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Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex. H. Washburn Chtdonito Vicitioft Moticd An incredulous world has been watching developments in that scheduled chess championship match in Iceland which as yet hasn't come off. First the American challenger, Bobby Fischer, refused to travel to the match scene because tournament officials wouldn't give him more money. Finally a London banker who likes chess sweetened the pot for Fischer.

Fischer arrived on the scene only to see the coattails of the Russian champ, Boris Spassky, flying out the back door. The Russian said he had been insulted by the American's holdout. And finally, tournament officials and the press and television are at war because television rights have already been sold, restricting news coverage of the scheduled match. On this last item I am as confused as you I simply can't imagine chess, an exquisite study in still life, being turned into entertainment on the picture tube. I once had a harrowing experience with a chess player and it didn't endear the game to me.

As a young man I was a pretty fair hand at checkers, regularly beating my second brother, the late Lindsley M. Washburn but one day while in Pennsylvania on vacation I tied into him at checkers and I failed even to reach the king row in 12 consecutive games. Our mother suggested, sagely: "Perhaps you don't know that since you've moved to Arkansas your brother has become chess champion of the Pennsylvania state house:" ---So my observations on the world championship match in Iceland are what you might call highly prejudiced. Went over to Dodson It Maney Auto Service the other day to swap some fishing lies and was jolted by a sign on the locked door: "Sorry, closed until July 17." Herbert Dodson and Bob Maney have got it made. When vacation-time rolls around they just close up shop and leave.

You can do that with a two- man operation. Lock the door and leave. The envious ones are the people who run restaurants, motels, and newspapers. Can you imagine the outcry if they were to shut down at vacation- time? With 20 employes The Star has to struggle all Summer with the vacation problem. And yet the shop close-up system used by small businesses is the same plan used by the largest factories.

Rather than string out vacations all Summer they suspend operations across the board and get all vacations over with at one time. In yesterday's Daily Bread (Wednesday, July 5) you spotted a grotesque typographical error. I admit I wrote it that way: "Sending me Wall Street Journal clippings is about liking ship coal to Newcastle." Of course it should have read: "about like shipping coal to Newcastle." Broadcasters suffer slips of the tongue. Editors have the same trouble hurrying a typewriter. I call it eresque.

The proofreaders who make the initial corrections (I see only the final revise) ought to catch a bust like this. Years ago I asked a proofer about a similar bust and was told: "It didn't make sense to me-but I thought it might to the reader." That's a dangerous assumption. Proof is always assumed to be wrong unless you can prove it correct. If text doesn't make sense, change it! But who am I to complain? I checked the final revise proof and missed the bust. It's a treacherous business reading proof on your own you know what's coming up, and The tragedy of Man: He starts off with a Country-and winds up with a Government! Star Hope VOL, 225 Pages (M AiMcltWl Prtli AM'fi MOPE, ARKANSAS.

THURSDAY, JULY 6, .1972 Av ttia cirtoutlen 1 mm. Mirth 11, l.l«l with Clrculttunt. mbittt to PRICE lOc Election case investigation underway here An investigation into alleged irregularities connected with the opening of a ballot box following the May 30 Democratic preferential primary is underway here, according to Prosecuting Attorney Dub Arnold. The Star has learned that the night of the May 30 election, the absentee box was allegedly opened to check the votes cast in a specific county committeeman contest in the Spring Hill Township between incumbent Garland Kidd and W. Tarpley.

Tarpley won the election by a single vote. Starftto-Smifli Discussing the case An investigation into alleged irregularities concerning the opening of a bailor box following the May 30 election is underway here. Above, from right, Sheriff Henry Sinyard, John R. Graves, deputy prosecuting attorney, and Dub Arnold of Arkadelphia, discuss the case. At left, Donal Parker, chairman of the Hempstead County Democratic Central Committee, follows Arnold into the judge's chambers to discuss the incident.

Also attending the brief meeting was Leo Ray of Hope. A star reporter was barred from the meeting. (See article at right.) The announcement of the investigation was preceded by a brief meeting yesterday afternoon at the county courthouse. Arnold, John Robert Graves, deputy prosecuting attorney, County Sheriff Henry Sinyard, Donal Parker, chairman of the Hempstead County Democratic Central Committee and Leo Ray of Hope met for about 45 minutes in the judge's chambers on the third floor of the courthouse. A reporter for the Star requested entrance to the meeting, but the request was politely refused by Arnold.

