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"A twitter Oldest Daily Newspaper in the United States Founded 1771 Thursday, May 29, 1975 Metro Zone, Pages 11-B, 12-B Vol. 292, No. 149 GO 15 CENTS Million Cheer tyers Phillies Shake Slump, Batter Giants- h) ihr I fir llf Parade Wild as Year Ago I ft ICiv 'w )yy. n. i I Philadelphia Inquirer ALEXANDER Flyers coach Fred Shero, flanked by Bernie Parent (left) and Bobby Clarke, acknowledge cheers of stadium Ford Reassures V.

S. Commitment Firm, NATO He Says 'i -Mil By JIM MANN lnouirer Statt Wrifer Philadelphia held its second annual Flyers Victory Parade yesterday, and it was at least as boisterous and raucous as the first. Victory Parade II took on all the characteristics of a massive teenage beer party. It began with a huge crowd bursting past police barricades near City Hall to get near the float that carried the Flyers and the Stanley Cup. And it ended three hours later at Jvin K.

Acnnedy Stadium, shortly after Bernie Parent the team's goalie, hero and most valuable player waved a can of beer, cautiously summoned forth his nasal French-Canadian accent, and told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000: "Well, we did it again, eh? So all I can say is, I'll see you next May 27." Devout Fans Police Commissioner Joseph F. O'Neill, on the basis of helicopter surveys and reports from police throughout the city, estimated that 2.3 million people came to yesterday's celebration or 300,000 more than he estimated last year. The; Flyers fans are apparently so devout that next year's parade can be held at 4 arm. underneath the Walt Whitman Bridge and it will not make any difference. High schools and junior high schools through the Northeast, South Philadelphia and the suburbs emptied into the downtown Philadelphia streets, jamming the streets and public transportation.

A survey of school attendance figures showed, for example, that Lincoln High School in the Northeast had an attendance rate of 25 percent yesterday instead of its usual 86 percent. At tiie Marple-Newtown schools in Delaware County, 1,300 of 2,000 students were absent yesterday. In Pennsauken, N. 50 percent of the high school population of 1,700 did not attend yesterday. The Flyers' fanatic supporters did all those things that fans in this hockey-crazy city have learned to do.

They chanted "We're Number One" anc "Ber-nie, Bernie." The song the Flyers' theme song, "God Bless America." They waved signs ranging frorr. "The French Connection (the nickname for the Buffalo Sabres vaunted line) Is Now Hungarian Goulash" tc "(Bob) Kelly (the man who" scored the winning goal Tuesday night) F01 to "The Cup Is Here, Now Drink Some Beer. And they drank some beer lots of it. Tried New Tack Last year, after the Flyers' first Stanley Cup victory, city officials purposely scheduled the victory parade to come into center city at lunch time to attract a crowd. By official police estimates, 2 million people showed up.

This year, the city tried a new tack: It directed the parade out of center city toward Kennedy Stadium before lunch hour. To a limited ex tent, the strategy There were far fewer adults and working people at the parade than a year ago. Standard dress for the occasion, it seemed, was cut-off blue jeans and a Flyers T-shirt or (for females) a halter top. Some of the fans carried orange Flyers horns; others just their six-packs. It was a high-spirited, sometimes raucous crowd, and at times the celebration seemed to fray around the (See FLYERS on 4-A) Complete coverage 0 the Flyers' victory celebration, Pagef 4 4-B and in the Sports Sectionh May Follow to put existing workers on overt mi than to recall laid-off workers cr tun new ones when business piJks up.

Nonetheless, there was evl'em1 that some idled factory workers re cently have been put back to work The Labor Department said the number of persons on regular state unemployment rolls dropped in the weei ending May 10 to the lowest level since 28. The number of persons receiving regular unemployment benefits to 4,446,200 during the secorrt, week in Av. cCAUCHEY crowd l1 1 11 11 a second quarter of 1973. In the last three months of 1974, productivity dropped 2.1 percent. An increase in productivity is normal when a recession nears its low point.

During a business slump, companies trim their operating costs by laying off workers, streamlining production and cutting frills. Economists expect productivity to increase for several months because companies will try to recover lost profits bv keeping their operations trim. Grally they find it cheaper .1, ...1 til f. i I 1 ,) a -i 1 dents and other high-ranking Washington officials in recent years. But, in the weeks since the collapse of the decade-long U.

S. effort to bolster South Vietnam and Cambodia against Communist takeovers, there has been growing uneasiness in Europe about whether the United States might be retreating toward isolationsim. The apprehension was articulated earlier yesterday by NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, who told a pre-summit press conference; "Recent developments in Southeast Asia have created uncertainties in some minds which, as far as the alliance is concerned, must be rapidly dispelled. This applies not only to public opinion in our own countries but to the perceptions of any potential adversaries. The alliance is and must be THE FIRST group of South Vietnamese refugees arrived at Indi-antown Gap yesterday and was greeted by Gov.

