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Vince Sun-C mmercial WEATHER I'urtly cloudy, mild tonight with chance of thunderstorm. t'omildiTuhle cloudlnr, warm and humid with chance of rain Saturday. Low tonight in mid-70. High Saturday Him. "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor.

3-17 EVENING EDITION Vol. 42, No. 142 702 MAIN ST. VINCENNES, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 PHONE 882-2310 10c-16PAGES iiiies Campaign With Missouri's Eagleton To 'Restore Government To People' A i 4 1 When the convention's final leaders of labor, cominant for vote, then fell into another over gavel fell at 3:27 a.m., the 40 years, to the forces of what the vice presidency after seven Democrats had ended a historic Kennedy termed "a new wind rivals formally were nominated convention. rising over the land." to oppose Eagleton.

With reform rules that pro- Starting an hour late, the Amid the unprecedented duced massive increases in the convention's final session fell splintering of ballots, it took numbers of women, black and steadily further behind as the until the next-to-last state, young delegates, it ratified a delegates ratified an overhaul Texas, before the Missouri sen-transition in party power of the party's national com- ator passed the 1,509 total that from the big-city chieftains and mittee in one lengthy roll-call marked the needed majority. A 1 A- ILL fUf i I THEY'RE THE TICKET Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, the vice Democratic National Convention in the climactic final ses-presidential nominee, and Sen. George S.

McGovern, the sion in Miami Beach early today. (AP Wirephoto) presidential candidate, stand before the delegates to the New District Readies School-Year Operation Lawrence FubicSs Occupy I ner on July 30, providing a to the building. an adjourned meeting to re member of the group is respon- AT 11:05 p.m., board president convene at 8 p.m. next Thurs-sible for cleanup and damage Charles Cunningham called day. CANDIDATE'S FAMILY The family of Sen.

Thomas F. Eagleton watches national convention delegates ratify his selection as vice presidential nominee early today. With Mrs. Barbara Ann Eagleton are Christine, 9, and Terrene 13. (AP Wirephoto) Muni For Rummg Mte Piraf es Baffle Airlines Charade Apparently WASHINGTON (AP) Finding a way to halt airline hijackings has baffled officials of the nation's airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Airport security has tightened noticeably since the beginning of the year. Carry-on luggage frequently has been searched. Passengers have been screened for weapons by electronic metal detectors. Ticket agents have kept an eye peeled for suspicious persons who fit a secret hijacker profile. But the hijackings continue.

Six jetliners have been hijacked in the past six weeks alone, including two that were com MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a people's campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind "our fury and our frustrations" and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon. And the South Dakota senator appealed for help "from every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can be." It was nearly 3 a.m. when the beaming McGovern, introduced by Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy and joined by vice presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his party's nomination. (Related Stories, Pages 2,3,8, 12) The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appearances before a unity breakfast for the party's House and Senate Campaign committees and a Demo-ratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he retunred to Washington later today. McGovern also had to decide on a new chairman for the Democratic National Committee, which holds a morning organizational meeting. While he has pressed Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien to stay on, informed sources said he would ask Jean Westwood, the Utah national committeewoman, to take the job if O'Brien declines. In the final moments of the convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota. Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Henry M.

Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his campaign swept aside the established political leadership, McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added: "American politics will never be the same again." With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other delegates grumbling about the ways in which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party "together in common cause" this faD. Earlier in the long evening, the convention ratified McGovern's choice of Eagleton as the No. 2 man on the 1972 Democratic ticket. But it took a one-hour, 20-minute roD call that saw votes cast for candidates ranging from television commentator Roger Mudd, to TV character Archie Bunker, to the senator's wife, Eleanor.

Even Martha Mitchell, the wife of former GOP campaign manager John N. Mitchell, got a vote. McGovern chose the handsome, articulate, first-term Missouri senator, a border-state Catholic with strong ties to labor, from a field of a half-dozen senators, governors and mayors. He was the senator's second choice: Kennedy rejected an offer of the vice presidency shortly after McGovern swept to firs t-ballot nomination Wednesday night appeared on the battlefield in early May. The only Americans known to have survived being hit by one of the missiles were two Army pilots whose helicopter gunship crash landed in some trees after a missile blew off its tail boom near An The Strcla has been used most often around An and along Highway 1:1 It was so cf Fischer Protest Bounces, Second Game Is Forfeited mandeered by gun-toting sky pirates Wednesday night.

