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NIXON SEEN AS CERTAIN GOP NOMINEE flBWtfc SSBXr vv 4 mC f' 7 7 IT 'i VA 4i 4W' It '1 0 rTw HHHHHKL: lb RICHARD NIXON w9 wTX IlBl a fBps IBM a' Kfeb OKmJ fl fw JW fl fl fl IBB BBBBHH BKsisl 4B GOV RONALD REAGAN GOV NELSON ROCKEELLER Last Minute Bids Made By Reagan And Rockefeller MIAMI BEACH Gov Nelson A Rockefeller running out of time in his effort to block Richard Nixon from winning the GOP presidential nomination on the first ballot accused him today of to the Southern delegation at the expense of the Re publican Nixon who appeared all but certain of winning the nomination tonight spent most of the morning in his Hilton Plaza Hotel suite holding strategy talks with his campaign managers Rockefeller and Gov Ronald Reagan of California mean while were racing from hotel to hotel in a last minute effort to lure away enough Nixon dele gates to block him on the first ballot A UPI delegate tabulation compiled at 12:15 pm EDT today showed Nixon with 636 first ballot votes Nelson A Rockefeller with 202 Ronald tions such an effort is made 1 will become the third person in tbe history ot our nation to reject this hii office" Herbert Klein press spokesman said: job today is to keep the surge going" Gov Walter Hickel of Alaska visited Nixon headquar ters to report that although he is a favorite son Alaska would Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark Reagan with 201 IM pledged to favorite son candidates and 14 uncommitted A candidate needs 667 to win the GOP nomination In meetings with the Ohio and New Jersey delegations Rocke feller charged that Nixon had become to Southern be among the first states to cast its votes for the former vice president climactic convention session opens at pm EDT end the nominating speeches begin approximately half an hour later Gov Spiro Agnew of STATESVILLE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7 1968 VOL 94 NO 188 has told the Southern delegates he will not propose Maryland was named by Nixon to place his name in nomina tion Gov Raymond Shafer 118 Starving Tribesmen Saved any legislation they find unac ceptable and now telling them they can all but pick the vice presidential Rockefeller said not going to win nationally with a candidate beholden to Southern of Pennsylvania does the honors for Rockefeller with Mrs Ivy Baker Priest former treasurer of the United States nominating Reagan Robert Stassen Harold nephew will put the perennial candidate's name Green Berets Eisenhower's Doctors Cautious On Progress of up no to the Viet the Trapped ive Days rrp" Pair Is ound Alive In Debris v59X iLitM doctor about i four racially lowland will her said making an the registrar and any and are not now 15 14 Ham Green alive Ruby since death States today re are on you very cent next told the it would also said that being adminis continuing on a was and and a jv Sunny and warm today and tonight Thursday fair and warm Local tempera tures for the 24 bour period ended at 4 am today: High Dalton Servos As Alternate to the in nomination Barry Goldwater who won the GOP presidential nomina tion four years ago predicted today Nixon would win tonight on the first ballot Key states in the final day of maneuvering were New Jersey lorida and Ohio There were rumblings of revolt in New Jersey where favorite son Clifford Case a Rockefeller man sought to prevent a bolt to Nixon lorida hitherto strong for Nixon 4 threatened to drift into the Reagan camp That could spark a Southern defection from (See 1 Page 12 A) ago but courts have helped to put the criminal element in the saddle while society cowers behind locked doors from curfew to curfew Our government has aban doned fiscal responsibility tak ing money from the honest hardworking millions to pay out as blackmail to one sort of pressure group after another Our people have been led to adopt a feeling of corporate guilt for historical injustices over which they had no control but for which they now want to atone not only in sackcloth and ashes but by giving free reign to all sorts of experi ments with our daily lives Change has become sacrosanct not for the sake of change alone but for the cash involved In deed poverty has become a profitable racket So let the senator speak And let all others speak who are beginning to see the light We have been led by the blind long enough SPECIAL We are proud of Record Land mark which consists of 46 pages chock full of news comment and advertisement The occasion is Old ashion ed Bargain Days an annual event designed by Statesville merchants to draw customers to town from Down In Iredell and beyond for their mutual benefit The merchants need to clear their shelves for the fall stocking To do this they offering attractive buys many things you will find can use So be sure to check your Re cord Landmark carefully The bargain you miss will be your own US conditions for a total bombing halt Le denied there was any North Vietnam restraint or reciprocity but then said he MANILA (UPD or five days the world of Suzie Wong was a 25 foot high pile of rubble An earthquake riday col lapsed a six story apartment house killing 260 persons and two days ago rescue authorities said hope of finding survivors WASHINGTON (UPI) ortner President Dwight recovery from his sixth heart attack unpredic his doctors