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Ted Kennedy 1st Choice for V-P MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) 'Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice presidential nomination it Sen. George McGovern captures the Democratic presidential nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator sald to- Despite Kennedy's repeated statements he won't be available, the offer will probably be made because polls show he would strengthen a McGovernled ticket, the sources sald.

The sources discounted the value of polls ordered by McGovern on other possible running mates, declaring it is impossible to measure the value of possible candidates who are not so well known, such as Govs. Reubin Askew of Florida and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. Both have been mentioned by McGovern as leading possibilities. Activity in this steaming Democratic National Convention city, which has been limited this week to advance logistical preparations by the candidates and a half-dozen protest groups, picks up today as the heads for an Monday." Most of the major presidential candidates except 'McGovern fly here to start wooing arriving delegates in their bid to overtake the frontrunning South Dakota senator. Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie and Henry M. Jackson; Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace; and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills all scheduled arrivals. McGovern due Saturday afternoon. With the convention to start night, two major cases which involve 151 McGovern delegates from and 59 Ilinois delegates by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley remained in a legal Chief Justice Warren E.

Bur. ger extended indefinitely Thursday a delaying order in the case so he could consult with his eight Supreme Court colleagues on whether to call a special session to consider appeals in the two cases. The two cases are crucial, especially the California one, in McGovern's quest for victory on the first ballot. Including the 151 California votes, The Assoclated Press count shows McGovern with 1,454.65 first ballot votes just 54.35 short of the 1,509 needed for the nomination. Failure to retain the 151 votes, either through court rulings or convention action, would leave McGovern more than 200 votes away from the nomination, a far more difficult hurdle 1 to overcome.

The AP count shows Humphrey a distant second with 398.55; Wallace with 367; Muskie with 219.55; and 425.65 un; committed. The rest are scattered. McGovern crossed verbal swords with Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird over the senator's proposals to cut U.S. defense spending sharply.

Laird issued an analysis of McGovern's proposal for a $32 billion reduction by 1975 and called it "tantamount to a white flag of surrender." rejected that characterization and said, "My proposed military budget will make certain that the United States is the strongest nation in the world." In Miami Beach, meanwhile, heads of three largely black organizations threatened to crash the convention sessions unless 750 delegate seats are provided for poor people. The threats were made by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; George A. Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization; and Jesse Gray, director of the National Tenants Organization. Richard J.

Murphy, the convention manager, said after meeting with the three Thursday he was unable to comply with their request "because the rules don't permit it." In other developments: -A Terry Sanford for President Citizens Committee to boost the candidacy of the former North Carolina governor was formed by a group headed by Atty. Gen. Andrew Miller of Virginia. -Former Gov. Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts said he has a one in four chance of winning the vice presidential nomination next week.

In Washington, Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska joined Peabody as an active contender for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket. Area Residents Attend Flying Farmers Meeting A number of area residents are attending the 25th annual convention of the Flying Farmers of Missouri being held today through Sunday at the Ramada Inn in Moberly. There are 200 members in the state organizations.

editor of the Missouri Ruralist, who helped organize the group 25 years ago, will be the Saturday night banquet speaker. Attending from this area are Jim Gough of Perry, president, and his' wife, Kathryn, who is their queen; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Boyes of Mexico; Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Wright of Martinsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Bazz Beshears and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allison, Wellsville; Mr.

and Mrs. Johnny Barber and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Thompson, Vandalia; and Mr. and Mrs.

Wehrman of Montgomery City, Instant News SAIGON (AP) -The Saigon command claimed today that 'elements of a South Vietnamese task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into heart of Quang Tri City, and control of twothirds of 'the northern provincial capital. But field reports and senior U.S. military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city from two sides but were meeting tough resistance. The advancing ground troops were being covered by a huge American air and naval armada.

WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court. The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight. Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implentation of the lower- -court decision while he attempted to other eight vacationing justices on holding a special session.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450.000 ransom, which he said would be given to Warn of Eye Damage From Eclipse Watch TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A warning that serious eye damage could occur from looking at the sun during a total eclipse Monday has been issued by the Kansas Optometric Association. Dr. Thomas Brungardt, Salina optometrist and president of the association, said 134 cases of permanent eye damage were reported by people who viewed a solar eclipse in March 1970.

"Two persons were totally blinded," he added. He said there is virtually "no safe way to look at the sun "Sunglasses and smoked glass do not offer sufficient protection," he said. "In fact, 40 per cent of those injured during the 1970 eclipse used some type of protective He said that since the retina of the eye contains no pain receptors the victim 1 is not aware of the burning and may think no damage has been done because he feels no discomfort at the time. In some cases first symptoms of damage may not appear until several hours or several days after the eclipse. The association said Kansans will be able to see 40 per cent of the sun darkened.

The partial eclipse will begin shortly after 2:30 p.m., reach its maximum about 3:40 p.m. and end about 1.45 p.m. Brungardt advised keeping young children inside the house and occupied during the eclapse, saying their eyes are more easily damaged by the sun's rays than adult eyes. He also warned against looking directly at the sun through binoculars, opera glasses, telescopes or camera lenses. He suggested two safe methods: -Punching a pinhole in the end of a shoebox with a pin or needle and covering the opposite end with white paper so the sun's rays move through the pinhole and project an image on the white paper.

-Use two pieces of cardboard, one with a pinhole in it to be held on the shoulder of a person facing away from the sun and projecting the eclipse image on the other piece of cardboard held in front of the person. "However," Brungardt added, "the safest way to view the solar eclipse is to wait and see pictures of it in the newspaper or on television." Mormons Elect Harold B. Lee SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Elder Harold B. Lee a for. mer city commissioner, school principal and businessman was expected to be named president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today.

He would succeed 95-year-old Mormon President Joseph Fielding Smith who died Sunday of a heart attack. Smith was buried Thursday. At 73, Elder Lee would be the youngest head of the church in 40 years. He is the senior member of the church's Council of the Twelve. Historically, the man holding that post in the three millionmember church has been named to the presidency, a lifetime position.

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FAME of Mexico's Kit Bond is spreading far and wide, writes Gloria VanDeventer Simmons (Mrs. Robert from Washington. She enclosed a copy of the Washington Post containing an advertisement of the National Assn. of Broadcasters. On a map of the USA were a batch of political buttons, and there amidst those for Mills, Muskie, Udall, Wallace was the familiar Bond button "Kit Bond TALK about the comforts of home! A Mexicoan reports seeing a Winnebago camper passing through the other day with a basketball goal mounted on the back end.

Open Meeting, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Petitions calling for an open meeting provision in the Missouri Constitution were filed in the final hour before the Thursday midnight deadline In the Secretary of State's Office. Petitions bearing the signatures of voters arrived in the office at 11:30 p.m. and 11:65 p.m. to meet the requirement that they must be filed four months before the election.

A spokesman for the Citizens' Lobby of Missouri expressed confidence the petitions contained sufficient signatures to put it on the November ballotmore than the 93,000 signatures are required from the seven congressional districts. Another petition, calling for a $730 million transportation bond issue made It after a few anxious moments Thursday afternoon, and State Sen. Earl R. Blackwell, a Democratic candidate for governor, called off his petition drive to require a public vote for all tax increases. To meet a request by the Citizens Lobby for time to file the petitions on the Sunshine Amendment, James C.

Kirkpatrick, secretary of State, said his office would remain open until 8 p.m. But an hour later Transport Bond his chief clerk, Eula H. Hess, discovered a 1958 attorney general's opinion saying the deadline was midnight. The decision was by Atty. Gen.

John Dalton, also a former governor. A spokesman for Citizens Lobby In Columbia had addressed an appeal for the office to remain open until the midnight deadline and said his fellow workers were having difficulty collecting enough signatures in the Kansas City area. The "Sunshine Amendment" would require all meetings and records at all levels of ernment be open to the public. A similar measure was defeated in the last legislative session. Backers of the transportation bond issue petition drive had announced a 2:30 p.m.

news conference, saying they had 100,000 signatures. But they had to wait two hours to file them because a carrying petitions from St. Louis developed radiator trouble. The petition seeks a state constitutional amendment providing for diversion of gasoline taxes and conversion of the state highway department into a broader transportation agency. Blackwell said his petition Actor Brandon De Wilde Dies In Car Wreck LAKEWOOD, Colo.

