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Last week a federal grand jury in Washington voted an indictment against Ohio's Brehm. Its charge: seven counts of "accepting" campaign contributions from his clerks. And it went Pearson one better: it also accused Brehm of extracting $1,000 from Mrs. Soliday's successor, Mrs. Emma S. Craven. Each count carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine...
...running for his fifth term, Columnist Drew Pearson lined the 58-year-old Congressman up in his sights. Brehm, wrote Pearson,* was "another quiet operator in the congressional kickback circle." Over a period of three years, said Pearson, the Congressman had compelled his elderly office clerk, Mrs. Clara Soliday, to kick back a regular share of her salary; at the top, he had taken back $240 of the $442 the Government paid her each month...
Soon after Pearson's story appeared, Mrs. Soliday, then 75, filed suit against Brehm, asking $7,340 for kickbacks paid him, plus $10,000 for damages. She had been told, Pearson elaborated, that the kickbacks went to a G.O.P. campaign fund. Snorted Brehm: "Too fantastic to reply to," and his district re-elected him by a 4,000-vote majority...
...Amherst summary: Daniels (A) defeated Foster (H) 3-2; Wightman (H) defeated Soliday (A) 3-0; Stevens (H) defeated Balmos (A) 3-0; Francis (H) defeated Owen (A) 3-0; Shepherd (H) defeated Gould (A) 3-0; Stewart (H) defeated Snow (A) 3-2; Tufts (cap't H) defeated Siegrest (A) 3-0; McGovern (H) defeated Stelsetta (A) 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Rees...