Tame Campaign
Comes Alive
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK, !1P>—It began with
a yawn, and is winding up amid
war whoops.
In just six days the 1960 pre
sidential race will be over, and
Pat Nixon or Jackie Kennedy can
settle down to the serious prob
lem of what to do about the White
House draperies.
In just six more days everybody
will know for sure who has been
elected, and the many-faceted pol
itical battle that preceded it will
be part of American folklore .
A lot of people feel they know
the answer right now, but they
really don’t.
Polls can measure some things
about people to a limited degree,
but they are, after all, more at
tempts at measurement and pre
diction.
They aren’t the people them
selves. It is their unpredictability
that makes both politics and peo
ple interesting.
“All the straw votes show is
which way the hot air blows,” ob
served O. Henry.
The only votes that really count
are those in the nation’s ballot
boxes next Tuesday.
une ol the great mysteries of
the 1960 campaign is whatever
happened to all the people who
found it boring. Somehow they
seem to have disappeared.
At the beginning of the race, an
English newspaperman remarked:
“I can’t get interested in a con
troversy between two American
mediocrities.”
Somehow, however, that early
atmosphere of wisecracking
apathy and political indifference
vanished.
Two factors probably influenced
the change:
1. The performance of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev and Prime
Minister Fidel Castro at the
United Nations awoke a lot of
complacent Americans to the po
tential perils of a future they had
been taking for granted.
2. The series of four televised
debates between John Kennedy
and Richard Nixon further edu
cated great masses to the vital im
portance of the presidential choice
they must make next Tuesday.
Some said they found these in
tellectual clashes between the ri
val candidates flat, dull and un
inspiring, but millions of other
people obviously didn’t.
These face-to-face and mind-to
mind television confrontations
brought to the campaign the dra
matic excitement it had lacked
before. They brought the heat of
the campaign into the national
living room.
They made it a personal duel
between two men.
Massive crowds now turn out
to greet each candidate, and the
electorate is wide-awake to the
vital need of expressing its will
in a dubious time. It knows thor
oughly the men, the issues, the
dangers ahead.
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Kennedy Favored by Bookmakers
To Win Election at 8-5 Odds
LAS VEGAS, UP)—Sen. John F.
Kennedy is favored by Las Vegas
bookmakers to win five of six
big industrial states in the Nov. 8
presidential election.
The bookmakers have made the
Democratic candidate a 3-1 favo
rite in New York. The odds are
2V6 to 1 in his favor in Ohio and
7-5 in Pennsylvania, Michigan and
California.
Vice President Nixon is a 7-5
favorite in Illinois.
Kennedy is generally an 8-5
favorite here to win the election.
The odds were 7-5 in Nixon’s
favor shortly after the nominating
conventions.
State Receives $1,050,092
From Sale of Sealskins
JUNEAU, UP) — A check for
$1,050,002 was received by the
state from the Department of the
Interior today as Alaska’s share
of the receipts from the sale of
seal skins obtained from the Pri
bilof Islands.
Ross Leffler, acting Secretary of
the Interior, told Gov. Wm. Egan
receipts from seal skins and other
Pribilof products during the 1960
fiscal year amounted to $3,220,405.
Leffler said administrative ex
penses during the year totalled
$1,720,402, leaving net proceeds
of $1,500,003. Alaska received 70
per cent of that amount.
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J of growth and progress are before everyone s eyes . . . because
a s* r- f * ,yT| A a a / fhe restless, creative energies of Americans have moved our
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ACTION IN HAWAII New landmark in Hawaii's
economy is Standard's refinery. . .opening next month.
Creating new jobs, new payrolls and products "made in
Hawaii," this huge plant will cost $65,000,000 — new
progress for the Islands.
ACTION 1960-1961 This year we're investing about $400,000,000 to
find and produce the oil you’ll need...and for new plants and equipment
to serve our customers better in an expanding economy. Next year we
expect to expend a like amount, because the future of a growing America
will demand more and more oil. The best estimates indicate use of motor
gasoline in the West, for example, will rise nearly 4% in 1961 over I960.
That $400,000,000 is a practical measure of our confidence in the future.
ACTION IN ALASKA Oil is on the horizon — the first
commercial production. To speed it to tankers, Standard
participated in construction of the just-completed 22-mile
pipeline. Standard's investment in the last two years has
been three times what the U S. paid for Alaska ir. 1867.
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ACTION IN AGRICULTURE To keep the nation's
productivity rising we completed a $5,000,000 chemical
fertilizer plant this year in Washington. This month, in
Iowa, we started work on another, costing $22,000,000...
the sixth plant in ORTHO's wide spread agricultural family.
ACTION IN RESEARCH How far can
science and imagination commercially
"stretch" the molecule of oil? Into colored
plastic highways? Into a new wear-defying
fiber for clothing? We're backing our
research staff — 1400 strong — with
$20,000,000 in I960. . .to find new ideas
and practical answers in this age of action.
ACTION ON THE HIGHWAYS in i960,
under highway building programs, four
billion dollars' worth of new roads will
connect the nation with its future. As a
major supplier of asphalt. Standard helps
pave the way at lower cost. For asphalt
puts down three smooth miles of highway
for the cost of two in other pavements
Putting oil and ideas into action
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