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FINAL ft JBa Akerlxer INDEX Acadian PfW 5 Editorial 9 4 Sports Pag Womtn'i Features Paget 17 70 Entertainment Paget 74 Comics PB 2 Classified Paget 27 32 WEATHER Lafayette and vicinity: Partly loudy and warm through Saturday with chance of thunder-thowert mainly afttrnoons and evening. High near 90. Low in lower 70s. (Other Weather, Pag 32.) 59th Year, No. 79 Single Copy 10c LAFAYETTE, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 BaW I'M MCGOVERN URGES DEMOCRATIC UNITY Senator Seeks Help From All Demo Hopes Guarded MIAMI REACH.

Fla fAPi Campaign ce.mmittef and a Democratic presidential nomi- Democratic fund-raising group nee GOOrga McGovern. vowing were scheduled before he re- to lead a people's campaign, turned to Washington later to- urged wildly cheering Demo- day. rrat today put It-hind "our New Chairman 1 KW i fury and our frustrations" and McGovern al-o hr I to decide i unite to capture the Whit" I Houte from President Nixon. airm for And the South Dakota senior Democratic National Corn- MIAMI EEACH. Fla.

(AP) -Louisiana's delegates to the Democratic National on vention headed for home today only guarnedly optimistic that Sen. George McGovern could carry their state in the November presidential election. "I think he's going to dn a lot THEY'LL CARRY DEMOCRATS' HOPES Sen. George S. McGovern with his wife, Eleanor, and Sen Thomas F.

Etfleton with his wife. Barbara Ann. stand before the Dc- appealed for help "from every mnrratir Nationa' Convention delegates who chose them to try to capture the White House from President Nixon in November. (AP Wirephoto) Stories, Pictures, Pages 2, 6, 8, 10, 25,26 Democrat and even Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can be." Nearly 3 A.M. It was nearly Jam when the beaming McGovern.

introduced In Sen. Edward M. Kennedy BY EDWARDS mittee. which holds a morning organizational meeting, while has pressed ChairHM Law- i i i II IIVI I mini III (III III- and joined by rice presidential fm nominee Thomas Eagleton BAIal Mm better than some people think." veteran political figure Camille Gravel of Alexandria said Thursday prior to the closing session of the four-day convention. Real Uph'ir "Of course." Gravel said, "it's to be a real uphill fight, seeing the wav McGovern has won in the last thre or four months." he said, "it's difficult to nredict." The delegation, in a surprise move, cast 18.5 first ballot vice presidential votes for New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu.

a ask Jean Brentwood, the Utah ngiinnnl 4a and defeated presidential ri vals stepped to the rostrum of th inK 'ake the joh Rricn declines, umnltuous. jammed (on- In the final Overall Property Tax Look Asked a vention Hall to accept his party's nomination. The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appear ances before a unity breakfast for the party's House and Senate convention that his dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota. Waves of applause rocked the (Continued On Pagi 2, Col. 41 14 as the deadline for the final report.

A 12-day special session of the legislature, to consider the report and pass a new distribution formula, begins Aug. 20. CONNECTED BY FINGERTIPS After almost 40 -years of blindness-and a lifetime of silence-Louise Selby, 60. and her brother Bill. 53, no longer seem to care very much about the world they know only by touch.

Staff members at the Country House for retarded but trainable adults at Battle Creek. admit they know very little about the pair. Thev have been there six years. (See Story. Page 6.) (AP Wirephoto) begins meeting! Monday.

The organizational session was held Thursday. We might as well realize this is to be controversial, but I believe you can find a reasonable approach," Edwards said. Out Altogether The governor contends that a final solution of the emotional member of the convention dele gation Seven For Gravel Delegates gave Sen. Thomas Eagleton. McGovern choice and the eventual victor 10.5 votes, and rast seven for Sen.

