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THE OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES-FOUNDED 1771 THK WEATHER V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast U. S. Weather Bureau forecast: Mostly cloudy and humid Wednesday, Wednesday night nd Thursday with possfrle showers.

Highs Wednesday in the low to mid 80s, lows in the tnid 60s at night. COMPLETE WEATHER DATA ON PAGE 01 tmxxtt. FINAL CITY EDITION PUBLIC LEDGER AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE Dailv: Hone Delivery 60 Cents Per Week WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 25. 1969 Copyright 1969 by Triangle Publications, Vol.

280 No. 176 TEN CENTS, fife II Vote on Surcharge Allen Misses Game Again, Is Suspended Delayed Two Weeks' As Liberals Balk WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI). House leaders postponed for at least two weeks a showdown vote on President Nixon's proposed extension of the income tax surcharge after they discovered Tuesday that they lacked enough certain votes for the bill's ap-proval. The delay was a psy-f Without Pay Phillies Slugger Fails to Show Up At N. Y.

Stadium By SANDY PADWE Of The Inquirer Staff chological lift for Democratic liberals who have been press Plutonium riant Jbire Halts Warhead Output ing for major tax reforms to accompany the surtax NEW YORK, June 24 Phillies' manager Bob Skin Until End of 1969 It overshadowed a setback they suffered at the hands of the House Rules Committee, which rejected their request that amendments to the tax measure be permitted on the House floor. CONTINUE DEDUCTIONS ner suspended Richie Allen without pay for an indefinite WASHINGTON, June 24 (AP). The Atomic Energy Commission said Tuesday that production of nuclear warhead components for U. S. missiles had been halted by a period Tuesday night after the club's leading hitter missed a twi-night doubleheader against the New York Mets.

And so, another chapter begins fire May 11 at a vital piutoru- MW LI ill i IIBIHSSgSS um-handling plant at Rocky Flats, Colo. A spokesman said Rocky The anti-inflationary 10 percent surtax expires at 12:01 A. M. Tuesday, July 1. Speaker John W.

McCormack, who announced the vote postponement, said a resolution would be pushed to continue payroll tax deductions at the current higher rate until Congress finally acts on the proposed extension. McCormack said the decision AP Wirephoto support for' nursing-home patients. To dramatize their appeal, they brought bedridden patients along and stationed their beds in the rotunda. iff. Flats, one of eight interdepen Delegation representing several private nursing homes in Philadelphia gathers in Capitol rotunda at Harrisburg to protest lack of increase in welfare dent AEC facilities in the wea it -mi In the strange and somewhat sad story of the moody, controversial long-ball hitter who was Story of Phillies-Mcts Tivinbill and Complete Sports on Pages 35-39 pons production complex, would be idled as far as production Shaf er Promises to Restore State Bill Asks to delay the vote beyond Wednes- goes for the rest of 1969.

Plutonium is used in most nuclear warheads to trigger the atomic blast. Rocky Flats is the only plutonium processing plant jday was made at the request of Rep. Wilbur Mills chairman of the House Ways and in the AEC's warhead assembly Aid Cuts If Given Revenue! on Lands of sr i line. FIRST AEC DISASTER V7 leading the team with a .318 batting average, 19 home runs and 45 runs batted in. Allen was last seen by a reporter at about 2 P.

M. at the Commodore Hotel, the team's headquarters here. Another reporter spoke briefly with Allen before the Phillies first baseman Despite the Rocky Flats shut Nonprofit Units down, AEC and Pentagon offi By SANFORD R. STAROBIN Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG, June 24. Gov.

Raymond P. Shafer on Tuesday promised to re Means Committee, which approved the surtax extension last week. Mills has been sick in recent weeks from intestinal flu, and McCormack said he probably would not be able to mange the tax bill on the floor until after the July 4 recess. COUNTING ON MILLS checked out of the hotel. An store proposed cuts in the states Pennsycare medical assistance program if the Legisla- Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG.

