Fort Worth Star-Telegram du lieu suivant : Fort Worth, Texas • 1

looVVr114-11NPW4PP The Ghost of July 4ths Past: lookir Wow! I B000rnmil By MIKE BOYKO fl'N 1972 Chicago Daily News Every 4th ot July mornin I hear the same stralge sound It is Slats Grobniks voice He is in front of tte house yelling: "Yoh-ha b0000-h0000 can yot come out?" He is out on the sidewa'k and he has a big brown pa per bag in his arms Ha points at it with a bony fia ger We meet in the gangway a few minutes later Ile opens the bag "Lookit" he hisses "Wow" I gasp garages above the power lines beyond the rooftops almost disappearing in the clouds Then it falls slowly and clatters on the pavement Slats picks it up The um-pen end is puffed out the Inside scorched by the force of the explosion "Lookit" he hisses "Boy" I hiss "Boy -n cy "Let's try it with a coffee can" he hisses We blow np the coffee can Then we shaot up two juice cans at the same time Somebody comes out on a back porch in his underwe top and shakes his fist WE TOSS a zebra fin-cracker into his yard then turn and trot quietly up th alley and into the street As we trot we toss torpedoes against the brick wa11 of buildings leaving a wave of milosions behind us "Torpedoes are just as load as cherry bombs" I shout "INI1 they're not" Slats shouts He puts the can over it so only the wick sticks out He lights a punk with a match waves it till the tip 13 red then he touches the punk to the cherry bomb wick And jumps back THE SOUND bounces off the garages and the houses It rattles windows and shakes porcnes Mortar trickles frm between bricks Cats Dogs howl The can leaps toward the sky climbing higher than the THERE ARE zebras by the package and cherry bomos torpedoes a skyrockets more zebras pinwheels in other great stuff "Wherejagettim" I hiss "Gvnatruck cameroun' num" he hisses "Boy" I hiss "Boy en boy" "Let's go" he hisses Ani we trot quietly out of the gangway and into the alley He finds an empty sou') can Then he takes a thick stubby cherry bomb out of 012 bag and puts it on the ground "Well they're as loud as ze bras" I shout "Yeah" he shouts banging a torpedo against the candy store wall "Don't waste 'em" Slats yells lighting an entire paci- age of zebras and tossing it on Witek's porch "I won't" I yell lighting ah entire package of zebras all dropping them into Lynch's mailbox "They got to last all day" Slats yells laying out a row of torpedoes en the street tracks "I know" I yell aiming a rocket at the school windows to to to WE TROT down the street as the streetcar sets off a chain of explosions and Lync't's mailbox sails into the yard and rkli Witek's porch trembles and a school window ruffers a dircct hit "This is more fun than l'e had in years" Slats yells "Me too" I cackle Everybody in the neiglibir hood is outside shaking their lists We trot faster At the end tr the block on the corner all the guys are waiting Slats br the Fats Big Heal Louie Sneaky Tony Crazy Birdy And they all have brown paper bags We trot faster But we don't get any closer All the guys start fading away disappearing And Slats starts disappearing It happens every 4th of July morning And Im awakenod by the same sound It's the alarm clock I listen for the "Yo-olo-h0000h0000 Carl you come out" Nothing Ahhh nuts 4 Fo Wo 4 TARATEL GRAM EVENING LARGEST COMBINED DAILY CIRCULATION IN TEXAS 46 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS TUESDAY JULY 4 1972 A FORT WORTH-OWNED NEWSPAPER 92ND YEAR NO 155 10 CENTS 4 0 0 BD 0 Rdlc02 aftell 6- '47 io 41c41- i i 11- 17: k' tr: i A 0 kr 2 i 1 4 1 's i i 4 'i' i )'1 1 i )ii' l''''''' 1 4: 1 sk4 ''t'': riokil 2' i 4''' 51 Al II t3' '4 4" 0 tt t'' 'A i k' 0 e- A :6 1 iii 1 i itl 114 PI 1 i 4ti i t' 'i 1 r'- 11' t' ''-s 'x' i 4 sl ftz' i I r' ''--1: 1 l': 'L i A' 'i i 'N 1 I ie Ws s''" 1r 4" 'nv '4 0 4 -re'4 'i 'Al i 4 ir: Ir 4 Iv f- 741 tor W1''' rV i 'f -1 e' po Mt 04' 4: i'- 44- 6 40- i41 i p- 4: 4 ff i i 4' 41 I '''''1'1 It 'l i 1 i7 set1' '4' 7 '7 0 4 0-t' 11 ''k-- iiroPs -t-' 'L's -I 4 1 41 (7-1 g' Ill SS INIC if a' 'Is 4' ''t 1 4 "''44 S''1 41 'S i''' 1 'A 'N AiI Funds for FW School Are Halved I OD i 4i I Z' I 4 1 4 i 1 t4'''' i' l' '''''3: 1 I 4: (- 4-: 7 Lii- -5 CI c14 4 v' 0 4 11 -t 1 41' it i ::4:::: 'i: "-i '4''' '7' ir-'-''' 