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WEATHER HOT TODAY THE DANVILLE REGISTER JFOUNDED FETRUARY, 1847. NO. 29,349 -ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SERVICE- DANVILLE, SATUttDAYloOR'NING, JULY 15, 1972 HOME DELIVERY Doily Sunday 50c WEEK 10 (AP NEWSFEATURES) PRICE: TEN CENTS Mrs. Jean Westivood To SucceedLawrence O'Brien W. To Post Of National Party Chairman Breaking with tradition, Demo cratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose a woman on Friday to become national chairman of the party he now commands.

Mrs. Jean Westwood of West Jordan, Utah, who helped manage McGovern's campaign, was the nominee's choice for Democratic national chairman. She succeeded Lawrence F. O'Brien, twice the party's chairman. A Basil I'auorson ot New York, was chosen for the committee's No.

2 although he was not McGovern's original choice. McGovern said O'Brien had declined his requests to remain as chairman, citing personal reasons. The South Dakota senator spent hours conferring with O'Brien in what he said was a final attempt to persuade him to stay. "I respect his wishes," McG but Th wooc apin chin a a a di cont vent in slat Eag Cit.v McGovcrn said. "1 regret nearance but I respect it." I vice-prcjsi selection of Mrs.

West- began McGovern's reshaping of Democratic party machinery for his campaign against President Nixon. is a process McGovern will continue as he takes a post convention break at Custer, S.D., in the Black Hills of his home as the Democratic top in either national par- presidential nominee. ty. Traditionally, in both par- The national committee unanimously ratified McGovern'i selection of Airs. Westwood, a cochairman of his campaign for the nomination.

She played a leading role in managing the credentials contest that restored to McGovcrn his sweep Meanwhile, Sen. Thomas of California delegates at the national convention, and fore F.j told his nomination. leton flew off to Kansas! Mrs. Westwood, 48, Iwcamei ncr Wm City for his first campaign ap- 1 the first woman to assume the lies, the vice chairman has been a woman. McGovern reversed that.

Patterson, a former New York state senator who ran for lieutenant governor in 1970, was elected vice chairman of the committee. McGovern had chosen Pierre Salinger, a campaign aide, for- press sccre a senator World Banks To Buy Keep Over $1.5 Billion Dollar From Devaluating LONDON (AP) Banks the world over bit the bullet again Friday and bought hundreds of millions of more than a billion and a that they didn't want at all. Foreign already own enough dollars to pay the expenses of the U.S. government for most of the form of spending that is unlikely to occur to them, especially in their present mood. West Germany alone holds more than $24 billion, its Central Bank having bought $300 million to million on Friday alone to keep the dollar from sinking below the floor of 3.15 marks.

In Amsterdam, Brussels and would amount to devaluation June 23. It had been as low the dollar. and was valued at All told, government banks immediately before the Europe bought an estimated 1.5(float. billion dollars, the highest fig- Ministers of finance from the ure for one day this year-, the 10 countries of the new Com- figure was reached even though mon Market meol in London on ut these sources Britain is not buying dollars Zurich the dollar also was at and French exchanges were the bottom of the officially permitted range and only central bank from buying support kept it falling through. "That closed because 01 Bastille Day.

In London above $2.46, the pound its highest rose levclj Monday and are expected toj make it clear to one another'. just how much they dislike the situation. One of their and from California, to assume that post. But Patterson was nominatec from the floor by com mittecmen who said a black should have- a role in the party's high command. McGovern said either man was perfectly acceptable to him, and Salinger withdrew his name.

"I think 1 sense the feel ing of this committee," he While McGovern said he departure, the chairman agreed at one point to reconsider and possibly stay on. said also and GENERAL terrorist Kozo Okamoto, left, listens through earphones as Maj. Gen. Rehevam Zcevi, chief Israel's Central Army Command, tells a court martial in Lod. Israel, that he tricked Okamoto into confessing by promising him a gun for suicide.

