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THE NEWS Hotels Kev To Civic Censc7ss SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1972 PAGE 19 Pa Downtown Rooms At A Premium "Most of the downtown space is booked" for next week's two state political conventions at the Civic Center, Joseph J. Cripe said today, "but we still have space out around town." Cripe said that space is usually reserved by districts and that oftentimes a day or two before the conventions a group that might have requested 50 rooms will call in and say 35 will be enough. Cripe, executive vice president of the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Bureau, said that room accommodations are divided into three sections: "The downtown group with 1,500 rooms, Group II (as far out as Fall Creek, 38th Street etc.) with 1,000 more and the 1-465 bypass with another 1,200. Depending on the time of the year and the day of the week we can come up with 5,000 to 6,000 rooms." For next week, Cripe said, "I anticipate no difficulty in taking care of all persons." He estimated that 25 per cent of the convention delegates (each party has slightly more than 2,000) drive in and go home at night. al convention trade shows.

"And those won't come until we get more hotels." Those big shows "bring more dollars and have a longer run," he said. Specifically, how much of a deficit? "We won't know until the end of the year. It will be rather sizable I use that term loosely." Whatever the size, Phillips said, the deficit can be made up by selling the block north of the center to the city or the state. The price tag is $2.5 million, "exactly what we have in it." It is a paved parking lot with some trees. The block is between the center and the Statehouse and bordered by Washington, Capitol, Maryland and Senate.

"That would sustain us through 1974 and perhaps beyond that," he said. 'More Business Like In a survey of other cities of comparable size Cincinnati, New Orleans, Denver, Cleveland, Milwaukee "there wasn't one city that made money" from its civic center, Phillips said. What about the lack of night life here? Is that a drag? "The trend has been for conventions to be more and more business- INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 103rd YEAR Political Analysis Decision On State By EDWARD ZIEGNER Political Editor Next week Indiana's Republicans and Democrats try to get it all together. They meet in state conventions to nominate candidates for governor and other state offices, pick national convention delegates, predict victory and indict the other party for assorted sins, some valid, many fictitious. The Democrats, with 2,152 state convention delegates, have their preliminaries Monday and nominate Tuesday, while the Republicans, with 2,083 delegates, gear up Thursday and nominate Friday.

Both conventions are in the new Civic Center, its air-conditioned facilities a blessed relief from the hot, aging and gritty Fairgrounds Coliseum. Nominating a governor is really what it's all about. Ziegner Who gets the nod for lieutenant governor and attorney general and other offices is important, of course, but secondary. If 25 per cent of the delegates at each convention even read the platform they will adopt it would probably be a new high, and in the fall campaign it would be unwise to hold your breath waiting for a state candidate for any office to dwell at length on what the platform says. Both conventions are secret-ballot conventions.

The delegates vote on voting machines, as you vote in November, the curtain is closed and, presumably, the man or woman behind the curtain is alone with his conscience and his preference, no matter what some may have told him he must do. It is an old system; the use of voting machines began 24 years ago, in 1948, after a brutally controlled, bossed and rigged Republican convention in 1946 generated such an unpleasant aroma that the GOP, controlling the 1947 Legislature, decided some reforms were necessary, and passed them. The system is not perfect, but it is not bad, either; tor several of the con ventions over these last 24 years the delegates have confounded all the predictions and claims and all the odds and done something almost no one believed they would do. In some years the conventions have been so dull as to produce almost instant slumber only one candidate Don't Quote Me At Hand Tickets running for governor or U.S. senator, near total boredom without any controversy.

That's not going to happen next week. The two Democratic hopefuls for the nomination for governor are former Gov. Matthew Welsh and Secretary of State Larry Conrad. Their struggle for advantage has been long, hard and often bitter. Those who have watched conventions seriously and for many years and who are sometimes wrong but more often right than wrong say it will be Welsh.

With just two candidates, there can be only one ballot; it's sudden death for the loser. Five Republicans will go to the post for the top spot House Speaker Otis R. Bowen, Senate Majority Leader Phillip E. Gutman, Public Service Commission Chairman W. W.

Hill, Owen Circuit Judge William Sharp and Hamilton County GOP Chairman Rob-' ert Webb. This could take more than one ballot. The Bowen people feel, predictably, he could wrap it up on the first ballot; Gutman and Sharp say, predictably, nothing of the kind will happen and a first ballot win for them is not impossible. May Serve Eight Years On the Republican side some of the delegate claims are the stuff of which dreams are made, gossamer fantasies spun out in the hope somebody will believe them. One, maybe two, are probably close to being right.

