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nn Itoo 111 iff WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Thursday night passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage from $1.60 to $2.20 an hour the biggest increase in history after rejecting President Nixon's $2 recommendation. The vote on passage was 65 27. The key test in the debate on the heavily disputed bill came in the 47-46 rejection of a Republican substitute embodying Nixon's proposals. On that vote, both Sens. Charles II.

Percy, Republican, and Adlai E. Stevenson III, Democrat, voted against the administration proposal. Sen. Harold Hughes, D-Iowa, also voted against the proposal, but Sen. Jack Miller, R-Iowa, voted for it.

On the final vote, Percy, Stevenson and Hughes sided with the majority, and Miller voted against the $2.20 minimum wage proposal. DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee George McGovern flew here from Soutji Dakota to cast his vote against the substitute and in favor of the AFL-CIO position. The labor group strongly supported the Democratic version of the legislation. The Senate vote sent the bill back to conference with the House, which passed May 11 a measure closely in line with the President's views. The Senate bill would bring 7.4 million additional workers under the wages and hours law and repeal exemptions that now prevent many groups of workers from getting overtime pay.

THE HOUSE measure provides for a $2 minimum wage in two steps but has no new coverage and no repealers of overtime exemptions. Democratic managers of the bill made an all-out effort to defeat the Nixon plan, which was strongly opposed by the AFL-CIO. They said privately they were determined to try in this way to soothe some of the labor leaders unhappy about the Democratic National Convention. After the defeat of the substitute, however, the managers accepted some amendments that cut back the scope of the bill somewhat or delayed effectiveness MINIMUM Continued On Page 2 Cm) 32 Pages 1 D.I I Friday, July 21, 1972 1 10 Cents Bettendorf, Iowa DO 1 mouts 1 'lv''V4 It' 1 Grip -r-g "-v- k- jity KQXC I Davenport ment issued a pollution alert for the Pittsburgh area, forcing every major industry to cut back operations. "BASED ON meteorological projections," a health department spokesman said, "the current episode is expected to develop into one of the more serious we've had." Forecasters predicted the stagnant air would remain two to three days.

Use of automobiles and of electric power was being discouraged, and commuters were urged to form car pools or take public transportation. Rain brought relief to the New York metropolitan area during the evening, washing away many pollutants and pushing temperatures down to a comfortable 72. The National Weather Service said similar showers were easing the situation from Albany, N.Y., to Baltimore. Pollution levels in the District of Columbia reached MOth parts per million at 1 p.m., the pollution alert stage, according to David Dejulio. an expert with the Council of Governments.

HE SAID persons with cardiac or -DLMOUTS Continued On Page 2 CHICAGO (AP) Juan Vasquez acted no differently than many fathers when he told his daughter, Ruth, 13, not to see a certain boy anymore. Now, Vasquez is charged with murder. Ruth, his only daughter, agreed to follow his wishes when he asked her recently not to see Evelio Melendez, 16. Vasquez had heard that the boy belonged to a street gang. PW THE congested, Spanish-speaking neighborhood on the Near North Side, it is not easy for a girl to duck the boy with whom she has been friendly.

Wednesday, the teen-aged boy spotted Ruth and tried to talk to her, following her East ii-ii l- Just Casting About Trying for distance, a fisherman easts his line at the Highland Springs golf course pond in Rock Island. He was one of about 20 persons participating in the fly-casting clinic sponsored by the Rock Island Park and Recreation Department. (Photo by Brent Hanson) Spassky Blunders; Match Now Even 4 V5--- 1- -v. Nee fuinc 2 for nunvn, ihnnrnm of homil. will win even with the forfeit." Fischer lost the opening game, then forfeited the second when he failed to show in protest against filming of the 24-game title match.

He came back in the third game for his first victory over Spassky, making the score 2-1. The fourth game, on Tuesday, was a draw, giving each contender half a point and making the score going into Thursday's game 24 for Spassky and for Fischer. SPASSKY arrived for the fifth game exactly on time, as usual. Fischer was late, although only by five minutes this time. The Russian chess champion, playing the white pieces, began with his favorite queen's pawn opening.

Fischer moved his knight to king's bishop three, developing a Niinzo Indian defense. He played that -FISCHER Continued On Page 2 Chuckle The trouble with today's individuals is that they are getting harder and harder to tell apart. Vote mind thereafter." THE 1970 farm program law, advocated by the Nixon team, will be a major McGovern target, as indicated by the party's platform adopted in Miami Beach McGovern voted against the 1970 act. preferring instead an extension of earlier and more stringent crop control programs. Basically, the current programs affecting the key crops of feed grain, wheat MeGOVERN Continued On Page 2 1 1 to was struck in the side.

Minutes later he was dead. Policemen found Vasquez sitting in his apartment. He got up and went quietly with them to the station, where he was charged with murder. He told them he was protecting his daughter's virtue. Any Latin father would do the same, he was quoted as saying.

He acted no differently than any honorable father, he said. Later, the windows of his car were smashed. Rocks were thrown at the building. Ruth Vasquez and the other tenants moved out temporarily. Vasquez was held in the Cook County jail.

Johnson administration. He called them "test projects aimed at determining the feasibility of jungle-clearing by burning," and added that he could not provide further details of the project. It was conducted by the advanced Research Projects Agency, a high-level research arm of the Defense Department. The disclosure comes at a time of mounting concern among some scientists and government officials that years of defoliation, bombing and burning have inflicted irreversible damage on the Vietnamese environment. The target of the fire storm efforts were rare and desirable mahogany trees that many forestry experts consider a potentially valuable resource oos under the Democrats.

