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SOUTH IDAHO PRESS Buriey, Idoho, Thundoy, July 6, 1 972 3 "I Champion -I Leunses Eyed WASHINGTON (AP) The Chess Set For Sun. A and formerly worked for the National Institute of Health. Testimony about the soft lens was prepared for a hearing before the Senate Small Business subcommittee on government regulations. The Food and Drug Administration so far has approved for sale only the soft lens produced by Bausch Lomb, but several other companies are moving uiflP MWiZ inr Mi soft contact lens should be pulled off the market until it can be tested more thoroughly by impartial scientists, a health researcher told a Senate subcommittee today. Dr.

Sidney Wolfe said the product has been rushed onto the market without adequate testing of its safety and effectiveness. He accused some evaluators of "apparent conflict of by holding stock in the companies manufacturing the products they were testing. Wolfe is associated with the Health Research Group, a branch of Ralph Nader's consumer-advocacy organization, REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. The young American, in a letter delivered by hand this into the field.

Roughly 50,000 pairs of the lenses have been sold since the FDA approved them March 18, 1971. Buoyed by FDA approval, Bausch Lomb's stock zoomed in one period from $46 a share to $160. Ploys 1 Wtek I Thru Th. llfh CONTINUOUS FROM 2 P.M. ON SAT SUN.

FIRST PLACE for fraternal organizations in National Farmers Organization. (SIP Photo) the Rupert Fourth of July parade went to Peaceful Convention Is Expected In Miami OTncK NIGHTS AT 7:30 and 9.30 All they wanted was their chance to be and he gave it to them. result of the City Council's decision to let protest groups camp in a public park. Within an hour Wednesday after the council reversed an MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Police and demonstrators alike predicted next week's Democratic National Convention should be more peaceful as a X(LUmW) Nixon Meetings Eye Food Price Problem a- I A MADIf DvnCI I CM.

morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespect fuf beha vior. Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers' he wrote. The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer. Fischer told Spassky: "I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." The temperamental American also apologized to Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, the Icelanders, "the thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United States." However, Fischer' brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit earlier ban on campsites, more than 100 young people moved into the 36-acre Flamingo Park five blocks from where the-Democrats will nominate their presidential candidate.

The young people began to set up tents and roll out sleeping bags while some took their first showers in days at park facilities. "We believe that with a controlled site we will be better able to control law and order," Police Chief Rocky Pomerance said. He said the park is fenced to help provide crowd control, has a hedge on one side to give an "aesthetic screen" to the residential neighborhood and has lights at night for security. "This eases the situation considerably. Now we can concentrate on mapping our demonstration strategy," said Zippie leader Eddie Harper.

"We're going to demonstrate something incredible and beautiful next week. We're going to unite for social change," said Rene Davis, a Chicago 7 and farm suppliers. And Friday, President Nixon plans to talk about rising food prices with three members of his Cost of Living Council Shultz, consumer affairs advisor Virginia Knauer and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Herbert Stein. Shultz said Wednesday a number of ideas have been explored to bring meat prices down While rejecting the idea of imposing price controls on producers, he said the Treasury Department may adopt a "better buys" program, which would point up to consumers the relative prices of beef, chicken and fish. WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration is carrying out a series of meetings on the sticky election-year problem of rising food prices, including the prices Americans are paying for meat.

Treasury Secretary George Shultz met with 16 supermarket executives and top level officials of the government's anti-inflation apparatus on Wednesday. Following the meeting, Shultz predicted a drop in meat prices, telling a news conference: "We're not talking about years, we're talking about months and perhaps weeks." Shultz scheduled a meeting today with farmers, producers jQMfi A if), P.v! Ft- TnE CCv.BO'-j PG'XCE UE'BROvWC Q'XSi'l i ''lie V-jsc Dy Urn GE ENDED SUNDAY AT Location Of Fire Found KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) Investigators have determined the general location where an underground fire started In the Sunshine Silver Mine more than two months ago, but discovery of the fire's cause still is being hampered by hot walls in the mine, officials said Wednesday. Ninety-one miners were killed in the blaze which broke out May 2, spreading choking smoke and carbon monoxide gas throughout the mine. Marvin C. Chase, vice president and general manager of the Sunshine Mining said inspection crews from the U.S.

Bureau of Mines, the Idaho State Department of Mines and Sunshine now believe the fire started in old workings between the levels. They previously thought it had started between the levels, he said. Although the fire has been extinguished, there is one area of the mine investigators have not reached because of hot rock, Chase said. Hearing Is Scheduled BOISE, Idaho (AP) A preliminary hearing was set for today in magistrate's court for Virgil Eugene Clampitt, Yakima, who is accused of robbing the Eagle Branch of Idaho First National Bank. Similar charges against Clampitt, 28, have been dis- missed in U.S.

