Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - August 18, 1972, Lubbock, Texas 50th No 251 54 Friday Morning August IS 1972 10 Cents Full Wires UPI Bombers Hike Air War Stolen From Mi Intruders Pry Cash Drawers Here Wiggly Hit During Rush Period By SIEVE EAMES Staff A UNIVERSITY Avenue grocery store lost be tween 2 and 3 Thursday when someone en tered the store and rifled two cash drawers in the office while the assistant manager was gone for lunch Duke Crawford assistant manager ot the Wiggly store at 106 N University said apparently the thieves were familiar with the store be cause only locked drawers con the cash were pried open Two Drawers Rifled Other cabinets and drawers in the small partially enclosed office were untouched Police theorized someone en tered the store either through the front doors of the store or through an open loading door at the rear entered the unlocked room and rifled both drawers An employe of the store dis covered the theft just before 3 p m when he found both draw ers open and change scattered across the floor in isos Crawford said missing were two bundles of bills worth a bundle of bills worth and assorted change and bills During the time period when the money was taken store employes were swamped by customers Crawford said and apparently the noise of shop pers and cash registers covered sounds made by the intruders Checkout stands at the busi ness were less than 30feet from Pilots Dump Record Fury Trucks Bridges Fuel Supplies Among Targets Ground War Lags Services jets mounted the heaviest raids of the current bombing campaign against North Vietnam in 24 hours closely preceding Henry A ar rival in Saigon the Command said Thursday The command would not say officially whether the more than 370 strikes against the North up to 5 Wednesday was a show of support for President Nguyen Van Thieu or an effort to make up for a week of bad weather Ground War Pace Slow Bloody The presidential adviser arrived at 8 Wednesday He conferred with Thieu and with top officials Thursday while the war ground on at a slow and bloody pace from Quang Tri in the far north to the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon Search For Peace In other developments White House said Thursday that contacts with the North Vietnamese by represent atives of Democratic presiden tial candidate George Mc Govern may jeopardize Presi dent Nixons peace efforts I North Vietnamese dampened speculation that progress toward peace had been made in secret talks with President Nixons adviser Hen I ry A Kissinger Overcast skies over North Vietnam had limited the north On Vietnam Peace Prospects Page 15 Sec A PEACE SEARCH Saigon Talks Extend Into Second Day BEAUTY SPOT At numerous points over small and large spots of flowers shrubs and other landscaping by the city schools businesses and individuals help make the days brighter for many motorists Looking over a colorful patch of canna lillies on the edge ot the Texas Tech campus at busy University Avenue and 4th Street is Dee Dee Stephens 17 of 3601 35th Staff Photo ern air war to fewer than 200 strikes on the average until Tuesday when jets flew nearly 300 missions Find Marks The latest raids well REOPENS PAST CASES House Vote Backs Curbs On Busing the office Claw Hammer Used Crawford added that a had been drawn across the oft ices window and employes would not have been able to see anyone in the area Police questioned shoppers employes and others near the store but no one had seen any thing suspicious Crawford said police suggest ed a clew hammer as the prob able means for prying open the wooden cast drawers Late Thursday night had no suspects in custody They just walked in and got the Crawford said By Prew WASHINGTON The House voted 178 to 88 late Thursday night to prohibit crosstown busing of any stu dent to achieve school desegregation and to allow re opening of past integration orders that do not comply with the ban shade The came as House expected passage of President Nixons to establish various other integration op tions which courts would have to try before ordering busing Opponents of the legislation conceded defeat in advance of he final vote but predicted the faced an uphill fight in the Todays Prayer O God thanks for the vi sion of a day to come when those gifts needed to sustain water food shel ter become avail able to all Read er Crop Duster Dies In Area Mishap SILVERTON Special Floyd Frank Blue Stidham 41 a Silverton crop duster was pronounced dead on arrival at Swisher Memorial Hospital in Tulia following a turn over about 7 Thursday According to Briscoe sheriff Vinson Smith and city marshal O C Maple Stidhams vehicle failed to negotiate s turn about onehalf mile east of the Silverton limits on FM 356 and overturned three times Services are pending at Silver ton Funeral Home Survivors include his wife four sons Lee