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Show v f t V g m- -v rr r " I Ickt DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Salt 10 A City, Friday, July 29, I960 Demos, Beware ! Convention Sidelights Vixen's Spssch Stirs Delegates Utahns Like Ledge But Trim Ovation By MERRIMAN SMITH CHISAGO (UPI) If Richard M. Nixon can come close-twowed the Repub appealing to the general public as he lican convention Thursday night, his Democratic opponent John F. Kennedy has his work cut out for J - By ,Deeret New Convention Staff CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO- -If the demonstra-tio- n for Henry Cabot Lodge appeared to end a little sopner than expected Thursday night, part of the. blame must go '4' to, a'trio of Utahns. When the name of Mr. Lodge was placed in nomination, the usual spontaneous" demonstration burst forth, with banners and signs and lots of yelling. Near the back of the hall, where the Utah alternates sit, is one of the doorways through which demonstrators reach the floor. As the' Lodge demonstrationreached a peak, Utah alternates MitcheliMelich of Moab, Mark Paxton of Fillmore and O. Webster Adams of Salt Lake City intercepted Mr. Melich a group of youthful sign'bearers seeking to enter the hall. Its all over, kids.t shouted Melich. "You I can go home now." . . And nearly 30 demonstrators dl(F just thatn 7Last night about 500 youngsters poured in that gate and we almost lost Luke Clpgg (a delegate from Provo) and were not taking chances tonight, explained Mr. Paxton. . V' him. Much of the enthusiasm Nixon generated GOP convention t had to be attributed to normal partisanship and customary convention staging, hut the Republican presidential nominee amazed, some j of his strongest supporters. P, t , His acceptance speech had little of the $ thunder usually employed on such occasions; he twitted and pitied instead of slashing. He left it for others to decide whether he is best qualified for the job. In essence, he underdele played the highest point of his political career and the . gates lapped it up. The vice president put much advance work Into the . speech, but Instead pf delivering It from a completely pro-Just-eno- ugh notes. This he extensive produced used, text, pared minor bobbles, just enough groping for words to give his address a quality of political freshness and at the closing session of the J And speaking bobbles, the prize for the GOP convention went to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller who topped off a stirring introduction of1 Nixon by calling him Richard E. Richard Milhous Nixon 'was so elated, however, Nixoi). Mrs. Helen H. Brown, vice chairwoman of the Utah delegation received a brief moment before the, nation's television cameras Thursday night It was Mrs. j Brown who east , Utahs that he overlooked the error and told Rockefeller it was, a fine introduction. Then as Nixon delivered his own speech, he referred to the stirring speech by President Eisenhower "last night. Actually it was the night before. The convention, hungry for a rousing pep meeting before fanning out across the country to do battle with the Democrats, reacted colorfully and noisily to the presence of Nixon and his running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge. 14 Votes for Henry Cabot Lodge for vice president in the roll call vote, It was exciting" said the attractive Bountiful woman, who works for the state auditors office when not attending party functions. i. Taking in the final two sessions of the convention Wednesday and Thursday night were Fred A. Sehwendiman and his wife, Nonie, of Provo. Mr. Sehwendiman is director of housing . St Brigham Young University and he and his wife are headed lor Bloomington, I rid., for a convention of the National Association of College and University Hmfsing Officials. Mr. Sehwendiman, who will take over as , new president of the association at the conclusion of the Bloomington meet, said the convention was "a great experience. It was the first national convention for either of them. - M. Nixon clenches fist as he addresses GOP convention in serious moment of acceptance speech. VICE PRESIDENT ACCEPTS While members of his family watch in background. Vice Pres: Richard Lodge Awaiting SECY. BENSON PLEDGES NIXON GOP Continued from First Page TICKET SUPPORT When Lodge was placed In nomination, the demonstration filled the aisle with supporters who must have been busy during the day getting Lodge signs printed since Nixon did not pas the word on Lodges selection until . ' early Thursday morning. amphitheatre Thursday night. It remained for the appearance of Njxon, however, to 'CHICAGO (UPI - Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft He spoke from notes and rattle the ancient beams of the amphitheater where the ReBenson said Friday he will support the Republican Paity maintained a grave demeanor publicans had been in session since last Monday. Aside ticket of Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.N. Amas he outlined his view of the from the noisy .tribute to Mr. Eisenhower Tuesday night, bassador Henry Cabot Lodge in the Novem-he- r the convention had been fairly restrained because the delegrim problems facing the next gates knew in advance what the outcome would be. presidential election. CHICAGO (UPI) Henry Benson said the Republican Party will president. With Nixon and his photogenic family on the scene, Cabot Lodge Friday awaited have a strong ticket and strong platform. He charged the Democrats however, the restraint disappeared and Nixon supporters battle orders from his new I think we have an opportunity to win with playing a symphony of turned the arena into a riot of noise, color and furious Mr. Charles Redd, Monticello rancher, sported boss. Vice President Richard a victory in