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"the of a wan can be measured by the size of the thing lhat makes him angry, "-J. Mofiey, English wfiief (The flampa Sally Serving The fop 0' Texas 66 Years WEAfHEK Considerable cloudiness arid cooler through Thursday, with chance of thunderstorms, High in 1 low OO's, low in mid-tifl's. Southerly winds 10-20 mph. 30 percent chance of rain through Thursday. Yesterday's high, 82.

today's low, 66. Circulation Certified bv ARC Audi! THE AM PA DAILY NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 19,1972 (14 Pages Today) tttttyt lit ROLLING STONES SINGER, GUITARIST Rock Group Members Arrested After Scuffle BOSTON (AP) Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, the leader and lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, have been arrested in connection with a brawl with police. But they still made it to Boston Garden early today where thousands of fans had waited 5''z hours in sweltering heat to hear the British rock group. The delay in the concert occurred when Jagger, 29, Richard, 29, and three other members of their traveling party were arrested in Warwick, R. 1., Tuesday night on charges stemming from a scuffle when a photographer tried to take a picture of the group.

Their plane had been diverted to Green International Airport at Warwick when fog socked in Logan International Airport here. "I called and I got them out and they're on their way," Mayor Kevin White told a capacity crowd of 15,509 persons who had packed the Garden for the scheduled 8 p.m. concert. Despite the delay the crowd generally remained orderly. White, who appeared before the crowd at 11:10 p.m., had interceded with authorities at Warwick in behalf of the Stones.

Authorities used many ploys to keep the crowd occupied, including at one point passing out small, rubber footballs, which the fans tossed around the Garden for several minutes. When the Stones arrived on stage at 12:50 a.m., they were greeted by a long, loud ovation. Earlier, Jagger, Richard and the three others arrested ap- peared before Justice of the Peace Perry Bernstein in a special session of Rhode Island District Court at Warwick police headquarters. They were arraigned on charges stemming from the airport scuffle. All pleaded innocent, were released on bail and sent under police escort for the 60-mile drive to Boston.

They were ordered to appear Aug. 23 in District Court for a hearing. Police were sent to the Warwick airport after Andy Dickerman, a photographer for the Providence Journal, called and complained that he had been assaulted by a member of the group in a fire shed where they were awaiting their baggage. When police attempted to put Richard in a police car, Ricci said. Jagger and two other members of the party, Marshall Chess, 30.

of Beverly Hills, and Robert Frank, 46, of Zurich, became involved in a scuffle with police. Jagger and Chess were charged with obstruction of a police officer. Moore and Richard were charged with assault. Those charges are misdemeanors. Frank was charged with assault on a uniformed police officer, a felony.

Action Delayed On Wage Bill WASHINGTON (AP) The minimum wage bill has bogged down in the Senate amid charges by some sponsors that presidential politics are to blame for the delay. The Democratic-sponsored bill would boost the wage.floor from $1.60 to $2.20 an hour and make other changes in the law. It is of particular importance to the AFL-CIO. The bill was brought up in the Senate Monday, but Republicans quickly countered with a substitute pushed by President Nixon that would put the minimum at $2 and eliminate many provisions of the Democratic proposal. The substitute is strongly op- Connally Wants Active Position WASHINGTON (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John B.

Connally would like to play a leading role in international economic policy if he returns to public life in a second Nixon administration, some of his associates say. "There's no question about it. He's facinated by the whole area of international economics. He has definite ideas about it and would like to put his stamp on U.S. policy," said one associate.

That means, according to these sources, that Connally would probably prefer the job of secretary of state over vice president. They say the former Texas governor is too restless and dynamic to be vice president, wanting instead to take on a more challenging task if he returns to Washington. Although Connally has said he doesn't think he'll be offered the secretary of state post if Nixon is re-elected, he has never ruled out the possibility that he would take it if offered. Connally developed a strong interest in international economics soon after Nixon stunned the nation by naming him treasury secretary in late 1970. He was instrumental in the first devaluation of the dollar since 1934, spoke bluntly to U.S.

allies of a new day in economic relations in which America would have to look more after its own interests, and negotiated a new system of currency exchange rates. But Connally felt the job was unfinished, his associates said, particularly since many trade barriers to American products remained in foreign countries. And. then, there is still the uncompleted job of structuring a new world monetary system. "The theme of the trip was economic," said one official.

