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I Page 2, Part 1 Bill Singer of the Angels was named to the American League All-, Stars but Nolan Ryan, who has two no-hitters, was not. (Part 3, Page 1.) Businessmen generally expressed mild disappointment at President Nixon's Phase 4 economic controls program. (Part 3, Page 9.) A 4-month-old Pomona boy la suspected of being the first Los Angeles County polio case In almost 10 years. (Part 2, Page 1.) Los Aneeles County was accused Inside The Times Five Dodgers Willie Davis, Mota, Jim Brewer, Claude Osteen In View Joseph T. Sneed, the Justice Department's No.

2 man, is being considered for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Part 1, Page The Senate Armed Services Committee asked, for names of officials responsible for a Cambodian bombing coverup. (Part 1, Page 10.) A new study foresees, little extra money for domestic programs during President Nixon's second term. (Part Page 11.) Initial reaction to Mr.

Nixon's Phase 4 program was concerned heavily with its effect on food prices. (Part 1, Page 15.) Cambodia began evacuating 2,000 political and war prisoners as heavy fighting neared the nation's capital. (Part 1, Page 28.) The California Air Resources Board voted to resurrect four antipollution devices in a compromise move. (Part 2, Page 1.) and Don Sutton were named to the N.L. All-Stars.

(Part 3, Page 1.) In Financial Stock prices rallied in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones industrial average closed the session at 905.40, up 7.37. (Part 3, Page 9.) Several major Eastern banks Joined the rush to increase' the prime lending rata to a record level of 8. (Part 3, Page 9.) The government confirmed it has been following an. intervention policy in an effort to bolster the sagging dollar.

(Part 3, Page 9.) The California PUC has subpoenaed two oil companies to testify on reports of fuel oil shortages. (Part 1, Page 3.) The Marine Corps is trying to prove that a San Diego zoo keeper is also a deserter, although the man denies the charges. (Part 1, Page 3.) More than 450 United Farm Workers Union pickets were arrested while picketing in the San Joaquin Valley. (Part 1, Page 3.) One of five persons who may have begun treatment for rabies too late was hospitalized after becoming ill. (Part 1, Page 3.) THE SOUTHLAND Bridge Falsework Slips, 3 Injured News in THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1973 THE WORLD 43 Belgian Pilgrims Feared Dead lifi'n suite fix A 7T ieVr 1 I i i Vvt'W British actor Jack Hawkins, who often played heroic British officers, died of cancer at 62.

(Part 1, Page 5.) The U.S. military machine is "fast becoming luxury-bound," Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) charged. (Part 1, Page 5.) The Security Council formally recommended membership in the United Nations for the Bahamas. (Part 1, Page 6.) More than 20,000 Libyans were reported headed for Cairo demanding complete Egyptian-Libyan union.

(Part 1, Page 6.) Compiled from the Los Anselej Times, the Let Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service end maior wire end supplementary news agencies. Importation of the cement will begin next month aboard U.S. ships on their way home from carrying grain to the Soviet Union. Police in Rome said they had suspended investigation into the disappearance of teen-aged J. Paul Getty III, grandson of American oil billionaire J.

Paul Getty. They sought to give the youth's mother time to establish another contact with his alleged kidnapers. His mother verified the handwriting in a letter addressed to her as that of her son. In part the letter said, "Don't let me be killed. Arrange things so that police don't intervene.

You must absolutely not take the thing as a joke." Britain's highest court upheld the legal suppression of a newspaper article recounting the plight of nearly 400 children born deformed because of the drug thalidomide. Five judges sitting in the House of Lords said the article, prepared by the London Sunday Times for publication last year but barred by, a legal injunction imposed at the request of Distillers makers of thalidomide, would be in contempt of court. Harold Evans, the paper's editor, said the Law Lords' judgment was a grave blow to press freedom. A scuba-diving team from Los Angeles hunting the legendary continent of Atlanti3 said in Cadiz, Spain, they have found what may be a clue to the lost civilization just 16 miles offshore. Maxine Asher, an anthropologist at Pepperdine College and codirector of the Ancient Mediterranean Research said she hoped film shot by two divers Monday would confirm the divers' report that they had spotted "man-made roads and columns" answering Plato's description of Atlantis.

