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The York Daily Record, Tuesday Morning, January 4, 1972 2. Radiation contaminates passenger plane said. George Shedd, an assistant vice president for Delta, said that after delivering the molybdenum, the plane made eight more passenger flights Saturday and Sunday before the consignee of the shipment told the airline a leakage had been discovered in the package. He said the package was shipped from Union Carbide of Tuxedo, N.Y., to Bio-Labs Inc. of Houston, Nayfield said first checks by health teams showed evidence of contamination to clothing bags and a runway at West Palm Beach.

passengers. Dr. Chester L. Nayfield, director of the radiological health section of the Florida Division of Health, advised passengers on any of the flights to check with their local civil defense unit, fire department or county health department to determine if their baggage was contaminated. The plane involved can carry 96 passengers at a time.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) A Delta Air Lines plane contaminated by leakage of radioactive material made nine passenger flights into 11 U.S. cities over the weekend, health and airline officials said Monday. An Atomic Energy Commission official in Atlanta said, however, the AEC "has no information to indicate that any health hazard exists to airlines employes or to mT rxon name emocrats ask put in primary right to reply Health teams checked four Florida airports to measure extent of contamination still lingering in concourses, baggage handling areas and on runways. "There's virtually no chance that the passengers would get sick from the contamination," said Nayfield.

"But our monitoring of the airport facilities involved is a necessary precautionary measure." A Delta spokesman in Atlanta said the radiation came from a leakage in a shipment of radioactive medical isotopes flown from New York to Houston on Friday aboard the plane, a Convair 880. The shipment was comprised of 80 curies of molybdenum. A curie is a scientific measurement. The AEC said the molybdenum was packaged in two containers, weighing a total of 860 pounds, most of which was lead shielding. John Davis, director of the AEC office in Atlanta, said that while checks of the plane showed "considerable contamination" in the affected baggage compartment, "the passenger compartment was basically clean." "There was some radiation which came up from the baggage compartment, but from the amount of time passengers would be sitting on the plane, it would pose no health hazard," Davis CONCORD, N.H.

AP) -President Nixon's name was submitted Monday for the ballot in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, where he launched his drive for the White House in 1968. Sen. Vance Hartke, also announced, in Manchester, that he was a candidate for his party's nomination and said he would campaign in the state for the March 7 election. Former Gov. Lane Dwinell, head of a citizen's group campaigning for Nixon, filed petitions to get the President's name on the ballot.

Dwinell said he had more than 1,000 signatures on the petitions from each of the state's two congressional districts twice the Record President an opportunity to express his views on a number of controversial issues of public importance." A demand for equal time came also from Rep. Paul N. McCloskey, a young Republican antiwar congressman from California who is challenging Nixon in the March 7 New Hampshire primary. In a letter to Dr. Frank Stanton, -vice chairman of the board of CBS, McCloskey seid that Nixon's discussion of the Vietnam war in the Sunday night interview "clearly would give him an unfair advantage in the New Hampshire primary unless equal prime time is granted to those who oppose him in this primary." There was no immediate response from either network.

The Democratic National Committee said it would cooperate with the networks in arranging spokesmen. Nixon was interviewed Sunday night by CBS White House correspondent Dan Rather in a one-hour program called "A Conversation with President Nixon." "The President repeatedly sought to measure the success of his administration by placing the blame for the war in Indochina In today's GOP legislators Classified 25-28 draw battle lines page 18 Comics 29 Two men arraigned County News 14-18 in trooper's death Page 19 Crossword Puzzle 22 Bhutto says he'll Editorial 8-9 free Bebgali leader Page 20 Harriet Van Home 19 Bicentennial Horse Racing 32 can't find home Page 21 Jeane Dixon 29 Jim Hubley's Obituaries 6 Off the Record Page 31 Remember When? 29 Amusement 23 Social 11,13 Auto 27-28 SPrts Business io Woman's Page 12 WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic National Committee asked the Columbia Broadcasting System Monday for prime air time to respond to the network's telecast interview with President Nixon Sunday night. The Democrats also asked the National Broadcasting Company for air time to answer that network's Dec. 21 airing of a program entitled. "A Day in the Presidency." The requests were made in telegrams from the committee's general counsel, Joseph A.

