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nrurT ATLANTA CONSTITUTION For 104 Years the South' Standard Netcspaper TEN CENTS P.O. Box 4689 ATLANTA, GA. 30302, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1972 VOL. 105, No. 20 56 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS ALTGELD TO LB Will Party's Portraits Gaze on Happiness lin D.

Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and John Peter Altgeld? John Peter is there, sincere and proper in high-starched collar and pointed beard, sandwiched between Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan. His is one of 23 pictures strung from the rafters. Lyndon Johnson, the last Democrat in the White House, is one of four portraits on the far side, at the rear of the auditorium where he can be seen only by the alternate delegates and visitors. He's got company: former Speaker John McCormack, Speaker Carl Albert and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. When workmen strung the portraits the presidential nomination in 1896.

In his day John Peter was labeled a radical by the Republicans. The visitor to Convention Hall is greeted first by a sign ordering him to open all briefcases, camera cases, pocket books and other personal items for inspection. It's a sign of the times, just like the bomb search made by the Secret Service during the night before the first gavel. In the hall, the brilliant blue podium overshadows everything, rising like a layer wedding cake decorated by a color blind baker. It, too, has the taint of modern tragedy removable ramps to accommodate the wheelchair of Gov.

George Wallace should he be MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Poor Lyndon Johnson. First his picture is stolen, then its replacement is hung in the back of the Democrats' Convention Hall. Even John Peter Altgeld fares better. The cavernous hall, a sea of red, white and blue lighted like Broadway at curtain time and guarded like Ft.

Knox, is nearly ready for Monday night's resumption of the party's quadrennial rite of anointing the man who will lead the November ticket. Elaborate portraits of the party's heroes peer down on the delegates, looking like an ancestral hall. Who but the most outraged Democrat can waver in his loyalty to man and party in the brooding presence of Frank called upon to address the delegates. Workmen were going through the final motions Sunday straightening the freshly painted blue delegate chairs, putting down snippets of red carpeting on a podium that cost enough money and used enough lumber to build a mansion. When Sen.

Lawton Chiles of Florida makes his welcoming remarks Monday, he'll see immediately in front of him the California and Utah delegations which got that favored place by lot. Oklahoma and Oregon are in the far corners to the rear, in front of the alternates seats. One of the last chores was putting chain-See CONVENTION, Page 14-A other day, Johnson's picture was missing. A replacement was hurriedly ordered. No one swiped John Peter's picture, however.

He was a liberal governor of Illinois during the Populist movement in the late 19th century, a backer of Bryan who helped the Great Commoner win the Democratic Erke NEWS cGovem Given THIS MORNING Qui California Dele sixes mill HH 1 1 July 10, 1972 GOOD MORNING! The weatherman says Monday should be partly cloudy and warm across Georgia, with a chance of afternoon or evening showers or thundershowers. Highs should be mostly in the 80s following lows early Monday morning in the lower 60s. Details on Page 2-A. WORLD MOSCOW It's hot this summer in Moscow. Its residents crave lemonade, but they're offered port wine.

Page 7-A. UNITED NATIONS The world's 1970 population of about 3.6 billion will double in the next 28 years if its annual two per cent rate of increase is maintained, the latest United Nations Yearbook Shows. Page 16-A. WASHINGTON French Defense Minister Michel Debre arrives in Washington Monday with U.S. officials optimistically viewing his visit as a "Very significant" step in renewing military ties between France and NATO.

Page l-c. VATICAN CITY Pope Paul VI says the renewal of Paris negotiations this week opens "a peephole of hope" for an end to "the intolerable and bloody war" in Vietnam. Page 1-C. REYKJAVIK, ICELAND American Bobby Fischer's chess match against world champion Russian Boris Spas-sky looks like it may begin Tuesday. Page 7-B.

BELFAST Guerillas executed four men Sunday in a wave of terror killings in Northern Ireland's capital as militant Protestants defied the British army with a new surge of barricade-building. Page 1-C. SAIGON Capt. Steve Rickie of Reidsville, N.C., needs to down only one more MIG to become the Air Force's first ace of the Vietnam war. Page 2-A.

NATION By MILO DAKIN Constitution Statf Writer MIAMI BEACH Sen. George McGovern's bid for a first ballot presidential nomination was strengthened Sunday when Democratic party chairman Lawrence O'Brien ruled that McGovern's 120 committed California delegates can vote on the distribution of the remaining 151 disputed delegates. At the same time there merged a strong coalition of other candidates to try and stop McGovern from taking the entire California delegation and an almost certain first ballot win Wednesday night. The first session of the Democratic National Convention opens officially at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Miami Beach's Convention Hall and it might not end until after dawn.

It must first be decided, of course, who will be allowed to vote during the convention and officials Sunday night estimated it might take 20 hours to handle roll call votes on the various state credentials battles. O'Brien was trying to settle as many as possible before the convention gets under way. The order in which the state credentials fights will be considered is this: South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, California, Illinois, Hawaii, Michigan, Virginia, Washington, Rhode Island, Texas, Connecticut and Oklahoma. O'Brien's decision to allow the Mc-Govern-pledged delegates to vote Monday night gives the South Dakota senator a slight edge in his battle to retain the entire 271-vote California delegation, which had been divided among the other candidates by the party's Credentials Committee. McGovern's opponents had expressed confidence he could not win a floor fight to regain possession of the lost delegates if none of the 271 California delegates were allowed to vote on their own dispute.

