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II I I Hill -T 1 MM Single Copy I5 Billings, Montana, Saturday Morning, July 8, 1972 87th Year-No. 67 dele loses eaves these issues the consideration warranted for final decision on the merits," read the majority opinion. "In light of the availability of iVrVii? WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court Friday blocked a lower court ruling that gave Sen. George McGovern 151 California delegates. The court's action sends the issue to the floor of the Democratic convention.

The court granted a stay of a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court here which held that McGovern was entitled to all the state's delegates because of his plurality in California's winner-take-all primary. At the same time, the court refused application for a hearing from the Democratic party and from the forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. "The court concludes it cannot in this limited time give to Ik: i the convention as a forum to review the recommendations of the (Dartv) Credentials Com- mittee, the lack of precedent to support the extraordinary relief granted by the Court of Appeals and the large public interest in allowing the political processes to function free from judicial supervision, we conclude the judgments of the Court of Appeals must be stayed," the court said.

Wallace back at political grind I AZS ti The court voted 6-3 to issue the stay placing the appeals court ruling in limbo. The court said it realized that a stay of the appeals court judgments "may well preclude any judicial review of the final action of the Democratic National Convention on the recommendation of its Credentials Committee." "But for nearly a century and a half the national political parties have determined controversies themselves regarding seating of delegates to their conventions. "If this system is to be altered by federal courts in the exercise of their extraordinary equity powers, it should not be done under the circumstances and time pressures surrounding the actions brought the court continued. In a lengthy dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall raised the possibility that the court might be forced by circumstances "to declare the convention null and void and to require that it be repeated." ll '-C 'Zf A (of Chicago), stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him." The outcome of the credentials fights, said Snider, "could have a considerable bearing on what's in the platform," which he said was Wallace's overriding concern. "When the platform comes up, that's when the fight will harden," he said.

Snider said Wallace believes that if the Democrats adopt the present pro-McGovern platform draft, they will find President Nixon "rides a bulldozer over them" in November. On the Montgomery-Miami leg of his flight, Wallace chatted with his wife Cornelia and George McCoy, a black Vietnam veteran and crew member, and flexed his arms about every 10 minutes in a form of sitting pushup. In a 10-minute planeside speech at Montgomery, Wallace said he would fight to change the party platform to reflect the views of the average working man rather than "a small number of noise 'MA Gazette photo by Norm Hill Drying out When a person falls in the Yellow- ing money? A little sun dries them stone River, what's he to do with a quickly for this river floaters after wallet full of wet papers and fold- he reached camp in Big Timber. By BESSIE FORD MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-De-claring that "we're back into the fight," Gov. George C.

Wallace arrived for the Democratic National Convention in a wheelchair Friday, intent on stopping the McGovern presidential drive and rewriting a party platform he believes would spell a Democratic disaster in November. Still paralyzed from the waist down after a May 15 assassination attempt, the 52-year-old governor left Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, after 53 days of recuperation and flew here aboard an Air Force hospital plane by way of Montgomery, Ala. During the brief airport stopover at his state capital, he told 10,000 persons he wanted to make the average American the "king of politics." Although he said "I feel great" as he waved to well-wishers at the hospital, Wallace complained of some stomach pains during his flight south, and appeared thin and tired when he addressed reporters with a weak voice at Miami International Airport. He insisted that "I'm still an active, viable candidate even though I have been sidelined for a few days." Wallace was driven straight to his 20th-floor suite at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel, across Biscayne Bay from the Miami Convention Center. Greeting him in his plush quarters was country singer Marty Robbins, one of the governor's favorites.

Wallace's aides said he had plans for a few pre-convention appearances, including a Saturday night reception for all delegates, but that his immediate concern was to ally himself quickly with party forces determined to deny Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota a first-ballot nomination. Charles Snider, the governor's campaign manager, said Wallace delegates would support any floor move to strip McGovern of as many as 153 California votes, and "we'll go with Mayor (Richard Daley Anti-hi jack measures ordered i NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon i Friday ordered commuter airlines to start immediate inspec- tion of every passenger in order to curb skyjackings on short haul routes.

