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10 i FRIDAY, OCTOBER S, 1362 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Old School' Southern Politician On Ballot for Election in Florida Miami, Fla. - IUPD - Not many "old school'' southern politicians they of the car icature (ace, stentorian voices and booming, polished phrases are still around, but bar ring a GOP upset Florida will send one to Washington this fall. He is former U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, who has all the traditional Dixie look and mannerisms but is a political paradox. Southern vote-getters almost always are staunch conservatives Pep per is a forthright liberal and a New Deafer from way back. He hadged not at all in the May Democratic primaries, where he defeated three op ponents without a runoff, in declaring he will back the Kennedy administration's pro gram down the line. Born in Alabama and reared in Florida, Pepper is as southern as grits and red eye gravy. His voice and gentlemanly manners give him the air of a movie version of an Old South plantation owner. Facet Unknown In the general election, Pepper faces Republican Rob ert A. Peterson of Miami Beach, a comparative political unknown. The race is in Florida's new Third Congres sional District the north ern half of Dade (Miami) county which was chosen from three possible districts by Pepper because it contains OPEN TONIGHT! 4MCMIIST IN HOMJWAHUI 245 S. Central at 10th a heavy registration of lab orers and liberal-voting Miami Beach residents. The winner will be one of four additional congressmen from Florida. A return to Washington as a public servant should bring a flood of nostalgia to the sentimental Pepper. He's been yearning to make the step for 12 years. For the 12 years before that. Pepper served in the Senate as the chief spokes man for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Pepper's beloved FDR used him to launch the administra tion's trial balloons. Lose! To Smathers In 1050, a young protege, George A. Smathers, turned Pepper out of the Senate in one of the most bitter political battles in Florida's history. The memories lingered un til 1058 when Pepper tried but failed to come close un seating Florida's other sen ator, veteran conservative Spr-ssard L. Holland. The PeppcrSmathers en milv might create an awk ward situation for President Kennedy. Smathers is a close friend of Kennedy. But Smathers has opposed some of the President's prime objectives in Congress, such as the medical care program Pepper may emerge as Ken nedy's strongest backer in the Florida congressional delega tion. Elsewhere in the South the situation lines up like this: Kontucky: A tip-top battle Is shaping up between incum bent Sen. Thruston B. Mor ton, a 55-year-old Republican who is almost a prototype of the Eisenhower-Nixon Repub lican, and Wilson W. Wyatt, 57, who attaches himself firmly to the liberal, New Frontier wing of the Demo cratic party. Kentucky elects seven congressmen and chances are good that all or all but one of them will be Democrats. Alabama: George C. Wal lace, an avowed last-ditch segregationist, has an inde pendent opponent, Frank Walls, for the governorship but will win overwhelmingly. The Democratic congressional delegation, with Rep. Frank Boykin eliminated in a pri mary runoff, is running at large rather than by districts because of court-ordered re apportionment difficulties. Three Republicans and a na tional states rights candidate also are in the lists, but the eight incumbent Democratic congressmen are favored. Georgia: Rep. James , C, Davis of the metropolitan At lanta 5th District was un seated In a hot primary con test by Democrat Charles Weltner, making his political debut. Weltner is favored over a Republican opponent, James O'Callaghan, in No vember. The only other cong- ressional contest in the state is in the 7th District where Rep. John W. Davis faces Re publican Ralph Ivey and is favored. Florida: The Sunshine State will cast a larger shadow in Congress after this year's elec tion, with four additional congressmen in token of its expanding population. Like Pepper, all of the Democratic candidates for the new seats have active Republican op ponents, and the GOP is con testing all but two of the old Democratic seats. Likewise the one Republican incum bent, Rep. William C. Cramer, has Democratic opposition. Mississippi: Only one con tested race in the five cong ressional districts. Rep. Ar- Softwood Lumber Case Completed Washington -IUPH- The U. S. softwood lumber industry Thursday completed its case seeking higher tariffs and a '0 per cent Import quota from Canada. Witnesses for Canadian in terest were to follow them to the stand on the thirj day .f tariff commission hearings on Canada's softwood lumber sales in the United States. E. C. Rettig, former execu tive vice president and gener al manager of PoUalrn Fores Inc., of Lewiston, Idnho, ap peared as the last key witness to give details of the U. S. industry's decline i.i output and employment. Rettig, representins the Western Pine association, said output had dropped more than one billion board l"et fron the Western Pine "-egiop.'s peak of nearly 10 billion board feet in 1950. He said an estimated 8,700 jobs had been lost because of the decline. 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North Carolina: Six Repub licans are challenging incum-j bent Democratic congressmen, i and the Democrats have put Rep. Paul Kitchin, whose seat; went with reapportionment, I into the 8th District fight' against the state's lone in-1 cumbent Republican congress-j man, Rep. Charles R. Jonas. South Carolina: The first big Republican push on a j statewide level comes with a i challenge to Sen. Olin D. Johnson by Republican Wil-i Ham D. Workan Jr., and a challenge to Democratic 2nd District congressional nom-i inee Albert W. Watson from1 Republican Floyd D. Spence. I The latter two seek the seat! of the late John J. Riley, Democrat. Tennessee: Frank Clement, one-time boy wonder gover nor of Tennessee, is seeking to return to the stale house. A clear primary victory over two tough opponents puts him in sight of the goal, if he de feats Republican Hubert Patty and an independent candidate in November, as he doubtless will. 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