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2A THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sun July 2 1972 ''rwK'" uang outskirts of Song Be-in attacks Friday night and early Saturday They overran militia companies defending the Phuoc Binh and Xuyen Loc district headquarters within a mile of Song Be Then the sources said they shelled the provincial capital itself The Communists also shelled and then seized the Bara marketplace three miles southwest of Song Be The capital is only 15 miles from a Communist stronghold across the border in Cambodia and paratroopers engaged in the four-day-old drive tried to keep dry under tents made of ponchos Seibert said North Vietnamese artillery however laid down heavy barrages against Highway 1 from the My Chanh River northern defense line to Quang Tri City 12 miles to the north The Communists were apparently trying to stop government troops from filling the hundreds of shell holes in the highway the only paved road in the area Seibert said South Vietnamese paratroopers had advanced Friday-to the outskirts of Quang Tri the only one of the 44 provincial capitals captured by the Communists during their three-month-old offensive Military sources said Viet Cong guerrillas were closing in on Song Be 77 miles north of Saigon and capital of Phuoc Long province before the downpour began in Quang Tri They said the commandos 200 strong captured at least two district headquarters and a village' marketplace on- the United Pros International SAIGON Torrential rains bogged down the South Vietnamese push to recapture Quang Tri City from the North Vietnamese Saturday Meanwhile Viet Cong guerrillas closed in on a provincial capital only a three-hour drive from Saigon UPI correspondent Barney Seibert reporting from the northern front said the tropical rain brought South 20000-man Quang Tri campaign to a virtual halt Tanks and trucks sank into the mud Government marines Delegate Fight In High Court AP Photo South Vietnamese Is Helped From Batle Near An Loc Soldier Was Wounded Trying To Open Road To The City that women were under-represented in the Missouri delegation and added 12 women each with half a vote taken away from 12 of the male delegates already certified Relmqiiist Holds Private Hearing For Chicago Rivals Committee after Credentials action 2250 Miles Do It Lying Down i US Expects Little From Paris Talks United Press International WASHINGTON President-' Nixon and his top advisers do not expect an early breakthrough at the Paris peace -talks despite Hanoi's agree-ment to resume negotiations July 13 That was one reason sources said Saturday that Nixon took an extremely tough "A stand at last week's news con- fercnce about continuing the intensified bombing of North Vietnam Although industry and communications are taking a savage beating by American air power North Vi- 11 etnamese leaders still have not given any real signal they are willing to negotiate on a basis agreeable to the United States The lack of optimism here over the possibility of any rapid progress when the talks resume stems from the belief that Hanoi probably still clings to the hope that Nixon may be forced to soften his position before the November election the Court of Appeals held Thursday that the Daley delegation could go ahead with its injunction effort The challengers wanted the Supreme Court to overturn the Chicago Court of Appeals decision so the district court action would stand Previously the Daley delegates obtained a ruling from the federal District Court in Washington that the challengers were acting illegally under the Illinois primary law The Court of Appeals here overturned that decision but said the delegates could return Chicago Alderman William Singer a co-chairman of Daley could win his fight to oust the insurgents on the convention floor think he has the votes to he said hope that the matter will end Singer added we will be back before the Supreme Court in a few Meanwhile the credentials panel proceeded with other cases It agreed with a challenge Veterans Benefits To Increase WASHINGTON President Nixon Saturday signed legislation to increase by 10 per cent the Veterans Administration compensation for men with same rates to men disabled ties The measure gives the same' rates to men diabled in war time and in peacetime effective July 1 1973 For 40 years the rates had been different The present gap is 80 per cent of the wartime rate for peace time veterans Also in the bill is a new clothing allowance of $150 a year for veterans who must wear prosthetic or or-t i devices which tend to wear out or tear normal clothes 3659-Million Sliip Contract Announced Assodaled Press WASHINGTON President Nixon has announced contracts of $6592 million for five US shipyards to build 16 new merchant ships including the largest van-type freighters and tankers