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THE SUN-TELEGRAM B-3 June 24, 1972 mmumm McCormack Sees Sen. Kennedy Accepting Draft as President (CCC) McCormack thinks the Democrats can beat the Republicans and Richard Nixon in 1972, particularly if the party is unified. McCormack will serve as honorary chairman of the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach. In an interview, he said he would actively support the Democratic presidential no Break-in Suspect Holds Walkie Talkie License 100-Year-Old Driller Looks For 'New Well' HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Curtis G.

Hamill, at age 100, believes his life has been saved for something yet to be accomplished. "Perhaps to build a big major oil company," says the only living member of the crew that drilled the Spindletop oil gusher that blew in at an estimated rate of 100,000 barrels a day on Jan 10, 1901. Curtis Hamill was "the rigman at driller's pay" for the oil discovery that moved the nation out of the kerosine age into the gasoline age. Such oil giants as Gulf Oil Corp. and Texaco Inc.

are by-products of the 1901 discovery on the salt dome near Beaumont in the southeast corner of Texas. Hamill was excited about Saturday's 100th birthday celebration, a family gathering at the River Oask Country Club. President and Mrs. Nixon were among those sending him birthday greetings. He seemed to try to hide any excitement over "just another birthday" but gave himself away a bit by telephoning friends and reading them the Nixon letter, said his housekeeper of eight years, Fay Duke.

His sight is failing a bit, but he hears quite well and moves about his two-bedroom apartment with surprising ease with the aid of a cane, she says. After Spindletop, Hamill was quite successful as an oil driller and producer. He then lived in retirement in San Antonio and Kerrville until his wife died in 1961. Hamill was working with his brother Al when Al got the drilling contract for Spindletop. It came about after Capt.

Anthony Lucas, an Austrian engineer who was convinced a hole would find oil, got financial backing through a $300,000 Mellon interest loan obtained by two Pennsylvania prospectors, James M. Guffey and John H. Galey. By MARK ETHRIDGE III BOSTON (AP)-Former House Speaker John McCormack says that Sen. Edward Kennedy might accept the Democratic presidential nomination, despite his declarations to the contrary, if the convention deadlocks and the party turns to him.

"If the convention doesn't nominate somebody on the first or second ballot, they'll go looking for someone else," he said. "The one they would probably look for would be Sen. Kennedy. "Now I take his word that he's not a candidate. But suppose there's a deadlock.

And he realizes, as others do, that they've got to turn to someone else. And he's the one that they turn to. What's he going to do?" McCormack, 81, pointed out that in I960 then Sen. Lyndon Johnson said he would not run as vice president, but ended up taking the job at the urging of the nominee, Sen. John Kennedy.

"When you're talking to a man of responsibility," McCormack continued, "he will rise to that responsibility. Kennedy is a responsible man and responsible men do the things they should do under the circumstances, even though five minutes before they say something else and firmly believed it." McCormack, who, as House Speaker, was second in command for the 14 months that Johnson was serving out Kennedy's term, discounted reports that Kennedy might accept the vice presidential nomination. "Why would he be the vice president when he can be president if he wants to?" McCormack said. Long an advocate of a strong national defense and weapons systems, McCormack said he would not feel uncomfortable with Sen. George McGovern, as the party's nominee, despite MeGovrrn's call for large cuts in defense spending.

"If he (McGovern) is nominated and elected president, he'll probably change his views somewhat. You have one view in Congress but when you're in the White House you see things somewhat AP Wirephoto Happy Reunion After Flood Mr. and Mrs. William Reviere reunited with Coco Cuddly Dog Coco Safe After Flood Dunking Assembly Speaker Raps Casual Costumes of Girl Messengers sailboat for an excursion down river from Stockton and out to sea. They stayed overnight at Isleton, where crashing waters and a violent wrenching of the boat awakened them shortly after 1 a.m.

Wednesday. When a marina building snapped its mooring and veered toward their boat, Riviere grabbed his wife and they jumped ashore. They could hear the plaintive yelping of Coco as their boat swirled downstream in the darkness. "We got Coco seven months ago and he was going to die. His mother refused to feed him because he was the runt.

I bottle-nursed him myself and saved his life. I really loved him," Mrs. Riviere related. Searches of animal shelters in the region were fruitless. "We spent two days looking for him.

We lost over $10,000 in property, but that didn't faze us one bit. All we were worried about was getting our dog back," her husband said. As they sea-ched, so did I he Coast Guard, which spotted him during the night Thursday just above water about 100 yards from where the boat had broken its moorings. Mrs. Riviere said her long-haired pot was an obvious hit with the men at the Rio Vista Coast Guard station.

