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For Every Member of the Family A NEWSPAPER FOR Information THE and HOME Enjoyment SALINAS CA CALIFORNIAN 101st Year- 166 SALINAS, CALIFORNIA, THURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1972 Record Crowd Kicks Off Big Week at the Big Hat Eagleton Gets McGovern ern Nod MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S. McGovern today picked Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, 42, as his running mate to carry the Democratic party's fight against President Nixon in the November election. The border state liberal, in his first term in the Senate, By LARRY GROOMS Californian Staff Writer Under the Big Hat last night was a full stomach.

Visitors to the annual Big Hat barbecue, to kick off Rodeo Big Week in Salinas, consumed 3,372 steaks, hundreds of pounds of beans and salad, and coffee by the 20-gallon drumful. Monterey County Sheriff's Posse president Allan Balch said the Big Hat barbecue was perhaps the biggest in history. Last year about 3,000 persons attended the mass feed, but the crowd estimate for last night was much higher. Long lines had formed on the posse grounds by the 6 p.m. opening, and -originally backed Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie for the presidency. He is a former lieutenant governor of Missouri and a Harvard law graduate. Eagleton's selection set the stage for a dramatic finale to the convention, with Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy flying to Miami Beach to personally raise McGovern's hand in ticket buyers were still waiting to be served as late as 8:30. Barbecue general chairman Chuck Whitney described the event as a major success. Surveying the line of waiting steak eaters from a stepladder, he noted that there were barely enough steaks on hand to feed all those who bought tickets. Weather for the barbecue was a big plus last night, as patrons drank, ate and danced under unusually balmy conditions. In past years the Big Hat barbecue has been plagued with wind, cold, and-or fog.

A crowded dance floor gave testimony to the enthusiasm of the crowd, as two victory. The last surviving Kennedy brother a few hours earlier told McGovern he could not accept the No. 2 spot for personal reasons, and would stay away from the convention until McGovern made his choice. Sen. Abraham A.

Ribicoff of Connecticut, whose stirring words put McGovern's name in Air Pirates Claim $600,000 Ransom By United Press International Two black hijackers armed with guns and believed carrying a bomb held three stewardesses hostage today aboard a National Airlines jet trapped in a tiny Texas airport. FBI snipers and sheriff's deputies with high-powered rifles surrounded the aircraft but the men refused to surrender. In another hijacking, a grayhaired Oklahoma man calmly surrendered early Thursday to a stewardess aboard an 1 American Airlines jet over Oklahoma City after holding seven crew members hostage and collecting a $200,000 ransom. In Freeport, authorities said the National jet could not possibly take off because of four flat tires sustained on landing and because of the size of the commuter airport 50 miles south of Houston. The hijackers, who referred to each other as "Number One" and "Number Two," ignored pleas to surrender but said they would leave behind the $600,000 ransom paid earlier by National if authorities met their new demands for another, smaller plane and a pilot dressed only in a bathing suit so he could not conceal a weapon.

Authorities negotiated with the men via bullhorns as the federal snipers stood on both sides of the small runway as a steady rain fell. After the plane landed, three other crew members held hostage made it to freedom, two of them injured. A stewardess was released to relay the air pirates' latest demands to the FBI. The flight engineer, shot and wounded during an escape attempt, was allowed to be taken away on a stretcher, and the copilot leaped out a door after being pistol whipped by the hijackers. He suffered a fractured pelvis and other injuries in the fall.

About the same time, a grayhaired man surrendered after he succeeded in obtaining a Today's Inside News Page County Candidates Report Campaign Spending 2 FBI Arrests Third Man in PSA Hijackings 5 New Preservative Prolongs Produce Shelf Life 14 County Planners Reject Plan for Condominium .................32 Policeman, 33, Attending Nursery School ..36 Amusements Sports 16-17 Classified Television ....10 Comics ..34 Town 'n Country Life Editorial 6 Valley ..13 Financial 18 Weather .19 bands enlivened the evening with western and popular music. The western band stoked up with From Muskogee" at 7 p.m., and the music went non stop, with only a brief interruption for the presentation of Junior Rodeo Awards and the introduction of dignitaries and officials. Highlight of the evening was the presentation of trophies to winners of the Sheriff's Posse's Junior Rodeo, held in May. Julie Rianda of Greenfield was honored for her winning performance in the 9- years and under category, and Cathy Castillo of Salinas was presented with the All-Around Cowgirl award. Bill Whitney of Greenfield accepted nomination Wednesday night, also disclaimed interest in the vice presidency this morning.