ever built in this country Shipyards on the East and West coasts got the contracts which Administration officials said will mean 36000 jobs at shipyards and supply firms and 800 jobs on the ships over the next three years The President said it is part of his program to restore our merchant fleet to a vigorous competitive position on the high seas and to restore employment and profit in our shipping and shipbuilding industries at United Press International HULL Mass Larry Ca-pune a 29-year-old lifeguard from Balboa Island Calif shoved off from Nantasket Beach Saturday morning to begin paddling his 18-foot surfboard 2250 miles down the Atlantic Coast to Miami Fla Barring mishap he hopes to average 25 miles a day as he paddles with his arms and lies prone on his stomach on the surfboard He had hoped to enlist the aid of a girl volunteer to meet him each night when he came ashore but was unable George Wash 15 Plans To Celebrate United Press International WASHINGTON Attorneys for rival claimants to 59 Chicago seats at the Democratic National Convention went to the Supreme Court Saturday with their dispute over Mayor Richard bloc of uncommitted delegates The convention Credentials Committee voted Friday to unseat Daley and his 58 followers and to replace them with a challenging group At least 40 of the insurgents are expected to support the frontrunner Sen George McGovern For the challengers Mary Lee Leahy and for the Daley block Jerome Torschen appeared Saturday afternoon before i ce William Rehnquist at a private hearing in his chambers Before their move spokesmen for the challengers said they were seeking Supreme Court action to stop a Daley suit In Chicago aimed at blocking the challengers in the Cook County Circuit Court A federal district court in Chicago had halted that action but a three-judge panel of Convention Hall Readies Special Wallace Box United Press International MIAMI BEACH Special box seats and a portable ramp for partially paralyzed George Wallace were installed Saturday at the site of the Democratic National Convention Convention manager Richard Murphy ordered the six-chair box reserved after what he described as a cooperative" Friday meeting here with top aides of the Alabama governor Murphy also ordered a closed circuit television set installed in Wallace's suite at a Miami hotel so the governor could observe the convention proceedings from his room Associated Press GEORGE Wash George Washington will be 15 years old on the Fourth of July and the 273 citizens plan a civic blowout Mayor Charlie Brown invited former Gov Albert Roselli-ni to be the feature speaker Rosellini planted first cherry tree when he was in office Folks Like Visiting Charlotte to find anyone willing to keep tabs on him during the planned 79-day trip Capune wanted a girl he said because he finds them more dependable than men who he felt might not stick to it The purpose of having someone meet him he said was to make sure he arrived at each destination and notify authorities if he failed to keep the rendezvous The on-shore companion driving a car would also carry his provisions In order to cope with his lack of Capune attached a watertight sack to his surfboard containing personal provisions and of The current trip is designed to set a new record for paddling surpassing the 942 miles he paddled down the East Coast in 38 days in 1965 He has made several lengthy trips off California including 557 miles in 16 days from San Francisco to Newport Beach Part of the reason for this trip lie said is to express his individuality in a exciting and socially acceptable to counter the adverse criticism college students have experienced recently- His desire is to establish what he calls a that would see groups of young people taking paddle-board trips US Chess Champ Asks For Delay (C) 1972 New York Times News Service REYKJAVIK Iceland Bobby Fischer has asked for a two-day postponement of his chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union according to Andrew Davis attorney Thus the match and there is no certainty that the international chess tournament will ever be held would start on Tuesday instead of today Fischer Davis said is an impediment to playing and he pleaded that Fischer was not medically fit to start the match Asked why the challenger had not arrived earlier Davis contended that reporters had spotted Fischer at Kennedy International Airport on Thursday night and had prevented him from leaving Fischer who has delayed his trip here several times is now expected to arrive this morning Continued From Page 1A they come just on special occasions or for special needs A guy in York SC have as much trouble getting to the airport as a guy who lives on Randolph Road A company decides to put a plant outside Wadesboro because among other things their trucks can get to 1-85 in an