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Money Found; Jumper Dead? VOLUME XXXV, NO. 127 KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE, 37660, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1972 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES PERU, Ind. (UPI)-A farmer working In a soybean Celd Monday found the half-miUlon-doUar ransom carried by a hijacker who prachuted from an American Airlines jetliner early Saturday. The FBI said the money was found In a mall pouch by John Vettle In a field on his farm near Indiana 21 about three miles south of here. The spot was about two miles from ths point where FBI agents and police were conducting a massive search.

Federal agents and police converged on the area In this sparsely populated, heavily wooded hill country in an in- tensitied hunt for the missing hijacker. They expected to find him dead. Both the pilot and co-pilot ot the Boeing 727, hijacked near St. Louus late Friday, said they believed he could not have survived his leap as the plane sped at 320 miles per hour 10,00 feet above north central Indiana. The FBI at both Indianapolis and St.

Louis said $500,000 given the hijacker In St. Louis, where he released all but six hostages, apparently was intact. The FBI in Indianapolis said the money probably would be counted Tuesday using bank equipment. "We're pretty sure it's all here," an FBI spokesman siad in Indianapolis. "It appeared the pouch had not been opened." William A.

Sullivan, special agent in charge of the St. Louis office, said the hijacker had been given the American Airlines mall pouch with two smaller bags inside containing the money. The bags and the money appeared to be intact, he said. "There was (2,500 which was separate and was given to the hijacker as what you might call 'traveling money' or 'spending money' Sullivan said. "We apparently don't have that, but we have the money that was put into the American Airlines mail pouch." Late Monday the FBI said "there has been no other physcal evidence found and nothing of the hijacker himself." The air lines officers In the cockpit of the jetliner when the unidentified, pockmarked hijacker leaped said he In all probability was killed when he hit the craft's Jetstream.

Authorities said that even If he survived the initial bail-out, he stood a good chance of being killed or injured in landing in the wooded terrain near Grissom Air Force Base southeast of here. The pilot, Leroy Berkeblle of Palatine, 111., was brought here to help pinpoint the search. BerkebUe said he believed the pockmarked hijacker had "no chance" of having survived the jump, and Arthur Koester of Prospect Heights, 111., the copilot, said, "He's dead." BerkebUe said he had showed the hijacker an air speed indicator that "gave a speed almost 70 miles per hour slower than our actual speed." The plane was traveling 320 m.pji., BerkebUe said, and this would almost surely cause anyone parachuting from the craft to black out when he was hit by the plane's Jetstream. BerkebUe said, before joining the search, that he had another reason for believing the hijacker had not survived but he said he would not reveal details. However, he said he was sure the hijacker had not been given a defective parachute because "we were afraid he would force somebody else to test a chute." Koester said in Chicago that "very few people can jump out of a jet and live, and this fellow had no knowledge of jumping at all.

He's Authorities were trying to identify the hijacker, who commandeered the jetliner Friday afternoon shortly after It took off on a flight from St. Louis to Tulsa, Okla. The hijacker forced the plane back to St. Louis, where he let off most of the passengers and got the ransom money and a parachute. 'End Of The World, And The End Of Me' WET CALL Robert Samol, Wheeling, W.

is a telephone repairman checking out telephone lines as the Ohio River slowly returns to normal. Over 1,000 families were flooded out of their homes at Wheeling. W1LKES-BARRE, Pa. (UPI)-The electric clock on the bedroom dresser of John Zwango's third-floor apartment was stopped at exactly 5:30. The time was identical on the clocks in the pharmacy window on South Main Street below, and on the huge Schaeffer Beer advertisement in Public Square.

It served Monday as a precise record of the moment last Friday night when the most extensive flood in U. S. history reached into downtown Wilkes-Barre and engulfed the city of 56,000 for the next too days. Zwango, G5, a retired upholsterer who lives alone, felt certain the rising rapids from the Susquehanna River would not reach his apartment and refused to be evacuated. "If it did, then it would be the end of the world, the end of Wilkes-Barre and the end of me," he said.

