University Dally Kansan
Tuesday, January 27, 1976
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GOP convention will put Kansas City to the test
By JIM BATES Staff Writer
A national political convention can make a city—or it can break one.
The Democracies met in Chicago in 1968, and when it was over, the public image of the city, its mayor and the Democratic party had, at the very least, been tarnished.
The Republicans on the other hand met in Miami the same year, and the city did such a good job of handling security that both parties met there in 1972.
San Diego, like Chicago, was a convention victim. It, however, was the financial risk that gave the city a chance to honor its financial commitments to the GOP; the convention had to be moved
In 1976 it will be Kansas City's turn. And, according to city officials, the city is willing to risk security and financial problems in hopes of getting business from conventioneers and, in the long run, drawing other conventions to the city.
Kansas City worked hard to get the convention and is working hard to keep it. For security, it is building a $50,000 chain of guards in the parking lot. Kemper Arena and its parking lot. In addition, a wall will be built dividing one entrance for credentials-checking purposes and a covered walkway will be constructed nearby. Governor's Exhibition Building.
According to the Jackson County (Mo.) Republican Party, $5 million will be spent on the convention. That figure doesn't include the time that will be put in by local volunteers who will run tours and perform other services for delegates.
The city also has to contract for more than 16,000 hotel rooms and construct a bullet-proof podium with a small, air-conditioned dressing room.
Still, for all the work and the money involved,
Kansas City is glad it has the convention.
It would be strange if it wasn't glad, con-
ducted, hard it worked to get it in the first
place.
Almost a year of campaigning concluded late this past September in Washington, D.C., when the site-selection committee of the Republican Party decided to decide between Kansas City and Cleveland.
Nicholson said that the city began seeking both parties, national conventions immediately after the Democrat's mini-convention in December 1974. However, it soon began to concentrate on the federal government, where the bureau, the city council and the local Republican parties virtually flooded the site committee with literature.
Letters came from civic and party leaders and from area governors, she
from area governors, she said. "We're practically surrounded by Republican governors Nicholson said. "We've got them in Kansas, Iowa. There are only 13 Republican governors in the country, and we've got three of them right here."
This had to help Kansas City in its drive for the convention, she said.
The real test for Kansas City came in late May, when about 20 members of the site committees and an equal number of staff members participated. A couple came about a month after 10 to 15 Kansas City representatives went to Washington to make a one and one-half hour slide presentation on the city's transportation, safety advantages to the committees.
Between the April presentation and the May inspection, however, the city made a slight improvement.
Nicholson said that the city originated planned to put the Republicans in the new convention center, which is now being built in downtown Kansas City, but decided in late April to move the convention to Kemper.
"the completion date for the new center was too close to the convention date (Aug.
16-20)," she said. "We decided to play it safe and not take any chances."
Moving the convention site probably was a good idea because the convention center won't be finished until almost a month after the GOP convention is over.
According to Gilda Manning, vice chairman of the Jackson County
Republican Committee, Kansas City were all out when the inspection group came
"It was a civic effort," she said. "It was a party of党, party of the government."
The group was given tours of Kemper and Kansas City and treated to a 20-toe dinner at the McCormick Place tented by Gov. Robert F. Bennett of Kansas and Gov. Christopher Bond of Missouri. At the end of the visit, Young Republicans met with Elsenhow to each member of the group.
Nicholson said that the city wanted to make sure the Republicans knew that everyone in both states was behind them and that the a mile to insure the convention's success.
When the site committee recommended Kansas City and the national committee unanimously voted to accept the reclamation of the Kansas City Star and a big feather in the cap of the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Of work seem worthwhile, Nicholson said.
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Manning said, "I think they were mainly impressed with our effort; the way they answered," he added.
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Nicholson said that the site committee chairman praised the willingness of the Kansas City people to contribute all they could to the convention.
Nicholson said though some delegates could have watched away a way to Topeka, he was not deprived.
