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Friday 10' Eureka, California July 14, 1972 Established 1854 20 Pages Vol. POX No. 198 World Today CHESS The committee in charge of the $250,000 international chess match today turned down Bobby Fischer's request to overrule Referee Lothar Schmid. Page 1. VIET B52s backing South Vietnamese drive to retake Quang Tri city drop 600 tons of bombs on suspected Communist positions west of the provincial capital.

Page 2. ULSTER Belfast Thirteen persons killed in past 48 hours in increasing bloodshed in Northern Ireland. Page 3. Naliim CAMPAIGN George S. McGovern.

towing his new vice-presidential candidate, Sen Thomas Eagleton, behind him, launches his presidential campaign today. age i. EAGLETON Thomas Eagleton was "flabbergasted" and his hands trembled the receiver when George McGovern asked Wm to be running-mate Thursday But senator from Missouri wasted no time accepting before McGovern could change his mind. Page 1. VEEP'S WIFE Meet Sen.

Thomas Eagleton's wife, Barbara. She's a twin, like George McGovern's wife, Eleanor. Page 1. Nortk Coast Todaj OCEAN DRAMA Three men plucked from ocean following distress by the fishing vessel, Two Brothers. Page 2.

-I- BOYS' CLUB The inauguration of a Boys' Club for Humboldt County is expected. Page 2. TIDELANDS Legal actions are filed in another move to clarify the issue of who owns the Eureka waterfront tidelands. -Page 3. TRANSPORTATION FUND A preliminary discussion of county utilization of a new $600,000 county transportation fund was the highlight of Thursday night's meeting of the Humboldt County Association of Governments.

Page 5. Inside Today Editorial Page Commerce 11 Robert Rosefsky 6 Redwood Country ll Ann Landers 9 Comics 6 TV Log 10 Sports Classified Ads 16-19 Accent on People 8-9 Features Entertainment 7-1" Nation's Weather 12 The Newspaper for Northweitern California Demo combination: McGovern and Eagleton She's a Twin Just Like Wife COMFORTABLE No cease of the fair weather for the North Coast and those low. clouds will hover over us, also. Page 2. MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-It's twin bill for the wives of the Democratic candidates president and vice president.

Just like Eleanor McGovern, Barbara Eagleton is a twin. Mrs. McGovern, wife of Sen. George McGovern, the presidential nominee, has her twin lla with her in Miami Beach for the national convention. Mrs.

Eagleton's twin, Donna, lives in Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. Eagleton's husband, Thomas, a Missouri senator, was hand-picked Thursday by McGovern for the No. 2 spot on the ticket and early today the delegates nominated him by acclamation. The Eagletons have two children, Terence, 13, and Christin, 10, who flew in from Washington to be with their parents for the final session of the convention.

Mrs. Eagleton, a blue-eyed blonde, has been campaigning for her husband since he made his first successful bid for elective office by running for district attorney in St. Louis in 195G, the same year they were married. She told UPI it was "fantastic" to be part, of the ticket, but the nomination certainly would chartgc the family's plans for the summer, "We had planned to visit St. Louis and Delaware Beach but thai is changed now," she said.

The children's reaction was typical, "Neat," said Terence of Ills father's nomination. Did this mean Hint the family would be getting Its pictures In "all the papers," Christin wanted to know. Mrs. Englcton is an ncllvo sportswoman, an avid render, and a chic dresser. WF i Mrs.

Eagleton; daughter, Christy Fischer Plea Defeated By IAN WESTERGREN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) --The committee in charge of the $250,000 international chess championship today turned down Bobby Fischer's request to overrule Referee Lolhar Schmid flnri take away the forfeit point, awarded to Russian Boris Spnssky, The committee, composed of Schmid, his deputy, representa- tives for the two players and the said it would meet again later in the day to discuss Fischer's complaints alwut conditions under which Ihc mutch is being played. Spnssky, the reigning world champion, was awarded one point Thursday when Fischer refused to play the second game of the match, giving him (Continued on Pago 2) Veep Choice Finds It Was No Joke MIAMI BEACH (UPI)--Up to 3:40 p.m. Thursday. Tom Eagleton was a happy-go-lucky delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Today he is the convention's nominee for vice president and the fun times seem to be over.

"You're kidding," the 42-year- old freshman senator from Missouri replied when Sen. George McGovern called his hotel room to say he wanted Tom to take second place on the party's presidential ticket. "I'm dead serious," McGovern replied. "Let me hasten to say yes," Eagleton said, "before you change your mind." Earlier Eagleton had soaked up the Florida sun around his hotel pool, in red and yellow trunks thiil revealed a stomach turning to paunch, possibly a product of the period when as a young lawyer he represented his home town firm of Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis.