A tag on his collar led to his owners. "When we got there he was in his own private room with food stacked high around him," Mrs. Riviere said yesterday. She said she thinks the Coast Guardsmen wanted to make Coco their mascot and she could certainly understand their affection for the pup. 37-Year Exile Ends for Lonnie Cross When Judge Drops Murder Indictment SACRAMENTO (UPI) Assembly Speaker Pro Tern Carlos Bee says the young women of the stale Capitol messenger corps won't be welcome in his office unless they change their "outlandish" casual attire.

The 55-year-old Hayward Democrat fired off a letter to Assembly Rules Committee Chairman John Burton warning that "unless your messengers come into my office properly dressed, I don't want them to come into my office any more. We will deliver our own mail. "Some of their clothes are he said. "This is a business office and Satellites Launched MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union launched two earth satellites yesterday, Nos. 494 and 495 in its top-secret Cosmos series.

(7.A7. Ambassador. Wife By MEL WHITAKER Sacramento Bee Writer SACRAMENTO (AP) Among those whose lives were swept up in the angry water of the San Joaquin River when a levee broke was a cuddly little dog named Coco. His master, William Riviere, and Riviere's wife- Michele of South Sacramento, had just outfitted their 23-foot I don't see any reason for them to be dressed in that manner." Unlike the last Capitol clothing flap when the miniskirts worn by the women were an issue, Bee said he objects to Levis and corduroy slacks worn by the messengers. Burton, one of the mod dressers among legislators, shrugged off the letter saying "we've got a helluva lot of things more important." One miffed messenger said of Ree's criticism, "If he thinks he can deliver his own mail, let him." Another added, "He doesn't know that we're always down in the basement, lifting and carrying things." Several years ago, Assemblyman Eugene Chappie, R-Cool, objected to the shortness of the messengers' miniskirts.

But his efforts to establish a dress code failed, and miniskirts have grown shorter since. Robbed in New York "There is something terribly ironic that a compassionate, fair chairman of this committee of the host country should endure the harrassmenl as it befell you the other night," Bush said. Bush said the U.S. Mission was "in close and constant contact" with New York police in an effort to track down the three men who mugged Rossides, 77, and his wife Wednesday night as they took their customary stroll. Police said the men threw ropes around the couple's necks, took their minee, whoever he is, and would lend his years of political experience.

He added, however, he doesn't consider Alabama Gov. George Wallace "on the political horizon." "Gov. Wallace will have considerable influence at the convention, but I can't even remotely see him as the nominee of the party," he said. of the Republican committee. Brownstein said McCord, as the licensee, would be responsible for the proper use of the transmitters.

He also said licensees of transmitters could only be prosecuted for illegal use of the transmitters if prosecution showed there was actual broadcasting not just possession of equipment. The Star also reported that E. Howard Hunt, Jr. served as project director for a $500,000 Office of Education contract at the same time he was a $100 a day consultant to White House counsel Charles 'W. Colson.

Hunt, a 53-year-old ex-CIA agent, dropped from sight shortly after it was disclosed that his name appeared in the address books of two of the men arrested at the Democratic break-in. The most recent product in the Office of Education series was a 30-second film of Julie Nixon Eisenhower speaking in behalf of education for handicapped children. McCord requested temporary authorization to use radio transmitters on May 7, the Star reported. The letter to the FCC sent over his signature said 90 per cent of the time the radio would he used in the Washington metropolitan area, five per cent in Miami during August and five per cent in other parts of the nation. Orleans, where he lived since 1937 under the name Richard Mosley, or go to Savannah, where he once lived and had friends.

He is a native, of Bartow, Ga. "I don't know if any of my relatives are alive," he said, "as I lived in exile 37 years." Mickey Mouse Watch Given To II. Hughes VANCOUVER, B.C. (UPI) -Billionaire Howard Hughes yesterday was presented a Mickey Mouse, watch at his Bayshore Inn hideout by the Disney on Parade touring group. Disney's authentic Mickey Mouse would nave made the presentation directly to the reclusive Hughes but.

was stopped as he tried to walk to the 201 floor. An aide took the watch and a pair of complimentary tickets to the show, up to Hughes. The gift inscription: "While living legends must continaully play cat and mouse with the public to retain credibility, I'm sure that even you must periodically wonder what time it is." in the money centers did not conceal their gloom. West Gprmany's finance minister, Karl Schiller, said the British move was "sensible." France's foreign minister, Maurice Schumann said it would help move Europe towards monetary union. Andre Vlenck, finance minister of Belgium, said one solution for Europe would be a joint float against the dollar.

ThP sterling crisis besan with a statement In the House of Commons a week ago by Dennis Ilealey, the labor party's economic spokesman, that the pound would be devalued this summer. Pounds were shoveled out by holders all week al such a rate that the British government was forced to act to defend the reserves. A question being asked hers was whe1her German authorities would now introduce new foreign exchange controls or establish a dual market, for marks the way the French have for francs. Under the. dual market, a currency is maintained within fixed limits when it is used for trade, but allowed to float to higher rates in all other transactions.

