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ESCANABA DAILY PRESS (Read By More Than 45,000 Daily) BiiAlnrM Call 7M-2021 filth year. No. 1)9 16 Escanaha. Michigan 49829 Daily Friday, July 14, 1972 Missouri Senator Confirmed As Running Mate McGovern Appeals For Unity Against Nixon MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) good land it can tfor the House and Senate committee woman, nee and his 42-year-old running when McGovern vowed to wane Democratic presidential nomi- It was ncany 3 a.m.

when the Campaign committees and a take the job if declines, mate from Missouri. nee George McGovern, vowing beaming McGovern, introduced Democratic fund-raising group to lead a campaign, by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy were scheduled before he rc national campaign and said, Candidates Join Hands Reviewing the way his cam- arc not conceding a single In the final moments of the paign swept aside the estab- state to Richard urged wildly cheering Demo- and joined by vice presidential turned to Washington later to- i convention that his supporters lished political Earlier in the long evening, crats today to put behind nominee Thomas F. Eagleton day.

dominated all week, the McGovern said he would dedi-'the convention ratified fury and our frustrations" and and defeated presidential ri- McGovern also had to decide triumph belonged to the one- cate his White House campaign choice of Eagleton unite to capture the White vals, stepped to the rostrum of on a new chairman for the time college professor from House from President Nixon. a tumultuous, jammed Con- Democratic National Com-(South Dakota. To Rostrum vention Hall to accept his par- mittee, which holds a morning! Waves of applause rocked the And the South Dakota senator nomination. organizational meeting. While hall as Hubert H.

Humphrey, appealed for help every Democrat and every Republi- to the people, declared that as the No. 2 man on the 1972 next January he would restore Democratic ticket, government to their hands and But it took a one-hour, 20added: minute roll call that saw votes politics will never cast for candidates ranging from television The victorious nominee had he has pressed Chairman Law-1 Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M. only a few hours to rest up rence F. to stay on, in- Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and be the same from television commentator can and independent who wants after his triumph appear- formed sources said he would Terry Sanford lifted high the With some labor leaders still Roger Mudd, to TV character America to be the great and ances before a unity breakfast ask Jean Westwood, the Utah hands of the 49-year-old nomi- determined to sit out the cam- Archie Bunker, to the senator's paign and other delegates wife, Eleanor.

grumbling about the ways in Martha Mitrhrll Votr which his operatives dominated I Even Martha Mitchell, the the convention, McGovern fore- wife of former GOP campaign cast the battle Richard manager John N. Mitchell, got Nixon would bring the party a vote. in common McGovern chose the hand- this fall. some, articulate, first-term Missouri senator, a border-state "He is the unwitting unifier Catholic with strong ties to la- and the fundamental issue of from a field of a half-dozen this national senators, governors and may- McGovern said, adding that ol s- He was the senator sec- of us together are going to choice: Kennedy rejected I help him redeem a pledge he an offer of the vice presidency made 10 years ago: that next shortly after McGovern swept i year you have Richard firsl ballot nomination Wed; Nixon to kick around anv nrsday night. more.

Even delegates who supported the absent Gov. George C. Wallace joined the ovation New One-Ion Video Bomb Used In War When the final gavel fell at 3:27 a.m., the Democrats had ended a historic convention. reform rules that produced massive increases in the of women, black and young delegates, it ratified a Please Turn To Page 7, Col. 6 HAPPY OVER NOMINATION Mrs.

George McGovern, wife of the senator, waves frcm the floor of Convention. Hall in Miami Be.ich after her husband received the presidential nomination. (AP Wirephoto) SEN. GEORGE McGOVERN worked on his acceptance speech in his hotel suite while delegates on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach were vo't- ing him the presidential nomination Wednesday night. McGovern finally delivered the speech early today before tne convention adjourned.

(AP Wirephoto) Nobody Wanted Another Chicago Everyone Yielded A Little MIAMI BEACH. Fla. No one wanted another Chicago. almost as simple as that. So everyone Rave a protesters, the police, the city, the party and its the streets were quiet during the Democratic National Convention.

Convinced that violence would damage their individual causes, these diverse forces worked together this week to produce peaceful protests far different from the turbulence that swept the streets of Chicago when the Democrats convened there four years ago. The box score tells the story: Chicago: 680 arrested, 1,381 injured. Miami Beach: 1 arrested, 4 injured. Cop Leads March The memories of Chicago in 1968. of riot sticks and blood and tear gas, w'ere replaced done, police were con- this week by a motorcycle cop gratulating protesters, protest- leading a protest march to Con-lets were thanking police, and Court Delays Bus Purchase CINCINNATI.

Ohio (AP) financially troubled schools were given a federal breathing spell Thursday, when three Cincinnati appellate judges told the system it could least until before ordering the bus fleet saici needed to carry out a massive sion school desegregation order. The judges, from the U.S. Roth ruling, led by Gov. William Milliken and Atty. Gen.

