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The Weather Increasing cloudiness, high 7585, cloudy Tuesday night, lows in the 50's or 60's. The The Good Morning Newspaper Of Otsego and Delaware Counties VOL. 74. NO. 57 Oneonta, N.Y., 13820 Tuesday, August 25, 1964 14 Pages Ten Cents Demos Hail Demos, Alabama Sits Tight Underdog Stratton Still Battling Hard By ROBERT VAN FLEET Chief, Ottaway News Service ATLANTIC CITY Congressman Samuel S.

Stratlon, of the New York 35lh Congressional District, the odds growing against him daily, vowed yesterday to continue his struggle against Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for the U.S. Senate nomination i York. Stratton, who is attending the Democratic National Convention as a delegate-at-large, went Sen. Keating Won't Make into a New York State caucus Monday morning claiming the support of 35 upstate counties and came out claiming 37.

The two he added to his list were Dutchess and Wyoming Counties. Dutchess County Democratic Chairman Albert L. llecht, had said previously that he would not support Kennedy, but hs had not been added to Stratton's own list of backers. More than that, the upstate congressman, a Democratic RFK Clears Track for 'Any Deals' Senate Race BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Republican Sen.

Kenneth B. Keating of New York said Monday he would not "engage in any deals" involving withdrawal of Clare Boothe Luce as a possible Conservative Party opponent for re-election. "I am always open to persuasion, 'but never to pressure," Keating said sharply as he began campaigning at the Erie County Fair in nearby Hamburg. Mrs. Luce had said she would withdraw from the picture if Keating would declare his support for Sen.

Barry M. Goldwater, the GOP presidential candidate. Keating has refused to do so because of what he says are basic differences in philosophy between himself and Goldwater. "I don't care how many candidates they get against me, or from what states they are from, I will continue to campaign on my record and the principles that I believe are right," Keating said. That was an apparent reference to Mrs.

Luce, who lives in Connecticut, and to Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, the likely Democratic candidate, who votes in Massachusets and lives in Virginia. NEW YORK Robert F.

Kennedy is clearing the path to bid for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from New York. State Republican leaders, sought to block a Conservative revolt against his potential opponent, Sen. Kenneth B. Keating.

Kennedy scheduled a news conference with Mayor Robert F. Wagner for Tuesday and -is expected to announce his candidacy for the Democratic senatorial nomination. He received Wagner's endorsement Friday. The attorney general resigned Sunday as a member of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic National Convention and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Kennedy, succeeded him.

Kennedy has maintained a voting residence in Massachusetts. Kennedy still lives in Virginia and faces opposition charges of ''carpetbagging" in New York politics. But he was preparing to move to New York and reportedly has his eye on a 15- room, $300,000 mansion in Glen Cove on the north shore of Long Island. The federal constitution only that he be a resident of New York at the time of the November election. PRESIDENTIAL CAKE Workman at Atlantic City Race Course puts finishing touches on huge "cake" which will be moved to the boardwalk for President Johnson's 57th birthday on Thursday.

Cake measures ten feet high by seven feet wide. Photo) winner in a predominantly Republican district, stepped the vigor of his criticism of the Kennedy candidacy. Critical comments about Kennedy, heretofore made by his aides, were made by Stratton himself yesterday. In general, they corresponded to the widespread criticism that pictured Kennedy, a resident of Virginia and a voter in Massa- chusettes, as a "carpetbagger" in New York. At the same time, however, State Democratic Chairman William H.

McKeon, backing Kennedy, fired a salvo at Stratton. McKeon aimed at puncturing Stratton's claim of strength by reporting that some of the Schenectady delegates to the State Convention, where the senate nominations will take place, will tie supporting the attorney general. "Dr. Fred Isabella and three Schenectady delegates to the state convention are here and they are supporting Robert F. Kennedy all the way," McKeon said.

