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i IARGEST CIRCUlATIONlN THE WBT, 102M DAILY. 1.210,556 SUNDAY. VOL. XCI SEVEN PARTS PART ONE CC WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1972 120 PAGES Copyright 1972 Lot TlRiM DAIIYlOe 'GOLD' IN ATTICS Comic-Book Collectors Get the Last Laugh Prime Minister Sato i J-- 1 111 if STAGE SET BUT NO PLAYERS in place on chess table in hall at f. 1 Defeats Three to Head Ruling Party in Japan BY SAM JAMESON Timet Staff Writer TOKYO Kakuei Tanaka, 54, a farmer's son whose formal education ended with the 10th grade, today was elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party a post which carries with it the premiership of Japan.

Shattering a tradition of over-60, ex-bureaucrat prime ministers with degrees from prestigious national universities, Tanaka edged Taken Fukuda, 67, by six votes to top a list of four candidates on the first ballot in a party convention. Then, in a two-man runoff, he overwhelmed Fukuda by a vote of 282 to 190 to win the necessary majority and the party presidency for the next three years. Expect Election Thursday Parliament was scheduled to be convened Thursday to elect him prime minister. Tanaka will then form a new cabinet, probably by Friday or Saturday. No general election, however, is expected in the near future.

Although Tanaka fell short of a necessary majority of 239 votes on the first ballot, an anti-Fukuda agreement he signed Sunday with two of his opponents helped produce the landslide runoff victory. On the first ballot Tanaka got 156 votes, Fukuda 150, Masayoshi Ohira 101 and Takeo Miki 69. Ohira, 62, and Miki, 65, both of whom have served as foreign minister, had agreed with Tanaka that whichever of the three survived to world championship match between and Boris Spassky again was put off. CHESS WAITS BUT THE PLOYS 60 ON Russians Insist That Fischer Apologize Before First Match JOE ALEX MORRIS JR. BY ROBERT E.

DALLOS Timet Stan Writer NEW YORK Some people never grow out of the funny-book stage. Nor do they want to. It has become a highly profitable business. There are now an estimated 000 antique-comic-book collectors in the United States. They have their own clubs and conventions and they publish their own newspapers.

For some it is just a hobby; for others it is a good living. The demand has been spurred in part by the current national desire to revel in the past, and the price can be high. A copy of the first Superman comic book published in 1938 is now worth Collectors say that because of the short supply, the prices for old books, like other antiques, may continue to spiral. Harold Kinney, a 31-year-old tractor salesman from Hartford, Conn-is a typical collector. Bought Used-Book Store Three years ago he bought a used-book store and discovered that a pile of comics he found in a storage room was worth more than the rest of his inventory.

Now he specializes in buying and selling old comics on a part-time basis. Kinney, along with several thousand other collectors, was in New York this week for the fifth annual Comic Art Convention. On display at his booth one of 120 was a Donald Duck issue of 1938 for which he paid $60 a few weeks ago. His asking price was $100. A 1937 Tar-xan book, for which he paid 570, was offered at $110.

Another conventioneer, Dan Lr-wonczyk, a 20-year-old Newington, student, began his collection of comics seven years ago and turned it into a business two years later. "For me this i3 just a carryover from reading comics," he said. "Now 1 deal in anything that makes a profit." Deals Through Mails During the first three days of the convention, he sold more than $700 worth of books at an average 60 c'0 markup from the prices he paid. When he is not selling his comics at trade conventions, Lewonczyk deals through the mails. His sideline makes a profit of $100 a month.

Some comic-book sellers have branched out into related memorabilia. Dale Manesis, a Milwaukee accountant, sells comic-book buttons. An Andy Gump button of 1930 vintage is worth $15 and a Flash Gordon button once sent free to little fans in 1930 now brings in $30. Penny bubble-gum cards are worth $1. A Mickey Mouse stamp pad is worth $12 today and a Mickey Mouse beach shovel, whose original owner is now probably a grandfather, has a $25 price tag on it.

Manesis, who operates a store called The Good Old Days in Milwaukee, said he acquired his wares from people who clean out their attics. Other suppliers are what he called antique pickers," people who make a business of cleaning out attics. Terry Stroud, a 19-year-old Los Angeles student, said collecting Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 1 Leaders Optimistic as S. Viet Troops Probe Into Quang Tri BY GEORGE McARTHUR Timet Staff Writer um i Kakuei Tanaka IKi ohol win a place in the two-man runoff would get the support of the other two.

