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2 Las Vegas DAILY OPtlC Tuesday July 9, i i 7 Blind magician not handicapped FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Nigel Richards can't depend oh marked cards or secret signals when he names the card a person picks. The 16- year-old magician is blind. "You never can tell when something could go wrong and show up in front of people," says the Fort Lauderdale youth. But he says he really has an advantage over sighted magicians.

"They have preconceived ideas and think that everything is done with secret compartments," he says. "I had to start from scratch. It really is slight of hand." Richards refuses to divulge any of his secrets, but he says he can do any kind of card trick and most conventional tricks such as cutting and restoring ropes and producing a string of handkerchiefs from a pocket. Richards, who performs at parties, admits there are a few magical tricks he still has lo perfect. However, he says there isn't one that his blindness prevents him from doing.

"I just have to gel over my stage fright." he says. "I'm af- ways afraid of fouling up somewhere." Richards, a a i math and science student, says he became interested in magic when a friend told him about a man who could make things disappear. "I know tilings can't just disappear because Newton's law says that matter can neither be created or destroyed." he says. "So I decided 1 could do it myself." Pop top tabs held concept FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. A How do you show children what a million looks like? Dianne DiPaolo believes she has the answer.

She and the third grade classes she teaches at Fort Defiance Elementary School are collecting the tabs From pop-top cans. The class that ended this past school year came up with "With a little help, I think we can come pretty close to the one million mark" during the next school term, said Miss DiPaolo. Bui even if they don't hit the million mark, the project has proved an excellent way to demonstrate otherwise abstract concepts to children like tens oF ihnusands, she said. Miss DiPaolo said the tabs are strung together, then tied in "bundles; and bundles." Agency approves port of entry WASHINGTON A U.S. Rep.

Harold Runnels. says the State Department has agreed to sign a forma! agreement with Mexico calling For a port of entry at Anapra. HunneJs said he received word the department was willing to enter an agreement in letter From Linwood Holto'n. assistant, secretary of state for congressional relations. Hunnels called it "one oF the Formalities" needed to keep the Anapra project moving.

Holton said in I "the American embassy in Mexico C'ity has been instructed to in- Form the Mexican Foreign Office that this government is willing to enler i such an i agreement, and urge it to complete the arrangement by sending the embassy a Spain's jefe hospitalized MAD A Gen. Kran- cisco Franco. 81 and strong man of Spain for years, was i a i a i from phlebitis in his right leg. his household staff reported. Sources close to El Pardo Palace.

Franco's residence said the Spanish loader was hospitalized "because by so doing he 1'eels more rested and doctors are handy at any time." They added his condition was not grave, ''though he is suffering acute pain." Phlebitis, or inflammation of the veins, is the same ailment that struck President Nixon last month. When accompanied by formation of a clot, as in Nixon's case, it is called throm- bophlebitis. Nixon's doctor said'that the clot could have been fatal. It was not known if Franco's ailment was similar in this respect to Nixon's. The sources said Franco's successor as king of Spain, Prince Carlos tic Borbon.

was informed immediately. The 3 a i named successor to Franco in would become king of Spain upon Franco's death or if he were incapacitated. Franco spent a week's vacation in northern Spain in early lie spent most of the time fishing, and doctors said at the time his health was very good. Franco was hospitalized just as Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger landed in Madrid for a six-hour visit to initial a joint declaration of principles on defensive cooperation.

U.S., Soviet spacemen in training (AD A team of A i a a a wound up nearly three weeks of work with Soviet a today in preparation for the Soyuz- flight just a year away. Seated at the fool of a a i a i i model at this space (raining center, ling. Thomas P. a A commander, said, "We're all looking forward to Hying it." Soviet authorities invited American correspondents lo visit the center, about 20 mill's northeast of Moscow in an area normally closed to foreigners, and talk with the spacemen. Besides learning about each other's spaceships, Hie joint training sessions also are devoted to language and tasting each other's space food.

Him- is Russian space food? "Like ours," replied Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot. "Some of it's good and some not so good." Inside the Capital Apodaca opens attack TV Log Bike safety rules The phenomenal rise in the popularity of bicycles has been accompanied by a marked increase in injuries. The United States Product Safety Commission reports that last year almost a million were hurt in bicycle- an flood kills 3 people MEXICO CITY A A man- and his two children drowned near a small western Mexico village late Monday, increasing the death toll from recent rain disasters to IB. authorities said.

