Religion, Oil Depletion Allowance Give Kennedy Trouble in South
Census Recount
Gives Colombia
Major Headache
By GERMAN RESPINOSA
Bogota, Colombia-IUPD-More
than two million "lost" Co;
lombians are giving the gov
ernment a major headache.,
They're the little men who
weren't there when the last
census taker came around.
To explain: The last nation
al census, in 1951, calculated
Colombia's population at 11.5
million people. In 1959, how
ever, when it came time to
brush up the statistics, the
government estimated the
population at a, little more
than 13 million."
This estimate was based on
the accepted per cent ratio of
annual population growth.
. Estimate Horrifies
The national planning
board, however, has heard
with horror an outside ex
pert's estimate of a 15.3 mil
lion Colombian population at
the end of 1959.
The resurvey was carried
out by a Canadian expert,
Omar E. Lemieux, after a re
vision of official government
figures.
The discovery has caused a
great deal of official hand
wringing. Almost, you might
say, a state of alarm.
Every government statistic
relating to per capita income,
the cost of living, the gross na-
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'ORIENTAL' POLITICIANS Politicians
went Oriental at San Francisco during a
banquet in behalf of the Nixon-Lodge ticket
in northern California. This trio wear coolie
hats ballyhooing their candidates during a
dinner staged by the Golden Gate Repub
lican Women's club. Chief speaker was Utah
Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, center. At left is
Joseph Martin Jr., the new Republican
national committeeman from California in
whose honor the meeting was held. At right
is Mrs. Earl Louie, member of the GOP
California state central committee.
(UPI Tclephoto)
tional product, etc. has gone
by the boards, discared, ob
solete. .
Worse yet, the office for na
tional planning has had to re
vise its estimates of popula
tion needs. ,
The government is grateful
to Mr. Lemieux for "finding"
its "lost" peoples. It wishes,
however, he had done It sooner.
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Texas, Oklahoma
Favor Nixon in
Straw Ballots
By PRESTON McGRAW
Dallas, Tex. - IUPD - If John
F. Kennedy subscribed to the
Baptist religion and oil de
pletion allowance, he'd be as
sure as a Democratic presi
dential candidate can be in
September that he's carry
Texas and Oklahoma in No
vember.
But since Kennedy is a
Catholic and the Democratic
platform committee opposed
the oil depletion allowance.
he has a hard fight in these
two states that have a lot of
Baptists and oil wells in them.
Richard M. Nixon, the Re
publican candidate, has, in
fact, come out ahead - fre
quently as much as 2-1 - in
most of the unofficial polls
and straw votes taken since
the national conventions.
But professional politicians
and other observers reflect
that the polls and straw votes
before the 1948 election show
ed Thomas E. Dewey ahead of
Harry S. Truman.
"It is purely idiotic to pre
dict the November election In
September," Robert Hollings
worth, chief political writer
for the Dallas Times Herald,
one of the biggest uncommit
ted newspapers in the stale,
said.
"I remember 1956, when it
was looking pretty rosy for
the Democrats in Texas and
then the Suez crisis blew up.
At that time, Adlai Stevenson
was talking about disarma
ment and ending nuclear tests
and the voters left him in
droves."
Go for Ike
President Eisenhower car
ried both Texas - where he
was born - and Oklahoma in
1952 and 1956. There are 24
electoral votes in Texas and
8 in Oklahoma.
The Republicans in both
Texas and Oklahoma have
been united from the start for
Nixon. Not so with the Demo
crats and their man.
Gov. Price Daniel summed
it up for Texas Democrats
when hecklers interrupted
him in the midst of his key
note speech in the recent state
Democratic convention in Dal
las. "We are going to have har
mony even if we have to fight
fcr it," Daniel said.
And he almost did have to
fight for it. Arch - conserva
tives in the party wanted to
jettison the entire Democratic
national platform. Daniel
wanted to support the nation
al candidates without support
ing all of the national plat
form. In the end, with some
maneuvering, Daniel had his
way. The convention purged
two electors who said they'd
vote for Nixon in the Elector
al College even if Kennedy
won. It also barred six un
cooperative delegates.
Texas Republicans held
their state convention ' the
same day in Galveston and it
was harmony and Nixon all
the way. The most billigercnt
resolution denounced Lyndon
B. Johnson for trying to get
elected to the vice presidency
and Senate at the same time.
It is about the same story
among Democrats in Okla
homa. Many legislators and
other Democratic party lead
ers don't like Gov. Howard
Edmondson's "Ivy League
approach" to government.
Oil is always a sensitive is
sue in Texas and Oklahoma
because the economies of the
two states are so closely tied
to It. The whole Democratic
executive committee in Texas
went over to Eisenhower in
1952 for promising to support
a bill giving the states con
trol of oil under their tide-
lands.
The oil depletion allowance
- it gives an oilman at 27 Vi
per cent deduction on his in
come tax for any income de
rived from oil - is almost as
important an issue this year.
It can also be downright
embarrassing. Sen. Robert
Kerr of Oklahoma, who is
pledged to support the Kennedy-Johnson
ticket, is a big
oilman.
The Democratic platform is
for cutting the depletion al
lowance out; the Republicans
claim they are In favor of an
allowance.
But there are more Baptists
than oilmen in Texas and
Oklahoma-1 .500,000 in Texas
and 400,000 in Oklahoma -and
a large majority apparent
ly are opposed to Catholic
president.
They include Dr. E. S.
James, editor of the Baptist
Standard, which has a 350,000
circulation. He is opposed to
Kennedy and he explains that
he and other Baptists are not
opposed to him as a man, but
because of the "totalitarian
system" of the Catholic
church.
Expressions of r 1 i g ious
opposition range from the
vicious to the ridiculous.
Polls N.wtm.n
Richard M. Morehead, of
the Dallas Morning News'
statehouse staff, polled 15 cor
respondents In the Capitol at
Austin. The Morning News
supports Nixon.
Morehead said the corres
pondents predicted, 8-4, that
the Republicans will carry
Texas and the remaining
three said it was a tossup.
"Generally, the reporters
expressed the view that few
opinions are really changed
by political campaigns - al
though a larger - than - usual
number of Texas voters seem
undecided today," Morehead
wrote.
"The poll disclosed that
most of the statehouse writers
feel that Texans' reaction to
the Democratic National Con
vention was negative in July
and that the majority of voteri
still will feel the same way in
November."
Johnson's being on the tick
et probably has not affected
the religious outlook - he is
a Protestant - one way or tha
other in Texas or Oklahoma.
It will be an accident if ha
doesn't win at least one of
ficc, since he is on the ballot
for two: the U.S. Senate and
vice president.
Noninflationary
Growth Predicted
Washington - (UPD - Treas
ury Secretary Robert B. An
derson told Free World fi
nancial leaders Wednesday
that the U.S. economy in 1980
has been going through an ad
justment that could permit "a
long period of sustainable,
noninflationary growth."
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