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Ytor, No. 214 68 Pogei Lubbock, TCKOJ, Thurtdoy Morning, July 6, 1972 Price 10 Cents Full Leased Wires: (AP), (UPI) Die In Hi jack Drama tf TT Demos To Fight TAKEOVER THREATENED Poor People Briefly Take Seats At Convention Site (Ky Tho Assocljlul rrrsi) BEACH, Fla. Representatives of welfare and poor people's organizations look over Convention Hall for a.few minutes Wednesday to' underscore demand for seats at next week's Democratic National Convention. To the amazement of carpenters and other workmen putting finishing touches to (he 14,000 seat hall, some 50 persons marched up to the podium and issued a call for 750 delegate seats. Thed emonsl ra lor represented the Welfare Rights Organization, the National Tenants Organization and.

th'e Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The welfare rights group is sponsoring a poor people's convention that opened Wednesday and will end Sunday, the day before the Democratic conclave starts "All did is walk right in, and that's what we are going to do in the convention right in," said the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After saying "we'll mark Sec I'OOK I'agc 18 OVNT End To Meat Price Spiral Preicted meat prices, which hav forcing dtnvn current record high prices. uulcner counter an Lubbock, Area ADDITION of screen and action on garage sales are among items on the agenda for the Planning and Zoning Commission tonight Page 1, Sec.

15. FIVE honor graduates of Lubbock High Schools will leave by air today to 'join 200 of their conferees for a three-day stay in Salt Lake City rage.l, See. 15. Slate And Nation MORE than 100 die.violently in Texas during Fourth of July holiday 1'age l-J, Sec. A.

PRESIDENTIAL emissary John B. Connally defends the U.S. role in Vietnam against India's, criticism Page 8, Sec. B. And The World REUNIFICATION talks by North and South Koreans may place new pressure on North Vietnam for making negotiated settlement Page 15, Sec.

A. TJ.S, CHESS champion Bobby Fischer apologizes to Russian champion for Jng world championship chess match Page 8, Sec. II. COLUMNS Page 6, Section -MARKKT REPORTS Pages 10, 11, Section PLAINS AORICULTUKK Page II, Section I) RAWO, TV PROGRAMS' 8, Section SPORTS NEWS Pages 1-9, Section 1) TODAY'S HOROSCOPE 13, Section COMICS Page -I, Section COMIC DICTIONARY APOI.OGV Words of regret that you really feel, more often words of regret. KFYO President Nixon's action las week to allow more foreign beeE into the United States wil also help ease prices, Shultz said.

"We're talking abou months and perhaps weeks when we may see'the effects this," he Kirst Of Three Meets Shultz and other members the Cost of Living Council me with the grocers in the first three sessions with food indus try representatives ordered by Nixon to help seek a solution to the continuing increase in the American family food budget. The meeting was snort on answers, although Siiultz tolc the grocers to improve the efficiency of their workers ant pay more attention to a "gooc buys" list published: by the Agriculture Department tha stresses good grocery values. However, he stopped short lolling consumers to cut down on their beef and port purchases and consider alternative, cheaper sources of protein such as poultry, fish and cheese. Too Much Ocinam! 'The American housewife got to make up her own mine I wouldn't presume to tel her," Shultz said. Speaking for the grocers Thomas McMaster, chairman of Allied Supermarkets Inc Detroit, said the meat price crisis stems from the voracious appetite of Americans for bee! and pork and the nresen inability of the system lo nice lhal demand.

eventual solution has to be increased supply or less consumption," McMastcr saifV The solution, he indicated, was to boost the supply of meat anc not change American's eating habits. 'I believe that there ij enough meat in the feed lot; now that in a reasonable time, this will affect the price," he said. Shuttz added tliat while the -ale of cattle slaughter is up about 1 per cent, the number of steers in the feed lots has risen 6 and 12 per cent. This ndicates there is an ample supply of beef ready to come to MEAT 1ft Russians Launch 498lk Cosmos MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union launched the -59Slh un- mannea earth satellite in its op-secret Cosmos program Vednesday, Tass reported. The Jtovict Kovcrnmcnt news agency said the Sputnik was ent into elliptical orbit with a u'gh point of 318 miles and a point of -175 miles.

