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Opponent's Owners Contributed Governor In '68 Campaign Truck Firm Thai Sued AA CHARLESTON, W.Va. (UPI) --Still hopeful of federal court backing for a previously awarded Russell Transfer of Roanoke, submitted the apparent low bid on a state liquor hauling contract again Thursday but found a union clause blocking its way. The firm tied a letter to its bid contending a note on bid invitations requiring i organized labor of the hauler was "illegal, unenforceable and In a U.S. District Court suit filed Wednesday, the company claimed has not been the policy of West Virginia to require union labor producing goods and services for the state- In fact, the company assert- ed in the suit and in its attached letter a plot was afoot to enable Tower Lines Inc. of Wheeling to snare the $250,000 liquor hauling business again.

This firm is "well known" to Gov. Arch Moore, the company insisted. While the firm did not elucidate on its allegation, The Charleston Gazette reported to- day that two owners and a former owner of the Wheeling haulers contributed funds to Moore's 1968 campaign for governor. According, to The Gazette, owners George Thieroff a Robert MendenhaU forked over $100 apiece to Moore's drive to office, and a former owner, Edward Flaccus, donated $500. The state would be better off by $25,000 to let Russell Transfer tote liquor to state outlets, rather than Tower, according to L.

G. Gregory a Russell vice president. The Roanoke firm bid 18.9 cents per case to Tower's 20.4 cents in a bid opening witnessed by two investigators of the Purchasing Practices a Procedures Commission. The probers eyed proceedings on request of Sen. William T.

Brotherton, D-Kanawha, cochairman of the commission, who ordered the matter looked into when Russell filed its federal suit The Virginia a claimed its first contract award allegedly was signed by -J. Richard Barber, head of the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, should be honored, pointing out its second bidding was a precautionary step. The firm claimed its second tender was even lower man its first as a step toward protecting money already invested "on assumption it would be performing the hauling. 2 Sections SINCE 1880--BECKLETS OLDEST INSTITUTION 18 Pages VOL. 93 --NO.

13 BECKLEY, WEST (25801) FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1972 10 CENTS Unemployment Drops Livestock Prices Soar 21-year-old AWOL soldier, whoj The hijacker took command lijacked a Pacific Southwest! of the plane while it was flying Airlines jetliner for Oakland to Sacramento Diego at 10:50 and after ransom, surrendered early and ordered it to head for San WASHINGTON (UPI) -A new surge in livestock prices pushed wholesale food prices up for the second month in a row in June, the government announced today, but the nation's unemployment rate dropped sharply to its lowest point in 20 months. The a Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said a 4.7 per cent increase in livestock prices was the main the wholesale price of consumer foods last month. It came on the heels of a 1.3 per cent hike in May after two months of sharp declines. Unemployment, dipped from 53 per cent to 5.5 per cent in June. The 0.4 per increased 1.1 million in June to cent drop brought joblessness 1 its lowest level since October, 1970.

It was the first time since then that unemployment had not hovered near the The big jump in wholesale meat and food prices had been anticipated by the administration and led President Nixon to clamp price controls on farm products and lift the import quotas on meat in an effort to stem, a price rise for consumers. Dr. Ezra Solomon of Pres-' idenfs Council of Economic Advisers said he did not feel the wholesale price rise imperiled the administration's goal of reducing inflation to less than 3 per cent a year by. the end of 1972. Solomon also told reporters the White House was still predicting unemployment would diminish to 5 per cent or less by the end of the year.

The BLS explained mat the 5.5 per cent unemploynr rate was seasonally adjusted to compensate for the normal big influx of students into the labor force during the summer vacation. Thus, the actual number of unemployed persons rate slightly less than the 0.6 per cent advance in May but greater than the 0.1 per cent increases in the two previous months. Industrial commodity prices went up 0.3 per cent, the same as in May and about average for the past two years. But wholesale prices of farm products and food reflected heir second consecutive month of sharp increases. The index for farm products in processed foods and feeds went up 1.1 per cent in June, slightly over the 1 cent increase for consumer 5.4 million, but this was less than usual for June and therefore the jobless percentage figure went down after seasonal adjustment.

Officials said most of the decline in unemployment occurred among workers aged. 16 to 24 and that the teenage jobless rate dropped from 15.7 to 14.5 per cent, the lowest in almost two years. The report showed the overall Wholesale Price Index increased 0.5 per cent in a Engineers Question Coal Dam Concept CHARLESTON, W. Va. (UPI) --The Governor's Ad Hoc Commission, holding its seventh hearing'into the Feb.

