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7 I 09eJ, TWaAiv, Jul r-s i wi a' 4ef Sp iai id -i FDI f.cnl: Continued from Pge 1 said. 4 i j-i i 7 are exercising any effective pressures on North Vietnam. In the one sector where Moscow and Peking could reinforce any advice in favor of a settlement in the supply of arms and other military aid there has been no sign of a cutoff of aid. And these Western authorities said they doubt very much if the competing Russians and Chinese would expose themselves to charges of betraying Hanoi by seeming to turq 00 them so soon before the resumption of the Paris peace talks next week. Spokesmen for the Soviet and Chinese embassies here dec lined formal comment on report that their governments have been pressing Hanoi to end the war soon.

Speaking privately, one Russian official said any authoritative statement relating to Soviet policy on Vietnam ould not be made in Londonbut in Moscow. FBI IDENTIFIED HIJACKERS-The rFM Thursday identified the two men who were killed while hijacking a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane in San Francisco Wednesday as Mkhaef iSanofT, Dimitr Alexkv, 28, rjght. Plane was by the two men on flight between Sacramento and San Francisco. roue res 14 reported in fair condition at the hospital, were identified as Leo A. Gormley, 46, of Van Nuys, and Victor Sen Yung, 56, a Universal City, actor who plays the Chinese cook in the TV series "Bonanza." After landing and, then taking off and circling San Francisco for an hour, the plane sat for five hours at the end of the runway while negotiations by radio continued and the money and materials were collected.

Under orders from the hijackers who sought an "international pilot," a FBI agent dressed as one approached the plane carrying the money, Qebhardt and Dave Gardella, PSA security director, said. After stripping to his underwear on orders from a hijacker, the agent dressed again arid went up the stair ramp with his hands on his head. In the meantime, the other three agents had landed from a power boat In San Francisco Bay and approached the plane from its rear, where they could not be seen from inside. At the last moment, they rushed up the stairway behind the negotiator, the FBI Military Told To Bypass Taxed Airports WASHINGTON (AP) The Department of Defense has told military personnel traveling at -government expense to bypass, whenever possible, airports that impose passenger head taxes. The notice from the Military Traffic Management Terminal Service listed cities where the taxes are imposed -as Philadelphia-with a $2 charge on arriving and departing passengers and The two hijackers were described as recent immigra s.

from Bulgaria. The shaken passengers si things were calm, if gri during the six-hour drar before the shooting start Several praised the crew, especially t' stewardesses. Filoi G2I3 -'bto Throat PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) threatening note scrawled in blood, has been found in the;" home of an airline pilot who helped overpower a hijacker in Saigon, police said. The- hijacker was shot to death by-; a passenger.

The note, found Wednesday in the home of Robert a veteran Pan American. World Airways pilot, "Pig Eugene Vaughn guilty ofc murder. To be punished later Long Live Nguyon Thai Binh. Victory to the Vietnamese Death ofthe American1' aggressor." Vaughn, 53, and two passer gers on Sunday overpowered' the young Vietnamese' hijacker, identified as Binhy University of Washington honor student. A passenger armed with a revolver shot Binh to death.

The man had tried to hijack the Boeing 747; to Hanoi. The note apparently was written in animal blood. Vaughn told a news confer-, ence the note was "the reaction of sick people." The note was found before he-returned home from overseas. Vaughn suggested that "every pilot in the United States walk off the job and refuse to come back until Congress, enacts the death penalty for. hijackers." He also expressed hope that -the hijacker's death "might make a lot, of people think long and hard about future hijackings." The Leaf-Chronicle Published Mch mnlnf Monday thru Friday and Bund ay mornlnf at Second and Com mere.

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Copy Sunday MAIL KATES Montfomer; and Adjrifchif Cantlea On Tear $14.04 Six Monthl Three Mentha On Uonth I .00 Oataide M.ntfMMry and Adjoining CanUe On Tear 117.00 Blx Month 110.00 Three Month I OO On Month I By Carrier One Week City lubierlberi not desiring pay the carrier each week nay remit In advance direct to th Leaf -Chronicle at th rat of .00 per week (or a period of three, or twelr month. Th Leal-Chronlcl will not reanonalbl-tor money paid In adrane to regular carrier. It Is permluabla to pay motor nut carriers In Did from Page Another major stretch still to be let to contract involves 17 miles of Interstate 40 between Knoxville and Newport. There's a possibility that redesign of part of this stretch, to make it six lanes, will delay completion until 1974 or later, the spokesman said, "but we hope not." A total of 1,014 miles of interstate highway were assigned Tennessee when the national system was planned. Some 820 miles will be opened by the end of this year.

