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nomination goal McGovern only hours away from vin a majority in their state Tow-Thirds of the Democrats in the House of Representatives do not believe he can win in their home districts Sen Ernest Hollings of South Carolina chairman of the Senate Campaign Committee has warned his colleagues that a McGovern candidacy could cost the Democrats control of the Senate But this is the "new politics" This is a convention tuned to dissent determined to convert frustration anger and disappointment into national political power George McGovern has defied the odds before Tonight he reaches a height most old guard Democrats considered impossible Thursday night in his acceptance speech he begins to reach for a prize that would have awed even his minister father tumult of civil right and anti-Vietnam street protests and marches of the McGovern approaches the nomination in robes that look more like those of a fundamentalist evangelist than a US Senator He armed this dedicated zealous army with a book called the McGovern Rules of Reform for the Democratic National Convention It was a document he helped write in the wake of the 1968 Chicago convention that was marred by violent confrontations between street protesters and Mayor Richard police outside the convention area and by bitter struggles between old guard party leaders and a self-styled new elite inside the international amphitheater troops read the document carefully Other candidates paid it only casual attention until it was too late until McGovern backers had literally outtalked outwaited and outmaneuvered veteran Democrats at city county and state meetings across the country used the new rules like Mao Tse-Tung used the little red moaned one frustrated congressman who found himself denied a seat on his own state's delegation for the first time in 16 years However they did it they brought to this convention the most diverse collection of men and women blacks and whites and browns young and old that any American political meeting has seen More than 80 per cent of the delegates are attending their first convention How representative they are or if any system can be truly representative of the public and its moods will be argued for years Some claim that the McGovern formula assures only that activ ist minorities seeking special privilege will dominate the party Others claim he devised the most Democratic open representative procedures in history Once nominated McGovern reportedly plans more to expand the 119-member Democratic National Committee to more than 300 members with a National Policy Committee of more than 3000 members The prescribed facelifting has scared half of the Democratic Party to death but to late now The die is cast Election campaigns will be waged on the South Dakota terms Hubert Humphrey is gone Edmund Mus-kieis gone Richard Daley is gone Lyndon name is seldom mentioned For young followers Chicago 1968 has been avenged But who will follow the McGovernites? In 1928 New York Gov A1 Smith a By RAY McHUGH Copley News Service MIAMI BEACH No Democratic candidate since Harry Truman in 1948 or A1 Smith in 1928 has set out on the kind of journey that confronts Sen George McGovern tonight It was a long way from a tiny square white clapboard preacher's house in Mitchell SD to the US Senate It was an even longer path from the senate to the Democratic presidential nomination in gaudy luxury-loving Miami Beach McGovern reached the first goal in 1963 The second is only hours away If he reaches the third the White House it will complete as astounding a political miracle as the United States has seen Carried on the shoulders of young angry frustrated democrats tempered in the i Catholic and the original tackled Republican Herbert Hoover and saw the Protestant South the Ku Klux Klan and even the small town populist strongholds of the west and plains turn against him In 1948 President Harry Truman entangled in the cold war and a budding civil rights movement saw former Vice President Henry Wallace mount a Communist backed Progressive Party challenge and a South Carolina governor named Strom Thurmond rebel and lead a Dixiecrat ticket Smith lost Truman won Now McGovern sets out to risk similar uncertainties In Miami Beach he is the undisputed leader He has the votes But only three of the Democratic governors believes his radical-populist programs can that he thinks it highly unlikely Kennedy would accept He added he expects Kennedy to fly here from Hyannis Port Mass Thursday to appear at the convention with thenominee aides said that others under consideration include: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock Sens Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Abraham A Ribicoff of Connecticut and Florida Gov Reubin Askew THE ONLY DAILY WEWEJAPER SERVING THE HARSOB ARIA New Series: Vol 43 No 109 San Pedro Calif Wed July 12 1972 24 Kennedy on list as runnina mate FLEET DWINDLES San fishing fleet is dwindling with the former tuna capital giving way to San Diego Fish harbor officials believe that attrition is to blame While San Pedro has kept its strong family ties to smaller size boats which can only range off Mexico San Diego with a new breed of younger and more modern fishermen is going to the super seiners which have greater range and capabilities (News-Pilot photo) Democrats adopt liberal' platform Super seiner era makes small boats obsolete The San Pedro tuna fleet is old age catching up? MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Sen George McGovern assured of the platform he sought and a first-ballot victory tonight in the Democratic presidential balloting considered a list of potential running mates today Aides said he still plans to ask a reluctant Sen Edward Kennedy to join the ticket Weary delegates had barely 12 hours off after the longest convention