Connally stressed one idea in his visit. He said the United States could no longer continue the kind of massive aid to countries that it did after World War II. It is time for other nations to recognize this reality, he said. SET FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY Officials Make Plans For WTCC Meeting Leon Slaughter of Abilene, assistant manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, was scheduled to arrive in Pampa shortly after noon today to make preliminary arrangements for the quarterly meeting of District 1 WTCC Executive Committee in Coronado Inn Thursday and Friday. Approximately 100 persons are expected to attend a reception and dinner for District 1 members and local chamber directors and their wives at 7 p.m.

Thursday in the Coronado Terrace and Starlight Rooms. A floor show featuring PreDetta Chambliss and the Moonlighters will follow the dinner. The show will include audience participation and door US Skeptical Of Soviet Withdrawal From Egypt posed by the AFL-CIO. Senate Democrats said they hope to defeat it. They said they were particularly anxious to demonstrate their commitment to labor on the issue because of the unhappiness of some AFL-CIO leaders over the Democratic national ticket.

After a series of cloakroom huddles, agreement was reached among Senate leaders to vote Thursday on the key issue of the GOP substitute. The agreement also provides that a vote on final passage of the measure will take place before Thursday night. Some Democrats charged privately that the Republicans did not want to vote until after the AFL-CIO executive council meeting today to discuss the question of a presidential endorsement. The Democrats said Republicans felt that pushing the 12 substitute in advance of the council session might hurt them with labor. Kissinger In Paris WASHINGTON (AP) The White House announced today that Henry A.

Kissinger, President Nixon's security affairs aide, was holding secret Vietnam peace talks in Paris. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Kissinger, who flew to Paris Tuesday, was meeting with Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy, North Vietnamese negotiators. Ziegler said Kissinger would return to Washington late Wednesday. Until Ziegler talked to newsmen today there had been a veil of secrecy over Kissinger's whereabouts.

Kissinger did not return to Washington with President Nixon from the Western White House at San Clemente, Tuesday. Large Pull-Out Not Evidenced prizes for the women guests. Claude W. Brown of McCamey, president of the WTCC, will preside at both the Thursday night banquet and the Friday morning business session of the 35-member executive board, comprised of directors from Fort Worth south to El Paso west. J.

Fike Godfrey of-Abilene, executive vice president of the WTCC, and several members of his staff, will also be in Pampa for the banquet and executive committee meeting. Reports are scheduled to be made to District 1 members following the banquet and floor show tomorrow night. Principal business at the Friday morning business session will be discussion of the West Texas Chamber's program of work and projects for the coming year. The Pampa Chamber of Commerce is hosting the two-day affair through cooperation of the First National Bank, Citizens Bank Trust Co. and Security Federal Savings Loan Association.

WASHINGTON (AP) officials are keeping close watch on Soviet deployment in Egypt amid some skepticism here over how many Russians actually will pull out. President Anwar Sadat's surprise announcement of an end to "the mission of Soviet military advisers and experts" underlined the most serious Moscow-Cairo dispute since Russian military personnel were invited into Egypt two years ago. Sadat also said that "all the military equipment and installations set up within Egyptian territory are to be the exclusive property of the Arab Republic of Egypt and under the administration of our armed forces." But the Cairo announcement gave no figures on how many of an estimated 15,000 Russians in Egypt were supposed to leave. While Sadat was quoted as saying the move was "actually implemented in full" Monday, there was no independent word here yet of any large scale Russian withdrawal. Meany Doesn't The authoritative Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said today that the pull-out will not apply to Soviet military men who are training Egyptian forces.