Milton J. Shapp. Page I B. Weather Index MOSTLY SUNNY today, becoming partlv cloudy by nightfall. Highs in the low 80s, lows 60 to 65.

Full Weather report, Page 13-D. EVER SINCE the entire police force in West Stockbridge, quit in ih! iliicf's refund! to fix tickets, the town has been in an uproar. Page 5-A. A GYNECOLOGIST has extended by a month the time in which a woman can have the safest abortion. Page 1-D.

In 'ill'' ti itteWM 1 nMmmtx seen to be ready and equipped to perform all of its essential tasks." Dispelling these fears will be the first priority here for Ford, who is making his first visit to Europe since becoming President last August, and for Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who has been conducting a similar task in Paris this week. In their meetings with the other NATO leaders over the next two days, they will attempt to grapple with a number of specific problems some military and others bridging political and economic areas that have been troubling the alliance during recent months. These problems range all the way from fears that troubles involving Greece, Turkey and Portugal will cause the crumbling of NATO's (See FORD on 2-A) Schools Cut Deficit to $25 Million By STEVE TWOMEY nou 1 rr Sducalirm Wntfr Only one day before it must approve a balanced budget, the Philadelphia Board of Education whittled its projected $74-million deficit down to $25.1 million yesterday, using an uncertain state grant and major program cuts that would affect thousands of youngsters. School officials announced that almost half the deficit would be wiped out by a $.

million payment in advanced funding for vocational education that was promised yesterday by the state. A high state official, however, immediately contended that no such promise had been made. The board reduced the deficit by $12.9 million more by eliminating busing for students, closing 12 under-used schools, reducing health services and cutting funding for some extracurricular activities an for lunches, which might force a rise in lunch costs. The cuts seem certain to generate opposition from community groups, teachers and students. The nine-member board must approve a balanced 1975-76 budget today.

It seems likely that the board will approve two budgets, one with major cuts that would be used if money is not found to eliminate the remaining deficit and one with a iee BUDGET, Page 2-A) By JOHN GOSHKO H'oitnof9n Post Krniire BRUSSELS President Ford began his campaign last night to relieve fears among America's West European allies that the U. S. withdrawal from Indochina might mean a lessening of the American commitment to Europe's defenses. Arriving here for a summit meeting of heads of government of the IS NATO partners, Ford put his immediate stress on reaffirming that "NATO is the cornerstone of U. S.

foreign policy and has the unwavering support of the American public and of our Congress, and finally that our commitment to this alliance will not falter." It was a statement that has been made repeatedly by American presi- Ford Shift: Billions for Oil Firms By BILL NEIKIRK Chicaan Trifiuiti" Kprrire WASHINGTON With a single phrase inserted into his Tuesday night energy message, President Ford made a multibillion-dollar policy change in favor of the nation's oil companies. Ford told the nation that he would urge Congress to approve a windfall profits tax on oil companies "with a plowback provision," meaning they could keep the money if they plowed it back into exploration. Federal Energy Administration officials said Ford made the change because Congress had voted a virtual repeal of the oil depletion allowance. But officials said the plowback proposal would not let the oil companies ttiojt b'jt perhaps 75 to 85 percent of them. If true, the Ford policy switch would mean that oil companies could keep anywhere from $8 billion to $10 billion of the estimated $12 billion in revenues from the proposed tax.

When Ford announced his original energy program last Jan. 15. he asked Congress to approve a windfall profits tax to keep oil companies from unduly profiting because of higher prices. But Ford said at that time that he did not want a plowback provision. Since that time, however, the oil depletion allowance was stricken from ti.ax code.

tilt Philadelphia Inquirer MICHAEL VIOLA Flyers fans stake out billboard to watch victory parade Productivity Up; Jobs mint PnK Internnltnnnl U. S. corporations increased productivity in the first three months of 1975 for the first time in two years, and there is evidence that some industries are rehiring workers, the government said yesterday. The increase in productivity means that for the first time since 1973, non-financial businesses produced more at lower cost through more efficient operations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the increase of 3.4 percent in output per nvSlour was the first since the 1S-D Features 6-C Horoscope 1S-D Living 6-B Obituaries 5- Puzzles 14-D Sports 14-D TVRadio 6- A Weather 1S-D 14-D 1-D 4-D 1.VD 1-C 10-B 13-D Action Line The Arts Bridge Business Classified Comics Crossword Editors.