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WEATHER FINAL High mom 80s. (Other Weather, Entertainment Pages 18-19 Page 2.) Sports Pages 20-22 cloudy, and with warm chance of through showers Wed. The Daily Advertiser Editorial Acadiana Page Page 4 12 INDEX Lafayette and vicinity: Partly thunderstorms. Low in 70s. Women's News Pages 13-17 Classified Pages 23-27 59th Year, No.

69 LAFAYETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 Single Copy FORCES DO WITH REDS Large Trucks Okayed BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Twin-trailer trucks, long outlawed Louisiana, will roll on the state's highways under legislation passed by the state House of Representatives. The lower chamber voted 68- 27 Monday to send the bill to Gov. Edwin Edwards. Years Of Lobbying The measure, authored by Sen.

Claude Duval of Houma and others, ends years of lobbying by then trucking industry to legalize so-called "double bottom" vehicles. Rep. Richard Breaux of Jeanerette, pushing the measure in the lower chamber, said it would help "make Louisiana competitive in the transportation Lend Economy Supporters of the bill said it would lend economy to the industry and would be safer than the single-trailer trucks now allowed on the state's highways. Opponents, on the other hand, rejected the notion that twin-trailer rigs are more safe. "They're (Continued good On economically," How They Voted Here's Here's how the Acadiana delegation was recorded as voting Monday.

House Proposed constitutional amendment to make the superintendent of education appointive. Favorable vote of 58-42 short of required 70 votes, Reconsideration planned. FOR Ackal, Bares, Bella, Breaux, Crisler, Dischler, Dupuis, Thompson. AGAINST Angelle. John.

Simon. NOT VOTING Brinkhaus. Bill to permit double trailer trucks on four-lane highways. Approved 68-27. FOR Ackal.

Angelle, Bares, Breaux, Crisler, Dupuis, John, Simon, Thompson. AGAINST Bella, Dischler. NOT VOTING Brinkhaus. Senate amendments to bill to fund policemen's retirement system by a two per cent tax on insurance premiums. Rejected 50-45.

FOR Ackal, Breaux, Brinkhaus, Dischler, Dupuis, John. AGAINST Angelle, Bares, Bella, Crisler, Thompson. NOT VOTING Simon. Senate Bill granting public school employes a cost of living salary increase if money is available. Approved 33-6.

FOR Bauer, Fontenot. Guillory, Hardy, Mouton. AGAINST None. NOT VOTING None. On the Fourth of July, we take time to proudly recall that illustrious chapter in our nation's history.

The struggle for and ultimate victory of freedom and independence was an unprecedented achievement for such a young, inexperienced nation. As our forefathers fought for the ideals they steadfastly believed in, they forged a concept of liberty and individual sovereignty that formed the basis of what would one day become a great democracy, and would shine brightly as a beacon of hope for generations of oppressed peoples throughout the world. Today, Americans everywhere affirm their own faith in the principles of democracy and freedom upon which our country was founded. United in both thought and action, we strive to maintain the promise of our great nation-as a nation devoted to the preservation of democracy, a nation with liberty for all. SMUGGLING CASE JULY 4th, 1972 Texas Banker, Pilot Claiming Innocence NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Texas banker-rancher and a commercial airline pilot from Baton Rouge, say they are innocent of charges of spiring to transmit munitions to 1 Mexico.

Richmond Harper of Eagle Pass, said in Texas Monday, "It's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of." Funeral Services Pending For Air Force Officer Funeral services are pending for a Lafayette Parish Air Force officer who was killed in action in Vietnam June 29. Services will be held at Our Lady of Wisdom Chapel on the University of Southwestern Louisiana campus for Capt. Steven Logan Bennett, 26. Four Years Capt. Bennett, a Texas native and resident of Lafayette for 17 years, had been serving with the U.S.

Air Force for four years. His last assignment was in Da Nang, Vietnam. He was a graduate of Youngsville High School and a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from USL in 1968. Awarded Medals Capt.

Bennett had been awarded the Air Force Com- mendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Vietnam Service Medal, Bronze Service Star, Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Award, and the Air Medal. Survivors include the widow, the former Linda Leverque of Glenmora; a daughter, Angela Noelle Bennett of Glenmora; his father, Elwin Bennett of Lafayette; two brothers, David Bennett and Miles Bennett, both of Lafayette; and three sisters, Mrs. Richard Begnaud, Mrs. George Gross and Miss Andra Bennett, all of Lafayette. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorial contributions made to the American Society.

