8-(Se& I) Statesman, Salem, Ore TuM.7Aug. 21, 58
v By MORRIK LANDSBERG
SAN FRANCISCO Ml -Vice
President Nixon calmly Ignored
vhat party hecklers be itill hat
Monday and kept right on working
.to nail down hit place en the 1956
Republican ticket.
Just about everybody except
Harold Stassr predicted he would
,be renominated by the GOP na
tional convention.
Nixon was 1 1 lent on report
.President Eisenhower, flying in
from Washington Tuesday, already
had passed the word: He wants
his 41-year-old Vice President to
Stassen Says
'Dump Drive'
Still Possible
By JOHN CHAD WICK
SAN FRANCISCO lv-Harold
Stamen Insisted Monday he still
seeks a SO-SO chance for tie suc
cess of his dump-Nixon campaign.
' Ht said delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention are be
ginning to hear from- the home
folks and that many delegates are
holding off from giving Vice Pres
ident Nixon their endorsement for
a second term. -
Stassen. on leave as President
Eisenhower's disarmament ad
viser, has been plugging to re
place Nixon on the GOP ticket with
Gov. Christian Herter of Massa
chusetts. He contends Nixon would
cost the Republicans millions of
votes.
Eisenhower has called Nixon
perfectly acceptable to him as a
running mate, although he has
aid the selection of the party's
candidate is up to the convention
delegates.
, Stassen said la a TV Interview
that be regarded Eisenhower's
scheduled arrival here Tuesday,
- instead of the next day, as origin
' ally planned, ss "very important."
But when asked why, he said "I
don't want to interpret it."
The former Minnesota governor
"said that he would go "all-out in
support of any decision the Presi-
- dent makes.
' Stassen attended the opening
'session of the Republican conven
tion, sitting In box behind the
speaker's platform that is
reserved for members of the Pres
ident's cabinet and their families.
Stsssen looked like a rather
lonely figure. 1
run with him again.
He urged delegates to go into
the convention with sn open mind
and pick a candidate "who can
campaign, who can help the Presi
dent moat." As for himself, he said
he is standing on his. record,
Straus Backing
More and more delegations
showed pro-Nixon sentiment that
was generally strong.
Support began showing among
Rocky Mountain delegates. North
Dakota endorsed him. South Da
kota leaned his way. A majority
of Missouri delegates came out for
Eisenhower Nixon. Wisconsin
Minnesota and Massachusetts ap
plauded his visits warmly.
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash
ington, the convention keynoter,
reasserted his support for Nixon
and commented there waa little
question of his renomination Wed
nesday. .
Ne Chaaees
Even so, Nixon apparently was-
n t taking any chances. Maybe it
was only coincidence, but the only
time he ventured from his nth
floor hotel suite this morning was
to pay calls on the Minnesota and
Msssachusetts delegations.
He got a standing ovation from
Minnesota. Stassen s borne state.
And Gov. Christian Herter of
Massachusetts, Stasse.i's choice to
replace Nixon, told his state's
group he is not seeking the Vice
Presidency.
Herter said" a"ToFof dMrgates
have been asking him to add
little excitement" to the conven
tion, and that his answer was
"definitely no."
Nixon told the Minnesota break'
fast he has been asked whether
he Intended to campaign openly
for renomination. He said he has
done all his campaigning in the
past 34 years, and he invited the
delegates to examine his record in
office.
Best Ticket
The important thing, he said, is
to put up the "best possible ticket
in order to assure the continued
leadership of President Eisen
hower. '
"it would be a great tragedy,
he said, "if tnat leadership was
denied to America and the world
in the next four years.
The Vice President s staff later
added Virginia to the group of
visiting delegations.
Nixon was in his hotel suite
when the GOP convention opened.
His first appearance at the Cow
Palace probably won't come until
after his renomination if that's
the order of 662 or more of the
1,121 delegates.
Nixon's Lightning Rise in
Republican Ranks Startling
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Selection by Open
Convention Urged
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GOP Platform Backs
Flexible Farm Props
SAV FRANCISCO (1 - Repub
lican platform builders gave a vote
of confidence Monday to the Eisen
hower farm programs featuring
flexible price supports and a soil
bank program paying farmers to
reduce production.
In a farm plank to be submitted
to the party convention Tuesday,
the los-mcmber platform commit
tee declared that farmers, too,
have confidence in the President
and his agricultural policies
indorsement of the flexible sup
ports was made In the face of the
fact that a number of Republican
congressmen from politically-im
portant farm states opposed and
voted against them.
The GOP plank made no' direct
reference to a Democrat pledg
made at that party's convention at
Chicago last week to repeal flex
ible supports and restore high,
rigid levels in effort under the
Truman Administration. The Dem
ocrats charged thHt the Republi
cans had refused to support recent
legislation "to reverrc the alarm
ing fall of farm prices."
The GOP plank countered with
the statement that farm prices are
improving and farm income is
climbing.
Our farm and ranch people are
SAN FRANaSCfhdtepubllciB women with their state standards crowd around the speaker's ! fort. t0 frighten them into accent-
platform as Mrs. Carroll D. Kesrnsr president itlonaL federation of Republican Vomen,ing economic nostrums nd politi
jrctive Is a prosperous, expanding
and free agriculture.
