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Quang Tri City Battle Underway ay on 3 Fronts SAIGON (AP) Heavy fighting was reported on three sides of Quang Tri City as tank-led North Vietnamese forces for the sixth straight day blocked a government drive recapture the provincial capital. The Saigon military command claimed 198 North Vietnamese soldiers were killed and four tanks destroyed i in five battles north, east and south of Quang Tri City on Tuesday and today. First reports said 29 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 69 wounded. Nearly all of the government casualties were reported in the helicopter landing of several hundred South Vietnamese marines a mile north of Quang July 12, 1972 Tallahassee Demorrat Tri City at noon Tuesday. Three U.S.

Marine helicopters were shot down, and two of the American crewmen were reported wounded. The North Vietnamese launched one counterattack just before dawn today and seized hilltop positions from South Vietnamese paratroopers to the southwest. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front. The paratroopers then called in U.S. air strikes on their attackers.

NEELD SAID several battalions of South Vietnamese paratroopers on the edges of Quang Tri City were being pounded by long-range North Vietnam- I Declare Declare warned the average citiis "sick and tired of welfare to those who wouldn't work if they could hold His platform would call for less federal welfare spending not more. This brought wild cheering from the delegations of Florida. Michigan, Texas and Alabama; glowers and a few boos from Massachusetts and New York. It was the same for his assertions that the people are tired of giving millions to foreign countries which "spit in our face in the United "Nations and for his disagreement with George McGovern's proposals to cut defense spending severely. Wallace didn't belabor the issue of busing children out of their neighborhoods to achieve racial integration.

It was at the hub of his differences with the party, and everybody knew it. platform calls for busing: Wallace would prohibit it by constitutional amendment. He said only enough to raise a few boos when he called it an asinine policy then broke it off with a warning that "any party that doesn't confront this issue in the right manner is going to be in trouble in November. He recalled that he carried every county in Florida's popular primary and got 51 per cent of the popular vote in Michigan on that issue. The convention as a whole liked what Governor Askew said best.

It spurned the advice of Governor Wallace. There was no violent rupture of the party. but unity is far off. The people. of course.

will decide whether the old Democratic party with its new facade really is the party of the people its new leaders insist it IS. One Is Asleep And not Voting MIAMI BEACH (AP) During the Democratic National Convention roll call on seating a disputed Illinois delegation. about 4:15 a.m.. the Kentucky delegation's vote came: "The Kentucky vote is 36 yes, 10 no. one asleep and not voting.

Democrat's Own Weather Almanac Today is Wednesday, July 12. the 194th day of 1972 with 172 to follow. The moon is between its new phase and first quarter. American poet Henry Thoreau was born July 12. 1817.

On this day in 1933 a new industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour in the United States. From Page zen lace old slur at the "economic royalists" Old timers of the pencil press traded surprised glances and head shakes when old Wayne Morse. once Senator of Oregon. got the best ovation of the evening when he rose to present the platform plank for ending the war in Vietnam quickly. Imagine these new delegates even remembering him! Then came Governor Wallace another disciple of the old New Deal.

but with a different brass of the current popular discontent. The crippled little Alabamian was wheeled up to the rostrum to give his minority challenge to the party. His ovation was generousalmost wild among the 700 delegates and alternates pledged to him: polite and restrained from the rest. Most delegates rose to applaud him whether from respect or a bullet wounded fellow politician or curious hope for a closer glimpse. New York.

Kansas and Massachussets delegates most visible to me, sat solidly. stolidly as if glued to their chairs. Wallace's statement of popular concerns didn't exactly agree with those mentioned by Askew and in the Party Platform draft Wallace was trying amend. Take welfare the platform Askew seemed to sing out was for more pie in the sky. WalPIXies by Wohl WHY CAN'T YOU, EVER SEE THINGS MY WAY? LI 7-12 JAGL WOH FORECAST Fair to partly cloudy today and Thursday, with a chance of an afternoon or evening thundershower.

