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Evening Gazette NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR, No. 93 RENO NEVADA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 PHONE (702) 323-3161 15 CENTS AJl mr mar lllillilii. 1 fsliS'iisii 1 1 ft lint ililfcf li illf CX fill 11 llliBlftililf I Vy I The gang's all Train wreck Holding hands to acknowledge enthusiastic cheers in Democrats in battle, the closing hours of the Democratic National Convention are, from left, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, vice-presidential nominee; Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Shirley Chisholm, Sen.

George McGovern, presidential nominee; Sen. Henry Jackson, Sen. Edmund Muskie and Terry Sanford. (UPITelephoto) Free grapes for Truckee House Gun battles Belfast west line reopened by late this morning. Truckee resident Karen Brit-ton said residents were picking grapes from a four-foot high pile near a split-open piggy-back car this morning.

"The train was pretty well buckled up," "she said. "One car ended up on top of a flatbed and another upside down." Most of the eastbound train's derailed cars carried grapes and potatoes from California. A California highway patrolman said a careening freight car smashed, two autos. Mrs: Britton said a flying wheel assembly crushed a truck, barely missing service station gasoline pumps. Cause of the accident is under investigation.

"I didn't hear a thing," Mrs. Britton said, adding many residents were awakened by the crash. Long time resident Harry Easton said he'd been expecting a derailment for a long time, so after he realized what had happened, he went back to bed, Mrs. Britton said. "The youngsters are excited, they think it's pretty "There're a lot of tourists around the wreckage and lots of cameras." She said cross-town auto traffic is not hampered.

A Southern Pacific spokesman said the derailment delays normal movement of the one-a-day California Zephyr passenger train from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago. The 13 cars derailed were the 21st to the 33rd car in the string, he said. By JEANNIE RASMUSSEN Truckee, residents got some free grapes early today, the hard way. The grapes spilled from a railroad car when it and 12 others derailed at 1 a.m as the 86-car Southern Pacific freight train rolled through the Sierra town 30 miles west of Reno. Damage to the town was light, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Railroad officials said they hoped to have the main east- Trevino leads British Open MUIRFIELD, Scotland, (AP) Lee Trevino birdied the last 'five holes for a 66 and a one-stroke lead in the third round of the British Open Golf Championship today, while disappointed Jack Nicklaus drifted back six strokes off the pace. (See a related story on Page 14) Trevino had a 54-hole total of 207, six under par on the sun-splashed Muirfield links, and just one ahead of Tony Jacklin of England. With one round to go, veteran Doug Sanders was next, four strokes back of Trevino 211. Nicklaus, shaking his head in baffled disbelief at his poor play, birdied two of the last three holes to match par 71 for 213 a distant six strikes back. The retaliation began shortly before midnight.

A sandbagged Army fortifica-, tion on Lenadoon Avenue had been under heavy IRA attack with guns, and bombs for five hours. At one stage a rocket was fired at the post but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house. About 30 soldiers inside held out until some 1,800 men moved up in armored personnel carriers. A soldier was killed and another wounded as the troops occupied the district, but other- wise the task force met little resistance. The army said the IRA was taken by surprise.

Fire fighters contain Bay area fires HILLSBOROUGH (AP) Fire fighters contained fires on both sides of San Francisco Bay Thursday night. But with another hot dry day in prospect, they declined to forecast early control. A 30-acre brush fire swept above Hillsborough near Interstate 280 in midafternoon, threatening about 50 expensive homes and actually leaping oyer seven before it moved into a relatively empty estate tract. ite and informed sources said if he resigned McGovern would ask Jean Westwood, the Utah National Committeewoman, to take the job. In the final moments of the convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota.

Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M. Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nomi- nee and his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his cam outlook: A high pressure system over Nevada is producing broiling temperatures for the weekend.

Reno had a 102 high temperature Thursday, beating the record for July 13, 101 set in 1917 and equaled in 1931, the National Weather Service said. The same reading was expected today and again Saturday. Reno's all-time high temperature is 106, recorded July 20, 1931. The weather bureau reported 100s at Stead, Yerington, Verdi and Battle Mountain, 101s at Carson City, Fallon, Wendover and Tonpah, 102 at Winnemuc-ca, 103 at Lovelock and 114 in Las In California, Susanville had 103, Bishop 106 and Sacramento 114. Nighttime readings in the Reno-Sparks-Carson City area should be in the 50s, the weatherman said, with westerly winds 10 to 20 miles an hour afternoons and evenings.

The Lake Tahoe Basin should have daytime readings in the upper 80s and 90s, the weatherman said. Nighttime tempera- Weekend McGovern to Unite win MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a people's campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind "our fury and our frustrations" and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon. And the South Dakota senator appealed for help "from every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can be." It was nearly 3 a.m when the beaming McGovern, introduced by Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy and joined by vice-presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his party's nomination. The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appearances, before a unity breakfast for the party's House and Senate Campaign committees and a Democratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he re- turned to, Washington later today. McGovern also had to decide on a chairman for the Democratic National Committee. The committee, meeting for the first time under adopted organizational rules, held a session this morning taken up with procedural matters but adjourned for lunch without getting around to election of officers.

