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-v i 4 7 Meat Price Hike arning Comes rue By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Consumers warned by supermarket officials to expect higher meat prices are finding the warning all too true An Associated Press survey of about two dozen cities shows that grocery bills particularly for the better cuts of beef and for pork have increased anywhere from a dime a pound on up in the two weeks since the latest warning was issued Cabinet officials scheduled a meeting in Washington today with officials of food chains and called in farmers for a Thursday session to help in preparing a food prices report that President Nixon has requested by July 10 Shoppers meanwhile were issuing their own reports food prices are just terrible now" said a woman 'in a Seattle Wash supermarket know how much the prices have gone up-because I just started shopping regularly a year and a half ago when I was married" "Prices are out of sight" said a man in a Kansas City store "The very first thing the government should have done in its economic program was to put controls on food prices" Supermarket executives warned consumers on June 16 to expect a rise in prices particularly of meat They said that wholesale costs have been going up and the retail outlets no longer could absorb the increase The AP checked prices in a dozen cities on June 16 then checked again two weeks later to see if there had been any change Among the findings: In Seattle the prices of 10 items were checked Five went up one went down and four remained steady Increases included veal round steak which went" from $225 to $239 a pound and rib pork chops up two cents to $109 a pound Late Stocks On Page 14-A The Sumter Daily Item VOL 77 NO 224 FOUNDED OCT 1 5 1 894 SUMTER SC WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JULY 5 1972 TEN CENTS A COPY 36 PAGES 3 SECTIONS erdict Bolsters A McGovern 4k Surrender Charles Smith 23 of Buffalo who police said stabbed his ex-wife and a man and fled her home with his 14-month-old daughter Jayton surrenders to FBI agents at the Greater Buffalo International Airport today his daughter in his arm Smith allegedly held a knife to his daughter's throat and demanded a pilot but was talked out of it ending the three-hour-long drama An FBI agent who entered the plane by an unexplained way escorts Smith down the stairway (UPI) scheduled court appearance in an Illinois state court in which they sought to prevent the successful Illinois delegate challengers from taking part in the convention However while the full scope of the Circuit Court's ruling was not known in the absence of a written opinion it was clear that the judges felt federal court action should be taken in the two cases The committee decisions were likened to a by the lawyer Tuesday even as he fought to uphold them before the appeals court Party counsel Joseph A Califano told the three judges that federal courts have no business in the business His argument echoed the decision of a US District Court which prompted the Fourth of July appeal Premier Fired PARIS (AP) President Georges Pompidou fired Jacques Chaban-Del-mas as premier today and named Pierre Messmer to succeed him Chaban-Delmas has recently been under fire because of personal tax dealings Shortly after the announcement that Chaban-Delmas and his government had stepped down Pompidou summoned Messmer like Chaban-Delmas one of the earliest followers of Gen Charles de Gaulle An exchange of letters between the president and Chaban-Delmas noted that Pompidou had asked the premier to leave the post he 4iad held for a little more than three years Messmer 56 who had been De Gaulle's defense minister had a long record as a soldier and administrator of overseas possessions He fought in the French-Indochina war and was taken prisoner by the Viet Minh The dismissal of Chaban-Delmas came quickly on the heels of his return with Pompidou from a summit conference in West Germany Although there was no announcement as to the reasons for the firing all immediate signs pointed to Chaban-Delmas' dismissal because of domestic issues WASHINGTON (AP) The US Circuit Court of Appeals here today handed a victory to the forces of Sen George McGovern in their battle with the Democratic Credentials Committee for California delegates At the same time forces of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley were given a setback by the court in the second half of the dual attack on the hotly disputed decisions The appeals court reversed a District Court decision which had upheld the action of stripping 151 delegates from California The Circuit Court ordered the district bench to rewrite its decision in the California case in accordance with an opinion not yet filed The Circuit Court rejected the appeal of forces in one case and in two others directed that state court action be prohibited insofar as the delegates from Illinois which were rejected by the committee are concerned In Chicago a hearing on a request by Daley's organization to prevent the challengers from taking seats at the convention was continued because of the appeals court ruling Judge Donald of Circuit Court granted the continuance to 1:45 pm after lawyers representing both the Daley delegates and the challengers said they wanted an opportunity to read fully the appeals court opinion The brief order of the appeals court carried no reasons for the action The judges were expected to file opinions later in the day The District Court ruled Monday that the federal judiciary had no place in the debate over delegates from the two states The Credentials Committee had issued decisions that stripped Sen George McGovern of 151 California delegates and told Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other uncommitted Chicago delegates to stay home The Circuit Court action came at a time when forces of Mayor Daley had a 749 Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic accidents across the nation claimed 749 lives during the Independence Day weekend 1 One Dead Fireworks Injure Several Persons Apparent Hijacker Gives Up BUFFALO NY (AP) A man who held a young girl at knife point in an apparent attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707 at Buffalo International Airport surrendered to an FBI agent early today "He apparently decided he was not going to get out" of the airport said Richard Ash special agent in charge of the FBI office here no shooting come Ash quoted the man as saying moments before he emerged from the aircraft carrying his hostage who appeared to be 2 or 3 years old Ash said an FBI agent had sneaked aboard the plane and confronted the man After the agent assured the man there would be no shooting the man threw down his knife and carried the girl in his arms down the ramp to a waiting police car The child was not harmed Ash said Blood on the child's clothing Ash said was from a slight wound the man had suffered Police identified the man as Charles Smith 23 of Buffalo The youngster was not identified