Mike Gravel. D-Alaska, two for C.S. Rep. Shirley Chi-sholm, and one for Texan CUj Smothers. The black chairman of the 46 member delegation.

Zelma Wvche of Tallulah. urged the Navy New Announces Video Bomb BATON ROCGF. La. CP -The new committee formed to draw up a new formula for distributing money from the state's property tax relief fund has been asked to take an overfill look a property taxes while it is at it. The present formula, ruled unconstitutional by a S.

District Court, must be changed bv Sept. I. 'Whole Gamut' i 1 this court order i brought about the immediate problem. 1 want you to look at the whole gamut," Gov. Edwin Edwards told the committee.

The 33 member divided into six subcommittees to ponder specific tax areas The relief fund, which totals 1 $73 million this year, is used to i reimburse parishes for ad valorem taxes lost due to state homestead exemptions. Basically Unfair In its decision, a three-judge federal court said the formula was basicalty unfair because a system of low assessments and The SAIGON (AP) group to return to Louisiana to push McGovern into the White and political issue of equalization of property assessments and revision of the distribution formula centers on getting the state out ol the property tax field altogether, leaving it to the parishes. Lt. Gov. James Fitzmorris, committee chairman, set Aug.

PROTESTS FORFEIT Fischer Rejected Navy announced today the introduction of a new, one-ton video bomb culled "Fat Albert" into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective. The weapon is an improved version of the "Walleye" television bomb and has been in use for the past month, the Navy said. Direct Hits Capt Marland W. Townscnd, "You can't beat 100 per cent." he said. Camera In Nose The Fat Albert, named by fliers aboard the Kilty Hawk, is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television camera in the nose to direct the bomb to the target.

"The primary advantages of the 'Fat Albert' over the earlier Walleyed series are increased explosive impact, better reliability and greater standoff range or the ability to hit targets from higher altitudes, the most popular feature for combat air crews exnosed to enemy ground fire," the Navy Mod. The Navy said its attack would continue to use the Walleye, which was first used against North Vietnam in House. "Whatever the situation today," Wyche told the group, "we did our thing last night and McGovern is in. 'Band Toqether' "This," Wyche said, "is where we will show Pies dent Nixon that Democrats in Louisiana can band together and elect a Democratic president. Let's abandon our differences and work for the Democratic party." McGovern's state coordinator, Robert B.

Denhardt of New Orleans, predicted the nominee (Continued On Page 1, Col. 3) Armed Hijackers Surrender Quietly To FBI Agent commanding officer of the car- REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)the game to Boris Spassky he- An appeals committe re- cause Fischer failed to appear, jected today Bobby Fischer's jwo Down protest against his loss of The dccision left tw0 high tax millages would bring a parish a disproportionate share of the mouey. For instance. Jefferson Parish received S179 from the state for each homestead exemption while East Feliciana Parish got only $35 for each exemption. The governor's comments left many committee members wondering how they could hope to find a solution to the complex issues raised in the proposal for total reform in time for the Aug.

14 deadline. "A solution of the short-term problem between now and Aug. 14 is going to he next to said Victor Bussie of Baton Rouge, state AFL-CIO president. "This problem has been building 'up for 50 years," he added. "We have got to be tier Kitty Hawk, said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits against their targets unit rnHiinprt thi riclf that down in a rnursaays worm cnampiousiup chesss game by forfeit.

I games 24-gamej American pilots would be hit by 1 ground fire. The four-man committee sup ported the decision of chief ref Townscnd said four bridges I were downed and two military Related Story On Page 6 eree Lothar Schmid to award1 supply buildings were stroyed by the bombs. de- March 1067. and also the laser-guided bombs. surrendered Wednesday night to a stewardess after a hijacker armed with a pistol commandeered an American Airlines 727 jet during a flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas.

