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Political Roundup
Some In GOP Say
Nixon Not Winner
By United Press International
Despite a leading national poll
which shows Richard M. Nixon
running ahead of all comers for
the presidency, some top
Republicans are still not con
vinced he’s a winner and are
urging local party leaders to
“stay loose” for New York Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Nixon was in Montana today;
a weekend Gallup poll showed
' •n beating all three of the
4 150. sible Democratic nominees
by hefty margins.
The poll showed him leading
both Senators Robert F. Kenne
dy and Eugene J. McCarthy by
three percentage points and
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey, still unannounced,
by nine points.
Despite this Impressive show
ing, Sen. Thruston B. Morton,
R-Ky., and William E. Miller,
both former national chairmen,
have started a swing through
the Midwest drumming up
support for Rockefeller.
The retiring Kentucky senator
and Miller, who was Barry M.
Goldwater’s running mate in
1964, hope to meet GOP leaders
in as many as 10 states this
week as representatives of the
“Rockefeller for President”
Committee.
The two former party chair
men Intended to cash in some
personal political lOUs they
have collected during their
combined years in a number of
key GOP positions.
In other political develop
ments:
President Johnson— Gov. John
B. Connally of Texas said
President Johnson could recon
sider his decision not to run. In
a broadcast interview (Meet the
Press—NßC), Connally, a close
LBJ ally, said the convention
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might become deadlocked “and
It might become apparent that
President Johnson could be
more of a unifying force than
anyone else. Under those
circumstances, there might well
be a draft.” The Texas
governor also refused to take
sides in the race for the
Democratic nomination but
indicated he leans towards Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey.
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy—
The Minnesota senator said if
he were elected president, he
would fire FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover. In a television
interview (Issues and Answers
—ABC), McCarthy accused the
73-year-old Hoover, who holds
his job under a special age
waiver from President Johnson,
of making the FBI “a kind of
fief which is somewhat beyond
criticism and outside judg
ment.” He also renewed his call
for Secretary of State Dean
Rusk’s resignation.
Richard M. Nixon—The for
mer vice president said In
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sunday that
the current economic crisis in
the United States must take
precedence over any massive
aid to big city ghettos this
summer. He said recommenda
tions for big doses of federal aid
for urban ghettos were unrealis
tic.
Favorite Sons—The Maine
Democratic state committee
Sunday unanimously endorsed
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie as a
favorite son candidate to the
Democratic National Convention
in Chicago. Several other state
Democratic organizations have
endorsed favorite sons to avoid
early commitments to any of
the three main contenders for
the nomination.
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CEASE-FIRE BORDER—Two Israeli soldiers seem in good spirits as they keep watch on the
explosive cease-fire border with Jordan, in the distance is the Allenby Bridge, collapsed
Into the Jordan River during the six-day war in June 1967.
Federal Food
Program Set
Up In Harris
ATLANTA (UPD —A federal
food program has been estab
lished in Harris County, where
State Welfare Director William
H. Burson once charged Repub
lican Howard (Bo) Callaway
with blocking such a program.
Harris became the 146th
Georgia county to establish such
a program, leaving 13 counties
with no free food programs.
The Harris commissioners
signed a contract Friday for a
federally financed surplus com
modity program, Burson said.
The remaining 13 counties
are under threat of possible
federal action to set up an In
dependent federal program ov
er which the counties would
have no control.
Burson once charged that
Callaway, unsuccessful GOP
candidate for governor in 1966,
had used his influence in the
county to block participation in
the federal programs.
UTTER KILLS FISH
NEW YORK (UPD — Litter
bugs are the enemies of fish
and fishermen alike. A survey
of the fish and game depart
ments of the 50 states by Keep
America Beautiful, Inc. turned
up ample evidence that trash
thrown In lakes and streams
harms game fish and that pro
perty owners are closing their
waters to fishermen because of
littering.
Twenty-two states reported
litter is detrimental to fish life.
Such cold-water fish as bass
and trout were mentioned as be
ing especially susceptible to ill
effects of litter. Lakes and st
reams have been closed to fish
ermen in at least 10 states be
cause of littering, the survey
showed.
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DOLLAR INCREASE 1959-1966 PERCENT INCREASE
CHART SHOWS THE RISE in the average city worker’s
family budget in the United States and its 10 largest
metropolitan areas from 1959 to 1966.
Marchers To Build
D€ Shanty Town’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Demon
strators in the “poor people’s
campaign,” conceived by Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., before
he was slain, plan to live in a
shanty town of huge tents in “a
prominent place” in Washing
ton.
The Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference (SCLC), now
headed by the Rev. Ralph
Abernathy, King’s successor,
announced plans for the Wash
ington campaign Sunday.
Abernathy will start each
i phase of the three-pronged
march to the nation’s capital—
from the South, the Midwest
and the Northeast.
Designed by King to pressure
the Johnson administration and
Congress to take action to help
the nation’s poor, particularly in
Negro ghettos and on tenant
farms, the active campaign will
begin May 2 at Memphis, Tenn.,
from the spot at the motel
balcony where King was slain
by a White sniper April 4.
Abernathy will place a memor
ial plaque on the Lorraine Motel
balcony.
Abernathy and a delegation of
100 Negroes will lay the
groundwork for the campaign
next Monday by visiting various
government offices in Washing
ton to outline Negro demands.
King’s brother, the Rev. A.D.
King, told his congregation at
Louisville, Ky., Sunday that
”We are going to Washington
and disrupt Washington so it
cannot function unless it does
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Ask for Horace Fletcher, Wayne Edwards
or Eddie Burchfield
something about the black
folk.” If violence comes, he
said, it “will come only on the
seed of White racism and this is
not our fault.”
One of the goals, King said,
was a minimum wage for day
workers and porters.
After the memorial ceremony
at Memphis, about 1,000 persons
will march 50 miles to Marks,
Miss., home of some of the
nation’s poorest Negroes, to
outfit a mule-drawn wagon
train.
Abernathy will lead the wagon
train out of Marks May 7 on its
way to Washington through
Alabama, Georgia, South Caroli
na, North Carolina and Virginia,
with rallies planned along the
way.
Abernathy will go to Chicago
May 8 for the start of the
Midwestern caravan and to
Boston the next day for the
beginning of the Northeastern
caravan.
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Self Improvement
Stressed At ANPA
By H.D. QUIGG
NEW YORK (UPD—Newspa
per publishers of the United
States and Canada today opened
a convention keyed to programs
of self-improvement in news
handling and machine methods
—but with figures of new highs
in circulation a and advertising
tempered by a report that 1967
recorded “the highest strike
activity of the 1960’s.’*
About 1,500 executives of the
American Newspaper Publish
ers Association were expected
to attend the four-day 82nd
annual convention. Press rela
tions with government and
business and the problems of
covering urban disorders were
important themes.
The meeting found ANPA
membership at an all-time high
—1,017 daily newspapers. Its
opening day was devoted to the
annual labor conference, which
included a report from the labor
relations committee that 1967
witnessed 35 strikes against 32
newspapers in 25 cities.
Notes Prolonged Strikes
“We are gratified to note,”
the report said, “that in 66 per
cent of the strikes the publisher
was able to publish and
distribute his newspaper...it is
difficult to see room for
optimism in the present stae of
newspaper labor relations when
we consider not only the strike
activity that has occurred but
the prolonged and often abra
sive conditions under which
contracts have been negotiated
without a strike.”
Other reports showed 1967
daily newspaper circulation at a
high of 61,650,952 and 1967
newspaper advertising at $4.9
billion as compared with a
dollar advertising volume of
$2.9 billion for television, $1
billion for radio, and $1.2 billion
for magazines.
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The traditional opening event
of the convention was the
annual breakfast for editors and
publishers of United Press
International. Two veteran UPI
newsmen, White House reporter
Merriman Smith and Foreign
Editor John N. Fallon, struck a
common theme—the prediction
that there would be prolonged
fighting, rather than quick
peace, in Vietnam. Fallon said
a major battle was expected to
begin soon.
Won’t Change Mind
Smith said he was convinced
President Johnson intended to
stick by h isdecision to retire
from presidental contention.
Clark M. Clifford, in his first
public address since becoming
secretary of defense, was the
feature of the annual Associated
Press luncheon.
Scheduled to be heard in later
sessions were New York Mayor
John V. Lindsay David Rocke
feller, president of the Chase
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Wood, publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, will preside at the
general sessions. His two-year
term ends Thursday. Scheduled
to succeed him is William F.
Schmick Jr., president of the
Baltimore Sun Newspapers.
HARRISES HAVE IT
TAUNTON, England (UPI) —
Four men with the same sur
name but all unrelated turned
up in the same court case.
Motorists William Harris was
fined 12 pounds ($29) for careless
driving in a collision with a mo
torcycle ridden by Stephen Har
ris. The only witness was Frank
Harris and the case wag brou
ght by police Inspector Paul
Harris.
“This road seems to have a
fatal fascination for the Harris
es,” said the magistrate.