Show ' v tl "l - J lj jf j ' i mil 1u tl J t®L it 26— flit Harold Journal Lofta Utah Vice presidential Bole-Mondal- Sondajr October ilj !! mil 60 e ri— x11 1171 candidates profiled They’re determined competitors e: Robert Dole Walter Mondale By Ira R ADen United Preu International Walter F “Frits" upon his selection as that he would Jimmy Outer’s running-mat- e the than earlier me hour Georgian and up get campaign me hour longer each day to help win back file White House after eight years of Democratic exile It was Mondale quickly began telling crowds the first promise he broke and the only me he intended to break in the Carter-Mondale campaign Mondale who tried his own presidential bid but decided he didn’t have the heart for the grading race was picked from five UJL senators for the second dot m Carter's ticket Carter’s vice presidential choice was the best kept secret of the Democratic Convention but it was soon learned the Minnesotan and protege of Sen Hubert was the favorite of Humphrey Carter’s key staff advisers all along The son of a Methodist minister who was raised in small towns in southern Minnesota Mondale always has been in the right place at the right time as he rose from the ranks of WASHINGTON (UPI) Mondale promised Robert Dole spent eight yean In the 1950s an county attorney in his mane town of Russell Kan and he brought his prosecutorial glare sharp tongue and instinct for the Jugular to the 1978 campaign When President Ford needed somebody to organised labor and the Democratic Congress for farm problems or to start attacking Jimmy Carter in hopes the Democratic nominee would get rattled Kansas nobody was more suited than the senator who hopes to return to the Senate chamber in January as presiding officer — vice president of the United States Dole’s flair for biting putdowns and humor -a- long with the sobriquet “hatchet man" — was well known when Fin'd selected him as his running mate in Kansas City I two-ter- m Aug If ‘‘when the phone rang I accepted before I identified myself thinking maybe he called the wrong number" Dole Joked afterwards about the fateful telephone call But he showed an entirely different face the nest day when Ford accompanied him to Russell tor the GOP ticket’s first rally As Dole looked over the crowd in front of the courthouse he saw old familiar faces and choked up Wiping away a tear he said “When I needed help the people of Russell helped" Dole S3 was referring to an incident after World War II when he lay in hospitals crippled and near death from battlefield wounds The townspeople took up a collection to pay for the best medical care - Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party He was appointed rather than elected to his first two political offices Mondale’s political career began in 1960 when Miles Lord now a UJ5 district Judge resigned as Minnesota attorney general Gov Orville Freeman was looking for a capable person to help keep the fledging DFL hold on state government when he spied the clean-cpromising assistant attorney general with solid political credentials ut The appointment shocked some older DFL officials who were worried about the approaching election but Mondale was quick to demonstrate he knew the art of politics from organising at the county level to running a booth at the state feir In November Freeman a seasoned :al veteran was defeated in his bid for a term but Mondale then 32 won his attorney general race by 250000 votes In the 1962 gubernatorial election Mondale Karl Rolvaag who supported labor-backe- d won by 91 votes Soon after taking office as attorney general Mondale started cracking down m officials who had mismanaged the Sister Elizabeth Kenney Institute the famed polio treatment center in Minneapolis There were trials and convictions on illegal fundraising activities and Mondale received attention and accolades So in 1963 when Rolvaag had to select someone to fill the unexpired Senate term of who had been elected vice Humphrey president Mondale was tapped He went on to win two subsequent Senate terms on his own Known in the Senate as one of the most articulate and best backgrounded members Mondale earned a national reputation through his work on campaign reform health cheek humor and an uncanny knack for “reading’’ a crowd and knowing exactly what they want to hear He traveled thousands of miles back and forth across the country hammering home Democratic themes — economic revival Jobs tax reform to make the rich bear their fair share of the burden national health insurance so a family’s savings aren’t wiped out by catastrophic Illness The Republicans he says are guilty of “death bed conversion talk" when they economic recovery decent health care and reduced unemployment In mid October Mondale and Sen Robert Dole of Kansas participated In the first debate between vice president! Mondale kept his cool through a bevy of Dole “onellners’’ continually outlining the Democrats goals and strategy Only when Dole implied Democrats were responsible for two World Wars and the Korean conflict did Mondale’s ire show He said Dole had “richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man" with those comments of children and reform of the and federal intelligence agencies He considered entering the race for the presidency at one point saying he was 99 per cent sure he would make the race But he decided against saying a presidential fatiguing and he didn’t have an overwhelming desire to be president His dry wit is apparent when Mondale speaks of that decision telling crowds that after a year of hard campaigning he was the choice of 1 per cent of the people slightly trailing “Don’t Know” in piddle opinion polls He dropped out Mondale says when he challenged “Don’t Know” to a debate but got no response When Carter first approached Mondale about being his running mate the senator replied he would take the Job only if the vice presidency would be more than ceremonial Mondale swears he will not be in a diMiothing Job in a Carter administration Mondale has proved himself a valuable asset winning easy access to such traditionally Democratic groups as blue collar labor blacks and ethnic groups His campaign