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Cloudy, Warmer Cloudy, warm and humid Saturday with showers and thundershowers likely, high expected near 90. Low tonight around 70. Considerably cloudy and not so warm Sunday, he ircleville erald Saturday July 15, 1972 10 Pogcs 15c Per Copy 89th Yea FULL SERVICE Associated Press leased wire for state, national and world news, Associated Press picture service, leading columnists and artists, full local coverage. .166 Court Challenge 2 More Die Of Wage Controls Won By Unions WASHINGTON (AIM A federal judge, in the iirst successful court challenge of President Nixon's economic stabilization program, has ordered a relaxation of wage controls that could benefit 11 million workers. Union leaders had sought the decision.

U.S. District Judge William B. Jones ruled Friday that the Cost of Living Council (COLO was excess of agency when it limited exemptions from wage controls to persons earning less than $1.99 an hour. The ruling meant the council could no longer use $1.90 as the figure beyond which wage raises have been limited to 5.5 per cent. la granting a summary judgment in a suit brought by several labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, Jones did not set a new exemption figure.

However, lie cited a hour figure based on a Bureau of Lalxir Statistics study, which said this wage provide the $6,960 considered adequate annual income for an urban family of four. The AFL-CIO estimated about 11 million workers are making between $1.90 and an hour and thus will be granted exemption from wage eon trols, 1 Cost of Living Council had no immediate comment on the decision, but is expected to appeal the ease. The lawsuit was based on amendments to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. which provide that individual whose earnings arc substandard or who is amongst the working should be exempt from wage controls. The $1.90 figure was set by the COLC after the Pay Board failed to provide a cutoff figure and rejected figures of $3.50 and $2.20.

A council spokesman said at the time the $1.90 cutoff would exempt 21 per cent of the non-supervisory workers while $3.35 w-ould exept 50 per cent. Union Officials Think Abel Will Support Democrats PITTSBURGH (AP) The cleavage between United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern is probably narrow and will close during the election campaign, two district steelworker officials predict. The bridge, they say, will be President Nixon. afford Nixon for another four said John Juhns, director of USW Central Ohio District 27, with a membership of 44,000.

coolness finally snUi Joseph Odorcich, director or the 60 000 -member District 15 in western Pennsylvania, is no other way we can than with McGovern. The two officials made the Wallace Able To Campaign 3rd-Party Try Still Possibility BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) The physician in charge of Gov George C. rehabilitation program says the Alabama governor would be physically able to age a third party presidential campaign should he decide to do so. Dr.

George Traugh, a specialist in physical medicine, said Friday that if Wallace entered the presidential race he would need rehabilitation unit to travel with He said the circumstances would not be ideal it could be Wallace press aide Elvin Stanton, however, discounted talk of a third-party movement lor Wallace. He said Wallace has made no definite political plans. The Alabama governor flew from the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, to Birmingham on Friday for four weeks of intensive physical therapy at the Spain Rehabilitation Center, where Traugh is on the staff. Wallace has been jxiralyzed since shut May 15 while cam- puigning in Maryland. Traugh said the governor leave the Spain Center until he is independent.

lie said it would be six months to a year before it could be determined whether Wallace will walk again. The first aim of the doctors will be to prevent infection; and the second to make Wallace independent physically and occupationally. Wallace will continue to exercise his arms so that he will be able to maneuver hitnself in a wheelchair. comments here Friday at a union district conference. They also made clear scars from the rift between McGovern and Abel will take time to dis- appear.

no question that McGovern leaves a little to be desired in his record of voting on labor said Odorcich. Abel, ail address this week to Democratic National Convention and later to Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp, said: is no chance 1 will work for McGovern. I don't like his labor Johns and Oorcich indicated that remarks were meant to show McGovern, the convention and the general public that labor will not be taken for granted and that McGovern will have to temper some of his policies to reflect labor interests. want rollbacks on dividends, interests and profits, and we want a damn good understanding that this will be Odorcich declared.

had the hell kicked out of us with this wage and price freeze. We re not saying special or anything, but got to be done to make it a two-way Some officials blamed labor problems on a remark attributed to him during his primary campaign to the effect that he could win the nomination without labor's backing. But despite the present bad feelings, the officials felt that an understanding can be reached between the two sides. will have to be some negotiations and some standings said Odorcich, when we evaluate the situation and the philosophies of the parties, we ll end up backing the Democrats by and large. Wc have no other way to BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A Britsh soldier and a guerrilla gunman were shot dead in Belfast early today and shooting broke out in Londonderry as the Irish Republican Army continued its offensive across Northern Ireland.

