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The Post-Star from Glens Falls, New York • 1

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Good Morning Thursday, July 6, 1972 1ME li 0TqTAK Rain light rain today and early tonight with highs in the upper 50s and 60s and lows tonight in the upper 40s. (See weather map on page 16.) and Times 68th Year, 167th Issue 36 Pages GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK Dial 792-3131 Price 12 Cents Plane ffijadker f-t--. av i-, v. -y. t' 1 Passenger i mi nr They had hijacked the Boeing during the exchange of gunfire, 737 Wednesday morning on a three passengers were shot by flight from Sacramento to San one of the hijackers, but the ex-Francisco, demanding $800,800 tent of their injuries was not cash, two parachutes and pas- immediately known, sage to Siberia via Canada and Three ambulances rushed to Alaska, the airline said.

the plane, along with two large Kissel, PSA information offi- buses, to take passengers to the cer, said an FBI agent dressed terminal, Kissel said, in a pilot's uniform drove to the The plane sat on a runway plane to deliver the cash and more than a mile from the San parachutes. Francisco International airport A hijacker met him at the terminal for more than four door and was shot dead bv an hours wlule one of hijackers It s'i (t n1' i.ijf SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A hijacker was shot and killed and another injured along with three passengers on a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport, the airline said. Spokesman Gary Kissel said FBI agents "rushed the plane" and killed one of the two armed men who had commandeered the aircraft. One of the gunmen shot and injured three of the 79 passengers aboard the plane during the exchange of gunfire, the airline said. The hijackers identified.

were not South agent, then the second hijacker came to the door and was shot and injured, Kissel said. In San Diego, PSA spokesman Dennis Dittman said that sent demands through the pilot, Capt. Dennis Waller of San Diego. The twin-engine Boeing 737 with 79 passengers and a crew of 5 landed at Sari Francisco Viets Hold Hijacked Plane Lands Pacific Southwest Airlines Jetliner, which was hijacked Wednesday between Sacramento and San Francisco, lands at Francisco's International Airport The Boeing 737 with 79 passengers and a crew of five landed at the airport earlier, took off again and circled the airport before making this One of the two hijackers was shot and killed and the along with three passengers, was wounded by an FBI later. Edge of Quang International Airport at 10:24 a.m.

but took off 20 minutes later and circled the airport at the hijackers' insistence, PSA information officer Gary Kissel said. The plane landed again at 11:43 a.m. on an isolated section of Runway 1, about a mile and a half northwest of the central terminal. The hijackers had boarded the flight in Sacramento, the airline said. In San Diego, a spokesman for the intrastate airline said there had been only one contact with the pilot of the plane, Flight 710, and added, "We're trying to get the money togetherit may take a couple of hours." Airline president J.

Floyd Andrews said: "We are meeting their, demands as they are made known." Antihijack measures taken by, PSA at the flight's Sacramento origin were "the ones we always have that are required by the FAA, FBI and everyone concerned," Andrews said. However, he said he was uncertain if a magnetometer-intended to detect guns and weapons carried aboard by passengers was used at the boarding gate. The airline flies only within California. The hijacking was the second involving a PSA liner in the last four months. On April 9, a man identified as Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, of San Francisco, was captured less than one hour after a PSA Boeing 727 was ordered by a would-be hijacker to set down at Lindbergh Field in San Diego.

The hijadker had demanded $500,000 and a parachute after commandeering the jet when it left Oakland on a nonstop flight to San Diego. Speck was arrested by the FBI after the plane's 85 passengers were allowed to leave. He was tackled by agents when he stepped from the plane to pick up maps which were to help the pilot fly him to Miami, the FBI said. Speck was found to unarmed. at cGovern Regains Calif ornia Votes- hit Wednesday morning.

Spokesmen said 11 patients were wounded. In the latest raids announced by the U.S. Command, Air Force Phantoms blasted a supply depot and vehicle repair facility three miles southeast of the center of Hanoi and a military vehicle depot four miles Bobby 4 1 Flood Area Tense ALBANY, N.Y. AP) Tensions have grown amone flood victims crowded together in improvised facilities in the Elmira area, state rescue officials reported Wednesday to Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller. Some 3,000 victims have been staying in the mass housing facilities and their nerves are getting frayed, said William Hennessy, an official of the state Transportation Department involved in the disaster-recovery efforts. Hennessy said local officials fear for the safety of the victims when the National Guard puljs out next week. Rockefeller suggested that the sheriff appoint several deputies. Hennessy and others also cited the problems of coordination and communication between local, county, state and federal officials.

fQ Federal officials are working to bring in mobile homes to house the victims, but the efforts are being delayed by such problems as the selection of sites. Says He's Sorry WASHINGTON (AP) A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered 131 California delegates restored to George McGovern, prompting his forces to enter a claim on a first-ballot victory at the Democratic Convention Miami Beach. in In the same opinion, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here upheld another party Credentials Committee decision oust-ing Mayor Richard Daley and 58 others as Illinois delegates to the presidential nominating session. In the same order the federal court blocked any statecourt action that might affect its decision.