June 24. assistant manager confirmed ture provides the revenue. The governor's promise came in a day that saw more than 300 cials insisted the AEC would meet defense warhead deliveries as requested before the fire, first crippling disaster in the agency's history. The Colorado facility," along with other AEC plants, had been preparing for volume production persons from all walks of life Legislation was introduced Tues YAllth Vloin IVir "T1 in the House of Represent- Democratic leaders obviously 1 IIULII Llirilll IIY 1 If 113 DUllUIIlg piUtCM tUlS 111 that Allen checked out between 7:30 and 8 P. M.

REPORTED AT BAR The New York Daily News reported in its Wednesday editions that Allen and Phillies outfielder John Briggs were es tate tax exemptions for church-and prestige to help swing doubt a mi- a aim uui juizl uvsiut. ouw- of new families of hydrogen warheads for American missiles. ful votes. "Mr Mills is one of the ablest, most highly respect As Disturbances Hit sidies. UNDERESTIMATED COSTS These include bombs for anti es, nospitals, colleges and oth-1 er nonprofit organizations.

Rep. John C. Pittenger' ed members of the McCormack said. "When he's on After meeting with 14 repre that Lancaster) said the purpose of the floor, he always adds great sentatives of hospitals Harrisburg 2d Night AP Wirephoto Dr. John H.

Knowles reportedly will be nominated for the post of assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs. coii paiitriiia uiikl tinio ai. i ma uuia is tu uific idiii main the state's medical assistance; ute the cost of municipai serv spotted at Jon Namati's Bachelors III bar Monday night. Warren Giles, president of the National League, has advised National League players not to frequent the bar. Skinner said that he informed the Phillies of Giles' order cn Saturday.

During the doubleheader, Skin Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau "Did you have the votes?" McCormack was asked. "It was very closr," he replied. The measure is intended to program ior me muigeni, anaitr ices. missile interceptors and for the new multiple-warhead Minute-man and submarine-launched Poseidon series. The blaze went largely un-publicized until recent publication of an AEC delegation's closed-door testimony May 20 before a Senate' appropriations subcommittee.

REPAIR FUND SOUGHT AEC leaders, including Dr. NONE ON BUILDINGS HARRISBURG, June 24. A Negro youth was shot to told newsmen he would restore death by a city policeman, allegedly while igniting a cuts if given the money, line bomb, as racial disturbances erupted here Tuesday shafer ordered the cuts in His bills provide that prom'S ihmitC night for the second straight; several welfare programs on groups pay tax on the land value -cd Federal budget surnlus asl night. Mayor Albert Straub'June 10 after admitting he" tnpir nronprtv Thprp wmM vJJ.TVnZ ordered a ritvwide curfew no tax on ouuamgs or lmprove- while authorities called forjfar by million in his cur- TOO MUCH RISK The Democratic I IIIUII JUUIIIIIJ Knowles' Name For Health Post ments standing on the property, Tn PhiiarUlrwhi 9K nf committed to push for passage, 'Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman, appealed to the subcommittee of Sen.

Robert C. Byrd W. Va.) ifor an extra $45 million to re an investigation of the shoot- ets ins v. Since Shafer's order, six Phil ner received two mysterious phone calls. "I understand," Skinner said, "that he (Allen) called in here during the first inning but the phone was dead when 1 got to the clubhouse.

Dick Farrell took the call and he came and got me." The Phillies' pitcher angrily answered, "No comment," when asked what Allen had said on the phone. t. t. found in a last-minute head count the total real estate valuation tv, tnyx TOO Phila. Legion Installs First Negro Leader Hid U1C1 TYClt lliailY uu- i a aucikuia nvouuaia nave sam meager, but it was reported is tax exempt because it is own-jdecided House members to war that the victim, Uiartes bcott.l rooms the D00rJ ed either by government or non- rant risking an immediate vote.

i wt woe -vt nmifn in ina 1111 the Pennsycare cuts store Rocky Flats to full operation. Air Force Maj. Gen. E. B.

