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High tide 7.7 a.m. VOL. LXXXVI, NO. 279 The Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH, N.H., SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1972 The rimci-- wtfh THi HIKALD JUM 4, 14 PAGES Fortcotf Tonight-- Partly tunny. Tomorrow-- Sunny, warm.

Yesterday's average Day 72, Night M. 1 C. HT fer 1 3v 36 The Figures Hendtik J. Hartong president of Simplex Wire and Cable points to a chart outlining the financial difficulties of the North Berwick plant. The announcement was made yesterday the plant would close by the end of the year, throwing 625 area persons out of work.

(Staff Photo) North Berwick Gets Prepared to Dig In By JOE DONAHUE Staff Writer NORTH BERWICK--Dismay, and cautious opii- were three feelings eyi- here yesterday following Ithe announcement the huge Sim- Power and Cable plant would close by the end of "the year. But one thing lacking in in- -terviews with local people was -the element of surprise. Many have anoarently felt -Ifor a long while all was not -well for, the $11 million which located here in 1966. Officials of Local 2261 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers received official word on the plant's closing just a very short while before it was announced at a press conference. John Mullens, business manager of the local, commented the announcement didn't come as a complete surprise.

He noted presently 52 persons are being laid off effective Tues day. They were notified this past Tuesday. Of these, a little more than 20 were union members and the others were recently hirec workers still on a 45-day probationary status. Mullens said in a plant of that size you can see things happen such as work slowing down to nothing and accumulations of stock being disposec of. The employes were aware something big was going" to happen but didn't know for sure whether it would be a sale to another company or outrigto closure.

He said the local held a meeting yesterday of its officers and stewards. Feedback from the workers will be presented N. BERWICK (Please turn tn Page 3) Jubilee Windup To Be Supersonic Week will go supersonic, well almost, tomorrow when the Air Force's Thunderbirds will give a display of jet aerobatics at Pease AFB. A five-hour open house at the air base will be almost the final event of Jubilee Week 1972, with the Thunderbirds taking to the hopefully blue skies at about 3 p.m. after an inspection by N.H.

Gov. Walter Peterson at 2:30. The six-plane team tours the country giving a display af pre- St cision flying virtually unrivaled Pand a Pease spokesman fore- 39th Army Band will give a concert. The NHANG will present a cargo parachute display at 1 p.m. There will be a Guard presentation at 2 p.ni.

and vintage plane buffs will derive a lot of pleasure from a flypad of World War II aircraft about the same time. Visitors can inspect static displays all day. Final event of Jubilee Week cast a crowd of 80,000 at the base tomorrow if the weather is fine, with the Thunderbirds billed as the piece de resistance of the show. Since its last visit to Pease in will be an appearance by the Covenant Players at the Midde Street Baptist Church at 7:30 The Players, a repertory group from California founded in 1963, has given more than 65,000 performances in all 50 states, Europe and Canada. They offer "Christian dynamics' contemporary drama about 1967 the team has graduated to people, mostly one-act plays Phantom jets from the F100D Super Sabres it was then flying.

The air base gates will open at 11 a.m. and there will be Protestant services in the base chapel at that time. At 11:30 a.m. sleek F102 fighters will give a flying display to whet appetites tor the bigger display later. At noon the N.H.

Air National Guard will give a flying crane demonstration. At 12:30 p.m. pM'ce sentry dogs will give a display (encouraged by their and at 12:45 p.m. the or vignettes. Today the Kiwanis are serving their famous pancake breakfasts until 1 p.m.

uiiuci- cover in the High-Hanover lot. At noon the 10-mile -road race will begin from Market Square, S2M Paid in Hijack SEATTLE (AP) A middle- aged gunman who rode a bicyle up to a United Air Lines jet in Reno, and hijacked the plane to Vancouver. B.C., and Seattle in an elaborate antiwar protest was paid the $2 million ransom he had demanded Friday night, an airlines spokesman said. The hijacker already had 15 gold bars put aboard the plane during the four-hour stop in British Columbia. The three-engine 727 plane landed here at 5:05 p.m.

EDT about eight hours after the hi jack began. About 90 minutes after thi plane landed, a man clad in shorts drove an open true! to the plane, which was abou 1,000 yards from the termina building. Four cardboard boxe in the truck were loaded ont the plane through a cockpi window. Officials declined to saj the boxes containec the ransom money. The air line prepared to mee the hijacker's request for tw new crew members.

He ha asked for the new crew mem bers' names and cautioned tha they indeed be pilots. He also demanded maps of Canada. AH air traffic through Seattle- Tacoma International Airpor was halted souii after the hi jacked plane landed. The gunman, who arrived a the plane in Reno on a bicycle he pedaled through a hole ii the fence at the airport, sai the money would be used help children crippled by the war in Vietnam. Authorities quoted him as saying the hijack "is part of an organized effort to destroy United 1 Air Lines aircraft until the Vietnam war is ended." He said United was "a major contributor to the war effort based on profit and greed." In one of a series of state ments he demanded be broadcast over a Vancouver radio station, the hijacker said he was part of a "well-organized para-military organization fed up with Nixon's broken promis- The hijacker wanted the two new crewmen to take the places of the captive captain and first officer.

