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Back in shape--and what a shape! Mrs. Phyllis McCormack, Quincy, shows off one of her old size 12 dresses as Sandra Miller of the Diet Workshop checks her weight. i i i McCormack shows off her new size 7 figure, which is some 30 pounds lighter. (UPIPhoto) chess master gets the jitters (Related stories, Pg. 25) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Russian Boris Spassky, who has a reputation for glacial calm, had an outburst of nerves today, less than a week before he stakes his world chess title against American Bobby Fischer.

Spassky stormed off a tennis court and went to his hotel to sulk after three photographers began taking pictures of him with Jivo Nei, a compatriot helping him train for the match. Because of the great physical strain of the 24-game chess championship beginning next Sunday, both Spassky and Fischer have been working out regularly for months. F.ischer, 29, expected to arrive Thursday, is a good tennis player and swimmer. He is six years younger than the champion. Chess players say the loser will be the man who tires first.

Platform hammered together AAcGovern backers try to beat back California vote challenge "Poor People's City" is planned near swank KC shopping area KANSAS CITY A A "poor people's city" similar to Resurrection City in Washington in 1968 is being planned by the Kansas City chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference near the exclusive Plaza shopping area. Planners are banking on the city council reversing a city ordinance prohibiting overnight sleeping in public parks in time for the week-long demonstration, scheduled to begin July 23. All revolving finance charges deductible now WASHINGTON (AP) A new government ruling allows al! the finance charges on revolving charge accounts to be deductible as interest on income-tax returns. The ruling Tuesday by the Internal Revenue Service applies to revolving charge accounts at retail stores as well as charges on items bought through bank credit cards. Revolving charge accounts carry annual interest rates of 18 per cent or more.

The ruling is retroactive to returns filed in the past three years. Under most revolving-charge-account systems, no charge is made to the customer's account if purchases are paid for within 30 days from the billing date. A similar ordinance was struck down in Washington four years ago to accommodate demonstrators, noted the Rev. William Kirkdoll, an SCLC board member, and he could see no reason why Kansas City could not follow suit. Emmanuel Cleaver, project co-ordina- tor, said the group will erect a tent city for 150 persons near the J.

C. Nichols fountain, just north of the city's proud collec- tion of exclusive shops and boutiques. This will demonstrate to middle and upper class persons that "There are people in desperate need in Kansas City," said James Reed chapter president. "SCLC will do everything it can not to let them insulate themselves (middle and upper classes) with suburbs and shopping centers." Cleaver said, "Most people don't like to see poverty because it reminds them of something they are responsible for." Wheat-streak mosaic cuts yields Expect weekend windup to Mid-Kansas harvest The Salina Journal The home delivered daily newspaper for Central and Northwest Kansas P.O. Box 779 Zip 67401 Published five days a week and Sundays except Memorial, Independence and Labor Days, at 333 S.

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Sunday between 8:00 am and 12:30 pm. By PAT GASTON If good cutting weather holds, the 1972 wheat harvest may be in the bins by Sunday in Central Kansas. Reports from Saline and 5 neighboring counties put the harvest at 50 to 75 percent complete throughout the area. While disease and freeze damage have taken their toll of area wheat fields, county agents still look for an improvement in overall yield averages. The record 1971 harvest of 313 million bushels produced yields of up to 75 bushels an acre in many fields.

But much of the promising Central Kansas crop was hailed out, pushing down countywide averages. This year, highest confirmed yields are in the 40-45 bushel range, with a few patches of 60-acre wheat reported. But consistently better-than-average yields are being reported by almost all growers, so county figures should benefit. Widespread damage Considerable damage has been caused by a widespread infestation of wheat-streak mosaic in some area fields. The disease, carried from volunteer wheat to newly emerged shoots in the Fall, is transmitted by a cigar-shaped, microscopic mite.

Wheatstreak mosaic severely damages the wheat's resistance to drought and tends to stunt infected plants. In fields where it has appeared in the past, damage has seldom been held to less than 20 percent. Since the virus survives during the Summer on volunteer wheat, county agents urge farmers to cut as much of their volunteer, as possible. Planting new wheat late in the Fall, after volunteer plants have died, also helps to avoid the disease. Wheat-streak mo- saic cost Kansas farmers $30,000,000 in lost wheat in 1949, the first year the disease was reported in the state.

Tom Orwig, Dickinson county agent, reports heavy damage to many county fields from the disease. Some of the county fields, hurt by a late freeze as well as streak mosaic, just won't be cut. But other farmers have reported average- to-good yields, and one Dickinson county grower had patches of 60-bushel-plus wheat. Orwig looks for a weekend finish to the harvest if the rains don't start again. Low yields Wheat-streak mosaic has cut yields in some Ottawa county fields to 10 bushels an acre, according to county agent Ron Seyfert.

Harvesting there, about 55 percent complete Wednesday, may be over by Sunday with 3 more good cutting days. Seyfert predicts 2830 bushel average for Ottawa county wheat fields. Virgil Carlson, Ellsworth county agent, also reports widespread damage from the wheat-streak mosaic virus. "It's mostly in areas where the volunteer wheat wasn't destroyed and seeding was done early." Wind blows the disease-carrying mites to the new plants. Ellsworth county yields are averaging 30 bushels an acre, with a "lot of variability" in yieldage, he added.

