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Nixon To Spearhead New GOP Drive
For More Popular 1960 Candidates
B JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, OP) — Vice
President Nixon is taking charge
of efforts to rejuvenate the dis
organized Republican Party. He is
likely to put the accent on youth
in doing so.
Although Nixon won’t bear any
such official designation as party
commander, President Eisenhower
obviously is stepping out of the
way to let his second man direct
the drive. Its aim is to lift the
party back into contention in the
1960 Presidential contest, after
i s shattering defeat in Tuesday’s
election.
At his news conference Wed
nesday, Eisenhower endorsed
Nixon’s call on party members to
r' art now to campaign for 1960.
The action apparently gave a
hardly needed go-ahead to the
Vice President to take over the
GOP political throttle. As a top
GOP Presidential prospect, Nixon
has a personal interest there.
Retcrns from the balloting
showed the Republicans lost 13
Senate seats while gaining none,
and were ousted from 48 House
seats while overturning only one
Democrat. One Illinois post was
still undecided. The GOP suffered
a net loss of five state governor
ships, counting a still tentative
ipset in normally Republican
Nebraska.
The Democrats increased their
margin of Senate control from 1
49-47 to 62-34. and that in the
House from 235-200 to 283-151.
One side or the other will gain
still another seat after an offi
cial canvass determines whether
Representative Charles W. Vur
self (R.-Ill.) or Democrat.. George
E. Shipley won a nip-and-tuck
contest.
The undecided Nebraska gov
ernor race hinges on a count of
mail ballots, which could upset the
lead Democrat Ralph G. Brooks
now holds over Republican Gov
ernor Victor E. Anderson. A
Brooks victory would give the
Democrats 34 state governorships
to 14 for Republicans.
Looking toward 1960, Nixon is
expected to bear down in attempts
to get attractive, youthful aspir
ants into races for Congressional
and state offices as a means of
helping the national ticket.
Nixon knows well that the GOP
candidate who won the most spec
tacular of the few GOP victories
had youth and a pleasing person
ality going for him. That was
Nelson A. Rockefeller, Who won
the governorship of New York
and thug moved into ranking as
Nixon’s top potential opponent
for the 1960 Presidential nomina
tion.
Nixon also may bring some in
fluence to bear toward reshap
ing of some of the Administra
tion’s policies which seem to have
helped bowl over Republican
candidates.
Staggering Republican losses
in the Midwestern farm belt could
contribute to some change in farm
polities, despite EisenhoWer’s pre
diction that Secretary of Agri
culture Benson’s program of tap
ering off government aid to farm
ers will go along unchanged.
Norwegians To
Build Polar
Route Airfield
OSLO, to—Norwegians all over
the country are offering to buy
shares in the company formed to
build an airfield at Norway’s Arc
iic Ocean island group Spitsber
gen.
The president of the company,
Gunnar Sverre Pedersen, said
yesterday that work will start
next summer on the first stage —
a 5,000-foot runway that can be
extended to 10,000 feet.
The company was formed two
weeks ago to build the airfield
in readiness for increased Polar
passenger and freight air traffic.
The airfield would shorten the
longest jump on the Polar route
from, Europe to the Far East to
1,800 nautical miles, thus making
it pbssible to use planes of fairly
short range.
Eisenhower Shoots Ducks
With Humphrey
WASHINBTON, OF) — President
Eisenhower is going duck shoot
ing this weekend with George
Humphrey, his first Secretary of'
the Treasury:"-- *’ ' !
The White House said he would
stop off in Ohio on his way to Se
attle to speak Monday to diplo
mats of Colombo Pact nations.
Flying from here Friday, the
President will go to the exclusive
Cedar Point elub on Lake Erie
near Toledo. There he will be the
overnight guest of Humphrey.
After leaving Ohio, the Presi
dent will fly to Tacoma, Wash.,
Saturday, to spend the rest of the
weekend with his brother Edgar.
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Top- Congressional
Posts Will
Be Unchanged
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Southern
Democrats will retain the bulk of
Senate and House committee
chairmanships in the new 86th
Congress, but Southern conserva
tives probably will find their in
fluence diluted.
