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THURSDAY, JUNE 26. 1358 HERALD AMD NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 7 A Strange Political Storm May Influence I960 Presidential Race Editor'! note. When the voters elect a governor and a senator in California this fall they may be altering the course of presi dential politics in I960. Merriman Smith, veteran Washington report er for United Press International, has been in the state examining this volatile political scene ' and interviewing most of the princi pals. Here is a special report on the personalities and issues that will face the voters in November. By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press International SAN FRANCISCO tUPI) A strange political storm is brewing in California and it may have a profound effect on the presiden tial campaign in 10. Republicans and Democrats are far from unified within their own parties as they approach one of the nations most important off year elections this November. Their only point of interparty agreement seems to be that a Democratic victory in the state this fall could well impair t h e cnances ot vice President R ch ard M.ixon. a native son, to win the presidency in 1960: a Re publican victory would help him. ine issues are complicated. Or. ganized labor is riled up over a proposal to outlaw the closed shop, a proposal strongly supported bv Republican William F. Knowland who is giving up his seat in the Senate to run for governor. Knowjand's position on the nro. posed right to work law poses the question: Can Nixon, with his eye on ine wnne House, come into his native state this fall and support jvnowiana? Knowland is running against Edmund G. Brown, Democratic attorney general who drew 600,000 more votes than the Republican senator in last month s primary. Seeking Knowland's vacated senate seat are the Republican governor, Goodwin J. Knight, and Rep. Clair Engle, a doughty six term Democratic congressman. Engle, under California's cross filing system got 514.225 more votes than Knight in the primary, but another Republican, George Christopher, piled tip a primary total of 787,572 votes and presum ably the larger share of these will tration. Without saying whether they they have been advised from Washington, the top Republicans here seem convinced that Adams, because of his relationship with Boston industrialist Bernard Gold- shift over to Knight in the general .fidence in the national adminis election. Knight wants no Dart of Kno-.- land's stand on right to work aid says so. Engle wants to run as a team with Brown because of the attorney general's seasoned state organization, but Brown wants to go it alone. night to work undoubtedly is the dominant issue, but the name "of Sherman Adams may figure in the voting. Knight is banking heavily on Adams departing from the White House well before the fall campaign. Knowland onenlv fears that continued public doubt over the assistant to the Presi dent might well "undermine" con fine, -has become a political lia- Washington) was that the Califor- bility and will voluntarily step down from his powerful role at the White House. The basic impression from talk ing individually ' with Knight, Brown and Engle in California this week (Knowland was in Utility Seizure Lifted By State Teamo Union Faces Reform WASHINGTON (AP) - Court named monitors have started major crackdown to reform James R. Hoffa's scandal-rocked Teamsters Union. 1 The drive is being steered by Martin F. O'Donoghue, a veteran labor lawyer who for a time last fall represented the Teamsters in a suit against the union.' He told a reporter: "I'm going to call 'em as I see 'em. If they don't like it, let them blow their tops." O'Donoghue and two fellow mon itors issued clean-up orders yes terday aimed at Teamsters locals in New York, Philadelphia and Springfield. Mo. The monitors also disclosed they are checking surety bonds of Teamsters officials all over the country to weed out con victed hoodlums. Hoffa, Teamsters president just acquitted in New York on wire tapping conspiracy charges, has called a meeting of the national union's executive board here next Monday. The union's top bosses will have to decide whether to go along with O Donoghue or bifck him. Two members of the 15-man ex ecutive board are involved in the New York and Philadelphia locals subject to monitor orders. But it is indicated that if O'Donoghue meets opposition he will complain directly to U. S. District Court Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who ap pointed him. Working with O'Donoghue as court-appointed monitors are God trey Schmidt of New York and L. N. D. Wells of Dallas. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP Gov. James T. Blair lifted state seizure of the Kansas City Power and Light Co. yesterday, ending almost 10 months of formal state control of the utility. it was the longest of seven state seizures under Missouri's WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Two King-Thompson law, which pro-Wichita Bus Co. buses and an auto niDits serines againsc public mill- collided yesterday, injuring 19 t'es- inasspnsprs nn the buses. The state took legal control of; A chartered bus. carrying stu the firm last Aug. 31 to prevent dent nurses, crashed into the rear 19 Injured In Bus, Car Mishap a stoppage ot electrical service during a wage dispute with three unions. Two of the union locals agreed to a settlement calling for a 6 per cent wage increase but the third held out until last Friday night. V fc-21. m hi o t. ph. on. IP 1951 It, St I"f nia election this fall will be a mat ter of every man for himself. Engle is less than enthusiastic about the way Pat Brown siohoned off the best Democratic contribu tors in the primary, but he real izes Brown is the stronger Dem ocratic candidate today. Engle says he and Brown will run as a team; Brown says he supports Engle solidly, but he's out for himself "I won't take on Good ie Knight." Knight s attitude toward Know- land is mixed, to put it mildly. He'll support the Republican tick et without specifically endorsing ixnowiana. He is Hrmly opposed to Knowland's stand on right to work and wants the voters to know it. Engle wants a lot of top Dem ocrats, including former Presi "I'm afraid unification will seriously impair our fighting spirit with no battles among ourselves for appropriations!" Solon Satisfied That Top Brass May Testify Frankly Retired Pay Boost Slated WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 232.000 retired federal workers will start getting bigger pension cnecKs in September. President Eisenhower yestcrdav signed a bill providing pension in creases