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AEOOSiCOK 4m Rain Likely; Highs In 60s Weather Focut Page 2 22 PAGES 15 CENTS Maine's largest Daily Newspaper Yesterday's Sale 79,733 VOL. 84 NO. 14 BANGOR, MAINE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 Court Upholds Panel A On McGovern Delegates primary had agreed to abide by the winner-take-all provision. "Now suddenly what wai clear is to be changed," he said. "All of a sudden, after it was over, a challenge was filed." The action was tantamount to the game and then asking that it be played over, he said.

It was essential that the court settle the matter before the convention convenes Monday. until the convention seats were actually denied. They returned to the legal battleground after the committee voted 71 to 61 to seat the Daley challengers. The California controversy was argued first in Hart's courtroom. Joseph L.

Rauh, attorney for the McGovern forces, argued in his suit seeking a temporary injunction that all parties involved in the California WASHINGTON (UPI -A federal judge Monday upheld a decision by the Democratic Credentials Committee that stripped Sen. George S. McGovern of 153 convention votes In the big California convention delegation. U.S. District Judge George L.

Hart Jr. also sustained the committee's order unseating Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 of his followers from the Illinois convention delegation. The judge had announced before ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington had arranged to hear further arguments Tuesday, no matter what his decisions were.

Hart said the question of whether a winner-take-all pri- mary was fair was "something to be determined by the convention itself and is not a matter for this court." He said the issue did not raise a "constitutional question. Hart also rejected the Democratic National Committee's request for a counter injunction against an Ulinois state court, which is to rule Wednesday on a Daley request for an order barring the convention from seating the anti-Daley challengers as directed by the Credentials Committee. Attorneys for both unseated groups asked Hart to issue an injunction blocking their expulsion. McGovern, front-runner for the nomination but still shy of the 1,509 votes needed for victory, had a major stake in the two cases. In addition to the 153 delegates stripped from him in California, 41 of those who replaced uncommitted Daley supporters in the Chicago delegation were pledged to McGovern's cause.

It marked the second time the Chicago issue was before Hart. Prior to the credentials committee vote in favor of the challengers, he ruled last week' in Daley's favor on grounds the party could not require the voting public to comply with a quota in choosing delegates. He was reversed temporarily by the appeals court however on grounds no injury was suffered Muskie Keeps Powder Dry I 1 TJ" By DONALD R. LARRABEE NEWS Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The benign presidential campaign of Edmund S. Muskie is poised like a Fourth of July skyrocket waiting for ignition at Miami Beach next week.

The Maine Senator, enjoying the holidays at home, is keeping his powder dry and his optpons open but his are busy arranging a full-scale, fully-staffed operation at the Americana Hotel and at facilities adjacent to convention hall. Sen. Muskie will carry a more active candidacy into Miami Beach than has been publicly visible," deputyhconvention manager Thomas D. Finney said Monday. "We may be proved wrong but we're gearing up to win the whole thing." Finney, an Olahoma veteran of numerous conventions and a law-partner of former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, predicts that the Muskie presidential campaign will be fully operational by thps Saturday.

(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1. Hi i I 'rw wv Storm-Beaten Ketch At Bangor Restrainer Runs Out In School Case Members of the ketch Topsy come ashore at Bangor by small boat as battered sailing vessel lies anchored in Penobscot River. (NEWS Photo by Mary Ware) Sometimes, Crew Of Topsy Chess Match May Be On, Purse Upped REYKJAVIK (UPI)-Icelan-dic Radio Monday night reported American challenger Bobby Fischer had accepted a new money offer from a British banker and would be prepared to come to Iceland to play world champion Boris Spassky for the chess world championship title. However, Icelandic officials and Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said they could not confirm the report. The radio said Fischer's lawyer," Paul Marshall, had contacted wealthy British in vestment banker Jim Slater, who offered earlier Monday to double the prize money to $250,000 to entice the 29-year-old, unpredictable American to play the 24-game series against the Russian world champion. "I have heard nothing of this, but I have heard there are some stories in the London newspapers about this," Dr. Euwe said. At the same time, he expressed fear that Spassky may not play, although he said he bad no definite indications from the Russians.