He has no ambitions beyond the Senate, Ribicoff said, and "I don't want to be No. 2 man to anyone." Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, often described as the top power broker in Congress, waited for a telephone call from McGovern that never came. His aides were expectant, believing McGovern wanted a running mate with Mills' ties to party regulars and the South.

While the McGovern camp tried to consolidate its victory, President Nixon's operatives were already in Miami Beach attempting to cash in on antiMcGovern discontent. Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton -a member of the Nixon re-election committee said there was a "fertile field" of dissatisfaction which the GOP could work. A prime tactic Nixon will see against McGovern in the election, Morton said, was to try to disprove McGovern "has a magic wand that can cure all the nation's problems." In a living room crowded with kinfolk and confidants, McGovern watched his nomination on television under the McGOVERN Page 2, Col.

2 Fischer Forfeits REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of his world championship chess match with Russian Boris Spassky today. Fischer failed to show up for the game and an aide said he was asleep. The forfeit give Spassky a 2-0 lead in the match. He needs only 12 points to retain his title Fischer needs 12 1-2 to win. The next scheduled game is Sunday.

Fischer boycotted today's game in protest against the use of closed circuit television to give spectators a better view of the play. Organizers said earlier they would remove one of the cameras if Fischer would play. $200,000 ransom from American Airlines in Oklahoma City following the hijacking of an American 727. In the National hijacking, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the pilot of the first National craft the two black men hijacked while during a flight over New York jumped through a window to escape while the craft was on the ground in Philadelphia. The two men then transferred to another plane with six crew members as hostage.

The 113 passengers of the original craft were set free. In both cases passengers had been released and the crew held as hostages. Both incidents began Wednesday night when the hijackers seized the planes and demanded parachutes plus ransom totaling in excess of $1 million. The first hijacking occurred about 7 p.m. EDT as a National Airlines 727 jetliner with 118 persons aboard was making its final approach to John F.

Kennedy Airport in New York. Two armed men, demanding three parachutes and $600,000, some of it in Mexican pesos, diverted the plane to Philadelphia where it landed officials scurried about in an attempt to procure the money. Less than two hours later, a man identified as Melvin Marvin Fisher, 49, of Norman, commandeered an American Airlines 727 shortly after takeoff from Oklahoma City enroute to Dallas, federal agents said. Nixon Offer Called 'Absurd' Reds Kill New Peace Plan PARIS (UPI)-The Vietna- tors said they had agreed to an accord on military and Earlier, the Saigon delegation mese Communists today reject- meet again next week. political questions on conditions bluntly told the Communists it ed President Nixon's latest The Communist delegations' put forward by Mr.

Nixon on will never accept their plans peace plan as an "unreasonable stand, coupled with a violent May 8 and June 29 is in fact for South Vietnam's political and absurd" ultimatum and condemnation of U.S. air nothing but an unreasonable strikes in Vietnam, failed to and absurd ultimatum," she future. said they will settle for nothing of their own move the conference off dead said. Today's 150th session was the except acceptance plan. center as had been hoped in She said the ceasefire called first since May 4 when Nixon North Vietnamese negotiator Washington.

for again today by U. S. broke off the talks because the Xuan Thuy and Madame Taking an unusually harsh negotiator William J. Porter Communists showed no willingThi Binh, the Viet Cong tone, Madame Binh charged and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam ness to negotiate in public or in Nguyen foreign minister, turned down that President Nixon's eight- "does not aim at ending the private. Nixon's plan and pushed their point plan proposed Jan.

25 and war, but simply at legalizing The United States agreed to long-rejected peace pack- calling for new presidential the Nguyen Van Thieu adminis- return to the conference table own, when the Vietnam Confer- elections in South Vietnam, was tration and the U.S. military today, the President announced age, ence resumed after a 10-week aimed merely at maintaining presence, while depriving the June 29, because there were suspension. U.S. control of the country. South Vietnamese people of the indications the Communists The meeting lasted three "The demand for an imme- legitimate right to self-defense," would adopt a more flexible hours and 45 minutes.

Negotia- diate ceasefire to come before Madame Binh said. attitude. WEATHER Fair through Friday except patches of night and morning low overcast in north. High yesterday 79: this morning's low 53. (Complete forecast on Page 19) 36 Pages 15 Cents the All-Around Cowboy award for his performance in the Junior Rodeo.

Introduced to the crowd was Liz Curry, newly crowned High School Rodeo Queen. Special guests introduced last night included; Congressman and Mrs. Burt L. Talcott, Mrs. Betsy (Bob) Wood, and numerous city and county officials.

Special guests for the evening were military officials from Monterey County installations. Attending the Big Hat barbecue as guests of the Salinas Chamber of Commerce military affairs committee, were: Maj. Gen. H. G.

