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Final New York Stocks (SeePage 24) Peninsula Weather Fair through Friday with patchy low clouds near coast tonight. Cooler Friday. Low tonight 55 G2, high tomorrow on SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER A HOME OWNED NEWSPAPER coast 63 73, Inland S3 93. SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 131972 15e PER COPY $2.75 PER MONTH Vol. 72, No.

167 5 Stion Wxc ZState Eagleton Selected by McGovern for Veep 2 Hijackers Offer a Deal For a Plane vice presidency this morning. land Jackson's labor supporters. He has no ambitions beyond the! The votes of Illinois delegates plane hijacked at Philadelphia Wednesday nieht. After the. Na who had ousted and antagonized Chicago Mayor Richard tional Airlines '727 touched i Daley provided Mcwiterns MIAMI BEACH (UPI) mund S.

Muskie for the presi George S. McGovern today dency. He is a former lieutenant picked Senator Thomas F. Eag governor of Missouri and a Har letdn of Missouri, 42, as his run vard law graduate, ni ng mate to carry the Demo Eagieton's selection set the cratic Party's fight against stage for a dramatic finale to Nixon in the Novem the convention, with Senator her election. Edward M.

Kennedy flying to The 'border state liberal, in Beach to personally down, the wounded pilot and a brother a few hours earlier told McGovern he could not accept the No. 2 spot for persona! reasons, and would stay away from the convention until McGovern made his choice. Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, whose stirring words put McGovern's name in nomination Wednesday night, majority. Illinois swelled his Senate, Ribicoff said, and "1 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 thai never came. His badly beaten flight engineer, total to votes, more left the nlane and it was sum Senator Thomas F.

Eagleton McGovern Running Mate (AP Wirephoto) By AP and UPI LAKE JACKSON. Texas The FBI said today two! armed hijackers have agreed to give, up, three hostagcd stewardesses and their ransom money in exchange for a private plane with an agent pilot. The deal was the first break in a stalemate which began when the hijackers landed at a small airstrip here aboard a rounded Joy armed law officers than a majority showing how close it might have been had he not recovered 151 California delegates taken from him by The exchange plane, a single Vik first term in the Senate, raise McGovern's hand in victo engine Cessna 12, was sitting aides were expectant, believing! disclaimed interest in the originally backed Senator Ed ry. The last surviving Kennedy; (Please See Page 10, Column 1) McGovern wanted a running) halfway down the 5,000 foot runway awaiting of another plane to Follow the Ces mate Wltn wins Lies lu paiy reeulars and the South. While advisers haggled over who they thought the No.

2 man sna, the FBI said. Air Pirate Gives Up to Stewardess The FBI agent piloting the should be, McGovern worked on Marina Lagoon a plan to take his appeal for small escape plane was identi Fied as Fred Hartung. Peninsula In Grip of A Heat Wave campaign funds io the Amen can people. The hijackers stipulated that Hartune strip to his underwea: He plans a direct mail effort Until the deal was made the hijackers had remained aboard; designed to raise mjinon outside regular andperhaps foreclosed channels. the disabiea jet with the three SJF.

Student Injured by Power Boat I OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) A gray haired gunman, claiming he had a bomb in a suitcase nd waving a gun that turned stewardesses. A fourth steward Some of the men McGovern bested for the nomination. ess, 'taken hostage in Phila delohia, escaped. put to be empty, hijacked eluding. Senator Henry M.

Jack 1 son of Washington and Governor The jetliner, skyjacked by two! American jet with 57 heavily armed men for SWW.oui San Mateo County continued to sizzle today with near record high temperatures expected in most areas. "It will he continued warm today, but a little cooler on Friday," is the way the Weather George C. Wallace of Alabama other persons on board last A 23 vear old student night. He received a ransom pack remained unreconciled. But Wallace at least was reported backine away from the Third mained in critical condition in ransom, blew four tires landing at a small Texas commuter field today.