McGovern captured the winner-take-all California primary and the entire delegation, but his 44 per cent of the vote when broken down proportionately would give him only 120 delegates, the number he will be allowed to use Monday night if the decision stands. However, supporters of Sen. Hubert Humphrey say they will challenge the party rul- See DEMOCRATS, Page 14-A Associated Presj Photo RIVALS FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINATION APPEAR TOGETHER AT PRESS CONFERENCE L-R: Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Hubert II.

Humphrey, Sen. Edmund Muskle DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES Ga. Works Out Accord At Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The first session of the 1972 Democratic National Convention convenes at 7:30 p.m. (EDT) Monday.

At 8:45, the Credentials Committee report will be submitted and at 9:00 debate on challenges will begin. Before it was decided to resolve all 23 challenges at a single session, the schedule had called for reconvening at 7 p.m. Tuesday to take up the platform. But due to the anticipated long struggle over the delegate challenges, it became impossible to set a firm schedule for the rest of the week. By JEFF NESMITH Constitution Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH In a rare display of harmony, the Georgia delegation to the Democratic convention agreed Sunday night on a "temporary compromise" that will allow the state to be represented on the convention floor when other challenged delegations are being considered.

The compromise was supported by Gov. Jimmy Carter and State Rep. Julian Bond, leaders of opposing factions within the delegation. Its effect will be to place a substantially anti-McGovern Georgia delegation on the convention floor while Sen. George Mc- Govern's delegate strength in California is being challenged.

The compromise passed unanimously and, in Bond's words, satisfied the "challengers and the challengees" on the beleagured Georgia delegation. Had the compromise not been approved, the Georgia delegation -r also under challenge would not have been stated until after the all-important California question was settled. Bond and other committed McGovern supporters agreed to the compromise, according to reliable sources, after Carter threatened See GEORGIANS, Page 14-A wt. lew, Telethon Nets Party $4,461,755 2k. LAWRENCE O'BRIEN TO CALL CONVENTION TO ORDER Other Convention Stories on Pages 10-A and 11-A MIAMI BEACH Sen.

George McGovern's spread-the-wealth income payments, once mentioned as $1,000 per person, may wind up as high as $1,600 for each older citizen and as low as $400 per child. PagelO-A. WASHINGTON Union sources reported Sunday that negotiators have settled a strike which has idled some 18,000 elevator-construction workers and delayed completion of some major building projects since late March. Page 12-A. GEORGIA UNEMPLOYMENT IN GEORGIA rose in May to 3.9 per cent of the civilian work force.

The jobless total rose to 75,400. Pege 7-D. AT 4:30 P.M. MONDAY the moon will pass between the earth and the sun, shadowing about one-half of the sun for a period of seconds. Dr.

Paul Knappenberger tells how to watch without harming your eyes. Page 6-A. BILL AYNES SAYS he's running for the U.S. Senate in "self-defense." Page 1-C. MACON Off-duty policemen helped man Macon's fire stations Sunday as 58 firemen reported themselves "ill" in a countinuing dispute with the city over a pay raise granted policemen last week.

Page 2-A. ATLANTA A 58-year-old Atlanta man "coughed up" a bullet Sunday that almost killed him 38 years ago. Page 8-A. 1: "t'-j Maw They Can't Please Yips Zips and By KEN WILLIS Conililutlon Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Resurrection City II had not even officially begun its existence Sunday and already its leaders were finding that establishing a set of rules to please everyone was impossible. As the crowd of some 1,000 to 1,500 youthful campers, newsmen and curious local residents wandered leisurely around the 60 acres of Flamingo Park allotted for the "city" of radical youth groups and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the ty's coordinating committee met in an effort to avert unfavorable publicity.

"Most of us don't want to hassle the Democrats especially George McGovern," Youth International Party (the Yippies) leader Jeff Nightbyrd had said in a discussion in the early hours of Sunday morning. A few hours later, the committee met to face up to two publicity problems a threatened "marijuana smoke-in" and nude swimming. The committee ordered a halt to the See YOUTH, Page 14-A MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Democratic party signed off its 19-hour money-raising telethon Sunday night with a report of a pledged total of $4,461,755, aad spokesmen said the final figure probably would top $5 million. Most of the money will go toward wiping out the debt the party has owed since the 1968 campaign.

Emcees on the show announced that telephones would remain open late into the night to accommodate contributors who were unable to get through the jammed switchboards. The final total taking account of unmet pledges as well as contributions coming by mail will take weeks to tabulate. Of the money collected, the cost of putting on the show, which party treasurer Robert Strauss put at $1.6 million, would have to be set aside. Because of the four-year-old debt, the 1972 Democratic convention beginning Monday night was strictly a cash-on-the-line proposi- Sf TELETHON, Page 11-A INDEX Good Health 5-B Goren on Bridge 6-B Movies, Amusements 7-B Reg Murphy 4-A Sports 1-D Television Want Ads 4-C Weather 2-A Women, Family 2-B Astrology 7-A Bob Harrell Business, Industry 7-D Celestine Sibley 3-B Comics, Jumble 6-B Crossword Puzzle 6-B Dear Abby 4-B Deaths 3-C Editorials 4-A Awociated Prew Photo ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME IN AN OUTDOOR ATMOSPHERE Mark Smith of Charleston, W. Shaves at Flamingo Park i.

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