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Vol. 105-No. 135 12 Pages Aiken, South Carolina, Friday, July 7,1972 S. C. P9801 Drugs A Problem? you kare a drug problem, or know of a drug pusher call toll free: 800-368-5363.

(See Page 2). Telephone: 648-231) 50c Per Singie Copy S. Viets Claim QuangTriCity SAIGON (AF( -The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City, and seized control of two- thirds of the northern provincial capital. But field reports and senior U.S. military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon.

Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city from two sides but were meeting tough resistance. The advancing ground troops were being covered by a huge American air and naval armada. AWOL Soldier Seizes Jetliner OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army.

It was the second hijacking of a PSA plane in two days. Wallace Ends Hospital Stay SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) George C. Wallace ended 54 days of hospitalization today with thanks to those who "saved my life" and sped toward resumption of his governorship in Alabama and his quest for the presidency in Miami Beach. "I feel good, I feel great," Wallace declared.

Fate Of Delegates Rests With Court WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court. The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended im- plentation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices on holding a special session.

Chess Match Play To Start Tuesday REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. The on-again-off-again meet-, ing billed by chess lovers as the match of the century -was delayed for months by disagreements over a site, prize money, and personal hurt feelings on the part of the participants. Slander Suit Filed Against Hughes LOS ANGELES (AP) Billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes is accused in a $51 million damage suit of slandering Noah Dietrich, his 83-year-old biographer and former aide. It was the second slander suit filed as the result of a derogatory statement allegedly made by Hughes in a televised news last January. Die-i trich's suit, filed Thursday, charged that Hughes made the statement about another associate and likened Dietrich to that individual.

Marvello Really Can Smile By STEVE CRAW SUff Reporter In 1932 the Tampa Police Department forced Mel Oakes, the medicine vender out of business because he was in violation of the federal Food and Drug Act. His business has been at a standstill ever since. Now Oakes is "Marvello, the Mechanical Man" and if you can make him crack a smile you can win $100. If you can make him come right out and laugh, you win a new Toyota. Oakes holds the record for standing still, without batting an eye, for 8 hours and 20 minutes.

He made Rjply's Believe It or Not for that. He has been putting on a professional act for 40 years. He is performing at Roses Department Store at Kalmia Plaza up until Sunday. He poses for 20 minutes and takes a 40-minute break from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

It's an advertising stunt to promote store sales. Many spectators have questioned whether Oakes is human. He is. In fact, when this reporter walked up to him he broke out laughing. (He wasn't on the job, so no prize.) His jovial mood is lined on his leathery face with wrinkles at the corners of his mouth and creases to the side of his eyes.

He laughs a lot. The silver haired Oakes is 72 and in good health. "The only exercise I do is this," he said wiggling his little finger. A native Alabaman, Oakes tours 40 states with his act, which he admits is a holdover from Vaudville. Since 1960 his route has been limited to shopping centers and nightclubs.

He's never been in the circus although many have asked for him. "They offered me $75 a week and all expenses paid. But I can make twice that working on my own," said the ex-pill peddler. Assembly Attempting To Settle Primaries THIS DIDN'T WORK Marvello Wouldn't Smile This Time. (Photo by Rick Hawkins).

"I make more money playing dumb than a lot of comedians can make on television," he boasted. Oakes turned away from selling medicine and performing as a black face comedian in 1932 when the police in Florida insisted he get a license to sell. A car dealer offered him a fee to promote sales by putting on a mechanical man act. He took up the offer. Talking fast and with the relish of a salesman displaying his wares, Oakes explained the various set ups he arranged and the.

cuts he got from merchants. He began work at the start of the Depression and bemoans the bigger money he made then than he does now. Besides the mechanical man act he worked as a living manakin for New York department stores. "You know back in the Depression the job was easy. There was nothing to smile about," said Oakes.

His standard act then was when he'd have an ambulance bring him to a store from the local funeral home. "They'd have the siren going and lights flashing and three or four police cars would follow us in to see what was going on," beamed Oakes. "I'd have the ambulance jdrivers come hook an elec- cord on rae while I just lay there stiff. Then they'd put me on a stretcher and tUt it up, plug me in and I'd move like this," he explained while moving his arms up and down with a shudder like an unoiled machine. (let HAKVEIXO, 11) Session Underway Today COLUMBIA (AP) Legislators are attempting today to make some determination on South Carolina's twice delayed primary elections.