"So there was no use in worrying. "What the hell, I didn't wanna be herded in with a lot of hysterical people. I got a bum leg, I can't walk too well, so why should I go." About 145,000 other persons from this coal mining region thought otherwise and fled to higher ground. They still were unable to return to their homes Monday, because authorities were fearful of contamination and the possibility of flash fires from ruptured fuel lines. The death toll in Wilkes-Barre was reported "very, very possibly four persons killed.

But damage from the waters that rose as high as 20 feet in the streets was expected to reach staggering proportions. The entire downtown area was lined with mud, silt and other debris left behind when the Susquehanna receded to within its banks early Monday. Uprooted trees lay scattered along several streets. The North Street Bridge which collapsed on Friday looked like an arm of concrete sticking out of the river bank reaching only a third of the way across the water. Overall, Tropical Storm Agnes caused at least 129 deaths, 113 of them flood victims In Northeastern states.

Damage approached an estimated $2 billion with a reported $1.25 billion damage in Pennsylvania lone. Pennsylvania, where 50 persons perished, was the hardest hit state with 250,000 persons homeless. InNew York23 persons were dead, there were 19 in Maryland, 17 in Virginia. Among the latest casualties in Pennsylvania were four persons who died when a private helicopter engaged in rescue work crashed. Earlier, three persons were kiUed in upstate New York when their helicopter crashed while surveying damage.

As flood waters receded throughout Pennsylvania, Jim Cox of the Pennsylvania state police said officials expected "to find more bodies." In Wilkes-Barre, one of the hardest hit cities along with Harrisburg, the state capital, the Susquehanna River was reported receding and the downtown area was relatively free of water. A thick, slimy mud covered the Interiors of businesses and homes but officials said it More On Page 6, Col. 1 MARTHA Martha leaving John? WASHINGTON (UPI) Close aides said Monday that former Attorney General John N. Mitchell has no to quit as manager of President Nixon's re-election campaign despite his wife Martha's threat to leave him. Mitchell was not available to comment on his wife's weekend remarks, but the aids said he considered them "a personal matter." Other sources reported MitcheU had Down to Westchester County, N.Y., to see his wife who has been staying in a country club there since leaving the West Coast over the weekend.

PoweU Moore, on MitcheU's staK at the Committee for Re-Election of the President, said "not by a long shot" when asked if Mitchell was leaving. "He's committed to the task before him," he said. Power plant bombed SAIGON (UPI) Twenty Air Force fighter-bombers attacked the Viet Tri power plant 25 mUes northwest of Hanoi with laser-guided "smart" bombs which "effectively destroyed" its capability and blacked out part of the North Vietnamese capital, the U.S. command said Monday. The raid Sunday was the second against the power plant since President Nixon ordered a resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam.

The pilots said the raids "effectively destroyed the plant's capabiUty to produce power. Air Force photo reconnaissance confirmed the destruction of the Viet Tri boUer facility, the electrical switching building and the flue and coal conveyer," the command said. House group for DDT WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Appropriations Committee, saying DDT had saved millions of lives, questioned Monday the government's ban on its use and said substitute insecticides may prove a real hazard to man. The committee said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) displayed a "regrettable lack of information" in taking the action. It said underdeveloped nations especially may pay a big price if the DDT prohibition spreads to the rest of the world.

Bobby fails to show REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia said he hoped his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, would show up in time for their first match next Sunday even though he failed to arrive as scheduled Monday at this tournament site. "1 don't know why he didn't arrive," Spassky told a news conference. "Only Commander-in-chief Fischer knows," he added with a broad smile. But Spassky, 35, said he was confident that Fischer would turn up at the capital of Iceland for the start of their 26-game match for the world chess title. "I am hopeful we will play the first game next Sunday as planned," Spassky said.

Meat Quotas lifted WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon removed all import quotas on meats Monday and the ad- ministration said it may impose price ceilings on farm products if necessary to halt rising food costs. Nixon's order was meant to increase the supply of meats, especially beef, and thus bring down the price. But administration trade experts -along with some members of Congress -expressed doubt that the order would have any significant long-range affect. Speaking for the President, Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz declared he expected meat prices to be stabilized by the order, but conceded, "This action alone may not fully solve the problem.