Most of the 117 factional follower? of Miki and Ohira were believed to have switched their votes en masse to Tanaka on the second ballot accounting for the bulk of the 126 extra votes Tanaka got in the runoff. The result meant that the party's mainstream has switched from the conservative "status quo" factions that held the main power under Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and his two predecessors to the liberal "reform and change" wing of the party. Fukuda, however, was expected to remain a countervailing power. Before the election, Yasuhiro Na-kasone the party's executive board chairman whose decision June 21 to support Tanaka triggered a wave of support for the new party president had equated a Tanaka victory to a "conservative revolution." Although Tanaka won for himself in recent weeks the support of eight Please Turn to Page 26, Col. 1 Reports of depleted North Vietnamese infantry forces have been coming in for several days and were initially discounted.

American Intelligence too often in the past has had its vision clouded by such reports. However, some officers now believe the North Vietnamese are unable or unwilling at the present moment to meet the South Vietnamese counter-offensive in a standup fight. Military headquarters reported continuing but isolated fighting today at a dozen points along the line of advance by the South Vietnamese combined task force of about 20,000 paratroops and marines. Some of the fighting was in pockets well to the rear of advance positions. In one such battle Tuesday, the U.S.

command reported an accidental American air strike southeast of Quang Tri city that killed 11 South Vietnamese marines and wounded Please Turn to Page 23, Col. 2 Fredrick Fontenot, 21. of 1261 W. 51st Place, was killed when a car in which he was a passenger went out of control, struck a parked car, then a tree on 59th Place near Grand Ave. Police booked the driver.

Lawrence Ecles, 27, on suspicion of manslaughter at the jail ward of County-USC Medical Center. He suffered head and internal injuries. Investigators said Donald Neilscn, 29. of 6357 Adelaide Place, who wa driving a dunebuggy, was killed when he apparently failed to see a 150-foot-wide culvert near the Antelope Freeway in Saugus and plunged in. A companion, Andrew John James, 27, 1000 W.

Glendon Way. Alhambra, was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition. Byron Johnson, 51. of Riverside, who was injured in a collision in Please Torn Paft 2, Col. A.

Ti SAIGON South Vietnamese paratroops today jabbed into the outskirts of Quang Tri city, meeting so little concentrated resistance that military commanders are now confident that Hanoi has given up hope of holding any substantial part of the country's northernmost province. Such rosy views on the part of Saigon's military leaders could prove false, of course, but they are based on field intelligence reports indicating North Vietnamese infantry forces are too thin to make any long-term stand on the current battle line. "They are handling their forces like they are fighting a rearguard action," a ranking American staff officer noted. "They want to slow the South Vietnamese down and inflict casualties but they are not holding ground just for the sake of holding ground." The pieces are Reykjavik, Ice Wri.r Schmid a formal complaint, which attacked both Fischer and Euwe. "The Soviet note was all insults against us.

We are both bad boys," Euwe said. The Russians said Euwe should have disqualified Fischer when he failed to show up Sunday for the first game. At the time, Euwe broke the rules to save the match, but the Russians made no objection. There is a certain never-never quality about this elderly Dutchman which so far has served to defuse the tension in these preliminary struggles. Asked whether he accepts the Russian charges against him, he said: "They say.

I am violating all the Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 2 Adopt Spirit of 76, Nixon Urges Nation Americans Asked to Back Bicentennial Observance BY JOHN KENDALLr Timet Staff Writer SAN CLEMENTE President Nixori urged Americans in a Fourth of July address Tuesday to reach outward to the world and inward to themselves in celebration of the nation's 200th birthday in 1976. Speaking to the nation by radio from the Western White House, the President called for support of programs prepared by the Revolution Bicentennial Commis; sion fot the observance four years fromnow Mr. Nixon said Americans were entitled to feel pride and gratitude when they.Jook at the nation's beginning. At the same time.

they should healthy impatience for he said. The bicentennial commission's plans call for observing the past with a program called "Heritage 76" and future with "Horizons 76," he said. Mr. Nixon emphasized a third Festival U.S.A., a plan concerning travel, discovery "and hospitality extended not only from Americans to Americans but from Americans to the millions of visitors who are expected. Please Turn to Page 17, CoL 1 THE WEATHER National Weather Service for e-cast: Variable clouds but mostly sunny today and Thursday.

High both -days S3. High Tuesday, S7; low, 63. Complete weather information and traof report in Part 2, Pagt 4. land, where Bobby Fischer (ffl Wirephoto Meat Price Story: It's High and Going Higher Mrs Jones! 1 Aisoclattd Prist A butcher in Portland, said the price of beef was the highest he had ever seen it. "And I've been behind a meat counter for 44 years." A housewife in Little Rock, said the only meats she bought were chicken and hamburger.

She has been avoiding big name brands when choosing canned goods. No matter-what the location, the story is the same: the price of meat already a large part of the food budget is going up. On June 16, representatives of the nation's food chains warned consumer groups to expect another big rise in prices, particularly of meats, in the upcoming weeks. The store owners said they no longer, could absorb increases in wholesale costs. "It will be a matter of almost pure luck if they don't go up," said Timothy D.

