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1 V- itMjw tir 1 Mviser S' Muddle on No 2 Choice Similarly only McGovern 21 in sat down with the senator in his 17th floor hotel suite to go over the list and settle on a final choice Hie roundup of governors including John Gilligan of Ohio Is part of strategy of healing party wounds in preparation for the forthcoming campaign to oust President Nixon from the White House Gov Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania also was said to be on his way Ohio and Pennsylvania with their big electoral vote counts and strong labor elements are considered vital to any presidential race especially this year when labor leaders largely opposed quest for the nomination The ZL with McGovern included Mankiewicz campaign manager Gary Hart delegate specialist Rick Stearns press secretary Richard Dougherty tip aide Fred Dutton and actress Shirley MacLaine McGovern singled out two of them Mankiewicz and Hart for a long private talk Another aide Ted Van Dyk said at a luncheon break that an announcement woudl be made "late this afternoon" self-disqualification telephoned to McGovern from Hyannis Port Mass set off the broadened hunt for a running mate Kennedy also congratulated McGovern in call made soon after Illinois sent total past the 1-509 votes needed fur nomination During their 15-minute talk McGovern offered Kennedy the No 2 spot for the race against President Nixon Kennedy rejected it "for very real personal reasons" according to McGovern spokesman Richard Dougherty Earlier In the evening Florida Gov Reubin Askew another prime 'prospect told McGovern through aides he want to considered One close adviser said he felt the list of those under consideration was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the counsel of Sens Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie his defeated rivals whose withdrawal from contention a day earlier had signaled Wednesday night's triumph Those being mentioned in elude five senators Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Abraham A Ribicoff Connecticut Philip A Hart of Michigan Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Walter Mondale of Minnesota two governors John Gilligan and Patrick Lucey and labor leader Leonard Woodp cock Within minutes after clinching the nomination McGovern received congratulations and promise of support from all the candi dates he had conquered except Alabama Gov George Wallace But labor leaders In particular remained bitterly opposed to the senator as did many delegates One sign in the hall reads (Continued on Page IS) By CARL LEUBSDORF MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Sen George McGovern winner of the Democratic presidential nomination huddled today with a score of advisers over a list of possible running-mates The South Dakota senator whose rise from political ob-' scurity climaxed with a first-ballot victory Wednesday night- also summoned as many governors as he could muster to bolster show of unity at the windup session of the national convention' Frank Mankiewicz national political director for McGovern said he expected the choice of a vice-presiden tial candidate to be made shortly But an hour after Mankiewicz talked with newsmen surrounding headquarters there was no word on who would take the spot spurned earlier "for 'very real personal reasons" by Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts 'The roster of names was compiled during a two-hour meeting by McGovern aides No one outside the McGovern camp attended Market Final AMoctitid Prws Wlrapiwto 90TII YEAR NO 17 TACOMA WASH THURSDAY JULY IS 1972 PRICE TEN CENTS Preparing His Victory Speech Sen George McGovern the Democrats9 Choice Local McG Backers Sen George McGovern the Democrats9 Choice 1 TT I 1 2 fekyjackcrs Hold Ransom VP is Key Happy By JOHN EYRES As expected supporters of Sen George McGovern in Tacoma were jubilant Thursday following the South Dakota nomination for president But their jubilation and overwhelming delight at his nomination was tempered In anticipation of whom he would select as his running mate because they feelth vice presidential nonUnee will be the key to whether the Democratic candidate vill receive the support of labor Frank Jacobs 26th District chairman admitted that McGovern must have the support of labor if he is to win the November election "If labor sits on its hands and does nothing" Jacobs said in trouble Sen Humphrey could be a real help to McGovern He could bring a lot of labor support to Even labor leaders in Tacoma had to agree with Jacobs Pedersen executive secretary of the Central Labor Council be expected that the national labor leaders would determine their stand' based upon the vice presidential nominee' Pedersen a staunch supporter of Sen Henry Jack-son said he expects the AFL-CIO board to come out within a few days with a positive statement teller Fails To Appear Forfeits 2nd REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia on Thursday by failing to appear at the playing halL Fischer boycotted the game because he objected to the presence of movie cameras Li the hall The forfeit gave Spassky who beht Fischer on Wednesday' a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 14-game series It was uncertain whether the match would survive Chief referee Lothar Schmid gave Fischer the hour provided by the rules to make his first move When the hour was up Schmid examined the clock walked to the front of the stage and said: "Ladies and gentlemen Mr Fischer did not appear in the playing halL According to rule No 5 if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by Spassky was not cm stage at the time He later emerged from behind the beige curtains backstage bowed to the crowd and left Robert Byrne the No 2 US player said: are watching the' first two-game world championship in the history of During the elapsed hour' -there was a constant relay of telephone calls between the