He also asked that a change of clothes be ready for the third crew member aboard, officials said. The hijacker's final destination was not known. Also un- jnown were his exact plans for most of the items he demanded: $2 million in $20 and 550 bills, 15 one-pound gold bars, "heavy artillery," including armor piercing shells, tracers, two Magnum pistols and three submachine guns; i flashlights, food, medicine and handcuffs. The day's events started early in the morning at Reno, scene of another United hijack less than three months ago. According to United spokesmen, the man pedaled his bicycle up to the three-engine jet--flight 877--and brushed aside several passengers, pushing his way on to the plane.

One of the passengers still waiting to get on ran back to the terminal and told United of- HIJACK Please turn to Page 3 They're Busting Their Navy Secretary Ji 'S es Quick Visit WinsPraise For Work By GEORGE ROBINSON Staff Writer "They're busting their butts over here ait Portsmouth Naval Shipyard," said Navy Secretary Tohn W. Warner during an unheralded, brief tour of he facility yesterday afternoon. Secretary Warnec visited several shops, talked with workmen and went aboard one of the submarines! undergoing overhaul, as he toured the yard vith "apt. Elmer T. Westfall, shipyard The secretary said he was "most bjr what he saw, and it confirmed intensive preliminary studies he had made of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard before coming here yesterday.

Portsmouth Preservation Layout This diagram shows the proposed layout of structures on The Hill, where 14 architecturally and historically interesting buildings will be restored for retail and professional use. The site, on a slight elevation within the Vangfian Street urban renewal area, is bounded by High and Deer Streets and parking areas. Historic District 14 Homes on The Hill' Fourteen old homes of historic Portsmouth's 349th years of and exterior restoration of the i professionals. and architectural value will be existence. reserved and restored as part I Already, a $1,300,000 grant has of the biggest redevelopment been allotted by the federal project to be undertaken in i government toward the moving Republican Planks Expected to Float One of the buildings, Henry Sherburne House, th wi 117th and 18th Century buildings that will form a portion of the Vaughan Slreet urban renewal become the home of a senro area to be known as The Hill.

citizens' center, total cost The Hill, a joint venture Preservation, and Aldrich Associates, picked as the Boston group major redeveloper within the urban renewal area, will form a unique enclave as it rubs walls, metaphorically MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Platform Committee fin- A platform backing President ished its work on Vietnam, for- 01086 1 by Deer and Hlgh whose restoration will be born by part of the $1.3 million gran that Walter J. Murphy, Ports mouth Housing A i director, recently announced ha been allocated through HUD historic preservation program. Another of the houses ha been chosen for a new hom Nixon's terms for ending the eign affairs and defense sec- Indochina war, calling for ajtions of the platform and made strong defense establishment and rejecting amnesty for war That is, if them public. Chairman John J.JCily Council Rhodes told newsmen Beater Chamber Commerce.

This the Portsmouth the Richard Shortndge mansio approves 1 that formerly served as th few historic district that's been a Beatrice Nursing Home. Th service resisters was approved amendments had even been of- controversial topic recently. Chamber proposes to occup PP 1 oldesl house earmarked art (f the large structure a for preservation on The Hill lease the remainder. is the Jabez Fitch House, circa Friday for consideration by the'fered, and these concerned Ian- i a National Convention. Adoption was considered cer- guage, not substance.

A a Promoliona In a direct jab at language home of "the i brochure lor le sa vs tna ed previously by Democratic mn "The best of the city's pas A kuiruiiivJi.1 i i 4 i i vi. i tain when the convention votes used previously by Democratic hronicler of New Hampsh i i i i noo 1 Tuesday. Airman Nabbed In Armed Robbery A 19-year-old Air Force mam which they found a toy revolver city's pa presidential nominee the is bein blendcd witn the fmef McGovern, the proposed plank tlie structures is the 142 year of today's architecture to creat declared, "We most emphat- 0 James Nea a rec an attractive exciting environ ically say the President of the st i i i crecled by mcnl in which all may work I i a i i nnr. Pn IUP a not go i merc hant of the er was due for arraignment in District Court to- United States should 4 begging to Hanoi. a i i is one of the urban It endorsed Nixon's offer to 11 131 remain in site, withdraw remaining U.S.

forces A promotional campaign to four months after an inter- attract future occupants of thc nationally supervised ceasefire ses on Tli Hill nas begun l'v-e and a more rewardin He told a reporter for The Herald that the "message" bout the yard's fine improvement is "coming through loud and clear." He said it was the result of 'fine management and Yankee pride." He said he has consulted recently at length about the yard's problems and its strengths with both U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith and U.S. Rep. Louis C.

Wyman, and what he has seen has borne out what they told him. Secretary Warner said his visit here has been "mos helpful" in allowing him to see what he has been told. read about ant He said as "an old sailo myself, I think the term 'busl ing their butts' is a good one. As under-secretary of th Navy before and now as secre tary, he said he has been al most four year in close con tact with Navy and shipyarc problems. "I thought it was about time 1 visited this famous old, his toric yard," he said.

