Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 1

lit AliawavidivarIkANVAiAlb 11' 1 MORNING Fa WORT TARTELEG AM THUNDER FOURTH The Fourth of July Tuesday will be partly cloudy with a chance of thundershowers The highs will be in the 80s with a low in the low 70s 34 Pages in 3 Sections PRICE TEN CENTS TUESDAY JULY 4 1972 NINETY-SECOND YEAR NO 155 COUNCIL ASKS 21-CENT TAX BOOST clo'-e astlainl 7 i it A i 1 1 Reolv'estpd Secretary's Job on Legal Side Valuation Pushed To Limit A legal secretary's 17-year-old son brought home a doll about 15 a My Friend Irma type She wanted to know what sort of work her boyfriend's mother did "I'm a secretary" the mother said "What kinds of secretaries are there?" the girl asked "1 think I'd like to be one" The boy chimed in explaining that his mother worked for lawyers "She's a legal secretary" he said The girl looking puzzled asked in a squeaky innocent little voice: "Well what other kinds are there WRONG KIND OF CHICK By MIKE BUCHHOLZ City Council told city officials Monday to prepare a 1972 -73 budget proposal based on a 21- cent tax increase paring away anything that can't be financed with taxes raised to their charter-set limit of $190 per $100 valuation Dianne Petrek a North Texas State University junior from Seymour has been looking for a job in Denton Jobs are scarce especially during the summer terms But at lunch the other day says Rennetta Davis Miss Petrek told friends that she had picked up an application from Chick A Go-Go "Oh" exclaimed one of the friend "is that a strip joint?" 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Robert Snow had to baby-sit his daughter Amber ly 6 one recent morning But he didn't let it interfere with his golf plans He took her along He played with Kenneth Martin and McCoy and he kept cautioning Amberl "Be quiet!" "Be still!" "Move back!" Amberly curiously finally asked as Martin started a swing: "What's the matter Daddy? Does he hit them backwards?" Photo by Wilburn Davis antique cars such as this 1929 Ford owned by Vern Boyd of Hurst The Dixie Dudes all of Richland Hills include left to right IL Smith Tommy Duer Wayne Mathews Nancy Linder Chuck Keding and Dale Taylor with flag (Related story on Page 4A) RALLY 'ROUND THE DiNle Dudes will be featured enter tainers at the third annual patriotic rally at 7:15 pm Tuesday in Birdville Stadium The rally sponsored by the Haltom-Richland Area Chamber of Commerce to mark July 4 also will include a parade of 7 Line added $468266 for high-priority program changes already tentatively approved subtracted $884000 for what he termed "minor prog am reductions" and came out with a tentative general fund budget for 1972- 73 totalling $44423922 Tic emphasized that the figures were preliminary and "subject to change" and that he wasn't recommending anything at this point 4 I LINE SAID that some of the committed increases and other expenses were the re-suit of deferring program last year "When you defer things" he said "it gets harder and harder to catch up and if we defer some more catching up will be that much harder next year" On the question of pay increases Line said the $23 million figure came from a salary survey that indicated what raises were needed to bring salaries to levels comparable to those paid in other cities of similar size and in private business The wage hikes would not be acrossthe-board however but selective he said and he refused to discuss to which group of employes they would apply if approved If council members okayed the increases at the figure justified by the survey Line commented later a majority of city employes would get raises Line's revenue estimates were gloomy The property tax base Is expected to increase in 1972-73 by $60 million over that of 1971-72 to a ot al of $1504024440 But with a projected collection rate of 97 per cent and no tax increase Line figured that the property tax would bring in only $983580 in additional revenue to the three city funds supported by the ad valorem tax general library and park and recreation Income from operations at Turn to City on Page 2 7T-(-h 16 -'Challenges 2 Brothers Victims In Slayings INSIDE INDEX Plan Devised For Ex-Teacher against minorities which slie witnessed in the Texas delegate election process She said she was not a black who could be "bought out sold out or leased out" One of Mrs Johnson's contemporaries on the committee Mack Wallace of Athens had some unkind words for the black Dallasite after the vote was taken By BOB-RAY SANDERS Star-Telegram Writer MINERAL shotgun blasts Monday afternoon on a farm 512 miles southwest of here Palo Pinto County Sheriff Bill Harris said Elmer Pruitt 62 clad only in his undershorts was found in the bedroom of his farm house' The body of his brother Delma Pruitt 60 of Hobbs NM was found in the backyard about 20 yards from the house The attorney for retired teacher Miss Ethel Heath 82 said Monday an arrangement has been made which may allow her to remain in her home instead of being committed to Wichita Falls State Hospital Page 3A American Chris Evert and defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon tennis championships Monday Story on Page IC Maj Gen and Mrs Jales Allen and Col and Mrs Clifford Pollock of Carswell Air Force Base were honored with a farewell party Sunday Page IB ination against minoritiesespecially blacks in the makeup of the delegation The 130-member delegation to be seated in Miami contains 39 women 18 Mexican-Americans 13 blacks and 29 youths age 18-30 Claudia Brummett of Amarillo a Texas credentials committee member said she was not a bit surprised at the outcome of the delegation vote because the Texas contingent had 78 signatures as seconds to their seating resolution at noon Monday She said the only two votes they had expected and didn't get were from Hawaii delegates Hawaii sponsored a resolution by another Texas tials committee member Ed die Bernice Johnson which challenged the state on the basis of black under-representation