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Chess Match Begins, But Fischer Arrives Late TEMPERATURES San Rafael at noon today 74 Yesterday Today San Rafael High ew 83 54 Novato 82 45 Sausalito 73 52 Woodaere 78 48 DAILY Est. 1861 SERVING ALL OF MARIN COUNTY FORECAST Bay Area: Fair through tomorrow except patches of low clouds. (Other weather, page 1.) VOL. 112 $2 50 A MONTH BY CARRIER 15c PER COPY SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 Telephone 454-3020 NO. 95 RICHARDSON BAY BOTTLENECK TO BREAK Workmen for the Massman expand the bridge from six lanes Construction Co.

of Kansas City prepare reinforcing steel before pouring the concrete deck on the new, fourth" southbound lane for the Richardson Bay Bridge. The $4 million project, due to be completed late this year, will to eight. 11 is coupled with other construction that is converting Highway 1.01 from three to four lanes each direction between the Richardson Bay and Golden Gate spans. phoTm Democrats Forget Nixon For Time Being By COURTNEY R. SHELDON The Christian Science Monitor News Service MIAMI BEACH, President Nixon was the forgotten man of the Democratic convention in its early hours here.

The Democrats were preoccupied with scourging each other, much as they have in the bruising, testy, divisive tion campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Ultimately they will roll out barrels of rhetoric against Nixon. Sen. George McGovern, as befitted the front runner, occasionally swatted the president. But there seemed little disposition here to feel that wordy attacks alone will knock Nixon off his White House pedestal.

What the Democrats most need now is a unified party and sharp isuues. What many of them fear is that their nominee, whoever he is, cannot do the job in time and that it may be slim pickings for issues. Even as the Democrats squabbled on, Nixon made their job harder: A soothing announcement from the San Clemente West Coast White House tells of a grain deal with the Soviet Union beneficial to farmers, longshoremen, and shippers. Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger talks encouragingly of a possible break in the Vietnam peace talks in Paris.

Administration officials huddle dramatically and assure the public they are fighting high food prices. The expectation that disagreeable actions by Nixon will lead Democrats to forget their own difference and rally around Maritime Disaster Legislation Enacted I-J Special Report WASHINGTON Legislation aimed at preventing maritime disasters in congested ports was signed into law yesterday by the President. The two bills gave the Coast Guard power to require ships to carry electronic devices necessary to monitor their positions and toughened other requirements for vessel operations. The bills originally were in troduced in 1970 by Rep. Wil- lairrt S.

Mailliard, Sixth District. It took the disastrous oil spill in San Francisco Bay 18 months ago to spur Congress to start moving the measures over objections from some segments of the maritime industry. The oil spill occurred when two tankers collided in the Golden Gate in a heavy fog. Past laws did not require vessel positions to he monitored. One of the two bills, the Ports and Water ways Safety Act would empower the Coast Guard to operate mandatory traffic control in congested ports, harbors and waterways.

The other measure, the Towing Vessel License Bill, re quires that all pilots of tugboats longer than 2(5 feet be licensed. The measure also prohibits any licensed vessel operator from working more than 12 hours in any consecutive 24- hour period. Worker For McGovern Hurt MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-A young volunteer worker for Sen. George McGovern was re- WHERE TO FINn IT ported in critical condition day after being hit by a car on Almanac Miami busy Collins Av- Business, Brooks, 22, of Tempo, Classified 20 was struck in front of 1(5 Doral Hotel head- Crossword quarters Monday after getting Editorial 9 0Uf car and trying to cross Fire the street. Marin Marin 14 Brooks moved to Arizona re- 32, 33, 34 cently from Evanston, and Stock has been working with 17 minorities opera- Tide H()n.

He was in charge of an TV and Radio log ......................29 effort to have numerous young Vital People arrive at the convention World News In 2 from the west on bicycles. their leaders fades for the moment. Yet, the hope lingers that Nixon will stumble: that the president and the Republicans may overstate their cases and anger not only partisan Democrats but independents. Democrats will emphasize whatever tends to show the GOP as a party of wealth and self-interest anticivil rights, antiblack. Democrats would like nothing better than a repeat of the 1970 by-elections when Nixon, it is now generally agreed, lost votes for his party by the stridency of his campaigning.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey expects the turning point to come in Democratic fortunes as early as the GOP convention in August. in this same fight like crazy now Reprimands In Apollo 15 'Moon Mail' SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The Space Agency reprimanded the Apollo 15 astronauts Tuesday for carrying 400 unauthorized and signed envelopes to the moon in a plan to sell 100 of them to establish a trust fund for their families. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the prohibited venture will be considered in deciding future space assignments for the three man crew.