Troops in Londonderry were fired on by snipers and claimed hitting two of their attackers. think one'of them may have been an army spokesman said. Eleven persons five soldiers and six civilians were killed during the past 42 hours, raising the death toll in three years of communal fighting to 438. With the British government now fighting to salvage some prospect for its four-month-old peace- initiative, hundreds of Catholics were heading for the Irish Republican border and scores of families in the capital were leaving their homes to seek refuge in Belfast's strongly guarded strongholds. After a week of violence following the collapse of the Irish Republican 13-day cease fire last.

Sunday, many per both Catholic and Protestant, feared the violence would hit a new peak this weekend. The soldier was killed by a sniper shortly after midnight as an army patrol scouted Lena- doon Avenue, already the scene of bitter confrontations this week. At Ligoniel, on the outskirts of Belfast, four gunmen attacked a Royal Marine position. An army marksman killed one of the attackers as the group fled. Troops believed that another man had also been hit after finding a trail of blood leading away from the area.

In Antrim, police stopped a ear being used to transport a gelignite bomb and arrested a man. Security forces sealed off the shopping center of Omagh in a midnight operation aimed at foiling guerrilla bombers. Their barricades left a single entrance to the downtown area. Tornadoes Rake Midwest; I Dead, Property Loss High Heavy Rainfall, Large Hail Also Present RUNNING MATES AND HELP MATES The standard bearers of Hie 1972 1) ni a i presidential ticket, Sen. George S.

McGovern and Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, stand on the podium with their wives Eleanor and Barbara Ann, respectively, at the final session of the Democratic National Convention. (AP ireplioto) McGovern Sees Uphill Struggle Nixon Supporter Woos Democrats Keeping Score On The Rainfall Kainl.tll for 21 Hour I-. mime at 8 a.m.

Actual since laly i Normal since July 1 2.0J BEHIND 1.08 INCH since Jan. 1 Nutinal since Jan. 1 Hivrr a.M sunree MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) One of the hand-lettered signs at the Democratic convention Thursday night said: Operation Cross Over Democrats Vote for It was carried by a man wearing delegate tag. The man circulated freely through the crowded aisles, attracting little aonion.

2 More Astronauts Quit Corps SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Dr. Phillip K. Chapman and Dr. Anthony W. England, two seientist-astronauts who never got a chance to fly into space, say they are leaving the space program to assume research jobs elsewhere.

The announcement Friday- had been expected for weeks and is he latest move in a continuing reduction of astronaut corps. appears that we have to make a choice between losing our competency as pilots or losing our competency as Chapman, 37, said in explaining his resignation. just not enough time to maintain scientific competency if we remain in the as tronaut England, who, at 30, was the youngest astronaut, said in recent interview that he planned to leave because the decline in manned space activity meant that he would have no chance to fly in the immediate future. The resignations reduce the number on the active astronaut flight list to 40. Two other astronauts, James B.

Irwin and Edgar D. Mitchell, resigned recently and a third, Alfred Worden, is expected to resign soon, according to John Donnelly, chief of public information for the space agency. WASHINTON (AP) Democratic presidential candidate George S. McGovern has tried out the landing strip at Andrews Air Force Base and says he likes it. got to get use to McGovern said, stepping off his chartered jet Friday night.

