Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 1

A liar should have a good memory. QuintlUan Partly cloudy and warm, slight chance of evening thundersbow ers. Lower 70s to lower 90s. j5f World-wide Service of Associated Press United Press International IVewg Service -V AN DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIELD 101ST YEAR ISO. 139 NEA Ftatura Sirvlc UPI T.ltphot Ar tAt loncview, texas, Thursday afternoon, jui.y 1972 ir.

Spw York and Amrriran Mock Exchange Report 32 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Vice President Choice Nears ueA VW Hatlp Heto two and a half hour this morning with McGovern elsewhere in the suite going over at. least a dozen names of potential No. 2 candidates. The meeting broke up without priority recommendation being agreed on. according to Mc Govern aides.

Kennedy Says No There was one firm no lo the nominee from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Hut Kennedy said he would fly from Massachusetts to the convention hail, once the speculation over No. '1 submit his choice three hours before tonight's closing session starting at 7 o'clock EDT.

McGovern staff members and advisers, including actress Shirley MacLaine, sat around a conference table in McGovern 17th floor penthouse for nearly KDT deadline ill his search for a vice presidential candidate acceptable to both the coalition of discontent which nominated him and some Demociatic old pros who doubted he could beat President Nixon Nov. 7. Convention rules require that he MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S. McGovern inched toward selection of a running mate today, with close advises unable to agree immediately on who he should be. McGovern faced a 4 p.m.

was ended, endorse McGovern in person. High up in speculation about veep possibilities were Hep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas. President Leonard Woodcock of the ruled Auto Workers Cnion.

Sen Abraham Hibiroff of oiincciiiiit, and Gov Patrick I l.ucey of Wisconsin. Mills, who earlier had said he could not share a ticket with a man he differed with ideoiog -cally. remained silent. But his aides stood by at his hotel, (See fWMOS. Page 2-A) Texas nation 1 1 11 uMliiJll.liji;:WM...iW..M-.ii.i.........ui...i I lit, Mciiovern Faces ISoisv Audience Reds Take Usual Stand In Paris 'Funis To McCiovern votes there was a recount.

Dolph Briscoe, delegation leader and parly nominee for governor announced that 13 vnies vvere being switched to McGovern in the spirit of par-tv harmony anl fair play." The switch cut four votes from Wallace's original tallv. including (See TEXAS, page 2-A) Ml MI II, Ha 1 I' -Texas Democrats, who played a leading role in the slop-Sen George McGovern movement ended up Wednesdav nighl giving Hie South Dakota senator most of their The official laliv of the nomination balloting at National I i hum rata 011-wntiiin showed Mi-Govern with il votes ol the Kill-member leva- delegation. -Is for Gov. Wallace. fni Sen.

ilenrv I) ah 4 lor I'hisholiii one lor Sen I dmund ii.sKle III. illy, the I in rje nl'd ai theii Humi us to give McGovern 41 vole- Wal hoe and Jackson but Stale GOP Leaders Hit Demo Action MIAMI BEACH, Fla AI') didn't want a repetition of Chicago 111 1 90K." Sen. (Jcurge McGovern sa.d alter lacing noisy, pushing demonstrators just hours before winning Ihe Democratic presidential nomination. Mc-Govern altempied to reassure the crowd of antiwar and civil rights demonstrators in the lobby of headquarters hotel. I'm not changing my posnioii on any of the fundamental I taken As McGovern spoke nun" than 1 .11011 proWsiers gathered peacefully at Convention Hall to hear anliwar aetivN David Dillmgei and oilier speaker', urge Ihem "lo keep Ihe pie' sure on McGovern The demonstrator 111 the Dnral Hotel lobby had been blocking staircases and elevators for more than six hours when McGovern appeared sin rounded by Secp't Service agents.

Security was light fol lowing the arrest of two men 'm concealed weapons charges .11 Ihe Dnral eai her in Ihe dav "I don't have any doubt ilui within 90 days of inauguration even American troop and every American sol dier will be home and that ,1 pledge make." he said Casually dressed in an open-necked sports shirt. McGovern was grim and firm as he talked (See McGOVF.RN. Page i hen Mi-Govern gained the ie 1. 3051 ithout anv 4 qui I OW ST Koool L. Pictured vice president; 0 Norton, treasurer; A.lf EAST TEXAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE executive A.