At the same time, an announcement was made that Kennedy will give his formal declaration of candidacy at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Grade Mansion in New York City, the home of Mayor Robert F. Wagner. The jockeying over the Senate nominations took place Monday on the boardwalk and in a meeting room of the Ritz- Carlton Hotel, where the New York delegation met for its first caucus since arriving here for Monday night's national convention opening. Stratton was interviewed on the boardwalk by newsmen as he prepared to enter the caucus room.

He said he would take his campaign all the way to the convention floor when the New York Democrats meet Sept. 1 in New York City. Stratton is now adopting a stance taken before the Republican National Convention by William W. Scranton, of Pennsylvania, who like Slratton, was trailing in delegate committ- ments. "If the delegates vole on Sept.

1 the way the people back home want them to vote," Stratton said, "I'll win the nomination." Standing in the glare of Atlantic City's sunlight, and surrounded by a growing crowd of delegates and vacationers, Stratton struck out at Kennedy for running in a state where he is not a resident. "We must have representative senators and, congressmen," he said. He declared it "fundamentally and morally wrong" for the attorney general to "come in and utilize this office as a stepping stone. It is contrary to the spirit of our constitution. Stratton said what his aides had said previously about naval yards questioning that if Kennedy is Senator, there may be some doubt about whether he will try to save jobs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard rather than the Boston Navy Yard.

Bug Brings Death Sleep HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) A Coast Guard helicopter dumped thousands of pounds of insecticide dust along city bayous Monday as Houston stepped up its program to eradicate encephalitis-bearing mosquitoes. Health officials said the disease may be responsible for 17 deaths in Houston during the past month. They said at least 154 suspected cases have been reported in this city of more than a million residents. Health authorities at Plainview, 600 miles northwest of Houston, reported 21 cases and one death.

State officials also report cases at Texarkana and Lubbock, Tex. Barry Meets NY Business NEW YORK (AP) Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater of Arizona talked politics with New York business leaders Monday, but said nothing publicly about the state's Senate race. MAGNET FOR PEOPLE Famed boardwalk at Atlantic City is jammed with Democratic delegates, tourists, students and political buffs prior to the opening of the convention yesterday. (UPI Wirephoto) Hurricane CO llst Watch GE Seeks Heads for Students Run Wild Union OK amaica SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) Hurricane Cleo battered the southern tip of Haiti Monday night, at the same spot where thousands were killed by Flora last year. The battle with Haiti's mountainous peninsula-robbed Cleo of some of her 140-mile-an-hour punch.

But the Weather Bureau said Cleo would regain strength when she whirled back over the open Caribbean toward Jamaica. Jamaicans were warned to brace for destructive winds and heavy battering surf. But Cleo was knocked a little off course and her next victim was uncertain. Cleo passed the southern coast of Hispaniola Island -shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti Monday morning, lashing with gale force winds, high tides and torrential rains. Radio Santo Domingo reported no injuries or major damage due to the storm.

At 11 a.m. Monday the San Juan Weather Bureau said: "Present indications are that Cleo will pass over Jamaica tonight and Tuesday forenoon. Hurricane force winds are expected over eastern Jamaica tonight and emergency precautions should be started immediately against destructive winds, torrential rain, high tides and heavy battering surf." At the time, Cleo was about 270 miles east of the Jamaican capital of Kingston and about 90 miles south-southeast of Port au Prince, Haiti. Nixon Urged To Enter N.Y. Race MANCHESTER, N.H.

(AP)-Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon was urged Monday by William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, to seek the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator from New York. Loeb also telegraphed U.

S. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R- N.Y., and Clare Boothe Luce suggesting that, in the interests of a Republican victory in November, they withdraw as candidates for the Senate seat. Loeb asserted that with Nixon as a candidate, many New York Democrats "who are offended by the carpet-bagging tactics of Robert Kennedy" a would vote for the Republican candidate if that candidate were Nixon.