Federal agents surrounded the plane but the hijackers refused to surrender. Three crewmembers were in age in a mail pouch today, freed 1he 50 passengers, ordered flhe Chope Community Hospital today after he was struck by a cower boat on Marina Lagoon Bureau at. San Francisco International Airport summed up the situation. ane to leave for an unknown Other Convention Stories Pages 3, i. More Pictures on Pages 3, 6, 8 while sailng a city owned El destination and then surprisingly handed over his empty .38 jured in the hijacking began over New York Wednesday Toro sailboat yesterday, accord Yesterday was hot.

almost unbearable in some areas. The mercury climbed to 106 at the caliber revolver to a' stewardess ing tn San' Mateo police. Tne ac nieht rid. surrendered. cident happened at 4:20 p.m.

in The hijackers demanded ari an area posted for a five mile other, small airplane, a pilot Skylonda station of the State Di The plane landed and tihe hi 1 speed limit jacker, Melvin Fisher, 49, pf Norman, was taken vision of Forestry. Woodside recorded 103 degrees, whiie Redwood City reported 102, hottest ever on that date in tne and swimming trunks, rncy sam they would leave the ransom money behind if their other de to jail. Federal agents searched the marifls were met All 113 passengers aboard the county seat. plane and found the ransom Party effort his aides had earlier called a growing possibility. While the McGovern camp tried to consolidate its victory, President Nixon's operatives were already in Miami Beach attempting to cash in on anil McGovern 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. It was 97 in San Mateo yester package but no.bomb. National Airlines jet, originally The victim was identified as Joseph Chow 500 Parnassus Street, San The address is the dormitory of San Francisco State College.

Chow was participating in a San Mateo city recreation department sponsored sailing class at "the time. He was sail day, following close the high for He demanded and commandeered on Us planned parachutes in exchange for the passengers. The ipkne returned' any July day which was 101 in 1970. The airport recorded a final approach to John Kennedy International Airport, were released unharmed at Philadel high of 86 degrees yesterday, to Oklahoma Uty ana lanaea, but the hijacker forced it. to take off aeain and circle the phia where skyjackers transferred to another plane and took off eight hours later ing the seven foot, 11 inch craft and making a turn when it was rammed broadside by the power boat.

The fiberglass sailboat city while the ransom was being A prime tactic Nixon will usel with their ransom, three para chutes and six hostage crew delivered. The FBI said the hijacker was "iven one parachute and $200, shattered and splintered, poi: said. against McGovern in tne election, Morton said, was to try to disprove McGovern "has a magic wand that can cure all the nation's problems." members. Before takme off orTexas, i DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Senator George McGovern, worked on his acceptance speech. while watching the convention proceedings on television Wednesday night in Miami Beach.

McGovern won the presidential nomination on the firsfballot of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Wirephoto) seventh hostage, Elliott 000 in a mail pouch and in turn released the passengers unharmed. The Jetliner took off The powerboat' operator was identified by police as Neil Mer ritt Sturgis, 38, of 1537 Lago Adams. 55, diveti tnrougn i The final official first ballot again with the seven crew Street, San Mateo. According to vote was: setting a new record there where the previous high temperature of 85 was set on that date in.

1954. Temperatures began to soar again this morning with the mercury hitting 34 degrees in Belmont at 10 a.m. Redwood City reported 82 at that hour and San Mateo City had 76 degrees. The Weather Bureau reported 76 degrees at San Francisco Airport at 10 a.m., but downtown San Francisco had already reached 80 degrees already a new record for this date. Highs today will be in the 70's abng the coast to the high 90's and: low lCKVs inland.

Southern cockpit window "like a sack of potatoes" as the jetliner taxied 100 yards from the terminal their report he was driving bers as hostage and a short time later the hijacker surren McGovern 1972 model Caravell inDoara 1,864.95 377.5' Jackson huildine. Police dramatically outboard 17 foot motorboat Wallace with a 165 horsepower engine. 101 pulled Adams into a speeding car and the jetliner took off with Chisholm (Please See Page 10, Column Investigating Officer George Welling said witnesses told him Chow was thrown into the water Sanford Humphrey Mills Fischer Forfeits 2nd Game In Protest Against Cameras 3ft 32. 211, bv the impact. The sailboat.