the fall, he said. Benson conpolitical cvnicism at their re-Sehwendiman M. Nixon. a large straw hat, obtained In Mexico,' ferred with New Yotk Gov. Nelson A. RockNixon's home state delegation of CSlifornians boiled into cent convention. He said they the aisles i ing much of the convention. Lodge, U.S. ambassador to efeller in the Rockefeller hotel headquarters. as thougjj the honor of the members depended The hat was very much In prominence the United Nations and now Afterward he told United Press International Fadopted a program that would on the decibels they produced. The Floridians charged out Wednesday when Mr. Redd had his picture the Republican vice presiden . f that both he and Rockefeller were pretty be disastrous for the nation of their seats bearing silvery elephants that held oranges taken shaking hands with Vice President tial nominee, said he had no well pleaspd" with the farm plank written by in their trunks. wreck the economy. and Nixon. platform makers earlier this week. idea what presidential nomif serve I now here and notice A mighty organ with the sound on full and a loud orBenson described the party s statement nee Nixon had in store for Secy, Mr. and Mrs. Golden Buttars of Logan on farm policy as broad, sound, forward- that whatever the political conchestra rocked the building with blaring, rapid duet of Benson him. 1 and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Paxton of Fillmore He said it moved In the direction of greater sequences we are not going to California Here I Come and Go, Go, Go Republicans, I am completely at his dts looking. tour of Chicago took a taxi one of the newer and for the farmer and less interference" by the independence hursaid as he V campaign songs. posal, Lodge to our oppotry outpromise Thursday. It took four hours and $30, hut ried to a private midnight federal government. in nents this The delegates had difficulty parading with their blizzard campaign,1 it was worth it, exclaimed Mrs. Paxton. "Our In contrast, he said, the Democratic Partys farm plank party with Nixon atjd top Reof signs and placards because the aisles were too clogged. Nixon said. driver really knew his way around. asks for greater controls and more interference. strategists. - Watching with unabashed glee from the speaking plaC About 60 Utahns in Chicago for the publican campaign It sounds good, but It is Impracticable, he said. It Who Pays Bill? Mr. Buttars was Although the form high above the maelstrom were Nixon, his wife Pat, - convention gathered in the Utah headquarters hilled be -- cannot done. as a social afHe said the Democrats had their two chlldren, Triciar-1- 4, and Julia, 12, -- and the mom!-nees- s at the Palmer House Thursday afternoon for. an open fair. it was strictly the first chance "promised everything to everyMrs. Hannah Nixon, whose orchid corsage mother, house hosted by National Committeewoman Dorothy Steven: for the two men on the GOP body with one exception, they was so large that she seemed a son, state vice chairwoman Helen H. Brown and state ticket to grille didnt promise to pay the bill.' ideas on exchange chairman Vernon Romney. We are not going to make campaign strategy. Within the next few days, promises we cannot- - and learn whether should not keep and we are Lodge may Nations ambassador's accept- Nixon wants him to continue not going to try to buy .the ance speech, one ltah delegate as U.N. ambassador or peoples votes with their oWn resign ot the post, clearing the decks-f- or asserted that lie moneys he said. Off-The-CuContinued from First Page But Nixon did make some ff campaigning. better now about this whole N.V. Herald Tribune Service est critics admit Mrs. Lodge of in Chicago own: he arrived When his for older promises with went Utah along thing. spates, NEW YORK Mrs. Henry doesn t look anything like thejc,i7PnSi health protection and Thursday night, Lodge said he CHICAGO (UPI) Vice to me. It is a great the choice of .The.14. delegates and 13 al- believed his resignation from Cabot Lodge and her husband traditional grandmother ptc-- more opportunity for a dis-- i mental effort. ident M. Richard Nixon Nixon and voted unanimously ternates started leaving Chi- the U.N. would be submitted the In rocking chairs. She ductive life; for the young twol been Republican vice presiden.lxon best basic education and closed Friday he spent for Mr. Lodge, cago Thursday at midnight in and anxious that his address come husband, who Is six the her, had have tial nominee, long we weeks set have it "I for the believe off preparing The states 14 votes were and by Friday afternoon, most up to thp Very hlgh an agreement when it comes feet, two and a half inches tall, the cuff acceptance speech set by presidential nominees ' that far, he said. cast by Helen H. Brown, state were gone. make a handsome couple. Lodge was asked about a to discussing politics, which brought the Republican in the past. Consequently, he vice chairwoman from BounLast business eI the conven- statement by Presidential Mrs. Lodge,-- the former EmMrs. At breakfast only, convention to its roaring cli- said, he had studied up on pretiful. tion session was the meeting Press Secretary James Hager-tmax. vious acceptance speeches, speily Sears, was born in Beverly, Not a said Lodge Thursday. not was the Although Lodge Friday morning of the new that he saw nb reason why no was There in front Dr. of cifically those of Republican . the script Mass., rest the of daughter word the. day. first choice of many of the GOP National Committee, Lodge should not stay at the of Nixon Thursday night as Herbert Hoover and Demo-crat- s phjsi- Henry Sears, a wealthy Utah delegates, he wasthe with Mr. Romney National the that Nixon grandlodge, only held the thousands of dele- Woodrow Wilson and otn ra rTcff Herfamilyca n rra