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THE TIMES RECORD FINAL EDITION 1972, No. 156 Eaxttt iu Slant CUM Millet II Ibe OOio Troj. tllJel lilt M'rrK. 3. TROY, N.

12181, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 Published Daily Excfpl Sunday and" 30 PAGES PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Terror Mounts In North Ireland Reds May Be Preparing All-Out Drive On Hue Epitaph Not Necessarily So M1DDLETOWN, 'Ohio AP) --There is an old tombstone, its name broken off, leaning Ihe walls of the. police station here. It was brought lo the station after suspected vandalism occurred at Ihe MIddlelown Cemetery. An enterprising person has a handwritten note lo the bottom of the stone. The original lettering read: "Died, Aug.

1, 1840. Aged 20 years. Remember me as yon pass by, as yon are now so once was 1. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for ttcalh and follow me." The added nole read: "To follow you Is not my intent, unless 1 know which way you U.

Russia Plan Science Cooperation MOSCOW (AP) -Top Ameri can Soviet science officials SAIGON (UPD--Communist gunners shelled Hue for the second consecutive day today. 11 bolstered allied fears that the North Vietnamese' would try to overrun Hue while its defenses arc stripped by Ihe government drive to retake neighboring Quang Tri Province. UP! correspondent Barney Seibert said an undetermined number of 122mm rockets loday bil Hue, 400 miles north of Saigon, but there was immediate report of casualties. Sunday's rocket and artillery barrage marked (he first sucn attack on the city since the Communist offensive began in South Vietnam May 30. Twelve persons were killed and 41 wounded in Sunday's attack by more lhan 80 shells.

Allied commanders noted at Ihe lime that the South Vietnamese force of about 30,000 men guarding the clly was reduced to about 10,000 last week for the northward drive into (Juang Tri. leaving the old imperial capita! vulnerable to an all-out Communist drive. Today's shelling bolstered that possibility. Baltic Rages On The six-day-old battle foi Quang Tri Cily, 32 miles north of Hue, raged on today as U.S bombers overnight dumpcc more lhan 500 Ions explosives on the approaches lu Ihe provincial capital. Seven of the giant planes struck within 10 miles of the city lo pave the met today to put into effect way for an expected South treaty for cooperation in sci- Vietnamese push into it soon.

Slain Hijacker Educated Free In U.S. dice and technology signed during President Nixon's visit to Moscow. Nixon's science adviser, Dr. Edward E. David led the American side in talks held lo set up the which was treaty.

joint commission created by (he Chief negotiator on the Soviet side' Deputy Premier Vbdimir A. Kirillin, chairman of the Soviet Slate Commillce for Science and Technology. Deputies of the joint commission are (o determine areas of cooperation and designate Ihe appropriate agencies to carry it out. The current lalks are cx- pccled to deal mainly with the organization of. the commission but some specific areas of mu- tinl Interest, such as energy research likely will be covered.

Al the opening of the talks, David gave Kirillin a Soviet flag which had been laVen to the moon and brought back to carlh by Apollo )G. A spokesman said Ihe flag was intended to be a symbol of the achievements to be reached in cooperation. Soviet-American cooperation In space is not covered by Ihe jiinl commission on science ar.d technology but is the sub- lie province, South Vietnam's northernmost, was captured one monlh aflcr Ihe offensive began and been in Communist hands ever since. Far to the south at the province capital of Song He, the U.S. command reported that the North i a have dragged big 130mm guns into Flltli AT KING I'KOJliCT--Looking east from Garden Court just north of Glen Avenue, smoke can be seen billowing from a two-alarm fire early Sunday morning in a building at 47 Kddy's Lane in (be a i I.ulhcr King Housing Project.

