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The Scranton Tribun 2 July 7, 1972 Protest leader Vows to Uhc Any Means Necessary to Win Fight State Nem Digest Poor Denied Passes to Floor of Convention delejatino aald'no room for anyone on ths for 750 floor id ha offered during the BEACH officials jrw.t snocrstic (UPI) De-( means necessary" to gain ac-j The protest rejected alc7J urthlr requsst George Wiley, executive Christian Leadership Confer-director of the National Welfare ence, Jesse Gray of the Rights Organisation, said, National Tenants Organisation will gat tha seats by any means land members of other groups He eat a deadline told Murphy at the Fontaine- Imaeting to provide them with increase in I increase mi reforms and an would amount to ful to 7J lllery pMe for each representation of evening session of the conven- poor people among the more tloei which opens Monday, than 3,000 convention delegates since one-fourth of ell American families receive less lhao about 5.600 are delegates end of noon Friday for Democratic officials to act and added, "We are going to press this to the i pre demand by poor people Thurs-day that 750 of their representatives be permitted to lobby among the delegates on thelMunphy rneetmg with convention floor next week. (spokesmen for lha poor and Rebuffed their bid for 750 welfare clients groups, about floor passes, one of leaders vowed to use welfare benefits. Convention Director Richard thelrjhalf of them black, broke "anyjwlth "a threat of disruption." bleau Hotel meedng they wanted passei to lobby on the convention floor for a number of platform planks. Including 36,500 guaranteed annual nd. very bitter en annually.

(alternates to be actually seated Wiley, the Rsv. Ralph David Murphy, insisting there waslan the floor. Abernathy of the Southern 14 Women Slated To Graduate oday: As State Troopers IfERSHEY, Pa. (UPI) After ebc month of study and; rigorous training, the first 14 women to become state troopers will graduate Friday at ceremonies at the Pennsylvania State! police Academy here. I- e- VP Choices Studied by McGovern very though sli said, "We don't! 2 Hijackers, Passenger Killed Ineffective Security Of Airline Is Rapped By JAMES 0.

CLIFFORD SAN FRANCISCO (UP1) Passengers in the Pacific Southwest Airlines skyjacking, in which three parson were killed and two wounded, blamed the airline Thursday for ineffective security. Dedths Rise In Japanese Landslides TOKYO (UPI) Three days and nights of torrential rains In western Japan have left more than 200 persons dead. Injured, or mining, police laid Thursday. Thousands more were homeless. In the worst elngle Incident more than two feet of rain In two days caused a landslide on Shikoku island, burying 51 persons who were working on a washed out road.

Rescue crews continued to remove tons of mud and rock Thursday night in the aim hope there might survivors among the 12 victims buried for more than 24 hours. Police estimated that more than 5,000 persons have been (Continued front First Fig) dacy at a Washington ntws conference, end said the choice should be that of the convention and not of the nomine. Many delegates, he said, "want to assert all of their prerogatives rather than rubber stamp the presidential nominee's choice. Convention sources said Rep. Martha Griffith of Michigan might also announce her vice presidential candidacy.

Former Gov. Endicott Peabody III of Massachusetts already is running, Humphrey meanwhile preiied the Supreme Court, now In This Is a Cox run a muicl factory, but ths women got the same Instruction as the men, and bad to pie comparable physical require ments." Cox laid the female troopers were "intelligent, well educated and dedicated, who! expect little allowance to be mad be-i cause of their sex. The women had to meet high1 standard! before being accepted the academy, which h( graduating Its 67th dees. They' had to be between 21 and 29- years-old, be over fivs-feet-four inches till, do 20 eltups, two chlnupi snd 15 pushups, and' have at least a high school' sducstion. Only one of the famel eri is mirried: She is Mrs' Ludnd Hammon of who Is th mother of a young 0 boy.

The graduation comes for the women and the 132 male trooper after 960 hours cf instruction and long days that began at 5:30 a.m. with a three-mile run and anded with college courses In the evening. State police officials emphasised Thursday that the women are "troopers and will have the same duties as their 4.200 male counterparts throughout the state. Its equal as can make It, said spokesman Jim Cox. "Theyll be incorporated Into th regular command structure, and be assigned to duty stations on the same basis as men.

