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HAZLETON WEATHER Cloudy and rain tonight, upper 30. Tartly sunny, showers Tuesday, low 70s. andard Final Edition VOL. 107, NO 29,837 ESTABLISHED 18GG HAZLETON, PA. 18201 MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 32 Pages 15c a copy at NewKsianda Speak Panel Tries State Will Get Biggest Chunk Out Mess To Iron Budget Of Flood Aid 11 I -4' 1 1 ZJ 4 TV gy- A mv i ICommerce told task force members that one of the most desperate needs in Harrisburg is for federal help In surveying damages and the unemploy.

ment situation. Stearle Sponaugle, chairman of the Central Labor Council, urged immediate help in aiding people to restore damaged homes. Robert Whitehead, president of the Jackson Manufacturing Co. in Harrisburg, a garden (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) No Paper Tomorrow The Standard-Speaker will not be published Tuesday, Independence Day. Publication will be resumed Wednesday.

SHE'S MOVED Moving in prayer this young woman raises her arms skyward during one of several religious ceremonies at Strawberry Lake, 48 miles west of Denver. The gathering was described by a member of the Rainbow Family of Living Light as, "Astrologically it's a very spiritual time." More than 10,000 young people have gathered into a marshy Rocky Mountain meadow for the festival. (AP) Social Security Hike Bill OKd By President WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon said cuts will have to be made In other federal programs to finance the 20 per cent increase in Social Security benefits voted by Congress. Nixon issued the warning Saturday in signing the increase which will go into effect in September and is the biggest money Increase in the history of the Jocial Security program. He didn't mention the other programs that might be trimmed.

Nixon, who favored a 10 per cent hike, said the increase voted by Congress will increase the budget deficit by $3.7 billion. The Social Security increase was attached as a rider to a bill to extend the nation's debt ceiling of $450 billion through Oct. 31. The bill was vital to the government's fiscal operations and Nixon could not veto the Social Security increase without killing the entire bill. The Social Security increase also provides for future automatic hikes linked to increases in the cost of living.

Nixon praised this aspect as providing a hedge against inflation for cider Americans. Another bill signed into law will increase monthly benefits for disabled veterans by 10 per cent, starting Aug. 1. The new increases in Social Security payments mean that the pension payment to an average, retired couple will increase from $223 monthly to $271. The increases will go into effect automatically for the 28.1 million persons who are covered.

CANDIDATE AGAIN LISBON (AP) Portuguese President Americo Thomaz Rod-riques has been named a candidate for a third seven-year term by the country's only authorized political party, the National Popular Action Sroup.The announced support for the 78-year-old Thomaz by the central committee of the ruling party Saturday virtually ended the nation's July 25 presidential election before it even opened. Court Fight Starts Over Calif. Delegation ruled California's winner-take-1 nomination, although he is con-lnot WASHINGTON (AP) California supporters of Sen. George McGovern are seeking to win back in the courts the 151 California delegates they lost in the Democratic Credentials Committee. A suit was filed with the U.S.

District Court in Washington asking a restraining order (to Vietnamese Hijacker Killed by Passenger all primary, won by McGovern. The committee apportioned 151 of the state's 271 votes among presidential contenders Hubert H. Humphrey, George C. Wallace and others. McGovern, still the easy front-runner with 1,276.9 committed votes with 1,509 needed for nomination, indicated Sun day he would be willing to com promise on the challenges to the California delegation, which he lost, and to the Illinois dele gation, which his forces won.

"If I thought it would serve the interests of a stronger party and heal some of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the party, I would support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. In an effort to beef up his strength in advance of Miami Beach, McGovern said he will seek a meeting with AFL-CIO President George Meany this week. Meany is officially uncommitted in the race for the siueieu a supplier 01 och. iuu- mund S. Muskie.

The Credentials Committee. still meeting in Washington, re-i fused convention seats to Mississippi's regular Democrats late Saturday. It voted unanimously to seat the 25-member Loyalist delegation, which also was seated in 1968. The main charge was that the regular party failed to adopt the party's reform rules in picking delegates. Other challenges settled over the weekend included: Michigan The committee ruled that supporters of Gov.

Wallace could substitute three of their supporters for three delegates elected on a Wallace ticket but believed leaning to ward Sen. McGovern. It also agreed to include 10 women with one-half vote each in the :27 delegates committed to Sen. Humphrey. Maryland Wallace lost three delegates on grounds they had HARRISBURG, Pa.