10.65 mast broke off and came crashing down on his head. 5 2 dered to the stewardess. "We recovered ewy penny," said an FBI agent. The skyjacker, described as a nervous man about six feet tall who took swigs of a white liquid from a bottle as the hijackkig progressed, forced the pilot to turn back to Oklahoma City shortly after it left Dallas. But after landing in Oklahoma City, he forced the plane into the air again to await delivery of his ransom.

The jetliner circled Oklahoma City for, three hours until the hijacker was told his ransom was ready. Kennedy Hayes McCarthy Mondale Abstain Bay Yields Missing Boy SAN FRANCISCO (AP) At the same time he is believed to have 'been slashed on the foot by some sharp part of the power boat, Welling said 1 9.7 of the U.S. Chess Federation they would remove one of the cameras if Fischer would play. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Bobbv Fischer forfeited the and acting, on 'behalf of Fischer In a living room crowded with kinfolk and confidants, said negotiations, were underi doctors told nun at tne Hospital. Fischer held up the first game' The body of a small blue eyed second game of his world cham ionship chess match with Rus The victim had a total of 150 McGovern watched his nomination on television under the way with Richard c.

btein, Sawyer for Chester Fox the U.S. company which owns the boy with long blond hair, miss ing since the Fourth of July was found today floating ii for 35 minutes Wednesday because he objected to its being filmed on closed circuit television. He said he would not show sian Boris Spassky toaay. Fischer failed to show up for the game and an aide said he was asleep. TV and film rights for the heat and glare of television lamps recording the moment.

After 18 months, starting match, shallow water in the San Fran risen Bav. police said. One man delivered the ran up ifor today's game with world champion Boris Spassky of the Sehmid said" the Amsterdam San Mateo County will continue to be hottest, with Ihe mercury expected to reach at least 95 degrees in Redwood City. Wood side is expected to reach the low Ws again. An "air Stagnation advisory" was issued yesterday morning by the Weather Bureau, but fortunately it failed to materialize with only "light" smog recorded in most Bay Area stations.

It was hot throughout'the Bay Area yesterday with 98 degrees recorded at San Jose. In Marin County the mercury climbed into the AO's and 90's. Downtown San Francisco reported a comfortable 76 degrees, a lot higher than the average high for that som package to a spot on the The forfeit aave Spassky a 2 0 from nowhere, the candidate of agreement between The mother and stepfather of fryear old Christopher Dove runway and a passenger left the Soviet Union unless all the cam lead in the match. He needs had won. His eyes eras were removed jetliner to recover it.

l'nen tne shone bright with emotion. He kissed his sisters and his nieces and Fischer allows TV coveragel of the match and if Fischer refused to piay because of the identified men son ocay. Police said an off duty fire passengers walked to ireeaom only 12 points to retain his title while Fischer needs 12 to win. The next scheduled game is stitches taken. There were three large head wounds, police said.

About a hundred witnesses were on the beach and in boats at the time. A group rushed to the area and pulled him out. Detective Sgt. Kenneth Brooks and Welling adniinistered first aid. 'Witnesses told police that some of them had yelled to the power boat operator to reduce his speed just before the crash, Welling said.

At the time of the accident Sturgis was pulling a skier, identified bv Officer Welling as The referee said Fischer had one' hour past the scheduled starting time to show up or he man found body while jog down a special escape shaft. The aircraft took off from La and shook hands with the men, then went back writing on a presence of tne. cameras mis Sunday. Soasskv arrived about would be a breach ot trie agree would forfeit the game yellow pad with a felt tip pen ging on the beach across from Fleishhacker Zoo. The body had been in the wa Guardia Airport in New York and stopped in Washington and minutes before the scheduled the acceptance speech he will sky.

He has already lost the fir st game and a forfeit would sfartins time and walked slowly deliver tonight Chicago betore procceaing ment. Woman Hurt Bui hostility remained from put him two full points behind Oklahoma City. It was to have ter "for quite some time," said a police spokesman. He said cause of death had not been de the Russian. the old guard.

On. the conven flown directly to Los Angeles around the stage with Referee LDthar Sehmid, waiting for Fischer. Fischer boycotted today's It was not immediately clear tion floor, the die hard suppor from Dallas. termined. Mike G.

