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Mc Govern olid mianci una Com 1 campaign that plunged him from front-runner to loser. "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. 11 MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. George McGovern strode without major challenge toward the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday as Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie quit in the face of his towering national convention strength.

The capitulation of McGovern's major rivals eased the tension as the second session of the Democratic National Convention opened. The naming of LawTence F. O'Brien as permanent chairman and the keynote address by Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida were the first items of business. AND SO, politically, the Democrats' swarming, sweltering convention resort belonged to the senator from South Dakota, longest of long shots when he began his White House quest 18 months ago.

The Associated Press count of delegate commitments showed McGovern had surged far beyond the majority that will choose tonight the Democrats' man to challenge President 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, Tuesday 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 18, withdrew what will probably be his final bid for the White House. Then Muskie wrote a finish to the 1 i fJ i Hi II II I 1 40 Pages Wednesday, July 12,1972 Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa mi WO 1J iiaj Xim Vr 10 Cents MIAMI BEACH (AP) The Democratic National Convention Tuesday night 'shouted down eight planks offered by Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace in an attempt to move the McGovern-oriented party platform to a more conservative stance. Key among the Wallace planks was one that called for a constitutional amendment to forbid busing of children to achieve racial balance in schools. THE PLATFORM committee had endorsed some busing if necessary to achieve quality education and racial balance. The committee also had adopted Sen.

George McGovern'i position calling for immediate pullout of American troops from Southeast Asia, while the rejected Wallace plank set the release of American prisoners as a precondition for pullouts. The convention acted on the Wallace planks by voice vote, and as each plank came up for vote it was overwhelmingly shouted down. Wallace, who was crippled by an assassin's bullet May 15, made a personal appearance before the convention to plead for his planks, and he was loudly cheered by the delegates. BUT WHEN it came to showing where the real strength of this convention is, Wallace was soundly defeated. One of the key ingredients of his campaign had At' i 1 VI Z' I wNBlfes? Y- Mayor Richard J.

Haley ha been dismissed from the Democratic Rational Convention but he still remains the man the Democrats must count on to win Illinois in November. Page 2. been an attempt to influence the platform. WALLACE won cheers and whistles by asserting that the American people were "frustrated, tired of big government," and knew that big government could not solve their problems. The average citizen, he said, feels government pays attention to them only on election day and taxpaying day.

Wallace spoke as the convention headed into a second turbulent, marathon session to endorse a McGovern-oriented platform urging immediate withdrawal from Vietnam and spread-the-wealth tax reforms. WHEN THE debate opened on the specific busing plank, Richard J. Trolly, mayor of Taylor, supported the Wallace antibusing proposal by telling delegates that polls show 80 per cent of Americans opposed to "court-required busing." Forced busing, Trolly said, has caused disenchantment with the courts 1 Mrs. Valerie Kushner of Lanville, wife of a Vietnam war prisoner, will second the nomination of Sen. George S.

McGovern tonight. (AP Photo) Clinton Board Gets Racetrack Request That left McGovern with lesser rivals to confront in the climactic nominating roll call. GOV. GEORGE C. Wallace of Alabama remained a candidate, but his strategists have acknowledged he has no chance McGOVERN Continued On Page 2 Aliibama Gov.

George Wallace ac- knowledges the cheers that greeted his appearance at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. (AP Photo) Hughes Vote To McGovern! It Roger Mu mis MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Sen. Harold E. Hughes, D-lowa, Tuesday described Sen.

George McGovern of South Dakota as "the man who scorned the odds to become the overwhelming choice" as the Democrats presidential candidate. Hughes, obviously saddened by the withdrawal of Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, pledged unqualified support to Mefiovern. 1 Reading quickly, yet carefully, from a prepared text at an Iowa delegate caucus session, Hughes' five-mimile talk was inter- I rupted four tunes by pro-McGovcrn deni- I onstralions. Hughes had been campaign eoordina- tor for Muskie.

Several Muskie backers in the Iowa delegation said they would probably follow Hughes' lead in the presidential balloting tonight. AMONG THEM was Monica Walton, Davenport, who said she was "keenly (lis- appointed'' that Muskie dropped out of the race "just as I was disappointed when he dropped out of the primaries. "I really wanted to cast my vote lor Muskie. Now I Mrs. Walton said.

Both McGovern and Muskie were highly praised by youthful delegates who said contentions that the South Dakotan would divide the party were "sheer rubbish." The scene was a direct contrast with the jammed meeting room of a suburban Des Moines motel a lew months ago when Hughes, with Muskie at his side, announced his support for the Maine senator. AT THE meeting here Tuesday. Muskie was not present, nor were the glaring television lights. Hughes, who had slept only seven hours in the lust three days, appeared drawn and stern. lie said when he announced for Muskie he had pledged to go the distance "I have honored that pledge," Hughes said.

"Ed Muskie is one of the greatest men in American public life He could have made a great and ju4 president, if it had worked out that way Hughes said McGovern did not win by a (hike. He won "by convincing the rank and die of the party that he was straight and sincere on the issues. "HE WON by accurate interpretation of the new trends in American life and by putting together the most effective grassroots organization of all time," Hughes said. At a meeting of Muskie delegates after the caucus, Hughes said part of the reason for Muskie's downfall was continued pressure from news media. "When he started going down, there wasn't anything he could say, anything he could do that was right in tin view of the press," Hughes said.

Hughes did not disclose whether he had urged Muskie to hold on in hope of winning either the presidential or vice presidential slot in the event McGovern fails to capture the presidential Mill 1 If I -'t WS. sij I ll 1 fc -tun i irnminii'iiltntiriilwniiiiir-iliii i MiiafalMiaMWiiamittwiiiiiiii i ir. i nimni ni im nial-niirlnKiriM. mi mi i nnwrnwiW liiimi mill it lifiini i WKilij Boris SpaHsky, left, and Bobby Fischer ponder moves in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday during the first game in the battle for the world chess title. (AP Photo) and "taken innocent children from their homes until the sun has gone down." But, he said, it has not achieved balance ini schools.

"And it never will," Trolly added, "because racial balance will never be achieved on a government bus. It has not achieved quality education, because children cannot be properly educated in strange environments. "IT HAS caused violence, retarded our destiny of greatness, and opened doors to taking away the freedoms of every man, woman and child in the land." Other Wallace backers given ten minutes apiece, followed by rebuttals of equal length argued for the Alabama governor's other dissenting planks. The debate on the Wallace package alone occupied three hours before any votes could be taken. Argument was interrupted periodically by appeals from the chair for restless delegates to return to their seats and cease milling about and talking in the aisles.

Other disserits in the Wallace bundle called for planks guaranteeing the right to prayers in school, the power of states to impose the death penalty, opposition to drastic gun-control laws, far less radical tax reforms than those implied by the majority draft, and welfare changes based on work rules and screening of welfare recipients. if i Strong tee," Gellcr replied. FISCHER has played Spassky live times in the past. The thiee tunes he played the black pieces he lost. Playing white he was able to salvage two draws, but has never triumphed over the Soviet.

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 pne money of about dollars starling with only one man sitting at the chess table. Fischer, as usual, was late He arrived sewn minutes after Spassky moved his queen pawn and referee l.othar Schmid pressed the button to start Fischer's clock, THE GAME went cautiously at hist, FISCHER Continued On Page 2 High attorney said "Then there is a 90 day waiting period and it's all over It's getting easier all the time," Another (actor weighing heavily in the climbing divorce rate is the advent of the liberated woman. "YEARS AGO the only time women had a say in the marriage was before the wedding," said Boyd. "Now women are demanding all equal rights to a satisfying and happy marriage." 01 tlie 1,500 cases Boyd has handled in -DIVORCE Continued On Page 2 1 v4w V' Chess Match Opens Spassky Starts By Steven Klaus DeWITT, Iowa Nationally sanctioned quarter horse racing may be introduced to this area in September if the Clinton County Board of Adjustment grants a special use zoning request to construct a track about three miles south of here. A public hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m.

July 19 in the board room of the DcWitt Bank and Trust Co. to consider a request by Ralph Rank, Belmont Road, Bettendorf, to rezone an acreage on the west side of U.S. fil north of the Wapsipini-con River. Rank, 62, a contractor and horse breeder, said he believes the track would be the first of its kind in Iowa. It would be sanctioned by the National Quarter Horse headquartered in Amarillo, Tex.

