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1 FI'''''1 1 I it t1 I ra ORT IITORTH TAR' I 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 ELEGRAm M34 0 Page in 3 I ect ions 1 PRICE TEN CENTS UI It NINETY-SECOND YEAR NO 155 ECOND YEAR NO 755 TUESDAY JULY 4 1972 BIGGER BUDGET REQUESTED BY CITY COUNCIL 1 1 '-'74 lc Li i i 4 ed Hike Ask 21IcCent I 4 Valuation Pushed To Limit 1 Secretary's Job on Legal Side A legal secretary's 17-year-o1d 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 "I 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 Secretary's JoE on Legal Side 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 tax es raised to their charter-set limit of $190 per $100 valuation ity 21- ing n't es set 100 WRONG KIND OF CHICK 4 I i I -4' -1torh i 3--- tx1 vp-'e'''' 11 -4 3 1 i A i A' 1 0011' 114 -44 '70o 1 6 1 '''o- IA 'io- ''''t -Ip ot I ir 4i IP 1 i 11 i 4 'A 14' t' i '-'i If I 4 $4114 eia'1 I t' 4 4 4 -ole lot 't -c- 1- 4 1 4- I it 4 be- --7''' -i it A'' i 1 1 1 '6k NN --4-8- 1 4 4 7 i' Levp A 0 '11 g--- 41 1 4-' 4 "7 11 I 4 to'W tr eio A 4 4 Nt 1 1 i 1 41 I '--cc4: I I i A I 4 1f' 1 it 0 rniv 6 1 1: d'' i II it I 1 le' 1 411' '111:" k' 1 7 11 1 1 ic 1 0011 i' 4 '4-: i eAe lilt ii4-- -t i 4 ta 1 lit i 11 w4- 44 fr 1 1 I 'F it 4 -4 1 1 o11 ti 41 1 3 ---t vto 1141 3- 4 I 1 i 1- 9 '141000e i el 1 0 119 I li lit 4 I tr- A 1 wre i 1 1 I 0 i'''' --) 1 i 1 r4T- i 0 0 1 4 1 3- 1 3 1 3 4 i'- 4i- ::0 1-- 4 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 friends "is that a strip joint?" The decision came during a preliminary budget session in which City Manager Rodger Line predicted that general fund expenditures will overrun revenues by $1651585 If the council adds $2286000 in employe raises a survey indicated were justified the total overrun would amount to $3937585 Line said ig a in iger eral es a Line Jack Staley of Wichita Falls was in Fort Worth last Wednesday And he says: "Some nice thoughtful person saved me a hot tire change on my way back by pinning a note on my parked car advising me a tire was about to blow" Ile adds: "I always did like Fort Worth I BAD DAY FOR IRISH TOO Dee Kelly and a friend were whewing over the heat one day last week "My two-year-old Siberian Husky doesn't think much of these 105-degree readings" said the friend "I've got news for you" said Kelly mopping Ids brow "They don't particularly appeal to this 42-year-old Irishman!" Robert Snow had to baby-sit his daughter Amberly 6 one recent morning But he didn't let it interfere with his golf plans Ile took her along Ile played with Kenneth Martin and McCoy and he kept cautioning Ambe rl "Be quiet!" "Be still!" "Move back!" Amberly curiously finally asked as Marlin started a swing: "What's the matter Daddy? Does he hit them backwards?" AN AD VALOREM tax increase of 21 cents per $100 valuation on the anticipated 1972-73 tax base assessed at 55 per cent of market value would bring in $3063690 Line said not enough to overcome the projected deficit The current tax rate raised last year is $169 "So we got a 2I-cent increase we know that" said Mayor Pro Tern Ted Pelers near the end of the afternoon session "Set your budget on that" Councilwoman Margret Rimmer told Line "and cut out everything that doesn't fit it If we get revenue sharing we can put it all back in and if we don't we'll cut it out That's it" Ifer statement appeared to sum up the sentiment of the seven council members who attended the session Councilmen Taylor Candy and John O'Neil were absent )ated at alue Line come 'alsed 'it in- said Pe-after-that" Rim-it out 't fit raring and out 'ed to )f the who Ster-Telrgrri Munro by Wilburn Davin antique cars such as this 1929 Ford owned by Vern Boyd of Hurst The Dixie Dudes all of Richland Bills include left to right Smith Tommy Duer Wayne Mathews Nancy Linder Chuck Keding and Dale Taylor with flag (Related story on Page 4A) RALLY 'ROUND THE Dixie Dudes will be featured enter tainers at the third annual patriotic rally at 7:15 pm Tuesday in Eirdville Stadium The rally sponsored by the Haltom-Richland Area Chamber of Commerce to mark July 4 also will include a parade of emo CommitteeVotesto Seat Texans Despite 16 Challenges 2 Koreas Sign Pact To Reunify INSIDE INDEX Plan Devised For Ex-Teacher against minorities which she witnessed in the Texas delegate election process She said she was not a black who could be "bought out sold out or leased out" By CANDY LEINWEBER Star-Telegram Washington Bureau Democratic Credentials Committee voted 76-40 Monday to seat the Texas delegation as currently constituted at the national convention in Miami Beach next week challenged the state on the basis of black under-representation especially in a Dallas and a Houston district Mrs Johnson's reAul ion would have replaced four white male delegates wl'n three black women and one Mexican-American delegat! It would have put her as delegate to the convention in the 'place of Runnels from the 4th Senatorial District hi Beaumont! 