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oh i Nv That boxed-in feeling Despite the spaciousness and grandeur of the big outdoors, kids often tend to burrow into the smallest space imaginable and enjoy it. These youngsters on Oaklcaf Avenue recently found an old box minus top and bottom which they converted into a makeshift shelter and hideout. The mass of arms, legs and smiling faces inside includes Ronnie Mattioli, Brenda Mattioli, 11, and Steve Marsicano, 10. (Staff photos by Gary Rings) 80th Year No. 126 Tampa, Saturday, July 1972 64 Pages 10 Cents 1 I 3 Cycle gang ShOOTOUt Kills Home Edition Staff and wire reports I Nixon may veto Congress actions fe' i 1 Flondians DURHAM, N.C.

(UPI) A local motorcycle gang called the "Storm Troopers" ambushed and killed two members of a Florida gang and wounded six other persons last night in a gunbattle on busy Interstate 85, authorities said. Two of the wounded were motorists caught in the gunfire. The dead and five of the injured persons were members of the Florida-based "Pagans." One storm trooper was also injured. "It sounded like machine guns," said Kush Paula Roebuck, of Miami, member of the Pagans caught in a van riddled with dozens of bullet holes. Miss Roebuck said the Pagans never got to use their guns.

But Sheriff Marvin Davis disputed the statement. "It was set up by the Storm Urban Renewal director resigns Miss Tampa wins Miss Tampa, Patricia Anne Wendell, 20, at left, won the swimsuit competition last night in the Miss Florida beauty contest in Orlando. Miss Wendell is a student at Hillsborough Community College. The winner, to be chosen tonight, will be crowned by Miss Florida 1971, Barbara Jo Ivey, center. Miss Day-tona Beach, Stacey Victoria Evans, 20, at right, won the talent award last night.

She is a student at the University of Florida. Some 40 contenders will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists tonight before Miss Florida 1972 is chosen. The winner will compete in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in September. Troopers," Davis said. "They started it.

Not too much of the shooting was done by the Pagans. It was both an ambush and a shootout." Miss Roebuck said she and five other Pagans were in a van traveling north to Washington, D.C., when a fellow member, riding a motorcycle, pulled up and shouted: "The Storm Troopers are coming, they've got guns." She said they spotted a Storm Trooper driving behind them and tried to turn into an exit. But the exit was blocked by a pickup truck with at least three Storm Troopers inside. "They jumped out and opened fire," she said. She said she passed out, then regained consciousness and saw her friends "were lying all around.

It was just terrible." "The rival gangs had it out," said Davis. Davis said four members of the Pagan should be taken to the hospital today to make positive identification of the victims. He said their exact Florida addresses were unknown. He said officers found a 45-caliber semi-automatic carbine, a 30-caliber M-l carbine, a sawed-off shotgun and a single shot muzzle loading pistol in the pickup. WASHINGTON Congress in a rare flurry of activity before recessing for two weeks voted last night for higher social security benefits and taxes, to raise the national debt to $450 billion and for disaster relief to flood-ravaged areas of the East and South Dakota.

Congress left town after tying a 20 per cent social security benefits increase to a provision continuing the treasury's authority to borrow for another four months. Under the measure, the bigger checks would be in the mail just before elections in November, but the bills would not be presented to workers until Jan. 1. There were hints that President Nixon might veto the bill forcing the lawmakers to cancel their vacation plans and return for an emergency session. Maritime mishap kills 7 i BREST, France Seven persons were reported missing today after the French weather observation frigate France II collided with the yacht Lefteria, believed to be of Danish registry.

According to information received here by radio, the yacht was carrying 11 persons, including two women. Four persons were rescued. Several ships were diverted to the area to help in search and rescue operations. The French navy escort vessel Le Basque, another French navy ship and the Dutch freighter Kylix were reported en route to the scene. A French naval plane left the base at Lann-Bihoue to scour the area.

Fischer still at home NEW YORK Prospects dimmed early today that U.S. Chess player Bobby Fischer would show up in Reykjavik, Iceland, where his match against defending Soviet champion Boris Spassky is scheduled tomorrow Newsmen waited in vain last night at John F. Kennedy International Airport, but the last Islandic Airlines flight early today took off without Fischer. NEA to shun labor ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. The National Education Association, which represents 1.1 million teachers across the country, voted yesterday to bar future affiliations with organized labor.

The resolution, passed by a vote of 3,723 to 2,051 at the concluding session of the NEA's annual convention, was supported by incoming NEA president Catherine O'Connell Barrett, and reflected the NEA's traditional suspicion of organized labor. The vote was regarded as a setback to advocates of mergers with the trade union movement. Simmons telling officials he will seek re-election By ABBY KAIGHIN Times Staff Writer Tampa Urban Renewal director Tom Fox has submitted his resignation to coincide with the city's takeover today of his once independent agency. Fox's resignation is effective July 14 and he will then become director of urban and community affairs for the Catholic Diocese in St. Petersburg.

Fox today said he had been looking for another job prior to recent reports by the city comptroller of some "laxity in record keeping" in the urban renewal finances. Comptroller Melvin Smith said his audit of the urban renewal agency did not show misuse or misappropriation of funds. Over the past year friction has been apparent between Fox's agency, which has cleared acres of slums from Tampa, and the city's other Fox protested takeover primary blight-fighting program, Model Cities. Former Model Cities director John Fernandez had pointed up lack of coordination between Fox's agency and the city's other blight-fighting i is letting it be known he would like to be around another four years. There has been further evidence of Simmons' political activity at the Gee Seven Ranch near Ruskin.

The ranch is an out-of-the-way resort belonging to Dr. J. B. Ganey of Bradenton. The Ganey property is lo- See SIMMONS, page 2-A By ARCHIE BLOUNT Times Staff Writer Ellsworth Simmons, the veteran Hillsborough County commissioner, is telling key county administrators he wil be seeking re-election in the Nov.

7 general election. Simmons, a past master on beng politically vague in public, hasn't been so uncertain in certain county circles and programs. Then, former city comp troller Logan Browning cn-See FOX, page 2-A Gurney resigns from his law firm A. Oh Shi-V 'x 4 In side The Times WINTER PARK W) Florida's Republican Sen. Edward Gurney says he won't accept another penny from his prosperous Winter Park law firm.

He resigned yesterday "with reluctance and regret." "It is obvious, from recent events, that certain media intend by innuendo to use my practice of law to try to em-barass me in the 1974 Senate race," Gurney said. "Therefore, to forestall such efforts, I take this action." His resignation from the Winter Park firm of Skofield, Gilman, Cooper, Nichols and Tatichpa was effective immediately. "I have always felt deeply that a public official has as much right as other citizens to maintain private business interests so long as they do not conflict or interfere with his public service," Guerney said. "I take this action with reluctance and regret." BayLife 4-6-B Bob Martin 6-A Bridge 4-B Business 10-13-A Classified 7-26-B Comics 4, 5-B Crossword 5-B Dear Abby 6-A Deaths 7-A Editorials 4-A Jeane Dixon 6-B Movies 6-B Quest Sect. Social Notes 6-A Sports 1-3-B Television Sect.

Tempo 7-A WeatherScope 2-A Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other uncommitted Illinois delegates. The Daley forces vowed to take the fight to retain their seats to the full convention. In Chicago Daley called the decision regrettable and said it was a violation of Democratic Party principles. (AP) Kink-maker dethroned Democratic delegates to the National Convention congratulate each other last night after the Democratic Credentials Committee voted to unseat 11.