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McGovern Is Confident From Page 1 uncommitted delegation, from Cook County. Lucey said he had indications of some support for the compromise, which called for seating the disputed Daley delegates in exchange for the governor's support of McGovern's claim to the full 271-member California delegation. On Friday, the Court had ruled against McGovern in his dispute with the Credentials Committee over 151 California delegates. UNLESS there is a compromise, the court action seemed certain to trigger an angry fight for both the California and the Illinois seats on the floor of the convention Monday night. The battle between McGovern's friends and his enemies dominated the pre-convention maneuvering Saturday.

It was waged privately in scores of hotel room meetings, and in hundreds of phone calls, and publicly in the demeanor of the candidates and their statements. It was the principal topic of conversation at a closed-door meeting of Democratic governors that dragged on throughout a long, moody afternoon. Many of the governors had been associated with a stop-McGovern move for more than a month. They assembled at the call of Arkansas Gov. Dale Bumpers, chairman of Democratic Governors' Caucus.

Hubert Humphrey '50-50 chance' George Wallace role limited Strategists for the stop drive, which included key lieutenants of the other candidates, claimed their alliance was holding firm. They predicted they would win the vital California showdown Monday night. In an interview with Knight Newspapers, Humphrey claimed the odds were "better than 50-50" the credentials Daley, Meany From Page 1 and friendly with his chief rivals. He noted he had visited Alabama Gov. George Wallace before coming to Miami Beach.

And, in response to questions, he said he had chatted on the telephone in the past few days with Humphrey and Sen. Edmund Muskie, who are tenuously joined in the anti-McGovern coalition. McGovern said he "commended" Humphrey on a story about him in a Washington paper. And he called Muskie, McGovern said, to ask him "to keep his mind open on the California challenge." I told him the issue had nothing to do with the candidates, but with and fair play. I asked honesty, "mediate on the Gov.

John J. Gilligan of Ohio is leading the 'attempts to achieve a bloodless solution. McGovern explained that his willingness to compromise on Illinois is based on "very pragmatic reasons. I want all the support I can get in November." THE TROUBLE with Mc- Govern's proposal is that it has already been turned down, rather angrily, by Daley. And it may be difficult for McGovern to sell a compromise to his own supporters.

Chicago Alderman William Singer, a leader of the Illinois delegation that beat out Daley in a struggle over 59 convention seats, said that a compromise with Daley is "out of the question." Meany also appeared disinterested in any kind of compromise talk. He, too, arrived in Miami Beach Saturday afternoon apd greeted reporters with a cool, "No comment, hello." Democrat's Own Weather Almanac Today is Sunday, July 9, the 191st day of 1972 with 175 to follow. The moon is approaching it its new phase. Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, was born July 9, 1819. On this day in 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened the United States with rockets if American forces attempted to oust the Castro regime in Cuba.

FORECAST Generally fair to partly cloudy today and Monday with a slight chance of showers. High today and Monday in the upper 80's. Low tonight near 70. Northeast to east winds 8 to 15 miles per hour. Probability of rain is 20 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight, and 20 per cent Monday.

Low 'Saturday morning was 64, high in the afternoon was OUTLOOK Partly cloudy Tuesday through Thursday with widely scattered thundershowers. RAINFALL Total 24 hrs. ending Total this month. 2.09 Total since Jan. 1.......

42.22 Above normal since July ..03 Above normal since Jan. 12.10 NATIONAL Prec. Atlanta 83 64 Birmingham 85 64 Boston 76 60 Charleston 81 68 Charlotte 63 Chicago 66 62 Cleveland 57 .04 Des Moines Detroit .19 Honolulu Ind'apolis 83 59 Los Angeles 92 Milwaukee Mpis-St. P. 69 61 .22 New Orleans 90 64 New York 80 61 .16 Philadelphia 81 59 .11 Phoenix 108 81 St.

Louis 84 64 San Fran. 66 53 Washington 78 61 STATE High Low Prec. Apalachicola 86 74 Clewiston 85 70 .79 Daytona Beach 86 76 Ft. Lauderdale 87 74 .22 Ft. Myers 90 .03 Gainesville 86 Islamorada 86 75 Jacksonville 85 61 Key West 88 76 .53 Lakeland 88 .30 Miami 88 Ocala .27 Orlando 89 Pensacola 87 St.

Petersburg Tallahassee Tampa Vero Beach 87 .19 W. Palm Beach 88 76 SUN MOON Rise Set Rise Set TODAY 6:42 8:43 5:14 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 6:43 8:42 6:21 a.m. 8:49 p.m.

