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Dole, too, is all for high wheat prices. But he believes that increased farm prosperity can best be achieved without massive Government intervention. He argues that the farm scandal is indeed a scandal...
...advocates voluntary farm programs, lashes at Breeding for advocating "mandatory controls, loss of wheat acreage and compulsory cuts in feed grain production for Kansas farmers...
Strangely, it is one small bin within the towering silo of the farm mess that has so far proved the most controversial in the Breeding-Dole race. Breeding strongly backs an Administration plan for exporting wheat to Japan; since June, Japan has bought more than 3,000,000 bushels of Kansas wheat. But the Administration plan, for reasons not quite clear, also requires storing that exportable wheat in California, rather than Kansas. Breeding's stand is very attractive to Kansas wheat growers. It enrages Kansas' wheat storage men, who seem likely to lose a lot of business...
...point: one of the ways in which the Administration got deeply involved in the Billie Sol Estes scandal was by tossing its grain storage contracts around in willy-nilly fashion. But as a Kansas political issue, Breeding has the best of it. After all, there are a lot more wheat growers than wheat storers. And in elections, numbers count...
Greybeards. Many Oklahomans think that if the elections were held now, the new Governor would be Henry Bellmon, 41, a big (230 HDS., 6 ft. 2 in.) ex-marine lieutenant who neither smokes nor drinks, but just raises cattle, wheat and Republican hopes. He was elected to the legislature in 1946, and in 1960 became state party chairman. The choice was a shock to old-line Republicans who had got comfy sitting on their hands. "Of the 300 state committee people," says Bellmon, "I replaced 208 with new, younger people. Overnight, the average age of the party...