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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
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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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by independent Sterling
Davis.
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. Democrats are challeng
ing for the two traditionally
Republican congressional
seats in east Tennessee and
Republicans seek to unseat
the Democrats in the state'!
other congressional districts.
Virginia: Four incumbent
Democratic congressmen are
I unopposed. Republicans are
challenging lor lour oiner
Democratic seats and Demo
crats are trying to unhors
the two Virginia GOP cong
ressmen, J. T. Broyhill and
Richard H. Poff.
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