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Wo rid alley orning tar Section Page 8 1 Horizon Your Freedom Newspaper Harlingen, Texas, Sunday, July 5, 1964 Sports Classified Ads Of Accident Roosevelt seemed to most of the nation to be a middle road man politically, possibly leaning slightly toward the conservative side Never was a more wrong As soon as he was elected Roosevelt forgot about such as reducing federal expenditures by 25 per cent and embarked upon the largest peace time spending in in an attempt to haul the nation up from the depths of the 1929 depression The American way of life would never be the same again W1 for the first time a man would be elected president for four terms Alfred Smith, who had been defeated for president four years earlier and had announced his retirement from politics, changed mind and decided to have one more -un at the nomination. It was a tempting situation because it seemed certain that whoever got the Democratic would win the presidency Herbert Hoover's chances for reflection had about been killed the deepening economic depression Smith had the delegation, par of New York's and a scattering of along the eastern seaboard The first ballot: Roosevelt Smith 201, and that was high tide for Smstn The convention staved in session all and took ballots Next dav California ani Texas came to Roosevelt and he won on the fourth ballot It the end of a long friendship between Roosevelt and Smith, and the happv warrior never congratulated FDR on his victor. The Republican party running scared as came up to this convention Four years earlier candidate. Mfred Landon. had been crushed bv Franklin I).

Roosevelt with an electoral vote of 523 to 8. Now Roosevelt was breaking tradition and trying for a third term The Republicans were looking around for a new face and a man with fresh ideas. Wendell Willkie. born in a small Indiana town, was a lie utilities lawyer who had to the presidency of the Commonwealth and Southern Corp In a -mall circle of tne feder al government he was recognized and respected an effective spokesman for free enterprise He was a big, shaggv man whose hair fell over eves and who sometimes forgot to get his pressed 29. 1940.

Willkie appeared on a popular radio program called 'information Please" and made a hit. Soon afterwards he appeared Gallup poll with three per certr of the persons questioned fa ing him as the Republican candidate teurs organizing Willkie clubs around the counin the nation got to know Willkie better his the Gallup rose five then 10 then 29 per cent By popular opinion is difficult to rans.ate into delegate strength bal.o’ Thomas Robert 189 Willkii Vandenberg 7 ft illkie had predicted he would be nominated on the sixth and hi- powers of prognostication were flawless He took the lead or, he fifth ballot with 429 On the sixth ballot Yandenberg withdrew his delegates flo ked to Willkie ani the amateur had won the biz prize Pivpular vote in November: 27.2 million Wiiline 22 3 million Project Blue Book Is Seeking Answer To Flying Saucers DAYTON. Ohio (UPI)-A window less building labeled restricted and guarded by military policemen, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near here is the headquarters for a little-known Air Force operation It is called "Project Bluebook The men ana officers who work in the artificial light are dedicated to solving tne saucer" or unidentified flying object (UFO) profile in which for has tantalized the public and mystified tne Air Force Air Force Capt Hector Quintanilla sometimes called the Air Force's saucer heads Project Bluebook and is deadly serious in his investigations. Project Bluebook used to be called Project Grudge until its name was changed in 1952 The Air Force chooses not to tell what the names mean or why the name was changed There are more than £.000 cases on file of UFO of these sightings can be Quintanilla said. there also are those that go down in the books as At present, he said, there are 910 unsolved cases in the files, about 10.7 per cent of those investigated Earlier this year the figure was 7.7 per cent.

The most recent I TO that still puzzles the Air Force was at Socorro M. Last April 24 patrolman nie Zamma of the Socorro police depart men' claimed he saw metaiic egg object, with four stilt like legs on the near Socorro According to Zamora the about the heigh? of an automobile but larger, and appeared made of a aluminum-like substance. Zamora said object flew away as he got within a hundred fee? from it it took off. he said its exhaust burned a bush and its legs left four impression marks on the ground. Vouches (or Integrity Quintanilla vouched for trolman Zamora's integrity.

But he said the Air Force was still investigating his Quintanilla Project Bluebook came into being during during 1947 when a rash of LFO lghtmgs were reported he said, pro gram is to determine if a to the United exists Seo ond, to determine scientific characteristics of and third, to explain or identify all UFO He said that when a UFO is reported, a special officer at the nearest Force ba.se is instructed to investigate immediately. The officer contacts persons involved in the sighting and, if possible, goes to the site. The next step. Quintanilla said, is to find what aircraft were aloft at the time the object was observed, after which the officer will try to determine what it was. Political Conventions Were Result Fertilizer Doubles Yields NEW YORK (UPI)-An acre planted in corn can produce a crop worth $29 40 worth of fertilizer and the value of the crop grows to S1S0 The profit per acre rise' from $7 without fertilizer to $94 10 with it.