In Los Angeles, Dr. Julian Nava, a leader of the group of over 50 scientists and students and a professor of history at California State University, Northridge, said the divers "photographed columns and other stones with what looked like inscriptions on them." Nava i3 a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education. Brief rmmm riiwi xwe. SURVEILLANCE Marine Pfc. R.

R. Cluster can't avoid some girl-watching as he stands guard outside Bethesda Naval Hospital where President Nixon is confined. The President was described as essentially recovered and is to leave Friday for Camp David. Wirephote THE NATION Senate Refuses to Cut $2.20 Minimum Pay of job bias against blacks and Mexican-Americans in a federal court suit. (Part 2, Page 1.) Two experts talk of trying to cut down on the government's role in foreign trade.

(Part 2, Editorial Section.) A new worldwide struggle is under way as competition stiffens for available food supplies. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) In Sports Wilver Stargell's homer ended the Dodgers' seven-game winning streak, giving Pittsburgh a 3-2 victory. (Part 3, Page 1.) The Rams appear to have generally strengthened their offense for 1973, especially in the passing game. (Part 3, Page 1.) Two first-degree murder warrants were issued in Tampa, for a convicted kidnaper and karate expert wanted in the deaths of two young sisters who police said were the victims of a deliberate hit-and-run incident. A nationwide alert was issued for Raymond A.

McMahon, 31, based on descriptions from more than 35 witnesses and fingerprints found on the impounded hit-and-run vehicle. Rabyn Caton, 5, and Rox-anne, 13, were killed when the car hit them and their brother, Curtis, 12, was injured. The nation's largest oil companies vigorously denied that they conspired to monopolize the refining of petroleum products, as alleged in a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission charging that practices employed by the eight major oil companies resulted in the current gasoline shortage and drove some independents out of the industry. Firms named by the FTC were Exxon, Texaco, Gulf, Mobil, Standard of California, Standard of Indiana, Shell and Atlantic Richfield. Two teen-aged black girls who claimed they were sterilized without their consent by a federally funded clinic have asked a federal court in Montgomery, to dismiss a $5 million damage suit.

The petition asks for dismissal "without prejudice," which would permit the suit to be refiled later or in a different court. Apparently they are seeking to have the case tried before a more sympathetic judge. The Uniroyal Tire Co. agreed to pay an $80,000 fine for producing tires that failed to meet federal safety standards, the Transportation Department said in Washington. Uniroyal previously agreed to recall all 48,000 tires involved in the sale of the tires to a chain of cooperative stores.

The tires involved were nylon glass-belted and carried the name "Co-op Hi-level Spd." Warning that a growing news monopoly could result in censorship by the media, the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee upheld a law requiring newspapers to print replies of political candidates whom they criticize. The decision was handed down in a case brought by Pat L. Tornillo who sued the Miami Herald for refusing to print his reply to a critical editorial during his unsuccessful race for the state legislature last fall. New admiration for Noel Coward is evoked in reviewer by "Oh, Coward," now at the Ivar Theater. (Part 4, Page 1.) Playwright Frank D.

Gilroy says the less money-involved the greater the art that i3 produced. (Part 4, Page 1.) A woman patient in County-USC Medical Center has a personal interest in forthcoming Kidney Day conference. (Part 4, Page 1.) A women's group in New York has started a movement to establish a more flexible work schedule for employed women. (Part 4, Page 1.) residency requirement for council candidates. The effect was to continue the requirement for residency in a district, but to eliminate the length.

In another action, the council by a vote of 9 to 4 decided not to appeal a Superior Court judgment which held unconstitutional a Charter section requiring a filing fee of 2 of the first year's salary of the office which the candidate is seeking. The ruling applied only, however, to indigents unable to pay the fee. A woman and three children were killed in a fiery head-on crash of a station wagon and a semitruck on California 86 about 17 miles southeast of Indio. Traffic on the two-lane highway was tied up for three hours until wreckage was cleared. The dead, all occupants of the station wagon, were identified as Mrs.

Gail Edgmon, 26, of Indio, her two daughters, Shawnda, 9, and Terry, 6, and a nephew, Teddy Lepas, 5, 'of San Jose. Highway Patrol investigators said the station wagon apparently drifted over the center line, hit the oncoming truck and burst into The truck driver and a passenger escaped injury. The pilot of a light plane was taken to Desert Hospital with compound fractures after crashing during a landing at Palm Springs Municipal Airport. He was identified by hospital attendants as Wilbur Mike McCray, 48, a Santa Ana attorney, An airport spokesman said McCray was about to touch down when' he apparently changed his mind and decided to circle for another proach. The twin-engine Aero Commander's left wing dug' into the ground and the craft cartwheeled.