Loskutoff, .18, of 1869 Bahia Street, San Mateo. There One of the passengers re Christopher was last seen which camera the organizers agreed remove. There are of same in protest against the use I leased, Tony Castello, talking to a stranger in a parking lot near the Cliff House, four camera positions in the the: of closed circuit television to In Train Fall An elderly woman was seri Harrisonburg W.Va. ters ot Hubert a. iiumpnrey and Edmund S.

Muskie cast their votes for the token candidates or for Jackson, a party warhorse, rather than go two above the stage and guhman frequent swigs give spectators a better view of were six people ia the boat, it was reported. The. area in which the colli (Please See Paps Colnitui 7) with his family standing about two on the floor. The 'organizers date which is 64 degrees. Oakland recorded 88 degrees, but at Pleasanton, the temperature reached 100.

Weak sea breezes along the coast are responsble for the hot temperatures, according io the Weather Bureau. The sea breezes are expected to "pick up" this afternoon, hopefully providing cooler weather for the area by tomorrow. See Page 1, Column ljl ine piay. urgdniia saiu 20 yards away. also said thev would relocate with tne obvious winner.

two of the cameras which Jackson and Wallace remain ously injured after she slipped and fell from southbound Southern Pacific commuter train shortly before it pulfed Fischer disturbed him. ed unreconciled to the bitter end "We don't know for sure to a McGovern candidacy on a Frasier. the Amorous Old Lion, Dies Fischer will accept this arrangement," said Harry Golom liberal platform and so did Wallace's antibusing supporters into the San Bruno depot at 8:45 a.m. today. She was tentatively identified bek, a member of the central committee of the International.

mouth like that of a winded from a rent receipt as Rosalie Africa like populated by! earKer this week that Frasier was ill and diaanosed it as a Chess Federation (FIDE) Garcia, 62 Turk Street, San mongrel. the surprise of veterinari wild animals of many species. With the park's publicity men Fred Cramer, a vice Francisco. kidney malfunction. They naa Ad unidentified passenger on ans an animal handlers, Fra beatins the drums for him, Fra News Index HILLS (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 anH nainles ripttl." the train said he was standing sier's amorous prowess nad sier became the lord and master of his pride of 11 amorous. been giving him five vjtamin shots a day to keep up his strength. The old lion 'had been brought behind the woman in rne open made' him a nationally known doorway of the train when the Massacre Admitted young lionesses, who nan pre pap hero and sex symbol with LLAMAS ousted by from Redwood City pens. Page 29. accident occurred.

indoors away from the viously rejected a series of yir vounc lions as inadequate. sliirts, mittens records, aprons and "Frasier orPresi dent'bumper stickers. She tumbled from the train as it crossed the Angus Avenue Frasier had' gained nation imposed, by his harem of ador wide attention in the past yearling but insatiable twnesses and He has since then singlehand crossing, heading south edty increased the park's lion had been under constant observ dodu ation by more man a LOD. Israel (AP) Kozo Okamotn told an Israeli army court today he is a professional ation, a Lion Country Safari Peninsula News 29 30 Sports 19 22 Stocks 24 TV. Radio 16 Theaters 17 Weather 14 Women's News 12 13 Births 31 Business 25 Classified 31 36 Comics .28 Editorial 26 Features 27 Obituaries 31 A refugee from a defunct Mexican taken in by the Safari out' of.

pity, Frasier had rheumatic joints and staggered arid wobbled as he walked. His third, keeping most or ms lion nokesman said She had been standing in tne middle car of the three car commuter train. She was taken to Peninsula Hospital and later soldier of the Red Army organi Frasier was the star attrac esses pregnant most ot time. by taking over a pnoe ot young lionesses, and siring 33 cubs in a 16 month period al 'though he himself was between 17 and 20 years old the equiv i alent of. 85 100 in a human beinf.

7 Veterinarians had disclosed tion of the Safari, a privately transferred to Chope Communi zation of Japanese radicals and he accepts "ftdl responsibility for the people I killed" in the lioness, all bigger Iten coat was ragged and dull. Mus ty Hospital, suffering from mul Frasier, in turn fetched him his owned wild animal park which charges visitors admission lo drive their cars' through cles atrophied by age his tongue to loll tiple contusions ana aprasions Lod Airport (Please See Pije 11, Uommm zj.

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