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Fair (Details A-21) City Final Thursday, July 13, 1972 Serving The Inland Empire 10 Cents A Gannett Group Member San Bernardino, Calif. Demos Nominate Today's Headlines Inside fthtgm cGovern Handily w' Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York: 101.45. The balance of the delegate votes were scattered among eight other candidates, with a handful going to Kennedy although his name was not placed in nomination. In a final forlorn footnote to what was once a front-running campaign, Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie of Maine got 20.8 votes for the nomination. Muskie, who with Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey conceded to McGovern a day in advance, went to bod before the final count was announced.

Humphrey got 35 votes, most of them in a presidential farewell gesture from his own Minnesota. McGovern's middle name is Stanley, but in the uproar of his victory, Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien's formal pronouncement declared: "Sen. George M. McGovern, having received the majority vote of this convention's delegates, is hereby declared the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate." On his night of triumph, the senator from South Dakota went to the lobby of his resort hotel headquarters to assure some 200 youthful protesters he had not wavered in his commitment to end U.S.

involvement in Indochina. Through the long roll call of states, the new-look Democratic convention was, for a political convention, remarkably orderly. But when McGovern's count of (Cotninued on A 5, Column 1) McGovern Denies Sivitch To Angry Demonstrators AP Wirephoto Taken Into Custody Secret Service agents frisk suspect arrested at McGovern hotel Arrests on Gun Charges Made at McGovern Hotel MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) George McGovern swept to the Democratic presidential nomination last night to climax an incredible campaign that carried him from the back row of the Senate to the pinnacle of party power. He offered the vice presidential nomination to Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy, a spokesman said, but the Massachusetts senator declined to run. A mighty roar sounded from the Democratic National Convention as Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien pronounced the senator from South Dakota the presidential nominee. McGovern had it won long before the first ballot was completed.

His final delegate vote after switches: 1,864.95, far past the 1,509 majority he needed. Before the switches his total was 1,728.35. Even as McGovern partisans cheered, waved state standards and the blue placards of their candidate, word came that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had spurned the vice presidency.

After 119 delegate votes from Illinois assured his nomination, McGovern telephoned Kennedy in Hyannis Port, to offer the vice presidency. Richard Dougherty, a McGovern spokesman, said Kennedy declined "for very real personal reasons." Dougherty said the two men talked for about 15 minutes. McGovern already had been looking to others, for Kennedy has repeatedly renounced any candidacy for national office in 1972. And so the only question left for the Democratic convention was the selection of a No. 2 man to run with McGovern.

The delegates are sure to ratify whomever McGovern chooses at the closing session tonight. McGovern watched on television in his penthouse suite two miles away as the convention voted him triumph in an 18-month nomination quest that he began as a lonely political outsider. This was the official tabulation of a roll call that took more than an hour and a half even though the issue was settled at the stroke of midnight: McGovern: 1,864.95. Sen. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington: 485.65. Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama: 377.50. went before the convention in his wheelchair Tuesday night to plead for a long list of platform changes he said would benefit the "average man." Delegates listened politely to his proposals on such issues as tax reform and law and order.

But when ne came down hard on welfare recipients and denounced the "asinine" busing of children to achieve racial balance in schools, the convention hall erupted in cheers and boos. Several black delegates leaped to their feet giving the black power salute. 3 World Bobby Fischer concedes first match in world chess championship. (A-4) Soviet, U.S. scientists trade experimental anti-cancer drugs.

(A-3) Paris peace talks resume today amid air of optimism. (A-7) Demo platform may be too liberal to be accepted by business. (A-2) Census Bureau says third of U.S. blacks living below poverty level. (A-3) First patients treated by acupuncture center in New York.

(A-22) Crime rate declines in big cities, rises 1 per cent elsewhere in U.S. (A-23) 3 State Judge seats juror who is convinced Ellsberg, Russo are guilty. (A-6) Trustees oppose measure banning guns on college campuses. (A-8) Two old anti-Orienial laws from California's books. (A-9) stricken Area Candidates tardy with financial statements reported to DA.

(Metro) San Bernardino sets regid qualifications for police chief position. (Metro) Firemen's union chief says Mayor Holcomb is "badgering" him. (Metro) Sports Talented Sandy Collins get caught up in tennis revolution. (D-l) Jack Nicklaus is two strokes back after initial British Open round. (D-l) Specials That "harmless" summer insect sting can be a matter of life or death.

(C-l) The Weekender says that Green Valley Lake is like a picture postcard. (C-l) Pygmies disdain money, are content lo frolic in the forest. (A-20) Index (Four Newt Sections) Ann Landers C-2 Good Health A-16 Billy Graham A-16 Bob Geggie C-2 Bridge A-15 Classified D-6 to 14 Comics C-23 County News B-l, 5 Crossword D-7 Editorial B-14 Financial B-12, 13 HELP! Metro Living C-l to 5 Obituaries B-15 Sports D-l to 6 Star Gazer C-2 Television C-6 Theater C-7 Vital Records D-6 Weather A-23 CCj Nation CD immediately clear which of tljie two men was inside the hotel. RNA officials claimed the arrests were made to "frame the Repubic." RNA attorney John Brittain Jr. said in Jackson, that Sonebeyatta and Obatemi were official envoys of the RNA with orders to distribute literature to McGovern's headquarters.

