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The Indianapolis Star "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor. 3-17 VOL. 62, NO. 5 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1964 ME 8-2411 7c Trading Areo loe 45c Per Week Corner Delivered lo) rn UVJ UVJ ImAaIS VJ WEATHER TODAY Sunny, Windy, Cooler High, 75; Low, 60 Yesterday High, 92; Low, 72 30 Bead As Montana Flood Molls On This Fish Not So Poor Nominated On 3d GOP Ballot For Governor And U.S. Senator By EDWARD H.

FRANK Lieutenant-Governor Richard O. Ristine and State Senator D. Russell Bontrager yesterday won the Republican nominations for governor and United States Senator on the third ballot at the sweltering GOP state convention in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. Ristine, a Crawfordsville lawyer, won the gubernatorial nomination when two of his opponents, Secretary of State Charles O. Hendricks of Speed and Fourth District Chairman Robert E.

Gates of Columbia City, threw their support to Ristine after the second ballot. the surge carried him over the thte ,1 M- mhu js A 'a top on the third ballot. ALTHOUGH the nomination for the top two offices reached shortly after 7 p.m., the convention continued in a bitter five-way fight for the state treasurer's nomination. At 9 p.m., the delegates were casting a fifth ballot on the treasurer's post. Ristine was jubilant when he strode to the podium to accept the nomination.

Bontrager followed him to the platform a few minutes later, receiving a standing ovation. HE PROMISED an aggressive campaign to oust incumbent Senator R. Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) this fall. Hendricks tossed in the Turn to Page 10, Column 5 Other Wetires Xominre Biographies Page I On 11 -v''FKr- 2 1 7 Hundreds Routed; Loss Soars Great Falls, Mont. (AP) Deadly, destructive floodwaters poured over lowlands at record levels yesterday leaving at least 30 dead upstream, dozens missing and hundreds homeless.

Much of the flood's punch was yet to come, but estimates of the damage already ranged into the millions of dollars. It was called by Montana National Guard officers the worst natural disaster in state history. Fed by rampaging mountain streams, major rivers on both sides of the continental divide swept away concrete tnd steel highway bridges, zoursed through communities and destroyed livestock and crops. Tributary streams pounded irough four earthen dams londay, sending walls of wa-r cascading down on ss residents. Chief troublemaker and cord breaker was the Sun iver, a mountain stream that ins the Missouri River at eat Falls.

The Sun carried massive run-off of late-elting snow-packs and five ys of heavy rains measur-j up to 6 inches. AT GREAT FALLS, a city 70,000. a flood crest of 24 25 feet was expected. This tuld be 5 feet higher than a 53 flood on the Sun rhat jsed damace of $5,042,400. Upstream from Great Falls, flood crest was visible the air as it rolled along er low-flying fields and mes at a slow rate of speed.

The river swept over the nod guaee at Simms at a vel of about 13 feet The previous record level at 'mms was 8.3 feet in June 353 and flood stage is 6.S. Downstream from Great ills, a system of major Hood intro! dams was reported ipable of handling the rising aters. Gates on upstream ams were closed to take pres-ure off the river. While the Sun and other treams on the eastern slope urned into raging torrents, he big Flathead River on the western slope was at its highest stage in years. Bridges were out and roads were blocked.

THERE WAS widespread flooding in other areas of Montana, too. with overflows Turn to Page 12, Column 6 if (Star Photo) VICTORY SMILE LIGHTS FACE OF RICHARD O. RISTINE GOP Choice For Governor Of Indiana one of a group of Philadelphia area blind children that spent a day fishing under the guidance of adults. They used conventional line and poles. (AP Although he cannot see the catch the first of his young life five-year-old Michael Gordon's hands explore the shape and size of fish he just pulled from a pond near Philadelphia.

He was 'Hothouse' Convention Produces Few Casualties FEDERAL POWER SHIFT ASSAILED Democrats Fail To Trust People, Judd Declares and close to that inside. Republican State Chairman Robert N. Stewart gav-eled the convention to order at 10:15 a.m., 15 minutes late, and the crowd got down At the same time, Eleventh District Chairman H. Dale Brown, who was backing Seventh District Representative William G. Bray of Martinsville for governor, released the Marion County delegation, telling local delegates that he would rather see Ristine get the nomination over State Treasurer Robert E.

Hughes of Greenwood, who ran second to Ristine in the balloting. ON THE CRUCIAL third ballot, Ristine got 1,212 votes compared to 599 for Hughes and 266 for Bray. Hendricks, G. Richard Ellis of Kokomo and State Senator Earl Landgrebe of Valparaiso trailed far behind. Ristine needed 1,096 votes to win on the third ballot.

Bontrager's winning majority was 1,142 votes, with 11th District Representative Donald C. Bruce totaling 850 and Edgar D. Whitcomb of Seymour, the third man in the senate race, getting 178. Bontrager needed 1,085 votes on the third ballot for victory. Bontrager, who lost his bid for the party's senatorial nom ination six years ago, swept to victory on the third ballot after overtaking Bruce on the second ballot.

IN WINNING the nomina tion, Ristine did what many of the political experts said he could not do. The anti-Ristine forces had claimed that if Ris tine didn't win on the first or second ballot, he was through. But he continued to pick up strength on each ballot. Ristine was proclaimed the winner at 7:15 p.m. exactly nine hours after the boiling hot GOP affair had begun.

He was given a thunderous ovation. Bontrager, a Republican leader in the Indiana Senate for 16 years, won his victory without any known deals with his opponents. When he moved ahead of Bruce on the second ballot, The Weather Joe Crow Says: With so many getting on now, Barry will have to get a king-size band wagon. Indiana Partly cloudy, windy and much cooler today, clear and cool tonight. Fair and mild tomorrow.