especially in a Dallas and a Houston district Mrs Johnson's resolution would have replaced four white male delegates wit three black women and one Mexican-American delegat! It would have put her as a delegate to the convention in the place of Runnels from the 4th Senatorial District Beaumont IN OPPOSING the seating of the regular Texas delegation Mrs Johnson said although she supported Sen Hubert Humphrey he was not part of 21 Humphrey-Alabama Coy George Wallace coalition against Sen George MeGrvern She said she was just posed to the discriminatiol ByCANDY LEINWEBER StarTalogram Washington Bum Democratic Credentials Committee voted 76-40 Monday to seat the Texas delegation as currently constituted at the national convention in Miami Beach next week After' 112 hours of debate the committee voted to seat the 130-member delegation despite 16 challenges One-challenge presented by Helen Cassidy of the Texas Women 's PolitiCal Cauctts charged the delegation was "under-representative" women and that the state party did not take any "affirmative action" to involve women in the Democratic party process' THE OTHER15 'challenges concerned charges of discrim "Eddie Bernice Johnsoa Who was soundly defeated in the senatorial district caucus to be a delegate to the national convention attempted to run as a candidate for a de12- gate position to the nationll convention before the whole credentials committee" he said "She was turned down 'by Turn to Demo on Page 2 Page Jumble 10A Markets 45C Oil GC Sports 1-3C TV Log 10A Weather Map 7C Woman's World 1-4B Page Amusements 12-13A Bridge 3B Classified Ads 7-15C Comics 6 Crossword 14C Death Notices 7C Editorial 8 EDWARD KENNEDY-TRIAL AND ERROR-III Indecision Stamped on Story of Bridge Mishap 1 14 All Fischer Needed Was a Check Mate IIARRIS SAID law'enforcement- officials are searching for a 17-year-o1d Mineral Wells youth and a missing car that had belonged to Delma Pruitt Autopsies on the bodies were performed by a private pathologist Monday night in Fort Worth The Star-Telegram learned that the elder Pruitt was shot at close range inthe right eye and at long range in the left side of the chest and abdomen Delma Pruitt who apparently dragged himself outside to where he was found was shot at close range in the baek ALL OF THE injuries were said' to'have been inflicted by shotgun blasts and the head and hack' wounds were- described as "contact wounds" meaning the muzzle of the guniwas orythe bodies when it Avasfirecl officers Temoved bridge' reading herself to Sleep underneath an open Window looked up and heard a ear "going fairly fast" head NI in the direction of the Dike two took that wrong turn at 11:30 or so His breakaway mood ushered in very often by a display of his exhilarated leprechaun humor Old momentary mock rouguishness: the road turned one envisions him swinging the 'wheel right 'bard EVen Kennedy's morning-after police report while indicating that the senator was headed ultimately toward the ferry landing was 'Unfamiliar with the road and turned left -where he might normally'have been expected to turn right never la- factstates explicitly that he had left the macadAriiizeeroad unintentionally 4 NEW YORK (AP) Bobby Fischer who held out right down to the line for more money for his world championship chess match in Iceland got it from a British banker Monday and flew to Iceland with only hours to spare As Fischer was airborne from Kennedy Airport a few minutes after 9 pm CDT he had just 10 hours to make the five-hour flight and prepare himself for the noon (7 am CDT) deadline for the start of preliminary activities before beginning the match in Reykjavik with Soviet champion Boris' Spassky The 29-year-old Fischer whose dislike of press coverage and photographs in particular is well known was sneaked aboard the plane a half-hour before take off Kennedy himself respect- -fully 'cornered several times ty Dist Atty Edmund Dins and more openly by a dubious Judge Boyle on this question exactly- kept picking it up' each time' wherever it looked pitist harmless -what point Mr- Koinerienis would later ak tin) "did you realize that you Averedriving'on a dirt4road?" Kennedy: "Just sometim when I was I flon't'remember any specific time Dinis: "Did you realize at that moment that you were not heading for the ferry?" Kennedy: "At 'the moment I went off the bridge I certainly did" Note In 'Monday's installment- theaut r-told how returned to the cottage where the party 41in progress after his car flipped off the bridge into the pand-: Paul' Markham atid Jgcy Gar: pan refurned ivith hun tO bridge where they littottpled unsugcess fully to -recotier body of Mary Jo KOpechne from the 'milmerged ''wreck! 'Series continues daily in the Morning Star-Telegram!) By BURTON HERSH Both Markham and Gargan were later to testify that Kennedy had told 'them that he had simply missed' the turn with Mary Jo and 'jounced at 20 miles an hour np the gravel road and off the bridge "I knew Mary Jo yes" Kennedy later said slowly "She was very bright lively personable loyal Intelligent highly intelligent I'd gone to the party the Ilacketts gave for the girls in January and I think I think that was the only other time other than during the campaign I'd talked really with Mary Jo" Mary who 'knew him slightly would 'presumably have Bobby well enough to sense Kennedy's Tarn to 2 Brothers on Page 2 A MATTER of weeks after' the 'incident itself' submitting to a private interview an the details eyes tormented wringing an invisible handkerchief until his knuckles whitened Kennedy again ducked a query as to this matter exactly insisting only that there-was a "reasonable JEST A MINUTE Not too long ago rock was only something you did in a chair mood: Two btimpy fililltiteS later the 'daughter Of the closed-mouth Mrs Malm who kept the house overlooking the EVERYBODY KNEW although nobody was about to Turn to Recounting on Page 17A Independence Day: Fly Your Flag Today i '-I- 10 NW minumMniliminillorA.