Daily News from New York, New York • 96

DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 1 1960 rcfiifef A i- rts (NEWS foto by Bill Meurer) Protesting the proposed Expressway because it would force them from their homes are (L to Beatrice A melt 86; Michael Pelugi, 88; Teresa Dimilta, 92, and Philomena Albertani, 96. Pickets Fightt 2 City Proposals By DOMINICK PELUSO United only in protest, two groups of pickets demonstrating against different proposals paraded outside City Hall for almost two hours yesterday before they went inside to protest verbally, Just Like Old Times mm jmirMq yiniroMni rz By TED LEWIS Washington, March 31. At this stage of Yice President Nixon's campaign, the emphasis must be on welding together efficient party organizations throughout the country while projecting an image of the candidate which will appeal to independent voters, registered Democrats as well as Republicans. These are complex tasks, requiring great political skill. The party organization has had to be built up from the wreckage left by the 1958 Democratic landslide.

Party workers must be inspired to get out and work. Hassles over who should run party affairs in such states as New York must be worked out so that everybody, if possible, is happy. As for the image of Nixon, this is a particularly delicate task, for a static image was bound to develop after eight years in the center of the political scene. And the voters tend to seek new faces and a new party when one administration has been running the country that long. Nixon Figures to Saw Wood Till Congress Quits In this connection, President Eisenhower talked privately with Nixon about the basic "image" problem before yesterday's press conference at which Ike virtually gave the Vice President a free hand in developing his campaign for the White House.

As Ike put it, it would be "absolutely stupid" for Nixon to seek election solely on the record of the Administration. Present policies need to be expanded, and "new ways and directions" sought. This go-ahead does not mean that the Vice President will immediately step out on his own, or increase the present tempo of the campaign, as he is being urged to do in some party quarters. Instead, Nixon intends to stick pretty close to Washington while Congress is in session, for there is a lot of work to be done in building up an Administration record. The Eisenhower go-ahead certainly does not mean, either, that Nixon is going to come forward with a program -which will be a sort of "me too" reflection of a liberal Democratic Party program.

As explained by one of his close advisers, any "forward steps" he intends to take will "reflect conservative thinking but be progressive in that they will offer constructive solutions to the people's problems." The general approach will be to favor voluntary rather than compulsory programs, both on the farm problems, for example, and on medical aid for the aged. Truman Proved Wisconsin Totals No Harbinger The Vice President has no intention of revising previous decisions as to how he would campaign this year, either because of Ike's go-ahead signal or any other developments. He is sticking definitely to his stand against personally campaigning in any state primary where his name has been entered. Neither has he any intention at this time of allowing his name to be entered in primaries other than those in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon and Ohio. Reports from Wisconsin that Nixon's failure to campaign in that state may result in a poor showing April 5 do not disturb his advisers.

They point out that there is no incentive for a GOP turnout and that a considerable cross over of Republicans could well be expected. Under Wisconsin law, party lines can be crossed in a primary and the Kennedy-Humphrey Democratic contest is mighty heated. ttt- There would not be much real significance should Nixon is-consin vote trail that of Kennedy or Humphrey or both, although the Democrats will obviously make the most of it. This lack of meaning was shown in 1948, for example. Harry Truman was unopposed in the Wisconsin Democratic primary and got but 25,000 votes, while in the three-way GOP contest Harold Stassen led with 64,076, Gen.

MacArthur was next with 55,300, and Tom Dewey was third with 40.942. In the 1948 November election Truman carried Wisconsin over Dewey with a 50,000 margin. Nixon's Wisconsin Gome fs to Promote Unity Nixon's purpose in entering the Wisconsin primary in the first place, it is explained, was that he thought his presence on the ballot would help the party organisation and build up unity in the delegation to the national convention. Moreover, it would give registered Republican voters an incentive to go to the polls. There is also a fine sensitivity in Nixon headquarters to all reports concerning Nelson Rockefeller, even if the New York Governor has long since withdrawn as a rival for the Republican Presidential nomination.

Today, for example, Nixon aids had no comment on a statement by Eugene Nolte, a Texas GOP figure, who said that 99 of old-line Republicans in Texas are for Rockefeller. But the Nixon camp had an adroit counterthrust. They released a poll by a private research outfit showing how the Vice President is gaining in two other Southern states. These polls were taken in Virginia and North Carolina. In North Carolina it was 50-50 between Kennedy and Nixon.