Okamoto is on trial for his part in the Ixul Airport massacre in which 28 persons were killed and CT injured. (AP Wircpholo) grettcd O'Brien's jparty sources said Within 500 Yards Al One Point South Vietnamese Troops Advance Toward Quang Tri McGovcrn replied he have to reconsider talk to his top staff. SAIGON (AP) Severe ters ihat "ovcrnment marines fighting raged around Quang JTri on Fridav and South Vict- fouyht a series of engagements less than three miles from the John Connally Will Work To Enlist Democrat Motes For Richard Nixon SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally said Friday he will not support Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern but rather will work to enlist Democrats in President Nixon's re-election drive. The man who until two months ago was the only Democrat in Nixon's cabinet accused McGovern of sabotaging "the President's Vietnam peace efforts and sharply criticized other McGovern positions as "radical in character." and I don't want do," Connally said, adding that "I don't think it will be offered." Talking with newsmen on the lawn at Nixons ocean-front home, Connally said he would remain a Democrat but would 'do everything in my power" jmairi objectives is an intcrna- smce it was permitted to float, tional mon etary system that would keep it from happening i again.

Experts and speculators wondered as the week ended how long the dollar buying would go on. The speculators, and many conservative businessmen, are iselling their dollars for what looks to them like safer cur- Swiss francs, West O'Brien was said to have pro-jnamcse troops advancing from)city. posed at that point that they re- the northeast were The marines claimed they I within 500 yards of the provin-; killed 09 enemy and found the I i i i I lm ,11 trt 11 .1 See CHAIRMAN, Page Two icial capital. bodies of 48 killed by air different assignments." He wouldn't name them, say Secret Peace Talks Seen In Of fi I Military sources said They reported one cne- iVictnamesc gunners shot tank, four trucks and a cap- la helicopter, killing Col. N'gu-jtured U.

105mm howitzer were destroyed. Marine casualties were put at three killed and 18 wounded. lyan Trong Bas, chief of staff of the airborne division making the advance from the north- least i Eight South Vietnamese defenders without becoming bogged down or trapped in bloody, high-casualty street fighting against well-entrenched enemy troops. Far to the rear of the task force, North Vietnamese gunners fired between five and 10 rounds of 122mm artillery into Hue hitting south of the Perfume River for the first time in nearly two weeks of almost 'daily shcllings. Paratroopers within a mile of- Two ot the landed near alsolUie southern and soulheastcrnian American advisers' coin- were wounded when the heli-iedges of the city were shelled foreign travel.

in the weeks and months ahead! The assignments, Connallyj to encourage Democrats to de- added, are "not anything feet to Nixon in the general election. The" silver-haired former Texas governor came to the Western White House to brief the Soviet Union. DOLLAR, Page Two copter PARIS (AP) The kid glove(Tri. reaction of the United States Nixon on a 35-day, 15-nation around-the-world tour he took shaking." He ruled out a rolei for himself in the Vietnam peace talks and in negotiations, of a nuclear arms treaty From the tone of Connally's comment, it was clear much of As he emerged from a three- at Nixon's request after resign- his session with Nixon dealt hour meeting with Nixon, Con-ing from his cabinet post. jwith politics and Nixon's re- nally again left open the possibility he would accept any offer to be Nixon's vice presidential running mate.

"I haven't closed any doors Protesters Help Cleanup Mi ami Park delegation to the hard-lint attitude of the Vietnamese Communists at Thursday's session of the peace talks intrigued observers Friday as the stage apparently was being 'set for a new round of secret talks. crashed outside Quang and engaged by enemy troops 'but claimed they killed 19 ene- The Saigon command said its'i my while losing four killed and troops still had not entered Quang Tri, but closing on the northeastern sector of city reported they engaged the enemy only 500 yards from the city limits. They i claimed to have killed 18 North pound, but no U. S. casualties were reported.

A government military spokesman in Hue said one Vietnamese was killed and wounded, a spokesman! 13 were wounded. i Farther to the south, enemy Authoritative sources say thejgunners shelled a South. Viet- South Vietnamese strategy mjnamese fuel depot at the for- the counter offensive is to cn-jmer American port of Cam. gage the enemy wherever pos-jllanh Bay, destroying an undis- siblc outside the city while quantity of gasoline, the The North Vietnamese andjvietnamcse and said their ing siege to Quang Tri command rcporttd. Viet Cong to the talks (casualties were light.