"We don't know what the holes in our security are," said FAA spokesman Dennis Fel-dman. "We have to take each instance on a case-by-case basis to determine whether there has been proper screening," he said. FAA administrator John H. Shaffer has ordered an investigation of all hijackings to determine whether airlines are living up to security regulations put into effect in April. Two airlines, United and Pa Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott.

He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at any time and disqualify him. But LA Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000. Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him because he knew they were there." BRIDGEPORT, 111. Trustees of Community School Unit No.

10 Thursday night moved into the business of surveying funds tranferred by member schools of the unit, disposing of current obligations, hiring of personnel and authorizing the new superintendent to act in matters of immediate importance toward having the schools operational by fall. Supt. John Baker reported cash on hand July 10 amounted to $99,700 in the education fund; $26,300 in the building fund; $22,651 in the transportation fund; $2,373 for bonds and interest; $11,300 in the Title I fund; and $4,964.19 in the life-safety fund. Adding state aid funds based on a unit allocation to education and transportation funds, plus estimated receipt of taxes based on one-third of personal property taxes due in Lawrence County, and driver's education funds anticipated, total available were estimated at $1,644,824.19, plus Title I monies anticipated. Baker explained that title monies cannot be accurately estimated until applications are submitted and approved by the state.

Aid funds in student services income, insurance, lunch, athletics and other programs will increase the total budget to approximately The board approved payment of $48,064.96 on th summer payroll and current bills of $28,452.53, exclusive of approximately $36,000 on the current education payroll. Members also authorized building fund expenditures of $1,455 to transportation; and $10,000 in Title I fund usage. Mrs. Judy F'addick was hired as unit secretary at $4,800 annually, plus a $200 Increment as recording secretary for the board. Paul Jones was named bus maintenance man at an annual salary of $11,500.

Baker was authorized by the board to advertise for bids for coal, gas and oil, milk, bread and office supply contracts. Jerry Schafer, administrator of Sumner High School rcx)rt-ed a vacancy in his junior hih school staff. Upon his recommendation, the board approved a contract to Rhonda (Jrimcs, for English and physical education Schafer also reported two resignations those of high school librarian Theresa Dunkle and IV'rs. Carol Sumner grade school Sxcch cofTcctionist. Moth were accepted by tin board In other business, hoard members were bniiiclil up to date on progress of the attendance ecntci study and a teacher il schnliile.

lie hiiiil il consented to the a leiininn group to II-. i' chauiicev Sehool hr a dm cific Southwest, were fined each after the FAA ruled that lax security contributed to the success of a pair of hijackings that occurred within days after the new regulations went into effect. The regulations require airline personnel to observe all boarding passengers to see whether any of them match a behavioral profile of potential hijackers developed by the FAA. The airlines also have the option of using metal-detecting devices or searching passengers or their hand luggage, but are not required to do so. Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match.

Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room. Spassky had arrived meanwhile at the sports palace and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000. The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game. At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock. When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit.

Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall. Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." most effective of the several weapons used for the first time by the North Vietnamese in the current offensive the others include long range artillery, medium tanks and wirr-guided missiles. Military sources estimate that more than a dozen U.S. aircraft and at least that many South Vietnamese helicopters and planes have been downed by Strel.i missiles since they Hunter But no one called Landrieu at any time prior to or during convention week to discuss the vice presidency, the mayor said. Clay, a black, participated in discussions in McGovern's hotel Thursday about the vice presidency.

Florida Gov. Reubin Askew and Connecticut Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, both reportedly on a four-man lis of McGovern favorites, were sounded out again Thursday. But both again refused to accept the vice presidential nomination, as had been widely predicted. Based on interviews and news briefings, here's the way the South Dakotan moved toward announcing his running mate: After breakfast, McGovern instructed one of his aides to get in touch with Eagleton early and let the Missourian know he was still in the running.