Carlson concurs with other county agents in predicting a weekend finish to harvest operations. In 260 cars of area wheat received Tuesday at the state grain inspection laboratory, test weights averaged 62.5 Ibs. Protein in sampled wheat averaged 11.69 percent, down from the 10-year average of 11.80. Grant could mean the rebirth of Nicodemus WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George McGovern's supporters are mounting a massive effort to beat back a California credentials challenge which could be the last major threat to his nomination.

McGovern forces succeeded on another front Tuesday when Democratic party platfornvwriters produced a document echoing the senator's key positions, but in terms that his two main rivals also could embrace. The platform draft will be offered for a vote at the Miami Beach convention where debate seems certain on a number of planks opposed by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and his supporters. The Platform Committee voted overwhelmingly to authorize a minority report by the Wallace forces on such issues as taxes, the economy, welfare, busing of school children, prayer in schools, and crime.

Friendly reception McGovern continued his tour of the South where he found a friendly reception and indications of possible later ballot support from Arkansas delegates. In a significant gesture to party regulars, he indicated that, if he wins the nomination, he will keep Lawrence F. O'Brien as national party chairman. With the proposed platform ready to be mailed to delegates, attention in Washington turned to the Credentials Committee which, in its first decisions Tuesday, tossed out challenges to the Alabama, South Carolina and Florida delegations. A half-dozen key McGovern advisers Faces in News NICODEMUS "We've been working hard at it for a year," said Mrs.

Lois Alexander, "and we hope this is a start. We're proud and excited about it." What excited Mrs. Alexander was the announcement Tuesday afternoon that Nicodemus, what cynics had considered a dying hamlet of blacks on the eastern edge of Graham county, will get a $240,000 Housing and Urban Development grant to build 10 housing units for the elderly. It means at least some former residents of Nicodemus can return home for retirement years. And it could mean a rebirth for the once thriving black center founded after the Civil War as a community for former slaves.

Nine families Nine families now live in Nicodemus, Mrs. Alexander said, but many persons who once lived there and have reached retirement age want to leave cities and return. About 100 persons live in the township. "We're waiting for HUD now," Mrs. Alexander said.

"And then we'll take bi-Js and start construction." Planned are 8 one-bedroom units and 2 2-bedroom homes. They'll probably be duplexes. "If we're successful with these and there is more demand, we'll try to develop more," Mrs. Alexander said. She's the director and Johnny Unites RENO, Nev.

(UPI) Johnny Unitas, quarterback of the Baltimore Colts, fulfilled his 6-week residency requirement and was divorced from wife, Dorothy, from whom he has been separated 2 years. Within an hour he was married to Sandra Louise Lemon, 28, Miami, Fla. Carl Turner WASHINGTON (UPI) Former Maj. Gen. Carl C.

Turner, central figure in the 1969 probe of the Army's enlisted men's clubs, has been ordered released by the U.S. Parole Board. He pleaded guilty in May, 1971, to illegally obtaining 136 guns from Chicago police and keeping them for his own use. secretary of the Nicodemus Housing authority which will own and operate the homes. further down the planning road are such things as a sewer and water system for the community.

Hill City grant Rep. Keith Sebelius announced the grant and at the same time announced HUD approval of $480,000 for 25 units of low-rent housing in Hill City. Seventeen of the units will be reserved for the aged. William director of the Hill City Housing Authority, said the board has 3 sites under consideration for construction. He said the housing reserved for the elderly will be for those 62 years or oMer and have an annual income of $3500 or less.

"The type of housing to be constructed, individual homes or apartment type complex, has not been decided and will be considere-J when the Hill City board receives more information from HUD," Pugh said. Ceylon official gives China a baby elephant TOKYO A I Visiting Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon has presented a baby elephant to the children of China, according to the New China News Agency. Angela Davis NEW YORK (UPI) Angela Davis apparently has decided she did not want a debate during Dick Cavett show appearance. ABC-TV said she could appear provided the show also featured a conservative to balance her "highly controversial views." Angela bowed out. Clumsy culprit Woman bank robber is photographed by bank camera after dropping part of the loot.

She robbed St. Louis County National mini-bank of estimated and escaped. (UPI Photo) Meets the press Prank Mankiewicz, McGovern campaign co-director, tells news a McGovern's California victory is "a frivolous attempt to achieve by i i a a i a couldn't be won fairly at the ballot (UPIPhoto) met Tuesday night with the senator's supporters on the committee to map plans for the showdown Thursday on the California challenge led by allies of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

The McGovern forces won the first round when hearing examiner Burke Marshall refused to support the attempt to split California's 271 votes, won by McGovern in the June 6 winner-take-all primary, and award them on a proportional basis. That could take 151 votes away from McGovern, who claims to be within 20! votes of the nomination. The latest tally by The Associated Press gives him 1.3M.D votes short of the 1,509 needed. The entire California delegation could, not vote on the case if it is appealed to the, full convention as expected. With the Calli, fornia voles eliminated, a solid bloc of" McGovern opponents possibly could muster a majority.

