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1 VoL 202, No. 2, 1972, Globe Newspaper Co. SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1972 50 CENTS Mitchell heeds wife, quits as campaign chief served her husband with an "ultimatum to get out of politics." Otherwise, she said, she would leave him. After a series of family consultations, Mitchell made up his mind and informed the President at a luncheon meeting Friday that he had decided to withdraw from full-time politics but would remain available as an adviser the Committee for the Reelection of the President. The committee announced that Mitchell's successor as campaign director will be Clark MacGregor, a former five-term Minnesota congressman who has served as counsel to the President for congressional relations since January' 1971.

The congressional relations job will now go to William E. Timmons, who has been an assistant to MacGregor, the White House said. Mitchell's resignation was announced shortly before Mr. Nixon took off for a California vacation. Accompanying the announcement was an exchange of cordial letters between the President and Mitchell, who was Mr.

Nixon's law partner and close friend before the 1968 campaign began. In his letter, dated yesterday, the President said he thoroughly understood and appreciated Mitchell's "compelling reasons" for withdrawing from political activity to be with his wife and their 10-year-old daughter, Marty. MITCHELL, Page 9 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Faced with a choice between his family and his high political post, John N. Mitchell resigned yesterday as director of President Nixon's re-election campaign. The abrupt decision by the former Attorney General, who also headed the 1968 Nixon was announced eight days after his outspoken wife, Martha, telephoned a reporter to announce that she had JOHN MITCHELL wife comes first MASSACHUSETTS POLL Bay Staters oppose McGovern tax plan President signs Social Security hike-grudgingly TktttHn ll iff iff TlW 1 LSv -'-nit f0 Copyrieht.

1972. Glolje Newspaper Co. Sen. George McGovern's proposal to scrap the present welfare system and replace it with a $1000 minimum income for every man, woman and child in the country is opposed by 55 percent of those questioned in the latest Massachusetts Poll. When asked if they would favor the proposal if tax money to support it came from families earning a year or more, opposition increases to 70 percent.

Only when tax money to pay for the program comes from those earning $20,000 or more does a majority reply in the affirmative. McGovern's proposal to cut defense spending by 30 percent, on the other hand, is supported by 65 percent of those questioned. Ua The poll also shows that 55 percent of Massachusetts citizens who plan to vote in the November election oppose US troop withdrawal be- GRIPPING EXPLOIT Man tries to cross greased pole to retrieve flag during St. Peter's Fiesta yesterday at Pavilian Beach, Gloucester. The 37th annual celebration ends today at 3 p.m.

with the blessing of the fleet. Other photo, Page 30. (Donald Preston photo) MARTHA MITCHELL apparently reconciled debt ceiling bill despitg. reserva- tions about the extent of the benefit increase, In a statement he said "It fails the test of fiscal responsibility by failing fully to finance its in-" crease" in benefits. Before the bill was passed by Congress on Friday and sent to the President, the Administration was pressing for a lower benefit increase of 10 percent.

The move was defeated in the Senate by a 66-20 vote and by the House, 253-83. Upon signing the bill, the President said it threatens "dangerously to escalate the rate of inflation at a time when this Administration's economic policies are succeeding in turning it back." BENEFITS, Page 5 Chess match opens; Bobby misses flight By Joe Alex Morris Jr. Los Angeles Times REYKJAVIK, Iceland The. world chess championship match was formally declared open last night despite the fact that American challenger Robert J. "Bobby" Fischer was nowhere in sight.

(UPI reported that Fischer failed to board the last regularly scheduled flight from New York to Iceland.) The pomp and circumstance, complete with flags, national an- Related stories, Pages 55, Al thems, and oratory by the Soviet ambassador and the American charge d'affaires went on as 3cheduled. They were not giving up hope that Fischer would still be on hand when the action begins in earnest at 5 p.m. today. At that time, the 29-year-old American prodigy is scheduled to face Russian world champion Boris Spassky in the first of 24 matches that could run until August 24. In the money squabble, Fischer has demanded that the players get 30 percent of the gate in addition to the $125,000, plus 60 percent of television and picture rights the Icelanders have already promised them.

Weal her Mostly sunny, high in 80s. Tonight fair, low in 60s. Monday, partly cloudy, high in 80s. Full report Page 63 LORTON REFORMATORY BACK HOME President Calvin Coolidge stands on the steps of Plymouth Notch, home in the 1930s, after he left the White House. AP) McGovern strategists hope to put Nixon on the defensive.

Story, Page A-l. fore US prisoners of war are released. The South Dakota senator has proposed setting a definite date for withdrawal and has said the prisoner release would follow. The poll was conducted exclusively for The Boston Globe by the Becker Research Corp. Telephone questioning was carried out by trained interviewers between Sunday, June 25, and Wednesday, June 28.