It said lie satellite completed its ini- ial earth orbit in 92.1 minutes nd the inclination of the orbit -the earth's equator was 71 Court Gives McGovern Big Boost Say-So la California Case Goal Of Party (By The Associated MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Sen. George McGovern re captured in courts Wednes day the California delegate sweep he won at the polls and said he hoped the ver diet would point to a victorious Democratic cam paign for the White House. The Democratic party immediately acted to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court on grounds the party and its convention should decide who casts presidential nominating votes. "The courts should not get involved in selecting delegates Joseph A.

Califano counsel the Democratic National -ommittee, said in Miami Beacii. First-Ilallot Victory? McGovern's political strate- ists said court ruling that he is entitled to all 271 California nominating votes would spell first-ballot nomination for toe senator from South Dakota when the national 7 convention chooses its man in one week. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., overruled the action of the" Democratic Cre dentials Committee which iiad voted to strip McGoverri of 151 OE the California delegates With that verdict S2 vpm egate strength The Associated Press count of fjrst-ballot votes vaulted to 72.35 away from he majority it will take to name the "nominee. Called "Rotten Steal" McGovern won the June 6 primary which, by stale law awarded the victor all 271 national convention votes. But the credentials panel, in decision which McGovern ailed a rotten: steal, voted last Thursday to apportion the delegates on the basis of the candidates' finish.

Tho Court of Appeals de- Jared the Credentials Committee action null and void. "This, decision reaffirms the choice of the California voters nd the rules of the Democratic 'arty," said McGovern in a his tatemcnt issued through Vashington headquarters. On To Victory "I hope now that tho contention can proceed in a Jaw- orderly and satisfactory manner to ratify a platform nd nominate a candidate who an take that platform to the ountry in a victorious campaign in the fall," McGovern aid. The Supreme Court is in sum- See DEMOCRATS I'iige 18 Today's Prayer Dear Father, it was Your grace that brought us this far. Please help us have love in our hearts for one another in return for Your grace.

Amen. A Reader. FOURTH IN ROW Gunman Gets $120During Gty Holdup By BILL MORGAN Avalimclic-Journal Staff A RECENT, string of arm- robberies continued unbroken Wednesday-when a gunman robbed a clerk of about Drop-N-Food. at 1611 19th St. It was the fourth armed robbery reported in Lubbock in as- many days.

Ordered Cigarettes Brenda Merritt of M2' Vernon Ave. said the man, wearing a polka-dotted scarf around his head, asked for a pack of. cigarettes, which he threw on the counter after receiving it. She said he tlien pulled a long-bar- relled gun from beneath bis jacket and ordered her to, "Open the (cash) drawer. Open it slow, and give me everything in it." While the robbery was in progress at about p.m., a woman customer, who later refused to' be identified, reportedly walked up from the back of the store, saw.

the gunman and screamed for her boyfriend, who also was in the store. Threiitencrt To Slioot Miss.Merritt said the bandit shifted the gun's aim to the customer and warned, "Don't do that again or I'll shoot you. Life doesn't mean a thing to me. I live it day by day. I'd just as soon shoot you now as not." After grabbing the money See GUNMAN IS City Records New Low Temperature I5y LANE ARTHUR Avulunclic-Joumztl staff THE REMAINS of a cold front which touched oft showers and thunderstorms in South Texas Wednesday lelainccTits hold on the South Plains and sent the mercury skidding to a record low maximum for July since weather observers began keeping records here 25 years monlh oV 10Cl i Sh Wodncsda tlrok the record for the month of rS set Tuesday, according to the National weather service, and was six degrees cooler than the previous low maximum for the date set in 1SGO.

SLIGHT WARMUP DUE However, only a trace of moisture was recorded during the day in the Hub City, the VWS reported, although the cold ront touched off storms that dumped almost 5 inches of rain in some parts of Southeast Texas. Weiss Bluff in Southeast Texas recorded 3.15 inches, 3remon, near Waco, chalked up 3.52, Hurst Springs reported 4.20 nches, and Thornton residents RETARDED vaded "ain. through -K75 inches ol Slight Warmup Due And although weather observers expect today to be somewhat warmer than Wednesday, the mercury still is not ex- lectcd to rise above the high 70s. The chance of light drizzle or showers that was predicted 'or late Wednesday also exists for today and Friday. Partly cloudy skies also an possibility today for Lubbock, hich for two days has remained under heavily overcast skies.