Martin Castille Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. NEWS BRIEFS Korean Agreement Reached SEOUL (AP) South and North Korea announced to their surprised citizens today they have agreed in high-level secret meetings to set up machinery to work for unification of the long-divided peninsula. Truman Takes Stroll KANSAS CITY (AP) Harry S. Truman ventured out of his hospital room and told a nurse accompanying him on a stroll along the corridors that a newsman needed a shave and a haircut. Truman was admitted Sunday for tests.

Bremer Is Transferred JESSUP, Md. (AP) Arthur H. Bremer, charged with the shooting of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, has been transferred from the Baltimore County Jail to Clifton T.

Perkins State Hospital for a court-ordered mental examination. Pearl Buck Hospitalized RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) Pearl S. Buck, winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for her novels about life in China, has been hospitalized with an attack of pleurisy. Miss Buck is 80.

Barricading Is Prevented BELFAST (AP) The British army prevented Protestant militants from barricading one of their Belfast strongholds Monday night, but the Protestants claimed a "great victory." Troops Are Near Quang Tri City SAIGON (AP) South Viet-, namese paratroopers battled stubborn North Vietnamese on the outskirts of Quang Tri City today but did not thrust into the provincial capital Saigon lost May 1. Front-line troops were within two miles of the city limits. Field commanders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications around Quang Tri. 'Pulling Back' "The enemy appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every treeline, every said an American adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio.

"So far it's been relatively light. I expected them to make a bigger stand, but it's tough for them to fight out here in the open. We've got air support; they don't. "But if they decided to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight, it's going to be rough." Takes On Battalion The lead battalion of paratroopers fought its first sizable battle on Monday, taking on an estimated North Vietnamese battalion in a bunker line at La Vang. Furrow said the South Vietnamese killed 23 enemy, captured eight trucks and recaptured one 105mm howitzer and two 155mm howitzers the North Vietnamese had been ing.

U.S. jets, knocked out two 130mm artillery pieces and five trucks the western flank of the advance, Capture Six Furrow said his troops had captured six North Vietnamese who reported their officers abandoned them after a large number of B52 strikes. said their officers just ran away, back up north," said Furrow. Behind the front lines, officers said government troops had finished mopping up small groups of North Vietnamese soldiers who had been "overlooked" in the rapid South Vietnamese advance. Refugees Gather Hundreds of refugees from areas liberated by the South Vietnamese made their way south on Highway 1.

They gathered at Phong Bien, 20 miles north of Hue, where buses and trucks picked them up and brought them to Hue. RETURNING TO HOLY CROSS Alabama Gov. George Wallace is wheeled by security agents back to his Holy Cross room in Silver Spring Monday after a four-hour Hospital, his physician's home in nearby Bethesda, Md. Wirephoto) IN HOUSE Policemen Get Setback BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Policemen counting on creation of a statewide retirement system have suffered a discouraging setback in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

The lower chamber voted 45- 50 Monday in favor of Senate amendments to bill creating the retirement program, pushing measure dangerously near death. Three Days There are only three dayscounting today--left in the current 60-day legislative session for the conference committee to do its work. Besides, one lawmaker said, the idea is to reject the committee's report on the tax bill. "Let's send this bill to conference committee," Rep. Kevin Reilly of Baton Rouge urged colleagues "then not accept their report." The bill passed through the Bobby Fischer Accepts Offer, Matches On REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer accepted a London banker's offer to double the prize pot for the world chess championship match to $250,000 flew to Iceland today for his meeting with Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky.

Fischer arrived in the Icelandic capital from New York about five hours before the deadline set by the International Chess Federation. If he had failed to show up by noon, he would have forfeited his chance at the title. firstprize money of $156,250 and $75,000 from the television and movie rights. IN HOUSE VOTE Appointive Supt. Dealt Sharp Blow BATON ROUGE, La.

(AP) The Louisiana House of Representatives has dealt a staggering blow to backers of a con stitutional amendment to make the superintendent of education appointive by refusing, for the time being at least, to go along with the idea. The lower chamber voted 58- 42 on the controversial administration-backed proposal Monday, but 70 votes were required to okay the Senate-passed constitutional amendment. Loan-Collection Resolution Passes BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) son-in-law, is a direcA resolution ordering Louisiana tor of the firm, which was esAgriculture Commissioner tablished in 1968 to mine lime Dave Pearce to collect a in Winn Parish. 000 loan to a firm in which Goes Broke ical ally William Dodd $330,000 in loans the LouiPearce's son and a polit- The firm received a total of an interest has been given final siana Market Commission.

