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WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with chance of showers. Low tonight in 50s. High Saturday in 70s. SALEM NEWS Complete News Coverage of Columbiana, Damascus, Salem, Leetonia, Lisbon, Northern Columbiana and Southern Mahoning Counties VOL. 160SALEM, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 7,1972 16 PAGES 10c me S.

Viets Claim Most of Quang Tri City Skyjacker Gives Up Ransom Recovered Man Surrenders To Patrolman Hostage OAKLAND, Calif. A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups in the Mideast and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as F'rancis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army FBI agent-in- charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell. including one from Ft. Riley.

Kan. The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said. The hiacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast a Federal Aviation Administration official said. The note continued: actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused consternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt Some ALFA members last SKYJACKER GIVES arms raised, a young skyjacker who held five persons hostage aboard a PSA airliner for nine hours surrenders to FBI agents at Oakland (Calii.) International Airport. Coming down the ramp with him is one of the hostages in handcuffs.

(AP Wirephoto) month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security measures. It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco International Airport, killing two hijackers who had de- Spassky Gets First Move In Chess Match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet cnampion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the Near the end it was: very Dr.

Max Euwe said at 10 a noon: a very delicate At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: That was Tuesday. It could Turn To SPASSKY. Page 8 Superintendent Gives No Reason Bell Quits School Post In Leetonia MARY TRENKELBACH LEETONIA Samuel L. Bell resigned as superintendent of Leetonia schools and Mrs. Darlene Votaw was appointed to the board of education at a board meeting Thursday at Orchard Hill School.

Bell, who gave no reason for resigning, came to the Leetonia schools in August, 1970. upon the retirement of Ralph Ely. Before coming to Leetonia he had served as principal of Massillon High School. Earlier he served as superintendent and principal at Sandy Valiev and was assistant principal at Plain Local. His resignation will become effective July 31.

Mrs. Votaw was named to the manded $800,000 in ransom and escape to Siberia A passenger was shot and killed by one of the hijackers, the FBI said, and Turn To SKYJACKER. Page 8 Ex-Aide Sues Hughes for $51 Mi! Hon LOS ANGELES (AP) Billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes is accused in a $51 million damage suit of slandering Noah Dietrich, his 83-year-old biographer and former aide. It was the second slander suit filed as the result of a televised news conference last January in which a voice identified as Hughes said of an associate: a no-good, dishonest son- of-a-bitch and he stole me Dietrich's suit, filed Thursdav in Superior Court, alleged that Hughes made the statement about another associate and likened Dietrich to that individual. In February, Robert A.

Maheu, who was fired by Hughes as the head of Nevada gambling and hotel empire, filed a $17.5 million libel and slander Turn To BELL Page 8 Samuel L. Bell Turn To SUIT. Page 8 mai w- 'tat 11 mi 2 Senate Breathes New Life Into Gambling Bills Assembly Okays Environmental Protection Agency COLUMBUS. Ohio John Gilligan scored a major legislative victory Thursday night as the Ohio General Assembly approved creation of a state Environmental Protection Agency before recessing for the summer. The House passed the bill, which puts all of the anti-pollution agencies under one umbrella.

69-19. The Senate a few hours later gave it a 27-4 okay. The measure now goes to Gov. John Gilligan for signing into law. It was one of the few remaining administration-backed measures that hadn't been passed Although skeleton sessions are planned weekly, the legislature will for all practical purposes be out of business until late fall or winter Before it left, the Senate breathed new life into two gambling bills.

One would permit voters to decide next May Teen Dance. Memorial July 8. Starring Don. $l-ad if you like Good Pizza really like Pizza at Village Pizza. Delicious fried chick.

310 Walnut Leetonia. 427-6617-ad Comic's Steak House Will be closed for vacation from July 4 thru July whether Ohio should have a state lottery. The lottery resolution, ti.rown of: last ballot by the Ohio Supreme Court because of the way it was worded, passed the upper chamber 20-12. Ihe Senate also approved- after two bill that wouid establish and regulate jai-lai frontons. Jai-Lai is a pari-mutuel betting game popular in Latin America and Florida.

Frontons are the arenas in which it is played. Led Eastern Orthodox Christians Patriarch Athenagoras Dies of Kidney Failure ISTANBUL Metropolitan Meliton, the archbishop of Chaicedon, is being mentioned as ihe likely successor to Patriarch Athenagoras I. the leader the world's 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, who died early todav at the age of 86. Meliton. 59, was to preside over a meeting today with the 11 other archbishops of the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate to decide on funeral arrangements for nagoras.

La er, at a date stir Thank you so much for helping to make the celebration of our 50th Wedding anniversary such a wonderful day. Mr. Mrs. Ray W. to be announced, they will elect tne new Ecumenical Patriarch, who is also Archibishop of Constantinople.

Another prospective choice is Metropolitan Kallinikos, who was named acting vice patriarch after the death of Athenagoras. Athenagoras died at Baiikli Greek Orthodox Hospital in Istanbul, succumbing to kidney tauure following a massive loss of blood pressure, his doctors Turn To PATRIARCH, Page 8 Hazel Makeup Masks $1.50 Long Cotton Dresses off Long Pant Skirts $18 Colonial Dress Shoppe-ad The final vote on the measure, sponsored by Sen. Harry Meshel, D-33 Youngstown, was 17-14, the minimum votes needed for passage. Sen. Ronald D-24 Parma, authored the lottery proposal.

Neither of the gambling measures, however, received House approval before the General Assembly recessed. They could be brought up when floor sessions resume, probably after the November election. The legislature finalized a measure giving a $4,000 retirement income exemption on the state income tax, regardless of age. Another provision of the bill grants a $25 tax credit to anybody over 65. The Senate also gave final approval to a bill that extends the ban on drilling for oil and gas in Lake Erie for two years.