1'' 'i i -L X' 11 2 I si 4: i i' vi' 54 '1? le11 sj i -1 1 IciL('-'14:" 04i4v t' '4: 0 0 V''' -i t4sigamti: By BOB RAIN Star-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN The Joint Conference Committee on Appropriations wrapped up a $4 billion no-new-tax state budget for fiscal 1973 shortly before noon today which calls for $8594 million from the general revenue fund "The bill will certify" said Lt Gov Ben Barnes This means the state comptroller will say there is enough money in the general fund to finance the spending program effective Sept I In last-minute action the conferees cut in half a previous allocation for construction of a new school for the mentally retarded in Fort Worth I Photo by TONY RECORD Mr and Mrs Lindy Temple of 2233 Lipscomb plans to be among the flagwaving curb-setters watching the Ryan Place Addition parade SOL LOVES A PARADE-1'11(Tc will he parades and July Fourth festivities galore today throughout Tarrant County Sharon Temple daughter of NOT SO Mindy Peri Ila Press Wirephoto doesn't like for Zippy the chimp to be monkeying and skate exhibition for spectators who didn't flee around so close Zippy 4 years old put on a bike New York City for the holiday weekend Spassky Walkout Causes Chess Match Postponement uties Patriotic Practitioners Be (Picture on Page 4A) They are the young women competing here for the title Miss Texas this week and July 4 is not only a meaningful day of patriotic observance but also the eve of the By DEnBIE sTEwii LIT The Fourth of July has a double significance for 65 Fort Worth visitors first round of competition imperfections they see in Contestants interviewed he- their country tween the ages of 18 and 23 Hopefuls from small towns said they support and prac- aid they believe the traditice patriotism although they 'Tonal observances of the do not necessarily condone Fourth of July are stronger there than in large cities "THE PEOPLE I'm around have more patriotism than in big cities" said 18-year-old Danita Bronson Miss Sulphur Springs "You seem to follow the older generation more in a small town" A "COMPROMISE" resulted in $1 million being earmarked tor preparation of the Si te about 200 acres north of Loop 820 and west of Tarrant County Junior College's south campus plus construction of an administration Sen Tom Creighton of Ntineral Wells said hp was "disappointed" that $2 million originally called for could not be retained in the appropriation hill Creighton said the full committee decided priorities called for halving the allotment and allocating an extra $1 million for mental health community centers Ile pointed Out the $1 mil-Turn to $1 Billion on Page 2 violating rules aud wanted him punished Less than Iwo hours before the match was to begin Spas-sky and his second N'efun Geller drove to the Soviet Embassy presumably to Oilsidt with authorities in Moscow This supported the sentiment that Spassky's belated protest after a week of romlineations caused by Fisher was on Moscow's orders NIA ELAM president of the International Chess Fed eration hoped the match could he saved The new starting dale for the 21 game series was Thursday It was to have bcgun on Sunday Snassky lodged a formal protest objecting that Fischer the American challenger -has violated the rules of the match" by failing it) appear for its scheduled start on Sunday The world champion told Max Euwe presideot of the 1Vor1d Chess Federation that Turn to Spassky on Page 2 REYKJAVIK Ireland (A) The opening game of INorld chess championship was postponed again today after Russian Boris Spassky protested challenger Bobby Fischer's behavior Ind walked out of a meeting with the organizers Representatives of American grandmaster later conferred with Spassky and his aides in search of some compromise to what the organizers termed "romplicalions" Tass rims agency said Spassky accused Fischer of WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU I Ranger Reserves Deliver Miami Price Inflations Watched Miami Price Inflations SAN I I Some of the forgotten as reserve catcher Hal through as Texas earned a split against tough Kansas City with a victory Monday night Bob Lindley tells their story on Page IC CALIFORNIA ILLINOIS CASES ARGUED Page 8C "'IC 20C 