(with artillery and air strikes. Enemy troops in the ML hewed closely to well-worn positions dating back more than a He said they discussed the! election campaign. "special assignment" Nixon Responding to a a tlC3 said last month he had in mindj Connally said, "I will not rolled for Connally. Actually, Connally port" the Democratic hit said, "we talked about three Sen. Kennedy Gives Boost To Boycott On Lettuce year.

There was no sign of progress toward a negotiated settlemcnt. Faced with very similar in the past, U.S. i BEACH FIa (AH- Ambassador William J. Porter question, jAs shirtless convention protest-land his have up their sleepingiblasted the Associated Press Correspondent Richard Ely stone reported from the task force hcadquar- ln say, hope MLsh thus manner, the sources forest deep in the Mekong Delthe government forces; to wear down the city's! See WAR. Page Two the lor the st time in my He said Nixon has done great job" and their to hitchhike home I city cleanup crews moved in "aiwith dump trucks to turn Fla- atude and British Troops, Irish Guerrillas Firing Rockets, Battle In Belfast mingo Park back into a tree- displayed "great courage' as he "trans- formed the foreign policy of his Beach's elderly' But Porter, who has gained shaded haven for Miamijnegotialor, meekly told the latest apparently at the FRESNO, Calif.

(AP) When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy hailed delegates to the Democratic National Convention as "fellow lettuce boycotters," it gave a big boost to the Cesar Chavez-led boycott against non- United union head lettuce, a Farm Workers Union said Friday. members of numerous state delegations, including California, New York, Illinois, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Ore- accord n's "We're very pleased with sing ed llt fo McGovern pledge natlon 1 "I've got to hand it to these jment on said he finds the)kids, they really know how session and said instead akot f. senators views! clean up," said Edward "we'll have a loo all too isolationist in character; a and also too ter." He said cere in those personally finds himself a BELFAST, Northern armored vehicles to.western outskirts of the city reputation as a tough British troops and IrishjiNorthern Ireland.

Each a night-long battle with "'guerrillas firing rockets battled; carry a dozen troops. i gunmen operating from the Roils; man Catholic area of a modern the housing development. 0 news- make no corn- across Belfast Friday in some! Londonderry was hit of the heaviest fighting the bomb explosion of has seen. day. The blast turned a shop in; The army claimed 35 gunmen Nine persons were killed a the devastated Waterloo Place Were gon.

McGovern also has come out in support of the boycott. in battles throughout said Ganz. "Most of the delega- offieialitions and many of the Democratic state conventions en- However, an Associated of supermarket the country in- Press survey chains across dicated the boycott thus far is having little effect. "When we plan a boycott, we plan for a couple of years," said Marshall Ganz, director of the farm workers international)very helpful. We're waiting to boycott program.

what the Republicans are "The success of the boycott! going to depends on reaching many, The boycott extends to all Ict- dorsed the boycott and urged people not to buy lettuce." "The Democratic party is the largest political organization in the United States," he added, "and having that kind of support and the fact that it's en- President Nix-jmore than 60 large trash dump- jsters for loading onto the criticism trucks, while other nondele- to bringjgatcs stuffed personal belong- home all American troops in back packs, folded up prisoners from -Vietnam gave frisbecs a final fling 90 "businesslike," term which has rarely if ever been employed by an American to characterize anv Six of the victims died people. dawn and a civilian man and aj The Londonderry chamber of only hope wired British Prime Defense Secretary told Parlia- d)spcrse; mcn the situation was one of the utmost gravity. "One can soldier were killed that the people of Ireland themselves sessions of the talks. days after hi and said goodbye to new-foundision deserved his positive- 'Obviously, a president of United States has no power to bring home prisoners of war" until Hanoi is ready to release them, he said. "We've found that all that's needed is a reminder to pick up after yourself," said Shari Whitehead.

spokeswoman for Connally said McGovern's Miami Conventions Coalition, sounding description. A search of American statements made at Thursday's session shows nothing that could be labeled polemical. At the last previous session, May 4, ly of the isoiafternoon in a gun battle. Thej jslor Edward Hcalhi how near they are to ss. was killed by crossfire for troop reinforcements.

