TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1960
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Kennedy Planning Gut in Number of Ranking White House Officials
Palm Beach, Fla.-OIPD-Presl-dcnt-elcct
John F. Kennedy
plans a marked reduction in
the number of ranking White
House officials when his ad
ministration takes office next
Jan. 30, his adviser on gov
ernmental transition problems
reported Monday.
Clark M. Clifford, a Wash
ington attorney who has rep
resented the President-elect
in dealing with the Eisen
hower government on orderly
transition of control, also said
after a long conference here
Monday that Kennedy intend
ed to abandon the White
House job of the assistant to
the President.
No Powerful Official
The post of the assistant
to President Eisenhower is
now occupied by Maj. Gen.
Wilton B. Persons who has
been Clifford's counterpart in
transition discussions. Before
Persons, the post was held by
Sherman Adams.
Clifford told reporters Ken
nedy wanted no powerful of
ficial between him and his
staff. By abolishing-the post,
Clifford said Kennedy felt
this also would bring him into
closer contact with his cabinet
officers.
Clifford arrived late Sun
day from a series of Washing
ton conferences with repre
sentatives of President Eisen
hower on the orderly transi
tion of government. This is
a problem that involves not
only getting new people into
key jobs, but getting the cur
rent job-holders out.
Before Clifford had been
in town more than a few
minutes, he handled an im
portant chore for Kennedy
receiving from the Louisiana
. Legislature a hot political po
tato involving civil rights.
Ask Kennedy Views
With much of the South
watching, a delegation of
Louisiana lawmakers flew to
Palm Beach in a state Na
tional Guard plane with a
resolution asking Kennedy's
views on the action of a fed
eral judge in restraining the
state legislature in connection
with the integration of the
New Orleans schools.
Clifford met the delegation
at their notel, listened to tneir
explanation of the resolution
and urbanely promised to pre
sent the matter to the president-elect.
Then he drove to
Kennedy's seaside winter es
tablishment where he was an
overnight guest.
Kennedy, according to his
aides, held long and inten
sive conference with Clifford
about his transition discus
sions with Maj. Gen. Persons.
Reporters were curious
about the selection of Clif
ford to represent Kennedy iri
the face-to-face dealings with
the' Louisiana delegation in
stead of the president-elect
turning the job over to one
' of several close (aides already
named to the new White
House staff, such as Kenneth
C. O'Donnell or Theodore
Sorenscn.
Acting Press Secretary Don
ald M. Wilson said only that
Clifford was "one of Senator
Kennedy's leading advisers.'
AckpH if Pliffnrrt was in a
rjnsition to sDeak for Ken
nedy on a matter of basic
federal policy pertaining to
the judiciary, Wilson said he
was not.
Clifford, who will be 54
vears old on Christmas Day,
is an old hand at Democratic
nolitics. and the White House
where he served as special
counsel to President Truman
until 1950 when he set up a
lucrative private law practice
in Washington.
Election Margin
Cut to 197,609
Wochtnotnn - iUPD - Votes
cast for the two major candi
dates in this year's presiden
tial election appeared Mon
day to have been more evenly
rlitfiriori than ovpr heforc.
As the unofficial tabulation
nf tho Nov. 8 balloting near
or) rnmnlpiinn. the Dercentage
hv which Sen. John' F. Ken-
nnnV iH Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon in popular votes
stood Monday at 197,609, a
fraction below the record low
set in the 1884 election.
Nnt until all the votes are
nffiHallv tnhulated next
month will it be known whe
ther Kennedy's percentage
margin actually was the
.mnIlAc( in hictnrV.
ainnut.i ... ........
but 120 of the nation's 166.-
qej npnninMc inri nnlV 8
small number of late-counted
absentee ballots still to be
tabulated, the United Press
. International s count monaay
gave:
Kcnnedy-34.026.623.
Nixon-33.829.614.
Others-448,388.
CONFERENCE HELD-Presidenl-elect John
F. Kennedy, left, confers at Palm Beach,
Fla., his vacation headquarters, with Clark
Clifford, his liaison man with the present
administration.
(UPI Tclephoto)
They'll Do It Every Time
iMH. By Jimmy Hatlo
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SEEMS TO BE THE MAN FOR THE JOB-
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Clark Clifford
Says Aide Job
ill Be Dropped
Washington Ball Club Has
More Attention Than Kennedy
Public Official in
South Seen Greatest
Danger To Peace
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington - The country
is waiting for the state of the
Union message President Ken
nedy will de
liver and to
see what the
first hundred
days of - his
new Adminis
tration will
mean to the
nation.
But this city
is more anx-
a Riot smiu lously waiting
for Kennedy's delivery of the
first pitch at Griffith stadium
to see what the baseball sea
son will bring from the brand
new team the nation s capital
will have.
If Dr. Gallup were to poll
the local citizens, chances are
more would admit to being
interested in the lineup of
players who will take their
positions in the local ball park
this spring that the names of
the politicians who will sit
around the cabinet with
John F. Kennedy.
The reason for this odd im
balance of proper values is
that the country has had much
better representation from
any Administration you can
name than Washington nas
had from its baseball teams
over the years.
When Calvin Griffith mov
ed his tattered second division
warriors out to Minneapolis
month ago, there was no
wave of indignation over the
sudden departure of the Wash
in eton Senators ball club.