The highs today and Thursday will be near 90. the low tonight near 70. Yesterday's high was 91, and the low this morning at the airport was 70. Winds are variable. mostly under 5 miles per hour.

gusty near thundershowers. Probability of rain is 40 per cent today and Thursday. OUTLOOK Friday through Sunday, little change indicated. SUN MOON Rise Set Rise Set Today 5.44 7 42 8 35 a 10 10 p.m. Thursday 5 44 7.42 9: 38 a.m 10:43 p.m.

APALACHICOLA RIVER DATA AT BLOUNTSTOWN Today 6.2 falling RAINFALL Total 24 hrs. ending midnight .00 Total this month 2.11 Total since Jan. 42.24 Below normal since July .76 Above normal since Jan. 11.31 50 Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 50 NOAA, U.S.

Dept. of Commerce 60 ARM 60 60 70 60 Rain 70 Showers FORECAST 70 70 Show Low Temperatures Expected 70 Figures Until Thursday Morning Isolated Precipitation Net Indicated Consult Lecal forecast WEATHER FORECAST today for the Great Southwest. Cool weather Plains States and in the Wirephoto Map) 4 SEND WALLACE A MESSAGE by in SEN SEND A MESSAGE CE 72 Alabamans Cheer Appearance by George Wallace McGovern Victory Seen From Page 1 to grant Indians first priority in allocation of federal surplus lands and strengthen the provision supporting a U.S. military commitment in Europe and the Mediterranean to deter Soviet pressure against Israel. By voice vote, the convention shouted down eight proposals.

ranging from endorsement of capital punishment and public school prayers to a constitutional amendment barring busing. despite a plea by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace. McGovern's operatives roamed the floor, urging approval of the statement of party positions drafted by the Platform Committee and rejection of opposition proposals on Vietnam.

school busing and abortion. AS THE convention deliberated through a second marathon night session Tuesday in a relaxed atmosphere after Monday night's sharp credentials battles, Wallace provided a dramatic highlight with an appeal for far-ranging tax reform and a denunciation of "the senseless asinine busing of little school children. A mighty roar went up and red-white-and-blue placards waved from the pro-Wallace delegates as Wallace was carried in a wheelchair to the podium. Other delegates stood in respect to the governor. partially paralyzed when shot down while campaigning in Laurel.

May 15. The strictest security of the convention was in force. But Wallace's appeals were doomed to failure as the convention worked to approve a Wallace Appeal Appeal the Alabama delegation. Wearing a cherry red. two piece linen suit, she smiled to all that greeted her and waved to friends.

Wallace snapped off a large hand salute to the convention as agents hoisted his wheelchair onto podium. specially raised to allow him to reach the microphone while seated. 22. and Lee. 11.

was immediately surrounded by well-wishers especially from ALMOST ALL of his speech was familiar to all in the hall a sharply -worded repetition of Wallace's well-known attacks on high taxes, bureaucrats. and welfare chiselers as well as busing. Democratic Party leaders. who have treated Wallace as a friend since he was gunned down. were still left by his speech with no clear indication of whether he might attempt to bolt the party or help defeat its ticket again this fall.

Party chairman Lawrence O'Brien began trying to clear the packed aisles a swarm in an air of expectation several minutes before Wallace arrived on the podium. Banging his huge gavel. 0'. Brien told the packed hall: is necessary for me to tell this convention that those responsible for security and fire laws say we precede under these Most of those in the aisles ignored his warning. O' Brien proceeded anyway and introduced man we indeed welcome." Two security agents dashed to the podium to put in place the box which would raise George Wallace face-to-face with the single microphone.

The music and clapping and restrained jubilation lasted less than 90 seconds. Wallace tossed what recently has become a familiar line: "My little daughter Lee asked me if I was going to speak at a rally, and I told her I'd been to one rally too many." It is his way of making those in his presence feel comfortable, according to one of his aides. But the line drew only a ripple of restrained laughter from the convention in general and some mild applause from the Alabama delegation. The ushers and serg. eants-at-arms kept pushing back those who closed in on the speaker's platform with cameras.

