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Yesterday's Circulation Vol. CCXIV, No.4 42 Pages Today Raleigh, N. Tuesday, July 4, 1972 106th Year Daily 10c, Sunday 25c Judge Backs Rulings On McGovern, Daley Both Cases Set To Be Appealed New York Times News Service WASHINGTON A federal district judge upheld Monday the Democratic Credentials Committee's actions in depriving Sen. George McGovern of 151 of the delegates he won in California and in unseating Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Chicago delegates.

Judge George L. Hart Jr. held that in both the politically GM Sets Recall On Vegas DETROIT (UPI) General Motors Monday asked owners of virtually every Chevrolet Vega on the road to return them to dealers to check a defective axle shaft that could cause rear brake failure and the axle itself to fall off. It was the third major recall of Vegas in the last three months and affected 500,000 of the subcompact -nearly every one built in the 1971 and 1972 model years. All Vegas built since the car was introduced are affected by at least two recall campaigns and many owners are involved in all three.

The Vega, constructed at GM's labor -troubled Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant, was introduced as GM's answer to the challenge of small foreign cars in the 1971 model year. The Lordstown assembly line can produce 102 finished cars in an hour, and some workers have complained the line moves too fast to do a good job. A GM spokesman denied the latest defect was the result of an assembly problem. Rather, he said, it was caused by production of shorter axle shafts at a Chevrolet manufacturing plant. Chevrolet said the short shafts could cause a lock ring to disengage, setting up a chain reaction that could result in the failure of rear wheel brakes and ultimately cause the rear axle to drop off.

"Even if rear braking is lost axle shaft movement," Chevrolet said, "the front brakes will remain operative because of the dual braking system. In such cases, front wheel braking efficiency is maintained." A GM spokesman said the defect was caught by the company's own inspectors and not by the federal government. "We got this one very quickly and moved ourselves," he said. Chevrolet said 59 defective shafts have been reported to date. Two of the failures, the.

company said, resulted in minor body damage to the cars. No injuries have been reported, the company said. Chevrolet said Vega owners, upon receipt of their recall letters, can take their cars to their dealers where the axle will be inspected and replaced free of charge if defective. United Press International TWO INTO THREE ON THE FOURTH Twins Tracy Lynn (left) and Tammy Lynn Kelley of Altoona, will join their country in a birthday celebration. The twins, who will be three on July 4th toast each other amid Divers Spot Hulk Of Tug McAllister By ROY HARDEE Staff Writer CAPE LOOKOUT Divers reported that they found the hulk of the Marjorie McAllister Monday, more than 212 years after the ocean-going tugboat went down with her crew of six in the stormy Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast.

A spokesman at the Fort Macon Coast Guard Station said Morehead City divers found the wreckage in 100 feet of water about 20 miles south of the entrance to Beaufort harbor. The spokesman said that divers made positive identification by name. The 120- foot-long vessel was lying on her port side, he said, and the tallest part of the wreckage was 20 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. The McAllister was the object of a widespread search after she sank off the Cape Lookout shoals on Nov. 2, 1969.

The tug, bound from New York to Jacksonville, reported in her last message to shore that she was taking water and having electrical Under -30 spectator seats N. convention limit The -American Party plans Dome national convention SPECTATORS North Carolina has been limited to fewer than 30 spectator seats at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach next week. That squeeze is causing headaches for the staff of the state Democratic Party which is wrestling with seating for the 64-member delegation, the 42 alternates (non-voting delegates), and the spouses and children of both. The spectator seats have caused the most problems because there are at least enough seats on the floor of the convention hall for all Cloud Seeding Tactic In Viet War Revealed sensitive cases the committee had not committed any unconstitutional acts that warranted court intervention. He emphasized the reluctance of the courts to enter "the political ticket" of such decisions.

