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FRIDA ixon vening elegraph I. IMI I i i11 i i 11 M', ii Dial 284-2222 122nd Year Number 63 NEWSROOM Frasier the lion made love, not roar. Cast off when a Mexican circus went bankrupt, the scruffy, scrawny cat was rescued by Lion County Safari, a wildlife preserve at Laguna Hills, and nursed back to health. He was clearly past his prime. Bleary-eyed and nearly toothless, he suffered from rheumatism and arthritis and had trouble walking.

His 20 lion years were the equivalent of more than 80 human years. But he became a national sex symbol by his success as a lover. He sired 35 cubs in 18 months. Frasier was introduced to a a of 12 young females after the fussy lionesses spurned at least five young, virile candidates. One would-be lover was badly mauled.

Putting Frasier in with the pride was supposed to be a joke. But the next morning the lion- Carson held in jail under $31,000 bond Public Defender William Sturgeon today was appointed to represent David Carson, who faces multiple charges stemming from the Dec. 1,1971, captivity of two government agents. Carson was arrested June 30 by authorities in Coquille, and retuned to Lee County Jail yesterday by Sheriff John Quest. Appearing before Chief Circuit Judge James E.

Bales, Carson was read indictments returned by a December grand jury charging armed robbery, aggravated assault, armed violence, unlawful restraint and sale of marijuana. Carson, 23, of Franklin Grove, was returned to jail, where he was being held under $31,000 bond. Bales set July 26 for a hearing on motions to be filed by Sturgeon. Illinois Bureau of Investigation agents Pete Lackey and Jon Sandusky were reportedly held at gunpoint in a rural Dixon framhouse by Carson and several other persons while their identities were questioned. They later jumped through a farmhouse window to safety.

The agents had infiltrated an alleged drug ring and were in the process of windup up their investigation on the night of the occurrence. 34,000 Pet. profit for Sperry Rand, alleges Proxmire WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire, accused the Defense Department today of letting the taxpayer be for a by allowing Sperry Rand Corp. to reap a 34,000 per cent return on a $50,000 investment.

The contract involves the production of 155 mm artillery shell casings at its Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, Shreveport, La. The $71-million plant was built with taxpayer money but Sperry Rand invested only $50,000, said Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. In the 20-year span from 1951 to 1971, Sperry Rand made $17 million profit, maintained Proxmire. According to a General Accounting Office investigation, Proxmire said, Sperry Rand produced each casing at a claimed cost of $29.36 under a cost-plus contract. When the contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1971, Sperry Rand bid $6.49 below original claimed cost to win the contract again.

the Army has made some attempts to clean up this Proxmire said in a statement, has not gone far What is needed is competition and free in defense procurement, said Proxmire, adding: taxpayer would be overjoyed to make $17 million on a $50,000 investment, which is 340 times the investment or a 34,000 per cent return. Even on an annual basis it is a 17-fold or 1,700 per cent return on But, said Proxmire, the taxpayer is paying for this instead of getting it, he is being played strictly for a sucker. Phenomenal profits are easy to come by when the American taxpayers give a company a $71-million Inside your Telegraph today Lee County has a new Pork Queen. See page 7. The Dixon American Legion baseball protest, upheld once, now disallowed.

See page 8. Other features Church news Editorials page 3 page 4 Society news Local news page 5 page 6 Serving the Heart of the Rock River Valley for More Than a Century DIXON, ILLINOIS, July 14, 1972 14 PAGES 'etunia City PRICE TEN CENTS Jajp'f a fctom fate esses were found purring placidly in the sun near an exhausted but happy Frasier. He lay on his back, paws in the air. He was adored by the lionesses. When he was hungry the females would fetch his food and place it at his feet and even chew it for him.

When he took walks, a lioness took her place on each side of his elderly and infirm body to hold him up. As his exploits gained national reknown, Frasier watches, tee-shirts and caps were marketed and attendance at Lion Country jumped by 20 per cent. He was named of the in a congressional resolution. Election officials said they found dozens of for write-in votes in the June 6 California primary. mates were in mourning today.

