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Getting ready for big show Workmen hide television cables under walkway on floor of Miami Beach convention hall in prepara- tion for Democratic National convention which opens July 10. (UPI Photo) Penitent Bobby Laird terms awaits Sunday chess match REYKJAVIK, Iceland A Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. The young American, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," he wrote. The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer.

Fischer told Spassky: "I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." However, Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an advantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you," Fischer concluded. The Salina Journal The home delivered daily newspaper for Central and Northwest Kansas P.O. 779 Tip Co6t 67401 Published five days a week and Sundays except Memorial, Independence and Labor Days, at 333 S. 4th, Salina, Kansas, by-Salina Journal, Inc.

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25.00 15.00 9.00 3.50 AAcGovern plan 'surrender' WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today Sen. George McGovern's proposal to slash defense spending by $30 billion "would signal to the world a drastic decline in America's will and ability to contribute to international stability." Leading the Nixon administration attack against the Democratic presidential nomination front-runner on the eve of the Miami Beach convention, Laird again characterized McGovern's defense program as "tantamount to a white flag of surrender." Vote registration rules pointed out TOPEKA Mrs. Klwill Shanahan, secretary of slate, issued warnings Thursday designed to make sure all persons who want to vote in the August primary election get the chance to do so. Kansas is currently in the process of implementing state-wide voter registration.

Registration has been required in first and second class cities and county-wide in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties. These citizens must be registered by July 11, the closing date of the registration books. However, citizens living in areas where registration has not been required may register at the polling place when they vote. A citizen whose name or address has changed or who failed to vote in the 1970 November general election must re-register. Qualifications for a citizen to vote in the Aug.

1 primary include: (1) Must be a United States citizen. (2) Must be 18 years of age at the time of the primary election. (3) Must establish residence in the state and precinct prior to the 20-day period prescribed in K.S.A. 25-2311, in accordance with a June 28 attorney general's opinion. Mrs.

Shanahan pointed out that in conjunction with the primary there will be a special election for submission of 5 constitutional amendments, and, in addition, some areas may have local questions submitted. No declaration of party affiliation is required if a citizen desires to vote only on the proposed constitutional amendment or other questions submitted. Citizens who desire information about registration can call their county election officer, county election commissioners, city clerk in first and second class cities, or Mrs. Shanahan'soffice. Smith defeats Kodes; Nastase takes Orantes WIMBLEDON, England A Top- seeded Stan Smith of Pasadena, came from behind to beat Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 today in the first of the men's semifinal matches of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.

Ilie Nastase of Romania beat Manuel Orantes of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the second semifinal before a capacity crowd of 15,000 on the grass center court. It was the first time since World War II that no Australian was in the final four. Defending champion John Newcombe, an Aussie, is one of 32 World Championship Tennis stars banned from Wimbledon this year because he is a contract professional. Must pour out flooded booze KINGSTON, Pa. AP) The State Liquor Control Board says it will have to destroy millions of dollars in wines and liquors submerged by recent flood waters.

The Kingston warehouse inventory amounted to 130,000 cases of wines and liquors, valued in excess of J3 million. Blaze of gunfire ends hijack (Continued from Page 1) runway while negotiations by radio continued and the money and materials were collected. Under orders from the hijackers who sought an "international pilot," a FBI agent dressed as one approached the plane carrying the money, Gebhardt and Dave Gardella, PSA security director, said. Three FBI men who had sneaked up under the fuselage of the plane rushed aboard after the hijackers refused to release 81 passengers, Gebhardt said. Siberia The slain hijackers had demanded two parachutes, $800,000 and passage to Siberia shortly after taking the plane over in the air, officials said.

Gebhardt said the FBI men moved in on the plane only after the hijackers refused to release the passengers until the ransom was handed over. "I saw two FBI men enter the plane," said Dr. Manuel Alvarez, 58, of Sacramento, a passenger. "The first came through with his hands on his head, and the second came up shooting, blasting away with a shotgun." The hijacker "crumpled to the floor," said Alvarez. The FBI said the gunman had an automatic in each hand but did not open fire.