McEnroe, a spokesman for the National Assn. of Food Chains. Store Prices Checked The Associated Press priced lists of foodstuffs in stores in about two dozen cities on June 16 and checked the cost of the same item two weeks later. Staples like milk, canned goods and eggs generally stayed the same. Meat prices went up.

In Portland, for example, the price of mayonnaise 71 cents a quart stayed the same over the two-week period. But boneless rump roast went from $1.33 a pound to $1.43 a pound and center cut pork chops jumped 50 cents to $1.49 a pound. A grocery store owner in Little Rock said prices had been stable so far. But he said pork prices would be raised this week to reflect an increase in market costs. Another Little Rock grocer said the price situation was "kind of impossible." He added, "We are trying to hold the line We are looking for the answers.

But there seems to be no answer to this thing." The biggest increases were on the better cuts of meat, long abandoned by some shoppers as already impossibly high. Of seven meat items checked at a Charlotte, N.C store, six went up 10 cents a pound or more. Ground Please Turn to Page 7, CoL 4 FEATURE INDEX BOOK REVIEW. View. Page 10.

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Timet Staff REYKJAVIK, Iceland The stalled world chess championship was further jeopardized Tuesday by a Russian demand that American challenger Bobby Fischer apologize before his first match with titlehold-er Boris Spassky. The Russians stepped up their attacks on the way the match has been handled shortly after the 29-year-old American arrived. They demanded and got a second delay in the opening game, and it was not completely clear whether they would agree to play Thursday. If not, International Chess Federation President Dr. Max Euwe "I shall have to take measures" against the Russians, and he spoke of an ultimatum to get Spassky to the chessboard.

Fred Cramer of the American team here indicated Fischer would not give in to the Russian demand. "I cannot see Fischer apologizing," he said. "He feels he's done nothing wrong." It was not clear whether the Russians were simply adopting new tactics to regain the psychological edge for the 33-year-old Spassky. The Americans had asked for the postponement of the first of 24 matches for the world crown last Sunday. "I'm not clear what the situation is," confessed Euwe.

"I don't understand it myself." But chief arbiter Lothar Schmid said the Russians were demanding "unspecified punishment" for Fischer for his defiance of the international rules. The Russians handed A WITCH Writer neighbors around the Huff home, 22027 Elaine Ave. Although witnesses to the shotgun slaying of the girl had thought they had seen four men in the car. which sped away after the shooting, sheriffs deputies believed only "three men were Involved. Sheriffs' homicide detectives questioned 'the three most of the night, but would not reveal if they learned of any motive for the slaying.

On Monday one investigator. said that "from the trajectory (of the line of fire) and a study of the scene, it must be a blatant case of murder a joy killing." The murder weapon was not immediately found. However, a car matching the description of the one in which the assailants were riding was found at Hernandez' home. Sheriffs deputies would not reveal any details about the background of rietst Tom Page 33, CoL 1 Three Norvalk Men Arrested in Shotgun Slaying of Girl, 4 PICNICS, PARADES, ACCIDENTS Fireworks and Traffic Deaths Climax July Fourth Holiday BY JOHN MOSQUEDA Timet Staff Writer BY ROBERT TimM Stiff Three Norwalk men were arrested early Tuesday in connection with what sheriffs deputies called the "joy killing" of a 4-year-old Hawaiian Gardens girl Sunday. Booked at the Lakewood sheriffs substation on suspicion of the murder of Joyce Ann Huff were Donald Paul Antel, 21, of 12165 Barnwall SU described by investigators as the "possible trigger Michael Ramirez, 18, of 12106 E.

163rd St, and Oscar Hernandez, 22, of 11S23 Cheshire St. Antel and Ramirez were arrested shortly after midnight by sheriffs deputies who were waiting for the pair at Antel's home. Hernandez was arrested at his home about 1:30 ajn. None of the men offered any resistance. Authorities are believed to have Wn led to Antel as a result of a composite drawing shown by a team of 50 detectives who questioned Fireworks brightened cloudless Southland skies Tuesday night, culminating the long Fourth of July weekend.

Earlier festivities ranging from picnics to parades to beach and mountain outings entertained hundreds of thousands more under warm sunshine at recreation areas. And, as the four-day holiday came to a close, vacationers began driving home over Southern California roads that were the scene of at least 33 traffic deaths since 6 p.m. Friday. The highest fatality toll was in Los Angeles Coun'y where 11 persons were reported killed. There were seven highway deaths in Kern County, five in San Diego, three ia Riverside, three in San Bernardino, three in the southern portion of Monterey County and one in Imperial County.

The three latest victims died 4.