Delegate counting is a rare art, happy is the candidate with a skilled counter, and even then, a wise man deducts 5 to 20 per cent, depending on who makes the claim. The betting today is Bowen will have more than anyone else on the first ballot and maybe enough, which is 1,042, although the swirling currents of political battle in the next six days could change the outlook. It is a time for any candidate, whether (be leads or trails, to stay alert, check all the exits, plug all the holes and keep his supporters hard at work. And in the minds of the delegates, as they vote, will be this thought: The man nominated, if he wins in November, may serve eight years, not four, if a two-term constitutional provision is approved by the voters. So the man they pick may be there a long time, and they'll want to feel he should be.

Center director Dean Phillips with bookings for 1972. Road Toll Soars By GKRRY LaFOLLETTE On the outside, it looks like a 1972 warehouse, with landscaping and rain-drenched grass. On the inside, the Civic Center is impressive, functional, aesthetically pleasing. It has broad hallways, contemporary color contrasts, a large meeting room for 12,000 persons and smaller ones for two-digit crowds. It has been open a month.

What now? The bookings! Dean Phillips, executive director, said, "It's hard to keep up with them. We get six or eight inquiries every day." The Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus is coming to the center, elephants and all, in October. The National Fertilizer Solutions Association is booked for this December and again in 1974. A church convention in July next year may bring 16,000 persons. The American Bowling Congress tournament will be at the center from January through May, 1974.

In June, 1975, the SPEBSQSA will "hummmm" it up. That stands for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. For June, 1972 "The big problem is setting up and tearing down the seats," Phillips said. Storage for the chairs is inadequate. "We have one freight elevator to bring them up from the basement," he said.

For the record, there are 4,000 chairs that have to be stored and there are 8,000 "risers" that come out on bleacher-type seats from the walls. 'Sizable Deficit Phillips said he has brought to the attention of the seven-member board that "we are going to have to get more storage space." One possibility is to build a warehouse on the employes' parking lot across Georgia. In looking back on the problems of the opening of the center, Phillips believes that "we were too conservative on our budget We didn't have all the labor We do now." Another thing the center now has is a "set-up co-ordinator and an assistant," Phillips said, "to plan ahead, hour-by-hour, even around the clock" to help out with chairs and goods distribution. He said the center is responsible for setting up chairs and tables for dinners and the catering firm does the rest. Finances? "We will be in the red," he said.

"I have been preaching that ever since I got here (two years ago). This will exist until we get the blue chip nation- 2-Day Four persons were killed in two traffic accidents in opposite corners of the state today. Ten were killed on Indiana streets and roads yesterday. Today's deaths brought the state's toll for the year to 629 or 58 fewer than on this date a year ago. They included two teen-agers killed when their car struck a utility pole on Ind.

62 in Evans-ville and two persons injured fatally when they were struck by a car as they were changing a tire along U.S. 6 in DeKalb County. JOHN TROTTER, 17, Evansville, and TIMOTHY GOLIKE, 18, rural Sebree, died in the one-car crash at Evansville, police said. State troopers said one person was killed and another died later of injuries suffered when they were struck by a car as they were changing a flat tire on another vehicle along U.S. 6 about a mile west of Waterloo.

The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Before the weekend count began at 6 p.m. yesterday, CAROLYN SHIRE-MAN, 25, Columbus, was killed in a two-car collision on U.S. 31 6 miles north of Columbus. Hhe husband, Jack, saw the crash from the lawn of his brother Robert's home.

The Shiremans' two sons, Robert, 7, School Broken Into A 17-year-old youth was arrested in connection with a burglary at an Indianapolis public school today. Sylvester Coleman, 17, of 3300 block of East 34th, arrested and charged with second-degree burglary, fleeing from a police officer and curfew violation. A second suspect is sought. A police officer saw two persons running from School 69, 3421 N. Keystone.

One escaped arrest. Police found a tuba at one of the school's door exits. Evening Prayer Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we assemble to praise You, to hear the scriptures and the preaching of the word, and to contemplate our daily walk during the week past and the week to come. Help us to be humble and honest as we seek understanding of ourselves and others in the light of your teachings and spirit. Turn us from vainglory, but help us to have a sense of our own worth, which will enable us to be kind and forbearing.

We open our minds and hearts to You that we may be chastened and strengthened to meet the opportunities ahead. Amen. Rev. L. Gordon Leech First-Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church School Changes To Be Slow, Swen Believes and Kevin, 6, were injured, the elder critically, in the collision with a car driven by John Summers, 16, 425 Parkway, Indianapolis.