of about 10 per cent for persons who started drawing their benefits before Oct. 1, 1056. The bill sets a top limit of $504 a year on uiuiviauai ooosis. The bigger pensions become of- fective Aug. 1. The Civil Service Commission said the increases will be reflected in checks due in September. dent Truman and Adlai E. Stev enson, the 1952 and 1956 Demo cratic presidential candidate, out here to campaign for him; Brown doesn't. Knowland needs all the help he can get, but Knight is unsold on the necessity of either President Eisenhower or Nixon en tering his campaign. Knight says vigorously that he wants Nixon's endorsement, but hasn't thought in terms of Noxon stumping the state for him. Told of a report that Nixon will make three speeches in California late in the campaign. Knight observed that this was considerably less than the vice president undertook in the last off-year elections in 1954. Mindful of the high public in terest in the Adams-Goldfine mat ter, Knight said it might not be much of an issue by November because "he (Adams) may not be there He may resign." Engle said he did not think Adams would be an issue between candidates, but he thought the mat ter would make votes for the Democrats as it now stands.' "Adams has hurt the image of the Republican party." Engle said. "If I were in their shoes, Id fire him. Travel Pals Meet At Intersection Although the candidates talked freely about the Adams matter be cause it was in the newspaper pro minently, the big issue here still is right to work. Under California law, the voters, by petitions car rying more than 322.000 qualified signatures, can place a new law on the ballot. This is called an initiative" and the right to work proposal qualified this week for inclusion on the November ballot Simply, the law would outlaw the union shop, the closed shop and forced maintenance of union mem bership. Knowland is strongly for the proposal and by backing it, hopes to attract not only the conserva tives of California, but what he believes to be many independent voters who object to union abuses On this subject, Knight says: I have never endorsed Knowland and there has been no change in my position since last January. Right to work is no part of the Republican platform and never has been. That is a personal matter with Bill Knowland." Engle and Brown are sternly opposed to the right to work plan. Engle believes Nixon will sidestep it as an issue. "I think he'll (Nixon) take the view that you don't have to agree with a fellow on-everything. En gle said. Besides, the people are going to decide it on the ballot CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) In the last two summers the families of Harold W. Shuler and Hugh B Wayt both of Frankfort, Ind. have gone on summer vacations together. And in 10,000 miles of driving, neither car had gotten a rtiso Deneiiung irom ine bill are scratch. iz.tKHi widows who were ineligible under previous about ruled law. Employes who retired after Oct. 1956, draw their benefits under a different and more liberal pension schedule. They are not affected by the new hw. WASHINGTON lAP) Sen. Richard B. Russell iD-Ga) said today he is satisfied with new assurances that top military otti cials may testify frankly before congressional committees. Secretary of Defense McElroy apparently settled a two-day feud with a formal letter to Russell saying that "officials of the de partment, when testifying before Congress, should give their per sonal judgments and opinions asked for them. "There should not, in my opin ion, be any question of retaliation or penalty for such testimony." With that assurance. Russell said he will ask Gen. Maxwell D. Tavlor, Army chief of staff, and Gen. Randolph M. Pate, Marine Corns commandant, to testify sometime next week on a pending defense reorganization bill. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, naa canceled their scheduled testi-i mony earlier this week after Mc F.lrnv told newsmen he was dis appointed at testimony on the bill by Adm. Arleigh A. uurne, cniei of a scheduled bus at a street intersection, police said. The im pact knocked the scheduled bus into an auto. Elias Ruiz, driver of the char tered bus. told Dolice his brakes lot naval operations failed. ' McElroy promptly insisted that he had not rebuked The admiral and planned no retaliation. The Armed Services Committee is hearing testimony on restric tions to the defense reorganization plan added by the House and op posed by the President and Mc Elroy. These would require advance notice to Congress of any major changes in the present armed services or their functions, with chance for Congress to halt them. They also would assure any secretary or professional head of the separate armed services of a direct appeal So Congress in case of a dispute within the Pentagon or joint cniets of staff Otto L. Nelson Jr.. testifying for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, urged elimination of the restnc lions. . , . He said the secretary of defense must have clear authority to ad just promptly to changing condi tions and the needs of any threat to our national security." Tuesday Harold, 45. had to stop quicKiy lor a traffic light here. Suddenly, his car was jolted from Denind. He leaped out of his own car and ran back to investigate. At the wheel of the other vehicle was Hugh. 56TH ANNIVERSARY ft SALE - ENDS SATURDAY ALL CHARGES MADE NOW PAYABLE AUGUST 10TH . . . US YOUP CHARGE ACCOUNT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE TREMENDOUS SAVINGS! WILL BENEFITS UNCLE SAM TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) - Span ish-American War veteran Alfred llouser of Clinton Twp. willed $10.8:18 lo the U.S. government "in appreciation of all that the United States of America has done for mc as a veteran." and he'll back around it that way." Engle believes firmly this is Democratic year and points to the primary figures to prove it. Dem ocrats generally mopped up on me siaie uckci under the Califor nia cross-filing system which per mits candidates to run both as Republicans and Democrats. "Yes sir. this is a Democratic year." Engle told United Press International, "and I'm going to run as a Democrat and I'm going to try to keep Goodie Knight from hitch-hiking a ride on tho Democratic party." Brown believes what happens here in November will be a pow erful factor in 1960. "New York and California are the two biggest slates . . .and if Knowland is out of the picture. the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican party will suffer a tremendous loss," said the Demo cratic gubernatorial candidate. 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