San Juan Star
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215,
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, July 14, 1960
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Kennedy Nominated;
Democrats To Choose
,
| Running Mate Today CONVENTION
HALL,Los Angeles (AP)--Senator John F. Kennedy
was nominated on the first ballot early this morning as the
president of the United States. Balloting
of Massachusetts
Democratic
for the Democratic
candidate
presidential
started at 10:09 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time (1:09 a.m. Puerto Rico time). After Wyoming
for
nomination
voted, Kennedy had 765 votes. He needed 761.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, (D. Minn. ) rose at that point and moved that the homination be made unanimous. Puerto Rico east its seven votes for
Kennedy
and the Virgin Islands did like-
wise with its four vetes.
Kansas, which passed earlier fbr acaucus, came
in with
21 votes.
Symington’s
state,
Missouri, then changed its vote to Kennedy. Then the vote to make it unanimous was taken
and
carried.
The convention then adjourned to meet later today mate.
to
Kennedy
select
Kennedys
backers
running
claimed inore
than
790 votes just before midnight. |
-
The name of Adlai Stevenson was placed in nomination about that time by Sen. Eu-| gene McCarthy of Minnesota.: Stevenson got a thunderous ovation which for sheer noise and wildness far outpandemoniumed
the receptions given the nominations of ‘Johnson
and Kennedy
earlier i the even-
Ing.
+
Other leading contenders whose names had been placed in nomination were Kennedy, Johnson and Sen. Stuart Symington
of Missouri. Favorite son nominations were made for Sen, George Smathers of Florida and Gov. Hershel Loveless of Iowa. The lat-
ter,
inmediately
after
nomination,
with-
drew himself from the race and announced
for Kennedy.
Demonstrations on behalf of Kennedy | and Johnson lasted more than 20 minutes.|
Demonstrations
for the others" were
not) _
quite so heated. (See
CONVENTION,
Page
a
The Congo Calls it 'War’.: . The
Congo
government
charged that
ing troops to that African state,
”:
.
)}elgium,
was waging
i
war.
by
send-
(Page
2)
SEN.
KENNEDY,
THE
WINNER,
TIPS
HIS HAT - - problem:
find
the loser