This was another plus for the South Dakota senator since the Daley slate was uncommitted but a majority of the replacements favors McGovern. On the Inside if" An appeal to the Supreme Court still is possible for the the Democratic National Committee and pro-Daley forces. Rick Stearns, McGoverri's chief delegate marshal, said McGovern now has 1,541.5 dele- gate votes, enough to assure a first-ballot nomination. If the circuit court ruling stands, The Associated Press delegate count would place McGovern's strength at 1,436.65, less than 100 short of the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. Sen.

Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota has 392.55 by the count, Alabama Gov. George Wallace has 381 and Maine's Sen. Edmund -S. Muskie has 225.55. Some delegates officially classified as uncommitted, however, have said they are leaning to McGovern.

The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates by deciding to apportion mem among all candidates by the amount of votes each received in a presidential primary. The circuit court held that while the apportionment might be more fair than the winner-take-all manner in which the primary was set up, changing the rules after the game was over "was inconsistant with fundamental principles of due process." The majority opinion in the 2-1 California decision declared that the "Democratic Party did not merely interpret one of its rules in essence, it acted in defiance of its own rules as interpreted in the call for the 1972 convention by establishing Cooper had set restrictions as to how close Galella could come to Mrs. Onassis and her two children, Caroline and John Kennedy Jr. The judge said Galella had violated his orders, and would be sentenced for civil contempt after a hearing on the penalty. Also the subject of Cooper's" judicial ire was Galella's lawyer, Alfred Julien, whom he accused of "unprofessional conduct throughout the trial." A copy of the judge's decision was orderedturned over to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, for possible disciplinary action against Cooper conducted a 23-day A San then landing.

other, agent Tri south of the city center Tuesday. Radio Hanoi claimed the fighter-bombers struck residential sections of the capital and killed or injured many civilians. The U.S. Command said it had no information "indicating other than military targets were hit." lawyers, and read by Max Euwe, the president of the International Chess Federation, said he respected Spassky as a man and admired him as a chess player. The apology was the latest move in a complicated preliminary between the Americans and the Russians before they even got to the Italian marble chess board on the stage at Reykjavik's Sports Palace.

Fischer's holdout for money postponed the scheduled start of the match Sunday. Spassky's countermove, a protest and a demand for an apology by Fischer, moved the starting date of the series to Thursday. Officials said they weren't even certain about mat. They had to deal with the demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that Fischer be penalized for his arriving Tuesday, two days late. They wanted Euwe to declare Spassky the winner of the first game.

This would give Spassky a 1-0 advantage in the score at the outset of play. Fischer St- SAIGON (AP)-South Vietnamese forces held the edge of Quang Tri city Wednesday and beat off enemy attacks on their eastern flank. In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. Command announced the heaviest raids in weeks against three major depots within four miles of the center of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital. Reliable sources said "Gen.

Ngo Quang Truong, commander of the counteroffensive into Quang Tri Province, believes he can recapture South Vietnam's northernmost city without a bloody battle. He is in no hurry to dash into the city and engage in unnecessary street fighting and destruction, the sources reported. Government paratroopers penetrated the city limits Tuesday, then took up defensive positions on the southeastern edge, awaiting an order to press on after their week-long, 10-mile drive up Highway 1. Sources said the enemy's strength inside Quahg Tri is not known, but the defenders are believed to be chiefly militia. The North Vietnamese main divisions are believed to be dispersed generally to the west of Quang Tri, which fell to the enemy May 1.

The shelling of Hue continued for the fourth day. A military hospital in the Hue Citadel was was named to the national convention delegation, as were two vice chairmen.Jiunice Whittlesey of Scotia and Joan Schmutz of Westbury. Rochester Mayor Stephen May also was named an at4arge delegate. Among the other at-large delegates was 18-year-old Maryann Wowak of Jamesport. The committee chose 88 honorary delegates.

Lanigan said they will be on hand at the Miami Beach convention to give their advice and counsel to the novices on the delegation, but they will not have a vote on the convention Door. One' of the honorary delegates is Kenneth B. Keating, U.S. ambassador to India and a former U.S. senator.

New York's current senators, Jacob Javits and James Buckley, will go as honorary delegates, as will Rockefeller, Lt Gov. Malcolm Wilson, Atty. Gen. Louis Lefkowitz, Secretary of State John Lomenzo and several legislators. Rockefeller's former secretary, Robert Douglass, as well as his new No.