said today The 77 year old Eisenhower spent a comfortable night and vital signs have remained The doctors report that they are satisfied with his current progress a bulletin issued at Walter Reed Army Medical Center said In response to written ques tions by newsmen doctors said heart attack Tues day was of "equal severity" to that of his June 15 attack At that time the heart attack was described as major Doctors said that their prognosis remains word means that in this early period after any heart attack the outcome is the doctors answered The doctors also indicated Reagan meanwhile meeting with the Illinois Oklahoma delegations planned to see delegates from Connecticut Rhode Island Washington and Oregon later in the day Reagan emphasized he was a candidate only for the presiden tial nomination and no circumstances would I accept the nomination for the vice presidency" am not a candidate (for the vice presidency) and I cannot be Reagan said in telegrams chairmen of all other delega was dead But today diggers found alive 10 year old Suzie Wong Chan and her counsin Nancy Wong Chan 13 Dr rancisco Cassan ova wept as he examined the girls and said they would live a miracle" he said eyes my eyes said Suzie when her rescuers lifted her out of the nibble into the sunlight Water Bond Notes Sold been leaked newsmen The United Hanoi group release 14 North Vietnamese prisoners as a of and appealed to Hanoi to release more US war prisoners It was a move obviously aimed at thawing the stalled talks woman had died Nancy was Suzie Wong PARIS The North Vietnamese delegation called attention today to the recent lull in ground fighting in Vietnam and implied this might be answer to repeated US would recommend that US demand for de escalation of the war as the price for ending US bombing attacks against the North Nguyen Tanh Le tbe North Vietnamese delegation spokes man urged the United States to study situation in South Vietnam during the past to judge its signifi cance He apparently referred to the ground war lull but was extremely cagy in anything he said Newsmen asked specifically if the lull were a gesture on the part of North Vietnam to meet serious condition No one had been found in the wreckage of the Tower apartment house Sunday The stench of rose so heavily from the rubble that workmen wrapped hand kerchiefs around their heads to block their nostrils They found the body of a woman lying beside Suzie and Nancy The three days unconscious talked She asked the Nancy Cassanova reassured her Police said they are preparing homicide charges against the five men who were the owner architect engineer contractor and inspector of the year old building The quake killed 270 persons in Manila with all but 10 in the Ruby tower North Carolina National Bank was the successful low bidder Tuesday in Raleigh on $400000 water bond anticipation notes on the City of Statesville The sealed bids were opened at 11 am Tuesday in Raleigh at the offices of the Local Government Commission and low bid was announced by Easterling commission secretary The notes dated August 1968 will mature ebruary 1969 They are being issued in interim period until permanent bonds are issued The bonds were authorized in the last city water sewer referendum Statesville received a attractive rate of 2M per interest on the bonds The lowest bid was 318 per cent "The extremely low rate is due to the high quality of credit worthiness of the City of States commented Allen Knox vice president and city executive of operations here ANTIQUES ON This 1925 Pierce Arrow touring car owned by David Hinkle of Thomas ville is one of the antique vehicles expected to be on exhibit here Saturday The regional meeting of the Antique Automobile Drivers Association is being held in Statesville A parade featuring the antique cars and Miss Statesville contestants will be held in the downtown area at 10 am Saturday don't want to die 1 want to die My mother died my that they have never considered a heart transplant operation for Eisenhower a heart transplant operation ever been considered in Gen Eisenhower's case either in his present episode or at any time in the past? If not why the doctors were asked was the one word reply ollow up questions on whether a person might be considered a candidate for a heart transplant operation and whether Walter Reed is equipped to perform such surgery were both answered in two words: "Not pertinent" The doctors Eisenhower is tered oxygen and that he is low salt liquid diet which he takes by mouth rather than being fed intravenously Eisenhower was stricken at 6:15 am Tuesday less than 12 hours after taping an address for telephone relay to the Republican National Convention and televising to the nation His son retired Army Lt Col John Eisenhower hurried here from the Miami convention and joined Mrs Mamie Eisen hower the wife at the hospital Republicans who gave Eisen seven minute speech a rousing cheer when it was piped into Convention Hall at Miami Beach expressed distress over his renewed illness and some attributed it to the strain of preparing and delivering the address Ambassador Averell Harri man recept North Vietnamese statements He added suggest Harriman study the situation in South Vietnam during the past Le's words were interpreted by well informed sources close to the talks as being