Superior Judge David Fitts ordered that a 43-year-old Huntington Beach man undergo a 90-day diagnostic study before being sentenced for his part in a plot to kill labor leader Joseph Seymour. Harold Freeman Tharp, convicted by a jury two months ago of conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder, will be given the psychiatric evaluation at Chino Institution for Seyr mour is the long-time president of the Operating Engineers Union, Local 12. Tharp ran for union office on a slate opposed to Seymour. Two Gas Lines Break drivers broke down. The drivers walked out after their contract expired Monday night.

They first asked for an hourly raise of $1, but later increased the demand to $1.40, spokesmen said. A man described as a major drug distributor was seized in San Fran? Cisco with $500,000 worth of heroin after two years of almost constant surveillance, police said. Officers said Gustavo Rodriguez, 33, was arrested at his home after he allegedly made a heroin sale to two persons while undercover agents watched. ervation. Administration spokesmen, testifying before a Senate sub-committee, urged rejection of a bill by Sen.

Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) that would repeal a provision in the Wilderness Act of 1964 that allows mining to continue until 1984. Nevada state park system officials said they will attempt to buy the 525-acre Spring Mountain ranch in the Red Rock Canyon recreation area west of Las Vegas before it goes up for public auction Aug. 7. The ranch is owned by Los Angeles businessmen Fletcher Jones and William Murphy.

They gave up plans for a housing development on the property after their application for a zone change drew heavy opposition from environmentalists. Three workmen were injured when the falsework of a bridge under construction on Interstate 8 near Pine Valley slipped as it was being lowered to the ground, authorities reported. Cruz Delgado, 22, Ramon Spencer, 31, and Barney Taylor, 42, were treated at El Cajon Valley Hospital. The bridge is part of a freeway project between El Cajon and El Centre The falsework under a 35-foot section fell on the workmen. A temperature of 113 degrees in Death Valley combined with prolonged exertion caused the death of a Huntington Beach youth, the Inyo County coroner's office reported Gary Brenizer, 17, collapsed and died Monday while returning to.

Bad Water from a hike across Salt Flats. His companion, Tim Caplett, 20, of Santa Ana told rangers Brenizer was not wearing a hat or shirt. He collapsed and Caplett went for help, leaving the remains of their two quarts of water. Brenizer was dead when Caplett returned with help. A doctor at China Lake Naval Weapons Station said death was due to cardiac arrest, caused by high body temperature and exertion.

Los Angeles Councilwoman Pat Russell branded a state proposal to nearly triple the passenger volume at Los Angeles International Airport by the year 2000 as "idiotic, insane and incredible." Mrs. Russell, who represents the airport area, said state Aeronautics Division planners who made the recommendation must have "dredged up an old plan." It has already been determined-, she said, that the "absolute maximum capacity" is 40 million passengers by 1990. The airport handled 22 million passengers last year. A 6 increase in the ceiling of Los Angeles City Council office budgets from last year's $147,000 to $155,820 for the current fiscal year was recommended by the council's Rules Committee. President John S.

Gibson Jr. said the only councilman who exceeded last year's maximum was Arthur K. Snyder, who spent $150,000. The Los Angeles City Council decided, 8 to 5, not to appeal a Superior Court decision invalidating a City Charter section requiring a two-year THE STATE Hundreds Flee After Hundreds of residents of Sacramento neighborhood four miles south of the Capitol building were evacuated after two gas lines were ruptured by freeway construction equipment. There were no reports of injuries or fire but police shut off all traffic several blocks from the break.

The mishap occurred near Sutterville Road and Riverside Blvd. More than 200 train-car loads of lettuce sat rotting at Salinas as negotiations between growers and striking Teamsters Union truck A bus carrying 49 Belgian pilgrims home from a shrine in the French Alps plunged 60 feet from a bridge into a rain-swollen river, killing all but six persons, police believed. Two persons were thrown from the bus and seriously injured. Two boys managed to swim out of the submerged bus. Rescuers pulled two others out of the river.

