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The Indianapolis News from Indianapolis, Indiana • 7

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4 Final Stocks CAM. THE NEWS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 103rd YEAR by a $1 million Jan. 7 fire, will open tomorrow at 6 p.m. for cocktails and entertainment. Shown here helping the celebration are Patty B.

Leinberg-er, 2, and her father, 3ill. The NEWS Photo, Bob Doeppers. Happy Birthday, Hilton The Beef Barron Restaurant atop the Indianapolis Hilton, celebrates its second birthday with a reopening luncheon today. The restaurant, destroyed Hue Eiirehme Loss Million Th NEWS Photo, Rodqer Birchf ield Funnel cloud from 9600 east. Pictures on Pages 12, 14 Another Story on Page 25 twister has been spotted, either by radar or by a sighting.

Sheriff's Deputy Carold G. Baker, who was patrolling the area in which the tornado hit, radioed the first warning to his headquarters. Baker said he was suddenly sur- Continued on Page 3 '-i By United Press InttrMtionil South Vietnamese forces off Communist attacks at An Loc and Kontum yesterday and reoccupied artillery base Bastogne near Hue today. At Camp David, President Nixon went ahead with preparations for his planned summit conference in Moscow. In Paris, a respected newspaper reported from Moscow that Nixon has assured the Soviet Union he will halt all air and naval bombardment of North Vietnam during his visit.

These were the major developments: South Vietnamese troops in a helicopter assault today reoccupied Artillery Base Bastogne, 10 miles southwest of Hue, military sources said. They encountered no opposition in retaking the base, abandoned April 28 after a long, bitter fight. Bastogne has been hit repeatedly by air strikes, including B52s, since it fell to thej Communists. i 2 North Vietnamese pounded An Loc, the provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon that has become a symbol for both Communist and government troops, with 2,000 rounds of mortar, artillery and rockets. South Vietnamese troops reported the shelling killed 12 troops.

In addition, Communist ground gunners snot down a U.S. U2 super master observation plane but the, pilot paracnuiea to saieiy. aouin Vietnamese troops trying to relieve An Loc' were reported five miles south of the city on Highway 13, but Communist bunkers stood between them and their objective. 3 Communist troops led by tanks probed the defenses of the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, apparently in an effort to overrun the city and cut South Vietnam id two. But South Vietnamese forces held in the six-hour battle and when the Communists retreated U.S.

52s were called in to pound them from the air. 4 President Nixon spent yesterday at his Camp David, retreat studying Vietnam war messages in advance of his planned departure for Moscow Saturday. He returned to Washington last night. SPORTS BULLETINS Campaign Worker Also Hit LAUREL, Md. (AP) Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace was shot this afternoon while campaigning at a shopping center. Wallace was felled by the shot. He was taken away in an ambulance. His condition was not immediately known.

Billy Grammer, a country music entertainer on the platform with Wallace when the gunfire erupted, said the candidate was hit twice, once in the middle of the stomach and once in the left arm. "He looked like he was hurt pretty bad," Grammer said. One report at the scene said four shots were fired. One of Wallace's campaign workers, a woman, was wounded in the gunfire. She was taken away in a second ambulance.

Moments later, George Mangum, a Wallace campaign worker, told the crowd: "I'm told the police have a man in custody." Wallace and the woman were collapsed on the ground near the speaker's rostrum, where first aid was administered until the first ambulance arrived. The wounded woman, not immediately identified, was crying and was comforted by police. Wallace was taken to Leland Hospital. Wallace had gone to the suburban shopping complex midway between Baltimore and Washington in a busy election eve bid in the Maryland presidential primary. The Alabama governor had planned to campaign in Maryland through tomorrow and remain at his downtown Baltimore election headquarters tomorrow night for the returns.

