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Telephone 552-5454 VOL XLVII-NO. SI he ernon aily ecord MranH PmN VERNON, TEXAS. SUNDAY. JULY 1172 TWO SeCTIONS-EIGHTEEN PAGES Sunday Copy 15 Cents WKKK NDAY I.V Possibility of Secret Peace Talks Open OFF FOR TRAINING majm ud of the Vemoa High School Bud leave Svnday for ipectal weeklong clfaiic for ttvdeirtt from a wide section of Teias at Tarieton State College at Stephenvllle. Majorettei, from left, are head majorette Juanita Graham, danghter of Mr.

and Glenn Graham; Paula Hathaway, danghter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Brockman; Charlotte Grantham, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Weldon Ogerly; Jane Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Baldwhi; Vldii BoaMin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Leland BoaMin and Gay Denison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Harvey. Ricky Arnold (left), son of Mr. and Mrs.

F. L. Arnold, is the head major and Danny Fancher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orltai Fancher, Is the associate drum major.

Officials Try To Salvage Chess Match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (A?) Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, lawyer, Paul Margal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie U. s. B52s Shatter Red Bunkers Around Quang Tri SAIGON 352 Stratofortresses shattered bunkers and inflicted heavy casualties on North Vietnamese around the provincial capital of Quang Tri, the U.S. Command said Saturday.

It estimated the bombers killed about 300 enemy in two massive raids. A. U.S. Command commu- niness Fatal cameras in the playing hall "so a. they blow his Resident Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to ufAold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the series Thursday.

Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. He say what Uie evidence was. failure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Spassky needs 12 points to retain the title, Fischcr 12Each game won counts a point.

A draw is half a point. Fischer is refusing to play game No. 3 Sunday unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet. Town Crier By ORLIN BREWER The first four buildings at Vernon Regional Junior College will be completed and ready for occupancy on July 27, College President Dr. David Norton reports.

These buildings are the academic-science, library-media center, administration-fine arts, and student union center. Tlie buildings could be occupied now and punch list corrections made following occupancy. Not all furnishings are on hand, of course, and the college president wants as many factors as possible to be exactly right before the facilities are occupied. The fifth and final building in the initial construction stage, the massive vocational- technical building, is expected to be completed on Aug. 19.

With doors of the college expected to open on Aug. 28 and classes to start Sept. 5, rro problems are anticipated in having buildings ready for faculty members and students. The college board is expected to schedule an house" for the general public at the earliest moment it is considered feasible. DIRECTORS of the Vernon Chamber of Commerce will (See TOWN CRIER.

Page 2) Mrs. James Holladay, 85, of 1911 Yucca Lane, (fied about 3:30 p.m. Saturday in a Wichita Falls hospital after a illness. Funeral sauces will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Wilbarger Street Church of Christ with Floyd J.

Spivey, minister of the Lockett Church of Christ, and David Caskey, minister of the Pearl Street Church of CJirist in Denton, officiating. Burial will be in East View Memorial Park under direction of Sullivan Funeral Home. Mrs. Holladay was bom Sept. 15, 1906, in Vernon, as Edna Keltz, a of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Ben F. Keltz, pioneer Vernon residents. 9ie married Mr. Holladay July 7, at White Flat County near Matador.

They moved to Vernon about 1928 from Matador. She was a member of the Lockett Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Edna James Moreland of Denton; her step-mother, Mrs. Ben Keltz Sr.

of a half- brother, Ben Keltz Jr. of Matador; two half-sisters, Mrs. Jake Edwards and Mrs. Harold Campbell, both of Matador; one grand-daughter and one great- grandson; and several nieces and nephews. nique said South Vietnamese paratroopers searching one B52 strike area about eight miles south of Quang Tri 60 destroyed enemy bunkers containing approximately 250 enemy dead and thier Three antiaircraft artillery pieces and two trucks were destroyed in the same area, the command said.

If accurate, the number killed would indicate that a North Vietnamese battalion was knocked out by the strike. The North Vietnamese claimed a B52 bomber was shot down over NOTth Vietnam lliursday, but there was no confirmation in Saigon. No B52s have been reported lost to enemy fire, at least one has been damaged. On the northern front, military sources said a South Vietnamese paratrooper battalion had moved to within 700 yards east of the Citadel in the heart of Tri. Hiis was the closest government troops had come to the fallra provincial capital.

