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...Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton, bearer of an illustrious Republican surname and one of the brighter faces in the new Congress, had to cut through the anthracite of heavy Democratic registration and unemployment in the Tenth District to beat Incumbent Stanley A. Prokop...
...took a breather in Scranton, Pa., Jack Kennedy was grey with fatigue, and his right hand was sore from being grabbed, squeezed, clutched at in some twelve hours of campaigning. It had been a day to remember: all through the mine-scarred countryside of Pennsylvania, from Bethlehem to Allentown to Wilkes-Barre, the people poured out, half a million strong, screaming, tossing food and gifts into Kennedy's open Ford, waving flags...
This scene was symbolic of Kennedy's whole tour from Bethlehem--where started the day in the living room of an unemployed steelworker--to Scranton, where he pledged prompt Federal aid to prevent "young people moving out of these families being broken up, and whole communities withering away...
Kennedy reached Scranton over two hours late because of the crowds all through the outskirts...
Died. Mrs. Worthington Scranton, 76, suffragist widow of a member of Scranton's founding family and duchess of Pennsylvania politics, who was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1920 to 1948, a National Committeewoman for 23 years, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936 to 1938, only woman member of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense during World War II; of a heart attack; in Dalton...