The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 1

Read by the Decision-Makers of Texas Austin, Texas, Saturday, May 6, 1972 80 xPages-2 Parts Vol. 48-45 10 Cents HOME EDITION S. GIs ore J-M i. ik. Primary Test Today Two Million Voters Expected at Polls Sent Might Be 3B ballots carry a non-binding By BEN SARGENT Capitol Staff shine and it could do either.

The Secretary of State's office referendum on forced busing of school children and the GOP Saturday's primary will represent two firsts in Texas election history for the first time, the state will be picking up much of the tab on the Into S. ietnam The hurrahs and tub-thumping of the 1972. primary election campaign will be only echoes; Saturday morning, to be replaced by the relative hush of ballot also includes a referendum on daylight saving time. has estimated, that 1.9 million Democrats and 200,000 Republicans, about half of the 4.25 million Texans registered to vote, will cast ballots in their parties primaries. Among contenders for high office who election costs, rather than the parties, and liquor stores and that distinctively American Some of the 46 Democratic and nine Republican statewide candidates will still face a WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon Friday left open the sanctuary, the voting booth.

possibility that additional The nomination of Democratic runoff primary on June 3 if they will be in Austin Saturday night awaiting the outcome will troops, most likely 7th Fleet and Republican candidates for fail to get a majority in their Marines, might be landed in be four gubernatorial state, local and congressional bars will not be closed- during polling hours. The state funding for the primaries was established by a short special legislative session last March, after federal court rulings which struck down the old party filing-fee system. Despite apparent voter tary of Defense Melvin R. Laird have said repeatedly that no American combat ground troops would be sent back into the war zone. Friedheim reaffirmed that position only Monday when newsmen asked about the possibility of a Marine landing to protect U.S.

forces. "That contests, and in five races from New Mexico. The base brings to six the total of U.S. bases for mounting strikes in Indochina. Relying extensively on air power, the administration plans to cut troops strength in Vietnam to about 49,000 by July 1.

Since the start of the North Vietnamese offensive six weeks South Vietnam if Hanoi's offen candidates. lieutenant governor, attorney sive endangers the remaining Democrats will mark their general, comptroller, land commissioner and agriculture ballots in eight contested American GIs. Spokesman Jerry W. Fried- office will be removed from the campaign realm of hot air and newsprint and placed in the hands of the two million-plus voters expected to turn out across Texas Saturday. The polls will open at 7 a.m.

commissioner the heim said Gen. Creighton statewide races, and Republicans in one a five-way governor's race Democratic candidate will be as Abrams. the U.S. commander ago. both Secretary of State would be regarded as a remtro- good as elected, since no interest sparked by nine furiously contested statewide primary races, voter William P.

Rogers and Secre- (See TROOPS, PageA6) in Vietnam, has authority to Voting Details, Page A42 with other statewide races jRepublicans filed for those and close at 7 p.m., rain orjbeing uncontested. Both parties' pests. (See ELECTION, Page 6) take whatever action is necessary to protect the 68,000 American troops still in the war zone. He indicated this could include bringing ashore as an emergency safety measure some or all of the 5,000 Marines now aboard 7th Fleet ships in Crash Kills 3 Near Bastrop Federal Bus Funds Approved for City the South China Sea. BASTROP A three-cari Abrams, Friedheim said, also could beef up U.S.

combat pending notification of next of kin. Highway patrolmen investigating the accident, which occurred about 9 p.m., said it began in the westbound lane when two cars collided important tilings the present By MARY M. MOODY Staff Writer The city of Austin should have council has worked for. Butler and councilman Dick pile-up 8 miles west of here on State Highway 71 Friday night left three persons dead and at least two others injured, investigators reported. The names of the three dead were being withheld by Department of Public Safety officials buses automatically change traffic lights.

