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s Eve Positions After Stevenson Declares
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By LYLE C. WILSON
United Pies Correspondent
Washington OJ.R) It's Ad
lai E. Stevenson against the field
now in a long, hard race.
The several
Demo crats
who also as
pire to the
p r e s idential
n o m i n ation
next year must
either fold or
stop him. The
man whom
President Eis-
Lyte C. Wilson enhower lick
ed in 1952 by a score of 442 elec
toral votes to 89 is the acknow
ledged front runner among the
Democrats at this moment. But
at this moment Stevenson is the
only entry in the field.
Eight full months of political
maneuvering lie ahead before
the month of the major party
nominating conventions. There
are politicians who will concede
readily that Stevenson has a
long lead today but who predict
trouble in the months to come
ithe other . hopefuls join to
stop him.
Stevenson's announcement in
Chicago Tuesday that he would
seek next year's Democratic
presidential nomination long had
been foreseen. Chief interest cen
tered on the public reaction of
key party figures to his open
candidacy.
There was a remarkable lot of
them who heard the news with
friendly interest but without
committing themselves to Stev
enson's nomination. Former
President Truman had no com
ment. Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York, a dark horse, himself,
jockeyed by Tammy boss Car
mine Desapio said nothing which
would prevent an all-out con
vention fight for his own nom
ination. Tennessee's Sen. Estes Kefau
ver observed that Stevenson's
"I will" opened to him the op
portunity to contest a lot of
presidential primaries. Kefauv
er's own presidential announce
ment is expected in December.
Stevenson said nothing of pri
maries Tuesday. But Chicago
writers report he will enter at
least four Pennsylvania, Min
nesota, California and Florida.
That excludes New Hampshire
where Kefauver earned his giant
killing reputation in 1952 by de
feating Mr. Truman in a presi
dential preference vote. Kefauv
er is sure next year to go back
to New Hampshire which holds
the first of score of primaries.
The date is March 13.
Big Delegate Slale
Kefauver split Pennsylvania
with Stevenson in 1952 and
divided Florida with Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell of Georgia. He
scared all real opposition out of
California and won the big dele
gate slate. Kefauver wasn't on
the Minnesota ballot but polled
nearly 20,000 write in votes, a
solid showing.
The various, strategies now
are evident: Kefauver to enter
as many primaries as .possible;
Harriman to avoid all primary
contests; Stevenson to enter a
select few. Kefauver, for ex
ample might not want to chal
lenge Stevenson in Minnesota
next year, a March 20 primary.
He was up again only a favorite
son in 1952, Sen. Hubert Humphrey.
Medford
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Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955 Pages 1-8
War Maneuver 'Destruction' Receives Study
Fort Polk, La. (U.R) High
Air Force officers began today
to evaluate the potential de
struction in a future war gath
ered from first day maneuvers
of Exercise Sagebrush.
The operation, largest war
games since World War II,
opened Tuesday with jet bomb
ers raining mock atomic de
struction on 18 air bases in 10
states.
It took just 18 small jet bomb
ers to drop the, equivalent of
more than 350,000 tons of TNT
For comparison, the Air Force
dropped 467,000 tons of conven
tional explosives in the entire
Korean War. It took 250,246
individual aircraft flights and
the job was spread over three
years.
The massive atomic assault
launched by elements of the U.S.
Tactical Air Command in Exer
cise Sagebrush was but a frac
tion of the nuclear explosive
power available to the U.S. Stra
tegic Air Command for preven
tion or winning of a global war.
TAC units assigned to the "ag
gressor" force lashed out from
Texas bases at the U.S. forces'
air bases from Virginia and Flor
ida to Louisiana and Arkansas.
"Aggressor" ground forces
moved forward in Louisiana be
hind a barrage from 280 mm.
atomic cannon delivering thous
ands of ton of TNT equivalent.
No immediate assessment was
available as to the damage done
in the ferocious, surprise attack.
The first few hours of the ex
ercise, which runs until Dec.
6, also revealed the almost im
possible defense problems of an
air commander attacked at short
range without warning.
The B57 light jet bombers
used by the aggressor went
through the U.S. forces' other
defense ring in a breeze, skim
ming in low where radar de
tection is tough.
They could then climb to high
altitude to drop their bombs or
use the low-level toss-bombing
technique which enables a crew
to put an A-bomb on a target and
clear out unharmed.
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The Minnesota Democratic or-N
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to Stevenson. But Kefauver well
might decide to make it a con
test in California on June 5. His
primary achievements made Ke
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ballots of the 1952 convention
which finally switched to Steven
son on the third.
Stevenson's over-all strategy is all others out of the contest,
as evident as is his greatest prob-His greatest problem is that
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