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The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 7

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TOITDAY, JULY li, UTS TUB NEWS-PALLADIUH KENTON HARBOR IHCH. Mtehman Delegation MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Bed-eyed Michigan Democrats waited through nearly 10 hours of droning tedium and occasional tumult at the start of the party's national convention, maneuvering Monday night and this morning to see official seating Of their delegation. A 4:43 a.nv EOT round of weak applause from thinning convention ranks greeted announcement that the Michigan group had settled its differ ences without forcing a floor 1 A compromise came" forth sometime after midnight from Michigan MeGovern sup into their Humphrey brethern. MeGovern strategists estimated at least 12 of the 17 votes to their own 38 came from Humphrey, plus another five attributed to Wallaceites.

Humphrey backer Paul Tres-ka, a Lansing union official, ran his pen down roll call tally sheets and inked the word "bad" beside the names of 14 delegates technically committed to Humphrey. 1 Arthur Cullers, Wallace supporter and delegation vice chairman from Battle Creek, identified two defectors from his group of 67 votes. discrepancy in the.ac:, counting by the three factions was attributed to difficulty in figuring the half votes alloted some, of Humphrey's male HELLO DERE Regardless of obvious language barriers, two-year-old J.T. O'Neal III seems to know how to communicate with Herman, an injured sparrow hawk. The hawk was nursed back to health at the Indianapolis Humane Society Shelter, now his home.

The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. O'Neal Jr. of Ind.

(AP Wirephoto) iiBintf-jiintMiMimfiTiiiiir 1 1 vi iTmiiKBMj nni Mil i Elks Ponder 'White Only' Rule porters in a show of generosity after their success in luring away some 12 to 16 Humphrey supporters to vote with them on the South Dakotan's side in the California' delegation The Humphrey defectors immediately were marked off as "bad" by the Minnesota senator's remaining loyalists who set to work revising estimates of their kown troop strength. James McNeely, state party chairman and delegation leader, predicted in floor interview early this morning that MeGovern would go on towin a first-round nomination. "It may be "more difficult -now. but I think Senator MeGovern is still going to get it," McNeely said. "My guess is he'll get it on the first round." In return for walking off with 12 of H.

Humphrey's 27 Michigan votes on the California issue, the MeGovern delegation agreed to drop its opposition to enlarging the Humphrey wing with 10 hand-picked women, who now share their votes with an equal num-. ber of Humphrey males, pre- dominantly black union members. deal, worked out at delegation huddles in the northeast corner of the convention hall and through envoys from MeGovern command posts off the floor, was spearheaded by Douglas' Fraser, a MeGovern delegate and United Auto Workers union vice president from Detroit. A trip of last-minute 17th Congressional District delegates pledged to Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace also was allowed to shoulder aside three women loyalty to the southerner was questioned by his other backers. Resolution of the Michigan credentials question was closely tied to the delegation's maneuvering over California's battle. Although the delegation voted 76-55 against granting MeGovern the full 270 votes of California which he won his supporters clearly viewed the vote as a victory wedge driven 4 TIME FOP TEA: A small girl brings Cup of tea to a Royal Scots Guardsman taking cover in Linadoon Ave. Monday in Belfast as young boy keeps the; soldier company as violence renewed in the area (AP Wrephoto) News In Brief Marines Landed Near Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) U.S. Marine helicopters flying from off-snore Carriers landed hundreds of South Vietnamese marines north of Quang Tri City today, putting government forces on three sides of the enemy-held provincial capital.

First reports said there was no major contact. The Marines were landed Vk miles north-northwest of the city, on the eastern side, of the Thach Han River opposite the Quang Tri combat base. i Anti-Hijack Force Weighed white membership clause from the Elks constitution would take a two-thirds vote of the 15,000 delegates at the convention and a yes vote by a majority of the 2,175 lodges. The convention is expected to vote Thursday on- a resolution by the Madison, lodge calling for deletion of the clause, wbich was inserted in the organization's constitution around 1888. Two groups of Elks are lobbying for passage of the resolution.

One, the Committee to Integrate the Elks (CITE) is headed by Richard Zelenka, of Ridgewood, N.J., who was recently expelled from the national body. The other is headed by Thomas 3. Wynn, a Mas-, sachusetts attorney. James J. Hourihan, who heads the Massachusetts dele gation, said, lodges in the six New England states Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts were expected to vote for the resolution.

Calls have been made at three of the past four confer ences for deletion of the clause, he said. "The first time only a handful of delegates voted for he said. "But last year at the New Orleans meeting the majority but not quite two-thirds voted for He thought, the resolution it stood a good chance of passage this year. Music Show Causes Big Road Mess PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) A massive traffic jam developed Monday night on both north and south bound lanes of Interstate 73 leading to the exit for Pine Knob Music Theater in Northern Oakland County according to state police.

"Some people just went away 'and left their cars," said a state trooper. "It was just one hell of a mess" The three-mile-long tie-up started about 7:15 p.m. when hundreds of motorists bound to see a performance by the James' Gang, a rock group, found themselves snarled as they approached the Sashabaw exit for the outdoor theater. police closed the exit at 8: 15 p.m. after they learned the concert was sold out.

But as traffic began clearing, a multi-car accident near the Baldwin Rd. overpass in Pon-tiac Twp. once again closed northbound lanes and created a five-mile long jam, Frustrated drivers, made U-turns across the median strip and parked on the shoulder. Police said some even parked in the yards of residents who live along Interstate 75. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) The new national leader of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks says the organization's "all white" membership clause being challenged at the here, is "an internal matter for determination by fiie membership." Francis M. Smith of Sioux Falls, S.D., made the, statement in an interview following his address to the convention as he took over Monday as grand exalted ruler of the Elks. Smith told the convention -delegates1 that the all-white organization asks "only the right to exist as a private organization under our own legitimate rules and to serve in accordance with the dictates of our own conscience." He said the Elks has become an American institution by following its own direction. "It has become a force in the protection of the American way of life," he said, "To that mili Get a watch today TT IMDSTONITE Shows at I J. I stive McQueen 749 I I ll''JUMI0RBONNiRM 1 4 rS WASHINGTON (AP) Decisions to use force against a hijacker rather than submit to him are carefully weighed in advance, says John H.

Shaffer, Federal Aviation Administrator. The decisions by the air crews in consultation with federal authorities, including the FBI, are balanced against the risks involved before action is taken, he says. In the case of the two hijackers shot to death aboard their commandered plane at San Francisco, and the one killed in the attempted hijacking of a 747 at Saigon, the circumstances were Carefully weighed and the response was appropriate, Shaffer said, in an interview Monday. Chess Match Begins Today REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) American challenger Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally begin play this afternoon in the richest and most publicized world chess championship of all time unless some new snag Last minute adjustments were being made on the stage of Reykjavik's sports ball. The playing table was shortened the greeq-and-white marble chessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed.

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Collins, who has not been charged, had been scheduled to testify Monday in the trial of George A. Haag in U.S. District Court here, but his appearance was delayed. livm. ah iimra pnar iA Five convenient ways to buy: Zales Revolving Charge Zaies Custom Charge BankAmerkard Master Charge Layaway Russian Poet Will LiVe At Ann Arbor El HI RATED Irwl li All C0NDITI0NE0 AaMTMIUM yll I CHAmilGiCOtE- OPEMSAT jjjl Happy Talk DETROIT (AP) -The Detroit Board of Education will buy those 295 school buses, and, the state will pay for them about 3 million orders handed down, by U.S.

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