Resulting damage from the fire, which forced evacuation of 31 persons, was estimated al S20.000. Ten apartments were affected by the blaze which, police theorize, may have.bccn started by someone smoking in bed. (Pliolo Uaxu-r) Seven Slain During Bloody Weekend BELFAST (UPI)-Onc nf Ihe, Woodiest weekends of Ulster violence pushed the death loll today to 400 for the three years of Northern Ireland terror and threatened smash the week- old. cease-fire. Police said two Mid-riddled ami hooded bodies were discovered in Belfast today, bringing to seven Hie number of persons killed in gunballlcs or executed by militants this weekend.

The body of a man was found 'in a car abandoned iicnr SEATTLE, Wash. A A tniicl Vietnamese student Crumlin Road jail became an antiwar activist during his last year at the before dawn, and a passerby on versity ot Washington may have been Ihe young man killed during an abortive hijack attempt at Saigon Sunday, according to reports from Saigon and Honolulu. Pan American airways officials named the man killed during a struggle aboard a 747 at Ton Son N'hul Airport as Nguyen Thai Binh, although a spokesman said tbere was no ticket or passport identification. A Honolulu man, Kong b'ai Lcong, said Binh spent week at his home, then hoarded the airplane for Saigon Saturday. iLcnng said bis son, Kenneth, cl wUh 1.3 persons aboard a 1 bpcn Binh roomnialc al lanoi in revenge for U.S.'the University.of Washington tombing ot North Vietnam Studied Three Years overpowered by the pilot and A Hijacker Shot Dead Aboard Plane SAIGON A young Truman Hospitalized In Kansas City the any area--Ihe farthest south I Forme Communist artillery a been reported in Hie war.

Song Be is about 17 miles norlh of Ihe embattled provincial capital of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. Planes Kill Many Itcds The command said 120 N'orlh Vietnamese troops were killed Sunday by air raids and al least one Soviet-built lank knocked qul at Phuoc Binh (Continued on Page 2) New Money Offer Made To Fischer KANSAS CITY, Mo, (L'PD- I'rcsidenl Harry S. a pale and thin, was hospitalized Sunday with renewed stomach Dr. Wallace H. Graham.

Truman's personal physician since the White House days, said the 33rd President was "satisfai'tory condition." Truman, from his 8, was taken hy car home in nearby Wedding PrOJ8Ct A-Bit Confusing 3 Fire Routs 31 Tenants MELItOSE, Mass. A -Gino Sassa gave away his three daughters in a six-ring wedding ceremony Sunday. At one point, Ihe pastor of Incarnation Church, Ihe Ilev. Paul Clouglicrty, said, "Now place the ring on Kathleen Mary's finger. Now Mary, place the ring on John's finger Warren's linger." When it was over, he added with, relief, "I think al (his point I've married the righl bride lo the righl bridegroom." Kalhlecn married John 'ietnamese man who tried lo lijack a Pan American jumbo shot to death by an armed passenger The hijacker was tentatively idenlificd loday as a speaker al anliwar rallies at the Unis-cr- sily of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S.

government scholarsliip and graduated svith honors last monlh. young man, carrying a Thai Binh, the only Vietnamese al Ihe University of Washington, studied three years at the Seattle school under a scholarship from the Agency for Inler- nalional Development. lis way lo work in the same area found the body of a young nan dumped in Twickenham Street. Police said they also were un. ihe lookout for a man who may still another execution victim Augustus "Gusly" Spcncc, a 39-year-old Proleslant had been serving a life sentence for murdering a Homan Catholic bartender in 19G6.

Gunmen kidnapped Spcnce Sunday night as lie svas returning lo jail from a two-day parole granted to allosv him attend his daughter's wedding and visit his ailing mother. Bolh the IHA and the lirilish army emphasized they considered Ihe cease-fire still in force despite Ihe heavy gun bailie Sunday morning in Belfast's Old Park area and fresh outbursts early today between Protestants, Catholics and troops across (he Ml superhighway leading lo Dublin. Children playing soccer found The scholarship a June 7, bill Binh already hadl 1 bodlcs lwo IToUwtanls graduated with honors, rcceiv- a bachelor's degree from By URUCE SCRUTON A tsvo-alarm fire early Sun day morning raced through building at the Martin Luther King Housing Project, causing an estimated $20.000 damage and forcing evacuation of 111 persons. No injuries were reporicd. According to J.

