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Price surge again soaks the consumer TEN CENTS The HOME EDITION I WASHINGTON (AP) A renewed -surge in livestock and meat prices led over-all rise of five-tenths of one in wholesale prices of food and iri- Jdustrial products in June, the govern- said Friday. The unemployment "rate dropped during the month. It was the second straight substantial price increase, following a three-fifths of one per cent hike in May for the -largest two-month increase since last -January and February. 1 The Labor Department also' reported the nation's unemployment rate 'dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent of the force last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. The was entirely due to seasonal factors.

But the actual total of jobless Ameri- cans climbed 1.1 million to 5.4 million in the annual summer flood of school youngsters seeking work. Because the rise in the work force was not as large as expected, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics figured it as a decline in the jobless rate on a seasonal basis. Livestock prices climbed 4.7 per cent, poultry rose 6.9 per cent and processed meats, poultry and fish rose 3.6 per cent, the report on wholesale prices said. Industrial raw materials rose three- tenths of one per cent and consumer-finished goods--those ready for retail markets--increased five-tenths of one per cent. The increases pushed the government's Wholesale Price Index up to 118.8 of its 1967 base, meaning that it cost wholesalers in June for every $100 worth of goods five years ago.

The index was 3.9 per cent above a year ago. The report said wholesale prices had McGovern will give Ted first chance to say "No 1 (See editorial, Pg. related stories, pic- ture, Pg. 2) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen.

-Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice-presidential 1 nomination if Sen. George McGovern I captures the Democratic presidential "nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator said Friday. I Despite Kennedy's repeated statements he won't be available, the offer will prob- ably be made because polls show he would strengthen a McGovern-led ticket, the sources said. The sources discounted the value of polls ordered by McGovern on other possible running mates, declaring it is impossible to measure the value of possible candidates who are not so well known, such as Govs.

Reubin Askew of Florida and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. Both have been mentioned by McGovern as leading possi- bilities. Activity in this steaming Democratic National Convention city, which has been limited this week to advance logistical 'preparations by the candidates and a half- dozen protest groups, picks up today as the parley heads for an opening Monday. Wooing starts Most of the major presidential candidates except McGovern fly here to start wooing arriving delegates in their bid to overtake the front-running South Dakota senator. Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. If you're voting McGovern and I'm voting Humphey, why are we going to the Muskie and Henry M. Jackson; Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace; and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills all scheduled afternoon arrivals. McGovern is due Saturday afternoon. With the convention to start Monday night, two major credentials cases which involve 151 McGovern delegates from California and 59 Illinois delegates led by Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley remained in a legal limbo. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger extended indefinitely Thursday a delaying order in the case so he could consult with his eight Supreme Court colleagues on whether to call a special session to consider appeals in the two cases. The two cases are crucial, especially the California one, in McGovern's quest for victory on the first ballot. Including the 151 California votes, The Associated Press count shows McGovern with 1,454.65 first (Continued to Page 2) climbed at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent in the seven months so far of President Nixon's Phase 2 wage-price controls, a larger increase than the 5.2 per cent rate of increase in the eight months prior to the Phase 1 wage-price freeze imposed by Nixon last August.

The report listed increases for gasoline, electric power and some other fuels; wood products; motor vehicle parts; machinery; textiles, clothing and shoes; paper products; rubber and plastics; drugs and paint. There were price declines for natural gas; major household appliances; television sets; chemicals, and glass. The price of fruits and vegetables increased nine-tenths of one per cent; eggs were up 1.4 per cent and sugar rose four-tenths. There were declines of seven-tenths of one per cent for milk; 1.8 per cent for over-all dairy products and seven-tenths of one per cent for vegetable oils. Highlights LOCAL WAR veterans reminisce in Salina, Pg.

2. MAY reserve industrial land for park development, Pg. 7. STATE RAINS soak wide areas of Kansas, Pg. 1, and delay the wheat harvest mop-up, Pg.

8. DIVIDED Demos head for national convention, Pg. 2. NATION FOOD prices surge sharply, Pg. 1.

McGOVERN'S first-ballot fate awaits court decision, Pg. 1. AWOL Ft. Riley soldier is held in hijack attempt, Pg. 1.

WORLD SAIGON victory claims in Quang Tri fighting are disputed, Pg. 2. CHESS match is finally scheduled in Iceland, Pg. 1. INSIDE FEATURES Area news 6 Local 7,12 Comics 19 Markets 7 Courts 7 Opinion ,..4 Cross puzzle 16 Sports ..14,15 Deaths.

..7 TV-films 10 Dr. Thosteson 3 Want-Ads 16-19 -Hospitals 7 Weather 7 JeaneDixon. 5 Women 8,9 To head Mormons? SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Elder Harold B. Lee a former city commissioner, school principal and businessman was expected to be named president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today. Salina Journal lOlstYEAR No.