Villarreal also commended the city for allowing Austin Transit Corporation, which now Nichols led a delegation that 40 new 45-p assenger welcomed Villarreal, a headon and one of them then strength in Vietnam by substituting some noncombat-support personnel with combat troops, provided within the approved manpower level set by President Nixon. The Pentagon also said the United States will reopen a base in Thailand to handle the new increase in U.S. air power for the war in Southeast Asia. Friedheim said the base at Brownsville native appointed to spun into the path of a third owns tne city dus system, xo his position by President Nixon oncoming car. in 1969, when he arrived at the! pollution-free buses on the street by January.

Carlos C. i i 1 a a 1, administrator of Urban Mass Transportation, announced at a Friday afternoon news conference that the city's Officers said one person from continue managing the new operation. "I just think it's great you're airport in a private jet. A representatives each of the three cars was pronounced dead at the scene. Austin Boy Drowns In Pool 'presented the cowboy boot-clad letting the management of Bangkok will ui Dang.

continue and giving them new application for $2.08 million in villarreal wun a sieison uai.jiaMin, nuuu been buses," he said. Aqua Festival be used again on an emergency federal funds has approved. rommittee also met him in the; basis. The site, he said, is the Butler and the council have Villarreal. who came tosaid approval of the bus literal "red-carpet welcoming jaestinauon ior a pnamum Injured in the wreck and taken to Brackenridge were Mary Miller, 34, and Thomas Peterson, 10, both of Houston.

Both were undergoing treatment for lacerations and internal injuries late Also injured in the wreck were Mary Louise Quinn, 57. of A four-year-old tfoy drowned Austin from Washington to'application is one of the most staged by the city. fighter bombers being flown about 3 p.m. Friday when he apparently fell into a swimming participate in the League of United Latin American Citizens convention, which gets under pool at his home at 6201 B. way i Saturday, said 1 the! Cnesterfield Avenue.

New Mine Rescue Technique In Sunshine Mine Battle fr -if i The drowning of Josh application went through channels quickly and was "one Sealy and Charles Miller, 31, of Pasedina. They too were undergoing treatment for lacerations and internal injuries late Friday at Brackenridge, Petmecky was ruled accidental of the greatest bipartisan efforts by Justice of the Peace Jim ,1 Stoff Photo by Roy Cobb Dear. The boy was pronounced KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) and "go home and rest," feder-jready known dead, many gave TRANSPORTATION OFFICIAL BRINGS AUSTIN $2.8 MILLION 'PRESENT' Carlos Villarreal, left, greets Mayor Roy Butler, center, and Dick Nichols dead on arrival at Brackenridge Rescue workers, thwarted in al- al mine officials announced a thanks for the 108 rescued, and Hospital. most 75 hours of efforts to.newly developed experimental; nraved for the missing Funeral plans are pending at Witnesses at the scene said the highway was still partially blocked more than two hours after the collision as patrolmen pieced the circumstances leading up to the fatal mishap. The types of vehicles involved Weed-Corley Funeral Home.

Dear said there were no reach 50 entombed miners a mile under the earth's surface, opened a second desperation rescue operation Friday. Sabine Boundary Dispute Settled in Favor of Texas witnesses to the drowning but we've seen." He said U.S. Rep. Jake Pickle, U.S. Sen.

Lluyd Bentsen and U.S. Sen. John lower had all been instrumental in getting the application approved. Villarreal also praised Mayor Roy Butler, describing him as a "dynamic mayor who feels that everybody should have mobility." Under the agreement, the Department of Transportation will provide $3,120,495 and the television camera and a device! men. called a torpedo would be usedj i ir, burt Osborne, director of in hopes of reaching the mm-! ers jthe Bureau of Mines, said the Above ground, families went: federal agency would use its to separate Protestant and men to try and contact the man Catholic prayer services.

jtrapped men through a Only a few hours after the the boy was probably playing around the pool when he fell in. He is survived by his mother, Sunshine Co. advised the fami were not immediately lies of the missing to give up determined. final Supreme Courtward to just about the northern Mrs. Alice Marie Hyatt of Some mourned tne 32 men ai the vigil at least temporarily LINCOLN, Neb.