But he said he knows he has a long way to go before he will be using the two presidential jets parked near his aircraft, not under any illu sioiis that the battle is he said. know an uphill effort. 1 have much the same feeling 1 had in New Hampshire at the beginning of the year. It's an uphill effort but I think we're going to go over the Brown Home Issued Charter Of Cornoration See Chess Championship Match On Verge Of Collapse REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Organizers of the world chess championship made a new concession to Bobby Fischer, but the competition still appears to be on the brink of collapse, Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said late Friday The Brown Memorial Home, I the hidden film cameras would locating its principal office be removed from the Reykjavik in Circleville, has been issued 1 sports hall as demanded by the a charter to operate as a1 U.S. challenger, non profit corporation, an- Blit Thorarinsson also said the American had forfeited the second match.

attitude complicated anew the financial ar- rangements for the competition I Lawrence F. resigned and threatened to cost him as national chairman. he had McGovern announced the new McGovern brought a sizable portion of the Washingon press corps and the District of Columbia delegation home with him Friday night from Miami Beach. lie moved up and down the aisle during the flight, obviously in a good mood. was a hectic, crazy he told one delegate.

it came out all Before leaving Miami Beach, McGovern spent most of the day in consultations with party leaders and attended a meeting i of the Democratic National Committed meeting at which By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A wide swath of thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped across the Midwest Friday night and early today, causing at least one death and extensive property damage. The storms stretched from the Missouri Valley to Lower Michigan. A driver was killed in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Des Paines, 111., when a tornado knocked a tree onto his car. The twister downed about 100 trees and took the roofs off several homes. Two persons were injured in the Chicago area.

Another tornado flattened a house and several bams west of Milwaukee. Other twisters were reported west of Aurora, 111., north of Kansas City and west of Davenport, Iowa. Funnel clouds also were sighted over various parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Michigan. Hailstones the size of baseballs pounded an area west of Moline, 111., where the National Weather Service recorded an inch and a half of rain during a 25-minute period and winds up to 68 miles per hour. Golf-ball-size hail fell in an area west and southwest of Madison, Wis.

Almost inches of rain soaked Rockford. 111. Scattered thunderstorms also were reported in the warm and humid Southeast. Meridian, was drenched by over an inch of ram. Lighter shower activity occurred on the northern Plains.

Blistering heat continued over the Southwest and in the interior of California. Red Bluff, in the northern Sacramento Valley, had a high of 118 Friday, while a reading of 114 at Stockton was the highest temperature ever recorded there. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 99 at Needles and Daggett, to 47 at Lewiston, Mont. nounecd Secretary of State Ted W. Brown today.

The or purposes for which said corporation is formed arc: establish and upcrate a non-profit rest home, nursing home, or convalescent home in Pickaway County for the aged of Pickaway County as directed by the will of the late Paul Brown according to the Articles of Incorporation filed in the office of Secretary Brown. Diane H. Berger, 116 E. Union Street, Karl O. Drum, 915 Atwater Avenue, and Kenneth F.

the ruling would stand that Fischer forfeited second game to Russian defender Boris Spassky by refusing to appear because of the cameras The third game is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Fischer announced he would play only if the cameras were removed and if the forfeit were erased ami the Sunday game was considered the second. With the loss of opener, Fischer trails 0-2 in the 24-game competition. Spassky needs to more points to retain his world title, Fischer 12 12 to much of the money pried from the organizers in drawn-out negotiations preceding the match. Thorarinsson said the organizers do not intend to pay the share of the purse if Thursday causes his disqualification.

The loser has been scheduled to get $46,875 from the chess federation. $15,000 from a 000 purse offered by London investment banker James Slater and $27.500 from television and movie rights. Removal of the cameras could eliminate the television and movie cash. Charles Fox, a New chairman is Mrs. Jean Westwood of West Jordan, Utah, who was a Utah Democratic eommitteewoman and an ardent McGovern supporter.

McGovern received some- (Cnnlimicd on Page 10) Julie Eisenhower Has Pneumonia SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Eisenhower has viral pneumonia. The Western White House an- announced Friday that First York Lady Pat Nixon flew to Jack Fousnaugli, 185 ILillcrest Drive, take it. A win counts one point, will serve the corporation us a draw half a point, trustees. A four-member international Allen Berger, a N.