Keynote From Page 1 lace supporters of the right that could herald the "dawn of the maturing of Askew maintained. It was a carefully crafted, often-altered speech that had been in the making since February, when Askew first learned he was to keynote the convention. The last change was made Monday when Askew, a devout Presbyterian elder, discovered his speech had no reference to God. And so he penciled in the words "a land that God has blessed IT WAS, in many ways, an intensely personal speech. Askew had to be thinking of his mother who shared his moment of nationwide TV exposure from a convention box when he told delegates that politics was not a game but 'the central thread in the achievements and failures of man." how we weave that he said, would determine many things including "whether an elderly man or woman shall have tender love and His mother, he could not help but remember, worked as a domestic in a Pensacola hotel And to help he could support not her remember the bracelet on his wrist when he talked of Americans who "dream of day when all the fathers and all the sons.

in all the prisons and jungles of Asia, not only come home again, but come home today. Address For that bracelet, given to him by Prisoner of War wives, bears the name of Lt. Col Mark Stephenson. On Tuesday, Askew called Colonel Stephenson's wife, Vicki, to tell her he would be praying for her husband's return when he spoke those words. ese artillery fire.

Allied planes were at the city, field reports but they were hampered windstorms whipping up and reducing the pilots' ity. Radio Hanoi announced today that a Communist Peoples' Revolutionary was established last month to rule Quang Tri Province, which the North Vietnamese captured in May and are now defending against the South Vietnamese counterattack. The broadcast quoted a communique by the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front dated July 5 but gave no reason why 1 the announcement had been held up for a week. Gunmen Kill Three In Ulster BELFAST. Northern Ireland (AP) Gunmen killed three persons early 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 police and militiamen troopse. 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 Roman 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 Catholies 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. Ballymurphy and Ardoyne districts sealed off their sectors with barricades of concrete and steel to keep out Protestant raiders. Spassky Is Chess Favorite REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon.

The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. The game was to resume at 5 p.m.-1 p.m. EDT. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment.

The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the greenand-white chessboard in Reykjavik's sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer: king, bishop and three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns. U.S.

grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can THE SPEECH was more than anything else, pure Askew. It was, in reality, an extension of his program for Florida to the nation. His "Fair Share" tax program was there when he asked how citizens could trust their government: "When the business lunch of steak and martinis is tax deductible, but the workingman's lunch of salami and cheese is not. "When the average American pays as much as $15 out of every $100 he earns in federal income taxes, but some of our biggest profit-making corporations pay absolutely nothing." Florida's election reform laws and open-meeting Sunshine Law and his own annual filing of his personal tax form were in the background when Askew told Democrats: "We can do away with dollar democracy and government by the few and fight again and again for public financing of presidential election campaigns.

"We can do away with those secret documents and secret meetings which only serve to protect the politicians, and close the public out of the public's own affairs." Sue. From Page roared their approval at what has for weeks been predicted to be one of the most recent convention history. recent conventionhistory. On his first public appearance after the Laurel. Md.

assassination attempt, in Montgomery, last week. Wallace had been visibly fully in command his voice strong and fully in command his vo9ce strong and sure, if lacking his old-time revivalistic fire. There were times we didn't think he would maks his wife. Cornelia, said. She swallowed several times with emotion.

Several Wallace lines during his 15-minute speech he had been alloted half an hour drew almost no response. as when he mentioned his taxation proposals. But one word alone ignited the convention floor and revealed the depths of the division in the Democratic Party. the word was busing. Seventy-five to 85 per cent of the American public are against the senseless and asinine busing of little school children the Governor said.

The words after busing" were nearly drowned out by the applause and boos. A black delegate from Tennessee. Avon Williams, one of the 13,400 Delegates and visitors who packed the great hall to hear the governor screamed: ONLY FOUR days from a hospital bed, Wallace spoke with a quiet passion. Unlike most speakers addressing the convention, Wallace and seldom referred to his notes. and seledom referred to his notes.

But for the most part, the convention largely anti-Wallace in makeup treated him with polite curiosity. He entered the convention hall at 9:30 p.m., under heavy guard by Secret Service agents. For almost an hour, the 52-year-old governor waited for his moment to the convention's limelight a floor below the big raised podium. But the drama around his when his en15-minute appearance, began tered a dignitary guest box. Mrs.