McGovern had pressed Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien to stay on at the DNC, but O'Brien was reported reluctant O'Callaghan said Thursday when asked if he would personally work for the election of McGovern in Nevada. "He's the Democratic nominee, and I am a Democratic governor. I'll be working for the election of Democratic candidates." Prior to McGovern's nomination, O'Callaghan said the South Dakota senator "is going to have to move somewhat more to the center" to win election in relatively conservative states such as Nevada. He specifically questioned McGovern's proposal to go to Hanoi to seek the release of American prisoners of war and said he wanted to hear more Wh paign swept aside the established political leadership, McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added: "American politics will never be the same again." With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other' delegates grumbling about the ways in which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party (Turn to page 2, col.

1) Broiling tures will be from 45 to 55. The weather agency said another high pressure area off the coast of California is causing unusually hot temperatures in Northern California. San Francisco reported a record-breaking 89 Thursday, the Oakland Airport had 94, San Mateo County 108 and Redwood City 107. Martinez had 114. Severe smog ratings were registered around forenoon Thursday in San Francisco, San Rafael, Richmond and Oakland.

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Chuckle "We had a most enjoyable and restful weekend," the homeowner declared, "thanks to a few minutes spent fixing the lawn mower, beyond repair. weather rage in BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its "low profile" and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three civilians were reported killed, raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to. 432 in the three years of communal violence in Northern Ireland. The army claimed to have hit more than 30 gunmen, but recovered no bodies because the guerrillas carry away their cas-.

ualties for burial or treatment. Shooting erupted in all of Belfast's major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA "no go" district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for 'four days. It was the first time the army had entered one of the districts taken over by the IRA. In the past such areas have been off limits to prevent a confrontation with the guer-. rillas holding sway there.

Protestant militants have been demanding for months that the army go into the no go areas and clean out the IRA. The invasion of Andersonstown will probably intensify the Protestants' demands that the army now go into the barricaded areas of Londonderry that are the most famous symbols of Catholic defiance, the Bogside and Greggan districts, or. "Free Derry," as the IRA calls them. Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of Andersonstown early today but said it did not know how long they would stay there. The invasion of Andersonstown was ordered by Britain's administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, Army headquarters said.

It marked a reversal, at least temporarily, of Whitelaw's policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean away the grassroots Catholic support of the IRA. Fischer protest rejected REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Nixon talks to Connally Back the Pack idea by Gazette's Sneddon: Boosters to Grambling See sports column, page 14 Nevadans on McGovern: Wait 'til the dust settles' vention proceedings on television Thursday night.

However, the press secretary kept mum about Nixon's reaction to the nomination of Sen. George McGovern as his November opponent. "We won't have a specific comment on the upcoming elec- tion and proceedings until after the Republican convention," Ziegler said. The GOP. meeting begins Aug.

21 in the same Miami Beach convention center where Democrats have just met. Nixon did order Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser, to arrange a meeting soon with McGovern to set up a series of intelligence briefings for the Democratic nominee. Ziegler said McGovern would be kept "fully abreast" of Vietnam peace talks and, in response to a question, hinted the briefings also would deal with any secret negotiations that may be arranged in the weeks ahead. The President and Kissinger received a steady flow of written reports on resumed peace talks in Paris Thursday.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon. Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabinet, just completed a 354ay, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan. Asked if the new assignment would be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Zieg-ler said, "It has not been decided." There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace Vice President Spiro T.

Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he might turn to Connally. The former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job but has never said flatly he would not accept. Another globe-circling traveler, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, will be at the Western White House on Saturday to report to Nixon on a 19-day journey to 10 countries. Ziegler reported that the President and Mrs.

Nixon watched final Democratic con- MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Nevada Democratic delegates headed home today to face the tough job of selling a Demo-. cratic slate to Nevada voters headed by a presidential candidate whom the delegates questioned themselves. The Nevadans gave George McGovern a narrow 5 and three-fifths to 5Y vote margin 'over Sen. Henry Jackson in balloting for the party's presidential nomination Wednesday night.

But the state's three top elected officials Gov. Mike O'Cal-laghan and Sens. Alan Bible and Howard Cannon all stuck with Jackson to the close of balloting. "I think IH have to wait until I talk to the people of details of that proposal before he could support it. Cannon was more direct in his criticism: "While I'm a Democrat and normally would be active for a Democratic, candidate, I'll have to wait and see where things go," the senator said.

"I'm not at all certain that we can have a 40 per cent reduction in our defense expenditures and still provide for the security of our country. "On welfare reform it's my understanding he (McGovern) finally disapproved the socalled $6,500 program, but he still supports a relatively liberal wel- (Turn to page 2 col. 2).