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Minnesofa’s Favorife Son Nurses
Burning Ambition To Be President
; BY LEE LINDER
5 AP Newsfeatures
PHILADELPHIA, — Harold E.
Stassen-—lawyer, district attorney,
governor, Navy captain, university
president, lecturer and writer—
has one campelling ambition to
day: to be President of the United
States,
The 45-year-old, three-time
governor cos Minnesota, is a pol
iched speaker who has the poli
tirian's ghility to remember names
and faces
Heads U. of Pennsylvania
Siassen iz president (on leave)
of the Univarsity of Pennsylvania.
However, his political roots re
main in Mianesota where he was
born and where his public career
wes launched.
Harold Stassen was born on a
farm outside St. Paul, one of five
children in a family that has
strains of German, Swedish and
Czech &ncestry, He finished high
school at° 14, worked his way
through the University of Minne
sota and its law school—as a farm
hclper, @ grqeer’s clerk, a railroad
conductor—and graduated at 22.
That was in 1929,
Stassen opened a law partner
ship., He sought election as a coun
ty (district) attorney at 23 but
before the campaign was half over
he fell il es tuberculosis. His law
partner, 2 Democrat, conducted
the campaign and Stassen won,
Headed Young Republicans
Nine years later, having work
ed up frome GOP precinct commit
teeman 1o organizer of the Minne
sota Young Republican League,
Stassen was elected governor. He
licked the Old Guard GOP ma
chine and then routed the Far
mer-Labor regime that had con
trolled the state for 10 years. Two
years afterward, in 1940, he was
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re-elected. *
Stassen was named keynoter
and temporary chairman of the
GOP convention in 1940, Stassen,
then only 33, was floor manager
of the Wendell Willkie drive for
‘the nomination.
In 1942 Stassen ran again for
the governorship, advising the
voters he planned to quit a few
months after he was elected. He
won again. He resigned to enter
the Navy as a lieutenant comman
der.
In 1944, while on war duty, he
was supported at the Republican
convention as “favorite son” of his
home state, but his name was not
placed in nomination.
U. N. Delegate
He was detached from Navy
service (temporarily) in 1945 to
serve as a delegate to the confer
ence that founded the United Na
tions Organization, He was re
leased from ,the Navy in 1946, a
captain, after serving most of his
time in the Pacific area under
Admiral William F. (Bull) Hal
sey.
In December, 1946, he announ
ced his candidacy for the 1948
GOP presidential nomination.
During his 20-month canrpaign he
visited 16 countries including Rus
sia where he conferred with Sta
lin.
After he lost the '4B bid, he ac
cepted the post of president of the
University of Pennsylvania. He
has substantially revised Penn’s
curriculum and athletic opera
tions and Jaunched a long-range
building program.
Toured World
In 1949 he visited England to see
first-hand how the socialized
medicine program was function
ing. In 1950-51 he mrade a two
month world tour. Late in ’sl he
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announced he would seek the Re
publican nomination.
An active Baptist and a Mason,
Stassen married Esther Glewwe
shortly after he opened his law
practice. They have two children
—Kathleen, 10, and Glenn, 16.
Church "High
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Il West Virginia
| CHARLESTON, W. Va. — The
92nd General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, U, S., con
vening in the First Church here,
June %-11, will mark the third
time the Church’s highest “court”
has met in the Mountain State.
Just 30 years ago, commission
ers from presbyteries scattered
over 16 southern states gathered
in the same church. In 1910, his
toric Old Stone Church at Lewis
burg in Greenbrier county enter
tained the Assembly. |
Local arrangements for the
meeting locally are being made
by a score of committees under the
general chairmanship of S. C. Hill.
These are being co-ordinated by
the Rev. George H. Vick, D. D,
minister, and others of the church
staff.
To the Assembly’s second larg
est church will come 438 elected
commissioners—an equal number
of ministers and laymen—aug
mented by several hundred other
church leaders and invited guests.
From 85 presbyteries in Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor«
gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis~
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas, Virginia, West Vir
ginia, and small portions of New
Mexico and Maryland, they will
register.
Will Name Moderator |
After official greetings from
Gov. Okey L. Patteson, and
Charleston’s Mayor John T. Co
penhaver, commissioners will elect
a new moderator to succeed Dr. J.
R. McCain who retired last year
after serving as president of Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
His successor at the college, the
Rev. Wallace M. Alston, D. D,
who served First Church here
from 1938 to 1944, will deliver the
moderator’s sermon.
