SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1966
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE THREE
SATU D A Y, N O V M BER 5, 966 ~lE I C H G A N A IL
Romney's
Pres tige
To
Ride
Upon
His
Coattails
EDITOR'S NOTE; This is the fifth
and final part in a series on major
statewide offices in the Nov. 8
election. It deals with the race for
governor.
By The Associated Press
Political oddsmakers have peg-
ged Gov. George Romney as an
overwhelming favorite in next
week's election, but the two-term
governor is campaigning hard
anyway-for other Republicans.
Romney finds out Tuesday if
he's really as popular as the poll-
takers say he is. In most public
opinion samplings, the governor is
running about 2-to-1 ahead of his
opponent, Democratic State Chair-
man Zolton Ferency.
Few observers give Ferency even
an outside chance of upsetting
the onetime American Motors pre-
sident, although the challenger
has been waging. a tireless cam-
paign from one end of the state
to the other.
Romney's re-election bid has at-
tracted as much interest outside
Michigan as it has within.
More than the governor's chair
is at stake in this nonpresidential
election year.
If Romney wins with a whop-
ping plurality and helps sweep
into office a Republican senator
and two or three congressmen-
then he will have taken a giant
stride on the road to the 1968
GOP presidential nomination.
In previous campaigns, Rormney
gained the tag "Lonesome George"
by frequently ignoring candidates
on the Republican ticket and
going it alone.
This year, however, he has gone
out of his way to put in a plug
for the GOP lineup wherever he
goes. On a three-day airplane
"blitz" to 40 cities this week, the
governor invited local candidates
to hop aboard while he was in
their districts.
Although Romney shrugs off
questions about any White House
ambitions, Ferency has attempted
to make an issue of it.
With Romney devoting most of
his time to campaigning for Sen.
Robert Griffin and others on the
GOP ticket, Ferency has had little
success in his attempts to provoke
a battle with the governor over
issues. As a result, the campaign
has proved dull.
The two candidates did engage
in formal debates on two tradi-
tional platforms, with Romney
being subjected to boos and cat-
calls at an AFL-CIO convention
and Ferency greeted by groans
and a chilly reception at a meet-
ing of Detroit's Economic Club.
Aware of Romney's reputedly
quick temper, Ferency tried both
a slashing attack and rapier-like
verbal thrusts in an effort to up-
set his opponent. But the governor
remained unruffled throughout.
From his first gubernatorial
campaign in 1962, Romney has
had the built-in advantage of al-
most instant recognition on the
part of most voters. For years, his
likeness had appeared in news-
paper advertisements when he
headed American Motors.
And as a vice president of Mich-
igan's 1961-62 Constitutional Con-
vention, he frequently was the
principal subject of news photos.
The first serious Romney-for-
President talk began in 1963 when
a man he never met-George Zim
mermann of Dallas, Tex., started
a movement in his behalf. The
draft-Romney effort faded out,
however, when the governor re-
fused to have anything to do withI
it.
Although Romney accepted the
role of favorite-son candidate at
the 1964 Republican National Con-
vention, he insisted during his
first two terms as governor that
his primary task was to set Michi-
gan's house in order.
His speeches indicate he feels
the job is well under way.
"Performance is what counts,"
Romney says. "We all remember
the '50s and early '60s, and what
happened to Michigan.
"We remember Michigan's shat-
tered reputation, faltering eco-
nomy, political deadlock, special
interest government, paydays,
creditors banging at the door,
hundred-million dollar deficits,
unemployment, mounting human
problems and needless human suf-
fering."
During Romney's first two years
in office, he had a Republican
legislature which he says started
Michigan on the road to recovery.
As part of his campaign strategy
aimed at the independent voter,
Romney also gives the Democrats
credit. This doesn't set well with
some hard-line Republicans, but
the approach has paid off in a
state noted for its switch balloting.
"Our record of progress isn't
just a gubernatorial record," Rom-
ney says. "It isn't just a Repub-
lican record. It is a Michigan rec-
ord, accomplished under Republi-
can leadership.
"We began it with a Republican
legislature and continued it with
a Democratic legislature."
"But," he says, "the record
proves that this Republican Ad-
ministration has supplied a long-
missing ingredient in Michigan
politics: Responsible leadership
which refuses to descend to name-
calling and spends its time look-
ing for solutions-not for scape-
goats."
