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Fgt 14 Hltibwt Amtrkan Ttiundy July 1). It7a Konnody- RNA- Fischer boycotts chess tournament Chisholm garner Convention tally MIAMIBEACH.FIa.(AP)- 1 0 8 0 0 0 'J Here is the final, official tabu- N.Y. lation of how the states voted in 27 8 0 0 0 0 the selection of Sen. George N.C. McGovern of South Dakota to 0 37 0 0 27, Mississippi votes N.D the auditorium.

"He said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Fox reported. Stein said Fox couldn't comply with Fischer's demand to be the Democratic presidential nominee. State Mc Ala. 9 24 1 0 Alas. 6.5 0 3.25 0 Ariz.

22 0 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 Ark. 1 Cal. 271 C.Z. 3 Colo. 29 Conn.

30 0 0 2 0 Del. 5.85 0 5.85 .65 0 DC. 13.5 0 1.5 0 Fla. 4 75 1 Ga. 14.5 11 14.5 12 1 Guam 1.5 0 1.5 0 0 Haw.

10.5 .7 2.1 .7 0 Ohio 77 Okla. 0 39 23 3 9.5 0 23.5 2 4 Ore. 34 0 Pa. 81 2 P.R. 7 0 R.I.

22 0 0 0 Or if 86.5 9.5 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 7, 4 0 0 0 0 6 I 0 3 i 0 S.C. 10 6 9 S.D. 17 0 0 Tenn. 5 3 2 0 Tex. 54 48 23 Utah 14 Vt.

12 Va. 37 V.I. 1 Wash. 1 2.5 8.5 1 1 1.5 .5 0 By TOM JORY Associated Press Writer MIAMI BEACH. Fla.

(AP) Mississippi's delegation to the Democratic National Convention, apparently swayed by a week -long push for unity among blacks, has fallen a vote short of casting majority support to Rep. Shirley Chisholm. in her bid for the party's presidential nomination. The delegation delivered the black New York Congress woman a dozen votes Wednesday night as the convention nominated Sen. George McGovern, S.D., on the first ballot.

Throughout the week, it had been assumed McGovern would get between 17 and 19 of Mississippi's votes. By late Wednesday, however, there was a noticeable erosion in McGovern support. The delegation gave the South Dakotan 10 votes, and, as expected, three went to North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford. Attention shifted quickly to the vice presidential race.

A leading figure in the Mississippi delegation, Greenville newspaper editor Hodding Carter III, has been pushing a low-key campaign all week for the second spot on the ballot, and is expected to get the near unanimous backing of the Mississippi group. The delegation met for nearly two hours before heading for the convention center Wednesday evening. It was during the caucus that McGovern backing began a noticeable slide. Fayette Mayor Charles Evers has been a leading figure in the move among the 457 black delegates to the convention to round up unified support for Mrs. Chisholm.

Evers, who was not present as the caucus began, had in 6.5 0 8.5 1 0 Ida. 12.5 0 2.5 2 0 111. 155 0 6 1 3 Ind. 28 25 19 0 0 Iowa 35 0 0 3 4 Kan. 20 0 10 2 1 Ky.

10 0 35 0 2 La. 25.75 3 10.25 4 1 Local Gayfors to opon in tho fall of 1974 Me. 5 0 0 Md. 13 38 0 Mass. 1 0 2 0 0 Mich.

50.5 67.5 7 Minn. 0 2 0 2 4 2 4 3 0 0 Miss. 2 3 0 0 Mo. 24.5 0 48.5 0 Mont. 1 6 0 0 1 Neb.

2 1 0 3 0 Nev. 5.75 0 5.25 0 N.H. 10.8 0 5.4 0 N.J. 92.5 0 1 1 3.5 0 N.M. FRESH FROM ro) mi mi Thur.

(Continued from page 1) consideration was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the counsel of Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie, his defeated rivals whose withdrawal from contention a day earlier had signaled Wednesday night's triumph. Those being mentioned include live senators Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri. Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, Philip A. Hart of Michigan, Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, and Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota; two governors.

Ohio's John J. Gilligan and Wisconsin's Patrick Lucey, and labor leader Leonard Woodcock. Within minutes after clinching the nomination, McGovern received congratulations and promise of support from all the candidates he had conquered, except Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace.