He said it was too early to tell specifically what a reduc- in surface craft for the would mean in relation ore establishments and especially submarine facilities uch as Portsmouth, which is mainly a repair yard now. The secretary said about all NAVY YARD Please turn to Page 3 Lion Navy to shi Rudman Checks on Lobbyists CONCORD, N.H. -Atty. Gen. Warren Rudman aid Friday he is conducting an investigation of by ative lobbyists, but that no charges will be filed.

"It's not ttie kind rf thing we'd prosecute anyone for," said. "If we feel in fact they lave violated the law we'll ask them to file amended returns." Rudman said he had conferred with Secretary of State Robert L. Stark after a story was published saying five lobbyists had failed to list feet. they had received for their work. Their reports are flle'd with the secretary of state's fice.

"From now on, all these ports will be sent over here matter of course," Rudman said. New Hampshire's lobbyist! statue, dating from 19W, requires that each lobbyist "shall file with the secretary of state an itemized statement under oath of his penditures in fees and ex- connection 'wijh such legislative' employment and by whom paid or to whom charged." Violation In punishable by RUDMAN Please tan to Page 3 stuffed into the engine com-l a gone nto ff anc prison- and tne developers are pointing a crs have been returned. The'out that their availability will partment. while from 9 a.m.-l p.m. therei da y- har 8ea with attempted Off convcrept i nn Democratic platform proposed be limited to civic organizations ke Sith" iKoifflS an i i a i a i 1 a i and the Middle Church.

Street Baptist'' 01 Portsmouth Hospital lastj night. There is a tiog show at the High School at 10 a.m.. and at 5 p.m. action transfers to the Junior High School with an Hawaiian lauau. picked up by officers in parking lot near a vehicle Jubilee Calendar Today 8 a.m.

1 p.m., Klwanis pancake breakfast, High-Hanover Lot Noon, 10-mile road race from Market Square 9 a.m. 1 p.m., lawn and bake tale, Middle Street Baptist Church 10 a.m., dog show, High School 5 p.m., Hawaiian luau, Junior High School Tomorrow Church services 11 a.m. 4 p.m., Pease AFB open home: 11 a.m., Protestant services, chapel; 11:30 a.m., F)02i flying display; Noon, N.H. Air National Guard flying crane exhibition; 12:30 p.m., sentry dog display; 12:45 p.m., 39th Army Band concert; 1 p.m., NHANG cargo parachute exhibition; 2 p.m., Guard presentation and World War II planes fly past; 2:30 p.m., Thunderbirds flying display, (static displays all day) 7:30 p.m., Covenant Players, Middle S'rccf Baptist- Church Stephen JReglinski, 60, of Grcensicic a settlement must include rep ihat 4 rrif Ave Portsmouth, had of prisoners. 5 A Si Phoned the police station from! Wc a spccific lhc at Pease, ph the llos )llal remaining major obstacle to the! the settlement," the Republican in! He said a man sitting in a plank said.

"Hanoi's demand 'car had pointed a gun at him that the United States ovcr- from Ihe front passenger window throw thc Saigon government asked him "Where's your and impose a Communist-domi- imoney?" nated government We stand I 'unequivocally at Ihe side oi Ihe Reglmski had just arnved to rc jdenl in his refusal to gel into his own vehicle after accC nt teims which would dis- visitmg his wife in the hospital," honor country." according to police, and said he told the man he didn't have any' The plank pledged to achieve money as he had just paid a peace through continuation of hospital bill. administration's Vietnam- nf u.ir and an ac- scrviccmen miss- shops fo as antique dealers, craftsmen and tailors, 14 HOMES (Please turn to Page 3) Friendly Navy Secretary John Warner, on quick Klsit to the Naval Shipyard yesterday had a word and a handshake with Al bert E. Thomits, 'Shop 38, of New Caitle. (HeraM Photo) said he then fed into Prisoners ing in action as a prerequisite and telephoned the police station. lt fi rawa Patrolmen Robert Miles, Emil Pcschel, Barney Share, a i "Here and now we reject all 'Herrmann.

Edwin Caponc and proposals to grant amnesty to, iLoyd Tebbctts and Sgt. Clifton ihohe who have broken the law '8oone all went to the parking by evading military service." lot. Capt. John Patrikus alleged tlie committee approved plankj that they saw a man's subse-, declared. quenty identified as i i standing near a car with the defense spending, the hood iro.

document denounced proposed Griffin was taken lo thr po- slashes with which lice station aftv officers found some Americans are now be- a toy tap jii the en 1 1 i( p-'-'i-ii-jl gine compartment, lion." i Distinguished Vistor N'avy Secretory John Warner, far right, posed on thr fly, for ihis picture with thnc i 1 at th" i i i i i i i Shop 38 of Berwick, (Herald Photo) Shipyard. They aru John Hours N. Morin, Yoimj of EWSPAPER!.