Romney acknowledges, in part,
the Democratic argument that
Michigan's economic recovery can
be credited to the national pros-
perity.
"Sure, Michigan benefited from
high national economic activity,"
he says. "But our most significant
gain has been to reverse the new-
plant policy of Michigan's job-
makers.
"Before 1963, they were locating
most of their new plant expansion
outside of Michigan. Now they are
locating most of it in Michigan."
Romney says there is still plenty
of work to be done in the state
and asks for a chance to continue
the long-range planning.
It took a presidential boo-boo to
get Zolton Ferency's name in the
public limelight.
But with typically sharp wit
and political astuteness, the Dem-
ocratic gubernatorial candidate
turned a momentarily embarras-
sing incident into a campaign as-
set.
President Johnson stumbled
over the pronunciation of Ferency
putting the accent on the second
syllable instead of the first in
acknowledging the presence of fcl-
low Democrats on a Labor Day
platform in Detroit.
Since then, Ferency has been
getting laughs by referring to the
President as "LBQ."
Ferency, the son of Hungarian
immigrants, landed the task of
trying to topple George Romney
from the governor's seat practi-
cally by default. No other prom-'
inent Democrat wanted the dubi-
ous honor.
Freely acknowledging his un-
derdog role. Ferency .everthelbss
is perhaps as well informed about
his Republican opponent as any.
Democrat in the state.
As Democratic state chairman
since 1963, Ferency has acted as
chief spokesman for his party in
critizing Romney's Administration
almost from the day he took of-
fice.
But he has been frustrated at
times in the campaign by being
unable to find an issue against
Romney that has shaken voter
apathy.
Ferency believes _Romney is
shortchaging the people of Michi-
gan and contends the governor has
built up a phony "knight-on-a-
white-charger" image to further
his presidential ambitions.
"When the real George Romney
stands up, it comes as a shock,"
he says.
After four years of Romney,
Ferency says, Michigan is plagued
by problems.
"Our schools need money. Our
mental health programs have de-
generated. Our lakes, rivers and
streams are becoming cesspools of
filth and corruption. The air we
breathe is heavy with poisons.
"And our state faces a major
financial crisis-yes, even payless
paydays for Michigan employs-
unless we achieve immediate tax
reform and raise additional rev-
enues before the new fiscal year."
Ferency deplores one of the
results of Romney's Administra-
tion of which the governor points
with pride to a surplus in the
State Treasury.
"Government is not in business
to show a profit," Ferency argues.
"Government exists only to serve
the people-its stockholders. The
only dividend the government can
give the public is better services.
Just as Romney has devoted
much of his campaign to support
Griffin, Ferency has frequently
attacked Romney through Griffin.
He says Romney displayed a
negative political philosophy by
appointing Griffin to fill the va-
cancy left by the death of Dem-
ocratic Sen. Patrick McNamara.
Johnson Has
No Worries
On Surgery
Hits Nixon's Views
On Viet Nam Troops
At News Conference
WASHINGTON (R) - President
Johnson took a relaxed view yes-
terday of his forthcoming surgery
and wielded his political scalpel
on former Vice President Richard
M. Nixon's stature in foreign af-
fairs.
The President cautioned the
Communist world not to misjudge
the United States' Viet Nam policy
on the basis of next Tuesday's
election-elections which he con-
fidently said would keep the Dem-
ocrats in control of Congress.
Smiling, almost offhandish in
manner, the Preisdent at a na-
tionally aired news conference dis-
missed the dual surgery he will
undergo before Thanksgivingras
''not anything to make a great
show over.'
The highpoint the President's
Asian tour was a joint communi-
que signed at Manila Oct. 25 by
the United States and its six allies
in the Viet Nam war.
Thursday, Nixon criticized the
communique and said: "We are
off base with our offer of mutual
withdrawal of regular troops."
The criticism obviously nettled
the President and though he said
in response to a question he did
not "wan to get into a debate on
aforeign policy meeting in Manila
with a chronic campaigner like
Mr..Nixon," he scored the former
vice president.
"If you will look back over his
record, you will find that to be
true.
"He never did really recognize
and realize what was going on
when he had an official position
in the government. You remember
what President Eisenhower said,
that if you would give him a week
)r so he would figure out what he
was doing."
Johnson kept picking away.
Nixon he said, "is out talking
about a conference that obviously
he is not well-prepared on or n-
formed about."