Fifteen women were picked from tha more then 150 who applied last year whan State Policy Commissioner Rocco P. Uralla decided to accept females on the force. Only one women cadet dropped out ATTEMPT Di mi tr Alexiev, 25, Azmanoff, 38, right, both of Hayward, hijackers of Pacific Southwest Airlines and killed by FBI agents Wednesday; San Francisco International Airport. (UPI Telephoto) summer recess, to return to iet homeless on Shikoku and Washington and make a final Kyushu Islands. Twenty thousand homes were flooded, they said.

Judicial ruling on the crucial Issue of the California jSees Open Mine like never Parked in Plant at Lock Haven In central Kyushu a landslide swept away 21 houses Thursday with four of the 60 reiidents reported missing. On Amakusa island, off Kyushu, 10 workers were reported missing after a part of a chemical plant was washed away. Road and railroad links were damaged by the 725 reported landslides. Police In western Japan Fri day morning said according to latest compositions, 70 persons were confirmed killed, 106 were missing believed buried under landslides and 29 were injured. Plane of Famed British Aviatrix Ruined bv Flood) delegation.

His campaign manager, Jack Chestnut, toid reporter that If the Justices upheld the Appetls Court award of the entire 271-member California delegation to McGovern, the former vice president would abide by that decision. Chief Tustlc Warren E. Burger stayed the appeals court ruling temporarily pending a decision whether the full court would reconvene to hear the California and Illinois credentials cases. Chestnut said the Humphrey camp was pleased and that we are prepared for a credentials fight on the floor. when flood wsters hit the Plpe plant here last week.

LOCK HAVEN. Pa. (UPI) -A small twin-engined airplane, owned by British aviatrix Sheila Scott, who set and broke aviation records with the craft, was one of the planes damaged More Potent Flu Vaccine National be on The for to in a of thenagoras I Called by Death McGovern Plan Rapped by Laird Compensation Due Workers Idled by Flood A Piper spokesman sald-Thursday that the plant suffered an estimated $17 million dmnti ags because of ths floods, and that Miss Scotts Piper Aztec "Myth re" could probably -not-be used for long distance flights, again. think Sheila would feeT better In a plane that didn't go-through such traumatic wetting, a Piper spokesman Id New York said. Miss Scott flew th plane'.

here last June 21 to have' routine repairs done by mechanics. The Susquehanija River began rising June 22. We moved the plane to tiHst highest ground available," the spokesman said, hut the water-, just kept rising and rising. If came up just below the cabin." Miss Scott used the plane to; become, the first person to', make a solo flight across the Equator to the North Pole an hack to the Equator again. She had planned to use the' aircraft on a November flight over the South Pol to the Equator.

(AP) said equipment to mining to prevent equipment themselves economical Russell Freedom Kittanning, Environmental The in however atrip Pennsyl Scranton, called Lifes toughening a strip begun. the a land," it is the been (Environmental the done board change secretary protection, anthracite operations bituminous bituminous are one-day four hours later at a Denver 30 hospital. Fiirr, Pi cnimnrli the 1WO riUaDUlgll on Available ATLANTA (UPI)-Th Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said Thursday a more potent vaccine will available for the 1972-73 Influenza season. The agency Issued a report on the collected recommendations of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee Immunization Practices. report said the influenza vaccine for the coming winter has more antibodies than prior products and should give better results.

The report did not make any prediction on the flu outlook 1972-73, but It recommended Influenza vaccine be given "chronically 111 patients and possibly to older persons general. 'Because some Influenza occurs each year, annual Immunization of high risk patients is Indicated as routine procedure regardless the amount of influenza expected in any specific geographic area, the report said. Actor DeWilde Dies of Injuries LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) Actor Brandon DeWilde, died Thursday evening as a result of injuries suffered several hours earlier in a traffic accident in this Denver suburb, police said. He was reportedly driving alone in a heavy rainstorm when his van truck struck a guard rail along a freeway and slammed Into a flatbed truck parked along the side of the road.