Forecasters said late Wed- icsday partly cloudy skies would Sec COOL BOY, GIRL SLASHED TO DEATH Slain Young Pair Identified (Ky Tfw. FORT WORTH Identities of a boy and girl found slashevl to death over the weekend near Greater Southwest International Airport were firmly established Wednesday by Fort Worth police. The boy was identified as Robert Gholson, 15, of Midwest City, his father making final identification. Officers previously identified the dead girl a-. Mary Jane Handy, 17, a runaway from Oklahoma City, sjie had been missing from her home since Friday, police said.

The bodies of the girl and her companion were found Saturday near the Greater Southwest International Airport between Dallas and Fort Worth. Both died from multiple stab wounds, police said. An autopsy showed the girl Iiad not been raped, although slie was nude from the waist down and her blue jeans were twisted around her neck. The boy was fully clothed. Police U.

Oliver E. Bell said identification was established by the Texas Department of Public Safety through fingerprints ob-' tained from the Runnels County Sheriff's Office in Ballinger. "Stic was arrested there as a runaway on Sept. 9, 1971," Bell said. The Fort Worth officer said he obtained some information about Iho girl's latest disappearance from her sister, Joy Ann.

He ad- Uiat he had obtained the name of a young man who was believed to have been traveling with Miss Handy, said ho would not divulge it until identification of Uin body was positive. Tlie girl's father, Robert Hanrty. who has a heart condition, was reluctant to talk about his daughter. "This- is two years of problems, drug addiction and other tilings," he was quoted as saying. "I hope it will wake up some other kids." Oklahoma City newspapers quoted Dr.

Felix Gwwxlz, Tnrrant County Medical Examiner as saying of the slayings: "It must have been the work of .1 madman. The wounds were deep and inflicted with a IUIRC knife or hy a sharp instrument, I should say." 30 Patients Die In Fire (UPI)-A flash fire England swept a newly renovated ward in a mental hospital early Wednesday, killinR 30 of the 3G male patients who were too severely retarded to flee throu-h an unlocked door. Harry secretary of Uie Coldharbor Hospital, said one of the patients in the ward was. 1G and the rest were middle-aged but their average mental age was "about 5 or "It was a tremendous horrifying fire," he said. "I have never seen anything like Kempshaw said a night nurse spotted flames in Uic dormitorv of the hospital's single-storv brick Winfrith Villa wing shortly before 3 a.m.

and sounded an alarm to wake the sleeping patients. "Within seconds the blaze was an inferno," he said. Dr. Peter Johnson, chairman of the hospital management committee, said there was no sprinkler system in the wanV, which had been open only two months after the 25-year-old wing was remodeled. FBI Men Slay Two Pirates Passenger Also Killed; 'Bonanza' Actor Hurt; Russia Flight Foiled i muuu two hijackers Wednesday in a shootout aboard a seized airliner carry- mg 86 persons.

Ta was killed and two others wounded when the FBI thwarted the attempt to hijack the plane, to Russia with.5800,000 ransom. Agent Boards Flune I'osjnp As Pilot The first FBI agent gained entrance to tho Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner by posing as a pilot, and he was followed aboard by a second agent who had been hiding beneaUi the plane parked at the edge of San Fi-ancisco Bay. A of FBI agents surrounded the aircraft after it had sat on the ground for more than four hours while airline officials gathered the demanded ransom, two parachutes and maps showing the route to Russia. Actor Wounded Some of the agents had come ashore from a Coast Guard boat that had maneuvered to a -anding place in the bay beneath the 737 jetliner and out of sight of the two foreign-born hijackers. The passenger was killed by shots fired by the hijackers, the said.

