TAHLEQUAH - Seven Seminole County youths arrived here Saturday to join 775 other Oklahoma high school seniors in the week-long Boys State, sponsored by the American Legion of Oklahoma.

The Boys Staters got an official welcome Saturday night from Tahlequah mayor John Purdy. Also welcoming the delegates were Michael Riggs, Oklahoma City, 1974-75 Boys State governor, and Dr. Robert Collier, president of host Northeastern State University here.

The Seminole County delegates include Kenny Ray Taylor, Stephen Robertson, Ronny Trammel, Will Cocke, Tommy Swearingen, Hammett Atyia and Greg Givens.

Delegates will participate in a number of events during the week climaxing with election Thursday of the Boys State governor. Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Ralph B. Hodges will administer the oath of office to the new governor and other elected officials of Boys State.

Gov. David Boren will address the Boys State assembly at 11 a.m. Thursday.

Boys State is a leadership course with emphasis on city, county and state government. Besides many governmental sessions planned for the week, the delegates will participate in recreational activities.

American Legion day at the assembly will be held today. -oOo LONDON (UPI) - Stuntman Evel Knievel, battered in a spectacular attempt to jump his motorcycle over a row of 13 buses, vowed Monday to quit. Today his British manager said Knievel might have spoken too hastily.

“Since arriving at the hospital he found his injuries were not as bad as first thought,” manager Brian Cartnell said. “He has been reconsidering, and it could be he will be in action again.”

Knievel was trying to ride his motorcycle over the baker’s dozen London single- decker buses Monday when the cycle crashed at almost 100 miles per hour. If successful, his 140-foot leap would have been a new world record. He struggled to his feet after the crash and told the crowd he was hanging up his helmet.

“I’ve got to tell you that you are the last people in the world who will see me jump,” Knievel told a crowd of 70,000 persons at Wembley Stadium. “I will never jump again.”

The 34-year-old stuntman spoke in a halting voice Monday soon after an attempt to jump over 13 London buses ended in a spectacular 100 mile an hour crash.

Knievel lay motionless on the stadium’s grass after the crash, his face blackened and his brightly colored costume in tatters. Then he struggled to his feet to the cheer of the crowd.

The battered daredevil announced his retirement over the stadium’s public address system and then was driven off to a private’s hospital.

Doctors said he would need two months to recover from a crushed vertebra in his back, a damaged spine, a fractured hand and multiple bruises. -oOo Cluttered Corner Left Wingers Are Endangering USA By Milt Phillips THE SMALL U.S. ELECTRONIC intelligence ship Pueblo has been in the hands of communist North Korea for seven years. The Secretary of State of the USA at the time in 1968 when the Pueblo was captured by North Korean gunboats said the capture was “an act of war.” The crew of the Pueblo was held captive for 11 months and sometimes tortured in communist prisons. The USA did nothing but talk. We assume it was fear of starting WWIII or fear of war with Red China that kept the President and the Congress from declaring war on North Korea and going in and getting the Pueblo and her crew. In the USA at that time left wing elements were invading campuses and demonstrating and rioting all across the nation. They stymied the then president, LBJ, from seeking re-election. These riots and marches and demonstrations apparently made the President of the USA helpless. And the Congress is helpless in such situation by the sheer weight of numbers - and especially so when the leadership of the Congress is as weak as it has been for some years now.

IN CONTRAST TO THE PUEBLO incident, President Ford “took the bull by the horns,” so to speak, and moved into the Cambodian waters and rescued the ship and crew of the American cargo ship, the Mayaguez, captured by communist Cambodian gunboats recently. But even as the honor of the USA was upheld by the President, some of the left wingers in Congress began criticizing the President of the USA. And in addition these same left wingers are nit-picking at the President about the timing of some of the attacks made on the Cambodian communists in retrieving the ship and its crew. How left-wing can the American people permit our Congress to go? We do not know how far left the nation can go and still remain a sovereign nation. But we suspect we are getting near the edge with our acceptance of the left-wingers now ruling our Congress and intimidation the Presidency of the USA. We are ready for some old fashioned Americanism for a change from all the other left-wing “Isms” that are so popular in our nation’s capital.