The passage by the state Senate. company has not repaid any of The resolution, which passed the money and recently went on a 32-0 vote, also calls on broke. Atty. Gen. William Guste to in- Appearing before the Senate vestigate the firm, Winnfield Agriculture Committee Monday Minerals which is headed morning, Pearce denied any by D.

H. Whittington of Natchi- wrongdoing in the loan, but toches, a long-time friend of conceded the Whittington firm former Education Superinten- could not make a go of the endent Dodd. Glenn Gossett, terprise. 1 Adler H. Seal, who has been a pilot with Trans World Airlines, said in New Orleans where he was released on $50,000 personal recognizance bond.

"I haven't done thing. That's what you're going to find out." Nine Arrested They were among nine persons arrested Saturday night in Louisiana and Texas on the conspiracy charges. The federal government alleged that they were in a $465,000 scheme to smuggle plastic explosives and other accessories to Mexico for use to transship to another corederal officials alleged the munitions were to be used in a plot to overthrow a foreign government, presumably in Cuba. The only one of the nine who in jail today was Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., identified in the complaint as the man who made the arrangements for the sale to a person identified only as "Carlos Diaz." Kessler was held in New Orleans in lieu of $100,000 bond. Mexican Citizen Diaz was identified by the federal government only as claiming to be a citizen of Mexico.

Officials said they were looking for him. Federal authorities Monday said there were links between Kessler and a Mannie Gambino, a member of an alleged New York organized crime family. Holiday Deaths 9 a.m. EDT: 540 House several weeks ago by a vote of 82-0. Womack said the retirement system would be funded by a "two per cent withhold" on casualty insurance premiums.

Reilly insisted, however, that passage of the bill would mean "a tax the people of this state between $12 million and $16 million. "I urge you not to foist this tax, tax, tax on the citizens of this he said. 'Slipped By Us' "This darn thing," Reilly added, "slipped by us before we realized the economic impact." Womack rejected Reilly's calculations on the impact of bill to the public. Anyway, he said, any increase in premiums that insurance companies might want to pass on would have to be cleared first by the state Insurance Rating Commission. "The insurance companies," Womack, increase said, a "got while a back.

six per they're going to do is give part of it back." 7,500 Policemen Womack said the bill would cover 7,500 municipal policemen in 39 cities "that have partly funded retirement systems." He said Reilly's, home town, Baton Rouge, the only fully funded policemen's retirement system in Louisiana. "These policemen face death every day," he said. "and all (Continued On Page 2, Col. 2) No-Fault Hearing Scheduled Today BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Supporters of no-fault automobile insurance get one last chance today to clear a bill for passage by the 1972 session of the legislature, which ends Thursday.

Senate Judiciary Committee B. which is dominated by administration lawmakers, scheduled a noon meeting to give supporters a chance to plug loopholes in a House-passed nofault bill with amendments. Bogged Down A no-fault bill sponsored by Gov. Edwin Edwards became bogged down in the Judiciary Committee last week and the governor said he was giving up BOND HEARING Adler B. Seal of Baton Rouge, center, is taken to federal court in New Orleans Monday where he was allowed to be free on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond.

He is among nine persons charged with -Ion passage for the current session. However, Sen. Robert Jones of Lake Charles, a no-fault supporter, won an agreement from Edwards to give him one more chance to come up with acceptamendments to the muchcriticized insurance bill. Too Big Critics of the bill, including no-fault supporters, contended the $45,000 benefit package in the measure was too big, the $500 threshhold was too low and the exceptions to a prohibition against automobile accident lawsuits were too many to generate the kind of savings the public was expecting from nofault. Reconsider Later Rep.

Sam LeBlanc of New Orleans, who pushed the bill in the House, said he would reconsider later. But there are only three days--counting todayleft in the current 60-day legislative session. The bill would eliminate the elected superintendent of education and replace him with an administrator appointed by the state Board of Education. 'Don't Believe' "I don't believe we should deny the people the right to choose who should head the education system in this Rep. Emery Villar of Gonzales told colleagues.

"In theory, this sounds real good. But as a practical matter, it's not going to work." Rep. Carl Gunter of Deville warned lawmakers that approv al of the amendment would be equivalent to "setting up a dictatorship. If we're going to do something like he said, (Continued (n Page 2, Col. 1) conspiring to smuggle munitions to Mexico, allegedly to use at overthrowing foreign country, apparently Cuba.

At right is Seal's attorney, Jack P. F. Gremillion Jr. At left is a federal marshal. (AP Wirephoto).