Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 21, 1972, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE Fifty-Eighth INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Monday August 21 1972 Single Copy 15 Republicans opening their neat convention package STUDY This photographic study of President Nixon was made at Camp David near Thurmont Md where he has been staying during the past week The picture was re- leased by the White House CAP Wirephoto MIAMI BEACH Fla AP Republicans launched their pre- scheduled convention day to renominate President Nixon while party leaders seek to head off a floor fight over the shape of the 1976 con- vention An afternoon meeting of coming and a filmed tribute to the late President Dwight D Eisehower opened the 1972 affair a night session featuring three keynote es hailing accomplishments of the Nixon administration With everything down to Nixon's re- nomination Tuesday night Vice President Spiro T Agnew's lection Wednesday night and nal adjournment at p.m Wednesday the Republican convention loomed as a sharp contrast to the all-night sions and bruising floor fights that marked last month's Democratic convention here Only one issue appeared headed for a battle on the con- vention floor the question of how delegates will be allotted by states for the party's next convention in 1976 The convention's Rules Com- considers the question today Unless a compromise can be reached the issue will be fought out on the convention floor and before the nation's television viewers Tuesday afternoon in the only crack of the solid Republican unity marking this convention Threat of another floor fight over the women's rights portion of the party platform all but vanished over the weekend Rep Margaret Heckler of said no woman on the platform tried to bring up a statement on abortion With no Republican tion to Nixon to worry about GOP leaders kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism of cratic nominee George McGovern Sen Robert Dole of Kansas the party chairman charged the South Dakota sena- tor had virtually destroyed any chance for peace this year in Indochina McGovern meanwhile planned a departure from the usual practice of lying low ing the opposition parry's con- vention He has a busy schedule for the week including a tour of Pennsylvania flood damage day a visit to former President Lyndon B Johnson's ranch on Tuesday and a speech before the American Legion con- vention in Chicago on day As delegates arrived in Miami Beach Dole added his Once-Over THE DAILY g TRIBUNE Cost of cleaning I Clean environment effort Area cranberries will present a dramatization of the WO O U III W III VJ III Area cranberries will present a dramatization of the best Berry My Heart at Wounded tonight at the bog amphitheater The play will star John and Ethel Gene Berry and Berry Sullivan with proceeds from the performance going to the Berry Fund weather will be ideal for the performance with thunderstorms and temperatures likely The remainder of the week should be fair and nice with temperatures in the 70s until Friday when the clouds will open and dump their juices on an Saturday's high in the big city was 83 the low 66 with 11 inches of while Sunday's temperatures ranged from a high of 84 down to another 66 Sunday also saw 7 of an inch of water sloshing around the town This morning's early birds were stunned to find a of degress at 6 Of course anybody that gets up at 6 o'clock is to find anything at all Editor's What pens whan a local plant is forced to close because it can't afford to meet new tion The answer can be surprising as an AP environmental writer notes in the first installment of a part series on The Cost of Cleaning up By Stan Benjamin SALTVILLE Va AP It hurts to be a transitional eco- nomic even for the sake of clean air and It hurts in plain English to be one of the growing number of companies and communities forced to stop pollution at the cost of shutdowns layoffs and red ink Economists predict mental shutdowns may hit 300 factories and jobs in 150 communities over the next five years The crunch came early to Saltville Va a company town whose mainstay chemical plant was dumping tons of waste salt into the local river daily Our plant was polluting very admitted a chemical worker Not only water but aii too Blue smoke all down in this valley The blue smoke is gone now But so are some 900 jobs in a town of persons For 75 years the son Solvay process plant converted locally mined salt brine and limestone into soda ash caustic soda chlorine bi- carbonate and dry ice Waste salt was dumped into the North Fork of the Holston River running between the tory buildings suspended solids were settled out in ments on toe edge of town one of which broke in 1924 tailing 18 people In recent years natural soda ash mined in Western states be- gan taking over the Eastern markets of soda ash Still said James Sells 2 Police and demonstrators have their first preliminary skirmishes MIAMI BEACH Fla AP Police and protesters got across a line of sticks on the eve of the Re- publican National Convention as demonstrators capped a day of street action with an at- tempted disruption of a GOP Sunday was however clearly a day of preparation for both sides Only a fraction of the bled protesters and a small band of police participated in Sunday's main event Most of the tors remained in Flamingo Park while the National Guard troops and Army paratroopers stood by in their encampments but were never called s An Honor America parade and a dishonor ly occupied attention earlier Sunday So did a marijuana an rock opera and the bodily ejection from the park of a contingent from the American Nazi Party But the day's only real con- came at nightfall when some 350 members of the Students for a Democratic Society marched in front of the plush Hotel just as party faithful were ing for a gala President Nixon's wife and daughters guests of honor already were inside Chanting keep the rich the demonstrators burned an American flag locked arms at the hotel entrances and gued and jostled dinner guests arriving in tuxedoes and formal gowns About 200 helmeted state troopers stood shoulder in front of hotel as early arrivals elbowed their way through the festers After an hour the troopers moved slowly forward and forced the demonstrators away from the premises The demonstrators gave ground pounding on roofs and hoods of cars as they retreated Then proclaiming victory they began the two-mile southbound trek back to Flamingo Park Police reported no arrests and no injuries The only alties apparently were splattered dinner jackets scuffed satin slippers and torn ball gowns This was the first time at ther of the two conventions that nonparticipants had been caught up in a confrontation be- tween police and tors The police had held fast in their ranks despite the urging of bystanders to intervene We waited until they were assaulting people and could wait no said Police Chief Rocky Pomerance Our approach was to protect people not hurt anyone not arrest one Those people are going to have a little indigestion said Joe Martin an organizer with Miami Collective We made our point We were not intimidated by the cops We've got three days and have to build Some 200 members of the Miami Gay Activist Alliance a group supporting equal rights for homosexuals conducted the most peaceful protest of the day Carrying candles they walked on the sidewalks to Con- vention Hall sat briefly in a demonstration area in front of it then returned without in- to the campsite The Honor America rade organized by a local ical candidate wound through the streets m heat with few participants and fewer spectators The Dishonor rally organized by the Zippie faction of the Youth Inter- national Party ended with 400 persons marching the six blocks from the park to Convention Hall A bottle of urine was poured on objects of honky American culture a can of deodorant brassieres computer cards and an can flag Contingents of Vietnam Veterans against the War arrived by car and on foot throughout the day ending what they called the last trol One batch of WAWs halted in front of the Doral tel headquarters for the Com- to Re-elect the dent The vets executed a left face then broke toy rifles over their knees voice to the effort to com- promise ths fight over the plan proved last week by the Re- publican National Committee at the behest of smaller more idly Republican states At the center of the fight is the prospective 1976 candidacy of Agnew who arrived in th's sweltering convention city day afternoon proclaiming I'm keeping the options open on a possible presidential bid four years hence Many of from the er states who are fighting the delegate apportionment plan approved by the national com- contend it would help Agnew by giving votes to states likely to support him in 1976 Sunday night's gala ing Mrs Nixon and the dent's two daughters was one of a large number of social events on the schedule We don't look at this as a working convention as one New Hampshire delegate said Most of us will enjoy it Two delegate challenges a single seat in New Mexico and two in Virginia were before the convention's Credentials Committee Neither challenge received a single vote when heard by the national committee last week One was Rep Paul N effort to win ing of a New Mexico delegate who could argue his viewpoint on the convention floor New Mexico Republicans agreed to abide by the result of the state's primary and cast one vote for the California war ic but refused to let him have a delegate who might get up and make speeches The other challenge involves two seats in die Virginia sub- urbs of Washington The formal convention arams are a mis between the traditional and a series of films on the Nixons the administration and related subjects One switch from the past is the decision to three ncte speakers instead of the usual one extol the party's virtues and flay the shortcomings The three who speak at session are Sen ward W Brooke of setts the only black member of the Senate Anne Armstrong of Texas of the tional Committee and the first female keynoter and Mayor Richard Lugar of Indianapolis who is being promoted by some Indiana politicians as 1976 material As the Nixon family and new arrived Sunday to give the assembled Republicans some big names to cheer party ers went on the traditional con- interview programs to hail their side snd criticize the Clark MacGregor director of the Committee for the tion of the President asserted McGovern had ruined what chance there might have been for televised debates with on by likening President on to Adolf Hitler and adopting some of the other tactics of character assassination He also said in his ance on the Meet the Press that Nixon's formal campaigning depends on the length of the congressional sion which may last until late October Dole appearing on Face the Nation on CBS said he sumes most of the tors gathering here for the GOP convention prefer McGovern to Nixon While con- ceding the public response might benefit the President he said we could get along out anv Quang Tri City becoming battered wartime shuttlecock By Peter Arnett QUANG TRI Vietnam AP As efficiently as a heel grinds out a smouldering rette so have the South their American allies and me North Vietnamese crushed the life from Quang Tri City Both sides are systematically destroying the riverside community of shaded streets and historical sites where Vietnamese lived It is an orgy of tion that has no parallel m the Vietnam war The vistas of tumbled broken homes of steel rods sticking grotesquely from twisted con- crete of hollow-eyed crouching men are from earlier wars Quang Tri today is Seoul in 1950 Cassino in 1944 the towns and villages of Europe wiped out in World War I A pall of black smoke hangs over the city like mat over an American industrial town m the days before anyone bothered about pollution But here the only industry is war The South Vietnamese rines inside Quang Tri have taken well over casualties irt 25 days at a conservative their American ad- visers say The Vietnamese paratroopers before them were relieved because of crippling casualties No one wants to go forward or back only to crouch under a wall and listen for the boom of a distant gun firing and the as the shell screams into the city At least shells boom into Quang Tn ery day they say And that is not counting the shelling and air strikes launched against the North Vietnamese At any one time that enemy might number 600 men at most the marines say Some sit in- side the walled Citadel in the northern part of the city re- with enough food and other supplies for two years left behind in May by the ing South Vietnamese infantry The North Vietnamese also hold five in the south of the city formerly moated forts for headquarters elements of the South ese army The defense include stout demonstration bunkers built by the U.S Marines three years ago If progress can be measured by 10 yards advance today then back five tomorrow or a whole block gained by a ion in three weeks after taking 200 casualties then the South Vietnamese are making ress in Quang Tn If the Communists measure progress by delaying die for a few days at the cost of no one knows how many dead then Hanoi no doubt is satisfied Young officers graduating from the Thu Due Officers School near Saigon fear going north to Quang Tri The war is so fierce there they say that man could not survive to live out his true destiny But the officers still go north from Saigon to Quang Tri just as the other officers come south from Hanoi Their destiny seems to be to die m a dead city Today's chuckle When writing love letters it is wise to begin My beloved buttercup and gentlemen of the jury INJURED NAZI CARRIED FROM PARK An American Nazi party member who sustained severe facial injuries during a fight in Miami Beach's Flamingo Park Sunday is carried from a platform where the fight took place and out of the park by Vietnam Veterans Against the War AP Wirephoto
