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ESTBi 1838 Vol. CXXXII1 FITCHBURG, MASS. 0)420, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 15 GENTS Wallace, Labor Unhappy With McGovern Profesf Quickly Quelled Over The Top Illinois delegates cheer the announcement of their vote In the balloting for presidential candidate at the Democratic National convention which a Sen, George S. majority needed. In center Is William Singer, leader of the group which successfully challenged Mayor Richard Daley, and under the standard ot another leader, Jesse Jackson.

(AP Wlrephoto) Hijackers Hold Plane, Hosf Ransom BEACH. Fla. 'We didn't want a repetition of Chicago in 1968." Sen. George McGovern said alter facing 3M noisy, pushing demonstrators just hours before winning the Democratic presidential nomination. McGovein attempted to reas- the crowd of- antiwar and.

civil rights demonstrators in the lobby of his headquarters hotel: "I'm not changing my isitipn on any of the funda- rve ivern spoke, more isleTs gathered" peacefully at Convention Hall to hear antiwar activist David Dillinger and other speakers urge them "to keep the pressure on McGovern." The demonstrators in the Doral Hotel lobby had been clocking staircases and elevators for more than six hours when McGovern appeared surrounded by Secret Service agents. Security was tight following the arrest ot two men on concealed weapons charges at the Daral earlier in the day. "I don't have any doubt that within 90 days ot my inauguration every American Uuou Kennedy: Family Must Come First MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) Kennedy phonri Sen.

George McGovern, climax Me Govern from Hyannls Pott, ing his dramatic rise Erom to offer congratulations. litiral obscurity by winning i During tlieir talk, first-ballot nomination a offered Kennedy the vidcd Democratic party. was 1 2 spot for the race against i considering a broadening list of; President Nixon. Kennedy re- vice-presidential possibilities to- Heeled it "lor very real person- Iday after Sen. Edward M.

Ken-: a rca 0 according to ncdy rejected his bid. I McGovern spokesman Richard HYANNIS PORT. Mass. (AP) a i National ieis--Edward--Mi--Kenn Soon after the voles of lllinoi5'r) gj, er sent MtGovern's total soaring past the magic 1.M9 mark i Earlier in the evening, Florl- said today he turned clown Mi-Govern aides had faiu 1 invitation from Sen. Grnrgc.Kennedy a McGovern's first: McGovern to be his vice prysi- choice as a running male.

dential running male because) "I have personal a i re of "overriding personal to my family erations." ar.d to my brothers' families." 1 Kennedy said. "In our if a movement swept Ihr con nedy told a news confcrer.cc i on a a him (or tile a two hours after. prewdeiubil nominalioii. McGovern was nominated as Kennedy said, "I'd turn down a the Democratic ra fi candidair. "Son.

McGovern the jammfu 1 Bflgtilly in con McGovern -A Profile su ps lo like to reconi-; mend me to the convention as ifleniial candidate, i Asked if he agents at the convention to stem dier will be home, and that's a pledge I make," he said. Casually dressed in an open necked sports shirt. McGovern was grim and firm as he talkec and listened to the demonstrators lor 30 miutes. "Don't' you realize that most Watching Senator George D. McGovern watches television as he Is about to he nominated by the Democratic parly for Hie presidency at IDE national convention in Miami.

Fla. lie won on tlie first ballot. (AP Wlrephoto.) Ki.nm.Hy "I told him 1 was Tfs and humbled by the hls 1 naj 4. but that I had overriding personal considerations and that 1 could not consider it," Kcnnedyj said. such da r.nv.