"Mr. Nixon doesn't serve his
country well by trying to leave
that kind of impression in the
hope that he can pick up a pre-
cinct or two, or a ward or two."
There the matter did not rest.
Campaigning in Maine, Nixon
fired back that Johnson had
shown a "shocking display of
temper."
"Despite the presidential tem-
per, I will continue to speak out"
about the war, Nixon said.
Major Storm Hits Europe;
Florence, Venice Flooded
FLORENCE, Italy ( ) - The
worst floods since World War II I
inundated the historic cities of
Florence and Venice yesterday in
a general storm that lashed all
Western Europe. Authorities re-
ported Venice had the highest,
flood level in 966 years.
Floodwaters claimed 20 lives in
Italy and cut the country virtually
in half.
, Two persons died in an ava-
lanche in Switzerland.
In the hardest hit European
areas dozens were missing and1
feared dead, and hundreds wereI
reported injured.
In both the canal city of Ven-
j
ice and Florence, inhabitants fled Florence authorities feared for
to the upper floors of homes and the safety of many major art
palaces. works, but they said the archi-
Florence, the famous Renais- tectural masterpieces and open-air
sance art capital with 450,000 res. statues such as Benvenuto Cellini's
idents on the Arno River, was cut bronze David in the Piazza della
off from the outside world as Signorina could survive the flood,
roads were blocked and normal Uffizi Gallery Flooded
communications failed. 'Rescue The entire first floor of the Uf-
teams from Bologna and Rome fizi Gallery was inundated. Water
could not reach the city, poured into the convent of St.
Along the Venice canals the Mark, endangering the famous Fra
worst tides of the postwar period Angelico frescoes. Water also
covered the city with more than poured into the Florence cathe-
three feet water, making Vene- dral.
tian streets impassable, breaking In downtown Florence the mud-
sewers and water lines.'Venice has dy, debris-clogged waters of the
175,000 inhabitants. Arn uwi,.1w arond the abut-
UN Warns N. Korea
Of Border Dangers
ments of the city's bridges. All
bridges were closed to traffic, and
Mayor Piero Bargellini called on
citizens to lend 'all private boats
to rescue teams.
Owners of the antique, metal
and jewelry shops on the Ponte
Vecchio moved precious merchan-
dise from their stores.
Electric power, water supplies,
rail lines and road networks were
severed in a wide central belt that
isolated the north from the south.
A pilot who flew over the north-
central Italian flood area said it
looked like a stormy sea.
PANMUNJON, Korea OP)-North
Korean Communists, rejecting
protests against bloody incursions
below the truce line, drew a warn-
ing yesterday from the United
Nations Command that they are
traveling a collision course.
A North Korean spokesman de-
nied his government's responsi-
bility for the death of six Amer-
and three South Korean sol-
diers in two raids Wednesday.
A savage, five-hour debate in
an emergency session of the Mili-
tary Armistic Commission in its
long, blue building at Panmunjom
wound up-as so many others in
the 231 previous meetings of the
commission over the last 13 years
-with nothing solid accomplished.
Totally Unjustified
President Johnson, who was in
Seoul, South Korea, in the final
hours of his Pacific tour when the
Americans were slain, declared in
Washington the attack was "total-
ly unjustified murder.' He said
he hoped it was not an indication
that North Korea planned to vio-
late the armistice agreement.
Maj. Gen. Park Chunk-Kook
responded scornfully on behalf of
North Korea's command. He re-
fused to accept a letter from U.S.
Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel III, the
U.N. commander in Korea, to
North Korean Premier Kim Il-
sung protesting what Bonesteel
described as 12 violent, unpro-
voked North Korean attacks since
Oct. 15.
Park denied all the violations
including the attack on the Amer-
icans, which he dismissed as a
"slanderous distortion." He re-
jected Ciccolella's proposal that
they make an immediate on-the-
spot investigation. He charged
that American and South Korean
troops had set the 151-mile long
zone ablaze with 15 gun-firing in-
cidents since Oct. 25.
Russ a Kills
Middle East
Resolution
Israeli-Arab Accord
Over Border Clashes
Threatened by Veto'
UNITED NATIONS OP) - The
Soviet Union cast its 104th veto
in the U.N. Security Council on
yesterday and killed a mildly
w o r d e d compromise resolution
aimed at easing Israeli-Syrian
border tensions threatening peace
in the Middle East.