DeWilde suffered a broken neck, back and leg and died Banks Held Up Airline president 7. Floyd Andrews said in San Diego that responsibility for airport security against air piracy ahould be assumed by the federal government. For the purpose he said "substantial amounts of tax dollars must be diverted Airlines are not a police force and do not have the capabilities, the knowledge or the wherewithal to act as an enforcement bureau, Andrews said. "Airline operators, popcorn operators, are not enforcement officers and Several passengers said they Cuts Obsolete saw no metal detector checking persons or baggage. They observed no spot checks either of luggage or identification at the boarding point in Sacramento.

Aaron Marcus, a Sacramento seventh grader who flies about twice a month on PSA, said: "The last time I left Sacramento they looked In my suitcase. This time I went right through. The hijacker, two Bulgarians with heavily bleached hair, boardd tha PSA 737 with three automatic pistols. They were identified as Dmitrov Alexiev and Michael D. Azmanoff, both 28, of the Hayward, area.

The FBI said they had entered the United States November, 1968, and worked as cab drivers. Demanding $800,000, two p' rachutes and a flight plan for Siberia, they held 79 other passengers and five crew members hostage in San Francisco for nearly six hours An FBI agent purporting to be an international pilot was allowed to board. With the door open, he was followed by three other waiting agents who had sneaked below the plane. After a blaze of gunfire Inside the crowded aircraft, the two hijackers were dead. Also fatally wounded was E.

H. Stanley Carter, 66, a retired railway conductor from Lon-gueuil, Quebec. Two other passengers, like Carter believed hit by hijackers bullets, were Leo R. Gormley, 46, Van Nuys. and Victor Yung, 56, who plays the cook in the television Bonanza series.

Yungs con drtion was described by the hospital as good, as was Gormleys, although Gormley was in intensive care. Asked about the advisability of the FBIs opening fire in quarters crowded with passengers, FBI special agent Robert Gebhardt said: -Certainly were not pleased that three passengers were wounded, but somebody had to make a decision. We wanted to stop the hijacking, and stop it we did. Yung said he was surprised at the shooting, and "its very difficult to say if the FBI did the right thihg. William Scott, a San Mateo County coroners investigator, complained that the FBI removed some evidence, such as identity cards and the 737, when the case involved murder, state offense.

In one hijackers pocket, Scott said, he found a paper with notations suggesting that the two Bulgarians intended to to Canada, not Siberia, where possibly a confederate was waiting to help them escape. The paptr bore the latitude, longitude and runway length of abandoned airport in the Puntzi Mountains of British DEATH ENDED HIJACK left, and Michael D. were the two jetUner who were shot aboard ths aircraft at In Strip Work HARRISBURG, Pa. A coal strip mine operator Thursday modern renders obsolete a proposal limit open cuts in strip to 1,500 feet in on effort acid mine drainage. Operators with such would find having to operate at an disadvantage, Haller, president of West Mining testified before Che Qualtiy Board.

skate allows deeper cuts some cases. Environmentalists felt, that this and other mining proposals for vania ahould be strengthened, Ernest D. Preate of representing a group HELP Help Eliminate Pollutants asked for a proposal to revoke permit after two years if mining operations havent He suggested lowering time period to one year. "Strip mining is. temporary use of the Preate said.

"And once started it should be completed as soon as possible to that land can be reclaimed. teller said, 'There has high degree of cooperation between the department Resiurces) and operators to get the job and I dont think this wants to do anything to that cooperation." Walter N. Heine, deputy for mines and land the proposals would apply more to the surface mining than to those in the area because operators already under more stringent control. The record of the hearing is to be left open days to allow comments 7 people unable to attend because of the flood emergency, board said. It hopes to act proposals in August, PennDot, Union Aiding Cleanup HARRISBURG (UPI) state Transportation Department (PennDot) and the state government employees union Thursday announced a voluntary cleanup effort this.

