MISTRIAL DECLARED IN SKYJACKING CASE- The
federal skyjacking case against Garrett Trapnell was
declared a mistrial due to reports the trial judge
threaned an investigation of a lone juror’s holdout
for acquittal. The 34-year-old defendant, shown in
January 1972, was accused of hifacking a TWA jetliner.
97-Year-Old Veteran
Running for Sheriff
By KATHY PELLEGRINO
Associated Press Writer
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A
97-year-old veteran of the Span
ish American War is running
for Lyon County sheriff in the
firm belief that “old age don’t
cut any big figure.”
S. Morgan Martin, who held
his first public office — town
marshal — in 1906, says young
people “need us older folks as
examples.”
“Of course I’U have younger
people to help me if elected,”
he added. “But young people
need our influence. When we’re
passed on, there will be plenty
of time for the younger gener
ation.”
Martin, a native of Lyon
County, has operated a trailer
park sinc3 retiring several
years ago from the timber and
sawmill business. But he
doesn’t believe in retirement.
“The tendency nowadays is
for folks to retire,” he said.
“But if you go back to the Old
Testament you can’t remember
a single time where a person
retired. They served as long as
they lived.”
He figures he can contribute
to upgrading law enforcement.
“I’ve had it in mind for a
long time,” he said. “I decided
about 12 months ago that I’d
probably get in this race. For
30 years or more I’ve been in
terested in trying to make the
ctjunty a belter county to live
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'Bird Alert' Common
For Pilots at Miami
By NICK TATRO
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - When
the seagulls and the egrets
flock, officials at Miami Inter
national Airport post a “bird
alert.”
It warns pilots to be on the
lookout for feathered fliers that
can bring down the mightiest of
jumbo jets.
Last December, a flock of
birds was sucked into the en
gine of a Northwest Airlines
Boeing 747 jetliner, forcing the
plane to make an emergency
landing.
The jet skidded off the run
way, and tour of the 160 per
sons aboard received minor in
juries while evacuating the
plane. Officials haven’t deter
mined what kind of birds were
involved.
In the wake of that incident
and complaints from pilots,
Dade County Port Authority Di
rector Richard Judy said he
plans to hire a Canadian air
port expert and University of
Miami ornithologists to find out
how to control the bird popu
lation.
Seagulls wintering in this
area are attracted to the air
port by the warm pavement,
the wide-open spaces and four
nearby garbage dumps. Egrets
flock in from the Everglades,
and pigeons are ever present.
“It’s a serious problem,” said
Capt. Phillip G. Perry, a re
gional vice president of the
AIRLINE Pilots Association
(ALPAa). “The turbine engine
is really susceptible to inge
sting foreign objects such as
birds.”
He said the ALPA has urged
federal officials to require stri
ngent bird control before certi
fication of an airport is grant
ed.
Perry said birds are a prob
lem at airports around the
world. He said falcons have
been used in Madrid, Spain,
and at military air bases in
England to chase away flocks
of birds. And at Washington,
D.C., a cannon was fired in
hopes of driving off birds.
“We tried chasing them away
with automobiles, but they just
flew up and over live run
ways,” Judy said of the prob
lem here. “That’s no solution. I
can’t tell my staff to shoot guns
and scare them all over the
field.”
Jim Frazier, Federal Avia
tion Administration regional di
rector here, said that, consid
ering the thousands of flights
daily around the United States,
the bird strikes are relatively
infrequent.
But he said it only takes a
two-to five-pound bird smashing
into a jet engine while the
plane is flying at 250 miles per
hour to cause serious damage
and perhaps force an engine
shutoff.
Dresses Making Return In Fashions
“The good Lord has taken
care of me all these years. And
I felt like the Lord is in the
leadership in this movement
and with His leadership I feel
like I can render this county a
service.”
Martin is no newcomer to
politics. He was a police judge
and member of the school
board in the 1920s and served
as mayor in the 1950s.
Martin says he’s serious
about seeking the sheriff’s post
and isiv’t much concerned about
his age.
And, he added, his wife of 10
years is “very much in favor of
it.”
By ODETTE MENGIN
AP Fashion Writer
ROME (AP) — Practical and
sophisticated clothes are what
Italian designers have in mind
for the spring and summer of
1973. Some succeed in bringing
off both.
This year also is witnessing
the return of dresses, a little on
the quiet side for morning
wear, bouncy and airy for the
afternoon and cocktails.
