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Where to Find It: Mm Comics Editorials Markets 14 8 13 4 TV, Radio Weather Women mi THE WEATHER-Thundershowers likely today and tonight. High in upper 80s, low in 60s. Partly cloudy Thursday, high in 80s. Sunrise sunset 8:49. The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, July 12, 1972 Two Sections Copyright, 1772, Molnts Rtsister and Tribunt Company Price 10 Cents us wMj uMm mm Humph uskie Quit Presidentia rev.

9 ANTIBUSING THE DEMOCRATS COULD USE BOBBY FISCHER McGovern Victory A 'Revolution' He's Seen Lighting Fires of Discontent With Affluent Society By Richard Wilson (The Register's Washington Correspondent) MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Senator George S. McGovern wrapped up the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination with professional skill which exploited the demand for drastic change and reform as the true nature of the American political condition today. I would alter radically the nature of the American system. In another sense, the McGovern candidacy has become a projection of what the late Robert F.

Kennedy's drive for the presidency would probably have been had he not been murdered in a Los Angeles ballroom. He rode to the nomination on procedural reforms of his own devising which are merely a facade for a deep-seated social and economic ferment now dominating NEWS ANALYSIS the McGovern- controlled Democratic Party. It is a movement comparable to the New Deal of 40 years ago, bringing forward little known personalities, some of them feared for what seems to be extreme views. The older members of the party can only listen in frozen apprehension to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a disciple of Martin Luther King, whose voice now replaces that of Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago.

Voice of Revolution Jackson's voice is that of revolution not of mere racial adjustment but of basic eco- nomic realignments, wealth- sharing and power-sharing that Orders Cabin U.S. APPEALS FOR BIG MEAT IMPORT RISE Market Wide Open, 12 Nations Told WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -The State Department is calling in the ambassadors of 12 major meatexporting countries today to tell them that the American market is now "wide open and we will take all you can send." Spokesman Charles W. Bray III, announcing this move, said the aim is to bring down the price of fresh and frozen beef and veal for American consumers. Undersecretary of State John N.

Irwin has asked envoys of the 12 countries to meet at the State Department today with Treasury Secretary George Sliultz and representatives of the Department of Agriculture, the Cost of Living Council, the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the office of the special assistant to the President for consumer affairs. 11 Pet. Rise Seen Bray said it is anticipated that President Nixon's freeze on voluntary restraints on meat exports, announced in late June, would bring an 11 per cent increase in meat imports this year. The new appeal to the 12 nations for all the beef they can ship here will boost imports still further above the 11 per cent already expected. The 12 nations and the amount of their exports to the U.S.

in 1971 in millions of pounds were: Australia. 600.4 million pounds; New Zealand 250.9; Mexico 78.2; Ireland 74.7; Guatemala 25.3; El Salvador, 3.0; Honduras, 16.7; Nicaragua, 44.8; Costa Rica 39.8; Panama 6.1; the Dominican Republic 12.5 and Haiti, 2.6. It will be explained to the ambassadors that countries which help the United States now with large meat imports will have this factor considered when import quotas for 1973 are set. 1971 Imports During 1971 there were 1.112 billion pounds of meat imported into the United States under the voluntary restraint program. Total U.S.

meat production this year is estimated at 23.3 billion pounds. With a boost of more than 11 per cent in meat imports, approximately 1.3 billion pounds will be furnished to American consumers with the hope that this will bring down soaring meat prices. Bray said the purpose of the President's action in suspending voluntary meat restraints and for the meeting with the 12 nations today is to encourage a further supply. State Land Along River By Otto Knauth After a legal battle of seven years, the Iowa Conservation Commission Tuesday took what it hopes will be final action in ordering a group of cabin owners off state land along the Mis Kennedy was in the course of igniting the inflammable discontent at the base of an affluent society which is by nature unfair as life in the distribution of its benefits. The accumulation of ex plosive material has since increased, awaiting someone like McGovern who, if he does not himself apply the torch, creates the conditions in which others can do so.

That is the way it was also in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which was as novel, radical and imprecise in WILSON Please turn to Page Two Owners Off Elect head of the Iowa Conservation Commission after confusing session: PAGE 3. Si-Million Fire At Sioux City (The Register's Iowa News Service) SIOUX CITY, IA. A mid-aftprnonn firo destrovpd a bowl- dust apparently was ignited by "spontaneous com i about 3 p.m. ace S.D.

SENATOR ACTS TO HEAL PARTY SPLIT Has Enough Votes For Nomination By Clark Mollenhoff (The Register's Washington Bureau Chief) MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Senator George McGovern had a clear path to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night after Senators Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie bowed out and assured the South Dakotan of a first-ballot victory. Delegate counts showed that McGovern had surged far beyond the majority that tonight will choose the man who will challenge President Nixon. Controlling Votes In simplest terms, McGovern had the votes to control the convention on delegate disputes, on the platform that the convention was completing Tuesday night, and on the nomination itself. Gov.