District court and the state indicated day it will take jurisdiction of the case. The bank was robbed Nov. 29 of $4,644. Clampitt has been held in federal custody since the day of the robbery and was found mentally competent to stand trial by federal authorities. Farm Labor Law Lauded BOISE, Idaho (AP) A Farm Labor Law enacted last spring is fair to both employers and farm workers, despite a threat to boycott Idaho potatoes, the Idaho Food Producers said Wednesday.

M. W. Sanders, an Emme.tt fruit grower, said the law was a compromise bill that was acceptable to both agriculture and farm workers. Cesar Chaez and the United Farmworkers Union have threatened a boycott of Idaho potatoes unless the bill is repealed. Range Fire Is Burning BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) -A range fire 10 miles west of here was reported burning out-of control Wednesday night.

All available equipment was sent to the fire on the south side of Highway 26, officials from the Bureau of Land Management said. Several thousand acres of desert and crop land were reported affected by the fire. BLM officials reported that high winds hampered fire fighters but BLM planes dropped re-tardants on the blaze. Firebugs Hit Boise BOISE, Idaho (AP) A WW II bomber and two condem ed buildings were extensively damaged in two separate blazes Wednesday. Police said they found rags soaked with gasoline or diesel fuel inside the body of a B-26 that had been on display for years in a Boise park.

A fire caused heavy damage to the aircraft. Fire also gutted two old buildings used by the Salvation Army for handicapped workers. TV Won't Hurt Kids POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -Corruption of children's minds by television is based on fears of adults not scientific findings. Dr. Charles W.

Gross, an Idaho State University professor, says. Dr. Gross has completed a study in which he challenges the Surgeon General's Commission conclusions that violence on television adversly effects children. Dr. Gross said television itself will not hurt the child but factors such as intelligence, interests and peer and parental influence are more likely to determine children's ability to perceive cause-and-effect relationships.

"The real problem is why society demands violent contents in television, newspapers and comic books, and condones all the violence which exists within social and family relationships," he said. t1 LAWRENCE ANDRINI I the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an ad-. vantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you," Fischer concluded. Drug Problems Need A Charge Of Attitudes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The country's drug problems will never be solved without a change in individuals' attitudes and a reordering of the nation's priorities, a U.S.

senatorial hopeful said Wednesday in Caldwell. Atty. Gen. W. Anthony Park, seeking the Democratic nomination for senate, told the Caldwell Lions Club the drug crisis will not end as long as society treats drug addicts and alcoholics as criminals, instead of sick individuals who need medical attention and rehabilitation.

In Salmon, Democratic senate candidate Byron Johnson called inflation, unemployment and increasing welfare rolls the major economic problems facing the country. He said unemployment has nearly doubled and more than five million people have joined the welfare rolls since the Nixon Administration took office. Also in Salmon, Dr. W. E.

(Bud i Davis said he supports an end to "outdated, unwanted and superfluous farm programs." He said costly and over-complicated agricultural programs have hurt the image of the western farmer. Republican WayVie Kidwell, running for 1st district congress, told supporters in Coeur d'Alene he is opposed to President Nixon's proposal for a value-added tax. "The President has said the states have a deplorable tax situation and he singled out the property tax," said Kidwell. LAWRENCE GIOVANNA JUAN GUERRERO ANNA LOUISE and LAWRENCE ANDRINI REVIEW 3WITH THE TALENT FINDS OF 1972 Cd Plan To Attend GALA WATER SHOW tK vstt S3 i July 29 30 i at Salmon Dam I i I' -if GREAT DINING Created bvCHKHANTOINE STARTS TUESDAY "ror this reason, in, the 93rd Congress when I oppose the value-added tax, I would like to point to Idaho and say we have begun to clean up our own back yard." A suit was filod recently by Kidwell challenging the con-stitutionlity of the state's present property tax re-evaluation system. S35U FRIDAY: arrtil Ruffl-t wtTI'ltlllY: SQ50 Gourmet Buffel S50 -'wis SUNDAY: Afternoon 100 SUNDAY: SHEB WOOLEY dSKfew JACKPOT, 4 T.

THE 11 ESTERS BAR! KEVADA Another Republican candidate for the lstdisfrict seat, Steve Symms, said in Payette the social security law punishes" the working 65-year-old who earns more than $1,680 a year. He said the law penalizes those who earn more than that amount by requiring them to forfeit social security benefits. He called for a repeal of the $1,680 limitation. Two republican contenders for the U.S. Senate, Robert E.

Smylie and DrPGlen Wegner, criticized the attendance record in congress of Rep. James A. McClure. R-ldaho. llT, THEY RATI I U2JJT THIS FEATURE 'CLUB Horse AND THE ANN JONES QUARTET Shu Club.

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