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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - August 7, 1968, Norwich, New York The vening in vol 78, to. 91 wednesday August 7, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Nixon on Brink of first ballot Winby Jack Bell Miami Beach Fla. Apr Richard m. Nixon forged to the Eige of a gop presidential nomination Victory today with jobs. Nelson a. Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan desperately trying to prevent their elimination on the first ballot. The 29th Republican National convention its preliminaries mostly out of the Way gets Down to its real business tonight picking the head of a ticket most of the 1,333 delegates Hope will win the White House for the party in november. Although the former vice president declined to predict a first Roll Call Victory his strategists chipped away at the few remaining boulders of opposition in an All out attempt to set tie the Issue quickly. With the associated press count of publicly committed delegates standing at 613 for Nixon a first ballot Victory for him seemed to hinge on what switches might take place if he came close to the necessary 667 total for the nomination As the clerk completed the state by state tally. The associated press tally of publicly committed first ballot strength showed Nixon 613. Rockefeller 272, Reagan 176, favorite sons 195, uncommitted 76 and mayor John v. Lindsay of new York i. At completion of the first Roll Call individual delegates a or whole delegations for that matter could ask to change their vote in the Hope of being singled out for later political recognition As supplying the Winner with the margin necessary for nomination. Although Leonard w. Hall. Rockefeller s convention min Ager stuck to his claim that Nixon would get no More than 560 votes on the first count this did not necessarily reflect the opinion of those grappling with realities in the new York governors Camp. Sen. Thruston b. Morton of Kentucky one of a dozen inner Circle advisers said a great problem in stopping Nixon lies in the possibility of Southern delegates who have switched to Reagan in the last few Days jumping to Nixon if it appears their votes could put him Over. F. Clifton White Reagan a convention floor manager said in a separate interview that just wont happen. A the people who have come out for Reagan have done so As a matter of he said. A they want him for president and i think they Are going to stick with White agreed with Hall that Nixon can be stopped. New York National committeeman George w. Hinman gov. John love of Colorado and Meade Alcorn of Connecticut former Gap National chairman All expressed Confidence that Nixon will be stopped. The delegates harassed in previous sessions by Security restrictions and confused by candidate claims get their Opportunity to erupt into a traditional show of enthusiasm with tonight a nominating and seconding speeches. Gov. Spiro t. Agnew of Mary land who once fostered a draft Rockefeller movement was set to describe Nixon in glowing terms. Gov. Raymond p. Shaler of Pennsylvania had the word that Rockefeller s the Man. Mrs. Ivy Baker priest former . Treasurer was chosen to Laud Reagan. Outside the convention Hall a huge sign proclaims a Rockefeller can below it a More modest sign is couched in even More affirmative language a Nixon will win a steel controversy in critical stage Washington apr the steel Price controversy entered its critical period today with in. Dusty and government sources saying if there is no Retreat by thursday there probably wont be any for weeks if at All. This prediction was based by Well informed sources on two factors evidence the Industry is feeling government pressure and the fact the key Bethlehem steel corp. Price hikes take effect thursday. Bethlehem the no. 2 producer and Pittsburgh steel no. 14, issued unsolicited announcements tuesday pointing out that their Price hikes did not include defense materials. A a that a not the behaviour of an have to move by Industry sources agree Point ing out that by tradition differences in prices Are resolved be fore they become effective. A one company can to be out of line or nobody would go to it a said one key source. Should Bethlehem leave its 4.5 per cent wide ranging hike on Mill prices intact after Midnight a customer receiving steel would have to pay the new Price even if the company rolled it Back a few hours or Days later. A the bookkeeping alone would be monumental a said the Industry source. Bethlehem steel announced the broadest increase in steel Industry at peace with itself a prices since 1962 last wednes said a government source close to the situation. This source also pointed to the effective Date of the Bethlehem increase and said a if they re going to avoid getting locked in integration generation away Cohen Washington apr welfare Secretary Wilbur j. Cohen says integration May be a generation away in Many Northern City school systems and the goal in the meantime should be to improve conditions in Black neighbourhoods. A i think we have to be realistic a the Secretary of health education and welfare said. A in a Large number of big City areas we have a lot of neighbourhoods that Are going to be completely but he said a if we can have Good schools and Good police Protection in such area maybe that a better than having fear and riots. And maybe an other generation will have to Deal with Cohen also said in an interview that bussing of students Between slum and other neighbourhoods is not the answer to de segregating school systems. A i have never thought that bussing was a very Large scale answer to this problem and i done to think most people do a he said. A i done to see it As More than a temporary expedient. Over All nationally it is not the asked whether his assessment Means that greater emphasis should be placed on making negro schools better he said a yes i think Cohen called for expansion of the a billion a year program of Federal education Aid to poor youngsters. The Secretary also said that his department plans to a step up very substantially and materially its program to assure equal educational opportunities for negro children in Northern schools. The Northern program begun Early this year is an Extension of hews civil rights compliance efforts in Southern school systems. Cohen acknowledged that expansion of the Northern program would be required under provisions inserted by Southern ers in a Bill pending before con. Gress. The provision would re quire hew to assign As Many school civil rights investigators to the North As it does to the South he said however that the department planned to expand the Northern program anyway. Weather variable cloudiness warm humid with Chance of scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Highs in 80s, lows tonight in the 60s. Chance of Strong winds with showers. Day Only hours after the Industry reached agreement with the United steelworkers on a new labor contract. Other big producers followed suit but some announced Only selective increases. President Johnson sharply at tacked the general increases and gradually stepped up government pressure to Roll them Back. The selective increases however have drawn Little critic Cis in. One of the keys the govern ment is watching is the Price of hot and cold rolled Sheet and strip steel a big tonnage item which eventually becomes toasters refrigerators and Auto to bile parts. Bethlehem raised priced on the items. No. 1-ranked . Steel corp. Did no to. Government officials concede the Johnson administrations efforts to trim the Broad increase on Mill products by Bethlehem and others could be a Long Bat tie. There a Little buying going on anyway since inventories Are extremely High due to strike hedge buying. And steel prices Are pegged to the Price when delivery is made not when its ordered. A you could say that if they done to move they done to lose anything a said one official. A but on the other hand they re trapped in a pricing Box struggling with a Multi tier pricing Structure. They done to like that food Price Rise of 3 . Seen Washington apr retail food prices Are expected to average 3v2 per cent higher this year Over last the department of agriculture said today. The gain in 1967 from a year earlier averaged less than one per cent the department said in a report on the National food situation. Food prices appear to be lev Eling off a bit with increases for the last three months of 1968 estimated to be smaller than those earlier in the year the department said. The Price of food for Home use this year is expected to average three per cent higher than in 1967. Eisenhower Outlook Uncertain Washington apr Doc tors say it could take Days to As sess the damage from former president Dwight d. Eisenhower a third heart attack in slightly More than three months. Physicians described the 77-year-old five Star general As a a stable within hours after his latest heart attack tuesday but they described his Outlook As a guarded a Hospital talk for Uncertain. Private physicians told the associated press diagnosis of Eisenhower a attack is complicated by the fact that he has had so Many six since 1955. They said previously affected areas of the heart present a confusing picture on electronic equipment monitoring the heart beat possibly sending signals overlapping the latest trouble. But doctors at Walter Reed Hospital where the general suffered the latest attack at 6 15 a.m., said a any individual who has sustained a recent infarction is considered to be seriously the doctors described the at tack As probably a myocardial infarction or blocking of blood flow in the heart by a blood clot or fatty deposits in the bloodstream. Doctors said electronic equip ment was keeping tabs continually on Eisenhower Smetano list. He was on a Low Salt liquid diet. Visitors were restricted to the immediate family. Doctors said his wife Mamie visited him often. His son John and granddaughter flew Here from the Republican National convention at Miami Beach. A the doctors thought the situation was serious enough that i should be Here a said John. A when the Boss is in trouble i at the convention former presidential candidate Thomas e. Dewey asked from the podium that delegates Pray for Eisenhower a Swift recovery. The attack came tuesday less than 12 hours after Eisenhower addressed the convention from the Hospital via a nationwide television Hookup. A the looked great last night a said his son. For Eisenhower to survive five heart attacks a and then address the republicans in a voice that was resonant although halt ing a few times and considering his age is remarkable testimony to what Medicine has been Able to accomplish a said doctors at Walter convention was the first Eisenhower has missed in 16 years. He told the delegates he was counting on going a but the doctors have said no and again Eisenhower held a news conference july 18 to announce his support for his former vice president Richard m. Nixon for the gop presidential nomination. It was the first time since he stepped Down As president that Eisenhower had publicly endorsed a presidential hopeful. Seven policemen wounded in Row Iii Chicago suburb in Center stage a. Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and representative Gerald Ford of Michigan at Republican National convention in Miami Beach where Ford is permanent chairman and Brooke temporary chairman. Ford addressed con. Mention tuesday night and will Wield Gavel during tonight a balloting. Nixon a daughters ignore polls a he a going to win Miami Beach Fla. A with All those delegates about to cast All those votes there w s nothing in the world that could convince Richard m. Nixon s daughters Liat their candidate would do anything but sweep the convention. In a Sun flooded hotel suite 17 floors above the Atlantic Ocean Tricia and Julie Nixon and Julie a Fiance David Eisenhower sat on the Edge of a bed and fairly bounced in anticipation f Republican National convention action. A we done to even talk in terms of polls and ballots any More a said Julie 20. A a we re Gobi to win on the first ballot and we re going to win the election. Everybody should know that by now. We the three of them look none the worse for Wear after months of campaigning for Nixon but admit readily that its been a grueling Job. A i think we were almost killed outside the hotel a Julie said of a crushing demonstration by Nixon sup Wirters outside i s Headquarters when the family arrived monday evening. A a in be never been through All thing like that and i guess i could say honestly that in be been in politics a Long All her life to be exact. Julie Wasny to even born when Richard Nixon was first elected to Congress in 194g. Tricia no 22, was Only an infant. He a been in and out of pol a tics mostly in Ever since so both of his daughters have grown up in Hie Campaign wars. They be been in four National campaigns and one gubernatorial Battle but none quite like this. Tricia Julie and David joined forces this year in the Nixon cause the girls As family campaigners and David Asna Tio rial chairman of youth for Nixon. A this convention Battle has been the hardest fight in Many ways a David said. A a we be won it though and Humphrey can be beaten. There s no doubt about the girls indicated agreement by bouncing on the bed. A the thing that a been so exciting at out this Campaign a Tricia said a is that we be been Able to do something More than look Sweet for cameras this time. We be been Able to do More than watch mom and dad on television. We be been Able i Hope to do something to help the the Trio has been so successful at its Job that some conventioneers Here have started talking of David in terms of future candidate material. A ooh brother they be got to be kidding a David sad laugh my at the Prospect a Elf anybody needs a Campaign manager id be Happy to help but be a candidate i done to know at nit that. Harvey 111. Apr so Radii gunfire wounded seven policemen and a woman during a disturbance caused by negro youths and scores of Law enforcement officers moved in Early today to secure the Trou bled area. State county and local police officers helmeted and heavily armed massed at a food store parking lot waiting for action but the area was Calm hours after the initial outburst late tuesday night. Mayor James Haines of Harvey imposed a curfew until Dawn in the South suburban Chicago Community which has grown increasingly tense since a police officer shot a fleeing negro youth june 30. A coroners jury returned a verdict tuesday of justifiable homicide in the fatal shooting of the Chicago youth. Haines who is White said five police officers were wounded from a single Shotgun blast As they dispersed a crowd of 75 to too negro youths who were throwing rocks at passing cars and shouting expletives. He blamed the disorder which started late tuesday night on the oppressive heat. A on evenings like this if s More comfortable to stand on a Street Corner a he said. The disturbance entered in a four Block Square area near the borderline of Harvey and Dixmoor suburbs 17 Miles South of downtown Chicago with a population of 35,000. The mayor said the negro youths massed at a car Wash and became abusive. Police moved in and ordered the youths to scatter. They remained in the general area for a time and several shots were fired. Eight arrests were reported mostly for disorderly conduct. A spokesman for Ingalls Hospital said none of the seven Xiii be men three from Harvey and four from neigh hiring Dolton was critically injured. Three officers were admitted for treatment. One officer was shot in the face As he patrolled Allied task Force kills 219 Saigon apr a .-South vietnamese task Force invaded a major Viet Cong Supply depot and killed 219 enemy soldiers in a week of clashes that took american infantrymen deeper into the Mekong Delta than Ever before military spokesmen announced today. South vietnamese military Headquarters said there were no Allied fatalities and Only six . Infantrymen and three South vietnamese marines were wounded. A spokesman attributed the unusual kill ratio to american helicopter gunships and artillery which were credited with killing most of the claimed enemy dead. The fighting swirled in and out of three provinces entered about 125 Miles Southwest of Saigon on the fringes of the u Minh Forest a Viet Cong Sanctuary virtually untouched by government troops for More than 20 years. Adored troop carriers from the . Navy a riverine Force moved up and Down the Rivers and canals with gunboat escorts carrying More than 1,000 american infantrymen from the 9th division and 500 South vietnamese marines into action. At the other end of South Vietnam . Marines and South vietnamese paratroopers re. Ported killing 75 North vietnamese troops in clashes tues Day South of do Nang an area of intensified fighting in the past two we it is. Allied losses included one Marine and to South vietnamese killed 14 South vietnamese and 22 marines wounded and two South vietnamese missing. In one clash to Miles South of Danang . Marines from the 5th regiment came under heavy machine gun mortar and recoilless Rifle fire. Supported by fighter bombers tanks and artillery the leathernecks counterattacked and Over ran the enemy three hours later. Twenty three of the enemy were re. Ported killed and Marine casualties were one dead and 22 sen. I irks ends Appeal just does no to Wayne by Saul Pett Miami Beach Fla. Apr John Wayne the elder statesman gave Way to Everett Mckinley Dirksen the old Prairie actor and the Republican National convention came alive last night. Rising up from the Tundra of tedium and the rhetoric of rigor mortis it was Dirksen United states senator Senate gop Leader convention platform committee chairman Marigold musketeer recording Star be. Kinds Peerless apostle of the new politics of the age of Elizabeth i who gave the delegates their first incisive lesson in the arts of elocution execution and electrification Rural. They began by giving him a roaring hand and he began by saying a i accept the it was the first joke too emanate from this years podium. Theater critics allegedly democrats predicted it would not be the last. The delegates laughed and continued to make noise. Dirksen turned alternately imperious menacing cajoling bargaining. A quiet a he thundered jowls quivering Silver rivulets of hair flailing like that of an aroused zeus. And still there was no quiet. He held up nine pounds of speech texts. A if you la be quiet for 45 minutes a said Evertt Mckinley Dirksen the beguiling negotiator a a in la throw these speeches anywhere you want me to throw and then he did nine Pound of speeches right Over the speakers platform into the hearts of the peasants. While it was not precisely Clear whose speeches had been jettisoned it was obvious Dirksen still had his. Now the delegates were quiet and the Pekin Pericles rising slowly from the armageddon tones of his Basso prof undo. Began. A in Philadelphia 181 years ago far seeing men fashioned us a revolutionary new he dared Russia to Knock the Chip off his shoulder. A a soviet Leader reclaims that ours is a Rotten decadent society. God forbid out having to make the Point but should he try us hell quickly find out what americans really Are a the delegates roared membrane by membrane Dirksen peeled off the skin of a the great society a stretching out each syllable of the phrase in a mockery of rubber. A ooh How cynical How mocking that political slogan. Body swaying Finger pointing out and Down As if he were anointing the delegates in holy water Everett Mckinley Dirksen Lay preacher quoted Abe Lincoln Oliver Cromwell Ben Franklin got the delegates up on their feet and repeating after him a one nation under god indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All a and with lofty tolerance finally allowed them to subside Back into their seats fully sated with their first red meat although they never did learn which speeches were thrown away if any. The area in a squad car. Three it it her persons were treated for minor injuries and released including a negro woman who Saidl she was struck by two police bullets while officers were a chasing the rioters and shooting at she said the bullets penetrated a Wall of Lier Home striking her in the left near the Elbow and Iii the right wrist. She re. Cei Ved first Aid at Ingalls Hospital. Tuesdays disorders marked the second straight night of trouble in Harvey. Several Hundred negroes lit a Bonfire monday night and danced around it playing Drums and throwing rocks. Police action was limited to condoning off traffic from the area. Harvey and Dixmoor were the scene of racial violence four years ago. Rioting erupted the night of aug. In 1964, after a White liquor store owner in a predominantly negro Dixmoor neighbor Hood accused a negro woman of stealing a bottle of Gin. Sen. Lone Joes Dow n to defeat St. Louis apr it. Gov. Thomas f. Eagleton 39, of St. Louis Defeated . Sen. Edward v. Long in Missouri shot contest for the democratic sen atonal nomination tuesday. True Davis wealthy St. Joseph businessman who is a former ambassador to Switzerland and former assistant Secretary of the Treasury ran third. With the vote in from 4,138 of the states 4,358 precincts the count was Eagleton 205,078, count was Eagleton 205,078, Long 186,286 mid Davis 162,261. Life Magazine said in May 1967, that Long misused his sen ate subcommittees investigations of eavesdropping and wire tapping in an Effort to help James r. Hoffa teamsters Union president now in prison. The Magazine also said Long received $48,000 in Legal fees from Morris Shenker St. Louis lawyer who was Hoffa a attorney. Long said the foes came from five clients he had referred to Shenker and that Shenker was not Hoffa a attorney in 1963 and 1964 when the $48,000 was paid. He called the charges a a dead issues and a political smear. The Senate ethics committee after a four month investigation ruled that there was no wrong doing on Long a part. The committee later reopened its inquiry and has issued no new report. Long is go a lawyer and Bank or and formerly was Missouri lieutenant governor and state senator. He has served in the Senate since i960, when he was appointed to succeed the late Thomas c. Hennings of St Louis. Eagleton who is finishing his first term As lieutenant governor formerly was Missouri attorney general and St. Louis circuit attorney. . Rep. Thomas b. Curtis of Webster Groves had no serious Competition for the Republic. Can senatorial nomination. There was no contest for the governorship nominations. Another Symington from mis sour also scored a primary vie tory. James w. Symington a son of Missouri a senior senator Stuart Symington. Too Aye a chuckle sen. Dirksen a woman often spends years looking for her Ideal the meantime she married. Gets

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