Robert Hayes, (executive director of Ihe Troy The South Vietnamese passport in uw the a Nguyen Thai Binh, Officials of the school called met violent death after the pilot the 24-year-old a quiet student tricked him and landed at Sai- became actively involved gon, (he flight's scheduled des- the anti-Vietnam war movc- lination, in defiance of his mcnl during his senior year. He mand to fly lo North Vietnam, spoke out at rallies this spring Passengers Safe lllc 31 1 1 a f. a 1( a and at the International Ihe 135 other ea( A ch at Blainc Wash were safely evacuated hy on (hc a a i a bordci ing down emergency chutes, LONDON A A banker today offered British Bobby 1 of a separate treaty. The Irpaty on scientific a technological cooperation signed on May 24, the third day Nixon's summit visil. by Kirillin and U.S.

Secretary of Sialc William P. Rogers. Fischer a deal world 50,000 pounds S130.000 at i i a lo entice Fischer lo Calhoun of Wallhain, Mary married Warren II. Talbot of Hertford, anil Jeanne married Independence. lo Research jolm w.

Heck of Cambridge. Hospital in Kansas Cily. i ---entered in a wheelchair. His svjfe. Bess, 87, accompanied him and 1 slaycd at his bedside, "lie is doing quite svcll but a re-examinalion is indicated periodically." Graham said in a Elalemeiit issued shortly Truman svas adiuillcd at p.m.

Sunday. Graham described the ail-- mcnl as "a lower tjaslro- inleslinal problem related lo his his 11 said the main purpose of Rich cooperation is to provide an opportunity lo work on major problems ''whose solution will promote the progress of science and technology for the benefit of bolh countries -and of mankind." 'James Soviol rival Boris the world title. L. Slater, an vestment banker, said in making Ihe offer, "Kischcr has said lhat money is Ihe problem. Well, here it is.

What 1 ing lo Fischer now is. 'Come oul and play." Slater's offer through Dr. Max was Euwe, made president Ihe International Chess Fcderalion, and was i dialcly relayed lo Fischer in I WO LOSS LtVeS I New York, a spokesman for previous admission check his status and with condition when he was hospitalized in 1071. lloulinc examinations arc planned to include Xray studies of the lower gastrointestinal tract." II was Ihe seventh lime Truman was hospitalized he left the White House in 11)53. His last two illnesses-- in 1971 and 19G9-- stemmed from slo- nucb disorders.

Hospital spokesman John P. Dreves said Truman was "in good spirits and talked with Delegate Law Issue Questioned WASHINGTON A A federal judge questioned loday whether a constitutional issue was involved in the Democratic Credential Committee's aclion stripping asvay more than half Sen. George S. McGovcrn's California delegates, District Judge Georg Hart Jr. said "It might not be cricket, it might even he dirly jioul.

bul is il uncon- i i a Attorney Joseph L. Raugh Jr. seeking, an injunction against lhc committee's action, main laincd lhat a clear issue of due process of lass 1 as svcll as a protection of Ihe lass-s was all Housing Authority, owner of Ihe low-income 'development, the project had been opened to resi dents two years ago. Extensive damage, Hayes said, was sustained by four aparlments in the fire-ravaged building. Firemen were recalled lo the scene a second lime when rubble rekindled.

2nd Alarm Sounded The first alarm was turned in al 5:15 a.m. front liox 440 ar.d only five niinnlcs later, al 5:20 Sunday night on a cricket ground in Belfast's Old Park district, near the scene of an early morning fight between Protestants, Catholics ar.d British troops. They were identified as Iruckdriver Hugh Clawson and busdriver David Fisher, both 30. Like an unidentified body of a man dumped from a car soon used to empty the plane quickly Called "Quiet Fellow" explosion. S'evcral 1 "He was such a quiet fcl- suffcrcd minor' low," said Kuth Lcwareh of the bruises and one fisheries schoul "He wouldn't a U.S.