Giller, assigned to the AEC, testified the weapons production schedule would be set back an undetermined length of time. area of this citv of 80.000 rot- jt, aiJ tn Democratic roving bands of Negroes. mostlyimade- figure is 31percent and in Har- fIoSuseH'leader Cl of SPecial to The Inluirer youths, were reported rampag-100 OE1.IONSTRATE nsDurg, witn us many state He said it would be Ana wasnington rost Clarence A. Warden, president! 80vernment buildings, over 50, WASHINGTON, June 24. By DOMINIC SAMA Of The Inquirer Staff PIIONE CLICKED Then, in the second game "about the sixth or seventh inning" according to Skinner, the His home was in an uptown of the Delaware Valley A study of 22 Penn" other vote could be rescheduled (Health, Education and Welfare, perhaps as much as one year Germantown section where there were no tal Council, said he and the sylvania cities by the Fenn- Word of the postponement Secretary Robert II.

Finch has Byrd told a reporter he had re- A 49-year-old disturbances. other hospital representatives syivania league 01 cuies snowea v.ffirp tioiisp recommended that President ceived no further estimate on Shea Stadium operator put iron worker who landed witn tne were backing tl.e poor. He said the average figure to be 22 per-j R1 haH HPrided'Nixon nominate Dr. John H. the delay.

"I regard this as a without tne aid, the poor would cem. through a call to the Phillies, third wave of Allied forces in ROCKS THROWN dugout. "She said Mr. Allen was; Normandy on June 6 1944 on' District Attorney Lerov Zim- on the phone but then there wasj Tuesday became the first Negro' Police click and I lost it," Skinner ment called for an investigation i.xt commander of the Philadelphia statn pH.o nt th ohi lose medical care. The exemptions in Philadel- In the momins? som 200 Pia come to $465.9 million on members of the Health and the lad and $1.1 billion on thej whether and under what condi-Knowles as the nation's topjserious situation," he said, tions the tax measure would behealth Capitol HiH(xEWER WEAPONS SOUGHT taken up by the House.

Demo- He said the $45 million request "JI LZZ tT'have tion to the White Houseppar- been approved by his sub-considerable pressure to have clinches the nomination of committee and now must be the tax bill sent to the floor witt:" cleared with House appropria-Continued on Page 3, Column 2 HEW secretary for health and ns Ieaders Probably sometime structures. Ihis mcludes property owned by the city, state and Federal governments, the Board of Education and religious institutions. he is or what ha, happened." IW umncu ot me American The 0 reported: services -At his home, John Quinn. Legion. throwing rocks at cars and peo-demonstrated on the front steps Phillies' general manager, is one of my about 10 blocks from thejof the Capitol against the cs.

he talked to Skinner by tele- 'capital. About 50 state troopers I c. nh "H.iri.iff the douhlehead- that 1 would never Stanton Kratzok, a Philadel- scientuic aifairs. Mr. isixon told a ntionally televised news Tne AEC has a stockpile Democrat Wins er." uuc us a itunueuui iini-jalready on extra sMfts after wuuui uua.u i.iA rucctActt, Tn If mwocge Allpn has.pnrp" sair! A Tvpr firlcntc ntnhi i member, said, Its not JUst! Pittpnerpr a Franklin anrl conierence last i nursaay tnat nejContinued on Page 2 Column 8 wouia support men cnoice.

OPPOSED BY DIRKSEN not made any attempt to before the installation State Police helicopter was used ColleSe Plitical sciiMontdna Vote rinh Dninn aH A lem it a question of how the r. iwic quest avi, Miv of t) F.nnM 3l.au UIC Ul ill Vi i i CHLC UIUICJSU. llUi.TU 11UUU1U111 buildings. groups would still retain a sub money is to be spent, a ques tion of priorities." Until Tuesday, even the strongers backers of Knowles His conversation with Skinner did not include mention of HELENA, June 24, (AP). Democrat John Melcher.

