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...Fayette County's Republican Sheriff Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, 30, is making headway against Democratic Incumbent John Watts, 54-Reason: Wah Wah's reputation as a star on Kentucky's famously infamous 1948-49 basketball team.*In Virginia's hot "Fighting Ninth" District, Republican William Wampler, a Representative in 1952 at 26, defeated in 1954, is a strong challenger against Incumbent Democrat William Pat Jennings...
...William Bynum, 53, moved up from executive vice president to president of Carrier Corp., maker of air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment. He succeeds Cloud Wampler, 60, who becomes board chairman and continues as chief executive officer. Bynum, an engineer from Alabama Polytechnic, joined Carrier in 1930, drifted from engineering to sales, was made general sales manager in 1948, executive vice president three years later...
...Trumanism was at fever pitch in Virginia. Republican Joel Broyhill won then by 322 votes in his Washington suburban district; this time he won by 4,500. Republican Richard Poff won his Lynchburg-Roanoke district by 2,000 in 1952; this year his margin was 13,000. Republican William Wampler won his Bristol district by 2,300 in 1952; this time he lost by 1,000 in the face of an all-out effort by the powerful Byrd organization. Even in Richmond, a relatively weak G.O.P. candidate came within 5,000 votes of unseating a Democrat...
Flickering Eyelash. Virginia's three Republican Representatives, Richard Poff, William Wampler and Joel Broyhill, all have done well enough in Congress and are good campaigners. Yet any of them, or all three of them, might lose just because they are Republicans and Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop...
Married. William C. (for Creed) Wampler, 27, newspaperman turned Republican Congressman from Virginia, and youngest member of Congress; and Mary Elizabeth Baker, 22, pretty, blue-eyed daughter of Tennessee's Republican U.S. Representative Howard H. Baker; in Huntsville, Tenn...