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DAILY PRESS Editorial Offices Cali (Read By More Than 45,000 Daily) BiiftinPM Call 7M-202I 64th Year, No. 96 18 Papes Escanaba. Michigan 49829 1.1c Daily Tuesday, July 11, 1972 Sen. McGovern Clinches Nomination Area School Board Reduces Tax Request To 12.3 Mills Voters in the Escanaba Area gent upon adequate funding be- Public School District will go to the polls on Aug. 8 to vote on another millage proposal, but the request for operating will not be the as tie one turned down in the June 12 election.

During a meeting Monday evening, the Escanaba Area Board of Education voted to submit a proposal asking for 12.3 mills for a period of two years, 2.3 mills less than the June 12 proposal. On the June 12 election ballot, the Board had requested voters to approve a request of 14 6 mills, 12.6 mills of which was a renewal of millage that expired with the 1971 tax levy. The proposal was defeated by better than a 2-1 margin. 25 Mill Levy According to Dr. James Ryan, superintendent, the district will be levying a total of 25 mills for the 1972-73 school year if the 12.3 millage request is approved by voters on Aug.

8. ing made available through suo- port of the millage proposal and a public hearing. Net Reduction The tentative budget figure is a net reduction of from the allocation budget figure. West said that it is still possible that more changes will be made before the public hearing is held. If the millage request is ap- proved by voters on Aug.

8. Dr. Ryan explained that the school district could realize local revenues in the amount of $2,612.969 for the 1972-73 icol year. Without it, the local revenues amount to $1,361,828. Just recently, he said, it was learned that the local district I will receive state aid under Gunfire, Bomb Explosions Rock Irish Province BELFAST.

Northern Ireland Wednesday. (APt Militant Protestants I The reinforcements bring the threatened early today to take garrison to 16,800 men. the big- the offensive in Northern Ire- gest it has been in the three The levy includes 7.7 mills as battles and bomb years of commur.r1 turmoil, allocated bv the Delta County explosions rocked the province, In the wake of the collapse Allocation Commission and 5.0 The Protestant Ulster De- night of the IRA cease- Formula which means that the district will receive approximately $2,030,905 next year. Possible Balance Local revenues, state aid, federal aid and funds from the Intermediate School District and the Community Schools would leave the school district with a balance of $26,249 if the 12.3 mill request is approved. Without it, a deficit of $1,224,892 will be shown unless cuts are made.

In other business, the Board alloted $4,320 for supplemental texts by Lippincott Publishers for grades K-3. These readers will be made available from the new Material Resource Center upon request of the teachers. Instead of purchasing the entire set of texts at one time, the Board agreed to go slow at the beginning and purchase only what it is necessary to start with. Additional purchases will be made if and when the need arises, up to the amount allotted. mills approved by in 1971.

Dr. Rvan snfd the 12 mill request is being made for two years because tax reform is not expected to come as soon as it publican Army, was anticipated because legislators are debating the busing amendment tacked on to the bill. In addition to setting the millage request Monday evening, the Board also approved fense Association, which claims it can put 40.000 armed men into the field, said if the British do not crush the Roman Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Rethe association fire, army headquarters report-1 ontraets Approved ed 232 shooting incidents in Bel- The following staff contracts, fast between 8 a m. Monday approved by Dr. Ryan, were SAME VIEWPOINT Lawrence F.

O'Brien, riijht, pauses for a moment during Democratic National Convention whole Joseph Califano, counsel to the Democratic National Committee which O'Brien heads, tells delegates and newsmen about ground rules. (AP Wirephoto) and 4 40 a.m. today. British troops were involved in 146 of the shootouts and ms they killed or wounded will take the offensive gunmen. Protestants and the IRA and do its level best Catholics fought in the other to eliminate and destroy it.

clashes The British government rush- I The hooded body of a ed 1.800 more troops into the 1 dered man in his 20s was found province in preparation for the near the center of Belfast, shot a budget for traditionally explosive summer in the chest and head. He was Frederick, sec 'season of Protestant parades 414th confirmed fatality in celebrating historic events in the three years of communal the centuries of Protestant- warfare, the seventh sinct the Catholic warfare in Northern cease-fire ended and the 23rd Ireland. The first parade is it began two weeks ago. Dr. ratified by the board: Richard Wragg, administrative assistant; Vernon Ihlenfeldt, Material Resource Center director; Samuel Oslund, elementary principal, Harry Suurna, diagnostician; Sherry Quayle.

