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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 4, 1956 Page 8 Section I THE CAPITAL JOURNAL J ii i A cast a(to senl wcr T Presidential Duel Even in Pennsylvania Ike Appears in Front, But It's Still Any- body's Race EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an other in a series of articles by. AP's political reporters surveying sentiment in Key stales By RELMAN MOWN CLEARFIELD. Pa. Iffl For a ipecial ' set ot reasons, Pennsyl vania is a state to watcn as ine race for the presidency picks up speed. It has 32 electoral votes a quota equalled by California and exceeded only by New York's 45. Since it is President Eisenhow er's adopted state, both parties attach special prestige values to carrying it, Every major campaign argu ment touches somebody in Penn sylvania. It bustles with big and small business. It has great indus trial areas. In the mining dis tricts, some people are not work ing. And there is a patchwork of handsome farms many of them "family farms." Although Eisenhower appears to be leading Adlai Stevenson, most observers say it is sun anyooay s race. Two years aEo, for the second lime since the Civil War, Demo crats elected a governor George M. Leader and they have whit tled down the GOP registration margin. In 1952, Eisenhower carried . Pennsylvania by 269.000 votes, or S3 per cent- of the total of about 4,580,000. He lost Philadelphia by 160,000, and Allegheny County, embracing Pittsburgh, by 14,000. It was the areas in between, the small towns and farming commu nities, that gave Pennsylvania to Eisenhower. Let's look at a heartland area. Clearfield County lies near the center of the state. It has some small towns, some industry, cool mines some of which are Idle and many farms. Neither party can bo sure of Clearfield. Registration figures show the Democrats with 16,845 to the Republicans' 16,518. It went Democratic in a senatorial raco in 1950, to Elsenhower in 1952, then Democratic again in the gover nor's election of 1954. You discover that many people in different economic categories, and without regard to party olllll ation, like Ike. For example, J. Bruce Meyer Is a coal operator, an employer of miners, and a registered Dem ocrat. "But I voted for Ike in '52 and I'm going to voto for him again," lie says. A few miles outside tho city of Clearfield is a brick plant. You question 17 men there,' foremen, pipefitters, skilled firemen, brick . layers. Of 14 who voted for Elsenhower four years ago, 12 said they will again. "He has done a good job," said Roy Schattenbcrg. One of the other two is undo- cided. The other, Burton Knepp, said he was switching to Steven son. "I thought It was time for a change," he said, "but I don't like the change wo got." Few people seemed concerned about Eisenhower's heart attack j or operation. Typical comments: "He's in better shape than Steven son, I figure" . . . "If he thinks he can run, that's good enough for j me." I Democrats, wooing the small ' businessmen, argue they are suf fering under tile policies of the present administration. Newspap- i er advertising is usually an accu-i rate barometer of business health and in the Clearfield Progress, this city's daily paper, advertis ing volume is ahead of 1955. ; E. G. lddings, operating a gar-; age and service station, said his ' business is better than last year. ' He will vote for Eisenhower again, he said, "because lie has done a good job, and times arc good." N. Robert Bnir went into busi ness for himself Inst April. Yes. ' he had to borrow money. No, he had no trouble getting the loan. Tilings are going well for him, he said, and he has not heard of any small businessmen in trouble. He is an Eisenhower supporter. . But Morris Silverbl.itt, an attor ney, reported that "small busi nessmen arc complnining. I don't think tilings are bad. but expenses are going up and profits are being cut. " He. thinks the Demoernls will carry the county, but t tint fcisonnowor will carry the state. What about the farmers? Here you run into some contra dictions. Some said their income this year is below last year, an other said it was up, another said "it's about the same." None, however, said he was witching parties as a result. A part-time farmer, John Shifter, said his Income is up but tlmt he Is a registered Demorrnl "and I'm voting Democratic." J. Harold McKadden. a farmer nd a GOP official, said, ' there is no question that the squeeze is on the farmer." He predicted, nevertheless, that most of those In the county would vote for Ei senhower. Another part-time farmer, Earl Bachelier, raises poultry and he voiced this view: "Around here, people don't run to the govern ment for help. When our prices go down, we just don't raise o many chickens," He said his in come is down. In the mining communities, where unemployment Is greatest, the expressions were almost un animously in favor of Stevenson and the whole Democratic ticket. Men spoke sourly of "ghost towns" nearby, and said the federal gov-' ernment had done nothing to meet the problems of the coal industry, i When they would talk at all, I Liz Taylor to Seek Divorce HOLLYWOOD W Elizabeth Taylor, 24, says she plans a Ne vada divorce from British actor Michael Wilding but she declines to add whether marriage to pro ducer Miehael Todd, 48, will fol low. Miss Taylor said yesterday that she will go to Lake Tahoe early in November to establish the re quired six-week Nevada residence. She and Wilding, 44, were mar ried Feb. 21, 1952, and separated three months ago. They have two sons, Michael Howard, i'k and Christopher Edward, Vi. the action made no mention of rebel losses. It was one of the heaviest losses suffered bv French forces In single clash since the rebellion started almost two years ago. 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