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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Sept. 29, 1954
GOP Must Sharpen Strategy, Nixon Says
Washington — (U,P) Vice President Richard M. Nixon brought back from his recent midwestern political swing a sobering report that the Republican party lags in the campaign for House control in the next Congress.
Mr. Nixon also has reported to party leaders that the Republicans are about even in the race for the Senate. But he is confident an aggressive Republican campaign from now until election day, Nov. 2, will win for his party.
The burden of Mr. Nixon's report seems to be that the trend is against the Republicans right now, but that it can be turned by smartly aggressive political strategy.
Top strategy involves President Eisenhower. Mr. Nixon and others believe the President's recent political speech in Los Angeles was enormously effective. They hope for two and, possibly, three more major Eisenhower political speeches.
Mr. Nixon's estimate of the Senate-House contest is about the same now as when he outlined it in closed session several weeks ago to party workers in Ohio. That outline leaked to the press.
The Vice President's current report to party leaders cited voters' apathy and divisions among some state Republican organizations regarding candidates as two factors hurting the Republican cause.
But he also found that some of the organization disputes were easing, notably in Illinois and Indiana. And he was confident that the angry split among Republicans in New Jersey would not prevent the election of Clifford P. Case to the Senate. Refusal of Fred A. Hartley Jr. yesterday to become a Republican write-in candidate in opposition to Mr. Case appears to support Mr. Nixon's judgment there. He thinks the Case opposition within the New Jersey Republican party is being cut down to size.
Mr. Nixon said he considered the McCarthy issue to be a dead duck for lack of current public interest.
White House Tied to Censure
Washington - (U.R.)- Sources close to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today they think the White House staff had a hand in the move to censure the controversial Wisconsin Republian.
They told reporters they have heard presidential assistant Sherman Adams took an active interest in the censure proceedings and conferred at least once with Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.) who introduced the original censure motion.
A White House spokesman here took sharp issue with this report. He said, "The White House at no time involves itself with congressional hearings and it never will."
There was no immediate comment from the Summer White House in Denver. But President Eisenhower has consistently maintained a hands-off attitude on the censure fight. He told a press conference Aug. 4 that it was the Senate's business.
A special Senate committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) recommended Monday that Sen. McCarthy be censured on the charges.
Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland and Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson have issued a call for a Senate meeting starting Nov. 8 to consider the committee's recommendation.
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Atlantic City, N.J. (U.P.) - Honking of automobile horns to start newlyweds on their wedding trips was banned yesterday by Public Safety Director Thomas B. Wooton, who said its not only a nuisance but "embarrassing to the newlyweds."
United Nations, N.Y. — (U.P.) The United Nations General Assembly took a breather today in preparation for an exchange between Russia and the West later this week in its policy debate.
Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky was scheduled for a major policy speech to the assembly tomorrow morning. Informed sources said Mr. Vishinsky's speech would be "conciliatory in tone."
British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd, originally listed to speak this afternoon, rescheduled his appearance for Friday morning, when he will be in position to offer rebuttal to whatever attacks the veteran Soviet diplomat may launch against the West.
2,700 Miles Each Way一
American strategists, whose policy has been to answer the Russians whenever they make a major statement here, appeared content to leave the task to Mr. Lloyd this time.
Panama, South Africa, and Cuba were the only delegations listing speakers for today, so assembly president Eelco N. Van Kleffens of The Netherlands cancelled this morning's session and scheduled the 60-nation world parliament for a 2 p.m., CST, meeting.
Embarrassing Toots Out for Newlyweds
Grandma, 70, Still Thumbing
Lots of folks do that these days, including other grandmothers edging on 70. But not like Mrs. du Bois.
Thendara, N.Y.—(U.P.)-Mrs. Florence duBois will leave Friday on another 2700-mile trip.
A leading manufacturer of dictation equipment recently announced that executives can now have centralized equipment for as little as $115 each, about one-third of the cost three years ago.
with a small suitcase at her side, she politely gestures westward. Before leaving, she also carefully pins on a Phi Beta Kappa key.
She's been hitchhiking cross-country twice a year for a dozen years now. And while "the thumb method" isn't the easiest way, it's the cheapest to commute between this tiny Adirondacks village and Tucson. Ariz.
Kansas City—(U.P.)—An arson investigation turned up an incredible story of city-wide organization of teenagers who accepted the burning of a school building as a membership ticket and, if the story of one boy was true, was responsible for an estimated $50,000 in school fire losses.
He said the organization, whose members were identified by pierced ears from which they dangled earrings, included in its career a fire which destroyed the flood-damaged Morse school in 1953. The insurance settlement on the building was $3.000.
The long-distance switch from currying horses to teaching involves little preparation from Mrs. du Bois. She boards her seven horses at a farm, puts on a dark dress and sturdy oxfords and heads for the nearest highway.
Stockmen and ranchers in the counties now may buy feed at reduced prices and may save on transportation costs of hay for their foundation cattle herds. A 60 cents per-hundred-pounds discount is given on grain feeds and half the hay hauling charge is repaid from federal funds.
Road Bids Total $1,717,000
Police questioned a 16-year-old youth yesterday in connection with a fire Saturday at the Central Junior High school.
Topeka—(U.P.)—Approval of contracts totaling $1,717,000 for road work in central and northwestern Kansas was announced last night by the Kansas Highway commission.
He told officers he "chickened out" on setting the fire, but knew it was scheduled and went to the scene to watch.
Included are six major projects costing from $100,000 to $200,000, calling for 22 miles of new roadbed, a bridge west of Augusta on US-54, a mile of concrete pavement at the east entrance into Great Bend on US-50N, and two miles of widening and asphalt surfacing on US-50S west of Hutchinson.
Mrs. du Bois runs a riding stable here in the summer. Winters, she tutors Tucson high school and college students in "everything that does not require a scientific laboratory."
"It would be heaven to be able just once to take a train, sleeper, and eat meals and travel as I used to in a room, when I had the means. But it costs a lot," she sighed. "Buses make me ill, and I am afraid of airplanes. I can do the hitch-hike trip within $50."
She thumbed west the first time in 14 days, but now Mrs. du Bois averages eight or nine. "My record is seven and a half days for the 2,700 miles, and my lowest cost $28.50," she said.
Youths May Have Set Fires
A Cheyenne project calls for six miles of grading on B-27 from the Nebraska line south to connect with the newly completed road to St. Francis. The road will provide better connection between US-34 from Colorado and points in Kansas.
Also approved were three county secondary projects which represent major improvements in Barton, Sedgwick, and Stafford counties. One county project calls for 11 miles of bituminous base north on a road beginning three miles east of Hudson in Stafford county.
area, making their livestock men eligible for Federal The counties designated drouth-distressed were Chase, Coffey, Lyon, Marion, McPherson, Osage, Pratt, Reno, and Saline.
Of and About Kansas 39 Counties Need Aid
"I wear it, not to boast, but because to people who know what it means, it shows who I am," she explained. She won the key at Syracuse university.
Nine more were added yesterday to the state's drouth disaster area, making their livestock men eligible for federal aid.
Mrs. du Bois said she has varied her trips "so as to cover the whole U.S. going and coming."
Death Toll Hits 88
Hyderabad, India — (U.P.)—Salvage workers recovered 15 bodies from the twisted wreckage of the Hyderabad-Kazipet Express today, increasing the toll of Monday's wreck to 88 dead and 126 injured.
Topeka—(U.P.)-Thirty-nine Kansas counties today were in the drouth aid classification.
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