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IME The Home TSetvspaper of the Calumet Region Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana; Calumet City-Lansing, Illinois, Monday, July 10, 1972 Vol LXVII, No. 19 3 Sections 32 Pages 15c Convention Schedule MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Here is the tentative schedule for the Democratic National Convention, subject to change at any time with the possibility of additional afternoon sessions if business cannot be completed within the planned four days. Television coverage will be live on Channels 2 and periodic and collective on 7 and 9. (Details in weekly and daily TV listings.) TODAY 6:30 p.m.

Region Time: call to order and invocation. Welcoming addresses by Sen. Lawton B. Chiles of Florida, Rep. Claude D.

Pepper off Florida and Mayor Chuck Hall of Miami Beach. Speech by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. Report of the Credentials Committee. Debate and vote on the Credentials Committee report.

TUESDAY 6 p.m.: Election of permanent convention chairman. Consideration of Rules Committee report. Keynote address by Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida. Platform Committee report, debate and votes.

WEDNESDAY 6 p.m.: Nominations and balloting for the Presidential nominee. THURSDAY 6 p.m.: Consideration of new charter for Democratic party. Nominations and balloting for the vice presidential nominee. Acceptance speeches. Adjournment.

f-v'" Tiff fe jji fcCii Vote-hungry George McGovern huddles with National Welfare Rights chairman Wiley. New Breed Gears for Battle It's a revolution that the regular Democratic Party was unable to stop the "newcomers" from gaining a position of political power. But then a look at the ideas of the new wave of party insurgents lends some reason to their fight for recognition and seating at the convention. Typical of newcomers is 31-year-old Katherine Robinson of Indiana's 2nd Dis- 1500 150 IfjfM HitJtt fjr Nim'it 1.317.15 AP DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE COUNT 10UI DE1UATE mil 3.01S 507 55 500 317 404 65 237 05 HefiQVFKN MUHPH1H tAlUCt HE OIf UHOIDMES WIIEt E3 Challenger Finally Set REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match can begin Tuesday Fischer's favorite chair has arrived. The swivel chair in metal and black leather was flown from New York to Iceland and put on the stage in the Reykjavik chess hall Sunday.

Spassky's Russian advisers arrived shortly after the much talked about chair and studied it suspiciously. Then they left without comment. Spassky, the 35-year-old world champion, did not seem concerned. Before leaving for a salmon fishing tour of northern Iceland he said, "I am not going to argue about chairs, chess and boards and sets. I will leave that to Bobby.

It mikes no difference to me." Lake County complex: A status report IB Klen slashes budget requests in Hammond IB trict, which runs from Merrillville to Lafayette. SHE WANTS to make Sen. George McGovern the next President, and has been working since 1968 to elect someone like him. She started with Eugene Mc- -Carthy. After McCarthy's defeat she joined Sen.

Birch Bayh's reelection campaign. Earlier political efforts were for local contests in Massachusetts. After a period in the Peace Corps, she moved to Lafayette, where her husband is a graduate student and she directs community centers. Her outside work has been with Indiana's unit of the New Democratic Coalition. "We felt McCarthy's mistake was he tried to change the top of the party structure without laying groundwork," Mrs.

Robinson said. Through the New Democratic Coalition she tried to be sure there would be many committeemen and state delegates sympathetic to the new movement. "WE FOUND many people already (Continued on Back Page This Section) Dems eein aow MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-George S. McGovern invaded the camps of his enemies today, seeking a victory at tonight's opening of the Democratic National Convention which could make his nomination almost certain and almost bloodless. His rivals still lacked and still sought the cohesion necessary for an effective stop-McGovern coalition in Wednesday's presidential balloting.

They also lacked a unity candidate all could agree upon, and no new name surfaced. Edward M. Kennedy's wife More Convention, 2A, 12A here to help raise money for the party, said Kennedy's decision neither to seek nor accept the nomination was "final." From Hyannisport, Mass, where he went yachting, Kennedy said there was "no way" he could be convinced to take second place on the ticket. Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, once the front-runner, took on kingmaker powers at this least orthodox 36th quadrennial assembly of disarrayed Democrats.

