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Wausau Daily Record -Herald VOLUME LXIII NUMBER 184 FORTY TWO PAGES FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1972 FOUR SECTIONS FIFTEEN CENTS Kennedy will get first offer as McGovern's VP candidate ciated 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 to overcome. The AP count shows Humphrey a distant second with 398.55; Wallace with 367; Muskie with 219.55; and 425.65 uncommitted. The rest are 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. Endieott 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.

McGovern crossed verbal swords with Secretary of Defense Melvln R. Laird over the senator's proposals to cut UJ. 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." McGovern 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 or ganizations 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 as the parley heads for an opening Monday. Most of the major presidential candidates except McGovern fly here to start wooing arriving delegates in their bid to overtake the front-running 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 afternoon arrivals. McGovern is due Saturday afternoon.

With the convention to start Monday night, two major credentials cases which Involve 151 McGovern delegates from California and 59 Illinois delegates led by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley remained in a legal limbo. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger 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 Asso 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 by air support, South In rooDS enter Uuan 1 .11. By CARL P.

LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice presidential nomination if Sen. George McGovern captures the Democratic presidential nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator said today.

Despite Kennedy's repeated statements be won't be available, the offer will probably be made because polls show he would strengthen a McGovern-led ticket, the sources said. The sources discounted the A parting i fc" Viet SAIGON (AP) The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City, and seized control of two-thirds of the northern provincial capital. But field reports and senior U.S. military sources sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a thrust into the northern half of the city.

A senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units ,4 "a thirds of the city," Viet told newsmen. Heavier fighting was reported on the southern and eastern fringes of the city. Viet reported 58 North Vietnamese killed and eight tanks destroyed on the outskirts. Paratroopers on the southern side battled heavy counterattacks Thursday night from North Vietnamese forces making a stand in a line of old French villas. Scores of U.S.

Navy jets from 7th Fleet carriers off the coast scrambled Into the night skies to attack the North Vietnamese, their tanks, artillery and automatic weapons. if i -or f. Report labor head Meany seeks to block McGovern MT't of any significant size in the city. He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city but were meeting tough resistance.

A huge American air and naval armada covered the advancing South Vietnamese. South Vietnamese marines were closing in on the city from the east. One task force was reported to have advanced half a mile to the eastern outskirts and was a little more than a mile east of the Citadel, at the center of the city. President Nixon, like McGovern the target of numerous Meany barbs. If McGovern wins the nomination despite Meany, labor leaders would be confronted with limited options, none palatable to them.

Meany and his chief political strategist, Al Barkan, were counting on union presidents to sway convention delegates away from McGovern, the front-runner on the verge of capturing the 1,509 delegates needed for nomination. "Barkan gave me the spiel-labor people are going to try to plautz said he was driving south and as he came over the crest of a hill he saw the boy on his bicycle, riding just to the right of the center line. He said he sounded the horn of his car as he prepared to pass the boy. The boy seemed to "wobble" on his cycle and pulled to the left into the path of the car, according to the report. The boy struck the hood of the car and landed on the blacktop.

The boy was the second boy to be fatally injured this year in the county when their bicycles were hit by cars. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, ending 54 days in the hospital after being shot at Laurel, political rally, gives a salute as he leaves Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, today to return to Alabama before going to the Democratic political convention in Miami Beach, Fla. WASHINGTON AP) AFL-CIO President George Meany headed for the Democratic National Convention today, reportedly determined to block the presidential nomination of Sen. George McGovern.

Driven by personal as well as political antipathy, the labor titan has launched a drive that commands the sympathies of most union presidents if not their wholehearted support. Some have voiced misgivings that an unrelenting anti-McGovern campaign could destroy a tenuous party unity and encourage the re-election of ft" -1 On July 4 State polluter was jailed captured three prisoners, one of them seriously wounded, and overran a North Vietnamese field hospital stocked with medical supplies. By midmorning, mortars were still exploding on the South Vietnamese front lines. "Just keep pumping it in there, Just keep them coming into that area," Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio, shouted into his radio as he directed U.S.

fighter-bombers to the North Vietnamese mortar positions. Furrow is an adviser with one of the South Vietnamese airborne battalions. wirtphoto stage," the petition read. The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates after deciding that the 271 he won in the state's winner-take-all primary should be apportioned among all the candidates according to thelr.share of the vote. The appeals court held that changing the rules after the primary was over violated McGovern's right to due process.

The ousted Illinois delegates said the committee decision and the court ruling that supported lt disenfranchised the Democratic voters who elected delegates only to see them replaced by challengers. BIBLE TEXT Not that I have alrmdy obtained this or am already perfect; but I preis on to make It my own, brcauie thrill Jt-ut hail made me tils own. I'hlllppian 1:12. A second marine task force made a helicopter landing Vh miles southeast of the city. Lt.