Sports- Palace and hotel The reaction was one of anger A young American who used his savings to travel to Iceland for the (Continued on Page 16) Liked tut Not fourth stewardess escaped the FAA said in a manner not known The tires blew on landing authorities said rejecting earlier police reports that they were shot out An FBI spokesman at the scene said negotiations continued with the hijackers Asked if this meant the FBI would bring in new tires and Jet fuel the spokesman said "If necessary well do i The FBI agent referring to the shortness of the runway said no -pilot but talked to several and said they like to take it The pilot identified as Norman WReagan had suffered a fractured pelvis broken wrists and face bruises The engineer was identified as Gerald Beaver In the American Airlines hijack of a Dallas-bound jet the lone gunman apparently abandoned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead surrendered meekly to a stewardess He left' behind the ransom package which actifeHy con- tained less thap half what he demanded and the gun turned out to have beat empty The hijackers remained aboard the three-jet 727 with the pilot and three stewardesses The two hijackers of the National plane out' of Philadelphia released 111 passen gers who endured nine hours of suffocating heat as the aircraft sat on a runway In Philadelphia International Airport while FBI agedts haggled with 1 the gunmen over details- of delivering the ransom money and freeing the passengers couple of people said one passenger Tom Herring of SL Louis thiit it was necessary to go through all the shenanigans With the heat the way It The gunman in the second hijacking -identified by the FBI as Melvin Martin Fisher 49 of Norman Okla the father of five children released-the 51 passengers aboard an American Airlines Boeing after getting the ransom at Oklahoma WHl Rogers World Airport early this morning fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a half-hour after it was in the air ordering it to return to the airport He demanded the money in 9100 bins and a parachute released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again Crew members said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape but finally decided' against jumping and surrendered The plane returned to the airport where FBI agents took Fisher off in handcuffs Arnold Larson special agent in charge of the FBI In Oklahoma City said fisher would be charged with Mr piracy One passenger John Clark of Dallas said no metal detector was used to check passengers boarding the flight in Oklahoma City Sarge Glenn a deputy marshal in Philadelphia said National has no metal detection devices there The National Airlines plane ran out of gas shortly after it landed in Philadelphia and then lost its electrical power killing the air-conditioning are very very a stewardess radioed the control tower got to do The hijackers ordered an escape plane and then demanded It be maneuvered tail to tail with the hijacked aircraft but airport personnel said it be done because of other planes sitting on the runway got to do everything you can to get these plane tails the copilot told the control tower got a sawed-off shotgun at my throat and the stewardess has one at her throat in the rear of the Eventually the attempt was abandoned and a compromise reached Both hijackings began Wednesday night with demands for ransom and parachutes The National flight was en route from Philadelphia to New York City and the American flight (Continued on Page 16) "I hope we sit this one Pedersen commented "But if the vice presidential nominee is not favorable to labor and we endorse McGovern we certainly will never endorse Nixon "McGovern is not all that bad In' his voting Pedersen added Mrs Ruth Fisher of 1934 Aurora St a McGovern worker agreed "Labor has no other place -to she said "Labor may stay home but not the way it acts It will come to terms with Both Mrs Fisher and Mrs Ann Jacobson of 513 SL said they were delighted at Sen nomination but they said they felt at a loss at the same time "I've been backing losers 'for so Mrs Jacobson said "I really know how to act now" Mrs Fisher added that she would be in a terrible fix if Sen James McDermott candidate for Washington governor wins the election: "That would be two she said Just know what to Jacobs added that he was "super-impressed with Eleanor McGovern If the public -was watching the interviews with her on TV last night he said they help but be impressed with her mately 51 per cent of the sulfur dioxide generated by smelting operations The project is part of a 950 million program by Asarco to improve air quality in the vicinity of the copper smelters in Tacoma Hayden Arlz and El-Paso Tex Labbe said the new Installation and a sophisticated weather monitoring and production curtailment system will enable the Tacoma smel-' ter to consistently meet get Sound state and federal air quality standards Essentially all of the liquid sulfur dioxide produced by United States to end its bombardment of North Vietnam it really desires to an end to the war In Washington State Department press officer Charles Bray commented that cannot-draw any initial encouragement from what were pretty stiff opening state-' "I i Partial Friday Chance of Showers "She is worth five million votes all by Jacobs added "I heard several people compare her with -Jackie Kennedy Onassis and she has it all over Jackie She's a lot more wholesome in her appearance much more The mood of the country has changed in the past sev- eral months Jacobs said election as presi- dent is a distinct possibility because of the young people -those under 25 he said who -have realized they have vot-1 ing power as well as buying power those young people can really put things together win His biggest problem is whether the average population will accept what young people want to put into Jacobs said But Mrs Fisher was optimistic She said she thinks this' will be a new kind of election "There will be thousands in Tacoma on the streets working for she said "Many of them have never worked before We started our unit with four people and now we have 300 to 400 really hard-working The nomination was the really Mg obstacle claimed Mrs Jacobson McGovern is strongest candidate the Democrats could the new will be marketed by Virginia Chemicals Lie to established users including producers of pulp and paper in the Northwest The product is also used in water treatment as a soil additive and a food preservative In addition to the liquid sulfur dioxide installation Asarco is also expanding its existing sulfuric add plant as part of the over-all air quality improvement program Construction Is expected to begin late in the summer following completion of engineering details Hie new plant will go Into operation late in the fall of 1973 This was a reference to Xuan remarks The- apparent lack of change was no great surprise Any progress toward agreement is expected to come in secret sessions Politburo member Le Due Tho is due back from Hanoi in the next few days and this could mean more behind-the-scene sessions with dential adviser Henry A Kissinger or other US officials Porter told the Communists that he felt it possible to find a parallel to other peaceful (Continued on Page 16) $16 Million Pollution Trap Ordered by Tacoma Smelter Sy AiMdaM hw Two armed hijackers who received a cash ransom and an escape plane flew to a small Texas airport from Philadelphia today Two injured crewmen one shot and the other badly beaten left the jet as it was surrounded by authorities The hijacking of the National Airlines plane was one of two that began Wednesday night The other hijacking was against American Air-lines for a ransom of 9550000 but the lone hijacker gave up at Oklahoma City in' the early morning The shotgun-wielding hijackers of the plane in Texas took four National Airlines stewardesses a pilot and a flight engineer from Philadelphia They demanded 9600000 ransom but officials would not say bow much was paid The National Boeing 727 landed at Brazoria County Airport near Lake Jackson about 50 miles south of Houston the Federal Aviation Administration said The pilot and flight engineer were taken to a local hospital the latter with a gunshot wound of the side It was not known Immediately' how he was wounded or how the two crewmen were taken off tile plane The hijackers who In addition to sawed-off shotguns had a box they said contained a bomb remained on board with three stewardesses The Uved McGovern is still just George McGovern George" nice fella a little big for Ms britches maybe but well that looks like a thun-derhead It? my oh my been a wet spring The 14000 residents of this comfortable community on the eastern edge of South ocean of prairie are not given to hero worship They are plain and laboring folks in the as author Ole Rolvaag called them people who tend their lawns and churches with equal dedication men and women who even if they want to loaf will get up for an early start just no timB for stargazing Not that South Dakotans have had many stars to gaze at Home-grown luminaries have always been at a premium There were some famed early Indians like Chief Crazy Horse Former Gov Joe Foss was a distinguished World War air hero And Mitchell's own Joe Robbie is now the owner of the pro football Miami Dolphins is it the asks a local "I never get the nicknames In Dakota Still 6Ole George9 A major effort to reduce air pollution in the Tacoma area was announced Thursday by- American Smelting' and Refining Co (Asarco) owner of the Tacoma smelter Armand Labbe Tacoma plant manager said Asarco has awarded a 916 million contract for engineering and construction of a liquid sulfur dioxide facility to Stearns-Ro-ger Inc of Denver The1 firm has been working on fi- -nal design details since early in April Company spokesmen said file new plant -will capture all of the particulate matter from the converters and will recover approxi By TOM TIEBE (First of Two Articles) MITCHELL SJ) (NEA) Sen George McGovern may be as Robert Kennedy suggested the most decent man in government' He may be as his employes insist a kind of political second com- ing He may even be' if 'the' hopes of millions of American voters are justified the next (38th) president of the Union But here in Mitchell the hometown George Today in TNT 60 PAGES 4 SECTIONS Classified Ads D-4-11 Comics D-2 Crossword C-9 Editorials C-S Entertainment C-6-7 Faces and Places A-2 Financial Pages D-12-13 Funeral Notices D-ll Obituaries C-4 Sound Life B-8-12 Sports C-16-15 TV-Radio D-S Paris Talks Resume No Change Seen So maybe this Is It: Maybe George McGovern- he-roized here because as a woman feeding her chickens puts it bad much practice at In any event Ole George nice fella is just another potato in this patch There are not many suggestions in Mitchell as there are elsewhere in the nation that the junior senator from South Dakota is headed for sainthood There is a small highway sign announcing this as Home of Sen George but there Is also a sign announcing it as the home of Ordell Braase (a one-time Baltimore Colts linebacker) small office next to the Woolworth building remains quiet and decidedly uncrowded Ms 9765 biography Is not for sale on the main street and the only political announcements on auto bumpers are Love It or Leave In mostly Republican mostly conservative South Dakota the liberal-radical Democratic frontrunner is liked but not loved says Gus (Continued on Page Nine) PARIS (AP) Hie Vietnam peace talks resumed today after 10 weeks but the positions of both 'sides appeared unchanged --US Ambassador William Porter put before the conference the four-point package President Nixon proposed on May The Viet chief delegate Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh told news- men she was 'ready-to negotiate on the basis oMha sev- en-point proposal shemade a chief delegate Tuan Thuy called on the.