But Muskie was undecided whether to use those powers to coronate McGovern or to keep alive his own hopes of becoming a compromise choice. Aides promised a quick decision after Muskie's scheduled "solidarity meeting" this morning with his estimated 200-plus delegates. In the same flat, dry prairie voice with which he announced his candidacy 18 months ago when he was unknown to most Americans McGovern expressed boundless confidence. He reflected none of the tensions swirling around him in this steamy resort strip, trapped in its own traffic. He claimed enough support in tonight's voting to reverse the Credentials Committee vote which took from him 151 of the 271 delgates won June 6 in California's winner-take-all primary.

He also sought an Illinois compromise which would put Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in a delegate's seat with one half a vote and a more kindly feeling toward McGovern. With that accomplished, McGovern's delegate counters said, he 1 have 1,541.5 votes Wednesday night at the nominating session 32.5 more than necessary. A parliamentary ruling Sunday from Lawrence F. O'Brien, the party chairman, strengthened McGovern's hand.

O'Brien decreed that all delegates except those whose right to vote is under challenge could ballot on whether to seat a challenged delegation. A simple majority of those voting will decide. hj 01 9 By JOHN HOPKINS Times Staff Writer A blend of the old guard and new wave of Calumet Region politicians will meet in battle tonight as the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach. Each faction claims it has the right to represent its district of the Democratic party. Klen Favors Tovnship A.

Transit Plan ByDEANLEONAKIS Times Staff Writer HAMMOND Mayor Joseph Klen remains convinced the best method of providing transportation for Hammond is to establish a North Township bus system. His suggestion, not a new one, comes five days before one part of a municipal subsidy for Shore Line Bus Co. runs out. Klen said he plans to discuss his proposal at length this week at the-Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach with East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick and Steve Manich, transportation department chairman of the Lake-Porter County Regional Planning Commission. Anthony Vicari, general manager of the Shore Line Bus Company notified Pastrick and Klen the East Chicago portion of the current bus subsidy will be gone by July 15.

Hammond city controller Donald Gavit said Hammond's portion will run until August 4. "The bus system we have now is obsolete," said Klen. "This is not a slam at the Shore Line, but what was good for 1942 isn't good for 1972. I'm sure a North Township transit system would be the most efficient and cheapest system we could have." KLEN'S IDEA calis for all taxpayers in the township to pay for the system equally. North Township includes Hammond, East Chicago, Highland, Whiting and Munster.

Pastrick met with Department of Transportation officials June 29 in Washington and was informed no federal mon- (Continued on Back Page This Section) IRA Truce Ends, 6 Die BELFAST (AP)-The Irish Republican Army's Provisional wing broke off its cease-fire Sunday night after 12 days and at least six persons were killed. Northern Ireland teetered on the brink of civil war. The Provisionals charge that British troops junked the cease-fire by attacking Roman Catholics in Belfast's Lenadoon district. William Whitelaw, the British administrator for Northern Ireland, charged that the IRA "set up" the incident "to provide justification for resumption of terrorist activity." He said the troops were fired on first. Witnesses backed the British.

Sean MacStiofian, chief of staff of the Provisionals, ordered his gunmen back to their bullet-and-bomb campaign with "utmost ferocity" to oust the British army. Within 15 minutes, firing broke out all over Belfast. Gun battles raged in the Catholic Ballymurphy, Ardoyne and An-dersontown sectors and the Protestant Springmartin area. Six civilians, including a Catholic priest giving the last rites to another victim, were killed around the Ballymurphy zone of Belfast. The dead also included a 13-year-old girl.

The British army claimed one gunman was killed and seven others wounded. But the IRA as usual spirited all their casualties away. Mass Killer Pleads Guilty LOD, Israel AP) The Japanese terrorist who survived the Tel Aviv airport massacre pleaded guilty at the opening of his trial today, but the Israeli military court rejected the plea. It also postponed final decision on a request by the defense that the terrorist, Kozo Okamoto, 24, be given a mental examination. "I don't want an examination," the defendant shouted.

