Died. George H. Coppers, 58, who rose from office boy to board chairman of the National Biscuit Co., boosted Nabisco's sales more than 100% in 15 years; of a heart attack; in Englewood, N.J.

Died. Tracy S. McCraken, 66, onetime reporter who converted an ailing Wyoming weekly into the first link of a six-paper chain; of a ruptured abdominal aorta; in Cheyenne. A veteran Democratic national committeeman, McCraken cast the 15 Wyoming votes that gave Kennedy the nomination at the Democratic Convention, two weeks ago declined to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy, caused by the death of Republican Keith Thomson, because "I love newspapering."

Died. Fred F. Florence, 69, New York-born Texas banker and philanthropist who started in banking on the ground floor (as a sweeper), became president of the South's biggest bank (Dallas' Republic National) at 37, and was one of the first to recognize that below-ground oil was an asset fluid enough to lend vast sums on, thereby freeing other funds for exploration and production; of infectious hepatitis; in Dallas.

Died. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, 74, son of a Sicilian miller, who suffered mysterious psychosomatic pains until he satisfied a compulsion to fly, became a pioneer pilot, instructor (one student: Fiorello La Guardia), and designer whose monoplanes were the first to make nonstop flights carrying a passenger across the Atlantic (1927) and spanning the Pacific (1931); of leukemia; in New York City.

Died. Nicholas Alexander de Transehe, 74, czarist naval officer, inventor and Arctic explorer who came to the U.S. in 1923, helped plot Admiral Richard E. Byrd's first transpolar flight and after the war became a Soviet expert for the C.I.A.; of cancer of the liver; in Summit, N.J.

Died. Tito Zaniboni, 77, World War I hero who in 1925 plotted to revenge the Fascist-directed murder of Fellow Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti by shooting Mussolini during one of his balcony orations, was betrayed by a conspirator, sentenced, and finally freed in 1943 by the Allies, who put him in charge of purging Fascists; of injuries suffered when he fell while boarding a bus; in Rome.

Died. Clyde Tingley, 77, two-term Governor of New Mexico (1935-39) who was born in an Ohio log cabin, became proudly skilled as a political logroller (boasting that he brought $100 million in New Deal projects to the state) and proudly independent as a grammarian ("I ain't gonna quit saying 'ain't'"); of a heart attack; in Albuquerque. A vanishing echo of The Last Hurrah school, Tingley ran Albuquerque politics for 37 years from a hotel-lobby easy chair.

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