June 7, 1972

Japanese delegates to UN environmental conf, Stockholm, rept that ailment known as ouch ouch disease, or itai itai, which attacks bones and causes them to break with normal body movements, has been traced to cadmium poisoning; 132 cases, 32 deaths reptd

US Repr McCloskey holds narrow lead in tight June 6 Repub primary race for nomination to HR from new Calif dist that includes a part of his former dist

464 Rhodesian miners are trapped underground by explosion at Wankie Colliery, June 6; mangled machinery blown to surface shows force of explosion; hopes for miners’ survival dim after 10 hrs of rescue efforts fail to establish contact with them; late rept says 1 miner has been found alive but severely injured at bottom of 300‐ft shaft; 3 miners found dead in shaft, in addition to 464 trapped by explosion; rescue teams toil in relays in effort to reach trapped comrades, with additional rescue teams flown into area from all parts of Rhodesia; Wankie, Rhodesia's largest coal mine, owned by Anglo‐Amer Co of S Africa, has 3 operating shafts; explosion tore down walls of coal and rock, blocking miners’ way to safety; almost every inhabitant of Wankie, population 20,000, has a relative among entombed miners; chart lists earlier coal mine disasters; map; illus of empty stretchers as workers attempt to reach trapped miners

US Appeals Ct strikes down Fed Dist Ct Judge R R Merhige's order to merge Richmond, Va, pss with those of adjoining Henrico and Chesterfield Counties on grounds that order went beyond judicial authority of Dist Ct; appeal to US Sup Ct is seen to be certain; order would have created single school system of 66% white and 34% black; case revd; dissenting opinion is filed by Judge H L Winter, who holds state has continually tried to circumvent ‘54 Sup Ct ruling outlawing desegregation; judges writing majority opinion listed; Merhige illus; Merhige ruling last Jan had natl impact and fate of order in US Sup Ct seen influential on fate of desegregation orders in other cities

NJ Dem State Chmn Bontempo expected to resign, enabling new leaders to become more involved in party affairs