Several new bills were received in the Senate, including Turn To ASSEMBLY, Page 8 4-H Bar-B-Q chicken or fish. July 8. 4 9 p.m., Saxon Country Club, Rt. 9, 2 mi. S.

of Salem. Square Dance to follow. Adults $2, children $1.50. Carry out Aquanaut Lounge Dances Tonite $2 Cover July 14 U.S. Sources Dispute Saigon Announcement Huge Air, Naval Armada Covering Advancing Troops SAIGON (AP) Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City, and seized control of two- thirds of the northern provincial capital But field reports and senior U.S military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon.

Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a thrust into the northern half of the city. senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units of any significant size in the city. He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city but were meeting tough resistance. A huge American air and naval armada covered the advancing South Vietnamese.

South Vietnamese marines were closing in on the city from he east. One task force was reported to have advanced half a mile to the eastern outskirts and was a little more than a rriie east of the Citadel, at the center of the city. A second marine task force made a helicopter landing miles southeast of the city. Lt. Col.

Do Viet, a spokesman for the Saigon command, said that elements of a South Vietnamese paratroop battalion backed by tanks had pushed into the northern part of Quang Tri a few hours before dawn are right next to the he said Viet reported that resistance appeared to be light: although the t'orwardmost troops of the battalion were shelled bv 107mm rockets and long-range 130mm guns control at lecst two- thirds of the Viet told newsmen. Heavier fighting was reported on the southern and eastern fringes of the city Viet reported 58 North Vietnamese killed and eight tanks destroyed on the outskirts Paratroopers on the southern side battled heavy counterattacks Thursday night from North Vietnamese forces making a stand in a line of old French villas. Scores of U.S. Navy jets from 7th Fleet carriers off ihe coast scrambled into the night skies to attack the North Vietnamese, their tanks, artillery and automatic weapons. It was the first stiff resistance the South Vietnamese paratroopers have encountered since they began tightening their grip on the southern edges ol the city three days ago.

Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported that South Vietnamese tanks Turn To VIET. Page 8 Fate of Dem Blo Of Delegates In Court's Hands WASHINGTON (AP The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court. The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session.

Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night. On the other hand, Burger could ret use the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. Or he could delay implement tation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends In that case. McGovern might he expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Commi tee and return the 151 California votes to him. Forces of Chicago Mayor Richard .1 Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower-court decision, which upheld the com- authority to reject 59 Illinois delegates, including Da- Ity.

or Supreme Court party maintained that the S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this of the judgment below is necessary to ensure that hereafter the federal Turn To DEMS, Page 8 In asking action, tile Playground Pet Parade Wednesday The Salem Parks and Recre- a i summer playground has scheduled annual Pet Parade on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Children with pets, decorated bicycles and playground floats will leave the Memorial Building, at 1 and travel via E. ing Street to Centennial Park. They will be escorted by police.

Judging of pets will be conducted at the park's basketball court, with Mike O'Brien and Sue DePerio. playground leaders, in charge of the parade. Winners will be selected in each of the collowing categories: best, largest, and smallest fish and turtle; best float, best and most colorful bicycle: most unusual pet: largest and smallest cat and bird; and largest, smallest, best-irained and best in show dog. Children with bikes to be decorated are asked to report to tne west side of the Memorial Building at 9 a m. Crepe paper will be furnished.

Brandon de Wilde Actor De Wilde Dies In Crash Starred As Buy In Classic 'Shane' LAKEWOOD, Colo. As the stranger who helped hd father rides off into the bleak frontier plain, the tousle-haired boy shouts after him, Shane, come That scene at the end of the 1953 film classic remains for many one of the most moving in Westerns and it secured a lasting fame for its child star, Brandon de Wilde. De Wilde, 30. died Thursdav evening of injuries suffered several hours earlier in a traffic accident in this Denver suburb. He had recently completed an appearance here in a stage production of Are The Brooklyn-born actor who lived in Century City, Calif, was alone in a van truck when it glanced off a guard rail during a heavy rainstorm and slammed into a parked construction trailer De Wilde was pinned in the wreckage.

He suffered a broken neck, back and leg. He died four hours later in a Denver hospital. De career had waned somewhat in recent years. He started out as a 7-vear-old in 1950 with a Broadway debut in Cason McCuller Member of the that won critical raves. That performance led to the role in in which he 1 a an impressionable Turn To DE WILDE.

Page 8 V- W-V Get Involved Congressman Urges Township Officials Award Winners of Flag Designs Eight winners in the county flag design and essay contest received cash awards to highlight the 44th anniversary dinner of the Columbiana County Association of Township Trustees and Clerks Thursday night in the Memorial Building. Pictured holding their winning flag designs are deft to righO Kenneth Crowl of United Local School, fourth place winner ol $5: Debby Thorp of Southern Local High School, $25 first place winner; Lori Corbisello of Southern Local, second place $15 winner; Barb Satow of East Liverpool, third place winner of $10; and S. Rep. Wayne L. Hays, 'Turn To Page 8 Candles Gifts 990 E.

State. Opening Fri. Candle Supplies Beads. 337-3249. 41e Off on Colonel Sanders Box Fish Dinners Pick it up at 156 N.

Lincoln Ave. Salem Eagles Dance Sat. mte. 10-1. to the Perch dinners, shrimp, oysters, Chicken.

Carryouts available. Rodis Gin Mill 337-9800-ad Hanover Township Festival Parade tonite at 7 p.m. Rt. 172, Guilford Lake-ad Yard Sale: July 8th 9th 10 till Many nice items. 530 Franklin, Salem-ad.