In the rear of the plane, the other hijacker had another automatic and fired at least three shots, the FBI said. The second hijacker went down almost immediately from FBI gunfire, Gebhardt said, and like the other was dead on arrival at the hospital. Jacqueline RouM Galella Jackie's photo shadow is banned (C) New York Times NEW YORK United States District Court Judge Irving Ben Cooper ruled Wednesday that the activities of Ronald E. Galella, a photographer, had "relentlessly invaded" the privacy of and had interfered with the protective duties of the Secret Service. The judge permanently enjoined the photographer from approaching Mrs.

Onassis or her children to take their photographs; from carrying out surveillance of them; from us-- ing photographs of Mrs. Onassis for advertising or trade purposes without her consent, or from communicating, or attempting to communicate, with Mrs. Onassis or her children. At the same time Cooper dismissed a $1.3 million suit filed against Mrs. Onassis by Galella, who charged she had interfered with his livelihood as a photographer.

Galella had charged, in addition, that Se-' cret Service agents had interfered with his picture-taking activities on several occasions and that he had been pushed more than once. But Cooper ruled that hardly more than a faint glimmer of evidence had been introduced to show that Mrs. Onassis was in any way responsible. Would-be hijacker faces assault, kidnap charges BUFFALO, N.Y. A Charles Smith, accused of attempting to hijack a parked passenger jet by holding his baby daughter at knifepoint, also has been charged with assault, burglary and kidnaping in connection with the case.

Smith, who who remained in jail today in lieu of $250,000 bond, faces a federal hearing on air piracy charges July 14. The additional charges were filed by local authorities for alleged events leading up to the attempted hijack. Police charged that Smith, 23, of Buffalo, went to the home of Ethel, before dawn Wednesday and stabbed her and a man there, Dennis Keeys, 23. Then he took his 13-month-old daughter, Jetuan, and proceeded to the airport. After the air piracy charge was lodged against Smith, Buffalo police charged him with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of kidnaping and one burglary count in connection with events at his ex-wife's apartment.

Little Gaylord gets good news GAYLORD "That's wonderful," enthused Pearl Conrad of Gaylord, "Now we're going to roll up our sleeves and go to work." Conrad's delight Thursday was occasioned by an announcement that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had approved a neighborhood facilities grant of $31,874 for this Smith county town of 227 population. On a one-third, two-thirds basis, Gaylord plans to build a health, recreation and social center. Conrad, secretary for the Gaylord city planning commission, said official confirmation of approval had not been received from HUD. "But when it comes, you can bet we're going to go to work to raise our one-third share," he said. Conrad said avenues for raising the more than $10,000 needed haven't been explored.

"It's hard to tell people you need this kind of money when you don't know the application will be approved." When completed, the community facility will give Gaylord a meeting place for all sorts of organizations. "There are 4H clubs," Conrad said, "and the rural firemen and EHU and particularly our new.low-in- come housing project. We need a place for all these groups and more." Gaylord opened a 12-unit housing project for the elderly about a year ago. It was com- pleted'with HUD help. The urban renewal agency at Coffeyville received a grant of $1,451,674 to acquire substandard buildings for redevelopment, improve trafficways and rehabilitate several structures.

The work will take place in the Fountain Plaza project area. The urban renewal agency at Fort Scott received a grant of $1,429,820 for work in the Parkway and the townsite areas where historic preservation arid acquisition of substandard buildings will take place. Pedestrian access to historic Fort Scott also will be constructed. The agency at Olathe received a grant of $1,440,159 for its Fairview area project to acquire land for public parks and private redevelopment and improved streets and sidewalks. The agency at Wichita received a grant of $417,374 for its neighborhood development program located in the central business district in the north-central portion of the city.