Reubin Askew of Florida sounded in his keynote address Tuesday night a call for unity in a feuding party. He said Democrats have responded to "a coalition of protest," and if they can now unite, they can win. He said it was impossible to ignore "the forces of division that pull at us from every direction tonight." But he said "a good and open fight" can become a source of strength if the contestants get together in the end. Already, McGovern strategists were talking of a vice-presidential running mate, with the name of the absent, reluctant Senator Edward M. Kennedy at the top of their list.

Rumors were rampant here Tuesday night, one saying that Kennedy will announce an availability for the second spot. Other rumors said he would fly to Miami Beach Thursday afternoon after the vice-presidential decision is made as a gesture of party unity. McGovern aides also were beginning the quest for party accord amid signals that it will be hard to achieve. Day of Drama After a night of tumultuous political infighting that kept the Democratic National Convention in session until near dawn, Tuesday was a day ot political drama. First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign CONVENTION Please turn to Page Seven apawns or Fischer and a king.

three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. U.S. Grandmaster Robert Byrne said, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Fischer has played Spassky five times. The three times he played the black pieces, he lost.

Playing white, he was able to salvage two draws, but has never triumphed over the Soviet. The match was scheduled to begin July 2, but Gudmundur Thorarinsson's Icelandic Chess CHESS Please turn to Page Four Youths Shaken But Unhurt As Car Skids Off Bridge By James Healey Six young persons trembling, but unharmed were pulled from an auto that plunged upside down into the Riverview PLATFORM VOTED DOWN Dramatic Wallace Appeal for Plank By James Risser (Of The Register's Washington Bureau) MIAMI BEACH, FLA. -Delegates to the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night shouted down an anti-school-busing plank proposed by supporters of Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The action, upholding the Platform Committee's determination that busing is a legitimate "tool" to be used in desegregating schools, came after the crippled Wallace made a dramatic appearance before the delegates.

The decision came just before midnight (Iowa time). Some two hours earlier, with the question of the party's presidential nominee now out of the way, the delegates had plunged into their last real debate of this convention a lengthy and hard-fought battle over a num ber of controversial planks in the 1972 party platform. Also defeated on a decisive voice vote was a Wallace minority plank opposing the platform's call for controls on the sale of handguns and a ban on the so-called "Saturday night special" pistol of the type used on Wallace by a would-be assassin. "Lose Liberty" Wallace supporters advocated the view that such controls would result in "a disarmed citizenry" that would "lose its liberty and But Senator Adlai Stevenson defending the Platform Committee, said "violence in America is caused first and foremost by guns." Stevenson said, "The Con stitution does not guarantee the right of criminals to keep and bear pistols." Wheeled to the podium to the cheers of his supporters, Wallace denounced "this senseless, asinine busing of students." The remark also PLATFORM Please turn to Page Two Other Stories On Convention IOWA SENATOR Harold Hughes gives his support to McGov- ern Page 6 McGOVERN says he would keep U.S. troops in Thailand and naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin until U.S.

prisoners of war were released by North Vietnamese 6 McGOVERN campaign staff is headed by predominantly young personnel Page 7 IOWA WOMAN who introduces Democrats' education plank favors busing Page 6 THE TEXTS of withdrawal speeches by Senators Hum phrey and Muskie 7 GOVERNOR ASKEW, in key note speech, pleads with Democrats to forget their differences for a better to morrow Page 7 THE INSURGENTS won the battle to oust Chicago Mayor Richard Daley delegation, but did they lose Illinois in the process? Page LABOR UNIONS will boycott election rather than support McGovern, Democrats are warned Page 4 sissippi River. The commission voted unanimously to order the cabins removed or otherwise disposed of by Dec. 1 in accord with an offer made in 1967 giving the owners a five-year grace period. 1965 Opinion The case began in December, 1965, when an assistant attorney general, Robert Seism, issued an opinion that the cabins had been illegally constructed ing alley here Tuesday, causing on land owned by the state and an estimated $1 million in dam-administered by the Con- ages. servation Commission.

Bruce CasPer- who owns At that time, there were 68 oux Village Bowl and recently had closed the building for re- cabms and trailers on the nar-irnodelingi said the four.aiarm row strip of land between the; blaze apparently was started in river and the railroad extend- the alley adjacent to the building from just north of Mar- quette in Clayton County to Fire officials said a stack of railroad ties near a pile of saw- RAINS BRING FLOOD ALERT Five inches of rain that fell in Harrison County Tuesday afternoon brought flash-flood warnings in the Soldier River basin area, and washed out electric power lines near County Road L-23, according to a Harrison sheriff's office spokesman. Power had been restored by 7 p.m., the spokesman said. Showers also returned to Des Moines Tuesday with the city receiving .19 of an inch up to 6 p.m. The National Weather Service reported strong storms southwest of Decorah in northeastern Iowa, and 1.45 inches of rain fell in the Wellsburg area in a half hour. Waterloo reported heavy rains and wind gusts to 35 miles an hour; hail the size of marbles was reported at Dike.

Mostly cloudy skies were the rule in Iowa, with high temperatures ranging from 92 degrees at Iowa City and Davenport, to 75 degrees at Audubon. Des Moines' high was 85. problems at the request of Gov. Robert Ray. The commission indicated it will probably recommend to the 1973 Legislature that it appropriate funds to build new office space, but made no decision Tuesday about how many buildings will be asked for, or where the new structures will be placed.