Rpuhin Askew, aides he didn't want to ibe considered. McGovern aides said the nominee would make no an- jnmincement about a running 1 male before midday. i One close adviser said he felt Ihe list of those under consider- jaiion was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the Wlio Is Georje Stanley 'counsel of Sens. Hubert H. McGnvfrn? Where dirt he- Humphrey and Edmund S.

torne'(rout and -what -does- he-1 Muskier whose withdrawal from con- said that McGovern to me a number of vice but he did not indicate a prefer- Kennedy said that he tele lence among them." iphoned McGovern shortly a(ter' Kennedy declined to disclose he was nominated by thethe names on McGovern's list. stand for? The Sentinel today publishes iienlion a "sTg- --tnttanrt? profile--on--theVri-ird--Wednesday--right 1 a i presidential i triumph. candidate written liy the Those being mentioned i editor of his hometown clude rlve senators Thomas newspaper, who for M.ycar.s I 0 Missouri Abra lias lieen a close Irlend, political supporter and admirer of the South Dakota senator. It ivrllten exclusively tor Thomson Newspapers. See Page 20 State Agency Highly Critical- Schools Rated Good (Editor's Note This the The Goodrich, reports thejrenovations recommended forlthe facilities emergency second in a scries ot three Building purposes, article's condition stands on less than The Walnut School is among public and parochial schoolman acre' of land.

It is 81 yearslthe youngest at 52 years oliT buildings In" FJIefitmre as compiled In a report filed by old and has no. cafeteria. Open I but 'one ofibe poorest, -according space in the Ihe SBAB. "The conditions but the structure needs care and minor renovations." The building ism A. Hibicoff of Connecticut, 'hilip A.

Hart ol Michigan, laylord Nelson of Wisconsin, and Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota: two governors. Ohio's John J. Gilligan and Wisconsin's Patrick Lucey, and labor 'eader Leonard Woodcock. Within minutes alter clinching the nomination, McGovern received congratulations and promise of support from all the candidates he had conquered, except Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace. But labor leaders --pn-nartiealar--femsmed-biKefiy-- to the senator, as did 5 imany delegates. One sign in the liall read: "McGovern Will Bomb--in Nois vember." 122 'years old and has" noj A lef straight all-night cafeteria or gymnasium, sessions. Ihe climactic round of Two airline hijackers armed with sawed-off shotguns flew in a National Airlines 727 jet from Philadelphia to a small airport in Texas today with ransom ar.d four stewardess hostages, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The plane landed at Brazoria County Airport, about 50 miles south of Houston, saldTToIlce radio report! officers there shot out the aircraft's another hijacking, univav in Philaficlohia Intel sh ouled a young man. "We love naSl are losing your agents haggled with the edlbl The rest as men over details of delivering Downed out by a girl yelling the ransom money and freeing That not true. armed man who collected $550,000 ransom abandoned an apparent plan to try to escape by parachute weekly to and surrendered a stewardess. His pistol had no bullets, but officers did not know that until the hijacking of the Dallas-hound American Airlines jet was al! over, Both planes were commandeered Wednesday night. Alter the National Airlines planc'Ianded at the Texas field, its 'stairs were lowered and the flight engineer, who had been either was thriwn out or escaped, the FAA was taken to a local Assistance Bureau).

By DICK BOOKER Stall Writer development in order to make'Il lacks a gymnasium or other leased Sheridan school are' 8 Semblance ot (support facilities and stands onfadequate tfie structure noi i old lime hoopla and floor the passengers. Responding to questions shouted by the demonslraors "A couple of people reaffirmed his sup said one Jam rt (or a (or those who Sheridan school up for ils inadequacies. -Although the Lower burnham School is 112 years there is room for i The South, Fitchburg School While the condition of two in the building. last for a few years" for 'kinder Ash- a half acre of land. South Fltchhurg age listed -cafeteria and iger Tom amesty for those ring of St.

Louis. "1 didn't Ihmkj re us ed to fight in Vietnam it was necessary to go through i nos itj or to am anc legalizing the shennanigans with the marijuana- -nTTsnlVEcrami- The gunman in the second i as he spoke, McGovern as Melvin Martin Fisher. 4S, not sign a proposal Norman, the father oficalling for life imprisonment five children, the 511 for any police officer who mur- passengers aboard an a black, Mexican-Ameri-fMemorial Junior Criticism Fitchhurg's public schools came under a verbal roasting from I a state evaluating (cam. all others with the exceptions' of three elementary and one! Junior high received strong! criticism. I The only public schooisT spared in the criticism rarrartywhenHrom ate to firelrap" were jhe Reingold.

