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Edward J. Bell, 3rd, Pendleton...
...this week's election neared, the candidates crisscrossed the state, shaking hands, endorsing reclamation and irrigation, belaboring each other over the Communist issue, posing for pictures without number. They agreed to a full-dress debate this week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
What sparks the Chamber's fervor? Said Morris Pendleton, president of Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co.: "We know that Los Angeles is a big city but not yet a great city. We get a hell of a kick out of trying to make it great...
...Wild Horse Bob") Crosby, 50, battered "King of the Cowboys"; in a jeep accident; near Roswell, N.Mex. During his 26 years as a rodeo star, prosperous Rancher Crosby broke almost every bone in his body, became undisputed champion in the sport by thrice making high score at the giant Pendleton (Ore.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.) rodeos...
Harold Stassen rolled into Pendleton, Ore. for the Northwest cow country's famed annual rodeo. He went through the hat routine for distinguished guests: Pendletonians tried to fit him with a cowboy hat, finally found one almost big enough for such a big visitor. Stassen, who wears a 7⅞, settled for a 7⅝. He did what a presidential candidate ought to do: risked his dignity by riding a horse through Pendleton's horse-riding populace. Said ex-Navyman Stassen: "At least I've ridden a little more than Admiral Halsey...