Both the Senate and House voted Thursday to meet in an unusual Friday session, while a hearing before a three-judge federal court was set to begin at 11:30 a.m. The judges will hear a House petition asking them to clarify some confusion surrounding an earlier decision enjoining the holding of the primaries until a Justice Department ruling on numbered seats. NUMBERED SEATS That ruling came last Friday and it knocked down numbered seats for the House and many local offices. The House passed a resolution Thursday to allow Rep. Lowell Ross, D-Oconee, to be its legal representative at the hearing.

Ross said he thinks the entire matter can be cleared up today. "When we get some clarification on these matters, we'll be ready to take some action," he Sponsors of the resolution said before the legislature can act, it must have some guidelines from the court. Among the questions tha need to be answered, lawmak ers said, are whether the filing period must be reopened; when would be the most favorable time to hold the primaries; ant whether filing must be reopened even in counties that are single-member districts. Spruill ToHearA rguments For New 'Cycle Trial Soon By JUDY RICH Staff Reporter Public Defender Edward Cushman said yesterday arguments for a new trial on behalf of the five convicted Belvedere murderers are expected to be heard before Judge James A. Spruill by the end of the month.

Cushman said bis office received a letter from Judge Spruill and "as things stand now it will be the third or fourth week of the month (July) when we argue the balance of the motions." Referring to the 54 Supreme Court ruling last week declaring that the death penalty cannot be carried out in the United States, Cushman said "the big question has been resolved." He said the ruling has put the situation into "a fluid state now as things stand." The five men, Dennis G. Davis of West Carrollton. Ohio; Gary Faust, Monroe, Osgood Leland, McClellanville; William R. Holland, Vero Beach, and Bruce G. Poe of Cleveland, were sentenced by Judge Spruill to death in the electric chair Dec.

10,1971. The execution, however, was stayed indefinitely pending an appeal in the case filed by attorneys for the defense. The five, have been on death row at the S.C. Correctional Institution since their conviction of murder in the deaths of two men slain at a Belvedere motorcycle clubhouse June 18, 1971. Cushman said motions will involve conferences with other attorneys including Assistant Public Defender Mrs.

Sylvia Westerdahl, Kermit King, attorney for Holland; the Aiken County Solicitor's office and the state attorney general's office. During the period since the trial last October, Cushman said James H. Tucker the Florida lawyer who defended Holland, drowned in Florida while trying to save the life of a youth who had fallen overboard from a boat. Holland's new lawyer, he said, was now King. Earlier Judge Spruill had indicated the hearing in the case will be heard wherever he is holding court at the time.

Cushman said the motion for a new trial contends among other points that the five men should have been given sepa- REOPEN FILING Legislation was tentatively approved in the House thai would set a Sept. 5 primary date and reopen the filing books, if the court so decides, from noon July 17 until noon July 31. The measure was ordered to be read a third and final time in the House today and sent to the Senate, which seems to favor an Aug. 22 primary, according to Sen. Frank Roddey, D-Lancaster.

In a day replete with action concerning the state's election process, a resolution was offered in the lower chamber requesting the state attorney general to appeal to the U.S. District Court in Washington the Justice Department's decision throwing out numbered seats for the House and local races. RETIREE AND SUCCESSOR Marion H. Smoak of Aiken (right) chats with U.S. Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher at a retirement party held for Mosbacher in Washington last night.

Smoak, a former Aiken County state senator and retired Army colonel, will succeed Mosbacher as acting chief of protocol. He has served as deputy chief of protocol since 1969. Among the several hundred diplomats and socialites attending the party were Russian Ambassador and Mrs. Anatoliy Dobrynin. (AP Wirephoto) Wike Is Named Director Of Aiken United Fund Supply Bill Text Printed The full text of the 1972-73 Aiken County Supply Bill is printed on pages 2 and 3 of today's Aiken Standard.

The Aiken United Fund last night appointed Garvel Wike as the new director of the United Fund. Wike came to Aiken for the first tune in June to lead the Salvation Army for an interim period of two weeks while the local" chapters were between commanders. "I had filed my application with the United Ways national office some months ago, but they kept suggesting offices in the North," the new director said. "Captain (Thomas) Cundiff suggested that I look into the United Fund here. I did and I'm here," he said.