There was a sigh of relief, for
with this move came the
promise of a new club,
Possibility of Chang
No one knew who would
organize the new club, much
less who would play on it or
how well it would do in the
American league standings
The point is no one- cared
half so much about these
things as they did about tne
possibilities of a cnange lor
the better.
It was time for a change
The local ball club, despite
such hefty homerun hitters as
Harmon Klllebrew, the strong
hnv from Idaho, was flounder
ing well out of the pennant
ran a SVmBOl 01 lorai snaine
and discontent. Not since the
deep depression days has tne
city had a winner. Not since
Walter Johnson has it had a
red hot player that hasn't
fallen into anonymity before
his press clippings were yel
low with age.
Where People Stay
It is sometimes said that
this is bum baseball town,
just because of its peculiar
makeup of people. There is
something to this. Washing
ton is the place where people
stay when they "never go
back to Pocatello," as the late
Dick Neuberger once wrote.
The new Kennedy Admin
istration and the congres
sional offices may draw new
citizen workers from as far
as Nome or Honolulu; but the
chances are better than 100 to
1 that these citizens will re
main in Washington for many
years, long after their service
for the government has end
ed. They will always talk of
home" in terms of where
they came from,' but they
won't go back. The capital
strange black magic has cast
its spell over them.
This makes for a great mass
of citizen residents of this
city who don't think of this as
home. They are transient
minded, if not actually tran
sients. They may even vote
back home and pay taxes
there. But they live here.
Somebody Else's Burden
To many of these persons,
the Washington ball team is
Cloud-Seeding at
Nyssa Planned
Nyssa, Ore. -fflPIl- The Owy
hee Irrigation District is plan
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the weather next month.
Manager Paul House of the
district's north board of con
trol, said cloud-seeding oper
ations would begin Dec. 1 in
an attempt to extract the max
imum moisture from winter
storms.
He said 25 silver-iodide gen
erators will be located in the
Owyhee watershed area in
Idaho, Oregon and Nevada.
The generator operators
will be notified by meteorol
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Winncmucca, Nev., when
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somebody else's burden. They
still root for the home team.
which has probably done bet
ter than the Washington team
anyway.
Others think a winning
baseball team would turn this
into a good baseball town.
This place is swarming with
politicians always looking for
winner. Politicians avoid
losers like the black plague.
There will be added inter
est to the new team, headed
by the chief of the Federal
Aviation Administration, Gen.
Elwood Quesada, a popular as
a member of the Eisenhower
Administration. If he flops,
maybe the Kennedy family
will keep us diverted with
touch football games on the
White House lawn.
Atlanta-fflPl)-Thc Southern
Regional council said today
the creatcst dancer to law and
order In the south is a public
official, caugm oitguara Dy
trouble, trying to meet the
new problems with old, un
assessed ideas.
The warning came in an
analysis of police handling of
racial violence in Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., Montgomery, Ala.,
and Little Rock, Ark., by
George McMillan, a well
known South Carolina writer.
Mcmillan made the report
entitled "Racial Violence
and Enforcement," at the re
quest of the council, an or
ganization of white and Negro
southerners formed in 1944 to
advance "equal opportunity
for the south's people."
The report describes the
basic need of good police work
as "the support of elected of
ficials and community leader
ship, expressing a clear cut
community respect for law
and .order."
Arm of Whit Race
"For too many years, in the
south," It continues, "the po-
ice were assumed to be an
arm of the white race to keep
the Negroes In their place.
Where this attitude lingers,
there is scant chance for the
orderly resolution of racial
controversy."
The reports lists three main
points: i
1. "Negroes In the south
are prepared to take overt
steps to change their status,
even at the risk of personal
safety.
2. Negroes may demon
strate in any southern town.
None can now count on im
munity."
3. "Traditional southern po
lice attitudes are not likely
to be adequate for dealing im
partially with the young gen
eration of Negroes committed
to the methods of non-violence.
They have forced a re
versal of roles on the south
ern police officer; now, to
maintain law and order, he
must protect the non-violent
Negroes from the whites. And
he must do, it quickly."
The report describes three
actual episodes, each with a
different type of violence
which can occur in the south.
Chattanooga s riot at tne
time of the student sit-in dem
onstrations, although not in
dangerous proportions, was
for the police primarily a task
of clearing the streets and al
lowing tempers to cool and
good sense to prevail.
Acted as Guardians
Montgomery's riol-"Whcre
the police, in the name of pre
venting 'trouble' acting in
their traditional role of guar
dians of a segregated society,
crushed a Negro demonstra
tion, in effect doing their job.
Little Rock's second school
desegregation episode "A
story of police resistance to
a planned effort by a mob
to supersede the law.1
The report comments that
recent disorders in Jackson
ville, Fla., had elements of all
three of the situations studied
"To prepare for riots as
Jacksonville did not even to
discuss the possibility, is dis
tasteful. Yet not to do so Is
unrealistic.
"In the continuing racial
crisics of the south, the po
lice have two basic responsi
bilities: to enforce the laws
with absolute Impartiality;
and, secondly, to maintain a
climate of public order In
which constitutional liberties
can be freelv expressed, by
white men or Negroes, by in-
tegiationists or segregationists."
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