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Highway 1 to Quang Tri Reeks of Horror, Death Officiers here stille xpect a major battle before they can recapture Quant Tri. A large North Vietnamese force is said to occupy a heavily fortified bunker line on the southern outskirts of the city. The North Vietnamese have a choice of standing and fighting or fleeing northwest through the Ba Long river valley. If they flee, they will un a gantlet of B52 strikes, neither way the North Vietnamese are expected to fight a tough delaying action. "They're in a bind, but itslike stepping on a bee," said on airborne officer.

"Just before it dies it will sting your foot." ON HIGHWAY 1, Vietnam 0 This is a highway of horror, paved with death. Skulls grin from the rusted skeletons of military and civilian vehicles that litter Highway 1 six miles southeast of nemy-held Quant Tri City. The carnage stretches ior more than a mile. Bulldozers are being used to clear a path through the bodies and debris, but for now the road is impassable. It is only now, two months since the fall of Quang Tri, that one can gaugethesayagery of the North Vietnamese ambushes that cut down the fleeing poulace.

Further away, but less than a half mile from the ambush zone, lies the wreckage of two downed helicopters. The fate of their crews is not known here, and armored personnel carriers supporting the advancing paratroopres dare not venture too close fo fear of enemy mines. The four-day-old airborne thrust toward Quano Tri City has encountered only light resistance so far. Small-arms fire crackles sporadically on the front, and bombs from bu.s. jet fighters and B52 Stratofortresses blast the area.

North Vietnamese prisoners captured by the advancing government troops are emaciated, sick or wounded, left behind by their healthier comrades. Everwhere there is evidence that the victims were civilians as well as soldiers. Bile and red buses, motorcycles and Enemy shelling, heavy rains slow South Vietnamese coimteroffensive toward Quang Tri. Page 2A. bicycles are squeezed in betweeen the olive drap jeeps and trucks of the South Vietnamese army.

Many of the perpetrators of the bloodshed also were killed. Their remains can be found in the sand dunes on either side of Highway The Weather Warm, humid today, with chance of showers. High, upper 80s, low, 60s. Cooler Monday. (More weather, Page 9D).

DAYTON DAILY NEWS FINAL Seven Sections 30 Cento Vol. 95, No. 297 132 Pages Dayton, Ohio, Sunday, July 2, 1972 Nixon Signs Boost In Social Security Other Program Cuts Loom to Meet Deficit ASHINGTON UP) President Nixon signed on Saturday a 20 per cent boost in Social Security benefits to start in September. But he called the measure fiscally irresponsible and said it will cause a deficit that must be offset by cuts in other 1 programs. Track Passes Seal of Privilege Like to have a season pass that would get you free into any race track in Ohio every day? Or at least a pass that was good for one day? There are 9,000 such race track passes in circulation in Ohio, printed and distributed by the Ohio Racing commission despite the lack of a authority by law to do so.

But you're not likely to get one. They are given only to politicians and their friends. Daily News writer Gene Goltz a investigated this state-supported benefit for a privileged few. The true extent of the practice how-many passes are given out has never before been revealed. Goltz' exclusive report will appear in Monday's Daily News.

lion, thus crippling the government fiscally. Among his serious objections, Mr. Nixon said in a White House statement shortly before departing for a two-week stay in California, is that this set the stage for what could be "a frantic, election-eve scramble to attach a whole collection of seemingly attractive, politically popular but fiscally irresponsible riders" to the next debt-ceiling bill. The Social Security measure, the biggest money, increase in the program's history, was tied to a 'bill extending the a i 's $450-billion debt ceiling through Oct. 31 of this year.

This linkage, sponsored by Democrats in Congress but voted for by most Republicans, made it impossible for Mr. Nixon to veto the Social Security boost without killing the increase in the debt ceiling. Had the ceiling not been increased it would have automatically dropped to $400 bll- MITCHELL, WIFE PRESUMABLY RECONCILED AFTER RIFT OVER HIS ROLE IN POLITICS In A Letter to Mr. Nixon, Mitchell Said His First Obligation is to His Family Planners Study Tax Pool Idea Martha Wins, John Leaves Nixon Team By DICK O'HARA Daily News Staff Writer 4 A plan for spreading tax resources more equitably among taxing districts in the Miami Valley is in the early study stages by the Miami Valley Regional Planning commission. Nixon Picks All-Time, All-Star Baseball Teams Have you ever tried to pick an all-time baseball all-star team? President Nixon was asked at a recent news conference to name his.

With assistance from son-in-law David Eisenhower, he has selected four teams two for each league. Page Id. A TIME BOMB in a suitcase was responsible for the crash of a Cathay Pacific jetliner over South Vietnam June 15, investigation reveals. Page 5A. AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS Wasp retired from services, headed for junk pile.