session in the history of either party before climactic meeting at which McGovern was scheduled to be the first candidate placed into nomination and when the balloting took place the nominee California planned to yield to Connecticut when the states were called for nominations so that Sen Abraham A Ribicoff could nominate the 49-year-old South Dakota senator to head the Democratic ticket this November Speculation turned immediately to possible running mates after the withdrawal of Sens Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie on Tuesday assured McGovern's nomination Kennedy was clearly his top choice despite repeated statements he is unavailable A close personal friend of Kennedy Sen John Tunney of California told reporters after talking with him by phone Firemen solve manhole mystery on Tl Five companies of Ixs Angeles City firemen were called to the Van Camp Seafood Co late Tuesday afternoon and found all they could do was watch a number of manhole covers balancing on spouts of water The as one fireman referred to them came as a result of a sewer backup that was caused by an electrical short A plant engineer at the cannery told firemen he shut his water pumping system down when a blockage occurred and began backing up the sewer The problem firemen say originated at a Harbor Department pump station where a short circuit in the electrical system caused the blockage in the pump line Firemen were unable to stop the water flow into the streets but a repair of the pumps solved the problem Parts of Cannery and Tuna streets were closed to traffic until the flow was stopped and the manhole covers replaced EXCLUSIVELY Pages 10c Per Copy 832-0221 lengthy roll-call votes beat back proposals to establish a $6500 guaranteed income for a family of four and to introduce an abortion plank A mightly roar went up and red-white-and-blue placards waved from the pro-Wallace delegates as Wallace was carried in a wheelchair to the podium Other delegates stood in respect to the governor partially paralyzed when shot down while campaigning in Laurel Md May 15 condition to ending hostilities An endorsement of school busing as one means to further quality of education and racial balance The Wallace plank proposed a ban on required busing for racial balance A call for abolition of capital punishment plank urged its preservation A fairly strong call for control of hand guns Wallace asked endorsement of the right to bear arms No reference to prayers in public schools Wallace had asked that they be permitted An endorsement of strong anti-inflation curbs including controls on profits dividends prices and salaries as well as wages The Wallace plank called for reliance on competition not controls Abolition of the present welfare system and its replacement by a system of federal payments and other pay measures to assure all Americans of incomes above the poverty level The Wallace plank called for higher Social Security payments screening of welfare recipients and other measures for Nixon he said but he turned aside questions suggesting that the President sent him on the five-week worldwide trip to groom him for vice president would anticipate that I be offered the post he sa id I read the tea leaves not in my Besides he said reporters should ask Nixon that question Connally said he is still a Democrat But asked if he missed attending the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach he said miss it kind of like a man misses a sore As for McGovern he said "in light of some of his policies not the most attractive candidate in the country as far as I can see" Connally former Texas governor who has been active in several Democratic national conventions said he will talk to Nixon later this week at the Western White House before making a public report on his trip But not all that will be discussed he said MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Sen George McGovern tightened his control over the Democratic party early Wednesday by halting a conservative drive led by Gov George Wallace in person to rewrite its liberal 1972platform The packed hall roared its endorsement of platform planks calling for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam busing of school children and payments to bolster incomes over the poverty line Despite complaint that Americans are tired of big and feel themselves neglected except on Election Day and tax day the sense of the convention was plain The delegates preferred the planks adopted one week ago by the 150-member platform committee So the convention took these McGovern-oriented positions adopting them in separate votes that began at 1 am EDT six hours after the second convention session opened An and complete withdrawal of all US forces in Indochina" The defeated Wallace plank called for release of all war prisoners as a pre- Expects no offer Bv PEGGY LUEDTKE Despite boasts of success from the San Diego tuna fleet the San Pedro tuna fleet is having its worst year yet According to a spokesman for the Union Local 33 ILWU between Jan 1 and June 30 of this year the San Pedro tuna based purse seiner fleet landed 2614 tons of tuna For the same period in 1971 the San Pedro tuna fleet caught 3013 tons of tuna in 1970 5955 tons of tuna in 1969 6458 tons of tuna and 1968 7538 tons of tuna guess you get the he said At the same time the San Diego tuna fleet is claiming the title as the most successful harvester of tuna Officials of the fleet say the total economic impact of the fleet during the last three years exceeds $1 billion Fleet expansion and the addition of super seiners in San Diego are also making it necessary to demand that more space for the tuna fleet be created in the harbor However in San Pedro the tuna fleet is going through what the union officials described as a now have only 20 San Pedro based tuna boats And five less than we had last