In the climax to nearly three
weeks of bitter Israeli-Arab debate
the council voted 10-4 with one
abstention to accept a resolution
sponsored by six nonpermanent
members in the hope of achieving
agreement on a peace appeal.
The no votes were cast by Jor-
dan, the lone Arab nation on the
council, and Mali, Bulgaria and
the Soviet Union. The negative
vote of the Soviet Union, a per-
manent council member, consti-
tuted a big power veto. Nationalist
China abstained.
Israel brought the complaint to
the council on Oct. 12, charging
that armed guerrillas were being
sent into Israel from Syria on mis-
sions of murder and sabotage. Is-
rael accused Syria also of openly
trying to incite war.
The compromise resolution in-
vited Syria to strengthen its meas-
ures for preventing border inci-
dents, and Israel to cooperate ful-
ly with the Israel-Syria Mixed
Armistice Commission w h i c h
handles border incidents.
One-Sided
Sovie Delegate Nikolai T. Fed-
orenko assailed the resolution as
one-sided and a reflection of what
he said were Western attempts
"to distort the real situation and
to justify the extremist policies of
Israel, which generate dangerous
tensions in the Middle East."
U.S. Ambassador Arthur J.
Goldberg expressed regret that the
resolution was vetoed, but said
the 10 yes votes reflected deter-
mination of the majority to seek
peace and stability in the Middle
East.
He pledged the continued efforts
of the United States to bring an
end to Israeli-Arab border vio-
lence, and added: "The deem con-
cern of the United States is that
peace be preserved in the Middle
East. This is, we trust, a common
concern "
Ambassador George J. Tomeh
of Syria told the council his coun-
try could not be responsible for
reprisal actions against Israel that
reflected the unrest of the more
than a million Palestine refugees
from the 1947-48 Israel-Arab war.
REFERENDUM TUESDAY:
DMayor Hubbard.
Ntakes Viet Nam Local Issue
DEARBORN, Mich. OP)-Mayor
C7 rville L. Hubbard, who has sel-
dom lost a political contest in 25
years as mayor of this Detroit sub-
urb, has made the Viet Nam ward
an issue in Tuesday's electiom
Dearborn voters will be the first
in the nation to be asked by bal-
lot: "Are you in favor of an im-
mediate cease-fire and withdraw-
al of U.S. troops from Viet Nam
so the Vietnamese people can
settle their own problems?" .
The question was placed on the
Dearborn City Commission. The
vote, which will have no legal
status, bears the unmistakable
mark of Hubbard, who has said:
"I think the war is illegal. If I
were a young fellow, I certainly
wouldn't go to Viet Nam. I'd
rather spend three years on a rock
pile than to fight some poor little
barefoot guys who have never
done anything to us."
The referendum has caused bit-
ter debate, one law suit, and
moved the Detroit News to com-
ment editorially :
"If the result is yes,' Hanoi will
know the infamous LBJ is leading
Americans into a war they don't
want. If no,' it demonst a:tes j
Americans are warmongers and l
8 Sailors Killed as Fire
Sweeps Second Carrier
SAIGON (M)-Eight American
enlisted men were killed last night
and 14 were injured in a flash
fire aboard the aircraft carrier
Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was the
second fatal fire in the past 10
days aboard a U.S. 7th afleet car-
rier off North Viet Nam.
Elsewhere on the war front, re-
inforced U.S. troops, backed by
bombardment, locked in heavy
fighting last night with Viet Cong
forces entrenched in heavily forti-
fied bunkers after having beaten
off two Communist assaults during
the day near the Cambodian bor-
der.
Unlike the ravaging fire and
explosions that killed 44 men and
put the carrier Oriskany out of
operation Oct. 26, there was no
fire on the flight or hangar decks
of the Roosevelt. Navy spokesmen
said the Roosevelt had no func-
tional problems and thus would
stay in the Gulf of Tonkin as one
of three carriers from which air
strikes over North Viet Nam are
launched.
The Navy said the fire had
Statistics Say Jobs Up But
IPrices Down
the Reds must hang on to save
Viet Nam from the imperialists."
U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a Dem-
ocrat whose district includes
Dearborn, says, "the referendum
really doesn't" give the people of
this district a fair choice in de-
ciding what direction their nat-on
will take."
"Are you going. to permit the
first armed threat of the Commu-
nists since World War II to go
unopposed?" Dingell recently ask-
ed a Dearborn audience.
