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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Chance of showers and thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; low 65; high tomorrow 90. Page 35. 103rd YEAR INDIANA HOME "Whin Spirit of IU Lord Uut Cor. 117 SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1972 in. MC Ptr WMk Ctrritf Dflllrtf Chief Wants Dog Control Changes WILL.

UAY1I i i nil "Wk f- urn. AH Although he said the case is closed against an Indianapolis policeman who accidentally killed a 13-year-old girl as he shot a stray dog Thursday, Police Chief Winston L. Churchill has proposed some changes in animal control procedure. "As far as I'm concerned, the case is closed," Churchill said, explaining no punitive action will be taken against Patrolman Charles L. Sparks in the accidental shooting of Joyce McCray, 4240 Carrollton.

"But," Churchill added, "I'm against the shooting of any animals unless there is immediate danger, and I think dog pound employes should be equipped with, and trained in the use of, tranquilizer guns for use against stray dogs." Miss McCray was killed by a 00 buckshot pellet Thursday afternoon as Sparks fired a shotgun blast at a dog in the yard of 4252 Carrollton. Pellets from the weapon passed through a garage and struck Miss McCray, a police investigation disclosed. Churchill said the patrolman would be reassigned to another patrol sector. In a meeting with neighborhood residents and William A. Leak, public safety director, Churchill yesterday rejected requests that Sparks be discharged and that the investigation be reopened.

Last night the residents had another meeting, at Meridian Heights Methodist Church, and discussed the incident for more than three hours. Present at the meeting was Roger Brown, city councilman-at-large; Sam Jones, executive director of the Urban League; Hilton Cancel, an officer in the Indianapolis Police Department public affairs division, and David Orr, president of the Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association. It was chaired by Valjean Dickinson, an MKNA officer. Issues passed by the group of several hundred people included: A formal request for a public inquest by the coroner's office. 2 A request to Mayor Richard Lugar that Chief Winston Churchill suspend Officer Charles L.

Sparks for 10 days, pending an investigation. 3 A motion to have a councilman introduce an ordinance to the City-County Council to prohibit the use of firearms to kill animals and a public hearing on the matter. 4 The creation of a citizens committee to investigate the shooting incident. 5 The creation of an ordinance that would require any officer who kills a person be automatically relieved of his duty for a 10-day period pending an investigation. 6 The creation of a task force in the MKNA neighborhood to draw up guidelines on general police conduct in the neighborhood.

7 That the group assist the family of the deceased girl in seeking legal help to bring criminal charges against the officer. At left are the nine 00 buckshot pellets in a standard 12 gauge shotgun shell of the type used by Indianapolis police. At right is a 12 gauge shotgun shell loaded with No. 6 size shot. The No.

6 shot will kill a fox or dog at 20 yards. The buckshot can kill a person at 75 yards. The NEWS Photo, Tim Halcomb. Bootleggers Hunted U.S 3 Agents Walter John Petlikowslcy, left, charged with aiding hijacker AP. Skyjacker Even Lost His Panfs I XL I Traffic Toll 0 m.

Of Holidays At least six persons died in Indiana traffic the first night of the four-day Fourth of July weekend, including three persons killed in two separate, unrelated accidents within about 1,000 feet of each other on U.S. 6 in Noble County. The state's traffic safety director predicted 25 persons would be killed on Hoosier streets and roads in the 102-hour weekend counting period, 10 fewer than were killed last year, when the July 4 weekend was a 78-hour period. State police said JANICE SUE HURLEY, 19, New Buffalo, was killed and four other persons were injured about 2 a.m. today when her auto collided with an oncoming vehicle 2.6 miles east of Kendallville on U.S.

6. Troopers said a car driven by David W. Hanshoe, 19, Kendallville, was passing another auto and struck the driver's DETROIT (AP) The FBI said last week's airliner skyjacking was well planned but the hijacker lost his pants, submachine gun and the $502,500 ransom he got from American Airlines. In addition, Neil Welch, head of the FBI office in Detroit, said yesterday the skyjacker was identified by two FBI agents who boarded the plane and left the ransom note fingerprints and all on the plane. The hijacker would up in Peru, instead of Monroe, where the FBI said he had intended to land.

The FBI said it was led to Martin McNally, 28, of Wyandotte, by the fingerprints and by an informant's tip. McNally, an unemployed high school, dropout, was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of air piracy. John Petlik-kowsky, 31, Ecorse, went to the FBI yesterday and told the agents he had unwittingly driven McNally back to Detroit. Agents said Petlikowsky later gave a complete account of the skyjacking. He was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an air piracy.

