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IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEf 5 SECTIONS SECTION A IOWA CITY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 15 CENTS Ik eh II 07 'Tr ill (w) cf7x 4 George McGovern will win the nomination. Snider's statement came a few hours after Wallace appeared before the convention in a dramatic moment Tuesday night. Weary delegates had barely 12 hours off after the longest convention session in the history of either party before tonight's climactic meeting at which McGovern was scheduled to be the first candidate placed into nomination and, when the balloting took place, the party's nominee. California planned to yield to MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -George C.

Wallace's campaign manager said today the chance that the Alabama governor will make another third-party presidential race "seems to be getting stronger and stronger every minute." Charles S. Snider told newsmen a final decision will be made soon after the Democratic National Convention. Meanwhile he said the Alabama governor's name will be put up for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight as planned. He said, "we're not accepting the fact" that Sen. Connecticut when the states were called for nominations so that Sen.

Abraham A. Ribicoff could nominate the 49-year-old South Dakota senator to head the Democratic ticket this November. Speculation turned immediately to possible running mates after the withdrawal of Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S.

Muskie on Tuesday assured McGovern's nomination. Kennedy was clearly his top choice despite repeated state- The day was marred briefly in late morning when two men were taken into custody outside McGovern's hotel by Secret Service and FBI agents. Two pistols were found in their car. The men were black and wore jeans. They were seized shortly after McGovern had wound up a session with a group of Democratic governors.

A close personal friend of Kennedy, Sen. John V. Tunney of California, told reporters after talking with him by phone that he thinks it highly unlikely Kennedy would accept. lie added he expects Kennedy to fly here from Hyannis Port, Thursday to appear at the convention with the nominee. McGovern's aides said that others under consideration include: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock: Sens.

Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri and Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut and Florida Gov. Reubin Askew. The Democratic National Convention, meanwhile, stayed in session until 5:22 a.m.

CDT in the longest continuous session in history of either party before shouting its approval of a platform that mirrors DEMOCRATS Turn to Page 2 City Objects To U-Heights Street Action 11111 vsmt- ki xlij i Precarious Pitch An exhausted service employe at Miami Beach Convention Hall sleeps in his chair by candy stand he manned through Tuesday night's marathon session of the Democratic National Convention. Fellow employes made bets on when he would fall from the leaning chair, but the session ended at 6:22 a.m. before anyone could collect. (AP Wlrephoto) The Headgear Has It Two candidates have withdrawn their bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, but those who are left still have their adherents, even though Sen. George S.

McGovern has seemingly locked up the nomination. These convention delegates proclaim their preference with headwear as the convention nears the hour for picking the candidate. (AP Wirephoto) Action on Shopping Center Deferred Plaza Zoning Petition To Be Altered Iowa Delegates Swing Support To McGovern City Atty. Jay H. Ilonohan Tuesday registered the City Council's objection to a proposal to vacate portions of two University Heights streets leading into Iowa City.

Iowa City's objection came at a public hearing, after which the University Heights Town Council gave the first of three required readings to an ordinance that would vacate portions of Learner Court and Marietta Avenue where those streets terminate at the border between Iowa City and University Heights. The Town Council also agreed to attempt to bring together representatives of those affected by the vacation to determine whether there is any more preferable course. Vacating the two University Heights streets at the line between Iowa City and University Heights would prevent Iowa City from ever connecting a street with either Learner or Marietta, thereby funneling Iowa City traffic into the residential suburb. Learner and Marietta both terminate near a congested apartment district on Iowa City's southwest side. Consideration was given recently to connecting an Iowa City street with either Learner or Marietta in order to provide additional access to the apartment district to relieve some of the congestion.

University Heights rejected the idea and ordered proceedings to begin on vacating Learner and Marietta. In a letter to the University Heights Council, Honohan said the Iowa City Council "recognizes the unique problems of this area and the genuine concern of the University Heights Council and many of its citizens and the citizens of Iowa City who reside near the area. "The Council feels, however, any actions taken by either the City Council of University Heights or the City Council of Iowa City should be carefully considered and arrived at only after study of the long-range impact for the region. "The Council would ask that the vacation of these streets be deferred at this time in order that. possible avenues of approach are explored." A majority of speakers at Tuesday's hearing favored the vacation proposal, according to University Heights Town Clerk Lloyd Knowler.

signed specifically for shopping centers. Commercial rezoning is necessary before the proposed shopping center, to be known as Hawkeye Plaza can be built at the site its promoters have proposed, a 31-acre tract southeast of the intersection of Sycamore Street and the Highway 6 Bypass. Planning and Zoning reached a consensus at an informal meeting Monday to reject the petition to rezone the site C2. Several members of the commission, however, indicated they might look more favorably on a request for PC rezoning. However, Commission Chairman Donald H.

