Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 42

GET $3,413 Armed Men Rob Paris J3ALTIA1ORE (AP) Two armed men com- inandcered a busload of track fans Monday and forcedI the triver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers, 'Hie two armed with a shotgun, fled the bus with hour later at the Baltimore' Beltw. ay 'Interchange with Route 95 in; Halethorpe, a small suburban community 10 miles south of here, police said. No one was hurt. M. Manning, manager 'of' the Baltimore Motor Coach said the bus carried 46 passengers and was'" en route to Park Race Course at Slanloh, Del.

Manning xaid gunmen, who had boarded the bus at the downtown Baltimore Civic Center at 'about 11 a.m., pulled on the driver as the bus nearefj the Baltimore e'l a on Pulaskl Highway, north of the city. He said the driver was forced to enter th'e Beltway and drive completely around the city while the gunmen went from passenger to passenger, taking valuables. Forty-three of the 46 passengers told'police they had been robbed. One of them, Harry T. Coffin 72, of Annapolis, told police he lost $519, which he highest amount taken from anyone.

Authorities said the bandits, one of whom carried what was described as a derringer-type pistol, forced an unidentified passenger to walk down the aisle and hold the white paper bag into which the victims dumped their money. Police said the spotted Benjamin Titelman, 76, ot trying to hide $219 under his belt. One bandit reportedly slapped him and ordered bim to stand up! The rnoney fell down his pants leg and onto the floor. George Dotson, the bus driver, said the bandits ordered him to stop the bus at the interchange and that both fled on foot over an embankment and across the busy highway. No getaway car was scon, Dotson The three passengers who were not robbed said they merely told the gunmen they had-no money.

Manning said one passenger -scribbled note calling for help and dropped it from the moving bus as the robbery was in progress, but it was lost in the stream of 65-mile-an-hour traffic. The' company executive said eight of the buses leave the BaJtimore area daily for the Delaware race track between 10:30 a.m. and noon. Baird C. Britlingham, president of Delaware Park, said after learninx of the hijack: "It seems like everything is going wrons this year, what with the floods washing everything out and now.

now they start hijacking our buses. My God!" Britlingham said this was the first he had heard of such an incident. CRAYFISH RACE Events Mark Celebration Of July 4 Wy 4, 1972-4IWOCK A BIKl) IN' 'I'HK letter than a bird on my head. As a statue in a fountain in Rome's Piazza Novana, I've with.a draw'me, tourists stare, children now that cars are banned from the Piaxxa area, the pigeons are back! I think I'll just' reach up there and (AP Wircpholo) FISCHER GOES FOR WIN $130,000 Added To Chess Pot REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)' Bobby Fischer was reported ready Monday night to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for the world chess championship and a prize pot sweetened by from a London banker. Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Fischer, said the 29-year-old American challenger natl accepted banker James D.

Slater's, offer of the extra prize money and would be in Reykjavik by the Tuesday noon Earlier Monday, the of the championship deadline. sponsors match turned down Fischer's bid for a cut of the gate receipts in addition to the prize money previously agreed on. Marshall quoted Fischer saying ot Slater's proposal: 'I gotta accept it. a stupendous offer." He said Fischer considered the gesture "incredible and generous and brave." Pills Thrown Out Window A man and a woman, ages 2n and 29, respectively, were ar- rrstcd about 8:15 p.m. Monday by law enforcement officers acting on information the pair had narcotic drugs in th.eir possession.

The woman suspect reportedly threw a bucket out one of the windows of the central Lubbock residence, when officers presented their search warrant. Further investigation revealed the bucket contained 11 pills, identified by field tests as amphetamines, and about an ounce of plant substance believed to be marijuana. Seven 'additional ounces of the same plant substance were found inside the residence. Skills Center Due To Locate In Cily AUSTIN (Special) State budget conferees have agreed to an appropriation oX 5300,000 for South Plains College to develop a branch skills center campus in Lubbock, Rep. R.

B. McAlister said tale Monday. The proposal, which recently was endorsed by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, will make r. alkmal-tcchnical training available here. Students now commute to the SPC campus in Levcllarr.1.