But labor leaders in particular remained bitterly opposed to the senator, as did many delegates. One sign in the hall read: "McGovern Will Bomb in November." Earlier in the evening, as the Democratic National Convention proceeded through its rites of nomination, McGovern left his penthouse suite at a hotel up the beach to tell antiwar demonstrators he stood by his pledge for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. "I'm not shifting my position on any of the fundamental stands I've taken," said McGovern, ringed by security agents as he faced the noisy, shoving demonstrators who had occupied the lobby six hours earlier. After two straight all-night sessions, the climactic round of nominating speeches proceeded swiftly, with little semblance of the old-time hoopla and floor demonstrations.

At last the roll call was reached and, as the clock struck midnight, McGovern's nomination was assured. Bedlam burst through the vast hall as supporters celebrated the victory of the man whose youthful legions had humbled the party's mighty. Forty-five minutes later, when Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien announced the final totals, the hall again went wild. Jubilant McGovern workers, their long quest against what seemed overwhelming odds crowned at last with success, kissed and hugged one another.

A third roar went up five minutes later as O'Brien declared McGovern the party's nominee and designated a committee to inform him of his designation. The committee is headed by Ribicoff, who nominated McGovern in a losing quest four years ago and again Wednesday night as "a candidate tuned to the challenges of the future." When the roll of states was concluded, McGovern had 1,728.35 votes 219 more than he needed. After many votes had been changed, he wound up with 1,864.95. Behind him, in order, came Sen. Henry M.

Jackson, who inherited much of Humphrey's labor support, with 486.65; Wallace 377.50; Rep. Shirley Chisholm 101.45; former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina 69.5; Humphrey 35; Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas 32.8; Muskie 20.8; Kenney 10.65; Rep.

Wayne L. Hays of Ohio former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota and Sen. Walter F.

Mondale of Minnesota 1. As he sat in his hotel suite, surrounded by family, friends and aides, the victorious McGovern took phone calls from Kennedy, Humphrey and Muskie. Jackson sent a telegram pledging support. Mrs. Chisholm, the first black woman ever nominated for president, took the rostrum to pledge a coast-to-coast campaign to oust President Nixon.

Wallace, "whose supporters sat silently while the McGovern backers whooped it up in the hall, remained in seclusion at his hotel. Earlier in the day," his campaign manager, Charles Snider, said chances of a repeat of the governor's 1968 third-party race for president were growing "stronger and stronger every minute." But Dolph Briscoe of the Texas delegation said Wallace had told him there would be no third-party movement in 1972. Although his rivals were falling into line, one major holdout was the barons of organized labor who fought McGovern's drive for the nomination to the bitter end. I. W.

Abel, president of the (Continued from page 11 which one of the men had been sitting, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported. Attendants said the car had been parked on the Doral's entrance ramp for 20 to 30 minutes. The second man was stopped minutes after he entered the Doral's lobby. Secret Service agents said later, "we have no information at this time to connect the activities of these men with any intended harm to the protectees of the Secret Service." At the time of the 11:45 a.m. arrests, McGovern was in his 17th floor penthouse suite, having just concluded a breakfast meeting with six governors.

Two of them, Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin and Marvin Mandel of Maryland, were holding a news conference in the hotel's lobby. In Jackson, an attorney for the RNA, John Brittain said the two men were official envoys of the RNA with orders to distribute "antidepression programs" at McGovern's headquarters. founded in Detroit. in 1968 with the goal of establishing a separatist black nation in five Southern states.

It is now based in Jackson. Many top RNA leaders have been in jail in Jackson since last August when a police lieutenant was shot to death in a raid by police and FBI agents. Brittain told newsmen, "We are fed up with attempts of the U.S. government to commit genocide on us." He said the two men were on a peaceful mission to Miami Beach, seeking only recognition of the RNA, permission to hold a plebiscite and to get land in the South. The two men wore denim shirts and trousers.

One wore a green knit skull cap. Secret Service agents said Sonebayatta was born in Philadelphia. After the arrests, McGovern canceled a scheduled 12:15 p. m. appearance before the Democratic National Convention's Latin Caucus at the Deauville Hotel.

