The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 9

Sunday, July 9, 1972 afrf fiUUmjd (SaZfttf Morning Edition One who wins the stalemate JULY CLEARAN' Continues OPEN SUN. 12:30 to 5:00 Lack ot trust kills in South By PETER J. BERNSTEIN (C) Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON-Two scientists (both Northerners) claim to have resolved a puzzling phenomenon the disproportionatey higher frequency of tornado-caused deaths in the South. The reason for the higher death rate in a state like Alabama, they say, is psychological. Instead of trusting the Weather Service and keeping themselves informed of the impending crisis by turning on the radio or TV, Alabamians, for example, favor the method of using their own sensesthey "watch the sky" or "look at the clouds," the scientists say.

BY PLACING LESS trust in technological expertise and professional forecasting methods, Alabamians await the whirlwind, watchful but passive, pitting themselves against nature. "To watch the sky rather than listen to the radio, rather than tune in to the social system of information, can be considered psychologically anachronistic," the scientists say. "Fatalism, passivity, and perhaps most important, lack of trust in an inattention to society's organized systems of warning constitute a weak defense against the terrible strike of the tornado," they say in the current issue of Science, the official publication of the American Association for the Advancement of science. THE SCIENTISTS Dr. John H.

Sims, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, and Duane D. Baumann, a geographer at Southern Illinois University attribute this fatalism to a feeling among many Alabamians that they are moved by external forces-fate, luck, and particularly, God. "They consequently feel themselves to have relatively less power in the determination of their own futures," the scientists say. The two scientists based their findings on a survey of residents in two tornado-prone regions four counties in Alabama and four counties in Illinois. Both regions have comparable potential casualties from tornadoes, and the residents questioned in each state were all white women, between the ages of 31 and 60, with at least an elementary school education, and from households with incomes ranging between $5,000 and $10,000.

ONE GROUP On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself. It was obvious to everyone in and out of the convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who. had not already been nominated.

BUT WHO? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium. They argue and thrash it out for several hours. The only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times that he is not a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Yet, the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the party.

This young man, whose name had been associated with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now. Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November. The compromise candidate is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. O'BRIEN PUTS in a call to him.

Everyone, in turn, gets on the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate. The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace. They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees to a draft and says he will take the next plane to Miami. And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U.S.

chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972. (C I Los Angeles Times 1., WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here. It is the fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate.

The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. ALMOST EVERY STATE delegation has two people sitting in every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone.

The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. THERE HAVE BEEN no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they won't let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,590 he needed. The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging.

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