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43 10 p.m. 35 2 a.m. iuibiiio Boh Taihcrt's Detroit See Pae 9, Section A 15c fi-Bav Home Delivery 75c 'Li i pi- ON GUARD FOR 140 YEARS Vol. 141 No. 341 Monday, April 10, 1972 FBI Arrests Utah Skydiver In $5009000 Airline Hijack Action Line solves problems, gets answees, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights.

Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 43231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 ajn. and 4:30 p.tn. Monday through Friday.

WW S. Viets 1 iiiiiM.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'ii'iiiL iii iiiiii inin.i.ii yg.y ywi r. ill- 'I I i New Raids Amid I recently took a prescription Into my neighborhood drugstore. The pharmacist picked up a $1.29 bottle of vitamin pills off the counter, poured them into a prescription bottle and charged me $2.60. How can he get away with that? C.A., Detroit.

All pharmacist was guilty of was "lack of diplomacy," according to state Pharmacy Bureau which polices druggists. Pharmacists set their own fees, usually charge retail price of drugs plus about $2 for professional services like filling the bottle, typing a label and record keeping. Your druggist laid the blame on doctors, said doctors have chewed him out for telling a patient prescription wasn't needed. Doctor at American Medical Association in Chicago told Action Line many physicians feel prescription form gives over-the-counter medicine "psychological value." Volunteer organization called Citizens for Better Care is launching an investiga- SAIGON (AP) Spearheaded by tanks, Nort i Vietnamese forces renewed massive assaults below the Demilitarized Zone Sunday in a drive to seize provincial capitals and key towns. The South Vietnamese appeared to be holding out, however, and the Saigon command ordered 20,000 more troops into a showdown battle for An Loc, 60 miles north of the capital.

Fighting spread for the first time in the current offensive to the valleys and foothills near Danang, where the United States has a major air base. U.S. troops were not believed immediately involved. Overcast skies once again forced limitation of U.S. air strikes in North Vietnam, but heavy air action was reported in the South.

The U.S. Command disclosed that B52s, America's biggest warplanes, are being used ill V- 'a 1 A ft'? i ha tion into prescription drug costs in Detroit. They'd like to hear from citizens with complaints. Write 960 E. Jefferson, Detroit 48207.

A friend gave me a funny little decal for my camper that says "Keep on Truckin' Can you tell me where the saying came from? R.A., Kalamazoo. We'll show you. Stop by Arthur Murray's Dance Studio in Detroit where owner Ron Anderson will give you a free truckin lesson. Truckin' is a dance you do by shufflin' your feet and pointin' your finger while a 1930s type big band is 1 a i n' a song called "Truckin' Song started the dance and the phrase "Keep on Truckin' went over so it in sustained raids over North Vietnam for the first time since the bombing halt in 1968. Vietcong units kept up mortar and rocket attacks in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon.

On the southern front near Saigon, lead elements of a South Vietnamese task force, code-named Bravo, moved north from Saigon and the Mekong Delta for the showdown with the 30,000 enemy troops around An Loc, capital of Binh Long Province. Heavy fighting erupted along Highway 13, about 20 to 25 miles south of An Loc and only 37 miles north of the capital. A battalion of 400 South Vietnamese paratroopers, which only two days ago was guarding the presidential palace, was attacked from the west as it moved along Highway 13. Other paratroopers in the lead column beyond the point of attack turned back to join the battle. U.S.

and South Vietnamese fighter-bombers and American helicopter gunships swooped down on the North Vietnamese positions along the road, unleashing rockets, napalm and cluster-bombs, which explode hundreds of tiny hand grenades. Associated Press photographer Koichiro Morita reported from the front lines that North Vietnamese troops in khaki uniforms could be seen running back and forth across the road. Some enemy soldiers were sighted 400 to 500 yards to the rear of the paratroopers, but they disappeared. A South Vietnamese commando force made a hellicopter assault into the jungle northwest of An Loc, behind North Vietnamese lines. At the same time, a 300-man airborne force landed by helicopter and secured the district town of Chon Thanh on Highway 13 just north of the scene of Sunday's fight.

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id rt rf. big folks kept on truckin Into the '40s. One dance studio cashed in on the fad with a sign on its wall, "Truckin" $4 extra." Underground cartoonist Robert Crumb revived the phrase recently, is peddling his drawing of bearded shufflers on "Keep on Truckin' T-shirts and bumper stickers. My son and his wife are deaf mutes. Last week their landlord told everybody to move out of their apartment building.

