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pailg Jfmmatt Woodstock Weight Listed at 822 Pounds Story Page 2 Our 100th Anniversary THE WEATHER: Tonight Thundershowers Temperature: Max. 82 Min. 68 220 City Kingston, N. Y. The Newspaper for Ulster County and tHe Surrounding Areo MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1972 PRICE 15 CENTS DAILY, 25 CENTS SUNDAY Pair of Traffic Fatalities in Sullivan County Two Area Brownings Mar Holiday Weekend By WALTER S.

CLARK WEST HURLEY With the Fourth of July holiday weekend past the half way mark and the homeward bound crush of motorists yet to come, area authorities reported two drownings at Ashokan Reservoir Spillway Falls and two traffic fatalities that occurred in Sullivan County. Traffic deaths in the nation had passed the 400 mark near the halfway point of the estimate that predicted between 800 and 900 persons would die during the holiday observance. Victims of the two drownings that occurred in about the same area of the Spillway Falls within an hour on Sunday were identified by authorities as Brian Sibus. 15, of Witchtrce Road, Woodstock, and Thomas McCon nell. 25, of Massapequa.

Authorities said Sibus was swimming below the Spillway Falls at about 3:45 p.m. when a strong undertow of the rushing waters sucked him below the surface. His head and body apparently had been beaten against the rocks by the flow of water. Sibus was carried 500 yards downstream, where he was spotted by Stephen Craft of Mt. Marion Park, who entered the water and pointed out the body to Corporal Walter Baschnagel and Deputy Joseph Bilotti.

Both officers waded waist deep through the water and carried the youth to shore. The West Hurley Rescue Squad was summoned and administered artificial respiration. The youth was taken to Benedictine Hospital and pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. Later in the afternoon. McConnell reportedly dove from a ledge below the falls.

The rush of water carried him -about a half mile downstream where the victim was recovered by two friends, John Rodriquez and William Harrison. McConnell was given first aid by Hurley State Police and the West Hurley Rescue Squad. He was taken to Benedictine Hospital and pronounced dead. BCI and uniformed troopers investigated. Ulster County Coroner William S.

Keyser investigated both drownings. Sullivan County authorities Sunday night chalked up the 14th traffic death of 1972 after a Massachusetts man was killed hen his car went out of control on the Quickway near the community of Harris. Two other persons riding in the car were injured, but they were not immediately identified by State Police. The victim of the holiday weekend fatality was Elijah Ried. 64.

of Dorchester. Mass. Dr. Ralph S. Breakey, Sullivan County coroner, said following an investigation that the man died of a crushed chest.

The vehicle was traveling along the Quickway when the driver for some reason lost control as the car ran along the left shoulder, careened across the pavement and slammed into an embankment. Reid was pinned beneath the wreckage of the vehicle. Monticello firemen were dispatched to the scene to wash gasoline from the highway and stoodby until the wrecked car was towed away. Another fatal traffic accident in Sullivan Countv occurred Saturday at about 9 p.m. on Old Route 17 in Wurtsboro.

State Police at Ferndale identified the dead man as Anthony F. Ferdon, 50, of the community of New Hampton. Police said Ferdon was ing his car along the highway when he lost control of the vehicle which rolled down an embankment, pinning him beneath the wreckage which landed in a small stream. Sullivan County Coroner Sydney P. Schiff withheld a verdict as to the cause of the man's death.

Police investigators said the driver of the car may have drowned. A passenger in Ferdon's car. 18 year old Kenneth Hopkins of Masten Lake, was taken to Horton Memorial Hospital in Middletown for treatment. His injuries were not immediately noted. Vietnamese, Reds Duel Two Miles From Quang Tri SAIGON Viet namese and Communist forces, I both 1,000 men strong and using tanks, dueled two miles south of Quang Tri City today while to the south.

Communist gunners took advantage of Hues sapped defenses by shelling the city for the second day. In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. command said U.S. jet fighter bomber pilots destroyed a coal treat-! ment building near the coun major port city of Haiphong, dropped a span on a bridge near Vinh and bombed an oil storage area south of the Chinese border. I The command in a delayed report said a U.S.

