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Thursday's THE Day NCHA Set for Extravagant Parade III lltfiai UU uuuu I mm in ii will be wrapped up by Wednesday night, Mr. Gross hopes. "Wednesday night (tonight) we'll be going around the grounds to make sure everybody is coming along okay. All we can do is to help all these states to get everything they need so we can start lining up the floats at 2 p.m. and get the parade started right on time at 4:30 p.m." The floats will begin the Following her Tuesday selection as Miss 1972 NCHA Teen Queen, Edwina Guy, representing the NCHA chapters In the state of Alabama, will be presented publicly at 4:30 p.m.

Thursday when she reigns over the NCHA parade which will travel 5.2 miles- of Columbus' downtown streets. Miss Guy's duties as the official NCHA hostess actually will begin Wednesday night at the Teen Queen coronation ball. "Most of the states also will have their Teen Queens in individual units had been entered in the parade, but since that time over 40 more have signed up. The parade will consist of floats, walking units, clowns and bands but, for the first time in NCHA history, no commercial units. As may be expected, preparing for a parade of comparable color and length as the Tournament of Roses or 500-Mile Race parades would normally be nearly impossible for most people.

It must be remembered, however, that these are not ordinary people. All last minute preparations I I 1 si II 1 imJkh i JCN. nnnr uuuu 5.2-mile route at the Columbus i i i i ii -II North high school, travel west on uuu Twenty-seventh street to Wash- UL DO, (Turn to back page this section) Thursday's parade," said George Gross, who will share the responsibility of parade mar-shall with his wife, Anita. Mr. and Mrs.

Gross, members of Little Turtle Seekers club from northern Indiana, have been aided in their parade-connected duties by six other families and the Little Turtle Seekers' teen club, the Tribe. Television and stage personalities Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence and Wally Bruner will be appearing in the parade. Before coming to the camp-vention, Mr. Gross said that 125 Official NCMA Newspaper Campvention News Pages 10 and 11 mo bull day night at the campvention. The Guys, members of the Coosa Campers, Sylacauga, were obviously as proud of their daughter as she was happy.

1972 TEEN QUEEN AND PROUD PARENTS Mrs. Edward Guy, left, gives her daughter, Edwina, 17, a motherly kiss on the cheek while Mr. Guy beams at right after Miss Guy was crowned Miss 1972 NCHA Teen Queen Tues 'gpfflsp annuo Ida ay THE REPUBLIC Wednesday July 12, 1972 Columbus, Ind. Tonight, Tomorrow Humid, Storms -Price 15 Cents i i i EkJrfc Ml 1 1 ii ii 1 PARADE ROUTE One of lj III 1 1 the largest parades in the -Ml I 1 1 i United States occurs in Colum inn cGovem Studies nn It I I bus Thursday, courtesy of the National Campers and Hikers association. Parade starts at 4:30 p.m.

at 27th and Chest-' nut streets (top center) and proceeds south onto Washington according to arrows, Irs expected to last about 3'2 hours. jjtDCD 3'nnDDD Candidates Po I 11: IfM From UPI Reports MIAMI BEACH Confident he has sewed up the presidential nomination, George S. McGovern turned today to serious consideration of a running mate for November's Democratic ticket against President Nixon. He also began to concentrate on smoothing out differences with foes and former foes. Meier Tenth Fatality Ben.

A. Meier, 58, of Route 6 died Tuesday at Methodist hospital at Indianapolis from injuries received Monday in a 2-car accident on Road 200S, 10 miles east of Columbus. Mr. Meier is the tenth auto fatality in Bartholomew county this year. Mr.

Meier's auto, a 1969 Rebel Convention Schedule Today 6 p.m.: Nominations and balloting for the Presidential nominee. Thursday 6 p.m.: Consideration of new charter for Democratic party. Nominations and balloting for the vice presidential nominee. Some black delegates booed and held up defiant clenched fists as Wallace called compulsory busing "asinine." After he was carried -and wheeled away, the delegates by a loud voice (Turn to back page this section) Stoner Favors Inside Today U.S. reported guardedly hopeful about prospects of progress in resumption of a 34-year Vietnam peace talks that resume Thursday, Page 13.

FISCHER falls into Spassky trap in first game of international chess match which resumes today, Page 28. DEMOCRATS urged by Florida Gov. Reubin Askew to be "party of protest," Page 20. SOME Hoosiers to benefit from drop in auto collision insurance rates, Page 18. WITHDRAWS Sen.

