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uemo appeal to high court on delegates THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER SERVING THE HARBOR AREA EXCLUSIVELY July 6 1972 16 Pages 10 Cents Per Copy 832-0221 New Series: Vol No 104 1 San Pedro California Thursday II w' A Califane in Miami Beach courts should not get involved in selecting McGovern forces announced Wednesday afternoon that the appeals-court action gave them candidate more than the 1509 delegate votes needed for nomination The Associated Press delegate count which does not list officially uncommitted delegates who are leaning toward a candidate showed McGovern with 143665 votes But Humphrey was in no mood to concede He noted that the Supreme Court had not yet spoken and argued further that the party itself would be the ultimate judge Humphrey conceded that it would be a if the convention ignores the court but said he felt it has the right to do so The appeals court based its intervention on the conclusion that the party had ignored its own rules to the point where constitutional guarantees due process were violated California law awarded all the delegates to the winner The 2-1 decision overturned a US District Court which ruled Monday that the judiciary has no jurisdiction in partisan processes unless a clear constitutional principle is involved The lower court found no constitutional question in that case In the Illinois case the appeals court was unanimous in finding that the party could reject Illinois delegates on grounds the selection did not conform to party rules WASHINGTON (AP) Opposing Democratic forces today asked Chief Justice Warren Burger to convene a rare special session of the Supreme Court in a political-legal tangle The decision carries with it Sen George renewed hopes for a first-ballot presidential nomination The Democratic party hierarchy and forces of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley both are fighting a US appeals court ruling but for different reasons The party hierarchy asked Burger to suspend the effect of the appeals court ruling which Wednesday overrode the party Credentials Committee to allow McGovern to recover 151 California convention delegates The Daley forces are seeking just the opposite effect contending that federal courts should intervene in order to seat Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates ousted by the Credentials Committee There was no indication when the chief justice might act The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271-vote California reversing the vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candidates chiefly Sen Hubert Humphrey The court suspended the effect of its rulings until 2 pm today to give the high court time to act if it wishes The Supreme Court has held only three special sessions its history feel this case is as compelling and more than those which prompted the other sessions said Democratic National Committee counsel Joseph Two skyjackers passenger killed 'V wm umL 1 special exhibits a plant ale speakers and an hourly tram ride tour of the gardena Proceeds go toward improvement of the gardens which are operated by Los Angeles County Among the planner in a lovely setting of flowers are (1 to 4) Laurie Melan Steven Schermerhorn Show Chairman Mrs John Sullivan and Mrs Glenn Reese (News-Pilot photo by John Hart) FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS The tenth annual flower and garden show De will be presented Friday through Sunday at the South Coast Botanic Gardens located on Rolling Hills Road between Palos Verdes Drive North and Crenshaw Boulevard The theme of the show Our Planet With will be carried through various aspects of the show with a standard flower show and categories for juniors There will be Navy jets blast -j i Jf ft1 iv Fischer apology made chess match Sunday 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 the 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 morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union apologized for his Fischer whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion asked the Russian to my sincerest simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers" he wrote discharges from private industries and the balance for municipalities Dendy estimated Municipalities can apply for 80 per cent aid for such projects -25 per cent from the state and 55 per cent from the federal government he added He estimated that would result in an estimated annual cost to local governments of just over $50 million per year based on 30-year bonds at six per cent interest It would represent a per capita local cost of about $570 per year for Californians he said The municipal dischargers into the ocean Dendy said are Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County with a total of 640 million gallons per day Orange County with 130 million gallons San Diego with 90 million gallons and San Francisco at 20 million gallons SAN FRANCISCO AP) wanted to stop the hijacking and stop it we said the FBI special agent in charge after agents stormed a jetliner and killed two hijackers in a skyjacking that also left one passenger dead and two others wounded It was believed the first tune in the United States that authorities have stormed a loaded jetliner held by a hijacker and the first time American passengers have been killed and wounded in-skyjacking Officials said shots fired by one of the hijackers killed a 66-year-old retired railroad man and wounded two others one a television actor The hijackers held the intrastate Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and the 86 persons aboard 81 of them passengers for six-hours Wednesday dickering for ransom and escape before FBI men using a ruse charged aboard not pleased that three passengers were said Robert Gebhardt FBI special agent in charge He made the comment before learning that one of the passengers had died he said in response to a reporter's question had to make a Three FBI men who had sneaked up under the fuselage of the plane rushed aboard after the hijackers refused to release 81 passengers Gebhardt said path for SAIGON (AP) US Navy fighter-bombers pounded North Vietnamese bunkers south of Quang Tri City today trying to blast open a path for a task force of South Vietnamese paratroopers advancing on the enemy-held provincial capital Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the northern front that the carrier planes bombed a line of bunkers about lxk miles from the center of Quang Tri City The bunkers were concealed in a row of homes shaded by trees and flanking Highway 1 Two companies of North Vietnamese troops perhaps 200 or more men were reported entrenched in the bunkers and firing on the paratroopers despite the air attacks An American adviser with the paratroopers Capt Gail Furrow 32 of Ur-bana Ohio told Neeld the battalion he is with could have pushed into Quang Tri City The slam hijackers had demanded two parachutes $800000 and passage to Siberia shortly after taking the plane over in the air officials said Gebhardt said the FBI men moved in on the plane only after the hijackers refused to release the passengers until the ransom was handed over saw two FBI men enter the said Dr Manuel