ovcrn (oday Darned former Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien to he his national campaign chairman, a post in addition" to McGovern's existing campaign structure.

O'Brien will he given .1 role concerned with unifying the support of Democrats and oihcr "concerned Americans." McGovern said O'Brien will be his "national campaign chairman and in that role "will be a foremost consultant on the over-riding goal which will be lo unify the support of key Democrats across the country." In a brief mlesvicw, jusl bc- i accepting McGovern's offer, O'Brien emphasized that while he wjli hold the title of national campaign chairman his role will be essentially separate Irom the existing McGovern political organization. A(. a news conference. McGovern and O'Drien emphasized several times that the for'- 'mer national chairman's new role will not preempt that of members of Ihe McGovern campaign. HfcGovern said Frank Man- kicwicz will travel wilh him as his political director and lhal campaign manager Gary Hart will generally remain in Washington to run Ihe day-to-day strategy and tactics of the campaign.

O'Brien said he will establish separate heatiquarlers for his operation in Washington within the next 48 hours. said O'Gricn will be his liaison wilh Democrats in Congress, Democratic gover- THE WEATHEK Considerable cloudiness wilh chance of iiltcrnoon and niglit- time thunderstorms this afternoon through Friday. Siild temperatures. High (his afternoon and Friday low SOs. law tonight middle Cos.

Wind southerly IS lo 25 miles per hour and gusty. Probability of rain 30 per cent this afternoon, 40 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Friday. The high Wednesday wns 82; the low this morning wns CO. SUNSET TODAY: 8:40 SUNRISK FRIDAY: GM7. MOW JO.VJiS INDUST1IIAI-S Niion Quotation nors, mayors, and stale legislative leaders.

He said O'Brien will also be his chief contact with officials of Ihe Democratic Party and organized labor, "Larry O'llricn will be personally and directly involved in all major campaign decisions between now and Nov. 7," McGovcrn said. "He will be a principal spokesman for this campaign and I am urging him to travel lo every section of the country lo speak in support of my candidacy." McGovern made the O'Brien announcement after his arrival here from South Dakota where he has been vacationing, to cast a pro-labor vole in the Senate following his rejection by top AFL-CIO leaders. accepted O'Brien's iSce O'BRIEN on Page 10) STOPPED GROWING AT Stunted Boy 5 14, Puzzles Doctors SAN DIEGO, (AP) The more the doctors study Sergio Pathcco, the more baffled they are. Why did the 14-year-old' youngster stop growing at the of After (wo months of study Dr.

David Chadwick, who heads a (cam of researchers on Ihe case, says. "I'm afraid our research so far has raised more questions than it has answered." The dark-eyed Mexican boy was born in a hovel on the southern fringes of Tijuana. He grew normally for three years. Since then, he and his family say his normally apportioned body has changed only "a fraction of an inch. Doctors lie is 33 indies tall, weighs less a 4V pounds and actively competes Sergio, a sophomore who docs welt in high school, gets along with his brothers and sisters, whose growth has been normal, jiid with his friends.

A campaign in San Diego has raised $1,000 lo finance Ihe research Icsls which Cliadwirk, a specialist at Children's Hospital, said have turned up "nothing to explain adequately his physical problems." Al first, it was thought Sergio either lacked suffi- eient growth hormones or suffered from a pituitary gland problem. "Maybe it is something missing in his tissue structure that keeps his body from growing." Chadwick said in an interview could be a new missing factor as far as medical science is concerned." Researchers at Seripps Clinic in f.a Jolla said new Icsls will begin wilh Mood samples to be scnl to Washington University in St. I.onis and oilier research institutions. A specialist, Dr. Maurice Kogtil of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, said he will look at the boy Friday and believes it might incredibly rare case." "I'm sure many physicians and researchers will want to sec him in that case," Kogut said.

McGOVERN AIDS 47-46 MARGIN Senate Vote Rejects Lower Minimum Wage WASHINGTON (At') The Senate today rejected 47 lo 40 President Nixon's proposal (hat the $1.50 an hour minimum wage he raised to S3 raljicr than the $2.20 supported by Democrats. tho defeated Republican substitute for tho Democratic biil also would have eliminated provisions extending coverage of the wages and hours law to 8.4 million new workers. Sen. George McGovcrn, the Democratic presidential nominee, flow back lo Washington from South Dakota lo vole against the Nixon measure. His presence contributed to the one- vole margin.

Even though the substitute was rejected, senators opposed to various sections ol Ihe hill planned lo olfcr Individual amendments lo eliminate them or cut them back. Voting for tho administration- backed substitute were 15 Democrats, mostly from the South, and 30 He publicans. Vol .4 to reject il were SI Demo crals and 13 Republicans. Among Ihe GOP senators who voted against the substitute was Hugh Scoll Pennsylvania, Die Senate Republican leader. Sen.

Thomas F. Eaglclon ol Missouri, McGovcrn's vice presidential running mate, backed Ihe Democratic-sponsored bill. But Eaglelon's Democratic colleague from Missouri, Sen. Stuart Symington, voted Hie GOP sub- sliliitc. The test came on a Republican subsliliitc for Democratic sponsored wage bill.