Before any money changed hands the crew realized the plan was improper and they received no financial gain from the sale of 99 of the envelopes for $150,000, a NASA spokesman said. David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin were authorized to take 232 envelopes on the mission in July, 1971, but admitted taking an additional, unauthorized 400 envelopes, deputy administrator Dr.

George Lowe said. astronauts are under extreme stress in the months proceeding a flight to the moon and their poor judgment in carrying the unauthorized covers must be considered in this said. the less NASA cannot condone these and call each other every conceivable name, but every hour the Republicans are in convention will drive more and more Democrats because the Republicans in convention undoubtedly will charge every crime conceivable against the Two events could change the atmosphere for the Democrats and bring dissidents running back into the camp. A worsening economic situation in the next few months could convince George Meany to swallow his antagonism toward wing of the party. An adverse turn in Indochina or the appearance of a permanent stalemate could dampen the criticism of those like Sen.

Henry M. Jackson who fear the Democrats are too antiwar. The public opinion polls give Democrats little encouragement. George Gallup finds that only 37 per cent would vote for McGovern when pitted against Nixon. Nixon would get 53 per cent, approaching a landslide which would give the Republicans control of the House and Senate.

In these times, Democrats try to remember how Humphrey erased a similar 1(5 per cent deficit against Nixon in 19(58. The public and private comments of Democrats are not as confident as six months ago. At home and abroad events seem to be following in favor. The president, they admit? is a fast-moving target. He adopts Democratic ideas on price-aricl- wage controls, if only in part Marin Budget Nudges Up By $200,000 COMIC DICTIONARY What happens to the girl who marries to escape school, and then finds out that her education is just beginning.

Recalculation of Marin adopted budget for fiscal 1972-73 shows a total of $47.5 million, county Auditor--Controller Michael Mitchell said today. Mitchell in a report to county supervisors said new total is about $200,000 more than was estimated two weeks ago when tha budget was approved. He attributed the increase to a mandatory hike in social security payments which have increased the county's share about over last contribution. As a result, the projected tax rate has jumped 2 cents to a new estimate of $2.75 per $100 assessed valuation for fiscal 1972-73 Mitchell said. i Last budget was about $45.2 million and carried a tax rate of $2.89 per $100 assessed City Workers Threaten Strike BERKELEY (UPI) 250 Berkeley city employes said today they plan to strike at midnight tonight.

They are refuse collectors, meter maids, public works and park workers who belong to United Public Employes Union Local 390. Two weeks, ago the union rejected an offer by the city to raise pay by $22 a month over an 18-month period. The union also seeks an agency shop, a full paid health plan, and improved vacation benefits. valuation.) The 14-cont decrease in the counfywido tax rate is a Mitchell said explaining the lower rate was possible because of a large carryover of money from last year. He said approximately two- Ibirds of the county taxpayers those whose property was not reassessed will receive a reduction in their countv tax bill.

Mitchell estimated that the $2.75 property tax rate will raise about $18.2 million this year, while another $18.8 million will come from state and federal sources and the remaining $10.5 million from county fees, licenses and carryover balances. About million of the budget will go to employee sal aries and fringe benefits, $23.2 million to services and supplies and million to fixed assets such as capital improvements and equipment. Tonight's Democrat Convention Schedule MIAMI HEATH. (AP) The Democratic National Convention has announced the following schedule for activities: times are PDT: 4 p.m. Sessions open.

5 p.m. approximately Consideration of platform committee report. Consideration of the rules committee report is scheduled to follow, I and much later than they wished. The president makes peace with Peking and Moscow in a way Democrats wanted to do years ago but didn't for fear of conservative Republican opposition. Credibility, the issue that many Democrats expected to hang on Nixon, seems to be fading.

In South Vietnam the military policy seems to be paying off. if not his Paris peace negotiations. What does the Democratic partisan do under these circumstances? The convention will give some of the answers, and most will come from the nominee and Nixon. 2 The Christian Science Publishing Society Fischer Is Late For The Match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship of chess got under way today without Bobby Fischer, the American challenger. He showed up seven minutes after Russian titleholder Boris sky made the first move.

