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University Daily Konson Wednesday Cont 09 1870
British Conservatives See Election Victory
LONDON—(UPI)—Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative Party today ignored warning straw polls and predicted a substantial victory over the Laborites in the Oct. 8 general election.
Party chairman Lord Hailsham told a news conference at Llandudno, Wales, he was certain the Laborites could not win, "barring accidents."
"Talk of a labor party victory in any real sense of victory is all my eye and Betty Martin (Hogwash)." he said. "The evidence is that we are going to win and win substantially."
Sir Winston Churchill, making his only planned campaign speech from his constitutency at Woodford, urged the return of a Conservative government and recalled the "six painful years" of postwar Laborite rule.
There was no doubt that Churchill himself would be returned to his seat in commons from Woodford which he has held since 1924.
Labor party Secretary Morgan Phillips at a news conference of his own said he welcomed the more aggressive Conservative tactics and repeated his prediction that "victory is in our grasp."
Macmillan and Labor party leader Hugh Gaitskell, who would become prime minister if Labor wins control of the House of Commons, continued
Prof. Stephenson To Be Honored
Eugene A. Stephenson, professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of petroleum engineering, will receive the 1959 John Franklin Carll Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
The recognition for "distinguished achievements in or contributions to petroleum engineering," includes a citation, "For his contributions as a pioneer geologist and engineer, as an outstanding teacher, and as a dynamic investigator in the field of engineering research."
Prof. Stephenson will be the third man to receive this award, created in 1957. He will receive the citation Oct. 6, in Dallas, at the 34th meeting of the Society.
Crisis Eased, Says Moscow
MOSCOW — (UPI)— Moscow radio said today Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. has resulted in a noticeable easing of the international crisis. It called on the governments of America and Russia to find a "common language" on disarmament.
to hammer away at international issues.
While other argued about unemployment and housing and domestic issues, Macmillan and Gaitskell plugged for a summit conference, with each arguing that he was the best qualified to represent Britain at such a meeting.
Conservative candidates for Commons seats throughout the country were told to campaign on Macmillan's twin themes of "prosperity at home and peace abroad."
Despite Conservative confidence, straw polls continued to show the ruling party sliding in popularity as the election approached.
Presta Boasts He Runs K.C.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Dapper Alexander Presta, 57-year-old heir apparent to the city boss reign once held by Tom Pendergast and Charles Binaggio, admits his powerful Democratic machine "can pretty much control things in the city as far as politics are concerned."
Presta, named by a grand jury here recently as being the political front man for a criminal element, yesterday explained his rise to political prominence as being the result of the pooling of various factions.
"The way it is today," he explained, "a bunch of fellows who had a few votes put them together here and there and as a group became powerful. Individually, we would have had no political power, but I guess we can pretty much control things in the city now as far as politics are concerned."
He admits that his machine controls "seven or eight wards" in the city.
Fresta, who formerly was in the drugstore business as was his father, describes himself as "dabbling a bit in real estate and politics." The new political king here has had several scraps with the law, serving prison sentences for liquor law violations in 1929 and 1935 and being sentenced to two years in 1939 for counterfeiting state liquor tax stamps.
Although Presta is the political head of the North Side Democratic element, the same element which produced such powerful leaders as Pendergast and Binaggio, the grand jury named Nicholas Civella and Joseph Filardo as possibly being the men behind the scenes of organized crime here.
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