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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

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Seating Row Left Delegates Court MEMBER Bulletins Order ASSOCIATED PRESS Stayed Danville Va Saturday Afternoon July 8 1972 Price: TEN CENTS Action Setback Challengers Hail Ruling I or McGovern Candidates Try To Cut Gains By McGovern Turn to Page 16 Story No 7 Old Icelandic College Wins Other Sale Cuban Exiles Labor Party Chess Games i Plan Protest Publishes Were Bloody At Convention New Platform Huge ires Set Planes Attack Supply Point national econ strategists Turn to Page 16 Story No 3 Turn to Page 16 Story No 4 Turn to Page 16 Story No 5 Turn to Page 16 Story No 8 Turn to Page 16 Story No 2 Turn to Page 16 Story No 6 SUNNY Air Piracy Crackdown Ordered Turn to Page 16 Story No 1 and iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiHiiiniiiiiin X' I A ifi 57 85 Me Weekly Delivered To Home By Carrier was con sense of ounded ebruary 18W Vol LXV No 2464 Press If he loses he be more than 200 votes dent With the convention opening Monday the court said there was no time to examine the pertinent issues including serious questions of the author ity of the courts to intervene in the internal decision making process of a political party In a century and a half of American history the court said the national political par ties themselves have settled controversies over the seating of delegates to their con during the summer so you have to come down here looking like asked an elderly passerby "I do an Body ound WILLIAMSBURG (AP) The body of Janice Banks 23 of James City County was found today in College Creek about five miles from here The woman drowned Tues day as she attempted to res cue her 5 ear old son Joseph who slipped into the water while fishing from the creek bank The child also drowned ing to' shuttle flights require that all passengers must show two pieces of identification and that all' carry on luggage will be searched In addition the spokesman added body' searches will be with megaphone and announced that swimming be open for skinny targets for the document Sources indicated each piece of baggage or each purse might not be physically searched But they said that the airline would continue to rely heavily on met al detection devices which if thov rnpnrd a warning sicnal rniiln Ipad tn marches Ehrlirhmari also said other Unseasonable Cold By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Record low temperatures were set in 12 states today as unseasonable cold clung to the eastern half of the nation for the fourth consecutive day Records fell from Wisconsin and Arkansas to lorida and the Virginias The early morn ing 61 at Jacksonville la was the lowest ever for July The old mark was 64 on July 5 1947 OND DU LAC Wis (AP) As food prices soar thieves in ond du Lac are recogniz ing the value of meat Among items police said were stolen from the home of Mrs Raymond Schmidt Thur sday night were a $1200 ruby and diamond ring $172 in cash silverware a fur coat and an $8 canned ham and two rib eye steaks 1 NC was proceeding north on Main and was struck in MIAMI BEACH la(AP) nomination as the Sen George McGovn presi jjemocrajc candidate for presi ziininl oh nil an flare niiAVPn hu lamingo Park Takes On Carnival Like Air As Young Miami Protesters rolic In Nude SAN CLEMENTE Calif (AP) President Nixon in a crackdown on air piracy has ordered the ederal Aviation Administration to implement tougher antihijacking measures including passenger in votes in a showdown that could have a decisive impact on the fight for the nomination itself nomination is Monday night not Wednesday commented Harold Himmelman a Cleveland law yer who is a McGovern polii cal aide An afternoon caucus of Democratic governors provided one forum for the presidential hopefuls to seek delegates A number of the state executives head blocs of uncommitted delegates If McGovern wins the Califor nia credentials fight he would be about 50 votes away from winning the nomination ac cording to a tally by The Asso ciated would short The count on a ruling which party officials have indicated is like ly permitting the 120 California i McGovern delegates who being challenged to vote on i seating the rest of the delega gov cer Rebel Leader Killed BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) A Palestinian guerrilla leader Ghassan Kanafani was kill ed here today by a bomb booby trap that wrecked his sports car as he started it up His organization the Marx ist Leninist Popular ront for the Liberation of Palestine blamed the Israelis for the killing and vowed to avenge his death with most ruth less Issues Challenge MIAMI BEACH la (AP) Sen Hubert Humphrey to day challenged Sen George McGovern and all other candi dates for the Democratic pres idential nomination to take a party loyalty oath by Monday night Humphrey said he would support the nominee as long as that person supports the party's and princi and called on all other candidates to do the same NORTH CAROLINA: Clear to partly cloudy through Sun day with warming trend High today generally low and mid Lows tonight in 50s moun by MIG21 interceptors Wednes day while accompanying fight er bombers on raids 30 and 60 miles northeast of Hanoi AU four crewmen were reported missing They were the fourth and fifth 4 1 Phantoms downed by MIG21s in less than two weeks with a total of eight crewmen missing and two rescued Not since the 1965 68 bombing