Maverick Republican
Hubbard, who calls himself
"maverick Republican," shared the
rostrum at the meeting, and re-
torted: Dingell " hasn't got, the
courage to 'go back to Washing-
ton and submit a bill asking Con-
gress to declare- war. Congress
hasn't had the courage to do it,
and neither has Dingell."
Dingell said he favored with-
drawal oftroops and a negotiating
settlement "but only under noaor-
able circumstances."
"This war should be the first
order of business," replied Hub-
bard. "We should either win it
or get out."
Dingell's Republican opponent
in Tuesday's election, John T.
Dempsey, said the ballot question
does not "clearly assert the real
complexities of the choice which
faces this country," and called it
"too dovelike."
broken out in a storage compart-
ment containing paint, oil and
hydraulic fluid five decks below
the hangar deck, but the cause
had not been determined and was
under investigation.
No flares or ordnance were
threatened by the fire, as was the
case of the Oriskany, but as a pre-
cautionary measure the Roose-
velt's flare locker on the hangar
deck was immediately flooded.
The dead were believed killed
in the initial flash. Four men were
treated for minor injuries and 10
others for smoke inhalation.
The Roosevelt, whose home Do t
is Mayport, Fla., is commanded by
Capt. G. C. Talley Jr. She arrived
for her first combat tour last sum-
mer.
The Oriskany fire started with
an explosion in a flare locker and
swept through five decks, 'trap-
ping many of the officer pilots in
their quarters while they slept.
It was the Navy's worst disaster of
the Viet Nam war.
There were no immediate in-
dications of foul play or sabotage
in the Roosevelt fire.
WASHINGTON (M-The gov-
vernment reported yesterday a
slowing rate of job growth and a
rare drop in wholesale prices in
October, and described them as
evidence of a slackening economic
expansion. But no one would say
whether this will make a tax in-
crease unnecessary.
Although the total number of
unemployed dropped to a nine-
year low of 2,521,000, a spokesman
said labor shortages are easing
because employers are making
better use of available manpower.
The Labor Department's Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported total
employment was up 500,000 to 74.7
million, about the expected rise
for October.
Commissioner Arthur M. Ross
said there still are labor shortages
in some. industries, but that the
situation in general has improved
because the economy "has had
time to catch up to a situation
that had gotten ahead of itself."
H e reported also evidence that
the rapid expansion of manufac-
turing plants and investment in
new equipment has tapered off,
further indicating an easing of
inflationary pressures since since,
the earlier part of this year.
The situation was described as
not a downturn, but rather a
slowing of the earlier rapid rate of
growth that produced labor short-
ages, higher wages and sharp price
increases for many goods.
Ross said the 8 per cent rate
of growth in the gross national
product of last year had been "ob-
viously unsustainable" and in re-
cent months has dropped to an
annual growth rate of less than
5 per cent.
The drop in the government Is
wholesale price index from 106.8
to 106.2 was the first decline in
two years' and the biggest in four
years.
Ross declined to predict whether
the easing of inflationary pres-
sures might cause the Johnson ad-
ministration to drop consideration
of a possible income tax increase
after next week's elections.
But he said the pressures have
relaxed.
world News Roundup
By The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS-The Gen-'
eral Assembly ratified yesterday,
a joint U.S.-Soviet resolution call-
ing for all nations to avoid actions
that might cause a spread of nu-
clear weapons or hinder a area y' l
to prevent such a spread.
The resolution, viewed as an in-
terim measure to serve pending
adoption of a treaty on non-pro-
liferation of nuclear weapons, was
approved, 110-1 in the 121-nation
Generally Assembly. Albania cast
the negative vote. Cuba abstained.
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tablish a direct air. link between
New York and Moscow. Service is
expected to start next spring,
probably scheduling one flight a
week with an additional light
in the tourist season.
The civil air transport agree-
ment, signed in a State :Depart-
ment ceremony by Ambassador-
at-Large Lewllyn Thompson and
by Yevgeniy F. Loginov, civil avi-
ation minister of the Soviet tnion,
was ready for signature five years
ago, but the late President John
F. Kennedy decided to shelve it
when the East Germans built the
wall dividing Berlin and brought
a freeze in international relations.
WASHINGTON - The
States and the Soviet
agreed formally yesterday
United j
Union
to es-
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