Local Skirmishes

The nation's voters were involved in scores of local election skirmishes last week. Some of them:

P:Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker in 1946.

P:Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen--Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco--and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted.

P:In Indiana, young (28) Philip Willkie stepped onto the first rung of the political ladder by winning the Republican nomination to the state legislature from Rush and Henry counties (which have not gone Democratic since the Civil War). The magic of the Willkie name helped some; but the main reason for his nearly 5-to-1 victory over a candidate who had not been defeated in 35 years was his own tireless stumping: 7,800 miles by automobile; 16 hours a day of doorbell-ringing.

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