There were indications that other members of the commission, which is composed of legislators, citizens and several BUILDING Please turn to Page Five Park Lagoon Tuesday night. The driver of the car was Lois Williamson, 17, of 1825 Seventh St. Her shoulders heaved and she 'J-' wept ii a-f I terically as she tried unsuccessfully to recount what had happened. Pam Zonona, 16, of 712 E. eca was riding in the front seat when the car crashed LOIS WILLIAMSON rear-end first through a chain link fence and plunged into waist-high water about 9:15 p.m.

"A Nightmare" "It was a nightmare. I felt like I was already dead by the PICTURE: Page 9 time rescuers pulled me through an open window," she shuddered later. Also in the front seat was Kathy Malaney, 15, of 6200 S.E. Sixteenth Court. Her infant nephew, Bret Cooper, 1 and two nieces, Lori Cooper, 7, and Lisa Cooper, 6, all were in the back' seat.

The three are children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cooper of 6200 S.E. Sixteenth Court. The girls had spent the evening entertaining the three youngsters at the park and were leaving shortly before closing time when their car skidded out of control on the rain-slicked wooden bridge that is the entrance to Riverview Park.

The bridge is an extension of Corning Avenue and spang the Jftft-foot-wide lagoon. Richard Reed, 17, of 2723 E. Elm who works at the park but was off duty at the time, gave this account: "I was walking on the bridge when they drove out of the park and started to skid. The car crashed through the wooden center divider of the bridge, hit the fence (along the north side of the bridge), bounced off, came back over and ran through the other fence (along the bridge's south side)." While the car still was on the span, Reed said, "It spun 180 degrees around and went through the fence backwards. It kinda flipped over in the air and landed on its top.

Shouted For Aid "I jumped into the water, stuck my head up inside the car through a broken window and saw that everybody was all right." The youth said that he shouted for assistance and that about 10 others jumped and waded into the lagoon and helped turn the car onto its side. Then the rescuers were able to pull the occupants to safety through side windows on the car, he said. A 30-foot section of the chain link fence along the south edge of the bridge was wrenched loose as the auto crashed into the water. The car also sheared a metal pipe that carries electrical wiring for the bridge lights, but a park employe had shut off the current when he saw the auto begin to skid, witnesses said. Police patrolman Max Dick-erson who investigated the incident said that no charges were filed.

The wet bridge slats were blamed by police for the skid. Park employes estimated that it would cost $2,000 to re pair the damage. DOCK TIE-UP HONOLULU, HAWAII (AP) Hawaii longshoremen continued stop-work meetings Tues day while contract negotiations resumed in an effort to avoid a I crippling dock tieup. Game Adjourned; Predict Trouble for Tardy Fischer REYKJAVIK, ICELAND (AP) World titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia and American challenger Bobby Fischer adjourned the first game of their world championship chess match Tuesday night after 40 moves and experts felt Fischer would have to fight for a draw. The game will resume today.

Spassky was at the board onf the dot of 5 p.m., (noon Iowa called, there was little left on time) when the match was the board: a king and five Urges 2 New State Office Buildings in Capitol. Area By Louise Swartzwalder The State of Iowa should build at least two new office buildings and possibly more within the next five years, the state's Capitol Planning Commission was told Tuesday. uccu liai yci a i. ciijf ruicr makee County. Twenty-five of the owners sued the state in Clayton County District Court, claiming they had agreements with the Chicago, Minneapolis and St.

Paul Railroad to build their cabins there. A similar suit was filed in Allamakee County District Court. In 1967, the state offered to give the cabin owners, some of whom had spent several thousand dollars on their buildings, a grace period of five years to leave. The owners continued to assert their rights to the land. Finally, last May 2, the Clayton County owners agreed to stipulations before Judge Joseph C.

Keefe acknowledging state ownership of the land. The Conservation Commission had the choice of allowing them to lease the land, allowing them to remain but requiring them to permit public access, or ordering them to vacate so the land could be developed for public use. The Owners Tuesday, the commission chose the latter course, instructing Assistant Atty. Gen. SQUATTERS Please turn to Page Ten scneduiea to Degtn.

tie wauea 5 ZrZTrn IjUCvli II tui huiu spaces. Seven minutes later, Fischer appeared from offstage left. With long strides he sped to the black leather swivel chair placed behind the white side of the board. Greeted by Applause Applause which greeted Fischer's arrival rose to a crescendo when Spassky moved forward from his side of the stage, where he had been waiting to shake Fischer's hand. The first game of history's richest world chess title match' was called after 4 hours 48 minutes of play.

When play was Stanley McCausland, director of the Department of General Services and a member of the commission, said the state needs a minimum of two buildings in the Capitol complex to consolidate space in leased offices and older state-owned buildings that are scattered all around Des Moines. The state also needs to consider building office space for the 150 legislators, and a centralized cafeteria to serve employes who work in all the state office buildings, said McCausland, who has been studying the state's space.

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