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The Weather and little temperature change Saturday night and Sunday. Low Saturday night In the upper 50'i with northerly winds of 815 mph. High Sunday In the low to middle bo Precipitation probabilty 20 per cent Saturday night and Sunday. BISMARCK TRIBUN FINAL Price Ten Cents North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper Established 1873 Bismarck, N.D., Saturday, July 8, 1972 VOLUME 99-NUMBERU2 Copyright 1971 The Bismarck Tribune Company Larsen Wins GOP Gubernatorial Nod Saturday's 1 Good By BILL TILLOTTSON Special Assignments Editor Republican delegates chose Lt. Gov.

Richard F. Larsen, a young college professor, Friday as the gubernatorial candidate they hope will break 12 years of Democratic control of the State Capitol. Larsen, who will be 36 on Aug. 11, won the State Republican Endorsing Convention nod on the second ballot, sweeping over a field of four other candidates. Larsen, who had been tagged as the front-runner going into Friday night's balloting, won unexpectedly early.

"I was surprised it came on the second ballot," Larsen told newsmen. "Originally I was looking at the fourth or fifth." A native of Grand Forks who has been an economics professor at the University of North Dakota and now is a financial consultant and businessman, Larsen was elected lieutenant governor four years ago after a political career which included service in both the North Dakota House of Represen-' tatives and State Senate. He rolled up 411 votes, four votes more than needed, to defeat Minot Mayor Chester M. Reiten, who had 218 votes in the second spot. State Sen.

Ed Doherty of New Rockford polled 80 votes on the second ballot, State Sen. Evan E. Lips of Bismarck had 57 and Frank G. Larson, Valley City businessman, had 46. Larsen's endorsement was greeted by pledges of unity and support by the other four candidates and by a challenge from the gubernatorial endorsee to Independent Robert P.

McCarney of Bismarck and others who would challenge the convention's action in the September primary. party not controlled by its own membership and the will of its majority opens itself to bossism and control by those who can afford the luxury of full-time political life," Larsen said in his acceptance speech to the convention. If successful in September, Larsen will take on Rep. Arthur A. Link, 58, a farmer from Alexander in McKenzie County.

Larsen had made a strong bid for the governor's nomination, and in his nomination speech, Delegate William C. Kelsch of Mandan said that the party had made an investment in Larsen four years ago when it nominated him as lieutenant governor. The Grand Forks Republican had told regional caucuses Friday afternoon that he believed he was the man for the job of bringing leadership back to the State Capitol. "North Dakota has had no effective leadership for the past 12 years," he told one caucus group. As the nation's most agricultural state, Larsen charged, North Dakota has had no effective voice in Washington councils.

He also said, "I believe the head of the ticket is going to have to rebuild the party in some parts of the state." After his endorsement Friday night, Larsen met with reporters and said he would have no preference in whom Republicans endorse for lieutenant governor. "I believe people should stay out of other races," Larsen said, obliquely referring to interference in his campaign of the past. Asked if he thought his youth might become an issue, Larsen said, "I think not being too old is an advantage because campaigning is tiring." Larsen promised to begin working for the primary nomination "on Monday." His wife, Chris, who was with him on the platform when he made his acceptance, later said, "I'm very pleased." Mrs. Larsen, mother of a son, Reidar, 8, and daughter, Maia, 3, said, "I expected him See LARSEN, Page 2 iiiiwiMiiMi -ir I I On. Dofl ''fcj I News They Caucus With Birds Political conventions generally bring to mind smoke-filled caucuses and noisy hotels, but not for District 14 Delegates C.

J. Schultz, Harvey, and John Sellie, Cathy, who are attending the Republican convention in Bismarck. Because other accommodations were not available, Schultz and Sellie and their wives stayed in trailers in General Sibley Park on the Missouri River south of Bismarck. "I'm staying out where it's nice and peaceful and cool and the birds are singing," Schultz, who with his wife is an old trailering hand, said. Snakes Save His Crop MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) Lewis Soldwedel says a snake in the grass means fruit in the bowl. Soldwedel said Thursday that for years he watched squirrels and birds wax fat on the macadamia nuts and mangoes from his back yard trees, while all he ever got was their leftovers. "Last year, I put pet repellent and aluminum pie pans in and around my trees, and it did absolutely no good," he said. This year Soldwedel bought a small rubber snake the kind loved by children and practical jokers and tied it in a macadamia tree. "The first squirrel took one look at it, stopped suddenly and changed its mind about the nuts," he said.

If i I be a candidate. Frank Albers, Center, former state insurance commissioner, had announced for the post before the convention started. Lohmann, who comes from a banking family, is married and he and his wife, Donna, have five children. "It was a sudden decision, a last minute decision, made at the urging of friends," Lohmann said. Convention delegates had been looking for an attractive candidate'' to run against Democratic incumbent Byron Dorgan, who serving on an appointment by Gov.

William L. Guy has yet to be tested at the polls. A Nixon landslide this fall could make a difference, Lohmann supporters said, and they believed that Lohmann was the candidate the convention had been seeking. Chilson has been Tioga city auditor for the past three years. For 15 years he was office manager for a Tioga oil service truck company and in 1950 he See WILHITE, Page 2 il IRV WILHITE A race developed Friday for the tax commissioner's slot, a no-party position on the general election ballot but a key office in state government to the party which wins the governorship.