Of the 15,000. approximately half are rated here as "advisers and experts" and the rest are believed to be in Soviet units assigned to the Mediterranean and to Egypt's air defense. Cairo's wording about "military equipment and installations," some experts suggest, may be ambiguous enough to be carried out by only a symbolic Egyptian takeover while continuing to permit Russian use of bases. Nonetheless, Sadat made plain Egypt's disagreement with the Soviet Union, her big power supporter and supplier of billions of dollars worth of arms aid. He said the two remain friends.

But he complained of Soviet failure to deliver promised arms in 1971. the year he said was to have been "decisive" against Israel. And he indicated Moscow turned him down further this year on weaponry for an offensive against Israel. How far the Kremlin and Sadat will go to patch up this still- in-the-family dispute is going to be of prime interest to Washington strategists. LEARNING HOW-Although Pernie Fallon, 17.

learned to walk a long time ago. she finds that walking and turning while being judged in a beauty contest is another matter. Mrs. David McDaniel, right. 1615 Williston entrant chairman for the Miss Top 0' Texas Beauty Pageant, gave instruction in walking, turning and make-up to Miss Fallon and other contestants at a pool party at the Pampa Country Club Tuesday evening.

The event, slated for Aug. 12. at the M. K. Brown auditorium, is being sponsored by Pampa's Chamber of Commerce.

Miss Fallon is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben I). Fallon. 2236 Charles.

(See story. Page 2j (Staff photo by John Ebling) North Vietnamese Operating Truck Shuttle For Supplies WASHINGTON (API The North Vietnamese apparently have cut a small path through the U.S. air and naval barrier by running a truck shuttle to the Chinese border. Pentagon sources estimate the North Vietnamese receive between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the 220,000 tons of supplies they formerly received from the outside. The main routes of the truck shuttle run roughly parallel to the often-severed main rail lines connecting Hanoi with southeast China.

Freight trains from China reportedly unload at Dong Dang, a North Vietnamese twon so close to the border that U.S. war planes avoid bombing it. Al Dong Dang, North Vietnamese trucks pick up thq war supplies and drive back along roads leading to the battlefield in South. An Air Force general, trying to convey the difficulties in shutting off this kind of traffic entirely, described the road network as "like the veins on the back of your hands." Despite a heavy concentration of surface to air missiles in this region, Pentagon officials claim more than 30 important bridges have been disabled there. This has paralyzed train movements inside North Vietnam, but the North Vietnamese have managed to keep some trucks rolling by improvising pontoon bridges and ferries.

Most of the trucks drive at night. The ingenious North Vietnamese are said to be putting flanged wheels on some of their trucks so these vehicles can ride train rails and transport between breaks blasted by U.S. bombs. Intelligence analysts were unable to say specifically what City Technicians Study Lake Water Distribution City Manager Mack Wofford said today no date is yet in sight for turning Lake Meredith water into the Pampa distribution system. Water department technicians still are working to "get the bugs out" of the chemical mixture system at the city's new water treatment plant.

"The chemical metering device is not operating the way we want it to operate for exact distribution of chemicals into the lake water," Wofford said. The city manager indicated the possibility exists that the current metering system may have to be replaced. "We're not certain yet," he said, "but we lill not turn the water into city mains until everything is working perfectly." Wofford said Borger had similar difficulty before Lake Meredith water was distributed there. It was nearly a year before Borger got its water treatment plant operating at one hundred per cent efficiency, he added. Assurance was again given by the city manager that Pampans will have plenty of advance notice before the plant is placed in operation.

kind of supplies are coming into North Vietnam from China but there have been recent reports of new types of Chinese weapons appearing on the battlefields in South Vietnam. Despite persistent reports that China has sent engineer troops or laborers into North Vietnam to repair shattered railroads and shattered bridges, military authorities deny there is any hard evidence of this. Chess Game Ends in Draw REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Boris Spassky was stony- faced and Bobby Fischer smiled and waved after their fourth game in the world chess championship ended in a draw Tuesday night. The standoff came after five hours of what many in the crowd of about 1,200 felt was the most exciting match thus far. At the 45th move Fischer extended his hand to Spassky and the Russian accepted.

With each player picking up half a point on the draw, the score is 2'z-l'2 in the Russian's favor. The fifth match in the 24- game series is Thursday at 1 p.m. EOT. Fischer had the white pieces Tuesday and with them the first move and led off with his favorite Sozin attack, P-K4. The Russian pulled a surprise by counter-attacking aggressively and sacrificing a pawn to open up useful lines of attack.

After quickly making the first few moves, the two settled down to a dogged pace and the neon "silence" sign flashed repeatedly as the audience fidgeted. WASHINGTON (AP) Although AFL-CIO President George Meany wasn't accepting calls from the Democratic vice presidential nominee, some labor leaders held out hope today that the full effect of Meany's unhappiness with the party's presidential ticket could be averted. The 35-man AFL-CIO executive council met to decide whether to endorse Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and his running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. One measure suggested by some labor leaders provided that the federation make no endorsement of a presidential candidate for the first tirr in its 17-year history, instead ing it up to each of the 117 member unions to decide whether to endorse a ticket.

The AFL-CIO always has backed Democratic presidential candidates in the past but Meany is very unhappy with the choice of McGovern. Eagleton said Tuesday he had been unable to reach Meany on the telephone though he tried for two days. However, he said he talked with nine other labor laders and received encouragement or outright endorsements from officials of the Machinists Union, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the State, County and Municipal Employ- es Union and the International Association of Meat Cutters. Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers Union, met with Eagleton Tuesday and said he would work for the Democratic ticket and expected the union to endorse it. Woodcock at one time was under consideration for the spot Eagleton has on the ticket.

Eagleton said he will make no further contacts with other union officials because he doesn't want to leave the impression he is "intermeddling in union affairs." The 2 million-member Teamsters Union, which has not been a part of the AFL-CIO since 1957. has endorsed President Nixon. Inside Today's NeWS Pages Abby 6 Classified 13 Comics 10 Crossword 5 12 Editorial 12 On the Record 2 Sports 11 Women's News 6 Level Of Cadmium In Children HOUSTON (AP) Tests have found above normal levels of the metal cadmium in the blood of Amarillo children who attend school near a polluting zinc smelter, the Houston Post reported today in a news story from Austin. Dr. Dean Wolback said the closer the schools were to the smelter, the more cadmium his blood samplers found in the children.

Wolback, a chemist with the Texas Air Control Board, said the medical significance of cadmium levels in the children were outside his field. There is little published data, he said, on what level of cadmium in the blood represents a health danger. Charles R. Barden. air board executive secretary, said he would try to get an expert medical evaluation of the Amarillo findings in time for the next air board meeting July 27.

Barden declined to blame the levels directly on the American Smelting Refining Co. plant but added, "I don't know what else could be causing it." Wolbach said the firm conducted a separate blood sampling of employes and their families, and reported finding cadmium levels in some cases about 10 times as high as those detected by the state in the schoolchildren. Wolbach headed an investigating team which took blood samples from 180 school children all 11 years old, at five schools in the Amarillo area. The team was sent to take soil, air and blood samples after 35 children in El Paso were hospitalized with lead poisoning, blamed on a lead smelter there owned by the same firm. Cadmium is a highly toxic metal which has been blamed in Japan for causing bone deformities and agonizing deaths.

The exposure levels in the Japanese cases, however, apparently were far higher than those in Amarillo. American Smelting maintains that its Amarillo emissions have never harmed anyone. Wolbach said the levels found in the Amarillo children ranged from .05 to 2.8 micrograms per 100 milliliters of blood. The high samples taken from the smelter employes were around 12 to 14 micrograms. he said..

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