Edmund Muskie, announces from the presidential race, saying he would do everything he could to ensure "Sen. McGovern's election" in November. At right, Tuesday's session which broke a record for length and didn't end until 5:30 a.m. today Columbus But his unity overtures collided with the die-hard opposition of organized labor's on re-establishing the old Democratic coalition with telephoned appeals to a smoldering George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO; and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, miffed by his candidate Sen.

Henry M. Jack time, resulted in these (Photo by UPI) son of Washington, who vowed o-go down battling what he i i ouster by a vote of the considered McGovern's politics of Democratic disaster. convention. McGovern L. i McGovern secluded himself in Sen.

Edmund Muskie helped McGovern's unity move with a his penthouse and concentrated warm endorsement i uesaay 1 MIAMI BEACH Richard Stoner, Columbus resident who is Indiana Democratic national committeeman, told The Republic by telephone at after pulling out of his own hopeless race, a victim of McGovern's mastery of the station wagon, collided head-on with a 1971 Chrysler driven by Charles Gatewood, 48, of West-port, who was not injured. Mr. Meier suffered head, chest and internal injuries in the 7:45 a.m. accident. A set of tools in the rear of the Meier auto slid forward upon impact against Mr.

Meier's seat, pinning him against the auto steering wheel. A native of Lincoln, Mr. Meier was born Oct. 16, 1913, the son of Ephraim and primary system. Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey withdrew first, but significantly Council Refuses Pay 'Exception' Despite a strong plea from the police chief for more, the Columbus city council held the line on pay increases in 1973 for police and firemen at five per cent, as budget planning did not endorse McGovern despite his own inclination to rid the Democrats of their fratricidal tendencies. noon today that he plans to vote for George McGovern for president on the first ballot at tonight's Democratic National convention. "He will be the nominee of the convention, so I am going to support the nominee of, the convention," he explained. Mr.

Stoner filed as an uncommitted delegate to the con i Humphrey and Muskie's with Gara Bolle Meier. He married the former Edna Reinking on drawal from the race left sessions continued Tuesday night. George C. Wallace and Jackson Aug. 22, 1937, at St.

Paul's Lu as McGovern's chief rivals but theran church at Clifty. She sur The councilmen also prelimi four other candidates are to be '1 -V vives. Mr. Meier and his son, Dale, narily cut out eight new men requested by the fire department put in nomination tonight Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York; also of Route 6, owned and oper Due to an increase in the total value of all taxable property in the city of approximately $4,000,000, the council can increase the 1973 budget approximately $133,000 and still maintain the current tax rate.

and indicated in a brief survey ot Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of ated the Meier Construction company. He was a member of what lies ahead that several oth er block requests may be dis Arkansas; former Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy of Minnesota and approved, including $19,228 (Turn to back page this section) former Gov. Terrv Sanford of North Carolina. The vice presidential nomina The Weather asked for tree maintenance, the $45,000 asked by the aviation commission and the 5-cent tax rate asked by the redevelopment tion will be made Thursday at commission. Even with the cuts made Tues vention but until Sen. Hubert Humphrey withdrew Sen.

Humphrey automatically was to have gotten 55 of the 76 Hoosier delegate votes under Indiana law because of results of the May preferential primary. The other 21 were assigned to Gov. George Wallace, who still must get at least that number from Indiana on the first ballot. Those who were to have been required to vote for Humphrey including Mr. Stoner now are free to vote as they wish.

Mr. Stoner said he had not learned how Mrs. Claude Prosser, the other Bartholomew county resident who is a delegate, would vote. Mr. Stoner said he expects McGovern, Wallace and Jackson day night and the prospect of more to come, Mayor Max 9t If 1 mlM (A Andress said during a moment of reflection that he felt it was un the convention's final scheduled session.

Three declared vice presidential candidates Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, an outspoken Vietnam dove; former Massachusetts Gov. Endi-cott Peabody; and Stanley Arnold, a New York accountant and business consultant said they would fight it out with McGovern's choice, just on principle. McGovern's olive branch did realistic" to think that the city could maintain its current $3.33 cent corporate tax rate. INDIANA Partly cloudy, very warm, humid through Thursday with chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms.

Lows tonight around 70. Highs Thursday upper 80's to lower 90s. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Tuesday high 89. Overnight low 64. Reading at 7 a.m.

today 6. Reading at 11:30 a.m. 82. RAIN Trace in 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today.

