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1HB lArKK WITH A POLICY J-litJCi iS) BARRE, ALL THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS WEATHER REPORT T1H 7T 1VJI JUj C)) THURSDAY EVENING -JULY 20, 1972 IJUJUUULUKI BY CARRIER $1.44 EVERY TWO WEEKS THE EVENING NEWS 12 CENTS PER COPY Hazy hot and humid today through Friday with patchy morning fog and the chance of afternoon and evening thunder-showers. Highs both days upper 80s to low 90s and lows tonight in low to mid 70s. Precipitation probability 50 per cent afternoon and evening hours and 20 per cent other times. Winds variable 5 to 15 m.p.h. through tonight.

id tag Jd IRA Guerrillas, Troops ISISID NEWS IN BRIEF From The Wires of The Associated Press Due i Through ght Belfast, Londonderry Belfast, North Ireland VP) Guerrillas of the Irish HARRISBURG Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp says his Executive Mansion heavily damaged in last month's serious floods wasn't covered by flood insurance, because POLITICAL Republican Army and British troops dueled thrqugh the night in Belfast and Londonderry, reinforcing reports that IRA chiefs in Belfast strongly oppose peace moves by their headquarters in Dublin. Troops claimed they hit eight gunmen. nobody would provide it.

Ten insurance companies were asked to cover the man-sionwith flood insurance, Shapp said. "All refused. No carrier could be found who would write flood insurance." Shapp replied Wednesday to charges by House Minority Leader Kenneth B. Lee, R-Sullivan, that flood insurance on the Georgian style mansion was dropped late last year. Preliminary estimates of damages to the mansion are set at $500,000.

The army said at least four Control Of Government In Saigon Appears To Be Main Stumbling Block Paris tot The Viet Cong today guerrillas armed with automatic ISA SMS weapons exchanged more than 500 shots with a handful of soldiers manning an observation post at a Belfast hospital. The gun battle began shortly after assailed U. S. efforts to get a military settlement of the Vietnam war without settling the po midnight a continued after dawn. litical coniuct over control of During another shootout in a the government in Saigon.

Catholic district of Belfast, stray Mrs. Nguyen Thi Zinh, leader shots peppered the home of Paddy Devlin, a leader of the of the Viet Cong delegation, told uic session ine Vietnam A3 IUL. a THREE VIEWS FROM LABOR George Meany, left, AFL-CIO president, announced the labor federation will not endorse a presidential candidate this year. Al Grospiron, center, of the Oil, Atomic and Chemical Workers, was one of three union chiefs to vote against the neutral stance in favor of endors--ing Democratic candidate George McGovern. Floyd Smith, right, head of the Machinists Union, said he supports McGovern but "backed Meany's push for no endorsement (ap Wirephoto) Meany Steers Neutral: AFL-CIO Favc taina Uldk U1C LWO a- pro-Catholic Social Democratic Labor party.

Devlin was in Dublin for the Muhammad Ali fight, but his wife i and daughter HARRISBURG Work injuries in Pennsylvania hit a record high of 10,187 in May, the Department of Labor and Industry reports. total included 49 work-related fatalities. Most of the other injuries were cuts and bruises. Anthracite mining was the industry with the highest accident rate 10.5 for each 1,000 -workers. The department, which has been recording work related injuries since 1950, reported its statistics Wednesday.

PHILADELPHIA The executive committee of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Legion has voted unanimously that Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern should not be invited to speak at the Legion's national convention next week in Chicago. Customarily, presidential candidates are invited to speak to Legionaires at the organization's national convention during presidential election years, according to a spokesman. In a vote at its annual convention here, the Pennsylvania legion said the courtesy should not be extended to McGovern. The national convention is scheduled to begin Monday in Chicago. pects of the problem should be settled simultaneously." Moscow UP) The Soviet hugged the flodr.

Neither Addressing the meeting a day hurt. government says the mili' after. U. S. presidential adviser tary personnel it sent to Henry Kissinger resumed secret Another sharp gunfight broke out around an army post in Lon Egypt have done their job talks with Le Due ThO of the North Vietnamese Politburo, donderry, and bombs blasted an and now they're coming auto showroom, a golf club and home an electricity transformer in Stand In Presidential Campaign Washington CD George Meany, steering the AFL-CIO to a fence-sitting posi The statement by the govern Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Mrs.

pinn said: Hits 'Pretensions' "The U. S. side pretends to desire an end to its military ment news agency Tass Wednes day night was the first dis Belfast. Cease-Fire Broken tion of neutrality in the presidential campaign, showed he is still fir mlyHn-eom- closure to the Soviet people of Amid reports that command mand of the nation House of Labor and a power to be reckoned with in national 1 ers of the IRA's militant Provi something President Anwar Sadat of Egypt announced 24 hours before. But while Sadat 'participation' without dealing with the political aspect.