"I don't want an examination. Okamoto is accused along with two other Japanese in the murder of 26 persons at Lod Airport May 30. The two other Japanese were also killed, and 67 other persons were wounded in the machine-gun attack. Although Okamoto pleaded guilty he disputed some of the facts. Coal Car Kills Steelworker GARY Robert Matthews, 29, of 1034 W.

25th was killed Sunday at 10:30 p.m. when he was struck by a coal car at the coke plant of U.S. Steel Corp. Matthews was employed as a lid man, His responsibility was to open the door so coal could be fed into the furnace. Matthews was pronounced dead at Gary Methodist Hospital.

vilian and military, some visible, some not. The police are ordered to search all bags and other personal items. And near the blue, layer-cake podium are portable ramps, ready for Gov. George C. Wallace's wheelchair.

You know, too.that you're at a convention when: Women care more about the buttons they re wearing than the clothes they're pinned to. Television cameras attract more attention than the nudie floor shows at the night clubs. People pass out leaflets to people passing out leaflets. Delegates interview reporters. Reporters interview reporters.

Building 9A Obituaries 5C Classified 6-1 1C Sports 1-4C Comics 6-7B Theater 4C Editorials 10A TV 3B Illinois 2B Weather 12A Letters 11A Women's 8 A MORE RAIN THREATENED Intermittent thunder showers threaten the Region tonight and Tuesday. Tonight's temperature should hover around 70; zoom back to the 90s early Tuesday. Relief from the high humidity may come Wednesday as a cold front pushes east from the Rockies. Temperatures and weather on Page 12A. Miss Indiana so difficult to tell so many of the delegates from so many of the demonstrators? Who recalls the last time blacks were proportionately overrepresented? Or when the spouses who were left at home or consigned to the hotel with the kiddies were, in large numbers, men? Or that Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley, the man whose orchestration in 1968 swayed even the boys in the band, could find himself stripped not only of his political baton but of his convention ticket as well? Still, there is much of the same old song in this experience, even though 90 per cent of the delegates are convention freshmen and can's Days are Here Again" without a cue card. happy City. ft Gary's 1971 Miss Indiana, Pat Patterson, passes the crown and a year full of memories to 1972 winner Rebecca Graham, 23, of Indianapolis, who competed as Miss South Central. State pageant was Saturday night at Michigan Isn't It the Truth! I love my backyard patio all beautiful paving block, gravel paths, stone curbs and brick wall to shut out the distressing sight of my neighbor's yard where the sprinkler sprays up miniature rainbov.s, the grass grows green and fast and the lawnmower commands his aching back. "Lawnmower The only important thing a man can run around the house.

Webster's Unafraid Dictionary riwne: WE 2-3100 'jii arm Saints, Sinners March to Demo Drums MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)-The carpet is down, the bunting is up, and Larry O'Brien's gavel is about to bring the Democratic saints and sinners marching in again. To the beat, it would seem, of a lot of diffrent drummers. Delegates in dungarees and Dashikis. From Southern mansions and Washington, D.C., welfare homes.

With buttons that say "Let George Do It" and mean McGovern in one case and Wallace in another. Indeed, the sight to be beheld by the television millions starting tonight is said to be the most different if not decorous parley of the Party of the People since its first quadrennial call by political revolutionaries in 1832. Since when, for example, has it been There's just no mistaking a political convention, reform or no reform. The giant hall stands bathed, like most things here that don't move and some that do, in carnival-like splashes of red, white and blue. Elaborate portraits of party mention-ables peer down on the delegates, as if no man dare commit an act of heresy beneath the brooding presence of Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson or John N. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson's likeness was stolen or misplaced, but they got another and hung it in the rear. The hall, too, reflects the a i of tragedies past and trouble anticipated.

It, along with most of the nearby hotels, is guarded by both machines and men, ci A representative police squad adds to the Miami scene..

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