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Show .- DESERET NEWS, Mondoy, 8A September 8, 1969 a Q - It not the sound o the but the way Everett M. Dirksen played 1 i k e a it 1 cathedral org- , " Z V an, some said, w?i vce, j k a river T (? Im like that overly nervous bridegroom who, at his wedding breakfast, let his faltering hand fall upon his brides head and said, This thing has been thrust upon 1965 on his Senate me. leadership role, The morning after the 1948 election. Tom Dewey called me to say he didnt feel sorry for himself but for me and others who had helped him. He said, If we had won, Id have made you secretary of agriculture. I told him, Tom, youd not make me anything. I dont want to be bothered with administrative chores. MICHAEL Jj CONDON 2$ WASHINGTON (UPI; RJ Sb& tP 1V7 calliope, others, could soothe, smoth- er, q u e s t i o n bite, chop and charge. Mostly it purred. it as 3jnd wrapped its way a J) u n d innumerable adjecd tives and vivid verbs, it sentences that often carted and crept like a Victoria garden maze: - unra-vgllp- 1965. followed you before, and you took us down the We 3uQ road to defeat 1952 attack on Thomas Dewey at the Republican national convention. want anybody I didnt to blow my head eff because the flowers were in bloom and they need me I told him that whoever this ... creature was, I hope he wais till the frost comes and the bam swallows 968 on an assasare gone. sination threat. It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as haughty as the chrysanthe- - PR. 'iJJr mum, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet, as stately as the snap1DS7, tribute to dragon. the marigold, his choice for the udtional flower. an attack on the Johnson administration. The grand old person In the Grand Old Party is listening tonight to this program . , . what better way to lengthen his span of years than to give him an ovation for his contribution to the republic and the of mankind. Let 1964 tribute him hear you. to former President Herbert 1966 If the choice Is between the life of a catfish and the life of a baby, I for one will 1965 sacrifice the catfish. decrying a scare campaign against pesticides. Meanwhile, the administration goes its higgledy-piggled- y way, its high priests no longer the flower of American culture but skilled political salesmen who pursue domestic social programs with the pop-ey-e ardor of a Harpo Marx chasing blondes. Richard Ogilvie, shocked at the death of Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, refuses to say whom he will appoint to succeed him for a term. Gov. well-bein- g -- Because Democratic has a lieutenant governor Paul Simon, the Republican Ogilvie is unlikely to resign and have the lieutenant governor appoint him to the Hoover at GOP convention. You look back and see ancient landmarks that we have erected in time and try to discern the future. Humanity is a great stream, - U marching through time. It is we who flow through time, not the' other way around. Time stands still. Only mankind 1969. moves. Ogilvie has the power to appoint somebody to serve as senator until January, 1971. At. that time, voters will elect a senator to serve the remaining four years of Dirksen' s term The late .Republican : YpfllQ v : :: m from Canned the Senate Democratic leader, and defeated him. He became party whip in 1957 and two years later won the Senate leadership post on a effusively sitting his partys position on ewming television news shows 20-1- 4 the Kennedy-Johnso- n and pausing between y$$rs sentences for a sip of water a$a rapt convention hall of h$ fellow Republicans waited f(jr3iis next word. VJoctors had removed the of Dirksens uppfer lung last Tuesday in an oration with added hazards Dirksen suffeied bemuse fobm emphysema and had an eJpSrged heart. There was eyyy indication he would reedier and return to the Senate d$$es that often pH him into work sched a? d'Ji-lh- vote. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said ! will rememhis kindness to me ber and to the members of my family. He called Dirksen a gracious man with "great ability and great charm. Sen. Barry M. Goldwatcr called Dirksen his political godfather. "It was Ev Dirksen who convinced me to run for the Senate in 1952, and it was Ev Dirksen who placed my name In nomination for the presidency at the Republican conGoldwater vention in 1964, said. ... two-thir- rht dawn-to-dus- k u!?t. JJiella, his wife of 42 years, was with him at Walter Reed At&y Hospital Sunday after-whe- n he suffered three cardiac arrests. All efforts to him breathing again failed. tirksen CnnnpoQQ 3) ' 0 First Fage of the public, ti$i 0 was bom in Pekin . Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, House Republican leader, said, He was the kind of man who not only filled the canvas but spilled over from . . . There was nobody like it and his early J$U. s were spent on a small produce farm run by his mother. He was later iityplved In a dredging business in a bakery at Pekin, but hajrroke into national politics wfth his election to the House - Sen. Everett M. Driksen WASHINGTON (UPI) be given a tribute Tuesday the nation usually for its biggest heroes when President Nixon and other leaders join in a service for the dead Senate Republican leader under the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. It was announced today that Dirksens body will lie in state in the Rotunda until noon Wednesday after a noontime memorial service Tuesday. The Senate GOP leader will be buried Thursday in Pekin, HI., his birthplace. Only two other senators have lain in state in the Rotunda, a tribute normally reservevd for Presidents. They were Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1874 and Robert Taft, who died in 1953. will him before. There will be nobody like him again. I am proud to have been the junior half of the Ev and Jerry ' Show. Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who will serve as acting Senate GOP leader, said, He was an incomparable and altogether singular man who placed on his times an indelible and cherished stamp. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who went to the hospital to console the Dirksen family, said Dirksens. contributions constitute a fitting epitaph for a man whose services will not be easily replaced. Vice President Former Hubert H. Humphrey called Dirksen a patriot and devoted public servant and Sen. Mike Dirksens Mansfield, Senate counterpart as majority leader, added: He always laid the cards on the table and relations could not have been better between us. - Sen. WASHINGTON (AP) Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania stands as the likeliest immediate successor to GOP LeadDirksen left the House in er Everett M. Dirksen, but a 1&8 because of an eye ailpower struggle over the next ment; but two years later he 16 months may determine the ultimate leader of Senate Rehsjfl amazingly recovered and took on Scott W. Lucas, then publicans. Scott was elected assistant GOP leader, or whip, by a narrow vete in January and became acting party leader last week when Dirksen was hospitalized. With Dirksens death Sunday, Scott is considered certain to seek e the post on a basis. COULD BE RIVAL But Sen. Gordon Allott of &LO, HAWAII (UPI) -- Colorado, a conservative who Th glow in the sky was so serves as chairman of the Senbright motorists turned off ate Republican Policy Comthdr headlights. The ground mittee, made clear last week he expected a share of leadershqpk and volcanic ash fell ship duties during Dirksens like snowflakes on enthralled illness. onlookers. Allott, 62, could become a was the most spectacu-lar- j here in a rival to Scott for the top job, eruption or a candidate for whip. said Bill Larson, dqcade. But whoever moves into the whh got close enough to Suo leaders front-rominority ndays eruption of Kilauea to feel the heat radiated desk and inherits his spacious, chandeliored office just by Jhe lava. Larson, a ranger at Volca-noe- s off the Senate floor is unlikely to have the power and force National on Park KUueas slopes, estimated Dirksen had accumulated in leadership. the height of the tallest fire his MOKE FRAGMENTED fountains at 1,800 feet. For one thing, the position TJie eruption cut loose Saturday night and roared for is loss important now with a in the White nuie hours in a fierly spectacle Republican Hoti-- e than it was during of witnessed by thousands Hawaii residents, including Democratic administrations. L' n 1 i k e the Democrats, sorfie sitting on rooftops in Hilo 30 miles away. whose leader Mike Mansfield Kileauea, one of the worlds is also head of the partys polhugest volcanoes, erupted for icy committee and conferthe ninth time since May 24 in ence, the Republicans have a the area of Alae Crater near more fragmented set-uThus, a collective leaderthe Chain of Craters Road. Sundays lava flows wiped out ship is possible until a strong nan emerges, perhaps after part of the road. poll-tie- 23-2- 0 Eruption Qf Volcano 'Great Show' full-tim- tit vol-ead- the eleccongressional tions which could give Republicans control of the Senate for the .first time in 16 years. DECLINES TO SAY The choice will be made by the 42 Republican senators plus Dirksens successor if he at a is appointed by then party conference. But Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, the conference chairman, declined to say how soon this might take place. It would be most inappropriate to even talk about a conference ' before the funeral, she told a reporter. When Scott defeated Sen. Roman Hruska of Nebraska, a close ally of Dirksen, in what was primarily a fight for the whip's job, most of the younger Senate Republicans liberal-conservati- 86 Early American Sofa Topaz Tweed Cover, sectioned back, 3 cushion witli pleated skirt, maple trim wing arm. Regular $395. STOP NAIL BITING WITH $171.50. 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Dirksen recognized politics as the art of the possible so he did not waste much time with the impossible but Instead he spent his timj with reality. He introduced welcome relief into the unctuous attitude which usually dominates political expression. Rep. Laurence J. Burton, The death of said, Sen. Everett Dirksen means SALE $119 SALE $149 Rattan Furniture Special. Save on large assortment, great for patio or family room. Scott. supported While they might back the Pennsylvanian for the leadership jow, they are likely to leave their options open for the start of the next Congress in January 1971. Less than a majority of GOP senators now. their ranks by then might be augmented as in 1966 and 1968. that I learned the shattering news of Sen. Dirksens death. For all his flamboyance and drive, it was his great genius for the necessary accommodation between the political parties and the wings of iiis own party which made so many landmark laws possible. 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(UPI) SPRINGFIELD, , Utah Leaders Pay Tributes SoEv? Too Soon (LHop VOCE OF GRAND OLD PARTY 5- shocked by passing, Successor r m 278-049- 5 A |