he San Juan Star:
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol. I
No. 227
Tel. 3-8400
San Juan, Puerte Rico, Thursday, July 28, 1960
Second-class péstage at San Jaan, Puerte
pais Rice
NIXO N vs KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT GOP Picks VP Toda y ’-
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Richard M. Nixon was nominated on the first ballot last night as Republican candidate for President of the United States. The 47-year-old vice president will oppose Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, at the polls November 8. t ed Nixon their banner to carry in
J. LIDIN
statehooders
might
Nixon’s
have olted the national Republican Party
had the GOP
26,
Santurce,
that
The
in
statehood
inserted. His comment applause from
ally
of
the
scheduled
last
to
night
convention,
were
at
was
not
climax
yesterday
dog
expert
that
the
is
charged
“dire
in-
“
a _ very
definite need for dogs in a canine service for the protection of
the
public
of
Puerto
Rico.”
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the letter, he also added: as of and up to this time,
I de
not
Rico
Police
ble
believe
due
ficiency of officers that
to,
ridden
the
Puerto
Department
of handling
service
that
to
dogs
the
in
is capaa canine
dire
the general I have met,
with, and
must
upholder
of
peace.”
also
inefpolice talk-:d
had
contact
investigation, while were on duty.”
in
_this
In
these
men
canine
nation.”
himself
into
a
froth.
The
July
to
conduct
16.
conduct
the
Milroy, a
dog
to the asked
investigation
was
here
obedience
to
was
politan police
no
on
the
Milroy part
area
that
dogs.
He
(See
Convention
CHICAGO, breakfast
seekers,
of
PRIEST
Republican
and
gutters,”
Bureau
Ill—Speaking
President
way
to a office
Eisenhower
yesterday urged candidates to follow the “great middle road” and
avoid the philosophies of the extreme right or left. “You. must find the broad high-
As
if to
proposed
told Torres
of
the
could
metro-
not
use
There
DOGS,
you
Page
21)
must
on
were
all sorts
name
before
not
the
hotel
the
to
the
collap-
place
convention
a Presidential nominee. He ruled himself out as a vice
EISENHOWER,
Page
stayed
suite
in
to
the convention’s
endorsement—by
Mrs.
his
watch
Nixon
sat
televi-
with
him
in
their room. Other Nixons—sisters,
brothers,
and the ‘vice president’s
mother—
looked at one
on gleefully from side of the arena.
When
the
first
roll
a box called
for the nomination, the chairman of the Puerto Rican delegation, Gabriel
de
shouted
“Puerto
la
Haba,
stood
and
our
next
Rico,
state passes.”
It then cast its three votes for Nixon. The Virgin Islands also its
one
vote
for
his
as also pre-
21)
Nixon dent.
agreed
Threats
of
to
a
the
olic
the
high
Interestingly,
for
the
E.
are
successor
elective man
the
Catholic nominee, in also a Quaker and a
office.
who
beat
previous 1928, was Californian
Hoover.
For Nixon, the nomination is another triumph in the steady march of a man who has never Known a major political setback. It was in this same hall, just eight years ago, that Nixon was surprisingly tapped as _ running mate by Gen. Eisenhower. Nixon, a Whittier, California resident, had served two terms is the House. And, just two years before that 1952 convention, he had won election to the Senate. Nationally, Nixon: was known
chiefly
for
munists
as a member
his
pursuit
of
Com-
of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities. But Nixon proved a hard ing, able campaigner.
in
his
seven-plus
work-
years
for
battle
Presi-
over
the
kept
Nixon
informed
up-te-the
minute on state affairs. He relied on Nixon heavily in relations with Congress.
Convention News Other cluding
convention news, inRichard M. Nixon’s
list
front
of
presidential
tone—hurled
early
comments
this week and
by
conser-
vative elements—failed to materialize when the issue reached the convention floor. The GOP legions happily hand-
as
vice president he has moved a long way. Eisenhower, influenced perhaps by his illness during his first term,
Nixon.
run
southern
as
Smith,
N-i-x-o-n-Rockefeller
party’s
Republicans
nation
platform’s the
wars.
the
to Dwight D. Eisenhower a relatively young man as presidential candidates. go—or have gone in the past. Even so, he is four years older than Kennedy. It is offering, too, a Quaker and westerner in the same year that the Democrats, for the second time in history, have nominated an eastern, urban Roman Cath-
And
was
The convention then turned to adopt a platform on which
ignore
underscore
backers
himself
ccs‘
he said.
asked
Nixon
recommended,
se of the conservative opposition, Arizona’s Sen. Barry Goidwater
(See
ball.
downtown sion.
Ignore The Gutters -Ike By WALTER
monotonously
the session—and
‘Find The Broad Highway,’ STAR
fire
riotous
however, that they be instituted along with the police car patrols
course.
banged
of sounds.
report
offering
—Herbert
this
ed
corps,
there
The letter was a report superintendent who had him
his
political
Nixon,
of
.
with
1960
In
Alfred
wath sounded like an old fashion-
RICHARD M. NIXON
general
efficiency” of police officers here
there
“an
one
of
causes him to doubt that police personnel can handle what he calls a badly needed police dog corps. In a letter to Police Superintendet Ramon Torres Braschi, Russell Milroy of Nacagdoches, Tex., said he told the superintendent
that
the
“He has trod the path of peacemakers,” said Hatfield, “and he will not surrender the hopes, the ambitions, the achievements
ed
Police Not Ready To Use Dogs police
lawmaker,
crowd yelled and screamed. Some-
Expert Barks At ‘Dire Inefficiency’
A
Oregon
speech
Bands blared. The organist work-
form-
Chicago
BONE
described
statehood
the
BOB
O.
ot
long months of political manu(See STATEHOODERS, Page 21)
By
He
no-
When Hatfield tossed Nixon’s name to the convention, bedlam promptly seized this huge hall.
occur
the
youthful
a 280-word
and
he
drew a volley the audience.
Restoration plank,
plank
of Oregon.
in
Mark
have beeh one of the shortest such efforts on record, presented Nixon as “a fighter for freedom”
personally would have pushed for a break from the national party
if-the
put
country.
yesterday.
Stop
was
Governor
the Republican leader as a man fully trained and qualified to meet threats from outside the
Sen. Garcia Mendez told some 200 enthusiastic party officials, gathered in the territorial office
at
by
Hatfield
an statehood plank in its 1960 platform at Chicago, Statehood Party President Miguel Angel Garcia Ménsaid
name
mination
failed to adopt a Puerto Ric-
dez
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CONVENTION HALL, Chicago (AP)--
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Statehooders Almost Bolted National GOP
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running
vice
candidates
and
by U.S. Ambassador
to Spain John Cabot Ledge on Puerto Rico’s increasing
friendliness toward the United States, can be found on page 21 of teday’s STAR.