Crocker and McKay Campus elementary schools and thej contains o'd emons ra tiins. At last the roll has a poor ca ll was reached and. as tha rooms midnight, rgarten "are McGovern's nomination was as- Monfy Tech Confracf Talks By DICK BOOKER Slaff Writer A collective bargaining firm can Airlines Boeing 727 alter can or other minority group getting the ransom at homa City's Will Rogers World hospital. hijackers aboatd the. -three-jet 727 with the pilot and four stewardesses.

The two hijackers of the Na- tional.plane out ot Philadelphia Ill "passengers, who endured nine hours ot sutfocat- Airport early this morning. Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a hall- hour after it was in the air, ordering it to return to Ihe airport. He demanded the money $100 bills and a parachute, released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again. Crew members said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape, but finally against Jumping and surrendered. McGovern also was hooted when he rejected a proposal backed by civil rights and wel- 'are groups calling for a federally guaranteed 56,500 roin- income for a family of lour.

"I'm not going to sign it," he said. Most of the demonstrators in the lobby were members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Students for a Society and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They said they were concerned about a reported softening of his antiwar position and his refusal to fight harder in the convention for the J6.500 minimum income proposal for poor people. Fitchburg schools demned outright a 1 with the recom: with teachers at the district.

'representing the Montachuselt inferior." rcnorts tne SBAB. Isured. The Hosmer school, with 252! Bedlam burst through, the i students, has an area at half. 8 bail as supporters cele- an acre and is located on albraled the victory of the man busy street. Built in 1905.

the I whose youthful legions had building is in "fair I humbled the party's mighty. jut thejiindergarten Forty-five minutes later, Cflwf an toileT a'cc'ommoflaTions are'rwlrrn Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien announced the final to- tn' 'The 70vearold haH-again-wcnUwild one of their SDokesman are also stands on a tinv plot McGovern workers. PPOsed a a acres. Only four''inadequate their long ouest against what olQcerrvime in (Jin SpflmpH nt-aplL-Mnl mtnrl ftAAm brought in to conciliate ihe- classrooms arc lnc two story Iseemed overwhelming odds Technical Vocational'issues, and are seeking to con-i sl or grades one to four.

Both the Laurel and the Committee has asked the were con-lstate for a third parly to as "firel'-Counciliate" in contrast dispute linue with "head to head discussions." mendation they be abandoned The request for the third immediately. party stemmed from an im- Next in the line of fire wereipasse that has developed be- the Bartley-Nolan, the Goodrich, Itween the two parties following 3i.uaaiui.3. Mrs. Phyllis Walsh, a I buildings which were once part teacher at Monty Tech. said 'be system the Dillon.

The SBAB team also in- seven abandoned school crowned at last with success, kissed and hugged one another. A third roar went up five minutes later as O'Brien declared McGovern the party's that the "School Committee hasij Markham. Rollstonejnominee and designated a corn- been adament in the pas'. six'S'ffBt. Richardson lo inform him of his The commillee is months in their refusal loiand Upper Ashburnham.

discuss wages, hours and The evaluating team employment and the Lower "fruitless meetings over a conditions of schools. All three ranked as'six-month pr-rind." Sstate statute, "poor, very old. small, lacking! Petitioning the State Board of I The teacher's conciliation and Arbitration located on small sites." firm of O'Connor and to the School Conwniltee thelri' The problems at Hartley- jSwartz of Hartford, hired desire lo meet at any time Nolan opened in 1902 stem 'by the School Committee to from its "hazardous" a contract wilh more stairs and floors along wilh ilsjthan 80 teachers at Monty Tech. tiny land area ol six-tenlhs Meanwhile, the teachers -an acre. However, open space by the Mon- here could provide room forjtachusett Regional Teacher's around the clock if neces: to come to a viable renovation, supplementing the 10 classrooms, the gym, library and art room.

Association have also filed a petition with the state's unfair labor practices division. could eventually be used, but "could discover no redeeming itures that could Justify ncarnalion." Junior Hl(h The city broke even on fts headed by Ribicoff, who norm 1 determine it they naled McGoverri in a i osil tTM junior highs. Memorial and quest four years ago and again Wednesday night as "a candi- daie tuned lo the challenges ot Ihe fulure." When the roll of stales was McGovern had to com6 to fl vitiblt! aitrtjcmsnt iwu juiuui iat atiu nrinr to thp onenine of school -F. Brown. Only five years U2B.3D votes 219 more than FnSeDtemblr" old, Memorial is on a 12.5 needed.