Indianapolis Sunny and windy today, cooler. Clear and cool tonight and tomorrow. High today in low 80s. 5 How GOP Delegates Voted Here are the results by ballots at yesterday's state Republican convention. Asterisks denote winners: Indiana Republicans straggled through the frenzy of yesterday's state convention with a maximum of ballyhoo and a minimum of damage to the Grand Old Party.

Despite sweltering temperatures in the Fairgrounds Coliseum, the thousands of delegates, candidates and diehard followers of Hoosier politics came through with only two minor casualties other than those who lost out on the nomination slates. ONE OBSERVER likened the atmosphere of the giant, jam-packed arena to a hothouse. William R. Carithers, 57 years old, Shelby County Republican chairman, suffered a seizure about 4 p.m. He was listed in good condition in Methodist Hospital.

Marion County Councilman Harry E. Foxworthy allegedly was struck in the mouth during a fist fight with a man identified as Lloyd Ingle, 5520 West New York Street. Observers said that Fox-worthy was knocked to the convention floor about 10 feet from where Marion County Sheriff Robert H. Fields and Prosecutor Noble R. Pearcy were standing.

THE FIGHT was triggered during a political argument, observers said. Foxworthy and Ingle were separated by bystanders. Shirt-sleeved del a started arriving at the Coliseum early. By midday it was about 90 degrees outside to the business of paying as little attention as possible to the string of political speeches that followed. Richard E.

Folz of Evans-Turn to Page 12, Column 3 All by acclamation Nixon Tries, But Fails To Get Romney In Race SENATOR Ballots 1st 2d 3d 4th D. Russell Bontrager 831 963 1,142 Donald C. Bruce 851 852 850 Ed Whitcomb 473 364 178 GOVERNOR Richard O. Ristine 839 915 1,212 William G. Bray 356 346 266 G.

Richard Ellis 156 152 70 Robert E. Gates 196 113 29 Charles O. Hendricks 205 172 15 Robert E. Hughes 428 512 599 Earl Landgrebe 30 6 1 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR John M. Ryan (unopposed) acclamation SECRETARY OF STATE Gerald Powell 964 1,094 David Colosimo 121 49 William J.

Fields 328 14 John P. Gallagher 770 884 TREASURER Richard E. Folz 820 884 927 902 Albert F. Harrigan 372 329 180 6 Walter D. McColly 373 264 70 7 Edward A.

Mitchell 145 38 27 5 John K. Snyder 483 527 733 897 AUDITOR Allen J. Llndley 1,450 Clyde Black 709 ATTORNEY-GENERAL Edwin K. Steers (unopposed) acclamation SUPREME COURT JUDGE James C. Cooper 1,446 Gerald H.

Ewebank 687 Former Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minnesota, keynoter at yesterday's Republican State Convention, blasted the Democratic Party as the "party not of the people," because it does not "trust the people." "The Democratic Administration is shifting more and more power to Washington. And government costs more because the executive branch TODAY'S CHUCKLE Among the country's unmanageable surpluses are wheat, corn, and calories. into a last-gasp attempt to halt senator Barry Goldwat-er's headlong drive toward the Republican presidential nomination. Romney said "no" to Nixon's urging here at the National Governors' Conference.

This left Nixon and Romney just where they were before: Each would accept if next month's Republican convention in San Francisco should tap him on the shoulder for its candidate. But neither really expects this to happen, and neither is an active candidate now. This also left Gold water where he was before, with a big, comfortable edge in convention delegate votes and the nomination a 1 1 but clinched ahead of time. A former vice-president and the losing Republican presidential candidate in 1960, hires more and more employes to carry out all the additional functions and powers," Dr. Judd said.

The keynoter was one of four main speakers at yesterday's GOP convention in the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, all of whom unleashed blistering attacks on the Democratic administrations, both in Washington and Indiana. -A FAVORITE campaign poster of the Democrats has used the slogan to 'Vote Democratic the Party of the People'," Judd said. "The Democrats are not the party of the people because they Nixon told an informal news conference meandering down a hall that he had urged Romney to become an active candidate. Romney said not only Nixon but also some other Republican governors had asked him to jump into the political wars as an active candidate. The governor said he would consider the urging.

He did, for a while. Then his press secretary, Richard Milliman, strolled into press headquarters at the Gov-ernors' Conference and said Romney had told him a couple of minutes before: "I will not be a candidate." "He is available for a draft," Milliman said, "but is not a candidate." Nixon said that should his activities here succeed they Turn to Page 12, Column 1 don't trust the people," he added. Dr. Judd, who served 10 years in the House and was keynote speaker at the 1960 Republican National Convention at Chicago, used the same text yesterday that he used last month in a speech at a mock political convention at Washington and Lee University. He said election of Republicans this fall is necessary for the nation to establish a sound and realistic foreign policy.

HE CLAIMED that the military supremacy of the United States, of which the Johnson Turn to Page 10, Column 3 i 1 (AP Wlr.photO) GOVERNOR ROMNEY Says "No," to Nixon urn -mm. i I it. (A Cleveland (AP) Richard M. Nixon tried and failed ayesterday to talk Governor George Romney of Michigan Wlrepholol RICHARD M. NIXON Alternate Still Hunted APPELLATE COURT JUDGES (All unopposed) Charles W.

Cook Jr. Insido Today's Slar LAOS JET FLIGHTS RESUMED Red China claims U.S. planes bombed Communist headquarters Page 2 SENATE APPROVES RIGHTS AMENDMENT Jury trial clause passed as showdown vote on cloture niar Page 3 LORD BEAVERBROOK DIES Famed publisher and champion of British Empire succumbs at age of 85 Page A George R. Glass Dewey Kelley Douglas H. McDonald John W.

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