The hi-jscker had demanded and received $200,000. Fisher, charged with air piracy, was held in lieu of 8100,000 bond. During Flight The first hijacking began Wednesday night when a National Airlines Boeing 727 with 113 passengers aboard was tak Three Die In Bus Accident Edgard Bank Branch Robbed By Three Men match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Andrew Davis, Fischer's law-ver who arrived this morning Continued On Page 2. Col.

1) LAKE JACKSON. Tex. (AP) Two armed men who who commandered a jetliner and took it on a 21-hour journey during which three crew mem-1 hers escaped by jumping out of the windows surrendered quiet-ly to an FBt agent after forcing th; plane to land at a tiny pri-Vate airfield. Held on SI million bonds on sir piracy charges in Houston Were Michael Stanley Green. 34, of Washington, D.C..

and: Luseged Tesfc), 22, a native of! Ethiopia who was believed! staying with Green. Walk Down Stairway The two walked down the! rear ramp stairway of the jetliner at 4 p.m. C.D.T.. almost; eight hours after it first touch-! ed down on the smdl airstrip' owned by Dow Chemical Co. in I this town 50 miles south of I Houston.

In a second hijacking case, a man identified as Melvin M. Supreme Court EDGARD, La. (AP) Three irom New' York, was in a-armed men Thursday robbed a vho" reetree branch of the Bank of St. Cudmunder Arnlaugssnn of Ice- en over during a flight from Subdivision Halt Request Deferred By DAVE PRECHT I not been approved by the Advertiser Staff Reporter Regional or Parish Planning The Lalayelte Parish Police! Commissions, ury deferred action yesterday! Without fiirm.il illafMiaalMI tho land announced the forfeit John's of more than $20,000 be maintained. The sheriff's office said the! trio looted inonev from tellers'! 'Can't Comment' cages and then forced Cogani Asked if his client would play Fulton, a hank employe, to the next scheduled game on onen the vault 'Sunday, Davis replied: "I can't Philadelphia to New York.

The passengers were allowed to leave when the three-engine jet returned to Philadelphia. The hijackers had demmded about SSOO.OOO and 20,000 Mexicanworth S1.600 and two parachutes. Authorities said the ransom demands were met in Philadelphia when the hijackers swapped planes, but they would not disclose the exact amount. Districts Are Protested BATON ROUGE. La.

(AP) -A suit filed in. U. S. District Court Thursday charged that the Louisiana Supreme Court election districts are unconstitutional on grounds they violate the one-man. one-vote rule.

The suit, filed bv Mrs. Betty Wells of Jefferson Parish, asked for a three-judge panel to hear constitutional issues comment on that." on a request from the Lafayette Regional Planning Commission The men fled after locking remanded the matter to i Subdivision Committee, cmployinr: a recently devised Davis, who appeared upset at Fulton; Linda Chauvin, another he had not seem0 8 developer from further inn nr employe, ana a customer in me subdivision of Holiday Hardens system for handling parish vault Four chess officials consid-j. Holiday Gardens Subdivision matters of land development ic hmni i Aim nnnrl hi l.L.iih .11.. The sheriff's office said rain had knocked out an alarm sys rifner, 43, of Norman, Okla a wl C. Anzalone, according to the! Under that system as ex- MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(AP) -Three persons were killed and lfi others injured today when a Greyhound bus collided with a car on U. S. 78 about one mile outside the city limits, state police said. Trooper R. F.

Yoakum said the impact tore seats loose in the bus and buckled the center of the vehicle. Not Determined The car was mangled and troopers said they had not determined howmany people had been in the vehicle at the time of the crash in the suburban community of Capleville. Yoakum said as best officers could determine, only one person was in the car, which bore Ohio plates. He said 14 of the 16 persons injured were treated at hospitals, then released; two others were hospitalized. The bus was enroute from Memphis to Atlanta.

tem and 15 minutes elapsed be fore road blocks could be post support Schmidts decision. Three of us tell that it could ed nui UC lltlllL- uiiiL-i yini-. invic inomas w. otmiin eiuei was one against. planning commission letter, plained by Walter S.

