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FOURTH MORNING CALL Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper ALLENTOWN, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 Ten Cents NO. 26,588 ovem Nominated on THE Voting Goes Kennedy Rejects No. 2 Spot As Expecte 5 2n Jackson McGovern watched on television in his penthouse suite two miles away as the convention voted him triumph in an 18- MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -George McGovern swept to the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night to cli- 1 1 MIAMI BEACH (AP) Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy early Thursday rejected Sen. George McGovern's offer to run as a candidate for the vice presidency on the Dmocratic ticket in November, McGovern aide Richard Dougherty said. After 119 delegate votes from Illinois assured his nomination, McGovern telephoned Kennedy in Hyannis Port, to offer the vice presidency. Dougherty said Kennedy declined "for very real personal reasons." McGovern already had been looking to others, for Kennedy has repeatedly renounced any candidacy for national office in 1972. And so the only question left for the Democratic convention was the selection of a No.

2 man to run with Mcdovern. The delegates were sure to ratify whomever McGovern chooses at the closing session Thursday night. max an mcreaiDie campaign, monm nominauuu ijucm. that carried him from the back! began as a lonely political out-row of the Senate to the pinnacle jsider. of party power.

This was the official tabula- A mighty roar sounded formation of a roll call that took more the Democratic National than an h0ur and a half even vention as Chairman Lawrence though the issue was settled at F. O'Brien pronounced the stroke of midnight: tor from South Dakota the presi- McGovern: dential nominee Sen Hen Jackson of 1 I ill V-sr- K- i( v-: til Os 'fffip-'- wet. i W.V I rr "in It Jr -v 4tl- 1 ivicuoveia iidu 11 wun wi.g 4qr fi5 fore the first ballot was com Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama: 377.50.

Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York: 101.45. The balance of the the delegate votes were scattered among eight other candidates, pleted. His final delegate vote after switches: 1,864.95, far past the 1,509 majority he needed. Before the switches his total was 1,728.35.

SEN. GEORGE MCGOVERN Related Stories, Photos On Pages 2, 3, 11, 40, 41 Editorial on Page 16 tion Finely Honed Organiza One Big Gearing for the with a handful going to Sen. Edward Kennedy although his name was not placed in nomination. In a final forlorn footnote to what was once a front-running campaign, Edmund S. Muskie of Maine got 10.8 votes for the nomination.

Muskie, who with Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey conceded to McGovern a day in advance, went to bed before the final count was announced. MIAMI BEACH Now that 1 eying for a vice presidential in-Sen. George McGovern has cap-' vitation, talked about the shift in tured the nomination, how can mood and attitude taking place, he get elected? He called it a "unifying" con- Soon after McGovern made it vention, one which demon-clear in Monday night's test onistrated the party's willingness the California delegation that I to open up the councils of the the nomination was his, the pro-1 party for true reform.

He failed phets of doom within the party to mention those councils were started the dirge. pried open, but no matter, his It was folly to kick out Chi- conclusion is close to an accu-cago's Mayor Daley they said, 1 rate appraisal. Organization citing for the umpteenth time I Democrats may still be smart-the mavor's Dower in Illinois. I ing from their defeat, but they Convention Analysis By Edward O. Miller Call-Chronicle Executive Editor No Democrat can win without have stopped bleeding.

Big Labor, they went on, repeat-! ing George Meany's threat to sit Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Humphrey got 31 votes, most of them in a presidential farewell gesture from his own Minnesota. McGovern's middle name is Stanley, but in the uproar of his victory, O'Brien's formal pronouncement declared "Sen. George M. McGovern, having received the majority vote of this convention's delegates, is hereby declared the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate." Through the long roll call of states, the new-look Democratic convention was, for a poliical convention, remarkably orderly. But when McGovern's count of delegates topped the 1,509 majority that made him the nominee, his partisans erupted into cheers.