FRIDAY OUTLOOK -Cloudy, warm with chance of showers However, as the council pre Gov. Wallace appealed for more sane approaches to busing of school children among other things, but his platform planks did not pass. (UPI Telephoto) MAKES APPEAL With massed flags below on the floor of Convention hall at Miami Beach, Alabama Gov. George Wallace sits in a wheel chair to address the 1972 Democratic convention in a dramatic appearance Tuesday. pared to meet again at 6 o'clock tonight at city hall in the third not extend to Wallace, whose session in as many days, it appeared likely that councilmen will continue to push toward at least a preliminary goal of ap dramatic 15-minute appearance before the convention from a proximating the current city tax wheelchair failed to sway the delegates from their convictions Jennings Co.

Residence Badly Damaged by Storm rate in the budget they approve to pick up votes from the freed delegates. Gordon St. Angelo, chairman of the Indiana delegation, estimated today McGovern had 28 votes from his delegation after Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey withdrew from Tontention.

He said Wallace now has 26, including the 21 committed to Ion the platform. BEN A. MEIER for next year. In Discrimination Case An estimated 1.02 inches of rain fell in the area between 6 and 8 o'clock Tuesday night. VERNON A storm with high winds here Tuesday night blew a persimmon tree onto the kitchen and bathroom at the Ralph Murrell residence on North Vernon route 4, causing several thousand dollars damage.

(Turn to back page this section) Temperature dropped 23 degrees Landlord, Wife Found Guilty The Murrells' son, Bill, was from 89 to 66 in half -hour, one report said. Electrical lines were reported taking a shower at the time the In a marathon hearing contin down on Jennings, Jackson, uing until after 1 a.m. today, the tree hit 5:30 p.m. but was not injured." North Vernon firemen stood by while electrical power was shut off. Columbus Human Rights com in daily travel expenses to his Rlace of employment at Irwin lanagement company.

The commission's decision, which came about 1:15 a.m. after about an hour's deliberation, Electrical lines broken by the mission found a local landlord and his wife guilty of racial discrimination and ordered that insurance adjusters. Lightning from the storm also started a wheat field fire on the John Rayburn farm on the Jennings-Bartholomew county line at 6:27 p.m. but rain put it out before Geneva township firemen from Scipio and Elizabethtown firemen arrived. About two acres of wheat was burned but no value was estimated.

Mrs. Gerald Sintz of Hickory Hills, on Road 50 halfway between North Vernon and Sey Three Reported Hurt In Brown Co. Wreck Three persons were rushed to Bartholomew county hospital about 12:30 p.m. today following a traffic accident on Road 48 West, east of the Ramada Inn In Nashville, Bartholomew county police reported. The three persons were believed to be in critical condition.

Details of the mishap were not immediately tree caused insulation to burn and destroyed a television, an The complainant in this case was Ronn Pittman, a Negro now living at LeNormandie apart: bents, 2410 Sims court. Fojund guilty of discrimination in housing were Mr. and Mrs. Roy VanWye, 925 Franklin street. They were ordered to pay the $180 damages as compensation to Mr.

Pittman for higher rent that he is paying now, compared with what he they compensate the com was unanimous, according to Mrs. Thomas C. Bigley, commission president. Seven witnesses, including the VanWyes and Mr. Pittman, testified in the nearly five hours of bearing.

Mr. Pittman charged that he inquired on two occasions, April 27 and May 1, to rent a furnished apartment at the VanWye apartment house, but on both occa- (Turn to back page this section) State, Meloy and Seventh streets in North Vernon and telephone lines were down on Walnut street. However, all service was reported restored this morning. Several trees and limbs were' down. A telephone line to the Jennings county police office in Vernon was out of order overnight, apparently because of the storm.

ii' plainant $180. The public hearing was the Area Deaths Lucille Shlnolt Alexander, air conditioner and a refrigerator, according to the Murrells. Smoke and water damage resulted to the two rooms and to carpeting in a dining room. No estimate of damage was made, pending examination by second one held by the commission in as many months and the second in which the commission has made its finding in favor of the complainant. mour reported heavy rain in that 63, North Vernon.

Mrs. Josephine Sutton, 82, Westport. would have paid at the VanWyes' apartment, and in compensation area Tuesday evening. tr-it eVW.