Hotel. FALSE ALARMS is stantial tax preference under his bills because their buildings call from Allen to the Phillies'! Tyer succeeded Louis J. Tan-! SEEKS TOP PRIORITY 44, a Forsyth veterinarian and were only cautiously optimistic 7 a 1 T-. 1. 1 j- 11 clubhouse at Shea Stadium, sup- tarelli as commander of the Maius v1 aj He said the council wants the' would not be taxed ange its ordei of pn- Using figures from the Lan poseoiy ansveren dv tarreu.

i000 Leionaires the citv after iu ponce-i if ho mntart th hall uw eeionaires me cny aner, men carrvin2 shot2uns and services at1 caster area, Pittenger said tax- four-term state legislator, was inai incn woulQ Press Ior ine elected to Congress on Tuesday, nomination over the objections as representative of Montana's Sen- Everett M. Dirksen 2d District. I1L)- With 51 of the district's 565 11 has been Dn-ksen's 0bjec-nrprinM ro.mfpH Mpir-hAr hpiH tions and those of the American club Fd just have to deduct thatservinS as the iu'lior and senior! wearing helmets reported manyjj;" fof THst Via wiu.irin't Viato Koon vice commander for the last two arrests on charge rf inpitina orities, with human suspe Food to Be Burnt As Indians Starve AHMEDABAD, India, June 24 (Reuters). A leadings Hindu spiritual leader plans to burn more than 9000 tons of food in a sacrificial fire later this year "to foster universal peace and the welfare and prosperity of the human race." Lakshman Chairanya Brah-machariji Maharaj told newi- exempt property owners would, lie nuiuuu ii i umm- 1 p.i on the average, pay only 10 per to riot. oeverai nours later, more ed without pay," Quinn said.

TIIR F. ARtVATF.S cent of the tax that would be tnan 100 welfare recipients and years. POPULAR CHOICE Mayor Straub called for the1 lead over his Re- Medical Association that have employes and patients at nur paid by non-exempt owners The two games AUen missed ms election to the post waslj6" -lXL sing homes for the poor collect toi on it i. ciuuiieiueiii puDiican oponem, 1111am a.i- Mather, 46, Billings. tor iv months.

Melcher renlaces Rennhliran! But that impasse appeared to ed inside the Capitol the same land. He computed that Franklin and Marshall College, the larg- ine oisiurrances were ac 1 6 assured because the orgamza- of three abseices for the jitioll mo tion traditional! moves a man With tambourines jingling and be broken by early Tuesday James F. Battin, who resigned for a Federal judgeship. aftarnrvm Sin F.HwarH Continued on Page 7, Column 4 earner, ne missea an a. m.

1 Continued nn Paw rninm. 1 team flight to St. Louis on May up through the top three offices lLontinued on Page 5 Colum" 3. Continued on Page 32, Column 1 Brooke who is notj111611 Tuesday the maha yagrta known for rash predictions, saidj (grand sacrifice) would cost with no equivocation: $16.08 million and the cost would 2. Allen then tried to secure succeeding years.

mT ww space on another flight but A popular choice among inSCCllVltlC titUl tO Fl.VII, iot IltflltffllS 7 Claimed that a mixup at the region leauers, iyer saia uh ticket counter at Philadelohia' "doors are open to all individ i now unaersxana mat mot onnnoi, t'-0 AVI AU11U3 Ujf the Nations Warned of Poison in Rhine luals" who want to join the vet- continued on Page 36, column 8 erans organization wwwtvv-, "I don't feel the world owes anything," he said. "Many THE HAGUE, June 24 (UPI). ticide. He described it as a sub- "i 1 rmi i A-m 1 I He OUPlli: 01 0 rdLC -Dutch health authorities (the Knowles nomination) will be submitted and I expect it to be confirmed by a substantial majority." OTHERS ECHO BROOKE Knowles is the general director of Massachusetts General Hospital in Brooke's home state, and it was reliably understood that Brooke's statement was an- cf anna alliost I Miiiv-u iij ui vital uuii, Y'- same way. nnimppd Twriav tho, iA reservoirs.