Moore, commanding general of Fort Ord; Brig. Gen. Ray Ochs, commanding general of the Com- bat Developments Experimentation Command; Col. William Dieleman, Fort Ord chief of staff; Col. John F.

Hook, commandant of the Defense Language School; Col. Stephen E. Cavanaugh, deputy installation commander at Fort Ord; Capt. John E. McQuary, acting superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School; Lt.

Col. John Olow, public information officer at Fort Ord; and Capt. E. E. Riley, superintendent of logistics at the Naval Postgraduate School.

The barbecue was the first in a series of events that will culminate in the California Rodeo, July 20-23. This morning Salinas turned out in western garb, and western dress style will be the order of the day through the end of Big Week, SMALL FRY COWGIRLS tried out booted dance steps at Big Hat. (Californian photo) County Losing Budget Battle? Monterey County seven hours yesterday trying to reduce the coutny's $56.2 million budget but ended up nearly $25,000 ahead instead. In the second day of preliminary budget hearings, supervisors added about $58,000 to the record budget, already up $2.8 million from last year. That wiped out savings totalling $33,500 on Monday for an addition of about $25,000.

Major additions to the budget included another sergeant for the jail at $12,000, a $21,794 radio program designed to curb juvenile delinquency for the probation department; and 195 to the Natividad Boy's Ranch budget for capital improvements. Neither the radio program, nor the ranch improvements are financed by Music to Fill City Streets county property tax dollars. The radio program is financed by the California Council on Criminal Justice and the ranch improvements by 'a gift from the Walter Rosenberg estate. Supervisors also added a new $20,000 restroom and $40,000 road for Toro Regional Park. But the additions were offset by reductions in the parks budget.

Supervisors decided the road and restrooms which will allow opening of new picnic areas, were more important than a proposed $25,000 ranger residence, a $12,000 well, $7,500 worth of fencing, $10,000 pond BUDGET Page 2, Col. Old Frasier The Lion Dies Earlier Story Page 28 LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (UPI)-Frasier, the sensuous lion, died early today at Lion Country Safari after a long and full life. "Frasier died in the early hours of the morning," an official announcement said. "It was a peaceful and painless death." Frasier had gained nationwide attention in the past year by taking over a pride of 11 young lionesses and siring 33 cubs in a 16 month period although he himself was between 17 and 20 years old the equivalent of 85-100 in a human being.

Veterinarians had disclosed earlier this week that Frasier was ill and diagnosed it as a kidney malfunction. They had been giving him five vitamin shots a day to keep up his strength. Beginning tomorrow the streets of Salinas will be filled with the sound of music to herald the coming of Big Week. H. G.

(Tony) Royal, chairman of the Rodeo entertainment committee, said the fourday entertainment program will begin tomorrow with music at Valley Center from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Sidewalk concerts will be held downtown from 12 to 2 p.m. tomorrow, followed by 2 to 3 p.m. music at the Sherwood Gardens shopping center. The Saturday music schedule is as follows: Hartnell Plaza, 11 a.m., to noon; Downtown, 1- 13 p.m.; Northridge Center, 3- 3:30 p.m.; and Sherwood Gardens, p.m.

Music and other entertainment will begin Monday, Royal said, in an effort to involve employes of Salinas indus- the trial firms in the Big Week spirit. 101 Monday's entertain me ent schedule calls for entertainment at: Cochran Western, p.m.; Valley Center and Hartnell Plaza, p.m.; Downtown, p.m.; Hoerner Waldorf and Sherwood Gardens, Tuesday's schedule is: Firestone, a.m.; Streaters, p.m., Downtown, Alisal and Monte Mart Centers, Schilling, Spreckels, and Sherwood Gardens, Temperature 91 in Salinas The temperature hit 91 degrees at Salinas Municipal Airport at 11:30 a.m. today. It was the hottest day for Salinas since Oct. 5, 1971, when the temperature was 94.

King City recorded a high of 101 yesterday. ACTION DESK Why No Hitching Posts for Bicycles? Action Desk: Lately there has been a tremendous boom in bicycle sales. Why has there not been any attempt to install "hitching posts" for people to lock their bikes to when they are shopping, Salinas Reader. Arnold Joens, director of public works for the city of Salinas, answers the question: "The Municipal Code authorizes the City Council to grant individuals permission to install bicycle racks on sidewalks. Businessmen could install these if they met certain standards.

Care should be taken to leave space for pedestrians. "The city could install racks at the general expense of the city, but it would be important to furnish the same level of service to all areas throughout the city. The installation cost would be about $15 per stall. Except at certain public buildings and parks, the staff has not recommended that this service be provided.".