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-ft 13-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednestty, January 1, 1961 Report Near in Probe of Hotel Blaze TheGalhtpPoll JACKSONVILLE Inves will depend on the medical ex CLIP AND SAVE' ALL MAKES OF HEARING -AIDS REPAIRED WHILE YOU WAIT aminer's final report. Only two of the injured re Johnson Has 3-to-l Lead Over Nearest GOP Contender malned hospitalized. They are Harry Pickering, 46, and Mrs. dered Miss Axum to stay in bed a few days until she fully recovers from the ordeal. Doctors said Miss Axum was suffering smoke burns of the nose and throat and chemical tracheo-bronchitis from inhaling smoke during the Roosevelt Hotel blaze.

"Her condition is not serious in itself," said Dr. Robert Far- Dorothy Pickering, 45, of Miami. Both were listed in fair AVERAGE COST condition. William Fitzgerald, 25, of Raleigh, N.C., was released. He had been under treatment for tigation of the Hotel Roosevelt fire which took 22 lives Sunday is nearing the report stage, Fire Marshal E.

C. McDermon said yesterday afternoon. There has been no estimate of damage to the 300-room downtown hotel nor a specific cause of the blaze in the ballroom area which sent smoke coursing up vertical service shafts into all 12 floors. The death toll rose to 22 when Mrs. Josephine Dupre, 35, of Atlanta, died in a hospital two days after the disaster.

Her husband, Walter, 36, was among those asphyxiated in the hotel during the Sunday morning fire. County Solicitor Edward M. Booth said an inquest probably won't be necessary, but that rington of Miami. But he added it could lead to pneumonia. smoke inhalation.

Miss America, 21-year-old Donna Axum of EI Dorado, was released from a hos FACTORY TRAINED TECHNICIAN ALL WORK GUARANTEED BATTERIES at WHOLESALE SAVE 'a ROOM 811, CITIZENS BLDG. 706 Franklin Downtown Tampa AND SAVE, pital Monday and went to Clothes Altered by Master Tailors If your clothM aro too largo too mall if Miami for scheduled Orange Bowl appearances. However, a doctor there or- th.y jutt don't fit wo'll mak. th.m "Right" for you. matter tailors to sorvo youl PASQUALE FICCIO "Tho Old Sew and Sow" WANTED! HARD TO FIT FEET fj Nixon election "rehearsal" by regions of the country shows the South now back in line with the rest of the nation.

Last summer, when GOP hopefuls were pitted against Kennedy In trial heats in the South, Sen. Barry Gold-water of Arizona and Gov. George Rom-ney of Michigan held leads over Kennedy in this region. Following are the results of the latest trial heat contest in the South and outside the South: SOUTH Johnson 68 Nixon 23 Undecided other 9 OUTSIDE SOUTH Johnson 69 Nixon 25 Undecided other 6 In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy won 50.9 per cent of the popular vote In the South to 49.1 per cent for Nixon. Outside the South, the vote divided 50.1 per cent Nixon, 49.9 per cent Kennedy.

All important to the political career of the new President is how Southerners in the months ahead will react to any new efforts of the Johnson administration on the civil rights front. 3305 Grand Cantral Ph. S7S-73S1 For iruido bargain information road Want Ads waik.over,22,r;:nri:(in PRINCETON, N.J. Republicans can be thankful that they have not had to face a Presidential election during the early weeks of the Johnson administration. With the new President receiving a tremendously high popularity rating from the American public usually given a chief executive in times of crisis Johnson could defeat even the strongest of the GOP hopefuls at this time Richard Nixon.

As reported earlier by the Gallup Poll, 79 per cent of public approves of the way Johnson has taken over the reins of government following the death of President John F. Kennedy. IN THE LATEST Gallup Poll trial heat, Johnson holds an almost 3-to-l lead over the former vice president. Following is the question asked, and the results: "Suppose the Presidential election were being: held today. If Lyndon Johnson were the Democratic candidate and Richard Nixon were the Republican candidate, which would you like to see win?" Johnson 8 Nixon 24 Undecided other 7 ALTHOUGH JOHNSON defeats the leading GOP candidate by a wide margin at the present time, surveys conducted during the terms of earlier Presidents have shown that an incumbent President may run into difficulty once an Initial crisis reaction gives way to more partisan feelings.