speech therapist; James Boyle, elementary Dhvsical education; Carol Beggs, first 3. Vietnamese Marines Land Near Quang Tri strikes to 199 Monday, in the southern I the 1972-73 school year in the amount of $4.740,125, oontin- Kickbacks Were Congressman's Idea, Aide Says WASHINGTON The former top aide to Texas Rep. Jim Collins took the stand in his own defense today to say it was the congressman, not he, who arranged kickbacks and House payroll manipulation to pay off 1968 campaign bonuses. George A. Haag also said the Dallas millionaire Republican told him, after kickbacks were reported by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson in March 1970, was removing all records from the office for our mutual The congressman, who had been called to testify Monday and then again today in U.S.

District Court was put off by defense lawyers again. They said he still might be called late today. Not Charged Collins has not been charged. Haag told the court Collins had promised him a $10,000 bonus to manage the 1968 campaign, Kenny Newman $5,000, Michael D. Henning $1,500 and Lynne $1,000.

But in November when Haag asked about the bonuses. Haag testified, said sick and tired of paying these expenses of my own said going to set everybody up on the congressional payroll and that is how get your Haag said. But he said in his own case Collins told him he would be paid the $10,000 bonus by putting Henning and another campaign employe Ray Fortner on the congressional payroll be in a position to rebate money back to you and that way get your Haag Accused Haag, 33, former chief Washington aide to Collins, is accused of taking more than $13,000 in kickbacks through falsification of House payroll forms and mail fraud. He also is charged with obstructing justice by inducing fellow es to lie to the FBI and to a federal grand jury investigating the kickback scheme. Defense attorney Leslie Scherr charged in court Mon- beefy, day that Collins was behind the 8enei replied, scheme, which allegedly was SAIGON U.

Ma- in there to said Capt. fighter-bomber rine helicopters lifted South Don Dickenson, 25. of Braden -1 North Vietnam Vietnamese troops into a com- ton. an adviser with the i most of them bat assault zone north of Quang paratroopers. guys who half of the country, and grade.

Tri City today, flying into a are there have been ordered to i Skyhawk Lost Karen Kelly, second grade; heavy barrage of fire behind stay 1 The U.S. Command also re- Richard Rodgerst fourth grade; enemy lines that knocked down Associated Press correspond- ported that a Navy A4 Skyhawk Jeanne Roberts, special read- at least three of the helicopters, ent Dennis Neeld reported from was lost 20 miles northeast of ing; Jean Kaiser, first and sec- the U.S. Command the front that Dickenson told Thanh Hoa and the pilot miss- ond grades; Steve Maxwell, The landings, by South Viet- him North Vietnamese troops ing. It was the 69th American kindergarten and special read- namese marines, put govern -1 were well dug in in and around plane downed over North Viet- ing; Barbara Flath, special men? forces on three sides of i the Citadel, in the heart of nam since the resumption of First Ballot Victory Seen; Humphrey Out MIAMI BEACH. Fla.

Sen. George McGovern today cinched the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, going over the top minutes after rival Hubert H. Humphrey withdrew from the race. An Associated Press poll showed a combination of attracted delegates plus onetime supporters of Humphrey added up to a first-ballot victory for McGovern. Attention quickly shifted to choice for vice president.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was high on the list of possible running mates, according to McGovern aides. Tears In Eyes Humphrey withdrew with a pledge to keep fighting for but without an endorsement of McGovern. Two other rivals.

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, pledged to remain in the race hours before the start of the second session of the nominating convention. His eyes brimming with tears, Humphrey bowed out at a news conference.

withdrawal from the presidential race is a withdraw- 1 al of candidacy said the I Minnesota senator, who first began running for the House more than a decade ago. His move was almost tated by sweeping recapture Monday night of 151 against disputed California delegates. Muskie Out MIAMI BEACH (AP) Edmund S. Muskie Is drawing as a candidate for ths Democratic presidential anmi- nation, sources said today. reading; Mary Desrocners, third the enemy-held provincial capi- grade; Sally Bray, kindergarten tal.

ana first grade. jj military spokesmen said Douglas Fix, English; Harry the crewmen of two CH46 me- Nelsont art; Gary Herbers, auto dium helicopters were safe, go- shop; Richard Hicks, librarian; ing down inside South Vietnam- Wanda Jone, matnematics; Rick ose lines after being hit by an- Smaniotto, business; Barbara tiaircraft artillery and small- Parr, elementary music; and arms fire. Marilyn Charles, elementary The fate of the crewmen Quang Tri City. Dickenson said he had seen 500-pound bombs dropped within 20 yards of the North Viet- namese bunkers and they failed to hurt anyone inside. In the air war.

the U.S. Command said cloudy weather cut full-scale bombing April 6. and a total of 68 crewmen are miss: ing, the U.S. Command said. North Vietnam said its gunners in Ha Bae Province, north of Hanoi, shot down a U.S.