has been generally long hard and low key doing the vital “grass roots" paign work but leaving the headlines for Carter His style on the campaign trail is free and f He rarely uses a prepared speech text delights his audiences with tongue-in- well-bein- g Mondale was born in Ceylon Minn Jan 5 His family also lived in Heron Lake and Elmore He attended Macalester College St Paul where he met his wife the former Joan Adams They have three children Theodore Eleanor Jane and William He served two years in the Army 1928 available As a result the only public reminder of his wounds is a withered right arm and his legislative and campaign attention to the handicapped But Dole says “I’m not used to it yet I’m still embarrassed about it You’re reminded of it every morning” trying to button a shirt collar with only one hand He spent the campaign’s first month — a terribly inept one from the standoint of mechanics used to the pace telling small groups of anyone else who would listen he is not really a “hatchet man” but more irf a “tabby cat" who tells the truth that put Eventually however tfter the him on the evening new Dole became serious — road testing for Fora attadn on Carter’s tax reform proposals tM Playboy interview and defense budget one-line-rs cuts- He also referred occasionally to ' the “four Democrat wars this century" But moat’d his appearances were before friendly crowds no one called him on it Then he participated in the debate with Walter Mondale and said Watergate should be no more fan issue this year than those “Democrat wars” Many Democrats were shocked by that remark and Mondale retorted that “You have richly earned your i reputation as a hatchet man” Dole says his hero was Dwight Eisenhower also came out Kansas Reflecting d on file who he went into the time before service Dole says: primary interest well I could do out on the basketball floor— whether I could catch a football That seemed to be the greatest goal in life Then suddenly I became a member d another class when someone fed me and someone dressed me and someone turned me around And I r realised that there was not Just Bob Dole i I’d have to admit there was a lot d self pity in those early days" One who heaped him through that time was a nurse Phyllis who subsequently became Mrs Robert Dole The marriage laded until 1972 and the Doles had (me : daughter Robin now 22 He now is married to Elizabeth Hanford an FTC commissioner on leave Dole served his party and President Nixon so well be was GOP chairman in 1971 and 1972 But he never hestitetes to talk about Watergate “It was my night ' ' c v off” he Jokes m Dole survived politically because the Watergate abuses were laid to the Nixon campaign committee and not the party organization He eventually was fired by Nixon after a meeting at Camp David “I was given a Camp David Jacket and a rope" Dole recalled Dole was born July 22 1923 at Russell Kan where be still has a home He received an bachelor d arts Arizona and law degree from the University degrees from Washburn University in Topeka He served years in the Army in World War n ' including a stint as an infantry platoon leader in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy He twice was wounded and both times decorated for heroism Dole was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives at 26 He served four terms as Russell County attorney through 1961 In 1960 he was elected to the House and every two years until he won a senate seat in November 1968 succeeding retiring Republican Frank Carlson Dole defeated former Rep Wiliam Roy 794837 votes cast in for reelection by 13532 votes 1974 hi a campaign in which Dole asked whether his opponent a physician was an abortionist Dole despite his brash political style is considered a social somewhat shy personally and not much animal in Washington IBs first wife said their his commitment to marriage dissolved because politics and his ambition When Senator Moss assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee in 1973 total NASA spending in Utah was $1 26 million This year NASA expenditures in Utah will top the $47 million mark - p Millions in : i- - - vr- - lO- - space spending for Utah Thiokol is designing and developing 's " the solid rocket I ' motors for the reusable space shuttle The contract to Thiokol is one of the largest single industrial contracts ever awarded in Utah Senator Moss believes space agency spending in Utah could exceed $600 million over the next 12 years 'V' ' - d 5-- ed D-K- d a d d State to sue UJS agency ALBUQUERQUENM (UPI) -- The state is going to file suit against the UJL Department Agriculture over the federal agency’s requirement that Indian children obtaining free lunches give information on their families the size and income Assistant Attorney General Jack Underwood said today the suit would be filed in federal court in the state Washington DC next week on behalf and School Superintendent Leonard DeLayo Underwood said although the federal agency has had the power to require the information from Indian families since 1970 the regulation was not enforced until recently “It’s a matter of pride for the Indians" Underwood said “most them are ashamed to report how little income they have” Underwood said the state suit will allege violation Agriculture privacy by the Department Thank you Senator Moss d d d 'f $ & : 4 ' ' V Dean F Peterson Ray Minkler Russell Reeder ' ' f e James Stone - LaMar R Frandsen ” ' ' Claude J Burtenshaw J D Harris : ”r Rodney Jensen John W Carlisle William A Wayman Milt Abrams Nancy Carlisle A Robert Munk Jerry Miles Loila Anderson d d d f Gravel truck smacks train RICHFIELD Utah (UPI) — A sand and avel truck smashed (rain demolishing the vehicle and knocking three diesel engines and a caboose off the tracks i Track driver Martin Dastrup 25 Sigurd who suffered a severe head j i: cut told investigators he was Minded by the sun and didn’t see the train warning lights The train tore up d 200 track causing an estimated $100000 damage but engineer feet Paid for and authorized by the Moss tor Senate Committee Donald B Holbrook Chairman Blaine Hill 57 SaU Lake and three other crewmen escaped injury — O f f- : |