APALACHICOLA RIVER DATA AT BLOUNTSTOWN Today 9.0 falling Tomorrow 7.5 rising From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 70 70 STATIONARY NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce COLD 80 80 90 I Rain Showers FORECAST 100 Figure Show High Temperatures Expacted For Daytime Sundey 90 Isolated Precipitation Met Indicated- Cancelt Lecel forecast WEATHER FORECAST Showers are forecast in many sectors of the nation today, including the Northeast tip of the country, most of Arizona, in and around Louisiana, southern Florida and much of the Great Lakes region. The rest of the nation will be sunny and warm, except for a cold front pushing in from Central Canada.

(AP Wirephoto Map) fight, engineered originally by his forces, would go his way. "'The Supreme Court decision gives me a 50-50 chance no better to get the nomination," Humphrey said. McGovern's commandos flooded Miami Beach in search of delegates for both the floor fight and the magic 1,509 votes needed for the nomination i itself. The McGovern: staff and 14 floor managers with Connecticut Sen. Abraham Ribicoff and Wisconsin Gov.

Patrick Lucey highly visible commanded the South Dakotan's drive. THEY USED quiet persuasion and fine honed logic in McGovern's delegates will stay with him until hell freezes over. McGovern's nomination is inevitable and therefore ought to be realized with a minimum of wrangling and without embittering the Party any further. No one in the crowded field of announced Democrats seemed ready to count himself out. They spent their Miami Beach Saturday in a seemingly endless round of social political meetings capped by appearances on the Party's telethon Saturday night.

Humphrey's day included the Knight interview, a press conference, lunch on Miami Beach, an address to the Democratic governors, and incessant meetings with aides. Muskie spent most of the day closeted with his top staff members discussing the position he should take on the California delegate challenges. Wallace, confined to a wheelchair, spent part of the day meeting with campaign aides and strategists and the rest of it in seclusion. His tightly restricted schedule, dictated by his need for rest, curtailed his convention activities, with the exception of a reception for delegates he held Saturday night, and a press conference he plans for today or Monday. McGovern was not the only key figure to arrive Saturday.

McGovern's defense. Their principal arguments: McGovern has between two and three times as many delegate votes as anyone else. JOHN LINDSAY of New York flew in for his first convention as a Democrat. At his last convention on Miami Beach as a Republican Lindsay seconded the nomination of Spiro Agnew. Shirley Chisholm was the last of the announced candidates to arrive, and her lieutenants spent a busy day on the phone attempting to hold and build her grasp on black delegates.

The arrivals included AFL CIO President George Meany, a nut McGovern had failed to crack despite persistent wooing. By the time Meany rode in by train he had come to symbolize the implacable opposition of traditional labor to McGovern. From California Saturday, there arrived in Miami Beach the vanguard of the contended and contentious California delegation. Hundreds of Californians flew in some bitter, some jubilant and nearly all confused. Mayor Daley, by contrast, played a skillful political game of hide and seek.

He was believed enroute from Chicago, but none of his aides would say where he was. Daley's Illinois supporters planned a floor fight to return him the contested 59-delegates. Saturday's most celebrated non-arrival was Edward Kennedy, sailing off Cape Cod. But an aide to Kennedy said the Massachusetts senator might come next week. And then, as more serious matters drew the attention of the party, there were the strollers along Collins Avenue who wore buttons urging: "Release Martha Mitchell." Wakulla County Accident Injures Five Persons Five persons were injured Saturday evening in a three-car collision at the intersection of State Road 363 and U.S.

98, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The FHP said a car driven by Gadsden Margaret Turner, 70, Tallahassee, of 1102 struck the car of Charles H. Green, 27, of Jacksonville when she pulled into his path at the intersection. Green's car then collided with a car driven by Clarence Farmer, 32, of 644 Campbell Tallahassee. Farmer and Green's wife Hazel were reported in serious condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Saturday night.

Hazel Rhodes of Alexandria, Mildred Newman of Jacksonville and Green reportedly received scrapes and cuts in the accident. Tallahassee Democrat July 9, 1972-13A DIAMI BEACH HOMES THE NATIONAL CONY AV Double-Exposure View of Democratic Convention Site Symbolizes Fear of Disruptive Violence some demonstrators say main thrust of protest will come at GOP gathering in August South Viet Paratroopers Deaths Earl D. McKenzie brothers, Hillery Watford of Daniel McKenzie, 27, of Graceville and James D. WatEarl Move Into Quang Tri City SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers have moved into the southeastern quarter of the city of Quang Tri and have run into stiff resistance from enemy tanks and artillery, witnesses reported Saturday. Latest reports from the field partly confirmed a Saigon command announcement Thursday that its forces had penetrated the heart of the northern provincial capital, but other government claims were regarded as premature.

Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported that a 90-man paratrooper reconnaissance company, accompanied by three Americans, walked into the city Thursday and split into small teams that went undetected. The teams pinpointed enemy strongholds and were followed A New Chess Delay? REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The Boris Spas sky- Bobby Fischer world mess championship match, already delayed for nine days, ran into new problems Saturday when the chief arbiter left Iceland. U.S. chess sources said Fischer, the 29-year-old American challenger, is "at peak form and raring to go" into the first game Tuesday against the world champion, Russia's Spas sky. But the sources said there might have to be another postponementuntil Thurfday- since chief arbiter Lothar Schmid will not be back in town until then.

Schmid, a West German grandmaster and the owner of a book publishing firm in Bamberg, flew home Saturday morning and said he would return Thursday. He said he was leaving because one of his sons had been injured in a traffic accident. Schmid's assistant arbiter, Gudmundur Arnlaugsson of Iceland, will be in charge of final preparations, which include touchy job of picking the chess sets and board to be used. Schmid said he had invited the two players to come to the hall together on Sunday to check on the facilities and hopefully approve them. But this meeting was called off Saturday after Schmid left.

Spassky also left town and went north with Icelandic friend and chess player, Freysteinn Thorbergsson, on a salmon fishing trip. Russian officials said Spassky would be back Monday, at the latest. Thorbergsson also invited Fischer along, but the American turned down the invitation to observe his Church of God's Sabbath from Friday night until Saturday night. 427 Crossway Road died Saturday morning at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital following a long illness. He was a lifelong resident of Leon County and was employed at the Big Bend Truck Center as a mechanic.

He was a member of the New Hope Primitive Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Cynthia Cole; one son, Daniel Paul; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. McKenzie; three brothers, Marvin Lee, George Franklin, and Audie Lynn, all of Tallahassee; grandparents, Alice McKenzie of Camilla, Ga.

and Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Reeves of Tallahassee; and two sisters, Phillis Butler of Wakulla County and Mary Ellen McKenzie of Tallahassee. Culley Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Della Edwards Della Edwards, 83, of Greensboro died Friday at Gadsden Memorial Hospital. She was a native Gadsden County and a member of the Pine Grove Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, A. J. and Hubert Edwards, both of Greensoboro; two daughters, Louise Richards of Chattahoochee and Rucell Edwards of Greensboro; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Butler-Morgan Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. Florience I. Casey GRACEVILLE Florience Irene Watford Casey, 73, died at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Saturday morning following a long illness. She was a native of Graceville, a longtime resident of Mukoggee, and a member of the Pentacostal Church in Mukoggee. Survivors include two sis ters, Verna Young of Venturi, and Katie McGuire of Santa Barbra, two ford of Tallahassee.

Mitchell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangement. into the city Friday by an airborne infantry battalion, sources with the unit said. The infantry, some 500 strong, took up positions around but not within sight of the southeastern corner of the walled citadel that forms the heart of Quang Tri. The paratroopers held the position under sporadic shelling and reported heavy resistance especially from tank fire when they attempted to move. THE SOURCES said the citadel itself has been fortified with heavy machine guns and antiaircraft artillery and the city is believed to be defended by a regiment of about 2,500 main force Viet Cong troops.

Field reports insisted that, despite the Saigon command's claim, no armored cavalry had progressed beyond the city's southern edge and government troops had not seized the northern or western sections of Quang Tri. Vietnam press, the official government news agency, quoted a high command spokesman as saying that threefourths of the city was under control of government forces and foreign news agency reports to the contrary were groundless. But Jensen with an airborne unit stalled on the southern edge of the city by dug North Vietnamese forces supported by tanks quoted one field officer as saying the spokesman's claim was "definitely premature." "If our objective was to enter Quang Tri," the office said, "we could have done it in a day. But if we want to stay there, we have to clean out all the North Vietnamese around it. When we go in, we want to stay." 'Poor People' Occupy Convention Hall Seats MIAMI BEACH (AP) About 400 "poor people's" marchers Saturday occupied the seats they claim should be theirs at the Democratic National Convention, and one leader declared to a mostly empty hall that "the process of disrupting this convention has begun." The statement came from George Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization of Washington, D.C.

He and leaders of the National Tenants organization were in the vanguard of a march four blocks from "Motel Row" on Miami Beach to the convention center. Chanting "'We want seats," the demonstrators filed into the auditorium and took the choice delegate seats at the front of the convention hall. Mayor Chuck Hall joined the demonstrators at the convention center, and said, "We have no real security until Uniformed and plainclothes security men made no attempt to stop the After they filed into a dark- Soviets to From Page Butz and Deputy Soviet Trade Minister N.R. Kuzin. It required the Soviet Union to buy from private U.S.

commercial exporters, a minimum of $750 million of wheat, corn barley, sorghum, rye or oats in the three years beginning Aug. 1. First year sales will be at least $200 million with Moscow having the option each year of the types of grain it wants. This will be the third major sale to the Soviets of grain from U.S. stockpiles in a decade.

