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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1968
Page
1
Beverly Hills authorities describe a covert ransom negotiation over $250,000 for Stanley Stafford Jr. with police chief Clinton H. Anderson stating no threat was made on the boy. The Stafford parents urged public restraint to avoid interference during the talks.
AP dispatch notes President Johnson skipped his party's national convention for security reasons pride and political timing. Secret Service concerns in Chicago and potential hostile reception weighed against attendance amid antiwar protests and Humphrey Muskie ticket dynamics. Johnson would be first incumbent president since 1944 to miss a party convention.
In his acceptance speech Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic presidential nominee, said the nation has faced trials before and emerged stronger. He urged turning current crisis into opportunity and stressed unity and resolve.
Bands of youths roamed Lima streets Thursday night breaking shop windows and starting 15 fires after the fatal shooting of a Negro youth Wednesday. Police halted the disturbances quickly. about 400 youths participated in the spree, with no looting reported. Becky Godwin, 14, died from internal burns after being struck by lightning on Virginia Beach’s coast.
A U S Air Force B52 Stratofortress crashed Thursday night in a remote area near Cape Kennedy Florida after skimming populated districts and a nuclear submarine site. The fuel laden bomber exploded on impact at 8 50 p m near an Atlantic beach two miles from missile row. Seven crewmen bailed out and were unharmed.
At the Chicago convention Hubert Humphrey taps Edmund Muskie of Maine as running mate to unite Democrats. The gathering ends amid clashes with police and National Guard as antiwar protests erupt downtown. Muskie blend of liberal and effort to halt bombing in Vietnam highlights party rifts and Kennedy hopes linger among delegates.
Illinois National Guardsmen fired tear gas on about 3 080 antiwar protesters and convention delegates in Chicago. Ninety eight persons were arrested including eight delegates or alternates and two newsmen amid rock throwing and a line near 48th Street and South Michigan Avenue. The crowd regrouped at Grant Park near the Conrad Hilton Hotel where they sat peacefully as the gas odor lingered.
Ohio delegates returned home divided but pledged unity for Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie. State Chairman Eugene P. O Grady said wounds must heal as 115 votes were cast for Muskie, while John J. Gilligan urged a united party working for all candidates down to local offices.
A nationwide appeal calls for peace across America and the world. It stresses three realities: peace in Vietnam, peace in cities, and unity in the nation and party. It warns that rioting and crime threaten anarchy and urges lawful, reasoned action by all levels of government without a police state.
A federal panel ruled Ohio must permit write-in votes for all offices in the 1988 general election after striking down bans on write-ins. The decision, by Judges Weinmann and Cecil, enjoins Ohio to allow Wallace write-ins and applies to Socialist Labor Party efforts as well. Judge Kinnear y dissented, favoring printing Wallace's name on the ballot.
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