The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-28
Washington
New, Report

Washington, D. C. Governor
Edmond Brown, of California, is
making sounds which have con-
vinced some Democratic observers
that he is not just angling for the
second-place nomination Of tn e
Democratic Party but the top spot
on the ticket!
Brown. like Senator Jack Ken
needy a Roman Catholic, knows the
two men could never run on the
same ticket That would be TAX
ing double gamble, and the con-
vention in Los Angeles would not
even consider such a possibility
But then Brown might be the man
delegates turn to in case Of a
deadlock
Or SO some Of the California
boosters think. In any event.
Browns announcement that he
would join the Democratic Advisory
Council recently, just as Paul Butler
was coming under heavy fire from
all sides, is indicative. If Butler is
still around next July at Los
Angeles, and if Kennedy can't
/ win the nomination and Brown has
Ia chance. Butler might we'll throw
his weight that way.
Friends close to Brown are say
ing the Governor is taking himself
seriously as presidential niminee
candidate. not Weep niminee
candidate This is obviously sur
prising some who thought Brown
too lately arrived upon the scene
to be dreaming such large dreams
| His vote in the 1858 election, how
ever, was large enough to stimu-
late corresponding dreams, it would
appear
Though the State Department nor
Vice President Richard Nixon said
little about it. neither was salts
| fled with the way the Russians
handled some of the arrangements
attending the Nixon trip to Moscow
to open the United States Fair. A
representative of this newspaper
accompanied Nixon on that trip
In the first place, the Russians
came up with some last-minute
hurdles for press personnel and
were vague in their replies to ques-
tons concerning the freedom Nixon
would have access to-free access
when in Russia
One State Department official.
burning up over the attitude of the
Russians in Washington - com
/, planned that the Reds wanted to
take Nixon on sightseeing tour
Of their country. After the United
States opened the doors to many
defense installations for Frol Kox-
low, when the heir apparent to
Nikita Khrushchev was here re-
Gently. Nixon's aides though he
would be given like courtesy
AS this is written the last word
has not been said, though the Rus
slams began to give ground as the
18th Of July approached the day
Nixon was scheduled to open the
U. S. fair. It was announced thai
he would visit at least four Rus
sian cities, and probably See the
/ noW-famous Russian nuclear pow
cred ice breaker
/ But some things Nixon wanted to
+ see might or might not be made
available
i The Russians. of course, are ira
ditionally very secretive. and even
during World War II would not
furnish our pilots, ferrying them
badly-needed military aircraft, suf-
! ficient maps to enable the y. S.
pilots to fly their planes INTO cen
trail Russia.
+ And the Reds. even then. stopped
our pilots at Russia : borders and
sent Russian pilots down to the
border to pick the planes up
! The largest aircraft is passenger
\ service in the world flew the Rus
J sian delegation to New York. when
Kozlov opened the Russian fair
there in June. Nixon and his ac-
companying plane carrying news
men. knew that one of the 707 jets
had to beat the 11-hour plus time
which it took the Russian plane to
travel from Moscow to New York
if the o. s. was TO hold the record
again
The Russians TU-ll4 turboprop
established a new record Of II
hours and six minutes June % in
nonstop flight. 1t was question
able whether the 707 could beat this
in view of the fact one stop was
likely to be necessary unless circum-
stances. including winds, etc, were
exceptionally favorable.
But the word was out that the
Russian record was very much on
everyone s mind and the question
Of whether it is still the record
| should be answered by the time
you read this.