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By ROBERT WALTERS
United Pnii International
Cincinnati, Ohio -UPI- It is
rather unusual for a freshman
representative to be- called
"senator" in protocol - con
scious Washington. But it hap
pens all the time to Rep. Rob
ert Taft Jr.
That any Taft in Congress
is almost automatically label
ed "Senator" is indicative of
the power and prestige, per
haps greatness, of Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio who last
it vi .raw o
sat in the Senate chamber a
decade ago.
Sen. Taft, the most emi
nent Republican legislator of
his time, died of cancer 10
years ago - on July 31, 1953.
He left behind a great politi
cal legend, a large and al
ready successful family and
legions of admirers.
Rep. Taft, 46, serving his
first term as congressman at
large from Ohio, is the son of
the late senator.
"Personal friends and dis
tant admirers of my father
approach me almost daily in
Washington and call me 'Sen
ator,' " says Rep. Taft. "Many
of them have the idea that
he represented their position.
They're sometimes correct
ari sometimes not.
"Often they expect me to
vote the way my father did.
Although I share many of his
ideas, I have to be honest
about my own political posi
tion. I suppose it's something
I'll live with all my . life."
Although widely known as
"Mr. Republican, the late
senator was usually identi
fied with the party's conserv
ative wing. As a result of
that work, the younger Taft
says his support, has been
sought by those backing Sen.
Barry Goldwater for the Re
publican presidential nomina
tion. But Taft, his own political
future uncertain, has thus far
refused to endorse any po
tential candidate.
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FAMILY REUNION- Here is the Ohio Taft family, part
of the family tree which is eight generations old and
several thousand members strong. This family portrait
was made in 1921. Front row (L-R) are Mrs. Charles
Phelps Taft, with her daughter, Eleanor; Mrs. William
Howard Taft, with grandson, Robert, Jr.; William Howard
Taft. with grandson, William Howard III; and Mrs. Rob
ert Taft. Back row (L-R) are; Frederick J. Manning; his
wife, former Helen Taft; Robert, Maria, Horace and
Charles Phelps Taft. (UP1)
Forest Soils Conference Scheduled in Corvallis
Corvallis - Foresters and
forest soils scientists from
throughout the United States,
Canada and Mexico will be at
Oregon State university Aug.
26 to 31 for the second North
American Forest Soils Confer
ence. The first such conference
was held five years ago in
Michigan.
Joining with the university
in sponsoring the conference
are the Soil Science Society
Area Horses Place
First in Yreka Event
Flash and Vee Vee Reed,
horses owned by Ralph Car
rell, Butte Falls highway,
took first places in the filly
and mare classes at the first
annual Yreka Horse show re
cently. The Carrells, who operate
a quarter horse ranch in
Eagle Point', also plan to
show several quarter horses
at the 42nd annual Josephine
County fair, Aug. 24.
of America and the Society
of American Foresters. Ore
gon's Gov. Mark O. Hatfield
will be speaker for the Aug.
27 banquet.
The conferences are organ
ized periodically to review
and' discuss recent research
contributions in forest soils,
soil classification and surveys,
and the use and application
of soils information in various
phases of forest land manage
ment. Keynote Address
"Fitting Forest Users to
Forest Soils" will be the topic
for the opening keynote ad
dress by C. A. Connaughton,
regional forester for the
U. S. forest service, San Fran
cisco. Now vice president of
the American Forestry Asso
c i a t i o n, Connaughton was
president of the Society of
American Foresters in 1960
61. Research workers from
throughout North America
will present 36 scientific pa
pers during the first three
days of the conference and
Grand Opening
Schulzke's
GERMAN SAUSAGE
and DELICATESSEN
(Formerly European Sausage)
FRIDAY &
SATURDAY
8:00 to 6:00
(Closed Sunday's)
then go on field trips the final
three days through the forests
of the Alsea Basin, the Cas
cade Mountains and Central
Oregon.
Research papers will cover
such topics as seasonal pat
tern of nutrient absorption
by forest trees, movement of
floor, nitrogen accretion in
forest soils, soil physical prop
erties related to erosion haz
ard, the influence of individ
ual soil and physiographic
factors on the growth of
Douglas-fir, and drainage
patterns and their signifi
cance to soil and water man
elements through the forest agement of mountain lands.