This simply, means that the -United States stm" wants to maintain in MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, i- Bruce B. Dayton, the department store magnate, will pay $3 million cash as part of the settlement in a Jivorce with his wife Gwendolen. politics. sional wing are willing to reacti will not vote for either one has done with every previous vate the cease-fire shattered 11 "He's grumbled made clear that he had told Democratic presidential nomi of them," Meany told a hews South Vietnam the administra one union opponent after the conference nee. days, ago, Provisional battalion commanders in Belfast said they planned to continued their cam- Moscow to get the Soviet military advisers out of Egypt be Under the divorce granted Monday in Hennepin County District Court, Mrs.

Dayton, 52, will get the couple's home in 1 1 1 1 HWlnaKdl tion it has set up to implement Uhe policy of 'Vietnamization' of "Meany was calm, cool, re 77-year-old Meany led the 35-man AFL-CIO executive council cause the Kremlin hadn't given sponsible, effective and well- paign of violence. They claimed the war. If so, the United States him more, advanced offensive prepared," said another reluc other Provisional units were to a 27-3 vote W'ednesday against endorsing either Democratic weapons to use against Israel, will never be aWe to put an end to its military tant admirer on the labor coun- zacking them. the Soviet statement gave no nominee George McGovern or Seamus Twomey, commander hint of this. lof McGovern as the AFL-CIO President Nixon.

of the Provisionals' Belfast bri Tass said a "number of So Custer, S. D. i Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, moving to offset the impact of his rejection by top labor leaders, flies to Washington today to cast a pro-labor Senate, vote. He will also designate former National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien as his chief bridge to party regulars.

gade, was reported to have viet military personnel" had May Become Election Issue been in Egypt at the request of slipped across the border into the Irish Republic to consult the Cairo tliey with his leaders in Dublin have finished teaching the $5 Billion Jobs Bill Egyptians how, to "master So Northern Ireland's Protestants, viet military equipment." who have repeatedly accused the Washington WK Henry A. Kissinger, back from his 14th private session in Paris with Hanoi negotiators, apparently feels encouraged to hold more talks. Kissinger, wha met with the North Vietnamese in the French capital for six and one-half hours, returned Wednesday night to Andrews Air Force Base, and drove straight to the White House to report to President Nixon. Now the Soviet military British of betraying them by Meany has sharply attacked Nixon on economic policies, while reportedly disagreeing personnel in the Arab Republic of Egypt have completed their functions," the news agency said. concessions to the IRA, got a boost Wednesday night from British Prime Minister Edward Heath and his administrator in Unexpectedly Beaten Washington VP) The unexpected defeat of a $5 billion emergency job-making bill may be seized by House with McGovern's views on the Vietnam war.

"With the awareness of this, wsyzaia ana us iuriusmugs ius umn yivycuj. Dayton, 53, is chairman- of the board of Dayton Hudson Corp.r which operates department stores in Minneapolis, Detroit and elsewhere. He was sued for divorce by his wife of 28 years on the grounds of a "course of conduct detrimental to the marriage relationship. PASADENA, Calif. Mary W.

Sirhan, mother of the con-' vkted killer' of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, says she is being threatened by two other sons. Mrs. Sirhan told police, who stepped up patrols near her home Wednesday, that her son Saidallah, 40, came.

to. the house Tuesday and threatened to burn it down. Another son, Sharif, 39, had threatened her over the telephone, she added. Mrs. Sirhan told a newsman she believed her sons were upset because they had been unable to find jobs.

WASHINGTON McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Corp. Is trying to join a competitor, the Boeing in selling jetliners to mainland China. The Commerce Department approVed a temporary export license Wednesday for McDonnell-Douglas to ship a $21 million aircraft toUhina as a sales demonstration. The department declined to name the company but McDonnell-Douglas later confirmed that it was trying to follow Boeing. WASHINGTON A House Education subcommittee has approved President Nixon's antibusing bill after knocking out the $2.5 billion he asked to improve the quality of ghetto schools.