STEVEN DUBOIS and Miss SAMMY JEAN PERSLEY, both .16, of rural Wabash, were killed and Kurt Steiner, also 16, rural Wabash, was injured critically yesterday when their small foreign sedan collided with another car Rotarians Invited The Indianapolis Rotary Club has invited officials of the 108 Rotary Clubs in Indiana to attend its June 27 luncheon meeting. Roy D. Hickman, president-elect of Rotary International, will be the main speaker. Hickman, of Birmingham, will assume office July 1. STATE DEATHS ON PAGE 22 like, more streamlined," he said.

The National League of Cities, of which Mayor Richard G. Lugar is immediate past president, has met in Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Diego and Honolulu and will meet here this year and in San Juan next year. What about the Lincoln Square project, the proposed hotel-office-apartment complex between Washington, Capitol, Maryland and Illinois? "That is critical to the future of this building. I have made it clear to anyone who will listen that we need 1,000 more (hotel) rooms downtown. I've said that a headquarters hotel must have 600 rooms," he said.

"If we get the Hyatt-Regency, with 500 to 600 rooms, then another motel with 250 rooms, that would do the job," he said. "I try not to oversell our situation. on Ind. 15 3 miles south of Wabash, state police said. CHERYL FRICK, 14, rural Auburn, was killed and six other persons were injured yesterday when their car collided with a Baltimore Ohio Railroad freight train at a DeKalb County crossing 4 miles east of Auburne.

DONALD P. SPALDING, 79, San Antonio, was killed yesterday when his car collided with a pickup truck north of Cloverdale on U.S. 231. Spalding's wife Mildred, 78, was seriously injured, authorities said. JAMES R.

BURKETT, 20, Louisville, died yesterday when his car struck a tree along a Floyd County road 2 miles north of Floyds Knobs. Five Elkhart men were killed yesterday in two accidents, one just outside the state in Michigan. DONALD D. NORTH. 29, EDDIE A.

NORTH, 26, and PAUL M. REHBERG, 32, all of Elkhart, and MARVIN A. DIT-MAN, 41, Edwardsburg, were killed in a one-car crash in Elkhart. Police said the car was traveling at more Shirley Black women's power. women should have more power in environmental matters.

Mrs. Black, a U.S. delegate at the United Nations environment conference at Stockholm, said delegates will be urged to sign a petition to that effect. American anthropologist MARGARET MEAD and British economist BARBARA WARD initiated the petition. Mrs.

Black said it has been signed by all women delegates, all women journalists covering the conference and "fluite a few male delegates." Yet we have not had one national association head come here and not say, 'This is the After 40 national association managers and their wives met in Indianapolis, Phillips said the center received "a stack of letters praising the center and the city. Many said they would like to take the center with them every year." Phillips said Indianapolis is easy to get to, "there is a tremendous airport. We soon will have seven (interstate) highways." He said the "low hotel rates" are a definite plus, much lower than those in major resort cities. "If we get the hotels, we can go out and sell. All we need is the hotel rooms." With that one "if," Phillips said, "I have no fear for the future of this building." To 14 than 100 miles an hour when it missed a turn and smashed head on into a 3-foot-high concrete wall.

Donald H. Eads, 19, and Jeffrey Koontz, 20, both of Elkhart, were found dead in the wreckage of their car yesterday along a Cass County, road 12 miles north of Elkhart. The car struck a tree, Michigan authorities said. In a late reported accident, Robert E. Watson, 52, owner of the Watson Funeral Home, Cayuga, was killed Thursday in a two-car accident west of Danville, 111.

Watson was a Vermillion County deputy coroner. Body Identified BRAZIL, Ind. (UPI) A body found floating in a strip pit here has been identified as that of Raymond J. Phelps, 36, Brazil, police said today. Police said Phelps had been missing since Tuesday.

The body was discovered by several boys fishing in the pit Thursday. Mrs. VELMA JOHNSON, better known as "Wild Horse Annie," received the Interior Department's public service award for her campaign to save the wild horses and burros that roam the West. Interior Secretary ROGERS C. B.

MORTON presented the award to Mrs. Johnson, a Reno, secretary who was cited for leadership that contributed to passage of laws to "manage and protect wild free roaming horses and burros within a large context of ecologically sound management of the public lands." Vice Adm. WILLIAM P. MACK, until recently commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet in the Pacific, took over as the 47th superintendent of the U.S.

Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Adm. Mack, 57, replaced Vice Adm. JAMES CALVERT, who is being transferred to San Diego to assume command of the U.S. 1st Fleet.

