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division in the House, where Ken
nedy’s legislative proposals have
encountered their toughest going,
apparently was little changed.
No Clear Trend
The balloting seemingly reflected
no clear trend — except voter
readiness to split tickets and cross
party lines with abandon.
While Nixon, the unsuccessful
Republican Presidential nominee
against Kennedy in 1960, was being
turned down for governor by Cali
fornia voters, they re-elected Re
publican Sen. Thomas Kuchel.
There were similar mixed out
comes in other states.
On the other side of the conti
nent, GOP Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
of New York led a re-election pa
rade of Republicans who wrested
governor’s offices from the De
mocrats in the politically potent
industrial states of Pennsylvannia,
Michigan and Ohio.
rI hese, with New York, offer a j
Republican launching pad for the
1964 Presidential contest with 119
of the 268 electoral votes needed
for victory.
With his second term victory,
Rockefeller went to the head of j
the class of potential GOP nomi- j
nees to oppose Kennedy in 1964. i
But a couple of newcomers also j
were possible enrollees — Govs.- ]
elect George Romney of Michigan I
and Wm. W. Scranton of Penn- j
sylvannia.
In mixed up balloting that seem
ed to have turned on personalities
rather than issues, Republicans
were jolted in California, the Mid
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People In The News
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Former President Herbert Hoo
! ver was applauded warmly by
; both Republican and Democratic
poll workers as he voted in New
York City.
; The former Republican Presi
dent was spry and jocular despite
his 88 years and a recent opera
| tion. When photographers ap
1 proached, he quipped “let me take
the decoration out first” as he re
moved a hearing aid.
Thomas E. Dewey, former
i New York governor who ran twice
i for the Presidency, went to Gov.
| Nelson A. Rockefeller’s campaign
headquarters in New York City to
congratulate the man who may
try to make the White House run
in 1964.
Dewey, who now practices law in
New York, said he went to salute
Rockefeller and congratulate him
on a great victory in winning a
second term in Dewey’s old post.
Sen. Carl Hayden, 85, <D-Ariz.>,
chairman of the Senate Appropri
ation Committee, is leaving
Bethesda Naval Hospital today.
Hayden, who was re-elected
Tuesday to a seventh term, enter
ed the hospital Oct. 25 suffering
from what doctors described as a
low-grad infection.
west, and in New England. They
made some border state gains and
picked up a few House seats in the
south.
Democrats and Republicans
traded governors’ jobs at a furious
pace. Republicans engineered over
turns in Ohio, Pennsylvannia,
Michigan, Wyoming, Colorado and
Oklahoma. Democrats retaliated
by taking GOP governorships in
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
chusetts, New Mexico, Iowa and
Hawaii.
A Democratic sweep in New
England seemed geared to the land
slide by which Kennedy won the
Senate seat older brother John F.
Kennedy gave up to become Presi
dent. It left the Republicans in
control of the governor’s office
only in Maine. And that contest
was so close a recount might be
ordered.
Decisions on Personalities
There was ample evidence that
the voters made their decisions on
personalities rather than on over
riding issues. For example, they
elected a Republican governor and
a democratic senator in Ohio,
Oklahoma and Pennsylvannia. In
Iowa, they chose a Democratic
governor and a GOP senator. They
picked a Republican governor in
Michigan but elected a Democratic
lieutenant governor and a Demo
crat to Congress in an at-large
race.
The cross currents of voting
seemed likely to give President
Kennedy greater Senate support
of his programs. But the possible
dead heat between the two parties
—or a small Republican gain—
did not promise to ease his prob
lems with a House that balked at
many of his major proposals.
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Brush With Soviet
Destroyer in Aretie
| SEATTLE up — The Coast
i Guard icebreaker Northwind, the
I white paint on her massive bow
I scraped through Arctic ice, return
! ed to Seattle Sunday to conclude
I a four and one-half month mis
! sion of mercy and exploration
j that included a dramatic encounter
| with Soviet military craft,
j During her cruise the sturdy j
I vessel plied icy waters previously
| unexplored in the Chukchi and
East Siberian Seas, churning near
j Soviet territory.
The Northwind was brought into
| Pier 39 for a wet but cheering
| welcome from loved ones of her
I 17 officers and 13(1 men by Copt,
i J. P. Martin. Among the greeters
was Capt. Russell Waescht Jr.,
newly named Captain for the
Port of Seattle, who skippered the j
ship from Seattle last June 14.
The Northwind underwent a
change of command in Kodiak on
Sept. 27.
During the last month, under
Martin’s command, the Northwind :
made its scientific forays into the
ice of the Chukchi and East Si
berian Seas. !
Brush With Russians
It was on July 20, when Capt.
Waesche was at the helm, that j
the icebreaker had its brush with
the Russians while engaged in
oceanographic work in the Bering j
Sea, about 15 miles off the north
ern end of Russia’s Kamchatka
Peninsula.
“We were creeping along the
coast in heavy fog,” Waesche said.
During the evening we tracked
a radar blip traveling at 400 to
500 knots. We knew it was a jet.
Suddenly the fog opened up and
he saw us real quick. The jet coast
ed over head at about 200 feet
and we could see the red star on
it. Then the fog closed in and he
couldn’t find us again.
“The next morning, about 4 a.m., j
I was minding my own business
in my bunk when our combat in
formation center reported a surface
target on a collision course. At
4:30 a big searchlight came on off
our stern and we were signaled j
to identify ourselves in interna- I
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but they wouldn’t.”