Alvarez 58 of Sacramento Calif a passenger first came through with his hands on his head and the second came up shooting blasting away with a The hijacker to the said Alvarez The FBI said the gunman had an automatic in each hand but did not open fire In the rear of the plane the other hijacker had another automatic and fired at least three shots the FBI said The second hijacker went down almost immediately from FBI gunfire The gunmen killed Wednesday were identified from cards in their pockets as Dimitr Alexieff 28 of Hayward Calif and Michael Azmanoff 28 of San Francisco The passenger dead on arrival at Peninsula Hospital in nearby Burlingame was Stanley Carter 66 identified as a retired Canadian National Railway conductor from Longueuil Que went on the floor as soon as the first shot said Larry Jenkins an assistant to State Sen Donald Grunsky R-Watsonville) an FBI agent hollered ok folks all Jenkins said his life may have been saved because one hijacker apparently want anyone in seats facing the rear The hijacker made Jenkins and Bill Rozell a state Senate consultant move seats Jenkins said the passenger who was killed was near the seats they had left Sheila LaPoint 47 Mobile Ala traveling with her 13-year-old daughter Valerie said passengers first became aware of the hijacking when a stewardess told everyone to remain in their seats and put their hands on top of their heads Mrs Stone said that people whiled away the hours on the ground by visiting rpadfng or writing Dr Manuel Alvarez 58 Sacramento vividly described the shooting of the first hijacker front door was open and he was standing there Two FBI men entered the plane The first came through with his hands on his head and the second came up shooting blasting away with a The hijacker simply crumpled to the floor he said Terror filled moments broke 6 hours of calm Two youths hurt after car cycle collide in SP Two youths were injured one critically late Wednesday night when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car at Park Western Drive and Battery Street Harbor Division police said one of the youths William Magallanez 16 of 1833 Taper St San Pedro is listed in critical condition at Harbor General intensive care unit He sustained a possible skull fracture and concussion The mishap which occurred at 9:15 also injured the driver of the motorcycle Marsaun Lee Sias 17 of 873 Sixth St San Pedro Doctors told police Sias was treated for minor lacerations and released They also said he may have fractured three toes on his right foot The driver of the car Marjorie Mihal-jevich 40 of 900 Millmark Grove San Pedro was not injured She reportedly told police she did not see the two youths on the motorcycle as she made a left turn onto Battery Street The motorcycle then ran into the car and the youths were thrown over the car into the street They were rushed to Harbor General by Rescue Ambulance 53 Blaze damages peninsula garage A fire blamed on fireworks residue caused an estimated $2900 damage to a Palos Verdes Peninsula garage Three companies of Los Angeles County fire fighters from Stations 106 and 56 battled the flames for 10 minutes before bringing them under control Capt Donald Moore of Engine Company 56 said the garage at 5324 Middle-crest Road owned by John Young was fully engulfed when firemen arrived Authorities said the blaze started in the back of the garage where the disposal of fireworks residue into the rubbish containers had started the fire Firemen were able to keep the fire from spreading into the home after the garage roof and one of the walls were completely burned However firemen said there was extensive smoke damage to the interior of the home Loss estimates were set at $1500 for the gutted structure and $1400 to the contents troops on Wednesday but it was essential to secure the highway before advancing Other paratroopers penetrated the city limits Tuesday but took up defensive positions on the southern edge Reliable sources said Lt Gen Ngo Quang Truong commander of the 20000-man counteroffensive is moving cautiously in hopes of keeping his casualties to a minimum Field reports said 180 North Vietnamese were killed in clashes around Quang Tri City on Wednesday South Vietnamese losses were said to be 10 killed and 90 wounded Thirty miles to the south of the nine-day old drive the North Vietnamese shelled Hue with 122mm artillery for the fifth day About 100 shells hit the former imperial capital but half of them were duds One person was reported wounded and a Roman Catholic church damaged effects of pollution in the today but the new rules that they will be avoided in the future Biologists believe some ocean pollution is responsible for damage to kelp beds and other marine life off the California coast but that there is little firm scientific data on specific environmental harm from ocean water discharges Dendy said He said standards higher than those for drinking water for humans are needed because many small ocean creatures have less tolerance to pollutiants than humans Dendy said 55 municipal plants and 34 industries currently dump more than 12 billion gallons of waste into the ocean In California each day representing about 30 per cent of the ocean discharges for the entire nation To bring statewide treatment standards to the new level would require an investment of approximately $770 million about $100 million of that to clean up Tough new antipollution controls urged for California's coastline SAN FRANCISCO (AP) For six hours it was calm almost boring said some of the 76 uninjured passengers of their ordeal on a hijacked Pacific Southwest Airways jetliner But they will long remember a few terror-filled moments which saw the two hijackers and a passenger killed and two other passengers wounded in a burst of gunfire Wednesday hit the floor and prayed said Mrs Arthur Stone of Detroit who had just left Sacramento after a visit with a daughter "1 heard a man across the aisle scream I started to look up but there were more shots I started to she related The PSA plane with 81 passengers and crew of five had made the 20-minute flight from Sacramento to San Francisco landed then taken off again and circled for nearly an hour before setting down once again for what turned out to be a five-hour wait Four FBI agents -one posing as a pilot with the $800000 ransom managed to board the jet and killed the hijackers However before one hijacker died he opened fire from the rear of the plane killing a passenger and wounding two SACRAMENTO (AP) Tough new anti-pollution controls described as the tighest ever imposed in the United States are being urged for 1087-mile coastline The new regulations would require that all ocean discharges receive pollution clearing treatment higher than current standards for human drinking water The proposal went before the State Water Resources Control Board at a meeting today in Los Angeles They would Insure that it would be safe to swim anywhere along the California coast up to 1000 feet to sea and 30 feet down and would curb damage to micro-rganisms vital to the lower part of the food chain officials reported Bill Dendy the executive officer said the proposed rules are rather than He explained at a news conference Wednesday that know of no gross 4 mtrtm.