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10 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD, ORE. MONDAY. JUNE 11. IWfl r her pla tmi par b B sor am cpc On Th int ha: ant trii Pi H C va ho the Mi Ja At til. Mi Mi 111 ry Gi se si( th ca at w sit m to b lu w C c: th P c Cl CI w $0 cc BE nc so Si tl: tc 8: tl i 00 Years of Progress' Will Be Theme of Republican Convention Chlcago-WPD - The Repub lican National Convention- opening July 25 - will be (eared to the theme "100 Years of Progress" In this city where Abraham Lincoln was nominated lor the presidency 100 years ago. It will be the 14th time the Republican Party has held its national gathering in Chicago, beginning with the wigwam convention in 1856 in which "The Great Emancipator' first gained national political stature. The Republicans will spend between $500,000 and $600,- 000 on an efficiently stream' lined nominating session de signed to transact business with dispatch and hold the at tention of the millions of vol ers watching it on their TV sets. Despite recent statements and political maneuvers by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New Ydrk, most of the na tion's political observers still see the selection of Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon to carry the GOP presidential standard as a virtual certain-ty. - Considerable agitation at the convention itself for draft nomination of Rocke feller would appear to offer the only, possibility of any old-fashioned political fire works. But convention planners are ready with "canned whoopee - stunts, parades, rallies and demonstrations, mostly by the younger Repub licans - to provide suitable atmosphere and color if no balloting contest develops. : The convention will be held in the International Amphi theater, the stockyard-area where both parties held their 1B52 conclaves, and where the Democrats gathered four years ago when' the GOP met in San Francisco. , Convention headquarters will be at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, the world's largest, on Michigan ave. , Jaren L. Jones, vice chair man of the arrangements committee and Republican national committeeman from Utah, said only one daytime business session is planned. It will be opening day. All other sessions, he said Will take place in the evening and night hours when the na tion's television audiences are at their largest. .It also is planned io use giant-screen, closed circuit television in the convention hall Itself, according to Mrs. Webster Todd, chairman of the program planning subcom mittee and Republican nation al commitlcewoman from New Jersey. - - Republican National Chair man Thruston B. Morton, with Jones, Mrs. Todd and others of the 50-member ar rangements committee, have been working more than a year In putting the nominat ing session together. The full committee will have held at least four meet ings prior to convention kick off day, and the executive committee at least six. The full convention staff, an esti mated 200 persons, will oc- cuy the entire eighth floor at convention headquarters. Much of the convention's detail work and general housekeeping have fallen on Thomas G. Judd, executive secretary of the arrangements committee, and Robert L. Pierce, chairman of the hous ing subcommittee. "Chicago is the ideal con vention city, said Judd. "Al though Mayor (Richard J.) Daley is a Democrat, his of fice is cooperating 100 per cent to make a successful con vention." A Chicago Citizens Com mittee, head by Fred G. Gur- ley, retired board chairman of the Santa Fe Railroad, is charged with raising $400,000 towards defraying convention costs. The remainder of the con vention tab, which may "run to $600,000," will be picked up by the national party or ganization, reported Judd. Convention planners have been able to play Santa Ciaus with hotel room allocations to the 50 state delegations and their retinues but. turn Midwest Reported Strong for Ni ' Wajhington-WPD-Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, un opposed for the Republican presidential nomination, now expects to carry the midwest "heavily." - This estimate, raising an al ready optimistic claim, was relayed to newsmen Saturday by Nixon's press secretary, Herbert G. Klein. Klein said "Nixon Is "upplng his estimate on his own strength In this area." Klein credited the revision to the "tremendous" recep tion given Nixon In the Dako ta, St. Louis, and Texas dur ing a four-day trip which end ed Wednesday. Klein said crowds, far exceeding expec tations, were "almost mob scenes" at stops such as Fargo. N. D. - He said the turnouts, In areas regarded by Nixon lira legists as leaning toward the Democrats, suggest that many of the people who greeted the vice president were independ ent voters and Democrats. The crowds, and their enthusiasm, showed the "great personal popularity" of the vice presi dent, Klein added. Asked to define the turn outs in farm areas which have clearly voiced dislike for Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Klein suggested ' that, while the farm issue is an "important one," it will not be a "dominant factor" in the election. Bonded Buy Used Equipment Call SAM JONES, SP 2-9220 Tt4 . v.t Terms f C.un. CRATER LAKE MACHINERY C. " ,"' ' ' ' 