The gunmen also wounded two other passengers, including veteran movie (Woulcl-Ro Hijacker Foiled, fj, Sec. television actor Victor Sen Yung, 56, who portrays "Hop Sing" in the television show "Bonanza." FBI identified the hijackers as Dmjlrov Alexev M- a vard "and Michael D. Ax.manoff, also 28, with no known address. Agents said they immigrated to the United States sometime in the 1950s and 1960s. Operated TiLvi Service Alexev, whom, neighbors believed came lo America from Yugoslavia or Hungary, operated an independent taxi at the airport.

The agent posing as a pilot approached the plane with the ransom, parachutes and charts 'or a flight to the Soviet Union. The hijackers demanded that ic strip to his shorts to show was not carrying a that he weapon. When the men felt certain he not armed, they allowed lim to redress and enter the not knowing he had a small pistol in a coat pocket. The agent entered the plane was escorted toward the rear section by Azmanoff. Hijacker Confronted Meanwhile, one of three FBI igents hiding under the plane sneaked up the ramp, through the open door and confronted who was in the cockpit.

The FBI said Alexev, who had a pistol in each hand, raised the veapons and was shot twice in he chest with shotgun blasts. Tho second hijacker then Sen TWO ATK Pnjje 18 TEXAS HOUSE Busing Plan Approved; Fate Unsure Tlie House members approved Wednesday what sponsors called an antibusing resolution. Opponents asserted measure was.a vehicle lo turn back the clock on racial desegregation. The vote was 107-13, sending the resolution lo the Senate, where a parliamentary ruling on June 22 by Lt. Gov.

Ben Barnes might already have doomed it lo oblivion. Wording of Amendment As approved by (he House, the resolution asks Congress to call a convention to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would say: "No student shall be assigned" to nor compelled to attend any particular school account of race, religion, color or national origin." "You arc asking us to propose a constitutional amendment even though it would perpetuate segregation," Rep. Caros Truan of Corpus Christ! told the floor sponsor, Rep. John Traeger of Seguin.

"That'is not what I am ay- mg," Traeger said. Nothing Alwiit Busing 'It says no student shall be nssigned to a school to about integration Truan persisted. "The purpose is to face up to problem of busing," Traeger said. "There is nothing about your resolution," Truan ''Busing would be impossible mder this resolution," Tracker "aid. Rep.

Carl Parker of Port Arhur sought postponement of action until after the peciat session is expected to ad urn was defeated, 3-26, after Traeger said: "A for delay 5s a vole for sing." "I think thai Texas has come age, but if you vote for this See BO'SING I'ngc IS R52s IN STRIKES Third Class Rale Goes Up Today Xew third class postage rates arc effect today for Postal Service patrons in Lubbock and across the country, according to officials here. The new rale starts at eight cents for items up to two ounces, then increases at a rate of four cents for each atMilional ounce up lo, but not including, 16 ounces. The old rate was the same for the first two ounces, hut the maximum was 45 cents for an tern just short of Ifi ounces. Tho new rale reaches a maximum of 64 cents for an Hem just short of 16 ounces. Quang Tri Fight Looms: Reds Shell Hue Aoaiii Far to the south jn Cambodia, about 55 miles west of Saigon, South Vietnamese forces, supported by artillery and air Sco ALLIED P.igc is (By Vnlltrl JVCM Tntcm3llnn.il> SAIGON (Thursday) Communist gunners fired 120 rounds of artillery, rocket and mortars into the former imperial capital of Hue at dawn today in the heaviest shelling of the city since the 396S Tct offensive.

The attack began after two South Vietnamese paralroop battalions and a tank company pushed into Qiiang Tri city, miles north of Hue Wednesday, meeting only light resistance in 1 province capital jy the North Viclnaincse expected Tn, lwo months a with the morcury likely UII correspondent to rise into tho high 70s today semen said il W.IK not low tonight should be in Kill Weather Map Page 10-D Lubbock and Vicinity: Partly cloudy skies and somewhat 'warmer temperatures expected nvt njw lit -j i iv- i TOW many casualties resulted the lower 60s rom the latest shelling of Hue. it was the fifth consecutive day that Communist gunners had hit the city. Scibcrt said most of the 320 rounds hit the city north of the Perfume River near the walled in a residenlial area xickod by military installa- ions. The rounds Wednesday were 1.1 more than the total number of rounds that bil this 1 a.m. 2 s.m 3 a.m 4 a.m 5 a.nj.

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