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PUBLIC OPINION JfranfeUn fteposttorp 103rd Year, No 302 Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 48 Pages, Only 10 Cents McGovern Backers Defeat Bid By Wallace to Alter Platform extensive positions on foreign policy and defense. McGovern avoided a potentially embarrassing defeat when the convention rejected a move by some of the Democratic party's most liberated women to write into the platform an abortion plank declaring that "in matters relating to human reproduction, each person's right to privacy, freedom of choice and individual conscience should be equally respected This represented a slightly softer version of abortion-on-demand, the extreme feminist position, but nonetheless a plank with the potential for embarrassing McGovern. lace's criticism of school busing. On the other extreme, the convention rejected the proposal of the National Welfare Rights Organization for a floor under welfare of $6,500 a year for a family of four, a proposal McGovern once introduced in the senate but rejected as unrealistic. The roll call vote was 1,852 no, 999 yes.

The Wallace planks would have included, besides the anti-busing provision, continuation of busing provision, continuation of the death penalty, opposition to gun-control laws, legalization of the school prayer, a substitution of a job program for welfare, election of federal judges and a McGovern-written endorsement of school busing to achieve racial balance. Wall ace, speaking from a wheelchair, denounced the "senseless, asinine busing of schoolchildren" but his words carried no weight with the convention. Wallace was given a sharply mixed reception when he came before the convention. His partisans in such delegations as those from Maryland, Michigan and Florida applauded wildly and waved hats and small posters they had been issued for the occasion. But the response of most delegates ranged from polite applause to arms-folded stolidity.

At one point, there was sparodic booing on Wal 1 nv- 111 I 4 it State Demos Expected To Back Sen. Jackson and Wednesday morning. The session was in its eleventh hour when the photo was made and adjourned at 6:22 a.m., setting a U.S., political record of sorts. (AP Wirephoto) HARDHAT AGAINST BRIGHT LIGHT Don Perry, a construction worker and Democratic delegate from Brookton, sleeps in the shade of his hardhat a few minutes before adjournment of the convention's longest session Tuesday night of Sens. Edmund S.

Muskie and Hubert H. Humphrey who withdrew from the presidential nomination race. Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, however, was expected to be the overwhelming choice of the convention. Peter J.

Camiel, head of the MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Pennsylvania Democrats appeared ready today to throw much of their support at the Democrat ic National Convention to Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington. Jackson was seized as a rally post for abandoned supporters Government May Slash Lawmakers Pay Hikes Paris Peace Talks To Open Thursday HARRISBURG, Pa.

(AP)-A proposed raise for the state's 253 legislators far exceeds previous pay hikes allowed other groups under the wage-price, controls program, federal officials report. And, while lawmakers appear unwilling to cut the raise, the hikes may be slashed by the U.S. government, the officials said Tuesday. State legislators currently receive $15,600 in combined salary and unaccountable expenses. The Commonwealth Compensation Commission recommended a $19,200 salary, and up to $6,000 in accountable expensesa 62 per cent hike.

"It would appear to be a violation, since it is in excess of guidelines set by the Pay Board," said James Coll, a public affairs spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service in Philadelphia. "However, since no monies have been paid, no action can be taken by the stabilization personnel." The commission recommendations, which also cover judges and top state officials, go into effect automatically Aug. 21 unless the legislature rejects them in whole or part. However, the additional money wouldn't be paid until the election in November of the new General Assembly. draw.

I don't see how Spassky can lose." Analyzing the game for The Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed Fischer's move "a rare miscalculation by the American genius." Legislative leaders have indicated there would be no such rejection. In fact, the lawmakers should still be enjoying, their summer recess when the commission report becomes effective. The recess began July 7. Larry Moen, director of public affairs for the Pay Board in Washington, said the compensation commission recommendations would far exceed the highest raise allowed under the freeze program 16 per cent for coal miners. The Pay Board guideline for salary hikes is 5.5 per cent, but increases awarded to 10 million workers averaged only 4.9 per cent, Moen said.

Some 56,000 state workers in Ohio recently received an average 7 per cent increase, Moen said. About 80,000 New York City workers were given first year increases ranging from 3.5 per cent to 8.4 per cent. In the second year, the maximum allowed for most New York City workers was 6.2 per cent, with one group permitted 7.7 per cent. Pennsylvania legislators of both parties said they will join no movement to call the legislature back into session to reject pay increases. By WILLIAM RINGLE aud JACK W.

GKRMONI) Gannett News Service MIAMI BEACH George S. McGovern awaited his certain selection as the Democratic presidential nominee Wednesday night after his supporters overwhelmed an attempt by Gov. George C. Wallace to alter the platform McGovern will run on this fall. The McGovern backers, fully in control as they have been since the convention opened, shouted down in eight voice votes a series of Wallace planks on issues ranging from welfare to school busing to achieve racial balance.

