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)THE YORK WEATHER FORECAST Flash Flood Watch Rain Tonight Tapering Off Friday DISPA' HEWS Home Edition Circulation Books Always Open VOL 194 NO 28 YORK PA THURSDAY EVENING JUNE 29 1972 COPY 10 CENTS A Tr Mnu T7 PER WEEK 50 CENTS i Al IN Vj MUlVb Death Penalty Illegal I Supreme Court Rules i hi Historic Decision Panel Contends Capital Punishment Is and 5-4 Vote Spares Lives of 600 Men Now on Condemned Row Appointees Dissent WASHINGTON (UPI) Supreme Court ruled today that the death penalty is unconstitutional and unusual The decision spares the lives of 600 men now on condemned row The momentous decision was by a 5 to 4 vote with all four President appointees dissenting The five others William Douglas William Brennan Jr Potto Stewart Byron White and Thurgood Marshall each wrote separate opinion in support of the judgement In dissent Chief Justice Warren Burger and justices Harry A Blackmun Lewis Powell Jr and William FL RehnquisL Each filed his own opinion This meant that all nine justices spoke out on the issue The actual ruling came in a brief unsigned opinion Two members of the majority Brennan and Marshall concluded that the 8th Amendment prohibits capital punishment for all crimes and under all circumstances because of the and features Douglas found capital punishment a violation of the 8th Amendment but did not seem to rule it out for all time Stewart and White relied heavily on the reluctance of judges and -juries actually to impose the death penalty Stewart said death sentences are cruel and unusual In the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and SS Benefits Hike Senate Expected to Approve 20 PC Increase WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate was expected to approve today a 20 per cent increase in Social Security benefits which would be paid to 28 million recipients one month before the November election Higher taxes to pay for it take effect until after the election To pay for the increases proposed by Church Social Security taxes would rise next year for workers earning $9000 or more They now pay $468 a year In payroll taxes This would go to $594 next year for people earning $10800 a year or more and to $660 in subsequent 'years for those earning $12000 or more Employers would pay equal amounts The tax rate would be fixed at 55 per cent of the first $10800 of earnings in 1973 and of the first $12000 of earnings in 1974 and thereafter This taxes would not rise Under proposal the average benefit for a person living alone would rise from the present $133 to $161 monthly For a couple they would go from $223 to $270 Successor Weyand Faces An Unenviable Vietnam Task SAIGON (UPI Gen Frederick Weyand is a big man with a quiet determined the type of strong silent warrior Gary Cooper might play take all of his and then to keep cool in his new job as commander of fighting men in Vietnam Weyand picked to replace the gruff-talking Gen Creighton Abrams has the unenviable task of getting America out of Vietnam without losing either face or the war If he fails he might wind up (Continued on Page 8) PAY RAISE RULING WASHINGTON (AP) The Pay Board decided to uphold an earlier recommendation reduce a 19 per cent pay raise for 13000 retail clerks In the Philadelphia area to 55 per cent MONEY SAVING AUTO LOANS EAST PROSPECT STATE BANK Phone Ken Nickol at 252-2511 Adv jyl-thtf Calculated Gamble Saigon Risks Future of War At Quang Tri SAIGON South offensive to recapture Quang Tri Province is a calculated gamble At the extreme end of the spectrum of possibilities is the chance that it could lose or win the Indochina war It could force the Communists hand in their three-month offensive causing the North Vietnamese to stand and fight and be wiped out in the northern sector At the same time it could so strip the defenses of Hue that a clever Communist commander might slip behind the South Vietnamese forces and drive on the former Imperial capital Most military and political analysts believe that the Communist capture of Hue defended by all of the South Vietnamese (Continued on Page 8) Welfare ''Workfare7 15 Million Will Start Registering For Jobs Saturday WASHNGTON (UPI) Starting Saturday some 15 million men and women on wel fare must register for work or job training and can have their government benefits reduced if they sign up or if they refuse jobs offered them The aim of the new program is to get people off the public dole and into self sufficiency as job holders and taxpayers But nobody in government is making any predictions at this point that much of a dent will be made in the sharply rising number of amilies on welfare Assistant Labor Secretary Malcolm Lovell Jr said the first year goal of the program for dults receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is to place some 200000 of them in jobs or job training But this offset the number of new people coming onto the AFDC rolls Last year the rolls increased by 347000 families to an all-time high of 2935000 and an additional 37000 were added last February alone Labor Secretary James Hodgson told UPI there is no way to know how many new AFDC recipients will be added we say that this program (Continued