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i F1IH rnnp LL COLOR section weather Partly cloudy and cooler today, with a high in the low 00s. Low tonight in the 50s. Sunrise sunset 8:52. Weather Details, Page 8-A. f) The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon PRICE 35c Copyright, l7i, Dei Moines Register ind Tribune Company Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday Morning, July 2, 1972 10 Sections A TP A a iMin Ml li la If un Li kJ Ul A 1 BOOST JOHN BOWS BLACKS HALT THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE GAMBLERS a TO FULL CO! OP fULL COLOR IN SOCIAL TO MARTHA SECURITY OH'd Computer Weapon In Crime Fight This is the first of four articles on Iowa's new crime computer system, code-named TRACIS (for Traffic Records and Criminal Justice Information System).

The system will include electronic dossiers with arrest and traffic record information. By Michael Sorkin and James O'Shea CopyrisM, 1972, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company With the flick of a switch one day this fall, Iowa will become part of a new and some say potentially dangerous anticrime weapon: A sophisticated national computer data bank. PICKETING AT WATERLOO Accord With Stores On Hiring Practice QUITS NIXON Will Spend More Time With Family Bigger Checks September WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) By Jack Hovelson (Register Staff Writer) WATERLOO, IA. The most President Nixon Saturday signed a bill providing a 20 per WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) -Apparently bowing to an ultimatum telephoned to the world by his irrepressible wife, cent boost in Social Security recent, longest and probably benefits to start in September John N. Mitchell resigned Sat But ne caned tne measure the most tense in a series of Waterloo racial controversies apparently ended Saturday on a urday as director of President Nixon's re-election campaign. The Committee for the Reelection of the President an harmonious note. Blacks who had been picket AMD THE MEM eon ing the Logan Plaza Shopping nounced the former attorney Center continuously except flflTlQufll general was stepping down, less than a week after Martha Mitchell told reporters that she Nestled in a control room at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C, the central computers' electronic dossiers will house the names and information on millions of persons who at some time in their lives have had some contact with the law. Many of these individuals will have computer files even though they have never been convicted of a crime.

Some will have files even though they have never even been arrested. And when an individual has been arrested, there is no requirement that the computer for a 1-day moratorium since May 26 announced at 2 p.m. Saturday that they were fiscally irresponsible and said it will cause a deficit that must be offset by cuts in other programs. The Social Security measure, the biggest money increase in the program's history, was tied to a bill extending the nation's $450-billion debt ceiling through Oct. 31 of this year.

Automatic Drop This linkage, sponsored by Democrats in Congress but voted for by most Republicans, was leaving him until he got halting the demonstration. out of politics. She made known her dis content last Sunday and Mon Hiring Practices The move was made, they 00 dav from the Westchester Country Club at Rye, N.Y. Mitchell joined her there last Monday said, in line with an agreement with officials of the shopping center's four stores. The accord and they returned to Washing reached at a Saturday morn made it impossible for Mr.

Nix ton in midweek, apparently rec ing meeting between the store files show whether he has been found guilty or innocent. Banks in Each State officials and pickets and later on to veto the Social Security boost without killing the increase in the debt ceiling. Had ratified at a meeting in the onciled. But apparently the reconciliation was on Mrs. Mitchell's terms because the announcement said Mitchell "has resigned as campaign director in order to devote more time to his wile and family." the ceiling not been increased, it automatically would have dropped to $400 billion, thus crippling the government fiscally.

For most workers, the changes signed into law by the President will mean lower Social Security taxes than they would have paid under the present law, while benefits in In his letter to President advising him of the resigna tion, Mitchell wrote of his re- gret at leaving the post in which he shaped a victory for Mr. Nixon in 1908 and said: "I have found, however, (hat cm no longer (run tne cam Feeding the FBI's National Crime Information Center will be a network of computer banks in each state. In Iowa, a central state data bank will be housed in twin IBM 370-155 computers. This will be connected to at least one teletype outlet in each Iowa county. Each outlet will be able to query the state for information as well as feed data directly to state headquarters in Des Moines.