He has been mentioned as
a possible vice presidential
running mate for New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, but
the party's wide-open race
for the top spot on the ticket
has left that trial balloon
suspended.
Regarded as a more likely
possibility for Taft is a 1964
race of the U. S. Senate. To
successfully follow his fa
ther's footsteps in the Senate,
Taft would have to defeat
almost-certain opposition in
the GOP primary Bnd then
unseat Democratic Sen. Ste
phen Young.
Not Committed
To date, Taft has refused
co commit himself to any
thing but completion of his
present term in Congress.
Although the best known,
Robert Jr. is only one of four
sons of the late senator. The
eldest, William Howard III,
foreign service officer, a
member of the Science Ad
visory council to the secretary
of state, recently completed
assignments in Mozambique
and Ireland.
The other tjrothers are
Lloyd, 40, a member of the
New York Investment Bank
ing firm, and Horace, 38, an
associate professor of physics
at Yale university.
One of Rep. Taft's two
daughters, Sarah, 20, a Rad
cliffe college junior, last
month became the first of
the senator's grandchildren to
marry.
Only a few weeks earlier
her older brother, Robert A.
II, 21, graduated from Yale.
He plans to attend law school.
Taft's two other children are
Deborah, 16, now attending
the Concord school, in Con
cord, Mass., and Jonathan,
going to school in Washing
ton. Senator Taft was one of
three children of William
Howard Taft, president of the
United States from 1909 to
1912. Both his brother and
sister are alive today and
active in community affairs.
Keeps Family Tree
Charles P. Taft II, 67, is
an attorney, member of the
Cincinnati city council, unof
ficial "keeper of the family
tree" and a power in the
city's charter committee, a
coalition of independent Re
publicans and Democrats
which once held a majority
on council but now plays a
somewhat lesser role in city
politics.
He held a number of vital
government posts during
World War II, was the first
lay president of the Federal
Council of Churches and cur
rently devotes much of his
time to promoting expanded
international trade.
His sister, Mrs. Helen Her
ron Taft Manning, is the old
est surviving member of the
family. A resident of Haver
ford, Pa., she only recently
retired as head of the history
department at nearby Bryn
Mawr college. Since that time
she has accepted several tem
porary teaching assignments
in Texas, including one at
the University of Texas.
The Ohio Tafts - not to be
confused with the thousands
of other Tafts across the coun
try who are members of other
branches of the family - trace
their lineage back to Alphon
so Taft, who settled in Cin
cinnati in 1838.
Served Under Grant
Alphonso, secretary of war
and attorney general under
President Ulysses S. Grant,
was married twice and had
six children, one of whom
was William Howard.
Going back even further,
the entire family Is believed
to be descended from a Rob
ert Taft or Taffe who eml
grated from Scotland with
his wife Sarah around 1670
and was the father of five
sons. A carpenter by trade,
he first lived in Braintrec,
Mass., and then settled in
Mendon, Mass. Although not
a lettered man, he was a
Mendon selectman and an In
fluential landowner.
Amateur historian Charles
P. II notes with pride that
Alphonso's great-grandfather
on his mother's side was Ed
ward Rawson, secretary of
the Massachusetts Bay Col
ony. The Taft family takes offi
cial note of all this tradition
every five years at a mass
reunion in Mendon, continu
ing a practice that started in
1874. The most recent gath
erings, in 1955 and 1960, at
tracted approximately 300
Tafts. Another is scheduled
for 1965.
8 Generations Old
Eight generations old and
several thousand members
strong - Charles is not sure
of the exact total - the fam
ily's influence can be best
visualized by describing the
activities of some of Its mem
bers: -Eleanor, one of Charles'
children, is the wife of a Se
attle, Wash., surgeon.
-Her two sisters are Sylvia,
married to the head of the
physiology department at the
University of Rochester, N.Y
and Cynthia, the wife of the
liaison official between the
U. S. State department and
the National Aeronautics and
Space agency.
-Hulbert, a half-brother of
the late senator, built the
Cincinnati Times-Star into a
major newspaper prior to his
death in 1959.
-His son, H ilbert Jr., is
chairman of the board of the
Taft Broadcasting Co., which
operates radio and television
stations in Cincinnati, Colum-1
bus, Ohio, Birmingham, Ala.,
and Lexington, Ky.
-Former Agriculture Secre
tary Ezra Taft Benson is a
member of still another
branch of the family.
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