The York Dispatch from York, Pennsylvania • 1

1 WEATHER FORECAST Clear Cool Tonight Mostly Sunny Wednesday THE YORK DISPATCI Circulation Books Always Open HEWS 'TODAY Home Edition VOL 194 NO 26 YORK PA TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 27 1972 COPY 10 CENTS' a xjn AT OR PER WEEK 50 CENTS lAl IN MUKt Bridges Rozlds Citizens Told: Report Those Hiking Prices During Emergency HARRISBURG Pa (AP) The state Justice consumer protection bureau asks citizens to report merchants raised the prices of food clothing and other necessities during the flood emergency The phone number: 717 787-6359 Merchants were warned against price hikes The department also advised citizens to demand identification of anyone soliciting funds for flood victims Atty Gen Shane Creamer said his office received complaints unauthorized solicitors Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) United Mine Workers President A Tony Boyle was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $130000 today for making illegal political contributions with union funds The 70-year-old Boyle suffering from a back ailment stood silent and tight-lipped as District Judge Charles Richey imposed the sentence As a condition of release appeal Richey ordered him to post the $130000 or a surety bond in that amount with the court The judge further ordered that the money come from own pocket and restrain him from dissipating his own assets Watched Water Rise wilkes-Barre Alan Decided Sit It Out WILKES-BARRE Pa (UPI) Zwango decided he could sit it out the he said Monday want to be herded in with a lot of hysterica A retired upholsterer Zwango 65 refused to be evacuated last Friday with 30000 other people He sat for three days in his tiny third floor apartment in the business district flooded by the raging Susquehanna River got a bum leg I walk too well so why the hell should I he said The flood water was about 15 feet deep at its peak and at one time it was only six feet below his apartment of FOR FLOOD LOSS Statement Lists Types of Coverage Which Will Help Victims Bulletin HARRISBURG Pa (AP) More than 13000 homes 2500 businesses were destroyed or made uninhabitable by flooding in Pennsylvania according to a preliminary survey released today by American Red Cross disaster headquarters here' White Guyn the chief building adviser for the headquarters emphasized that the figures were preliminary and will be revised upward as new information becomes available i National Press Club Acts on Complaints About Administration WAMTMPTnM TIpn WASHINGTON UPI) WASHINGTON UPI) The board of governors of the Abortion Proposals Rejected in Marathon Session WASHINGTON (UPI) platform writers wound up a 18 1-2 hour marathon drafting session early today by rejecting abortion and planks but taking a strong pro-busing stance that seemed to signal a heated convention floor fight The lengthy meeting adjourned at 3:30 am EDT and was to resume at 10 am EDT The platform was complete except for approval of the introduction and action on minority reports Delegates supporting Gov George Wallace are expected to have at least three busing foreign policy and welfare In the closing moments of the long session the committee rejected Wallace delegation efforts to knock out the platform call for abolition of capital punishment and for outlawing the sale of night handguns Defeated on a 59 to 41 vote was a motion by actress Shirley McLaine a California delegate which would have declared that abortion be a matter between a woman her doctor and anyone she wishes to consult including her religious The Committee after another board acted after receiving heated debate of more than an complaints that a problem of rejepted 54 to 34 a so-call-serious proportion exists in the National Press Club acting on complaints about the relationship with the news media has voted to conduct its own investigation of the situation The study is to be completed by Oct 2 and will be conducted by the professional relations committee Club President a Rogers a columnist for the Chicago Tribune-New York Times Syndicate said: ed provision They cautioned that rain-swollen would not close being opened All those who returned officials said should leave before nightfall after throwing ruined furniture into the streets for pickup and scouring their sinks with quicklime Gen Frank Townsend civil defense coordinator-was asked when the people would be able to move back of them he replied by the middle of Gov Milton Shapp said his earlier damage estimate HARRISBURG (UPI) State! Insurance Commissioner issued the following statement Monday! regarding flood insurance: I Unfortunately most of Arlrlitinnfll billion dollar flood damage in10 AaaT0nai r00Q Pennsylvania is not covered by insurance Generally homeowners insurance policies Price Commission Takes Action in Wake of Meat Import Move WASHINGTON (AP) The Price Commission is dropping consideration of any more controls on food prices for the time being in the wake of President decision to eliminate meat import restrictions But Commission Chairman Jackson Grayson Jr promised a review of food costs in about a month to see if broader controls are needed Grayson said the commission is dropping for now its recommendation to the Cost of Living Council that the current price control exemption for raw agricultural products be lifted He also said the commission decided at a meeting Sunday against further price controls on food He said move