When the network is completed, all 50 state computer systems will be able to "talk" with each other through the FBI, producing perhaps the largest single collection of dossiers about Americans ever gathered. At a minimum, these files will contain data on: Wanted persons. Traffic records, including driver's licenses and car models. Stolen property. Records of every arrested person.

Fingerprints. Police intelligence files. Physical descriptions. Missing or stolen securities. Stolen firearms.

Iowa officials also have discussed the possibility of establishing a file on persons with registered firearms. Proponents hail the FBI's national data bank as the single greatest crime wenpon available to the nation's police chiefs and prosecutors. But many now fear it poses serious threats to citizens' privacy. crease for all recipients. An average single retired worker will receive $161 a month instead of $133.

Aver-age monthly benefits for a couple will increase from $223 to $270. paign) on a full-time basis and still meet the one obligation which must come first: The happiness and welfare of my Benefits for an average wid black community generally sets forth hiring practices that will increase the number of blacks employed by the firms. Termination of the picketing was announced in a statement read by Harris Caesar, representing the pickets. The statement was read at the shopping center in the presence of three of its store officials. They and several pickets afterward shook hands and both sides said the agreement was "workable." "We're more than happy that this is all settled and we can all go back to work," said Carlton Winter, operator of the Ben Franklin and Coast-to-Coast stores at the center.

Dave Walker, manager of the Eagle supermarket, said the agreement was "consistent with good hiring practices." The fourth firm is a May's Drug Store. Caesar praised the efforts of the pickets and also commended Waterloo Atty. Louis Beech-er, who repreesnted the shopping center owners, for his mediating role in the dispute. Beecher said later that the agreement calls for 20 per cent of the employes at the shopping center's four stores to be blacks, while othfr stores in Waterloo that are owned by the wife and daughter. In his letter accepting Mitch ell's withdrawal, Presi Hughes and McGovern: Unlikely Foes ow will jump from $114 to $137 while a single worker with maximum benefits will receive dent noted that a politician's GRAVE DOUBTS OVER FISCHER REYKJAVIK, ICELAND (SUNDAY) (AP) Bobby $259 instead of $216.

A couple wife "must not only share the disappointments and brickbats but must accept the frequent absence of a husband and father. I am well aware that this receiving maximum benefits will get $389 instead of $324. By James Risser (01 The Register's Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON. D.C. When Senator George McGovern S.D.) last Thursday lost more than half of the all-impor The present maximum 5.2 per a postponement of the start of tant California delegation to the Democratic National Conven tion, Iowa Senator Harold E.

Hughes was inadvertently thrust ever closer to the forefront of a "stop McGovern'' cent Social Security tax for employers and employes on the first $9,000 of income annually will rise to 5.5 per cent on $10,800 on Jan. 1, 1973, and 5.5 per cent on $12,000 a year later. Sunday's world championship chess match until Tuesday, but neither the match referee nor the organizers appeared willing to grant the request. Though Hughes opposed on principle the credentials dial fueled by the apparent incongruity of the man who nomi-( lenge that cost McGovern 151 first-ballot con- a antiwar, antiestablish- Bare Outlines Released When the constitutional rights subcommittee headed by Senator Sam Ervin N.C.) conducted hearings last year on Army spying on civilians, the bare outlines of the FBI's future data svstem were released. As expla'ined then, the system would index like a telephone directory the names of persons who had com- has been particularly true of the Mitchell family Names MacGregor Francis L.

Dale, chairman of the Committee Tor the Re-election of the President, announced that Mitchell will be succeeded as campaign director by Clark MacGregor, a former congressman from Minnesota and currently Mr. Nixon's chief of congressional liaison. Mitchell lunched with Presi- MITCHELL Please turn to Page Three vention votes, it was Hughes' own candidate Senator Ed- NEWS ANALYSIS Lothar Schmidt of Germany, the chief referee, said early Sunday Fischer's lawyer carried no written credentials authorizing him to act in the American grandmaster's name. Schmidt said something might be worked out if Fischer Showed up on time ment candidate Eugene McCarthy in 19(18 now opposing the 1972 antiwar, leftist, reformer candidate in favor of an established party centrist. Party Reform Some of those who are or This means the present MWi maximum tax on an employe will rise to $594 in 1973 for a worker earning $10,800 or more, and to $660 in 1974 for one earning $12,000 or more.