The accident happened about 15 miles from Grenoble. The Viet Cong presented a program at the South Vietnamese political talks in Paris that would allow full freedom of action and speech in South Vietnam. But the South Vietnamese turned down the plan as a "blatant maneuver" to avoid discussion of a definite date for elections and the pullout of North Vietnamese forces from the south. The two parties have met 17 times in the deadlocked talks. Reports reached New Delhi of executions, arrests, fighting and calls for a countercoup in Afghanistan where the brother-in-law of the king seized power Tuesday and proclaimed a republic.

One account said 36 persons were killed in fighting during the revolt, but this report and others could not be confirmed. Portugal's Premier Marcello Cae-tano rejected allegations of Portuguese atrocities in Mozambique and declared that his countrymen had no intention of leaving southern Africa. "It is hard to understand why Africa should only be for black Africans," he said at a London press reception on the last full day of his visit to Britain. Author Andrei Amalrik, a leading Soviet dissenter, who was to have been released from a labor camp this year, has been given a second three-year sentence, informed sources reported. His sentence, on charges similar to those of 1970, was passed by a court in the far eastern Magadan region, the sources said.

Israel Is buying 100,000 tons of cer ment from the Soviet Union in the two nations' first major trade deal since they severed diplomatic relations during the 1967 Mideast war. Newsmakers- The Blood Is Fine to the Last Drop Somehow you have to feel that Shakespeare's Portia would have been pleased even though she argued that Shylock could have his pound of flesh but extract not a drop of blood. Scott Mc-Farland of Menasha, is paying off a $39 fine for speeding with three pints of blood donated to a local hospital after he told the judge he was broke. To quote Portia: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven And floweth into the blood bank? The evolving image of Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev as a Western fan was strengthened as the consulate in San Francisco presented a Russian samovar to TV cowboy star Chuck Connors as a gift from Brezhnev.

The two met at the Western White House last month when Brezhnev picked Connors out of a crowd and gave him a bear hug. Connors later gave his fan two revolvers and a Western hat. First the hug, then the hat and now the urn. Next Connors will Rejecting talk of a presidential veto, the Senate refused to junk a $2.20 an hour minimum wage bill in favor of a scaled-down Republican version. The 57-40 vote to reject the GOP bill increased the likelihood that the wage bill written by the Labor and Public Welfare Committee would be approved in some form today.

A similar measure has passed the House. Stung by defeat in the Senate, environmentalists moved to the House in their battle to block construction of a 789-mile Alaska oil pipeline. Rep. John J. Seiberling (D-Ohio) blocked consideration of the bill by the House Interior Committee despite a plea by Rep.

Craig Hosmer (D-Cal-if.) that every day of delay is costing the United States an outflow of $5.5 million for foreign oil. In Anchorage, Friends of the Earth spokesman James Kowalsky said, "The Alaska people are being sold a bill of goods and they don't realize it." inner ear problems but wound up in a Manila hospital. Yevtushenko complained about his. ears after swimming in Davao Gulf in Mindanao and sought help in the faith healer's clinic where Guttierez extracted what he said was seawa-ter. Next Yevtushenko went to the hospital for an operation and was told he must wait four or five days for the results.

"I still hear very badly," the poet complained. By DeWayne Johnson A Js 1 THE ENVIRONMENT Senate Passes Bill on Control of Chemicals A. CHANGE OF STYLE Vice President Agnew displays longer hair and sideburns, left, during a visit with President Nixon ot Bethesda Naval Hospital. Right, as Mr. Agnew appeared during a speech to a Republican dinner in Washington in June of 1970.

Ifl Wlrephots The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill aimed at protecting humans and the environment from chemical substances. The measure gives the Environmental Protection Agency authority to restrict the use or distribution of potentially toxic substances or products; provides for specification by the EPA of existing substances believed to pose threats to humans; and provides for testing by manufacturers of substances that might be harmful with an EPA review of the test results before production. The Nixon Administration ha3 asked that mining operations be permitted to continue in wilderness areas set aside by Congress for pres Former New York Yankee outfield clar Mickey Mantle is returning to action as a pitcher. Mantle will take part Saturday in the 14th annual International Brick and Rolling Pin throwing contest at Stroud, against teams from Strouds in Canada, England and Australia. Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtush-enko went to Filipino faith healer Virgilio Guttierez for treatment of.

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