on Monday to increase the supply of meat is a step the right direction toward price but agreed with the President that it will take time and insurance on dwellings and contents do not cjover flood damage Here are the types of flood damage for which you may be able to collect under your regular insurance policy you have comprehensive automobile insurance flood damage to your automobile is covered If you cany collision without comprehensive coverage you are not covered for flood damage Some house trailers will be covered if insured under automobile policies which include comprehensive coverage Personal Property you have a personal property floater by itself or attached to any homeowners policy your scheduled items household contents and personal property are covered whether on or off the premises the flood caused or leads to explosion or fire you will be covered under all homeowners policies fbr the fire or explosion loss Theft losses arising after the flood are also covered under Zwango said that if the water ij had reached his room It would Flood Repair Could Prompt Emergency Tax HARRISBURG (UPI) -Transportation Secretary Jacob Kassab says an emergency tax might be needed to pay for repairs to broken bridges and washed out roads and highways left in the wake of the worst floods in history Kassab viewed the devastation in 14 counties by helicopter Monday and described what he saw as very 'A bridge over Route 147 near Millersburg was washed out Parts of roads from Harrisburg to Wilkes-Barre to Williamsport to Lewistown were under water Four lanes of a newly-completed highway near Danville were ruined Four Piers Four piers stood nakedly in the Susquehanna River hear (Continued on Page 14) Chrysler Is Ordered To Pay For Pollution Jury Rules Automaker Must Reimburse Homeowners Near Foundry DETROIT Mich (AP) A Wayne County Circuit Court jury ruled Monday that the Chrysler Corp will have to pay homeowners near its Huber Ave Foundry for pollution damages to health and property suffered during a four-year period Chrysler attorneys -also claimed a victory' however because the jury voted to limit the damage payments to cover the four-year period from when the facility opened June of 1970 the period of the last major pollution nuisance at the plant 500 Involved What the giant automaker will have to pay the 500 neighboring residents and former residents will be determined at later court hearings court officials said The suit was settled in a consent judgment which allows the county to force pollution reforms at the foundry but did not require 1 an admission from Chrysler that the foundry was a polluter Attorneys said the decision is believed to be one of the first of its kind in a citizen's antipollution complaint It climaxed a six-year battle between the foundry and its neighbors 1966 to Food Stores Warned Those in Flood Must Remain Closed Pending Inspection HARRISBURG Pa (AP) The state warned food stores affected by the flood to remain closed until they have been inspected by the Department of Environmental Resources or Agriculture Water and food in these stores are potentially dangerous and must not be used until checked the departments said Parochiaid Credit Nixon Favors Tax Allowance to Aid Schools WASHINGTON A President Nixon favors a tax credit of up to $200 per child as the principal way to aid nonprofit private schools primarily parochial schools against rising economic difficulties the director of the Office of Management and Budget has told Congress In a letter to Rep Wilbur Mills chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Caspar Weinberger said Congress also should consider granting tax credit for fees paid to public schools A measure pending in Congress would grant a credit of 50 per cent up to $400 per child per year The administration favors a credit of 100 per cent up to $200 per child Weinberger said the $400 proposal would induce private schools to raise tuition in order to increase revenues by capturing the credit so' doing the schools would reduce the number of low and moderate income families who could afford to send their children to nonpublic he said The cutoff for the credit should be $18000 in annual income Weinberger said because most taxpayers whose children attend nonpublic schools have incomes below $18000 HOLIDAY TOLL: 800-900 CHICAGO (AP) The National Safety Council said today that between 800 and 900 persons may be killed in traffic accidents during the four-day Fourth of July holiday observance AUTO RATES REDUCED EAST PROSPECT STATE BANK Phone: Ken Nickol at 252-2511 Adv 29-tu-tf PUPILBUSING which would have put the party on record opposed to any type of discrimination based on sexual orientation The original platform drafting subcommittee had included language saying should be free to make their own choice of lifestyles and private habits without being subject to discrimination and That language remained in the platform The debate on the proposal was candid as problems faced by homosexual men and women in the US were discussed But delegates also said that any apparent outright approval of homosexuality would only be used by the Republicans in the fall During the abortion debate the same argument was heard that the GOP would capitalize on the Democratic position A number of delegates said ary abortion plank would alienate 20 million Catholic citizens Irish" Cease-Fire Die-Hards Stage of Strength BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) A