(AP) As the stranger who helped his father rides off into the bleak frontier plain, the tousle-haired boy shouts after him, "Shane? Shane, come back!" That scene at the end of the 1953 film classic "Shane" remains for many one of the most moving in Westerns, and it secured a lasting fame for its child star, Brandon de Wilde. De Wilde, 30, died Thursday evening of injuries suffered several hours earlier in traffic accident in this Denver suba urb. He had recently completed an appearance here production of "'Butterflies Are Free." The Brooklyn-born actor who lived in Century City, was alone in a van truck when it glanced off a guard rail during a heavy rainstorm and slammed into a parked construction trailer. De Wilde was pinned in the wreckage. He suffered a broken neck, back and leg.

He died four hours later in a Denver hospital. De Wilde's career had waned somewhat in recent years. He started out as a 7-year-old in 1950 with a Broadway debut in Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding" that won critical raves. That performance led to the role in "Shane," in which he played an impressionable youngster learning the meaning of violence on the plains of Wyoming during the American frontier. Because he continued to look younger than his age, he often played a similar role in later motion pictures, notably "Hud" in 1963, in which he portrayed a teen-ager growing up in the shadow of a strong-willed uncle.

Other film credits included roles in "Blue Denim," "All Fall "'The Deserter," "In Harm's Way," and "Those Calloways." He starred in his own television series, "Jamie," in 1953 and 1954. Although he was born into a show business family, De Wilde got his own start quite by accident. A friend of his parents, actor Frederic de Wilde and actress Eugenia Wilson, were looking for a young boy to play in "Member of the Brandon, then a student at Baldwin Public School in Baldwin, N.Y., auditioned. Despite a shaky tryout, he won the part and then almost stole the show from Julie Harris and Ethel Waters. appointed dean of students, according to college president Robert L.

D. Davidson. Dr. Huntley has been chaplain of the college since coming there in 1964. He is a professor of religion at the college and has degrees from Duke and Yale Universities.

The college had been operating with two assistant deans of men for the past several years. Mexico Youths Name New Dean Westminster Hurt in Wreck FULTON Dr. William B. Of Motorcycle minster Huntley, College, chaplain has of West- been Linvell Mitchell, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Mitchell, 1033 Har wood remains a patient in Still Hospital, Jefferson City, in fair condition after a motorcycle accident Monday night south of Eldon that also injured another Mexico youth. Frank Parker 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker of Rte. 1 Mexico, has returned home after treatment at the hospital for a gash on his left leg.

According to his family, the Parker youth was driving a motorcycle with a group when he lost control in a curve on Highway 54 south of Eldon and smashed into a guardrail. Mitchell remains in the hospital with two broken legs, a broken pelvis and other injuries, the family said. His room number is 263. The accident happened about 11:30 p.m. Monday night on a holiday weekend motorcycle outing of about 14 youths.

Parker works for MFA and Mitchell works at Charlie's Auto Parts. The family said Parker was driving a large, two month old Harley-Davidson cycle. Florida Governor To Speak to Both TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Gov. Reubin Askew deliver speeches at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Miami Beach.

Deputy press secretary Maurice Harling said Thursday that Askew, a Democrat, plans to accept an invitation to deliver the welcoming address at the GOP parley Aug. 21. Askew is scheduled to deliver the keynote address Tuesday at the Democratic conclave. Harling said the Republicans invited Askew to speak because he is the chief executive of the host state. FARM HOME CURRENT ASSETS NOW MORE THAN 900.000.000 160,000 SAVERS SHARE IN QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS THAT EXCEED 10,750,000 00 DOLLARS Since it was founded back in 1893, Farm Home has paid the highest dividends consistent with maximum currently the highest permitted by Federal regulations.