Soviet Destroyer
“Then they pulled along side. It
was a Soviet radar picket destroy
er with her guns covered up. They
turned a searchlight on our bridge.
So we turned our searchlight on
theirs. Ours was bigger.
Asked his thoughts at that mo
ment, Waesche declared:
“I didn’t know if we would
have to take the covers off our
five-inch guns and point them in
the air or not.”
Suddenly the Northwind tracked
another vessel on radar on her
other side. Waesche assumed it was
another Soviet ship until the Rus
sian ship along side took off in pur
suit of the new radar blip. The :
Northwind tracked the other two
ships until their blips merged, in
dicating a contact. We never learn
ed the identity of the second ship.
Waesche said he believes the
Russian ship was merely checking
the Northwind’s identity because
the icebreaker was the first Amer
ican military ship in that area since
1939.
Under Martin, the Northwind
plunged through ice of the East
Siberian Sea as far west as the
170th E. Meridian, taking care to
venture no closer than 16 miles
to the Siberian shore.
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Returns From Anchorage
ANCHORAGE 'P - Unofficial
returns for legislative races in
Southcentral Alaska give:
Senate District E, 104 of 121
precincts, Begich 11.422, Stratton
10,994, Lightwood 097.
Senate District F. 8 of 11 pre
cincts, Hansen 670, LeFevre 528.
Senate District H, 18 of 22 pre
cincts, Kilcher 1413, Petrovich
1298.
State House, Cordova-Valdez, 3
of 11 precincts, Ditman 556, Rob
erts 306. Banta (write-in) 317.
Palmer-Wasilla-Talkeetna, 8 of ;
8 precincts, Kertulla 982, Reid 1046
Anchorage 50 of 54 precincts,
Coper 6206, Gravel 7525, Green |
6456. Hillstrand 8785, Josephson 1
6950, LaBate 6442, Lottsfeldt 7078, j
McSmith 5245, Moore 5857, Moran
6475, Moseley 7286, Norene 6385.
Rader 8811. Simmons 5428, Ander
son 5111, Fink 5802. Fitzpatrick
6425, Kendall 9071. Leonard 7285,
Miller 7161, O'Reilly 6571. Parsons
8125, Peterson 6704. Sanders 8082.
Simpson 6837. Strandberg 8967, 1
White 8301, Wiggins 6965.
Seward, 6 of 7 precincts. Rider
426, Cole 475.
Kenai-Cook Inlet, 12 of 15 pro- j
cincts, Petersen 879. Tillion 444.
Returns From Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS IP—Unofficial re- !
turns for legislative races in Cen- !
tral Alaska give:
For State Senate, District J. 51 j
of 116 precincts, McNabb 3630, 1
Butrovich 6052.
For State Senate, District K, 12
of 42 precincts, Harrison 472, Lud- !
wigsen 146.
For State Senate, District M, 31
of 42 precincts, Hall 4682, Grie
mann 3605.
State House, Bristol Bay, 3 of
20 precincts, Nunn 46, Hammond
154.
Bethel, 9 of 22 precincts, Chris
tiansen 497. Elliott 67.
Yukon-Kuskokwim, 8 of 31 pre
cincts, Pearson 398, Harris 226. j
Fairbanks-Fort Yukon. 31 of 42 |
precincts, Brazeau 3459. Coonjohn j
3885, McCombe 4029, Orbeck 3976,
Sheldon 3895, Taylor 4445, Wirth j
3129, Baggen 4169, Baker 4144,
Binkley 4784, Burglin 3299, Holm
4082, Ringstad 3121, Smith 4988.
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Returns From Juneau
■JUNEAU '.'F—Unofficial return.-:
for legislative race’s in Southeast,
Alaska give:
Foi State Senate, District A, 55
of 63 precincts, Peratrevich 7540,
Widmark 4424.
For State Senate, District C. 13
of 11 precincts, Bradshaw 1740,
Yaw 1484.
State House, Ketchikan-Prince
of Wales, If) of 24 precincts, date
1201, Pinkerton 1392. Boardman.
2055, Rublev 2072.
Wrangcll-Petersburg 6 of 7 pre
cincts, Lungwort h 724, House*
(write-in i 450,
Sitka, 7 of 7 precincts. Cashel
1075, Jacobs 874.
Juneau, 13 of 13 precincts, Doris
Sweeney 2195. Whitehead 2185,
Buddy 2110. Forrest 2194.
Lynn-Canal-Icy Straits, 10 of 12
precincts Reed 662. Young 333
Romney Elected
Governor of Michigan
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George Romney — a new face on
the political horizon — captured
Michigan's governorship t o d a v,
ending 14 years of Democratic rule
in the executive office.
Romney, 55, defeated Gov. John
Swainson. 37. a legless veteran of
World War II.
By defeating Swainson, who had
the all-out backing of the power
ful AFL-CIO organization, Romney
automatically became a darkhorse
contender for the 1964 Republican
Presidential nomination.
Although Romney has stead
fastly denied he will be an active
candidate for the nomination, he
also has dodged questions about
i whether he would accept a draft.
I The former president of Ameri
i can Motors chalked up about 40
per cent of the vote in Wayne
l County, where labor leaders had
I hoped to hold the Republican total
below 34 per cent.
With all of the state’s 5,199 pre
cincts reporting, unofficial totals
gave Romney 1,419,046 and Swain
son 1,340,549. a plurality of more
than 78,000. The 2.7 million votes
broke the previous record turnout
of 2.3 million for r. non-president
ial year set in 1958.
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