Jacob Kassab, PennDot said the state will all the necessary equipment such as trucks, graders and other vehicles. Some 1,000 members of American Federation of County and Municipal Employes (Continued from First Pag) joined him in the celebration of Mass in the Catholic Cathedral, here. The gospel for the day included a phrase over which the two churches had originally splat. This was the so-called Fl-lioque clause, defining the mature of the Holy Spirit. When Pope Paul VI visited Istanbul In 1967 Athenagoras joined him in tha celebration of Mass in the Catholic Cathedral here.

What ink and what hatred were spilt over the Filioque, Athenagoras said later. "Then came love, and everything gave way to It. This is how tha day of reunion will come, he added. "Unexpectedly. God will hear our prayers.

The only way to unity is through the heart. Athenagoras lived a life of forbidding austerity, and once expressed the desire to live monastic life on Mount Athos. He was attended by only one servant in his simple rooms at the Patriarchate on ths Golden Horn in Istanbul. Almost any visitor was welcome to attend his informal audiences on Sunday mornings after the conclusion of the Liturgy, where he dispensed urbane witticisms and sympathetic advice in half a dozen languages. 1-5 Penna.

Budget Compromised. HARRISBURG (UPI) Gov. Mtlton J. Shapp said Thursday that persons who are out of work because of the flood are eligible to receive disaster unemployment assistance. Shapp said that applicants must act within 30 days of the time an area was declared a disaster area and should contact local flood information offices.

The claim may be retroactive to the time of the disaster. Individuals may qualify for the assistance if they: Worked in the disaster area either for themselves or for an employer but no longer have a Job, a place to work in the area or could not get to their place of work because of disaster damage. -Llve In the major disaster area and are unable to get to the place they worked In nondisaster area. Became head of a household and need a job because the previous head of the household died as a result of the disaster. Wave completed school or training for work ten weeks prior to the disaster but could not find work because of it.

Or have other good reasons which might qualify them for compensation. The amount and duration of the payments are based on the states unemployment rules and will approximate the payments an Individual would receive under the regular unemployment compensation plan. (Continued from First Page) ish defense planks. It said "the military budget can be reduced substantially with no weakening of our national security. But the committee used no dollar figures.

Lairds reference to a "beg-later philosophy was an obvious slap at McGoverns statements that "begging is better than bombing and that "I would go to Hanoi and beg If I thought that would release the boys (POWs) one day earlier. Laird released more than 70 pages of analyses of McGovern defense proposals lent to Prox-mlre and Rep. John J. Rhodes. R-Ariz Summing up his objections to the McGovern plan, Laird's report said: "His proposals would lead the United States to a weaker nuclear posture that could leave a future American president with no alternative but a spasmodic first-strike, launch-on-warning attack on enemy civilians and cities.

"They would lead to a weaker conventional posture which would lower the nuclear thresh-hold, and to an inadequate modernization and procurement program which would cause severe erosion of U.S. capabilities in both areas. On other matters, Liard said no decision has been made to change deployments of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe where the United States has warheads. secretary also stated never targeted" dikes in North Vietnam, acknowledged that have been some to such structures fighter-bombers antiaircraft defense nearby. Hanoi has United States deliberately attacked dikes and PASSENGER KILLED-E.

H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Lon-gueuil, was lulled Wednesday during die shootout between two hijackers of a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane and FBI agents. Carter, a former Canadian National Railways conductor, was traveling to San Diego, where he and his wife planned to live in retirement. (UPI Telephoto) Bullet Ends Plans for Retirement SAN FRANCIjSCO (UPI)-Stanley Carter, 66, a hijackers bullet in his back, gasped to his wife: "Im shot. Theyve shot me, Lil.

I'm done for. Kiss me. Mrs. Carter, choked with sorrow, recalled the last moments of her husbands life for newsmen Thursday Carter, a retired Canadian National Railways conductor from Longueiul, Quebec, was killed Wednesday during 6hootout between FBI agents and two hijackers aboard a jetliner at San Francisco International Airpdrt. "When we heard the first shots, we did not get up (from our seats), Mrs.

Carter said. "My husband bent over and ducked. "Then It sort of quieted down, end we sat back. Then came a second round of shots. He ducked and bent over again and then he said: "Im shot.

