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30 ISS? Filli SERVICI 1302 TANuELL Volume 153 Satlg mhh Alamogordo, New Mexico, Monday, July 3, 1972 16 bOMK. 1 repeffci thi 9puth their MW and artillery hit Hue, said, but there was Tift i diate report of casualties. Mr Nearly 7 ft shells crashed intd tfcrtbs the former tameriri capital Sunday, chrlliftWADd i wounding 53. It shelling of the city SftjNt lift North Vietnamese gain March 30. Spokesmen also said government troops in two positions west and northwest of Hue HHHH were hit by more than rounds and by a ground attack at one position Sunday and lv Monday.

The spokesmen said we attackers might be trying HHHjHj to pull South Vietnamese troops ShhBB nwav from the drive on QuangBHHH i i bead and Highwc Steady U)alL Anyone who income these poor. Great Day Tomorrow is Day, It was on July 4, that the Declaration of 7 dence was signed, .,1 day we have celebrated ly since that time. The document itself great one, and one we every American should i and have a copy cr: re-read now and then. dependence was the start i tip ul march that has made this I of freedom the greatest tion on earth, and we always shall be that r' However, we cannot recognize that we have in our great nation as the days pass, it seems attacks upon our and on our Freedom can be a thing, and it can be c. away, even in America.

We hope you will fly flag tomorrow, and while it a holiday which most will observe with we hope a few minutes tion on this great day will observed. Have a happy day. Our ployes will be able to I holiday, too, since we lish tomorrow. Planes Back Activities In Bunches Occupy Fun-Seekers Advancing Forces SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines, supported by U.S. fighter-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quant Tri City.

1 Press correspond- Jensen reported front that the were fleeing the Recreation facilities in the Lincoln National Forest are filled, reports Ken Evans, forest supervisor, as campers seek the refuge of the cool mountains during the extended Fourth of July holidays. Mescalero officials reported today the annual Mescalero Apache Ceremonial and rodeo which started Saturday has drawn the greatest number of participants and visitors in history of the event. The Mescalero July 4 holiday observance will be climaxed with festivities. And the Little Fellers Rodeo, the Otero County will continue ma- Busy Holiday Schedule For Area through Tuesday. Events start at 2 p.m.

at Chippeway Arena, six miles southeast of Cloudcroft on Highway 24. Events are divided into age groups, with boys and girls eight to 11 participating in pole bending, barrel racing, flag race and goat milking; boys and girls eight-14, participating in bareback (Shetland) riding, bull riding and mule riding (Shetland); boys and girls 12-14, pole bending, barrel racing, goat tying, goat milking. The second and final rodeo dance is scheduled for 9 p.m. today. Meanwhile, State Police are out in numbers through the lengthy holiday period, in an effort to hold down highway tragedies.

All local law enforcement officers have called for extreme caution in driving, particularly on Tuesday, the final day of the four-day holiday when motorists are returning home, many of them fatigued. Don Winslow, recreation and lands officer for Lincoln National Forest, has just returned from camping and noted the Bonito Lake area Is with people. Wes Lathrop, fire and timber staff officer, said five man-caused fires and seven caused fires were reported Sunday. At least one of the man- caused fires was the result of fireworks, which are prohibited in the national forest. have hosts of out-of-state auto licenses, the parking facilities are full to the brim and there is standing room only at the rodeo one Mescalero official reported this morning.

Traditional Apache puberty rituals for young maidens began at sunrise Saturday for three young girls of the tribe being featured as central figures of this event. schedule at Mescalero will include: 8 a.m. Rodeo registration. 10 a.m. Dance competition registration.

12 noon Midday meal. 1 p.m. Rodeo Mescalero arena. 4 p.m. Dance competitions, Cermonial grounds.

6 p.m. Evening meal 8 p.m.—Dance of the Mountain Spirits, Mescalero dance groups, Ceremonial grounds. 10 p.m. dance. 12 midnight Reservation closed to non-Indians.

Evening events and times listed also apply tonight. nts 15 HAFB Tour The Chamber of Committee of 50 will meet 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at tl chamber. And the first of the ber's Summer Rural Tours is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Holloman Air Force Base.

The air police at the base gate will give directions to the event. Fiddlin', awards and an ice cream social are scheduled. 'Hot Line' A meeting of the telephone volunteer counselors of Help, the Alamogordo has been set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Alamogordo Youth Counseling Center, 901 Maryland. The meeting is open to current counselors and anyone who would be interested in becoming a counselor.

The guest speaker will be Byron King of the Southwest Mental Health Center, Las Cruces. Board Meet A special meeting of the Alamogordo Board of Education has been called for 8 p.m. today. Board members will review the 1971-72 audit, hear a report on Holloman Junior High, consider bus contract changes, review the Otero county manpower training program and application for vocational capital improvements. Tri.

The Saigon command reported fighting continuing for the third day 75 miles northeast of Saigon. It said a North Vietnamese attack on a district headquarters at Phuoc Binh was repulsed and 120 of the attackers were killed, most of them by air strikes. Over North Vietnam, U.S. Navy jets blasted the Yong Bi thermal power plant 10 miles Set Pate 4, Column 1 Truman Scheduled For Medical Tests KANSAS CITY (AP) Former President Harry S. Truman has entered Research Medical Center for routine examinations for what his personal doctor said was a gastrointestinal The condition of the 88-year- old Truman, who was taken to the hospital last week after falling in his home, was termed, satisfactory by his physician, Dr.

Wallace H. Graham. Truman fell at his home last Tuesday. He spent an hour at the hospital having X-rays taken of his back after complaining of soreness. Hospital spokesmen said the X-rays were negative.