(AP)-' Another attempt at finding a budget for the new fiscal year Is scheduled to begin today when six legislators meet to resolve what the full Senate and House could not accomplish in three months. The earliest a budget can be passed is Wednesday and in the meantime, the state limps with no authorization to spend any money. "They better pass it darn soon or the cries of anguish of the people will be heard loud," said Gov. Shapp after the House refused Saturday to go along with a Senate budget version. Separate bills providing $150 million for flood relief remain been apportioned according pany rules.

numpnrey picked up two of the delegates and McGovern the third. The action was a compromise proposed by Lt. Gov. Blair Lee III. Virginia Challengers in, the 4th District, involving three of four delegate seats, agreed on a compromise to share the seats on a one-half-vote-per- delegate basis.

A black woman will be added. Meanwhile, President Nixon Sunday telephoned former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell to "ex press his understanding" over Mitchell's decision to resign as the President's campaign man ager.

Mitchell, whose wife threat ened to leave him unless he resigned from politics, told Nixon that he had to meet "the one obligation which must come first: The happiness and wel fare of my wife and daughter." Clark MacGregor, counsel to the President for congressional relations, was named to sue- ceed Mitchell. would be exempt for each additional dependent up to six. Thus a family of eight would pay no taxes on income up to $8,000. The exemptions do not apply to households exceeding the maximum income ceilings by more than $1,000. If a household exceeded its income limitation by less than $1,000, it I could qualify for a partial ex- the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, and I the president of the world fed- eration, Dr.

Max Euwe, an- 1 nounced if the American chal lenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. Fischer's representatives in Iceland requested the post ponement on the grounds that 7 Die in Irish Violence Tax Breaks OKd; Drink Bill Out HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ithen voted down one bill to re-pay no taxes with an income ofemption from the 2.3 per cent duce the legal drinking age or less. Another 5750, BELFAST (AP) Seven men were killed in Belfast during a violence-ridden weekend that threatened the flimsy cease-fire in Northern Ireland and fanned fears of "eye for an eye" warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen. All seven men were shot in HARRISBURG.

Pa. (AP) The deputy director of the Small Business Administration (SBA) said today about $500 million will be available for flood relief from his agency alone, and "the biggest chunk will go to Pennsylvania." Anthony Chase said millions more will come from other federal departments. He and three other members of a special Presidential Task Force flew in for a one-day visit with community, business and union leaders in Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and Corning, N.Y. With Chase are Labor Secretary James Hodgson, Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson and Gen. George Lincoln, director of the Office of Economic Preparedness (OEP).

About 60 businessmen and union officials showed up at the Harrisburg meeting. "Our agencies, complemented by the Small Business Administration, have the existing machinery in place to do this job. We have the on-going programs and people in place to carry out this essential task," the task force members said in a joint statement. President Nixon, who signed a bill over the weekend providing $20O million in emergency funds for disaster relief, asked the task force to look at what is needed and what the federal government can do to help areas stricken by floods spawned by tropical storm Agnes. Gov.

Milton J. Shapp, who has complained that the federal response to the flood disaster has been inadequate, did not attend the meeting in Harrisburg. He and his wife were on a daylong tour of Wilkes-Barre. The OEP is providing quick, temporary aid for flood victims while the task force plan will be long-range. Edward K.

Smith, president of the Harrisburg Chamber of the head, and some were bound and hooded, the trademarks of the Irish Republican Army's execution squads. But at least two of the victims were Catholics. Although there was some speculation they had been killed by IRA punishment squads, authorities believed they were the victims of Protestant extremists. The formal selection of a suc cessor is expected after the funeral. His name will be announced by The Twelve.

Smith's death came three days after the 142-year-old church announced a reorganiza tion to handle its growing numbers. Statistics show it has grown 94 per cent throughout the world in the last 12 years. The 10th president was a member of The Twelve, which Mormons believe is the modern inheritor of Jesus Christ's Twelve Apostles, for 60 years before he was selected presi dent in January 1970 upon the death of David O. McKay. He was considered a direct link to God by Mormons, who believe their church was started by Jesus Christ, removed from the earth for some 1,800 years and restored in the United States.

The church refuses to be classified as Protestant. Smith was known as an uncompromising defender of Mornionism. lie opposed any watering down of the religion, which has ignored ecumenism with any other faith. Mormons are forbidden to use cigarettes, alcoholic drink, coffee and tea. Historically they have given at least 10 per cent of their in come to the church.