The housing authority of Liberal was awarded a program reservation by the Department of Urban Development for its 100-unit, low-rent public housing project. No funds were obligated yet. The community of Gaylord received a reservation of $31,874 under the Neighborhood Facilities Grant program to help build permanent health, recreational and social center for the Fires rage in Norway OSLO (AP) More than 200 soldiers have been mobilized to fight forest fires raging across arctic Norway since last Sunday. Navy tries to blast a path to Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) U.S. Navy fighter- bombers pounded North Vietnamese bunkers south of Quang Tri City today, trying to blast open a path for a task force of South Vietnamese paratroopers advancing on the enemy-held provincial capital.

Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the northern front that the carrier planes bombed a line of bunkers about 2Vz miles from the center of Quang Tri City. The bunkers were concealed in a row of homes shaded by trees and flanking Highway 1. Two companies of North Vietnamese troops, perhaps 200 or more men, were reported entrenched in the bunkers and firing on the paratroopers despite the air attacks. An American adviser with the paratroopers, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio, told Neeld the battalion he is with could have pushed into Quang Tri City on Wednesday but it was essential to secure the highway before advancing.

Other paratroopers penetrated the city limits Tuesday but took up defensive posi- tions on the southern edge. Reliable sources said Lt. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong, commander of the man counteroffensive, is moving cautiously in hopes of keeping his casualties to a minimum. Field reports said 180 North Vietnamese were killed in clashes around Quang Tri City on Wednesday.

South Vietnamese losses were said to be 10 killed and 90 wounded. Thirty miles to the south of the nine-day- old drive, the North Vietnamese shelled Hue with 122mm artillery for the fifth day. About 100 shells hit the former imperial capital, but half of them were duds. One person was reported wounded, and a Roman Catholic church and a home were badly damaged. On the southern front, the Saigon command claimed that 208 North Vietnamese were killed and 45 weapons captured in fighting along the Cambodian border 50 miles west of Saigon.

Four South Vietnamese were reported killed and 31 wounded. More Yanks in Thailand BANGKOK (AP) Reinforcement of the U.S. Air Force in Thailand has brought troop levels here to approximately that of U.S. forces in South Vietnam. President Nixon's announcement that Vietnam troop strength will be reduced to 39,000 by Sept.

1 means Thailand will have at least 10,000 more U.S. servicemen than Vietnam by that time. The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok refuses to discuss specific numbers, but a spokesman said U.S. forces in Thailand number "approximately 48,000." Other sources say the figure is more than 49,000 and growing.

Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, chairman of the ruling National Executive Council, said there are 49,000 U.S. military personnel in Thailand. The Air Force has reopened the big base at Takhli for use by F4 Phantom fighter- bombers. A previously unused American-built base at Nam Phong has been opened for use by a Marine air wing transferred from Da Nang, Vietnam. Shells fall in Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Enemy gunners slammed more than 600 shells into the district town of Angtassom, in what the high command described today as the heaviest bombardment in Cambodia in more than two years of war.

A high command spokesman described the fighting there as "very serious." The command's deputy spokesman, Maj. Chang Song, said several battalions of Cambodian troops attempting to reinforce the town were, beaten back Wednesday in "very fierce fighting" at three points roughly two miles from their objectives. Angtassom, 40 miles south of here on Highway 3 is cut off and has been under heavy enemy pressure since the beginning of the Gunboats to patrol mines SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Navy has assigned patrol gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin to warn ships of mines in North Vietnamese harbors, the U.S. 7th Fleet announced today.

Heretofore, spokesmen said, the notification was handled by destroyer class ships but it had been decided that gunboats can perform the same mission. Once contact and after identification are made, the foreign ships can be advised of the mining in 10 different languages or by international code. Former man wrenches himself free from watery trap TABLE ROCK LAKE, Mo. The thought he would never see-his 2 grandchildren again gave Jack King, a former Marion, resident the strength to free himself from a watery tomb. King was trapped below the surface of Table Rock Lake, his right hand caught in the door of a sunken school bus converted to a camper.