Navy A7 fighter-bomber crashed unknown June 18 on a 'night mission over North Vietnam about 107 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams and listed the pilot as missing. A Communist radio broadcast claimed today two U.S. jets were shot down Sunday over the Haiphong- Hanoi area. UPI photographer Willie Vi- coy said government paratroopers in Quang Tri City fighting. 32 miles north of Hue.

were backed by allied jets, helicopters and heavy B52 bombers. The B52s overnight dumped more than 500 tons of explosive on the approaches to Quang Tri City. The city and the province of the same name were captured a month after the Communist offensive began March 30 in South Vietnam and have been in North Vietnamese hands ever since. Vicoy said he saw a South Vietnamese armored personnel carrier like a as it tried to cross the Truong Phuoc River to join the Quang Tri fighting, drowning about seven paratroopers. Vicoy said the vehicle, overloaded wdth paratroopers in full battle gear, downward and seven of the men aboard never came up." shelling of Hue.

the old imperial capital 400 miles north of Saigon, prompted that the North northward drive into Quang Tri, ly 55.000 airmen are based In would try to now in its sixth day. The push, Thialand and Guam, and they said, might allied fears Vietnamese overrun the city while its defenses are stripped by the government drive neighboring Quang ince. With growing another 42.000 men are offshore with U.S. 7th Fleet to retake to an a 11-out Com- aircraft carriers, cruisers, de- Tri Prov rnunist drive and strovers and other warships. shelling bolstered that possibili U.S.

officers said Air Force ty. strength in Vietnam dropped The U. S. command beat by iasl week by 1.400 men to a confidence, one day President dead total of 13,100. They said about South haltered forces lowering L.

S. trooD 1,000 of the airmen are striking back. AP News strength to below 49.000 men in drawn" simply switched to Thai Analysis on page 24. South Vietnam by June 30. bases.

spokesmen said today. Another 300 Marine airmen The command last week also were pulled out of UPI correspondent Barney withdrew 6.000 men from its Vietnam, reducing the number Seibert said an undetermined Vietnam based U.S. force to of leathernecks to 2.200. All of number of 122mm rockets hit beat the Friday deadline by a those who left South Vietnam Hue today but there was no single day, spokesmen said. went to Thailand, the officers immediate report of casualties.

Military sources said about said. rocket and artillery 1.300 of the U.S. servicemen The U.S. Armv in Vietnam barrage of 80 shells that killed were simply transferred to lost 4.000 men from its rolls 12 persons and wounded 41 neighboring Thailand, where last week, spokesmen said, and marked the first such attack on they were assigned to aid in air now has 31.200. Navy strength Hue since the start of the war over Indochina.

1 dropped by 300 to 2,200. The offensive. Spokesmen said that as last strength of the U.S. Coast Allied commanders noted Thursday, there were 48.000 Guard remained steady at 100. Military spokesmen said that the strength of U.S.

forces in Vietnam last week was the lowest since April 1965, when there were 36.000 U.S. aervice- men based there. following shelling that Americans based in South the South Vietnamese force of Vietnam. Nixon had ordered about 30,000 men guarding the U.S. troop strength to below city was reduced to the 10.000 49.000 by Friday, troops of the 1st Infantry In addition to the Vietnam- Division last week for the based Americans, approximate- mmwm TRIBUTE TO INDEPENDENCE Youthful members of the Minutemen of gather on the lawn in front of Beekiuan Arms Hotel Sunday during a special re-enactment of the reading of the original Declaration of Independence.

On July 9, a copy of the newly drafted document was read to recruits in front of the old Bogardus Tavern, which prompted a day-long celebration of bell-ringing, cannon salutes and free-flowing grog. The uniformed youth reading the document in the center of the photo is John Armstrong Chanler, a descendant of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of Rhinebeck, was among those who drafted the original Declaration of Independence. (Freeman photo by Powell) Passenger Kills Viet Skyjacker SAIGON month ago was on the last leg of its San I am about being taken Nguyen Thai Binh graduated Francisco Guam Manila Sai- from the University of Wash- gon flight. He sent a note to the Instead.

Vaughn brought the ington with honors. Sunday he pilot. Capt. Gene Vaughn, plane into Saigon airport and died attempting to hijack a Pan demanding to be flown to went back to negotiate with Vaughn added American 747 to North Vietnam Hanoi, with lemons. to while I was holding him by the plane.

I must havt had throat," Vaughn said. felt he had weight of a Ping Pong want to tell you some took when I threw him the the ball The passenger who shot Binh Binh. At a press conference that fellow by the back of his at cloM, ranRe Hith the hj made out of When Vaughn. 53( of Scotts- later he told what happened: neck anrl threw him powered .357 magnum Distol dale. did not we landed at Saigon out of that aircraft.

He was not identified but he was The 24 year old Vietnamese, a ately comply he sent another airport I told the military under vvaR dead. We knew believed to be protester written in his own blood no circumstances to allow the antiwar while in college, took a saying have failed to aircraft to depart. already stewardess hostage while the comply with my first demand, made my decision, plane with 149 persons aboard The blood indicates how serious "The man was standing in 4 AAiTc cJ 1 the of Nine Arrested hi Smuggling Scheme holding of the stewardesses hostage. He come any closer because if you do 111 blow this airplane told him. have a language problem.

I iderstand you too well Let new ORLEANS, La. (AP) cials "have no reason to he Mexico for future shipment In addition, it alleges that an "The explosive was then nt1p closer. I moved A plot U.S. officials say was lieve that the munitions were a third country. other $35,000 was to be paid for transported back to tb? site tnTimn him aimed at overthrowing a for- ntua.

Among those arrested were flying the explosives to an air- where the DC4 aircraft was JumP eign country -apparently Com 1 1 Richmond Harper, a prominent field near Vera Cruz, Mexico, being kept and per an agree rnunist been re Luba. South Texas rancher banker. The complaint said that last ment between Kessler and and several vealed in the arrest of nine per The complaint charging two and Marion Hegler, a former Friday "Kessler told Carlos Diaz. the explosives were PassenKerR rushed to his help sons in a $465,000 munitions of the men, Murray Kessler of inspector with the U.S. Immi- (Diaz) that he had no M16 loaded onto the aircraft," it Alleged Plot Against Cuba Foiled smuggling scheme.

Brooklyn. N.Y., and Adler B. gration and Naturalization rifles, but he had the 4 as per said. Federal agents then Allegedly stretching from Seal of Baton Rouge. al Service.

They were taken into fheir agreement." moved in. eged the) knew and believed 'custody at Eagle Pass A rental aircraft was and Mexico, the plot came to that this material would be where they reside, then re that afternoon from Hammond, light with the arrests Saturday, used in an attempted overthrow leased on $25,000 bond each. to Shreveport, the com- In addition, nearly seven tons of a foreign nation." The two The federal complaint alleges plaint said. rental van then of plastic explosives were men were arrested near the Kessler agreed last to the South Western Pipe seized in a DC4 transport plane New Orleans International Air to sell to Diaz 13.500 pounds of Co. in Shreveport and then at Shreveport, federal port.

4 plastic explosives, 7.000 feet picked up 13,500 pounds of a agents said. The nine were charged with of primacord, 2.600 electrical plastic explosive commonly U.S. Atty. Gerald Galling conspiring to smuggle the1 ex- blasting caps and 25 electrical known as the complaint house said Sunday federal offi-! plosives from the United States detonators for $430.000. I said.

shouted the son of a and the passenger put five bullets into him right there a former San Francisco area policeman en to Vietnam to work as a security guard with an American firm. Vaughn said the passenger had checked his pistol when boarding the plant but was given it back when the hijacking started. Binh had a knife with a 10- inch blade and two lemont wrapped in tinfoil which he said were bombs. Vaughn said that Binh told him he was taking the plane to Hanoi as an act of revenge because bombers have wrought havoc on our people." The stewardess held by Binh, May Huen. said later hijacker was very- nice to felt sorry to see him ended in such a disastrous wav." Raging The Inside News Area Events 11 1 Classifieds ..............19 20 22 23 i Crossword 21 23 Dear Abby 9 Editorials.

Columns 6 Obituaries 7 Sports ..........................14 15 16 Stock Market 4 Theaters 18 TV. Radio 22 1 I Weather 3 Woman's Pages 8 9 BOBBY FISCI MLR (UBI Telephoio) Tuesday Deadline For Bobby Fischer REYKJAVIK. Iceland (UPI) Federation (FIDE), Dr. Max al airport to meet every flight Fischer's time runs Euwe, announced that he was from New York for a week. ai -i irrvr postponing the deadline until simply did not show up Sunday, out at 8 a.m.

Mil hicsday. n00n Tuesday (8 a.m. EI)T). if Officially there was no rischcr, the -9 year old Fischer does not appear for the explanation. He has not been in Brooklyn chess genius, must drawing of lots scheduled for touch with the Icelandic Chess turn up in Reykjavik by then or that time, he will be disquali- Federation or FIDE since he lose the right to challenge fied and lose his right to sent a cable through the U.S.

Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky challenge the 35 year old Rus- Chess Federation some time for the world championship, a sian Tor the world chess title, back saying he would show up match that has generated wider An Icelandic friend of Fis for the match protest." interest than any chess game in cher, Freystrinn Thorberbergs- Four times since then, history, son, flew to New York Sunday Fischer has canceled bookings Fischer, apparently try to persuade the on flights to Iceland, ing for more money, was hiding American grand master to The Icelandic federation, out in New York while the return with him. He said he which stands to lose much great debate of he show was acting as "a friend of money if the match does not up or raged, Bobby and said only come off. pleaded for Fischer The 24 game series was to "1 know where to find him." Sunday and convinced Euwe to have started Sunday. But when Fischer, who has kept the postpone the start of the match Fischer show the pres Icelandic organizers nervously 48 hours to give Fischer a last idem of the International to Kellavik intcrnation (chance. ATTENDS ANTI-WAR Thai-Binh.

the enlv South Vietnamese student at the University of Washington, shown here at an anti-war rally in May with a poster with words written in own blood. Binh was shot to death in Saigon during an attempted hijack of a Pan American 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi. (UPI TELEPHOTO).