Nixon Background
Differs From That
Of Sen. Kennedy
CHICAGO, (fPi— Vice President
Nixon met with an open caucus
of Georgia and Texas delegates
to appeal for unity Thursday mor
ning. Then he launched into ac
counts of his own upbringing and
that of his wife Pat, with broad
implications of a contrast with
the upper-crust wealthy back
ground of his Democratic oppon
ent.
The Republican party’s new top
man related that Mrs. Nixon was
the daughter of an itinerant min
er, that her mother died of can
cer when Mrs. Nixon was 12, that
she was orphaned at 16 and work
ed her way through college to
become a schoolteacher.
"When you have got that kind
of background, you must have
what it takes,” Nixon asserted.
He then told about his own
father, a onetime streetcar motor
man and carpenter who, Nixon
said, worked as a “roughneck” on
rigs to supplement the family’s
income from a six - acre lemon
grove.
Nixon said his father used to
joke, “This land must have oil in
it because it ain’t good for grow
ing lemons.”
The candidate said oil was;
found on the land after it had
passed out of the family’s hands, [
and “that’s the only reason I
didn’t become a Rockefeller.”
As he sat at session with other
southern delegations, Nixon sug
gested that while they may not
be enthusiastic about some sec
lions of the party platform, they
should take a look at the Demo
cratic platform.
Pravda Has Bitter Words
For Nixon Nomination
MOSCOW, UP1— Richard Nixon
drew bitter words today from
Moscow Pravda, the newspaper of
the city Communist party. In
story and cartoon, it called the
Republican presidential nominee
"a weather cock and chameleon.”
It charged Nixon was linked
with Wall Street bankers and
with McCarthyism. It said he is
an advocate of brinksmanship
who supported the cause of “lib
eration of Eastern Europe,” which
it interpreted as creating conspir
acies in Communist - bloc coun
tries.
Soviet newspapers have not
paid half as much attention to the
Republican National Convention
as to the Democratic. Most have
ignored the Chicago proceedings.
The Soviet official preference
is for a Democratic victory, al
though Sen. Kennedy is by no
means a fair-haired boy in Soviet
eyes.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Stan Sobocienski,
Ben Dahl, Judy Ullrich, Scott
Boehler.
Discharged: Irene Kavairlook,
Ellen Slwooko, Walter Maakestad.
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Russians Briefly Detain American Students
For Distributing State Department Magazine
Gold Gambling Casino
Sign Must Be Melted
Down Says Government
CARSON CITY, Nev., Wi — A
nine - inch high gold rooster or
display in the Nugget Casino a1
Sparks violates the Gold Reserve
Act and should be melted down,
the federal government says in a
suit in U.S. District Court.
The government contends the
rooster contains 206 ounces of
gold, 156 more than an individual
can keep for more than a month
without permission unless the
gold is used for artistic purposes.
Casino owner Dick Graves ad
mits the bird contains $12,500 in
gold but contends it is an object
of art and worth $40,000.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued cloudy with rain
showers. Low expected tonight 50,
the high tomorrow 60.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 59, lowest 50. Sunrise 2:58
a.m., sunset 9:19 p.m.
A year ago today, highest temp.
58, lowest 41. Extremes on this
d&te since 1907: highest 69 in
1928, lowest 32 in 1929.
The high-low range in Seattle
was 89-61 and in San Francisco
59-53.
Russians Buy All The Water
LERWICK, Shetland Islands,
(*—The Russians are making it
difficult to get a drink of water
around here. New rates lower
than the Faroe Islands have en
ticed Soviet fishing fleets here to
replenish their water tanks. When
the 50-ship trawler fleet is tank
ing up, the mains can’t supply
enough for the local citizens.
"DAMN THE TORPEDOES"
HAVANA, IM—The Cuban navy
yesterday sent a patrol boat to
investigate a U.S. destroyer sight
ed well outside Cuban territorial
waters. The U.S. craft steamed off
before the patrol launch reached
it. While it was in sight from
about midmorning until noon, a
Soviet tanker pulled past and
entered Havana harbor.
* MOSCOW. (jP — Soviet author
ities detained three Americans, a
Briton and a West German yes
terday in an incident involving
distribution of the U.S. State De
partment’s magazine Amerika.
The five were questioned about
four hours, released, and told to
leave the country immediately.
Informed sources said the three
, Americans were students who
took copies of the magazine from
the American Embassy and tried
i to distribute them among passers
| by near a downtown hotel.
The informants said the Bri
ton, the West German and an
American described as a Chicago
schoolteacher took pictures of the
crowd of Russians which gathered
about the three Americans.
Amerika is a handsomely illus
trated slick-paper magazine pub
: lished by the United States in the
Russian language and intended to
explain the United States to Rus
sians. It is distributed in the USSR
on a strictly limited quota basis
in return for permission to the
Soviet Union to distribute a sim
ilar magazine on a limited basis
in the United States.
About 50.000 copies are printed
! monthly but an Embassy spokes
man said from 200 to 400 copies
are returned monthly by Soviet
officials as undistributable. These
are stacked in the reception room
of the Embassy and tourists may
take as many as they want. This
is where the students got them.
MODEL OF BREVITY
CHICAGO, —Oregon's Gov.
ernor Mark Hatfield’s nominating
speech for Richard M. Nixon was
a model of convention brevity—
just 290 words.
But it can’t compare with the
nominating speech for another Re
publican, Abraham Lincoln, 100
years ago. That took only 26
words.
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up 25 new typewriters for the
Nome School and trading in those
which have been in use for sev
eral years.
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