Thejdisaster." he added. arrri dispatched 600 more men' William Whitelaw, Britain's Belfast. administrator for the province, Battles continued through the; told the House of Commons woman say! between Lambcrtson would not sayjbetween troops and why he thought Thursday's ses- while she stood in the doorway of her home in the Springfield! pvi CHILL L1IC Idll llldu 1L 5 CII- 1 UV dorse right in the platform is end tne wai pledge was "an un- one of eight major protest when the United States broke i Scc COXXALLY, Page Two See CLEANUP, Page Two See TALKS, rage Two Road district. planted in Alliance Avenue exploded, damaging six houses. Troops dispatched to the scene camel under heavy sniper fire.

afternoon with concentrated 3,000 rounds were us on two police stations in troops from the Divi. Belfast and sniping on many points in West at Street tacks at-; complex. the "Rocket launchers have also city. been used in the area by terror' Bombs blasted bars and for the first time," he said. 01 lories in Belfast and damagcdiDeclaring this increased tho many Americans and convincing them not to eat lettuce," that doesn't bear the UFW label, Ganz added.

like this is tremendously helpful," he continued, tuce which does not carry thei UFW's stamp, Ganz said.I About 15 per cent of the total! AP lettuce crop in California Arizona is harvested by grow-j Pressure On Dollar Endangers Agreement Analysis By Laurance F. Stuntz Associated Press Writer European governments, backed by the Japanese, arc striv- desperately to maintain the world-wide political In London, the Ministry anxji a 111 till Defense announced it was scnd- 1tne war-torn center of London-: risk of damage and casualties ing a substantial number of (fcrrv the province second Whitelaw announced he had or! city. dered the army to "control the The British army, abandon-'areas from, which the attacks ing its low profile policy of the were launched." past three months, stormed the; In Ixmdonderry, guerrillas for this country. But Street housing devclop- uscd a baby carriage to This was echoed in part by Ed-tually no. Currency instability half a mile from Bel- smuggle a bomb through arm is never good and it can lead to fast's city center, searching for checkpoints into the city center win H.

Yeo III, vice chairman Kennedy, who introduced Sen. George McGovern when he made his acceptance speech at the convention early Friday, echoed sentiments expressed by which have, contracts NEW YORK dollar's value. But GermanyjOf the Pittsburgh National other restrictions. For instanceJarms and gunmen of the Irish and the blast wrecked a corner could cut the flow of capital 1 i a Army. Troops of the main square, think the pressure is nto more productive areas.

Wei stayed posted on the develop- Scores of families fearing a V( 41.11 I JL A ll LJ VJ L- referring to Kennedy's the UFW, he added. currency agree-jalone has bought nearly a bil-tBank. many other growers have con- ments hammered out last dollars in two days and! tracts with the teamsters, which has led to a jurisdiction- See BOYCOTT, Page Two endangered by the little Norway and Holland itributable to the nature of the! navcnlt reached that sta nward pressure on! are buying to protect the dol- candidac no the man" cember are heaviest downward pressure on' the dollar ued. candida i c-itrl At First Jiggs, A Chimp, Wasn't Happy With Females On Island; Now He's Bettei dream of many a set free on an ATLANTA, Ga. Jiggs, realizing the wildest uninhabited island with three females- should have been happy enough to swing from the trees.

He wasn't though. The 150- pound chimpanzee, whimpering crawled back into his cage, longing for the human companionship he'd been used to. Joni, Girlie and Saki, his female companions, were more began exploring in the thick foliage on tiny Bear Island off the Geor- spokesman who was present when the chimps were freed, "they seemed confused. Then, with Jiggs leading the way, and he females following, they walked along the beach. since it "was deval-Mar's present value.

jsaid. "It is due to the political! See CURRENCY. Page Two The current value was set up situation here as viewed iin a meeting at the Smithsonian abroad. There is a fear of isola-j I Institution in Washington just tionism, a diminution in Ameri-j before Christmas. It is threat-lean interest and power.

encd by waves of dollars of-j The big question now is' Ifered in Europe. The Eu-jwhether the European jropeans wan to maintain theimcnts will be able to continue i dollar's worth because cheaper jbuying all the dollars offered. roof.s and jflush out snipcr.s. balconies to violent weekend fled their 700 troops on the Sre IRELAND, Pago Two -w t' Upset Him; Request For Replay Denied REYKJAVIK, Iceland the moxie gia coast. The chimps were set free nearly a month ago by Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Center in Atlanta in an experiment designed to see how well apes can breed and adapt in a wild environment in the lemperate zone.