The rebuff to Wallace was all the more stinging because it came on the heels of a personal appeal by the crippled Alabama governor to tailor the platform to please "the average citizens" who gave him victories in six presidential primaries earlier this year. But this is McGovern's convention a fact that has been clear since his supporters overwhelmed the forces of Hubert Humphrey and his coalition on the California credentials challenge Monday night. And it is surely one of the most untidy if not genuinely unruly of all conventions. For the second straight session, the delegates wrangled on toward 5 a.m. voting with glazed eyes on platform issues as the night wore into morning.

The only question left as the nominating session approached was whom McGovern would designate as his vice presidential nominee. The 49-year-old South Dakotan made it plain he alone would make the choice once the formality of his nomination had been completed. With the balloting only hours away, it appeared there would be at least three other names put before the convention those of Wallace, Sen. Henry M. Jackson and Rep.

Shirley Chish-olm. And there was still a strong possibility Rep. Wilbur D. Mills and former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford also would be proposed.

Strategists for all the diehard candidates were claiming new strength coming their way from the withdrawal Tuesday of Humphrey and Sen Edmund S. Muskie. But no one of any political sophistication was taking their claims seriously. FIRST REFUSAL The vice presidential speculation intensified late Tuesday when McGovern advisers reported he would call Sen. Edward E.

Kennedy to offer him, in effect, first refusal on the nomination. At one point, a report spread through the convention hall that Kennedy planned a news conference to announce again that he would reject any place on the national ticket. The report of the news conference proved wrong, but sources close to Kennedy repeated he had not changed his mind. The others figuring highest in the reckoning of political advisers to McGovern were Sens. Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Thomas Eaglaton of Missouri, Gov.

Reubin Askey of Florida the keynote speaker at Tuesday's session and United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock. But close advisers to McGovern said they had been told to stop speculating because none would be informed in advance of his decision. The most telling vole on the platform came on the Wallace plank that would have stricken Lottery Number BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) The winning number in this week's Pennsylvania Lottery is 8-4-2-3-3-9 The winning number in the millionaire drawing was to be selected at about 2 p.m. 842339 $50,000 X42339 4,000 84233X 1,000 XX2339 400 X4233X 100 XX2338 40 XX2340 40 XXX339 40 XXXX39 or XXXXX9 Qualify for Million Dollar Drawing.

Spassky Is Favored to Win First Game in Chess Match Muskie delegation, said about 30 of the 40 members of that group planned to vote for Jackson. Most of the Humphrey delegation also was expected to go for the Washington senator, who was unable to win any of the delegate contests he entered in Pennsylvania's "primary election. Jackson forces began a heavy campaign Tuesday to rally the delegates cast aside by Muskie and Humphrey. In a telephone conversation with Camiel, Jackson said top labor leaders, including AFL-CIO President George Meany, were in his camp. Camiel and state labor leaders promised to help Jackson.

"He's an alternative to a one-candidate, steamroller type campaign," said Camiel. "If you only had one candidate at the convention, how would it look to the people?" The McGovern delegates considered the shift to Jackson as a sign of bitterness on the part of the politicians who have held power in the state for years. Gerald Kaufman, vice chairman of the McGovern caucus, said he was distressed because of apparent ill-feelings. The rift could portent serious problems in the state for McGovern's hopes of running a successful general election campaign. "Of course I can work for McGovern," Camiel said.

"I'm a Democrat that's the only philosophy I know. "I work equally hard for all Democrats, but I know my task will be harder with McGovern on the ticket." 1 The fear of a number of party leaders was that legislative races might be jeopardized. Democrats hold slim majoritie in both the House and Senate. DEATH TODAY (Obituaries on page 6) Raymond Clough, 73, Shippens burg. Randy P.

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Phot by Pnl Poilili Bullet Hold 1 i ft ri IV- II 7 -'I Carwash Burglar Gets Suspended Sentence not be certain until we have heard it from them." Washington analysts have spotted no particular shift in North Vietnam's position in the public remarks of Hanoi negotiator Xuan Thuy upon his arrival in Paris Monday. They say Hanoi's terms would mean, in effect, a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. However, Le Due Tho, the Hanoi Politburo member who has met secretly with Kissinger in the past, is reported on his way to Paris and what he says privately may or may not diverge from their public stance. Nixon announced June 29th that he was resuming the long-stalemated Paris meetings, suspended May 4, "on the assumption that the North Vietnamese are prepared to negotiate in a constructive and serious way." Administration spokesmen have yet to disclose what evi- dence they may have that Hanoi intends to alter her position. The administration's main stated reasons for some optimism is because of North Vietnam's circumstances now.

Rogers noted that Hanoi's spring offensive has failed, U.S. bombing of the North is highly successful, Nixon's Moscow and Peking trips have strengthened the world climate for peace, and continuing the war serves nobody's interests. Shot at Cow Police to Make Chambersburg Police have agreed to repair damage to a truck struck by a bullet during last week's downtown cow chase. Police Chief William Johnston said this morning that after a Tuesday meeting with Dale Woodward, R.R. 8, owner of the truck, he is satisfied that a policeman's bullet may have hit the vehicle and the department will pay for repairs.