Ship locks were ad-( justed to divert the main flow of the river from the Rhine Canal at Amsterdam. Scientists from both countries METHIUAHDS T'er- of 347 V- Penn st a poison substance in 1S extremely poisonous MWtMj IO ijf sphasized that racial discrimina- the Rhinr River as an insecticide 1" fish- 4 irvition is nonexistent in the armed 1 1 cA 1 Tn Tlnccilr1rtrf cf CI orm ott those wishing to acquire divine merit by taking part. (Last month it was reported that at least 2640 Indians died of disease in famine-stricken Rajasthan State.) 3u Sljr Sitqttirrr Departments and Features Amus'ements Death Notices 22 to 25 31 Bridge 55 Editorials 18 Business and Obituaries Amsterdam TIlC Flag forcPS now- IIe addcd that the probable killer of Sions of earIier- West Gea" the current appeared to be 'an nnHArHnrr ran hruist a man' aiH foctc h. nA tv, Carrying the pOlSOn Out tO Sea dutch cirifc WATPP 'JWV If iisii uvci iiiu past weCK onvrntu iuc uuiaincu; BorfertHm through the Netherlands and If there is one day when morale in the service. They said the density of waters killed the fish WEST cleansing the river.

Squadrons of boats cruised the every American should display our Flag, it is July 4th SERVES AS OUTLET insecticide found in river waters Wlttun seven minutes by causing "By bein a member of the Psed little danger to humans al-jParal'sis of breathing organs It Fl (ill JAM river in both West Germany andi Independence Day. 'very small" decree and sultocation based on a conversation with Finch. Other liberal Republican senators were soon echoing Brooke's view. Finch met with Dirksen in the minority leader's capitol office for 15 minutes Tuesday after-neon. Finch, speaking with newsmen afterwards, insisted GERMANY of poisoning could result from! But they said they could not I 4 income bracket, the Army mj iijr me i lag, mc iuiuiicr an attractive LUKtueoueo Financial 25 to 32 Classified Ads 39 to 54 Comics 55 serves as an outlet to make men "1C conutmuiaxea "WL Vi.

i of themselves and CTZl tte firSt dUC heb them to receive a decent! source of the that identity. educatbT" said Tver a 1939 substance remained a West German waterworks con-eaucauon, saia ijer, a isa If oon i itmnpH tn window Flag, 12 by IS inches, for $1. The Flag is i Mains 34, 39 Real Estate 28 Sports 35 to 39 Television and Radio 16, 17 Women's News 13, It Page 19 BELIEVSO TO HAVE Holland, scooping up dead fish in nets wherever they collected and blaring warnings to campers and farmers not to use the river for bathing or watering livestock and not to eat fish taken from it. West German officials discounted the possibility that the poison came from industrial dis- if available in the lobby of tirlorufie river rom Bingen in West hasm as the water source for The Inn Hirer KiiilHinf 400 there had been no discussion of Knowles. But Finch said he had written 1 nrmanv hi-rwirrK Tk VAtk.

million ntrcAfir in fV, a letter to tne White House on Tyer enlisted in the Army, lands West Germans continue' state of North Rhine-Westphalia, 40 months and partici-. to drink the Hter but the But in xhe Netherlands, where Tuesday, containing his pro i 4 V' naye swllcfled to inland reser-thousands of dead fish first ap-charge along the river bank Feature Page Fashion in Living Your Tax Problems John M. Cummings Roscoe Drummond N. Broad from 8:30 A. M.

to 5:30 P. Monday through Friday, and 10 A. 31. to 5:30 P. Satur-day and Sunday.

The Fla also is available by mail order. See coupon on Page PS. A il it Page la Page 15 Page IS Page 19 msieaa, mey meonzea tnat a c'u voirs. ipeared in the river in Monday a a 30-day leave, during which he. A spokesman for the Public night, waterworks in Amster-marned Ruby Upshaw Health Department in Theidam, Rotterdam, the Hague barge either dumped or dropped something containerized into the posed nomination for the post of assistant HEW secretary for health and scientific affairs.

"I am simply offering a nomination and it is up to the White House to say what the nomination Is," Finch said. i Inquirer Staff Map Map locates Rhine River that has been polluted by insecticide fatal to fish. uague saia emergency testing uororecnt and other cit es stream that later escaped as the Pacific theater and served in of Rhine water had reveal i.nJrWH tw ne Washington Background Page 19 Your Health Page 19 Complete Weather Page 31 Hawaii. I vii uic nvci oroive open or uisin- i specified quantities of the insec-Jand began drawing from inland: tergrated..

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