Arnold likened the meeting to a grand jury investigation and said the testimony would be taken. Following the meeting, Arnold said that felony charges would be filed today in connection with the case. However, in a telephone conversation this morning, Arnold stated that he had decided to postpone filing charges, at least temporarily. He is considering petitioning Circuit Court Judge John Goodson of Texarkana to call a grand jury investigation. Arnold told the Star: "Monday I will either file charges in the matter or petition for a grand jury investigation." Arnold, following yesterday's meeting, wrote out the information for the issuing of a warrant in the case.

However, Rare session of court sought Guonfoiiomo withdrawal demanded MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union today demanded the "unconditional withdrawal" of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay and pledged to continue supplying massive economic and military aid to Fidel Castro's Communist regime. The Kremlin demand was made in a joint Soviet-Cuban communique published today as Castro left the Soviet Union for home after an 11-day visit. "The Soviet leaders have once again stated that the Soviet Union resolutely condemns the economic and political blockade of Cuba conducted by the United States," the commu- nique declared. There must be an "unconditional withdrawal of the American Guantanamo naval base, which, contrary to the sovereign will of the Cuban people, exists on Cuban territory," it added.

Communist sources said Castro would make a short stopover in Morocco today en route to Havana. "WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic party forces are seeking a rare special session of the Supreme Court to determine which presidential candidate gets the California delegates George McGovern thought he had locked up. The appeals to be filed today would go first to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger who would decide whether to call the justices back from vacation. The arguments revolve around constitutional guarantees of due process and the extent to which federal courts may inject themselves into partisan political processes.

Two groups are appealing a U.S. Court of Appeals decision Wednesday which reversed the party's Credentials Committee in the California case, but upheld it in the Illinois case. First is the party hierarchy which defends the committee as the proper body for deciding such matters and wants the high court to declare the selection of convention delegates off- limits to the federal courts. On the other hand, forces loyal to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley argue that the courts should upset the committee once more and restore convention seats to Daley and 58 allies.

The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271- vote California reversing the committee's vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candidates, chiefly Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey. The court suspended the effect of its rulings until 2 p.m. today to give the high court time to act if it wishes.

The Supreme Court has held only three special sessions in its history. "We feel this case is as compelling and more compelling" than those which prompted the other sessions, said Democratic National Committee counsel Jo- seph A. Califano in Miami Beach. "The courts should not get involved in selecting delegates." McGovern forces announced Wednesday afternoon that the appeals-court action gave their candidate more than the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. The Associated Press delegate count, which does not list officially uncommitted delegates who are leaning toward a Man, 84, attempts to cross tracks, feet amputated An 84-year-old Hope man suffered double amputation of his feet about 4 p.m.

yesterday when he was run over by a Missouri-Pacific freight train, according to the Hope Police Department. Dewitt Stephens of 322 West Ave. A was attempting to crawl under the train, which had stopped temporarily to repair air lines, when the accident occurred, the police said. Stephens was taken to St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana by the Hempstead County Ambulance service.

He is in the intensive care unit, and his condition is listed as fair, according to a hospital spokesman. According to investigating officers James Purtle and Ronald Stovall, the train engineer, Woody L. Taylor, said he did not see Stephens until he (Taylor) was flagged down by a brakeman. Surprise negotiations for VN peace LONDON (AP) Western diplomats have been speculating on chances that Russia and China may separately be urging North Vietnam toward a peace settlement ever since President Nikolai V. Podgorny visited Hanoi and Henry A.

Kissinger visited Peking last month. But these officials representing countries with missions in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi, reported today they have seen absolutely no evidence to suggest assume correct wording when it's not actually there. that the Russians or Chinese in fact are exercising any effective pressures on North Vietnam. In the one sector where Moscow and Peking could reinforce any advice in favor of a settlement-in the supply of arms and other military has been no sign of a cutoff of aid. And these Western authorities said they doubt very much if the competing Russians and Chinese would expose themselves to charges of betraying Hanoi by seeming to turn on them so soon before the resumption of the Paris peace talks next week.

Spokesmen for the Soviet and Chinese embassies here declined formal comment on a report that their governments have been pressing Hanoi to end the war soon. A source close to the Chinese embassy said: "No member of the Chinese mission could conceivably discuss Peking's dealings with Hanoi in this way." During his mission to Moscow. President Nixon devoted hours of his time to discussing with Soviet leaders ways of ending the Vietnam war. It became everyone's secret that he sought Soviet help toward that goal. In the wake of Nixon's visit, President Podgorny journeyed to Hanoi where.

