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Starts Sunday: 6-Parf Series on 'The Family Doctor Crisis in Texas' SERIES BY J0 MeCONAL TO CONTINUE IN MORNING STAR-TELEGRAM EVENING LARGEST COMBINED DAILY CIRCULATION IN TEXAS SATURDAY JULY 15 1972 A FORT WORTH-OWNED NEWSPAPER 92 YEAR NO 166 10 CENTS 24 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS FW School Board to Hold Special Meeting Vr VJ Connally Attacks McGovern Door to VP Office Open Democrat Rally for Nixon Eyed SAN CLEMENTE Calif Former Treasury Secretary John Connally a Democrat and close ally of President Nixon has fired a verbal barrage in what promises to be a continuing White House campaign assault on Sen George McGovern the Democratic presidential nominee Although President Nixon has said he will avoid public invovement in politics until after next Republican convention he let Connally use the front lawn of hss oceanside mansion (at the Western White House on Friday to take roundhouse swings at McGovern before movie cameras and microphones IDENTIFYING himself as a lifelong Democrat who never bolted the party ticket Connally said he will not support McGovern but rather will try to rally Democrats behind re-election campaign Connally until recently Treasury secretary took aim at pledge in his acceptance speech Thursday after winning the presidential nomination to bring home all American troops and war prisoners from Southeast Asia within 90 days after his inauguration if elected said Connally president of the United States has no capacity no power to bring home prisoners of was in the hands of the North Vietnamese is an unfair statement and it is a statement that frankly sabotages the efforts of thi administration and of the peace negotiators in Paris to try to bring the war to an end Connally came here to eport to Nixon on a 35-day trip around the world undertaken at the re-juest ASKED ABOUT continuing speculatinn that Nixon might tag him to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew on the GOP ticket Connally said he want the job and expect it will be offered A reporter noted that the Texas Democrat closed the door on the The Fort Worth School District likely will appeal to the Supreme Court appeals court order to integrate 18 more black schools the Rev John Leath-erbury said Father Lcatherbury president of the school board said that is his personal feeling He said he will try to call a special meeting of the school board at least by Monday to give school atttorncy Cecil Morgan guidance OTHER SCHOOL officials also indicated the ruling will be appealed Tho Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans yesterday ruled in the appeal of the school year-old integration plan that the 16 schools be integrated by the 1972-73 school year which begins in August But Deputy Supt Gerald Ward said the system is in no way prepared io devise and implement a new desegregation plan which would involve more busing by the time school opens "1 think it would be terribly unreasonable and impractical if not Ward said WARD SAID the only contingency plan prepared by the school system would have added two more elementary clusters to the six now in existence These would have conlcred on Morningside and Dunbar elementarics But the appeals court ordered thscse schools plus If more integrated THE ORDER includes these sohools Dunbar and 1 Terrell High Schools Dunbar and Morn-ingside Middle Schools iMorningsidc Vickery Dillow Mitchell Boulevard Eastland Dunbar Carver A Date McCoy East Van Zandl and Carroll Peak Elementarics The new inlegration ordered by the court was far more than school officials had anticipated THE FIRST word they got of the ruling came from the news media Father Lcatherbury said the ruling was bad Morgan the school attorney said he hopes to have the full opinion of the court today He said he would tin system will appeal but said he will have to study the rul ing before advising the board The appeals court did not give its own plan for the desegregation of the schools but threw the case back to Dist Judge Leo Brewster and the school board THE COURT said it had been represented to it that two of the three black middle Turn to Integration on Page 2 Fischer Side Claims New Evidence REYKJAVIK Iceland (Reuter) A lawyer for Bobby Fischer American challenger for the world chess title returned from New York today and the American side immediately sought a reconvening of the tournament appeals committee informed sources said Lawyer Paul Marshall brought what US officials described as fresh evidence to strengthen case following the refusal to allow a replay of the secmd game of the world championship series Fischer forfeited the second game on Thursday THE UNPREDICTABLE Fischer had failed to turn up for the game with world champion Boris Spassky because of the presence of television cameras which he considers obtrusive and distracting Sources said chief arbiter of the tournament West German grandmaster a Schmid had agreed that the committee would meet unofficially with the American side during the day to examine the latest position THE AMERICAN side refused to discuss the nature of the and whether it touched upon the forfeiture of demands that the television cameras around the stage be removed They said only that the evidence was But the sources said it was largely technical evidence about the cameras The third game was scheduled to start tomorrow but the dispute appears to have put the contest in the balance Associated Press Wiropholo Eaglcton of Missouri vice presidential nominee Sen George of South Dakota presidential DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS Before leaving the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach yesterday the Democratic