Johnson, Humphrey Gird for Campaign
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Florida Lashed by Hurricane Cleo's Winds Weather piSTRIBUTION 7 a.m. temperature 68. Sunny TODAY today, high in the 70s. Fair to- THEDAHY Bight and Friday. Low in the fids. High Friday in the 70s. Saturday, some early morning showers, fol. / Red Bank Area f 24,000 lowed by fair weather and sea- sonable temperatures. See weath- er, page 2. NORTHERN MONMOUTH'S HOME NEWSPAPER DIAL 741-0010 d duly. UonSij throutb FrMiy. Second Clan Poltan VOL. 87, NO: 44 »t Bed Bink and it Additional UalUnf OHlcn. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Democrats Acclaim Nominees Johnson, Humphrey Gird for Campaign By JACK BELL with thundering Democratic con- resident Johnson's formal ac- The President had held on to watched on television while Gov. ltous, banner waving, flag-flying bles in the Mississippi and Ala- spent "long and prayerful hours" ATLANTIC CITY (AP) - The vention acclaim(| behind them as ceptance tonight of the presi- his secret that Humphrey was John B. Connally of Texas placed and cornstalk-bouncing demon- bama delegations. and had consulted, with party team of Lyndon B. Johnson of the party nominees. dential nomation he won by ac- his choice for the vice presidential his name in nomination. stration, he strode to the plat- Then the President laid low an- leaders from every section of the Texas and Hubert H. Humphrey Al! that remained to kick off clamation last night. Humphrey nomination until he was ready to IVJystery Trip form. other precedent by launching into country before deciding on "the of Minnesota squared off today the hostilities with the Republi- will also formally accept the vice board a plane to Atlantic City. The reason for Dodd's quick Flanked by his wife and two a stem-winding nominating speech mart best qualified to assume the for the 1664 presidential battle can Goldwater-Miller ticket was presidential nomination.' Humphrey, who had flown to trip remained a mystery. The daughters, he said he was happy for Humphrey. He said he had (See DEMOCRATS, Page 3) Johnson was expected to tell Washington at the President's Connecticut senator said he had about the honor done him. He said delegates, assembled for a ses- command, was at his side. told the President to "include me he would be back to tell the dele- sion at which the late President Taking the senator by the arm, out" of consideration for the vice gates, who bulged the hall to over- ohn F. Kennedy was to be Johnson walked over to where presidential nomination. flowing, about his plans for "an memorialized, that his will be a newsmen were standing behind a But speculation among high overwhelming victory for our campaign aimed at achieving barrier and said: party officials was that the Con- party and our nation" in the No- prosperity and peace. "Meet the next vice president." necticut senator had been offered vember balloting. The world thus learned of the appointment as attorney general But he might also give the Kennedy Program party faithful something to yell selection, about three hours be- when Robert F. Kennedy steps about by jibing at GOP presi- fore many delegates to his con- out of that office to make the He said that what had begun dential nominee Barry Goldwater vention knew that it had been race for Senate in New York. This four years ago with Kennedy's and his running mate, Rep. Wil- made. No modern President had might bring national chairman nomination was being carried out. liam E. Miller. ever kept counsel about a running John M. Bailey into the picture "We have fulfilled his program Broke Precedents mate so long. as a possible successor if Dodd without flinching for one mo- In a dramatic turn to a con- Johnson, Humphrey and Sen. accepted the. Cabinet post. ment," he declared. vention that had followed form so Thomas J. Dodd, D.-Conn., who Johnson hadn't been scheduled He complimented the delegates closely it was on the dull side, also had been summoned to the to visit the convention until to- on a platform "on which I am Johnson broke a string of prece- White House from Atlantic City, day. But as soon as his nomina- proud to stand" and on their set- dents. then boarded a plane. Johnson tion was acclaimed with a tumu- tlement of delegate seating squab- Humphrey: Fire-Eating Liberal By BARRY SCHWEID inence as Minneapolis' reform mayor and Minnesota's first ATLANTIC CITY (AP) — Smiles don't come any broader Democratic senator. than the one Hubert H. Humphrey was wearing last night Perhaps, but except for the added inches around the when he stepped from the helicopter at Bader Field, Presi- midsection and the relentless march backward of the hair- dent Johnson