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...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...
Potato Picking Contest (Wed. 2:15 p.m., MBS). Maine's Governor Lewis O. Barrows, Idaho's Governor Barzilla W. Clark pick up freshly-dug potatoes. Tuber-by-tuber account from Fort Fairfield...
...Falls, Idaho, Eldon Cleverly was sentenced to jail for attempted rape. His pregnant wife promptly went to Boise, paraded through the State Capitol corridors, announced: "I will walk up and down till something is done for my husband. I'll have my baby in the hallways." Impressed, Governor Barzilla Clark let it be known that he would appeal to the State Pardon Board for the prisoner, because "such action on my part may be warranted...
...proposing to step up his campaign, declaring: "My hunters will get new orders to shoot every golden eagle they see, destroy all the nests and young they can find. If necessary, new hunters will be sent out." Four days later Warden Eckert's term expired and Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark replaced him with a deserving Democrat who, having had no experience with wild life, was expected to let eagles prey in peace...
...Idaho, Democrats swept everything before them. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by nearly 2-to-1; Democrat Barzilla W. Clark swept into the Governorship; to both seats in the House of Representatives Democrats were returned. Only exception was Governor C. Ben Ross, best campaigner on the State Democratic ticket, who ran against William E. Borah for the Senate. Republican Borah -who did not mention Alfred M. Landon in the entire campaign-polled upwards of 125,000 votes, practically the same number as Franklin Roosevelt. Said he afterward: "I anticipate the next six years will be tremendous years."Then he went...
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