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Republican National Chairman, H. Meade Alcorn, predicted at the Salt Lake conference that the Republicans would win all seven governorships, eight new House seats and one Senate seat in 1958. He did not specify how this would be done. Of the eight Senate seats, five are currently held by Republicans and three by popular Democrats, Mansfield of Montana, Chavez of New Mexico, and Jackson of Washington. Thirty of the region's 53 House seats are in California, which has shown marked signs of Democratic growth in the past few years...
...Administration shows no intention of changing its policy on such vital matters as these; and hence, despite the pep talks of Eisenhower and the predictions of Alcorn, the Democrats will very probably retain and even expand their gains...
...varsity boat are John Powell, cox; Tom Sheffield, bow; George Krumbhaar, 2; Bill Alcorn, 3; Harry Chase, 4; Gunther Fritze, 5; Lowell McElroy, 6; captain Dick Timson, 7; and Mark Hoffman, stroke. Hoffman, stroke of last year's heavy freshman crew, has changed to the 150-pound crews...
...months as a history professor at Mississippi's 86-year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...
...other Mississippi-run campus. For good measure, it also condemned the administration for having ''wholly failed," fired President Otis, and appointed a new man. The week ended in total confusion. King said he was fired. The board said he was not. The question still remained: would Alcorn have enough students to stay alive...