campaign have North Vietnam ese MIGs done so well US military sources said North Vietnamese pilots were becom ing more aggressive in chal lenging American jets Gen John the commander of the 7th Air orce is known to believe that MIGs are now the biggest threat to the new American bombing campaign In still another delayed re port the command said a third Air orce 4 was lost to un known causes while on a mis sion 70 miles northwest of Dong Hoi in the southern sector of North Vietnam Its two crew men were listed as missing 1 The command said 58 US planes have been lost over North Vietnam since the re sumption of bombing April 6 and a total of 67 airmen are missing over the North during the same period Many of the missing are believed to have been captured WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has de clined to enter the Demo cratic fight over the seating of delegates to its national convention leaving it to the delegates to battle it out in Miami Beach By a 6 3 vote in a rare spe cial session riday night the court stayed a lower federal court order that would have re stored 151 California delegates to Sen George McGovern giv ing him a strong boost toward women one with a butterfly tattoo on her posterior joined the mostly male swimming par ty Taking it all in too were some of Miami senior citizens who had wandered into the park which has taken on a carnival like atmosphere for the approaching Democratic National Convention place must look like a zoo to said young Don Bode of Bryan Ohio looked at us like animals It bother me though be cause used to Other protesters lounged un der a huge banyan tree swatted mosquitos and com plained about a shortage of pot The pungent odor of marijuana filled the air Elderly couples walked arm in arm in the warm evening air pausing to chat with the youngsters One gray haired woman pulled away from her husband to argue religion with a chanting Hare Krishna de votee dressed in flowing robes While the number of protest ers camping in the park swelled several hundred it was still far short of the thousands originally predicted for the con vention which opens Monday Tents large and small dotted the 36 acre palm shaded recre ational complex in the center of Miami retirement com munity Oldsters living in faded aparment hotels seemed un concerned about the influx of counter culture groups very said Mrs Julius Bachenheimer of them asked me where To Offer Resolution CHICAGO (AP) Two key Illinois supporters of Sen Ed mund Muskie said today they will propose a resolution at the Democratic National Convention restore to the party threatened by the dispute over the seating of delegates from California and Illinois Newton Minow co chairman of Illinois caucus and Angelo Geocaris Muskie campaign chairman in the March Hlinois primary said they will propose that the credentials committee be reversed on its decisions regarding the delegations from both states PATROLMEN TOUR CONVENTION lorida high way patrolmen walk around the Miami Beach la convention I hall to familiarize themselves with the area in preparation for MIAMI BEACH la (AP) A Zippie stepped up lamingo pool would dinning Near midnight riday about 50 youths bathed in the buff in the lighted pool frolicking' un der the passive gaze of two life guards About a half dozen young Connally Received TEHRAN Iran (AP) Pre's ident special envoy John Connally was receiv ed today by the shah at Sada bad Palace for talks and luncheon Connally also held talks with inance Minister Jamshid Amouzegar and Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida on financial and monetary matters HALT HEROIN TRAICKING Report information on pushers at any hour of day or night by calling the Heroin (800) 368 nationwide toll free telephone number manned by trained operators in Washington DC The caller need not identify himself and his rights will be fully protected DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG To 1 Today Hour tern bar wind dir mph he could get some cigarettes and when I told him he said (stay healthy) in Another lady sitting on a lounge chair nearby inter jected: only complaint is that they were singing and playing the guitar until 3 am last night they ever not sleepers7 like answered Mrs Bachenhei mer Inside the park Yippie Scott Brown 18 of Atlanta was col lecting money to help feed the demonstrators you like to work during th cnmmM a vut 24 hour low temperature 24 hour high temperature 24 hour precipitation: none All readings from The weather station atop the news paper building YRflCSAGREE PARK NOW tains to upper 50s to low 60s elsewhere EXTENDED NC ORECAST Extended outlook Monday through Wednesday: air Monday partly cloudy with chance of afternoon and eve ning thundershowers Tuesday and Wednesday Highs in the middle to upper 80s except mostly low 80s in the moun ly in the 60s except some bus in the mountains injury reports a pedestrian Broad intersection shortly be bore midnight and a passenger in an auto in a two car col lision on Main at Shamrock earlier in the day The pedestrian who was sub sequently charged with public drunkenness was identified as Raleigh Thomas 48 of 916 Stokes St who sustained a scalp abrasion and ear lacera tion The investigating officer was told that Thomas came running across the street in front of an auto driven by Dav id Lee Gunn of Keeling Rt 1 who left 40 feet of skid marks as he braked in an unsuccess ful effort to avoid striking the man In the earlier accident po llice reported