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aily erald WEATHER Partly cloudy and cool tonight. Mostly sunny and a little warmer Thursday. Lows tonight mid gg gg 11 HJL I 1 I I BA When you stretch the truth, peo- 50s. Highs Thursday upper 70s. BIBB Wtt I 1 BB SM through it.

Sunset today 8:16, sunrise Ttiurs- day 5:33, sunset Thursday 8:16. VOL. 229 A Wednesday, July 5, 1972 Thirty-Two Pages Today HARK THE Custom May Be Deadly HERE ARE a lot of young people on the road these summer days, a lot of teen-age boys and girls heading cross country. They thumb a ride and then another and another until they get to where going. Some of the girls ever make it to where going.

Some who do are raped along the way. The problem is twoedged: some of the hitchhikers, so young and innocent-looking, have larceny on their minds. The remedy is to crack down on hitchhiking to make it a sharply punished crime to solicit or offer a ride. Meanwhile, about all one can do is to urge caution. To girl hitchhikers, if you must thumb, travel in pairs.

To motorists, think twice before offering a ride. Hitchhiking may be a nice custom, but sometimes the outcome is deadly. Government Position Hit By U.S. Planes; 10 Killed Haysville Woman Holiday Death Toll Succumbs At 79; Below County Farm Bureau Annual Picnic July 13 The Dubois County Farm Bureau Inc. picnic will be held July 13 at the 4-H Fairgrounds.

It will be a carry-in supper with meat, tea and coffee furnished. Bring your own table service. Soft drinks will be available. The program gets under way at 6:30 p.m. followed at 6:45 with a baby show and pet show.

The bobbies contest is set for 7:10 and the dinner at 7:30. Group singing will be led by Mrs. Carl Eck. Prize winners and attendance prizes will be announced by general chairman Alfred Bartelt, Mrs. Albert Hubert and Don Eck.

Rural Youth will be in charge of 2 Reappointed To Southeast School Board cV By ARTHUR HIGBEE Birdseye (UPI) warplanes flying path- thp rlrA nf i clearing missions for a planned South pact South- Vietnamese attack on Communist-held Quang Tri nnratinn School Cor- accidentally bombed a government position Tuesday, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 30 others. Tr The said the incident occurred hie oh Trustpe Jahn and about live miles southeast of the strategic provincial caPital but had few other details. It was the first such wnsmp Trustee Oscar J. Miller accident in the week-old government drive to retake dvisory board reap- Quang Tri Province, overrun by North Viet, i. ii namese troops a month after launching their of- Both Betz and Schnell have been tensive March 30.

members of the board since its The accident married a massive air power mission involving 36 U.S. B52 bombers that dumped about 900 Their new terms began July 1. tons of explosives late Tuesday and early today on Pike County Covered Bridge Lost In Fire Another covered wooden bridge in Southern Indiana was destroyed by fire early Tuesday and as was the case when Dubois last remaining covered bridge burned seven and a half years ago, arson is suspected. The bridge that went up in flames early Tuesday was located in the former community of Pikeville, in Pike County. It was located south of Velpen, and Postmaster Edward Nonnweile of Velpen has had to reroute the ininerary of the rural carrier who used the bridge when serving rural patrons out of the Velpen post office.

The loss of the bridge will inconvenience quite a few residents of the area who will have to travel to other bridges to cross the Patoka River. The Kessner bridge in Madison township, which at the time was the only remaining covered wooden bridge in Dubois County, was destroyed by fire on the night of Dec. 6, 1965. Sheriff Ollie Prechtel said the fire definitely seemed to be a case of arson. Some Rites Thursday registration.

Mrs. Vic Burger, time before that the bridge had news reporter, will receive the list been dynamited, and it was later of the Various winners and num- repaired. In February of 1968 seven residents of the area filed a lawsuit in the Dubois County Court seeking to force the county commissioners to replace the bridge but on Dec. 2 bers entered. Following is a list of the various contests and rules: Cake Contest Mrs.

Omer Balsmeyer, chairman; Mrs. Milton Mauntel, Mrs. Albert Wibler and of that year Special Judge Lester Mrs. Linus Mann are in charge. All Nixon of Pike County ruled that the cakes must be in by 6 p.m.

county did not have to replace the Divisions are: butter, dark, angel (Continued on Page 32) and flavored (such as cherry, orange, Chiffon will be in the 8 DrOWIWigS Reported (Continued on Page 32) i Over Holiday Weekend By United Press International Eight persons lost their lives in water accidents in Indiana The Jasper Board of Zoning during the Fourth of July week- Appeals will meet at 7 end period, tonight. This meeting will be The number might have been followed by a meeting of the greater except for a cold day Planning Commission which will Tuesday which reduced water begin at 7:30. Both meetings will be sports as a holiday recreation held in the City Council chambers, activity. By United Press International John D. Lawlor, executive vice president of the National Safety Council, today said the final traffic death toll for the Fourth of July holiday could fall far short of a pre-holiday estimate that between 800 and 900 persons would die.

are very gratified that the figure is so low compared with the estimate we Lawior said. hope that, this is an indication that the recent federal law having to do with control of the driver and improved roads and a safer automobile is taking effect. will take some time, however, to determine whether or not this really has been the case or whether the reduced number of fatalities resulted from a lower number of total mileage traveled by the American driving A United Press International count at 9 a.m. EDT showed at Mrs. Amelia Aulenbacher, 79, of 723 had kmed Haysville died at 11:55 a.m accidents.