As originally sent to Congress, the bill would have authorized the funds for compensatory education, most of which would have been concentrated in inner-city schools as an alternative to desegregating them. Meany, who said McGovern Northern Ireland, William was not good "good material" after an exchange of opinions, the sides deemed it expedient Heath pledged that the Prot for a president, shrewdly avoid Democrats as a campaign issue to bring back to the Soviet estants-majority would not be The bill, rushed to a vote' by Union the military personnel sold nut and Whitelaw declared Democratic House leaders, con fident of victory was killed that had been sent to the Arab in London that the British gov-Republic of Egypt for a limited ernment would not surrender to Wednesday by a roll-call vote of The measure was doomed before that, however, by an amendment airing use of any of the money during a fiscal year in which the projected federal period. "These personnel will terrorists and would not pull 206-189. out of Northern Ireland. ed a direct vote on whether to Mrs.

Binh again insisted on endorse McGovern and made itjher year-old, seven-point peace clear the AFL-CIO's 117 affili- pian calling for an end to U. S. ated unions and their 13.6 mil-1 support for President Nguyen lion members were free to do as Van Thieu and a coalition gov-they wished. This blunted oppo- ernment in Saigon including the sition from several McGovern Communists, supporters on the labor council. Sne told 'u Ambassador Typical was President Floyd William J.

Porter: Smith of the "You have often said that this Machinist union, who endorsed constitutes only a demand that shortly return to the U.S.S.R." Tass said the advisers had It would have made available $5 billion in grants to states, deficit exceeded $20 billion. This communities and rural areas for public works projects, mainly would have eliminated it for the been on temporary assignments "in accordance with the requests of the leadership of the Arab Republic of Egypt for help in ensuring its defense potential i i 'Macaroni Woman Of Year' Selected Coronado, Calif. I Actress current year since the projected deficit is $30 billion. water and sewage plants. Its sponsors said it would have created 500,000 construction jobs, many within' 90 days of enact McGovern but voted with the U.

S. should interfere in the in the face of Israeli aggression." The vote on the amendmentMeany's position of neutrality Sophia Loren has been named for the AFL-CIO. was nearly identical to the final ment. 'Macaroni Woman of the Year." internal political affairs of South Vietnam, abandon its 'ally' and abolish the 'institutions set up by In fact, the so-called "Let them do as they like," Priority would have been giv Robert M. Green, executive Meany told a news conference S.

ACTS TO en to economically depressed secretary of the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association, told the group's 66th annual con areas AFL-CIO sources said that hadj'ally' and 'institutions' are but the vote been directly onwbeth- the instruments imposed upon i --i HONG KONG Hanoi, Peking 'i amj Saigon cranked up their IhiTfeVWnitf propaganda milk for the 18th lit' aUi, anniversary today of the Geneva Agreement that ended the French Teaming up to kill -the bill er to endorse Jictrovern, uie the South Vietnamese people bv vote. "It was a very short-sighted partisan vote," said Democratic Leader Hale, Boggs of Louisiana. "Every community in the country desperately needs water and sewage facilities. How can the Republican leadership in the House say it is against pollution? were 148 Republicans and 58 vention Wednesday that the Ital vote would have been virtually the United States." Democrats. Voting for it were 165 Democrats and 24.

Republi ian actress is a dazzling representative of women who eat macaroni. split down the middle. Labor Divided Despite his victory in bending cans. North Vietnam's Xuan Thuy, who attended the meeting with Kissinger Wednesday, also called for -a combined military and political settlement and an end to U. support of the Saigon the labor council to his wishes, How hypocritical can you get?" the issues produced more divi sion in labor's ranks than any Bill Sped To Floor Boggs and other House leaders Washington lfP Moving boldly in.i recent memory and raised the possibility of a later, stronger to keep the six-month old in sped the bill to the House floor confident of enough votes to pass challenge to Meany's dominancej of the labor federation.

September Draft Call For ternational currency agency from collapsing, the United States has begun intervening directly it and perhaps overide a presi-! dential veto. Indochina War, but nothing new. came out. Peking accused the United States of standing in the way of the peaceful reunification of Vietnam. The Chinese again promised to help the North Vietnamese and their allies until they win complete victory." TOKYO Actress Jane Fonda toured a North Vietnamese textile center' bombed by U.

