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mm FIRST MORNING CA Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper ALLENTOWN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 NO. 26,587 Ten Cents Demos Add New Convention Reforms Stitches Cost Time In Jail MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A city judge appears to have devised a new method of sentencing persons convicted in knifing cases a day in jail for each stitch used in patching up the victim. "How many stitches did the cut require?" Municipal Judge James Evans asked the victim of a recent knifing. When the victim said 39 stitches, Judge Evans sentenced the assailant to 39 days in the city jail.

Judge Evans later imposed an eight-day sentence on a man whose vic-tim required eight stitches. PW'mqjiliyMWWMWjWfltiw muuyjmia ppwu h.i,i.i.i.)h mmmv irnmmmmmmmmBmmmmmmi0m y. i IS, mm i v. t-i I vl ,4 tJ WPfr- ft 1 i I "if i I Guidelines For 1976 Endorsed Party Begins PlatformDebate By JOHN BECKER MIAMI BEACH (AP) The Democrats voted Tuesday night to continue the delegate-selection reforms that marked their 1972 convention, and added some new ones, including a requirement that from 1976 on a woman will chair every other convention. After endorsing the reform measure, the convention began debate on the platform.

The new convention rules, adopted by voice vote, should eliminate battles like the one Related Stories, Photos On Pages 2, 54 over the seating of the California delegation, which threatened for a time to tear the 1972 convention apart. Delegates chosen in winner-take-all primaries such as those now in effect in California and several other states could be successfully challenged in the 1976 convention. The rules call for the party to assure that 1976 delegates "shall be chosen in a manner which fairly reflects the division of preferences expressed by those who participate in the presidential nominating process in each state." The 1976 guidelines will require states to adopt rules that only persons who have been registered Democrats for at least 14 days before a primary may participate in that primary. The anticross-over provision was the only one challenged at the convention. A minority report aimed at permitting crossover voting to continue was defeated by voice vote.

The 1976 rules also are de Sen. Humphrey gives wife a kiss after announcing his decision. (AP) Drama, Tension Eased McGovern Nears Nomination As Major Rivals Withdraw Alabama remained a candidate, By WALTER MEARS and the keynote address by Gov. i the campaign that plunged him MIAMI BEACH (AP) Sen Reubin D. Askew of llorida were 'from front-runner to loser.

have but his strategists ac- George McGovern strode with-: the first items of business, out major challenge toward the 1 And so, politically, the Demo-Democratic presidential nomi- crats' swarming, sweltering nation Tuesday as Sens. Hubert i convention resort belonged to H. Humphrey and Edmund S.I the senator from South Dakota, Muskie bowed to his show of longest of longshots when he be-towering national convention i gan White House quest 18 strength and quit. months ago. Tho ranitnlfltinn nf Mrfinv- By midevenina, an Associated "It is apparent to all of us that Sen.

George McGovern is this convention's choice as the nominee of our party," said the senator from Maine. Humphrey, his eyes brimming, withdrew saying "we've waged a good battle," and stating he would do his level best to unite the party and help the 1972 ticket. That left McGovern with lesser rivals to confront in the cli- knowledged he has no chance on the first ballot. And it was virtually certain there would be only one. Sen.

Henry M. Jackson of Washington clung to his candidacy, insisting that a McGovern ticket "is going to be in deep trouble." Reps. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas and Shirley Chisholm of New York and former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina were candidates without a chance.

Press count showed McGovern's ern's mainr rivals eased1 the commitments at drama and tension as the second delegate 1,532 05, rising from the 1,570.75 he held earlier in the evening session of the Democratic National Convention opened. The naming of Lawrence F. O'Brien as permanent chairman and far beyond the nominating roll call Wallace gives his views about party platform. (AP) maiority that will choose the Gov. George C.

Wallace of Democrat to challenge President Mixed Ideas Ignored, Hailed or Cursed FIRST CALL Platforms All Head for One Place-Oblivion campaigns for able. The challenges by G-eorge MIAMI BEACH Party plat-1 nominee as he forms rank somewhere between the presidency. signed to encourage greater participation in Democratic party affairs by the poor. State delegations will be required to give adequate representation to persons of low income, as well as women, blacks and the young. In addition, the rules require the Democratic National Committee to put 8 per cent of its annual income which would be about $160,000 into a fund that would help poor delegates meet the costs of attending a convention.

Another primary practice now followed in more than a dozen states cross-over voting that permits Republicans to vote in Democratic primaries will be grounds for challenging delegates in 1976. The outcomes of the Democratic primaries in Michigan the dodo bird and the albatross. I McGovern's representatives Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma They either become extinct soon dominated the committee which and others, spoke for the ex-after creation or hang about the drafted the platform, but the tremes but not the broad use of neck of a candidate for an in- document is far less a statement; the party which encompasses Nixon. In simplest terms, McGovern had the votes: on delegate disputes, on the platform the convention was completing Tuesday, and on the nomination itself.

After a night of tumultuous political infighting that kept the Democratic National Convention in session until near dawn, it was a day of political drama. First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign warrior for a dozen years and the party's presidential choice in 1968, withdrew what must be his final bid for the White House. Then Muskie wrote a finish to adv. FREE MCDONALD'S HAND Puppets. McDonald's 721 Cedar Crest Boulevard 7 it the Old and New Guard.

sufferable time. of McGovern's program than This year's platform of the lis a creation of compromise. It Convention Analysis By Edward D. Miller Democratic party is no excep-jcan be said that the platform tion. After all the deliberation' proceedings were the first signal of McGovern's campaign shift by the platform committee, af On Vietnam, for example, it called for a withdrawal of all American forces by next January, but hedged that bet by calling for a program of national defense that will "retain the confidence of our allies and will be a deterrent to potential aggressors." Wallace qualified that only by-seeking to add the code phrase, in a manner consistent ter all the debate and wrangling over the more than a dozen minority reports, the result is a document which will be ignored, hailed or cursed by Sen.