"At first," said a Yerkes and the Before long, however, them daily. Now, Jiggs and the other make it difficult for If not, they will probably go to Bobby Fischer charged on Fri rights allowed chimps seem to be them to sell in the U.S. market, the "float" mentioned by Wol- day that tournament Federation to Hfjll oVl Urt tf I) in VI TM- i of oior dence. They eat foliage, bugs, crabs and small rodents, supplementing the diet Wilson upset and provoke 1 record $125,000 purse deliberately, but an a p- players. television president of the Icelandic feder- said the cameras would offer be removed, but that Spassky's for both point would stay.

That The downward pressure has man. This wouicr maintain the pushed the dollar to its lowestjvalue of the European cur- me point since similar pressure re-jrencies in terms of each cals committee rejected his Gumunmir Thorarinsson.j Sec CHESS, Page Two suited in last fall's devaluation. the pound would still buytrequest to replay possible the nomination who'd lived in a cage most of; Wilson brings them a special; of cGovcrn mi-h have his 12 years, returned to MCtlOVCrn mi ni making crying sounds. the same number of marks, for! ga me he forfeited Spassky. the to chess Boris 'Joni sat down nearby, swaying, while Girlie and scamperld away and appeared," he said.

1,1, uimga uitiu a. sjjttidi en have ul tdllv it.imonkey chow made of sornetn 0 lo do reqsure But the float would allow the; The world champion from the grain, milk and cod ut so saj( wil jvalue of the dollar to change as Soviet Union was awarded lliam Wolman of Re-'' ts SU an( demand flue- Trursday's second game in thc.K The apes sleep in two small Ho n(1 jituated. Tne result of this would championship match when Fis-l A -mi. nt: ads just, reiuineu houses on stilts which were placed there primarily for "The next day, when during rainy and cold Wilson, an Emory graduate stu- weather. working on the ex-; "No heat will be providld, to periment, returned to the if the chimps can tolerate to visit the animals and bring food, Jiggs came screaming out of the woods to greet him," the spokesman said.

"He got back into his cage and stuck out his arm to be scratched, then turned his back lo the bars, so Wilson could scratch that. the climate this winter," said Dr. Geoffrey H. Bourne, director of Yerkes Center, which is supported by the National Institute of Health. Bear Island is private and warning signs are posted to dis- See CRIMP, Page Two from a round of talks with European central bank authorities.

and the people who have sold dollars for marks could buy them back i i I think most likely the pres- Thc which from sure is due to the belief that August lo December last year, the dollar have to should increase American floated against the European currencies. I said more floats were coming and this looks like it." Some change London dealers foreign believed the McGovern nomination had introduced uncertainty into the exports by making them cheaper. A German tanner would have to spend fewer marks to get S100 td buy U.S. hides, for instance. "But thai depends on a clean float," Yeo said.

cheaper dollars are The Weather Readings From Alop Register Building championship match when VIRGINIA- Hoi hum id and; ing to low to mid 70s coast and stavin" 1 mm HIS coast ana hn! haz WIth chance High Saturday and cher refused to ui ts. i 1 0011 and evcni Bunder-Sunday mid 80s mounlabs and objected to three moving pic- lhrou Sunday. Low-'upper 80s to low 80s elsewhere. cst Saturday night in the ture cameras in the hali. Thus Spasskv, who 60s- won the in the mountains and low 70s DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG first game, was 2-0 in the 24- elsewhere.

Highest Saturday: game series. He needs 10 more and Sunday in the 80s in higher; points to retain the title. A vie- elevations and low 30s else-! tory counts one point and a where. draw half a point. NORTH CAROLINA: Fischer said that if the forfeit cloudy, warm and humid wilhl ruling were reversed and all scattered afternoon and cvc-j cameras were removed, he ning thundershowers lhrough would go ahead with the match.

Sunday. Lows at night npper! This demand came despite the 5fls lo low 60s mounlains rang-i Friday Hour Temp. Bar. Wind 7p.m. 88 30.10 SE p.m.

82 3010 5 11p.m. 78 S0.10 SW Saturday a.m. 7S 30.10 SW 24-hour high Icmperaturc, 91 Low, 73 21-hour precipitation, none.