Wilson vice president and general manager; president; 11. Kppnght, vice president; PARIS (IPI)-The Vietnamese Communists today rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum and said they will settle for nothing except acceptance of their own plan North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy and Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, turned down Nixon's plan and pushed their own, long-rejected peace package, when the Vietnam resumed alter a HI -week suspension. The Communist delegation's stand, coupled with a violent condemnation of I'S. air strikes in Vietnam, failed to move the conference off dead center as had been hoped in Washington. Taking an unusually harsh tone, Madame Binh charged that President Nixon's eight-point plan proposed -Ian.

2a and calling for new presidential elections in South Vietnam, was aimed merely at maintaining U.S. control of the countrv. "The demand for an immediate ceasefire to come before an accord on military and political questions on conditions put forward by Mr. Nixoft 09 May 8 and June is in fact, nothing but an unreasonable, and absurd she said She said the ceasefire called for again today by ('. s.

negotiator William .1. Porter and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to Madame Binh said. Today's 150th session was the first since May 4 when Nixon broke off the talks because the Communists showed no willingness to negotiate in public or in (See REDS. Page 2- A I vice president: and Walter L. At well.

above are members of the executive committee of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce. The men are in Longview for a meeting of executive memliers. Pictured from left are Q. C. Abernathy, past president and chairman of the legislative committee; R.

II. Linam, Waco, Bert vce E. Crowder. president Sl Tex ll' Rp-publgan leaders were quick Wednesday night to criticize the Democratic Parly's nominal i of Sen George Gioein for president of the I mted Stales D'xas Republican chairman George Willeford and flop. Price -Tex from Pampa, joined in heaping criticism nn the National Demociatic Party dential nominee.

Willeford said Ihe nomination of McGovern 'must seem to most Texans final evidence that: Ihe National Heparin- Party i see ST IT i'aige i lor i'Ail In T-a ANTONIO il l'H Sen Tower says the li'epiiblican ticket will nln stiorger in 'lexas betause Sen. YJ i -Govern got the e. residential nomination radical element has taken ovei Hie lieiiiocratK parts nationally Tower said Wednesday night 'Many Texans will feel iinenmtortable with MeGov -em McGovfrn has minimal appeal to Tevans Wallace racing Jodaif. Many Decisions Hijacked Plane With In jured Crewmen Lands In S. Texas DONNA KNOX Back from Germany and a months vacation spent visiting apt.

Michael Hvedos and his family are Mrs. Theda llve.dos and daughters, Julie and Patty. The Longviewites spent several days in France and Lucerne. Switzerland, as well as in lleidelburg, Ludwigsburg. the walled city of Iioten-burg.

dm (where the tallest steeple in Ihe world is located), Stuttgart and Boeblcgen. They drove from Longview to Washington, D. which enabled them to visil the battlefields of the war between the states Mississippi and the art galleries in Richmond. Va. On the return trip they stopped at Biltmore House in Asheville.

N. the Vanderbilt estate. They decided Ihe drive through the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina was as beautiful as any they had seen in Furope. Wednesday the possibility of another third-party race which gave Wallace five stall's in was "getting stronger and stronger every But other at the governor's headquarters said no plans have been made for a campaign. Snider said he was speaking for the governor, who tried in vain to get the Democratic nomination and to rewrite the party platform on school busing and other major issues In addition to his physical handicap, another serious factor for the crippled governor is money.

Snider says the Wallace campaign already owes $250,000 and political analysts it will be more difficult, to raise funds for a third-party venture. The campaign manager disagreed. He said he is confident (See WALLACE, Page 2-A) MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) -For George Corley Wallace, it is the toughest of times.

Confined to a wheelchair, his financial support sagging, and facing political unrest at home, Wallace now must make myriad decisions as the Democratic National Convention draws to a close. Although received warmly at the convention, Wallace's desires again were rejected by the delegates and platform writers. The Alabama governor refusing to take refuge with Republicanscould undertake another third-party presidential campaign. Or. if the Democrats ex)erience a shattering November defeat as he predicts, he may try to fit the pieces together into a more conservative party in 1976.

Wallace's campaign manager, Charles S. Snider, said 'he two men were not immp. dialelv available Smith said liragan hart a fractured pcl is. a oroken right wrist, and multiple contusions to the face Imdy. He was listed as in fan condition.

Heaver has gunshot wounds mi the right side and was listed in good condition A Federal Aviation Administration spokennan in Washing-tun said the plane was low nn fuel when it landed and therft are nn lagilittes for refueling a (See HIJACKED. Page 2-A) 3SS Mi At Stalemate Kelly Harrison, 14-year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. John underwent surgery at Good Shepherd Hospital Thursday morning. The operation, whKfi involved putting a pin in the elbow, resulted from an accident Kelly hud in Denton Monday.