of Colorado Has kell Steve and Lance all o Silverton a daughter Mrs Garry Elliff of Tulia and thre grandchildren TODAY Tn ThAJ Area LOCAL police begin program to nab a burglar and turn in a pusher in attempt to deter crime PaRe B LUNCH prices go up 5 proved cents per student new school ap Page 11 Sec A Green Amendment Okayed The House approved an amendment by Rep Edith ireen that would go beyond Nixons proposal to imit busing ordered as a ast resort the nearest 01 next closest school for tary school pupils The Green amendment would limit busing of all pupils through the 12th grade to th next closest n crosstown busing The ment passed on a 178S standing vote but was to a possible later roll call vote The House then reinstated provision in the Nixon W which was struck out by th House Education and Labo Committee earlier this month It would permit the of all desegregation cases n matter how old or whether the involved busing to make them correspond to the new measure Some Denounce Black members of the Hous and some white liberals angri denounced the claiming jut Congress on record in favo of segregated schools The solution to this who problem is for the House the Supreme Court stop enforcing the 13th amen ment and return us blacks to See HOUSE Page 14 State And Nation JUSTICE department files suit against group asking Nixons GOP scores major gains in Demo polling ahead for peace prosperity party rage i Sec C And The World KING of Morocco names an soldier to take over as leader of the armed forces 12 Sec C SPORTS NEWS Pago 16 Section D HOROSCOPE Pago 15 Section D COMICS Pago 10 Section C Comic Dictionary person whose friendship you seldom lose you see him seldom but often lose if you see him too often EDITORIALS COLUMNS Page 8 Section C MARKET Pages 12 13 Section A PLAINS AGRICULTURE 13 Section A HOOPLA MEET AT SNYDER Mute Found By Air Aces TM SANDIEGO Calif The only official air aces of the Vietnam war flew home to a muted America There were no homecom ing parades no ticker tape no celebrations when they arrived three months ago and there havent been any since A crowd of 200 mostly military friends turned out at Lindbergh Field for the return of Lt Randy Cun 30 and Lt Willie Driscoll 23 They went to a number of cities on a speaking tour but there were no celebrations or parades like those for Eddie Rickenback er in World War I and for the military heroes of World War H I really didnt expect Cunningham said in an interview noting that public criticism of the role in Vietnam is running high Tested Reaction Willie and I wanted to see how we would be ac We wore our uni forms We werent over whelmed but people have come over to shake our hands and say well As he fastened 1972 li cense plates to his red Jap sports car Cunningham stepped back and grinned at the words on Sec MUTE Page By GERRY BURTON Staff SNYDER Representatives of 30 families displaced y the flash flood that raced through Snyder Sunday gathered in City Hall here Thursday night to find a way recoup their losses About half of those present residents of the downtown area looking for repairs new floors foundations windows The other from the 3500and 3600blocks of Av enue looking for a way to get a new house or a way to move what was left to a higher location Loans Available the 340strike max imum hitherto in the By Tho Associated Press SAIGON Henry A Kissin ger and President Nguyen Van Thieu scheduled a second day of conferences today under scoring the importance of their talks and generating specula tion they are exploring new proposals to end the war The presidential adviser and held a and 15 exl minute conference Thursday at Independence Palace sources confirmed that the dis cussions included results of campaign against the enemy offensive destroyed or dam three secret meetings Kissinger aged 42 trucks a has held in Paris in the past six Flood Victims Get Details On Loans bridges nine material and fuel depots and a missile storage member of the North Vietnam area the Command said lese Politburo A prime target was the Xuan Disavow Progress Mai military training complex 17 miles southwest of weeks with Le Due Tho a In Paris a North Vietnamese JLI ui spokesman said North Vietnam Air Force Phantom pilots not the Kissinger Thailand bases reported deTho had made any straying several buildings toward settling the war er Air Force pilots said they that the secret damaged a radar station 13 were another form miles south of the capital of negotiation North Vietnam claimed n Thanh jets were shot down in heartland n negotiations the Nixon adminis Thursday after a claim of five maintains its po owned Tuesday and of and nco owned Wednesday The Command which withholds IN OREGON Coast Area Hit By Killer Wind BROOKINGS Ore windstorm gusting up to 80 miles an hour that swept down without warning salmon fishing boats left at east 13 persons dead or