He ripped his hand loose, mutilating it, and saved himself. It was the climax of a bizarre and terrifying experience for Mr. and Mrs. King, now living in Longmont, and King's brother and sister-in-law and their son, Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas King and Terry, of Emporia Kas. The Marion County Record tells this story: The 2 families went to Campbell's Point near Shell Knob, in a school bus Tom King had converted into a camper. It was shortly after midnight. They stopped at the top of a hill before moving on to a campground. Suddenly Tom called out to Jack that the brakes had failed.

The wives and 12-year-old Terry awakened. The bus hurtled down a road, Tom at the wheel, guiding the speeding vehicle between rows of campers. At the edge of one curve was a tent with 32 Girl Scouts asleep inside. "Like a bomb" The road led to the water's edge and the runaway bus, now moving about 60 miles per hour, hit the water "like a It went about 30 feet from shore and began sinking in 15 feet of water. The front door could not be opened against the water pressure.

Jack's wife, Eleanor, daughter of Mrs. Anna Childs, Marion, forced open a rear door and pushed young Terry out. She followed and got Terry, who couldn't swim, to a boat which had been towed behind the bus. Tom King managed to get his wife, Norma, also a non-swimmer, to the boat. Jack King was trapped inside the bus, now on the bottom of the lake.

He swam the length of the bus to get out the rear door. It closed on his body. He forced it open; it closed again, this time on his right hand. "Just like you've heard it happens," Jack King said later, "thoughts passed through my mind." He thought he never would see his 2 grandchildren again. With that, he wrenched his hand free and surfaced.

His hand was severely damaged and King will need special surgery and treatment in an effort to restore its use. Two pet poodles drowned in the bus and the entire party suffered bruises. Divers found Jack King's glasses the next day and wreckers tugged the bus from the water. A squadron of U.S. C135 aerial tankers has been brought to Bangkok to refuel fighter-bombers operating from Korat, Phong, Takhli, Ubol and Ka- norn Phanom.

U.S. Air Force officers are known to have surveyed the British-built air strip at Non Han near Ubol for possible use by U.S. planes if the buildup continues. Reliable sources say combat air strength in Thailand has almost doubled since March to more than 700 aircraft, including 88 B52 strategic bombers based at Utapao, 90 miles south of Bangkok on the Gulf of Siam. When the buildup started after the beginning of the North Vietnamese offensive in South Vietnam, the authorized troop strength was 32,200.

Apparently most of the increase involves Air Force and Marine personnel transferred from Vietnam, although planes, pilots, and technical personnel also were flown directly from the United States. North Vietnam floods expected (C) New York Times WASHINGTON State department officials said Wednesday there is a strong likelihood North Vietnam will be flooded later this Summer, but they put the blame on North Vietnam's dike system rather than American bombing raids. North Vietnam, in recent weeks has mounted a major international campaign accusing the United States of deliberately bombing the dikes to precipitate flooding during the monsoon season which has just begun. Last Summer, when there was no American bombing of North Vietnam, that country suffered its worst flooding in many years. Administration experts believe the dikes were heavily damaged by those floods and have backed up their views with articles that appeared in the Hanoi press.

14 Americans dead in combat SAIGON Fourteen Americans were reported killed in the Indochina war last week and four more were listed as missing in action, the U.S. Command reported today. U.S. wounded in action last week were put at 23. A South Vietnamese communique reported 2,765 enemy killed last week and listed government losses as 523 men killed and 2,199 wounded.

Seven Americans were reported dead "not as a result of hostile action," a category that can include deaths in combat situations not directly caused by the enemy. U.S. authorities have acknowledged more than 60 American fliers missing in North Vietnam since the stepped-up bombing campaign began April 6. Hanoi claims to have captured many of them. The allied commands now have listed these total casualties for the war: American 45,806 killed in action, 303.190 wounded, 10,229 dead from "non- hostile" causes.

South Vietnamese 147,865 killed, 381,813 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed..