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But Safety Council Fears Hundreds of Injuries This Year Sitrficit Laws' DHodM IFireworlc Fatalities ILcbw in CJ i i .0 33 it 0 0 2 is jo i r- -v 5 By PENNIE SUE THURMAN CHICAGO (AP) Thousands of persons are injured each year in fireworks accidents despite strict state laws which have reduced fatal mishaps almost to zero. This Independence Day will be no different, according to the National Safety Council which predicts that hundreds of injuries will result from use of bootlegged fireworks around July 4. The 'council says many otherwise law-abiding citizens ignore the laws, which cover more than 60 per cent of the population, and bring fireworks into a state or municipality which has ban- need their possession, sale or transportation. 1 The laws have succeeded in cutting the death toll from 466, tabulated by the American Medical Association in 1903, to none in recent years. The AMA says another contributor to the absence of deaths is the fact that Americans take to the roads in automobiles on holidays instead of staying home and shooting fireworks.

The council says that bootleg users find a black market connection or bring fireworks from some rural area where they are sold in the opcrt. Mail-order chemicaljdts, con-t a 1 i potentially explosive chemicals, are available through magazine ads even though they are Illegal, the council Deuel Richardson, a spokesman for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in Boston, says that although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned Class explosives, It still allows use of Class fireworks which carry a warning note. Class fireworks include cherry bombs and some types of aerial bombs and rockets. Class fireworks are small fire-crackers and nohexplosivcs such as sparklers and snakes.

"We are still puzzled by the attitude of the FDA in allowing Class fireworks," Richardson says. "It has taken the position that as long as these fireworks carry a warning label, they are not harmful to children." "We doubt very much," he says, "if any 8-, 7-or 8-year-olds pay any attention to warnings on small firecrackers." Richardson says a federal ban of Class fireworks also could end bootlegging. Seventeen states have adopted an NFPA model law tyS)idding sale, possession or transportation of all fireworks including Class C. They are Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Vermont and West Virginia. Nine others are covered by the NFPA law with modifications to allow some non-explosive items.

They are Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin. Twelve states and the District of Columbia allow Class fireworks, with state authorities determining exceptjpns. Those states are Alabama, California, Colorado, Montana, NewMexi-co, Kansas, Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington and Wyoming. The remaining 12 states allow all Class fireworks. The state laws provide fines from $25 up to $1,000, and jail terms from 20 days to a year.

Phil Dykstra, manager of the council's home department, says even Class fireworks are dangerous and destructive enough to warrant all fireworks except for licensed public dil He cites a study by the NFPA and th Society for the Pre, Blindness which sho cent of fireworks ac -j suiting in personal inj property damage by Class fireworks. The council believes that there are no safe fireworks and no safe way for an amateur to use fireworks, so Americans should take advantage of public displays and leave the handling of fireworks to professionals. SPRINGF AND Sn CITY 3 FINAL VOL. XL NO 39 Strand Cltn Poataia Pal4 at Sprtngfwld. Mo.

8.10 Momhlj wilb Swxlaj Newt 4 Leader SPRINGFIELD, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1972 EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES Published by Springfield Newspaper, Dsilj Except Sunday, 661 Boosvlll. Springfield. Mo, ttttOl uang I a i i I W- a- i i k' 1 7f fLJ 5 ft I It ir 1 II Allied Saigon Sends 20,000 Men In Drive for Province f- VClu v-vVf1! I i wm ft a 'J i By RICHARD BLYSTONE SAIGON (AP) The South Vienamese government today launched Its first attempt to recapture Quang Tri Province. More than 20,000 marines and paratroopers crossed the My Chanh river along a 10-mile front stretching from the South China Sea to the jungled foot Workmen finished the speaker's platform yesterday as they prepared Miami Beach's Convention Hall for the Democratic National Con- Associated Press Wirepbota vention which opens July 10. Camera stands are under construction in the center of the hall.

California Challenge Is McGovern Competes For Dixie By GREGG HERRING-TON ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) Sen. George McGovern, attaching negative motives to the Nixon administration's so-called Southern strategy, has committed himself to doing major political battle with the President for the hearts and votes of Dixie residents. The South Dakofe. lawmaker, who is favored to capture the Democratic presidential nomination next month, shrugged off predictions the South will easily go Republican this year, and he promised Tuesday he would campaign hard in the region.

McGovern also might have opened the door for gaining some popularity in tne bourn when he said this morning that the federal voting rights act should possibly be reviewed and updated, indicating that as it is currently written it could be unfair to the South. But he was particularly adamant, in any case, on his intention to campaign in the region, Newspapgr writers and politicians "who keep claiming I don't haveany chance" in the South against Nixon "may be in for one of the biggest surprises of their lives," McGovern told a Little Rock, rally. "If there's anyone under the impression that we're going to write off the South, or any other part of the country, forget it," he later told a meeting of Arkansas Democratic convention delegates. "We're going to come into every State in the Union, especially in the South." want to offer something other than the Nixon strategy," he said during the campaign day that took him from San Antonio, to Little Rock, where approximately 4,000 by newsmen's estimates cheered him, The Ninon, strategy, he said, is "a divisive one, one that appeals to the Old South, to the worst instincts in ail of us." McGovern said several times during the day he thinks the South would benefit more than any other region by his popu-listic tax reform proposals and his plan to end the Vietnam war within 90 days of his inauguration. The South, he said, has suffered a disproporationate number of casualties in the war.

He admitted, however, that his support of school busing to achieve racial desegregation could hurt him in the region, but, speaking to the Arkansas delegates, he blamed Nixon for making school busing a major issue when, he said, it needn't have been. Nixon aides have long contended they expected the President to capture several Southern states this year as he did in 1968. McGovern's audiences at Tuesday night's rally here and earlier in Oklahoma City, San See POLITICS, Page 46 By CARL P. LEUBSDORF "WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George McGovern's supporters are mounting a massive effort to beat back a California credentials challenge which could be the last major threat to his nomination.

McGovern forces succeeded on another front Tuesday when Democratic party platform-writers produced a document echoing the senator's key positions, but in terms that his two main rivals also could embrace. The platform draft will be offered for a vote at the Miami Beach convention where debate seems certain on a number of planks opposed by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and his supporters. The Platform Committee voted overwhelmingly to author PRICE TEN CENTS Farmers and ranchers have plenty to beef about in Mr.

Nixon's removal of all restric-tions' on the importing of meat into the U.S., our lead editorial concludes. Bage 70. Senate committee approves a measure barring the sale of cheap handguns known as "Saturday Night Specials." Page 25. Some Missouri congressional ADndiiuti.a ffpttinir Klinnnrt from organizations throughout the nation. Page 75.

Springfield industries report business is on the upswing. Page 41. A medical care chain will take over management of Springfield Baptist Hospital, with many changes planned. Page 4L Light heavyweight champion Knh Vnvtor anil hpavvweieht contender Muhammed All make short work of the Quarry brothers. Page 43.

Jumbles "7777! Page 20 i i. ti (i- -rouy'9 rage so- Amusement Page 30 Local news Pages 35-41-48-74 Sports Pages 42-43-44 Comics Page 53 Horoscope Page 53 Ann Landers Page 54 Deaths Page 55 Society Page Editorial Pages 76-71 News Martha Mitchell, quoted over the weekend as saying she was leaving her husband until he left politics, slipped out of the Westchester Country Club with her husband, former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell. Stock market prices nosed lower in some of the slowest trading in months with the Dow Jones average at noon down 3.84 at 931.44.

A brownish gold two-button sport coat which authorities said resembled one believed worn by a missing skyjacker was turned over do the FBI at Peru, Ind. Mike McKoot, a lameduck state senator in Texas, talked for 42 hours and 33 minutes, and then sat down at his desk in the Texas Senate, ending the world's longest one-man filibuster. At Newark, N.J., Paul J. Sherwin, New Jersey's secretary of state and chief politi--cal adviser to Gov. William T.

Cahill, was indicted on conspiracy and extortion charges. Democratic members of the House voted that the proposed new rules reorganizing the party are "not in the best interests of the Democratic party." Russian Boris Spassky, who has a reputation for glacial calm, had an outburst of nerves and stormed off a tennis court to go to his hotel to sulk over photographers at Reykjavik, Iceland, site of his upcoming world chess match with Bobby Fischer you Said Goal miles southwest of My Chanh. The Saigon command said four tanks were destroyed, and in two skirmishes that followed, 120 of the enemy and five South Vietnamese were killed and 29 government troops were wounded. On the battlefront north of Saigon, the South Vietnamese command said 265 enemy troops and 11 South Vietnamese were killed in three actions Tuesday south of An Loc. American pi lots reported hitting an enemy ammunition storage area near by and setting off more than 400 secondary explosions.

In the air war against. North Vietnam, U.S. jets hit Tuesday two miles from the center of Hanoi for the second successive day, striking at an airfield and a See VIETNAM, Page 2 Late From Wire Services President Nixon announced plans for a two-month withdrawal of 10,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam and directed that only draftees who volunteer be sent there in the-future. The President will hold a news conference to be nationally broadcast over radio and television Thursday night, a spokesman said.

The. government's leading economic indicators, which tend to foreshadow future performance of the economy, gained only slightly in May, the government said. wv, Vn CabrpkaW hills west of Highway 1. U.S. B52 bombers dropped some 1,350 tons of explosives to open the way for the push.

Tanks, artillery, U.S. gunfire from ships offshore and American fighter-bombers supported the advancing troops. There were no immediate reports on the extent of North Vietnamese resistance or of casualties. Since the North Vietnamese their conquest of Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province, an. May 1, the South Vietnamese have made a number of in-and-out sweeps into the Communist- held territory along the coast.

But the drive today was the first large-scale attempt to carry out President Nguyen Van Thieu's orders on June 19 to retake all territory captured by Hanoi's forces in the offensive that began March 30, Allied sources said. Theorth Vietnamese have elements of four divisions in Quang Tri, supported by tanks and long-range 130mm guns that were a decisive factor in the capture of the province. They have repeatedly shelled the South Vietnamese defense line along the My Chanh river and have made a number of stabs at the line with tanks and in fantrymen, but the South Vietnamese and their American air support have driven the Communists back and claimed to have inflicted heavy losses 'on them. The North Vietnamese forces kept up their attacks almost up to the hour of the Saigon offensive. North Vietnamese troops and tanks struck before dawn at a paratrooper position three Caught in Act -4 Iff 4 Threat the 59 Chicago delegates headed by.

Mayor Richard J. Daley. They faee possible expulsion for violations of party rules in their selection. Segal indicated that compromise efforts would be attempted before Friday afternoon, when the case is due to come before the committee, Cecil Poole, the hearing examiner in the Chicago case, ruled Tuesday that the 59 delegates were slated in violation of party reform rules on "proce- See DEMOS, Page 2 Prelty Fair and a little eooler tonight and Thursday. Northwesterly winds 5 to 10 miles per hour.

Low tonight In the lower 60s. High Thursday 80-85, Precipitation probabilities, 10 per cent tonight and Thursday. (Complete weather on Page 55.) HOI RLY TEMPERATURES 12 Mldnwhl 69 8 72 1 a.m 69 9 a.m. 76 i a.m. 69 10 a.m 3 a.m 69 11 a 4 a.m 69 12 Nood B8 6 a.m.

66 1 D.m 6 a.m 67 2 p.m. 90 7 a.m 68 3 p.m 91 1 7 s. 2 K- v. i I Mount Massive Fight advisers met Tuesday night with the senator's supporters' on the committee to map plans for the showdown Thursday on the California challenge led by allies of Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey. The McGovern forces won the first round when hearing examiner Burke Marshall refused to support the attempt to split California's 271 votes, won by McGovern in the June 6 winner-take-all primary, and award them on a proportional basis. That could take 151 votes away from McGovern, who claims to be within 20 votes of the nomination. The latest tally by The Associated Press gives him 1,358.9 votes short of the 1,509 nfceded. Tjie seriousness with which the Mciiotorn camp regards the California case was evident in the comments of key strategists before Tuesday night's session.