Music for the opening session
on June 5 at 7:30 p. m. will be
furnished by massed choirs from
Huntington, W. Va,
During the tollowing five days
the Assembly will hear reports
from various boards, consider
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGAR
lovertureu from presbyteries—ap=-
peals on church gquestions—and es
tablish church policy for the eom~
ing year.
Combined Communion
On June 8 at 11 a. m. there will
be a combined Communion service
for those attondini the Assembly
and area Presbyterians in munici
pal auditorium. Rev. James I. Mc~
Cord, D. D., Dean of Austin Theo~
logieal Seminary, Austin, Texas,
will deliver the preparatory mes
sage.
Resurgence of the southland
which has brought about increased
church membership and opening
of new churches, but lacks enough
ministerial leadership, will be one
of the most widely discussed As
sembly subjects.
The two-year study on mar
riage, divorce and re-marriage in
the church is expected to be sent
to presbyteries for further study
and report at the 1953 assembly.
Commissioners will hear a pro
gress report on a proposed unifi
cation plan affecting the Northern,
Southern and United Presbyterian
church to be formally introduced
at next year’s meeting of all three
branches.
Boards of World Missions,
Church Extension, Christian Edu
cation, Annuities and Ministerial
Relief, Women’s Work, and vari
ous other church divisions will
present reviews of last year’s ac
tivity in their respective fields,
General Assembly Budget
The General Assembly financial
budget for the 1952-53 fiscal year
which began April 1, calls for the
financial outlay of $4,820,893.
Of this, 47.25 per cent will go
to support World Missions, Church
Extension is to get 22.2 per cent;
education, 9.8 per cent; Annuities
and Relief, 8 per cent; Genéral
Fund, 12.35 per cent and Inter-
Church agencies, less .than one
per cent. This giving will be in
addition to purely local church
support.
More than 80 overtures and in
terim reports will be studied and
recommendations made by the
Assembly’s twelve standing com=-
mittees.
Fraternal delegates from other
Presbyterian bodies to this year’s
Assembly include the following:
Pres. Jesse Hays Baird of the San
Francisco Theological Seminary,
San Anselmo, Calif., representing
the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.
now meeting in New York City;
Rev. Robert W. Mulholland of the
Tabernacle Church, Youngstown,
0., from the United Presbyterian
Church, whose assembly convenes
June 4 in Albany, Ore.; Dr. M. R.
Plaxico, Due West, S. C,, from the
Associate Reformed Synod which
meets at Bonclarken Conference
Grounds, N. C. June 3. :
J. L. Skinner, a Presbyterian, U.
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|B. ruling elder from Memphis,
Tenn,, rqpuaenflnf the Western
Section of the Alliance of Re
formed ‘Churches; A. D. Harcus,
secretary of the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church of
Englandxfrom London, !
Since the Assembly last met in
Charlestoni the church has made
considerable forward strides. Con
tributions to all causes in the year
ending in 1922 amounted to sll,-
743,725, Last year, members gave
more than $44,562,878 to local
church support and mission work.
Membership in the 2,056 exist
ing churches 30 years ago was on
ly 402,000. The Southern Presby
terian Church now has more than
702,000 active members in almost
3,700 churches. During the last
' five years, a new church was or
iglnized on the average of one
every week.
Within the Assembly 30 years
ago, only 26 churches had more
than 1,000 members each. Now
there are 101, with three West
Virginia churches among the top
10 — First Church and Bream
Memorial of Charleston and First
Church at Huntington.
Special entertainment for visi
tors will include dinners for el
ders, seminary reunions and a
friendship tour of the industrial
Kanawha Valley. Each commis
sioner will receive a souvenir gift
package containing samples from
several West Virginia manufac
turers, before leaving the city,
PLANTATION OUTPUT
DECLINES
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)
Java’s rich sugar plantations which
is prewar days made Indonesia
one of the world’s leading sugar
exporters, today turn out a meagre
20,000 tons a year, barely enough
to cover domestic needs.
Hit hard by Japanese invasion
troops, the national revolution’s
scorched earth tactics, and more
recently by subversive bands and
Communist labor unions, many of
the sugar mills, all located in East
and Central Java, are in ruins or
have closed down voluntarily.