Frank Kelley, were openly delighted by the panel's action. Kelley, contacted at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, the appeals deci- an important indication I that the court recognizes the 6th urgency and magnitude of the Circuit Court of Appeals here, granted an appeal by Michigan officials to stay the 53-district school integration ruling until matter. I am very Milliken Hopeful Milliken labeled the stay encouraging. hopeful that a after consideration on Monday, order the appeals court will grant a permanent stay while the basic i issues in the case are being Detroit school officials put off signing contracts for buses the school manager, the full court can hear quest to stay the whole Monday. Roth Refuses Judges John W.

Peck of Cincinnati, Harry Phillips of Nashville and George Edwards of Detroit acted after U.S. District but Harold Brown, Court Judge Stephen Roth ear- business lier in the day refused to delay said he would continue negotia- his order that nearly $3 million tions. worth of buses be ordered are many details to Thursday. be w'orked Brown said. A hearing on peti- is no use in wasting this tion for a permanent stay of time.

We w'ant to be ready to vention Hall with an antiwar button pinned to his chest. By the and ice cream vendors wandering through the crowd just after a small section of the fence; around the hall w'as torn down. the destructive highpoint of the week. By the jam in front of Convention Hall when the Yip! pies and Zippies came from one I direction, the Cuban anticommunists from another and the Gay activists from yet another. Demonstration marshals linked arms to keep everyone apart.

There was no violence, hardly a hint of destruction. Disruptions, but not disturbances. Tense moments, but not confrontations. And in the one moment when things might have taken a different turn, George McGovern took a chance. Faces Crowd Against the advice of the Secret Service, McGovern faced and pacified 300 chanting, shoving demonstrators in a hotel lobby just hours before he received the Democratic presidential nomination.

think the symbolism is more important than anything that he said afterward. didn't want a repetition of Chicago in When it was all over and SAIGON The U. S. Navy announced today the introduction of a new, one-ton video bomb called into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective. The weapon is an improved version of the television bomb and has been in use for the past month, the Navy said.

Capt. Marland Wr. Towsend, commanding officer of the carrier Kitty Hawk, said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits against their targets and reduced the risk that American pilots would be hit by ground fire. Camera In Nose Townsend said four bridges! were downed and two military supply buildings were de- stroyed by tne bombs. beat 100 per he said.

The Fat Albert, named by fliers aboard the Kitty Hawk, is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television cam- i era in the nose to direct the bomb to the target. The U.S. Command announced. meanwhile, that U.S. pilots carried out 270 tactical air strikes against targets in- i side North Vietnam Thursday.

Radio Hanoi claimed that 14 warplanes bombed a see- i tion of dikes in North Viet- I nam's Hai Hung Province on i Tuesday and that a large num- ber of Western newsmen saw it. Heavy Fighting MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) The broadcast said the news- His proposals rejected by the men had been taken to the area Democrats, Alabama Governor near Hiep Ca and Nan Hung George C. Wallace has not villages to see damage alleged- Gun Battles Rage Throughout Belfast BELFAST.

Northern Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three civilians were reported killed, raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of communal violence in Northern Ireland. The army claimed to have hit Catholic defiance, the Bogside more than 30 gunmen, but re- and Greggan districts, or covered no bodies because the as the IRA calls them, guerrillas carry away their cas- 70M Men Remain ualties for burial or treatment. Shooting Erupts Shooting erupted in all of Bel-1 major Catholic strong- Mayor Chuck Hail and Police Chief Rocky Pomerance had emerged almost as heroes of the counterculture generation. City officials had prepared themselves for an influx of tens of thousands of so-called delegates.

but at most only 3,000 gathered at any one time. Several months ago. Hall began meeting with leaders of the groups that planned demonstrations during the convention. He also led the fight that opened a city park for camping during the convention. Wallace Ponders Political Future Eagleton Was Front Runner After Kennedy closed the door completely on another third-party campaign.

don't have any plans now politically except to go back to Alabama," Wallace said Thursday. Asked if that ruled out another American Independent Party effort, the crippled governor replied: I said, I have any political plans at this time. That would include that, of But, he added: say I won't ever have ly done to dikes there by U.S. bombs two days earlier. In the ground war, more heavy fighting was reported today on South northern front, where 20.000 Saigon troops arc on a drive to retake Quang Tri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1.

The Saigon command said its troops had not entered the Quang Tri City limits, but reported a series of battles ranging from two 10 miles northeast of the provincial capital. Collins Denies Role In Scheme, Aide Convicted WASHINGTON (AP) Texas Congressman James M. Collins has denied any knowledge of an $18.000 kickback scheme for which his former chief aide was convicted Thursday. The aide, George A. Haag, contended throughout his four- day trial that he carried out the kickback scheme at the direction of Collins, a millionaire Republican from Dallas.