However, his press secretary, Kirby Jones, said the visit was canceled so the senator could work on a nomination acceptance speech. His aides did urge McGovern not to go because of the incident, Jones stated. Shortly after the incident, Kathleen Kennedy, eldest daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was hustled back into a Doral elevator by agents after she stepped off in the lobby. Miss Kennedy, a Radcliffe College senior, has been campaigning for McGovern.

Authorities said the FBI had been following the car prior to their arrival at the hotel. It was reported that authorities in Mississippi had alerted the FBI in Miami earlier this week that two men had purchased guns in Jackson and indicated they were heading for Miami Beach. Leonard Mellon, a chief assistant state attorney for Dade County, asked for bonds of $125, 000 each on the two men because of "circumstances" on which he did not elaborate. Magistrate John. A.

Tanksley set bond at $100,000 each. jet back alolt. It circled for three hours before the money arrived and then landed a second time. After receiving the ransom and a parachute, the man allowed the other 50 passengers and three of the four stewardesses to deplane before taking off to circle the city once more. In the National hijacking, the FBI handled the negotiations over short wave radio while the plane remained on a remote runway at Philadelphia International Airport.

Agents assured the hijackers, who took over the plane as it was about to land at Kennedy Airport in New York, that all their demands including parachutes would be met. At one point the negotiations Ixigged down over whether the money would be handed over or the passengers released first and how close the escape plane could be moved to the hijacked jet. At 11 p.m.. two hours after the plane landed, the pilot dove out the. cockpit window and was picked off the runway by police.

He told a doctor he decided to escape because a flight would have meant a certain crash. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer informed the organizers of the world chess championships today, that he is boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras are removed from the hall. A call was made to the organizers at 10 minutes before the scheduled start of Fischer's second game with Boris Spassky of Russia. It said Fischer wasn't coming. Lothar Schmid, the chief referee, said Spassky would have to sit at the chess table by himself for one hour.

Then the game would be forfeited by Fischer. At what point Fischer would be disqualified from the championship series would have to be decided by the International Chess Federation-FIDE, Schmid said. Spassky, who won the first game of the 24-game match, entered the near-empty Sports Palace on time and took his place behind the black pieces arrayed in battle order before him. As the rules required, Schmid started Fischer's clock, since he was to have the first move with the white pieces. Spassky looked somewhat perplexed.

Richard Stein, the lawyer for promoter Chester Fox, said "we did everything we could" to appease Fischer. The American chess champion objected to the presence of the cameras, though he could neither see them nor hear them in the darkness of Quartor-milo- (Continued from page 1) room enough to see the whole thing at any one time while it's being assembled. It's like a (blind man trying to tend an elephant." Thomson, whose father founded the school of architecture at Tulane University, says the curtain should be rolling westward Friday, Saturday at the latest. It is made of six and one-half ounce nylon ripstock, a weave which is the same as that used on spinnaker sails. It's shaped somewhat like the wingspread of a great bat.

According to drawing it also resembles the downstairs part of a bikini for a lady who measures 1,367 feet from hipbone to hipbone. It is anticipated it will be hanging from its cables in Colorado by Aug. 1. So how long will it hang? Well, in any case it must be taken down by Oct. 1 because that's when Valley Curtain Project's permit with the Colorado Highway Dept.

expires. A year ago a similar curtain engineered by another firm and also sewed by a different agency, lasted only a few days before it flapped to ribbons. That loss must be figured in the total $800,000 cost; thus it is conceivable that if one scores a success in the initial effort it would cost much less to chop a valley in half. The concrete ground-anchors and overhead steel cables of the maiden venture are still serviceable, says Thomson. He is standing up to his knees in a swirl of nylon.

He has been supervising the rigging of dacron rope and bronze thimbles along what will be the bottom edge of the curtain and he is wet with sweat. "When it rolls out of here we're through with it," he says. The thought does not appear to depress him. United Steel Workers union, seconded Jackson's nomination by denouncing McGovern's labor record and earning of the risk in a McGovern nomination. Ribicoff declared however, that McGovern "will lead the Democratic party to a great victory" in November and added: "If I were a candidate for public office this year, I would want the enthusiastic legions of McGovern workers ringing doorbells for me.

too." And those legions were on hand for the night of triumph. In the senator's hotel, about 250 volunteers erupted in a loud cheer as the senator's total went over the top. They chanted, "Beat Nixon! Beat Nixon!" In the hall, the Illinois announcement prompted chants of "We want McGovern! We want McGovern!" In a box to the right of the rostrum, Mrs. McGovern beamed, kissed her daughter and said, "It's unbelievable." dicated a half-dozen of Mississippi's delegates would join him in the Chisholm camp. Delegation Chairman Aaron Henry of Clarksdale urged members to go along with the Chisholm push.