hour or less 'you come over to Charlotte much?" I asked Ray Crisco the Stanly County register of deeds sure do" he said a i All those Shrine events Just a couple blocks from The Observer most of the developments in Charlotte and the piotests and controversies They even use Charlotte as an object lesson Many of these smaller towns are growing and they have their own urban redevelopment projects and problems and their zoning headaches and taxing problems and they keep up with all Charlotte situations and learn from our mistakes These towns need to learn all they can to ease their own growing pains Monroe has a major redevelopment plan which will remake the center of that town It has already started The new Union County Courthouse good for said John Marshall an executive at the Rock Hill Printing Finishing Co do a lot of recruiting interv 1 1 people in other parts of the country of times these people want to know if anything to do around here if there are plenty of places to go for entertainment that sort of thing say sure the Coliseum with Ice Capades and all kinds of things and Ovens with a summer theater usually and the nicest kind of restaurants and Charlotte is a convenience center all right And because it is these many thousands keep up with In His Sweat Suit the OLD Temperatures CHARLOTTE TEMPERATURES Tidal Data is in use and before long a wide street out in front of it will be a garden-like mall Albemarle is already using its new courthouse and jail -and library Concord is going to build a new courthouse shortly All around us these towns are going through major changes and watching Charlotte development aches and pains with intensity Why a lot of our neighbors even want to live in their own small towns let alone pay Charlotte's taxes and fight Charlotte's traffic daily More and more couples In this region are joining that growing class known to the Census Bureau as the non-farm That means a neat brick ranch-style house on an acre lot on Road 200 between Monroe and Stanfield where see miles of such abodes It means many of others out in the pretty country around Casar and Toluca west of Lin-colnton From their places these people can forget the traffic lighls and blocked slreets of a until they get danged good and ready to use our facilities And now evidence that many Charlotteans tired of the crowds at some of these facilities are turning outward looking for services for themselves out in the nearby counties Some Charlotte friends have taken to going up to a nice steak house in rural Cabarrus to get away Many Charlotteans have found some golf courses to their liking in Stanly County I dropped in the other day on the Gastonia Municipal airport which is on NC 274 sev- eral miles south of town on the way down toward Rock Hill a small airport but with some nice equipment and repair shops and a 3500-foot runway only 12 air miles from Douglas There was a suprrisingly 4 large number of private planes parked there and I sort of whistled at this when I visited with Dick Caldwell there of them are owned bv Charlotte he said of them just wanted to get away from the jet Note: I rememver enjoying any of my newspaper work more than writing this series of Visiting Around columns But this is the last of the scries I am going to be doing some much broader traveling around on another writing project for the next several months see later how this one turns out Chrlston Hlah 12 II Hlah 12-46 Low 638 Low 6 55 pm Myrtl Beach High 11-56 am High 12-30 Pm Low 6-23 a Low 6 40 pm Carolina Beach High 11-59 am High 12-33 pm Low 6:26 am Low 6:43 pm Miscellaneous JULY 3-9 knee high by the 4th of July Pick blueberries now Kidd deported July 6 1699 Last quarter of the Moon July 3 Salvation Army founded July 9 1865 Average length of days for week 15 hours 12 minutes Tragic Hartford circus fire July 7 1944 Independence Day July 4 Alewives return to the sea Trees stop growing for the year now Never make two bites at a cherry Old Riddle: Why fc Ireland likely to grow rich? (Answer below) Ask the Old Farmer: My mother-in-law alwhys insisted that her bed be placed so that she slept with her head to the north Could you tell me the meaning of this idea? SF Lynn Mass Our sainted grandmother (the one who carried a hatchet in her apron pocket) also slept with her head to the norrad She claimed that a person who slept this may was safe from lightning if and when it struck Lightning did strike her house once and the bolt ran right through the place missing the old lady clean She said told yoil sol" but I have wondered if the lightning actually sheer off from her out of The old farmer thought he was as soaked as he could ever be after the rains then Ma Bell the car people and Duke Power put in their bids Well the codger has weathered worse storms The Almanac has a sunny prediction for the beginning of the week