1 aide, T. Norman Kurd, and his personal physician. Dr. W. Kenneth Ri-land, also are among the honorary delegates.

Top GOP Brass Going to Florida Ann Landers Page 7 Boyd Column 2 Bridge by Goren 30 Chamberlain 4 Comics 30 Considine 4 Editorials 4 Entertainment 29 Evans and Novak 4 Horoscope 30 Markets 24 Obituaries 16 Radio 28 Saratoga County 8, 9 Social News 7 Sports 20-24 Television 28 Washington County 6,10,11,36 retroactively an entirely new and unannounced standard of conduct." i The losers in both cases followed usual legal practice and asked the circuit court to stay the effect of its ruling. They are expected also to vask Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to call the Supreme Court, which adjourned last week, into session to hear appeals. Before the court could hear the cases, Burger would have to summon vacationing justices for a special session of which there have been only three in history. The Credentials Committee had ousted the 59 Illinois delegates for violation of those requirements.

Holiday Death Toll Hits 757 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Holiday traffic accidents took a record number of lives for an Independence Day weekend. Authorities reported that 757 persons were killed on the nation's highways during the four-day observance which began at 6 pjn. rtiday ana ended at midnight Tuesday. The previous record for a Fourth of July weekend was 732 in 1967 when the holiday also ran four days. The count last year, a three-day observance, was 638.

The National Safety Council had estimated in advance that 800 to 900 persons might be killed during the 102 hours of this year's holiday. trial on countersints between Mrs. Onassis and Galella last winter. Prior to that, he had ordered Galella to stay at least 100 yards from the Onassis' Fifth Avenue apartment, and at least 50 yards from Mrs. Onassis and the children.

In replacing the earlier order with a permanent injunction, Cooper again directed that Galella stay 100 yards away from the apartment and 50 yards away from Mrs. Onassis. He also ordered that the photographer stay at least 100 yards away from the schools attended by the children, and 75 yards away from the children themselves. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer apologized. He told Boris Spassky and the Soviet people Wednesday he was sorry if he insulted them by disrupting the world chess championship.

But the word from Moscow was tough, and Thursday's scheduled start of the matches remained uncertain. The Soviet Chess Federation demanded that the American challenger forfeit the first game of the 24-game match because he didn't show up for its scheduled start Sunday. Fischer's holdout, however, has brought the winnings and even the losings to the highest amount in any world championship chess match. The winner will get $231,250 and the loser $168,750. A few thousand dollars and prestige went to previous world champions.

Spassky, the defending champion from Russia, had complained that Fischer's conduct had "insulted me personally and the country I represent." The American, in a statement prepared by his 'Mayor for Moment9 Camping Space To Be Provided MIAMI BEACH, Fla. AP) The Miami City Council reversed itself Wednesday and voted 4 to 2 to. provide camping space for demonstrators arriving for the Democratic National Convention. The council allotted the 36-acre Flamingo Park to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to act as an "umbrella group" for other protest groups. Some 200 young demonstrators cheered enthusiastically when the vote was taken after a daylong hearing.

Photographer Held Guilty of Contempt ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The Republican State Committee voted Wednesday to send all top elected state officials including Gov. Nelson A. Rockefellerto the party's national convention next month, but as nonvoting honorary delegates. The idea, Rockefeller said at a news conferencCbefore he attended a luncheon with state committee members, was to open the national convention to "working people in terms of the party structure, plus representation of youth, minority groups, and, of course, the very large percentage of women." Traditionally, some spots on the delegation have been reserved for whaf, the governor called worthy political figures and worthy contributors." But this year aO these spots were lumped into the "honorary" category.

At the June 20 primary, Republicans elected two delegates from iach of the 39 sional districts. At Wednesday's meeting, the national committee selected the remaining 10 delegates five of them women to round out the 88-member delegation. State GOP Chairman Charles T. lanigan, re-elected to head the state party organization, NEW YORK (AP) A dogged free-lance photographer was held guilty of contempt of federal court Wednesday because he defied a judge's order to keep his distance from his favorite target, Jacqueline Kennedy. Onassis.

"He was like a shadow everywhere she went he followed her and engaged in offensive conduct," District Judge Irving Ben Cooper wrote of The" photographer, Ronald Galella. "Nothing vas sacred to him, whether defendant went to church, funeral Wvices, theater, school, restaurant or aboard a yacht in a foreign land," Cooper added. As long ago as last October, Mil ton G. Tibbitts, former Glens Falls mayor and Wednesday Bight's "mayor for the moment," watches present Robert J. Cronia read one of the certificate! hoMrisf department beads for 2S years of service.

Tibbitti the nude, presentation. (See story on page 11).

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