—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 18, 1956
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Washington Notes
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Johnson Not
Candidate
WASHINGTON Senate Ma
jority Leader Lyndon Johnson’s
recent smashing victory in a vot
ing test in Texas put some of his
supporters in a presidential
candidate frame of mind but
Johnson has announced he will
not be such a candidate.
This is not an indication that
the Texan would not like to be
President. But this statement re
flects the shrewd judgment of a
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goed politician. Although many
Texans feel Johnson never was
actually elected in Texas, when
he ran against Governor Steven
son and there was a dispute over
the final count, they admit he is
now a strong political power in
the state.
But Johnson is doing all right
to be Majority Leader of the Sen
ate. And in that position he
doesn't have to run against
Dwight Eisenhower. In addition
to this Johnson is a Southerner.
He has been around long enough
to know that the prejudice
against the average Southerner,
based on civil rights issues,
make it next to impossible to win
the nomination because the
professionals at the convention
argue that a Southerner can’t
win.
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Johnson wants to avoid what
has happened to Dick Russell
of Georgia, who once or,twice
has convinced himself he fi»d a
chance and that the great ma
jority might support him, even
though he was honestly con
servative on race Questions. He
is sticking his neck out to be
cut oil, in other words. •
Johnson’s Texas victory pre
ceded one by Millard Tydings in
Maryland. The former Senator
a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy
won a close primary battle
against strong opposition last
week and now will meet Senator
John Butler, the Repulican Sena
tor who won his seat six years
ago. TydmgS has been waiting
for this comeback chance for
those six years. -
The Tydings primary triumph
heartened Democrats, for they
think Tydings has an excellent'
chance to unseat Butler. Re
publicans disagree, of course.
Nevertheless, it pits a proven
Democratic vote-getter against a
Republican competing for his
first term Maybe that partially
offsets the loss of another Demo
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cratic vote-getter in Kentucky
the late Alben Barkley, where
Republicans see their chances
better as a result of Barkley’s
death.
Dulles Reports
On NATO Meeting
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has reported to President
Eisenhower on the recent NATO
meeting in Pans. Contrary to
earlier, published reports, Dulles
told the President the conference
was a successful one, and one
which opens the way for much
greater cooperation between
NATO members.
The NATO conference set up a
“wise man’s committee” of three,
on the Foreign Ministers level,
composed of the mimsters from
Canada, Italy and Norway.
They are to devise ways for
closer collaboration among
NATO members, in spheres other
than the military Dulles believel
been of historic significance as
a turning point in the history of
NATO.
Marshal Tito
Advises Again
Marshal Tito, the greatest
strutter onthe European stage,
pranced through Pans recently,
once again telling the West and
the East how to get along with
each other. Tito is the greatest
traveler among the world’s rul
ers. Yet some wonder why he
doesn’t stay at home more, where
much is yet to be done for his
people.
In Washington, there has been
a cooling toward the Marshal,
who has been playing East
against the West, successfully,
from his standpoint, while open
ly hostile to many U. S„ princi
ples largely as a result of
ignorance.
It may be that the Titfj,- tie will
one day snap altogether.
U. S. EMPLOYES
In a U. S. employe survey, it
was found that the Washington
area furnished the largest num
ber of employes, with 227,465
New York City and adjacent
New Jersey furnished the sec
ond largest number of -resident
Federal employes. A total of
165,673 Federal workers lived
ithere. The San Francisco-Oak
land is third with 83,055, Phil
adelphia fourth with 73,070 and
Chicago fifth with 69,251.
Telephone Buildings Going Up
NATION’S ECONOMY
The nation’s economy continu
ed robust in the first quarter of
the present year, carrying over
from the prosperous late months
of 1955, according to the Com
merce Department. While a de
partment survey, covering Janu
ary to March, noted a levelmg
off, the economy remained at a
high plane. The chief weak spots
were in the motor vehicle and
residential construction indus
tries.
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INDUSTRIAL NEED
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Construction work on the
three new Pennsylvania Com
munity Telephone Company ex
changess in Lancaster County
is proceeding satisfactorily and,
in the mam, on schedule, ac
cording to Luther Davis, con
struction superintendent. Shown
above, top photo, is the Quarry
ville building, on schedule
except for the roof deck, de
hverery of” which has been
delayed; bottom left, the Hensel
exchange and, bottom right, the
building at Kirkwood, both
right on schedule. (Lancaster
Farming Photos.)
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