candidates and their wives posed for this picture From left are Mrs Thomas Eagle- New Party Lea Shape Win in i McGovern Govern Musf Months tion is being geared up for the fall election IN ADDITION the Democrats plan what promises to be the most massive effort in history to register new voters hoping to take advantage of relaxed registration procedures and the 18-year-old vote to enlist an additional 18 million by November primarily the young the poor and the racial minorities The choice of a woman and a black man to head the Democratic National Committee symbolizes the new hopes for breaking traditional patterns Despite the emotional uplift that always comes from the climax of a convention even when it takes place at 3 arn and many television viewers have gone to sleep significant gaps remain in the unity displayed by the nominees and the defeated presidential rivals BIG LABOR an essential partner in the Democratic party for four decades and the prime organization force that turned a threatened disaster into a near-win four years ago is unreconciled the candidate who humbled its powers in many states I Abel president of the powerful United Steelworkers has vowed to sit out the campaign and the course taken next week by the AFL-CIO's Executive Council will influence the labor leadership of many states But other unions the United Auto the Electrical Workers and the Government Employes already have embraced McGovern and the altitude of many union members toward their leaders is one of distrust and independence McGovern has sought since the early primaries to piten his appeal to the dissatisfied among blue-collar workers his problem is that many oppose his positions on the Vietnam war and major social issues ton Sen MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) A new coalition has given new leadership to the Democratic party and George McGovern and Thomas Eaglcton have less than four months to shape it into a national majority to win the White House from Richard Nixon They left here Friday buoyed by a Democratic National Convention marked bv VIET NEGOTIATOR READY TO TALK TO KISSINGER PARIS Hanoi Politburo member Ec Due Tlio returned to Paris today and said lie is prepared to hold pew secret talks with Dr Henry Kissinger if Kissinger has to discuss Thu returning from Hanoi by way of Peking and Moscow after an absence of about two months spoke briefly with newsmen at Le Bnurget Airport Tho lias held a series of private talks with Kissinger in the past lie was asked if lie is ready to meet with President Nixon's national security adviser again lie replied: Mr Kissinger has something new to say arid shows an interest in seeing rue I am ready to see him to discuss a correct solution to the Vietnam Pressed by newsmen as to whether there have been any developments on the Vietnam question Tho told them to several days" Tho said he had no other statements to make beyond what was said earlier this week by Xuan Thuy head of the North Vietnamese delegates to the peace talks Thuy has reiterated that the Communist seven-point plan is the for settlement of the conflict The plan calls for the United Stales to announce a total troop witiidrawal dale the immediate resignation of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Tlijeu and the setting up of a coalition government in Saigon candidate and Mrs Me- If -7 Bribe Delivere ers our relative internal harmony and a lack of external disruption to wage a campaign they hope will transform the American political scene Already its shape seems clear despite the pledge of a national campaign the emphasis will be on the industrial Eastern and Midwestern heartland and the Pacific coast Funds will be plentiful and the organization that carried McGovern to the nomina- non sen after prosecutors praised the witness Myrvin Clark 52 for the before the grand jiiry and on the witness stand Clark pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges stemming from the Dowdy case and entered a no-contest plea to charges arising from an attempt to defraud a Baltimore manufacturer in a scheme which allegedly involved the i of former House Speaker John McCormack's office Dowdy who continues to serve his term in Congress has appealed his conviction He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after his conviction on charges of taking the bribe last December Put on BALTIMORE (AP) A witness who testified that he delivered a $25000 cash bribe to Rep John Dowdy D-Tex has been granted five-year probation term The sentence was handed down Friday by US District Court Judge Roszel Thom- Wivfiy-? -wwm 'A' by LOVE IS SHARING of Utica NY found WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU Touring Americans American students discovered grim differences between Russia and the United States on a 24-day tour to the Soviet Union Marjorie story is on Page 3A THINK IT OVER The oak is inherent in the acorn happiness is inherent in loving A WARD THE WEATHER: Fair Hot Fort Worth and Fair and hot today Partly cloudy and a chance of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow High today upper 90s low tonight mid-70s high tomorrow lower 90s Winds southerly 10 to 20 miles per hour becoming light and variable tonight Probability of rain 30 per cent tonight and 30 per cent tomorrow Rain to date 887 inches normal through July 1971 Sun sets 8:37 today rises 6:31 tomorrow High temperature yesterday 96 overnight low 75 mind men who kiss and the girl said my age I need all the ad-vr-tising I can if 172 Gnr Pcfllurcs Corn -AsiocIMed Press Wlrcphofo muggy weather called for a cooling lick of ice cream and so did his Irish Setter Eight-year-old Nikky Dihigo out that hot and.

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