A painful issue to many liber al Mormons has been the church's ban against Negroes holding its priesthood, which all males of every other race are expected to attain. Little is said about the issue in Mormon meetings, exrept general statements on civil rights for all people. Once asked about the ban, Smith told an interviewer: "Young man, Joseph Smith did not decide that the Negro should not have the priesthood. Brlgham Young did not decide it. David O.

McKay did not decide it. I did not decide it. God decided it." In a Senate committee, wher they will stay until the budget is passed, according to Shapp. The 26 Senate Democrats approved a spending plan earlier, 14 hours into the new year, but the House voted 135-50, nin hours later, to reject the Senate version. Thus a joint House-Scnae conference committee will attempt to work out a compromise between Gov.

Shapp's $3.2 billion request and another version, $150 million smaller, backod by Republicans and a bloc of upstate House Democrats. The new fiscal year began at midnight Friday. On instructions from Gov. Shapp, flood relief efforts have continued unabated, while state employes have been asked to continue working even though they can't be paid until a budget is signed into law. All checks from the state, including emergency assistance to flood victims, have been stmnpH TVio fafo' venHnrl have been asked to continue ne materials with Mia bill "to be honored as soon as possible." "The main people who will be hurt the most are the elderly, the sick, disabled and those who depend on the sttite to help them out," said Shapp.

House Majority Leader K. Leroy Irvis, D-Allegheny, said the leadership had lined up nar-ly 90 Hcuse votes in favor of the Senate budget version, much like Gov. Shapp's proposal. But when members saw the bill going down despite their support, they deserted in droves, to tack another antl-spending vote onto their election-year records. Passage of the budget would require 102 votes.

Upstate Democrats and all but four Republicans stood firm in their quest for budget reductions. The major objection to Shapp's proposal remains a $73 (Continued on Page 2, Column S) tax. The bill was drafted originally after the Supreme Court ruled July that a 3.5 per cent income tax plan was unconstitutional. The first Income tax proposal contained an extensive system of exemptions patterned after the federal law which the Court found in violation of (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) part of Fischer's campaign to get more money out of the Icelanders. Fischer and Spassky have agreed to split a $125,000 purse, with the winner taking five-eights, and are also to each get 30 per cent of the sale of film and television rights.

But Fischer is seeking an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts, and his representatives have spiracy which led to Yah-lonski's death goes higher still and more indictments are expected. In all, seven persons are in custody now, and five have either confessed or been convicted. The remaining two are awaiting trial. "Sure, it was steep," a key government investigator said when asked about the cost of Mrs. Gilly's confession.

"But we wanted the people who paid for this thing, not just the people who did it, and her talking unstuck a lot of things. If that's what it takes, well, that's what it takes." Actually, it took even more than that. Mrs. Gilly won't be sentenced for her role in the killings until she has finished testifying. But sources say she has been told if she continues to cooperate, she can expect to spend no more than additional three years in custody.

Paul E. Gilly, Annette's husband and one of the defendants who chose to stand trial rather than talk, was convicted and sentenced to deatli. Though endless leislativp maneuvering over the weekend didn't result in a budget for the new fiscal year, it did keep House members at work long enough to vote several significant bills that have laid on the House calendar for months. The House approved a sys tem of poverty exemptions to the state income tax Saturday, Heart Attack Kills Mormon Leader, 96 prevent the revised California delegation from being seated at the Democratic convention, which opens July 10 at Miami Beach. A hearing was scheduled this morning before Dist.

Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. The suit alleges that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally when it over- The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where" he had studied fishery science on a U.S.. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled des tination, in defiance of his de mand to fly to North Vietnam, The 135 other passeng' were safely evacuated by slid ing down emergency, chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion.

To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed a stewardess as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi.

The hijacker, In the rear pas- compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scottsdale, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) I "0 ScDl 5 U.S. Chess Champ Won't Move SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday, Three of the victims were Protestants, and the fourth was a 19-year-old Jehovah's Witness from England who had been working in a camp for poor children since coming to Northern Ireland a week ago. His body was found on a garbage dump, and authorities believed he may have been killed by mistake. Leaders of the militant Protestant Ulster Defense Associ-a 1 1 threatened reprisals against the IRA after Augustus "Gusty" Spence, a Protestant hero, was apparently kidnaped.

Four men stopped the car taking Spence back to jail after a two-day parole to attend his daughter's wedding. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 for killing a Catholic. Meanwhile the UDA dismantled most of the 100 barricades it threw up around Protestant areas last week in protest against the British army's refusal to tear down the IRA's barricades around various Catholic areas. The army made no move to remove the Protestant barricades. 0 0 fi REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fischer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia.