(In the May 2 Indiana primary in Indiana, Wallace won 42 per cent of the vote to 47 per cent for Sen. Hubert Humphrey, and won 21 of the state's 76 delegates. (The Alabama governor, in 1964 in the Democratic presidential primary, got 29.8 per cent of the vote and in 1968, running as a third-party candidate in the November election, polled about 12 per cent of the vote in the state.) IHSAA Suspends Gary West Gary West, which lost to Con-nersville in the final game of this year's state high school basketball tournament at Bloomington, today was suspended for a year from the Indiana High School Athletic Association. In a statement, IHSAA commissioner Phil Eskew said that on the day of the finals March 18 "unsportsmanlike and violent acts were observed andor reported to the Board of Control to have occurred on the part of Gary West Side student personnel and followers. "The Board of Control and its staff have investigated the reported events and heard Gary West Side school officials and their representatives." The board concluded that Gary West officials had provided "routine supervision and precautions for control over its student personnel and followers," but that despite this "Gary West Side student personnel and followers were not controlled and engaged in damage to property and inflicted physical injury to other spectators largely as an apparent expression of disappointment at losing the final game of the tournament." The suspension means that Gary West's entire athletic program apparently will be wiped out for one year.

Connersville beat Gary West, 80 63, in a major upset in Indiana University's Assembly Hall. MP- fi 3t, i MONDAY, MAY 15, 1972 10 CENTS 5 The New York Times reported that the mines in Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese harbors are of the magnetic type capable of turning themselves on or off at irregular intervals or of disarming themselves permanently. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim denied the report: "We're not going to discuss the specifics of mine technology, but the New York Times story is wrong." The Paris newspaper Figaro said in a dispatch from its Moscow correspondent that the Soviet Union will begin its summit with Nixon "all the more serene in that they have received the assurance of the American President that the B52s and the naval artillery will observe a truce concerning North Vietnam for the entire duration of the visit. It is less certain that Moscow has obtained from North Vietnam a gesture of conciliation, for example that it avoids attacking in force at that moment." 7 Gen.

Maxwell D. Taylor, military adviser to Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said in a television interview that South Vietnam will fall to the Communists unless there is widespread public support of Nixon's blockade. "If we support him there's a good chance of his achieving what he wants to achieve.

If we don't support him, he hasn't a chance in the world." IN THE NEWS Pages Pages Amusements 10-11 Pictures 12 Bridge 21 Sports 33-38 Business 31-32 TV and Radio 15 Comics 20 Want Ads 38-51 Editoriafs 8 Women 17-19 Obituaries 23 The NEWS Phone Numbers Main Office $33-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Want Ads 633-1212 The News Zip Code 46208 Crime Alert (Emergency) 633-2811 Wage-Price Questions 633-8611 Calmer, Hits 190 Steady Mel Kcnyon, another of the five drivers who still have a chance to qualify on the yel-to-bc completed "first day" of time trials, showed his strength today. Kenyon, in the No. 23 red Coyote Ford, posted a lap at 180.6 his best of the month. And Jim Hurtubise, already qualified at 181.950 in his rear-engine Coyote Ford, continued to delight his fans this morning. Before a slim crowd of about 1,000, Hurtubise turned in a lap in his Mallard a front-engine car at 174.284 mph, the fastest lap ever at the Speedway in a roadster.

Rut one thing in today's session was just like the weekend. The race cars were still dodging rain. The track was closed by showers at 1:15 for 5 minutes, and again nt 1:30 for over an hour. Race Entries And Remits On Pagt 38 Tornado Tops $1 Scores of Eastside residents, left homeless by one of two tornadoes that ripped through a new housing complex yesterday with the force of a giant buzz saw, poked through debris today, searching for what personal possessions they could identify. The Marion County Sheriff's Department began issuing passes to homeowners at 7 a.m.

today, nearly 19 hours after the twister dipped into the housing complex, which allowed the residents entry into a four-square-mile area that was hit by the tornado. Sheriff's deputies said at least 26 homes which were occupied were destroyed and another 22 homes ready for occupancy were demolished. Damage estimate has been set at more than $1 million, and 10 persons were reported injured, none seriously. A spokesman for the Small Business Administration's Indianapolis office said today all indications are that the stricken complex will be termed a disaster area. He said the SBA began gathering figures on losses within an hour after the twister hit and that it will be up to Federal officials in Washington to declare it a disaster area after recommendations are made here.

"It's a matter of getting a dollar loss established, but we feel, tentatively, that there has been enough loss over and above what was covered by insurance to make it (a disaster area)," he said. Deputies worked throughout the night, keeping looters from the area. A command post where residents could pick up passes was set up this morning in the 1400 block of North German Church Road. Struck At 12:20 PM. More than 300 volunteers from the Sheriff's Department, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis police, Red Cross, Salvation Army, General Hospital, Warren Township and Civil Defense converged on the site of the damage within minutes after the tornado, one of two twisters spotted in the area, struck at 12:20 p.m.