And John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic advisor, said in response to a question that the Federal Aviation Agen- cy planned to apply the rule to other airlines as well. Ehrlichman said John Schaefer, head of the FAA, is in- structing the affected airlines to make 100 per cent inspection of all passengers. The previous rule was to personally inspect only 10 per cent of the passengers. Pilots agree on pensions MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Federal mediator Harry Bickford announced Friday evening that Northwest Airlines ig and its 1,600 striking pilots have come to terms on a pension plan.

i-j Following agreement on flight passes, that leaves hospi- talization and group insurance as the final two stumbling blocks in a contract dispute that has kept Northwest planes jj: out of the air for nine days. Muskie deal reported BALTIMORE (UPI) Sen. George S. McGovern, the frontrunning Democratic Presidential contender, had an agreement with Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie to assume some campaign debts in return for an endorsement, The Baltimore Sun reported Friday. The newspaper also said that discussions were held with campaign aides of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey a few days be- fore the California primary on debts and an endorsement, but no agreement was reached. "But the deal was tentative and was washed out the next iji; morning when Muskie decided to stay in the race," Adam Clymer of The Sun's Washington bureau wrote.

Pentagon policies uncovered jv (C) Washington Star WASHINGTON The military brass in the Pentagon treats senior civil servants like enlisted men, a report re- leased by Rep. Les Aspin, charges. The report prepared by a civilian employe motivation committee of the Naval Ordnance Command, describes civil-ians as being "disheartened, demoralized, frustrated and unhappy." ij Aspin, a mmber of the House Armed Services tee, cited the report's charges that 80 per cent of the top iji; management jobs in the Naval Ordnance Command are re-served for naval officers. Also, military officers disregard the advice of civilian career officials and discourage any dissent before decisions are reached, the report stated. Chess match delayed REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Boris Spassky gave up his demand that Bobby Fischer forfeit the first game of their world championship chess match, in return for Fischer's agreement to postpone the game until Tuesday, U.S.

chess $: sources said Friday. The compromise was worked out in a backstage room of Reykjavik's main sports hall Thursday night a few minutes iji: before the American challenger and the world champion from Russia appeared on stage to draw lots for the first move, the sources said. iv Spassky won the draw Thursday night and will play the white pieces, which means he will make the very first move of the match, Fischer will play black. Abortion constitutional ALBANY, N.Y. (UPD-The state's highest court Friday declared the state's abortion law the nation's most liberal jj was constitutional.

In a 5-2 decision, the Court of Appeals upheld the law, passed in 1970, which permits an abortion for any reason dur-jij: ing the first six months of pregnancy for both New York State residents and out-of-staters. "The Constitution does not confer or require legal per-sonality for the unborn; the legislature may, or it may do something less, as it did in the abortion statute and provide some protection far short of conferring legal personality," Associate Judge Charles Breiel said in the majority decision. Total withdrawal sought PEKING (Agence France-Press) Chinese Foreign Min-ister Chi Peng Fei said Friday that there could be no possible ijij solution to the Vietnam War without a total withdrawal of United States troops and a complete end to their support for the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. The foreign minister said China would continue to sup-port right to the end the resistance of the Indochinese peo-pies. It was the first official Chinese comment on Vietnam since President Richard Nixon's special envoy, Dr.

Henry Kissinger, visited Peking late last month. The Chinese foreign minister spoke at a banquet in honor of visiting French For-eign Minister Maurice Schumann. Indians chosen for Miami OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-Two full-blood Indians-one not yet 18 years old and the other the chief of his tribe were named Friday as Oklahoma delegates to the Democratic Na- tional Convention in Miami. Selected for spots ordered by the party's national creden- tials committee were Katherine Harjo, 17, a Seminole from Frederick, and James Wahpepah, 42, of Jones, who is chief of the Kickapoo tribe. The credentials committee ordered Oklahoma to add two Indians to the delegation since there were no persons of the race represented.

Hijacker sentenced ijii SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A Merced man was sentenced iS Friday to a maximum of 20 years in prison for attempting to extort $125,000 from Hughes Air West through a bomb threat last March 3. In sentencing Talbot A. Gregory, 29, U.S. District Court Judge Lloyd II. Burke observed, "With the current atmos- jij: phere caused by this type of case, a wholly dispassionate dis-position is not made any easier." 'Nixon needs landslide' LOS ANGELES (AP)-President Nixon must win re-el-ection with a victory big enough to carry into Congress a ijij Republican majority, his re-election campaign chairman says.

