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2 TIMES-DEMOCRAT Wednesday, Jane 28, 1JT2 Dafnport Bftlf ndorf, Iowa Gain Limelight Credentials Challen ges to replace the welfare system, but omits any reference to the details McGovern has outlined and is now revising. As its final act, the Platform Committee assured a convention airing for some 20 challenges to the proposed statement of party position, including rejected planks on abortion and homosexual rights as well as others opposed by the Wallace forces. McGovern called the proposed platform "beautiful." Spokesmen for Humphrey and Sen. Edmund Muskie also praised it, but Charles C. Snider.

Wallace's national campaign director, called it "a suicide note" that ignores voters' wishes. In Little Rock, McGovern met with Gov. Dale Bumpers and other Arkansas delegates, all committed to home-state Rep Wilbur D. Mills until released, and said afterward it was a "free, friendly, satisfying exchange of views." McGovern continued his tour of the South where he found a friendly reception and indications of possible later ballot support from Arkansas delegates. In a significant gesture to party regulars, he indicated that, if he wins the nomination, he will keep Lawrence 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 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 the Chicago case, ruled Tuesday that the 59 delegates were slated in violation of party reform rules on "procedures, notice, openness and timeliness." ALTHOUGH be made no recommendation to the Credentials Committee, his findings lent support to the challenging group led by Alderman William Singer and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Though many of the challengers support McGovern. he has taken no position on that dispute but backs a similar challenge by some of his downstate Illinois supporters. The final platform draft adopts McGovern's call for total U.S.

withdrawal from Indochina as the new president's first order of business, urges an end to tax loopholes for individuals and corporations, and endorses a prudent defense policy that cuts waste. It adopts something close to the McGovern plan for income payments 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 pla Worm-writers produced a document echoing the senator's kep 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 authorize a minority report by the Wallace forces on such issues as taxes, the economy, welfare, busing of school children, prayer in schools, and crime. 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 150.1 votes short of the 1,509 needed. THE SERIOUSNESS with whkb the McGovern 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, a solid bloc of McGovern opponents possibly could muster a majority. Anothr potentially divisive argument was shaping up over the 59 Chicago delegates headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley. They face 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 Hoist Span Into Place I placed. In the winter of 1894, several men and horses moving a load of cordwood from Illinois to Iowa plunged 40 feet to the river when the severe cold contracted the span and it fell from its piers. Such engineering railties are expected to be checked in the new structure which is built primarily of reinforced concrete and steel girders. The old bridge has a wooden floor. "THERE ISN'T a timber on that bridge I haven't walked on." said Fryberger, who once fell 40 feet himself into the frigid waters while repairing a section of the old bridge.

"The old bridge served this community well." he said, "but now the needs of the community have changed. We're no longer just a farming district." Continued From Page 1 defeated compared to its successor about a mile upstream, was built in 1891 at a cost of $150,000, according to Harry Fryberger, a bridge employe of 30 years. Cost of the new bridge is expected to run about $5 million, IT IS the first span to be built by the Iowa Highway Commission under the toll bridge act passed by the legislature in 1967. The old bridge is slated for demolition in about a year. As the only span across the Mississippi between Davenport and Burlington for eight decades, the old bridge served the area well.

It's career was not without incident, however. In 1954, two semitrailer trucks fell through one span and it had to be re Demos' Planks On Key Issues WASHINGTON (AP) Here are key planks in the Democratic Platform Committee's draft for the 1972 national convention: VIETNAM "If the war is not ended before the next Democratic administration takes office, we pledge as the first order of business, an immediate and complete withdrawal of all forces in Indochina BUSING Transportation of students is another tool to accomplish desegregation. It must continue to be available, according to Supreme Court decisions, to eliminate legally imposed segregation and improve the quality of education for all children." TAX REFORM "We endorse as a minimum step the Mills-Mansfield Tax Policy Review Act of 1972, which would repeal virtually all tax preferences in the existing law over the period 1974-76 as a means of compelling a systematic review of their value to the nation. The most unjustified of the tai loopholes should, however, be closed immediately." CEILINGS "A first priority. must be eliminating the unfair, bureaucratic Nixon wage and price controls.

America's working people will support a truly fair method of stabilization which affects profits, investment earnings, executive salaries, and prices, as well as wages." DRAFT "We urge abolition of the draft." AMNESTY To those who for reasons of conscience refused to serve in this war and were prosecuted or sought refuge abroad, we state our (irm intention to declare amnesty, on an appropriate basis, when the fighting has ceased and our troops and prisoners of war have returned. MIDDLE EAST A Democratic administration should. provide Israel with aircraft and other military equipment in the quantity and sophistication she needs to preserve her strength. and should seek to bring the parties into direct negotiations toward a permanent political settlement. )m 44 World chess champ loa Boris Sptsiky, shown playing with his son, Vasya, la Iceland awaiting Bobby Fischer of the United States.

The pair are to begin competition for the world title Sunday. (Ar Foot) He Put It All Together Chess Interest Grows A Bobby Fischer 'ky? 1 I ias- WASHINGTON (AP) Annie Laurie Gunter, whose unhurried Alabama voice had been heard often advocating Gov. George Wallace's proposals at the Democratic Platform Committee session, was on her feet again. Speaking with such emphasis that the white bows setting off her coiffure bobbed, she was saying, "As a member of the Wallace delegation, I want to tell this committee how lucky we are in our chairman judicious, firm and calm. We owe him a standing vote of thanks." The chairman who got the ovation was Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, N.Y., a George McGovern delegate, and black.