1 SITE OF GOP CONVENTION The Republican National Convention, opening July 25, will be held in the Inter national Amphitheater in Chicago. Interior of the amphi theater is shown above. The Democrats held their 1956 convention at the same site and in 1952 both parties gath ered in the huge building. The GOP convention is to be geared to the Iheme "100 Years of Progress" in the city where Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency 100 years ago. Note the portrait of Lincoln just left of center in the background. . (UPI Telephoto) Scrooge at mere mention of arena seats for the presiden tial nominating sessions. Arranging housing for the 20,000-plus persons expected is "running smoother than silk" in this city of big ho tels. The Chicago Convention Bureau alone handed the housing subcommittee a pool of 14,480 hotel and motel rooms. But space at the Interna tional Amphitheater? "We don't have a ticket left," said Judd, "and nobody got as many seats as he need ed." At San Francisco's spacious Cow Palace in 1956, the Re publicans had some 17,000 seals to allocate. This year, at the arena, they will have but 12,000. The 1,331 delegates and 1,- 331 alternate delegates, plus their accompanying spouses, will occupy some 4,000 seats. Newspaper, wire service, ra dio, television and magazine correspondents will account for another 2,000. "There go half of our seats right there," Judd said. In addition, the arrange ments committee has set aside about 400 seats for members of the executive branch of the U. S. government. "We're very happy we have this problem," Judd ad ded. "We didn't have it when we met here in 1952." Tickets also have been giv en to Republican National Committee members, conven tion officers, state Republican committees, the Republican finance committee, Chicago Citizens committee, special party organizations, labor and farm organizations, former of. ficers of the GOP convention committee and senators, rep resentatives and governors. W it h these allotments made, only 2,800 tickets were available to state party offi cials for distribution to the public. Judd offered two "consola tion possibilities" to party faithfuls unable to come by one of the prized ducats. To Have 100 Tickets The Young Republicans, which will operate a "TV lounge in an adjoining hall, will have 100 tickets to be rotated amoung persons who desire to sit in on convention happenings for brief periods of time. The Young Republicans also will have a limited supply of "hunting licenses." With a "hunting license," a person ; may enter the arena, slip into an empty seat and occupy it until its owner reappears to claim it. All members of each of the state delegations have been assigned to the same individ ual hotel. AH delegations but two will be housed in the im mediate Loop area. The ex ceptions are the New York aggregation, which will oc cupy the Sheraton Towers, and the California group, which is scheduled for the Drake. The sixth floor and half of the seventh of the Sheraton Blackstone is reserved for Nixon and his organization. A suite has been set aside, just in case, for Rockefeller at the Hilton. The fifth floor of the Blackstone, with its luxurious Presidential Suite, is being held for President Eisenhower. The International Amphi theater on Chicago's South Side is being transformed by worxmen io nouse the ses sions. In the huge, sprawling arena where bluebloods of the livestock world parade during the International Live stock Exposition every No vember, workmen are erect ing TV and radio studios and building the speakers' plat form on which the nation's at tention will be focused. Site Offered Fim The Amphitheater, offered free to the Republicans by the Union Stock Yard and Trans it Co. boasts: -So much overall space that the delegates, reporters and their equipment and all the other myriad elements that make up a national nom inating convention will occu py only half, its 585,000 square feet. -Two rooftop heliports that will be used by helicopters to shuttle from the convention sessions to the city's airports. -An air conditioning plant which changes the air in the Amphitheatre 72 times daily and provides cooling equiv alent to 2 million pounds of ice daily. -Parking space for 4,650 automobiles. Space actually is at a prem ium only in the Amphither's main arena which seat 12, 000. Vast, two-story wings will provide ample room for the thousands of non-delegates who will work at the conven tion. The nation's press, with its multitude of teletypes and maze of communication lines, will occupy the first "oor of the south wing. The first floor north wing will house the telephone center, caucus rooms, dressing rooms for en tertainers and headquarters for police guards and ushers. Upstairs north will quarter the television studios and control rooms. Upstairs south will hold a TV lounge. Andy Frain Crowd Engin eers will have 172 Mtemen and ushers on hand to guide ticket-holders and keep gate crashers out. Rights Retained The Amphitheater manage ment has retained concession rights and will be responsible for keeping the convention goers from getting hungry. "Republicans don't eat as much as Democrats," said Robert Foss, supervisor of concessions. 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