The Water Resources Ministry said the Tarimbaro River in centra! Michoacan state. 300 miles west of Mexico City, related aCCidentS, more than 400,000 overflowed after a syere sLoimi severely enough so that hospitartFeatment' was sought. One reason is that little attention has been paid to bicycle safety. It is gratifying that the Commission has formulated the first federal regulations in this field, covering' st.urdiness of construction, brake performance, reflectors, and so on. The injuries toll underscores the need for such rules.

An open courtroom Judge Preston Dial of San Antonio, has wisely reconsidered and decided not to bar newsmen and the public during jury selection in the trial of a youth charged in several sex-and-torture murders. The judge's intent of seeking to assure the accused fair treatment in the case is sound, but closing off the courtroom is not the way to achieve this. The right of fair trial and the public's right to be informed often are in conflict. We think it can generally be resolved, once trial proceedings begin, by admitting the press and public but insisting on decorum in the courtroom. If that is done, even in so sensational a case as this one it should be possible to guarantee the defendant all due process.

To bar the press and the public from the courtroom would seriously infringe upon First Amendment rights. Harold F. Thatcher's Letter to the Editor of 20 June states that Watrous was named after John Watrous. Perhaps by this time a correction has been made to the Optic. The town of Watrous was named after Samuel B.

Watrous. not' John Watrous. The genealogy of the Watrous family lists a John Watrous. physician, and deputy of Connecticut General Court (1754-1842) but he has no connection with the town of Watrous. Samuel B.

Walrous, on one of his visits to his native Vermont, brought back shoots of willow trees which were planted in Watrous. It was also Samuel B. Watrous who was a friend of the Hermit on Hermit's Peak. Angeline Guerin Kramer 4055 Azalea St. Riverside.

75503 Published weekdays except Saturday and Sunday at 614 Lincoln Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701. Second class postage paid at Las Vegas, New Mexico. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier or Mail A middle-aged man and his- two sons were the river's current. More than 100 cows also drowned when the current swep.t them away. A house collapsed Sunday in Mexico City under rain pressure killing four persons and injuring 30 others.

Flash floods in Veracruz state east'of Mexico City killed two persons last Thursday. Nine others died d'uring the June onslaught of Hurricane Dolores last month in Acapulco. During 1973 more than 100 persons died in Mexican rainy season floods. An estimated 40 persons were injured in the Tirambaro River flood while 300 were reported homeless. Federal troops i i food and blankets to affected residents, while the homeless were placed in public buildings lo spend the night.

Another 20.000 persons who were a a from their homes in eastern Mexico last week after the flash flooding returned to ihcir rain-damaged houses Monday night when the downpours stopped in that area, authorities said. First pants due in plant today SAN ANTONIO, Tex. A -The first pair of pants produced in the reopening of a second Farah a a i Co. plant here should come off the production line today, a spokesman says. Farah's U.S.

90 West plant reopened Monday with a work force of about KM) persons. Plant manager Angelo Battaglia said the number of em- ployes should reach by the 01 id of the week. Farah. based in El Paso, closed its two plants here late last year near the end of a 22- monih strike which concluded i A a a a i Workers of 'America winning recognition as bargaining agent tor employes. Address corrected Tne 40-foot tree struck by lightning Saturday night was in the yard of the Kmiiio J.

Ksquibel home at 1909 Hot Springs not at 1013 Hot Springs as reported in Monday's Optic. Mrs. Esquibel reported today that the lightning also damaged wiring in the home as well as a meter and television set. Mrs. Isabel a i is recuperating at Iier home at 1913 Hot Springs Blvd.

after a at Las Vegas Hospital for shock. Martinez was standing in her doorway door "to" the Esquibel residence when the lightning struck. Lieutenant governors in confabs ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP Lieutenant governors from around the country were gathering in Albuquerque today for I he opening oF the Five-day Na- lional Lieutenant Governor's Conference. Today's light session includes registration and cocktails at the convention headquarters in the Albuquerque Hilton Inn and a reception atop Sandia Crest.