When the Illinois count was THAT'S IT Illinois delegates whose votes put Sen. George McGovern over the top explode into cheers as the vote is announced. (AP) 2 Men at McGovern Hotel Seized on Weapons Count i this one out. They're trampling the regular. Democrats, they moaned, and; will never unify the party.

Local politicians, including some party regulars from Lehigh andj Northampton counties, began talking openly about a Nixon: sweep that would reach land- slide proportions. State's Delegates Girded For a Last-Ditch Effort dential nomination at the Demo-1 the candidacy of Sen. Henry M. cratic National Convention. "Scoop" Jackson of Washington.

annmmced.the convention hall that a I The 54-vote Pennsylvania lexpioded. Still clinging to fears McGovern candidacy would McGovern bloc extended the By BEN LIVINGOOD Of The Morning Call Staff MIAMI BEACH The bulk of Pennsylvania delegates loyal to candidates withdrawn from the race spurned overtures Wednesday from backers of Sen. George S. McGovern and Two handguns were found under the seat of a car occupied by one of the men. The arrested men were taken to the Dade County Jail and bond was set at $100,000 apiece on identical charges of carrying concealed weapons, police said.

"We have no information at Much of this talk was an emotional hangover from the bitter, fights preceding the nomination. Thanks to the brawling campaigns of Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, McGovern's problems are well! documented. Only a handful outside the McGovern fold have begun to look at this assets. They are in-; teresting to ponder.

Rep. Wilbur Mills, in jock-! spell disastrous defeat in November and cost Democrats tended to harm the South Dakota senator or any other Democratic presidential candidate. The Secret Service said the two men identified themselves as Malek Sonebeyatta 32, and Ahmed Oatemi, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made. Both carried multiple identification, authorities said. By RICH OPPEL MIAMI BEACH (AP) Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel on Wednesday and seized two men on con cealed weapons charges shortly after Sen.

George McGovern wound up a meeting in his penthouse suite. The Secret Service said later it had no evidence the men in olive branch to the aisgrunuect Humphrey and Muskie partisans with a plea for party unity, and managed to pick up 27 defectors from the rival camps. control of the Pennsylvania Leg' "We want McGovern, we want McGovern," his delegates chanted. And McGovern placards waved. The Wallace partisans sat in stony silence.

In her box in the audience, islature delegates once commit- Dlunged into a last-ditch ill-fated ted to Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. effort to deny the hard-charging Humphrey and Maine Sen. Ed-: front-runner a first-ballot presi-imund S. Muskie, rallied behind1 Continued on Page 2, Column 3 I Mrs.

McGovern beamed, kissed E. Coast, Southwest Incidents Hijackers Commandeer 2 Jets her daughter, and said it unbelievable." Not long ago, it was. The McGovern triumph came at the stroke of midnight. Even before the nominating roll call was complete, the un- this time to connect the activi- ties of these men with any in-I tended harm to the protectees of the Secret Service," agents said in a news release. One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Repub-lica of New Africa, i Secret Service, FBI and Flor-j ida Law Enforcement Depart- ment agents arrested one man as he sat in a mustard-colored i sports car parked on the ramp I of the hotel.

The Secret Service said two pistols were found un- der the car's front seat, The second man was taken into custody in the hotel's interior lobby minutes later. Both were frisked, handcuffed and taken away. It was not immediately clear which of the two Inside The Call Pa. Lottery Number Page 48 Special Edition News Today Pages 5, 42, 43 Fischer First Walks Out, Then Concedes Initial Game for World Chess Title Page 14 The Weather Cloudy, Periods of Rain Today and Tomorrow; For Details See Page 5 guns and a package theyjuy uluves claimed was a bomb, took over I Humphrey telephoned the nlane and demanded $600,000 i McGovern, an old friend and engine Boeing 727 with 51 passengers and a crew of six, was en route from Oklahoma City to in U.S. currency, $20,000 in Mex-' protege before they became po ican pesos and parachutes effort to accede to" the hijacker's demands.

