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si Polk Board Okays teacher, administrator pay hikes, 1-B $1,488,386 Budget submitted by Haines City manager, 1-B 1 1 1 nuiii, iinimfflfif-iii'ihi-ifiii Rain Odds: 2 In 5 Data on Page 2-A Heartland 7 Days Home Delivery 85 Cents PRICE TEN CENTS lit T8th YEAR No. 167 FIVE SECTIONS 94 PAGES TAMPA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 TAMPA TRIBUNE Kennedy Says No Again 4 'If; Demos Pick McGovern No Solution Seen In Worst Water Crisis 9 Choice Owetf By JAMES MANNING Tribune Staff Writer What Mayor Dick Greco called "our worst water crisis ever" plagued Tampa with mass inconvenience and the possibility of disaster yesterday, and officials saw no certain solution in sight. Greco renewed a plea made Tuesday that Tampans reduce water use "to es 1 A sentials," and that they "es- pecially" not water lawns or wash cars. "It's our only hope outside of rain," he added. MEANWHILE, Greco said he had discovered a $2 million "emergency" water contract intended to solve crises in the immediate future "would not really help to any considerable extent this problem we're having now." The mayor planned steps to amend the emergency contract, and said he had taken a "tough" new stance toward engineers under consideration for a contract involving a vast, long-range improvement of Tampa's water situation.

Greco also said he would refuse the press admission to an 8 a.m. session scheduled with engineers today. Broiling temperatures and little rain have been causing Tampans to use more water than the city can treat, store and then distribute. The result is poor water pressure. THE CITY'S ability to treat water has been reduced an estimated 10 million gallons a day because of the need also to treat heavy water discoloration which, in this season, begins to infiltrate the Hillsborough River, the city's main water source.

With continued heavy demands for water yesterday, air conditioners went out; water fountains went dry; toilets would not flush; and industries moved to the brink of what one spokesman termed "a catastrophe." "Some people have called and said they're not going to comply with the voluntary ban," Greco said. "I'd like to say to these people that this is a serious problem." GRECO SAID other residents are reporting Violations Please See Page 8, Col. 1 TT TTTlv JT Features Armed Forces 20-E Astrology 10-IV Business 3-B Classified 10-23-C Comics 8, fl-C Crossword 5-IV Deaths 9-IV Editorials 20-A Financial 3-7-B Fishing 10-C Goren on Bridge 2-IV Graham 2-IV Landers 4-IV Sylvia Porter 10-A Television 8-IV Theaters 7-IV Van Dellen 5-IV Wishing Well 2-IV Women 3-IV Fooled Pros And i iiiiiiiiiim iniMi-l'-iT-T-ia 'lH it I fel v4 iJk, State Demo Leaders Not Very Happy By BOB TURNER Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH George McGovern has an uphill if not impossible election battle ahead of him in November, some top Florida Democrats say. The Republicans will defeat him but McGovern shouldn't be taken lightly or regarded as a pushover, top Florida figures in the GOP declare. IF THERE is one thing that Democratic and Republican Party spokesmen agree on in the wake of the South Dakota senator's nomination, it's that McGovern doesn't stand to run at all well in Florida.

Sen. Lawton Chiles, said that "it's too early to tell" how McGovern will fare against President Nixon this fall, but Chairman Bill France of the Florida convention delegation said the nomination of McGovern will "tear the Democratic Party wide open." Florida's Republican national committeeman William C. Cramer said in Washington that he is convinced the majority of Americans, will support the reelection of President Nixon. But Cramer said it would be "a great mistake" to take McGovern or any other Democratic nominee for granted "not to go full regardless of" whether the nominee had been Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie or McGovern. THE EXECUTIVE director of the Florida Republican Committee, Bill David, said in Tallahassee he didn't think McGovern "stands any kind of chance in Florida," However the party spokesman said he didn't consider "any election a writeoff." Chiles, who gave the convention welcome address and earlier at least nominally leaned to Muskie, said McGovern had surprised him and many others who didn't think McGovern could get the nomination, "He's turned loose a force completely new to politics," Please See Page 8, Col 2 Polls.