"Do we place Mrs. Chisholm in the kind of position to get the things we're for?" Henry asked delegates. "If she doesn't come in strong," he said, "the person who is nominated doesn't have any reason to bargain with her." Henry, at the same time, urged some delegates to go along with Sanford, mainly as a show of support for Carter. Carter delivered Sanford's nominating speech. "My feeling is that we ought to respond politically in respect to our fellow delegate who is nominating Sanford," he said.

Asked if he meant voting on the first ballot for Sanford, he responded. "I would consider that, at least." Carter responded that the delegates should vote their convictions. "The key issue is not if we vote the same on every issue," he said. "But the big, gut issue is that we defeat Richard Nixon this fall, or we're all dead. "For God's sake," he pleaded, "don't tear this place up to build another monument to Richard Nixon." Carter, in his nominating speech for Sanford, urged Democrats to put aside sectional divisions and go along with the Duke University president.

Sanford, he said, was best suited to handle "the heartfelt yearning of the American people for a government which belongs to them, and not to anonymous institutional power centers." He said the majority of the nation "seeks a man who combines idealism with a practicality, courage with compassion. Coast. It will be a complete department store featuring women's, men's and children's clothing and accessories, home furnishings and gifts, plus a beauty salon, a complete sewing center and many other interesting departments and services. The Hattiesburg store will carry the best nationally known lines as well as Gayfer's own quality brands at modest prices in all departments. Gayfer's ounded in 1879 in Mobile, currently has 11 stores which carry the Gayfer's name, in Jackson and Edgewater Park; Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and soon Auburn in Pen-sacola and Tallahassee, plus a 12th unit which will open in Clearwater, in April, 1973.

"We are extremely pleased with the performance of our two Mississippi stores, Holcomb added, "and we are confident that the growing Hattiesburg and Laurel area will support and make a similar success of this new venture. We are delighted to be in Hattiesburg and look forward to serving the community." NOW plant-Continued from page 1 Alco operates a similar plant in Douglasville, under Crider's supervision. In announcing the new plant. Conner said, "Hattiesburg seemed to offer everything we looked for in delecting a new plant location. Our market surveys show the economy and growth of Hattiesburg and surrounding territory, particularly the Gulf Coast area, should be exceptionally strong for the next several years.

We are excited about the possibilities of sharing in that growth." In addition to the sheet metal fabrication business. Modern Diversified Industries is engaged in several other activities, including mobile home manufacturing in Central Kentucky; mobile home retail sales in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee; and financial services from its headquarters in Valdosta. MDI's consolidated sales last year were $11,540,000. Its stock is traded in the over-the-counter market. remove the cameras.

"The whole financial structure of the match depends on it," Stein asserted. The phone call informing the organizers Fischer wasn't coming was made by Fred Cramer, an official of the U.S. Chess Federation who has 'access to Fischer. It was made to Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation. Hijackors- Continued from page 1) fourth stewardess escaped, Ihe FAA said, in a manner not known.

The plane's tires blew on landing, authorities said. Earlier police reported the tires were shot out. An FBI spokesman at the scene said negotiations continued with the hijackers. Asked if this meant the FBI would bring in new tires and jet fuel, the spokesman said, "II that's necessary, we'll do that." The FBI agent, referring to the shortness of the runway, which is about 5,000 feet, said, "I'm no pilot but I've talked to several and they've said they wouldn't like to take it off." The pilot, identified as Norman W. Reagan had suffered a fractured pelvis, broken wrists and face bruises.

The engineer was identified as Gerald Beaver. In the American Airlines hijack of a Dallas-bound jet, the lone gunman apparently abandoned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead surrendered meekly to a stewardess. He left behind the ransom package, which actually contained less than half what he delhanded, and the gun turned out to have been empty. The two hijackers of the National plane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who endured nine hours of suffocating heat as the aircraft sat on a runway in Philadelphia International Airport while FBI agents haggled with the gunmen over details of delivering the ransom money and freeing the passengers. "A couple of people fainted," said one passenger, Tom Herring of St.