on Page 8) NAB HIJACK SUSPECT DETROIT The FBI announced today the arrest of Martin Joseph McNally a former suburban Wyandotte service station attendant in connection with the hijacking last week of an American Airlines jetliner that netted the hijacker $502000 Makers of Crest Contend Poison Charge Is False CHICAGO (UPI) -Manufacturers of Crest toothpaste and the American Dental Association have denied charges that the toothpaste carries danger of lead poisoning The response Wednesday was in reaction to an article published Tuesday in the Archives of Environmental Health a publication of the American Medical Association The article said a study had shown lead levels (above 5 per in the outer coatings of tubes of Crest Fresh Breath Craig Martin and Worthmore toothpaste The article said hazardous amounts of lead in the paste itself were found in Crest Fresh Breath and Worthmore The ADA denied the charges and said fluoride toothpastes which it has evaluated including Crest both safe and Procter and Gamble manufacturers of Crest said that in 16 years of marketing the toothpaste know of no instances in which brushing with Crest toothpaste has been associated with a lead ingestion 6 TAX FREE MUN BONDS Suple-Mosley Inc 757-3535 Adv mr22wth-tf 'Smart Bombs Japanese TV Camera Aids US War Role SAIGON (UPI) Japanese electronic technology is playing a major role in those accurate television-guided bombs that are helping US fighter-bombers wreak havoc on North Vietnam Col Carl Miller commander of the Thailandbased 8th Tactical Fighter Wing said Wednesday Japanese-made Sony TV cameras on huge guided bombs and TV monitors in the cockpits of the fighter-bombers have collapsed tunnels knocked down bridges and plows through the roofs of industrial plants in the past 2 Vt months The camera guides the one-ton blockbuster bomb to its target and it cannot miss by more than five feet Miller said (Continued on Page 13) True Sexuality: Myths and Fables Priest-Educator Claims Most People Understand Sex Roles CHICAGO (AP) One of file biggest modem myths about sex has men all over the country wearing themselves out trying to satisfy women says a Roman Catholic priest ami author new myth has it that every human being like a radar screen turning eagerly toward the object that stimulates it must be sexually ready at every says the Rev Eugene Kennedy Father Kennedy a Mary knoll priest is the author of New Sexuality: Myths Hangups and He is a teacher and counselor at Loyola University in Chicago big misconception today is that if you are sexually successful you are he said in an interview Father Kennedy said most people do not understand what role sex should play for them Sex still is not integrated in most American lives he said task of life is relating to people and sexuality is but a part of that He added that despite all the books and studies no one is (Continued on Page 13) Saigon Politics Anti-Thieu Senators Charge They Were Left Stranded SAIGON Sen Vo Van Truyen said today he was lured out of Saigon and left stranded in the countryside to keep him from voting against the bill granting special powers to President Nguyen Van Thieu The controversial bill gives Thieu nearly unlimited powers over the next six months in the areas of defense security economics and finance It was passed by a bare quorum of pro-Thieu senators meeting after curfew late Tuesday night and was signed into law by the president early Wednesday No opposition senators were present for the vote Truyen 70 first vice speaker of the Senate told newsmen pro-Thieu senators Tran The Minh and Nguyen Van Ngai offered to take him to breakfast before the scheduled Senate session Tuesday Instead Truyen said the two senators sent a car for him and the driver and an Army captain took him to his country home 50 miles north of Saidon Truyen said he was left there all day without transportation but in the evening the pro-Thieu senators offered to bring him back to Saigon by helicopter (Continued on Page 8) Antipoverty Bill Senate Expected to Approve $96 Billion Measure WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate was expected to pass a $96-billion antipoverty bill today but it still needed to settle the fate of an independent corporation to run the Legal Services program for the poor President Nixon originally favored the idea of such an agency but administration officials contend the Democratic-sponsored proposal is unacceptable They say there have been many abuses by young lawyers in the program and that these will not be cured by the bill as it now stands Republicans will make a second effort today to knock the independent corporation out of the anti-poverty bill and leave Legal Services under the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) They failed 46-37 in an initial attempt Monday Govt Taking Action to Aid Consumer by limiting Retail Prices WASHINGTON President Nixon moving against rising food prices today extended price controls to cover farm products and seafood after the the initial sale The action by executive order means prices of vegetables fruits eggs fish and other agricultural commodities will be controlled when they are sold by processors wholesalers and grocery stores The