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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 48

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an rai lway History throughout the summer. Peter Co bull of SAMPLE VOTES TAKEN 3Va By GEORGK GAIJ.TJP ira. PRINCETON, N.J. On the eve. of the Democratic convention 5n Miami, Sen.

'George McGovern main, tairied a slight lead over the field 'of Dempratic at the. same'time wins a third of the-; support of his party's ranlc-and-file. In what amounts to a na- sample the "Democrats were asked to choose from list ol 10 leading presidential candidates the one they think should be their party's nominee. McGovern xximes out on top, with 30 per cent of the vote. Just behind him national balloting is Sen.

Hubert Humphrey with 27 'per cent of the support of Democrats and Gov. George Wallace with 25 per cent. standings were in survey con. dueled in iate and closely parallel. those recorded in the 'previous survey, in mid-june.

The following table shows' the latest 'standings: Democratic 'Standings oT Democrats, VV La(es( McGovern 30 Humphrey- 37 Wallace 3,5 -MiuUe Jackson 3 Chisbolm 3 Mills McCarthy 3.. San'ford 3 McGovern. '7! Willkie, '40: McGovern's' dramatic rise in popularity since March is reminiscent of the boom in the spring and early summer of 1340, prior to the GOP convention that year. McGovern won only 5 per cent the vole of Democrats for nomination in March, In successive surveys, McGovern's support increased from 5 per cent to 30 per cent in a survey completed in late June. Willkie's trend line was even more dramatic.

In of 1940, only one per of Republicans favored' him for the nomination. By late June and early July his percentage had climbed to 44 per cent. The following tables show the comparison: McGovern IB 1 Pet. March Z4-37 5 April Sl-21 17 April Jg-May I 20 May 2S-29 05 June is-19 29 23-28 30 Willkie Pc(. March 24 April 12-15'.

3 May'C-9' 5 May JO-SI 10 Slay 26-June 4 17 June U-17 29 June 28-July i 4-1 Results of the latest See SURVEY Page 13 FISHER'S OWN i Oiair Ready jFor Game REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer's favorite: chair arrived by air freight from. New York Sunday to-help assure the American's In his match against Russian Boris Spassky for the chess championship. Cramer, a vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation acting as Fischer's spokesman; said he was certain the first of the 24 scheduled games will be played Tuesday Spassky is still ill;" The fact that the official match arbiter; West German Grandmaster Lothar Schmidt; has returned to his home in Bamberg and will not be back in; Reykjavik until Thursday "will, not stop the game," Cramer, said. i r.

Schmidt home Saturday 'after his son had bean injured In'a traffic Schmidt's Gudrnundur of Iceland, will lake Charge of the-first game in the match for the world ititle. players have still to give pick- official approval to the conditions but Spassky Saturday before leaving to salmon fishing that he would r.bt argue about the conditions the picking of a board and a set. 'J will'leave that to Fischer. no difference lo me," he" said. who has been in the Sail, where the match is to be ijlayed once, complained about number of including the chairs, -the light and the tfbard.

he could find no chair to- 29-year-old American is much' taller than Snassky, decided to ship his own favorite' chair in from New York. It arrived aboard an Icelandic jetliner. don't think that the playing conditions wiil cause any serious problems," Cramer sjild. "They are so much better than anything we have seen before. And if the two players dislike something then it could tje changed during the course of the match." said Fischer was rfeady lo start at any time.

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BANK AT OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT AVALANCHtJOUtNAt 743-4343 Ext. 207 Country Parson "The worst thing atxmt a lying to you is that he'll have to assume now that you're going to Jie lo him." Soviet Naval Units Due To Visit Iran MOSCOW (AP) naval units will visit the Iranian of Pahlevi in the Caspian Sea for a week and Port Louis, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean for six days, both calls. beginning Monday, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. me Giinbattles Resume In Belfast BELFAST (UPI) The? militant Provisional wing the outlawed Irish Repubii can Army (IRA) Sundaj night ordered IRA units "to resume offensive actions' in Northern Ireland, charg ing that British troops had broken the shaky 13-day-old cease-fire. But Provisional IRA chief staff Sean MacStiofain said the IRA would consider the truce if Britain publiclv asked for it.

Fighting immediately flared across Belfast. At least three British Soldiers were woundcc as gunmen attacked army patrols and observation posts. Troops returned fire and said they hit three gunmen. Explodes A bomb-laden car blasted a downtown Belfast tax office and adjoining British veterans club. Gunfire roared from Protestant to Catholic areas and a spokesman for the Protestant militant Ulster Vanguard Move- nent said: "We are very close to civil war.

It may be in the morning." In a declaration released in Dublin, the said he order for renewed violence vas prompted when British roops opened fire on. gunmen Belfast as Roman Catholics ried to move homeless families nto houses by Protestants. British army commanders In the capital vehemently denied heir troops broke the cease-fire and an army spokesman said he soldiers fired only after being fired upon, and then only at identifiable gunmen. The gun duel followed the liscovery of four persons killed execution-type slayings shootings in which six other men were wountied. In Porta- dovyn, two soldiers and two policemen were injured in a clash with Roman Catholics prior to the IRA declaration.

As -news of the IRA statement spread, Protestant gunmen began to pour random fire across the so-called "peace See SQL1TANTS Page VI FACE OF A COWBOY The name McGInty is a lime-honored one in West Texas cattle grower ranks and is long overdue in the "Face of A Cowboy" series. is Fred McGinty of Tahoka. His Dick, Oscar, Durwood, Preston and Rusty were cowmen, too, in their own right. (Staff Photo by Tanner Laine) VIEWERS WARNED Parts Of Nation 'Eye 9 Total Eclipse Today Untied Prut International) Scientists and amateur astronomers will be from and, sea and air today as a eclipse darkens the sun 'rom Siberia east along a narrow strip of northern Alaska and Canada to the Atlantic Ocean. In the rest of the United itates the eclipse will range rom 90 per cent complete in Joston to 14 per cent San Francisco.

It will be the ast total eclipse to pass over a arge part of North America! until 2024. In Lubbock, the eclipse will begin about 2:15 p.m. and end about 4:25 p.m. about 30 per cent of the sun will be shaded at approximately 3:23 p.m., the greatest shadow to be visible here.) The National Science Foundation warned viewers that to watch the phenomenon dirocfiv, even through sunglasses or e.xplosed photographic film, could permanantly damage their eyesight. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness said 134 Americans injured their eyes looking at the last total eclipse in 1970.

The experts recommended making a "pinhole device" with two pieces of white cardboard. The hole made with a pin in the top piece of cardboard will project the image of the eclipse on the second cardboard and the size of the image can be changed by altering the dis- See PARTS Pajic 13, eethtt MONDAY, JULY 10, 1972 WANTS IMAGE Miss Texas Wins After Third Try FORT WORTH (AP) Ma Beth Cormany, Miss Texas 1972, said she wants emulate the image of Dons Day as a.vivacious, AU-American young woman, in a press conference Sunday. The brunette 3 year Miss Texas pageant veteran who won her title Saturday representing Hurst-Euless- Bedford was first runner-up Jast year as Miss Fort Worth. She said the difference between being Miss Texas and first runnerup is like the difference between "walking down the runway and falling into the orchestra pit." 1'oug Ji Decision Miss Cormany, 21, said it was a tough decision to enter the iviiss Texas pageant for the third time. "The worst thing to ever have to live with is regret I would have to live with it if I had not come back," she said.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Cormany of Wichita Falls, Miss Cormany sang a medley of "Misty" and "Come Rain or Come Shine" for her 'talent competition. She has had special training in voice, choir and piano.

Th most important thing Miss Cormany learned from her years of pageant experience is, "be prepared. I was not half as prepared last year as this," said Mi Cormany, who was Miss Wichita Falls in 1970. (( She strongly believes "have confidence in yourself it's your frame of mind." Five-foot Sco MISS TEXAS Page 12 MASTER CHEF (AMK) The better grill. Cash pries $90.83. 'Budget price $109.80.

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