Hart ruled that the committee had been within its rights in unseating the Daley delegation, but he declined to say whether its replacement by a largely Pro-McGovern contingent, chosen in unofficial caucuses, was legal. Both cases will be carried to the United States Court of Appeals for a hearing and decision today. No matter how that court rules, the ultimate decision in both instances will be made by the Democratic National Convention when it meets in Miami Beach next Monday. All the parties are anxious for a favorable ruling, however, because a high court decision would be a potent weapon in convention debate, even if it did not directly control the delegates' final resolution of the cases. McGovern's prospects for a first-ballot victory hang on the California decision, and, to a lesser extent, on Illinois.

In the first case, he lost 151 delegates to other candidates; in the second, he gained at least 41 and perhaps 50 with the replacement of the Chicago delegation. Two weeks ago, Hart had found unconstitutional two of the reform guidelines invoked against the Daley delegation those calling for women, young people and blacks to be represented in convention See JUDGE, Page 2 By SEYMOUR M. HERSH New York Times News Service WASHINGTON The United States has been secretly seeding clouds over North Vietnam, Laos and South Vietnam to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes. Government sources, both civilian and military, said during an extensive series of interviews that the Air Force cloud-seeding program has been aimed most recently at hindering movement of North Vietnamese troops and equip- United Press International McGovern aide Stephen Reinhardt and lawyer Joseph Rauh confer Democrats Deny Seats To N. C.

Challengers Hulk trouble in 20-foot seas and 50- knot winds. After she went down, there had been hope that her crew remained alive, trapped inside the tug on the ocean floor. "It's a very new vessel and is probably intact if it did go a Coast Guard spokesman said at the time. 'The chances of it being watertight are very good." The Navy sent a salvage vessel capable of raising and refloating the tug to the scene, but no trace of the vessel or crew was found underwater. Divers seeking the wreckage were hampered by murky water that at times limited visibility to five inches.

The search resumed once after charter boats reported seeing a large oil slick in the area where the tug was believed to have sunk. Again, it proved futile. The McAllister was the victim of a sudden storm which raked the Carolina coast, leaving nine dead in its wake. Winds of 63 m.p.h. were recorded during the height of the storm, and it dumped as much as three inches of rain on spots along the coast.

Four of the tug's crewmen were residents of Carteret County. They were Robert Davis, Edwin Piner and Elsworth Piner, all of Williston, and Keith Piner of Newport. There were no indications Monday as to whether the crewmen's bodies might still be aboard the tug. Holiday Hours WASHINGTON (UPI) The Credentials Committee of the Democratic Party voted Monday to seat North Carolina's delegation at the national convention in Miami, producing an angry response from a young challenger. Susan Conner of High Point, N.

blamed the defeat of the challenge on backers on Sen. George McGovern, The 24-year-old Miss Conner ment and suppressing enemy antiaircraft missile fire. The disclosure confirmed growing speculation in congressional and scientific circles about the use of weather modification in Southeast Asia. Despite years of experiments with rainmaking in the United States and elsewhere, scientists are not sure they understand its long-term effect on the ecology of a region. The Pentagon Monday refused to say if the United States has tampered with the weather in Indochina in an Holiday hours are being observed today by The News and Observer as the nation celebrates Independence Day.

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State, county, city and federal offices are closed. Wallace's Plans Provoke Speculation said she would return to North Carolina to tell young voters "that they have no place in Senator McGovern's reformed party because their state is not important to his campaign strategy." The challenge was launched by Miss Conner and several other young North Carolinians who complained only five of the delegates selected in North Carolina were under the age of effort to hamper North Vietnamese military operations. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Freidheim said the U.S. has never tried to cause rain over North Vietnam.

But when asked if rain-making activities have been attempted in South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia, he replied: "I can't enlarge on that." For the past year, there have been reports of the rainmaking. The weather manipulation in Indochina, which was first tried in South Vietnam in 1963, is the first confirmed use of meteorological warfare. Although it is not prohibited by any international conventions on warfare, artificial rainmaking has been strenuously opposed by some State Department officials. It could not be determined whether the operations were being conducted in connection with the current North Vietnamese offensive or the renewed American bombing of the North. Beginning in 1967, some See U.S., Page 2 30.

The group, known as "Guilford County Youth Caucus," was described as a "bipartisan group" during testimony before a hearing officer of the Credentials Committee. The hearing officer reported to the committee the state party organization carried on See DEMOCRATS, Page 2 The INSIDE News STATE Raleigh man drops fight for one unattended gas station. Page 34. Triangle area events highlight holiday. Page 34.