He added that Nixon will not actively campaign until li October, adding, "Performance in office is the very best poli-1 tics." Clark MacGregor, who was appointed to the campaign ijij post Saturday to replace John Mitchell when he resigned cause of family obligations, said Thursday the administration has been hampered by the failure of the Democratic Congress to bring Nixon's proposals on the economy and other matters p. to a vote. He said a Republican congressional majority would mean President Nixon would be able to get his long-mired pro-jS grams passed. 1 'if ir -TJ' rfF- i 1 T-r. i t- myitis "'vt1 ,7 Fair Fair with slight chance of afternoon showers Saturday, high 83 to 88, low 53 to 58.

More weather on Page 4. Index Weather, vitals, obits 4 Women's 5 Comics 6 Markets 7 L1 inif mf Ciazctte photo by Norm Hill Sports 9-10 Sometimes getting your craft in to shore is the toughest part of the annual Yellowstone River Boat Float. be? but where miqht it Land ho ervers. When the wardens came upon them, one as trapped in the piled-up logs which helped block the channel entrance. Sara said the youths didn't appear scared, but they "sure were glad to see us come along." The wardens showed the sunken raft and asked me if I really did know how to swim.

We then proceeded through the channel which was about a foot wider than the boat As we proceeded upstream, Sara said, "You'll see a lot of wild life the same as Clark (from Lewis and Clark expedition i saw when he came up the river." 1 didn't have the heart to tell him that all I saw was a tcle- motor boats this year. Harryman, my other warden companion, said he wished "people would stay bunched together so if they got in trouble someone would be there to help them." On the eight-mile trip upstream and back we saw numerous' stragglers. One family we stopped to help was floating toward camp in a homemade paddle wheel boat that had broken down for the first time after several float trips. THE ARDENS TOLD of an incident earlier that afternoon. Four youths, the youngest was five-years-old, were sucked into a channel and sunk their raft.

All of them had on life pres Rocky Mountain College. He said the river was "like floating on a small canal" compared to two trips he had made on the Nile where in some places you run into "small trees and crocodiles." Dick Sitzman, of Billings, also had assured me that the "biggest hazard of the float is watching the beautiful girls." I saw Jim and Mary Nell Clark, from Tulsa, who had flown up for the float for the second time. They waved an Oklahoma flag and said, "Next year we're going to bring our lieutenant governor and governor." BESIDES, IT WAS comforting being on the water away from swarms of mosquitoes and miserable sunburns. Game Wardn Gene Sara, who has been on the river float since it started, said I was on a "road river sled that can practically run on wet rocks." Sara said the wardens' jobs consisted of watching out for litterbugs, checking for life preservers, helping capsized floaters, and "making sure they aren't stranded 'cause it makes 'urn feel good that someone remembers them." I searched for unusual craft, but Sara said, "I think people are getting more sensible every year and are sticking to canoes, kayaks and rafts." he said there were only about four or five phone pole in the distance. What he had to say was very true, however.

We later saw ducks and geese, fish, a deer, river beavers' homes, beautiful untouched land, and smlled good clean air. Who could ask for more? Before we got back to shore, Sara said, "If I didn't have to work, that's what I'd do tomorrow just sit in a raft relaxing." Harryman said, "Yeh, a lot of people have fun on this river if they just use common sense and don't drink." About that time we spotted four rafters who had capsized, A beer can was still in one member's hand, By MARY GLYNN GEORGE Gazette Staff Writer I'm a landlubber, so I still can't understand how I found myself eight miles upstream above Big Timber on the Yellowstone Boat Float with two state game wardens! All I did was ask warden Bill Harryman if it were true float litterbugs got a $25 fine. "Yep," he said, but I haven't gotten anyone yet do you swim?" THE NEXT THING I knew, all I could see was water. Actually, I was comforted thinking of an earlier conversation with Tarekegne Tesfaye from Ethiopia" a river rat who attends 1.