He added that "with the reaction to the Harlem and Rochester riots," a popular Republican candidate such as Nixon could defeat Kennedy. "I understand that it would not be any hardship for Sen. Keating to withdraw," Loeb said "because of a rumored strong demand by the major league baseball club owners for Keating to succeed Commissioner Ford Prick who is retiring." In Saigon Streets SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Student mobs burned and looted buildings Monday in a snowballing campaign for replacement of President Nguyen Khanh's military- regime with a civilian government. Troops and police still kept hands off. Battle lines were drawn among students, Buddhists, Roman Catholics, political parties and the Communist Viet Cong for what promised to be an even more explosive day of demonstrations on Tuesday.

Young foes of the U.S.-backed chief executive rampaged in Saigon, Hue, Da Nang and Qui Convention Vieiv: All Is Exposed ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) If you keep your eyes open you can learn a lot at a political convention. For example: The girls are wearing their bathing suits awfully small this year. You may not have been paying much attention where you are, but here in Atlantic City the beach is right across the boardwalk from the big hall where the Democrats are having their convention. If you look over that way you are bound to spot the trend.

For one thing, the suits mostly come in two pieces. The bottom piece starts down much lower than it used to. As for the top one, well, they would have raided the old Howard Theater in Boston if the girls had worn them there. It kind of makes you wonder if Sally Rand will make any money in this town. The venerable fan dancer is here, charging admission for the same sort of show they have over the way for free.

She is to be followed by a more sedate group, the Beatles, who work with even their ear lobes all covered up. Nhon in Soutli Viet Nam's worst outbreak of organized antigovernment rioting since the summer disorders of 1963. A grenade blast lulled a woman in Da Nang, where more than 1,000 howling youths stoned a U.S. enlisted men's barracks, and three other persons may have been killed. Scores were injured more or less seriously in all four cities.

Several hundred youths and girls from a settlement 15 miles outside the capital, mostly Roman Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam, counterattacked in Saigon on Khanh's behalf. They stoned and set fire to the student union headquarters, a one-story concrete building where the campaign was launched last week, and denounced those "who play into the hands of the neutralists and Communists in this lime of emergency." The raiders were transported to Saigon by buses and taxis provided by the government. Topping off the various elements, the Viet Cong distributed leaflets calling for terrorist action to magnify the trouble. While the organized opposition look on an increasingly anti- American tone, U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D.

Taylor flew to the seaside resort of Cape St. Jacques lo meet with Khanh. Later both returned lo Saigon. The possibility of another revolt was raised by a normally reliable political source in Saison. This informant said the influential Dai Veil party, a nationalist, non-Communist organization that has the support of a number of high military officers, may be planning a coup.

Today's Chuckle A charge account is what a woman uses to keep her husband from becoming loo independent. Casual Johnson Mum on VP Choice WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson still keeping his political secrets to himself -broke up a quiet routine, White House day with a 35 minute walk around the south grounds Monday. It covered about 2i miles -but very little else. The nine laps set a record, eclipsing a seven-lap mark the President set several weeks ago with weary newsmen and photographers in tow. Mrs.

Johnson, the two Johnson beagles and some of the newsmen fell by the wayside on Monday's walk, and lined up on the sidelines to cheer on the presidential marathon. The President's conversation with his entourage was all off the record, but it was mostly just small talk anyway. It offered no insight into the choice political questions the President was kei'pins to himself--his choici- for a vice-presi- 'lential runnmu and involvement with his party's national convention at Atlantic City, N.J. The only puhlu- i i a movi'im-nt was the two days early of the President's daughter. Luci.

17. to the convention site to open the Democrats leon-JRer headquarters thorp. sh" wasn't suppwj to so until WPdni'S'Jay ntherwisi', th? President's day was ostensibly routine. On Plant SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) The General Electric Co.

announced Monday it would begin a $60 million expansion and modernization program at its main plant here immediately, if the International Union of Electrical Workers accepted a company pay plan. GE last month changed about 3.000 Schenectady workers from piece-work to hourly rated pay, over union objections. IUE Local 301 claimed the switch meant a pay cut of $10 million a year for the affected workers and violated the company-union contract. A union request for a court order forbidding GE to cancel piece-work rates still is pending in U.S. District Court in New York City.