Other Missouri delegates taunted Tom about his stocky construction. "That is chest," he proclaimed, slapping himself in the gut. Eagleton was no more surprised a about 99 per cent of all the other Democrats when the party's presidential nominee tapped him for the vice presidential role. Gov. Carter of Georgia, when informed of the choice, said the name was a new one to him.

Others were more diplomatic. And unlike other conventions, where the No. 2 spot is awarded by acclamntion to the man picked by the head of Ihc ticket, delegates roll-called it for almost two hours, piling up respectable votes for declared opponents Francos "Sissy" Farcnlhold, Mike Gravel and (Continued on Pago 2) McGovern's Campaign Leaves Pad By STEVE GERSTEL MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S. McGovern launched his presidential campaign today, arguing that America's discontent with President Nixon's Vietnam and economic policies will win the Democrats the White House. With but 15 weeks left in which to win or lose the election, McGovern wasted no tackling his first priority-to reassemble the old Democratic alliance which kept the Republicans from the presidency 28 of the last 40 years.

Accompanied by his little- known running Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, McGovern attended a "unity breakfast" today with the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees which dole funds to Democratic candidates for Congress. an acceptance speech delivered while most of the nation slept, McGovern sought to overcome a point of vulnerability in his own program--the Republican charge that his proposal to cut $30 billion from the Pentagon budget by 1975 would leave America weak and its allies frightened. ''American will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to 'meet any danger," if he is elected, McGovern promised.

But whether the Democrats would go all out to help him--or seek to save their own hides if Nixon looks invincible as the election approached--remained in doubt. As they drifted away toward home, delegates appeared concerned about McGovern's chances of upsetting a popular president who believes he can make both the economic issue and the war issue work in his favor. In a plea for unity, McGovern appeared before the convention at 3 a.m. EDT--after most of the television audience had gone to bed--and embraced Edward M. Kennedy and the men he had defeated 'for the nomination.

First Kennedy roused the huge crowd with a old-fashioned partisan roll call of Democratic heroes, and a denunciation of President Nixon's stewardship. Then came McGovern, and many--but not all--the delegates who had been serious and businesslike for 3 days broke into shouts and cheers. Recalling that Nixon had won the presidency with a "secret plan," to end the a McGovern said 20.000 young Americans had needlessly been killed since then--and the war goes on. "I have no secret plans for peace." he said, "I have a public "Within SO days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home in America where they us choose life, not death." At home, he said, Nixon had given the nation three years of "stagnation and a rising level of most false and wasteful economics." His first and highest priority, ho promised, "will he to ensure that every American able to has a job to do." McGovern's battle for the convention's support was uphill to the very end. Even his hand-picked ning-mate had to fight for his nomination, in defiance of Ihc long-standing custom undif which conventions give presidential nominees free rein to select the No.

2 man. McGovern's choice raised eyebrows. Some delegates from the South said they had never heard of Eagleton, but Fred Folsom, an Alabama delegate, said he wouldn't oppose giving the candidate the ticket he wanted. "If Senator McGovern wants to get on a suicide mission, be lias the right to travel with his own copilot." THOMAS EAGLETON Says Yes EDWARD KENNEDY Stirs Crowd aVonetheless, no fewer than 74 names were nominated from the floor to oppose Eagleton-some in defiance of McGovern and some in fun. Jestful votes went to -Martha Mitchell and television bigot Archie Bunker and CBS newsman Roger Mudd, but others came forth as serious challengers to McGovern's choice.

While Eagleton won a majority of 1,741.81 votes with case on the first ballot, 407 votes went to Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, who was defeated last month in her attempt to win the Texas gubernatorial nomination: 222 went to sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, a Senate iconoclast; and 107 to former Massachusetts Gov. Endicott Peabody, who had been campaign- for months. McGovern on Eagleton, 42, after first offering the nomination to three other Senate colleagues Kennedy, Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, who turned it down on grounds that at 62 he was too old; and Sen.

Walter F. Monriale of Minnesota. Eagleton was chosen in tough deliberations in which dozens of McGovern associates and aides participated. By one account, from Rep. William Clay of Missouri, Mayors Kevin White of Boston and Moon Landrieu of New Orleans were considered by McGovern but finally rejected after Democratic leaders, consulted by telephone, said they were too little known.

But Clay's account of the deliberations was disputed by others in the McGovern camp and those involved in the selection process. Eagleton has a voting record rated by the AFL-CIO as better in its view than McGovern's Senate record. The dark- browed Missourian apparently was chosen because of his urban background, his compatibility with McGovern's own views, his impeccable record as a big-vote getter and his Roman Catholic faith. He served as attorney general of Missouri before his election to the Senate in 1968. Eagleton acknowledged that he was unknown outside hit homo stale.

"I'm Tom who--T" he laughed with reporters..