The powerful Netherlands Trad
ing Co. recently announced that
one of its plantations in East Java
will plant no cane this year. Sugar
growers pointed out that labor
troubles are the main cause for
this drastic action, and not the
armed bands, which have gradual
ly been purged in East Java.
NO POLICE CHIEF
DU QUOIN, 11, (AP) — Under
a new deal this Southern Illinois
city of 8,000 has only policemen—
no chief. Their boss is the police
commissioner who receives no
more than his regular councilman’s
pay. He figured it would save the
city $9,000 a year.
High Cost Of Convention Expense
May Build Anfi-Inflation Plank
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO —(NEA)— Anti-in
flation platform planks are bound
to become major issues at both
national political conventions as
soon as the delegates find out
what it's going to cost them to
take part in this uniquely demo
cratic function.
Prices for room, board, trans
portation, entertainment, liquor,
cigars, aspirin and all the other
bare convention necessities in the
Windy City are at an all-time
high.
The lone delegate who can
spend the minimum si¥ days in
Chicago and not drop S2OO can
g 0 home with a real sense of hav
.i&‘év been extraordinarily thrifty.
re’'s no ceiling on the tab for
the big spender. That’s the private
opinion of most convention offi
cials who have been on the scene
since January.
The lowest-priced single room
on the official convention list is
$4.50 a night. And that’s not much
in the way of occommodations.
The average, not very elaborate
single room at the Conrad*Hilton,
convention headquarters, is $8 per
day. Average doubles are sl2 to
$lB. And that’s not plush, either.
You get a little more comfort
in the SIOO-per-day Hilton suites.’
The Palmer House in the Loop is
also letting its suites go at that
price. For the convention bloke
who wants something a little
more fancy between sessions,
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at the Drake Hotel.
Of course, if you really want to
.do it right, there are some fancy
apartments along Sheridan Road
which can be had for SIOOO a
week.
Chicagoans are noted for lusty
appetites. And apparently they
are willing to pay lusty prices to
satisfy them. Because, whether
you eat low or high on the hog
here, you dig deep in your pocket.
You've got to look hard for a de=
cent $3 dinner in the most modest
restaurant. 2
Five bucks for an evening meal
at a fairly respectable restaurant
is pretty close to average, With
out skimping you might be ableto
get breakfast for $1.25 and lunch
for $2.50. That’s for the delegate
with the mashed-potuto-and-gra
vy taste,
So you want to give your palate
a Chicago treat? Well, one of the
closest good restaurants to the
convention halld,is a place called
the Sirloin Rodm and owned by
the stockyards. The cooks select
the best cattle as they arrive, cut
them imto steaks and then age
them while the managers spend a
fortune advertising them.
A good sirloin at the Sirloin
Room casts $6, not counting a
cocktail, dessert and trimmings.
To leave the Sirloin Room com
pletely happy and satisfied will
cost the delegate SIO.OO.
Or you might want to risk be
ing scorched at Chicago’s famed
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Pump Room, which featureg =
ing foods at red hot prices, -..
manager used to say ahoyt
flaming dishes that ‘they gas;
the customers and didn’t Teall,
hurt the foed very much, .
The cheapest item on the p y
Room’s menu is bread and b .
for 25 cents, Flaming imn
Fresh Beluga Caviar with 1
goes for $4.50 a plate, And ¢
without soup before, coffee |
or the fabulous tip the waiters .
pect. The split minute steal i
the filet SB. ’
Transpartation is going to 1,
another tough one for the (...
gates. Cab fare from downs
to the convention hall at 42nd
Halsted varies from $1.15 to &
depending upon the navigati ;.|
mood, of the driver,
Convention officials are hoy .
to make some deal with a b«
company to get the fare one v
around half a dollar. But the ~
streetear or “L” trip will probal, v
take upwards of a half-hour. T},
taxi ride is between 15 and o
minutes, .
Cost of night life in Chica;o s
varied, at least. A shot of Lo
runs anywhere from two-bits iy
the cheapest dives to a buck i
the fancier saloons. Places i}
4£loor shows have either cover o
minimum charges, or both, pe
tween $1.50 and $2.50. The rest
of the check depends on your dc.
sire and capacity.
~ For the delegate who enjoys 1.
‘ing bilked by various and nove]
methods, Chicago will prove 3
paradise. There are elip-joints, B
girl spots where the customer i
conned into buying the hired gas
tea and water at 90 cents an
ounce, and all kinds es sucker
traps.
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