immediately Police said Smith had allegedly stabbed the mother and a man earlier in Buffalo The woman was reported in critical condition the man in fair condition at Deaconess Hospital Police said Smith apparently slipped aboard the unoccupied jet about 5 am and demanded that American Airlines provide a pilot for the craft "I want a he shouted to police and FBI agents who surrounded the plane ait stood at a terminal gate A group of FBI agents and police gathered near a ramp to the plane using a baggage cart as a barricade A man and woman took turns using a bullhorn to call up to Smith The woman identified by an FBI agent as mother walked part way up the ramp at one point talked with Smith then returned Smith and the girl were visible just inside the plane Scores of airline passengers passed through the terminal as usual Many seemed unaware of what was happening at the American gate From the upper level of the airport terminal newsmen could se6 Smith holding the girl in his arms At times he and the girl could be seen sitting in a front seat Now and then he would carry the giii to the rear and then return to the front Outside on the ground FBI agents talked to him using a bull horn Reporters were kept away and could not hear whether he made any reply Earlier he had shouted that he did not want to see newsmen cameras or tape recorders All available Cheektowaga police FBI agents and Buffalo homicide detectives rushed to the airport and surrounded the plane at Gate Seven Police said that after the stabbing Smith grabbed the girl and drove to the airport There they said he created a commotion at the post office and threatened to harm the girl He then dragged the girl along as he climbed aboard the jet Police said Smith was bleeding and they believed he had suffered some type of injury It was dot known immediately whether the girl was injured Police said Smith had left a note at his home They said it read: love you I love myself I love everybody I love God but if I have to do away with myself I will" In New York City an airline spokesman said the FBI was talking to the man and had essentially taken over handling the incident for the present The spokesman said the airline had not been told where the man wanted to go and was awaiting word from the FBI on whether it wanted the airline to furnish a three-man crew as the man had demanded third incident Police in Wauconda 111 said Edward Bulger 24 was killed when some kind of firework device exploded in a crowd of spectators observing a display at Bangs Lake 40 miles northwest of Chicago Eight other persons were treated and three of them were hospitalized following the explosion Tuesday night All three were reported in satisfactory condition early today In Seattle an errant skyrocket exploded in a crowd gathered near a fountain at the Seattle Center Up to a dozen persons were injured and three of them were hospitalized None was believed in serious condition Witnesses said the skyrocket started upward but appeared to and exploded in the crowd The fireworks display in Elsinore Calif went off all at once when a spark from a skyrocket touched off $3900 worth of star bursts fire balls aerial bombs and rockets: The pyrotechnics were loaded aboard a barge in Lake Elsinore which was ringed by thousands of spectators By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One man was killed and more than a dozen persons were injured'as a result of mishaps during two Fourth of July fireworks demonstrations Five pyro-technicians escaped serious injury in a Fischer Apologizes REYKJAVIK Iceland AP) Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $300000 chess match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia The American whose dispute over prize money forced organizers to postpone the world championship round said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player The statement prepared by lawyers was read to newsmen by Max Euwe president of the International Chess FIDE It was not known whether this would be sufficient to overcome Russian objections to starting the match arplanesW reck 3 Major Depots On The Inside Warm temperatures and likely thundershowers are in the weather picture for South Carolina today and tonight Complete weather information on page 2A Classifieds 10-12B Comics a 13B Editorials 8A Farm News 10A Information Please IB Obituaries 14A Sports 11-13A The Second Front IB TV Guide 4B Weather 2A News 45A SAIGON (AP) American jets wrecked three major depots on the edges of Hanoi Tuesday in the heaviest raids on North Vietnam in weeks and a 7th Fleet task force sank or damaged 12 supply barges off the North Vietnamese coast the US Command announced today In South Vietnam there was heavy fighting on the northern front and Hue was shelled for the fourth day But no progress was reported from the paratroopers who reached the outskirts of Quang Tri City on Tuesday North Vietnam claimed that US planes bombed and strafed residential areas of Hanoi "killing or injuring many persons and destroying or damaging hundreds of dwelling The US Command denied ordering any attacks on civilian targets and said it had no information "indicating other than military targets were But spokesmen acknowledged there may have been people working in the three supply and vehicle depots that were attacked during more than 320 Strikes in North Vietnam Tuesday North Vietnam also claimed that two F4 Phantoms were shot down during the raids The US Command said it had no plane losses Tuesday to report yet But it did announce that MIG21 interceptors shot down a pair of Phantoms southwest of Hanoi on June 27 and a surface-to-air missile brought down a third Phantom 40 miles northeast of Hanoi July 1 Two of the fliers were rescued and four are missing the command said During the last two weeks the US Command has reported nine planes lost over North Vietnam and 16 fliers missing raising the toll since the resumption of full-scale bombing on April 6 to 54 aircraft downed and 61 airmen missing In a delayed report which apparently had to be cleared by the Pentagon because of its political sensitivity the command said that a naval task force last Saturday caught a flotilla of barges transporting supplies from offshore freighters presumed to be from the Communist bloc Navy spokesmen said the destroyers Berkeley Everett Larson and Gurke waited until the barges were clear of the freighters then blasted them with their five-inch guns The spokesmen said the radarmen observed that 12 barges were sunk or damaged An unpublished government report says that some nonphosphate detergents can cause irreversible blindness it rubbed into the eye The FDA rejects the claim See page 3A for report Is Rattlesnake Springs for real? Staff writer Van King went scouting in the "mountains of Lee ahd found out He also met an interesting man by the name of Warner Chewning See his story on page IB Japan has a new prime minister to succeed the retiring Eisaku Sato New approaches in dealing with the United States are expected See story on page 6A.