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NJ. lottery number 694827 The Pocono Record Vol. 79 -No. 87 The Stroudsburgs; Pa. Friday morning, July 14, 1972 1 5 Cents- Sen.

Thomas F. Eagleton running mate. What's news (Dow Jones-Ottaway News Service) O'Brien to resign MIAMI BEACH Lawrence F. O'Brien said Thursday night he had made an "unalterable" decision not to continue as Democratic national chairman after the end of the party's convention. O'Brien, who led the debt-ridden Democratic Party through some of its most turbulent years and its greatest snirt lie would step down when "the National Committee meets today.

By tradition, the new Democratic presidential nominee, has Hie right to choose his party chairman anrt there speculation that, for the first time, it might be a woman. Among those mt'iitioned were Jam Wcslwood, national committeewoman from Utah, and Anne Wesler. S. Viets push Quang Tri QUANG TRI Saigon troops pushed back into Quang Tri peace talks resumed in Paris. The South Vietnamese Marines moved into the southern part of the city, and once again met light resistance.

The troops had been pushed out of the city twice, and one U.S. officer said "indications are that the North Vietnamese are going to defend Quang Tri right down to the wire." To (he south, Communist gunners shelled Hue and bases near DaNang, and fierce fighting also was reported in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon. In Paris, the peace talks reopened after a 10-week break, with both the Communists and the U.S. clinging to old positions. A U.S.

official said the session was. (Details on page 5). Fischer forfeits game two IIEYKJAVIK Bobby Fischer is now two games down on Russia's Boris Spassky for the world chess championship. He forfeited the second game Thursday; aides said the temperamental challenger stayed in bed to protest two television cameras in the contest a Fischer wouldn't comment and an aide said "5'ou can talk to him when he's winning, but not when he has lost." (Details on page 5.) Vatican bans group absolution ROME The Vatican banned group absolution of sins except under extraordinary circumstances. It condemned the "recent custom" of giving group absolutions, which church officials said has taken root particularly in North America and some European countries.

It called for a complete return to the custom of confessing mortal or grave sins to a priest in private, receiving absolution and doing penance. A mortal sin, in Roman theology, is one that separates a person from God and causes death of the soul unless absolved. Persons in imminent danger of death can still get collective absolution. Information please Index Amusements Ann Landers Bridge Classified Ads Comics Crossword Puzzle 16 17 9 10 19-23 10 10 Deaths 12 Editorial Page 4 Erma Bombeck 9 Family Fare 8 Horoscope 19 O'Brian's Broadway 6 Sports Pages 14, 15 Stocks 18 Teen Forum 9 Weather Local a a cloudy, hot and humid with a chance of showers In afternoon. High in the mid 80s.

Precipitation probability: 40 per cent. Sun rises at 5:52 a a 8 2 8 Record Weather Pattern On Page 12. Democrats' big question is how to run with McGovern. Page 2. New West End Minister enthused about duties.

Page 3. Several stray animals at SPCA shelter. Page 12. ESSC i a education course. Page Former county assessor blasts reassessment.

Page 13. Good Morning a to her "I've taken all the criticism of my work that I'm going to a 'quit'?" Stock story Open: Close: 916.99 Change: Down 6.70 Thursday's volume: 14.74 million Sen. Eagleton nominated as McGovern running mate MIAMI BEACH (Ul'I)-Sen. Thomas F. Eaglelon, a little- known liberal from Missouri, was nominated by the Democratic National Convention early today as George S.

Mc- Govcrn's hand-picked vice presidential running mate. In selecting Eagleton, a 42- year-old Roman Catholic and member of the Senate's antiwar bloc, McGovern declined to seek party unity with an old- guard running male, but still stood to gain from Eagleton's good standing with labor. Arriving at the convention hall. Eagleton conceded he was a relative unknown in national politics, but said that it did not matter. "1 know I'm 'Torn he told reporters.

"I realize I'm not a household word. But when Muskie was picked in 1968 he was 'Ed And when Agnew was picked in 1968, ho was 'Spiro It's going to take a lot of work on my part With hands and lips trembling as he stood before television lights before leaving his hotel, Eagleton told reporters: "I'm plenty nervous and proud." Recalling the telephone call in which McGovern informed him of his selection, Eagleton said he replied: "You're kidding." "He said, 'I'm dead I paused for a few seconds and said, 'let me say yes, before you change your Eagleton's name was placed in nomination by Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark, N.J., a black who endorsed him as being fully capable of filling the Presidency and the "most qualifed" of all those who had been mentioned as possible vice presidential candidates. McGovern turned to Eagleton after telephone consultations with Democratic leaders around the country convinced McGovern that two big-city mayors McGovern had in mind for the vice presidency were too little Here is a list of men reported to have been considered in George McGovern's final deliberations on his choice for a running mate: --Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said to be McGovern's first first choice although he had repeatedly insisted (hat he would not run for president or vice president in 1972.

--Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, who said he declined because he was 62. --Mayor Kevin While of Boston, who reportedly was unacceptable to Democratic leaders polled by McGovern in longdis- tance telephone calls Thursday morning. --Mayor Moon Lnndrieu of New Orleans, also reportedly found unacceptable by the party's leaders. -Rep.

Wilbur D. Mills, D- reportedly ruled out by McGovern because he was a candidate for the presidential nomination. --Gov. Pal I.ucey of Wisconsin, rejected by McGovern although he expressed a desire for the nomination. Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers Union, also believed to have wanted the nomination.

--Gov. Reuben Askew of Florida, the convention keynote speaker, who reportedly declined the nomination. --Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a Senate liberal and member of its antiwar bloc. --Sen.

Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, another Senate liberal. Vows to put 'America back to work' McGovern: 'Power to people' ic 1 A ft! mr MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S. McGovern, accepting his bloodied party's presidential nomination vowed Thursday night to defeat President Nixon -the Democrats' "unwitting unifier" --with a plan to end the Vietnam War and to "put America back to work." Hammering away repeatedly at the theme of "come home, America!" the 49-year-old South Dakota senator addressed the final session of the Democratic National National Convention which met to ratify his choice of Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton, 42, an antiwar Roman Catholic from Missouri, to be his vice presidential running mate. McGovern had warm praise for each of his defeated rivals, from Hubert H. Humphrey to George C. Wallace, and promised to redeem Nixon's pledge of 1962, when he lost a bid for the governorship of California. "Next year you won't have Richard Nixon to kick round anymore!" declared McGovern.

In a concilatory, 45-minute address to delegates in the vast, red-while-and-blue Convention Hall, McGovern coupled his promise of a total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina within 90 days of his inauguration with a a a A i a never become a second rate nation" militarily. "America will keep its-defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger," he said. "We will do that not only for ourselves but for those who deserve and need Shapp tries to unify state party factions the shield of our strength our old allies in Europe and elsewhere, including the people of Israel, who will always have our help to hold their promised land." But the lone of McGovern's address before a late night nationwide broadcast audience as well as the jam- packed hall was summed up in these words: 'This is the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to rebuilding our own nation." He dedicated his campaign "to the people" and said that next January, "We will restore the government to the people. American politics will never be the same again." Hitting hardest at Nixon's economic policies, McGovern declared that creating jobs even if the government must be the employer of last resort would be "the highest domestic priority of my administration." He said: "Whatever it lakes, this country is goina back to work." McGovern called for an end to the welfare bureaucracy and a guaranteed "income sufficient to assure a decent life" for those unable to work.

He called for ending the gap between depressed wages and high corporate profits, creating a national health insurance system, and tax reforms that "reward hard work." "This administration tells us that we should not discuss tax reform in an election year," McGovern said. "But an election year is the people's year to speak --and this year, the people are going to ensure that the tax system is changed Acknowledging "our fury and our frustrations" at the i a i a i i preceded i McGovern expressed confidence his divided party still can unite to defeat Nixon in November. Nixon, he said, "is our unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of this campaign." "Let our opponents stand on the status quo, while we seek to refresh the American spirit." Quoting from the scriptures in the style of the Methodist preacher's son that he is, McGovern appealed for the help of Democrats, Republicans and Independents who want "America to be the great and good land it can be." fn a chanting litany, he called out in his Midwestern twang: "From secrecy and deception in high places come home, America' "From a conflict in Indochina which maims our ideals as well as our soldiers --come home, America! "From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation come home, America! MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Gov. Milton J. Shapp, a one-time independent who broke through party ranks, came to the Democratic National Convention Thursday for a belated attempt to end the friction between George McGovern and Pennsylvania's labor leaders.

The governor, who withdrew as a delegate because of flooding back home, described the bitterness among labor leaders as "a tot of ruffled feathers." One of Edmund Muskie's original supporters, Shapp never endorsed McGovern. But the McGovern camp asked him to come to the convention "for the sake of party unity." "We want to show there are a number of leaders in the parly who will work.for him," Shapp said as he left for a meeting with the presidential nominee. The governor also spoke to the 182-member state delegation. "I know you've had problems down here," he told them. "This is nothing new.