Califano, to Charles T. Ireland president of CBS, and Julian Goodman, president of NBC. Califano said the Sunday night program was "highly political in its overtones and offered the Newsmen support anonymity WASHINGTON (AP) In an implied rebuke to The Washington Post, the White House Correspondents Association called upon its members Monday to abide by the rules of anonymous briefings. The statement of principles was put out by the executive committee, speaking for the association. Without mentioning the Post, the statement said "There is absolutely no question but that any news organization which accepts information on a 'background' basis, either directly or from a report from a group of reporters must abide by the rules under which the information was obtained." The association said its goal 'must be and is to promote the greatest possible flow of information from government officials in ways that such information can be attributed, in quotation marks, to the news source by name.

Neivs briefs anoi number required. He predicted the President would win the contest "very handily." Dwinell said he had not conferred with the White House before filing the petitions, but was informing Nixon in a letter of the action. Nixon will have 10 days after the primary filing period ends Thursday to keep or remove his name from the ballot. The President has said he will not campaign in New Hampshire or in any other primary. "As the one responsible for the campaign in this state, one would like to have one's candiate on the grounds," he said.

In the primary, Nixon faces party challengers from Reps. Paul N. McCloskey Jr. of California, a liberal, John M. Ashbrook of Ohio, a conservative.

Hartke said he was "skeptical" of his chances in the primary when he came to New Hampshire last week. McGovern rebuts President WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George McGovern, said today North Vietnam would release U.S. prisoners of war in exchange for a deadlined American withdrawal from South. Vietnam, and added that Com-, munist negotiators told him so last September.

In statement and a news conference, McGovern, who seeks the Democratic presidential: nomination, accused Nixon off deception in his Sunday night, statement that such a suggestion had been spurned by the Com-: munists. McGovern said that during visit to Paris last September, he! asked Communist negotiators; whether North Vietnam would release U.S. prisoners in exchange for, and at the same rate as, a total withdrawal of American forces. "They said, 'That's precisely what we have in McGovern said. millions of Pennsylvanians, Attt said wonaay.

POWs New Justices Newly-installed State Supreme Court Justices Louis Manderino, left, and Robert C. Nix, second from left, chat with Gov. Milton Shapp, second from right, and Chief Justice Benjamin Jones in Uarrisburg after swearing-in ceremonies Monday. (AP) ids Nixon negotitate to free By the Associated Press The North Vietnamese, responding to President Nixon's television remarks on Indochina, said Monday all U.S. prisoners of war would have been home by now if the United States had accepted their peace terms.

A North Vietnamese statement, issued by Hanoi's peace talks mission in Paris, said the only way President Nixon can free U.S. prisoners and "get out of the swamp in Vietnam" is to abandon hopes of a military victory and negotiate seriously. Monday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site of th Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world championship ches: match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder. Neiv Year toll WASHINGTON (AP) The death toll in traffic accident', totaled 449 during the New Year's holiday weekend. Nuclear plant opposed UARRISBURG AP) The Commonwealth has petition? the Atomic Energy Commission opposing construction of th, KmvhnM uiand.

nuclear generating station because i the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of those murdered in 1971, 120 died from gunshot wounds, the FBI said. Pistols were used to kill 93 officers. Pledge support UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. AP U.S.

Ambassador George Bush met with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on Waldheim's first day on the job Monday. Bush said afterwards: "We pledged to him our total support." China cruise NEW YORK AP) Some 1,200 passengers, including 300 Americans, booked on the S. S. France's 91-day world cruise sailing Wednesday can spend two days in China, a French Line spokesman said here Monday. The special excursion to Canton will be the first time in more than two decades that China has admitted American tourists, he said.

Ton bidder NEW YORK CAP) The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed. Illinois primary "places undue risks" Gen. J. Shane Creamer SALT talks on SPRINGFIELD, 111.

(AP) Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota filed nominating petitions Monday for the Illinois Democratic presidential primary.

Police toll WASHINGTON (AP) Some 125 local, county and state police officers were slain in 1971, a 25 per cent increase over VIENNA (AP) American and Soviet negotiators to th Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT will have their ne meeting here on Wednesday after a two-week Christm holiday..