1-5C 15A 9C 4A Page Amusements 6 7C Billy Graham 15A Classified 11-19C Comics 41i Crossword Inc Death Notices I IC Dixon's Horoscope 15A Ed Brice 2A Editorials Family I See By Scram-Lets Sports Tarrant Today Television Tony Slaughter Miss Bronson said she thinks half of her age group is still patriotic and embracing traditional values The other half she feels tends to shun the concept of patriotic dispJays and beliefs "With the business of the pageant I can't really stop and think of what July 4 is" Miss Bronson said "People that get so rushed in our country can't stop and think of what the day is In that sense we are losing patriotism" Eighteen-year-old Pat Miss Throckmorton from Haskell a town of 4000 population She said she was Turn to Beauties on Page 2 Delegation Decision Debated THINK IT things to neglect: worry over yesterday's misfortune concern over another's ingratitude over tomorrows A WARD Maned Story on Page 1 IA) MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Internal Revenue Service is joining three agencies in a campaign to make sure prices of food and lodging stay vvithin reasonable limits during the Democratic and Republican national conventions IRS spokesman Holger Euringer said South Florida hotel and motel operators have been sent warnings that they may not charge higher winter rates during summer months NIeanwhile the Florida Itolel and Restaurant Commission the Miami Beach Tourist Development Authority and the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce have announced they are setting up special phone lines to receive complaints of price gouging When the Republicans held their convention here in 19Q hot dogs reportedly sold for $1 75 When the Demo-rats convene next Monday a hot dog will cost 35 cents irmide THE WEATHER: Cloudy Cooler In ruling on the California challenge Judge Ilart commented "It might not be cricket it might even be dirty pool but is it unconstitutional?" his answer was that there was no clear constitutional principle involved liumphrey welcomed Hart's ruling and said the convention floor "is the proper place" to resolve the dispute Ile predicted that "a sate margin" will uphold the committee vote at the Nliarni Deitch convention next week If the rut Turn to Delegation on Page 2 (s among the challengers seated by the committee in place of the Daley contingent McGovern forces first sought a compromise in the Illinois dispute but after the Cahfornia upset they stood firmly against Daley wf SUPPOItTLItS Oh' Sen Hubert Humphrey initiated the challenge to the winner takeall aspect Of California's primary and II umphrey picked up most of the delegates taken frotn McGovern and apportioned among all Will) ran 111 that stale Geome Ilart Jr that th4! federal judiciary should stay out of the debate HART'S DECISION came in these cases: move by Sen George McGovern's earn') to overturn the Credentials Committee vole stripping him of more than I50 California delegates I fl I by Chicago Nlayor Richard Daley and 50 of his allies to upset a committee vote depriving them of seats as convention delegntes The Illinois vole gave McGovern at least 4 I support 2 4ri) WASH! NG TON Democratic factions fighttio over the party's presidental nomination today urged tiv? 1LS Circuit Court of Appel' to Credentials Conmittee decisions altering the makeup of Cali fornil and Illinois delegatills to the national convention The attorneys fighting the committee a ctions god their case during a rare ho11 day session to appeal a ion by US Ontrict ud TODAY'S cratat Fort Worth and Vicinity Mostly cloudy with thundershowers likely this afternoon Slight chance of thundershowers tonight Cooler today and tonight Decreasing cloudiness and not quite so cool tomorrow High this afternoon lower 80s low tonight upper 60s High tomorrow lower 90s Winds north easterly 10 to 15 mph Probability of rain GO per cent this afternoon and 20 per cent tonight Rain to date 871 inches normal through July 1971 Sun sets today at 8:40 rises at 0:25 tomorrow 14h temperature yesterday 91 Overnight low 75 It's wonderful to hrlong to a family with a teen-ager in it uh(2 would you grt to know your faults? 02 Gemnrel itturpt (op OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i 1 1 I.