RANK contends a track in this area will draw an abundance of race entries. "I'll bet there are 3.000 to 4.000 quarter horses in the Quad-City area," Rank remarked. "This area is just full of quarter Ralph Rank Elsewhere Business Classified Horoscope Agri-News Obituaries Pages 30,31 Pages 3S-39 Page 33 Page 34 Page 12 1 horse clubs." The only other quarter horse track near the Quad-Cities is Hidden Valley Downs northwest of Galesburg, 111., Rank said. He said the track will cater to both the spectator and contestants. Entry fee money would be returned to the participants in purses, he said, similar to stock car racing.

He claimed some pretty big purses may be featured. RANK SAID some races at Hidden Valley Downs have purses up to $6,500. "They run as many as 19 races a day and five to eight horses in each race," he said. "It's just like a picnic to go to those races." "Some of the richest races in the world are quarter horse races." Rank commented. Obviously an avid fan of the sport.

Rank said the purse in a race slated for Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico the end of August will top $1 million. He noted, however, that "some of those races cost a lot of money to get into." If his zoning request is approved, Rank said he would begin construction immediately and the track would be open by Sept. 1. Match races would be conducted this season, and next year major races would be scheduled by the quarter horse association. PLANS FOR the track include a 440-yard straightaway.

Unlike East Moline Downs, which is currently under construction. Rank's track would not offer pa rimutuel. betting, although, he admits he has an eye to the future and the day Iowa may allow horse track betting. An admission fee would also be charged the general public, he said, for an event which offers plenty of entertainment packed in a 20-second ride. Rank has a sizeable stable of his own that includes some blood lines from the first of the quarter horses.

He is now training his first runner, a three-year-old filly. riages during the first six months of 1972. "The divorce situation in this area is typical," said Ken Boyd, executive director of Family and Children's Services, Davenport. Boyd said. "Attitudes toward marriage have changed dramatically in recent years but the institution of marriage will definitely last," Marriage license filings have been steadily decreasing and divorce suits, annulments and legal separations have been gradually spiralling during the last four years, according to national statistics BOYD, who counsels couples faced 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 4 hours and 34 minutes of play. It will resume today at noon CDT, or 5 p.m. Reykjavik time. 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 Ghgoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster, commented: "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Fischer is playing the black pieces and Spassky the with problems that sometimes end in divorce, said a divorce today does not carry the stigma of social pressure it carried several years ago. People do not treat divorce lightly, he said. But they do have more of a matter-of-fact attitude about how they want to spend their lives and are ready to question the existing mores, Boyd said, Also indicative of the increase in divorces is the continuing revision of divorce laws to simplify court procedure. Charles Brooke, Davenport attorney, said previously couples in Iowa wishing a divorce had to be prepared to submit argu American challenger llohliy Fischer and world champion Itoris Spassky made 10 moves in 1 hours and minutes in the opening game for the eness title.

Thosr moves are listed on age 2. white, which means the Russian had the first move. Yefim Gellcr. the Russian who seconds Spassky, watched the final moves on dosed circuit television in the corridor, sipping a cup of coffee, "What do you think. Grandmaster Gellcr?" he was asked.

"I am not thinking, I am dunking col- ments in court showing mental cruelly, adultery or some other grounds for divorce. "NLW IOWA statutes require only that a couple stale incompatability. From then on everything is pretty much routine," lirooke said In Iowa the average court cost for a divorce settlement is between $10 and Brooke said. Attorneys' fees have been standardized at around $2(K) for an ordinary divorce case, he said, "An uncontested divorce could conceivably be settled within 30 days." the Q-C Divorce Rate Hits All-Time My Kd Jahn For every 10 couples in the Quad-Cities who walk down the aisle to get married, another five are emerging separately from a courtroom after obtaining a divorce. Since Jan.

1 of this year 1,829 marriage licenses have been issued in Scott and Rock Island counties. There have been 8D9 divorce suits filed during the same period, THIS ALL-TIME high in the divorce rate is slightly higher than the national nerage of 455 divorces per 1.00 new mar.