Court committee presiding over the has been appointed to act championship voted 3 to Frias Statutory Agent for the day to reject Fischer's appeal organization. of the decision that promoter who bought the film 1 sonvilie, on Friday to be rights, said whole finan- wiih Julie, wife of Navy Einsgn cial structure of the de- David Eisenhower. miiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimmif Roundtown iiimiiiiiiimiiiiiimimiiimmiimi A MEETING has been scheduled 8 p.m. Monday in City Hall by Circleville Public Utilities Director Charles Taylor for residents of the Isaac and Moats Subdivisions Purpose of the meeting is to explain the extension of water lines to the area, engineering costs and methods of paying for the costs Project engmeers, Dumond- Sifford and Associates, will be at the meeting along with Taylor to help answer questions residents of the area may have. pendcd on the filming.

The Reykjavik public, meanwhile. appeared to be iosing patience. More than half the 2,500 seats in the area were empty scheduled match. One of the irarticipants on a radio talk show proposed that and all the foreign reporters be given eight hours to get out of Iceland or be Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Julie, 24, hud been suffering from the flu and the illness developed into a viral infection in the lower lobe of her lung.

Ziegler said doctors say Julie will not have to be hospitalized. (aRAFFITI B52s Join Assault Against Quang Tri Reds SAIGON (AP) U.S. 1352 bombers killed nearly 300 North Vietnamese troops and smashed their equipment in massive strikes on two sides of Quang Tri City, the U.S. Command announced today. The bombers flew more than 100 strikes aero.ss South Vietnam from noon Friday until noon today, unleasing more than 2,500 tons of explosives 011 North Vietnamese troop concentrations in all four military regions of South Vietnam.

Two-thirds of the strikes were icoucentratcd in the ernmost stctur that includes Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces, South two northernmost provinces below the demilitarized zone. Most of the B52 raids were in support of a 20 000 -man South Vietnamese counteroffensive in Quang Tri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. The command said that South Vietnamese paratroopers searching one area eight miles south of Quang Tri City, where the B52s had hit, found 60 de- North Vietnamese hunkers containing mately 250 enemy dead and their equipment. The 1352s also destroyed two 37mm antiaircraft guns, one 85mm gun and two trucks in the same target area, the command said. Two miles to the northeast of Quang Tri City, South Vietnam esc marines probing another area hit by B52 bombers found six graves that contained the bodies of 48 North Vietnamese, the command said.

Meanwhile, military sources sunl that a South Yietnamt.se paratrooper battalion hail moved to witlun 700 yards east of tile Quang Tri Citadel. They said this was the closest until to the city limits, On Friday, South ietnaine.se paratropefs reported engaging Die enemy 500 from the city limits. The I 7th Fleet that attack planes of the earner America had joined the battle for Quang Tri City. The carrier recently returned to the war zone for its third ton. Field reports said 150 North Vietnamese troops were killed in lighting on the edges of Quang Tri City on Friday, while South Vietnamese forces sufieied 20 men killed and 59 wounded.

Thirty miles to the south Hie northern cuuneroifensive, more fighting was reported on the western flunks of Hue and the old imperial capital was shelled again. North Vietnamese gunners ltoured 1.300 rounds ot shells into a hilltop outpost called Checkmate 011 lie western flunks of Hue, then assaulted the position, which has changed lunds four tunc 111 the last two weeks. A COLUMBUS resident stopped by The Herald office one day this week to report a local man and his son had restored hii faith in human kindness C. J. Adams reported he had a flat tire while driving on Route 22 near Route 104 it was pouring rain A gentleman named McLaughlin (Adams could not recall the first name) and his son stopped and offered assistance.

(Continued on Page 10) Ton Of Pennies Pays Tax Bill SAN JOSE, Calif. (AIM- After months of wrangling with the government over back tuxes, Larry Hermone finally paid off the $2,500 he owed in pennies. A truck loaded with 250.000 pennies, weighing a ton, pulled up in front of the Internal Revenue Service office here Friday, and the coins were turned over to an IRS agent think an agent murmured..

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