26 Logan County flood, heard a veteran engineer Thursday cite freezing conditions as a possible factor in the Buffalo Creek coal Laird Labels McGovern's Defense Plan'White Flag' WASHINGTON (UPI) --Defense Laird Secretary calls Sen. Melvin George McGovern's defense proposals aj "white flag surrender McGovern contends he would; never let" the United States' become a second rate power. President Nixon's cabinet officer and the Democratic presidential front-runner fought a new round in their verbal battle Thursday. Laird, at a news conference, McGovern argued his "proposed military budget would make certain that the United States is tie strongest nation in the world. "But I do not believe in cut defense spending S30 billion by fiscal 1975 "unrealistic, unattainable and- underpriced." He repeated his complaint that the McGovera scheme was a "white flag surrender budget" McGovern denied this.

"There will be no white flag flying if I become president," McGovern said in a statement "I will never commit the United States to become second rate power." 253-" 244) seems strange to me that the results of Mr. Nixon's arms agreement is a request for a more costly military budget next year." McGovern referred to tie pacts Nixon made in Moscow on both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons. At the same time, the administration has called for new arms programs, including construction of the new Trident submarines and Bl manned bombers. It has contended the United States must improve its defensive posture if the Soviets are to be egister (Ring is to guard yoor Hght Know and lo tw helpful to reader- Ring Reeistt-r At 2S3-2441 at atty time day or eight pxtepi ia to a or vre Register wfcpn need information or know of situations that looking into.) Would you please give me the address of a foreign coin dealer, and I am especially interested in a five cent German 1942 piece? A' Fred Sweeney Rare Coins, Box 10144-W, Kansas Gty, Missouri 64111. I have 1925 and 1926 silver dollars and would like to know the value of these? Around $2.50 each, according to Emerson Smith, a local coin collector.

What training is required to be a teacher's aide and how do you get information on this? An aide is required to be a high school graduate, 18 years old, and must have attained at least a average while in school, according to Earl Halsey, assistant superintendent of Raleigh County Schools. The program is directed by principals of each school, he said, and information can be obtained by contacting one of the principals. I live out of state but my home is in Beckley and I came in for a vacation and wanted to do some fishing; I went to Sandstone and I noticed all the river hanks are posted. Why can they post the land and keep you off of it even though the road is right up against the river and the high water marks are all posted and have wires around them? Can yon explain this? The land in question is all privately owned, according to David Gilpin of District IV of the Department of Natural Resources "Most deeds call for the high water mark and if the high water mark is between the road and the river it may be legally posted," Gilpin said. foods.

Non-food consumer items recorded a 0.3 per cent increase in June. On the food front, live poultry prices shot up 6.9 per cent, livestock prices increased 4.7 per cent, processed meats, poultry and fish advanced 3.6 per cent, egg prices went up 1.4 per cent and fresh and dried fruits and vegetables increased 0.9 per cent. But wholesale prices for dairy products went down 1.8 per cent and grarv prices declined 3.1 per cent The unemployment rates for both white and black workers went down in June. The rate for whites declined from 53 to 5 per cent while the rate for blacks dropped from 10.7 per cent to 9.4. The BLS said unemployment rates for workers older than 24 remained unchanged.

While joblessness among full- time workers dropped from 5.6 to 5 per cent, lowest in more than a year and a half, Hostage Cop Talks Hijacker Out Of It OAKLAND, Calif. (UPD-A! California. land authorities also provided parachute. day to a highway patrol captain he had taken hostage. i "I told him that as soon as he stepped down the ramp an FBI agent is going to squeeze one of? and 'your head will said California highway patrol officer Lloyd Turner, 42.

The hijacker, identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, Manassas, handed over circling over the Oakland Diego. The airline turned over! airport for nearly an hour, as the ransom at San Diego and FBI agents converged on the the hijacker released all but! scene, landed at 1 a.m. Then two tense hours of waiting in the Boeing 727 on the runway at Oakland airport. It was the second hijacking of a PSA plane in two days. The FBI killed two gunmen in Wednesday's hijacking at San Francisco International Airport Plainclothes Passenger been a passenger in plainclothes aboard the plane when it was seized over northern Such at the bank of the dam could have; stopped the water raised the water level arid led to the appar- tntil nnturaliflibi nf rf structure, testified Fred Walker of Denver, a retired U.S.

"Bureau of Reclamation Engineer. Walker, who inspected the area for the Bureau of Mines, said "any experienced engineer could have seen the instability" of the dam before it collapsed. i had no facilities for getting rid of natural water, and wasting the taxpayer's dollar it had no control work to keep on needless cost overruns and the water level under control," careless planning," he said. "It he said. Another engineer who said he took, a "dim view" of using coal mine refuse to build dams was Joe Cooke, vice president of Gates Engineering Co.

of Beckley. Cooke said mine refuse isn't durable enough, because of its shale composition. Saying no "real good clues' exist to explain the collapse, Cooke said "I have the feeling feet in that structure th'at of abnormal force," such as an explosion, could have been applied to the impoundment. He admitted however, that no evidence supports that possibility. Jerry L.