effect will be to squeeze the profits of grocers and middle men by limiting price increases that can be applied to these items WASHINGTON (UPI) -The administration will take new actions today to curb consumer food costs by restricting the prices that retail food stores charge according to administration and industry sources Questioned about the policy the sources said it would probably involve fixing the retail margin of grocers and food processors by allowing them to raise prices only as much as costs rise This would mean the businessmen could not add any extra margin for additional profit above what they now get on an item Donald Rumsfeld director of the Cost of Living Council called some farm state congressmen to the White House for a briefing on the plan today Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz scheduled a news conference in Chicago i Orangizatlons Representatives of about 80 'ood producing organizations were invited to the Agriculture Department for a meeting later in the day to discuss the new policy A source from a wholesale producing organization said the policy would mean margins for retail stores But the source said the action would probably not prevent higher retail prices although there would be some savings to consumers because of the limit on the increase Another source said the new measure not a freeze broader than just meat It will not cover all food Irish Blockades Protestants Plan Showdown With British Catholics BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) Militant Protestants announced Wednesday night that they are going ahead with plans to force a showdown with the British Army and the Roman Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army this weekend The Ulster Defense Association said its members would blockade the areas and create similar strongholds of their own by erecting barricades around Protestant sections The principal IRA areas are the Creggan and Bogside districts of Londonderry which IRA gunmen control and which British troops have been forbidden to enter The announcement is a direct challenge to William Whitelaw minister for Northern Ireland who has declared that new areas will not be tolerated But the Protestants warned that any troops who interfere with their plans will be resisted by force intend to turn the no-go areas the Catholics have set up into real no-go the UDA said cannot exist without heating lighting water and food or any of the other essential services We intend to see they get none of thse have workers who control essential supplies to these areas and we will maroon them Paddy Devlin a leader of the pro-Catholic Social Democratic and Labor party said: they are serious about this proposal their action will lead to total main gas works is in the Bogside and Catholics could cut off the gas supply to Protestant areas of the city in retaliation FOAM RUBBER Cut to any lz ihape or thickness Sofa and chair cushions refilled 9 to 5 dally YORK BEDDING 350 Queen 854-5551 Adv f24-tf South Vietnamese Punching Deeper Into Quang Tri SAIGON A 20000-man South Vietnamese task force joined by 1000 fresh troops helicoptered in from Saigon punched deeper into Communist held Quang Tri Province today in the second day of a major drive to put it back in government hands Battle communiques showed the government soldiers and marines had captured the southeast corner of South northernmost province from the Communists who captured it May 1 in their current offensive and have held it ever since In what military spokesmen said was the greatest concentration of US firepower since the Korean War big B52 bombers conventional jet fighter-bombers and offshore cruisers and destroyers of the 7th Fleet today kept up a heavy bombardment on suspected Communist positions ahead of the advancing South Vietnamese troops Military spokesmen said the North Vietnamese put up only scattered resistance to the government drive code-named Lam Son by noon today 32 hours after the counteroffensive began An officer helping direct the operation from Hue in neighboring Thua Thien province directly -south of -Quang Tri said however expect heavier resistance later on in the Draftees Excused From Vietnam Duty Next Withdrawal Announcement May Come on Eve of Formal Campaign WASHINGTON A President next Vietnam troop-withdrawal announcement may well come on the eve of his formal re-election campaign Nixon could choose that occasion to tell the country that the US military presence in Vietnam would be reduced below 30000 men and to declare the United States out of the war except in an advisory capacity This possibility of such a timetable arose Wednesday when White House Press Se-cretady Ronald Ziegler announced that Nixon has ordered US troops in Vietnam cut by 10000 men in the July-August period Ziegler disclosed at the same time that draftees no longer will be sent to the war zone unless they volunteer to go About 4000 Army draftees now in South Vietnam and others already 6n shipping orders will not be affected by the change in policy New Level The new US troop level of 39000 men in Vietnam will be reached by Sept 1 and Ziegler said another announcement on possible further pullouts will come before that date