S. planes and disputed U. S. government statements that American air strikes against North Vietnam have been restricted to military targets, the North Vietnamese news agency said today. UNITED NATIONS South Africa has agreed to the appointment of a U.

N. official to help bring about self-determination and independence for South-West Africa, Sec: retary-General Kurt -Waldheim-announced JV'ednesday But the announcement gave no indication that Juui Africa's white government would abide by his findings and no timetable for independence for the former German pro- mtnrat "The vote renects personal, loyalties that exist within the j4 800 Men Seen SmaHest AFL-CIO. rather than a true Several Democrats said pri in the money -exchange markets to prop up the dollar's value. vately the defeat provided them a good issue for the November index of support for the The One April The Federal Reserve Board, congressional elections. the nation's central bank, started Washington tfv The smallest said President Jerry Republicans led by Rep.

selling German marks andtherj- foreign currencies from U. S. aid R. Ford of Michigan claimed reserves for dollars in foreign the bill was unnecessary and exchange markets Wednesday in duplicated existing programs. Ford called it "a waste of the a sudden departure from its pre vious monetary policy.

taxpayers' money." "We are moving to play our Some of his GOP colleagues Wurf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. Wurf, a member of the AFL-CIO council and a McGovern supporter, was one of the three votes against the posi- tion of neutrality. The other two were presidents Paul Jennings of the International Union of Electrical Workers and Al Grospiron of the Oil, Chemical and. Atomic Workers. But many more union presi part to restore order in exchange accused the Democrats of pushing the bill for political pur markets and to do our part in upholding the Smithsonian agree poses.

ment as others nave done," a draft caliup since April, men, has been announced for September by the Selective Service. The draft will extend to men with lottery numbers no higher than 75, the same ceiling as in August. Acting draft director Byron V. Pepitone said Wednesday that sufficient men are available at number .75 and below. Tbey include men classified as 1A and 1AO who recently lost deferments or whose initial postponements of induction expire during September.

Men with number through 100 are being ordered for pre-induction physical exams, although officials say the ceiling board spokesman in confirming the U. S. action. Worms Outbreak dents -have endorsed or are New Chess Match Hitch Am linn PTIp leaning toward McGovern. Reykjavik, Iceland tfi The Jweph A Birn president of Washington Ml Cattle pro-the Communications Workers.

Icelandic Chess Federation re jected a Est of 13 demands from ducers in the Southwest, who! said in a letter to Meany that SAN JUAN, P. R-The first group of Miss Universe con-testants, 35 girls from Europe and Asia, arrived Wednesday to compete for the beauty crown which will be awarded July 29 Herbert K. Landon, executive director of Miss Universe, said he expected 63 to 65 girls to participate. NEW DELHI India has drawn up a year-long program beginning Auj. 14 to celebrate the silver jubilee of its freedom from British rule.

was 25 years ago Aug. 14 that Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last of the British viceroys of India, handed over power to India and became the first popularly elected governor- general of free India. SAN 8ALVADOR, Salvador The Salvadoran army took control of the national university Wednesday and dismissed all university authorities after a crisis in the medical school produced what legislators termed chaos. UNITED NATIONS-Conjmonist China joined 13 nonaligned countries Wednesday in a request that the U. N.

General Assembly consider creating favorable conditions to accelerate the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea." Bobby Fischer today, raising the represent an important link in possibility of a new hitch in the the nation's meat pipeline, are I cness cnamp lonsaip I JW I JTN being plagued by the worst out match. break of screw worm since a "endorsement of the Democratic candidates is the only way to keep AFL-CIO unions united in ther political activity." Beime was absent, from the council meeting because of a death in his family. Fischer and Boris Spassky. massive eradication program was launched a decade ago. The Agriculture Department the Soviet world champion, were scheduled to play their fifth game at 1 p.

m. EDT today. although warning several months Meany and other labor leaders The score is now 2V4-1V4 in year. The September caUup raises the total for the year to 35.XM. The Defense Department aat put its 1972 draft needs at 58,960.

The Army is inducting all draftees. ago of the buildup potential, has have never claimed to be able to Spassky's favor, the fourth not reported on the seriousness deliver labor onion votes in a HOT DOG Both hound and master try to beat the 90-degree heat wave irt a downtown New London, tavern. However Rover seems to prefer sleeping this round out, (AP Wirephoto) match Tuesday having ended in a draw, regular iniormaUoa channels, tlieved to be considerable,.

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