Some evidence of this hardening of political lines is furnished by a compar-son of the latest trial heat results with those from a survey conducted immediately following the state funeral of the late President. The results of that previously unpublished trial heat showed Johnson with an even greater lead over Nixon than he enjoys today. In that first contest, Johnson was the choice of 75 per cent of the nation's voters to 21 per cent for Nixon. Another four per cent were undecided between the two men. ANALYSIS of the latest Johnson- RECEIVE A FIRST FEDERAL CHECK MONTHLY PRESIDENT JOHNSON South Backs Him, Too Robert C.

Ruark Cram Course In Government Might Help Potential 18-Year-Old Voters YOU CAN RECEIVE YOUR CHECK THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH The extremely slim margin by which the late President Kennedy squeaked to victory over Richard Nixon argues loudly in behalf of the value of the individual vote in the final mass result. And It is pretty well-established that Americans are considerably less fanatic about rushing to the polls than are people in some other democracies. We do not hamper our voters with very much in the way of Intelligence tests, and nothing at all that might reflect lack of knowledge of political process or the workings of a government. A lot of the ladies will vote for one candidate because he is cuter than the other boy; a lot of ladies will also vote against the other boy because they don't like the way his wife does her hair. IDEALLY, THE VOTER ought to know something about the issues at stake, as represented by various candidates, and he should be made to prove on paper that he is as capable of voting as of driving an automobile.

The process doesn't work that way, more's the pity, and even the closing of the saloons on polling day doesn't improve the caliber of the over-all vote caster. It would seem to me then that the proposition to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years is sounder than it seems at first blink. A 21-year-old not all that much smarter or experienced than an 18-year-old, and, as the Presidential commission on vote age recently pointed out, a great portion of the population is so far removed from the educational apparatus at 21 that their interest in public affairs has dwindled. Not everybody gets to wear a coonskin coat while acquiring political consciousness In college. SO IF YOU CATCH your voter young, say two years after his first hot rod, and make it easy for him to mark his ballot, he might be just a touch closer to habitual good citizenry than if he breathed the idle air of hiatus between high school and majority.

A slight revision of high-school curriculum might be useful here. It seems to me that all I learned of what we called "civics" was early on in grammar school, and nobody at all hit me with any political indoctrination when I was old enough to understand what the business was all about. Saying that the years of 17-18 are fairly average for high-school emergence, a really stiff cram course in the final year of pre-college education might pound a little knowledge of how the country's run into the most resistant skull. So far the anatomy of a nation's management has been largely lacking in middle education. I AM NOT ENDORSING the popular conception of tall-domed students who demonstrate noisily against things they know little about merely because demonstrations are popular in the spring of the year.

But voting as a habit can be made more enticing if the voter cuts his political teeth on some of the more fascinating aspects of politics, good and bad. Some of the seamier sides of current events could be made more entrancing, it seems to me, than the old standbys of Latin and Mr. Chaucer at least for use in a modern age. We have come in the last few years to a highly political time locally, nationally, and internationally and I sadly fear the devotees of the idiot box fancy Westerns over political debate, even though they might just possibily wind up in' a war because of the winds from the candidates. We pay enough taxes now to where every man is really a portion to his government, as opposed to the old, slow days when it didn't make a great deal of difference who was in or who was out.

I can truthfully say that I got into my junior year in college without knowing or caring anything at all about the machinery of government. Mr. Roosevelt's election changed that. I think for the first time the executive office established a truly personal contact with the faceless little man who is usually pictured clad only in a barrel and a bowler hat WE'RE ALL in the government business now, taxed at source and hit over the head with the problems of the world as well as our own municipal muddle with snowplows and garbage collection. If they're going to give the vote to 18-year-olds, it would be a nice idea if they fed them a little indoctrination before the fact.

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