After many votes 0 and enrolls 840 students. It had been changed, he wound up September O'Connor and Swartt, as School Committee's represen- represents all that is excellent UllilJUUl V-UlllttlU'CC I i I II tative in the discussions, has construction and planning, in filing its pelilion for a third (according to the report. MONTY, Page 2 SCHOOLS, Page 2 with 1.864.95. Behind him, in order, cams Henry M. Jackson, who In- WALLACE.

Page Democrats, Republicans, Unite ToCeleferafe McGovern's Win The Corner Bar donated free beef: "Housewives brought "In sandwiches and coffee. The party at the American LuglUll hall 111 tiny Avun, S. popul ay oh' -Demoi Including a few. guests who Just Yorl A'home-town-boy was Tnarch- ing to the Democratic presidential nomination and the folks were gathering with'all eyes (o- ward the telcvlsiefl-teffrfen-to- watch the saga George jcfJovern reacirH the tfaiional Cqn- 'ventiorHn-Mia "I'm a Republican and I sandwiches down tonight," said Cleo Ruff, the wife of a farmer, and one of ibout 175 persons who gathered 'or the party. on the DELEGATION HONORS pledge tn McGovern, delivers all ifs'votes 17..

'A 'HOT 1 NIOliT SPENT IN LEflSIINSTER with six arrest- edu.See Page 17; -EXPULSION OF GOOUEN sought by. Filcbburg VFW, -See Page 17 LOSES SKATING RINK as bond issue dies Sec-Page 17, AmuietMentj 19 Editorial 4 -J9- Comics' tl Television Crossword. 'Women's Pjijes Z5J 343r69tl (OMinecrThi At) Fifty-rive miles.lo the north coiilliiunily of WO to which McGovern moved when a yiung boy, the atmos- Jhere was generally wore serene, but the spirit there. "He's a little too liberal for me," said bar owner Charles who said he respected McQovern'g ability. 'I dldnt realize his organ listlon was strong enough (o put the big boys McGovern was bom in Aion years ago nexi Wednesday In a house that was almost demolished a few, years ago But it Sias been'reslored and moved to near Main Street, and Is the main tourist of the town Wfr were just driving through and we had la slap, because we were McGovcrn said Ke vln EtUnger, 40 4 leather at Hasllngs-on-Hudson, saw the party signs and had (o corrie Goldwater Claims McGovern In For Defeat IRVINE.

Calif. (AP) Sen, The Democratic nominee Barry Goldwaler. sees at least one similarity between Homefown la the Amerlcarr Lejlob I McGovern (he HtU applinse accompanied I a i priildenllal (be television announcemeal I somlnn I Ion. (AP Wlrephb(o) (hit nallve 530 Oatge I News Digest sees etwee r-nn. ne ISM that sldent: Sen.

George S. McGovern of South Dakota, "will get the hell nf in Nnvemher by President Nixon, Goldwater prprtfrIM Wednesday In re. marks to Orange County Shrl- ners. 'ention this week and the ISM lepu bllean- cdavenlion that nominated him for president: Fischer Balks At Movie Cameras REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer today was rie- threatening to break oft ils world championship chess match wilh Boris Spassky un- ess all movie cameras are re- trom the playing hall. qulte.jerinus.

He may not play at all," said a member of Fischer's entourage who) asked not lo be Identllied. Fischer was scheduled; la meet the world champion from the Soviet Union later today at I p.m. EOT for ttetecofid game of their 24 game' match. The American challenger the first game Wednesday night. 'Shotgun' Rides On Buses Halted BQStON'(AP PolW will slop riding' in biisM Sfler' tnidntght areas, but instead will follow buses wilh patrol cars In some a a Massachusetts Transportation' Authority dais said, spokes of be enacled.

He said gtiart" refused to work second on Jobs panving drivers on runt,.