This has the effect of helping countries feeling upward pressure on their cur- rency to defend their position in export markets. Schiller, the German economics minister and a long opponent of controls and the dual market, said the Bonn authorities did not contemplate any moves in this direction. WASHINGTON (AP One of five men arrested in connection with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters holds a Federal Communications Commission license to use walkie-talkies on behalf of the Republican National Committee, FCC records show. Police said earlier they found three highly sophisticated walkie-talkies in the possession of James W. McCord whose firm was under contract to do security work for the Republican National Committee and the Committee to Re-elect the President, when the five suspects weer arrested early today.

However, the Evening Star, which broke the story on the walkie-talkies yesterday, quoted an FCC official as saying it had not been determined if the specific equipment found by police was the equipment licensed to McCord. FCC rules forbid the use of any li-ensed equipment to commit an illegal act. The Star said the FBI is investigating that aspect of the case. Irving Brownstein, deputy chief of Safety and Special Radio Services for the FCC, said the three frequencies assigned to McCord on behalf of the Republican National Committee were Class A citizens service licenses with frequencies in the ship-to-shore range. lis said McCord requested the frequencies for security activities on behalf Orleans until his conscience sent him back to Jacksonville to get square with the city and slate of Florida for a 1935 slaying.

He amazed Detective W. E. Reacham when he walked into the sheriff's office June 7 and surrendered on a murder charge in connection with the fatal knifing of Edward Rozicr, his landlord. Explaining his decision to come here and surrender, Cross said: ''The thoughts of the Lord came on me. It worried me that I was living a Christian life and hadn't straightened myself out with the law." After one night in jail he was released on his own recognizance pending disposition of the indictment charging him with murder.

Reacham helped him find a place to live within his income from social security. When Cross came up before Circuit Judge Marion Gooding for arraignment yesterday, State Alty Don Nichols offered to drop the charge. The judge approved. "The purpose of the penal system is rehabilitation," Nichols said. "It appears this has been done without the necessity nf confinement.

Prosecution would serve no useful purpose." "I thank you and 1 thank the Lord," Cross said, rising to his feet in the courtroom. Reflecting on Hip outcome, he said in an interview; "I've lived a righteous life a good whilp but I lived with trouble. Now I feel al liberty. He thinks he will return to Npw As Paul Vnlcker, the American Treasury's chief monetary man, said Thursday, countries running surpluses don't devalue, or at least they are not. supposed to under international rules.

Again, this shows that rules no longer apply in international monetary matters, experts said, a sign of disintegration of the postwar partnerships. In bank-to-bank foreign exchange trading, the pound was quoted between $2.50 and $2.53. This is an indication of what the market thinks the pound's value is. It is only a few cents below the $2 57 rale or Thursday. But it is also below the $2.55 lower intervention point of the Bank of England.

Several continental currencies, traded in similar fashion, went through their upper intervention points. These were, notably, the German mark, the French franc, the Belgian franc and the guilder. The United Slates would look rolrily at a pound devaluation because it would improve the competitiveness of British goods, both in the United States and third countries where the two countries compete. Similarly, it would reduce the attractiveness of dollar-priced goods in Britain. Hut if there were upward revaluations by other countries the Japanese yen is particularly mentioned in this connection the dollar could conceivably gain advantages in thp long run.

There was a pronouncpd effort by authorities in Europe to play down the seriousness of the affair, but bankers Mugging Won't Slop His Bv F. T. MACFEELY JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)-Lnnnie Cross says trouble flew off his shoulders "like a bird off a limb" yesterday when he was freed from a murder indictment that hung over him nearly 37 years. Now fifi and bent with arthritis, Cross said he lived as another man in New Registration Of U.S.

Cars Up 42 Million WASHINGTON (AH The Fedpral Highway Administration said yesterday 112,922,354 motor vehicles were registered in the United States during 1971, an increase of more than 4 million during the year. The 1971 total included 92.8 million automobiles, a gain of 3.9 per cent; 398,000 buses, an increase of 5.3 per cent; and 19.8 million trucks, a gain of 5.4 per cent. In addition, there were more I h.Ti 3.3 million motorcycles, motor scooters and motorized bicycles, and more than iO million trailers, on U.S. registration lists. California was shown to have the largest number of motor vehicles.

12.3 million. Next in order wore Texas. 7 million; New York, fi.9 million; Ohio and Pennsylvania, fi million each; Illinois, 5.4 million; Michigan, 4.7 million, and Florida, 4.5 million. Market finance ministers will mcr) in Luxembourg Monday and Tuesday to try to rescue their monetary union. The foreign exchange markets will stay closed on Monday.