The Carters were traveling to San Diego, where they planned to acquire a retirement home. They decided on San Diego for their dream home, for their Shangri-la, as they put it, Stanley Carter the couples oldest son, said. Mrs. Earl Roshon, a family friend, said, "They were going to find the perfect spot foi; their retirement land stay there. "It almost sounds too good, but thats what they were going to do.

The Carters two sons, Stanley Jr. and Robert, both live in Vancouver, B.C. Their parents had visited them before leaving for San Diego. Lottery Numbers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Here is a state-by-state list of the lottery numbers drawn this week: NEW YORK 486501 NEW JERSEY 561001 Because of the flood damage In Pennsylvania, that state cancelled its weekly lottery drawing scheduled Wednesday, Pennsylvania lottery tickets dated July 5 will be eligible for next weeks drawing. Local Industrial Units Get Power HARRISBURG (UPI) The House Business and Commerce Committee Thursday released legislation empowering local industrial development agencies to approve disaster relief projects for private businesses damaged by flood waters.

i It would permit an industry tol go an San (Continued from First Page) mittee, said at least $80 million of the cuts were fake. He said most of the educe-: tlon and all of welfarb money would have to be insert- ed back Into the budget before, the end of the -fiscal yeavf through so-called "deficiency" appropriations. All that money, will have be put In," he said, and' in' addition, they seem to be for getting the effects of the flood "The corporate net income 30-Year Prison Term Imposed tax will be down because businesses affected by flood wont be making the same kindr-, of profits. Flood victims wont) be contributing as much- social income tax because many of them lost their jobs. "The lottery is shut down for four weeks.

They all seenii. small, but when you start adr; ding up all those little things, we have built up $200 milliotfc, short of revenue, "Were talking about being: One-quarter of a billion short next year. The statewide weekend. secretary, furnish the State, regularly employed by PennDot are expected to work all or part of the weekend, a union spokesman said. PITTSBURGH (UPI) Two banks in Pittsburgh were robbed Thursday, one in the citys East Liberty section and the other in the downtown area.

Authorities said a man wearing an Afro wig took an estimated $800 from the Western Pennsylvania National Bank branch in East Liberty) fitnesses said the bandit told a teller "Dont push any buttons or Ill kill you. They said he appeared to be unarmed. In the other holdup, a man described as "outwardly nervous made off with an unestimated amount of money from the Oliver Building branch oflfiim named the Pittsburgh National Bank. glars some 7,000 The we have dams and but there may damage when U.S. struck at positions charged the dams.

STRONGBOX TORONTO escaped from the theatre the theatre CRACKED (AP) Safecrackers with $400 to $800 strongbox of a Toronto a few days after began showing Catch the Bur- Fischer Choice Of PSU Coach Elongated Name Stirs Complaint HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-BeU Telephone balked when Sarah T. Shore tried to have listed what she says is her other name in the Philadelphia director. The other name Mrs. Zepfr anlahaza Sebastian Klingboffer-mandellfieldson.

She filed a complaint wkh the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, claiming as discriminatory Bells wanting proof of the reality or legality of the name. She contended proof wasnt required of other subscribers listed under alternate names. The commission said Thursday ft was considering whether to bold a hearing or dismiss the complaint as requested by BelL PHILADELPHIA (UPI) A former leader of the Pagans motorcycle club was sentenced Thursday to 30-years in prison on drug changes pending completion of- studies which could result la modification of the penalty. Ray E. Keen, 37, of Chester, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to five counts of possession and distribution of drugs and one count of possession of two unregistered simulator hand grenades.

U.S. District Judge Edward R. Becker said results of the studies should be ready In 90 days at which time the sentence would be subject to modification. The drugs Keen admitted possessing Included 28 grams of amphetamine, 4,617 LSD tablets, and 1,143 grams of marijuana, Assistant U.S, Attorney Jeffrey Miller said. Miller said Keen was arrested earlier this year after two federal agents infiltrated the motorcycle club.