that the car of od of short meat supplies All import quotas on meat have been lifted temporarily by Nixon but are scheduled to go back into effect Jan 1 Tire administration Shuliz said also will mount a con sumer education program aimed at encouraging house wives to spend more of their food budgets on chicken fish In addition he reported ernment will try to make tain that any decline in whole sale food prices is passed promptly to consumers NOW PLAYING PARK THEATRE I I the Democratic National Convention which will open Monday The patrolmen plus a force of Army troops have been mobilized as a precautionary measure LONDON (AP) Labor party wants the voters to give it a mandate to tighten the screws on the free enterprise system instead of is the watchword The party lost power two years ago and hopes to regain it within a year or two This week in 42000 words it issued a i tentative preview of its elec toral manifesto or platform It served notice that a future Labor government means to nationalize or extend state par ticipation in vast new sectors of industry and the omy Among likely state takeovers listed ports pharmaceuticals financial institutions ship building parts of the aircraft industry minerals develop ment land the oil and gas re sources of the North Sea even automobile and other insurance streets yesterday included two concerns injury reports a pedestrian Taking a 10 year look aheadl struck by a car at the Main at the nation problems and prospects the program said Britain under Labor rule could insure jobs for all with state price fixing and people getting priority over profits aim to bring about a society based on cooperation in stead of the pol icy statement said production is for needs not for private profit where community care is avail able to all and where personal relationships are based on equality and international rela tionships of mutual With the promise of a tax planners set forth a series of proposals designed to thwart tax dodgers and to reverse tax handouts for the at Queer Story llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll and the East Coast shuttle runs instituted when it appears war between Boston and New York ranted or justified No preventative measure is completely effective but the measures would make it clear that our preventive efforts are substantially spection when necessary onj An AA spokesman in Wash commuter airlines i iington said the new rules apply ii Jnrr 4 lii 1 4 4 1 a 1 i a ic roniHra jonn rjiiriiiaiiiidii xniavh assistant for domestic policy announced at a news confer ence riday in nearby Newport Beach that the President or dered AA Administrator John Shaffer to assure 100 per cent inspection in some form for all commuter passengers Previous government regulations re qured a 10 per cent screening ratio Ehrlichman said Nixon acted after two acitic Southwest Airlines planes which carry air commuters in California were hijacked in two days President has followed news of the recent and has been very concerned particularly about commuter the aide said include such airlines as Pacific Southwest Airlines of California SAIGON (AP) US Navy jets from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf set huge fires to an island transshipment point east of Haiphong and the US Com mand announced today the loss of three of fastest jets over North Vietnam with all six crewmen missing officials warned of a new threat by Soviet built MIG21 interceptors that shot down two of the three Air orce 4 Phantoms reported In South Vietnam North Viet namese forces began their sec ond week of artillery attacks against the old imperial capital of Hue Thirty miles to the north a South Vietnamese counter offensive continued to encounter stiff resistance on the southern and eastern edges of Quang Tri City 5 A 7th leet communique waves of Navy jets destroyed 15 buildings at the He Danh Do La transshipment point 35 miles east of Haiphong and that pi lots reported setting four large sustained fires in the attack The Navy said it was an out that resulted in heavy damage to North Viet namese supply and trans portation systems In reports delayed by search and rescue operations that proved unsucessful the US Command said two Air orce i 4 Phantoms were shot down! Turn to Page 16 Story No 9 ruled out death as the penalty for most if not all crimes On riday morning Nixon held a lengthy review of the meat price situation at the Western White House here with Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz and other offi cials uai Shultz told reporters that Nix nn iirill nncA mnat mintac nnvt measure were bein' consid lxear for countries that export peXlbwhether ibe 'lje doth nnoiiv rnn continue toStaes during the current pen be applied in hijacking cases The US Supreme Court has tributed to Prime Minister Ed Elliott Wiley Yanceyville Rt ward government These proposals included: aentiai cnaiiengers nuoyea oy a Supreme Court ruling that tossed the California creden tials case before next Democratic National Con vention worked today to chip away at the front running South Dakota massive dele gate lead On the scene ahead of McGovern to meet with dele gates in this warm resort cen ter were Sens Hubert I Humphrey Edmund Muskie I Henry Jackson and Rep Wilbur Mills They hailed I the high 6 3 ruling I riday night It stopped a low er court from restoring 151 dis puted California delegates to McGovern I Preparing to fly here today to take personal charge of his I quest for the Democratic presi