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...painter, Killebrew was born in Payette, Idaho, just. 15 miles from Weiser, where a Senators' scout discovered the great Walter Johnson 53 years ago. At high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted Senators unbuckled their bankroll...
Died. Herman Welker, 50, outspoken, aggressive one-term (1951-56) Republican Senator from Idaho, diehard reactionary and staunch McCarthy supporter; of a brain tumor; in Washington...
November's returns seemed to fit the theory: though all three states were engulfed by the Eisenhower landslide, three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate (Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie. Oregon's Douglas McKay and Idaho's Herman Welker) lost out to pro-public-power Democrats...
...Idaho, handsome young (32) Attorney Frank Church achieved a startling upset in his first bid for a major political office by defeating moss-backed Republican Incumbent Herman Welker...
...time he began his second tour on Oct. 9, Republican candidates all over the U.S.-from New York's Senatorial Candidate Jacob Javits to Idaho's Senator Herman Welker-were begging for more Nixon time and effort. Ohio's U.S. Senator George Bender happily grabbed Nixon's coattails, crying, "Ohio loves Dick Nixon." It seemed to. At Defiance a crowd equal to a third of the town's population (12,500) turned out to hear him; in Warren more than 30,000 people lined the streets to cheer. The crowds and the confidence were growing...