cease-fire in Northern guerrilla war got off to an uneasy start today after the Irish Republican Provisional wing staged a bloody show of strength up to the hour of the truce and some diehards sniped at British troops more than an hour after the deadline But the British Army believed that IRA were cracking down on their renegades to enforce the ceasefire In some areas the IRA may have even shot it out with the diehards the British Army said Show Jewish Concern Growing Instability of Families Noted by Leaders KANSAS CITY (AP) The international president of says instability in the Jewish family is growing at an alarming rate years ago you very seldom hoard of a Jewish youngster appearing in juvenile David Blumberg of Knoxville Tenn said Monday divorce rate was one-fourth the rate at that time we had some intermarriage but not much today we find that the Jewish people find themselves in the normal pattern Our kids are drug addicts The divorce rate has increased even more than the ratio of the general population and intermarriage is a very serious problem for Blumberg said at the District 2 convention that he believed the problem began when the older generation opted for middle-class rather than old traditions Inside Reading Ann Letters 21 Arrow Prayer 23 Astro-Graph 14 By the Way 12 City Obituaries 32 Comics and Puzzles 26 County Obituaries 28 Crossword Puzzle 8 Editorials Columnists 4 145000 Residents of Coal Mining Region Permitted Brief Homecoming I WILKES-BARRE Pa (UPI) Civil defense officials permitted the 145000 residents of this coal mining region who fled their homes before the floods to return for a brief cheerless homecoming today The flooded areas were opened to residents at 9 am Vehicles were barred from the silt-covered muddy streets because of the open manholes broken glass and caved-in pavements Smoking Banned Civil Defense officials banned smoking 1 because of the possibility of flash fires from ruptured oil tanks and gas lines (Continued on Page 14) Spassky Waits Russian Chess Champ Says Fischer Will Show Up REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) chess champion Boris Spassky looking relaxed and fit said he is sure American challenger Bobby Fischer will show up in time and they will begin their 26-game series Sunday Spassky I a Russian told a press conference Monday that commander-in-chief Fischer why the American turn up as expected Monday Fischer 29 was Imported in seclusion in Los Angeles but was expected to fly to Reykjavik Wednesday Spassky 35 said he was satisfied with arrangements for the tournament and even the 24-hour daylight bother him have good curtains in my Asked to predict the outcome and whether Fischer was the best chess player of the 20th century he said will answer that one when the match is However he did describe Fischer as of a classical chess player than I am He is a very practical player Spassky said he was doing physical exercises and playing some chess to prepare himself for the match The apart from the world is $125000 with the winner taking five-eighths and the loser the rest 'Haunted7 House Newlyweds Convinced In Apartment LIVERPOOL England (UPI) Newlyweds Raymond and Marie Kelly were glad to be able to move into their own apartment but after a few weeks of it they went scurrying back to mother They are convinced the apartment in Ellsmereport is haunted i The lights and central heating kept switching themselves on and off and the furniture rocked back and forth One night Ron 20 said something pulled him out of bed When Marie saw a wardrobe moving she called police but they were baffled would induce me to return said Marie 18 in her house was really 4 Cornell Argument Typifies Colleges 9 'Mediocrity Drive SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) An argument going on at Cornell University typifies wrong with colleges in America says University of Chicago President Edward Levi The argument he says involves they should give students employed in a garage credit for their work I think all wrong is a national drive for mediocrity They want every young adult to go to college then they change the college to make it a more comfortable and tractive place to US Jets Main Thermal Power Installation SAIGON (UPI)-US warplanes flew to within two miles of Hanoi Monday and dropped guided bombs on the North Vietnamese major airfield then streaked to the major port city of Haiphong and blasted its main thermal power plant The US command said today Air Force fighter-bomber pilots reported destroying four large warehouses and damaging nine others in raids on the Bach Mai military airfield only two miles southwest of Hanoi Spokesmen said the US airmen also bombed the Bach Mai airstrip but were unable to tell the ex tent of damage to the runway At Haiphong North major port US Navy fighter-j bombers dropped a single 1100- pound blockbuster bomb on the boiler house generator at the main thermal power plant just a mile from the port Dally Strikes The command said the close in strikes were an attempt to further cripple North economy and war-making capacity Seven of the port waters have been mined for two months and air strikes into the North occur almost daily Radio Hanoi monitored in Saigon claimed five US jets were shot down in raids and said another six were knocked out today as other fighter-bombers carried out new raids on Hanoi The US command in line with its regular policy refused comment on the claim