(AP) Thelafter the boundary between Texas and 'ruling. I boundary of Shelby County in (ncm (do-He east Texas, separating the foot-wide ventilation shaft. The main rescue effort halted Friday morning when dangerous smoke billowed out of a Louisiana Should be the middle of the Sabine River, as Texas whu-h evisiDt in states along this stretch. From Austin; father, Howell Joe Petmecky of San Diego, two brothers, Djo Petmecky and Steve Hyatt, both of Austin; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

city $1,033,199. that point the river angles jto April 9, 1812, should be has contended, a special master Italian Plane Crash Takes 115 Lives The money will be used to buy northwestward into Texas 'awarded to Louisiana, subject Ito any claims which Texas for the U.S. Supreme Court has 40 buses, install burglar-proof Hijackers Take Two Jetliners Not directly involved in Robert M. Elliott of Austin and Mrs. Velle Petmecky of recommended.

suit was the question of how might enter by reason of ac- fare boxes, buy land, construct garage and office faculties, and Dripping Springs; the boundary line should be ex- U.S. Dist Judge Robert Vanjquiesence and prescription. buy equipment and parts. great-grandfather, Howell J. PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -i flames before it hit the moun- April 9.

1812. was the date Loui- tended into the Gulf of Mexico Pelt of Lincoln made his iec- high speed elevator shaft, the only access from the level to the level where the men are believed to be. Workers shifted to the No. 12 shaft, a ventilation pit which extends from the level of the nation's biggest and (See MINE, Page A6) Petmecky and An Alitalia airliner crashed and tain. siana joined the Union.

4 itself, an issue which affects ommendation to the high court Mayor Butler, who raised a clinched fist when Villarreal made his secret but expected The weather was clear at the great-grandparents, Mr. and ah itianrf frmorf offshore oil claims. Although burned on a mountainside near known Friday. Mrs. Joe Horton of Bangs and Van Pelt found generally in fa Palermo Friday night and re the middle line since 1812 Louisiana had contended the border should have been the announcement, said he thinks Mrs.

R.A. Henry of Standford, vor of Texas, he overruled cue teams indicated all 115 per should go to Louisiana and new buses will be in operation Ky. sons aboard perished. those west of the boundary toTexas' motion for a summary west bank, meaning all of iw in about six months. judgment because his recom er, which stretches from the Police reported charred and no sign of life at the Texas, Van Pelt recommended.

The boundary dispute in Villareal spoke of 'lie future time. Airport sources said the plane had made contact with the control tower in preparation for a landing but then went silent. The airline said it had no passenger list because none was required on a domestic flight. mendations, if concurred in by the Supreme Court itself, "will I I III II I HI III Jlil.IIIH.il I.IJ1IJI i i ka" -I M4v- of public transportation, saying scene of the apparent worst dis volved 61 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico northward about 230 miles. I Judge Van Pelt said a surveyor should be selected to deter- a leader.

"Only accomplish for the state of Austin will be aster in the history of Italy's. river and lake, and has direct Texas all of which sustaining of national airline. and indirect effects on sub The four-jet DC8, on a flight merged land oil leases consid mine the geographic middle of I the motion for summary judgment would have accomplish ered worth millions. by making public transportation so attractive that ft offers an alternative to the automobile will it ever be successful in any community," he said. He also suggested that, in the from Rome to Palermo, was approaching the airport when it Last July in the worst avia ed." i the Sabine River, Lake and Pass, unless the two states can reach agreement within 30 days The Sabine River extends crashed on a densely wooded from the Gulf of Mexico north- tion disaster on record, a Japa-I nese domestic All Nippon airliner and a Japanese air force slope near the town of Carini, three miles from Palermo.

future, the city might think of jet collided, killing 162 persons, i Some people attending a po reserving street lanes for the Van Pelt held that the United States was not a necessary party to the suit. He held that one half of the costs of the suit should be taxed against Texas, one half against Louisiana. Texas Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin said the decision, "I Ten other crashes have taken lUliUniUIWMMKIU mm I1U4 li iiliri run in it M.i.i exclusive use of buses and of litical rally in the Carini town I square said the plane was in: more than 120 lives each.