Based on the pattern of the 10 (Continued on Page 13) BEER BILL HARRISBURG (UPI)-A bill was introduced in the Senate Wednesday that would allow 18-year-olds to purchase so-called beer in Pennsylvania President Promises Michigan Lawmaker HeHl Battle Busing DETROIT (UPI) President Nixon promised in a letter to Michigan Congressman William Broomfield Wednesday night his administration will no stone to prevent busing in the Detroit area Broomfield sponsored a busing moratorium in the Higher Education Act signed into law by Nixon last Friday but Nixon had co-" ntended that the would have no effect on the Detroit busing issue However in the letter hand delivered to Broomfield here by one of the aides late -Wednesday Nixon said he had the Department of Justice to make full of the amendment real concerns of the department as to the efficacy of that provision in the Detroit the circumstances we must leave no stone unturned and I am determined that the Executive Branch will do whatever it can to secure a stay of such a busing order affecting the greater Detroit Nixon said ASKS OVERHAUL OF US COURTS New Powerful Authority Suggested to Reshape Criminal System Is Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times Service CHICAGO A new powerful federal authority independent of the US Department of Justice is needed to guide the of reshaping the American system of criminal justice the Committee for Economic Development (CED) reported This agency would oversee state of created as the states direct management of courts prosecutions and all correctional activities along with a large share of the police The CED composed nationally of businessmen and educators recommended that units of government be relieved by the states of responsibilities for criminal justice other than the maintenance of urban police crime and assuring a CED report made the following argument for drastically diminishing local authority: The 3000 counties should no longer play a major role in administering criminal justice Most of them are too small in population and resources to cope effectively with dangerous new conditions the largest of them elect their sheriffs prosecutors and coroners by partisan ballot deputies and assistants lack tenure and are rarely chosen on (Continued on Page 8) Snake in the Dash Man Has Boa Constrictor Removed From Car DETROIT (AP) John Paul drove his Cadillac to the Detroit Humane Society and said he would like to have a 5-foot boa constrictor named Sam removed from under the dashboard Paul said the serpent had been there for a week and that his nerves take it any longer Paul a 26-year-old disabled veteran said the snake was the pet of his girlfriend He said his girlfriend had been driving the snake back from a checkup after suspecting the reptile had a cold On Ihe drive home Sam crawled up under the dash All efforts to coax Sam out produced only a few inches of tail which Paul wrapped around the turn signal on the steering wheel Workers at the Humane Society finally got Sam out by removing the front panel of the dashboard They said Sam was frightened and in pain because ins head was caught in the wiring under the dash They said snakes bruise easily Paul indicated his nerves bruised easily too After the snake was released girl friend said he could give it to the Detroit zoo He did Chess Tension Fischer Reportedly Will Arrive in Iceland For Match NEW YORK (UPI) chess wizard Bobby Fischer will be in Reykjavik Iceland in time for the start of file world chess championships Sunday a Fischer advised "said The reassurances came after the tempermental 29-year-old Fischer failed to show up at the airport for any flights leaving for Iceland He had been scheduled to leave for the world championships Wednesday night The adviser already in Reykjavik making preparations for the start of the championship match against Russian chess master Boris Spassky refused to specify arrival time But he did say Fischer would be there in time for the match Bremer-'lnsanity' Alleged Wallace Assailant Changes Plea UPPER MARLBORO Md (UPI) Bremer who faces up to 123 years in prison cm state charges of trying to assassinate Gov George Wallace has pleaded insanity and been ordered to undergo mental testing Bremer a former Milwaukee busboy changed his plea from innocent to not guilty by reason of insanity during a hearing Wednesday before Chief Circuit Judge Ralph Powers Keep Hands Off Kids Request of Teachers Group ATLANTIC CITY NJ (UPI) task force of the National Education Association Wednesday called for an end to corporal punishment in schools a practice it attributed to poor working conditions The 7000-member Task Force on Corporal Punishment recommended a one-year phasing out period for corporal punishment beginning with the 1972-73 school year No teacher intentionally wants to inflict pain physically or the committee said in its report to the 110th annual convention The panel asked NEA affiliates to help teachers in minimal conditions for dealing with disruption and developing and identifying alternatives to inflicting physical pain on The task force said that it had found physical punishment hindered learning Rather the practice may increase disruptive behavior rather than