Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • Page 1

NIXON SEEN AS CERTAIN GOP NOMINEE Lost-Minute Bids Mode By Reagan And Rockefeller MIAMI BEACH Nelson A. RocteMter, running out of time in his effort to block Richtrd M. Nixon from winning the GOP presidential nomination on the first ballot, accused him today of "catering to the Southern delegation at the expense of the Republican Party." 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. Uont -i wi, effort Is Rockefeller and Ctov. Ronald Reagan of California, mean- whtte, were racing from hotel to hotel la last-minute effort to lure away Nbton dele- made, I wfll become the third person in the history of oar nation to reject this Mgh office." Herbert G.