"We are making arrangements to fuel him and meet any other demands," the spokesman said. He said the hijacker "has a pistol, but he has not used it in any threatening manner." The hijacking of the National plane also a 727 came as litical rivals, within minutes after the nomination was settled. Rep. Chisholm told the con- By the Associated Press Hijackers demanding ransom and parachutes commandeered American and National airlines flights Wednesday night in separate incidents on the East Coast and in the Southwest, authorities said. The air piracy came a week after two planes on the West Coast were hijacked within 24 hours.

President Nixon ordered They ordered the plane back to Philadelphia where it landed iust before 9 p.m. About Two Philadelphia-bound United Air Lines flights one from Rochester and one from Buffalo were diverted to Allentown -Bethlehem -Easton Airport. The flights landed at A-B-E after 9 p.m. About 90 passengers on the flights were bused to Philadelphia after landing. 90 minutes later, pilot Elliott Mention she would work across Adams jumped out of the cock-the nation for the McGovern pit and was picked up on the picket.

4 the jet, carrying 113 passengers and a crew of six, approached runway by police. A doctor who jackSOn wired McGovern New York Citv's Kennedv Inter-! treated him quoted Adams men was inside the hotel. The arrests occurred just congratulations. "As nominee nc nf rai-tj vnn hll have mv af. stricter searches of all commu Family 44-47 Sports 51-58 Financial 49, 60 Television 48 Kilpatrick 16 Theaters 59 Lawrence 16 TV Keynotes 48 Porter 49 Wilson 59 Baker 16 Bridge 59 Classified 61-69 Comics 48, 49 Deaths 6, 29 Editorial 16 national Airport after a flight saying he jumped because VL UU1 (MiiJ from Philadelphia.

i only had enough fuel for about said the Washington Dallas when the hijack occurred, ter nights alter last week incidents. The American plane, a three- ter a meeting between McGovern and six governors in the senator's 17th-floor suite broke up. AUinuiuies sam iwo men, live nines aiiu vrauiuu i ouujcn wtlO had Dlttenv op- whom the pilot said carried his passengers to a crash. Second Class Postage Paid at Allentown, Pa. 18105 posed McGovern.

Authorities said an armed! man, demanding $550,000 and parachutes, ordered the plane to! fly to Fort Worth, about 30; miles from Dallas. First reports Mere's IIIw TDaev Vteal said he wanted another plane in Fort Worth. i Nixon Proposal $5,000 Each Asked for Flood Victims Bad weather prevented a MTA1UT RTT A PH Flo API landing at Fort Worth however, iHere is the tabulation of how and the pilot flew back to Okla dence. As much as $10,000 could businesses had been damaged or be borrowed to replace lost or destroyed by the tropical storm the states voted in the selection of Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota to be the Democratic presidential nominee.

in disasters that occurred earr lier this year, such as the flood that hit Rapid City, S.D., would homa City, landing at Will Rogers Airport. The hijacker ordered the nlanp tn tnko nff anH pirnlp tho which swept through parts of damaaed household goods and not be eligible, unless Congress (c) N. Y. Times News Servict SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. Homeowners and businessmen in a six-state area damaged by Tropical Storm Agnes would receive up to $5,000 each in an outright grant from the federal airport while the ransom changes the President plan.

It appeared that Congress State Mc R.I. 22 0 0 0 0 S.C. 6 6 10 4 6 S.D. 17 0 0 0 0 Tenn. 0 33 0 10 0 Tex.

54 48 23 4 0 Utah 14 0 1 0 3 Vt. 12 0 0 0 0 Va. 33.5 1 4 5.5 9 V.I. 1 0 1.5 .5 0 Wash. 0 0 52 0 0 W.Va.