Fischer, the American chess champion, was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield. The six-man board of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess he was unable to play because been negotiating this point with of fatigue. But it was generally sponsors of the match, the Ice-assumed that the request was landic Chess Federation. 18 and another bill to reduce the size of the legislature.

The poverty exemption plan, sent to the Senate after unanimous House approval, would eliminate state income taxes for individuals making less than $2,000 annually and provide further tax relief for larg er families. A two-person household would Federation was reported unani- mously opposed to paying Fis- cher the extra money. The board met until the early hours today with Fischer's law yer, Andrew Davis. A spokesman said there was no As the deadline approached, the board was in session again to decide whether to pursue negotiations with Davis, a man they say has no written credentials from Fischer. Fischer's 24-game match with sentence, and she wanted out of jail.

Under the circumstances, it was an offer we could not re fuse." Mrs. Gilly was moved to the farm two weeks ago after a stay at one of Pennsylvania most attractive resorts, Seven Springs in Somerset County. A ski resort in winter, Seven springs in summer becomes a Mecca for nature lovers. It sports a main lodge plus nu merous outlying cnaicts, a championship 18-hole golf course, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, private trout ponds, tennis courts and horseback riding. Mrs.

Gilly spent 2'i months in Seven Springs at a cost of about $50,000, staying in a heavily guarded wing of the main lodge while the state sought the farm where she now lives. She had few freedoms while there. She sometimes sunned always with guards and usually ate In the dining room at the main lodge, but she was not allowed to make use of the re sort's outdoor attractions. $200,000 Vacation for Mrs. Gilly SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The man called prophet, seer and revelator by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), President Joseph Fielding Smith has died.

Smith was stricken by a beart attack Sunday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. IBruce R. McConkie. He would bave been 96 July 19. Smith had addressed the last general conference of the 3-mil-Jion-membcr church in April end had not been ill.

Funeral arrangements were pending. Smith's likely successor is Harold B. Lee, 73, who has been first counselor to the president and president of church's Council of The Twelve. The president of The Twelve the man who has been a member of the body the long traditionally becomes the church president. News Index Tage Dear Abby 13 Births 29 Classified 30-31 Coaldale 4 Comics, Crossword 22-23 Deaths 29 Mason Denison 14 Jpane Dixon 25 Editorial Tage 14 Freeland 8 Funerals Hospital Reports 4 Mahanoy Area 2 McAdoo 8 Race Results 27 Ray Raul 20 Hingtown 8 Sports 26-27-28 Tamaqua 4 Theatres 25 Tresrkow Wentherly 6 Women's Tagcs 12-13 "She was very withdrawn," said a Seven Springs employe.

"It was like she was in another world. She almost never talked to anyone. Usually, if she wanted something, one of the guards would ask for it." The rent for the farm where Mrs. Gilly is being held now is said to be about $1,000 a month. That, plus the salaries of the guards, food, surveillance equipment and other mis-celaneous expenses pushes the total cost for Mrs.

Gilly's keep to over $15,000 a month or nearly $200,000 a year. Mrs. Gilly's confession, given to the state earlier this year, resulted in the indictment of a low-level UMW official in La-Follette, and is said to have prompted her father, Silous Huddleston, another defendant in the murders, to confess also. Huddleston's revelations resulted in still another indictment, this one involving the secretary-treasurer of a UMW District embracing parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. Special prosecutor Richard A.

Sprague has said the con PITTSBURGH (AP)-Annette Gilly's decision to confess her role in the murders of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter brought her more than a relieved conscience. It also gave her the comfortable life of a country gentlewomanat a cost to Pennsylvania's taxpayers of almost a year. The 31-ycar-old Mrs. Gilly is awaiting her next appearance as a government witness in the trials that have grown out of the Yablonski case on a rolling farm in largely rural Fayette County, in southwestern Pennsylvania.

She is guarded around the clock by FBI agents and state police sometimes nearly a dozen of them and she receives $10 a week in spending money and has regular visits from a hairdresser. "It was her price for cooperation," says a highly placed source close to the continuing investigation of the slaylngs. "She didn't want the death 14 wm President Jorph Fielding Smith, splrlliinl leader of the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints, riled Sunday night at the age of 95. lie Is fihown here with his lute wife, Jessie Evans, who died i year ago la August. (AP).