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TIDESWater Condition 44 a~m.Charlie 1 7:44 p.m. Low 0$ f u a $R t t Storage Ashore 1:44 a.mi. First doily paper ever to in the CHINFO Merit Award13' 12:44 p.m. - - -- U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA M i 1 I ion Ga l ons Phone 9-5247 TUESDAY Date August 6, 1965 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) GOP Candidacy, U.S. Air Cavalrymen Declares 'I Reagan Force V.C. Toward Sea SAIGON (AP/AFB) Nearly 1,000 American Air Cavalrymen Agnew Throws Support to Nixon are combing the mangrove swamp MIAMI BEACH (AP/AFNB) Round three of the 1968 Republican 23 miles west of Saigon--look- National Convention gets underway at 8:00 p.m. tonight. In ing for the Viet Cong force of the first two sessions yesterday, the delegates to the Miami perhaps as many as 300 evicted Beach convention found themselves with one more declared cand- from their hideout early to- idate--California Gov. Ronald Reagan. In announcing his cand- day. Air strikes, artillery idacy, Reagan dropped his and helicopter gunships pound- status as California's favor- ed and strafed the fleeing ite son, releasing those del- Reds as Air Cavalrymen cordon- egates pledged to him as such. ed off the area and pushed And Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew them toward the Oriental Riv- pulled out to throw his sup- er. port behind Richard Nixon. He Twelve Reds have been re- will deliver aNixon nominatin-g ported killed already and U.S. peech tonight. spokesmen expect the figure to As it stands now, the Asso- rise. U.S. losses were put at ciated Press figures Nixon has two killed and ten. wounded. 586 of the 667 votes he needs One helicopter was shot down, to win the nomination. New but the pilot escaped. York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Meanwhile, a top Pentagon has 259. And Reagan has 167. official has accused North Another 321 are either uncom- Vietnam of not treating cap- mitted or pledged to various tured American fliers proper- favorite sons. ly. Assistant Secretary of One key favorite son is Ohio Defense Paul Warkne called to- Gov. James Rhodes. And he See Page of todayes Gaze e day for the North Vietnamese says he isn't about to re- for Candidates and Issues: to abide by the Geneva Conven- lease his 56 votes on the Nelson Rockefeller. tions on War. first or second ballot. Two of .the 58 Ohio delegates are pledged to Nixon. Detroit PolicemaH Rockefeller is said to be Dies in Gun Battle looking toward Washington Gov. DETROIT (AP/AFNB) One po Liceman was shot to death in De- Daniel Evans to either en- troit last night. Two othEers were wounded, along with two dorse him or assume a favorite civilians in a gun battle in a predominantly Negro area of the son role to neutralize things, city. However, authorities sa3 there were no racial overtones Evans delivered the keynote to the shootings last night. address last night. In Los Angeles, two policemen were seriously wounded after Also speaking to the-conven-- they stopped a suspicious-Ic oking car on the fringes of the tion last night were former downtown area. Three person ns were killed in the resulting President Eisenhower -- via a exchange of gunfire. And pcpolice are searching for a fourth special closed-circuit tele- man believed to have been seen leaving the scene of the shoot- vision system from Washington- ings with a rifle. -and 1964 standard-bearer for Order has been restored tt0 York, Pa., after violence and through a preedominantly Negro secti n of town both vandalism spread thef GOP,whom Barry(Cont'd Goldwater, on Page 2) for two nights and a day. Page 2 Gitmo Gaz ette Tuesday, Aug. 6 THE PERSON YOU REALLY ARE One of the most productive sources of unhap- piness in oar modern world is pretention. ComNavBase RADM J.B. Hildxeth1 People seem to be responding to a deep inner Public Affairs Officer LLT.Prul . Lamev necessity to pretend to be other than what they are; know more than they do; have more Editor J03 Tom Meyers than they possess. Layout J03 Lonnie Sexton A person who is not ashamed of what he is, he has, just doesn't feel what he knows, what GITO GATTE is published according tte futhe the necessity. of pretending the way so many and regulations for ship. and station newspapers as out- modern people do. lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the Which brings up the questions: What does a Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four person think he has got to be? How much does days a week at government expense on