The incomplete total includes some major urban freeway and interchange construction in the Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville areas, although the Chattanooga urban system is virtually complete. In Robsry Thompson said. Mrs. Grissom was hospitalized and listed in satisfactory condition at the Colbert ountyHospital. Thompson said the robber fled he store, took a taxi to- nearby Florence, changed cabs there, rode to the Lawrenceburg, bus station, caught another cab, and was on his way to Columbia, when stopped by the trooper.

The young couple was in Sheffield visiting Mrs. Mitchell's mother, the officer said. Woman Continued from Page 1 property. The Eads woman was arrested by Assistant Fire Marshall Charles S. Lee and charged with arson.

The arrest stemmed from a New Providence fire in which the woman was charged with burning clothing. reporters and Democratic party officials around the country, that he was actively -seeking the viee-presitlential nomination. Grave said that as vice president he would "add meaningful dialogue to the chief executive's deliberations rather, than pay lip service and embarrassed obedience to unknown policies, as is the case today. "As VP I would seek to open new vistas of communication and information to the news media and the people," he said. "I would not abuse and intimidate those who seek honest information, as is the case today.

"As vice president, I would act as an advocate for all the people, and especially minorities before a complex and insensitive bureaucracy." "As vice president I would hope to be my own man." The first announced candidate for the Democratic Vice-president nomination was Endicott Peabody, former Massachusetts governor, who has been- activelyam- New Rotary Members Are Installed Two men were installed aaf new members of the ClarksviUe Rotary Club Wednesday afternoon. John McKittrick, an instructor of economics at Austin Peay State University, and Ray Marable, of the Royal Crown Cola Distributing received their club pins and Rotary literature at the luncheon meeting. Marable is the club's sergeant-at-arms for the coming year Guests for the meeting were Donna Scarborough, Garnett Ladd and Dorothy Marable. Square Dance A square dance will be held Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center.

Miss Mildred Deason will be the caller. Following the dance a reception will be given in honor, of -Mr-, and Mrsr Fredr Morris and Mr. and Mrs. John Alden. LONDON (AP) Western diplomats have been specula-tg on chances that Russia and Chin may separately be urging North Vietnam toward a peace settlement ever since President Nikolai V.

Fodgomy visited Hanoi and Henry A. Kissinger visited Peking last month. But these officials representing countries with missions in. Moscow. Peking and Hanoi, reported today they have seen absolutely ho evidence to suggest that the Russians or Chinese in fact Obituaries Mrs.

Garrott Funeral tervfcM for Mrs: Odessa Garrett. 46. will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Foston Chapel. The Rev.

James Brigham will officiate. Burial will be in Foston Memorial Garden. She died at 5: IS p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hospital after a short illness. A resident of Ninth Street, she was born in Montgomery County and lived here all her life.

She was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church. Born Nov. 24. 1925. she was the daughter of Hurley Perkins and Burton Wilson Perkins, both deceased.

She was married to the late Ernest Stewart Garrett. She is survived by two sons. Robert L. Garrett of ClarksviUe and SSgt. Hurley Lee Garrett of by two sisters.

Mrs. Emma Russell of Louisville. and Mrs. Gertrude Tibbs of Chicago, and six grandchildren. Foston Funeral Home is in charge.

Mrs. Merritt Graveside services for Mrs. Ernestine Elder Merritt, NashvUle. hp died Wednesday, following a long illness, will be conducted Friday at 4 m. in Greenwood Cemetery by the Rev.

William R. Jenkins Mrs. Merritt was a resident of Park Manor Apartments in Nashville. She was born in August 1892 in ClarksviUe and attended ClarksviUe Female Academy, and Belmont School. Nashville, and graduated from Gardner School.

New York, April 8, 1925, she married Henry Clay Merritt. She was a member of Westminister Presbyterian Church, Nashville, the American Legion-Auxiliary, Belle Meade Country Club and Cheek wood. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Maree Meriwether Figuers, Dallas, and a sister. Miss Sarah Helm -Elder, ClarksviUe.

The family requests that in lieu of other remembrances donations may be made to the donor's church or agency of their choice. Tarpley's Funeral Home is -in charge of arrangements here. Mrs. Ross Funeral services for Mrs. Anna EVans Ross, 62, will be -held at 1 p.m.

Monday at the St. John Baptist Church. The Rev. Jerry Jerkins will officiate. Mrs.

Ross died at 4 a.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Covington, following short illness. She was a resident of 936 Ford St. and was a instructor for the St.