No wonder, then, that American farmers are using more fertilizer than ever and that Nikita Khrushchev has advised Russian farmers to imitate them And small wonder that for the past five or mx years it has looked as if even company in the oil and chemical industries was breaking its neck to get into the fertilizer business. The industry seems to have no plate to go but up l.eo Gardner of the Ortho division of the California Chemical Co. predicts that, after an astonishing growth since World War II, fertilizer sales will double again in the next 10 years. A series of forecasts by the Tennessee Valley Authority shows demand for nitrates, phosphates, potash and mixed fertilizers continuing to climb in a steep curve at least through 1975. The demand has been climing in a steep curve ever since 1940 and so have production of domestic fertilizers and imports.

Yet. the Department of Agriculture in its March bulletin on the fertilizer situation this crop year predicted fertilizer would be in short supply. The TV A study, made in mid- was exhaustive and still holds: good. It shows that the fertilizer industry is changing drastically in a way that is profoundly interesting to investors It is becoming more and more an industry of large integrated companies that produce. import, mix and distribute all kinds of fertilizers directly to the farmer in bulk quantities.

The sale of fertilizer in bags by feed stores, garden centers and other local dealers still is considerable and won't be wiped out but the fanner now is a big businessman and wrants to buy his fertilizer by the truckload at bulk prices. According to a Symposium in Croplife, a magazine devoted to the farm chemical industry, the integrated companies eventually will run into factors limiting their ability to tkae over much more of the market credit and collection problems for example. Fertilizer has to be supplied to farmers when they need it during relatively short seasons and last year the industry was not quite able to meet the peak demand Gross consumption has risen from 5.5 million tons in 19-4 to 24.94 million tons in 1961. NOTE: On July 13, Republicans meet in San Francisco to pick a presidential candidate. In the following dispatch I national reporter traces the origins of (he political convention, a typically institution, and reports on ihe moments of some of the great conventions of the past.

Bv 11 VRKY 01 RGl SON nited Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)-There nothing in the Constitution that compels political parties to hold conventions. The first one was held in 1831 largely because of an accident of circumstances. and like so many to follow it was a comedy of errors. political group was known the anti-Mason partv, meaning it was opposed to the Masonic order In those days presidential candidates were chosen bv a caucus held by the members of Congress, but the anti-Mason party have enough congressmen to caucus. So it called a political convention at Baltimore, and delegates from 13 states assembled.

The were proper and grave until the convention nominated William Wirt Then the comedy started Wirt, it developed. had been nursing a little secret in his breast. He told the convention he once had been a Mason and really didn't see anything wrong with the order. He offered to resign, but his candor so impressed the delegates that the anti-Mason Darty accepted a former Mason. End of anti-Mason party.

Evolves From Mason The political convention. we know it. evolved from that. This year the Republicans will hold their 28th convention at San Francisco and the Democrats their 34th at City, N.J Over the years conventions have been held by parties which bore neither the name of Democrat nor Republican The convention system is under steady attack from political purists They say it has produced some of the worst presidents (Grant and Harding) and that it is difficult for the best qualified man to win the nomination The truth is that the political convention system has worked pretty well over the years and it has no standing under the Constitution it is firmly fixed in the system In this century there have been four conventions which deserve our attention because of the drama that unfolded on the floor or the impact made on the nation bv the decision of the delegates 1912 Republican Convention At the 1900 convention Theodore Roosevelt was nominated as vice president to run with illiam McKinley He took over the presidency when McKinley was assassinated in 1901. won the presidential nomination on his own in 1904 and was reelected.

He probably could have been elected again in 1908. but he retired and chose William Howard Taft as his successor. Taft was nominated and elected, but Roosevelt gradually began to disapprove of what was happening in the White House In 1912 Roosevelt decided to make another run for the presidency and made this typical announcement. hat is in the ring I am stripped to the buff and reach for the flight OLD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Scene of 1924 Democratic Convention His opponents were ready for the fight, too. The convention convened in Chicago on June 18.

and it meditely became apparent that Taft was in complete control of the machinery. His supporters held 37 of the 53 votes on the Republican National Committee and more than 200 delegates seats were contested by the Roosevelt forces. Taft won them all. Somewhere along the line it dawned on Roosevelt that he couldn't lick the system. He had spent too much time shooting lions in Africa while Taft was getting a firm hand on the throttle and levers of the party machinery.

When the balloting started, Roosevelt orde4 his supporters to abstain and Taft won easily. Six weeks later vetl summoned a convention of his new progressive party, called the Bull Moose partv because of an exuberant statement once made by Teddy as strong as a bull moose Survivors of this one should have been awarded medals The convention lasted 15 days, took 103 ballots, suffered in the summer heat of New Madison Square Garden and talked itself right out of any chance of winning the president lal election Davis, a Wall Street lawyer from West Virginia, finally emerged the winner but it was a worthless, tattered prize that was thrust into his hands Popular vote in November Calvin Coolidge, 15,7 million Davis. S3 million What caused ail the trouble was that an irresistible force met an immovable object, William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Alfred E. Smith of New York hated each other so violently that, rather than compromise. they preferred to let the convention fall into shambles and the party into defeat.