Then the water was shut off. They have two children and don't know what to do. Can you help them? J.H., Detroit. Detroit Metro Water Department offered to turn on the water for ten more days to give tenants a chance to find new apartments. Landlord hasn't paid his water bill for 18 months, "solved" the problem by moving out of the building himself first, warning tenants to do the same.

Your son's family can stay with you or at state Social Services Emergency Shelter until their application for public housing goes through. They can forget the last month's rent on their waterless apartment Social Services will hold the money in escrow to put down on their new place. When Action Line told United Outfitting Co. their two little boys had been sleeping on one couch, new bed and mattress were delivered. He's a Dad, Viet Vet, Student Money Slill Missing From APwdUPI SALT LAKE CITY FBI agents arrested an amateur skydiver and law enforcement student Sunday for the hijacking of an airliner two days earlier, but failed to find the half-million dollars paid to ransom 91 persons aboard the plane.

The suspect, Richard Floyd McCoy 29, was a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam and once taught Sunday school for the Mormon Church. He was seized at his modest brown brick home in Provo, 30 miles south of here, as he prepared to leave for a Sunday drill with his National Guard unit. I agents searched the home and dug up the backyard looking for the $500,000 in cash which the hijacker picked up in San Francisco last Friday before he bailed out of the United Air Lines jet near Provo. After digging through a compost pile in the yard, the agents left the home, saying "the search is still on" for the ransom. McCOY, the father of two children, was arraigned before a U.S.

magistrate and held on air piracy charges, which could bring a death sentence. A preliminary hearing was set for April 19. He was described by persons who knew him as a quiet, reserved person. A fellow-student in his police administration class at Brigham Young University said he "wanted to make his dent on the world by uncovering organized crime." A pupil in his Sunday school class said: "All he ever talked about was sin." During his brief appearance before U.S. magistrate A.

M. Ferro, McCoy was quiet and appeared calm. The FBI refused to comment on whether the parachutes and weapons involved in the hijack had been found. McCoy is accused of commandeering a United flight from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles shortly after it made a scheduled stop in Denver. The plane was diverted to Please turn to Page 5A, Col.

2 Another Hijacker Is Captured SAN DIEGO, Cal. (UPI) A hijacker was taken into custody Sunday night at Lindbergh International Airport here after he commandeered a Pacific Southwest airlines plane and demanded $500,000 in ransom, police said. Detectives said the hijacker was removed from the aircraft little more than one hour after the plane landed here on a flight from Oakland. Passengers and crew, numbering 92, were released after the plane taxied to an area of the airport at a distance from passenger terminals. FBI agents seized the hijacker while the plane was being refueled.

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increases Indochina air strength. Page 10D. The Vietnam battle scene U.l. ENVIRONMENT DILEMMA Should River Be Tamed for Jobs? Action Line BY JIM SCHUTZE Fret Prut Stiff Writer MARQUETTE Plans to dam and divert a river as part of a proposed $200 million iron mining complex in this economically depressed area have put the conflict between economics and environment into needle-sharp focus. The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.

says it will need 38 tons of water from the middle branch of the Escanaba River for every ton of iron pellets to be produced in its proposed new Tilden Mine near Negaunee. The company says the open-pit mine will provide jobs at first for 550 people, and later for as many as 1,000. But some environmentalists argue that wild rivers like the Coombs, a natural resources teacher in Marquette High School. "They want to turn that into an artificial stream." Coombs is a hunting, fishing and hiking man who spends summer vacations exploring the wilderness with his family. He is especially fond of the middle branch of the Escanaba because its banks are nearly uninhabited.

Marquette attorney Joseph R. Wictek expresses the essence of most objections to the project: "I begin with the premise of 'leave the world Leave it as it is. You've messed it up enough already." But state Rep. Dominic J. Jacobetti spoke for many Upper Peninsula residents who support the plan, including local officials, businessmen and unionists, when he told a hearing on the diversion: "I say to the ecologists and the environmentalists that it is little wonder that we have an unemployment factor of six percent in Michigan when they harass industry and business Please turn to Page 2A, Col.

1 UPPER wRaWftMJB. PENINSULA liftilif I I I I "proposed" 0AM AREA Escanaba are even more rare, and more valuable, than jobs in My wife and I are going to Europe this summer, and It would make our vacation if we got a chance to see some of the World Title Match games between Bobby Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky. Can you find out how to get tickets? K.K., Coldwa-ter. Details are on the way from the U.S. Chess Federation.