Spokesmen also refused to say whether Hanoi was attacked again today The command did say however that an Air Force F4 Phantom jet crashed from in a raid last Wednesday about 50 miles northwest of Hanoi and the two crewmen are listed as missing Gun Ransom Found Authorities Get First Solid Leads in Indiana Skyjacking PERU Ind (AP) Law enforcement officers have located the submachine gun used in the hijacking of an American Airlines jet and $500000 ransom the first solid leads since their search began Saturday Officers resume today hunting for the young man with pockmarked face and open sores who they believe probably was killed as he parachuted from the jet over north-central Indiana Indiana State Police Capt Rex Dillman who has been coordinating local efforts in the search said Monday night inclined to start slacking off now pretty well satisfied the man come down safely If he came down safely and alive I think any doubt out of the area by Lowell Elliott 61 a farmer stumbled across a sealed canvas mail bag with the ransom money in a soybean field Monday The 45-pound bag had buried a couple of inches in an open field about 250 feet from a county road first I thought it was a ground hog in the Elliott said it took a closer move so I POUND DROPS LONDON (AP) foreign exchange market reopened today and the pound was quoted at about $250 a devaluation of less than 4 per cent The dollar strengthened elsewhere in Europe Senate Committee Schedules Decision On Handgun Bill WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Judiciary Committee votes today on legislation curbing the availability of handguns an effort which attracted new interest following the shooting of Gov George Wallace of Alabama The committee agreed to vote on two rival bills after the sponsors Sens Birch Bayh D-Ind and Roman Hruska R-Neb failed to agree on a compromise Legislation to add new restrictions to the manufacture and sale of handguns moved forward after Gov Wallace was shot with a 38-caliber pistol on May 15 while campaigning for the mocratic presidential nomination High Court Sets Obscenity Review Supreme Panel to Handle Six Related Cases in Next Session WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court unable to settle three major cases it already has heard has set the stage for an all-out review of obscenity laws The review involving six different cases is to be made in the next term of court which begins in October At issue are such varied questions as: Should a national standard of obscenity take precedence over state standards? a state have the right to close down movie theaters showing films? it constitutional for the federal government to allow in-terstate transportation of obscene irrespective of whether it is to be sold or used privately by the shipper? the government seize as obscene material imported for private use and possession? Atlanta Theater In the case of the Paris Adult Theater of Atlanta which ap- (Continued on Page 14) HHH: Not Beaten Senator and Others Challenge Calif Victory WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Hubert Humphrey says not beaten yet despite the fact George McGovern has nearly enough convention votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot Humphrey and others are challenging winner-take-all victory in the California primary trying to take away 151 of the 217 votes the South Dakota senator won there California challenge if it succeeds could change the whole ball Humphrey said in an interview Humphrey who never spoke against the winner-take-all rule before McGovern beat him i the primary says now that it violates the new ban against the unit rule which was used to bind some entire delegations to cast their votes as a bloc Humphrey said it doesn't matter that the party reform commission that outlawed the unit rule also refused to outlaw the winner-take-all primary The matter is now before the Credentials Committee but whatever that body decides likely that the issue will be settled on the aonvention floors Because 271 California delegates vote on their own seating his forces will be weakened for this possibly crucial battle with his opponents of History Israel Rejects ILN Censure Of Army Raids UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) Israel rejected a UN Security Council resolution Monday night condemning it for raids last week into Lebanon railing the censure affront' to the victims of Arab terror atrocities and a travesty of Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah said the resolution in the morgue of and have grave (Continued on Page 14) in (8) 2 Financial 20 Riesel 1Z Social 21 Sports 15-19 TV Schedule 22 Almanac 20 Win at Bridge 10 Page 22 23 Word-a-Day 5 relationship between the administration and the news me dia We want to find out the While Rogers did not specify the nature of the complaints it was known they include: President failure to hold full-scale televised news conference in more than a year exclusion of some foreign journalists from accompanying Nixon on foreign trips arbitrary selection of domestic journalists permitted to accompany him alleged information policies and frequently harsh criticism of the media by administration spokesmen Martha's Troubles Husband Flies to New York to Talk With Wife LA Times Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON After a visit to the White House former Attorney General John Mitchell flew to New York to talk things over with his wife