special equipment to let the Associated Press Two hijackers seized jetliners in separate parts of the country Friday, one demanding $300,000 ransom and parachutes and-the other ordering that he be flown to Cuba. An Eastern Airlines 727 Jet was hijacked as it left Allen-town, by a man who collected $303,000 ransom in bills up to $1,000 denominations, then ordered the plane from Washington, D.C., to New 'Orleans, with Air Force jets pursuit. The hijacker, who allowed the other 48 passengers and one stewardess to leave the plane at Dulles International Airport after collecting ransom money and six parachutes, was still aboard when the 'plane landed in New Orleans. At one point the plane had returned to Dulles and refueled because the hijacker said he was unhappy that he did not get larger denomination "bills. He was given larger bills dur-' mg the second stop at Dulles.

As this drama unfolded, an. other gunman took over a Western Airlines 737 jet with 81 confirmed by the Supreme Court as expected, is a solid Man Surprised hy Daughter Whom He Had Never Seen CENTRAL TEXAS AREA: Chance for showers or possible thunderstorms through Saturday night. Becoming partly cloudy and a little warmer Sunday. Saturday temperature range mid 60s to low 80s. Friday temperature range 62-74.

See Weather Data, page A27. SUNRISE: 6:43 a.m. SUNSET: 8:12 p.m. victory worth at least $1 billion to the State of I "Judge Van Pelt's ruling fa-i vorable to Texas is one of the From that. Mrs.

Sheldon said, "This is my By JAXE FRIES Iher about Screws. two most significant decisions ever made in regard to the father isn't it?" She said thei Staff Writer day on, she promised herself Charlie G. Screws. 71. has had 'that she would find her real boundaries of our state.

The first, of course, was the U.S. nmwiipnHnnannMmifpqnfmiiiinpqippf iijfriiitiirtiiTlMyfiiiiiiiiiiiiiinftftrnMiijwMiwrfi father some day. many surprises in his life but Supreme Court decision uphol Sheldon moved back to none as exciting as Wednesday ding the tidelands boundary, Texas last September. "I'd a week ago when, one of his children whom he had never which affirmed Texas' three' heard so much and I didn't league boundary into the Gulf could see family resemblances. Screws soon telephoned another daughter, Mrs.

Cathy Schoenfeld who lives at 2213-C Perry Avenue. Mrs. Schoenfeld said "surprised and excited" barely describe her nmotions as she heard her father say, "Honey, do you want to speak to your sister?" "I was so nervous and seen telephoned him. know what would happen when I called." she remembers. "It of Mexico.

"I never knew whether it was persons aboard during a flight "I am confident that the Su still seems like a dream." a bey or a girl," Screws said After a short telephone Amusements A38-40 Garden Talk Bridge B6, BU Good News Church Page A10 Horoscope Classified Jumble B10 Comics B15 Markets A44-45 Crossword Puzzle B15 Public Records A14, A19 Dear Abby Bl Sports Deaths A27 TV-Radio Editorials Al Weather Farm Roundup A21 Your Good Health B7 preme Court will ratify the special master's ruling at an early "Her mother never let us see each other." conversation with her "new' from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. After landing at Los "Angeles International Airport, the aircraft, Flight 407, was taxied father. Mrs. Sheldon rushed The surprise came from Mrs. date and Louisiana's claim will be laid to rest," Martin Mary Sheldon, 36, now living in 'over to see him.

Screws said he shaking like a leaf," Mrs. Schoenfeld remembered. "I Sioff Pnoro by Ray Cobb THEY ARE HAPPY TO BE TOGETHER, FINALLY Mrs. Cathy Schoenfeld, left; Charlie Screws, and Mrs. Mary Sheldon.

to a remote area where a West- "Orange and Port Arthur are Bastrop. When she was 16 years! heard her talking with his (See BORDER, Page A6) old, her grandmother had toldj landlady. As he walked out, (See MEETING, Page A6) (See HIJACK, Page AG).