Louis. "I didn't think it was necessary to go through all the shennanigans with the heat the way it was." The gunman in the second hijacking, identified by the FBI as Melvin Martin Fisher, 49, of Norman, the father of five children, released the 51 passengers aboard an American Airlines Boeing 727 after getting the ransom at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport early this morning'. Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a half-hour after it was in the air, ordering it to return to the airport. He demanded the money in $100 bills and a parachute, released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again. Crew members said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape, but finally decided against jumping and surrendered.

The plane returned to the airports where FBI agents took Fisher off in handcuffs. Arnold Larson, special agent in charge of the FBI in, Oklahoma City said Fisher would be charged with air piracy. One passnger, John Clark of Dallas, said no metal detector was used to check passengers boarding the flight in Oklahoma City. Sarge Glenn, a deputy marshal in Philadelphia said National has no metal detection devices there. Both hijackings began Wednesday night with demands for ransom and parachutes.

The National flight was en route from Philadelphia to New York City and the American flight bound lor Dallas, from Oklahoma City. First reports said the hijacker wanted the American (light to go to Fort Worth. but bad weather prevented a landing there and the plane returned to Oklahoma City. While the ransom was being collected, the man ordered the 4 McGovern 1,864.95 Wallace 377.5 Jackson 486.65 Chisholm 101.45 1 Sanford 69.5 Candidates whose names were not placed in nomination received votetotalsasfollows 5f Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey Rep. Wilbur D. Mills 32.8. Sen; Edmund S. Muskie 20.8.

Sen-. EdwardM. Kennedy 10.65. Repj Wayne Hays 5. Eugene McCarthy 2.

Sen. Walter Monday 1. I Bid on-- Continued from page .1 space for recreation, consultant services in the fields of health, education and em-; ployment, and classes in such areas as marketing, sewing and cooking. The present community recreation center of the site is' being demolished. The first class of cadets at the U.S.

Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs graduated in June 1959. THE GULF rvi vii Fri. Sat. GROWN 0 0 5 2 0 W.V. 16 1 14 0 Wis.

55 0 3 5 Wyo. 3.3 0 6.05 1.1 Totals: Jit SHRIMP 5 lb. Box SHRIMP 579 CATFISH Fresrater 95 OYSTERS FLOUNDER CRABMEAT TROUT Robert W. Holcomb, president, and Fred J. Bostrop, chairman of the board of Gayfer's Dept.

Stores, said today that the third Gayfer's Store in Mississippi will open in the fall of 1974. The new 90,000 square foot store will be the major occupant in Broadacres Shopping Center Mall and it is being built by Hattiesburg developer. Robert M. Gillespie at the intersection of Hyw. 49 and Interstate 59.

Construction of the unit will be started in the near future. Holcomb said. He added that the new Hattiesburg store will be bigger than its sister store at Edgewater Park, which opened in 1963 on the Gulf USM golf pro talks to Metros James Ray Carpenter, University of Southern Mississippi golf pro, told members of the Metropolitan Club Wednesday that the USM course took in $65,000 last year. Speaking at the meeting at the Red Carpet Inn, Carpenter said: "Mississippi has 108 golf courses, which is a good number. California has the most courses with 671.

Alaska has the least, three. More than 10.000,000 golfers play more than 15 games a year each year. Golfers travel to courses they want to play. We have many to stay overnight here so they can play our courses. "We are doubling the size of the USM course but it is a lengthy process, because we iio not have the money to 'spend.

What reserve we have "will go into a pro shop. The one have is an acient one Inherited from Camp Shelby." Don Woodall was welcomed as a new member of the club. Micky Harrington presided at he meeting. I PKKTTY POISON MIAMI (AP) Sea ane--mones appear to be flower-Mike plants. Actually, says Bill Gray of the Miami -Seaquarium.

they are carnivorous animals which use Itheir "petals" as stinging llentacles to catch and poison prey. HOME I Vllini WlaW lb. 1 oCANTALOUPESirq1 oBELL PEPPERS. 5 PEAS BUTTER BEANS CORN SQUASH 0KRA COOKED FRESH DAILY BAKED HAM BOILED SHRIMP TRIANGLE SEA FOOD STORE Hardy at 3rd Avenue We accept Food Stamps.

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