Page 3A. SCIENTISTS CAPTURE VIRUS (causing intestinal flu, but its identity still eludes them. Page 2A. CONTRACTS AWARDED for 16 new merchants ships, including the largest van-type freighters and tankers ever built in U.S. Page 2A.

Clark MacGregor, John, Mitchell's replacement as director of the Nixon campaign, termed "highly intelligent, a perfectionist, a rather intense guy." Page A. ap- WASH1NGTON Apparently bowing to an ultimatum telephoned to the world by his uninhibited wife, John N. Mitchell resigned Saturday as director of President Nixon's re-election campaign. The committee for the Reelection of the President announced the former attorney general was stepping down, less than a week after Martna Mitchell told reporters that she was leaving him until he got out of politics. She made known her acute discontent last a and Monday from the Westchester Country club at Rye, N.Y.

Mitchell joined her there Monday and they to Washington in midweek, parently reconciled. HE SAID he is placing Congress on notice now that if this occurs and offsetting cuts in other programs cannot be made, "then I will not hesitate to exercise my i and re sponsibility to veto." Congress rushed through the measure Friday just before recessing until July 17 and made it possible for the Social Security payments to be reflected in checks received Oct. 3 a month before the election. The Social Security provisions also provide for future automatic increases linked to cost-of-living rises. And it includes prompt tax refunds for those who suffered from the Hurricane Agnes and South Dakota flood disasters.

Mr. Nixon hailed both of these features. HE SAID the automatic cost-of-living increase "constitutes a major breakthrough for older Americans" by providing a hedge against inflation, which he says he has long urged. Mr. Nixon signed a batch of more than 16 bills before his departure, several of them directed to providing disaster relief and additional benefits for veterans.

He approved bills to: Provide up to 13 extra weeks of unemployment compensation for who have exhausted their benefits. It particularly affects states where unemployment remains high. The extension remains until Dec. 31, 1972. Provide an additional $200 million for i a relief which will principally aid areas of five Eastern states hit by Agnew New York, Perm-See SOCIAL, Page 6A BUT apparently the reconciliation was on Mrs.

Mitchell's terms because the announcement said Mitchell "has resigned as campaign director in order to devote more time to his wife and family." Id his letter to President Nixon advising him of the resignation, Mitchell wrote his Editorials 2, 3C Home Family 1-9B Horoscope 9D Sports 1-9D Weather 9D Amusements 10-12D Business News 14-17D Classified 6-19C Dear Abby 6B Deaths, Funerals 9D While the plan has the same philosophy as the Minnesota tax-pooling plan in force in the seven-county Twin Cities area, it may differ widely in mechanics and application. "Just establishing the concept may take until the end of this year or the first of next year," said Clark Turner, deputy director of the MVRPC. TURNER SAID the Minnesota plan and others will be studied by regional planning commission staff members before any organizational form is recommended by the commission. "It's pretty hard," Turner land-use planning as long as said, "to a to do the various communities in the area are competing for industrial and commercial firms in order to boost their tax valuation. "The way the present tax system works in Ohio," he went on, "it's understandable the more taxable wealth you have inside your own taxing district, the better able you are to provide the services that people need.

But the competition doesn't lend itself to orderly development in land regret at leaving the post in which he shaped a victory for Mr. Nixon in 1968 and said: "I have found, however, that 1 can no longer run the campaign on a full-time basis and still meet the one obligation which must come first: the happiness and welfare of my wife and daughter." IN HIS letter accepting Mitchell's withdrawal, the President noted that a politician's wife "must not share the disappointments and brickbats but must accept the frequent absence of a husband and father. I am well aware that this has been particularly true of the Mitchell family Francis L. Dale, chairman of the Committee for the Reelection of the President, announced that Mitchell will be succeeded as campaign director by Clark MacGregor, a former congressman from Minnesota and currently Mr. Nixon's chief of congressional liaison.

Mitchell lunched with Mr. Nixon Friday to inform the President of his decision at that time, a White House spokesman said. MacGregor's spot in handling congressional relations for the White House will be taken over b'y his present assistant, William E. Timmons, Press Secretary Ronald L. Zie-gler said.

MRS. MITCHELL was perhaps the best-known of the Nixon Cabinet wives because of her frequent phone calls to newsmen to present her often See MITCHELL, PageSA. STALL GAMBIT use. If the communities could be assured that they could all share in any industrial and commercial development i the area, they wouldn't be competing and planning could be more systematic. A residential community could be one without suffering economic penalties." The prospective sharing plan here is being tentatively referred to as the "regional bank." No matter what final form it takes, it probably will require state legislation, as the Minnesota plan did.