Despite Marshall's finding, Sandy Berger told reporters, "I don't think it's over yet." Eli Segal, mastermind of the McGovern credentials effort, said he expects many votes to be "a lot more political than legal" but added "I think we're okay." Both said some credentials panel members who favor other candidates would vote with the McGovern forces on the California case." But 10 of McGovern's 60 supporters on the Credentials Committee are from California and won't be able to vote on the challenge, The entire California delegation could not vote on the case if it is appealed to the full convention as expected. With the California votes eliminated, solid bloc of McGovern opponents possibly could muster a majority. Another potentially divisive argument was shaping up over He said that polls taken across the state show that between 70 and 80 per cent of the people want a right to vote on taxes, and added, "When people feel that strongly, it's certainly going to effect an election where only one of the candidates gave them that chance." Blackwell said that his candidacy and the anti tax feeling "are tied so closely together as to be inseparable," leading him to believe that the voters will elect him as igovernor against any Republican. "I anticipate facing Kit Bond in November," he concluded, See BLACKWELL, Page 2 McGovern Supporters ize a minority report by the Wallace forces on such issues as taxes, the" economy, welfare, busing of school children, prayer in schools, and crime. McGovern continued his tour of the South where he found a friendly reception and in-j dications of possible later ballot support from Arkansas delegates.

hi a significant gesture to party regulars.ffie indicated that, if he wins the' nomination, he will keep Lawence F. O'Brien as national party chairman. With the proposed platform ready to be mailed to delegates, attention in Washington turned to the Credentials Committee which, in its first decisions Tuesday, tossed out challenges to the Alabama, South Carolina and Florida delegations A half-dozen key McGovern mill asserted, "I'm the only one who has vowed to veto any tax increase while I'm in office and I'm the only one with a proven record by virtue of the 1970 referendum petition drive." His current petition drive, which would have voters decide on any tax increases at the state and local level, is expected to conclude this week and the signed petitions be filed with the secretary of state's office prior to the July 6 deadline. Sen. Blackwell said he maintains a large margin of support over his nine opponents in the Democratic primary election: "I started off way ahead of all of them and it's staying that way." Assoclatfd Prni Wlrephoto Neiv Driver's License Beginning July 1, the colorful new Missouri Photo Driver License will look like this.

All data will be permanently embossed on the laminated, virtually Indestructible licenses. As a companion, the state will issue in official identification card to non-drivers over 21 for proof of age when purchasing liquor. (Story on Page 24.) "I'm Not for Nixon Either" Nixes Demo for President 4 3f ladkwell By WARREN GEURIN Staff Writer State Sen. Earl'R. Blackwell says he will not support the Democratic party's presidential candidate in November, "even though I'll be the nominee for governor." In Springfield for a campaign tour and meetings with several union groups, Sen.

Blackwell told a reporter yesterday, "The only three possibilities I ever saw for the presidential noml-nation were Sens. Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern and I won't support any of them." "I'm not for Nixon either," he exclaimed, "but I'll never again support a presidential nominee unless I hear him say he'U reduce the federal income tax andHhat goes for congressmen and senators, too." Sen. Blackwell said, "If it winds up to where Earl Black-well has to run on his own principles and his own platform, then that's the way I'll run." Asked to respond to criticism that he's a "one issue" candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, the maverick Hillsboro Democrat, retorted, "If I am a one issue candidate, at least that's one more issue than any of the rest of them have." Sen. Blackwell said taxation is still the issue Missouri and A woman bank robber, photographed by a bank camera, stoops to pick up money she dropped in a holdup of the St. Louis County National mini bank at Clayton yesterday.

The womaa got away with an estimated $9000. The picture was released by the FBI. Police in St. Louis reported the arrest of a suspect in The Republicans have their splits right after election, and Democrats have theirs just before an election. WILL ROGERS connectuty with the case today..