Madsen cautioned Leff at the meeting Tuesday that the commission's vote to defer action on the request for C2 zoning so the petition can be amended to ask for PC is "no guarantee that PC will ultimately be acceptable to the majority of the commission. But it's safe to say C2 is not acceptable in any event." The PC zoning classification carries with it more restrictions than does C2. Among the additional restrictions of PC zoning are a requirement that a plan be submitted with the rezoning request indicating in detail how a site is to be used if it is rezoned. If the rezoning is granted, the petitioner is then held to that plan. The PC classification carries with it the additional stipulations that anyone submitting a shopping center plan for PC zoning must make an economic feasibility study of the shopping center plan and must show what impact the development By MARK F.

ROHNER Of the Press-Citizen Faced with the Planning and Zoning Commission's opposition to a petition for rezoning to accommodate a proposed $10-million shopping center here, promoters of the development agreed Tuesday to change their petition and ask for a rezoning they hope the commission will find more palatable. The commission deferred action on a request to rezone the proposed shopping center site from R1A single-family residen-tail to C2 commercial. Philip A. Leff, representing the petitioners, said the request would be amended to ask that the property, owned by Frantz Construction Co. of Iowa City, be rezoned to PC planned commercial, a zoning classification de will have on surrounding streets and property.

The PC classification has never before been used in Iowa City. The Hawkeye Plaza development, proposed by General Growth Properties of Des Moines, would be Iowa City's largest shopping center, half again as large as the Sycamore Mall Shopping Center. The Des Moines firm's plans call for the development to consist of two major department stores and about 35 smaller shops opening on a covered pedestrian shopping mall. Opposition to the development has come from the city planning staff, which has said it would amount to the "death knell'' for the downtown urban renewal project. By WILLIAM G.

HLADKY Of the Press-Citizen MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Many Iowa delegates had just gotten up after sleeping off the first 10 hours of the Democratic National Convention when Edmund Muskie withdrew from the presidential race Tuesday. Indications today are that Sen. George McGovern, considered to have clinched the nomination, will pick up almost all the Iowans who had supported Muskie. To the 19 Iowa delegates who supported the Maine senator, the withdrawal brought sadness Pictures of local delegates on Page 3A mitment to Muskie had prevented him from taking a stronger role in directing the group.

William F. Sueppel, Iowa's Muskie chairman from Iowa City, predicted that McGovern would get 36 to 40 of the 46 Iowa delegates when the convention chooses a nominee tonight. McGovern had been credited with about 20 Iowa votes. Sueppel said he doubted if Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace will get any votes from the state. Hubert Humplirey's with -drawal earlier in the day had little direct impact on the Iowa delegation, since he had no committed support. However, for some it foreshadowed the later Muskie announcement. "I really thought he (Muskie) would go all the way and allow all his supporters to vote for him," Sueppel, a page at the convention said. "He had a fair shake.

I don't think it was a mistake that he pulled out. If he had stayed in, the floor fight might have hurt party unity." Gertrude MacQueen, 1st district committeewoman and another Muskie leader, who also is a convention page, said: "It was not unexpected. It was plain after the California vote (on credentials early Tuesday morning) who had the nomination." But Muskie people from Iowa at the convention did not expect IOWANS Turn to Page 2A Coralville Chief Of Police Named and disappointment. Most of them were in a closed caucus when Muskie announced his decision. Shortly after the announcement, they came pouring out of the caucus room, many visibly shaken and all refusing comment except to note that they wanted to hear what Sen.

Harold E. Hughes had to say before they publicly shifted positions. Hughes is chairman of the Iowa delegation and had been Musk-ie's convention manager. About an hour later, Hughes announced he would support McGovern. He also apologized at that time for not spending more time with the Iowa delegation, pointing out that his com Chess Match To Spassky REYKJAVIK.

Iceland (AP) World champion Boris Spassky won the first game today in his world title chess series against American Bobby Fischer. The opening game of the world championship was adjourned Tuesday night after 40 moves. Fischer and the defending champion from Russia left the table with the American in a difficult position. As a difficult end-game commenced, Fischer had a king and four pawns left, Spassky a king, two pawns and a bishop. CORALVILLE Paul E.