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people went down to see the convention in Miami in 1972 and were glad they could
"It took some delegates longer to get the miles from their hotels to the con-
"He admitted the arena seating and the hotel arrangements might be a bit tight," she said, "but then, would Cleveland, and he thought any problems could be worked
ventham厅 at Miami that it will take them to get from Tampa to Kansas the said
member, she said. The Republican party has opened up its selection process this year. Machiavelli and will have 2,259 delegates at the 1976 convention. Only 1,483 attended in 1972. That creates an even better opportunity for people to get involved, she said.
'Is for everybody's own good,' she said. Nicholas said that the convention would begin at 10 a.m. on Monday and session. On Feb. 1 the convention chairman for the Republican National Committee will move in, she said, followed by the committee housing chairman at the start of March.
Less than a week later, barring a long,
drawn out nomination struggle, the con-
ference will be closed.
The platform committee will meet in Kansas City's municipal auditorium in the fall, and the delegates will be the last to arrive, coming to Kansas City about Aug. 13 <- 14
Kansas City has publicized itself as "one of the few livable cities left," while pushing for more conventions and tourism. At the Kansas City convention, one of the biggest potentials for growth.
Some people say these two statements are in opposition. Why push for growth that makes the city stand out?
begin construction of anchor booth and connections for 150 convention-floor
The two party officials will work with the
themselves and the arena in gaining things
ready for the playoffs.
Then, at the beginning of June, the press was trickling into Television network people to get information.
Manning said Kansas and Missouri residents wouldn't get any privileges when it came time to allocate the 8,500 spectator seats for the convention.
The seats are always divided up among all the men; she said "I really think it's better that we
She said many Missouri and Kansas
Nicholson disagrees. She said the important thing about Kansas City's growth was that people who thought the city could continue to grow and still maintain the livability that the Convention and Visitor Bureau hopes will convention and tourists to Kansas City.
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THE FIRST OF THESE TEN IS: "THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER
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The "ME" is the Almighty and Everlasting God, Creator of the Heavens The "ME's" the Almighty and Everlasting God, Creator of the Heavens and meted out the earth with their waters in the hollow of His hand,
"O GOD, THE HEATHEN ARE COME INTO THINE INHERITANCE,
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"Thou shalt have no other gods before ME." "Other gods!" There are other gods the creation of men and devils; made by the hands, minds, and imaginations of men inspired by the devil! Consider two of them. Call them "other god #1"; and "other god #2".
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created man in the image of some very low form of life, maybe jellyfish or tadpole, and placed him in a “garden of Eden” of the slime, scum, mud, muck and one of a swamp! There he grew, developed, and evolved a squirrel on the ground in timberland tread—surely you can’t keep
"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righthee do?" Psalm 127:8 and Lord with all thine heart, and unto not unto none understand," *Psalm* 136:4.
In man, and makek flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Them, and makek flesh his scriptures, and as seriously strive to be a faithful witness, seeking the Lord in them we might "magnify The Law and make it honorable" by obedience, much blame lies at our door for all this "raging", and it may be the judgment of God because we have so misreliently failed to give God the first demonstration and act, and only on our behalf they will be demoted. We should not forgive that only the mercy and grace of God that has kept us back from "sitting in the Garden" are doing us; we are doing us that God would "Open their hearts among them which are sanctified by the faith that is in Christ."
"Other god $j$ is probably best understood and seen by pronouncements of his sees and prophets. $j$ seeks to dethrone "The God of the Bible" by asking for the forgiveness of his sins, but they are terrible, the Apostle Paul said: "Knowing the terror of The Lord, we persuade men"—upon wicked and vile individuals, cities, nations, in the da of Noah, one of $j$ gods' prophets, he is still like another man—who is also $j$ god's prophet, and "in trust of the most of these prophets told us people who believe in and trust The God of The God" is *God* is my devil". By the way, all three of these prophets have held power over the earth, and they have the past decade all have visited our community and spoken in some of our greatest institutions—institutions which were supported, and founded, and all have visited our community and women, who with all their heart trusted in "The God of the Bible".
Also, it may be our duty to pray that God would either SAVE, or STRIKE: "It is better that one man perish with the whole nation."
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