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"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES”—Byron
80TH YEAR, NO. 42
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Nixon Wins Nomination Easil
Roll Call
Gives Nixon
1321-10 Win
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago
< AP )—The presidential nomina-
tion roll call at the Republican
National Convention ended with a
count of 1321 to 10 for Richard
M Nixon over Barry Goldwater.
The Louisiana delegation, which
provided the 10 dissident votes,
moved at the end of the call-down
that the nomination be made un-
animous.
The chairman, however, ruled
that there would have to be a
recorded change of the 10 individ-
ual votes to accomplish that.
The delegation chairman said
that could not be done.
Thereupon the 1321-10 count was
announced as official.
However, the convention quick-
ly made it unanimous.
Here is the available state-by-
state vote on the first ballot:
Wednesday night:
Alabama 22 votes: Nixon 22.
Alaska 6 votes: Nixon 6
Arizona 14 votes: Nixon 14
Arkansas 16 votes: Nixon 16.
California 70 votes: Nixon 70.
Colorado 18 votes: Nixon 18.
Connecticut 22 votes: Nixon 22.
Delaware 12 votes: Nixon 12.
Florida 26 votes: Nixon 26.
tire
NAMAs
annu
Sen. Goldwater
Gets 10 Ballots
I CONVENTION HALL. Chicago of the 47-year-old Californian who
■ (AP)—Vice President Richard M. now marches off to the political
■ Nixon, the small town grocer's wars against Democrat John F.
| son who was coached for promo- Kennedy.
E tion by the man in the White Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
i House, won the Republican presi- New York, who once had ideas
I dential nomination Wednesday about challenging Nixon for the
■ night. presidency, lent an applauding
• It was a momentous victory— hand from his seat up front as a
J without a fight member of the New York delega-
■ ’ Nixon simply strolled off with tion.
| the great political prize that had And with stars — or maybe a
1 been all but wrapped up and hand- trace of tears—in her eyes. Nix-
3 ed to him long before the Republi- on's mother watched the great
can National Convention ever got golden moment unfold. To Mrs.
1 underway. Hannah Nixon, 75, sitting beside
The name of Sen. Barry Gold- her two granddaughters in a spe-
i water of Arizona was put in nomi- cial box, "it seemed like a dream
nation, too—but only long enough come true.'’
Georgia 24 votes: Nixon 24.
Hawaii 12 votes Nixon 12..
Idaho 14 votes: Nixon 14
Illinois 60 votes: Nixon 60
Indiana 32 votes: Nixon 32.
Iowa 26 votes: Nixon 26
Kansas 22 votes: Nixon 22.
Kentucky 26 votes: Nixon 26.
Lousiana 26 votes: Nixon 16:
Goldwater 10
Maine 16 votes: Nixon 16.
Maryland 24 votes: Nixon 24
Massachusetts 38 votes: Nixon
NIXON DEMONSTRATION
... bedlam broke loose
(AP Wirephoto)
Nixon Platform Adopted
for him to pull it back. Ten Lou- Nixon himself wasn’t in this
isiana delegates still held out and vast and noisy amphitheater. He
rang up their votes for him, an(| his wife Pat were in a lake-
But the one and only roll call, front hotel downtown, watching
1.321 for Nixon, 10 for Goldwater, the proceedings on television,
was just a formality. And in the m „ , ...
end the convention voted to make automatic nnarnn N“ as
i took only 666 votes to settle through the ranks of party leaders
things And Nevada was the state for a vice presidential running
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lammed opoth vast, GOP chieftains but that the four
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presidential standard in the hands munist Russia, aimer
Sen. Thruston B Morton of Ken-
tucky. chairman of the Republican
National Committee.
Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minne.
MR., MRS. RICHARD NIXON
... watching nomination in hotel suite
AP Wirephoto)
Without Fight on Floor
38
Michigan 46 votes: Nixon 46
Minnesota 28 votes: Nixon 28
Mississippi 12 votes: Nixon 12 publican N ational Convention floor.
sota, a former medical missionary
in the Orient who roused the con-
vention with its keynote speech
last Monday.
Secretary of the Treasury Rob-
ert B. Anderson, one-time Texas
rancher, one-time Democrat who
went over to the Republicans and
CONVENTION HALL, Chicago ments—failed to materialize when York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.
(AP)—Without a fight, the Re- the issue reached the convention at their unannounced and unex- It was Eisenhower, too, who
peeled meeting in New York last picked Nixon out of the Senate
Wednesday night adopted a plat- The document was approved Friday night. eight years ago to become vice
form on [which Richard M. Nixon with a’shout: there was only a Those segments and others in- president and provided a training
agreed to stand as his party’s scattering of "noes." eluded in the Nixon- Rockefeller course for higher things
nominee for president. I In large , measure, the plat- manifesto were revised in day- In 9 position which John Adams
Threats of a battle over its form’s controversial civil rights and-night sessions of give and once called “the most insignifi-
Nixon-Rockefeller tone — buried and defense planks were fashion- take by the GOP platform com- cant office’' ever contrived by
early this week by the party’s ed from blueprints drawn up by mittee. The modifications were man- Nixon received and should-
Southern and conservative ele- Vice President Nixon and New accepted by Nixon and Rockefel- ered more responsibility than any
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preached by President Etsenhow- amnanrer T. MO Lna"Ase ume |
c . in nearly a century and a quar-
Withdrawal of the protests dem- ter that a vice president has so
onstrated the leadership which advanced as the choice of the
CHICAGO (AP) Texas Repub- Fay, Houston, of the civil rights Nixon clearly acquired and exer- American electorate. Martin Van
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f.at if the rights plank was made na, who previously had attacked But there still lies ahead the
All week they threatened a floor any stronger, it would be extreme the Nixon-Rockefeller platform campaign against Kennedy, the
fight on civil rights. At a caucusly difficult for the Republicans to combine, said it was now clear son of a multimillionaire, who has
Weather Wednesday they decided to accept carry Texas.________________tanktheiziceotprai andteN to A YOu know Nixon remarked, GOV. NELSON ROCKEFELLER
put over their main points I’m not the rich man’s candi- ... nomination night attire
============Rockefeller, Nixon Vow
whelming triumph Gov. Rockefel- new—but not bought just for the * E - "
ler predicted, occasion,
“The cruicial vote in the full The demonstration was one of I A AN o A A I •
committee reflected the party’s those affairs that make American elelupA
sincere respect for Mr. Nixon, but political conventions something I CATTH6TEAK I r
it certainly fails to indicate any apart—18 minutes of unadulterat. • WesliiWWH I E W
'intention of the platform commit- ed bedlam, a sort of combination
HENDERSON (AP) — A spec- tee to become a rubber stamp op- of Times Square on New Year's CHICAGO (AP)— Vice President Rockefeller stood with his arm tion had pledged all-out support of
form dealing with this, tacular fire and explosion Wednes-eration.” Eve and a collegiate hazing Richard M. Nixon and Gov. Nelson around the vice president and told Nixon and our strong platform,
r an Texas delegates were not happy day night destroyed the big Gas- Traditionally conservative in Mark 0 Hatfield, Oregon's A. Rockefeller of New York
light hours, but thunderstorms de- with the civil rights platform. But ' , " economic matters the platform handsome, blackhaired young gov- pledged to work in ---------
veloped in early evening along the they said it was better than many ton Junior High School building commends the record of the Ei- ernor, put Nixon's name in nomi- Wednesday for a Republican elec-
coastal plains from Galveston and of them expected, at Joinerville 4‘i miles west of senhower administration It does nation and lit the fuse of an ex- tion victory in November right prediction that Nixon could ing Nixon’s nomination
Houston extending toward Bee. The Texans gave John G Tower, here in East Texas, as Rockefeller urged, call for in-plosion. “We are with you all the way.” carry the state, with its 45 elector- Aides of Nixon gave newsmen a
ville and also near the extreme Wichita Falls, much credit for Several persons suffered minor tensified efforts to strengthen free In keeping with custom, Hat- Rockefeller told Nixon at a meet- al votes, against Sen. John F Ken- fill-in later on some of the re-
northeast corner of the Texas keeping the platform committee cuts from flying glass as internal world defenses This would in- NIXON p. 3.A 1 ing of the New York delegation to nedy of Massachusetts, the Demo- marks made by Rockefeller and
Panhandle - from inserting all liberal proposals combustion shattered windows of clude development and production ........the GOP National Convention
More hot and partly cloudy of New York Gov. Nelson Rocke- the two-story brick structure- missiles ---------------------------------
weather was predicted for all sec-feller in the civil right* plank The flames broke out about 6:30 — uiddid
tions of the state through Thurs- Siding with Rockefeller in the p.m. and quickly consumed the ., party sent * d
day. . . scrap was Vice President Nixon, building, which contained a size- the ling off Communist ~
A long range forecast said tem- Tower, a candidate for the U.S. able library Origin of the fire had pece-e Md iarA WINC araurable U. * PERETIIETOEESOMMENCE
Malcolm Wilkey of Houston said and we were on a high terrace policies which promised to give Thursday and Friday, High temperature
=============== hoos
, class everywhere spending to help make JODS afternoon and evening thundershowers
Tower was the Southern leader 8′455 eXer mere. Highest Thursday 95 to 105. .
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demonstrations. | Orr suffered a badly sprained educational and similar pro- #
Tower said the civil rights plank knee in leaping off the terrace to gram* e 100 :
still is so liberal that he doesn't a paved street in addition to cuts The Republican* proposed ” 50
plan to endorse it in his Senate inflicted by the glass, strong action to end racial dis- 35
campaign. But he added “it's not The back wall of the building crimination in many fields of bu- as 9 00
as bad as the Democrats have ‘ollapsed soon after the blast. Orr
He warned Texans they “would said the building was a total loss.
Missouri 26 votes: Nixon 26.
Montana 14 votes: Nixon 14.
Nebraska 18 votes: Nixon 18.
108 DEGREES
Seymour
Hottest
In State
Texans Couldn’t
Get Fight Started
Seymour endured the state’s top L___
temperature of 108 degrees Wed-day and couldn't get' another Jack Porter, Houston, warned
nesday. Snyder sweltered through the Cop convention
a 106 and Abilene recorded a high started at the GOP convention.
of 101 as thermometers across the
state went sky high.
Observers at the U. S. 1 ,_____.___,________,
Bureau Station at Abilene Muni- a compromise version of this, and
opal .Airport predict possible cool- try to delete portions of the edu-
ing. isolated showers Thursday cation plank.
afternoon and Friday. But again
the predicted high in Abilene’s
area should hit 100 degrees or sion rolled around Alger said he
higher. The low Thursday will be had not had time to marshal
. about 75, they expect forces for a floor fight
Wichita Falls recorded 106. Pre- forces for a noor nent
sidio and Waco 105, Laredo and The attempt was abandoned.
Mineral Wells 106, Alice, Fort and the platform rolled through
Worth, Kingsville and Longview on a voice vote.
102. College Station and Cotulla' Alger opposes federal aid to.
101, and Austin, Beeville, Chil-schools, and portions of the plat-
Rep. Bruce Alger, Dallas, took
the lead. But when the night ses-
Blast, Fire
Destroy Jr.
High School
(AP Wirephoto)
dress, Dallas and Del Rio 100.
There was no rain during day.
peratures would average 2 to 5 de- Senate
grees above normal throughout
Texas until Monday. Light to mod-
erate scattered thundershowers
were in store for the rest of July.
Boy Scouts Hope
To See President
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
(AP)— Rekindled hopes that Presi-
dent Eisenhower might pay them
a visit kept Boy Scouts talking at
their fifth National Jamboree
Wednesday.
The President and Mrs. Eisen-
hower flew to Denver Wednesday
from Chicago, chiefly for a visit
with her ailing mother, Mrs. John
I Doud.
be clobbered” if they started a Since classes had been suspend-
floor fight on it. rd for the summer vacation, there
“We fought a good rear-guard were no persons inside the build-
action,” said co-chairman Albertling.
THE WEATHER
Wed
R m
1®
man relations 3 11:00
in the field of national defense, Hian and low for 24 hours ending 9 p.m.
they promised to spend whatever 1oman an
was necessary to make the and. -
United States second to no nation s
in military power.
newsmen that 'he’s going to w in Agreement was reached for Sen.
tandem with New York State in the fall." j cob K- Javits of New York to
This was Rockefeller’s first out- make one of the speeches second-
cratic presidential nominee, the vice president at the New
Nixon said New York obviously York delegation meeting
| Nixon told the New Yorkers he
was going to ask for the loan of was a key state and added that, “Your presence here with us is
their governor, that he wanted with the kind of campaign Rocke- to be a final inspiration and emo-
Rockefeller to speak in California feller waged in 1958 when he won tional lift which I know will result
and other states throughout the the governorship, we can do it in your victory and election in
country in the coming campaign, again in 1960.” November.'’ Rockefeller was quot-
Any lingering doubt about Nix- Nixons meeting with the New ed as saying to Nixon. "We are
on’s nomination as the Republican York delegation was behind closed with you all the way."
presidential candidate was erased doors, but some of the delegates Rockefeller designated New
Tuesday when the New York dele- reported later that he said be York State Chairman Judson L.
gallon, on Rockefeller’s motion would campaign as intensively in Morhouse to represent him at a
unanimously voted to cast its 96 New York as anyone ever had meeting of party leaders with Nix-
votes for him Rockefeller told newsmen that on to go over vice-presidential pos.
Up until that time Rockefeller every member of the state delega- sibilities. Rockefeller, who has
said he would refuse to accept
second place on the ticket, evi-
dently wanted to avoid focusing
attention on himself
Rockefeller said his decision
had kept himself available for a
draft—the only real possibility of
any threat to Nixon being selected
as the party's standard-bearer.
The two party leaders already
had moved closer together after
they reached agreement in New
York last Friday night on basic
foreign and domestic policy posi-
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Food news
Oil news
SECTION B
Sports... .....
Editorials .........
Comics .....
Amusements ......
Obituaries ......
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“Your presence here with us is
and low same date last year 90 tions to be incorporated in the
A and low ame * * GOP platform
30 inunlert 71*« "nrise *" Wednesday, when Nixon came to Radio, TV logs
M % %P Ted.28.11 speak to the New York'delegates. Farm end markets
8. 9
10
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against attending the meeting,did
not stem from any worry the
group would try to pressure him
into taking the nomination.
Asked if he was concerned about
12 running into pressure if he attend
16 ~ the neeernor said “Not in the
ed, the governor said, “Not in the
slightest.”
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