Haag, 33. stood tight-lipped and erect as the jury foreman! repeated your to 20 counts of mail fraud, two counts of using falsified House payroll forms and one count of obstructing justice. His wife cried softly. He faces a maximum 15-year prison sentence under terms set by U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch.

but lawyers said they believe he would get less than five. An appeal is planned. No date was set for sentencing. Today's Chuckle A girl gets married in order to make two people happy her and her mother. holds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA district of Andersonstow'n to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four days.

It was the first time the army had entered one of the districts taken over by the IRA. In the past such areas have been off limits to prevent a confrontation with Ihe guer- i rillas holding sway there. Protestant militants have been demanding for months that the army go into the no go areas and clean out the IRA. i The invasion of Andersonstown ill probably intensify the Prot- demands that the army now go into the barricaded areas of Londonderry that are the most famous symbols of I Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of Andersonstown early today but said it did not know how long they would stay there. The invasion of town was ordered by administrator for Northern Ireland.

William Whitelaw, Army headquarters said. It marked a reversal, at least temporarily, of policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean away the grassroots Catholic support of the IRA. The retaliation began shortly before midnight. A sandbagged Army fortification on Lenadoon Avenue had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours. At one stage a rocket was fired at the post but tha missile missed and hit a neighboring house.

Nixon, Connally Talk On Mission the purchase order is set for 1:30 p.m. Monday. Michigan officials battling the Weather MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton apparently had his vice presidential nomination cinched early agree to contracts next week if Thursday despite a day-long the stay is lifted by the appeals show' of decision-making by ihe court." McGovern camp. ruling orders an 11- The Democratic National member panel to draft a descg-1 endorsement of ration plan for Detroit, and 52 Sen. George choice suburban districts in three early today followed a hectic Hanoi Uses Heat-See! Missile, U.S. Concerned ESCANABA AND Cloudy with brief showers thundershowers likely through tonight, low in the mid 50s. Partly sunny Saturday and a little cooler, highs mid 60s to counties.

One of the first or charges was to order buses needed to transport pupils. The nearly 800,000 public school pupils are involved in the ruling. If order is low 70s. Winds south becoming I carried out, some 40,000 cle- west 12 to 20 mph tonight. Prob- mentary pupils are cxpected to abilities of precipitation: 30 per be involved in an interim decent tonight, 10 per cent Satur- segregation plan this fall with day.

The sun sets today at 8:36 full implementation set for Sep- and rises Saturday at 5:13. Uembcr, 1973. day of telephone calls and conferences about the vice presidential spot. Reports of lists of candidates far-ranging membership floated out of the McGovern entourage. But whether there was a list on paper w'ith two, four, seven or twenty-five names on it, Eagleton was the front-runner after Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy's decision against running was accepted. carries a high-explosive warhead. It has proved very effective, especially against the comparatively slow helicopters and propeller planes, officers say. Some officers consider it the most effective of the several weapons used for the first time by the North Vietnamese in the 1 current offensive the others include long-range artillery, medium tanks and wire-guided missiles.

Military sources estimate that more than a dozen U.S. aircraft and at least that many South Vietnamese helicopters SAIGON 'AP' introduction of a heat-seeking Soviet antiaircraft missile into the Vietnam war is generating considerable concern among U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders and has brought about some diastic changes in their tactics. The weapon is the SA7, or a Soviet missile which the North Vietnamese fire from the shoulder like a bazooka. It is much like the U.S.

Redeye missile. The Strela is equipped with an infrared homing device that is attracted to the heat given and planes have been downed 0 by an aircraft engine and by Strela missiles since they appeared on the battlefield early May. The only Americans known to have survived being hit by one of the missiles were two Army pilots whose helicopter gunship crash landed in some trees after a missile blew off its tail boom near An Loc. The Strela has been used most often around An and along Highway 13. It was so effective there that midway through the siege of the provincial capital, U.S.

helicopters quit flying in the area, and spott planes were forced to operate at feet, above the estimated range of the missile. SAN CLEMENTE, Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon. Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Cabinet. just completed a 35-day, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan.

Asked if the new assignment w'ould be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, has not been decided." Running iVlate? There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he might turn to Connally. The former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job but has never said flatly he would not accept. Another globe-circling traveler, Secretary of State William P.

Rogers, will be at the Western White House on Saturday to report to Nixon on a 19-day journey to 10 countries. Ziegler reported that the' President and Mrs. Nixon watched final Democratic convention proceedings on television Thursday night. However, the press secretary kept mum about reaction to the nomination of Sen. George McGovern as his November opponent.

Briefings Planned have a specific i comment on the upcoming tion and proceedings until after the Republican Ziegler said. Nixon did order Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser, to arrange a meeting soon with McGovern to set up a series of intelligence briefings for the Democratic nominee. Officials Reject Fischer Demand REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's pi'otest against his loss of world championship chess game bv forfeit.

The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award tlie game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent, of 12 victories and a draw' to take title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall. Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match waa ivery much in doubt..