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0 o oo e MONDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIByNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Try qnd Sfop Me oo o o By BENNETT CERF- A POLICE REPORTER irffcidianapolis named Heze Clark used to referee wrestling matches as a sideline. One night a ponderous performer was having trouble getting out of a murderous headlock, so he pretended to be chokRig, clutched at Ref eree Clark, then 'pointed agonizingly at his throat. His histrionics failed to move Heze Clark. In a bellow that could be heard 20 rows back of the ring, Heze told him, "You go ahead and rassle, boy. I'm the one who'll decide when you're choking!" A firm in New York ha dreamed up a novel boa voyage gift that is a dilly. Gift certificates are sold that provide a sleek car and chauffeur, meeting recipients at the dock or airport when they arrive abroad, , transporting them to the hotels of their choice. For about 11 t bucks, for instance, you can provide a chauffeured Rolls Royce to whisk your friends from the London airport straight to the ! Savoy or Claridges's hotel and that includes the tip for the i chauffeur, too! C I960, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Featurei Syndicate Matter of Fact a dent PREJUDICE IN AKRON Akron, Ohio - In the great sweep of 1956, President Ei senhower came within less , than 3,000 votes of carry ing this bust ling industrial city. This feat in Akron, re markable for a Republican, is highly un likely to be re peated by Vice P r e s i - Richard M. Nixon. In fact, Eisenhower's heir can easily be swamped here. This is the result that is in dicated, at any rate, by in tensive pavement - pounding and pulse-feeling by this re porter, in company with two able Ohio colleagues, Ray Dorsey and Bill Williams. The outlook for Nixon must be rated all the bleaker, because we found that anti-Catholic prejudice was already in full ferment among Akron's Pro testant working people. The places polled in Akron were three swing precincts, B in Ward 4, H in Ward 6, and M in Ward 8. These precincts were chosen because all three had given Eisenhower hand some majorities - 59 per cent In two of them and 56 per cent in the third - and had then turned in Democratic majorities for Gov. Mike Di Salle in 1958. THEY were just the sort of neighborhoods that helped Eisenhower to cut so heavily Into the natural Democratic majorities in cities like Ak ron and thus to pile up his gigantic 1956 majority of more than 60 per cent of the statewide vote in Ohio. The streets were tree-lined. The gardens were well tended. The unpretentious but roomy houses were inaivmu.j owned. In precinct H of Ward 6 on the hill by the reservoir, you really expected vice presi dents of this or that to answer the doorbells, instead of the rubber workers who mostly populate the hilltop. The people we polled in these precincts included no representatives o f Akron s mostly heavily Democratic group, the Negroes. They were also Protestants by a three to one majority r 81 to 27 in our very large sample of three precincts which cast a total of 906 voles in 1956. t ,.m those were iust the i. 'nolohhnrhnods where BUI b ui ' o - . Nixon really must do well, if he is to avoid Deing swamu in Akron. The figures show how Nix- i, rfninB. In 1956. the peo- i ,r camule gave 53 votes to Eisenhower and 36 to Stevenson, with 19 nov voving v.. i ah nf the same peo pie said that if the election were held today, they would . .. Nivnn: almost the same number, 43, chose Sen .u f ifnnprlv' and 20 in fisted they did not know how they would vote. WHERE Eisenhower had run - i . t five to three Stevenson, in short, Nixon ran only a hair better ... .r. ooatnst Kennedy. consider this Republican Jail-off among people who had gone heavily for i-isennowc. ? hor that Akron as t ...,.. jij nnt bo for Eisen. hower. You can then see why Nixon may be swamped here t. r.,.h thl DOSSi lunuusiy t. bility is Increased, as already noted, by the advanced state tho ant -Catholic lermcni. that if anti Catholicism v.crc likely to boil up later on, Nlxommight be aided thererjy. uui m m h. niriivl. because anti' cithniirlsm has boiled up al ready. Here the contrast was itartllngly sharp with the two northern Ohio country town hir olio heavily Protestant rtnrsev. Williams, and I had previously found little religious feeling and surpris- Joseph Alsop To be specific, Nixon ac tually owned about a quarter of his total vote in our Akron sample to anti-Catholic feel ing. In addition, there were many expressions of prejudice among bedrock Republicans, but wp riirt nnr. pnnnt those people as influenced by anti- Catholicism, because they would have voted for Nixon even if Kennedy had been a Protestant. We counted only those - former Stevenson vntprs fnr inctnnoA wlin specifically stated they were voting lor .Nixon on anti Catholic grounds and also had a Democratic voting pattern. THE same token, Ken- iedy no doubt owed his lead among the Catholic voters to religious feelings. A third of the "don't know" vote Ivne nlsr, pnmnncpH nf ctrnntflv ' ' " i -' " " J Republican and conservative Catholics, who were reacting sharply to the current of talk nmnntf thplr Prntfctnnt noiah. bors, or of strong Democrats wno am not wish to vote tor a Catholic. One in the latter group was Jewish. Such was the Akron pic ture, as we found it in this small but significant human sample. Its dingy aspects ought not to be exaggerated. The persons whose votes were religiously influenced were proportionally more numer ous than we had thought pos sible. They were important, too, because their votes were swing votes, largely shaping the outcome. Yet they were still a minor ity. Among them there were solid citizens, not really narrow-minded but seriously con cerned about the relations of church and state and. one must add, badly informed on the topic. There were few outpourings of real venom, to mar our experience in those Dleasant lealy streets iuu oi healthy - looking children at play. All the same, tnis straw in the wind we collected in Akron was somewhat disturb ing, and not for Richard Nix on alone. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Jackson To Accompany Kennedy to Oregon Portland - met - Democratic National Chairman Henry M. Jackson will accompany Pres idential Nominee John a Kennedy when the DemO' rratie standard bearer visits Oregon Wednesday. The' Are the beginners of today! START YOUR CHILD ON A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT NOW ...The cost is small; the re- arm. orjtat in rwinillnri t V ielf -con fide nee, and a lifetime of enjoyment. 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