i Argue over Daley Another potentially divisive was shaping up over the 59 Chicago gates headed by Mayor Richard J. They face possible expulsion for violations of party rules in their selection. Eli Segal, McGovern's credentials coor-: dinator, indicated that compromise would be attempted before Friday noon, when the case is due to come before: the committee. Cecil Poole, the hearing examiner in ther Chicago case, ruled Tuesday that the 59j delegates were slated in violation of party: reform rules on "procedures, notice, 1 ness and timeliness." The i a platform a adopts. McGovern's call for total U.S.

withdrawal from Indochina as the new president's first order of business, urges an end to tax loo-; holes for individuals and corporations, and endorses a prudent defense policy that-i cuts waste. It adopts something close to' the McGovern plan for income payments" to replace the welfare system, but omits any reference to the details McGovern outlined and is now revising. Here are key planks of Democrat platform WASHINGTON (AP) Here are key planks in the Democratic Platform Committee's draft for the 1972 national convention: the war is not ended before the next Democratic administration takes office, we pledge as the first order of business, an immediate and complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Indochina." of students is another tool to accomplish desegregation. It must continue to be available, according to Supreme Court decisions, to eliminate legally imposed segregation and improve the quality of education for all children." TAX endorse as a minimum step the Mills-Mansfield Tax Policy Review Act of 1972, which would repeal virtually all tax preferences in the existing law over the period 1974-76 as a means of compelling a systematic review of their value to the nation.

The most unjustified of the tax loopholes should, however, be closed immediately." first priority must be eliminating the unfair, bureaucratic Nixon wage and price controls America's working people will support a truly fairi method of stabilization which affects prof-' its, investment earnings, executive salaries, and prices, as well as wages." urge abolition of the draft." AMNESTY--To those who for reasons of conscience refused to serve in this war and were prosecuted or sought refuge abroad, we state our firm intention to declare amnesty, on an appropriate basis, when the fighting has ceased and our troops and prisoners of war have returned. MIDDLE EAST--A Democratic adminis-: tration should provide Israel with air-! craft and other military equipment in the quantity and sophistication she needs to' preserve her strength (and should) seek to bring the parties into direct negotiations toward a permanent political settlement. AAcGovern woos the South ATLANTA, Ga. A Sen. George McGovern, attaching negative motives to the Nixon administration's so 7 called Southern strategy, has committed himself to doing major political battle with the President for the hearts and votes of Dixie residents.

The South Dakota lawmaker, who is favored to capture the Democratic presidential nomination next month, shrugged off predictions the South will easily go Republican this year, and he promised Tuesday he would campaign hard in the region. Newspaper writers and politicians "who keep claiming I don't have any chance" in the South against Nixon "may be in for one of the biggest surprises of their lives," McGovern told a Little Rock, rally. "If there's anyone under the impression that we're going to write off the South, or any other part of the country, forget it," he later told a meeting of Arkansas Demo- One body found in Milford lake MILFORD RESERVOIR The body of Dr. Glenn D. Hampton, 69, Abilene dentist, was recovered from Milford lake Tuesday afternoon.

The search for his companion, Delmer D. Knauss, 36, Abilene, continued Tuesday but ended 7:30 pm Tuesday due to rough water and high winds on Milford lake. The search resumed Wednesday morning. The body of Dr. Hampton was found mile west of the Milford city boat ramp, according to Geary county sheriff's office.

Rush Lang, Junction City, recovered the body. This is the same location the Wayne Odle family, Junction City, found the Hampton boat with only Marty Mulanax, 19, Abilene, aboard waving for help Sunday afternoon. Dragging operations began at 5:30 pm Sunday. The Hampton boat and 4 companions in another boat, were returning to Pleasant View marina when a high wave tossed Dr. Hampton overboard.

Delmer D. Knauss jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue Dr. Hampton. 7 The real key Sen. George McGovern gets a laugh from receiving the "key" to the city of Atlanta from Vice-Mayor Maynard Jackson.

(UPI Photo) cratic convention delegates. "I want to offer something other than the Nixon strategy," he said during the campaign day that took him from San Antonio, to Little Rock. The Nixon strategy, he said, is "a divisive one, one that appeals to the Old South, to the worst instincts in all of us." McGovern's audiences at Tuesday night's rally here and earlier in Oklahoma City, -San Antonio and Little Rock have been made up overwhelmingly of young adults. He proved he has enthusiastic young admirers in those cities and a campaign organization capable of getting them out. But whether he is making inroads among older voters appears questionable based on his appearances in the first two days of this three-day trip that ended today in Columbia, S.C.

Opryland USA will feature country stars NASHVILLE, Tcnn. A Country music stars of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry will be featured this in weekly at Oprylnnd U. S. the new entertainment complex just outside the city, Tex Rittcr, Roy A Krncsl. Tubb, Dill Anderson and Jan Howard will bo rirnonK the Opry stars performing in thrco shows each Wednesday nfturnoon..