In Moscow, world chess champion BORIS SPASSKY said his American challenger, BOBBY FISCHER, "appears to be suffering from a persecution mania and thinks that Soviet chess players are determined to harm him." Spassky referred to repeated reports that Fischer allegedly has been accusing the Russians of efforts to prevent him from taking Spassky's world title and of contriving to hold the championship matches against his will at Reykja-VikJbcland. By DAVID ROHN "How's your brother Abner?" asked John Courtney of Hamilton, Smith, Wilson, Haynes, Brown Associates public relations. "Still recuperating from the Indianapolis School Board race," replied Sidney Swen, who is running as an independent candidate for the Legislature. "Abner has had some exhausting campaigns but the School Board election took the cake. And, as you recall, the election hasn't been settled yet, since the Non-Partisans for Better Schools group filed for a recount." "What do you think the odds are that the Committee for Neighborhood Schools group will fulfill all the campaign pledges it made, like stopping busing, firing the superintendent, getting new legal counsel for the School Board, and so forth?" queried Courtney.

"About as good as the odds of wiping out the national debt," Swen replied. "In any election there People In The News 'Nice Place To Visit, ness in your lap and says, 'You run it'." "What about Supt. Stanley Campbell?" asked Courtney. "Isn't he sure to go?" "The situation there is that Campbell still has a year left on his contract after the new board takes office. That means the contract either has to be bought out or he has to resign.

Only two of the new board members coming on actually said they would get rid of Campbell Mrs. Constance Valdez and Lester Neal. "I personally suspect his days as superintendent are numbered. Even people who admire his educational ideas and respect his statements on busing feel he has a propensity for putting his foot in his mouth and for creating unnecessary controversy." "And about the busing?" asked Courtney. "Except for a few instances that's pretty much out of the hands of the School Board," Swen commented, the school system are concerned, it mandate to do much of the busing, and barring a reversal of Judge Hugh Dillin's decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals I doubt if it can be stopped.

"As far as things in general wtih the shodol system are concerned, it Isn't going to change overnight. The school systefl is a fairly large bureaucracy, and it takes time for change to filler down through the ranks. In fact, large school systems are particularly slow to change, because each principal tends to operate his school as he sees fit, and board members generally don't have time to keep tabs on each school. "Another thing to keep in mind is public pressure. The present School Board has been pressured by the Neighborhood Schools group people for the last four yenrs.

They've come to the meetings, carried signs, brought petitions and protested at budget hearings. Now that the Neighborhood group Is the one to be In power, the out-of-power group may do the same thing. That's pretty much in evidence by fact that the Non-Partisans have not broken up and have vowed to act as a lobby group." f' By LIZ BROWN The vice-presidency isn't the best job around, former Treasury Secretary JOHN B. CONNALLY said in Honolulu. Connally, midway through a multi-nation tour on behalf of PRESIDENT NIXON, was asked about speculation he might replace Vice-President SPIRO T.

AGNEW on the Republican ticket this fall. "It's not the best job around; you're just the vice-president," he said. "It's a good job if you want to be president," Connally added later. FRARNK SINATRA, still sought by a U.S. congressional crime committee, has dropped out of sight again as mysteriously as he did earlier this month.

Officials at Luton Airport near London said the singer-actor left there aboard an executive jet chartered under an assumed name. They said they were under orders not to disclose the aircraft's destination. HAROLD DAVISON, Sinatra's European agent, was quoted in a London paper as saying the singer left London after abortive discussions involving his comeback from retirement to star in a film musical, "The Little Prince." Sinatra flew to London earlier this month ostensibly to discuss the part after failing to appear before the House Crime Committee about his role as vice-president of the defunct Berkshire Downs race track at Hancock, Mass. SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK says is bound to be a heck Rohn of a difference between what is promised and what is delivered. "In the first place, not all of the Neighborhood Schools candidates take office at once.

Four of them will take the oath in July and the other three won't go on for two more years. That means you still have Erie Kightlingcr, Mrs. Jessie Jacobs and Ken Martzon the board who are not beholden to any promises made by the Neighborhood group during the election. Kightlinger and Mrs. Jacobs in particular are very independent-minded people.

Mnrtz is philosophically the same as the Neighborhood group's candidates, but he, too, Is independent "Another thing you have to keep in mind Is the fact It's going to lake the ww board members a while to feci their way around, and they'll probably tend to move cautiously at first. It's one filing to be a sidewalk superintendent and kibitz on how things ought to bo run, and it's wholly another thing when someone dumps tho whole bust- 'I.