Air Force sa mol 'hello' and then in case of scratches passenger, lieutenant colonel, broke his leg. 1 To back up bis threats, the hijacker carried a long knife you could hardly hear him." "He changed so," she said. were surprised lo see how active he became at antiwar rallies. could hardly believe and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese he was the same man." I police sources said two boinc-i "We were wondering bow made grenades were in the cvcn ared home, running package and (here was no in-' Ihe second alarm sounded when firemen a i and discovered heavy, billowing smoke pouring from Ihe build- "ig.

In all. some 10 a a were affected by the fire thai apparently began in a back bedroom of 47 Kddy's I.n. Police dication whether they could' have, exploded. But Hie a i i 1 described them as harmless' "egg-shaped objects" a in aluminum foil. Grabbed Stewardess The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight Stl.i left on the last leg of its.

San Francisco-to-SaiJon flighl.i Binh. who had boarded in i i Honolulu, grabbed stewardess been started by someone Ma 23 a Ho Ko "3 (Continued on Page 2) theorize the blaze may a ing in bed. as a hoslage and sent The fire quickly spread intii; 1 0 llo cs lot control cabin Hie alliu and raced the hso-slory buildin; he di- (Continued on Page 2) in Auto Crash I.EWISTON A An automobile left a road near this Niagara Falls suburb Sunday night and struck an embankment and A tree. Its Iwo occupanls were killed. Stale Police identified them as Chester C.

Gregorciiik, 26, and Mrs. Dales DiRamio, 19, bolh of Niagara Falls. Bicyclist Killed MINOA, N.Y. (AP) George Shcrwin, 36, of North Syracuse," riding a bicycle was struck and killed by an automobile Ihis morning along Route 298 near Ihls Onondaga Cnunty community, police reported. Weather Tonighl-- Showers and Ihundershowers.

LOOK, VO'J fl-M TO TII6 COirW-6 "-to P'CK UP 1 VIOVE PIPER IN THE 1 MHI.BC*, I'LL BLOW UP WrlO 1 BUfcS, IF VOU TtJ3ii in CALL THE RECORD Circulation Deportment PHONF; 272-2000 bl riler said. Fischer faces a deadline set or noon Tuesday to be in Reykjavik for his match with Spassky. The American champion was reporicd as saying he vould not appear in Iceland un- ess his financial demands were met by Ihe lournamenl organ- zcrs. Slater, a i a of Slater Valker Securities which has vorldwicic business affairs, has proposed a package containing several alternative offers. One is lo double the prize money for the match which is Continued on Page 2) lakcn to bis room in a wheelchair." Truman spent less tlian one hour at Research Hospital Wednesday after complaining jack pains resulting from a a i at his home on Tuesday, lie' was release-it aflcr X-rays.

Truman's most serious illness i since leaving Washington came in 1351 when he underwent gall bladder surgery. He was in critical condition for several days following a severe reaction to antibiotics He a hospitalized Jan. 21, 1071, for 12 days with colitis, inflammation of Hie large inteslinc. Nixon Reminds Americans Their Freedom Unequaled WASHINGTON (AP) Here is Ihe Icxt of Prcsidenl Nixon's Independence Day message, issued hy the White House: Independence Day marks more than Ihe birlh dale of America. It marks Ihe beginning of one of history's grcalcsl and noblest adventures.