This is what distinguishes us from the School aid bill signed into law HARIUSBURG (UPI) Gov. Milton J. Shapp has signed into law a S30.fl million package of aid to non-public intermediate school districts to "loan" textbooks andauxiliary services toprivate and parochial schools. In turn, the public schools would be reimbursed for expenses. Two other bills to provide the school children with laboratory equipment and public transportation are still pending in the legislature.

One of the new laws would require the school districts to Deserter surrenders MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -Thomas Michaud, a self- described Marine deserter from "surrendered" on the floor of the Democratic national convention Thursday night, urging George S. Me- Govern to campaign for total amnesty for other deserters. Michaud, who said he had been hiding underground lor three years, claimed thai he had six months to serve in Vietnam when ho went over the hill. buy secular textbooks and pass them along at no charge to Catholic schools. It is estimated to cost $16.6 million during the current fiscal year.

The second would require public schools to provide services such as counseling, medical care and special education. The whole package is part of a continuing effort by the General Assembly to circumvent state and U.S. Supreme Court rulings banning direct aid to non-public schools. The first program, begun in 1968, gave direct payments to non-public schools. It was rejected by the U.S.

Supreme Court last year because it violated the constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. A new program immediately was instituted giving the parents of non-public school children reimbursement for their "services" to the slate. It was outlawed by a three- judge federal panel, but the decision is being appealed. If the parental reimbusement is struck down, the new package will take its place. If it is upheld, the new.package simply will suprecede it.

There are some 500,000 children attendingnon-public schools in Pennsylvania. Republicans. We gel it out into the open." Most of the delegates ap- lauded Sliapp's appeal for But a few of the labor leaders sat motionless in the back of the room with their arms crossed. A large bloc of Ihe 'Pennsylvania party regulars and labor leaders revolted against McGovern Wednesday night. They mounted a useless, last-minute drive for Sen.

Henry Jack sou and provided him with voles. I. W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW) and a I lubert I lumphrey supporter, said he never would back McGovern. But a few of the other labor leaders indicated they would come around.

"I never want to have somebody as powerful as I. W. Abe'l on the sidelines," Shapp said, promising to meet with the USW chief when he returns home. "I wish he would use all of his strength to support McGovern. "But the labor leaders will recognize during the campaign that the primary enemy is the continuation of the Nixon Administration." The governor noted Abel refused to support him in 1970 when Shapp defied the party to run for governor.

"He opposed me and sat out Ihc election," Shapp said. "But we won 2-to- 1 in the Steelworkers areas." Shapp said McGovern can win in Pennsylvania "if he runs Ihc proper campaign." Asked what that would be, he said: "He must broaden his grass roots support and get some of the politicians working with him, He must build a good farm-labor campaign." "When 1 took on the organization in 1966 and won the nomination," Shapp said, "I was unable to get Ihe two horses working in tandem. "But in 1970 when I did it, I learned how to get these two working together. I can serve a major role toward getting these two forces together, not only in Pennsylvania but in other states." Campaign work begins Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and his running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, right, meet in McGovern's hotel suite late Thursday to map plans for the campaign against President Richard Nixon.

Telephoto) Hijackers surrender to FBI, end 22 hour piracy drama By United Press International In Frceport, FBI agents and nl ll 1 i lr Vi 1 i li clirti-if i i i By United Press International a i a i stewardesses hostage in a jetliner stranded at a lonely Texas airport surrendered to FIJI agents Thursday, ending a $600,000 air piracy extortion drama which began 22 hours earlier over New York. The tense, cross country hijacking came to a climax when the two men, armed with a pistol, a shotgun and believed carrying a bomb, freed the three women and walked down a ramp from a renr door of the National Airlines plane holding their hands above their heads. In another hijacking, a grayhaired. -19-year- old a a bootlegger calmly surrendered early Thursday to a stewardess a a a A i a A i i Oklahoma City after holding seven crew members hostage and collecting a $200.000 ransom. In Frceport, FBI agents and sheriff's deputies siuTounded Ihe National Airlines plane and FBI snipers armed with high-powered rifles slood on both sides of the runway of tiny Lake Jackson Airport as authorities negotiated Ihe surrender with bullhorns.

The hijackers, who referred to each other as "Number One" and "Number Two," at i i a a threatended to kill the three women. They said they would leave behind the $600,000 paid earlier by National if authorities met their new demands for another, smaller piano and a pilot dressed only in a bathing suit so he could not conceal a weapon. The two hijackers were identified in a warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate i Philadelphia, where the ransom was paid and 13 passengers freed, as Michael Stanley Green and I.ulscgcd Testa..