Woodward said his green pickup truck was parked in the North Main Street parking lot north of the library and urban renewal area when it was struck by the bullet. Officer Lowell Kiser, pursuing the cow, fired three pistol shots at the cow as it headed across lots toward North Second Street in that vicinity. By the time the shots were fired, the cow had run several miles after escaping from a truck at the Chambersburg Livestock Market, Wayne Avenue, and had knocked down two pc lestrians. It was finally felled by a rifle shot along the Con-ococheague Creek near Commerce and Hood Streets. WASHINGTON (AP) The United States heads back into the Vietnam peace talks Thursday amid only modest predictions here about prospects for a settlement any time soon.

Secretary of State William P. Rogers, due in late today from a round-the-world trip, said before leaving Rome that he is generally hopeful the reopening Paris parley might bring some movement by a Hanoi negotiator toward ending the war. Assistant Secretary Marshall Green, the State Department's top Far East expert, returned from an East Asian tour affirming that the United States will work hard for a settlement. "But I think we are dealing, quite realistically," Green said, "with pretty hard-bitten, intransigent, struggle-minded leaders in Hanoi." President Nixon's security affairs adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, told newsmen over the weekend that "at least we have some reason to believe that maybe there will be a new approach" by North Vietnam.

"But we cannot guarantee it," he said, "because it will Crime Rise Shows Drop WASHINGTON (AP) -Serious crime in the nation during the first three months of this year rose only 1 per cent, the lowest increase in 11 years, the Justice Department announced today. The rate of increase was 6 per cent a year ago, and 13 per cent in 1970. Atty. Gen. Richard G.

Kleindienst, in releasing the figures from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for the months January through March, also said that 80 of the nation's largest cities re-ported reductions in serious crime in the first three months of 1972. In 1971, 59 cities showed a decrease, while only 22 had a decline in 1970, he said. The most significant change in the three months, said Kleindienst, occurred in the six cities with more than a million population. In the first quarter of this year, the number of serious crimes in those cities rose 6 per cent, one half of the 1971 increase of 12 per cent. The nationwide crime statistics are compiled by voluntary reports from 6,068 local, county and state law enforcement agencies.

The report divides serious crime into two categories violent, which includes murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property, which includes burglary, larceny $50 and over and auto theft. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon. The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment.

The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the green-and-white chessboard in Reykjavik's sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns. U.S.

grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a WEATHER OUTLOOK Increasing cloudiness this afternoon with the chance of some rain tonight and Thursday. High today in the low to mid 80s. Low tonight 65 to 70. High Thursday in the mid to uppt-r 70s. Precipitation probability 20 per cent today 50 per cent tonight and Thursday.

Wind light and variable today east to southeast to 15 miles per hour tonight. Chambers-burg's high on Tuesday was 88, low was 63. For his part in burglarizing a carwash during "a caper" with several others in two counties last winter, Harmon Dale Everetts McConnellsburg received a five-year suspended jail sentence this morning in Franklin County court. It will follow a 24 months jail term imposed in Fulton County court previously. The entry of the Metcalfe Car Wash, R.

R. Merce-rsburg, Jan. 20 and break-ins of several service stations in Fulton County occurred within a few hours, all for vending machine money, the court was told. Debra Fix, McConnellsburg, previously sentenced in Fulton County, and some juveniles were also involved in the case. Judge John W.

Keller also imposed a $250 fine on Everetts, and ordered him to contribute a fair share of restitution. No money was taken from the vending machine at Metcalfe's, as it was empty. A man who said he broke GOOD EVENING Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking when you're interrupting. TODAY READ: Business 27 Classified 30-31 County lo-n Hospital 6 Snorts 23-21-25 Women i into a doctor's office for sleeping pills as he had become addicted to them the past two years, pled guilty to burglary and larceny in Franklin County court. Eugene R.

Miller, Hagerstown, had been on sleeping pills from Dr. R. G. Greenawalt, Blake A. Martin, Public Defender, told Judge Keller.

When Miller was refused more pills recently he returned to the doctor's office when the doctor was at lunch and took them himself. Martin said Mrs. Miller wanted the court to consider treatment for her husband's possible addiction. Sentencing was deferred pending a pre-sentence investigation. Taul L.

Sinner, Pleasant Hall, who pled guilty to driving after consuming a couple of beers and some mint gin, received a six-months suspended jail sentence and $250 fine for drunken driving. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered for Donna E. Cum-mings, 1986 Philadelphia who pled guilty to acquisition of drugs by forged prescription. 6Rogcr I). Thomas, 400 S.

Second received a six-months si sponded jail term and was fined $150 for failure to stop at the scene of an accident. He was ordered to make restitution to Thomas L. Martin. Donnie Lee Sanders, Gettysburg, was paroled for 17 months from a term for burglary and larceny. 4.