ffrst choice of Mr. Nixon and Committeeman Jaren L. Jones and the Democratic running mother among the wives of the c!a i47afa If he Adlai E. Stevenson. and sitters gates spellgallery like and the Cabots the roots facwas the determining that and National Commltteewom-a- mates would be sticking to four major candidates, basked share of Americas ever-in- bound for 50 minutes. During the first Week of his tor Thursday night. their jobs as vice president in the international spotlight Lodges to the founding of the creasing prosperity. Dorothy Stevenson In He relied on extensive notes, homework. Nixon said, he After hearing the United last September when she 13 colonies. and as senators. Differ About Road the oratorical skill he learned read "in the field of philoso-a- s served as the .personal escort a star college debater, and phy, history, literature He Democrats that agreed to Mrs. Nina Khrushchev dura lot of boning some speeches. Aides were the have Republicans may ing Soviet Premier Khruassigned to do research, but same goals but said they dif- up. shchevs American tour. It went longer than I ex- the final words were NixonS. fered about the road to follow Plump And Plain Nixon told newsmen pected, Uppermost In his mind, he in' reaching them. The contrast was startling . . . And the record show's after (he speech, composing said, was the problem of how Mrs. Khrushchev plump and that our way works and theirs a speech is the hardest work to convey his beliefs to the I know. With you (newsmen) convention and the millions ' plain, a fighter doesnt, he said. in the 1917 revolution, and But most of the Republican it comps easy, but it is vpry watching on television Mrs. Lodge, tall five feet, candidates speech was deseven inches),' (135 By DfMUTti Newt Convention Bureau voted to his view of American pounds), blonde and with CONVENTION HALL, CHI problems abroad. He disputed enough aristocratic blood ,to CAGO The man who has Democratic statements that drive Soviet cartoonists into the United States is falling worked for over six months delirium., behind in military and ecoBut the two got along to stage the Re- nomic strength. famously. Fluent in French, publican NationNixon said the nation does Mrs. Lodge bought Russian al Convention need its maximum rate of took a deep economic growth but that this language records until she mastered a number of . polite breath of satis- should be achieved JfV enThurs- couraging creative enterprise, faction Russian phrases. She dressed down, wore shprt heels and day night. not by expanding government I'm glad this functions. protected her. charge from sometimes aggressive Ameriis o v e r, said ' Greatest cans. Utah National He expressed Challenge the belief that Last Febzruary Mrs. Lodge Co mmitteeman 4 Communist agAsaswJjaren l. Jones. accompanied her husband on was the greatest gression a reciprocal trip to the Soviet Mr. Joifr been a It has Union, Including stops in the great experience, but I am so challenge to be faced. To meet it, lie proposed that governfabled lands of central Asia. glad to see it end. ment foreign aid and informaIt was one of the high points Jerry has been vice chair- tion agencies be reorganized of her life. man of the arrangements com- and "welded together into one Discreetly Silent mittee, but in effect, he was the powerful economic and ideolFor all her traveling and man who put the whole show force under duties as the wife of the Unit-- on the road,, made the ar-e- ogical striking direction. the president's States ambassador to the rangements and' had 0 see When Mr.'Khrushchev says United' Nations, Mrs. Lodge that it ran. smoothly. our grandchildren . will live From a practical standpoint under communism, let us prefers to remain discreetly sisay lent in the background while of efficient operation and that his will live grandchildren her husband talks business. smooth running, the conven- in freedom, Nixon said. Tve campaigned with him, tion has been a success. Lodge, who was tapped by Mrs. Lodge said, "but Ive Tm glad people feel that Nixon early Thursday after never made arty speeches. I way. said Mr. Jones. Thats a post - midnight conference dont think IH be making any the way we planned it, any-i- with party leaders, was the the future but Ill do all I1 way. only name placed in nominacan Jerry plarts to be back in tion for the vice presidency.-ThMrs. Lodge atfer thinking Salt Lake City for the Aug. 6 roll was called and he for a moment told a reporter was nominated by, a vote of 1.331 to 0, after one Texan, Thursday that her husband's strongest quality was his who had abstained, decided to and his weakest the vote in with optimism throw his rest. quality that he works too , hard. Lodges acceptance speech STILL WORK TO DO I had no part In his deol-- l '"IJom-)i- s Thomas G. Judd, dealt almost entirely with chair-band'hus-s GOP The convention is over.but plenty of Work reformer Utah Republican sion, she said about her foreign' policy except whpn he mains to be done bn floor of International Amphof the vice man who has been executive- - was paying tribute' to Nixon acceptance REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS rState Sen. Sherman P. Lloyd, left Utah delegate ana canitheater In Chicago. Work crews are tackling the presidential bid. "Im over direetor of the arangements as one -- uniquely experienced job didate for Congress, reviews highlights of convention with W. Cleon Skousen, can6f removing chairs and debris left after four committee and my right hand in gov ernment. with particular joyed, of Course. of days . ' didate for governor and also a delegate to GOP convention. (UPI Photo) Even her husband s, sharp- - man, according to Mr. Jones emphasis on foreign affairs demonstrations, i. 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