THE MINNESOTA polling idea and the proposal for sharing here are part of a nationwide trend toward more state regulation of local taxing and even zoning practices. Further decisions like that In Serrano vs. Priest could drive local governmental units in the direction of regional rather than purely local tax bases. The Serrano decision by the California Supreme court held that it was unconstitutional to base the education of children on the varying wealths of local school districts. The Minnesota tax pooling plan provides that communities must share their industrial and commercial property tax base gains with all other taxing districts in the area.

Annual appraisals are made, and each community's tax base is increased by its resi- See PLANNERS, Page 16A. Rehnquist Refuses Bid by Daley Foes World Awaits Fischer's Move NEW YORK iUPI) American chess champion Bobby Fischer kept his Russian opponent waiting and the world watching Saturday, less than 24 hours before the scheduled start of their world championship match 2,600 miles away in Iceland. WASHINGTON -W- Supreme court Justice William H. Rehnquist denied Saturday a petition by the successful challengers to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's Democratic convention delegation to throw out a Chicago court action that would prevent the challengers from being seated in Miami Beach.

In turning down the petition, Rehnquist noted that the Supreme court is in recess until October and therefore would have no chance to review the judgment unless a special session was called. "I SIMPLY do not believe that it is the same type of case which has caused the court to convene in special session on previous occasions," Rehnquist said in his opinion. The action meant that the challenged delegates will go back to state court and fight the decision at the state level. Meanwhile, a bomb threat interrupted a hearing of the Democratic convention e-dentials committee, forcing members to call an early recess for dinner. The threat turned out to be a prank, police said.

Mugging I Mystery, P. 4C KlllSfrSll 70 PCT. MEETS GUIDELINES Experts Wrong: Local Hamburger Clean The temperamental Fischer, who three times mysteiously postponed his departure for Reykjavik at the last minute, risked permanent disqualification from world championship olay if he was not on a plane Saturday night. As a member of the Chruch of God. aProtestant sect which observes the sabbath on Saturday, Fischer, 29, prefers not to fly until sundown Saturday.

That would leave a 9:30 p.m. Icelandic airlines flight out of Kennedy International airport as the only direct connection. FISCHER was in hiding Saturday pnd his lawyer, Paul G. Marshall, would say only, "I expect Bobby Fischer to do the proper thing for Bobby Fiicher." But a longtime friend and fellow international grand master, the Rev. William J.

Lombard who talked to Fischer Friday predicted hw would arrive In Reykjavik in time for the match, settle his differences with (he promoters over money, play Russian world champion Boris Spassky and win the title. BOBBY FISHER He's In Hiding "HE GIVES indication of going and playing," Lombardy said. "A man who is that confident about his own skill is not going to pass up the opportunity to play over some minor details which can be ironed out." In Reykjavik, German Grand Master Lothar Schmidt, arbiter for the match, said the first gam me could be postponed if the official match physician found medical reasons for Fischer to ask for a delay. But, officials said, Fischer hud to show up by game time or be disqualified. higher than those originally told The Daily News by department laboratory chief Dr.

Howard Moore. ABERCROMBIE said there is a large safety margin in the state limits, and that they are more stringent than in most other states, although he said he could not name a state that has lower standards. No nation-wide official standards exist for total bacteria count and coliform count; what is dirty is a matter of dispute among experts. However, most agree that Ohio's total bacteria count limit 10 million per gram is the point at which meat begins to t. Consumers Union said counts of 1 million to million may cause mild intestinal distress.

Consumers Union said its consultants settled on 100 coliform bacteria per gram as a reasonable limit. The state limit, according to Abercrombie, is 10 times that high. THE COLIFORM count Is perhaps the more important of the two, because coliform bacteria usually indicate the presence of animal or human fecal matter and disease-producing organisms. Health authorities say dirty hamburger is safe to eat, provided It is throughly cooked. The Agriculture department bought 32 hamburger samples In 31 Dayton stores June 20, following a June 18 story in The Daily News that said samples tested for the newspaper were dirty.

The Argiculture department samples were bought the day after the Montgomery county Health department inspected See HAMBURGER, PageSA. By CHARLES RIEZ, Daily News Staff Writer The Ohio Agriculture department says Dayton hamburger isn't dirty, after all. State tests found that 70 per cent of the tested hamburger met state guidelines. Agriculture director Gene Abercrombie said bacteria limits given The Daily News two weeks ago by the head of the department's laboratory were incorrect and far too strict. EVEN UNDER the more lenient limits, however, 10 of 32 Dayton hamburger samples tested by the department failed the cleanliness test.

"There's no problem in Dayton," says deputy director David Urmston. According to Abercrombie, the correct state guidelines art 1,000 coliform bacteria and 10 million total bacteria per gram. I he limits he said the department uses are 100 times.