A government spokesman reported two new engagements Saturday outside Tri and said 11 enemy were killed. He characterized South Vietnamese losses as light. Thirty miles to the south, WEATHER Temperature readlnp fbr the period endtaig at midnight Saturday: Maximum iti degrees Agrees Midnightreadfaig Precipitation: Year to Same date last year Forecast: Clear to partly cloudy and warm Sunday and Monday. High Sunday 91 to 101. Low Sunday night 7t to 77.

there was fighting west of Hue, and the old imperial capital was hit by eight enemy artillery shells that killed one person and wounded three. An unusual broadcast by the Viet radio said its fwces had taken'more than 200 prisoners from the 23rd 45th Regiment after they were wounded and left behind during ground fighting in Kontum Province between July 2 and 4. SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Secretary of State William P. Rogers held open Saturday the possibility of few secret Vietnam peace talks and said are some slight in latest proposals that us some Emerging from an hour-long meeting with President Nixon, Rogers told newsmen hi the lawn of the Western White House that he (tid not want to raise premature hopes of progress toward ending the war.

He would not comment directly on the statement Saturday by a chief North Vietnam ese negotiator, Le Due 'Dio, that he is ready to hold more private talks with Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger if Kissinger has to discuss. But Rogers said the United States is to have any kind of diplomatic that holds out hope for peace. Rogers came to California to report to Nixon on the 11-nation around-the-world tour he completed on Wednesday. He said he found in the countries he visited that Nixon is as the world leader in the cause for At the ocean-front Nixon compound Friday, former Treasury Secretary John CJon- nally emerged from a meeting with Nixon and accused Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern of sabotaging the peace efforts. Asked whether he agreed with statement, Ro- gers said pledge to end the bombing of North Vietnam immediately and withdraw all American troops and support within 90 days give our adversary exactly what he wants without any Kissinger, assistant for national security affairs, who has held more than a dozen private sessions with North Vietnamese negotiators in the past three years, sat in on meeting with Rogers.

Nixon, who has been working and relaxing at the Western White House for two weeks, attended funeral services in Riv- erside, Saturday for his aunt, who helped launch him on a career of public service, then returned to the San Clemente compound to meet with Rogers. A spokesman said that Nixon probably would return to Washington on Tuesday. Meany Girds for Battle Over McGovern Support WASHINGTON (AP) U- bor patriarch George Meany girded Saturday for a bruising internal battle over whether the 13.6 million member AFL-CIO will endorse Democratic (Nresi- dential nominee George McGovern, or give President Nixon the political advantage of a virtually neutral labor movement. going to be a real bloody predicted one AFL-CIO headquarters source of next meeting of the labor 35-man ruling executive council to decide the issue. The Meany and the once-vaunted political strategists of the Committee on Political Education (COPE) left the Democratic National Convention in bitter Women, Children Flee Belfast Area IN LOCAL MEETING Price Takes Stand On Welfare, War More than 60 persons turned out for what was billed as a nonpartisan town hall meeting at Wilbarger Auditorium Friday night to hear Bob Price of Pampa strongly support President Vietnam policy and call for legislation that would make fradulent acceptance of welfare payments a criminal offense.

An Air Force veteran who served in the Pampa Congressman told an applauding audience that he has five friends with whom he flew in Korea rotting away in North Vietnamese POW cells, and because of them, and for a variety of other reasons, he supports bombing of the enemy. for the President and his program and I hope he bombs the hell out of he said. He said that the minute this country pulls back into an isolationist policy, the young people are going to learn that what this country provides them not just handed to He assailed the and blood in the welfare program, although he defended the necessity of welfare support for the blind and indigent. Congressman Price said he has introduced legislation so that the who fraudulently goes on welfare will be like any oUier just as if he had stolen it, in my The Congressman was presented to the audience by his Wilbarger campaign chairman, G. F.

HemphUl. Speaking for close to two hours, then answering questions, the Congressman also made the following points; nation is reaping the kind of government it has sown and Federal spending will decline only when the people quit demanding it. -Eighteen-year-old voters, many of them still attending high school, will have a significant influence on (See PRICE. Page 2) BELFAST (AP) More than 1,000 women and childrra fled Roman Catholic areas of Belfast on Saturday and took trains for Ireland, fearing an in Northern violence. Their exit followed hours of shooting in which two soldiers and two gunmen died.

Almost 5,000 now have headed south to escape the continuing violence in Belfast and other centers. 71)e evacuation was organized by politicians who have close links with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, fighting to merge mainly Protestant Northern Ireland with predominantly Catholic Ireland. The departure brought charges from Protestants that the IRA would be organizing a weekend push against the British army. Catholics, by contrast, contended that the British were planning sweeps through Catholic areas which had become IRA strongholds. One of the dead soldiers was a bomb diqwsal expert killed as he sought to defuse a milk chum packed with explosives on a country road near the border with Ireland.