He said he based this on Spassky's statement Monday, in which the world champion said he had never given permission for the "hiatch to be postponed. "This money is more than the 30 per cent of the gate receipts Fischer has asked for in addition to the prjze money and I do hope that he will now decide to corae here and play," Dr. Max FAiwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said. The offer was communicated to Paul jg. Marshall, a lawyer representing Fischer in New York where the 29-year-old chess star was in hiding, Icelandic Radio said.

Marshall was not immediately available for comment. The 24-game match between Fischer and the Russian world champion wag scheduled to (Continued On Page 2, Col. 3) uiuii i i riiiiK weu iuaKe 11 Weather Outlook Gloomy On Holiday By TED SYLVESTER NEWS Rockland Bureau ROCKLAND It was a joyous reunion in the pre-dawn hours Monday when 15 members of three families greeted sons, daughter and grandchild aboard the storm-wrecked Brix-ham ketch Topsy. The 110-foot Coast Guard Snohomish pulled into Rockland harbor shortly before 5 a.m. with the 53-foot Topsy lashed to its starboard side like a mother hen with a baby chick under its wing.

Aboard the ketch, which battled the Jury of the sea for 25 of 41 days until it was taken in tow by the Snohomish Sunday night, were the owner and skipper Calvert Sproul, 31, his wife Charlene, 25, their 18-month-old son, Calvert Sproul III; brothzrs Thomws, 24, and Leon 20, all of Orring-ton; and William Gaudette, 23, of Hampden. The adventure started early in March when the Sprouls and crew flew to Plymouth, England to purchase the Topsy. The sister ship is named the Turvy. As it turned out, the Atlantic crossing was a topsy-turvy affair. The first few days out of port were made in gale winds, Sproul recalled.

The ship was pulled up, a I and repainted. After putting in a limited stores for the expected 25-26 day crossing, the Topsy left the Canary Islands on May 25. Equipped with only a transistor radio to receive weather reports, the vessal ran just ahead of hurricane Agnes. The first three days out of Canary Islands were made in "force eight "We were then becalmed for the next 12 days," Sproul said. During this time, the Topspy was making 100-110 miles a day on its voyage.

On about June 8 they ran into a tropical depression, and experienced rough seas for the next 24 to 25 days. Besieged with difficulties almost from the time they set sail from Plymouth, England, late in (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) ASHLAND A temporary restraining order prohibiting School Administrative District 32 board members from destroying a petition of citizens opposed to superintendent Carl E. Heilsberg has expired, but the suit against the school district remains pending, Superior Court officials noted Monday. The temporary restraining order, Issued by Judge James A.

Archibald, was allowed to run out by attorneys for the district and the superintendent' following an agreement among the attorneys that the petition would be preserved. Heilsberg, who has been notified by the joint committee of the SAD board and the plantation of Nashville that his contract will not be renewed beyond June 30, 1973, had contended that board members refused to let him see a petition which requested bis contract not be renewed. A hearing on the temporary restraining order had been set for June 28, but the attorneys reportedly concurred that it wasn't necessary. However, Heilsberg's suit, which contends his contract is vald through June of 1974, has not been adjudicated. No date has been" set for a hearing on that.

the hour the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed 196 years ago. The First Parish was created long before the Revolution and its bell has been rung for every great national since before the nation was bom. The bell-ringing will call the citizenry to a brief ceremony on the church steps. Among the speakers will be Maj. Gen.

Edwin M. Hey wood, the state's adjutant general, and Mayor Gerard P. Conley. Highway traffic was reported moderate on the Main Turnpike. A dispatcher said it was just about normal for July 3 and there were no tie-ups in spite of thundershowers in southwestern sections of the state.

Three traffic deaths, and two drownings, were reported ear-lie'r ini the long holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The "Glorious Fourth" is expected to be somewhat less than glorious in Maine from a weather point of view. The weatherman said Monday the picture looks like this: Rain starting during the night in the southwest will move through the rest of the state on the holiday. Skies will gradually clear in the southwest but there may be more showers What effect all this will have on such traditional Fourth of July observances as parades and fireworks remained to be seen. Iq Maine's largest city, Portland, the holiday program includes 50 peals from the ancient bell in the steeple of the First Parish (Unitarian) Church. The bell will start ringing at 2 p.m., in commemoration of Mirror Employed As SOS Foe Again Pounds Hue With Shells BY KEN BUCKLEY Of the NEWS Staff For a the crew ot "Topsy" flashed SOS's in the Atlantic with a mirror off the side of an automobile.

