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Sports Highlight Trevino's 30 foot chip shot 'fin 17thhole Jack Nicklaus' hopes for golf's slam, 1C1 Former Kentucky coach A'dolph Rupp named president of ABA Mem phis ProslCComplcte sports. 1 6C). '( Sunday, July 16,1972 Florida'Space Age Newspaper Published by The Ganneti Company, In BreTard' County, Florida TOn W4ki ft Fair (6 partly stormsj High CTriow 75 wmdi sontlv to southeast 10 15' m.p.h.. (Complete. noatliM.Diiu 41 I 10 Cents SUNDAY Hemlines Inside IDAY rfe i Secz ef Tr usf Research and Fieldworlc .1 "'pHiiim I THREE ASTRONAUTS to begin 56 day (est in ajtitudc chamber simulating Skylab (10A) CHAPMAN, ENGLAND, i i astronauts, resign from (llAt By SEN: GEORGE S.

McGOVERN 1 don't think the outcome of the Democratic National Convention would have surprised. Galileo. What happened was While some' of the candidates, and their advisers spent last year reading the polls and making projections, niy supporters and I decided that polls taken a year in advance probably indicated only which Candidates were most widely known. So we' spent last year developing an and learning the lay of the land. While some candidates were content with armchair speculation, we went out in the field to determine what the country wasJike and what it really wanted.

It was simply triumph for experimental science over "flat Earth" science. We found some interesting things: The American people have' astonishingly cynical about their elected leadership. Most people' simply assume that a politician is a crook and a scoundrel. They don't rise, up and vote the 'AKTOl'M LtindaySpKiau rascals out only because assume that it would mean voting a new set "of rascals in. And.

one crooked rascal is, i ft WOMEN, CHILDREN fleeing Belfast fearing upsurge in Northern Ireland violence. (3A) B52s a losses orrt'Iortlr Viets near Quang.Tri. (3A) CHESS MESS continues as Spassky fishes. Fischer keeps the Sabbath. (7A) JOHN JOHN kidnap plot nipped by Greek police.

(8A) dVER PpP.ULATJON, caused doom of dinoufvexamihation of eggs shows. (Zk) 'J Vjs lSfiSll PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS will." start when I Congress resumes Monday. (3A) NIXON POPULARITY rating of 56 percent complicates Democrats' plans. (4A) CHINA HEALTH care program beats that of U.S., American experts claim. (5A) CITIZEN COMPLAINTS bring voluntary price rollbacks led by rents.

(6A) SPACE, ENGINEERS re training for traffic solymg jobs on earth. (6A) SHOE PRICE surge causes Nixon curb on of cattle hides. (8A) GOVERNOR WALLACE enters Spain Rehabilitation Center at Birmingham, for four weeks of therapy. (9A) CALLEY BID for hew trial bolstered by finding "missing" witness, defense counsel says. (15A) no iBMSraimi3yiWRll after all, no better than' another." So I raised the issue of the disclosure of personal finances and campaign flat Earth' scientists In their armchairs would; it, and the wise.men.who:write;the.

syndicatedsyndicated columns thought it vwould" never work. But large numbers of voters thought otherwise! In many parts of our'country, property taxes'are increasing at 10 percent Continued on Back Page 1313 i ntoc TODAY JPI Taltpnolo MRS. TOM 'EAGLETON; WIFE OF DEMOCRATIC VP NOMINEE, AND DAUGHTER, CIIRISTY, .9 pause at poolside Saturday at Palm Beach home of Mrs Fagleton sister, Miss Donna Smith ANTI WAR VETERANS call off Tallahas secpfotest, plan nationwide demonstrations Monday. (8B) KLANSMEN MARCH openly these ddys in attempt to change image of violence. (8B) MORE PROTESTERS predicted for Republican convention, and no one is promising it'll ah be peaceful.

(8B) MeGoyernifes Project Opt Pljgn Voter Signup Carhi imism, SIX BREVARD recreation areas are, contaminated a hazard level for swimmers, an investigation revealed. (IB) COMMISSIONERS PLAN public hearings to discusSi'the county (IB) aB AMERICA'S MOONrLANDING program ends this year. But a new era of space exploration" is; beginning; Earth's 'people will. the beneficiaries. Jn astronaut parlance It could be called a mid course correction for SpaceshipvEarth.

(IE) SOMEONE ONCEJ said1 middle age is the, time when the steps get steeper and the Erint gets smaller. But there's much nlora it than thai Psychologists as well just Blain. people 'whoe been 'thee'talkr about' le perils and pleasures of that period of WASHINGTON (AP) As the legions of Sen. George McGovern.4 laid plafls for a massive voter, registration drive, the Nixon; administration laid butl t.h.e 'welcome mat for Democrat! dimtisfled with their party's presidential ticket 7 The first order, pf business in the Democrats', presidential campaign a nationwide effort to register newf voters; especially the young, said Sen, Thomas yice presidential1, nominee, ia a Kansas City speech Saturday, McGovem, the1 Democrats' presidential choice, stayed at his Washington home Saturday, spending much of the day calling his Senate staff Tnembers and campaign aides. Eagleton planned to arrive in Washington Saturday eve: ning.