The Democratic version, approved by the Senate Lalwr Committee with some Republican liberals hacking it, would (Sec SENATE on Page 10) "We would also like to hear more from you on the subject of the four-month period we have proposed for Ihe withdrawal of all our forces from South Vietnam once such a cease-fire has begun and the prisoners of war- are released It appears logical lo us lo create an atmosphere which would facilitate, not hinder, po- lilical discussions among Viet namcse." Tiie Communisls held last lo their position that a political settlement must come with the ceasefire. Sirs, Nguyen Thi Dinh, leader Ihe Viet Cong delegation, snid (he political and military "should be settled simultaneously." she declared "The U.S. side pretends to desire an end to its military 'participation' without dealing with the political aspect. Tins simply means lliat the United States still wants to maintain in South Vietnam the administration it has set up to imple men! Ihe policy of 'Vietnam ization' of (he war. If so, Ihe Unilctl Stales will never be able to put nn end lo its military Mrs.

Binh again insisted on her year-old, seven-point peace plan calling for an end to US support for President Nguyen Van Thieu and a coalition government in Saigon including the Communists. She told Porter; "You have often said that this constitutes only a demand lhat the U.S. should interfere in tile internal political affairs of South Vietnam, abandon Us 'ally' and abolish the 'in- slitulions set up by voles In fact, the so-called 'ally and 'institutions' are but the instruments imposed upon the bouth Vietnamese people by the united States." North Vietnam's Xuan Thuv, who attended the meeting wiili Kissinger Wednesday, also cntteci for a combined miiilarv ami political settlement and ah end lo U.S. support of (be Saigon regime. "After agreement oii-uli military and political questions he said, cease-fire wilt take place.

Only such a ccKse-fire can last and really end the hostilities. Once- the military and political questions arc rigr'ecd upon, all other questions, such as the release of military men fSce TALKS nn Page 10)' Judge Hears Child's Plea In Divorce VISA1JA. Calif. A 10- year-old girl has pleaded in a letter to a judge lhat her parents Im refused a divorce. The child, who was not idenli- fied, wrote: "Honorable Sir My mom and dad is gelling a divorce please don't let them get a divorce.

My momma loves my dad; if you could put him in Ihe hospilal he could drinking. "I've heard my mom say lo my dad many times, 'Please slow down on your bill he just walks onl the door. "Sir. you arc a judge and this is your job, to divorce people. "Only where do ones go llial slill love Hie husbands? And how do you divorce a JO-ycar- old? Can you cul out mv heart and slop it from hurting?" The girl pleaded, "1'leasc, please, please help a old keep a mom anil dad- I know if mom tryed you probably wouldn't lislen.

"God bless you and let Ood lie on this day the judge beside you." Superior Court Judge Ballnntyne sail) Wednesday lie scnl copies of the Idler to thp attorneys rcpj-eseiiting the Kirl's parcnls and replied to her, "I am well awjiro of the tragedy which is involved every time parents separate whore small children are involved 1 can assure you that If eillier of your parents petition the court for an atlempled reconciliation I will do nil 1 can to liclp resolve their differences." --Staff Ptioto fay RON YfF.U.5 Jet Stream Pressure Plum. Randy Ugbf, 13, son Mr. ami Mrs. Jack Light ot 3011 Flcclwood, is caiiglit in midair nu a lazy summer day at Paramount Park, Body of Finck I on ml in Lake By WAYNB BOARD ncgioiul i I i emotion- Jlrs. Ernest Eugene Finck of 3508-A S.

Harrison rushed to tiie Doug Williams of Fritch, found the man's fully-clad body in shallow water on the north shoreline of the Blue-East recreational area. Blue-East is directly across from Fritch Fortress, said Ihe acling chief ranger, Dunm- Gall. Finck. mechanic since last year for Sid Stout Ford, disappeared early Saturday morning while on an ouling with James Whitman, za, of 305 Carolina in Amarillo. He was pronounced dead al the scene by llutchinson County Justice ot the Peace Turpin.

At Hie request of JlA. Fincfc an autopsy has been or- derctl. (hjs searchers at the lake. Th disrnvprv nf ilu. hnrk- 'fe momTMs Sarkcd 1 Index Horoscope 5 DeoMis Editorials 8 Women's 17-21 Television 30 Sports H-TZ Comics 26 Markers 30 Power Mower Mishap Nearly Strangles Boy critical condition at St.

Anthony's Hospital with injuries suffered in a freak lawn mower accident in Happy. Dell, son ot and Mrs Bell of Happy, was ly strangled about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday when a poncho he was wearing became entangled in the mower hlnile. A family spokism.nn said Hint Hie Bell youth and his brother Wade Ue. 12.

were in the Iwck yard nt their iioinc and thai Danny was riding Hie power Tho youth was wearing; ,1 U.S.Army poncho which became entangled in the nwchiiiery of the mower when ho started Wade went for help across Ihe slrcct lo a neighbor, it Ihe poncho from iiniil they i i conveyance at Wen ori- al 1 Canvon was (1 ansf( rrcd ambulance to Si Anthony's The Bell's lnuc Ihrce other fons, Doug, 17, Handy jc a IC Dennis 15. J'illllilgCS A i i i IJlnnrl Ootll Miracle? SwffeJtoroo V. wolAutff the 18 Madonna wept while on display in Dolpk Bmcoc's sluffim, jloncc made lol Tfltniw (Al) elderlv coup claimed a transfusion of the oMg type of Ilicir love life hi, bcon ttinia wood claimed that J'iccirillo given the wrong type of blood in June 19R), sending him into shock and requiring a that she ami her 01-year-old operation, since onco cvcry tiva The con 1 llttn InsuronlT.

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