Today, it continues lo unfold, 196 years Ihnt small, brave beginning in Philadelphia where a handful of inspired men pledged their lives, their for- iuncs and their sacred honor lo a new nation, For nearly two cenluries, through good times and bad, the Ideals of rights and opportunity lhat inspired men like Washington, Jefferson and Adams have survived and flourished, More lhan any olher nation of any era, America has truly been Ihe home of the free and Ihe haven of the weak and oppressed from olher parts of Ihe world. And the catalyst of American values has transformed the weak and the oppressed inlo parl of a strong and a just people. Great trials and greater triumphs still lie ahead for us as a people. There arc still wrongs lo he righted, and new goals of peace, prosperity, jus- lice and a heller environment lo be met. Rut as long as we remain true to the ideals ol America, as long as our energy does not flag and our failb does not fail, no problem is loo greal and no evil is loo strong lo he overcome hy a milled American people.

The request for a restraining order by the court was brought by McGovcrn supporters in Cali i a jusl a week before Ihe Hospital in a I i National is to convene in i a i Credentials Committee illirew oul the stales winner-take 3 Purged From Dem. Committee WASHINGTON Three N'ess- 'York Ihe Democratic Credentials lliroufhi a i I a lh pj jverled lo Hanoi. The hijacker, in (lie rear pass compartment, also talked wilh Ihe pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scotlsdalc, over Hie intercom. "I am doing Ihis for revenge," Vaughn said he lold him." Your bombers arc a i ing and killing our people of the Democratic Itepuhlic of North Vietnam.

You arc going me to Hanoi and Ihis airplane will he destroyed we get there." A members of primary and ordered the Committee have been purged at California delegates- divided the prompting of supporters of proportionately lo Ihe popular vole among Ibe rival candidates, Hubert Humphrey, jcorgc C. Wallace and others. Judge Hart said lhat if Ihcrc ivas a provision of con- itilulional rights, "surely Ihe! conrl wit! step in." However, lie lold a thai there had In be a clear constitutional issue "or otherwise the courts will gel so far Sen. George S. McGovcrn.

(he front-running contender for the parly's presidential nomination. The replacements came Sunday night following several voles by the delegates against i i taken Hie McGovcrn forces on challenges in Illinois, and other stales. Joseph r. Cranglc, New York Lands Al Saigon Vaughn kept up Hie lion, telling tlie hijacker the jet. (Continued on Page 2) I New Sfafe Job Pays $36,000 ALBANY, (API-Slate Social Services Commissioner Abe Lavinc rays his deparl- nicnl has taken a step a "svill make a major conlriliu- lion tosvard assuring efficient welfare administration in Nesv York Slale." The department announced Saturday that it iail hired an auditor from Hie federal space agency to fill a newly created, a year position to svilb check appropriateness of welfare payments and conduct audits related lo all aspects of public assistance.

Marlin Sacks, 51, now direc- lor of Ihe management office of lhc National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, svill head Ibe nesv Office of Audit and Quality Control in the Slale Sc-cial Services Department, I.avine said. Ihe political lliickcl could i never get out." Rauh said Hie Credentials Committee not only had changed the rules on which everyone relied bul had done so discriminalorily in barring California alone from having a winner-take-all primary. "Why should California he singled nut as Ihe only slale i 'Democratic Parly a i a a i three staunch McGovcrn backers li replace Credentials Commitlee bers William Kliza- hcth Slack and Rohcrl Noian. Their replacements are Thomas Rcrnslcin. Barbara Spada- nula, and Richard Cummings.

2 So-Called 'Problem Boys 1 Nab Young Armed Bandit that all?" can'l winner-lake- he asked, contending Ihis I A A Kla. (AP) The a a i Clinical School dies lo make good citizens oul of problem children and Iwo of its sludenls passed a course in community aclion willi honors. Police Sunday credited Kenneth Sprouse, 16, and Johnny Price, 14, with personally col- larinf; an armed youth and re- fourth Credentials Com- mnting in slolcn millce member from York, Clarence Jones, resigned voluntarily nnd sias replaced! was a denial of co.ua! prolcclion by A Kaminsky, of the laws. I Tlie replacement A courl recess was lakcn before Joseph A. Califano Jr.

counsel for (he -Democratic Na- lional Commillce, presented his arguments in support of lhc Crcdenlials Commillec's aclion. Woman Killed I A A Cheryl Owen, of Bcllporl, was killed early today when her car overturned oi Nugent Drive, police reported. caused some confusion Sunday night during committee deliberations. The purged delegates refused for a time lo yield their scats lo lhc replacements, wilh bolh sets of delegates attempting to vole. Credentials Commillce Vice Chairman Hodding Carter III ruled lhc replacements were properly certified and should he sealed.