FARM INCOME is expected to be record high this year, Livestock prices, particularly for cattle, are high Grain markets, burdened by surpluses six months ago, may be much improved next fall. New trade accommodations with the Soviet Union point to expanded farm exports, a key factor in Nixon strategy for boosting farm income Above all, the Nixon people say, farmers are the same as other Americans and will vote mainly on the big issues of Vietnam and the over-all economy. Bared GOP By Associated Press A stubborn mass of steamy air that strained electric power supplies and prompted pollution alerts in smog-bound communities lay suspended over the Eastern seaboard for a filth straight day Thursday. The air mass placed record demands on power utilities and caused blackouts or brownouts in scattered communities. The listless front, which sent temperatures to the high 80s and low 90s and caused high humidity, pressed pollutants to the ground and, in some areas, dangerously increased their levels.

THE PRESS of pollutants went all but unnoticed in the Quad-Cities as the daily readings remain well within acceptable limits. readings: Pape 4.) An emergency air pollution alert was issued for four Ohio counties around A spokesman for the state health department said five assistant state attorneys general were sent to the region. They were to file precautionary injunctions against all industries in the area to halt air pollution as part of the second stage of a four-step pollution control procedure. The Allegheny County Health Depart- 'Protecting Her Virtue' Boy Friend Slain; Father Charged On The Inside. Hot, Humid Partly cloudy today and continued hot and humid with a high in the lower to mid 90s.

Hot and humid Saturday with a high near the mid-90s. lh-iaih: Pat 4. Lead Editorial In dealing Sen. George MeGovern the body blow of nonendorsement, AFLCIO President George Meany is taking a daring risk of losing the present pro-labor Congress, as well as the risk of losing the White House to President Nixon. Paftr 1 1.

Elsewhere Business Classified Horoscope Obituaries Pages 12, 13 Pages 25-31 Page 7 Page Viet Fire Storms to the porch of the three-story building where she lived. They argued, and the girl's father heard the loud voices and the sound of a slap. He ran down three flights to the porch and told the boy to go away. Melendez refused. Vasquez went back to his apartment and returned to the porch, waved a pistol in the air and, police reported, fired a warning shot.

MELENDEZ, according to investigators, refused to leave. He threatened to rape Vasquez's daughter and started a scuffle, they said. Two shots were fired, and Melendez Experiment Station in California. In the final attempt, called Operation Pink Rose, an area about the size of the city of Philadelphia was defoliated and bombarded with magnesium incendiary bombs in the iron triangle region northwest of Saigon, an area where the allied pacification program had never succeeded in eradicating Viet Cong influence. An earlier attempt, aimed at a wooded area nearer Saigon was dubbed operation Sherwood Forest.

The result of the two attempts were so disappointing that no further efforts were made. "It produced a lot of smoke and not a whole heck of a lot of fire at all," said a Pentagon spokesman, who confirmed that the fire attempts took place under the can lead only to more supersize farms and an agricultural scene where the very large dominate the very small, The sum of Nixon policies, McGovern will say, points to ghost town rural areas, deprived of jobs, decimated in population and isolated from economic growth. But confident Republicans say McGovern will have a tough job convincing farmers and small towners to vote Democratic this year The GOP strategists carefully avoid the phrase, but they mean "farmers never had it so good." At least, they say, not thf MISSOULA, Montana Well-informed civilian and military sources have disclosed that in an effort to clear away enemy-controlled forests, the United States made a number of concerted attempts to set huge fire storms in Vietnam during 1966 and 1967. The project was ultimately abandoned, they said, because the moist tropical rain forests would not burn. The project was undertaken with the collaboration of fire-prevention experts from the United States Forest Service.

They were detached from the serivce's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula and, according to some reports, from the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range REYKJAVIK. Iceland AP) World chess champion Boris Spassky resigned Thursday night in his fifth championship game with American challenger Hobby Fischer, evening the match score points each. Spassky's resignation after 27 and 34 hours of play stunned the at 2'a moves soecla- tors. He had been judged in a slightly weaker but not impossible position. SPASSKY leaned forward and stopped the clock, signifying the resignation The spectators jumped to their feet and some shouted: "Bravo, Hobby." For the second time in the match, Spassky had been reduced to passivity.

With his 23rd move, Fischer invited the removal of ail four rooks from the board, though there seemed to be more promising ideas in either transferring Ins king to his Q3 square or advancing Ins king's rook pawn. Spassky's problems seemed to have eased, but his 27th move 152 was a blunder. Fischer's reply came with a crash. It was an unexpected sacrifice -HxRP causing Spassky's position to collapse. THE TWO players rose and walked out of the hall together Spassky appeared tired and strained, but Fischer retained Ins cool and appeared unmoved by Ins victory Frank Skoff, vice president of the U.S.

Chess Federation, remaiked: "It was just what we expected The general opinion of the American (amp is th.it Fischer 1 I Why then docs M'Govcrn think he can develop a broad rural ba.e, particularly among farmers? Foremost, according to one dose McGovern associate, is the rosy Nixon line promulgated by Secretary of Agriculture Karl L. liutz, hand pic ked late last year to lead the GOP farm wagon in 1972 "liutz is moving into the campaign with a very mushy position on farm policy issues," the source said, asking now to be identified. "With the 1970 farm ad expiring next year, Butz and Nixon still are not willing to say what exactly they have in WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George McGovern is expected to make an all out bid for the normally Republican farm vote this fall, convinced that a troubled rural American can help send him to the White House. Close associates of the South Dakota senator say he will soon begin a clear-cut, determined campaign for the rural vote.

THEY SAY he will accuse the Nixon administration of trying to create a flimsy facade of prosperity to show farmers this election year while following a policy that.