Col. Do Viet, a spokesman for the Saigon command, said that elements of a South Vietnamese paratroop battalion backed by tanks had pushed into the northern part of Quang Tri a few hours before dawn. "They are right next to the Citadel," he said. Viet reported that resistance appeared to be light, although the orwardmost troops of the battalion were shelled by 107mm rockets and long-range 130mm guns. "We control at least two- stop McGovern on the first and second ballots," said Jerry Wurf, a McGovern supporter and president of the AFIXTO American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Edward Carlough, president of the Sheet Metal Workers, said if such a move were successful "it would make the nomination totally worthless to anybody else." Some union presidents have appealed to Meany to tone down the anti-McGovern drive. But, in a showdown, most union presidents still bow to Meany's wishes on major issues. "I'm going along with Meany, whatever he does," said the chief of one large construction union, who asked not to be quoted by name. Another source said, "If McGovern gets the nomination, it becomes a competition between McGovern and Nixon, and labor simply couldn't be neutral or for Nixon." The support of the 13.6-mil-lion-member federation of 129 unions and its money-raising Committee on Political Education is considered crucial to the chances of any Democratic nominee to defeat Nixon in November. COPE mailed out 50 million pieces of political literature in 1968 and was credited with almost swinging the presidential election to Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey. Business 17 Comics 9 Horoscope 13 Farm 10 Wausau area churches 13 Merrill churches 15 Classified 18 It was the first stiff resistance the South Vietnamese paratroopers have encountered since they began tightening their grip on the southern edges of the city three days ago. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported that South Vietnamese tanks knocked out two Soviet-built PT76 light amphibious tanks used by the North Vietnamese and a paratrooper knocked out a third with a hand-fired antitank missile. The other tanks fled into heavy thickets.

Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that South Vietnamese paratroopers Visits battle area Or he could delay implementation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends. In that case, McGovern might be expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Committee and return the 151 California votes to him. Forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower-court decision, which upheld the committee's authority to reject 59 Illinois delegates, including Daley. In asking for Supreme Court action, the party maintained that the UJS.

Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia "has provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this court." "Reversal of the Judgment below is necessary to ensure that hereafter the federal courts will stay out of the American political process rather than seize Us center Bicycle hit by car, rural Wausau boy dies WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) -An industrialist who spent the Fourth of July in jail under a pollution contempt citation has been authorized to resume production at his Merton factory. Herbert J. Ripley, a Waukesha County health agency employe assigned by a court to police the plant's air exhaust, said Thursday he found smokestack emissions were once again conforming to pollution standards. Miles S.

Firnhaber of Pe-waukee was sentenced Monday to 30 hours in jail, charged with violating a court order under which his plant was not to operate unless Ripley approved. An assistant state attorney general said it was the first jail sentence in Wisconsin history concerning a pollution abatement order. Chess match is on Nguyen Van Thieu is flanked by Brig. Gen. Le for the town of An Loc a victory for the South Viet-Van Hung, left, and Col.

Tran Van Nhut, right, during namese. Enemy shells crashed nearby during his the surprise visit of the South Vietnamese President visit to the provincial capital, to An Loc today. President Thieu declared the battle High Court ponders whether to consider delegate dispute salute wirtphoto Firnhaber's plant was cited for smoke emission. He told the court someone had meddled with his boiler-system equipment to produce smoke and that he had corrected the problem, but not before someone had alerted Ripley. He accused the state attorney general's office of entering the case simply for political publicity.

The plant, employing about 40 persons, produces in-sultation. The Village of Merton had complained about soot and fiber-laden emissions, leading to the court decision to have Ripley supervise pollution abatement. Firnhaber testified he was seeking funds from New York investors to improve his pollution-control equipment. of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday. It could have been any day in the garbled prelude to what chess lovers say is the match of the century Spassky of the U.S.S.R.

vs. Fischer of the U.S.A. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show. Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play.

At one news conference, one of Fischer's lawyers said he'd come to say he had nothing to say. One final quote, from Gud-mundur ThornrlnRSon, presi Spassky has first Twelve year old Jamie Emerson, Wausau Route 3, was fatally injured about 2:38 p.m. Thursday when his bicycle was struck by an automobile on County Trunk about five miles north of here. The boy died in Wausau Hospital North shortly after 7 pjn. Deputies said Earl Plautz, 46, Merrill Route 6, was the driver of the car.

Marathon County road toll to date 1972 10 dead 1971 12 dead move dent of the Icelandic Chess Federation, who was under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of the gate receipts: "I have worked for more than a year to get this match to Iceland. I would do many things. But I will not bite into a sour apple." Thanks to a rich British chess fan who doubled the stakes, he didn't have to. Jest a minute Then there's tlw gal wno, when bhe learned her boy car needed a new ijiulOtr, started to knit him ori. On the inside Personnel problems at Health Care Center Personnel problems surface at Marathon County Health Care Center.

Pge 3. Wausau's Centennial schedule could use a little sunshine. Page 3. Bald eagle nests near site of Tomahawk airport. Page 11 Sell Lincoln County property in Merrill which has Kn the subject of complaints.

Page 14. 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. Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing Justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session. Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night. On the other hand, Burger could refuse the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. 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. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads Illness and gets another postponement.

The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked In the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end It was: "Spassky go?" "I'm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m. At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president Page Wausau news 3 Merrill news Editorial 4 Sports 7 Family living 12 Weather 6 Obituary 6.