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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 6

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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6
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-'A" THE FRESNO BEE Finder Of $502000 Refuses $1 0000 Page A6 Thursday June 29 1972 Surprise Vote told Bodwell home in Wyandotte Mich and charged with the had a Capitol Expansion Hits Snag RicNT A 1972 FORD had poor people heart attack and thats the reason we thought it (the reward) would be worth Elliott was also offered allexpense trips "anywhere but he said: care for the trip I'd just as leave have more cash I wouldn be able to take them (trips) after having a heart attack 1 think I could stand The FBI announced today that Martin McNally 28 had been arrested at his RENT A CAR I 399 PER DAY the bills he is awaiting for fertilizer and soybeans However after Elliott rejected the $10000 offer Frank Bodwell district sales manager for American returned to Indianapolis and said that whether the offer would be renewed or increased was up to airline officials in New York A spokesman for American in New York said the airline considered the $10-000 quite appropriate He said he did not know what the next step would be and the matter was under discussion He said he did not yet know try to give it to him wife Mildred 54 seated beside her husband in lawn chairs on their porch PLUS MILEAGE SANDERS FORD (Va mi i Fresno Skate) Ph 291-2581 Fischer Fails To Show For Iceland Plane NEW YORK chess wizard Bobby Fischer will be in Reykjavik Iceland in time for the start of the world chess championships Sunday a Fischer adviser said Wednesday The reassurances came after the tempermental 29-year-old Fischer failed to show up at the airport for any flights leaving for Iceland He had been scheduled to leave for the world championships Wednesday night The adviser already in Reykjavik making preparations for the start of the championship match against Russian chess master Boris Spassky refused to specify arrival time PERU Ind (API Lowell Elliott says that being honest enough to return $502000 he found in his field should be worth more than $10000 So the 61-year-old farmer turned down a $10000 certified check American Airlines offered him Wednesday as a gift for returning ransom dropped by a hijacker who parachuted from a jetliner after taking it over at St Louis and ordering it flown to Toronto last weekend like it ought to be worth more than what was offered for being Elliott said all they gave that guy (the hijacker) S502000 Elliott said he would settle for $25000 or 5 per cent of the ransom but he added "10 per cent would be He said he has gross income of about $7000 yearly from his 119-acre farm Elliott said any money he gets from the airline will go on posed the plan in 1966 and which was seeking funds to go ahead with final plans Wants Own Decision Stratton said it was time for the House to arrive at its own decision on so costly a project He said it would probably cost $70 million hile estimates for restoring the existing wall ranged from $15 million to $20 million Speaker Carl Albert who made a plea for the planning funds said the 270000 square feet of space the expansion would provide was urgently needed by the House and Senate The East Front of the Capitol was extended outward 32 feet in 1962 to provide additional office space The largest expansion was started in 1S50 when the present House and Senate wings were added WASHINGTON (AP) A controversial plan to expand the Capitol by moving its West wall 88 feet down Capitol Hill has been blocked by a surprise vote in the House Despite pleas from its leaders that Congress needs the six acres of space the 860 million project would provide the House voied -197 to 181 Wednesday against going ahead with final plans The vote made it likely that Congress now will give serious consideration to restoring the old sandstone West Front which was built in 1817 after the British burned the original building Fear Wall Collapse Since 1963 there have been warnings that the wall was in danger of collapse and in 1966 a plan to rebuild the wall farther down the hill was first proposed Considerable opposition came from persons who favored maintaining the original wall for reasons of history and because of its beauty The vote Wednesday was a triumph for Rep Samuel Stratton D-NY who fought House leaders for six years in an effort to halt the project The House had voted consistently in favor of the plan previously but the Senate held it up Following the surprise vote the House adopted a motion by Stratton to accept the Senate's prohibition against the expenditure of any money for planning or building the project without Congressional approval Previously the plan only needed approval by a commission composed of the party leaders of the House and Senate and the architect of the Capitol It was the commission that first pro OneQP a beer- JOIN AUSTRALIAN UNIT SYDNEY (AP) A company of 120 of famous Black Watch regiment arrived to train with Australian troops HURRY! 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