One of the reasons for this of the San Pedro tuna fleet he said is the old age of the boats terms of range carrying capacity and refrigeration our boats are obsolete and uneconomical "The San Pedro tuna boat can carry an average of 150 to 200 tons of tuna where as the average deep sea tuna clipper is now carrying from 500 tons up to 1500 tons of tuna San Diego the fishermen are younger men especially the captains of the boats and the boat owners" Despite the problems the San Pedro tuna fishermen are facing they still ha ve a good outlook for the remaining of the year Mexico fishing improves in the month of March But this year good fishing didn't start until the month of May Since it started late fishermen are expecting the good fishing to continue which will bring up their yearly totals The spokesman said there was no specific reason for the fishing to be poor off Mexico this year However he did say the reason was probably not pollution The sharp pollution effect is not usually felt that far out to sea he said What ever the cause is the effect is the same on the fishermen: less catch means less earnings Many of these fishermen try to subsidize their earnings by turning to shore jobs in canneries and shipyards Others convert to deep sea fishing and still others become unemployed Of the 2614 total tuna catch 233 tons were bluefin 457 tons skipjack 1300 tons yellowfin and 624 tons bontia (All weights are short tons 2000 lbs) During the first six month period this year 21 trips were made by the San Pedro tuna fleet 20 trips in 1971 40 in 1970 35 in 1969 and 40 in 1968 According to the union leader the prices on the catch were about the same as last year Yellow fin sold for $442 a ton skipjack (under five pounds) $343 a ton skipjack premium) $384 a ton yellowfin $442 a ton bluefin $422 a ton and premium bonita $205 a ton of losing for two pawns US grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw I see how Spassky can Analyzing the game for The Associated Press international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed move "a rare miscalculation by the American He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win Svetozar Gligoric the Yugoslav grandmaster present at the tournament said "It is doubtful whether black can can save a draw" Spassky who had the first move is playing the white pieces range of the San Pedro fleet is also limited to just off the Mexican waters But the new super seiners because they are more sea worthy can venture into the deeper And why the San Pedro tuna fleet concentrated on modernizing its fleet? for various reasons according to the spokesmen One reason could be that San tuna fishermen who are mostly Yugoslavs and Italians have traditionally fished Mexican waters all their lives and in smaller boats closer to shore But in San Diego the tuna fishermen who are basically Portuguese have traditionally fished bigger boats in deep waters The Portuguese are more use to deep sea and bad weather he said also a financial reason Since the San Diego fishermen have fished for high priced fish all their lives they have better capital for getting bigger fleets than do the San Pedro tuna fishermen who depended on the sardine migration in the past and depend on the anchovy bonita and bluefin tuna today The San Diego tuna fleet is just better organized financially than our local fleet" he said According to spokesman one of the new tuna vessels would cost anywhere from $1 million to $3 million compared with the average tuna boat in San fleet that would probably sell for $150000 to $200000 if it could be sold Another reason the San Pedro fleet is being allowed to become obsolete could be a difference in ambitions fchermen are an older group they are more settled down The two competitors their seconds and schess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the green-and-white chessboard in sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer king bishop and three pawns for Spassky The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fishcer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move The lanky Brooklyn NY 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 Connally shuns GOP 2nd spot Fischer on verge WASHINGTON AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally back homeafte a 17-nation mission for President Nixon says he may campaign actively for the chief re-election this fall but expects no offer to be running mate He also said he has no idea what new assignment Nixon may have in mind for him although the President mentioned recently that Connally may take on some other special duties Connally told newsmen that made no decision on his campaign role but siad he consider Democratic Sen George McGovern the most attractive presidential candidate and sides with Nixon on most major issues think it would be a mistake to assume that sit this one said Connally who resigned in May as Treasury secretary amid speculation that Nixon might choose him to replace Spiro Agnew on the GOP ticket In November conceivable that I could be fairly 4 game Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past losing all three times he played the black pieces and getting draws both times he played the whites and had the advantage of the first move A draw counts half a point and a win a point in the 24-game championship match To dethrone Spassky Fischer needs 12'i points while the Russian can retain his crown with 12 points The winner will get $153125 in prize money the loser $91875 and in addition they will devide equally an estimated $55000 or more from film and television sales By STEPHENS BROEMNG REYKJAVIK Iceland AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat Amiercan 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 41st move The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in aetled envelope at the adjournment.