John Baptist Church. She was born in Christian County, March 14, 1910, the daughter of Gus Evans nd Annie Wills Evans, both deceased. She had lived in Montgomery County most of her life. She is survived by her husband, Carl Ross; one sister, Mrs. Theresa McMillian of Newport, and one foster sister, Mrs.

Sarah Lunford of Detroit, Foston Funeral Home is in charge. -WABniSCTDNM APT- Sen. Mike Gravel announced today he would seek the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the national convention in Miami Beach next week. The Alaskan told reporters he would give delegates an opportunity to select the vice-presidential nominee in an open contest instead of "rubber-stamping' the presidential nominee's choice. The 42-year-old freshman senator's formal announcement at a news conference confirmed what he had been informally telling Correction In Wednesday's LEAF-CHRONICLE, an accident story reported a car driven by Steve Wallace, 17, of 213 Park Lane, went out of control and struck an approaching car being driven by Hershel T.

Hogan, 23, of Route 5, ClarksviUe. The article should have stated the Hogan car went out of control and struck the Wallace vehicle. The accident occurred Monday afternoon on Providence Blvd. Officers Continued from Page 1 and during their search they saw a 1970 orange Mustang traveling "at a high rate of speed" on Bradley St. across the Dortch St.

intersection. The deputy told the jury he and Dowien chased the car to Riverside Dr. where a city patrol car pulled the Mustang over at the Crossland St. intersection. During questioning, Heaton said that although a search was made of the area around the service station, no pistols were ever found.

Also testifying yesterday were Frank Carney, owner and manager of the Marine service station, and Edward Johnson, a local wrecker driver. Johnson testified he had seen the car matching the description of the Mustang in New Providence earlier that night, and again about "2 or 2r30- a.m.tt he saw the "car pulling from the Marine service station. Carney told the jury he had closed his business at mjd-night and had not given anyone permission to be in or arouncHttie building after closing time. At press time this morning, Deputy Dowien had testified that he saw the two men "run up the back" when he and Heaton arrived at the service station and he drove the car while Heaton radioed for assistance. Heaton's testimony was expected to continue late this morning.

City Continued from Page 1 Since May 4, four persons have died county-wide in motorcycle accidents. Several others htve been injured. The retirement of Charles Vaden will be considered by the council, as will the retirement of Calvin Louie: Vaden has been police chief for 11 years. Louie is the city jailer. onq7 paigning.

Gravel won attention soon after he entered the Senate when he tried unsuccessfully to get the courts to stop an underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian chain. Last year he made public top-secret Pentagon Papers by reading them into the reading them into the Congressional Record in a surprise action. Fiddlers Compete As Park Opens PIKEVILLE.Tenn. (AP) Fiddlers from Tennessee and Kentucky are invited to compete for cash prizes Saturay during dedication ceremonies at Fall Creek Falls State Park. Gov.

Winfield Dunn, who will attend the ceremonies, said "because this park has been carved out of the hills and gorges of the Cumberland we thought It apT" propriate to include some music native to the area in the official opening ceremony." Top country music artists from Nashville will be judges. Kiwanis 5 Intor-City Moot Friday The annual Inter-city Meeting of the Kiwanis Club is planned for Friday, July 7, at the ClarksviUe Country Clubi Howard Baker, Senior Senator from the state of Tennessee, will be the guest speaker, Over 300 reservations have been made from Kiwanians from ClarksviUe, Kentucky and the Middle Tennessee area. The annual Kiwanis Intercity, golf tournament will be held at noon at the Country Club. Jack Mayer and Gerald Tenney are co-chairman for the affair which begins with a social hour at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m.

New officers of the" ClarksviUe Club will be installed." mer imperial capital, but half oCthem were duds. One person was reported wounded, and a Roman Catholic church and a home were badly damaged. On the southern front, the Saigon command claimed that 208 North Vietnamese were killed and 45 weapons captured in fighting along the Cambodian border 50 miles west Saigon. Four South Vietnamese were reported killed and 31t wounded. YOIr2EI.

Clorktvlll. 1-24 Continued Knoxville to. the southwest Virginia line, and Interstate 75 from Knoxville south to Cleveland as the major incomplete stretches of superhighway. Terrell said the contracts to be let this fall for 1-24 are for initial grading, adding it will probably, be 1973 before paving contracts are let and 1974 before the road can be opened to traffic connecting ClarksviUe and Chattanooga by superhighway. A department spokesman said the 1-81 stretch wiU be, opened by late 1973 if the present pace continues and 1-75 south of Knoxville to Cleveland by early 1974.

