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Show ' ' ' i ' t I Page Two , - FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1959 THE SALT LAKE TIMES i 7 - V J 1 v3eliind tlie J4eadfined I r,dirrannwHuiinaBiiinnniiiiniiiiraiiitniiniii The nation hardly blinked an eye when Harold Stassen "blood-ied but unbowed" by successive political defeats, became the Re-publican organization candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia a few days ago. However the development now means that Stassen will be as-sured of a role in the 1960 Re-publican convention. In 1956, Stassen, a former gov-ernor of Minnesota and twice defeated candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, incur-red the enmity of the Republican party by opposing Vice Presi-dent Nixon's nomination. Stassen urged the nomination of then Gov. Christian Herter of Massa-chusetts as the running mate to President Eisenhower. However Herter himself, now the Acting Secretary of State, incidentally, repudiated Stassen, seconded the Nixon renomination. Stassen himself soon thereafter resigned as White House disarmament ad- - A. 1 I1 ft J 1 from Philadelphia ror the re-maining six seats. Surrounding suburban counties traditionally follow Philadelphia's lead in the Republican convention. Stassen hoped to add these to his own if he should win the Mayoralty race. But his eye was and still is on Pennsylvania's huge pool of 74 delegates to the 1960 Repub-lican convention. Stassen already expects to have some 25 dele-gates from western Pennsylvania where he ran strong but unsuc-cessfully in the gubernatorial primary last year and where he still is popular. Moreover, should Stassen win the race for Mayor he would be the only Republi-can holding office in a major city in a predominately Demo-cratic state. It is also Stassen's hope that the GOP National Committee will choose Philadel-phia as the site for its 1960 con-vention enabling him to play host and deliver what would be visur 10 maKe an m iaiea race for the Republican nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania. Stassen was defeated in t he Pennsylvania primary by Arthur McGonigle, Reading, Pa., pretzel manufacturer, who, in turn was beaten by the powerful Demo-cratic Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburg. But in losing against the Pennsylvania Republican or-ganization, Stassen made an im-pressive showing. He carried many western Pennsylvania counties and probably would have won the nomination for Governor in the primary elec-tion, at least, if the Philadelphia organization, which now backs him for Mayor, had supported Stassen for Governor. The transplanted Minnesotan was the unanimous choice of the Philadelphia Republican organi-zation. He will face only token opposition in the May primary election and then go on to face Democratic Mayor Richard Dil-wotr- h, running for re-electi-in November. The Philadelphia GOP organ-ization, in ruins since Dilworth tantamount to a Keynote ad-dress in the traditional Mayor's! welcoming speech. Stassen hopes to use the votes of the Philadelphia Republican convention delegation, and pos-sibly as many of Pennsylvania's big 74 vote total to launch, a big Rockefeller for President boom on the convention floor, which New York's delegation could be expected to support. 'These are far reaching aims of the who has been remarkably successful as of late in attempting to make a political comeback. Not even Vice President Nix-on, still the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination, is too worried by the Stassen gam-bit. Nixon quipped to friends recently that "Stassen has to become Mayor of Philadelphia first," which few Philadelphians expect him to pull off. But win or lose, Stassen, by making the race has won a ticket as delegate to the 1960 GOP convention and he has given no-tice that he has ended his feud with Vice President Nixon. Ironically, another Minnesotan Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, is also ahead of Pennsylvania's Democratic party. Governor Dayid Lawrence, though Catho-lic, favors Humphrey over Sen. Kennedy or anyone else for the presidency. But that's another story. and U. S. Senator Clark began a reform movement in 1946, did not choose Stassen because it particularly liked him. It had even asked five other prominent Philadelphians to save the or-ganization by running as its nominee before coming around to Stassen who maintains a resi-dence and nominally practices law in Philadelphia. Former Philadelphia Sheriff Austin Meehan, who dominates the city. GOP machinery, round-ed up support for Stassen for several reasons. He has needed a strong ticket to have any hope at all of upsetting the powerful Democratic organization. Mee-han, who also believes he has been slighted in securing pa-tronage, from the Eisenhower Administration, is determined to go into the 1960 Republican Na-- 4 tional Convention with a pool of uncommitted delegates. Stassen agreed to run for Mayor pro-vided, win or lose, he could name at least half of Philadel-phia's twelve member GOP con-vention delegation. Meehan is said to have quickly agreed so Stassen upped the price of his candidacy. Meehan then stallen, sought other possible candidates but finding none will-ing to run, was forced to take . Stassen on Stassen's terms. If he should be able to win against Democrat Dilworth and bring Philadelphia back to the Republican column, Stassen also wanted the hight to veto candi-dates for convention delegate U. of U. Approves Earlier Classes To Ease Traffic University of Utah students probably will be setting their alarm clocks earlier this spring. As a result of a request from the Salt Lake City Traffic Ad-visory Council, the Deans Coun-cil of the university has approved the starting of classes at 7:45 a.m. rather than 8:00 a.m. The Faculty Council is expected to consider the proposal this week. In making the announcement Sunday, Dr. A. Ray Olpin noted that early morning traffic on Foothill Drive had made some knid of community action neces-sary. A letter from Darrel Welling, Traffic Advisory Council, to President Olpin said, "The ve-hicle volume from the southeast section of the city has increased to the extent that it is considered critical. A practical remedy would be to stagger the opening hours of business in the city, or to change the class time at the university." To alleviate the traffic con-gestion just prior to 8 a.m.. the Deans' Council considered the changing of starting time of some classes. Because starting classes later would make a much to short lunch period and also would in-terfere in some respects with parents who drive their sons and daughters to the university en-rou- te to work, the decision was to begin the day 15 minutes earlier. With traffic beginning at 7:45, traffic to the campus would be 15 minutes earlier. Afternoon classes would still begin at 1 p.m., providing a full hour for lunch (from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m., actually). Activities now put in the lunch time would receive a more equitable attention under the proposed class starting time. "We at the University of Utah are pleased to be able to cooper-ate in helping to solve problems in the community," Dr. Olpin de-clared. "With the Deans' Council having approved the change, we are certain the faculty and stu-dents, too, will favor the traffic advisory council's proposal." Accident- - Rate Key to Your Home Safety Index Are you a good housekeeper? One way to answer the ques-tion objectively, that is is to count up the number of accidents you've had in your home in the last year. If you went accident free then you probably keep a pretty neat place. If you had a couple of serious accidents, then there's probably room for improvement. According to the Utah Safety Council, good housekeeping and safety go hand in hand. "Good housekeeping can help reduce the number of falls. Keep roadblocks such as stools, toys, and hassocks, for example, out of traffic lanes. You'll have far fewer falls." Other Council sug-gestions: Dont leave medicine and po-tential poisons around where the children can get at them. Keep your home neat and clean but don't overdo things. A floor too highly polished is an invitation to a fall." Perhaps you've heard that falls are the No. 2 accidental killer, ranking right behind motor ve-heic- le accidents. Think you can identify the next most frequent cause of ac-cidental death? It may come as a surprise, but, according to the Council, the main cause of non-mot- or vehicle death to persons in the "active" years 5-- 44 years of age is drowning. Drowning deaths result not only from swimming accidents, but from falls into the water when working or playing near it, and from boating mishaps. More than 6,000 persons of all ages die each year from drown-ing. (Two Utah men drowned in Utah lake this wek when their boat was swamped.) It's not surprising, either, that the number of drownings is the highest during the warm months June, July and August and May, in that order, but an aver-age of more than 525 persons a month die of drowning, ranging from a July high of almost 1500 deaths to a February low of 160. 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