In many cases, designers pre
sented a pleated skirt and bel
ted overblouse to form a dress
effect.
Concerned with being prac
tical were the American design
ers of La Mendola, whose silk
jersey and georgette dresses,
sometimes with a pleated skirt
and stiff Renaissance collar,
are crease resistant. Their long
evening gowns with draped
scarves or maribou boleros car
ry all the glamour of exotic
lands.
Italian couturier Capucci, as
much an artist in handling col
ors as in cutting fabrics,
showed fancy beehive dresses
in a crisscross of tiny or me-
dium-sized pleats. He used the
same technique for short jack
ets and open coats worn over a
shirtwaist dress in different
pink panels.
Morning dresses, very simple
with a turtle neck and no
sleeves, contrasted with the va
porous line the designer gave
his evening dresses.
Pino Lancetti also went in for
the silk skirts and shirts or
overblouses that look like
dresses.
He often hip-pleated skirts
except in suits, which mostly
were wraparound. Seven-eighth
coats in sand yellow, lilac, pale
blue and green let the printed
silk of his shirtwaist dresses
appear.
To keep the sun out of your
eyes, Lancetti designed broad-
brimmed hats as worn by Mar
lene Dietrich, overshadowing
the face.
For afternoon wear, brims
widened and dresses got sexier,
with frills and ruffles along the
shawl neckline and around the
sleeves. Lancetti also offered
tiered dresses and drawstring
scooped necks for pale blue
georgette or lilac evening
dresses, embroidered with silk
around the sleeves and bodice
front.
Lancetti also had a surprise:
prints on crepe dresses, featur
ing statues or women’s faces in
wide, horizontal bands.
Provocative Fashions
English Highlights
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By JULIE FLINT
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) — Hardy
Amies, dressmaker by appoint
ment to Queen Elizabeth II,
opened London’s spring-sum-
mer couture season today with
a suggestion that women be
more provocative in their eve
ning dress.
Provocative to Amies means
silk crepe de chine culottes and
iH-a tops — with cover-up shirts
for the chilly and chaste — and
sleeveless, waisted chiffons
plunging generously to the
waist at the bust and the back.
Amies’ boutique collection
also featured dark organzas —
printed, embroidered, smocked
at the waist and frilled at the
sleeve.
These less expensive dresses,
starting at around $240, out-
sparkled the couture creations
at roughly double th price.
The designer’s evening cout
ure was disappointingly old hat.
Iliere were black off-the-shoul-
der satins, spotted organzas
and taffetta, formal frills worn
with last year’s spots, and the
traditional ballgowns that de
mand stately bosoms and iron-
gray hair.
Amies’ day wear, however,
was a shot in the arm for cout
ure.
He showed simple, splendidly
tailored shirtwaists and blaz
ers, hip-pleated dresses and
jackets, suits and print blouses
in navy, navy and brown,
brown and cream.
His chalky pinks and blues
looked better last year. The
combinations of stripes and
checks did, too.
Favorite materials were flan
nels and silks, fine gabardines
and wool hopsacks, printed
wools and silk-wool blends.
Coats were cut slim and easy
for city wear, often with elabo
rate back pleats.
But there were cries of “Oh!
I^ovely” when the designer pa
raded his mohairs.
These were large and soft in
pink and blue, orange and
green checks, wrapped-around
and belted, and warn with
pi inted dresses in similar but
sharper shades.
About $670 for the coat, and
$515 for the dress.
RALEIGH (AP) - Family
Inns of America announced
today its chain of medium price
motels will have 23 to 25 units
under construction or in oper
ation by the end of 1973.
Rocky Mount businessman
Jim Gardner, president and
major stockholder in the com
pany, said all of the units will
be built with modular construc
tion at $2,000 per room. He said
conventional units cost up to
$4,500 more.
Family Inns now has three
units in operation—at Rocky
Mount, N.C., Atlantic Beach,
N.C. and Charleston, S.C.
Gardner, a former congress
man and unsuccessful candi
date for the Republican guber
natorial nomination last year,
said the new units would be
constructed in Williamsburg,
Va., and along Intersta Inter
state 95 and Interstate 75 on the
East Coast.
Gardner said the inns were
designed to fill a void in the
motel pricing field, and would
rent rooms for $9 for a single
and $14 per family.
The company was formed in
early 1972, witli Gardner hold
ing 51 per cent of the stock.
Gardner was a cofounder of the
Hardee’s hamburger chaii\.