It seemed another one of these psychological ploys that chess masters often use in an attempt to unsettle their opponent. Spassky was there on the dot of 5 p.m., waited a minute, then calmly pushed his queen's pawn forward two spaces. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany pushed the button on the time clock and the match had begun. Fischer sometimes chooses to be late to tournaments and matches. It was not known where he was.

Then seven minutes after Spassky began game, Fischer appeared from offstage left. With long strides he sped to the black leather swivel chair placed behind the white side of the board. Applause which greeted arrival arose in crescendo when Spassky moved forward from the side of the stage where he had been waiting to shake hand. The American took a minute to regard the board and the pawn opening Spassky favors. Humphrey, Muskie Bow Two Withdrow After Fight Over Credentials MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Sen.

George S. McGovern wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination today as Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie dropped out of the race.

Humphrey released his delegates during a dramatic noon hour news conference and Muskie followed suit a couple hours later. Sen. Henry M. Jackson however declined to leave the now- smashed stop-McGovern effort, saying he was in the fight to its end. George C.

Wallace gave no evidence he had any intention of quitting either. withdrawal from the presidential race is a withdrawal of candidacy only. It is not a withdrawal of spirit, or of determination to continue the battle I have waged all my public life on behalf of those who had no said in a statement. behalf of Mrs. Humphrey and me, I wish to thank those who have worked so hard for these past six only for my candidacy, but for the greater goal of a nation governed with justice and McGovern was relaxing in his hotel room when Humphrey announced he was conceding to the South nearly two- year battle to beat the pros at their own game.

McGovern was just 43 votes short of the 1,509 needed for victory when balloting begins in the convention hall Wednesday night. 429-plus delegates, many of them almost sure to back McGovern put him easily past the required quota. pullout came just hours after McGovern forces on and off the convention floor captured a crucial vote which restored to McGovern 151 California delegates which had been taken from him in vention rulings. That the weight by which it was apparently prompted Humphrey to give up his decade-long quest for the presidency. other rivals were largely silent.

Sen. Edmund S. Muskie met with his closest advisers to reassess his position -already weak but further washed out by refusal to join his peace-making efforts Monday. George C. Wallace announced plans to go to the convention floor tonight to press his fight for the kind of conservative platform he says the party must have for victory in November.

Humphrey indicated himself after the nearly night-long convention session that McGovern had what it took. strategy was all the former vice president said. just lacked a few Humphrey in the roll of healer could serve McGovern as a bridge to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who was unseated by the convention against will, and as the man who might bing McGovern the support of alienated labor leaders. claim of victory was cautious: would now seem that the nomination victory we have anticipated is within our A sweet victory for many of young supporters seeking to revenge the bloodshed of Chicago in 19(58 came in the decision at 4:35 a.m.

EDT today to unseat Daley and replace him with a more representative delegation. The challenge to the most powerful old-line political leader was a setback for McGovern, who had hoped to work out a compromise which would have avoided antagonizing Daley. McGovern even sent Gary Hart, his close strategist, to the convention rostrum to plead for a compromise. But the peace mission failed by 115 votes. The action shifted tonight to the platform, with Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace hoping to make a personal appearance at the convention- but probably not from its lead the fight for his own philosophy. The Wallace forces hoped to purge from the platform liberal planks on busing, welfare and national defense which reflect viewpoint. The McGovern forces displayed cool political acumen in the strategy they adopted to defeat all challengers in the crucial California vote. Taking directions from strategists Hart and Frank Mankiewicz, ensconced in a trailer just off the convention floor, the McGovernites backed away from a possible victory' in a minor skirmish over the seating of seven South Carolina women challengers.

They were worried about the pitfalls inherent in winning. If the challengers had won, a vote could have been forced at that point in which Chairman Lawrence F. could have been beaten on his procedural ruling which favored chances in the California dispute. ruled Sunday that all delegates except those directly challenged could vote on other challenges. A vote overriding on that issue could have made it more difficult for McGovern to win on California.

So Mankiewicz and Hart, from their trailer, instructed friendly delegations to change their votes, assuring a McGovern loss by so wide a margin that ruling could not be subjected to a vote. The strategy worked. As it turned out, McGovern had the votes to spare when the California decision first test of his strength and a moment which could prove to be the most suspenscfuFof the convention. By a vote of to 1 238.22, with 8.5 abstaining, the delegates ruled eligible to participate gave McGovern the full 271 vote slate he had won in the June winner--take-all California primary. The first convention session lasted nine hours.

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