Moscow bought $150 million in feed grains last fall, and $140 million in wheat in 1963. The latest deal elevates the Soviet Union to the second position on the list of foreign purchasers of U.S. grain, behind Japan's average annual purchases of $437 million. Officials said an average purchase rate of $250 million annually by the Soviets would Mattie C. Smith Mattie C.

Smith, 1480 Lake Bradford Road, died Friday at her home after a short illness. She was a lifelong resident of Tallahassee. Survivors include three sons, Joseph of Tampa, Zack of Atlanta and John of Fort Myers; four daughters, Annie Cooper, Mary Smith and Betty Jean Smith. all of Tallahassee and Jsephine Robbins of Detroit; 19 grandchildren; and four great Strong grandchildren. Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Funeral Notices TAYLOR, Mrs. Arrie Elizabeth, age 72 of 422 Horrix Street, Thomasville, Georgia. Funeral services will be held at the East Side Baptist Church, Sunday July 9, 1972 at 4:00 PM. Burial following at the Mt. Pleasant Ceme tary in Adall, Georgia, Survivors include: 4 sons, Chester and Vernon Taylor of Thomasville, Lester and Charles Taylor of Plant City, Florida.

Daughters, Mrs. Vennie Devane De vane from Thomasville, Mrs. Velita Griffin of Tallahassee, Mrs. Francis Voiner of Tallahassee and Mrs. Vera Fender of Plant City.

Sisters; Mrs. Golie Sweat of Plant City and Mrs. Ruel Hall of Orlando, Mrs. Estelle Singletary of Winter Haven and Mrs. Carrie Hunter of Monticello.

One brother, J. B. Bennett of Omega She has 20 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Dekle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. ened auditorium the lights were turned on and Wiley stepped up on a podium to the side of the main platform.

Wiley chided Democratic Chairman Lawrence O'Brien for leaving an Arrangements Committee meeting Friday when about 50 demonstrators forced their way inside and demanded 750 delegate seats at the convention which opens Monday. "The disruption of this convention began when Chairman O' Brien ran from the committee room as the poor people Wiley said. Wiley said "their last hope for a Democratic victory in November is the adoption of the poor people's planks on Tuesday." He demanded Democratic platform planks guaranteeing $6,500 annual income for a family of four, lower rents, and fair representation in the party and its convention. "We are here today peacefully," he said. "We are occupying our legitimate seats and serving notice we will take whatever steps are necessary to get our share of the wealth of this nation." Buy Grain increase U.S.

exports of the six grains by almost 17 per cent. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, who announced the agreement, said Nixon believed it has gained "three important benefits for the American people and the U.S. economy." "It will provide grain farmers with a boost in income," Ziegler said. "It will also pro vide jobs for Americans involved in shipping the grain, including longshoremen, seamen, exporters, railroad and barge line workers.

It will reduce the cost to taxpayers of storage and handling and other charges associated with maintaining commodity stocks." The President also feels, Ziegler said, that the agree ment "is a tribute to the immense productivity of America's farmers, which makes possible export sales of this magnitude. And, the presidential spokesman said, the deal "builds on the accomplishments of the summit meeting in McKENZIE, Earl Daniel, 27, of 427 Crossway Tallahassee. Funeral services will be held at the New Light Baptist Church at 4 p.m., Monday with Elder Calvin C. Scarbrough and Elder Emmett Whaley officiating. Burial will be in the Aenon Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cynthia Cole McKenzie, of Tallahassee; son, Daniel Paul McKenzie of Tallahassee; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul McKenzie of Tallahassee; his grandparents, Mrs. Alice McKenzie of Camilla, Ga.

and Mr. and Mrs. H.L, Reeves of Tallahassee; 3 brothers, Marvin Lee McKenzie, George Franklin McKenzie and Audie Lynn McKenzie, all of Tallahassee; and two sisters, Mrs. Phillis Butler of Wakulla County and Mary Ellen McKenzie of Tallahassee. Culley Sons Funeral Home will handle arrangements.

MEASURED NOT GOLD BUT GOLDEN I RULE the Conscience is the key to the thoroughness of our service. We wouldn't feel right if we were to overlook anything that might in any way help the family. ULLEY SONS Funeral Home "A Nome You Can Trust' 210 EAST PENSACOLA STREET. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.

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