He and McNally are being held in lieu of $100,000 bond each. Welch said Petlikowsky told agents he assisted McNally, making several trips to St. Louis to further the plot; helped shorten the machine gun used in the hijacking; drove McNally to St. Louis for the heist, and picked him up after he parachuted in Indiana. No Confession Welch said Petlikowsky's statement, contained in a complaint filed yesterday in St.

Louis, could not be termed a confession. When FBI agents searched McNally's home Thursday, they said, they found parts and a stock for a submachine gun, By JOHN STOWELL WASHINGTON (AP) Federal inspectors posing as tourists are cruising heavily traveled highways in the Midwest and Southeast this Fourth of July weekend in search of bootleg fireworks. A similar crackdown last year resulted in more than 80 seizures of illegal explosives and the shutdown of one plant, and netted Food and Drug Administration agents thousands of dollars' worth of fireworks. "We know there are still some clandestine plants operating," said Dale C. Miller, chief of compliance in the FDA's Bureau of Product Safety.

"In addition to the manufacturers and sellers, we're also trying to find the middlemen, because, without them, stands have a tougher time getting the stuff," he said. Miller said Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Wyoming, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana are states where illegal fireworks have been a particular problem in past years. He said FDA agents in out-of-state cars check roadside stands, gift shops, novelty shops and gas stations for contraband explosives. After the agent purchases the fireworks, he said, the FDA either seeks a Federal seizure order or turns the information over to state police. Meanwhile, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, assailed the FDA for failing to ban all fireworks.

Melvin Black, also an attorney for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, said a 1969 survey of selected areas revealed a total of 1,330 personal Injuries and five deaths attributed to fireworks. Forty-two per cent of the injuries were caused by class fireworks, still permitted by Federal law, Including sparklers, cones, fountains and firecrackers with less than two grains of powder. "If there are any injuries caused by Class fireworks this July Fourth, they will result from the unconscionable laxity of the FDA in failing to ban Class fireworks," Black said. Flight gusting spirit of gain." "Whenever the matter concerns Fischer, money comes first while sports motives are relegated to the background," Tass said. "Characteristically, his confidants I are not chess players but lawyers to whom he entrusted all his chess affairs." Col, Edmund Edmondson, executive director of the U.S.

Chess Federation, described Fischer's behavior as "some kind of an act for what I don't know." Edmondson said he thought the odds were two to one that Fischer would not play. Fischer was at the Icelandic terminal Thursday night but missed both flights. When reporters tried to corner him as he stepped out of a cocktail lounge, he dodged them and ran out of the building and across the street into a parking lot. He has not been seen since. ammunition, and tables and calculators for computing airspeed time distance problems.

The Justice Department said the' case will be turned over to a grand jury in St. Louis where the skyjacking began and where the money was handed over to the pirate. It was later found in a farmer's field near Peru. The FBI charges McNally and Petlikowsky developed the skyjacking plot and made "a number" of trips to St. Louis to scout the area.

Welch said they chose St. Louis because they felt airport security there was looser than in Detroit. On June 22, the FBI's version of the script continued. Petlikowsky drove McNally to the airport in St. Louis then went home to wait for the call to pick up McNally and the money in Monroe.

McNally, wearing a shaggy wig, boarded Flight 119 for Tulsa, and commandeered the plane. Back on the ground at St. Louis, two FBI agents boarded the plane dressed as mechanics, but the bureau said they could not stop the crime because the skyjacker was holding the submachine gun to a stewardess' head. The skyjacker had to change planes after a car drove onto the runway and smashed into the plane. The incident is still unexplained.

The driver has been charged with illegal interference with an airliner. When the second plane took off, the pilot, unknown to the skyjacker, circled St. Louis twice. Welch said this is what threw off the careful computations of the skyjacker and made him jump off 200 miles short of his target. When the skyjacker jumped, the FBI said, the wind blast was greater than he had anticipated.

That's when he lost the submachine gun, the money and his pants. Almost 24 hours later, Petlikowsky walked into the River Rouge police station and told them he had some information to give about the skyjacking. Passes Chess months of delicate negotiations to set up the match. Fischer could still make the match if he boarded either of two Icelandic flights direct to Reykjavik scheduled to leave New York this evening. Or he could fly to Europe and take a connecting flight to the Icelandic capital.