Save Money The changes will save money for the more than two-thirds of the 96 million persons subject to the Social Security payroll tax who earn less than $9,000. federally con- 'same chain operations would mittoH primes. Rather than creating a Muskie of Maine who appeared to be the main beneficiary. Hughes, in fact, now believes have 10 per cent black employment. He said the pact also sets up procedures for blacks to apply for employment at the stores.

trolled national crime information and intelligence data bank, the complete records of each individual were to remain in the hands of state agencies. Since this initial proposal, a number of important developments have occurred. for the noon (Iowa time) start of his match with world champion Boris Spa ssky of Russia but the likelihood that the tem there is a real chance Muskie will win the party's presidential have been close to Hughes and his own political aspirations believe there is, in part, an anti-McGovern element to Hughes' support of Muskie. Their rea nomination on perhaps a fifth The four stores at Logan Plaza First, the FBI quietly assumed full control over me enure They will pay $495 instead of ballot at Miami Beach, and present" $468, but the operation, then greatly expanded the computer bank's poten- jhave had black employes. Bee the cher said the agreement would tial, and finally shelved the original proposals for privacy and his view is supported by a new, secret delegate analysis pro sons generally revolve around the sort of natural leadership tug between Hughes and present law would have raised their payments to $510.50 next year.

They still will pav, for BENEFITS Please turn to Paqe Ttro result in "about a half-dozen more" black employes at the stores. Protested Story Use Picketing of the shopping center began two days after a group of black citizens went to peramental American challenger, would appear in time for the first game of 24-game match appeared Fischer failed to board the last scheduled commercial airline flight that could have taken him from New York to Iceland for the start of the world's richest chess match. The Icelandic Airlines plane departed without Fischer, and an airline spokesman said the next flight to Reykjavik would be 6:30 p.m. duced for Muskie and Hughes by one of their top strategists. Convention Manager As Muskie's convention manager, Hughes will be in the thick of the fight at Miami Beach.

He now has taken over complete control of the entire Muskie organization, whose current battle plan is, of neces Cold Duck, i i Home Made McGovern on party reform and in the peace movement, along with a supposition that Hughes has some doubts about McGovern's probable style and leadership qualities as president. At the same time, most of them accept pretty much at face value Hughes' assertion last January that he wty; en-dorsinir Muskie because he security. The trade newspaper Computerworld described the FBI's takeover of the 50-state computer system as "grafting an elephant onto a flea." Backed Strict Controls The loser in this struggle was another Justice Department division, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). This agency has supplied nearly $30 million to build the individual computer information centers in each state and had backed strict controls 'i access to the data. In a report written a ar ago, but which remains secret, LEAA reportedly warned that major new threats to individual privacy accompany the increasing intelligence capability.

While the data are needed to improve police, court and prison performance, so are stricter controls over the use of the data, said the report. But the strictest precautions of all were drafted by a dowa time), 6'i hours after the West Junior High School here to protest the use of the story "Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon" in a speech class. They contended that the story degraded blacks and reinforced stereotyped views about their race. The teacher was sus- WATERLOO Please turn to Page Five sity, a head-off McGovern plan. That Hughes should be in such a position opposing was convinced that at that point the choice had nar- HUGHES Please turn to Paqe Four ricase turn to Page Three DATA Martha Mitchell Tired of Politics A CEDAR FALLS businessman and his son-in-law in three; vears have become the na-j tion's largest producer of do-i it-vourself wine-making kits.j The story is on the Business i and Industry page this week; on Page 3 of the Iowa Farm.