Former railroad agents in N.C. towns find themselves displaced. Page 5. NATIONAL British banker says chess delegates and alternates, and just a few more. SEATS For instance, there are seats allocated in the delegate section for North Carolina.

The Tar Heel block will be seated on the front in the far right hand corner facing the rostrum. Two of the three extra seats in the delegation seating area will go to Dr. Gene Posten, president of Gardner-Webb College, and Mrs. Gladys Bullard of Raleigh. They have already been See DOME, Page 2 fascinating, ever-deepening mystery.

In the seven weeks since he was gravely wounded, the 52- year-old governor has been virtually mute about his plans, while his spokesmen were publicly restricting themselves to the traditional generalities of national politics. Consequently, the questions raised overwhelmingly outnumber the answers provided and with the Democratic National Convention now but a week away, the uncertainties seem even more significant. Nevertheless, from conversations with long-time friends and political associates who demanded anonymity, it is possible to construct certain potential scenarios and to suggest some possible developments 19 the life and champion Bobby Fischer has accepted a financial offer and will appear at Spassky match. Page 34. Index Amusem'ts 10 Aulis 5 Bridge.

18 Comics 22 Deaths 6 Editorial 4 Farm 25 Wallace during earlier N. C. campaign Finance 23 Landers 17 Morrison 10 Sports 19 Television 10 Want Ads: 26 Women 15 By JAMES T. WOOTEN New York Times News Service SILVER SPRING, Md. To the doctors and nurses and orderlies at Holy Cross Hospital, he is the model patient.

a Southern gentleman who jokes and laughs and winks despite his pain and suffering. To his family and the few close friends allowed to see him, he is as shrewd and as sharp as ever, still the strategist, still the schemer, still the constant debater who dearly loves a good harangue and desperately hates to lose one. But to the American public, that mass of citizens who either adored him or abhorred him but always believed they understood him, Gov. George C. Wallace and his plans for the future have become a career of the three-time presidential candidate.

One firm consensus that emerged was that the next two weeks a span that includes his release this coming Friday from the hospital and his presence in Miami during the convention represent for him a highly critical political period. "What you've got here is George coming to grips with his political ambitions and his physical limitations," one old friend reasoned. "If he's anything at all, he's a realist and I think he will be finding out some very important things about himself and about his career." His physical condition is, of course, a basic factor in finding answers to any of the questions being asked about him. He is paralyzed from his waist down. He has no control over his bladder or bowel functions and despite his doctors' assessments of "steady progress" there are several authoritative reports that he can expect to have to deal with those problems permanently.

"It's less than a fifty-fifty proposition that he will ever regain normal use of his Dr. J. Garber Galbraith, one of the neurosurgeons who helped remove a bullet from his spinal column, said recently. In a private aside, the Birmingham, physician and medical professor added that "less than fifty-fifty can also be 90 to one." One thing was clear. however.

During his convalescence the public has not been given a complete picture of the wounded candidate's condition. Wallace has, for instance, dealt on a regular daily basis with agents who in turn were in contact with those delegates committed to Wallace and serving on the party's platform or credentials committees. He helped write and then edited the draft of a speech given by Taylor Hardin, a member of his staff. Moreover, it was announced Friday that he has no intention of simply sitting in his hotel suite in Miami Beach, meeting with delegates and others. He is to host a reception at a hotel Saturday night to which all delegates have been invited and there are now indications that he will make an appearance at the convention itself.

Beyond the drama of such an appearance, however, is the question of his role in the nomination of the candidates and the framing of the platform. "His position on busing is adamant," Hardin explained. "Busing was a highly visible part of his campaign. That campaign was successful. He is not going to back down." Wallace has already flatly rejected a compromise statement on busing presented to him by Sen.

George McGovern's people. Similarly, the governor is not expected to look with much favor on any platform position, including national defense and welfare reform, that does not closely match his views. It also seems unlikely that he See WALLACE'S, Page 2.