Wallace, accompanied by two step daughters, Peggy 26.000-word platform, tailored largely to the liberal views of McGovern. Wallace, holding just a few hundred delegates, and Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, with under 100, vowed to stay in the presidential race although McGovern's assured first-ballot strength shot past the 1.509 votes needed to win. Some labor leaders who had supported Humphrey, including President I. W.

Abel of the United Steelworkers Union, a a threw their support to Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington. BESIDES McGovern. Wallace and Jackson.

supporters announced nominating speeches would be made for former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy: Reps. Wilbur D. Mills and Shirley Chisholm and former North Carolina Gov.

Terry Sanford. House Speaker Carl Albert will nominate Mills. With much of the Humphrey and Muskie strength now listed in the undecided column. The Associated Press count gave McGovern 1.590.75 votes as the day of his nomination dawned. The total needed for nomination is 1.509.

Wallace trailed with 378. the uncommitted total stood at 850.6 and the remainder were 6 scattered. McGovern spent much of the day Tuesday in his 17th-story penthouse in the Doral Beach Hotel. "He's working on his acceptance speech and. I dare say, thinking about the vice; presidential said spokesman Richard Dougherty.

The senator met with various groups during the day. including relatives of a half -dozen American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. McGovern promised to stand by American prisoners. a pledge that marked what aides said was "an elaboration" of his Southeast Asia policy. Until now.

the senator has talked only of withdrawing all U.S. forces from Indochina within 90 days of the inauguration. halting bombing and military support of the South Vietnamese government headed by President Nguyen Van Thieu. IN A STATEMENT. however, he said he would keep U.S.

troops in Thailand and naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin off the Vietnamese coast until the prisoners were freed. But he added he is "fully confident there would be no such that the U.S. withdrawal would bring prompt freedom for the prisoners. In the brightly lit convention. hall, meanwhile, the delegates went through the convention routine, electing Lawrence F.

O'Brien the convention's permanent chairman and adopting party rules including one that bans winner-take-all primaries, starting in 1976. It was such a contest that stirred the California credentials fight. The party also decided that, starting with 1976, a woman will preside over every other national convention. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, a black California state legislator and congressional hopeful, is vice chairman of this year's convention. The most controversial recommendation of the Rules Committee, a revolutionary new charter that would bring the party under increased control of grass-roots Democrats, remains to be scheduled.

Withdrawal Plank From Page 1 ies said would be embarrassing in the campaign. These included proposed planks favoring liberal abortion policies, nondiscrimination against homosexuals. and major goals of the National Welfare Rights Organization a $6.500 income guarantee for a family of four. rollback of rents. government takeover and repair of substandard housing.

Similarly defeated was a call for repealing the income tax code and substituting a system of lower tax rates. personal credits, but no deductions. McGovern whose own tax proposals, linked with income maintenance. are still under development has declared himself satisfied with the majority platform's call for a review of existing tax preferences and pledge to close loopholes. THE MAJORITY version of the platform.

adopted almost unchanged. ranges widely. Among its provisions are elimination of "unfair" Nixon administration wage-price controls. strengthened antitrust laws to break up conglomerates and to deconcentrate" -monopolies with the automobile industry cited as an example emphasis on rights of women. curbs on the congressional seniority system and insistence on open meetings, stiff controls on handguns.

abolition of capital punishment and firm control of military spending. Deaths tie M. Mills, 93. died Monday in Archbold Hospital, Thomasville. after a short illness.

She was a native of Grady County. but lived in Monticello for 70 years. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Monticello. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Pansey Anderson.

Monticello, and Mrs. Thelma Leggett. Greenville: son. George Y. Mills.

Monticello: eight grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Wilkins Funeral Home. Monticello. is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs.

Lettie M. Mills Ivey Funeral Home in Bainbridge will be in charge of arMONTICELLO Mrs. Letrangements. Nathaniel Patterson CAPITOLA Nathaniel Pat- terson. 58.

died unexpectedly at his home Saturday. A native of New Port. he had lived here for the past 16 years. Laster Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Funeral Notices Mary P.