Phantom today and the pilot i was captured. within about 25 first-ballot music. Matching Funds The Board also agreed to en- ter into a matching iund arrangement on the purchase of supplies or equipment that will benefit students with the various P. T. O.

groups or other approved organizations. The Board agreed to match funds up to $600 per group per year. Old Gang Is Still Democratic Fixture TRIAL BEGINS Kozo Okamoto, 24-vear-old Japanese terrorist who survived the Tel Aviv airport massacre of May 30. sits manacled to two security guards during opening of his trial Monday Lod, Israel. (AP Wirephoto) Killer Tricked' Into Confessing LOD, Israel (AP) An Twenty-eight persons raeli general testified today including the other two Japa- that he tricked Japanese terror- nese were killed, and 67 were ist Kozo Okamoto into con- wounded.

fessing his part in the Tel Aviv made my offer after six or airport massacre by promising seven hours in which he return revolver and one bul- fused to Zeevi said, to commit suicide. I made the proposal, his aboard the third helicopter, a CH53, the biggest U.S. troop carrying helicopter, was not immediately known. The helicopters flew from carriers in the U.S. 7th Fleet of the coast.

The new assault by several hundred South Vietnamese marines North of Quang Tri enlarged the government ring around the northernmost Approval was also given for provincial capital, the purchase of new ovens for Drive Stalled the senior high school kitchen The Marines were landed in the amount of $5,716 from the i miles north northwest of the who as much a fix- Hiawatha Chef Escanaba. city, on the eastern side of the tuiDemocratic national con Baltic said the district is still Thach Han River opposite the eligible for 75 per cent reim- Quang Tri combat base, bursement from the state. 1 For the fifth successive day, Contracts for senior high entrenched North Vietnamese forces managed to stall the South Vietnamese drive to ro- capture the city lost 10 weeks ago. Tank-led North infantrymen and namese paratrooper and marines battled at four different points on the northeastern and I southeastern outskirts of Quang Tri City. The Saigon command report- red.

white and blue, led that 104 North Vietnamese! And. also to be counted as were killed and eight old timers, the TV tanks destroyed, six of them in tators looking down from air- lone battle, by U.S. naval gun- conditioned, giassed-in chambers fire and South Vietnamese ar- high above the convention floor Walter and Dave and Harry. Government losses were six Chet's not here anymore, but school librarians extended by 15 days beyond the regular teaching contract so that the library services can be made available to students from the first to the last day of school. Kennedy Tops V.P.

Possibles MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Hail, hail the old gang's still here as the new Democratic party's convention comes to order. William Miller, the leather-lunged doorkeeper of the House of Ropre- ventions as the gavel. And there's John Bailey, a chairman of the national committee in the Kennedy-Johnson era.

But there also is a longhaired young man in lavender tee shirt emblazoned with "Gay Vietnamese and Aaron Henry, the South Viet- black chairman of the Mississippi Loyalist party in a delegate scat: and an American Indian with delegate badge and braids, and there arc blacks, and young people and women among the putting him votes for nation. Kennedy has remained aloof from the convention itself. He was at his home in Hyannis Port, and planned an afternoon sail to Nantucket after working on some papers sent to him from Washington. Gary Hart, McGovern's cam paign manager, said Leonard Woodcock, head of the United Auto Workers Union, was also on the list. Wallace Surprised The same names Kennedy ter around their state signs, and offered as talking with one another, talk- possibilities by McGovern's ing with newsmen.

wjfe Eleanor at her own news It may be the party of the conference. 70s, but the delegates boater Labor leaders have been hats could have come out of backing Humphrey and oppos- their trunks. And ing McGovern, but the UAW much of the music that booms has stood apart from this parti- forth might well be the same sanship. music that was played when Meanwhile, Wallace he said Harry S. Truman watched the he was of to convention in Kansas City in learn of Humphrey's withdraw- 1900 when he was only 16.