16 1 14 0 4 Wis. 55 0 3 5 0 Wvo. 3.3 0 6.05 1.1 0 totals: McGovern 1.728.35 1 0 delivered. being personal property, subject to the overall loan ceiling of $55,000. For businesses, which would also be eligible for the $5,000 grant as well as the easy-term the Southeast and East in late June.

The six states whose residents would be eligible for the new, liberalized assistance are Florida. Maryland, New York, Penn An American Airlines spokes- i Alaska might start considering the pro-p a 1 almost immediately. government to make repairs to Hearings were already sched their Drorjerty and replace dam- loans, the maximum loan under man said "we are making every Ariz. Ark. Worth Repeating Cal.

A good end cannot sanctify evil sylvania, Virginia and West Vir- uled to start in the Senate Bank- 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 0 State Mc jKan. 20 0 10 2 1 IKy. 10 0 35 0 2 La. 10.25 3 10.25 18.5 2 Maine 5 0 0 0 0 Md. 13 38 0 2 0 Mass.

102 0 0 0 0 Mich. 50.5 67.5 7 3 1 Minn. 11 0 0 6 0 Miss. 10 0 0 12 3 Mo. 24.5 0 48.5 0 0 Mont.

16 0 0 1 0 i Neb. 21 0 3 0 0 Nev. 5.75 0 5.25 0 0 N.H. 10.8 0 5.4 0 0 N.J. 89 0 11.5 4 1.5 N.M.

10 8 0 0 0 N.Y. 263 0 9 6 0 N.C. 0 37 0 0 27 N.D. 8.4 .7 2.8 .7 0 jOhio 77 0 39 23 3 Okla. 10.5 0 23.5 1 4 Ore.

34 0 0 0 0 Pa. 81 2 86.5 9.5 1 P.R. 7 0 0 0 0 I aged belongings, under legisla- the program would be $500,000. tion oroDosed Wednesday by There would be no restrictions ginia. The original White House mg Committee next week on a on the size of the businesses that announcement did not include less extensive liberalization of President Nixon.

For those who received dam- would be eligible. I the District of Columbia, where the disaster loan program. Mc 9 24 1 6.5 0 3.25 21 0 3 1 0 1 271 0 0 3 0 0 27 0 0 30 0 20 5.85 0 6.5 13.5 0 1.5 2 75 0 14.5 11 14.5 1.5 0 1.5 6.5 0 8.5 12.5 0 2.5 119 .5 30.5 26 26 20 35 0 0 0.65 0 means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. William Penn adv. FREE MCDONALD'S HAND Puppets.

McDonald's 721 Cedar Crest Boulevard The proposed legislation, there was also widespread dam-1 'ine White House said mat it which Nixon is expected formal- age from Agnes, in the list of expected more than $1 billion in lv to send to Congress on Mon-! eligible areas. loans and grants to be made to dav, would constitute, by far, The White House press office individuals and businesses in the the most generous financial aid announced later in the day that area damaged by Agnes. Over Conn. Del. D.C.

Fla. Ga. Guam Hawaii Idaho 111. Ind. Iowa Wallace 381.7 Jackson 525 Chisholm 151.95 Sanford 77.5 Others: Humphrey 66.7; Mills 33.3; Muskie 24.3: Kennedy 12.7; Hays McCarthy Clark Mondaie 1.

age from the storm in excess of $5,000. government loans would be made available on easy terms. The interest charge would be 1 per cent a year and the repayment period 30 years. For homeowners, the maximum loan would be $55,000, of which no more than $50,000 could be for the repair of a resi 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 2 12 0 1 2 4.5 1 3 District ot UMumoia residents time, mucn ot mis would De re- be eligible. paid The proposed legislation to disaster victims ever offered by the government.

In announcing his relief pro-, posal, President Nixon said that more than 128,000 homes and; WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? No Charge Checking? That's Right. Tri-County State Bank, 1936 MacArthur Road Whitehall would apply only to the victims NOW OPEN 24 HRS. A DAY of Agnes. Those who had losses Lane's-2300 Lehigh,.

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