July 23, 1964 (24 pages)

17 July 23, 1964. Nevada County Nugget. bChiine FOOL'S GOLD That Was The Week That Was--The 1964 Republican Convention “A man should share the action and passion of his times at the peril of being judged not to have lived"Oliver Wendell Holmes. A baby political elephant is born at the Cow Palace An eyewitness report. a» ie ee ae Photo by Robert Marshall It is not known at this time if the new baby is legitimate and is entitled to the 110 year Republican surname. The birth certificate will be filed on November 3, 1964. This baby was conceived the moment Robert T aft did not get the presidential nomination in 1952, had a twelve year_gestation period and was born at the moment Barry Goldwater was nominated in 1964. Charming Spectacle Despite Its Vulgarity 1 must-borrow again from H.L, Mencken writing of the national convention--"It is vulgar, it is ugly, it is stupid, it is tedious.. “and yet it is somehow char ming. One sits through long sessions ' wishing heartily that all the delegates and alternates were dead and in hell -and suddenly there comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour. " Those words were written long before 1 was an eye witness to what columnists will record as the most historical Republican Convention in 100 years yet Mencken could have written them at the Cow Palace on July 16, 1964. Ihad goneto the Republican Hdgqs to be sure of a seat in the TV camera room at the SF Hilton. Only a limited number were to be admitted to question former VP Richard Milhous Nixon for world wide TV through NBC ABC and CBS. I had played my very small part in the rise of Richard Nixon. I had witnessed his almost becoming the President of the United States by less than 1% of the total vote cast. I saw him stumble and fall in the California Governor’s race. The sand in his hour glass was now rapidly running out, There would be this international press conference, his intro~ duction of the convention nomin and his fade away from the political spotlight. In politics there is room for only the winners. Mr. Nixon came to the mike. In contrast to other years there . wasno applauding. He was wearing TV makeup, a light blue shirt, a deep blue tie and a blue suit (all best for TV). He answered most reporters by their first names. I asked the reporter from the New York Herald Tribune to take down Mr. Nixon's answer for me should I be successful in yelling down the dozen or so that popped up for every new question. When he answered my question and the Tribune reporter scrib-bled his reply for me I sat down lost in political reverie -There was that moment in the National Hotel, Nevada City, fourteen years earlier. Nixon was a candidate for the United States Senate. Earlier that morning Downey Clinch and others had’taken him to meet the day shift at the Idaho and Empire Mines. Lintroduced Nixon to those having breakfast with him at the National, Later he posed for pictures including one with Ray and Downey Clinch, Stanley Halls and myself, Part of that picture you saw in the Nugget last week. He went on to win that election and two years later to be elected VP of the US, Stanley Halls, Downey Clinch, Jerry Dodge and myself were invited to a Nixor, reception at the St. Francis in SF immediately after his election, There we heard the senior Senator from California Bill Knowland introduce Nixon. And later we were to see Bill Knowland run for the Governorship of California and predate Nixon in falling flat on his face. But Ah, the vagaries of politics as Nixon was making his exit to eam his living giving legal counsel to Pepsi -Cola Bill Knowland's’ star was in the ascendancy andin a few hours I was to witness Knowland making the seconding speech for Barry Goldwater. Later I was in the crowd of radio walkie talkie reporters surrounding Bill Knowland as he left the platform. That was the week that was. And my memory went back to the Taft -Eisenhower fight of 1952. And the trouble I had as Chairman of the Nevada County Republican Central Committee trying to pour oil to calm the turbulence. The Eisenhower group cared nothing about the long time party workers and the Taft followers. Emily Eastman heading the Eisenhower Republicans wanted husband Byron as 1952 Nevada County Campaign Chairman (a different position from county committee chairman which is elective). Cecile Shoemaker, a hard working precinct old guard Republican wanted Champ Williams to be Chairman. [had then as I have now the greatest respect for Champ Williams and Mrs. Shoemaker but the Eisenhower crowd had the money andthe killer instinct so necessary in politics, The Nevada County Republicans swept the Nevada County Democrats into almost oblivion in that election. And all we workers died a thousand deaths between July and November in 1952 until victory was ours. And so will all the supporters of Johnson and the supporters of Goldwater die their thousand deaths between now and Nov. 3, 1964. It is so. peaceful being on the sidelines watching the parade go by. Back to my long neglected petunias, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL, . CONVENTION REPLBLILAN GOOD ALL SESSIONS “POR THE PEOPLE” REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE THIS PASS PLUS A BRONZE BADGE AND A NAME PLATE PROVIDED A RINGSIDE SEAT TO THE 1964. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION -THE ‘WEEK THAT WAS. &9 0° 0G8 EittAlrne moss Oregon Creek Was Crawling With Red Efts For many years, trout season ; opened one month earlier in Yuba County than in our home territory and during those years Oregon Greek, Little Oregon Creek and Moonshine Creek were among our favorite opening-day.streams, Almost always we encountered, in the water or along the trails, one or more of those weird little prehistoric-looking amphibians, thered salamander or newt, Oneyear a full-scale exodus was in progress, from stream and pond to moist woods, The whole rainforest along Oregon Creek was crawling with the little red efts. When, ona recent Sunday, we came upon a featured article in the San Francisco Chronicle describing these odd little creatures as carriers of a rare but deadly poison, our interest was aroused. Thewriter, DavidPerlman, described this newly discovered poison as "60 times more deadly than strychnine” and told of an eastern rattlesnake eating a newt and dying in agony. Nowhere in his article did he state just how this poison might be transmitted to man. We were leftwiththe implication that here was a crea~ ture to be avoided at all costs. Yet nature guides describe the newt as not only harmless but an ideal pet! We decided to probe more deeply into this matter, so wrote the State Department of Public Health, and received this reply from Mr, Keith Murray, Senior Vector Control Specialist: "David Perlman's story was based on an article in Science for May 1964, The authors isolated a toxin from newt egg clusters that is low in concentra ~tion but extremely potent, The toxin was also found in adult newts, evidently in still lower concentration, From their data, I calculated that toxin isolated from about 20 egg clusters and injected into a human might be lethal, The authors also say that the toxin is about 1/4 as lethal when ingested. Thus it appears that one would be required to eat several dozen egg clusters or newts to experience harmful effects. “I can assure you, partly from personal experience, that no toxic effects have been encountered in handling newts, and therefore would absolve them from hazard as pets. “ Now why couldn't the Chronicle's writer have said that? There is already so much fiction going the rounds about poisonous snakes and poisonous lizards that we don't need a new old-wives’ tale to frighten youngsters in their first nature explorations. Sometimes the temptation to

17 July 23, 1964. Nevada County Nugget.. bChiine FOOL'S GOLD That Was The Week That Was--The 1964 Republican Convention “A man should share the action and passion of his times at the peril of being judged not to have lived"Oliver Wendell Holmes. A baby political elephant is born at the Cow Palace An eyewitness report. a» ie ee ae Photo by Robert Marshall It is not known at this time if the new baby is legitimate and is entitled to the 110 year Republican surname. The birth certificate will be filed on November 3, 1964. This baby was conceived the moment Robert T aft did not get the presidential nomination in 1952, had a twelve year_gestation period and was born at the moment Barry Goldwater was nominated in 1964. Charming Spectacle Despite Its Vulgarity 1 must-borrow again from H.L, Mencken writing of the national convention--"It is vulgar, it is ugly, it is stupid, it is tedious... “and yet it is somehow char ming. One sits through long sessions ' wishing heartily that all the delegates and alternates were dead and in hell -and suddenly there comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour. " Those words were written long before 1 was an eye witness to what columnists will record as the most historical Republican Convention in 100 years yet Mencken could have written them at the Cow Palace on July 16, 1964. Ihad goneto the Republican Hdgqs to be sure of a seat in the TV camera room at the SF Hilton. Only a limited number were to be admitted to question former VP Richard Milhous Nixon for world wide TV through NBC ABC and CBS. I had played my very small part in the rise of Richard Nixon. I had witnessed his almost becoming the President of the United States by less than 1% of the total vote cast. I saw him stumble and fall in the California Governor’s race. The sand in his hour glass was now rapidly running out, There would be this international press conference, his intro~ duction of the convention nomin and his fade away from the political spotlight. In politics there is room for only the winners. Mr. Nixon came to the mike. In contrast to other years there . wasno applauding. He was wearing TV makeup, a light blue shirt, a deep blue tie and a blue suit (all best for TV). He answered most reporters by their first names. I asked the reporter from the New York Herald Tribune to take down Mr. Nixon's answer for me should I be successful in yelling down the dozen or so that popped up for every new question. When he answered my question and the Tribune reporter scrib-bled his reply for me I sat down lost in political reverie -There