Responses were received from 700 adult residents of Massachusetts 18 years of age or older who say they are at least fairly sure they will vote in the November 1972 general election for President and US senator. In selecting who was to be called, Becker Research used systematic sampling procedures from telephone MASS POLL, Page 36 probably disapprove of. Coolidge was not much for speeches, and neither is his son. But the legend and reality of America's most laconic President has been brought to us here over the years since the state of Vermont established a Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation to u'-ge visitors to the President's birthplace and homestead. Last year, 27,179 visitors came to see the bed in which Coolidge was born and the small sitting room where he took the oath of office before a flickering kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m.

on Aug. 3, 1923. COOLIDGE, Page 15 tJ ff 1 BIGGER THAN THIS By Tim O'Brien Washington Post WASHINGTON President Nixon yesterday signed into law a 20 percent across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits. The increase, which will boost average monthly benefits for an individual from $133 to $161 and for a couple from $223 to $270, goes into effect Sept. 1.

But the higher payroll tax to finance the benefit boost does not take effect until January 1974, well after the upcoming presidential election. The President approved the Social Security increase which Congress had attached to an important Suffolk Downs Suffolk and other horse tracks provide ideal arenas for big gamblers who want no part of interstate gambling problems involving untouchable Federal agents. The racketeers prefer to take their chances with local law enforcement officials and track security personnel who try unsuccessfully to keep all races on the level. The underworld is well acquainted with the jockeys, trainers and grooms who are available for a price. TRACK.

Page 12 stay alive was in South End sneakers to play basketball in a rundown playground. Jackie was also a junkie, a kid who used drugs before he was in his teens. The social agencies, the police, the juvenile courts all knew his record. But apparently no one ever found out what made Jackie run. In their way, they had tried since he was 10 years old.

They tried at the Charles Hayden Goodwill Inn School for Boys, at the Godvin School, at the Youth Service Board, at Project Concern, at the Department of Mental Health, at the juvenile probation offices, at the SOUTH END, Page 28 Lorton: a look at Boone's prison Trusted inmates go home for weekends, attend college classes and sing in church choirs under the Community Coriection programs at Lorton Reformatory, tne prison serving Washington, D.C. Massachusetts Correction Comr. John O. Boor.e would like to extend some of the programs he supervised there to the prisons he runs now. The Globe's Ray Richard reports on Lorton, Page A-3.

Vermont celebrates 4th as 4quiet CalV centennial word: Come to DAVID FARRELL But the ban has been lifted very quietly as Suffolk and other New England tracks look the other way and attempt to stagger out of the worsening crisis which has enveloped the sport in recent years. The reappearance of the underworld on the Suffolk scene can lead only to disaster for the track and racing in general. More frequent and sophisticated attempts to fix races are anticipated by knowledgeable racing experts. Hustling to Jackie's life By Anne Kirchheimer and Walter Haynes Globe Staff Women poured cleanser on the blood in front of the alleyway on Hanson street. Forty minutes earlier, a boy had died there, shot to death by a policeman.

He died anonymously in front of an old green wooden gate in the South End where untold years before somebody had carved the names of the American folk heroes Billy the Kid and Babe Ruth. Jackie Johnson died last week at age 16. He was an easy-going black kid from Roxbury who liked putting on satin trunks and high-topped 1969 FIRST BALL Racketeers get Racketeers and other undesirable elements of the gambling community are now welcome at Suffolk Downs. This information comes from two key law enforcement officials in Massachusetts. Because of declining handles at the East Boston racetrack, the word has been passed to these individuals with the large bankrolls that their presence at the track is acceptable.

Persons known to be connected to tlie underworld had been barred from the track because of their propensity for attempting to fix races. MRS. ASHLEY Jackie's mother 77e titirs run du'i'ii Barbara Ashley's checks ami her face teas contorted with aiuviish. Her son Jackie mis hunched over at the foot of his bed. a needle in his arm.

"I'm sorry, momma," Jackie cried. "I didn't want yon to see this. I'm sorry, really very sorry. I just want to feel like everybody else." That was hvo years aoo. Jackie was 14 years old.

No. 1 fan picks baseball's best President Nixon, with what he terms "expert assistance" from son-in-law David Eisenhower, picks his all-time baseball team, 40. players and two managers from the 1925-45 era and the same number from the 1945-70 period. He calls it "as dim-cult a task as a President or any other baseball fan could possibly undertake." Story, Page 56. iW if i II By Martin F.

Nolan Globe Staff PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. Gov. Deane Davis will come down from Montpelier and John Coolidge will come down from his home near the Rutland Road, but folks around here don't expect the son of the former president to say much. A Vermont celebration will take place here Tuesday marking the 100th birthday of President Calvin Coolidge, born on July 4, 1872. The clutch of homes and other buildings around this tiny village will have its moment of glory one that its most famous resident would New ships: but none for Quincy Contracts for $059.2 million were awarded yesterday for 16 merchant ships, some the largest ever-built in this country.

One of the contracts went to Rath (Maine) Iron Works but none to General Dynamics shipyard at Quincy. Story, Page 4. go INTEREST tfinrantwd yn tr long-r. Srr Koin Owntrt Ft-dcrul id. I'M 13..