The conference gets, under way in earnest Wednesday with committee meetings on the office of lieutenant governor and energy and natural resources. In addition to business, the delegates and their wives will be occupied with a get-ac- a i brunch and bingo game, a cocktail party and multicultural entertainment, (ipv. Bruce King will welcome the, lieutenant governors i' bishop-electr Robert Sanchez delivering the invocation. The group will hear From Vice President Gerald Ford Friday afternoon during a session in Santa Fo and visits are planned lo a oF nearby i i including Los Alamos. Taps, San Ildefonso Pueblo and Nambe.

Watergate play called excessive PRINCETON, N.J. (AP-Most Americans believe the news media are devoting too much time and space to coverage of Watergate, the latest Gallup Pol! shows. FiFty-three per cent of the 1,509 adults interviewed June 21- 2i said they felt newspapers, television and radio were pro-. viding "too much" coverage, 13 per cent felt there was "too little" coverage, 30 per cent believed the coverage to be just right and the remaining 4 per cent offered no opinion. In a similar survey, conducted in June 1973, 44 per cent said Watergate coverage was in excess, 12 per cent said there was "too little" coverage, 36 per cent believed it to be "about right." and 8 per cent offered no opinion.

The percentage of Republicans who said Watergate coverage was "too much" increased from 66 to 75 per cent in the last year and among independents the figure increased from 43 to 51 per cent. By FRED BUCKLES SANTA FE--Democratic governor nominee Jerry Apodaca whacked the Senate record of his general election opponent, Republican Joe Skeen, on educe ion legislation. Apodaca and Skeen were in the Senate in 1967-70 and Joe was the Republican leader. Jerry charged: "By and large he failed to support the proper appropriations on education and he exhibited little leadership for the Republican Party." Apodaca added: "Joe Skeen was too negative and he was not overly interested in assisting public education." Jerry said Jack Eastham, then Senate GOP whip, provided Senate Republican leadership on education legislation. Skeen beat Eastham nearly 2-1 in the Republican governor primary June 4.

Sen. Apodaca said of Skeen: "He was more concerned about 'doing what he could for certain special interests which he later lobbied for." Jerry said Joe, then an ex-senator, lobbied in the 1971 Legislature for horsemen and branch banking. Sen. Apodaca said: "I supported branch banking from the very beginning in the legislature because I believed it was best for the people. Mine was not a paid position." Apodaca and Skeen were both active on education legislation in the Senate.

Skeen said in the primary campaign New Mexico school children are deficient in basics: Skeen called for a reevaluation of the approach to education. Joe would upgrade the program and return to fundamentals. Joe said plowing more money into public education has been overemphasized. He said local school boards and classroom teachers should be asked for recommendations. Sen.

Apodaca said his general election campaign will un- Besides Mrs. Mann, Sen. Apodaca said, other women mentioned for the state chairman's job were Mrs. Gloria White, Clovis, and Mrs. Grace Williams and Melyin Jaschke of Albuquerque.

The state central committee will elect a new state chairman Saturday in Albuquerque. The SDCC is expected to adopt Jerry's recommendation. Apodaca is titular head of the State Democratic Party now. Jerry will recommend appointment of a campaign KOB Ch. 6 or 4 TUESDAY 3:00 Green Acres 3:30 Here's Lucy 4:00 Mission Impossible 5:00 NBC Nightly News 5:30 I Dream of Jeannie 6:00 Eyewitness News R-3H Sanford Son 7:00 Seaworld Special 7:30 Movie: Faraday and Co.

9:00 Police Story 10:00 Eyewitness News coordinator to integrate party 10:30 Tonight Show TM and candidates' activities. Apodaca will also call for selection of district campaign coordinators in the two U.S. House districts. He will also suggestaction to pick a new state finance chairman. Sen.

Apodaca said State Democratic Party Treasurer William B. Russell of Albuquerque will reportedly resign because Russell is the Democratic nominee for the House in Albuquerque Heights District 26. Apodaca attracted 1,000 to a Santa Fe reception Friday night. The turnout was impressive with a no-host bar at this early campaign stage. Jerry has generally pulled most Democratic Party elements together since the primary.

