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The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 12

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Wichita, Kansas
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12
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Par 12A THI WICHITA EACH AND BEACON Sunday July 9 1972 Rock Music Fans Create Traffic Jam Inside the festival grounds where an estimated 5000 youths spent the night an emergency infirmary was treating scores of youths for what were described as drug overdoses State police said they planned to send undercover men into the crowds to arrest drug pushers but would not bother to arrest users according to officials Raceway officials reported that they had sold more than 100000 tickets in advance of opening At least one rock fan was killed in a highway accident as ha made his way to the concert along Interstate 80 Police identified him as Dennis Fermont 17 of Wellington International Raceway site of the festival Police reported that hundreds of youths abandoned their cars along the four-mile stretch of Route 115 and walked the rest of the distance to the raceway grounds Cars on both sides of the two-lane road wera strewn all along the roadside The raceway itself can hold some 65000 persons Obsessed With Golf SKELLEFTEAA Sweden (UPI) Walter Bergovist 35 is living proof golf can become an obsession Warming up for a game ha was bitten by a snake Bergovist called an ambulance received a serum shot at the hospital and returned to tha course He went around in 78 LONG POND Pa (AP) -Tens of thousands of rock music fans poured into this tiny Pocono mountain resort Saturday creating a four-mile-long traffic jam that Mocked access to the racetrack concert site "You talk about the flood of said a state policeman at the Fernridge substation "You ought to see the flood here and it's all State police estimated that as many as 200000 youths had made the pilgrimage here for the 10-hour rock concert The first crowds arrived Thursday night and 24 hours later traffic Snarls were reported to the New Jersey border some 30 miles away Saturday latecomers who heed the warning of festival officials to stay away ran into four miles of traffic leading to tho Pocono AP Phot AIRLINE WIFE YOUNGEST SON 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"a to spend his vacation living it across country He left Moses Lake Wash June 30 bound for his home in suburban Miami Shores Morrison an Eastern pilot since 1939 had eight months to go before retiring His body was found 1000 feet from the wrecked plane in the north west portion of Missouri The younger Morrison 29 said his body was in a Miami funeral home and the funeral would be delayed until his mother Lil Kirk Morrison and brother Bobby 13 returned home "I HOPED TO BE able to break the news gently to be said now it is more important to get them home for the funeral 1 couldn allow my father to be HEN'S PERMA-PRESS DRESS SUCKS Reg 888 Whether your Is flares or straight legs you'll find these finely tailored never-lron rayon or acetate and nylon pant Ideal for spring and (ummer wear Choose from the latest patterns and solids Sizes: YOUR CHOICE WOMEN'S 8r TEEN'S STRAPPY SANDAL with mid high heel and wipe clean uppers adjustable heel (trap sizes 5 to 10 CltR like getting the ice-maker free Arbiter Gone Chess Match Delay Possible REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match already delayed for nine days ran into new problems Saturday when the chief arbiter left Iceland US chess sources said Fischer the 29-year-old American challenger is "at peak form and raring to into the first game Tuesday against the world champion Spassky But the sources said there might have to be another postponement until Thursday since chief arbiter Loth a Schmid will not be back in town until then Reg $199 PRINTED TERRY FOAM BATH MATS 59 Hr 1 size j5r Variety of attractive patterns Reg 97e each 5 DAY ANTIPERSPIRANT DEODORANT PADS Reg $119 SCHMID a West German grandmaster and the owner of a book publishing firm in Bamberg flew home Saturday morning and said he would return Thursday He said he was leaving because one of his sons had been injured in a traffic accident assistant arbiter Gudmundur Amlaugsson of Iceland will be in charge of final 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Pages Available:
574,434
Years Available:
1879-1980