In any event, once and if he does arrive, the rules of the 24-game championship match state that a player is entitled to three postponed games for health reasons, provided he can furnish a physician's certificate. In Germany, Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, said yesterday that if Fischer did not show up for tomorrow's match he may lose his rights as challenger for the world title. Fischer's behavior has touched off a wave of debate in New York and Moscow. The Soviet news agency Tass said Fischer was motivated Fade Away WASHINGTON Cen. William C.

Westmoreland sits in silence during ceremonies marking his retirement from the Army at Fort Myer, Va. Westmoreland yesterday ended a 36-year career with the military. He will be replaced as Army chief of staff by Cen. Creighton Abrgms, who replaced Westmoreland as commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam.

AP. IT'S YOUR MOVE, BOBBY side of Miss Hurley car as she tried to avoid a crash. Hanshoe, his two passengers and a passenger in the Hurley auto were treated for minor injuries at a Kendallville hospital, state police said. About three hours earlier and 1,000 feet west of that crash scene ORVTLLE E. RANSBOTTOM, 38, and his wife PATRICIA, 22, Kendallville, were killed when a car driven by Mrs.

Ransbottom crashed head on with a semitrailer truck driven by David W. Golden, 35, Diamond, Ohio, troopers said. They said Golden, who was unhurt, told them he flashed his lights repeatedly as the Ransbottom vehicle approched him in his lane, but got no response. JERRELL R. SARTOR, 23, Bruce-ville, died today when his auto struck the rear tandem wheels of an oncoming semitrailer rig on a curve on Ind.

59 just south of Linton, state police said. PAUL A. COOPER, 21, Gary, was killed and seven persons were injured last night when the car in which he was riding collided with a pickup truck which, authorities said, had swerved to avoid a dog on Ind. 63 in Vermillion County. South Bend police said JOHNNY RAY LIVELY, 14, South Bend, was killed when he was struck by a car last night near his home.

Yesterday, before the weekend count began at 6 p.m., three persons were killed in state crashes. TERRY GREKOFF, 25, and ROB. ERT G. GLUTCH, 26, both of Hammond, were killed when their car, which police said was traveling at high speed, collided with a Chesapeake Si Ohio Railroad freight train at a U.S. 30 crossing in Lake County.

JAMES RUMAGE, 38, Chrisney, died in a two-truck collision on Ind. 62 at Evansville yesterday, and MATTIE REDD, 99, Evansville, was killed Thurs- day night when struck by a car near her home. The National Safety Council has predicted that 800 to 900 persons would die in U.S, traffic accidents over the long holiday. The prediction tops both the record toll for a July 4 weekend 732 in 1967 and the all-time four-day day mark 764 over Thanksgiving, 1968. '1 U.S.

Jets Pound Reds Push At Quang Tri 'King' NEW YORK (UPI) American chess master Bobby Fischer early today passed up another flight to Iceland, where his match with world champion Boris Spassky is scheduled to begin tomorrow. The Icelandic Airlines flight to Reykjavik left John F. Kennedy International Airport without the 29-ycar-old international grand master, although an airlines spokesman said, "We had seats reserved for him In case he would show up." Fischer, however, has in the past refused to play chess or travel on the Sabbath observed by his Church of God. The Sabbath is kept from sun-down Friday to sundown Saturday. If Fischer fails to arrive in time for the match with Spassky, of the Soviet Union, he could lose his rights as a challenger to the world champion.

It took years of elimination play for him to win the right to play Spassky, and Two battalions of South Vietnamese paratroopers pushed to the Communist-held provincial capital from the south, reaching the outskirts of the city with the help of U.S. airpower. In the air war, clearing weather yesterday enabled U.S. jets to strike deep into North Vietnam, hitting the KEP airfield 30 miles northeast of Hanoi and 55 miles southwest of the Chinese border. Pilots in the carrier-based jets also reported destroying three surface-to-air missile (SAM) launchers and damaging two missiles site and a radar unit Continued on Page 3 SAIGON (UPI) American planes softened up Communist defenses in Quang Tri Province today and South Vietnamese ground troops closed in on the provincial capital from two sides.

Carrier-based American fighter-bombers resumed their strikes in the Hanoi-Haiphong area of North Vietnam for the first time since weather halted the operations four days ago, the U.S. Command said today. Saigon marines fought North Vietnamese forces seven miles northeast of Quang Tri City and reported killing 34 Communists while suffering only one man wounded, the allied command sil 'J.

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