with clear skis and hot temperatures Then it warns of rain developing by the middle of the week and continuing through the weekend The wet weather should help cool the mercury though The official forecasters took time out from adjusting their fans to issue this word on the weather: Metrolina Charlotte and vicinity will be mostly sunny and warm today becoming fair and warmer tonight Monday will be partly cloudy warm and humid with a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers High will he in the upper 80s with the lows in the upper 60s The high on Monday will be near 90 Winds will be from the west to southwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour a 20 per cent chance of precipitation through tonight and 30 per cent Monday Beaches Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers this afternoon and evening Winds southwesterly at 10 to 15 knots through tonight Visibility 5 miles or mm-e in haze lowering to less than 2 miles in showers The Carolinas North Carolina will be partly cloudy through Mon- than an inch of rain in a six hour period Thunderstorms also were scattered aeross the South and over the Rockies and the adjacent plains SI ip (Eliarlntti 600 Tryon Cturlotte 28201 Telephone: Switchboard 374-7070 Classified Ads 377-7474 Circulation Service 374-7322 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copy: Dally 10c Sunday 25e Home Delivered: 7-Day 85c week 370 month 6-Day 60c week 2 60 month Sundvy 30c week 130 month Delivered By Mall To Potlel Zonae 1112 Datly Sunday Dally Rates to Postal Zones 4 8 furnished uwn request Mall eubscrlptlons ere payable In advance resident add 3 sales tax Second diets postage paid at Charlotte All carriers dealers and distributors are Independent contractors Payments not In accordance with the estabtljhed rates not authorized Net Paid ABC Publisher's Statement Sept 30 1971 Daily 172758 Sunday 211880 the mid-60s in the mountains to low 70s elsewhere The Nation Rain is forecast today for parts of the Midwest and Florida Warm weather is expected from Texas to the Northeast and in California Cooler temperatures are expected in portions of the Midwest Most of the South sweltered under hot and humid conditions Saturday while thunderstorms brewed in the nation's central sections The Southwest remained dry and hot with temperatures topping the 100-degrce mark while most of the North enjoyed moderate to warm weather A line of severe thunderstorms packing gusiy winds hail and heavy rains moved across Missouri Arkansas and Oklahoma Fort Smith Ark was drenched with more day with widely scattered afternoonand evening thundershowers mainly in the mountains today and over the state Monday The highs today and Monday will be in the 80s and low 90s The lows tonight will be in the 60s and low 70s South Carolina will have variable cloudiness through Monday with a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers The highs today and Monday will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s The lows tonight will be in the upper 60s to lower 70s EXTENDED FORECAST Tuesday through Thursday will be warm and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers Tuesday mainly in the eastern portion Wednesday becom-portion Wednesday becoming partly cloudy and less numerous on Thursday Highs in the mid-80s in the mountains to upper 80s and low 90s elsewhere Lows in Home Hint: Fix ticking dreweri by rubbinx enep on wooden elide Feed raw carrot to your do or cat and the gloss of it coat will improve Heat a candl holder in hot water and then insert the candle Riddle antuier: It capital is always Dublin OLD WEATHER FORECASTS Weather Tip of the Week: Good vacation weather Pacific Northwest New England Coastal: Begins with light rain then turns very warm with heat moderating by end Northern Inland New England: Showers at first then clear and pleasant by midweek through end Greater New York: OIT and on showers all week Sun peaks through now and then Middle Atlantic Region: Begins with light rain then turns heavy by midweek right through weekend Southern States: Heavy rain through most of week clearing by end Northern Plains: Begins hot with heavy rain Light rain from midweek on Rocky Mountain- Central Plains: Paitly cloudy at first then heavy rain beginning midweek through weekend Pacific Northwest: Clear and very warm through most of week Cooler and light showers by end Dog Beats Men United Press International STUTTGART Germany -The FC Singen minor league soccer club has withdrawn a protest lodged with the South German Football Association after a dog bit one of its key players Singen lost -0 to Waldliof in the match and said in its pro test the other side won because a dog had bitten Karl Van Dirk in the crucial stages of the game The club said it withdrew the protest because there appeared a little chance for.