The prosecutor said two other members of the club were Involved In a drug ring beaded by Keen. He identified them as Jesse Urdang, of Chester, who has been sentenced to prison, tnd Victor Campbell, of Felton-ville. who is awaiting sentence. Keen Is a native of Neeco- peck. and lives In the 1200 block of Potter Street in Chester.

Miller said. Stcap Campaign Anecdotes McGovern Visits Wallace in Hospital oo Columbia. It was also learned the two skyjackers came to the United States as political refugees sponsored by the World Council of Churches. Files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service showed that Alexiev1 and Azmanoff fled their native Bulgaria and made their way to a refugee camp near Naples, Italy.

In November, 1968, they were admitted to the United States under council sponsorship. They spent two years in a council institution, then joined the U.S. Army Alexiev as an infantryman and Azmanoff as a truck driver. Following their discharges, they settled in the Francisco Bay area, where Alexiev recently married a divorced woman with three children and operated a taxicab. front steps and left! morning and there was could be attempt it public.

secretary put out a Wallace, still paralyzed below later calling th visit th waist from an assassins SILVER SPRING, Md. (UP George received a brief visit Thursday from Sen. George S. McGoorn on the eve of the Alabama Governors trip in an ambulance plane to a mass homecoming rally in Montgomery and the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach. Still paralyzed from the waist (the next down, Wallace was scheduled to statement hospitals before he His press statement a courtesy "Senator vigor of wanted to call' McGovern was encouraged by the strength and Governor Wallace and wish him well over few weeks, the said.

"Nothing of UNIVERSITY PARK, (AP) The coach of Pennsyl-r vania State University's chess team predicts "Bobby Fischer? is going to be the world's new chess Donald Byrne, who said hef has played Fischer six times losing four and drawing two said the American challenger; should handily defeat. Boriw Spassky, the Russian holder. In the champion- ship match at Reykjavik, Icei land. Spasskys good, but Fis-f-cheris terrific," said Byrne, also an assistant professor of-English at Penn State. He said he made the Judgment on the basis of world tour first-hand observation 'and past" bullet, is scheduled to leave the hospital early Friday In wheelchair for a trip In an ambulance plane provided by President Nixon to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla.

He will atop on the way at Montgomery, municipal airport for an 11 a.m. campaign address. By making the stop in Hearing July 24 HARRISBURG (UPI) The Public Utility Commission (PUC) announced Thursday it has set a hearing for July 24 in Philadelphia on the application of Hand! Van Transportation, Paoli, to transport wheelchair patient in specially designed station wagons. The PUC leave early Friday after 53 days In the hospital. McGovern said he found looking strong and vigerous as the two political significance was discussed; they traded anecdotes about the past campaign.

"It was nothing of political significance. Wallaces press secretary. Billy Joe Camp, saidi Montgomery. Wallace will be of the meeting. "They traded! resuming the governors Job WORK ABSENTEEISM NDOLA, Zambia (AP) A report to a labor union seminar secure a low interest loan from BITUMINOUS OUTPUT 'contendere mit tn wn ram a local industrial development WASHINGTON (UPI) The authority to repair, reco struct, (National Coal Association esti-ij men iaid Nothing of clean up, and replace the site mated bituminous coal significance was dis-ar facility damaged or lost, jtkw in the United States for the cussed.

The bill stiU must receive the week ending July 1, 1972 wa McGovern went into Holy approve of the full House and 5,680,006 tons. Production was Cross Hospital without being anecdotes about the campaign. Senstor McGovern has been by (to see Wallace) publicly before. He just wanted to come said Zambian workers hsve'uid the company proposed to while recovering from wounds i missed more than a million 'carry patients between their suffered in the May 15 man-days on the job for various home and doctors offices and aLlc, assassination attempt at nearby reasons since the country be-jhowpitala to the five-county Phil-jfor the past 25 years, said la experience. Byrne, rated among the top-18 player In the United StetesT Senate.

1 1 down dus to miners vacation. Iseea by reporters on the, to see the this Laurel, Md. area. Jhad never played Spassky, cam independent to 194. jadelphi 1 governor I.

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