Western diplomats said, he got a lukewarm reception. Western authorities still are unsure if this was due to Hanoi's resentment against the Russians for permitting the summit talks to take place at a time when U.S. bombing was going on and U.S. mining of North Vietnamese ports was taking place. That could have been a factor.

Another factor could have been Hanoi's hostility to the advice Podgorny was offering. candidate, showed McGovem with 1,436.65 votes. But Humphrey was in no mood to concede. He noted that the Supreme Court had not yet spoken, and argued further that the party itself would be the ultimate judge. Humphrey conceded that it would be "quite a hassle" if the convention ignores the court, but said he felt it has the right to do so.

The appeals court based its intervention on the conclusion that the party had ignored its own rules to the point where constitutional guarantees due process were violated. California law awarded all the delegates to the winner. The 2-1 decision overturned a U.S. District Court which ruled Monday that the judiciary has no jurisdiction in partisan processes unless a clear constitutional priinciple is involved. The lower court found no constitutional question in that case.

14 die in Vietnam in week's action SAIGON (AP) Fourteen Americans were reported killed in the Indochina war last week and four more were listed as missing in action, the U.S. Command reported today. U.S. wounded in action last week were put at 23. A South Vietnamese commu- nique reported 2,765 enemy killed last week and listed government losses as 523 men killed and 2,199 wounded.

Seven Americans were reported dead "not as a result of hostile action," a category that can include deaths in combat situations not directly caused by the enemy as when a helicopter goes down from mechanical malfunction during a battle. U.S. authorities have acknowledged more than 60 American fliers missing in North Vietnam since the stepped-up bombing campaign began April 6. Hanoi claims to have captured many of them. the information was never filed with the county sheriff's office.

A grand jury is a rarity in most sections of the state, and requires the services of 16 persons; 12 votes are needed for an indictment. Under investigation is Ark. Stat. 3-1105 which states: "No person shall falsely change, alter or obliterate the poll books of any election, or break any seals upon any ballot box, voting machine or stub box, except as authorized by law." The maximum penalty for the offense is five years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Budget plan attack led by Laird WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird said today Sen. George McGovern's proposal to slash defense spending by $30 billion "would signal to the world a drastic decline in America's will and ability to contribute to international stability." Leading the Nixon administration attack against the Democratic presidential nomination front-runner on the eve of the Miami Beach convention, Laird again characterized McGovern's defense program as "tantamount to a white flag of surrender." "The so-called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of give-away now, beg later, for a philosophy of strength and willingness to negotiate" as followed by the Nixon administration, Laird said at a news conference in which he released two documents containing the Pentagon's analysis of McGovern's proposals. The Defense chief first referred to McGovern's plan as representing the white flag of surrender in a June 5 appearance before Sen. William Proxmire's foreign operations subcommittee and in response to Proxmire's request agreed to present a detailed analysis backing up his charge. Laird told newsmen that he had intended to wait until after the Democratic convention before releasing the analysis but decided to go ahead after Proxmire accused him of breaking a promise to document his attacks against McGovern.

In his proposal to trim defense spending, McGovern has proposed a defense budget of $54.8 billion by fiscal 1975, some 132.5 billion less than the current Nixon budget would cost three years hence. Blevins man appointed to hospital board Paul Choate of Blevins has been appointed to Pos. 4 on the Board of Governors of the Hempstead County Memorial Hospital. Choate was appointed to the seven-year term by County Judge Finis Odom. Choate replaces Cecil Cox of Fulton, whose term expired.

Challenge to state delegates expected LITTLE ROCK (AP) State Rep. Frank B. Henslee of Pine Bluff said Wednesday a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Arkansas delegation to the Democratic National Convention will be filed today. Henslee said he would be one of a group of plaintiffs in the case. The group has retained Art Givens Jr.

of Little Rock as its attorney. Givens said the suit would contend that the election process of the State Convention was unconstitutional because of guidelines of the national Democratic party that required the delegation to include women, blacks and young persons "in reasonable relationship" to the state's population. These guidelines abridged the right of the 936 delegates to the State Convention to nominate and vote freely for their choice for delegates, Givens said. He said they were required to allot certain positions for women, blacks and persons under 30. Arkansas' delegation, elected at a Democratic party State Convention June 24, consists of 15 men and 12 women, including five blacks and five persons under 30.

All the delegates are committed to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills until he releases them. Henslee is a suppoorter of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama..