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NGUI1ER 128TH YEAR NO. 120 FINAL EDITION THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1968 PRICE 10 CENTS 4s Foes Scramble: Nixon I Noun THE CINCINNATI mated I 1 11 41 Sit iL ll, I On First Ballot I if ss Minnesota said It would place a. name in nomination, presumably Harold E. Stassen; New Jersey announced its intention to offer Sen. Clifford P.

Case; Pennsylvania announced that its governor, Raymond P. Shafer, would offer Rockefeller; Ohio planned to offer Gov. James A. Rhodes; South Carolina opted for Sen. Strom Thurmond; Mary land's Gov.

Spiro T. Agnew planned to nominate Nixon. The first of the candidates' wives to arrive in the jampacked hall was agents did not invade his territory. Shortly before 6 p. m.

EDT, Tower, a Nixon lieutenant, said "I'm more convinced than ever that we'll win on the first ballot." Gov. George Romney of the big favorite son Michigan delegation said he still Hadn't made up his mind who he would support. "It adds more interest and excitement." he said. Ford, the convention chairman, warned delegates that nominating and seconding speeches would be limited to 25 minutes and demonstrations to a "reasonable amount of time." Alber Fuentes of Texas led the Pledge of Allegiance, a choral group sang the National Anthem, and the show was on. The roll call did not get past Alabama before confusion occurred.

The chairman of the delegation, Alfred W. Goldthwaite, turned the microphone over to a fellow delegate to announce that Alabama would yield to California to nominate Reagan The convention secretary, Con-suelo Bailey, thought Alabama was passing, and it took loud yells from Alabama delegates to keep the call from going on to Alaska. Alaska indicated it would nominate its governor Walter J. Hickel. Connecticut yielded to Michigan for the purpose of nominating Gov.

George Romney and Delaware yielded to Kansas so it could nominate Sen. Frank Carlson. AP WIrephoto Striding To Victory Richard Nixon welcomes more support for nomination It's A Two-Way Battle For GOP Mrs. Reagan. She wore an orange and lavender print dress and posed for pictures.

"Just tired" was all she would say about her feelings. More news, photos on Pages 10 and 11. i backers at convention major party candidates by write-ins of Wallace for President. Such protesters still might be more inclined to vote Republican for congressman. Kentucky, with Wallace on the ballot and a 4-3 Democratic majority in the House delegation, is involved in the battle.

A large protest vote for Wallace is anticipated. This could be instrumental in changing the party balance in Kentucky seats in the House. The party's need to have two targets instead of one in the bid for a return to the White House after an eight-year absence is expected to be an influence on the selection today of a candidate for Vice President. Richard M. Nixon described his idea of choice for No.

2 as a man with national rather than sectional appeal. This would describe a man who would hopefully offend neither the urban minorities nor the protest vote which will go for Wallace. THE PARTY platform adopted Tuesday night, was drawn with this two-phase campaign need represented. To the Wallace protesters the platform says: "America has adequate peaceful and lawful means for achieving even fundamental social change if the people wish it. We will not tolerate violence." To the urban minorities the platform says: "For today and tomorrow, there must be and we pledge a vigorous effort, nationwide, to transform the blighted areas of cities Into centers of opportunities and progress, culture and talent.

Richard M. Nixon won the GOP nomination on the first ballot. MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Richard M. Nixon hurtled Wednesday night toward a first-ballot victory for the Republican presidential nomination and a second try at the White House in November. Even before the first vote was cast at the crucial fourth session of the GOP National Convention, the former vice president had rolled up more than enough strength to take the prize.

While the nominating speeches still were being made, he picked up 14 votes in Florida from Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, reversing a previous trickle of defections in that area. This, plus scattered shifts elsewhere as the Nixon psychology spread through this convention, gave him 669 votes, two more than the 667 required for nomination. Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller of New York, Nixon's chief rival, had only 292 votes although he insisted to the end that his three-month $8 million drive had succeeded in blocking a first ballot win for Nixon. Reagan, who like Rockefeller pinned everything on depriving Nixon of an early triumph, was given 183 ballots. After an unexpected confrontation with the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy of the Poor People's Campaign in Miami Beach, Reagan headed for an island retreat In Bis-cayne Bay to await the outcome a few miles away In Convention Hall. NIXON, supremely confident to the end, stayed in his hotel suite, as did Rockefeller.

The former vice president's final pre-nomination endorsement came from Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen. Gov. Claude R. Kirk a Rockefeller supporter, was the lone holdout in the Florida delegation's 34-1 lineup behind Nixon.

The Floridians agreed In a caucus on the convention floor that under a "gentlemen's agreement" they would switch to Reagan if Nixon did not win a first-ballot nomination. Mrs. Nancy Reagan and the Nixon daughters, Patricia and Julie, joined the 1333 delegates at Miami Beach Convention Hall. Alabama, the first state to answer to roll call, yielded to California so Reagan, its favorite son, could be the first placed in nomination. Mrs.

Ivy Baker Priest, U. S. Treasurer In the Eisenhower administration, did the honors. Politicking continued on the convention floor as the balloting approached. Sen.

John G. Tower posted four floor captains around the pro-Nixon Texas delegation to make sure Rockefeller and Reagan sources said the administration felt It had a pledge from U. S. Steel not to raise prices for at least 12 months. A spokesman for Bethlehem said the firm lowered its rates "to be competitive with those of U.

S. Steel. He said the revisions would be effective August 16 instead of Thursday, when the Initial increases were scheduled to become effective. Other producers were expected to follow U. S.

Steel's lead. U. S. Steel said its price increases also would go into effect August 16. The firm said the new rates did not extend to steel used for defense purposes shells, bombs and barbed wire.

Vi! AP Nirtphoto Those Reagan Demonstrators Nancy, blows kiss to Ronald's parading Miami Negroes Roam And Stone Bethlehem Bends, Slashes Price Hike Love governor's wife, Ike Progressing 'Satisfactorily' WASHINGTON (UPI) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was making satisfactory progress Wednesday following a major heart attack. But doctors at Walter Reed General Hospital said the general's chances for recovery were 'unpredictable." Eisenhower, 77, who suffered his sixth attack early Tuesday morning his third in a little over three months has since been under intensive care, with elaborate electronic gear monitoring his "vital signs. Doctors also said he was receiving continuous oxygen to ease breathing. A bulletin Issued by the hospital Wednesday said the five-star general "spent a comfortable night" and "vital signs have remained stable.

The doctors report that they are satisfied with his current progress." In response to questions about an earlier bulletin which said his condition was "guarded," the hospital said: "The word 'guarded' means that in this early period after any heart attack, the outcome is unpredictable." Asked if doctors had ever considered a heart transplant in Eisenhower's case, the hospital simply said "negative." BT BRADY BLACK Editor Of The Enquirer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Republicans face a two-pronged campaign in their efforts to place their nominee for President in the White House. One is to win for him at least 270 electoral college votes in the state-by-state popular voting in November. The other Is to try to back this up with election of House majorities in at least 26 of the 50 states. The second demand is presented because of the threat that third-party candidate George Wallace might prevent the nominee of either major, party from getting- 270 or more (a majority) of the 538 Electoral College votes.

They would shift the choice of a President to the U. S. House, where each state would have one vote. A party, to control that selection, would need a majority In the House membership in at least 26 states. Wallace, whose campaign has been appraised as likely to hurt Republicans more than Democrats in the fight for the presidency, probably will damage Democrats more than Republicans in the battle for House seats.

THE REASON for this paradox lies In the fact that few candidates will run for Congress on the Wallace ticket. A protest vote for Wallace is appraised as more likely to continue that protest by voting for a Republican candidate for Congress than for a Democrat. This gives Republicans an unusual opportunity to try to gain control of a majority of the state delegations to the House. The score going Into the campaign is: Democrats 29 states. Republicans 18 states.

Evenly divided 3 states. Ohio is less involved in the House phase of the battle than are other states. For one thing, the House score in Ohio is 19 Republicans and five Democrats. Loss of a majority of the seats is unlikely. For a 'second, Wallace is not on the ballot.

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THE COMMUNITY leaders who called the rally had pleaded to get police withdrawn earlier, but once they were out there were only sporadic attempts to get Negroes to go home. i Shortly after 7 p. m. the first car was burned. Bob Johnson, a young nonviolent Black Nationalist and one of the organizers of the meeting, said the incident developed because police began assembling at a nearby inter-S6Ct)lon "We were trying to give our people some of their black culture," he said.

"The people we are trying to reach, they can't sit down in peaceful assembly without being harassed. "IF THEY DON'T stop treating our people like dogs and animals, they're going to act like dogs and animals after nightfall." "If 10 black people get together they call it a riot, but 3000 white people can get together and they call it a convention," chimed In a young man who said he was Larry Johnson, 21, old enough to get the gas chamber. Johnson apparently was referring to the Republican National Convention in progress a few miles to the east, on Miami Beach. Bunched in small groups, the rally participants touched on many grievances what they described as the failure of public officials to listen to them except before elections, the two-story frame houses that sit without air conditioning in the baking hot sun, and white merchants who are "draining our people economically." Just Stay Put You don't need to do a lot ci running about to sell unwanted items just stay put by the phone, call 421-6300, and an Enquirer Classified Ad will do your running about. George Barker was able to sell a 14-foot runabout, trailer, hitch and motor that way, in just one day.

MIAMI, Fla. up) Crowds of angry young Negroes began roaming down a Northwest Miami stree Wednesday, throwing rocks at all automobiles containing white people and setting fire to one. Moving rapidly after about two dozen policemen had agreed to leave the area, crowds, of demonstrators took to the streets With the rocks and other missiles. At 7:30 p. m.

community leaders asked city officials stop all whites from coming through the area. THE NEGROES had been attending a scheduled 12-hour "Vote Power" rally at which they were to disous3 problems common to their race. The rally was interrupted In late afternoon when officers began assembling outside 'the building, Shortly before 7 p. the officers pulled back; and the wave of rock-throwing began. One woman, Barbara French, 27, was hit in her face by a chunk of concrete the size of a softbalL Face bloodied, she was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

i A Columbia Broadcasting System sound man was hit on his head by a Gilligan Luken failure to deal effectively with the crises in our American cities." Asked by Mayor Eugene P. Ruehl-man whether he was going to support Sen. Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic national convention, Gilligan replied thta "the only candidate for president I'm in favor of at the present time is. Mr. Nixon, because I'm sure we can beat him." "Want to bet?" asked Republican Councilman Gordon Rich.

sli PITTSBURGH (UPI) Bethlehem Steel Corp. wilted under government and competitive pressures Wednesday and slashed the 5 blanket steel price increase it announced last week. The move, reminiscent of the President Kennedy-enforced price rollback of 1962, virtually assured President Johnson of success in his battle to hold down steel prices. Bethlehem, the nation's No. 2 producer, said its new rates would amount to a 2.4 increase.

The rollback came almost immediately after pacesetter U. S. Steel Corp. challenged Bethlehem's price structure by announcing Increases of 2.9 which administration officials said would satisfy government guidelines. In Washington, chairman Arthur Okun of the President's Council of Economic Advisers said U.

s. Steel's action was "gratifying." he said U. S. Steel's increases amounted to "roughly half" those Imposed last week "by certain other steel producers, including Bethlehem and Republic." President Johnson claimed a major victory over the nation's steelmakers. JOSEPH CALIFANO, the President's top White House adviser in the steel battle, called the price announcement by U.

S. Steel and Bethlehem "a major victory for the President and administration." More important, White House ENQUIRER PHONE NUMBERS CITT NEWS DESK 721-2700 CUSSIFIfO 4214300 A. M. 5 P. Clow Sunday CIRCULATION SERVICf 721-2700 7:45 A.

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mi M1400S Luken Likely Substitute As Gilligan Quits Council Former Cincinnati Councilman Thomas A. Luken is expected to be chosen by the Democratic Steering Committee Friday to succeed Councilman John J. Gilligan, who resigned his Council seat Wednesday. Ironically, Luken was first named to City Council in 1964, to fill a seat vacated by Gilligan who was elected to Congress. Luken was re-elected in 1965 but defeated for a third term last November.

Phil C. Collins, another former city councilman, had previously been reported under consideration to replace Gilligan. Collins was first elected to Council in 1961, was reelected in 1963 and 1965 but was defeated last November. Gilligan told Council Wednesday that his resignation will be effective September 1. He said his campaign for election to the U.

S. Senate would require a full time' effort and that he could not accept the salary or other benefits of one public office while campaigning full time for another. He suggested his Republican opponent in November, Ohio Attorney-General William Saxbe, also should resign his office. Gilligan said he will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, where he will represent Ohio on the platform committee. He promised he would join with others "in demanding a Democratic platform that will speak out forth-rightly and realistically in reference both to our tragic and costly in-rolvement In Vietnam and to our Local and Area News On Pages 17-18 41.