Martha Friends said that Mitchell had gone to New York to try to get his wife to stop talking in public about what he considers personal between them Mrs Mitchell has been confiding her marital problems over the long distance telephone to Helen Thomas United Press International She phoned Miss Thomas last week from California and again from Rye NY where the Mitchells used to live On her first call the loquacious Martha said she had threatened to leave her husband unless he gets out of politics On her last call she said she had decided to go ahead leave him John decides to his job as campaign manager for the re-election of President Nixon Associates of Mitchell at the Committee for Re-election of the President where Mitchell is boss said that the disagreement between husband and wife a purely personal They also report that has no intention of having the committee until after the 'Grizzly' Campsite Killed by Bear YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Wyo From the time they hitchhiked into Yellowstone National Park Phillip Bradberry and Harry Walker did says assistant Park Superintendent Vernon Henne-say Park officials said the two Alabama men camped in an off-limits area and left open food at their campsite when they want an invitation to hungry bears When they returned a 400-pound grizzly was rummaging about the campsite It killed Walker 25 Anniston Ala He was the first person killed by a grizzly at Yellowstone in 30 years and the fourth in the history Hennesay said Bradberry of Oxford Ala and Walker had everything He said they should not have camped in the prohibited area Did (Continued on Page 14) forms business policies especially inland marine forms also cover flood losses For example the fmotor truck cargo insurance policy covers flood losses as does the risks transportation and the policy and other vessels insured under policies which include hull insurance are also covered for flood Denenberg said homeowners with questions can receive information from the following department numbers: Harrisburg 717-787-2317 or 787-4049 Pittsburgh 412-565-5020 Philadelphia 215-238-7240 Family Confident Wife Son Not Concerned About Missing Yachtsman LONDON Sir Francis wife and son plan to fly to the United States to watch him cross the finish line in the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race His son Giles said Monday night they are not concerned that nothing has been heard from the veteran yachtsman since shortly after he started the 3000-mile race from Plymouth to Newport RI on June 17 New Price Curb 3 Per Cent Increase limit Set For Service Firms WASHINGTON (AP) The Price Commission has decided on a 3-per-cent price-increase limit for large service firms such as hotels theater chains and auto-repair shops In addition the commission has settled on a 25-per-cent limit on such professional services as provided by big law firms and accountants The staff is working on problems of implementing the decision a process Chairman Jackson Grayson said would take two or three weeks In any case Grayson said the ceiling would be retroactive to (Continued on Page 14) CLOSING NEW YORK (AP) long-run champion the musical on the is to close Sunday after 3212 performances The show opened Sept 22 1964 and two weeks ago bested the 3224 record of With FOAM RUBBER Cut to any lize shape or thickness Sofa and chair cushions refilled 9 to 5 daily YORK BEDDING S50 Queen 854-5551 AJv 124-tf for foreign meat imports to have 5rnn nn an impact on prices Neither Nixon nor Grayson promised that food prices and particularly meat prices would be coming down soon Grayson said in fact that he be cSrifident the goal of reducing the price level to about 25 per cent by the end of the year could be reached But he added still think White House officials said that while Nixon has ruled out a temporary price freeze on meat and other farm products controls could be extended to raw agricultural products Nixon said he would take further measures are necessary to prevent increases in the cost of Flood Hits Lottery Reserve Tickets and Equipment Reported Lost HARRISBURG Pa The Pennsylvania lottery lost ts entire reserve supply of 45 million tickets computer printing equipment and paper supplies in the flood Revenue Secretary Robert Kane said all sat in nine feet of in the 10000-square-feet facility at nearby Olmsted airport he said adding he had no immediate- idea of the dollar loss Some of the equipment like the computer printers were rented by the state The lottery will conduct this drawing in Gettysburg on schedule Wednesday at 10:30 but operations after that are up in the air Kane said the lottery has enough tickets for next week but a decision has -to be made on sales and a drawing date and site The lottery also was reported exploring the possibility of contracting on a temporary basis the printing of tickets until the lottery gets back on its feet McGovern Backs Off Still 1675 Short of Delegates Needed For Nomination WASHINGTON (AP) Sen George McGovern has backed off his claim of enough delegate votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination and now says the prize still dangles just out of his grasp McGovern strategists figured late Monday that the candidate holds 149275 delegate commitments a scant 1675 short of the number needed The turnabout came after a recalculation showed McGovern erred earlier Monday in claiming to have topped the magic number with Vh votes to spare.