The stretch from Cleveland North to the Hiwassee River bridge is Scheduled to be open to traffic this year, You III SHEFFIELD, Ala. (AP)-A 19-year-old Chicago, man was being held in Colbert County jail today charged with robbery and assault with -intent to murder in the holdup Wednesday of a Sheffield grocery store, police here said. Sgt. Avary Thompson of the Sheffield Police department said James H. Mitchell was arrested near Columbia, by a Tennessee state trooper and returned to Sheffield.

No bond was set. Thompson said Mitchell's wife, 17-year-old Christine Mitchell, was with her husband when he was arrested but was not charged. He said she requested to return to Sheffield with her husband. Thompson said an armed bandit entered Grissom's Grocery Wednesday morning. The man asked Grace Grissom, the owner of the store, for money, and shot her in the face after she handed him approximately $100 Special Continued from Page 1 delegates to the winner.

The 2-1 decision overturned a U.S. District Court which ruled Monday that the judiciary has no jurisdiction in partisan- processes -unless a clear constitutional principle is involved. The lower court found no constitutional question in that case. In the Illinois case, the ap-, peals court was unanimous in finding that the party could rejectilttiholsS'deiegaiesits grounds the selection did not conform to party rules. The 59 uncommitted Illinois delegates, led by Daley, were challenged on grounds they were chosen in a closed slate-making process and that they under represented women, minorities and ydung people SPECIAL ALL YOU Ci'l EAT FRIDAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 12-2 5-8 Mori, thru Sat.

VACATE! Tin HOTEL HWY. 41A NEW PROVIDENCE "TAKE HE HOME" First Thursday Report tty Col. Cecil nnsnr ufl L. 1 Huntsville, Anentown, Richmond, Saginaw, and Sarasota-Bradenton, which all charge each departing passenger $1. Those cities started the taxes July 1, which apparently prompted the Defense Department directive.

Other airports, however have had similar taxes In effect since 1968. The Pentagon directive to transportation officers asks them to route military personnel through airports without taxes whenever possible. It did not order the officers flatly to avoid the taxing airports. At heavily used Philadelphia International Airport, refusals to pay the iax has declined from an average of more than 50 per cent to 10 or 20 per cent in the first week. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Navy Fighters from Page 1 'TAKE ME HOME" is th litis of an article in the June Issue of Reader's Digest Which depicts the sod scene of a little nine-year-old girl in Juvenile Court, while a judge, a welfare worker and a lawyer debate the disposition to be made of her.

This scene is being repeatedmany times, in varying aspects, injuvenil courts throughout the country. While heartless judges decide their fate, thousands of children are disposed of liVe chattels at an auction sale, and parents ore treated as though they have no right's. -TH following is an exeret from this article: "Our juvenile courts constantly violate th simple truth that the love of a parent or other con-cerned adult is as vital as food to a child growth. Yearly, these courts tear hundreds of thousands of non-criminal children from home, school and friends. After secret hearings, which would not be tolerated for odults, many are packed off to "state training "schools." which are often no more than maximum-security prisons for the young.

In many states, any 1 8 who Is adjudicated "an habitual truant" or "beyond the control of his parents' or 'incorrigible' may be locked up until he is paroled or untille reaches 21. 'The juvenile-justice system does not correct. It does not even meet ordinary standards of human decency in some the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has said." 4 counteroffensive, is moving cautiously in hopes of keeping his casualties to a minimum. Field reports said 180 North Vietnamese were killed in clashes around Quang Tri City on Wednesday. South Vietnamese losses were said to be 10 killed and 90 wounded.

Thirty miles to the south of the nine-day-old drive, he North Vietnamese shelled Hue with 122mm artillery for the fifth day. About 180 shells hit the for This is an indictment ogainst the juvenile judicial system, USA Surely we don't want this sort of thing to exist in Montgomery County. K5TTC3 UStJ I KSTTS3 Cs5j To meet this situotion In Indiana a device known as a "Youth Service for diverting youngsters away from the uvenile-court system by treating their problems oncl those of their parents has been devised. This device was invented by Judge Robert J. Kinsey of Koko'mo, Indiana who formed a citizens' study committee to keep children away from his own court.

VvJe'X yw-x We propose a Montgomery County Youth Service Bureau to study the youth problem in our community, ond to take steps to salvoge our children. Let us not treat our children as crimln'ols unfit we have exhausted every mean of salvaging them. We may place the criminal label on many of them for minor things, which will go with them through life, but which might have been avoided by a little wis hondling ond counseling To publicize the name of a child for the first offense moy have th ffct of permanently damaging thot child's personality and character. How many of us', including our judges, have committed minor offenses in our youth, which. exposed might have given us a criminal label? DlCentxalc4i Meat, Jnc.

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