The Republican farm program,
it added, "does not envision mak
ing farmers dependent upon direct
governmental payments for their
incomes." The Democrats pro
posed broad use of such payments
to help boost farm income.
Elephant-Shaped
Purse Carried by
GOP Delegate
COW PALACE. SAN FRANCIS
CO lift Mrs. Gladvs . .Knowles,
secretary of the Republican Na
tional Committee, went all out for
her party Monday.
With her on the platform when
she read the "Call for Convention"
was her handbag, a huge, white
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international Study weeks. Is un
der way. More than 1.000 students
and their professors from 20 Ku
ropean and overseas countries arc
registered this year, ranging from
India to the I'nited States.
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; politics are se eternally fasci
nating. For room 1111 is Richard M.
Nixon's headquarters, and the
.steady stream of distinguished
, visitors to his door points up one
fact Clearly:
At 43, babyhood by normal poli
tical standards, Nixon is the Mr. I
Big of the Republican National
- Convention which opened Monday.
And Mr. Big he is likely to remain
until President Eisenhower arrives
Tuesday.
1 Senators eome ny, bat In hand,
wae only four years ago were ac
' centing the adjective when they
' referred to the "junior senator
" from California."
Rep. Joseph Mirtin of Massa
chusetts comes by, and though
he's too good a politician ever to
' say so, his thoughts must occa
sionally go back to the astound
ing things that have happened in
less than 10 years.
l aks.wa Rookie
Man and boy, Mirtin had been
t a well established representative
; for O years when Nixon, an un-
known rookie from Whittier, Calif.,
reported for the GOP Congression-
. al team on Jan. I1M7.
Assorted politicians come by.
And then comes someone extra
special. He is Willard W. Keith of
Lot Angeles. A delegate to the
I9il and 1951 GOP conventions,
this time he's an alternate.
Nixon's alternate. As such, b will
cast the Vice President's vote on
Jie floor.'
Keith, a big husky man, was
, asked what he did for a living.
"Several things," he said with a
- smile. He's sn odd Jobs man with
interests in Insurance companies,
iiotel chains, air transportation,
ikort Delay
The sort of man, In short, no
jolitician engaged in an expensive
famoaicn can affonl to keep wait
in But word came out there
til ha short delay.
- "I understand," Keith aaid
amiahlv.
And whr was Nixon so busy!
The explanation was that he was
seeing nobody while be and his
staff were trying to figure out how
.ni uunphodies he could work
uito a busy schedule
ta m how far Nixon has tra
veled. and how fast, you need look
ftack only as far as the 1952 GOP
jonvention. .
I Nixon then waa running no bet
ter than third in his own state;
with Gov. Earl Warren and Sen.
William T. Knowlnnd far in front.
No one paid him much heed, until
the Eisenhower forces tapped him
as their man.
fJshUlag Reds . '
This isn't to suggest, of course,
that Nixon sst Idly around Chicago
four years ago, never lilting his
fine Californian hand to help him
self. In most cases of political
lightning, someone has been
around putting tip tempting light
ning rods, just in cise.
Now Warren is chief justice and
out of active politics. Knowland,
for the time being at least, is one
of Nixon's loudest cheerleaders.
Nixon is Mr. Big.
And like race track addicts who
resd of two long shots romping
borne for a fantastic daily double,
so must most politicians look on
Nixon, the man who bit the politi
cal jackpot.
with envy and with the fond
hope that what happened once
could happen again, to them.
Criticism of
flixon Fails to
Worry Wife
SAN FRANCISCO OrwPat Nixon
gave this philosophy for life Mon
day: "If you're just really Work
ing hard and doing the best you
can. then you have ro regrets.".
She had almost th same words
whpn a reporter asked how she
felt about criticism of her hus
band. Vice President Richard M.
Nixon:
I know in our ovn hearts we're
doing the best we ran, and I jus.
don't worry."
Mrs. Nixon, 43. a strawberry
blonde with brown eyes, met a
score of women reporters for cof
fee and rolls Monday in the hotel
suite where the Nixnns are stay
ing during the Republican National
Convention.
Of course I don't discuss pol
itics; I leave that to my husband."
she started off. "There were re
quests for interviews and I thought
you just might lue to know I
Woman Bemoans
Oil, Rather Than
Water, on Land
GEORGETOWN. Tex. tfl "It's
just revolting." said Mrs.'W. H.
Perry when drillers struck ou in
stead of water ,on her ' property
near here. . y
My grass, shrubs and trees are
dying in the drought and still
have no water," she said yester
day. "I can't even run my air-con-
dit loner on oil.
Mrs. Percy began drilling for
water when the well went dry thit
summer.
"But what if it's a paying .well?"
she was asked.
"That's different, then I can al
ford to drill another water well,"
she said. .
Average life insurance per
American family at mid-year is
estimated at 17,200, up $300 from
January 1.
about the family and life in gen.
era!.
How was life .in general?
"Hectic."
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