With the Democrats sharply in
creasing their control of both
branches in Tuesday’s voting, the
top committee posts in nearly all
cases will remain firmly in the
hands of the men who held them
in the 85th. In many instances,
these men have been chairmen
for years.
In the Senate, this means that
9 of the 16 standing committee
chairmanships will remain with
southerners. In the House, the
South will keep 12 of the 19 posts.
The chairmanships go strictly by
seniority.
The only change in chairman
ships forced by the election in
either branch involves the House
Interior Committee. Representa
tive Clair Engle (D-Calif.) who
headed it in the 85th Congress,
was elected to the Senate. Ex
pected to replace him is Represen
tative Wayne N. Aspinall (D-Col.).
The election of many more
Democrats from the North and
West seems certain to cut down
the power of the South in the
committees, which can make or
break legislation.
Particularly will this be true in
the Senate, where the Democrats
have had only one-vote margins
on committees for four years.
With the Democrats holding a
62-34 edge in the 1959 Senate,
not counting the two seats from
Alaska to be filled November 25,
their committee margins will in
crease materially.
In most cases, there will be 10-5
or 9-6 on the 15-member com
mittees. With such a lineup, the
vote of one dissenter from party
policy will not be too important.
Alaska Steamship
Made 828 Port Calls
In Past Year
Palletized operation, gards, uni
tization, and containization are
new words in Oie shipping busi
ness, but of great importance to
Shlppers? in Alaifca. u :
This was explained recently at
tiie 'American Merchant'’Marine
Conference, by the Pfevident of
thfe Alaska SteantSHip Co-. D.1 E.
Skinner, who ShbWed the great
strides beihg niade in this 'new
service.
This past year, the Alaska
Line made 828 calls at 65 differ
ent ports’, in their job of serVlng
Alaska. These- ports Were ' from
Ketchikan to Kotzebue,5 which
was 2,500 milCs away from
Seattle.
Alaska’s first trip to the Terri
tory' was in 1895, With a load of
copper.
Since putting in the crib sys
tem, 2Vz years ago, the compahy
now has an inventory of 18,000
cribs.
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California’s Gov. Knight
Proved His Point
LOS ANGELES, Ut— “I wanted
to make this fight to prove that
I was right. And I proved it.’
‘The proof, Governor Godwin J.
Knight told an interviewer, was
that he received more votes in
losing the U..S. Senate race than
his fellow Republican, Senator
William F. Knowland, also un
successful, got in the governor
ship contest.
Nearly complete returns gave
Knight 2,054,528 to 2,634,496 for
the Democratic winner, Represen
tative Clair Engle.
Knowland ran nearly one mil
lion behind the states new Demo
cratic Governor Edmund G.
Brown. The vote was, Brown
2,958,997; Knowland 1,972,677.
Knight was relaxing in his hotel
suite a few hours after conceding
the Senatorial election to Engle.
He talked freely -of the Knight
Knowland rift.
‘T warned the Republicans not
once but many times that if they
succumbed to the temptation of
making an attack on the working
people of California, they would
be the losers,” Knight said.
World Title Is First
Ambition of,European
Boxing Champion
STOCKHOLM, lX) — “His one
ambition is a shot at the world
title,” Edwin Ahlqvist, manager
of European heavyweight cham
pion Ingemar Johansson, said yes
terday. •
Ahlqvist was commenting on
reports that Johansson Tyould en
gage in exhibition matches in the
United States. According to these
reports the hard-hitting Swede
would join German middleweight
Gustav (Bubi) Scholtz and for
mer world champion Max Schmel
ing on a trip to the United States.
Johansson also would fight Kid
Mathews in an exhibition at Se
attle, these reports said.
“Not interested,” both Ahl
qvist and Johansson said yester
day.
Ahlqvist suknmed up the future
plans for Johansson by saying
“His one ambition is a shot at
the world title. We are not inter
ested in any other arrangements.”
Johansson is ranked as No. 1
contender for Floyd Patterson’s
title following his sensational first
round knockout of Eddie Machen
in September.
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