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Seeking his fourth term, Morse is getting some indirect help from Republican Governor Mark Hatfield. Unander ran un successfully against Hatfield in Oregon's 1958 Republican gubernatorial primary, made a lasting enemy of him. Hatfield, himself a cinch for reelection, has yet to announce his support of his ticketmate...
Boosting the Economy. A darkly hand some man, Hatfield won national head lines in 1958 - a Democratic year - with an upset victory over Incumbent Democrat Robert D. Holmes. Since then he has carefully husbanded his popularity, avoided controversy, concentrated instead in souping up the state's economy. In the last two years, 100 new industries employing 10,000 workers have come into Oregon; in just two months this summer, $550 million worth of new commercial construction got under way. Hatfield is also a guiding force behind a $10 million private effort to bring research organizations into the state...
Meanwhile, Hatfield has enlisted some labor support by opposing right-to-work legislation and a move to transfer the state insurance compensation program to private operation. As a result, the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive committee voted to endorse him this year; though the normally pro-Democratic A.F.L.-C.I.O. state convention decided to make no endorsement. Hatfield regards the standoff as a "moral victory...
Inevitably, not everything has come up aces for Hatfield. The Democratic-controlled state legislature turned down as a "power grab" his proposal to reform Oregon's unwieldy state constitution by increasing the Governor's powers. And he has admittedly failed to breathe new life into a moribund Republican Party organization. "I haven't been able to please the old pros, and I've just about given up trying," he says. 'T do not control the party, nor do I have any desire...
Prospect for No. 2. Opposing him this fall is Democratic Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, 52, an energetic campaigner who has taunted Hatfield with trying to please everybody. The charge is accurate enough; Thornton's problem is that Hatfield has to a remarkable extent succeeded. Two years ago, before New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller's presidential candidacy became a dead letter, there was talk of a Rockefeller-Hatfield national ticket. If Hatfield is solidly re-elected this year, and if Rockefeller or another Eastern Republican heads the G.O.P. ticket in 1964 Hatfield might well...