College officials will select a building location in Lubbock, McAlistcr said. Ultimately, around-the-clock classes could train up. to 2,000 persons in various technical skills. Supporters hope this will encourage industrial devalop- rricnl and reduce unemployment and "uir.ler-employmcnl" of qualified persons. Slater said in London he received confirmation of Fischer's acceptance by telephone and had been told the challenger planned to fly to Reykjavik.

Fischer must arrive in Reykjavik by noon a.m. forfeit his chance at Spassky and the title. The first game is to begin at 5 p.m. p.m.' poned from the same time Sunday at Fischer's request. The Russians, from Spassky here in Iceland to the Sovicl Chess Federation 'in Moscow protested the fail that the World Chess a jiostponemcn of Fischer's appearance.

When Slater offered to put up his own money as an extra in ducemcnt. to the American grandmaster, be stated: "Fis chcr has said that money is Ib problem. Here-it is. What I ari saying to Fischer now is "com out and Marshall claimed that the is sue with Fischer never hac been money. "It was the principle," Mar shall said.

"He felt Icclan wasn't treating this match his countrymen with' the dignit that it and they deserved. An he was furious about the pros censorship. He was flyin around the room." Stop America Marshall said Fischer him: "They're trying to lol sto America from reading about Thai's what they've done a along." The sponsors announced striclions in movc-by-move an photo coverage of Ihe lM-gam match because the rights h'a been sold. Slater marie his offer aft 'Icelandic Chess Kcdcr- ion's board rejected Fischer's cmands for 30 per cent of the ate receipts. This would have mounted to considerable sums both Fischer and Spassky ecause the match could last as 3ng as two months.

Terms Called For The original terms call for ic winner to receive 578,125 nd. the loser 548,875, plus 20 cent for each of the income rom sale of television and ph'o- ographic rights. Slater's private enrichment of he pot could be used to up the winner's to 5156,000, with he remainder of. his funds gong to Ijoost the loser's share, fe said another alternative be to add the entire 50,000 pounds-lo he winner's cut for a total of 5203,125. The London investment banker said he made his offer hrough Dr.

Max Euwe, president of FJDE, explaining: "I ike chess and have played it "or years. Many want to see match if Fischer does not go to Iceland, many will be disappointed." L'ullut I'rrt, lnfnHilHimal) An Abe Lincoln rail splitting conlc.sl, a celebration of the centennial birthday of President Calvin Coolidge and a 300 millimeter crayfish race will highlight Fourth of July celebrations in various parts of the country today. In addition there will be traditional parades, fireworks displays and a smattering of outdoor rock concerts, including an appearance or the Rolling Stones before a sell-out crowd of 45,000 in Washington, I). businesses will be closed for the 196th 'anniversary oC the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But many private and family observances of the holiday were cut short Jjy the working day Monday which separated the holiday from Hie weekend.

At Lincoln, 111., the only city named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president, a four-day holiday festival will culminate with finals of the Abe Lincoln National Railsplllting contest. Lincoln is near the area where the nation's 16th president lived as a young man. Some 2,000 persons expected to galhcr at Plymouth, where Calvin Coolldge, who became the nation's 30th president, was born July 4, 1872. Ceremonies will include thn laying of a wreath at Coolidge's graveslte and dedication ot a new visitors' center at the CoolidKc homestead where Coot idge look his oath ot office from his father in following the death of President Warren Harding. In Georgia, where Gov.

Jimmy Carter has proclaimed July -1 "Crawdad Drfy," the traditional "Salute to America" parade in Atlanta will feature movie star Carol Channing and heavyweight But champion Joe In Helen, a mountain village, the highlight will be a 300-millimeter crawfish race and a 600-millimeter endurance race for turtles. In the Old Sacramento waterfront area ot California's state capital, plans include an old fashioned pie eating and watermelon eating contest, egg sack and potato races and hayridcs. A fireworks display is also scheduled. Milwaukee, will hold its annual Circus Day Parade with about 70 old circus wagons from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo. Wis.

Fireworks displays were scheduled for the Mall Washington, D.C., Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Disneyland near Los Angeles, at two sites in Seattle. and dozens of other communities across the country. FOR T1UDG1KS CHICAGO The 20 million budgies owned by Americans cast about $160 million. UNIVERSITY THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CLINIC ANNOUNCES THE ASSOCIATION OF ROBERTO. HILL, M.D.

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