"We are fed up with attempts of the U.S. government to commit genocide on us," Brittain said. "They had no knowledge of any weapon, in fact the weapons were at the hotel." Brittain said the two did not know the weapons were in the car until they were told so by authorities. He said it wasn't known how the weapons got into the car and that they didn't own the car. Wallace Walkout Idea Revived MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. George McGovern confronted angry demonstrators who had invaded his hoi el lobby and told them last night that he had not shifted his position on any of the issues including Vietnam. Responding to shouted questions from the noisy crowd, McGovern, clad in an open-necked, patterned sports shirt, told the demonstrators: "I'm here to hear what you have to say." He conceded there were bound to be some differences of opinion, but added: "I want to say to you that I'm not shifting my position on any of the fundamental stands I've taken." Speaking just hours before he was to be nominated as the party's presidential nominee, the South Dakota senator sought to reassure the demonstrators on the key issue of Vietnam. "I don't have any doubt that within 90 days of my inauguration every American troop and every American soldier will be home, and that's the pledge I make," McGovern said. The senator promised that "every American soldier, every American prisoner, every American now involved in the war in Southeast Asia" would be withdrawn, "every bomber will quit Wallace had barely made it back to his hotel on the Miami side of Biscayne Ray before the convention began shouting down his proposals one by one.

Snider said Wallace was "somewhat upset" over his treatment, at the hands of the convenlion, but was permitting his name to be put in nomination so as not to disappoint his supporters. Wallace warned the convention from the rostrum that the party wouldn't win this fall unless it was responsive to his suggestions on busing and other such issues. International Airport afler a flight from Philadelphia. Authorities said two men, whom the pilot said carried guns and a package, they claimed was a bomb, took over the plane and demanded $600,000 in U.S. currency and 20,000 Mexican pesos and parachutes.

They ordered the plane hack to Philadelphia where it landed just, before 6 p.m. PDT. About. 90 minutes later, pilot Elliott Adams jumped out. of the cockpit and was picked up on the runway by police.

A doctor who treated him flying" and all aid to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu will cease. The demonstrators questioned McGovern about remarks he made that indicated he would keep troops in Thailand and naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. McGovern said Tuesday he would keep such forces in Southeast Asia on what aides said was "an inactive basis" until the North Vietnamese release U.S. prisoners of war. "I would also retain the military capability in the region in Thailand and on the seas to signal and fulfill our firm determination on this issue," McGovern said in a statement issued in response to his endorsement by a group of prisoners' relatives.

McGovern frequently had to shout to make himself heard as he stood in the lobby of the Doral Hotel, addressing the crowd of more than 300. There were repeated cries of "Will you sit down?" addressed to the milling, pushing youngsters. At one point, a young man shouted: "Do you realize love that you are losing credibility?" "That's not true," shouted a woman. Helmeted police initially moved the demonstrators out of the lobby on the sidewalk, but many of them simply moved around and entered through other hotel entrances. When demonstration leaders promised to be peaceful, the police withdrew to the sidelines.

At Ihe same time, with McGovern's nomination practically assured, between 100 and 150 young people folded their tents and left Flamingo Park where more than 1,000 demonstrators have been camped. It has been the staging area for several peaceful marches on Convention Hall. They vowed to come back in greater numbers for the Republican Convention in August to demonstrate against President Nixon. And they didn't guarantee things would he so peaceful then. quoted Adams as saying he jumped because he only had enough fuel for about five miles and wouldn't subject his passengers to a crash.

The control tower said the plane lost its electrical power while on the runway and the hijackers asked for another aircraft. A National spokesman said a man he identified as "Taffa" had tried to buy a ticket on a Delta Airlines plane (Continued on A 2, Column 3) reach .35. Schools, hospitals and the news media are warned of the possible danger, and people are advised to curtail strenuous physical activity. In the northwest valley, which includes Upland, Alta Loma, Montclair, Devore, Cucamonga and Etiwanda, oxident levels will bo .30 to .35. In the southwest valley, Ontario and they will be .20 to .25.

A community alert was called in Riverside at 11:40 a.m. yesterday. It ended at 6:15 p.m. and peak oxidant reading of .39 parts per million was recorded during the alert. San Bernardino's Air Pollution Control District noted a peak oxidant of .25 ppm in San Bernardino and .24 ppm in Redlands.

Jets Hijacked, Ransom Asked MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel yesterday and seized two men on concealed weapons charges shortly after Sen. George McGovern wound up a meeting in his penthouse suite. The Secret Service said later it had no evidence the men intended to harm the South Dakota senator or any other Democratic presidential candidate. The Secret Service said the two black men identified themselves as Malek Sonebeyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obatemi, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made.