reduce it the task force said It called corporal punishment a symptom of frustration rather than a disciplinary procedure McGovern Forces May Support Daley Strategists Seek to Work Oat Deal to Save Calif Votes Chicago Dally News and Sun-Times Service Sen George top strategists today sought to work out a last-minute deal that would save California delegates and ensure him the presidential nomination by backing Chicago Mayor Richard forces in the challenge to the Chicago delegates i Frank Mankiewicz McGoverns campaign coordinator sought the deal after it became apparent that the votes of five Daley-controlled delegates on the national credentials committee could be pivotal in determining whether McGovern keeps all his 271 California delegates or loses more than half to a drive Mankiewicz said he planned to confer today with top representative here Rep Dan (Continued on Page 8) Erie Councilman Plans: Pa Referendum On Legislators Salary Boosts ERIE Pa (AP) A drive to bring proposed salary boosts for state legislators to a statewide referendum has been launched by the president of the Erie City Counjcil Pat Cappabianca said he is seeking the support of the state attorney office and has requested city council presidents in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to take the initiative to force the issue before the voters The Commonwealth Compensation Commission has recommended that the salaries be increased from about $10000 to $19200 annually with an additional $6000 allocated for expenses hate to do this to the legislators or any elected officials for that Cappabianca commented something has to be done to stop these salary raises talk of doing this will force our legislators to vote down the he added once we start this action if we can we want to follow through so that the voters will have the choice of giving the legislators HARRISBURG (UPI) Two Allegheny County legislators have introduced a resolution to reject the state Compensation Commission report designed to give the 253 lawmakers pay raises Sen Edward Zemprelli a (Continued on Page 8) Inside Reading Ann Letters 42 Arrow Prayer 40 Astro-Graph 22 World 20 By the Way 19 City Obituaries 52 Comics and Puzzles 46 County Obituaries 41 Crossword Puzzle 18 Editorials Columnists 4 Financial 39 In Education 20 FLOOD BUDGET State Recovery Said Facing Stall From Talk Zero PHILADELPHIA (AP) Heavy rains forecast for today again threatened to unleash water courses on land already saturated by tropical storm Agnes The National Weather Service here issued flash flood watches for the eastern portion of the state as a new storm crept into the area Rainfall was expected to average one Inch or more the weather service indicated Most of the rain was forecast for tonight HARRISBURG Pa A state budget battle coupled with what an angry Gov Milton Shapp called talk and zero from federal officials threatened today to stall recovery from its worst flood disaster Complaining of federal Shapp urged the Pennsylvania legislature Wednesday night to appropriate $50 million for flood cleanup in the fiscal 1972-73 budget that must be passed before Saturday and leave him enough room to spend more a little fed up with this double talk and zero action getting from Shapp said say the hell with paperwork got to get this work Back to Homes In cities and towns across the commonwealth residents displaced by tropical storm Agnes continued straggling to their homes to find ruin beyond their most pessimistic expectations Some emerged from the which killed 44 Pennsylvanians and caused $15 billion in with rearranged values at those said a policeman standing at a muddy intersection at Wilkes Barre whose 56000 residents were evacuated because of flooding on the Susquehanna River was the kids that did the hippies the ones (Continued on Page 13) Penn State Ups Rates $75 Tuition Hike Room Board Also Increased UNIVERSITY PARK Pa (AP) Pennsylvania State University said rising costs in all phases of operations has forced across-lhe-board increases in tuition and room and board this fall The school said the board trustees has authorized a $75-a-year tuition hike for state residents attending the main campus bringing the total to $855 Those attending branch campuses will have their tuition increased $90 to $840 per academic year The board also approved a uniform $75-a-year increase in room and board at all campuses bringing the fee to $1140 for students occupying double rooms rates also were approved for single rooms There was no elaboration PARK RANGERS SACRAMENTO Calif (UPI park rangers wil start carrying guns for the firs time Saturday because of an in crease in youthful disorder petty theft and drug use at somi parks City Manager Quits Notes Dogs Drunks and Snow Removal BAKER Ore (UPI)-City Manager Jacobson quit his post effective July 15 with a succinct message am a registered professional engineer and I hope to return to this field where logic and fact are the only basis of accomplishment and where dogs drunks and snow demoval are but a Jacobson served as city manager six years Inside Report 30 Bowl 29 Quotable 13 Riesel 30 Social 42 Sports 31-38 TV Schedule 40 Almanac 39 Win at Bridge 25 Page 40-41 Word-a-Day 20 Youth Beat 27.