was that moment in the National Hotel, Nevada City, fourteen years earlier. Nixon was a candidate for the United States Senate. Earlier that morning Downey Clinch and others had’taken him to meet the day shift at the Idaho and Empire Mines. Lintroduced Nixon to those having breakfast with him at the National, Later he posed for pictures including one with Ray and Downey Clinch, Stanley Halls and myself, Part of that picture you saw in the Nugget last week. He went on to win that election and two years later to be elected VP of the US, Stanley Halls, Downey Clinch, Jerry Dodge and myself were invited to a Nixor, reception at the St. Francis in SF immediately after his election, There we heard the senior Senator from California Bill Knowland introduce Nixon. And later we were to see Bill Knowland run for the Governorship of California and predate Nixon in falling flat on his face. But Ah, the vagaries of politics as Nixon was making his exit to eam his living giving legal counsel to Pepsi -Cola Bill Knowland's’ star was in the ascendancy andin a few hours I was to witness Knowland making the seconding speech for Barry Goldwater. Later I was in the crowd of radio walkie talkie reporters surrounding Bill Knowland as he left the platform. That was the week that was. And my memory went back to the Taft -Eisenhower fight of 1952. And the trouble I had as Chairman of the Nevada County Republican Central Committee trying to pour oil to calm the turbulence. The Eisenhower group cared nothing about the long time party workers and the Taft followers. Emily Eastman heading the Eisenhower Republicans wanted husband Byron as 1952 Nevada County Campaign Chairman (a different position from county committee chairman which is elective). Cecile Shoemaker, a hard working precinct old guard Republican wanted Champ Williams to be Chairman. [had then as I have now the greatest respect for Champ Williams and Mrs. Shoemaker but the Eisenhower crowd had the money andthe killer instinct so necessary in politics, The Nevada County Republicans swept the Nevada County Democrats into almost oblivion in that election. And all we workers died a thousand deaths between July and November in 1952 until victory was ours. And so will all the supporters of Johnson and the supporters of Goldwater die their thousand deaths between now and Nov. 3, 1964. It is so. peaceful being on the sidelines watching the parade go by. Back to my long neglected petunias, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL, . CONVENTION REPLBLILAN GOOD ALL SESSIONS “POR THE PEOPLE”

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE THIS PASS PLUS A BRONZE BADGE AND A NAME PLATE PROVIDED A RINGSIDE SEAT TO THE 1964. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION -THE ‘WEEK THAT WAS. &9 0° 0G8 EittAlrne moss Oregon Creek Was Crawling With Red Efts For many years, trout season ; opened one month earlier in Yuba County than in our home territory and during those years Oregon Greek, Little Oregon Creek and Moonshine Creek were among our favorite opening-day.streams, Almost always we encountered, in the water or along the trails, one or more of those weird little prehistoric-looking amphibians, thered salamander or newt, Oneyear a full-scale exodus was in progress, from stream and pond to moist woods, The whole rainforest along Oregon Creek was crawling with the little red efts. When, ona recent Sunday, we came upon a featured article in the San Francisco Chronicle describing these odd little creatures as carriers of a rare but deadly poison, our interest was aroused. Thewriter, DavidPerlman, described this newly discovered poison as "60 times more deadly than strychnine” and told of an eastern rattlesnake eating a newt and dying in agony. Nowhere in his article did he state just how this poison might be transmitted to man. We were leftwiththe implication that here was a crea~ ture to be avoided at all costs. Yet nature guides describe the newt as not only harmless but an ideal pet! We decided to probe more deeply into this matter, so wrote the State Department of Public Health, and received this reply from Mr, Keith Murray, Senior Vector Control Specialist: "David Perlman's story was based on an article in Science for May 1964, The authors isolated a toxin from newt egg clusters that is low in concentra ~tion but extremely potent, The toxin was also found in adult newts, evidently in still lower concentration, From their data, I calculated that toxin isolated from about 20 egg clusters and injected into a human might be lethal, The authors also say that the toxin is about 1/4 as lethal when ingested. Thus it appears that one would be required to eat several dozen egg clusters or newts to experience harmful effects. “I can assure you, partly from personal experience, that no toxic effects have been encountered in handling newts, and therefore would absolve them from hazard as pets. “ Now why couldn't the Chronicle's writer have said that? There is already so much fiction going the rounds about poisonous snakes and poisonous lizards that we don't need a new old-wives’ tale to frighten youngsters in their first nature explorations. Sometimes the temptation to