Smith was a Catholic. Ma- Adoo a Protestant. The Ku Klux Klan was one of the dominant issues and the scenes a violent religious war was waged. Smith was wet. McAdoo was dry.

and those were the days when prohibition was a fighting issue. Smith belonged to Tammany Hall and McAdoo's supporters long since had consigned Tammany Hall to hell and hoped that the suffering would be intense This was the first convention carried on radio and the American public had a front row seat as the delegates writhed in agony, Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama became one of the best known names in the nation, Alabama is first on the list of called when a roll call starts and for 103 ballots ihe radio listeners waited expectantly for the inevitable announcement that was casting 24 votes for Oscar Underwood 1932 Democratic onvention It was not so much what happened on the convention floor as what came afterward that made this a memorable and historic event Gov. Franklin Roosevelt of New York looked like a winner all the way His men controlled the convention machinery. he had a majority of the delegates on the first ballot, his strength increased steadilv and he nominated on the fourth ballot What held him up so long was that the two-ihards vote was still required to nomma Soapy Williams Still Calls Turns WASHINGTON fUPI) He still calls square dances although now at the State Department rather than in bams and labor halls.

He still wears bright bow ties although not always with green polka dots that are his trademark. One tie has a hip- potomamus in one bow and a giraffe in the other; another ij made from dazzling kente cloth from African Ghana. He also has a four-in-hand (freedom) tie wrhich was first put around his neck by Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya. After three and a half years as assistant secretary of state for African affairs, G. Mennen Williams, whom friends and some times enemies cali Soapy, still acts in diplomacy much like the Michigan politician he once was and hopes to be again, Quit For Peace Williams quit after an unprecedented six terms as Democratic governor of Michigan work for the cause of under the late President John Kennedy He has travelled more than 150,000 miles in eight trips to Africa in that cause.

He was dispatched on his ninth African trip when President Johnson assigned him to the I delegation to Malawi's July 4-7 independence celebration. On the road and during the lone hours he works at elephant tusk-framed desk, he still basically is in the words of an admiring African diplomat "a shrewd political Williams himself considers the tools of a politicians useful in the practice of diplomacy African responds pretty well to the open character that personifies the American political he told UP1 in an interview. Open Character This was observed one day minister of justice. Torn Mboya, cab'ed at the State department where the customarv greeting would be How do you do, Mr. Minister Williams greeting: ya.

Tom Williams is fin friendly terms with most of the leader- of ca hen' to the Mennen fortune (hence, the nickname Soapy he ran afford to entertain presidents and prime mini ts home, i fashionable. 137-year-old Georgetown crorated with masks, spears, carvings and other Afric, art Vice President John or alter a dinner of chicken and corn on the tin' 1fl looker) over Ihe African artwork and told feel right at home another dinner, Prime Minister Hastings Banda G. MENNEN WILLIAMS practices African diplomacy United Stales Is Gaining 1,000 Retirees Daily Causing Shortage Of Convalescent Homes LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The United States has 17.5 million citizens over the age of 65 and the total is growing by 1,000 daily. It also has a severe shortage of convalescent centers for the 45 per cent of these elderiy men and women who have activity limitations including the millions who are chronically ill. Beverly Hills financier Charles Wick has set out lo end the shortage of places where elderly people who need care can find it at a reasonable price Wick is president and founder of the United Convalescent of Nyasaland hailed Williams as he ordy white man to be an mnorary chief in bis country.

He said no man was nore welcome Ihere than Williams. Hospitals. Inc. fUCH), which has more than $100 million earmarked for the construction and operation of convalescent centers across the country. Provide New Hope of these aged people are literally in various types of nursing Wick said, is going to, under the fiee enterprise system, provide Ihese people new hope and new opportunity by giving them the possible personalized nursing care on a 24-hour-a-day The huge financial investment undertaken by UCH is the largest private business effort its kind ever attempted in a field that has been bypassed by bot and government.

Wick became interested in cot homes ears ago when an old friend was looking for a place to stay. His friend died before he could find an home. decided to put all the research to good use and we shopped around for a center. Wick said. "We found the Columbia Convalescent Home across from the Long Beach (Calif.) Memorial Hospital.

Columbia has become the training ground for personnel jn administration therapeutic help and in creating an amiabb atmosphere lor The first major hospital, flying under the UCH banner, was launched Feb 18 in Las Vegas Nev. Additional UCH centers scheduled opening dates include Bejlvue, Wash Aug £1 Joseph. Mo. Sep Ogden, Utah Oct Reno, Nev. Dec.

15. and the early ng v- Yopelv Kan and West Palm Peach and Jacksonville. Fla. Early groundbreaking dates are slated for Gainesville, Fla New York City and Los Angeles, Areas under development include communities in Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New Mexico. Ohio.

Michigan. Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. Daily rates at UCH homes woulu vary, Wick said The range would be from about $12 to 71S per day. Wick says UCH's goai is to provide the highest standards of skilled nursing service on a personal basis for convalescents. chronically ill and aged.

II' said national organization can afford to offer lower becair of one national management team, savings on nr ip ccr si -iction which duplication costr, and purchasing methods. LONNIE ZAMORA spotted saucer near Socorro.