"We didn't want rescue as much as we wanted communication," Calvert Sproul 32, skipper of the 61-year-old Brix-ham vessel, said Monday night from his Orrington residence. "That's why we also flashed the letter 'K'," he added, after 41 days at sea on a diet of raw potatoes, salt and corned beef, sometimes eaten between 35-foot waves as crew members took shifts lashed to the helm. It was something of a Swiss Family Robinson story for Sproul, his wife, and 21-month-oid son, and three other crew members. "There were a lot of times we thought we were gone," the man who had sailed the Atlantic twice before recalled. "But we couldn't give up, we had to fight our way out.

If we hadn't, I wouldn't be here talking to you." was r. very rouoli trip," Sproul said. "But 'I couldn't have asked for a better crew." Sproul has traveled extensively by boat, but he claimed "I've never seen seas as rough as the ones we experienced." But Sproul, who did his own navigation without radio in seas like that by the time anyone reached you who would need a radio maintained he was "right on course, despite loss of the mizzzn, top mast and bowspirit," and a pogtion of the rudder. One hundred and fifty miles east of Bermuda, "Topsy's" crew ran into a "tropical or, Agnes the hurricane. The storm ripped the roof off the gajley.

Then the engine's exhaust started to pumphinto the cabin, "we had to patch it up." After leaving Plymouth Eng- yy-f all A X. land, they sailed down the channel in rough seas. "One wave picked us up and twisted us around, 90 degrees there was nothing under us and broke the Sproul said "we were driven 80 miles back to Gqrnsey." While they recaulked the boat, Sproul said his wife decided on the purple or, tropical midnight, hull color. The diet was Sproul said, "because we had spent so much on repairs." Only his 21-month-old son ate better. No one touched the baby's provisions.

Crewman William Gaudett, 23, of Hampden, dropped 50 pounds, though, ff his 220 pounds, Sproul said. The skipper said he was "still on course" Sunday when the Coast Guard spotted them. "We had so littlz left of the rudder left," he said that they didn't want to risk navigating the rocky coast. Sproul didn't even bemoan the loss of the ship's dinghy, believing that he was on a much better lifeboat than anything "Topsy" could carry. The ultimate goal for the skipper is to rig "Topsy" into a staysail schooner.

"It's much easier to charter it this way," he explained, and will take away the 28-foot boom that "becomzs quite a club" in rough weather. Before selling his house in Orrington, Sproul said he was intent on purchasing a Baltic Trader in Denmark. "But you could smell the dry rot in them. "Topsy" is sound," he said proudly. His wife said a London yacht broker put them in contact with (Continued on Page 2, Col.

I) SAIGON (UPI)-Communtst forces launched a heavy artillery barrage Monday against Hue and six military outposts guarding approachei to the old Imperial Capital. Artillery shells crashed irto Hue for the second consecutive day, and rockets, mortars and artillery hit the bases situated in an arc from five to 18 miles from the city considered a major objective of the 3-month-old North Vietnamese offensive. Casualties and damage were reported to be light despite the fact that an estimated 675 shells were used in the seven barranges. In Quang Trl province, where a South Vietnamese force launched a major counter offensive five days ago, a fierce battle was reported Monday across the Truong Phuoc river two miles south of the provincial capital, also called Quang Trl. Both sides threw tanks and artillery into the ficht.

and U.S. i CUS on the inside Force B52 bombers and Air jet tactical fighters North Vietnamese smaller attacked linns Obituaries 2 Radio-TV 20 Sportg gg Sylvia Porter is Weather 2 Full County, Slate News 13, 14 Search For Belongings Vietnamese civilians search through Hue City Sunday. Over 40 rounds landed the wreckage in their homes caused as within the city, causing 12 dead and Communist artillery and rockets hit over 40 wounded, mostly civilians. (UPI Photo) Amusements 12 Classified Ads 16 19 Comics 21 Editorial 10 Feature Page 11 Financial 15, 1I Modern Living 4, Meanwhile, the U.S. command in Saigon, making its weekly report on troop strength, said 6,000 American servicemen had i been withdrawn last week, reducing tht (Continued On Page 2, Cm.

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