Further measures will be taken as necessary and appropriate." One such measure, said Shultz, could be the imposition of price ceilings on raw farm products, so far exempted from wage-price controls Nixon ordered In August. New Italian government ROME (UPI) Premier Glulio Andreottl announced Monday formation of a middle-of-the-road coalition government which at least temporarily ended a decade of collaboration between Catholics and Marxists. The moderately right-wing liberals replaced the Socialists, for 10 years a partner in the center-left experiment which fell apart early this year. weather forecast Cloudy and warmer today with a 20 per cent chance of rain. The high should be 84 and the low 63.

Monday's high was 83 and the low was 54. There was no rain and the month's total Is 2.10 inches. 17 Votes Short Says McGovern By United Press International Sen. George McGovern claimed victory in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination Monday, but his announcement proved premature when a recheck by his headquarters showed he was still 17 votes short by his own count. McGovern told a Washington news conference he was over the top with 1,510.5 delegate votes after a group of black leaders announced they were delivering 96 3-4 previously uncommitted votes to him.

But later in the day, McGovern's headquarters checked the list of black delegates and found that McGovern already was counting some of them. So the total gain was only 74 3-4 votes -giving him a fetal of 1,492 by his figures. McGovern must have 1,509 to win the nomination at the Democratic convention opening July 10 in Miami Beach. Rick Sterns, McGovern's head delegate counter, told a news conference it was only a matter of days until the coup de gras is delivered. He said he understood the Essex County, N.

delegation was arranging a caucus and was on the verge throwing its support to McGovern. Stearns said.he expected McGovern to reach 1,509 either Tuesday or Wednesday. McGovern's camp claimed to have picked up, in addition to the black delegates, nine others, including four former supporters of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie.

McGovern's revised delegate count showed Muskie with 162 -down 3 from last week, Hubert H. Humphrey with 37U1-2, Henry M. Jackson with 44, George Wallace with 374, Shirley Chisholm with 28, others with 61, and 4831-4uncommitted. FIRST PUBLIC DISPLAY The F-15 went on its first public display Monday at St. Louis.

Made by McDonnal Douglas the fighter is said to out- perform any fighter threat in existence or on the drawing boards. The planes are estimated to cost $10.5 million each. Killers Hunted; Passers-By Might Have Prevented Three Murders MEMPHIS (UPI) Police throughout the Southeast searched for three suspected killers Monday whUe Ken Williams offered bitter "thanks" to passers-by who might have prevented the murders of his brother and sister. "Nobody stopped to WUllams. "They all passed by as if they saw nothing.

But they couldn't help but see what was happening. L. remembers at least four cars passing the spot where he lay face down on the side of the road with three black men with shotguns standing over him. We just want to say 'thanks'to the fine citizens who passed my brother-in-law by." J. L.

Hallmon, 38, stood by, mute with grief, whUe his brother- in-law did most of the talking. He had escaped with his life Sunday, but his kidnapped wife, Helen Ruth HaUmon, 35, and her brother, Herschel Leon WUliams, 44, were dead. A nationwide alert went out for the suspects, identified as Clarence Edward Parker, 25, of Memphis; H. M. Smith, middle Tipton County, and a third unidentified man.

law enforcement officers throughout the Southeast were put on special alert for the three men, who police said were also wanted for questioning in two Lauderdalc County rapes last week. The terror started for Hallmon, a security guard at Lakeland Amusement Park, early Sunday morning as he waited for his relief guard to show up. It ended some nine hours later when his wife's body was found at a construction site eight miles from his home. More On Page 6, Col. 1 In his announcement, The Rev.

Walter E. Fauntroy, the nonvoting House delegate from the District of Columbia and a spokesman for many of the 13 black congressmen, said the previously uncommitted delegates were made up primarily of blacks from 12 states. The states he listed Included Connecticut, Louisiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, New York, the District of Columbia, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and New Jersey. After Fauntroy's announcement, McGovern told the news conference: "There is no question that the 96 3-4 delegates who represented new additions are enough to put us over on the first baUol in Miami. The United Press International delegate tabulation, made before Fauntroy's announcement, gave McGovern 1,341.65 delegates with 63 others leaning toward him.