Republicans issued their invitation to disgruntled Democrats through, former' Treasury Secretary John Tr Connally, a lifelong Democrat Standing on the lawn in front of Nixon's Sjn Clemente, mansion Friday night, i lii Deaths. 4BV 'ffi; Homes, CD i Jerry, Greene, 1C. Ttine, 7B Ilinifedsby, Hanoi SAN CLEMENTEi Calif, (AP) Secretary of State William Rogers held open Saturday the, possibility of new secret Vietnam peace and saitj "there are some slight "nuances ia! Hanoi's latest proposals that "gives! tis some encouragement." hqurlong meeting with President Nixon, Rogers told newsmen on the iawn of the Western' White House' that he did. not want to raised hones "nf nmprpsi tnwarfl pnr1irit'thf war. tha statement kAadJ.

i t'atk. i i i Vietnamese, negouaior, ias mJhnld nrlvat talks' Everyday Features CUastffed'fi MC "StatewttSB 'Whd44 Connally said instead supporting McGovern he will try to rally Democrats the President's re election campaign. Meanwhile, Democrats of every 'persuasion were saying McGovern had anjiphillJiaUle ahead. "We're under any illusions that the. battle is won," McGovern" himself remarked on arriving in "Washington from' Miami.

"But I have, much the same feeling I had in New Hampshire at the beginning of the year it's an uphill effort put I think we're going to go over the top." McGovern surprise pollsters and ll.t'.l a 1 commentators last January when he captured S7 percent 'the vote jn the New Hampshire; Democratic presi denUal primary. Sen. Edmund S. Muskle of Maine, considered the rontrunner for the nomination at tlieJ time of the New Hampshire primary, expressed up for McGovern on returning to his home tate Friday after the convention. But he, too, saw a tough campaign, ahead.

"They face not only challenge Hie conventional of unseating an president, but also the much more important challenge of Jacing new directions in Am erica," Muskle told a crowd greeting him at the Portland Troof that the DcmocraUc party is moving in directions came Friday in Miami Beach, when the 'national a 'committee ratified McGovern's selection of Jean Westwood a's Democratic Continued Back Page. This Section Mayor vows to fire policemen, IB. By TOM' SANDER Amttant Mttro Editor Indialantic Police Chief Bud Gilman was indicted by the Brevard Grand Jury Saturday for and malfeasance in office. Also indicted were an Indialantic patrolman and a'fbrmer patrolman for malicious destruction of property. The jury, which began its probe after a TODAY story revealed charges of wrongdoings in the department, recommended Qov.

Askew suspend the 39 year old Gilman. i Former Police' Sgt. L. Turner and Patrolman Thomas H. Sheldon were indicted for malicious destruction of property.

The property was a car and a shotgun being held in police custory. The three misdemeanor indictments each car rying a one year jail term or $1,000 fine were 1 returned by the 15 member jury panel at' noon after a 15 witnesses were heard, including the three indicted men. The grand jury probe was triggered by a June 11 TODAY story reporting allegations by police officers and civilians, of police brutality, property vandalism, neglect of duty and T)ther wrongdoings against the Small department. The i i jU brought an angry refusal to comment from Gilman. and neither Shelton nor Turner could be contacted.

Gov. Askew'so general legal counsel, Edgar M. Dunn said the grand jury's action "kind of takes us by surprise. I'm not familiar with the facts of the case. We'll get the grand jury report and ask the state attorney "for a report that comes' to the governor's persorlal attention and proceed from there.

No suspension is mandatory. That's a discretionary act always." The jury's report found "no police brutality," "but'' reported, police had been involved in "destruction of private property, harassment' of public officials, and Continued on Page HA CTIIEE 8CP GILMAN suspension I recommended REAT A GfRL Party's Just Begun Nine Sections lore private, talks ilnpipr If Klssinepr has "somethinB'hew'iVto BugaiaidJthftyiutedtes aspreparedito Contiiied on Back Pago This SecUon VQDATs nA joint checking account' is neve.r,overdrawn hyjhe it's just underdeposltid bx the i KirV fV. .1 .1 hujband. MIAMI BEACH (AP) Three vention girls for hire escort services report the time." they did a brisK business aunng tne Dempcratic Iatjorjal Convention, but as one agency neaa says "ine real party is just getting started." Dana March, bosslady of Supergirl fnc. said dating came is "sold out solid" for this weekend as many convention principals remain in Florida for.a.

hit of fun: be the. biggest weekend since we1, opened almost three years ago," she "Business kept me' hopping until 1 5 to 6 during the. con and it's getting faster all Steve Accardi, a former lifeguard who founded the Sunshine GJrl escort agency, also reported heavy bookings jfor the postconvention weekend, as 'well as a "very eood" week durmc the convention. "Sessions lasted so late thai nobody felt like partying 'said Accardi, Vjitttn rest, they're rartn to; It's' been a boost, for us because usually at, this 4 ConUnued on Back Page M8WWUWMIUJgyW fwl 1 "'V V4 I Vi 'S 3.

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