Richard Lohmann, 45, a former banker from Marian in southeastern North Dakota, announced late Friday he would seek the post. Earlier in the day, M.E. Chilson, 64, Tioga, said he would -Tribune Photo by Greg Becker Larsen Awaits Tabulation State Senate Majority Leader Irv Wilhite, Bismarck, won second ballot endorsement for lieutenant governor as delegates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention at the Bismarck" Civic Center Saturday, worked to complete their ticket. Wilhite will join Lt. Gov.

Richard F. Larsen, who won convention endorsement Friday night for governor, on the Republican fall team. He polled 443 votes on the second convention vote Saturday. Runnerup Sen. Robert Melland, Jamestown, compiled 259 votes, and Rep.

Kenneth Knudson, Taylor, 110. Ted Maragos, Minot, pulled out of the lieutenant governor race after collecting 82 votes on the first inconclusive ballot. Melland, a popular state senator and Jamestown businessman, started his active campaign for the post Friday. Because of his late start, he was overwhelmed, first by previous Wilhite commitments from delegates, and then the trend was set when Wilhite got 354 votes on the first ballot short of the 407 needed, but enough to show considerable strength. Allen I.

Olson, Bismarck attorney, was given convention endorsement for attorney general after First Assistant Attorney General Paul Sand, in a surprise move, withdrew from the race just prior to the balloting. Sand had announced his candidacy earlier this week, but he told the convention delegates Saturday that, after consideration and an assessment of the situation, he deemed it advisable to withdraw. H. Kent Jones, Webster, farmer, steamrollered over Arne Dahl, incumbent agriculture commissioner since 1966. The vote was 553-249.

for governor on the second ballot, shortly before 10 p.m. Richard Larsen and his wife, Chris, didn't have long to wait for the good news. Larsen received the endorsement as GOP candidate It Was Chess Terrible NEW YORK (AP) The insulted egos and white- Ws knuckled tensions before the If: Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing gig battle, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in 8 Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according jiS to sagas of the time. When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to he stood up in a fury, shoved his SS chessmen into a bag and $: smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess.

"Take that!" exclaimed the W- High Court Refuses To Settle Dispute Demos to Battle It Out in Miami Beach Monday, the court said, there was no time to examine the pertinent issues, including serious questions of the authority of the courts to intervene in the internal decision-making process of a political party. In a century and a half of American history, the court said, the national political parties themselves have settled controversies over the seating of delegates to their conventions. In a strong dissenting opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall said the action of the convention Credentials Committee in unseating 151 McGovern delegates from California and 59 uncommitted delegates led by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley raised constitutional as well as political questions. "The dispute in these cases concerns the right to partic-pate in the machinery to elect the President of the United States," he said.

The court took no action on requests by the Democratic party and by the Daley forces for a hearing to decide the cases on their merits. Marshall observed that the request will still be before the court when it WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has declined to enter the Democratic party's fight over the seating of delegates to its national convention, leaving it to the delegates to battle it out in Miami Beach. By a 6-3 vote in a rare special session Friday night, the court stayed a lower federal court order that would have restored 151 California delegates to Sen. George McGovern, giving him a strong boost toward a first-ballot nomination as the Democratic candidate for president. With the convention opening king.

Rognvald rode off in a panic, But his brother stayed to split the king's skull open. A woman was the prize in one knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a fti: maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The king lost. He left the game on foot, gg: unarmed and unloved.

gg Rain Likely Partly cloudy skies and little gg temperature change can be gS; expected by Bismarck-Mandan igf residents through Sunday. As of Saturday morning, more than .35 of an inch of rain has fallen on the area during the past 24 hours. More of the same may be expected for the weekend with a 20 per cent chance of precipitation listed Sg by the U.S. Weather Service. 3 The weatherman also says that the low temperatures for 3 Saturday night will be in the upper 50s, accompanied by northerly winds of 8 to 15 miles- reconvenes in October.

Arguing that the court should meet the issue head-on now, Marshall said if the court, in October, sustains the right of the challenged delegates to be seated, "we would have no choice but to declare the convention null and void and to require that it be repeated." In a statement issued in Washington, McGovern said, "By a divided court decision, it is now the responsibility of the delegates to the national convention to protect the rule of law and the nation's time-honored sense of fair play. We do not change the rules of the game after the game is over." Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey was the chief beneficiary of the committee decision to apportion the California delegates among all candidates in that primary. His press secretary, Jack L.

Chestnut, said in Miami Beach he was confident the convention would vote to support the delegate split-up. In the twin appeals, the party hierarchy was defending the Credentials Committee action in the California case, upset by the lower court, and the Daley contingent argued on the other side that the courts should upset the committee once more and restore convention seats to the Daley delegates. The lower court upheld the committee in that case, and had set steps in motion to block Illinois state courts from intervening in the case. Justices Byron White and William O. Douglas also dissented from the court's opinion.

Although it did not pass on the appellate court ruling ordering the seating of the McGovern and anti-Daley delegates, the Supreme Court majority said "we entertain grave doubts as to the action taken by the court of appeals." 1 Huddle From the left. District 30 delegate John W. Ackerman of Wishek lends a bit of advice to Burleigh County delegates Vernon Wagner, Evan Lips, A. A. Mayer (back to camera) and Marlys Fleck (right foreground).

To Mrs. Fleck's right, that's State Rep. Bryce Streibel, Fessenden, taking it all in. us 6- I per-hour. The high temperatures Sunday will range from the low to middle 80s.

The extended forecast likewise calls for partly cloudy skies and little temperature change through Wednesday. i n. I Tribune Photo by Ted Ouanrud.