Both carried multiple identification, authorities said. Two handguns were found under the seat of a car occupied by one of the men. One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Republic of New Africa. Shortly after the 11:45 a.m. arrests, McGovern canceled a scheduled 12:15 p.m.

trip to attend a Democratic National Convention caucus of 151 Latin delegates at the Deauville Hotel. McGovern's press secretary, Kirby Jones, said the visit was canceled so that the senator could work on a nomination acceptance speech. Jones said, however, that aides had urged McGovern not to go because of the incident. Secret Service, FBI and Florida Law Enforcement Department agents arrested one man as he sat in a mustard-colored sports car parked on the ramp of the hotel. The Secret Service said two pistols were found under the car's front seat.

The second man was taken into custody in the hotel's interior lobby minutes later. Both were frisked, handcuffed and taken away. It was not and I think they helped do it for me," Starr said. "The governor (a member of the pardon board) thought they were pretty good." Starr is one of only two persons who have been granted a full pardon in Nebraska this year. What's ahead for Starr now? He has one semester to go at Valley College, and then wants to continue at California State College, San Bernardino.

"I want to help kids steer clear of what I went through. But it's hard to tell them to straighten up and go home, when almost every report I read on youngsters talks of parents who don't want their kids, or don't care about them. "It was like that in my home. My stepfather drank a lot, and he beat my mother whenever he could. It's no wonder I left when I was 18.

There wasn't enough love to keep me there. "It's not the material things within the family it's the love in the family." "Getting pardoned is just one more obstacle out of the way, just one more fulfillment of the debt I owe society. But I won't forget where I've been. "Because of it, I think kids relate to me better, so I'm going to keep trying." Pardon Means Don Starr Is a Citizen, Not a Parolee, With a Mission in Life MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George C. Wallace, angered that the Democratic National Convention unceremoniously shouted down his proposed platform changes, revived his threat yesterday of a third party movement.

Such a move, however, likely would prove worse news for the Republicans than the Democrats, since many Southern governors have said flatly that McGovern cannot win in their states. Without a Wallace third party, the Southern vote probably would go to President Nixon. Wallace's campaign director, Charles Snider, said the "possibility seems to get stronger and stronger every minute" that Wallace will bolt the Democratic party and set out again on his own. The 52-year-old governor, crippled by a would-be assassin's bullet May 15, Sun-Telegram phots POX STARR gets full pardon If i I Portions of County May Face Smog Alert Today ASSOCIATED PRESS Hijackers demanding ransom and parachutes commandeered American and National airlines flights last night in separate incidents on the East Coast and Southwest, authorities said. The air piracy came a work after two planes on the West Coast were hijacked within 24 hours.

President Nixon ordered stricter searches of all commuter flights after last week's incidents. The American plane, a three-engine Boeing 727 with 51 passengers and a crew of six, was en route from Oklahoma City to Dallas, when the hijack occurred. Authorities said an armed man, demanding $550,000 and parachutes, ordered the plane to fly to Fort Worth, about 30 miles from Dallas. First reports said he wanted another plane in Fort Worth. Bad weather prevented a landing at Fort Worth, however, and the pilot flew back to Oklahoma City, landing at Will Rdgers Airport.

The hijacker ordered the plane to take off and circle the airport while the ransom was being delivered. There was no indication of where the man wanted to go next. An American Airlines spokesman said "we are making every effort to accede to" the hijacker's demands. "We are making arrangements to fuel him and meet any other demands," the spokesman said. He said the hijacker "has a pistol, but he has not used it in any threatening manner." The hijacking of the National plane also a 727 came as the jet, carrying 113 passengers and a crew of six, approached New York City's Kennedy SAN BERNARDINO Ten years ago, Don Starr got out of a Nebraska prison ind two years later he moved to San Bernardino.

He got a job as a dough mixer for the Barbara Ann bakery here, remarried and even went back school. But until last Friday, his past conti-lued to hang over him. Because of a conviction for armed robbery, he vote or run for office, and his -ecord dogged every new venture. He three years of a five year sentence before being released on parole. But Friday, the Nebraska Board of Pardons wiped away Starr's record by 3ardoning him.

Now Starr, 35, a short, barrel-chested nan with a neatly trimmed moustache, majoring in psychology at Valley Col-ege and wants to become a probation )fficer. To get his pardon, Starr petitioned he Nebraska board, paid $56 in court and submitted six supporting let-ers that demonstrated he had accumulated no police record in his new "The teachers (at Valley College) who vrote some of my character references nclosed some term papers of mine, lapers that told about my life In prison, SAN BERNARDINO A community smog alert is expected today in the east San Bernardino Valley, and Air Pollution Control District officials said an alert may be called in the central valley too. Oxident levels in Redlands, Mentone, Yucaipa and Loma Linda will be .35 to ,40 parts per million, and there will be heavy eye irritation. In the central valley, which includes San Bernardino, Highland, Col-ton, Bloomington, Rialto and Fontana, oxidant readings will be .32 to .37, with moderate to heavy eye irritation expected. A community alert is railed In San Eernardino County when oxidant levels 'J.