at his side and the vice presidential nomination line, Humphrey, in essence, remains what ha. always has been: in his pocket. an outspoken advocate of civil rights, social welfare legis- As ebullient as ever at 53, the onetime small-town pharma- lation and total immersion In world affairs. cist had scrambled to the top rungs of the political ladder after What has happened along the way is that he has sharp- 16 not always rewarding.years in the U. S. Senate. ened his mastery of the political art his running mate is said to have the book on, an ability to get along with those with Just four years ago, Humphrey's shoe-string campaign for whom you disagree and even influence them to see things a the presidency ended in disaster in a West Virginia primary little more your way. PRESIDENTS CHOICE — Sen. Hubert Humphrey which pointed John F. Kennedy toward the White House. GREAT NIGHT FOR THE DEMOCRATS — Here's the But while it has been difficult at times to classify John* flashes .a ,grin,from 4he rear teat of a White House And a decade or so ago, the lire-eating liberal's unwilling- iappy scene on speaker*''stand of Democratic conven- ness to compromise and his strident, nonstop speechmaking on son politically, Humphrey's liberalism never has been ques- tion last night after President Johnson presented Sen. lfn(du'iWS"«?.b« arrives at National Airport. .The Min- just about every subject under the sun were limiting his-in- tioned from the time he decjckd to put into practice the po- nesota senator Was summoned from Atlantic City by fluence in a Congress that forever puts a premium on "get- litical science he had been teaching. Hubert Humphrey at hit choice for the vice presidential 1 LONG STRUGGLE President Johnson for a White House conference prior ting along" with fellow club members. nomination. Humphrey is flanked by his wife and daugh- MELLOWED? Born May 27, 1911, over a family drug store at Wallace, S. D., Humphrey took 10 years to complete his undergraduate ter, Nancy, and Johnson stands behind his' daughter to-last night's announcement of his selection for vice Political observers are always quick to point out that presidency. J (AP Wirephoto) Humphrey has mellowed.since he first gained national prom- (See HUMPHREY; Page 3) Luci. • • • ] (AP Wirephoto) Storm Rips Miami, Heads North MIAMI, Fla, (AP)-Hurricane ides may reach live to seven But for early warnings and streets were virtually deserted, Key Biscayne, a low-lying res- Cleo, a small but vicious killer, eet above normal. elaborate precautions, the dam- following one of the mast mon- idential island just off Miami, slammed into the rich and thick- Miami hospitals held staffs age could have been much worse. strous traffic james in the city's was ordered evacuated for fear ly populated southeast coast of ivertime to treat an anticipated Residents began boarding up history. of an eight-foot tide. Florida today and plowed its dev- low of injured after the storm's early yesterday after Cleo left The traffic tangle was caused Long' distance calls between astating path northward. 'ury lifted, but there were no re- the north coast of Cuba and be- by a stream of homeward bound residents and anxious relatives Gusts up to 115 miles an hour ports of deaths. Some injuries, gan its march across the Florida cars meeting drawbridges raised and friends in other parts of the were reported in Miami by the mostly from flying glass, were Straits. for boats sailing up the Miami nation jammed Southern Bell national hurricane center with reported. By sundown, downtown Miami river to avoid battering surf. (See CLEO, Page 3) sustained winds of 100. Torren- Property damage was heavy tial rains lashed the area. nd widespread. The Weather Bureau said the • Miami and Miami Beach, a city first hurricane of the season had >f plush homes and swanky re- intensified rapidly and peak iort hotels just across storm- Youth Drowns in River winds were estimated early this :ossed Biscayne Bay, were morning at 120 mph. )lunged into darkness by power The eye of the storm moved in 'ailures. directly over Miami, after indfo Minutes after the hurricane struck, the only electric lights in In a Boating Mishap cations it would pass out at sea, and then moved on toward Fort he normally brilliantly lit cities By BILL HAGEMAM swirhmiqg toward safety,' but was traveling, west,, about 100 Lauderdale and Palm Beach, ;leamed from hospitals and other t RED BANK — A vacationing young Izzard went under before yards. off Marine Park, at "a famed play place of the wealthy •uildings with auxiliary power. 19-year-old youth, visiting from rescuers could reach him. good clip." some 65 miles to the north. Windows in homes and stores vere smashed.