Hail, aj from the presidential race. hail, the old gang's still here. Weather ESCANABA AND VICINITY Variable cloudiness with chance of thundershowers through this has a right to the governor said, I just hope some of his delegates support me. I am still in the display of organ! izational muscle came when he recaptured 151 disputed California delegates at the peak of a aftei noon. Tonight, giadually i tumultuous session, clearing and mild, low 57 to 62.

The Dakota Wednesday, partly sunny and claimed his long, uphill battle mild, high 75 to 80. Winds south- was near success and lhat vic. erly 7 to 15 mph becoming west tory in Wednesday night's nom- to southwest 7 to 15 mph Wed-! ijiating session is our nesdav. Probabilities of precipitation: 20 per cent tonight and Wednesday. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

Son. Edward Kennedy is among tillery support, two or three people being con-1 sidered as Democratic running mates by Sen. George McGovern. McGovern's cam- paign manager said today. list has fewer than five names on it at this I Gary Hart said.

United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock also is on the list, Hart told newsmen. I Hart said there is a good1 chance that the South Dakota I men killed and 13 wounded, the Saigon command said. To North Vietnamese are taken his place. Still, the show as always is on the floor. The delegates come in, but don't sit.

They clus- Today's Chuckle A small town is a place here if you roe a girl ing dinner with a man erough to be father, he is. Chess Match Set To Begin REYKJAVIK, Iceland 'AP' American challenger Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Maj. Gen. Rehevam Zeevl, chief of Central Army Command, was asked if he meant to keep his agreement with Okamoto. forbid it was only bespectacled senator will offer the position mouth opened in a smile and he on the Democratic ticket to Spassky finally Kennedy sometime today.

How- play this afternoon in the rich- The chief defense lawyer, ever. Hart said, there is no est and most publicized world Max Kritzman, brought Zeevi; guarantee Kennedy w'ill accept into the case to prove his con- the position, tention that the confession had Hart made the announcement moments after Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey withdrew been made under duress. Zeevi testified that he believed at the time that another Zeevi testified on the second Japanese killer was still at arranged to award bonuses of the military trial for the four employes, including Haag, machine-gun and grenade at- who helped 1968 paign.

chess championship of all time unless some new snag develops. Last minute adjustments from competition for the presi- were being made on the stage dential nomination. of sports Hart said that McGovern will hall. The playing table was telephone Kennedy in Hyannis shortened, the green-and-white large. was an operational plan in the congress- 1 tack by Okamoto and two other to save lives, and anything Port, later today and marble chessboard constructed re-election cam-1 Japanese working for the Popu-j serving this purpose was per- discuss the No.

2 spot on the for the fourth time, and the lax Front ioc the Liberation of he said. ticket session is A Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, leader of the coalition of McGovern rivals that lost the crucial California vote, declined to concede the nomination. But he admitted that McGovern quite a earlier today.

But with victory within reach in the convention's opening session, the McGovern camp failed in an effort to engineer a compromise to seat both Chicago to the finals since 1948. Mayor Richard J. Daley and a London oddsmakers rated the heavily pro-McGovern group of lanky American the favorite to Illinois challengers, win the 24-game, two-month The convention then voted to competition and capture more oust the powerful Chicago may- than $180,000 of the estimated or in a move expected to have $300,000 at stake. far-reaching consequences both The winner gets five-eighths throughout the party and in its the black 'of the put up by the fall campaign for the White will be i Icelandic Chess Federation, or House in the politically crucial played each Tuesday, Thursday $78.125, plus another $75,000 of state of Illinois, and Sunday, starting at 5 p.m. the $120,000 provided by London Party leaders had feared the 1 p.m.

EDT. investment banker Janies Sla- opening night session would run prestige w'as at ter to persuade Fischer to end the defending Rus-jhis holdout last week. Organ- Soviet Union subsi- i izers calculate Fischer and and has dominated Spassky will divide at least an- But these were small details compared to the tangled negotiations and war of nerves that preceded the encounter, originally set to start July 2. Spassky, 35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fisher, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had pieces.

One game National stake for sian. The dizes chess into the daylight hours. But the showdown votes on California and Illinois were followed by a series of com- overhead lighting changed. the game for decades. Fischer other $55,000 from the sale of i is the first foreigner to make it1 television and film rights.

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