the first public statement implying signi ficance to the lull Over tbe weekend similar reports have individual my father died and grandmother died" she said Taken to a hospital she told Dr Jaime Laya kill me please save The shaken bruised girl repeated the plea in ilipino English and Chinese dialects Doctors said Suzie recover per cent of strength in two days They her cousin Nancy was in more Exciting Dramatic or an evening of exceptional theater performances see 'Hatful of Rain' 4 performances this week August 7 8 9 10 Statesville Arts A Science Museum Curtain at 8:15 pm resented by le Little Theater ticket st th door or st Starrette'k Chase Guards SAIGON US special forces "Green rescued 118 starving Montagnard tribes men from a Viet Cong jungle prison in a bloodless helicopter raid American headquarters said today Spokesmen said the mountain men women and children were emaciated and covered with body sores after two years of forced labor at the hands of the Viet Cong The Green Berets tipped to the camp's location by relatives of the prisoners swarmed in Sunday in helicopters and scared off the platoon of Communists guarding the cap tives they said The Berets were few but their use of helicopters apparently led the Viet Cong to believe they were under a major US assault It took two days to ferry the Montagnards from the camp 200 miles northeast of Saigon to hospitals and aid stations baby had been born just before they were said Sgt Edward Miller 24 of mond Ind one of the Berets The Communists put fight for the Montagnards who told their liberators they had been deprived of salt and clothing during their two of carrying Communist supplies and growing rice for Cong I Montagnards are i different from the South Vietnamese They are a smaller darker people inhabit ing the central highland moun tain country and depend on nature for their sustenance ON SEEING THE LIGHT Sly old Everett Dirksen made a 1 tremendously effective indict ment of the Great Society in his speech before the Republican National convention in Miami last night But we help wonder ing as he went along if his right eous indignation which at one point matched that of old Oliver Cromwell was either righteous enough or indignant enough to wipe out a twinge of conscience he must have felt or the Senator from Illinois the leader of the loyal opposi tion no less voted for many of the measures which in the conglomerate were supposed to produce the Great Society Beyond that many of the ills of which he complained can be traced directly to the work of the Supreme court since another great Republican Earl Warren of California became Chief Justice of the United States And even now when the mobs are in the streets and the hands of the police are tied by Su preme court rulings the Sena tor from Illinois has let it be known that he will not oppose the elevation of another activist and leftist Abe ortas to the Chief Justiceship of the United States Still many of the things that Senator Dirksen said before the convention need to be said and the country is fortunate that the national networks must provide the forum from which they can be said without being chopped up and mutilated by newscast ers and commentators who are instant experts in almost every field Our country has tried to play Santa Claus to the world Our peaceniks have tried to make patriotism into a bad word Our MIAMI BEACH la Reginald Dalton a native of Statesville is an alter nate in the 52 member North Carolina delegation to the Re publican National Convention He is not disappointed however at being the only Negro member of the delegation can't claim a big share of what Is not he said the basis of Negro Re publican registration in North Carolina I think it is excellent to get one Negro Dalton a former Democrat is a Durham insurance man Registration Rules Cited Winberry chairman the County Board of Elections today reminded all persons who desire to vote in the Hospital Bond Election on Tuesday Sep tember 10 that they must be enroled on the permanent regis tration books or they cannot vote in this bond election The registrars of each of the 23 precincts in Iredell County will be at the voting place in their precinct on Saturday August 10 1968 from 9 am until 6:30 pm for the purpose of registering any person who desires to come to the voting place and register and any person who is not now registered can register at any time between now and 5:30 pm Monday August 19 by appointment with in their precinct all persons who registered can also register at the Iredell County Board of Elections Office in Statesville Monday through riday from 8:30 to 5:30 pm however the last day on which any person can register and vote in the bond election to be held on Tues day September 10 is Monday August 19 at 5:30 pm If a person who is now registered has moved from the precinct in which he registered and will have been away from that precinct for 30 days prior to the bond election on Tuesday September 10 it is necessary that he transfer to the precinct in which he is now living and this can be done through the local registrar or the Iredell County Board of Elections office however it must be done by 5:30 pm Monday August 19 if the person so removed desires to vote in the bond elec tion I 4 Significance Implied In Ground War Lull Vai 94 Low a INK 1 i L'.