Court Rules Delegates Can Vote For Shirley MEMPHIS (UPI) Chancellor WU V. Doran refused Monday to order five Memphis delegates to the Democratic National Convention to vote for George WaUaee on the first two ballots as state law demands. "The court makes a grave mistake when drawn into the thicket of political struggle," said Doran In turning down an appeal for an injunction from supporters of the Alabama governor, who swept every county In Tennessee in the May 4 state presidential preference primary. Doran also said the court was powerless to uphold any order to vote for WaUaee anyway. "Th court an't accompan them (the elegates) to Miami," he said, "and it cannot undo what they intend to do." The 9th district delegates to the convention three of them Mack and two white have vowed that they will not vote for Wallace on the first two ballots as statelaw decrees.

They have already filed a court suit chaUenging the constitutionality of the law and charging that Wallace has been a "demagogue" and is not fit to be president. A UPI survey last week showed that 43 of the state's 49 delegates to the Democratic convention would vote for Wallace on one or two ballots under the law. The law says the 40 district delegates must stick with the primary winner on two ballots and the nine at-large delegates through one ballot. The five 9th District delegates and one other Memphis delegate from another district have publicly stated they will back New York Congresswoman.Shirley Chllsholm. State law makes no provisions for punishment of those refusing to vote for the winner of the state primary.

SHULTZ Area Medical School Opposed In State Educational Study NASHVILLE (UPI) A study prepared for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission suggests that a solution to the physician shortage In East Tennessee would be the creation of clinical medical education centers In the Tri-Citles area and Chattanooga. The suggestion was contained In a proposed master plan for higher education presented to the commission Monday. It contained numerous suggestions for higher education In Tennessee In the coming decades. "One thing that influences strongly a physician's location for practice Is the location of his internship and residency after graduation," the report said. "East Tennessee, with fewest physicians is the area with fewest Internship and residency opportunities to attract young physicians.

The Johnson Clty-Bristol-Klngsport aroa has none at all," the study said. It said the University of Tennessee medical units at Memphis admits about 200 students a year, about 95 per cent of whom arc Tennessee residents. Vanderbllt and McHarry Medical Schools, both in Nashville, admit about 165 students. About 20 per cent of the VanderbUt students from Tennessee and 10 per cent of the McHarry students. "There are only about 40-60 qualified Tennesseans each year who are unable to gain admission to medical school, and all three Tennessee schools are preparing to increase their enrollment." "In order to retain more of the medical graduates and to orient them more toward East Tennessee, the state should establish In the Trl-Citles area and Chattanooga clinical medical education centers similar to the one established in Knoxvllle," the study said.

"These should be affiliated with the University of Tennessee college of medicine and; If possible, with other schools as well." There has been a move to establish a medical school at East Tennessee State University at Johnson City. Backers hope to utilize federal legislation to aid in the cost of the facility. A gubernatorial committee recommended against such a school at Johnson City. NUCLEAR PLANT CUT REJECTED WASHINGTON An amendment to the Public Works and Atomic Energy Commission appropriations bill which would have eliminated all of the $50 million for the proposed nuclear breeder reactor plant was defeated by a voice vote In the House Monday. Congressman James H.

Quillen, who has been pushing for the plant to be built in Rogersville, said the amendment offered by a New York congressman would have destroyed the possibility of having the breeder reactor built at any site. Several months ago the Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to build a liquid metal fast bveeder reactor plant in the Tennessee Valley authority region. Although the site has not been determined, the John Sevler Steam Plant in Hawkins County is being strongly considered by AEC and TVA officials. "I am pleased the amendment was defeated and I am hopeful there will be no more roadblocks In the selection of a site for this Important plant," Qulllcn said. "I will continue my efforts to see that Rogersville Is selected for this project," he said..