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. MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1963 J Young Republican Chairman Pledges Neutral Stand on Candidates Editor'! not? nr. i-i-i-i water for president . . . R peal of the iederal incoma tx .withdrawal from the United Nations . . . arming of Cuban exiles. These are some of the policies advocat ed by the strongly conserva tive new head of the National Young Republican Federation, which has come to wield in creasing influence in the GOP. What if Goldwater isn't the 1964 Republican presidential nominee? What about the Birchers? What has been the reaction of senior GOP lead ers to the swing to the right by the "juniors?" Donald (Bus) Lukens, Young Repub lican president, gives his can did views in the following ex clusive interview. By RAYMOND LAHR And FRANK ELEAZER Washington-OIPD-Donald E. (Buz) Lukens. elected Young Republican national chairman after a public endorsement of Sen. Barry Goldwater for president, pledged himself to day to a neutral stand on po tential GOP candidates and promised to support whoever is nominated. But the outspoken 32-year- manship of the Young Rcpub old minority clerk of the lican Federation in San Fran House Rules Committee, in a Cisco last month after what he question - and - answer session conceded was a "tempestu with UPI reporters, reaffirm-1 ous" convention and what his ed his belief in the Arizona senator's conservative philos ophy; said a conservative Re publican would run better next year than a "me too" candidate; and predicted de feat of President Kennedy no matter who gets the nod. Lukens, a bachelor from Xenia, Ohio, is a self-styled "amateur" and newcomer to politics. He won the chair- predecessor called a 'night' mare" session at which police once were called to keep or der. Committed to Goldwater In his campaign for the two-year office Lukens, who previously had won chairman ship of the federation's Dis trict, of Columbus unit, pub licly committed himself to Goldwater; advocated repeal of the income tax, and call ed for withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations. Lukens, whose campaign and election prompted some concern among senior Repub licans about the GOP image projected from the Young Re publican Convention, said no body in the party hierarchy had censured him. And he said he had met nothing but friendly cooperation at party headquarters here. Q. Accounts of your con vention appear to show the convention was solidly for Goldwater. Is that a correct assessment? A. That accounting of the convention, yes. I wouldn't agree with many others. Q. And you yourself en dorsed Goldwater. How can you be neutral now? A. I can be neutral, simply by doing my job. The federa tion always has been neutral and as far as I am concerned, and as far as anybody work ing under me, it will be neu tral. We will endorse any Re publican nominee who has been officially selected. Q. Your predecessor in this job (Leonard Nadasdy of Min nesota, who presided at the convention) said that he saw in the convention evidence that the real objective of the John Birch Society "is to sub vert the Republican party and to seize control" of the party. A. I don't know about the subverting, and I am not a member of the John Birch Society and never will be. Along the same line I will not You Can Count on Us ... Quality Costs No More at Sears V;t :i:iiii): vu HOME APPLIANCE OPEN THURSDAY NITE 'TIL 9 P.M. Compare These Low Prices! Sears Kenmore Waslhieirs aimdl IDFyeirs 12-Pound Capacity Automatic Washers All automatic ... set it and forget it! Cold, Warm, Hot wash-water selections Built-in line filter; six-vane agitator Acrylic-enameled cabinet wipes clean! 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Could Hurt Chances He conceded that such a stand by the party nationally could hurt chances of some liberal GOP candidates from the East but said, "I'm more concerned with the fate gen erally of the Republican party than with any specific area." Q. Is it true you have rec ommended repeal of the per sonal income tax? A. In essence, yes. Q. Then where are you go ing to get the money? A. There are 20 different ways of going at this prob lem. The first thing of course is to reduce federal spending to its absolute minimum. I think we spend too much money for example in the field of foreign aid. In other areas, I would like to see state assumption of more areas of social welfare. Q, Wouldn't you have to pay more state taxes then? A. That's true. I m not against stale taxes. Lukens said he favors with drawal of the United States from the United Nations "as presently structured." He said the United Nations has not accomplished its mission. As a substitute he suggested cre ation of a "United Nations of the free world," as proposed by former President Hoover. Q. Do you have any general advice for the Republican party on how to win elec tions? A. I think what we have not done is sell our positive accomplishments over the past 30 years. This is one of the things this new group (The Young Republicans) wants to do. We need to edu cate the general public as well as our own party as to the accomplishments