In Virginia it has Nixon 53, Kennedy 47. In North Carolina, Nixon against Symington, it was Nixon 48, Symington 52. In Virginia is was Nixon 54, Symington 46. The first group showed up shortly after 9:30 A. M.

to oppose the projected Lower Manhattan Expressway. The second arrived a few minutes later to fight the plan to end city liability in lawsuits over sidewalk injuries. "Expressways Are Death-ways," read one sign on the anti-expressway line. Soon a man in Indian costume broke in with this banner: "We No Wantum. Too Many Free Loaders." Until about 11:30 A.M., the two lines kept mixing back and forth quietly and with no strain on the cops.

Then everybody went inside the expressway group into the Board of Estimate chamber and the sidewalk people to a City Council committee hearing. Plea for Constituents Anti-expressway forces were led by Rep. Leonard Farbstein, State Sen. Joseph Marro and Assemblyman Louis DeSalvio, all Democrats. All charged that the expressway would uproot their constituents.

A represenative of the city construction coordinator's office said the expressway was the most practical way to relieve traffic congestion in the area. The Board of Estimate reserved decision. The proposed highway would connect the Holland Tunnel with the East River in the vicinity of Broome St. Spearheading the opposition to the taxpayer liability plan were the Real Estate Board of New 3 "fi A-Wcs "rwfNi (Associated Prni Wipefoto) This was a familiar scene 30 years ago. Norman Friederichs put on a repeat performance when his 1926 Model got stuck in mud on dirt road mired by spring rain near Davenport, Iowa.

Friederichs said he'll stick to hard-top roads from now on. greater share of liability to property owners. Currently, the city says it pays out about $10 million a year in pavement negligence claims. York and the United taxpayers Party. The Council committee on general welfare heard speakers on three bills which would shift a Humphrey Disowns Bigot By PAUL HEALY Milwaukee, March 31 (Special).

A newspaper advertisement which urged Protestants to support Sen. Hubert Humph rey (D-Minn.) in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday was angrily denounced today by oth Humphrey and his opponent, Sen. John Kennedy The ad boiled to the surface the 5 1 ed are many normally Republican voters who say they would back Nixon against any Democrat except Kennedy." The last line says: "Should the Republican voters quoted above determine who the Democratic nominee for President should be Kennedy hit the ceiling when he got the first word about the' ad late last he was campaigning through Republican towns near Milwaukee with Ivan Nestingen, mayor of Madison, chairman of Kennedy's state organization. When he saw the ad in the Oconomowoc, Enterprise, Nestingen told the accompanying newsmen: "I deplore the vicious new low in this political campaign and it is difficult for me to understand how Sen. Humphrey's headquarters could have been unaware of this malicious attack." Kennedy called Nestingen, aside and Nestingen then withdrew the statement.

Nestingen, a Congre-gationalist, later issued another statement merely deploring the "malicious attack." Denounces Bigotry' Humphrey stopped campaigning in this area to call an "emergency" press conference. "I want the record clear," he said angrily. ''All literature, ads, statements, oral or written, from any source, that raise the issue of religion or the ugly fact of bigotry are hot of my making. I repudiate them. I deplore them.

And I denounce them." Humphrey charged that "unidentifiable sources" were seeking to harm him "by injecting the religious issues into the campaign." Asked whether he believed Kennedy had inspired the ad, the Senator said: "We are making no such implication." long smoldering issue of Kennedy's Catholicism, which political observers here regard as the crucial factor in the race for Presidential candidates. The campaign, which up to today has been dignified and high-level, is now expected to turn rough in its final five days. Call Selves "Square Dealers' The controversial ad was distributed through an agency to 350 weekly papers, some of which printed it today. It carried a line saying it was "authorized and paid for by the Square Deal for Humphrey Committee." The ad states: "A leading political pollster reports the solidarity of Catholic voters behind Kennedy shows up as far greater than that of Protestants behind Humphrey five out of six Catholics who were interviewed favor Kennedy over Humphrey. Includ I'M (Associated Pma Wircfoto) Vice President Nixon pours coffee for luncheon guest Billy Graham in Nixon's Washington office yesterday..