The purged dclecales Ihcn led the hall. checks. Johnny and Ivennclli sscre En their cottages Saturday nislit when Ihcy heard calls of "Stop him! Stop him!" The pair ran outside and saw a croud of shouting! pedestrians chasing a gun-toting hoy about their osvn James pointed lhc head and Iwice--hut Ihe al Kenneth's pulled the trigger it misfired bolh Ses'eral blocks laler, Kenneth finally lacklcd the hoy i a churchyard. Police quickly ar- ris cd and arreslcd the l.vyear- old on a charge of robbery, He svas accused of lias ing taken a bag of money from a 52-year- old ss'oman who ssas pulling, aulo tag agency receijils in a bnnk nighl box. I Law officers then began search for the missing money, hnl it was Kcnnclh and Johnny! (Continued OLI Page 2) ,15 Killed In Three Accidents By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Six Columbia, S.C., rcsidenls were killed Sunday in a fiery crash when their car veered out of control at an intersection and hurst inlo flames when il Id! Itirce parked trucks.

The dead sscrc identified as Amos Gilmore, about -J5, the i driver of the car; Mavy Louise Brunson, 23; Annie Lee DuPree, 24; Annie Hose Wester, 25, and her daughter Zelma Morris, 11, and Kdsvard Xorris, about 30. Authorities said the car failed lo slop for a iraffic light at Ihe intersection in Wesl Columbia, S.C., and was (raveling at speed in excess of 100 miles hour. A car-train collision near Lit- chficld in central Illinois Sunday killed four persons and critically injured anollier. Police said lhc car in which Hie viclims were riding collided a and Western freight (rain al a country road crossing and svas dragged more than a mile along lhc tracks a the crash. The victims vsere identified as Shirley J.

3T, of Lit- idificld; her son, Silvanis Webb i.Ir.. her snn by a previous I marriage. James Pricsley, 10; a her sU'psun, Jeffrey Webb, 10, of Gramie Cily, Hi. Anollier stepson, Webb, 13, svas reported in critical condition in a l.ilchficld hospital. A car slosung down for a roadblock scl up by police uas struck tlie rear by another aulo in pnrta.scville.

Mo. The Missouri i a Patrol said i per Mills perished in a fire liial forms cd the crash. They sierc identified as Juhn Kdsvard Cooper, 21, nf Si, I.ouK lhc driver of the a John Henry Jackson, frank Canady, 21. and A Jcnclie Jackson. 2.

also of St. I.ouK and Janice Mac Thompson. 12, of Shelby, Miss. Index who eventually found it buried age. in sand behind their school.

The lecn-agerfi joined in lhc 1 Dr. A. J. a a i heart of chase and kepi al il es'cn aflcr the school for disturbed and the fleeing gunman spun children, said Hie two. pointed a .22 caliber were probably anxious' pistol al them, according to po- lo aid in the chase because lice.

i my hoys hadn't caught thai kid, Al one point, Kcnnclh came! they knesv Ihey he the i i five feel nf the i i ones suspeclcd of the rob- Then, said police dclcclivc'bcry." Bridge Lesson Church Calendar Classified Comics Crosssvord Dealh Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Pulse of lhc People Ilccord a Society Sports 22 11 28, 2D 20, 21 11 15 I I 26 20 12 12 23, 21, Theaters 22 10.

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