GE said the investment plans and proposals for additional transitional pay arrangements were outlined to union officials at a meeting. John Shambo, president of Local 301, said of the proposal "There are an awful lot of ifs, ands and buts." Shambo added that "I think they are losing sight of the fact that no matter what kind of investment is made, we (the union) still have to live up to our contract." GE Vice President Donald E. Craig said the construction program would include a new motor generator plant of about 200,000 square feet, a new, continuous-operation mill to produce wire for motors and generators, plantwide modernization of equipment and facilities, and construction of a quality control faeilty and a computer center. Craig said the company was willing to go ahead with the program, extending over four to five years, "if the union is willing to agree to what we are trying to do to make this plant competitive." LBJ to Appear On TV Aug. 26 ATLANTIC CITY.

J. (AP) Television-radio networks havn been alerted that President Johnson may address Democratic National Convention delegates Wednesday Speculation immediately rose that the President gox through with this plan, he might tell the convention at that time whiim he wants for a running ma'e. Whites lo Fight LKOPOLDVILLE. the officers of Moise Tshumbe's former white mercenary force in Kutanga have returned to the Congo to shape up a lesion to battle Communist-backed rebels in the eastern authoritative sources said AIonJjN They said the first white unit? would besin operations ttithui a few dajs. VP Odds Favor Senator ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) The Democrats opened their national convention Monday night and some unwelcome Alabama delegates forced their way in and balked at budging from their seats. Several other members the embattled Dixie delegation were welcome and stayed, too. They had taken a party loyalty oath as the price of admission. The Alabama episode began just before the convention did. The main business of the convention will be to nominate Lyndon B.

Johnson for president Wednesday night. The main business of the evening was oratorical business -chiefly the keynote speech extolling the Democrats and their record and blasting at the Republicans and their candidate, Barry Goldwater. And also offstage, they saw signs it might be Hubert H. Humphrey for vice president. But a new name came up, too, in speculation over a running mate for Johnson.

Delegates in those what-do-you-year huddles heard some mention of former Gov. Buford Ellington of Ten. nessee. Ellington is a close friend of Johnson a man who backed Johnson for top place on the ticket in 1960, before the party convention in Los Angeles where Johnson settled for the second spot. Tense drama unfolded Monday night around the section of seats set aside for Alabama.

At the center of it was Eugene Connor, the national committeeman who was Birmingham police commissioner last year during racial rioting. It was Connor, too, who paced an Alabama bolt out of the 1948 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. He was one of those who refused to take a loyalty pledge here and thus was ordered barred from one of the Alabama seats. That didn't stop him and some others from bulling their way in. And he roared that he was going to stay until told to get out.

At the opening prayer, he fell silent, remarking that "I'm going to have to pray now." He placed his hands on the seat ahead and bowed his head. Interest shifted elsewhere. The main sign on Humphrey is a real one, in big red letters partly finished, in the Convention Hall sign shop. It says simply and maybe significantly: "Welcome Vice President Humphrey." Shop Supt. Bill Erskine said the sign was ordered by "just an individual." He said he didn't know him or whether he was connected with the convention.

But the shop hasn't been making anything but convention signs lately. So the appearance of one linking the Minnesota senator to the vice-presidential nomination was one of the most interesting developments of the day. John 0. Pastore, the Rhode Island senator, sounded the convention keynote: On Nov. 3, the people of America will call out, "We need you.

President Johnson." The Kennedy-Johnson years were "a showpiece of partnership, progress and leadership," Pastore said, and now the parly accepts its challenge to "preserve the hard won progress of a great people." Declaring that "the sanity of America is the security of the world," Pastore asked in the first major address of the convention' "What does the Republican candidate choose to have anything mean at any given moment" "The world cannot wait unil Saturday to learn what he meant on Monday. "The man in the White House has to be understood the first time. For him there is no second guess." You'll Want To SIDNEY SCHOOL BOARD restates stand on driver training. Page 3. CITY OFFICIALS have 'summit' on gas problem.

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