Downstairs, in a closed room off the hotel main lobby, a group of McGovern's top campaign strategists were meeting to evaluate all the possibilities. One report listed that figure at 25. At 11 a.m. top staffers joined McGovern and representatives of black interests, women and Spanish-speaking Americans. That meeting had a floating, changing membership.

Downstairs, In Room 1609. about a dozen blacks, including Clay, waited for the return of their representatives to the meeting upstairs. Those men were Rep. Walter Fauntroy of the District of Columbia; Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark. N.J., and California state Sen.

Willie Brown. When it was all over and Eagleton had been named by McGovern, Fauntroy explained what had happened. There are conflicting on the manner in which Eagle-ton's apparent position as leading candidate held firm while others fell by the wayside, Fauntroy and Clay say that by noon Just seven men were still under consideration: Eagleton. Landrieu, Mayor Kevin White of Boston. Woodcock.

Askew and Kep. Wilbur Mills, DAtk While the fortunes of Wtutp and other slid, Eaglctoti' were on a steady couiie through the maze of niahni. and potential uitiriinn At McGuvetn told be Kl um it a list on paper with two, four, seven or twenty-five names on it, Eagleton was the front-runner after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's decision against running was accepted.

Others mentioned by McGovern's staff members and outside participants in the daylong meeting Thursday had either said they didn't want the job or had not been seriously considered by McGovern. New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, for example, was reported by Rep. William Clay of Missouri on Thursday to have been one of seven possibilities being considered by McGovern. End Tonight; At Barbecue according to Mrs. Sue Hough, 4-H home economics adviser.

"It is too early to estimate the barbeque's profit, but money earned from the entire fair will go toward improving interior facilities of the 4-H building and installing more buildings on the ground," Mrs. Hough said. "Some facilities needed for the interior of our building are rest-rooms and kitchen items," she added. Partial results in beef-cattle judging this week follow. (Continued on Page 3) Hospital Notes Markets New UrieiK Sports Women's News Page 3 Page 2 Page 2 Pagf 9-1 1 Pages 5-6 anqe on to bear.

Another, used with middling success, is cutting Hiwcr and allowing the helicopter to "autorotate" toward the ground; the sudden drop causes the missile to zoom past harmlessly. U.S. and South Vietnamese airmen have used still another gimmick tossing out thermite fjcnailes or parachute flares. The missile diverts to the hotter target. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton apparently had his vice presidential nomination cinched early Thursday despite a day-long show of decision-making by the McGovern camp. The Democratic National Convention's endorsement of Sen. George McGovern's choice early today followed a hectic day of telephone calls and conferences about the vice presidential spot.

Reports of lists of candidates with far-ranging membership floated out of the McGovern entourage. But whether there was Fair Reaches 2,500 Served LAWRENCEVILLE, 111. Country rock music tonight furnished by the Shades of Blue from Olney will wind up the five-day stand of the Lawrence County Fair. The fairgrounds west of here was relatively deserted this morning, except for officials tabulating results of hundreds of judging events and farm people caring for livestock. Big event Thursday night was the chicken barbecue, attended by an estimated 2,500 persons, Ann Landers Classified Comics Deaths F.dl tori iil Page 6 Pages 11-15 Page 13 Page It Page 4 CO0C fective there that midway through the siege of the provin- cial capital, U.S.

helicopters flvinu in the area, and quit spotter planes were forced to operate at feet, above the estimated R.ooo foot range of the missile. Among the tactics devised by pilots is low level flying which often enables a helicopter to fly through a danger one before the enemy can bring the we.ip li mtemk? I- T-' ll REYKJAV'K, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24 game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall.

Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24 game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. SAIGON (AP) Hanoi's Introduction of a heat seeking Soviet antiaircraft missile Into the Vietnam war Is jncrHliiig considerable concern among U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders and has brought about some drastic changes in their fliers' tactics. The weapon is the SA7, or "Slrcla" Soviet missile which Hie Ninth Vietnamese lire from the r.lumlder like a arooi's raft lore wees bazooka It is much like the U.S.

Redeye missile. The Slrcla is equipped with an infrared homing device that is attracted to the heat given off by an aircraft engine and carries high explosive warhead, It has proved very effective, especially against the comparatively slow helicopters and propeller planes Some officers consider it Hie.

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