George McGovern, the party's probable ing sights from the convention to the election. With the exception of the narrow confines of the extreme left and right, all elements of the party found the platform accept- Call-Chronicle Executive Editor 'Been recalled Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Fischer Faces Hard Fight with national honor and integri would ty," an umbrella which of the allow continued defense State Delegates Talk Of a Nixon Landslide Chess Title Opener Adjourned lost In the exchange, Fischer MIAMI BEACH The voices! of organized labor and middle-! Saigon government. On welfare, the platform seeks payments "substantially above the poverty level," but makes no mention of McGovern's on-again, off-again $1,000 ahead plan for the National Welfare Rights Organization's guaranteed annual income. The platform also sidesteps McGovern's precise figures on the defense budget. It calls for a reduction but with "no weakening of our national security." the whole the document is the bishop for two pawns.

Byrne called it a blunder. The loss of his bishop was typical of the American. It was an attempt to break the game open, avoiding a standoff. What surprised many was the cautious play in the opening and middle games by Fischer, who has a reputation for killer in When play was called off for the night, there was little left on the board: a king and five pawns for Fischer; a king, three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. U.S.

grandmaster Robert Byrne said: "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster, commented: "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Fischer is playing the black pieces and REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)-Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet Chess fortress Tuesday night, but world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and left the American with a tough fight for a draw when their first game was adjourned. The first game of history's richest world chess title match was called after 40 moves and 3 hours and 34 minutes of play. It will resume at 1 p.m. Wednesday or 5 p.m.

Reykjavik time. Spassky the white, which means the Russian had the first move. Yefim Geller, the Russian who seconds Spassky, watched the final moves on closed circuit television in the corridor, sipping a cup of coffee. "What do you think, Grandmaster Geller?" he was asked. "I am not thinking; I am drinking coffee," Geller replied.

Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past. The three times he played the black pieces he lost. Playing white he was Behind Scenes With State Delegation By Ben Livingood of-the-road Democratic politics in Pennsylvania spoke with pessimism and fear Tuesday as a new breed of delegates seized solid control of the Democratic National Convention. Pennsylvania delegates that came here committed either to Minnesota Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey or Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie found themselves suddenly cut adrift of the con stinct. London oddsmakers rated the what platforms usually are a lanky American the favorite to win the competition. Continued on Page 2, Column 4 Call Harrisburg Bureau Chief FISCHER Inside The Call Special Edition News Today Pages 5, 16-18 Residents' Protests Halt Digging Xear Gas Lines In Easton Project Page 7 Federal Officials May Limit Pay Increase for State Legislators Page 9 Apollo 15 Astronauts Reprimanded for Carrying Souvenir Envelopes to Moon Page 10 Heavy Enemy Ground Fire Downs 3 Marine Copters in Troop Drop North of Quang ri Page 11 able to salvage two draws, but has never triumphed over the Russian.

Spassky made his first move Tuesday all by himself in the shadowless illumination of the stage at Reykjavik's Sports Palace. There was something surrealistic about the world championship series with prize money of about $300,000 starting with only one man sitting at the chess table. Fischer, as usual, was late. He arrived seven minutes after Spassky moved his queen's pawn and referee Lothar Schmid pressed the button to start Fischer's clock. The game went cautiously at first, with the players alloted 2 hours each to make 40 moves.

The experts said Fischer was trying for a draw by exchanging pieces, simplifying, trying to reduce the advantage Spassky had by choosing the opening. He galloped his bishop down a vention mainstream. Their stunned initial reaction to the sudden turn of events was one of dispair. They spoke of the threat of a devastating landslide defeat in November that could cost them their cherished control of both houses of the State Legislature this fall, and the gloomy prospect that their party might not survive the bitterness that has divided it through a tempestuous primary capaign and emotionally charged convention. Most agreed that an effort must be made to unity the party behind the candidacy of South Dakota Sen.

George S. McGovern whose nomination on Wednesday appeared certain Worth Repeating Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin adv. NOW OPEN 24 HPtS. A DAY Lane's-2300 Lehigh, with the withdrawal of Humphrey and Muskie.

But, none was optimistic that the necessary degree of reconciliation could be achieved. Leaders of organized labor, which played a significant role in carrying Pennsylvania for Humphrey against President Nixon four years ago, said they doubted that the same kind of energy and enthusiasm exerted on Humphrey's behalf could be generated in support of McGovern. They indicated that labor's role in the forthcoming campaign will be concentrated on state legislative and congressional races. Typical of the reaction was the view of Harry Boyer, president of the Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO. "It may'well take everything all Democrats can do," Humphrey, whose vote-producing performances speak for themselves, has withdrawn.

"The over-riding concern," Boyer added, is the retention of the Democratic control in the House and Senate. Some of us felt this may have been more likely had Humphrey been the candidate." The former vice president's sudden withdrawal from contention, left his three committed delegates from the Lehigh Valley stunned and disappointed. John S. Posivak of Bethlehem, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, said he felt it would be very difficult for labor in Pennsylvania to make peace with McGovern forces in the state. "I doubt if labor will be very enthusiastic about supporting McGovern," he said.

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