GIBSON, actually chairman of the drafting subcommittee, took over the chair of the general assembly for a nonstop session, 9 a.m. Monday to 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, at which the draft platform was hacked, shaped, planed and finally nailed together in public for the first time. About 2 a.m., a member hauled himself to his feet and moved to adjourn. Gibson reached for neither gavel nor rule book but smiled and shook his head slowly.

"No way," he said. That was the Gibson way. Gibson asides matched the Gibson rulings. At one point, with amendments to a substitute pending and six members clamoring to speak, he cuddled the microphone and purred, "Democracy in action is a beautiful thing." In another crisis he signed softly, "I thought it was hard to run Newark." But run the meeting he did, w.thout ever raising a hackle. "I know something about Robert's Rules of Order," one member started.

"I DONT know anything about Robert's Rules of Order," Gibson smiled back. Kenneth Gibson "Wait wait wait." usually calmed the 150 young and old, black, white and brown Democratic activists. "Does everybody know exactly what we're doing? Ready?" He told the committee early It was going to stay in session until the platform was finished, and he made it stick. Of the 18' hours, they got one off for dinner. In between, sandwich crusts and apple cores wilted under the fierce television lights.

After midnight, he surveyed the shambles and pronounced, "We're going to finish tonight, and I'm going to let you talk and talk and talk and talk and talk." A native of Enterprise, who became a civil engineer. Gibson defeated a white incumbent in 1970 to take over the government of Newark and its awesome financial problems. It is the only public office he has held and he claims amateur status as a presiding officer. When the committee struggled back into session at 11 a.m. Tuesday to clean up details, Gibson was asked how he had slept.

"I dreamed of a point of order," he said. "That's what woke me up." I ft. i man a. ar-w. I I 1 i NEW YORK (AP) Promotional aspects ot the Fischer-Spassky world championship chess match are becoming as important as they are in any big league sport.

Chess matches are not usually world happenings. But with the keen interest sparked by American Bobby Fischer challenging Russian Boris Spassky for the world title, it's a different situation. The Icelandic Chess Federation has put up close to $200,000 for tjie 24-game match, to be held for two months in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting July 2. THE GAMES will be played in the Reykjavik Sportshall, which seats about 3.000 people. The match will be open to the public, and tickets will cost (5 a game or (75 for the 24 scheduled games.

Of the $200,000 put up, some $125,000 will be paid in prizes to the players, according to the federation. Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35, also will divide 60 per cent of the income from films and television. The federation has signed a 99-year contract with Chester Fox and for exclusive worldwide visual rights, including rights to film the match and still photos of the match Liken inside the Sportshall. Fox and the federation will split the profits equally. The price Fox paid for the rights is undisclosed.

But he did say he would have to spend some $200,000 for the color filming. "I GUESS it's a coup, but it's quite an undertaking," Fox said in New York. He has asked for bids from interested television stations in countries throughout the world. He is concerned with the highest bidders in each country, and if a contract is signed, he will spend them film clips as the match progresses. In the United States, ABC has contracted for exclusive film rights.

The Fox film segments will be shown Saturdays on the ABC program. "Wide World of Sports." However, in the United States. Channel 13 WNIT, New York and Telcpromptcr Cable TV have planned programs discussing the action at the match, without the use of the Fox film. CHANNEL 13 plans a move-by-move commentary and analysis on the match by chess master Shelby Lyman, who will work from a studio in Albany, N.Y. using vertical boards to illustrate the moves.

The extensive coverage would start Sunday. July 2 and run from 1 m. to 6 p.m.. nationally. It would continue three times a week throughout the match, with shorter broadcasts Tuesday and Thursday for cities on the Eastern seaboard.

Richard Gitter. lawyer for WNDT, said Fox and the federation threatened to go to court, if these plans were not 2 1 v. Too Much Waler For Goldfish MFRCF-RSmTRfi Vi lh.t down the Conococheaque Creek. Owner Richard F. Rice estimated the value of the fish at $100,000.

The hatcheries are wholesale supplies to major distributors on the east coast million goldfish estimated by their owner to be worth $100,000 were lost in the Pennsylvania flooding, the Mt. Fernel Fisheries reported. The fishery said the goldfish washed A pollre man probes the rulm of a house trailer Tuesday near Paicted Post, N.Y., where the bodies of 17 flood victims have been found. (AP Photo) New Problems i In Flood Area I 1 Wf Ji Hy AMf iatetl Vros Miss Your Paper? mt too Mt, kill yvr trrt liili alir, call Itim promptly VW ctmwt ct1f vwr drrwr, call Nw cirmatiwt toermnt at im- $111 ttot, iMI lllmt Dourique 114 W. Thntl Si.

Restoration of the normal water supply was the big problem in 57 Pennsylvania communities. In upstate New York, it was removal of 500,000 gal-Ions of gasoline spilled into the streets of a small town from ruptured storage tanks. Temporary bridge and road repairs held a high priority in Maryland. And service was being restored to 340,000 useless telephones. These were among a myriad of concerns in eieht Eastern Seaboard states Tuesday, 48 hours after the end of the worst floods in the modern history of the area.

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while oil company personnel worked to mop up the gasoline. THE CITY of Elnura. sent the first of a contingent of 110 workers to aid its sister city of Klinira, one of the most savagely torn of all the more than 100 flood beset communities. They were to aid in rebuilding breached dikes and leaning up the mess. A trailer switchboard brought in from Michigan was being manually operated to restore telephone service in Port-ville.

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