dential nomination McGovern said in Washington he fident American fair play will win out in and give him back the California delegates Its political operations who spent much of the day planning MIAMI la (AP) Despite for the floor fight expected spirited opposition from within Monday night on the California their own ranks tbp leaders of credentials case said they ex Cuban exile colony of petted to win by at least 50 300000 have called for a mas sive Tuesday at the Democratic National Con vention Carlos Prio Socarras former Cuban president and the dem chief organizer said riday that he expects up to 3000 refugees to march and with good in outside the Miami Beach Convention Hall are not protesting against Prio said against the idea that Cu bans in this country have no 1 right to do anything to over throw idel Prio heads a coalition group which includes Bay of Pigs vet erans his own Cuban Revolu tionary Party students and oth ers Opposed to the idea of dem onstrations but planning to stage their own minicampaign of and accusa is another coalition refu gee group calling itself the Committee for Liberation Tomaz Cruz a Bay of Pigs Daniel irm's $5 1000 Is Top Shale Pit Offer High bid at this morning's auction of the city owned shale pit property off Riverside Drive was $51000 offered by John General Development Corp the firm which had been outbid by a $32000 offer in 1969 when sealed bids were submit ted for the same 33 acre tract The sale today was opened at toe $32000 figure which had been offered in 1969 by Stendig Development Corp but not un til after Joseph Stendig had an nounced to the assembled group of about 100 persons claim the property has been sold io me He pointed out that the mat ter is now in litigation so that buys does so suojeci VIRGINIA: Sunny south portion Partly cloudy north portion today with chance of thundershowers in the north ern mountains Highs in the 70s and lower 80s air tonight and Sunday tows tonight 50 in the mountains to the low 60s near the bay Highs Sun day in the upper 70s and low CI Ov3 lllVOUj nwv EXTENDED VA ORECAST tains Overnight lows general The National Weather Ser extended outlook for Virginia for the period of Mon day through Wednesday: air Monday followed by partly cloudy With a chance of show ers and a slight warming trend i Tuesday and Wednesday Day time highs will average in the 80s and nightly lows in the 60s NEW YORK (AP) The in sulted egos and white knuckled tensions before the ischer Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle but pale beside the tales of blood thirsty games in Medieval Ice land Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery revenge intrigue and murder according to sagas of the time Games were often interrupted because somebody was getting hacked to pieces When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald he stood up in a fury shoved his chessmen into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it leaving him a bloody mess exclaimed the king Rognvald rode off in a panic But his brother stayed to split the skull open These stories are sagas from Willard in Ice land and in Icelandic Liter published in 1905 It is said that American chess champion Bobby ischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series Pedestrian Hit By Car Is Charged Traffic accidents on Danville to that And Shields Auc tion personnel advised that the final bid is subject to confirma tion hv Citv Council Stendig himself did not par ticipate in the bidding which brought an initial offer of $35 000 topped by $36000 and then going to 40 41 44 45 475 and 50 before the sale ended with the final $51000 bid for the prop erty which in 1969 had been appraised at $16650 In a second auction of city owned property this morning the former Health Department site on Main St at Rison brought a top offer of $50000 from Stratford College after that sale was also started at a $32000 figure It was early yesterday after noon that chancery action against the City of Dan ville was filed in the Corpora tion Court office and almost immediately afterwards the City filed a demurrer claim inrt in aWoM fthp ifv had 1Ub 111 proceeded properly in disposing of the property Along with the suit filed yes terday Stendig also filed a Memorandum of Lis Pendens which would have the effect of clouding the title to the prop erty pending outcome of the liti gation It was almost three years ago on Aug 12 1969 that City Council authorized the shale pit property north of Aiken Bridge to be appraised and then offered 1 for sale by sealed bids with the right reserved to accept or re ject any and all bids question was ever raised 1 by anyone about the adequacy 1 of the amount of the Sten dig maintained in his court ac tion filed yesterday noting that 1 his $32000 bid was almost twice the appraised value and that adequacy the primary rea son for reserving the right to reject The questions that were raised regarding proper opening of i the bids and the possibility of i conflict of interest since Stendig i ON THE INSIDE PAGES I I The Weather 4 th A ft ilk i wiknrnf eV 1 ML "Tri 7 am 60 3036 SE 3 0 am 71 3038 3 11am 80 3037 SW 5 1pm 85 3036 6 Amusements 1213 Crossword Puzzle 12 AP News Digest 16 Deaths unerals 3 Bread Of Life 4 Editorials 4 Bridge 13 Local State News 2 3 Builders Page 8 Money Clips 12 Church News 7 Sports 1011 Classified Ads 14 State Zone orecast 2 Comics 15 Television 13 Cooking Is un 6 News 6 s8r' W'.

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