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The Burlington Free Presi FRIDAY DEC. tl H1 5 Congressional Candidates Scramble for Campaign Funds have doubled or even ouadru- 'district, in the case of a con WASHINGTON (AP) newspaper ads, mailings, bumper stickers, window cards, Congressional candidates have begun the big scramble for the pled in six years. i And party fund-raisers, as i well as candidates, picture the pens, buttons all are ternoiy I expensive these days. It adds millions of dollars needed to fi nance the 1968 campaign which irA- st I 4 mm, undoubtedly will be the most expensive in history. Some senators facing re-elec-lion figure their campaign costs dates rely on big and little -contributions; funds from national, state and local party committees; $10 cocktail parties and other gimmicks as well as the tried-and-true $100 a plate dinner.

Relaxing Course EUGENE, Ore. (AP) The University of Oregon has a course where the best students are the ones who fall asleep in class. The university will offer a winter term course in "tech-j his successful campaign to oust Democratic Sen. Paul H. Douglas in 1966 cost $1 million.

Most of those interviewed agreed the costs are spiraling. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, figures that a tough competitive statewide race in Georgia would cost four times more than when he was elected governor some 18 yean ago. Sen.

Gay lord Nelson, said his campaign to defeat a gubernatorial incumbent in Wisconsin in 1958 cost $76,000. But for his 1968 Senate re-election campaign "We're aiming at a budget minimum of $250,000. My staff people think it should be $300,000." To raise the money, candi-l gressman the style of campaign, and the toughness of the competition. Sen. A.S.

Mike Monroney, expects a strong challenge this year, and says "the general election probably will cost me nearly double. This any past election." Monroney declined to name a figure. But an Oklahoma colleague figures Monroney will spend "a couple hundred thousand." The price range is wide as the nation. Democratic Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie said his 1964 campaign in Maine cost about $80,000. But in Illinois, Republican Charles H. Percy figures up to considerable money. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, recalled that he spent $65,000 to $70,000 in his Senate campaign, in 1962.

"When I went back to Hawaii this year," says Inouye, "I checked around and was astounded to find that if I carried on a similar campaign to the one I conducted in 1962 it would cost me nearly ouble. This was due primarily to the high cost of television time." Campaign costs are, for the senator, relative to the size of the state or the congressional competition for the contributor's dollar as intense. So many hands including those of unofficial and splinter groups are reaching for the pot that "it's beginning to hurt," says Rep. Bob Wilson of California, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Democratic National Chairman John Bailey described the competitive situation in two words: "It's awful." Sen.

Jennings Randolph, who won re-election in 1966, says "Television, radio, If mmxu am niques of relaxation," which mi" teaches students to relax their muscles through orderly, sys tematic procedures. No credit will be' given. Ht Via1)! 'j-MtgJ; Firemen and rescue workers examine debris af ter tornado struck Potosi, Mo. (UPI Telephoto) Town craft Designer Series Burlington Only Tornado Kills 3 in Missouri Luggage Reduced! lik Mt ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY All right, so it is the last minute, but that's no reason to succomb to last-minutitus! OUR PRESCRIPTION: POTOSI, Mo. (AP) A torna- i do that dropped out of a cre- Beauty Case 16 I 1 1 Ilk -imm.

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