missing Thursday Nobody knows how many people might be victims be cause nobody knows how many were out said Coast Guard spokesman The winds whipped up 14foot waves which hit dozens of commercial and pleasure boats congregated for the salmon run At least three boats were sunk Ashore the powerful gusts ripped off roofs cut electrical power toppled trees and signs and started a brush and driftwood fire on the Brookings beach At Brookings and at Crescent City Calif wives of fishermen stood vigil along the beaches looking for their husbands boats Cecil Flynn of loan officer of the Small Business Administration explained how each family would be handled as a separate case according to loss and according to income and ability to pay He said loans would cover any physical loss everything from a cars Residents Recall Flood Page 10 Sec A CATCH VP ON FAMILY NEWS Price Rollback Agreed By GM DETROIT AP General Motors announced Thursday it was bowing to White House pressure and rolling hack by the average price increase of it previously had an for its 1973 model cars The average increase GM said now will be per car Earlier both Chrysler Corp and American Motors Corp fiad said they were holding to previously announced plans to advance 1973 model prices AMC by an average of and Chrysler by an average of Ford Motor Co issued a statement saying it had aske for more time City Woman Half Brother Meet For First Time Here By CELESTE LOUCKS SUfI WEDNESDAY morning a tall man knock ed on the door of Mrs Gur tha Cherry of 2506 45th St And although she had never seen the man before he in formed her they had something important in common We have the same he told her Your mother died at your birth isnt that right Gurtha asked 61yearold John H Word of San Anto nio Then about three years later our father mar ried my Together the two pieced i together fragments of each others past and Mrs Cher ry caught up on news ot eight other half brothers and sisters My mother lived about two or three ex Mrs Cherry 77 Before she died they called in witnesses If she died she wanted to give me to her parents and they were to have me until I was they died then my father was to take So Mrs Cherry grew up in Oklahoma with her See PAIR H to spokesman told report stress in the lane loss reports rescue are over said it had no to announce Al lne Paris peace talks Thj chief CmK President Nixon missed The down the year for jet cratic assertions have been MIGs was 1967 when 69 were blasted by American sharply denied by Secretary of State William P Rogers missiles and cannon It had been assumed that ire That was an average Sec BOMBERS Page 14 UH Of and Thieu would con See ouses furnishing or almos in the home hi aid could be replaced or re aired through a loan Flynn termed the loan pro ram a way to get out of a nd in time of disaster em the terms would be and without strain on ie individual Procedures Outlined Loans would be paid with interest of per cent The SEA will be in City Hall o help fill out and receive ap lications To secure the loan FEW DISAGREEMENTS Final Touches Given Republican Platform By The MIAMI BEACH Fla seining feminist groups had there wasnt even Republican platform writers much discussion of t began putting the campaign document in final shape Thurs day President Nixons forces t applicant needs a list damaged or missing a complete cost est n replacement or repairs Flynn said applications could made up to six months from See FLOOD Page 14 were in firm control but re were being pressed not uj stick too rigidly to the word cost estimate jnj of a draft Some women delegates ior example were unhappy the draft plank on Weather Map Page 13A and Vicinity Partly Shotgun Blast Kills Teenager NARA VISA N M AP reston Grissom 18 was shot and killed about noon Thursday at his truck stop busi I Convention Buttle Ove Plan Page fl Sec A with womens today through Saturday y had been sidetracked at least for the present The subcommittee that took testimony on the issues relating to women was reported to ness in this Quay County to seek stronger provi on elimination of dis i crimination in economic niat munity on 54 near Texas border CAO i CI III l v Sheriffs officers said they such as obtaining credit rested the youths father a more affirmative cnm 47 in connection to provision of day the shooting care for the children of working The younger Grissom the chest with a shot But Rep Margaret lof Massachusetts a member shot in The young mans wife the subcommittee had not lty mother were taken to a to call for repeal of 1 K1 1 Ft U K7 U M W 3 M 4 M ii 4 P M t A4 K 7 7 5 M y i M 7H TA 10 7 11 1 50 70 Maximum M Minimum SI Maximum a year nso today Minimum s asi today B Sun rirs today Sun sets to day Humidity Mi Minimum Hu IS at TJ WEATHER hart hospital shock for treatment of laws succession of a witnesses 11 I Ills W newer M K PBI H T 1 IB W 9773