Comeaux, apparently in violation of state president of the police jury, subdivision regulations. requests foi land development Six Lots or acceptance of roads must be Six lots have already been handled first by the Subdivision sold and right houses built, in i 0 i I which makes the subdivision, even thouh the IPt.ommendations to the Parish request to develop the area has (Continued On Page 2. col. 7) executive officer of the -ne man who backed Fis- said the bandits were dressed i-hnr'i ynnn.il t'Yrrl ('mm- neatly, wore women's wigs and er an gcM of rjg chess gloves and were not masked. (continued on page 2, col.

4) raised. Dilution-Claimed She claimed that her vote is diluted in selecting the justice from her parish because Orleans has a greater population than Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines, the other parishes in her district. The petition claimed that the provision in the state constitution urder which the six- (Continued On Page 2, Col. 7) It was not known how the men made their getaway but Smith quoted a resident as say ing three men had been seen New speed in a car toward Orleans, 35 miles away.

IN BELFAST British Army Moves Against Guerrillas NEWS BRIEFS Official In Moscow MOSCOW (AP) Pravda reported todav that North Vietnam Politburo member Le Due Tho arrived in the Soviet capital Thursday night en route to the Vietnam peace talks in Pans. He was evidently conferring with Soviet officials on the talks, which resumed in the French capital Thursday. Bremer Is Transferred UPPER MARLBORO. Md. (AP) Arthur H.

Bremer, accused of shooting Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and three others, has been transferred amid tight securitv precautions from a state hospital to the Prince Georges "County jail to await trial July 31. Korea Agreement Reached PANMUNJON, Korea (AP) Red Cross officials from South and North Korea agreed todav that either the president or vice president of their organizations would head their delegations to the talks they are planning on wavs to reunite Korean families separated by the division of the peninsula Proxmire Makes Accusation WASHINGTON (AP) Sen William Proxmire, Wis accused the Defense Department todav of letting the taxpayer be "played for a sucker" hv allowing Sprevv Rand Corp. to reap a 31.000 per rent return on a S50.000 investment.

The contract involves production of shell casings at Shreveport. La Reports On Prisoners SAIGON CAP Yves-Michel Dumont. a French photographer released Thursday bv the North Vietnamese after more than three months in captivity, said today that two American advisers were captured with him and he saw a third captive American in Cambodia I uncovered a ma ior cache of small arms and ammunition in the Catholic Lower Falls Road BELFAST. Northern Ireland (API Gun battles raged through the night in Roman acholic districts of Belfast and area. Terrorists planted two more bombs in Londonderry shopping I covered no bodies because the I guerrillas carry away their cas-i ualtics for burial or treatment.

The firing tapered off by day but troops in parts of Bel- fast encountered continuing sistance from occasional sniper fire. Bullets peppered windows of houses and blocks of anait-ments in the area. Shots ripped off chunks of stone from the buildings. Yet delivery trucks carrying milk and bread trundled through the area unharmed Occupies Flats The army occupied the city's Puis Street scene of a shootout during tha niht, and I continued today after the Brit-I ish army abandoned its "low I profile" and took the offensive I against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three ci-; were reported killed.

I raising the confirmed death toll i to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of com munal violence in Northern Ireland. No Bodies The army claimed to have hit n.ore than 30 gunmen, but re- i districts but gave authorities advance warning. No casualties were reported. Shooting erupted in all of Bel fast's major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA "no go" district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four days. i It was the first time the (Continue Oe Pa 2, Col Herbert Abdilla.

who will serve for the next four years Re-elected to the board were Henry Busch. Richard D'Aquin. Gen. Charles Doran, a(l J. Winston unknot.

USL FOUNDATION Herbert Heymann. center, immediate past president of the University of Southwestern Louisiana board of directors, announced two newly electel board members, Haskell Walker, left, and.

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