Spicer, supervising engineer for the coal mine health and safety 'division of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, testified that his department did not inspect surface impoundments prior to the Buffalo Creek tragedy. "The law did not require inspections," he said. But he said the bureau now inspects them because of an "awareness of danger." The commission plans to hear one more round of testimony later this month. Chairman Dr.

Jay Kelley said four or five witnesses, among them officials oi the Environmental Protection Agency, will be called. Replaces IRA Members of the Ulster Defense As- testant section of west Belfast. The UDA sociation (UDA) check a car passing a action imitates Irish Republican Army barricade, similar to tank trapSj in a Pro-. tactics. (UPI Photo) Justices Return To Help Decide Democrats' Seating WASHINGTON (UPI) Three of four vacationing Warren E.

Burger, who took Supreme Court justices were returning to their offices today, setting the stage for a full-scale consultation on the legal battle over sealing key blocs of California and Chicago delegates at the Democratic convention. With only Justice William J. Cooke added that "some sort Brehnan absent, eight members of the Court were expected to be available for possible action. The decision of a three- member U.S. appeals court on the delegations was appealed 41 Degrees Sets Beckley Record Beckley was the coldest spot in the state last night, recording a 41-degree early morning temperature and breaking a record 51 degrees of two years ago.

Huntington and Charleston, with 48 and, 47 degrees respectively, also broke local low temperature marks. Meanwhile, Martinsburg recorded the highest early morning temperature --a sizzling 50 degrees. Thursdav to Chief Justice the dispute under study. Four of the associate justices. --Potter Stewart, Byron R.

White, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun--were still in Washington and available for consultation at that time. Justice Lewis F. Powell returned from Richmond, early today along with Justice William H. Rehnquist Justice William 0. Douglas, who had gone to his vacation retreat at Goose Prairie, was en route back to Washington with his arrival expected sometime during the afternoon.

Brennan, vacationing on Nan-i tucket Island, was not expected back at his office, At issue were the appeals court decisions that would seat 194 disputed delegates in favor of the convention front-runner, George S. McGovern. The South Dakotan's strategists claimed that if the rulings are allowed to stand he would be assured of a first ballot victory. Knowing they have to stop George S. McGovern or forfeit their hopes for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hubert H.

Humphrey, Edmund S. Mustoe and George C. Wallace fly to Miami today to press that effort. McGovern, claiming enough votes to win the nomination on the first ballot, was scheduled to arrive Saturday, along with many of the state delegations to the convention. The U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that McGovsrn be given all the (California delegates. On the basis of that decision, the latest United Press International tabulation showed McGovern with 1,36195 firm votes and 55 leaning. Humphrey has 377.55, with 67 leaning; Wallace, 369 and 6 leaning; and MusMe, (See "Convention" Page 2) Weather Sunny, Warmer BECKLEY AND VICINITY Sunny and mild this afternoon. Highs in the low 70s. Clear and cool tonight, with a low near 50.

Partly sunny and warmer Saturday with highs in the upper 70s. Probability of precipitation near zero this afternoon and tonight, 10 per cent Saturday. (Details on Page 12) two of the 57 passengers before forcing the crew to fly to Oakland. "I talked to him about family and said it was going to hurt his mother and it would not be over today or tomorrow but would be a long term thing," said Turner. One turned service revolver which the 1 patrolman had taken from its bolster and placed in a coat pocket.

Was Not Frisked Turner said he had not been frisked when he got on the aircrft at Sacramento. "I could have shot him several times but there were women and children on the )lane and it could have ruptured the skin of the aircraft," Turner said. Turner said Goodell told him he was a Vietnam War veteran and complained the Army wouldn't let him marry a girl in Southeast Asia. Before releasing 55 other passengers at San Diego, the hijacker said he. wanted the money for "two organizations involved in the Mideast crisis." The ransom was paid with $450,000 in bills, in 10s.

The money was delivered in a black satchel with handcuffs wrapped around it Says Titter's Spot PITTSBURGH (UPI) United Mine Workers' District 31 president Leonard J. Pnakovich said today he is only one of several candidates under consideration for W. A. "Tony" Boyle's running mate. Pnakovich, 58, a i W.Va., reached at District headquarters here, said he is 'one of many, candidates under consideration for George Titter's job." Jitler, of Becldey, disclosed Wednesday he had submitted his resignation effective July 1 as vice president of the UMW.

"My candidacy is only speculation since the word has to come down from the international president," Pnakovich said. "I think I would have a fair chance on a ticket with Tony Boyle." Boyle, currently appealing a federal court conviction for di-i verting union funds for political purposes, has announced he will seek reelection to the UMW presidency. began a long period of waiting and negotiating. The hostages taken from San Diego to Oakland, along with the plane crew, were Jim Williams and Capt Lloyd (See "Hijack" Page 2) Wallace Leaves Hospital SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) --Presidential candidate George C.