Tuesday at the Northwood Good Soviets Crack Down ifffti.riJd’iSSShi 0 Buchta Frank. piuwh On Oct. 16,1910, she was married (UPI) What in to Harry Aulenbacher, who 8randma. preceded her in death last Sep- Why, officer, that just a pm her 4 th something I brewed up for are a brother, funeral feast, of Petersburg; a suspected Communist troop emplacements. Communist gunners slammed five rockets into the city of Hue early today.

UPI correspondent Barney Seibert said the attack, the fourth in as many days on Hue, wounded one South Vietnamese marine. There were no reports of civilian casualties, presumably because hundreds of residents in the three-block residential section of the city where the shells landed lied two days ago. Ten miles west of Hue Tuesday, South Vietnamese troops backed by artillery and allied air strikes (ought oil a North Vietnamese attack and reported killing 67 Communists. Government casualties were placed ai two killed and 12 wounded. The command in a delayed report said two U.S.

Air Force F4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers were shot down by Communist MIG21 lighters June 27 over North Vietnam. The Phantoms were downed near the Laos-North Vietnam border, the command said, about 75 miles west of Hanoi. Two crewmen were rescued but the other two were listed as still missing. Elsewhere in the air war over the North, the command said 12 B52s Hew three missions Tuesday and today. Two of the raids were against supply caches just above the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams and the third was seven miles northwest of the port city of Dong Hoi, 35 miles north of the DMZ.

Zoning And Planning Groups Meet Tonight tember 4th. Surviving Chris Frank sister, Mrs. Henry Neukam of Jasper; and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Olive Aulenbacher of Evansville. A son, Emil, died on Aug.

29, 1967. Mrs. Aulenbacher was a member of Christ Lutheran Church of Haysville and the Mary Circle of the church. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Schmutzler Funeral Home in Jasper.

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. (Continued on Page 32) Want Fischer Penalized Soviet Demand Threatens Chess Match By IAN WESTERGREN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) American chess challenger Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of the world championship match with Russian Boris Spassky but a demand from the Soviet chess federation threatened to cancel the 24- game series. The Russian chess group cabled Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation i FIDE), demanding that Fischer be ordered to forfeit the first game because he did not abide by an agreement which said both players must show up within one hour of the scheduled game time. the Russians insist on this penalty I believe the whole match is said Euwe.

are sorry that the world championships were delayed. The problems causing the delays were not Nice old ladies like Anna Mikhailovna Sapryshina in the home-made whiskey trade- used to disarm snooping policemen with lines like that. But no more, because the heat is on. The law and the press are out (Continued on Page 32) State Highway Toll Exceeds Prediction By United Press International Fourth of July holi- not to expect an immediate end day period traffic fatality toll to hostilities between South and of 27, slightly above expecta- North Korea despite Tuesday tions of 25, raised the 1972 state surprise announcement that they death total to 731 compared would seek peaceful reunifica- with 778 a year ago. tion of the country.

Eight persons were killed on Kim said that rewification of the holiday itself, including the land, divided for 27 years, three in a Fort Wayne crash. is a distant goal. one knows Three Fort Wayne residents how long it may he said, were killed and an Iowa man will have to be patient charged with failure to yield until we can trust each the right of way Tuesday in a The accord was announced in wreck at Interstate 69 and U.S. communiques issued jointly in Court Ordered To Reconsider McGovern Case WASHINGTON (UPI)-A federal appeals court refused today to uphold Sen. George S.

claim to 153 California delegates denied him by the Democratic Credentials Committee, and remanded the case to a lower court for further deliberation. The court, overruled U. S. District Court Judge George L. Hart who had upheld the credentials committee action, and instructed Hart to hold further hearings on the case.

At the same time, the appeals court issued an injunction barring Mayor Richard J. Daley from bringing further action in Dlinois state courts to (Continued on Page 32) Koreas Agree Reunification Is Desirable SEOUL (UPI) bouth Korean Premier Kim Jong-Pil today warned the National Assembly with world champion Spassky whom I respect as a player and a Fischer said. grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or discomforted I am indeed unhappy tor I had not the slightest intention of this Fischer said. Officials hoped the twice-postponed tournament could get under way Thursday but earlier repre- 30 on Fort north side. Seoul and Pyongyang, the North sentatives of both Fischer and Spassky broke off The dead were identified as Korean capital.

The two na- talks, casting doubts on the possibility the match Mrs. Fern Hostettler, 62, the tions, which have been at war would be held. driver, her husband, technically since 1950 and have Fischer, who has remained in seclusion since Cletus, 70, and Marie Biggs, 74. refused to recognize each other, arriving in Reykjavik early Tuesday, apologized in a Their car collided with a truck agreed not to armed statement read by his second, the Rev. William driven by John J.

Moss, 21, provocations against each Lombardi. Moville, Iowa. Two other Fort and decided promote mut- Russians said today they want any Wayne residents were injured ual understanding, and expedite (Continued on Page 32) critically. peaceful.

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