A Swiss government spokesman in Bern said he expected a quick rlevalua tion of the pound, the Italian lira and the Danish crown, which are Hip weakest currencies of the enlarged Common Market grouping of 10 countries. Britain joined the currency union movp well before the effective dale of enlargement, Jan. 1973. One question is whether Thp Six will be able to maintain their currency association in the face of the havoc caused by the British move, and now the crisis of the dollar. Once again, the huge amount nf funds controlled by multinational corporations, oil producing countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and hy banks and speculators, were able to force a currency move.

But, as experts analyse yesterday's feverish developments, this point was repeatedly made: Thorp is really little economic justification at the moment for the pound to be devalued. This was in contrast to all previous currency chances, which came well after the need for the move. Britain and Italy are the only two countries in the enlarged Common Market group running surpluses in their so-called current account exchanges of goods and services. Dollar Both in Trouble in Europe Marts Park Walks watches and Mrs. Rossides' engagement ring, valued at a total of $700, and threw their shoes into the Central Park Reservoir to prevent the Rossides' from running for help.

They suffered no serious injury. Rossides dismissed the incident as "of little consequence." He said he and his wife were "very fond of walking in the park and we must therefore bear the consequences and risks and dangers involved and, I don't know, we still go somehow or other in the park." has been set up among the central banks has just gotten under way to narrow the currency margins of the Common Market countries. Britain was associated with this experiment, aimed at producing a currency union by the 1980s. As a "result, the Common Market countries with strong currencies France, Germany and Holland were supporting thp pound, which means they were buying pounds in the foreign exchange markets. A Frankfurt specialist who has been right in his guesses before said it was likely that the call on Rritish reserves of $7 billion before the crisis began amounted to as much as $3 billion, as a result of the support operations.

Under normal conditions German credit markets should now be tight. But the buying of pounds with marks has been so great that it has produced an excess of marks on the German money market with the result that German short-term interest rates have fallen sharply. Marks borrowed for 24 hours pay no interest at all. One point drawn from all this, experts said, is that monetary integration cannot work without political, economic and fiscal harmonization. These experts said that Britain associated herself too early' with the continental experiment.

It was debatable even among The Six whether there was sufficient harmonization to bring off currency bandarrowing. And Britain was out of joint with The Six. UNITED NATIONS (UP!) The ambassador from Cyprus to the United Nations, who was mugged while walking with his wife in Central Park- accepted the regrets of U.S. Ambassador George Bush yesterday and said he would continue his evening strolls in the park. "We are ashamed of this incident," Bush told Ambassador Zenon Rossides at a meeting of the U.N.

Committee on the Host Relations. Rossides is chairman of the committee set up last year to handle security and other problems of foreign diplomats. Pound, By CLYDE If. FAKNSWORTH New York Times News Service FRANKFURT The pound crisis became the dollar crisis yesterday on the continent of Europe, with immediate prospects for more controls of dollar flows. "We are back where we were last November (before the currency realignment in which the dollar was devalued) with all the uncertainty that means for trade, investment and employment in the western world," one influential banker said.

About $1 billion was acquired by the German Central Bank here in the first frantic hour of foreign exchange trading yesterday before the major continental markets were shut. In Paris, the Banque de France acquired an estimated $150 million (a lesser amount because of foreign exchange controls already in effect in France) in similar dollar support operations before the Common Market authorities suspended trading. There was an air of anxiety and in some cases despair among the money men here and in other centers jolted by the 7:50 a.m. announcement by the British government, that It was floating the pound. This is the third and potentially gravest monetary crisis of the last 13 months.

It follows suspension of dollar convertibility into reserve assets last August 15 and the floating of the German mark in May, 1971. "It is a new sign of the vulneraoility of the western monetary system to crisis," the West German Industrial Institute said. A banker here added "the politicians' better wake up before the Western World disintegrates." "The crisis couldn't have hit at a worse time," another banker added. It has come before the dollar has gained any visible benefits from the December 18 devaluation, and while the monetary authorities of the major nations are still in the procedural state of montetary reform negotiations. Postwar cooperation among the Western nations led to reduction of trade and financial barriers and a resultant increase in international exchanges unprecedented in history.

This, experts said, is threatened now by the possible withdrawal of nations into themselves or into inward-looking blocks the type of situation that existed in the 1930 s. At the invitation of Valery discard D'Estaing, the French finance minister, Central Bank governors of the Common Market will meet in emergency session in Paris today. But, it was pointed out by experts, there is little governors can do except talk about technical problems. The major decisions on monetary affairs are taken by cabinets of governments. The governors are already in clo.se touch through a special "hot line" that.