He is in room A-203. aboard of the plane crew. Otie hostess escaped. The plane. Flight 4.

was en route to Kennedv irpr' in New Vnrk from Miami when it was diverted to Philadelphia lv two men. Mter nine hour- of negotiations, the ain raft flew to Dai las and then on to Houston without slopping. It headed over the Gulf of Mexico and then turned back There was no immediate con firmation that the had received the SM.timi thev demanded although police communications indicated they had obtained the money. They also demanded parachutes. Administrator Bill Smith of the lirazosport Coniniuntt.v Hospital identified the two wounded men under treatment there as Kaeman W.

Reagan, copilot of the plane, and Gerald Heaver, "its flight engineer. The ages and addresses ol LAKK JACKSON, Tex. (AP) A hijacked National Airlines plane landed today at the small airport here and a hospital administrator said two persons were treated, one for gunshot wounds and the other for a severe beating The two hijackers apparently maintained control of the plane to a lale hour. They had released the 113 passengers earlier. Al a late hour, said officials, only three hostesses remained SuiT'ii(U'r Em Is Oilier Skyjacking OKLAHOMA CITY (I I'D A gray-haired gunman who hijacked an American Airlines 727 jetliner with 57 other persons aboard by claiming he had a bomb, surrendered in midair early today.

Bulletin There is a third son in the 'family of Jane and David Jameson. He is Jonathan Errol, bom July 10 at Good Shepherd Hospital. He has two older brothers, Jason and Jeffery. and is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs.

G. H. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. John C.

Jameson. Back from an eight-day tour of Hawaii are Hardv Rogers and his cousin, Mark Pope, students at San Marcos Baptist Academy. Parents of the boys are Nixon Proposes Record Disaster Relief Purse LAKE I K.SOV. I'px (AP) Ihe KM made a deal to free three hostesses and Ihe ransom money from two hijackers today in return for a private plane with an agent-pilot, an spokesman said. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer informed the organizers of the world chess championships today, that he is boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras are removed from the hall.

A call was made to the organizers at 10 minutes before the start of Fischer's second game with Boris Spassky of Russia. It said Fischer wasn't coming. Lothar Schmid, the chief ref-pree, said Spassky would have to sit at the chess table by himself for one hour. Then the. game would be forfeited by Fischer.

At this point Fischer would be disqualified from the championship series would have to be decided by the International Chess Federation-FIDE, Schmid said, (See TODAY, Page 2-A) If I JX -j each. An estimated 115 homeowners and 6,000 small business owners would be eligible for the disaster relief. The first $5,000 would be an outright grant, and sums above that amount could be repaid over a 30 year period, The President's proposal was a substantial liberalization of existing disaster relief regulations. It doubles the current provision for $2,500 giants, and would haul interest rales di'wn from 5 per cent. There earlier had been widespread criticism that relief efforts fell far short of what was needed, a criticism to (See NIXON, Page 2-A) SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(UPl)-President Nixon has proposed a S1.7 billion program, calling it the richest disaster relief purse ever, to give $5,000 grants and loans at, 1 per cent interest to victims of tropirsl sIoto Agnes. "Confronted- with so massive a disaster emergency, our response must also be massive," Nixon said. "Conscience demands it; impels it." The floods caused Agnes devastated areas of Eastern states. Residents of six states-New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Florida would be eligible for the disaster relief, if passed by Nixon called it "the largest single amount ever allocated to recovery efforts in this country." He said it is needed to ameliorate the suffering caused by "the worst natural disaster in the whole of America's history." Under 1 the proposal, an- flounced in five minute rad'o speech Wednesday, more tkw 120,000 homeowners and small businessmen who were wiped out by the would be eligible for grants of $5,000 4 Where To Find: Journal Was First On Ted's Refusal The Longview Morning Journal wag the only newspaper distributed In East Texas that i had the news Thursday morning of Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy's rejection of the offer of the vice presidential candidacy on the Democratic ticket. Senator Kennedy's decision was made shortly before midnight Wednesday (Longview time). Because bf Its late press-time, The Journal always is prepared to offer the latest sews. Abby 3-A Business 8-A Classified 2-6 Comics 7-D Editorials 4-A Horoscope 3-A Longvlewr Skies 4-A 6-B Movies 4-B Sports TV Schedules 7-D Women's News 1-S-C HIJACKED PLANE A National Airlines jet is shown as it sits on the armed men. The plane was ordered flown to Texas and has landed runway at Philadelphia International Airport after being hijacked by two an airport from wnch it ma not be able to take off.

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