Wallace left Holy Cross Hospital after 53 days of treatment for gunshot- wounds today and flew to Alabama to reclaim the governorship before beading for the Iv-iocratie National Convention. The governor was driven from the hospital in this northern suburb of the nation's capital to Andrews Air Force base for the flight by military airlift ambulance plane to Montgomery, the state capital. "I feel good, I feel Wallace said with a big smile to reporters on the hospital steps as he was taken by wheelchair from the hospital to a waiting car. "See you in Miami." Tight Security His wife Cornelia joined trim in the car for the ride to Andrews. security at the.

hospital, with Secret' Service agents and uniformed state and county police and hospital guards on hand. About 100 nurses and other hospital personnel applauded the governor, who wore a blue and white pin-striped suit Wallace paused several minutes to shake hands, and said gracious." the waist from the attempt on Ms life in May, was nied by a medical to monitor his condition and continue three hours of daily physical therapy to strengthen his shoulders and arms. Still intent on winning the Democratic presidential Wallace arranged a wheelchair speech to a big crowd of welcomers in Montgomery before flying later in the day to Miami Beach" where the -party convention starts Monday. The governor closed out his (See "Wallace" Page 2) South Vietnamese Surround Citadel In Quang In City SAIGON (UPD-South Vietnamese troops surrounded the 19th century stone-walled citadel in Quang Tri city today and prepared for the major battle to recapture the city. A 500-man paratrooper force moved into the city earlier, drawing rocket and artillery fire from the Communists.

The paratroopers met no major resistance from Communist troops, but allied officers believe the North Vietnamese defenders are holed up inside the 500-square-yard citadel. "We won't be able to say Quang Tri is captured until the South Vietnamese flag flies over the citadel," said Maj. Gen. Howard Cooksed, senior U.S. adviser to government forces moving on the city.

The 500-man force was the first sizeable government unit to enter the city since it was captured by the Communists on May 1, slightly more than one month after the start of the current offensive. South Vietnamese troops, operating under heavy allied air support, have been advancing cautiously through the Communist-held province. So far there has been little (See "Vietnam" Page 2) Initial Came Over, Chess Starts Tuesday REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) --Russian Boris Spassky has agreed to drop his demand that American Bobby Fischer be penalized one game for delaying the start of the world championship chess match, U.S. chess sources said today, a vice pres- U.S. Chess Federation, said Spassky and Fischer worked out the details of their agreement in a backstage room in Reykjavik's main sports hall Thursday a Fred Cramer, ident in the Russian Chess Federation had, demanded Fischer be ordered to forfeit the first game because he caused the initial postponement.

At that time the match was scheduled to begin July 9, one week late. Cramer said that to salve Soviet pride Fischer agreed to postpone the start until Tues- Spassky'and Fischer will play the first game in the $250,000 tournament on Tuesday, nine days after the scheduled start Spassky, a handsome Leningrad journalist who makes a living playing chess the year around, will make- the first move. He won the draw Thursday night and? will play start play on Sunday but we agreed to another postpone- few minutes before the two met ment The Russians apparently publicly to draw lots to see who felt we had done it once to would get the first move. them and now they wanted to Before the meeting, the do it to us," Cramer said. day if Spassky would drop the white, meaning he will make demand for a forfeit.

the first move. The 29-year-old American will play black in the first game. In succeeding games they alternate. Despite the charges and countercnarges exchanged between the two camps there was no sign of personal anirnosity between the two. When Spassky was introduced at the draw, Fischer applauded.

And when the challenger, dressed in a green suit and red tie, was presented, Spassky gave him a big hand. As they shook hands at the end of the ceremony, Spassky held on to Fischer's hand and said, "And good luck." The ceremony confirmed that all the problems that delayed the match for nine days finally had been settled. It began with Fischer refusing to come to Iceland for the originally scheduled start July 2 because he was not happy with the financial terms. Jim Slater, a wealthy British banker, saved the match when he offered to double the prize money from $125,000 to $250,000. Fischer finally turned up July 4--but by then, Spassky was upset and threatened to pull out.

He first demanded that Fischer forfeit the first game, then asked for an apology from the American and finally asked Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation Euwe, himself a former world champion and the last non-Russian to hold the tide, promptly penned a declaration admitting that he had made a mistake. Thursday, Fischer broke the ice when he wrote a letter to 'Dear Boris" apologizing for (FIDE), violated to the admit rules that when he he postponed the match in Fischer's absence instead of disqualifying the American. lis "disrespectful Fischer admitted behavior." he had "offended you and your country, the Soviet Union." "I simply became carried away, by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," Fischer wrote in his letter-.