You can get a package deal that includes air charter, hotels and sightseeing between chess matches. Title matches begin June 22 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Current world champ Spassky needs 12 points to keep his crown. American challenger Fischer needs Uy2 to take it. (Players get one point for a win, half a point for a draw.) For travel information, write Putnik Overseas Yugoslav Tourism and Travel Agency, Box 126, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Stay-at-home chess nuts can catch the U.S. championship matches starting April 23 in New York, N.Y. Write Chess Federation, 479 Broadway, Newburgh, N.Y. 12550 for information. My mother was buried in Greenville, Mississippi.

In July I ordered a stone for her grave from Harkins Monument Co. In Greenville. They asked for cash, so I sent $603.75. I've been calling once a month, and the marker still hasn't been installed. Can you find out what's going on? M.S., Detroit.

Monument was installed Friday. Company owner Paul Harkins was trying to save a few bucks by waiting for a large shipment of the kind of stone you ordered, which comes from South Dakota, instead of special ordering yours. Harkins finished lettering the stone three weeks ago, blamed further delay on rainy weather said he couldn't haul 2,800 pound monument through Mississippi mud. He's sending you a picture of your mother's grave and monument. Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

"In spring, the middle branch of the Escanaba flows wild and woolly and blows rocks out of its way," said Richard Pot Prisoners Sniff Freedom 's Aroma BY JAMES HARPER iiiiiiiilli: imwiwwwjwwwiwihpipwiwppjiiwni wuipi liP fit 7 WW 1 THE QUESTION A South African entrepreneur wants to raise dogs for their meat and skins. Would you eat a dogburger or wear a dog-hair coat? i :1 A Fre Press Staff Writer JACKSON They sat in the conference room Sunday a windowpane away from the outside world and as high as they had been in a long, long time. They were high on good news, basking in the knowledge that tomorrow they would be free no longer doing three-to-five-year sentences and a long way from the State Prison of Southern Michigan. And they felt they would be a long way toward vindication for what had put them in prison dealing with marijuana. David Nichols was thinking about Monday night, after he and Walter Simmons and 126 other prisoners had been set free from their sentences on marijuana charges.

The fantasy ran to things like a sauna, and a joint, and "If you know any girls who'd like to spend some time with a guy just out of prison," Nichols said, "well, send 'em around." Monday night? "I think I'll be on cloud nine," said Walter Simmons. "Or maybe cloud 10, or cloud 11." And he smiled somewhere there inside the bushy black mustache. This was on Sunday morning in the visitors' quarters of "trusty land" at the prison. On Friday, the state Supreme Court had issued writs of habeas corpus for the 128 convicts, the first step toward voiding their convictions for marijuana offenses. THE MOVE FOLLOWED the court's March 9 decision to release marijuana martyr John Sinclair.

The movement had support from the lower echelons of penitentiary officials, and the backing of Corrections Director Gus Harrison. Attorney General Frank J. Kelley formally petitioned the court for release of the other prisoners and the court acted on th'is request. NOBODY knew Sunday for sure how the matter would go Monday. There had been nothing like it before.

A prison official said that three judges would come to the prison Monday and simply determine if any of the 128 were serving concurrent non-drug-related sentences, and determine if any were being held for other crimes in other states. If there were no such complications, then freedom seemed Please turn to Page 8A, Col. 1 HOW YOU VOTED NO, 85.7 percent. COMMENTS: "Dogs are man's best friend" "You are what you eat" "Eeeeeyyyuuuccchhh" "The whole idea is disgusting "I wouldn't eat my best friend. It would be like eating my next-door neighbor" "No thanks" "I like dogs better than people" "I've got nine dogs at my house, and I wouldn't eat any of them." YES, 14.3 percent.

COMMENTS: "Under the truth-in-advertising law you would really know what you were getting when you ordered a hot dog" Maybe it would eliminate some of the noisy dogs around here" "It's probably what we are eating already" "The Chinese eat dog, why shouldn't we?" "Isn't that one of the ingredients in hamburger?" 6 Amusements tC Ann Landers 2C Astrology 9D Billy Graham 12D Bridge 9D Business News 8C Comics 9-11D Consumers 7C Crossword Puzzle 9D Death Notices 6B Earl Wilson 9A Editorials 6A Feature Page 9A Movie Guide 10-11D Names and Faces 12D Obituaries 9C Opinion 7A Sports 1-8D Television 3B Want Ads 6-11B Women's Pages 1-4C TOMORROW'S QUESTION Do you think the Senate should continue its investigation of the Justice Department-ITT relationship? To Vote YES To Vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422 win Free Press Pnoroj oy jimmr TaFuy WALTER SIMMONS: "I think be on cloud nine. Or maybe cloud 10 or cloud 11," DAVID NICHOLS: "If you know any girls who'd like to spend some time with a guy.