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Jane Fonda To Visit Hanoi PARIS (AP) Jane Fonda, the American film star and antiwar activist, says she is carrying to Hanoi several hundred letters from families of prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. Miss Fonda left for Moscow Thursday en route to a 10-day visit to the North Vietnamese capital. MEXICO (MO.) LEDGER Page 2 Friday, July 7, 1972 Admiral Says Nuts to Reds NORFOLK, Va. (AP). Adm.

Elmo R. Zumwalt responding to a Sovlet-Cuban demand that the United States withdraw from its naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, says, "My reaction would 'Nuts." Zumwalt made the comment while here Thursday for. the first East Coast Flag Officers Symposium. The demand came Thursday in a joint comminique as Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro concluded an 11-day visit to the Soviet Union. del PATRIARCH ATHENAGORAS Patriarch Athenagoras Dies at 86 ISTANBUL (AP) Metropolitan Meliton, the archbishop of Chalcedon, is being mentioned as the likely successor to Patriarch Athenagoras the leader of the world's 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, who died early today at the age of 86.

Meliton, 59, was to preside over a meeting today with the 11 other archbishops of the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate to decide on funeral arrangements for Athenagoras. Later, at a date still to be announced, they will elect the new Ecumenical Patriarch, who is also Archibishop of Constantinople. Athenagoras died at Balikli Greek Orthodox Hospital in Istanbul, succombing to kidney failure following a massive loss of blood pressure, his doctors said. He broke his hip in a fall a week ago and was to have been flown to Vienna today or Saturday for orthopedic surgery. His 24-year reign was most notable for his efforts toward reunion with the Roman Catholic Church after more than 900 years of schism.

He and Pope Paul VI met three times, in Jerusalem, Istanbul and Rome. McGovern Had Deal With Muskie BALTIMORE (AP) Sen. Edmund S. Muskie tentatively agreed four weeks ago to endorse Sen. George McGovern for the Democratic presidential nomination under a short-lived agreement worked out by aides, the Baltimore Sun reported today.

McGovern forces had offered to assume an unspecified amount of the $200,000 campaign debt which then was facing Muskie if the Maine senator would endorse McGovern, the newspaper said. Berl I. Bernhard, Muskie's staff director at the time, first raised the question of campaign debts and June 8 worked out the tentative with Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's national political director, according to the Sun. The reported deal fell through the next day, however, when Muskie told a National Press Club audience that he was staying in the race, the article said. The article, which quoted only "a source who knows of the discussions from the McGovern side," said the South Dakotan's forces were sO certain of receiving the endorsement that they arranged a flight for Muskie to join McGovern in an appearance at the Oklahoma Democratic Convention.

Both Mankiewicz and Bernhard declined to comment on the reported deal, the Sun said. New Full-Service Drug Store Landmark Building PRESCRIPTION Mexico Ledger Published daily except Sundays and holidays at 300 N. Washington Mexico, Mo. Second class postage paid at Mexico, 65265. Single copy 10c.

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BRUCE DERN COLLEEN DEWHURST as Kate Murat by John Williams Screenplay by Irving, Ravetch Harnel Frank, Ji and Dale Jennings Produced and Crested by Mark Rydell From Warner Bros, A Kinney Company GP. PARENTAL Agus GUIDANCE SUGGESTED Ins lam La cortan groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army. It was the second hijacking of a PSA plane in two days. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday.

The on-again-off-again meeting billed by chess lovers as the match of the century was delayed for months by disagreements over a site, prize money, and personal hurt feelings on the part of the participants. LOS ANGELES (AP) Billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes is accused in a $51 million damage suit of slandering Noah Dietrich, his 83-year-old biographer and former aide. It was the second slander suit filed as the result of a derogatory statement allegedly made by Hughes in a televised news conference last January. Dietrich's suit, filed Thursday, charged that Hughes made the statement about another associate and likened Dietrich to that individual. EVE: 7-9 SAT.

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