Register. Adult Crossword HTV Before You Buy Section Briefly 24 Business Industry 3F: Classified Ads 4rj Editorials Section Gallup Poll 34 1 George McGovern with whom he has been so closely allied on the two issues most dear to both their hearts, stopping the war and reforming the Democratic Party has been one of the most intriguing puzzles of this unpredictable election year. There has been much speculation here that Hughes has game was to start. There was some speculation, however, that the 29-year-old grandmaster might have taken a flight to another European city, planning to proceed on to Iceland from there. The problem could be.

that Schmidt would" that Fischer had to forfeit his chances to contend for the title. Gudmunder Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic federation, organizing the match, said, "As far as I'm concerned, Highway Patrolmen Are Now Called 'Troopers9 Set Convention Box for Wallace MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (AP) A box on the floor of the Convention Hall has been set 2 Payments in Bus Takeover OMAHA. NEB. (AP) The OmahaTransit Authority Mf Govern: May Bolt Party NEW YORK, N.Y.

(AP) -Senator George McGovern of South Dakota says that if he's denied the Democratic presidential nomination by an "ille- By Nick Lamberto Iowa state highway patrolmen are now called aside for Gov. George C. Wal- Gardens 6A some feelings of personal hostility toward his South Dakota colleague, speculation that Hughes totally rejects. "I've heard that all over, and lowa p0n Section tne name usea in most otner siates, oi. jawes n.

i iace at me uemuerauc Market News assistant patrol chief, said Saturday. Convention which starts here Open Forum, Books Section' Tnlv 10 htv I or almost 40 vears. the state JU1 lu' gitimate power play," he'll bolt the match will Degm on sun- the party, Life magazine said day." Saturday. "There's been so much hard; 233RD MCTIM work and emotion poured into! RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) iae.

hav; bccn caIled because them Theaters 7B i.v i otherS in the Same I)r0" The Alabama governor has been hospitalized since he was shot 'while campaigning in the Travel, Resorts iyo y.mumn a fession in other states." Visual Arts, Music "trnoner." a desienation once The 14 patrol districts over Maryland presidential primary I OA i t- (OTA) officially took over bus operations in Omaha and Council Bluffs, Saturday. The OTA Friday presented a check for $863,964 to the Omaha bus company, which represented one-third of the purchase price of $2,591,894. A check for $58,800 was presented to City Transit Lines of Council Bluffs, which represents one-sixth of the total purchase price of $352,800. The remaining two-thirds of the purchase price of both lines hp naid from a U.S. De- weavner, udy istaum used for a horse cavalryman in (he state now are called posts this campaign by so many thousands of people it would The body of the 233rd victim of the June 9 Rapid City flood was found Saturday by search- the days before mechanized anri the four areas are called and the four areas are I don't know of any strife between us on anything.

1 have nothing against George McGovern, and if he gets the nomination I'll support him to the full extent can." As to why he favors Muskie: "I've said 10,000 times that I endorsed the man who I believe has the best chance of beating Richard Nixon." be such an infuriating, dis- illusioning experience for themjers in the Keystone area and in May, but his press secretary announced Friday that Wallace would attend the convention. Convention director Richard Murphy said Friday a portable ramp would be provided on the taken to a local funeral home divisions, Machholz said. Each of the 14 posts has a lieutenant in command; the four division commanders are captains. The highway patrol all that I would repudiate the whole process," McGovern said in a Life interview. Your Sunday Register today consists of nine regular sections: Three news sections, Peach Sports, Home and Family, Farm, Picture Magazine, Iowa TV Magazine and Comics, plus a special advertising section.

Mary Frances Chase, 52, of Ellsworth Air Force Base, was warfare. The name change was adopted June 1 through a department order, Machholz said. "The men would rather be called troopers," Machholz added. "They like the name one of 11 persons remaining on "I would run as an independ- assumption that Wallace would attend the convention In a wheelchair. ihas 380 officers, with an author- ized strength of 410.

a of Transportation Still the speculation persists 'of some McGoyern-Hughes rift ent or support somebody else the missing persons list. The on an independent ticket." others are presumed dead. I i jrant,.

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