189 SALINA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 7,1972 28 Pages AWOL Ff. Riley soldier seized in thwarted hijack OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1000 miles up and down California before surrendering early Friday to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetiiner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, Va. the public information office at Ft.

Riley said a Pfc. Francis M. Goodell, 21, of Manassas, was attached to Troop 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division. Goodell is the son of Frank Goodell, the chief training officer for the National Park service. In a telephone interview from his home, the father said his son had given no indication he would or could take such an action.

"I just feel that he is a boy and something has happened to him," Goodell said. The young Goodell had returned in April from Vietnam where he served as a helicopter ground crewman in the Pleiku area, the father said. Army records show Goodell, a private first class, has been listed as absent without leave from Fort Riley since Wednesday. He had been assigned to the Kansas post on April 12, after returning from his tour of duty in Vietnam. The hijacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, "would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast crisis," a Federal Aviation Administration official said.

The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused consternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALPA members last month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security measures. It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco International Airport, killing two hijackers who had demanded $800,000 in ransom and escape to Siberia. A passenger was shot and killed by one of the hijackers, the FBI said, and two other passengers were wounded. The Oakland air pirate gave up his guns to California Highway Patrol Capt.

Lloyd T. Turner, who he held as a hostage on the flight. U.S. Atty. James Browning Jr.

authorized a complaint for air piracy against Goodell and recommended $100,000 bail. Hijacker surrounded Francis Goodell (wearing glasses, center background) leaves plane. Behind him is Capt. Lloyd Turner. (UPI Photo) Storms hit in West; more expected (Detailed forecasts, Pg.

7) Skies boiled over Western Kansas Thursday night, dumping more than an inch of rain in some parts, and thumping the area with sporadic but violent thunderstorm activity. Weather observers in Concordi'a and Goodland predict more wet weather for the weekend. Salina got a shower shortly before noon Friday. The National Weather Service office at Goodland said a tornado was sighted Thursday night 8 miles north of Sharon Springs in Wallace county. The funnel touched down in a pasture at the Lloyd Rice ranch.

Rice told the Wallace county sheriff no one was injured during the storm, and there was no property damage. The storm which spawned the twister dumped .93 of an inch of rain on Sharon Springs in half an hour between 8 pm and 8:30 pm. The twister was sighted about 8:10, the sheriff said. Rainfall in the area was mixed with hail. The storms added fuel to the frustration of area farmers, who have been trying to wind up the wheat harvest for the past week.

The moisture added to the problems of wet fields and lower quality wheat. The constant wetting and drying process lowers test weights and protein yields. Weather observers at Goodland said tornado activity also was reported in skies over Eastern Colorado and elsewhere in Northwest Kansas, but had no reports of touchdowns. Rainfall in the area was fairly heavy. Atwood reported 1.14 inches, Colby 1.04; Gove 1.33; Hoxie Mingo (Thomas county) 1.40; Oakley and Rexford .79.

The thunderstorms then moved east, without their twisters, and poured 1.13 inches at Ellis; .85 of an inch at the Cedar Bluff dam; (Continue'd toTage 2) Big bout may yet begin Chess champs end early moves REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show. Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play.

At one news conference, one of Fischer's, lawyers said he'd come to say he had nothing to say. One final quote, from Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, who was under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of the gate receipts: "I have worked for more than a year to get this match to Iceland. I would do many things. But I will not bite into a sour apple." 'I'm not playing checkers till you apologize for not playing Thanks to a rich British chess fan who doubled the stakes, he didn't have to. Dear Sal Do you suppose Bobby has been taking pre-bout publicity lessons from Cassius Clay? Yours, Ina Prizes await the best amateur ad-writers It's showtime in Indian Rock park Members of the Salina Community Theatre's melodrama, "The Mystery of the Lost or, "Tom Trueheart Rides run through their lines in preparation for the play's opening Friday.

Curtain time is 9 pm through Sunday at the Barn in Indian Rock park. It will be given for 6 consecutive weekends. (Journal Photo by Fritz Mendall) The Salina Journal's advertising staff wants a day off. So, for the 3rd year, advertising director Fred Vandegrift's men and women, are turning the business over to The Journal's readers. It's the AD-writing Ad-venture.

Journal readers are invited to design and write ad- 1 vertising messages for some of the newspaper's The best ads will win awards. In today's edition of The Journal is a special section explaining the contest and listing the participating firms. Don't miss it. Follow the instructions in each of the ads in the special section. Remember, the ads are submitted to the participating firms, not to The Journal.

The deadline is July 22. The winning ads, selected by the merchants, will be published July 28. The merchants aren't asking for free help. Each firm is offering cash or other prizes to creators of selected ads. And The Journal will give a $50 savings bond for the ad considered the most effective by the pros on The Journal's staff..