Community Hospital reported only six persons, who were in the path of the tornado, were treated for minor injuries and released. Another four persons were treated for injuries they suffered while leaving the area. The Sheriff's Department sent 20 deputies to the area, bounded by 10th and 21st Streets, German Church Road on the west and Cumberland Road to the east, to prevent, looting today. Deputies patrolled on horseback, on foot and in patrol cars. Also sent into the area were deputies from the K9 Corps.

Indianapolis Power Light Co. sent 15 crews, which represented more than 45 workers, to restore power to the homes that were left standing. Power was restored by 7 p.m. The twister that touched down came without warning. The National Weather Service had no tornado watch alert in effect.

A spokesman for the NWS said a tornado watch, which is given when conditions are right for a tornado, comes from its weather warning center in Kansas City. The spokesman added thai a tornado warning alert can come only after a In Brief SAN FRANCISCO The West Coast longshore union and dock employes announced agreement today on pay scales ordered by the Federal Pay Board, end-, ing the threat of a renewed West Coast dock strike. The joint announcement said longshore straight time pay will be increased by 42 cents to $4.70 an hour' retroactive to Dec. 25, 1971. That is the standard set by the Pay Board in its; March 16 order trimming from 20.9 tQ; 14.9 per cent increases won by the union in a 134-day strike.

BONN Leaders of West Germany's opposition announced today they have dropped final objections to Chancellor WILLY BRANDT'S treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland all but guaranteeing the pacts will be ratified by a broad majority Li parliament. WASHINGTON -PRESIDENT NIX-ON told a delegation of families of prisoners of war that the U.S. will maintain its blockade of North Vietnam until the prisoners are released, MRS. JAMES B. STOCKDALE, wife of an imprisoned Navy captain, said today.

i LATEST WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight; low mid-40s; sunny and pleasant tomorrow; high lower 70s. Details on Page 51 Temperature 3:30 p.m 69 Loses Firm Less Expansionary WASHINGTON (AP)-The Federal budget for fiscal 1974 will be less expansionary than its immediate predecessors, says the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Casper W. Weinberger told newsmen President Nixon wants to reduce government spending. He didn't reveal by how much.

But How? Car makers want to control pollution, but the question still remains: How? Page 31. Low Draft Call WASHINGTON (UPI)-This year's draft call will total no more than 50,000 men, the lowest since before the Korean war, according to Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird. The figure, which Laird revealed In a weekend speech, compares with 98,000 last year and a Vietnam war era peak of 346,600 in 1966. To date the Selective Service has called up men with lottery numbers 1 through 35.

BUSINESS BULLETINS US. Steel Bout With Speedway But Mark WASHINGTON (AP) The United States Steel Corp. and a subsidiary were unsuccessful today in trying to head off a new trial on charges by a Kentucky firm that the Kentucky firm was forced to buy defective pre-fabri-cated houses at excessive prices. Fortner Enterprises, is suing U.S. Steel, and claims that in order to borrc $2 million from its Home Credit subsidiary to develop land in the Louisville area it was forced to agree to put up U.S.

Steel houses on each of the lots purchased with the loan. Fortner had received $279,600 in damages, but last December the U.S. Circuit Court in Cincinnati called for a new trial at which time a jury would determine what laws if any were violated. No new u-ial date was set. Stocks Slightly Higher NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices moved slightly higher today but dealings were at a rather slow pace as investors continued to stick to the sidelines.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished with a gain of 0.38 at 942.20. Complete closing New York Stock Exchange quotations on Page 31. Today's practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was calm by comparison with the weekend's frantic, stop-and-go pace of rain and frustration. The fastest of the 10 cars to make appearances on the oval by mid-day was Mark Donohue's No. 66 Offy-pow-ered McLaren.

Donohue turned in a 190.114 miles-per-hour lap. And no one else, not even Peter Rev- son in the No. 12 team McLaren, was close. Rcvson could reach "only" 184.124 this morning. Donohue and Revson, who have yet to make qualifying attempts, are the only drivers who can be considered serious contenders for the pole position, which Is now in the firm grasp of Hobby Un.ser and his No.

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