The old lion died in his sleep of apparent kidney failure Thursday. He will be buried Saturday at the preserve. McGovern plea for unity as he vows people's campaign Sen. George McGovern Streets quiet during convention MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) No one wanted another Chicago.

almost as simple as that. So everyone gave a protesters, the police, the city, the party and its the streets were quiet during the Democratic National Convention. Convinced that violence would damage their individual causes, these diverse forces worked together this week to produce peaceful protests far different from the turbulence that swept the streets of Chicago when the Democrats convened there four years ago. The box score tells the story: Chicago: 680 arrested, 1,381 injured. Miami Beach: 1 arrested, 4 injured.

The memories of Chicago in 1968, of riot sticks and blood and tear gas, were replaced this week by a motorcycle cop leading a protest march to Convention Hall with an antiwar button pinned to his chest. By the and ice cream vendors wandering through the crowd just after a small section of the fence around the hall was torn down, the destructive highpoint of the week. By the jam in front of Convention Hall when the Yip- pies and Zippies came from one direction, the Cuban anticommunists from another and the Gay activists from yet another. Demonstration marshals linked arms to keep everyone apart. There was no violence, hardly a hint of destruction.

Disruptions, but not disturbances. Tense moments, but not confrontations. And in the one moment when things might have taken a different turn, George McGovern took a chance. Against the advice of the Secret Service. McGovern faced and pacified 300 chanting, shoving demonstrators in a hotel lobby just hours before he received the Democratic presidential nomination.

think the symbolism is more important than anything that he said afterward. want a repetition of Chicago in When it was all over and done, police were congratulating protesters, protesters were thanking police, and Mayor Chuck Hall and Police Chief Rocky Pomerance had emerged almost as heroes of the counterculture generation. City officials had prepared themselves for an influx of tens of thousands of so-called delegates, but at most only 3,000 gathered at any one time. Several months ago, Hall began meeting with leaders of the groups that planned demonstrations during the convention. He also led the fight that opened a city park for camping during the convention.

Pomerance organized the 800- man security force that surrounded Convention Hall, but at the same time instructed his men not to hassle people in the park about smoking marijuana or skinny dipping in the pool. police were just said Fred Wanerstrand, a member of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. would have been a blood bath, our blood, if they wanted to do For the demonstrators, the Democratic convention was just a warm up, a dress rehearsal for the Republican National Convention six weeks from now in Miami Beach. They had a good thing going with the police and the city, and trouble would only spoil it. showed the people of Miami Beach that we could conduct a nonviolent said Zippie leader Dana Beal.

did not believe us before, but I think we proved something to them. We got our message across without hurting anyone or trashing But perhaps more than anything else, it was the Democratic party that kept things quiet. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind fury and our and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon. And the South Dakota senator appealed for help every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can It was nearly 3 a.m.

when the beaming McGovern, introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and joined by vice presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his nomination. The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appearances before a unity breakfast for the House and Senate Campaign committees and a Democratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he returned to Washington later today.

McGovern also had to decide on a new chairman for the Democratic National Committee, which holds a morning organizational meeting. While he has pressed Chairman Lawrence F. to stay on, in- Hijackers surrender LAKE JACKSON, Tex. (AP) Two armed men who who commandered a jetliner and took it on a 21-hour journey surrendered quietly to an FBI agent after forcing the plane to land at a tiny private airfield. Held on $l-million bonds on air piracy charges in Houston were Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington, D.C.; and Luseged Tesfa, 22, a native of Ethiopia who was believed staying with Green.

The two walked down the rear ramp stairway of the jetliner at 4 p.m. C.D.T., almost eight hours after it first touched down on the small airstrip owned by Dow Chemical Co. in this town 50 miles south of Houston. In a second hijacking case, a man identified as Melvin M. Fisher, 49, of Norman, surrendered Wednesday night to a stewardess after a hijacker armed with a pistol commandeered an American Airlines 727 jet during a flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas.

The hijacker had demanded and received $200.000. Fisher, charged with air piracy, was held in lieu of $100,000 bond. The first hijacking began Wednesday night when a National Airlines Boeing 727 with 113 passengers aboard was taken over during a flight from Philadelphia to New York. formed sources said he would ask Jean Westwood, the Utah national committeewoman, to take the job if declines. In the final moments of the convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota.

Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M. Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his campaign swept aside the established political leadership, McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added: politics will never be the same With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other delegates grumbling about the ways in which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party in common this fall.

is the unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of this national McGovern said, adding that of us together are going to help him redeem a pledge he made 10 years ago: that next year you have Richard Nixon to kick around any Even delegates who supported the absent Gov. George C. Wallace joined the ovation when McGovern vowed to wage a national campaign and said, are not conceding a single state to Richard Earlier in the long evening, the convention ratified choice of Eagleton as the No. 2 man on the 1972 Democratic ticket. But it took a one-hour, 20- minute roll call that saw votes cast for candidates ranging from television commentator Roger Mudd, to TV character Archie Bunker, to the wife, Eleanor.

Even Martha Mitchell, the wife of former GOP campaign manager John N. Mitchell, got a vote. McGovern chose the handsome, articulate, first-term Missouri senator, a border-state Catholic with strong ties to labor, from a field of a half-dozen senators, governors and mayors. He was the second choice: Kennedy rejected an offer of the vice presidency shortly after McGovern swept to first-ballot nomination Wednesday night. When the final gavel fell at 3:27 a.m., the Democrats had ended a historic convention.

With reform rules that produced massive increases in the numbers of women, black and young delegates, it ratified a transition in party power from the big-city chieftains and leaders of labor, dominant for 40 years, to the forces of what Kennedy termed new wind rising over the Starting an hour late, the final session fell steadily further behind as the delegates ratified an overhaul of the national committee in one lengthy roll-call vote, then fell into another over the vice presidency after seven rivals formally were nominated to oppose Eagleton. Amid the unprecedented splintering of ballots, it took until the next-to-last state, Texas, before the Missouri senator passed the 1,509 total that marked the needed majority. As votes were checked, the defeated candidates most prominent among them being Texas state Rep. Frances T. Farenthold, Sen.

Mike Gravel of Alaska, and former Massachusetts Gov. Endicott Peabody trooped to the rostrum and declared support for Eagleton. The roll call was never finished. Park Board ready to start phase 1 plans By WAYNE LYON Ever since the announcement was made that the Dixon Park District was the recipient of a $71,500 Bureau of Outdoor Recreation grant, the commissioners have patiently tried to answer such questions as: are we getting the new lights at Reynolds Field? about the new tennis courts? are you starting on the new ice rink? In a discussion of the grant Thursday night at its regular monthly meeting, the board put things in perspective. is just the initial step in our master President Pat Jones explained.

grant merely reimburses us for half of the cost of the acquisition of the Borden property and another tract we purchased near the Lee County Housing took another important step at this meeting tonight when we approved an agreement with the Dixon School Board on reciprocal use of land and he added, we still have to wait to see exactly what direction the school board is going to take toward its expansion Jones continued, will be able to sit down with A1 Caskey, our consultant, and start to work on phase I of our master Jones reminded that after some definite decisions have been made as to what will be done initially, the district will still have to make application for funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Park Superintendent Lloya Swan provided some of the chronology. was one year ago at our July meeting that we started the wheels rolling on the BOR he said. will probably be another four to five months before we have any of the grant money in he went on. I think that anyone who thinks we can move quickly is going to have to remember that the whole process takes Jones retorted that he felt things should get under way as quickly as possible.

enacted a $300,000 non-referendum bond he said, I do think we owe it to the taxpayers to start showing them something for their The board decided to hold special meetings, if necessary, in August, to start mapping out preliminary plans. As soon as the school board announces its decision, members will decide what the priorities should be on phase I of the master plan and the consultant will be called in to start schematic drawings. Swan in his report to the board said the new shelter house at Lowell Park has been completed. Dedication ceremonies are planned shortly. Swan, in response to a complaint in Voice of the in the columns of the Evening Telegraph about a service charge for the use of electric outlets at Lowell Park, said the $1 charge had been park policy for some time.

The board requested that a sign to that effect be posted at each of the electrical outlets carrying information park users need to make use of the service. Forfeited game stands Fischer's chess protest is rejected REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby protest against his loss of world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall.

Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at any time and disqualify him. But Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because whole financial structure of the match depends on It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000. Fox said Fischer admitted he hear or see the three cameras, but said they bothered him because he knew they were Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat. Bobby concentrates Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., studies the chessboard before making his move against the Soviet Boris Spassky, left, in Laugardalsholl Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland. The action came during the first game of the match.

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