The other was a soldier shot dead in the Suffolk district of westem Belfast, where troops have battled IRA gunmen over the past five days. Their deaths and those of the two gunmen brought the total in three years of violence to at least 439, of whom 231 died this year. In Londonderry, Northern second city, gunfights and riots forced the army to stop building permanent barricades around their controlled Bogside and Creggan districts. Ag Campaign Fund $5,151 Additional gifts totalling $656.79 have boosted contributions for a new 13- acre vegetables, crops and livestock laboratory for the Vernon High School Vocational Agriculture Department to $5,151.79, Gene Bristo, local vocational agriculture teacher and department head, announced Saturday. A total of $20,000 is being sought to purchase land and finance development of irrigation and other facilities.

Mr. Bristo says response of those contacted to date has been one of tremendous enthusiasm, with a number of suggesting the project should have been undertaken long ago. Latest contributors are Bristo Battery Supply, Osborne Distributing, 0. B. Smith and Vernon Abstract Company.

Mr. Bristo says gifts to the project can be deposited at or mailed to all three local banks, where accounts have been opened. Checks should be made payable to the Vernon Independent School District. The gifts are tax disarray after badly losing their effort to block nomination. never saw such a confused, unrealistic group in my said one labor official who disagreed with to push Sens.

Hubert H. iphrey, Edmund Muskie or Henry to the nomi- nat'on long after it was apparent that McGovern had it locked up. One leader, President Jt Wurf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, switched from Muskie to McGovern just before the Democratic convention, and later sharply assailed COPE Director A1 die-hard efforts to stop McGovern. played game until Humphrey play it any more, and he destroyed Muskie as a viable Wurf said. Meany and the AFL-CIO had said before the convention they would never help Alabama (See MEANY.

Page 2) Death Gaims Local Woman Mrs. Adonnies Wheeler, 79, of 2323 Lexington, died about 6 p.m. Saturday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel with Rev.

J. C. Wade, pastor of the Pearl Street Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Thalia Cemetery. Mrs.

was bora March 13, 1893, in Montague County, and moved to the Thalia Community with her parents, the late and Mrs. J. B. R. Fox, Thalia residents.

She married Eric Wheeler in Thalia in 1910. She moved to Vemon from Thalia in following the death of her husband. She was a member of the Pearl Street Baptist (Thurch. Surviving are one son, Eric C. Wheeler Jr.

of Vnuon; two grandsons and three granddaughters. Several nieces and nephews also survive. Administration Limits Cattle Hide Exports WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration put a ceiling on exports of U.S. cattle hides Saturday in a move to curb mounting price pressures on shoes and other leather goods. Secretary of Commerce Peter G.

Peterson, citing foreign and domestic demand which has pushed hide prices to a record high, announced at a news conference that; midnight, shipments abroad of U.S. cattle hides will be limited to last already-high export level of 16 million hides. carry out the program, export tickets will be issued to U.S. cattle hide producere according to their percentages of total hi(te producticm. Under ers and consumers.

Peterson declined to predict flatly that the new effort will reduce shoe or meat prices in the United States, though he portrayed costs to the consumer as lower on these items than they would be without the program being imposed. Aides said shoes already have climbed 1 per cent since January and were projected for another 3 to 10 per cent increase by this fall if there were no hold on hide price rises. believe it will result in a reduction of the price of American-made Peterson said without giving a precise figure. Peterson set no time limit on the control program while saying it would be as soon DISCUSS BEEF QUOTAS iSMMi Bek Price sf Pampa this system, he said, any finan- as market conditions cial bendits from selling hides He noted that the export ticket at higher foreign prices will be system is being programmed by U.S. cattle jwoduc- until November to start with.

(left) visits at hail meettag. atteaded by mere than persons at WObarger AuditoriiUB Friday niglit. with KiUen Moore (back to camera) and Join Biggs, general manager ef the W. T. Wagfloner Estate.

Mr. Bigfi during a and answer perlei pesed yieitleis afcert the peMcal and ecsaemic aspects ef eUalMiisii ef pastes. LOCAL CHAIRMAN. CANDIDATE-G. F.

Hemphill (left), local Bob Price campaign and the Pampa obviously enjeylng conversation with some of the women present for a town hall session at the Westerner Room of the audltiNrium. From left are Mr. Hemphill. Mrs. Frank Mitchell.

Mrs. Paul Parkey. Mrs. Price. Cimgressman Price, Mrs.

W. R. Moore Jr. and Mrs. Roy Farrell.

The Pampa congressman speke for close to two hours, then visited with local residents during and followhig a question and answer period. Among women on hand for the meeting was noted sculptress Electra Waggoner Biggs, making a rare local public appearance..