4 (hie of Mrs Johnson's contemporaries on the committee Mack Wallace of Athens had some unkind words for the black Dallasite after tivi vote was taken 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 Maj Gen and Mrs James Men and Col and Mrs Clifford Pollock of Carswell Air Force Base were honored with a farewell party Sunday Page la ination against minorities especially blacks in the makeup of the delegation The 130-member delegation to be seated in Miami am-thins 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 73 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 credentials committee member Eddie Bernice Johnson which LINE SAID it will cost an estimated $42724450 to run general fund departments next fLcal year as this fiscal year's level of service "That's about $202000 In additional costs for essentially the same thing" he declared a result of inflation To that figure Line recommen ding adding $2115206 that he thinks the city is committed to spend A breakdown Included: to subsidize operations of a city-acquired bus company representing an 8 per cent increase in equipment rental rates for city participation in the Surtran transportaTurn to City on Page 2 1st an run ments fiscal 00 In de-on ecom115206 5 comkdown bus an 8 2 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 NV in 's Political Caucus 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 IN OPPOSING the seating of the regular Texas delegation Mrs Johnson said although she supported Sen Hubert lurriphrey she was lot part of a Ilumphrey-Alabama Coy George Wallace coalition against Sen George MeGw ern "Eddie Bernice Johnson who soundly defeated in the senatorial district caucus to be a delegate to the national convention attempted to run as a candidate for a del-gate position to the natiord convention before the whole credentials comMittee" he said "Site was turned down ny Turn to Demo on Page 2 Page Page Amlisements 12-13A Bridge Classified Ads 7-15C Comics 6 Crossword 14C Dtath Notices 7C Editorial BA Jumble 10A Markets 45C Oil 6C Sports 1-3C TV Log 10A Weather Map 7C Woman's World 1-4B 10A 45C 6C She said she was just to the diseriminatiol THE OTHER 15 challenges concerned charges of diserim (t) 1972 New York Times News Service SEOUL South Korea High-level representatives of North Korea and South Korea talked secretly in Pyongyang and Seoul recently and agreed on principles to reunify their divided nation by peaceful means according to a joint communique issued here Monday The communique said that Hu flak Lee director of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency visited Pyongyang May 2-5 for talks with Young Joo Kim director of the Organizaton and Guidance Department of the North Korean Workers Party and that second vice-premier Park-Sung Chul of North Korea visited Seoul May 29-June 1 for further talks with Lee on behalf of Kim Kim is a younger brother of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung IT WAS THE first time that any government representatives of the two Koreas had held direct bilateral talks on the problems of the Korean unification since the nation was divided in 1945 The communique was read by Lee at a nationally televised news conference in the auditorium of the Central Intelligence Agency in suburban Seoul The announcement said that the two sides had agreed on the following three "principles for unification of the fatherland" unification shall he achieved through independent Korean efforts without being Turn to Two on Page 2 EDWARD KENNEDY-TRIAL AND ERROR-Ill indecision Stamped on Story of Bridge Mishap All Fischer Needed Was a Check Mate bridge reading herself to sleep underneath an open uindow looked up and heard a ear "going fairly fast" head ed in the direction of the Dike elf to card a head-of the (Editor's Note: In Monday installment the a uthor told how Kennedy returned to the cottage where the party was in progress offer his car flipped off the bridge into the pond Paul Markham and Joey Gargan returned with him to the bridge where they attempted unsuccessfully to recover the body of Mary Jo Kopechne from the submerged wreck Series continues daily in the Morning Star-Telegram) 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 explanntion" why the two took that wrong turn at 11:30 or 50 Ills breakaway mood ushered in very often by a display of his exhilarated leprechaun humor that momentary mock rouguishness: the road turned one envisions him swinging the wheel right hard Mary Jo who knew him slightly would presumably have known Bobby well enough to sense Kennedy's mood Two bumpy minutes later the daughter of the closed-mouth Mrs Maim who kept the house overlooking the FAien 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 in fact states explicitly that he had left the macadamized road unintentionally A MATTER of weeks after the incident itself submitting to a private interview on 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 Kennedy himself respect-Jolly cornered several times ty Dist Atty Edmund Dinis and more openly by a dubious Judge Boyle on this question csadly kept picking it up each time wherever it looked most harmless "At what point Mr Kennedy" Denis would later ask him "did you realize that you were driving on a dirt road?" Kennedy: "Just sometime when I was I don'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" "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" yes" slowly lively Iligent one to gave and I as the than I'd By BURTON HERS' 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 up the gravel road and off the bridge EVERYBODY KNEW although nobody was about to Turn to Recounting on Page 74 JEST A MINUTE Not too long ago rock was only something you did in a chair Independence Day: Fly Your Flag Today a I A.

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