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...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...
...Missing with him, at last count, is more than $600,000 from ABAG's coffers. Investigators charged that, while ostensibly grappling with such area-wide concerns as water conservation, smog control and sewage disposal in his $218-a-week post as ABAG's No. 2 man, Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where he was known as a generous tipper and a big, if unlucky...
Brown-Paper Bonanza. Apparently it was absurdly easy for Truax to bilk ABAC. The organization had started out as a struggling discussion group seven years ago, depending on small fixed donations from its membership, which now numbers 87 cities and eight Bay Area counties; its financial practices were informal to the point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown...
...Scranton decided instead on Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, 48, a lawyer whose effective campaigning has put him ahead in the opinion polls. While publicly maintaining that there was "no leading candidate," Scranton privately informed the four also-rans that Shafer was his man. Said State G.O.P. Chairman Craig Truax, a loyal Scranton man: "I don't know how anyone can stop Shafer. I don't look for any trouble...
...decision on Goldwater: he finally issued a weak endorsement of Republican candidates "on all levels," following Scranton's lead. According to state party bylaws, Scott might have been kept off the ballot had he failed to endorse his party's ticket; the successful wooing of state chairman Craig Truax and his organization by Goldwater forces also put pressure on Scott. And the conservative business men who support the party financially were disposed to "harmony." In addition, the sentiments of other statewide candidates and of the majority of Pennsylvania's large Republican Congressional delegation contributed to Scott's unity decision...