Wike, a native of Norfolk, has spent the past five years working in various parts of the South with public relations and fund raising for the Salvation Army. He retired after nine and a half years with the Air Force for medical reasons. GARVELWffiE Virginia Native "I like raising funds and working with people. I feel that by working with the United Fund I can use my talents for all the agencies instead of just one. I feel Chance Of Rain Slight Mild temperatures and little chance of rain other than scattered thundershowers are predicted for Aiken this weekend.

Low tonight should be in the low 60s and high tomorrow in the low to mid 80s. Northeasterly winds at 5 to 10 miles per hoar today are expected to become light and variable tonight and easterly at around 10 miles per hour Saturday. The extended outlook calls for a warming trend Monday with temperatures rising to around 96. like I have the right background for this work," he said. Wike is "still getting my feet wet," and as yet has no major plans for changing the Aiken United Fund.

He said he does not plan "to rock the boat." "The United Fund here is very stable. We have one of the most outstanding boards anywhere and I am very pleased to have this kind of backing and support," he said. His family, now hi Texas visiting his wife's parents, will join him in Aiken on July 30. The Wike's have two children. Robin.

10, and Michael, 8, as well as a foster son Al, 17. Rucker Goodson of Owens Corning Fiberglas was appointed public relations director by the board. United Fund Campaign Chairman Robert S. Perry Jr. said the United Fund's goal this year is $307,410 record amount.

"We are pleased to be able to shoot for our largest goal ever and we are confident that the citizens of Aiken will give us their help and support," Perry said. "We are doing the leg I work now and our campaign i kick off is scheduled for i the latter part of ber," he added. County Would Get $1.4 Million In Revenue Sharing BySTKVECRAW Staff Reporter (last Of A Series) Local government and local planning and zoning has caught the fancy of Congress this summer and is now apparently in for a change. One is the pending federal revenue sharing bill which wul give county and municipal government in Aiken County $1.4 million in federal revenues. Another pending bill, the National Land Use Act, will require that an states set up statewide planning and toning.

The revenue sharing bill will dole oat billion to 38,000 local governments throughout the nation. It has passed the House and is expected to pass the Senate this month. The land use bill touches on a sensitive nerve in Aiken County zoning. That word has been a fighting word for many property owners who reason being told what they should do with their land. The county has fought off numerous attempts to establish a planning and zoning commission.

It has been obstructed despite the pleas of planners that community planning is little more than a piece of paper without zon- ing and zoning ordinances to back it up. Few dispute the need for planning. The land use bill in Congress would appropriate $800 million by 1900 to provide for the creation and implementation of land use planning in each state. The Senate version, according to its sponsor. Sen.

Henry Jackson, will "force the states to overcome the near anarchy of present land use decision-nuking policy." It is a combination of Senate proposals and those of President Nixon. It provides for an outlay of $100 million over the next five years. What's more, it has an enforcement clause that would deny federal funds to those states that fail to adopt statewide planning and zoning within five years. Failure to comply would result in a slow cut back of federal grants and aid coming into the state on a sliding scale over a five-year period. (Both versions exclude federal highway funds from this penalty.) It is the same kind of law that the federal government is using to make counties and municipalities join councils of government.

And it has a similar goal of encouraging regional planning and government. The zoning power clause in the Senate version is watered down in the House version of the bill. A fight is expected between the two chambers over the bill, but a compromise is expected in a joint conference committee. Herman Whickel, director of community planniGg for Gov. John West's office, said this week South Carolina is already making preparations to comply with the legislation.

Though he admitted that neither a statewide plan nor zoning exists now, as of July 1 the administrative organization implement it will be ready and waiting for the land use bill to go into effect. Whickel said the state is planning to use land use controls but declined to specify what form that enforcement would take. Some states, like Texas, already have a comprehensive land use plan. This month Georgia legislators have begun in earnest to get one for their state. One Georgia legislator who was in on the land use bill hearings, Matthew Mulherin of Augusta, commented on the hearings.

"God, you talk about something that gets complicated," he lamented. "Those super agencies just give all theory and no solutions. "I listened until I couldn't listen any it was so bonne." he added. Jim Whitmire, federal government laison for Gov. West called the land use bin, "quite comprehensive." So it seems that what Aiken County has resisted for so many years will be brought in by the state with the "encouragement" of the federal government.

The county hasn't been without its zoning propo-'.