Summers BLOUNTSTOWN Mary Priscilla Summers, 79. of Route 1. Bristol, died in her residence early Tuesday. Mrs. Summers was a lifelong resident of Liberty County.

She was a member of the First Christian Church of Bristol. Survivors include five sons, Jack H. Summers of Bristol: Donald F. Summers of Tallahassee, Wayne N. Summers of Broadview, Glenn E.

Summers of St. Petersburg. and Bauchie Summers of Orlando; one daughter, Mrs. Floy S. Chestang of Tallahassee: and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Martin Funeral Home of Blountstown is in charge of arrangements. Elsie Mae Merkison BAINBRIDGE Elsie Mae Merkison, 50, of Bainbridge. died Monday after a lengthy illness at the Bainbridge Memorial Hospital. A native of Miller County Georgia and a The member of the Church of God Bainbridge, Mrs. Merkison's survivors include her husband, Elmer Merkison of Bainbridge; two sons, Donald Merkison of Atlanta and Doyle Merkison of Bainbridge; one daughter, Mrs.

Donald Crews of Bainbridge; her mother, Mrs. Irene Lynn; four brothers, L.E. Lynn, Felton Lynn, Ellis Lynn and Lloyd Lynn, all of Bainbridge: three sisters, Mrs. Montent Massey of Bainbridge, Mrs. Annette Smithson of Kenosha, Mrs.

Yvonne Yates of Lynn Haven, and four grandsons. UMMERS, Mrs. Mary Priscilla age 79. of Rt 1 Bristol, Fla. died at her residence Tuesday morning.

Mrs. Summers was a native and life long resident of Liberty County. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Bristol. Survivors included five sons, Jack H. Summers of Bristol Donald S.

Summers of Tallahassee, Wayne N. Summers of Broadview. Ill Glenn E. Summers of St. Petersburg Vauchie Summers of Orlando one daughter, Mrs Floy Chestang of Tallahassee, several grandchildren and great grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 10 AM EDT Thursday from the First Christian Church of Bristol with Rev.

Gene Sidell officiating. Interment will follow Bristol with Morton Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. DEEB, Mrs. EmmaLine Duma widow of the late Elias B. Deeb, of 1228 Hali fax Court.

Tallahassee A Rosary service will be held at 7 30 PM on Wednesday, July 12. at Culley's Chapel. Funeral services will be held at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 10:30 AM on Thursday, July 13, 1972 with the Rev. Father Terrell F. Solana officiating.

Burial will be in the Oakland Cemetery. Culley Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include three sons. Dr. Nasseef Deeb of Van Nuys.

Calif, Fred E. Deeb and William Deeb both of Tallahassee: two daugh ters. Mrs. Adele D. Joseph and Mrs Annelle D.

Humphreys both of Talla hassee. 20 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren; one sister. Mrs. Mary Scheetz of North Canton. Ohio, and two brothers.

Arthur Demetree and Jack Demetree both of Orlando. Fla Pallbearers include James P. Hanna E. C. Deeno Kitchen, B.

F. Thomas. Kent C. Deeb. Daniel Bryan.

Nahoom. Family is receiving friends at 824 Lakeshore Dr. WHITE, Mrs. Isabella Johnson, age 62. of 1203 Arkansas Tallahassee.

Funeral services will be held at Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church 2 p.m. Thursday, July 13 with the Rev T. T. Jackson officiating. Burial will be in the Southside Cemetery immedi ately following services.

Strong and Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include a devoted son. George Browning of Sarasota: three sisters. Mrs. Edith Swain and Mrs.

Mary Bryant of Tallahassee Mrs. Susie Reese of Miami: 2 broth ers, Jessie and George Johnson of Tallahassee: three grandchildren Gregory Browning of New York City Janice Williams and Katie Elinor Gav both of Tallahassee. one great grand daughter. Tonya L. Gay two daugh.

ters in law Mrs. Cleora Browning and Mrs. Annabell Browning of Clear water Showers are forecast Lakes area and some of the is expected in the Great Pacific Northwest. (AP.