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Red Tiide Threatens Shore Resort Business SEE STORY PAGE 13 Cloudy Becoming cloudy this after- noon. Chance of few showers THEDAILY tonight. Partly cloudy and HOME warm with showers possible Red Bank, Freehold tomorrow. I Long Branch 7 FINAL (Sea Details, Pate 3) Montnouih Couniy9* Home Netvapaper tor 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 37 KKD BANK, N. J., MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1968 TEN CENTS Lack of Enthusiasm in County for Nixon-Agnew Negro Community Looks at GOP Ticket By LOIS M. JOICE suspicion and distrust of Rich- Negro adviser, who on Thurs- for the party nominees. Republicans "had an excellent Mrs. Harris' opinion. "I feel says, "but we've gone forward There has been no indica- ard M. Nixon and despair over day told newsmen the Negro Mrs. F. I/eon Harris, Asbury opportunity, but they flunked that even people who will he since then." Another mistake, tion in the county that the Ne- the selection of Governor mood was one of revolt, but Park, a njist president of the out." She was concerned about compelled to say they will in her opinion, was the selec- gro community is delighted Spiro Agnew of Maryland as later described it as seeming N..J. Federation of Colored the N..J. 'delegation's breaking support, the ticket will really tion of Agnnw Ml her than one With the 1968 Republican ticket. his running mate. dissatisfaction or coolness. Woman's Clubs and with her with Sen. Clifford P. Case not. support it." of the younger liberals for the With the heat of the conven- The attitude follows the pat- In Monmouth County, there husband long active in Repub- whom she termed a "wonder- The articulate Mrs. Harris second man on the ticket. tion over, there is still resent- tern set by Dr. Gilbert Ware, is a strong feeling that the lican affairs, called the Miami ful man, one who should be feels that Nixon is a step back- George G. Fleming of Mirl- ment over the fact that only 26 Gov. Agnew's only Negro staff GOP has turned its back upon results "unebelievable, awfully pushed for governor." ward, a candidate too conserv- dletown, vice president of the of the 1,333 delegates were member, who resigned, and the Negro, and there is a cor- disappointing." The Republican ticket defi- ative for the times. "Eight Progressive Life Insurance Co. black. There is also widespread of J. Earl Dearing, Nixon's top responding lack of enthusiasm According to Mrs. Harris, the nitely will be hard to sell, in years ago was one thing," she (See NEGROES, Pg. 2, Col. 6) Hu mph rey-Mc Car thy Ba ttle On Planks, Seating Looms CHICAGO (AP) - Support ticket headed by Richard M. Humphrey said in a speech, am confident, bring lasting "fair play" controversy over win the nomination to "dis- ers of Vice President Hubert I Nixon in November. prepared for the United Steel- peace in Vietnam." delegates that helped Gen. rupt" the convention. workers convention that he is Dwight D. Eisenhower win the H. Humphrey and Sen. Eugene The vice president lashed out The steelworkers, 1.2 million "We want an open conven- at Nixon. He said the former coming back to Chicago next members strong and the big- Republican nomination from tion with fair debate," he said. ~i: McCarthy fire opening vice president's record was week to fight for the dream of gest union in the AFL-CIO, is Sen. Robert A. Taft in 1952. "We want to go the last mile rounds today in a propaganda one synonymous with "reac- Samuel Gompers and other la- expected to give the endorse- Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D- but we are not prepared to for- battle over delegate seating tion, retrenchment and re- bor leaders of "full and equal ment of its 3,500 - delegate con- Minn., one of Humphrey's feit victory to prove that we and platform planks for next treat." opportunity for all." vention to the vice president's campaign directors, called re- are fair." He added that Mc- week's Democratic nominating Nixon, greeted by a crowd of Humphrey predicted that quest for the top Democratic porters together to explain that Carthy was engaged in "a convention. about 1,000 persons when he "we can have a real peace nomination. the vice president really wants childish venture to challenge the validity of this convention." Humphrey, predicting his flew into Springfield, 111., from emerging from the kind of hard But while he was aiming di- an open convention. Mondale California Sunday night, as- versionary attacks at Nixon, said the McCarthy effort to own nomination for president bargaining that produced a nu- Don McClure, McCarthy's on the first ballot, called for serted that "we're going to Humphrey obviously was con- challenge the seating of Hum- press secretary, told a