By THE 4 Six Columbia, were killed Sunday crash when their out of control at an and burst into flames when it hit three parked trucks. They were among the 438 persons killed by 2 p.m. in the Independence Day holiday weekend in traffic accidents on the highways. Authorities said the car failed to stop for a traffic light at the intersection in West Columbia, S.C., and was traveling at a speed in excess of 100 miles an hour. A car-train collision near Litchfield in central Illinois Sunday killed four persons and critically injured another.

Police said the car in which the victims were riding collided with a Norfolk and Western freight train at a country road crossing and was dragged more than a mile along the tracks after the crash. A car slowing down for a roadblock set up by police was struck from the rear by another auto in Portageville, Mo. The Missouri Highway Patrol said five persons perished in a fire that followed the crash. in a car driv- J. Schrader, 26, who was in- car was on U.S.

64. The oth- 1 in the accident car driven by Morgan, 30, of Espa- crash occurred in the lane. Fay Abies, 17, of was killed the pickup truck in she was riding over- i was thrown out and as the truck rolled. Terry Allan police the truck of control when he to avoid a rabbit on east of Vaughn, i Padilla of Santa Fe Saturday when the was driving went out of on a Santa Fe street, a slope, and struck a wall. Padilla was pinned the front seat and the wheel in his car.

Don H. Byers, 42. a Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory employe, was killed late Saturday night in a three-car crash on Diamond Drive in Los Alamos. His wife Janet, 39, his daughters Laura, 16, and Lisa, 12, and the driver of one of the other two cars, Jeffrey Richerson, 19, all were seriously injured. Lisa still was listed in critical condition today.

Police said the Richerson car was headed west on four-lane Diamond Drive moments before the accident and failed to negotiate a turn, wandering into the eastbound lanes. Byers and another car were eastbound side by side. Officers said car was in the inside lane, and he avoid a headon collision with the Richerson car. State Police said Rema Loyce Stevenson, 28, of Houston, was killed Saturday when the vehicle she was driving went out of control and crashed near Artesia on U.S. 85.

Officers said a tire on her station wagon apparently blew out. Earlier Saturday, a single mo Column 3 Appropriate to the Fourth of July celebration tomorrow is this respectful salute to the nation's flaq by an unidentified elderly American during a recent parade in the national capital. (AP Wirephoto) HOMECOMING AWARDS Presentations, in a number of categories highlighted the brief formal ceremonies at the Grand Ball climaxing the Homecoming celebration Saturday evening at the HAFB Officers' Club. In pnoto at left, County Commission Chairman Clif McDonald (left) and Homecoming General Chairman Calvin Boles present a Dorsey Bonnell painting to Mrs. Richard (Woodie) McDonald Peeler, of Seattle on having travelled the greatest distance to attend the festivities.

At right, MC Aubrey Dunn and Boles join in another award of a painting to Ed Babers. Boles also was honored with presentations by Dunn for an enormous amount of time and effort expended in planning and co-ordinating the Homecoming, News BRIEFS VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (ft A Hobbs, N.M., man was one of two Navy fliers who ejected safely Sunday night before their F4J Phantom jet crashed near Virginia Beach, Va. The radar intercept officer on the jet was Lt. (j.g.) Robert Jordan, 25, of Hobbs.

The pilot was Richard Reinheimer, 26, of Pittsburgh, Pa. CIMARRON, N.M. Homer Tips, 43, an assistant Boy Scout master from San Antonio, died early today at Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico of an apparent heart attack. WASHINGTON A federal judge questioned today whether a constitutional Issue was involved in the Democratic Credentials Committee's action stripping away more than half Sen. George S.

McGovern's California delegates. District Judge George L. Hart, Jr. said, "It might not be cricket, it might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" LOVINGTON, N.M. (ft Dean Williams, 34, of Lovington, was killed Sunday evening when the small plane he was flying crashed on the runway at the Lovington airport.

A spokesman for the airport. Zip Franklin, said Williams, an experienced pilot, was doing aerobatics in a practice area moments before the crash. Pageants, Picnics Mark 4th By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fireworks, patriotic pageants and family picnics are among the traditional Fourth of July highlights as the nation celebrates its 196th birthday over a four-day weekend. An audience dressed in red, white and blue was on hand Sunday in Oklahoma City for 1972 Stars and Stripes featuring comedian Bob Hope, singers Anita Bryant and Nancy Wilson and Mickey Mantle. Tickets to the $300,000 extravaganza were free but the ticket holders had to come dressed in the colors of the flag.

NBC taped the show for broadcast at 9:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday. National Yankee Doodle will be selected in Philadelphia from among 13 teen-agers who were born on the Fourth and who represent the 13 original colonies. The youngsters competed in an essay on My American Freedoms Mean To Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III will deliver the keynote address during festivities at Independence Hall.

While the Dandy hopefuls declaim, President Nixon and his wife plan to spend a quiet holiday at the Western White House in San Clemente. The I'resident said in his annual Fourth of July message that the spirit of the first Independ- 4, Column REYKJAVIK, Iceland (ft The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fischer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess champion, was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield. WASHINGTON (ft Three New York members of the Democratic credentials committee have been purged at the prompting of supporters of Sen.

George S. McGovern, the front- running contender for the presidential nomination. Gallup Poll Shows Nixon Still Favored PRINCETON, N.J. (API President Nixon continues to I favored by voters over his pc sible Democratic rivals, a cording to a recent Gallup Po The results of the survey leased Sunday indicate would gain 53 per cent of ti popular vote if his opponent the presidential election we South Dakota Sen. Georj McGovern.

The survey showi 4. Column Weather Partly cloudy with a few afternoon and evening thundershowers today becoming more numerous Tuesday. High 95, low 68.