White, 53, a member of the Coralville Police Department the past 14 years, has been named chief of the department by Mayor Robert Rogers and was sworn in this morning. White had been serving as acting chief since the dismissal of his predecessor, Wayne J. Winter, on May 4, in an incident stemming from disturbances on the University of Iowa campus. Following Rogers' announcement of his new appointment at Tuesday night's meeting of the Coralville City Council, a motion endorsing the appoint ment was passed, with Council-men Robert Bellamy, Ronald Fairchild and Michael Kattchee voting "yes," and Rex Brand-statter abstaining. Councilman Richard E.

Myers, was not present. White, a native of Memphis, has resided in Coralville since 195.1. He joined the police force in 1958 and has held the rank of sergeant since 1965. Married, he is the father of seven children, including five still at home. The family resides at 1508 Tenth Street.

He assumes command of a police department that now comprises four full-time officers, plus the chief, and two part-time men. Jerry Gingerich has been advanced to the rank of sergeant on the force. Gifts Case Trial Date Requested The second trial in the cases of eight men charged here with giving or accepting gifts in connection with county business, Tuesday was set for July 24; however, after a further move today, the date is in doubt. Judge Harold D. Vietor, Tuesday in Johnson County District Court, ruled in favor of a request by Ed L.

Kessler for a "speedy without a jury. Today, William M. Tucker, Kessler's attorney, asked for a later date. Tucker said in his request he had a commitment in another case, in U.S. District Court in Des Moines, on July 24.

He added that he would be free for the Kessler trial between Aug. 14 and Sept. 25. Although the court had not ruled on Tucker's motion late this morning, such moves are normally granted. Kessler's petition for a trial date came after more than a month of calm in cases in which two Johnson County supervisors, a former supervisor, an employe and four Iowa business representatives were indicted for giving or receiving gifts or gratuities in connection with county business transactions.

In April, Supervisor Ralph Prybil was ruled innocent of the charges in District Court Findings on the law were subsequently appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, here a ruling is still pending. In addition to Supervisor Kessler, indictments ara still TRUL Torn to Page 2A 3 More Deaths as N. Ireland Braces for Protestant March Record Farm Exports Reported What's Where On Inside Pages Political Storm Centers on McGovern 10A His Medium Is House Paint 9A Iowa's Backbone State Park ISA Dear Abby 1C Classified 11C-J3C Comics, TV 3C Editorial ISA Emphasis 8A, A Entertainment 2C Markets 4C Sports 1B-3B Local Weather Thunderstorm Forecast Page 4C police and militiamen into the streets of 18 cities and towns to keep the warring religious factions apart today while 100,000 Protestants of the Orange Order paraded. Belfast was lit by scores of street bonfires during the night, marking the advent of the "Glorious Twelfth." It is the 282nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, in which the Protestant armies of William of Orange defeated the Rorrian Catholic forces of James II. Amid politicians' warnings that Northern Irleand is closer to civil war than at any time in the three years of communal violence, the militant Protestants of the Ulster Defense Association said their armed units would protect the marchers from attack by the Catholics of the Irish Republican Army.

Government forces cordoned the line of march in Belfast to block attacks by Catholics enraged by the display of Protestant dominance. Catholics of the Andersonstown, Bal-lymurphy and Ardoyne districts sealed off their sectors with barricades of concrete and steel to keep out Protestant raiders. Trouble was feared in Portadown, a town of 13.000 population 25 miles southwest of Belfast. The route of the parade there ran through a Catholic section, and the IRA said it would not allow the marchers through. The UDA said it was prepared for a showdown.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gunmen killed three persons earty today as Northern Ireland's Protestants got ready for their first big march of the summer. Automatic fire riddled a 19-year-old Protestant walking with his father in a park in the town of Portadown. An hour later, five masked gunmen believed to be Protestant executioners broke Into' a home in Belfast and murdered a 16-year-old Catholic. And the body of a hooded man, shot in the head, was found in Belfast apparently another victim of the assassins who have terrorized the city for weeks. Meanwhile, the British government ordered 32,000 troops, WASHINGTON (AP) Farm exports soared to a record $8 billion during the year ended June 30, up 3 per cent from the previous high of $7.8 billion in 1970-71, Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.

Butz announced today. When dock strikes tied up ports last year, administration officials feared farm exports would drop sharply, perhaps to $7.4 billion or less. Butz said, however, that $4.2 billion shipments during the last half of the fiscal year that ended June 30, offset the earlier slowdown. r. 1 "rS.f PAUL E.

WHITE.