sepa- the kind of "forward looking, carry Illinois and we're going clear test ban treaty and a non- cerned with the well - publi- phrey delegates constituted an rate news conference that it labor - Democratic coalition" to carry the nation." He lost proliferation treaty ... the cized efforts of McCarthy's effort by a candidate who wasn't true, as Humphrey's he said can lick a Republican Illinois narrowly in 1960. kind of encounter that will, I men to steam up the sort of doesn't have enough votes to men charged, that the Minne sota Senator was trying to block out any "vast propor- tion" of the vice president' TAKING TIME OUT — New Jersey Gov. Richard J. delegate supporters. McClun Hughes pauses during a news conference yesterday in said the McCarthy camp wa Chicago. Hughes, who is head of the Special Equal responsible for less than one Ike Still Critical Rights Committee, said he'll advise the Democratic #third of the delegate challenge and contests. , National Convention that Mississippi hasn't complied He produced a series of pre- with "the spirit or the requirements" of its 1964 anti- viously published polls he said discrimination ruling. IAP Wirephoto) As Device Fails indicated that with Humphrey at the head of the ticket Demo- WASHINGTON (AP) — For- muscles in the heart's lower bara Anne, Susan Elaine and cratic senatorial candidates mer President Dwight D. Eis- chamber, are known medically David. would lose in such heavily con- enhower was in critical condi- as ventricular fibrillation. Although the doctors did not tested states as California, tion today after an electrical Walter Reed doctors blame detail how the pacemaker was Ohio and Pennsylvania. BackoutBids aid installed in his body failed Eisenhower's spasms on the "These polls show that Hum- to quell heart muscle spasms. "serious underlying disease of installed the usual method en- tails inserting a thin tube with phrey has no coattails," he Doctors at Walter Reed Ar- the heart." said. At the general's side were two tiny electrodes at its tip my Hospital in a bulletin is- into a vein and gently sliding Humphrey and McCarthy sued Sunday night said the his wife Mamie, his son John continued their jousting over Chill Hughes 77-year-old five-star general and three grandchildren; Bar- (See IKE, Pg. 3, Col. 3 the wording of a Vietnam war was resting comfortably with- plank, with platform hearings ATLANTIC CITY (AP)-Gov. Hughes said a week ago that out pain, but "remains critical- opening in Washington simul- Richard J. Hughes declined he would con^der a request by ly ill" after suffering two more taneously with the credentials comment today on a tele- his party's nominee for him to spasms following insertion of Again Seek to Air sessions in Chicago. an electrical pacemaker. grammed request by two Dem-be his running mate "as McCarthy denied in Washing- ocrats that lie withdraw as a identical with a call to the The bulletin read: ton that he would impose a co- possible vice presidential can- service of my country." "Gen. Eisenhower remains alition government on South diale and endorse former Post- Police Transcript Vietnam. Humphrey had said On Thursday, Democratic critically ill. Electrical pacing master General Lawrence QUESTIONED IN SHOOTINGS — John Whitmore, 16, his opposition to making such frontrunner Vice President Hu- by means of a transvenous O'Brien for the nomination. By AL 1IORAY have the governing body re- an advance commitment was bert II. Humphrey called is escorted by pFainclothes policemen to a spot in a catheter has been ineffective in Hughes "the greatest governor LONG BRANCH — Another lease the contents of the tran- similar to that expressed by Hughes, contacted in Chi- Long Island City, N.Y., railroad yards where a man suppressing the episodes of in the United States" and ad- attempt to air the transcript of script. the late Sen. Robert F. Ken- cago, where he is serving as riding a Long Island Rail Road train was shot to death ventricular irregularity. Two a hearing on March 7, 1967, The letter says there has chairman of the Democratic mitted that the New Jerseyan nedy, D-N.Y. was being mentioned as his and another wounded yesterday morning. The youth more, each quickly reverting which sparked the recent been a great deal of untruth National Convention's creden- to normal, have occurred since Grand Jury probe of alleged circulated about the issue and tials committee said he had not running mate. told of firing a rifle at three trains—"just for the whijn the afternoon bulletin. political interference into the that the matter should be aired seen the telegram and would Clark and Beck are co-chair- of it."_He wears the uniform of an auxiliary fire de- 'Not in Pain' workings of the city Police De- for public consideration.