government equip- that he think he ought to know? How much does he ment. The opinions or statements in news itmes appear herein are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of Chaplainis 8 a.m. and .m. MON thru FRI only and willbe publish- ed 'in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- lished more than once a week. nor will they be run in Corner: dayss paper. The Gazette welcomes contributions of a newsworthy nature. All contributions should be forwarded to Box 22, in care of the Gitmo Gazette. The Gazette reserves By Chaplain Bobrek the right to modify the content of any story to make it conform to typographical and format standards for pub- lication. suppose he ought to have, to be an acceptable GOP CONVENTION REPORT (Cdnt'd from Page 1) A human being? received standing ovations. So long as.John Smith-pretends that he is a ABC political editor Bill Lawrence collapsed nobler, more intelligent,, wealthier:: person, at the convention last night after winding up than he knows himself to be, John Smith will his report on the day's proceedings. The 52- be a, much less happy person than he might be. year-old newsman is reported in fairly good Such pretention will keep him from any gen- condition apparently suffering from exhaustion. uine gearing into the lives of other people. On tap for tonight's session will be addres- He will make them feel uneasy, edgy, uncom- ses by former presidential candidate Thomas fortable, in his presence -- simply because Dewey and GOP ' House leader Gerald Ford of that's the way he is in their presence. Michigan. Also the draft of the Platform will Real living calls for real people -- not be reported out of the Resolutions Committee. masqueraders, not actors, however good at act- The Platform the convention is expected to ing they may have become. The masquerade a cept puts the Party on record with a flex- party, the stage play are diverting, but they ible policy on war, poverty,-riots and crime. aren't life. This is a sharp contrast to the 1964 platform, Until a person decides to be just what he which was tailored to meet Barry Goldwater's is, he'll miss a great deal in life. He'll uncompromising stand four years ago. This never know a true friendship, a genuine com- year's document calls for negotiations to end radeship -- an authentic self respect. the war, with an eye toward progressive take- Until- he decides to be what he is, further- over of the war by South Vietnam. It calls more, he stands a poor chance of ever becoming for a substantial effort by private industry anything better; for genuine improvement can in urban problems. And it urges revising of be made only on a genuine article. the welfare program to liberate the poor--not For a man to accept himself, just as he is, emphasizing, as it did four years ago--the in- and offer this real personality of his to his dividual's rights and capacity to pull himself fellow men in fellowship; this is to know the up economically. beginnings of a genuine happiness. In other political developments, Sen. Eugene Some people have found courage to be them- McCarthy and Vice President Humphrey will-meet selves through the realization that already--- in a television debate before the Democratic just as they are---they are accepted in the Convention this motth. No details of the con- love of God. frontation were announced. Tuesday, Au g. 6 Gitmo Gazette . P age 3 aJamaicans Celebrate Sixth Anniversary of Independence GUANTANAMO BAY -- The spirit of cooperation "Teacher" Campbell, one of the best-known Jam- between two sovereign nations--Jamaica and the aicans on base. Mr. Campbell outlined the United States--was the theme of the Sixth An- history of his country and enumerated some of niversary of Jamaican Independence, celebrated the many contributions made by Jamaicans on here Monday :afternoon. the base. E. McGhie, Jamaican master of ceremonies, Roy Johnson delivered remarks on the evol- struck the keynote for observance as.he open- ution of Jamaican independence. Invocation ed the formal program by noting the "cooper- was asked by Chaplain R.A. Bonner. ation for progress" between Jamaican employ- Festivities also included a soccer match, S ees and U.S. government personnel on the Base. boxing and karate exhibitions and a buffet Rear Admiral James B. Hildreth, Commander supper. Music was pZovided by the Naval Base 9 val Base, said the United States and Jamaica Band and the Base Jazz Combo. were linked together by certain characterist- Captain W.:.T. Russell, Commanding (Officer, ics.