of our party within the recent years. We need to tell the people about our stand on civil rights, a stand that actually Is strong er than the Democrat party's. Southerner's Concern Q. If you do that, how do you also carry the South? A. I don't think that the South, the individual South erner, is as concerned about the civil rights issue as he is about the economic and social and political future of that, portion of the country. Q. In its civil rights resolu tion your executive commit tee appears to have come out against a proposed public ac commodations law. A. I have in my mind seri ous and sincere doubts as to whether it's a violation of a personal right to refuse serv ice or to insist on service. It has not been legally decided. I am not a racist. I am defi nitely, if anything, a liberal on civil rights. I'm for these people 100 per cent and there is no doubt that any citizen of the United States must have the right to vote, the right to housing, the right to education, the right to em ployment. But I do not want to confuse privileges with rights. Capitol Memo Program To Reduce Number on Welfare To Be Inaugurated PI By ZAN STARK Salem- (UPH -A concentrated program to get people off the welfare rolls is being plan ned for the coming two years, Public Welfare A d minis trator Andrew F. Juras said to day. Welfare programs i n Oregon dur ing the 1983 65 bienn i u m will cost $106.8 million. Of this totul, $41.9 million will come from the slate's general fund, $13.4 million will be paid by counties, and the fed eral government will make up the balance. Better services to help people toward self-support, and a closer watch on eligi bility will be among top ob jectives for the coming bicn nlum," Juras said. The legislature provided funds so the agency could hire an additional 124 case workers. Juras believes this can result in longrangc sav ings as more recipients are guided into self-supporting activities. New Program Planned The agency hopes to Imple ment its case classification program statewide by 1065. Under "case classification," residents who will respond to intensive assistance are sep arated from those who cannot benefit from such attention. As many as 200 of the non responsive cases will be as signed a single case worker, but only about 35 cases are assigned workers who deal with those who seem to be likely rehabilitation prospects. A pilot program in Multno mah and Jackson counties in dicated the system paid off. Plans are being made for a training program to enable ablcbodicd but unskilled wel fare recipients to prepare for employment. This program was author ized by the 1063 legislature, Juras said. Rehabilitation Work Eyad Also planned is a demon stration project aimed at quicker rehabilitation of dis abled persons through team work between welfare and vocational rehabilitation. Improvements in eligibility determination also are plan ned. "If only those who arc eligible receive aid, we can do a better Job with them," Juras commented. 'A new federal directive will require continuing re views of eligibility In all pro grams by next January. This order resulted from the na tionwide check of Aid to De pendent Children cases com pleted In May. Also given major emphasis in welfare planning for the blennium, Juras said, were improved health services in cluding' expanded payments for medical care, support for recipients from responsible relatives, Improved business operations and work simpli fication, administrative im provements on the county level in both business and so cial service areas, and staff training. Iowa Man Named to University Faculty Eugene - Dr. Arthur Mitt- man, presently director of the university examination serv ice at the State University of Iowa, has been named associ ate professor of education at the University of Oregon and will take up his new duties Sept. 1. For the next four years, he will divide his time between the school of education and the Oregon Curriculum Study Center (Project English). At the center, he will de vise and administer tests for the evaluation of a new se quential curriculum in Eng lish for secondary schools. Plans for writing the curri culum are just getting under way, and the new material will be introduced Into pilot classes in participating public school districts during the next few years. Dr. Mittman Is an expert on test construction and sta tistics and has extensive ex perience in the development of tests and other evaluations for a wide variety of aca demic subjects. Including all phases of English. , The new Oregon faculty member directed and conduct ed the research leading to the financial aid program adopted by the Big Ten athletic con ference and has been tech nical director of the Iowa Col lege Scholarship and Place ment Testing program. He received his academic degrees fnvm the State Uni versity of Iowa and has had high school teaching experi ence in Muscatine, Iowa, and Chicago Heights, 111. TWO SOLDIERS MISSING Seoul, Korea - A1PD - Two American soldiers swept away by the swift current of the Hantin river north of here were missing and presumed dead today, according to an announcement by U.S. Army authorities.