Some East Side Odis Echols and Bob Mayfield primary supporters will back Skeen. Some Tibo Chavez fans are bitter. Show called "unreal" EDMONDS, Wash. A it's unlikely anybody will ever be mugged at this particular park. It has beautiful scenery, fish, solitude, peace--and it's 50 feet under water at high tide.

The Edmonds Underwater 1961-70. Jerry and his advisors still had not picked a new state Democratic chairman at the weekend. Indecision on the key recommendation to the State Democratic Central Committee plagued the Apodaca camp. Ratings of prospects changed But trio was 'ui 'the Its attractions 26, derscore differences between his Senate record and that of City Park, the first municipal Skeen. Joe was in the Senate in underwater park in the nation is a diver's paradise.

"It's a super place to dive. There's almost no better place," said Bill High, 40, a diver since 1955. are classic." Kenneth Shefveland, called it "unreal." "You just stand theireon the' bottom and take it all in." he forefront Sunday: Albuquerque said. "There's always some- attorney Mike Keleher, Chaves thing new. It's like being in an County Democratic Chairman aquarium--in the tank--with Pauline Mann and William the fish all around you." Burks, Albuquerque, president Divers call it "The Wreck" of American Savings-and Loan because two empty drydock Association.

hulls were sunk about 150 yards Young Keleher, member of a from the beach in the late 1940s prominent law firm, is active in lo help break up the currents. A i Democratic politics. He is vice chairman of the Albuquerque Planning Commission. He once ran unsuccessfully for the COIlVlCtS House. An Apodaca emissary sounded out Keleher and Mike is receptive to the prospect of being state Democratic chairman.

Mrs. Mann of Roswell has revived a Chaves County Democratic Party that has been whomped regularly by the GOP since 1966. Burks, also president of the New Mexico League of Insured Savings and Loan Associations, was an effective fundraiser for 12:00 Tomorrow WEDNESDAY 6:00 today Show 8:00 Dinah's Place 8:30 Winning Streak 9:00 High Rollers 9:30 Hollywood Squares 10:00 Jackpot 10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes 10:55 Floyd Kalber 11:00 Truth or Consequences 11:30 Jeopardy 12:00 Days of Our Lives 12:30 The Doctors 1:00 Another World 1:30 How to Survive a Marriage 2:00 The Merv Griffin KGGM Ch. 11 or 13 TUESDAY 2:30 The Edge of Night 3:00 That Girl 3:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father 4:00 It Takes a Thief 5:00 Hogan's Heroes 5:30 TV-13 Report 6:00 CBS News-Cronkite 6:30 Hawaii 5-0 7:30 Tuesday Night Movie 9:00 Tony Orlando Darvin 10:00 TV-13 Report 10:30 CBS Late Movie-- WEDNESDAY 6:00 CBS Morn. News 7:00 Captain Kangaroo 8:00 Joker's Wild 8:30 Gambit 9:00 Now You See It 9:30 Love of Life 10:00 The Young Restless 10:30 Search for Tomorrow 11:00 Guiding Light 11:30 TV 13 Report 12:30 Forum 13 1:00 New Price is Right- 1:30 Match Game 2:00 Tattletales WEDNESDAY 7:00 A 8:00 Fashions in Sewing 8:30 Galloping Gourmet 9:00 Parents Game 9:30 Brady Bunch 10:00 Password 10:30 Split Second 11:00 All My Children 11:30 Let's Make a Deal 12:00 Newlywed Game 12:90 Girl in my Life 1:00 General Hospital 1:30 One Life to Live KNME Ch.

5 TUESDAY 2:30 Where It Hurts 3:00 Career Education 3:30 The French Chef 4:00 Sesame Street 5:00 Mister Rogers Neighborhood 5:30 The Electric Company 6:00 Amiguitos 6:15 Storytime 6' 30 Hablemos Espanol 7:00 Prison 7:30 Firing Line 8:30 APS at Work WEDNESDAY 8:15 Prelude 8:30 Career Education 9:00 The Electric Company 9:30 A Performance 9:40 Music 10:00 Sesame Street 11:00 The City 11:30 Mister Rogers Neighborhood 12:00 Evening at Pops SPOT ADS Are well Read You're reading one! CALLM.A.MAESE 425-6796 FOR YOURS Bea. good neighbor NASHVILLE, -Seven convicts who escaped from a state prison work crew were being hunted today by a massive police dragnet. Six others who fled with them were back behind bars. KOAT Ch. 9 or 7 TUESDAY 2:00 $10,000 Pyramid Carousel (Part I) 4:30 Dusty Trail 5:00 ABC News 5:30 Dragnet 6:00 6 on 7 News 6:30 Brady Bunch 7:00 Happy Days 7:30 ABC Tuesday Movie-- Thc Elavator 9:00 Marcus Welby 10:00 Big 7 News 10:30 Wide World Mystery- and the Bones came Together the Good Neighbor.