Too Moderate Urged For nd Spot 6d MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -Weary Democrats met last night to give George S. McGovern his hard-won presidential nomination, already tarnished by labor leaders' opposition and new skepticism among some of his youthful supporters. A few hours before convention delegates handed him a first-ballot triumph over four surviving but hopeless rivals, McGovern descended to the lobby of the Doral Hotel to try to reassure antiwar demonstrators noisily accusing him of a "cynical sellout" on Vietnam. DISENCHANTMENT with an earlier McGovern statement about maintaining a residual U.S. military force in Southeast Asia spread to the Massachusetts, California and Mississippi convention delegations, where some pro-McGovern members threatened to cast protest votes for other candidates.

Inside convention hall, the first name to be placed in nomination was that of paralyzed Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabamba, who was quietly asurring delegates that he would not desert the Democrats and start another third party movement. WALLACE'S AIDES warned that the Alabama Governor's complete defeat in. a night-long floor battle over the Democratic platform had suddenly boosted his chances of bolting the party and leading a third party bid for the presidency.

Organized labor, too, was growing increasingly rebellious. Faced with this, McGovern called six mostly Southern or border state governors to his penthouse suite at the Doral Hotel for a two-hour review of vice presidential possibilities and un'fying concessions he might make in his acceptance speech before the convention tonight. Although no decisions reportedly were made, "there was a general consensus that Ted Kennedy would be a great addition to the ticket and fully qualified to take over the reins of government if it be-Please See Page 8, Col. 1 Pundits Mayor Greco 'tough' stance ing into clashes with Roman Catholic militants. But gunmen shot dead three jouths, including a 15-year-old mentally handicapped boy, keeping sectarian tension much in evidence, raising the death toll in three years of sectarian strife to at least 420.

IX LONDONDERRY, a 200-pound gelignite bomb blasted dozens of shops and offices in the downtown area. British troops defused another of equal size. In Belfast, troops and guerrillas traded fire in a series of skirmishes. The Protestants ignored a persistent downpour to parade across the bloodstained province on the day marking the 282nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne where Wil- Please See Page 8, Col. 1 Today's Chuckle Sleeping outdoors will cure insomnia.

So wiU sleeping i Tribune Photo by Frank Ross Wallace Delegate Doubles In Glass Alberta K. Johnston of Orlando Flood Relief Funds Sought Tribune Photo by Mike Moats John Benitez Pours Sterile Water For Dr. Rex Castleson trickling faucet slows action in St. Joseph's scrub room Protestants In Ulster Parade; 3 Youths Slain SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon announced yesterday he would ask Congress to appropriate more than $1.7 billion to help rebuild communities in six Atlantic seaboard states devasted by tropical storm Agnes.

The President also said he would propose that Congress authorize special disaster loans to affected homeowners and businessmen in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida at only 1 per cent interest. No payment would be required on the first $5,000 of a loan. "Never before has so thorough and so all-embracing a recovery effort been launched. Never was it more uniquely needed." Nixon said in a special, five-minute speech taped for radio broadcast. IN A THIRD STEP to speed disaster relief, Nixon said he had invited some 500 mayors, county executives and other leaders from the stricken six-state area to attend a special conference with federal officials in Washington Friday.

Please See Page 13, Col. 7 BELFAST (AP) Thousands of Orangemen marched yesterday to commemorate the 17th Century battle that es Fischer Loses Chess Opener tablished Protestant power in Northern Ireland. A huge British security operation kept the marches from erupt- Boris Spassky goes one-up McGovern Made A Mockery Of REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Bobby Fischer in the first game of their $250,000 championship match yesterday, putting the unpredictable American one point behind in what could be a 24-game series. Fischer, who had walked off the stage for 35 minutes to protest the presence of two Please See Page 8, Col. Labor rejected him.

The Democratic Party establishment ignored him. He was dismissed as a one-issue candidate he did concentrate on opposing the war. They said he appealed only to the small, fringe left of the Democratic Party. Everyone laughted at his temerity in announcing a full year ahead of anyone else; To say that almost everyone underestimated McGovern is an understatement. Please See Page 18, Col.

1 municator with the voters, McGovern projected a blandness that amounted almost to negative charisma. AT A TIME when the cost of political campaigns soared, McGovern started out with no money and no angels. His ratings in the national polls were so low, there was some question if there was a George McGovern outside his home state of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. By STEVE GERSTEL MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-In a miracle of modern politics, George S.

McGovern's masterful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination made a mockery of the pros, the pundits, and the polls. By every yardstick that the practicing politicians have used for generations, McGovern had no business winning. In fact, he had no business running. In an age where television is the instant com- 1" 4.

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