The American Red Cross. i to tto pubM good The 13 inmates escaped from the state prison farm about noon Monday when they commandeered a prison bus and bolted from the area amid a hail Jack Daniels in the 1970. of gunshots fired by guards governor and 1972 U.S. Senate campaigns. Reportedly, the Apodaca camp considered Les Houston and Nick Franklin, both young Albuquerque lawyers, for the key state chairman's job.

But they were not in top contention Sunday. Houston, an unsuccessful Democratic primary lieutenant governor candidate this year, and Franklin are bright future prospects in Democratic politics. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Crewmen return, douse rig fire NEW ORLEANS (AP) Exxon USA says the 50 to 60 crewmen forced by fire to flee one of its offshore oil-gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico returned to extinguish the blaze within an hour and a half. A spokesman for the oil company said there were no injuries in the incident Sunday night. The crewmen first escaped in standby work boats, the spokesman said, but quickly returned when it was determined none of the gas or oil wells was burning.

He said the fire started when a work boom accidentally hit Ihe platform, and sparks ignited twodiesel fuel tanks and a piece of processing equipment called a separator, which splits the water from gas and oil. C.D. Roxburgh of New Or- lear.s operations manager for KXXON's southeastern Division. said the platform controls IS oil wells and one gas well. They pump a total of 9,000 barrels of oil and 11 million cubic feet of gas daily from the Gulf bottom.

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Sigmoid 38. Marsh elder FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1974 CARROLL RIGHTER'S from the Carroll Rightar Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: The early morning is fine for doing anything you wish, especially planning the future. Make a point to carry through with what you've started recently for you are still under excellent aspects for making a big success. ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr.

19) Spend more time working on new ideas instead of worrying about present routines. Sidestep one who is overly critical of you. TAURUS (Apr. 20 to May 20) Join with good friends who have fine ideas for your progress in the future. Express the creative side of your life.

Relax tonight. GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Seek advice from higher-ups today since you are at a low ebb and could make some mistakes. Try to increase your present income MOON CHILDREN (June 22 to July 21) Don't worry about problems you have no control over. Making the right contacts is the key to your success right now. LEO (July 22 to Aug.

21) Handle those personal and business obligations you have without delay. Forget the social and concentrate on more important tasks. VIRGO (Aug. 22 to Sept. 22) Make sure you know just what it is you want to accomplish.

Associates are in a good mood to discuss plans for the future. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Ignore those who have done you some harm in the past and concentrate on good friends instead. Obtain the information you need SCORPIO (Oct.

23 to Nov. 21) You can make this a happy day if you contact persons whose interests are similar to yours Your creativity is high right now. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Get together with family members and plan how to make life at home more worthwhile.

Engage in enjoyable hobbies tonight CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 20) Find the'right method for becoming more efficient at your duties and please your associates. Be sure to take health treatments. AQUARIUS (Jan.

21 to Feb. 19) Ideal day to be practical and make plans that are constructive, A business expert ctn tell you how to add to present income PISCES (Feb. 20 to Mar. 20) You can reap fine benifits by engaging in much social activity today and exchange ideas with persons you have long wanted to meet IF YOUR CHILD IS BORN TODAY he or she will be one of those highly sensitive youngsters who needs to have the finest types of individuals around, your progeny will be very susceptible to their influence. Give every cultural advantage you can afford and make sure that the schools and colleges attended are the best.

"The Stars impel, they do not compel." What you make of your life is largely up to YOU! Carroll Righter's Individual Forecast for your sign for August is now ready. For your copy send yout birthdate and 1 to Carroll Righter Forecast (name of newspaper), P.O. Box 629, Hollywood, Calif. 90028. ((c) 1974, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.).