Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
ShipIey Names
Carter to COP
Precinct Post
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

District Republican Chair
man Carl Shipley has fired the
city's most prominent Young
Republican as a precinct chair
man.
But Donald E. (Buz) Lukens,
national president of the
Young Republicans, has re-
piled that he won't leave his
local post.
His successor, Robert S.
Carter, of 103 G. street S.W.,
already has been told to take
over the precinct (S.W. 81
which spreads over the South
west, West of Anacostia River.
This stalemate was disclosed
in a courteous exchange of let
tiers between Mr.. Shipley and
Mr.. LukenS.
A letter to Mr.. Carter from
Mr.. Shipley confirming his APP
pointment as Southwest pre-
cinct chairman was to be mail
ed today. A Republican Com
mittee spokesman said that Mr..
Carter is Washington repre-
sentative for an airline and
formerly had worked for the
G. o. P. National Committee.
Behind the rift are rumbles
from the Lukens camp that
Chairman Shipley fears that
Young Republicans will organ
ize the Southwest for Barry
Goldwater.
On the Shipley side, party
organizers protest that Mr..
Lukens has become a travelling
man for the Young Republic
cans, with little time left for
grass roots work in the District.
Mr.. Lukens, 80, is, minority
clerk of the House Rules Com
mittee.
Each faction denies the 9TH
er's contentious.
In a letter dated August 8,
Mr.. Shipley said he was ap-
pointing the replacement for
Mr.. Lukens effective that day.
81 realize you are under
h eavy responsibilities, Mr..
Shipley wrote to Mr.. Lukens.
He thanked the Young Repub-
lican leader for supplying
members to act as precinct
chairman and organizers while
senior Republicans developed
permanent chairmen, in ac-
cordance with the statute"
This was an apparent refer
ence to to a Republican Com
mittee rule that a precinct
chairman be a resident Of his
precinct. Mr.. Lukens lives at
172 North Carolina avenue Sc,
in the vicinity of the disputed
Precinct 81, but not in the
Southwest.
Mr.. Shipley said he was
hopeful" that Mr.. Lukens
would pass the word to the new
local Young Republican presi-
dent, White BoHrland, Ito CO.
operate with us as fully as you
did"
To National Presidency
Mr.. Lukens stepped up from
the District to the national
presidency at a San Francisco
convention where his support
erS staged a near riot for
Arizona's Senator Goldwater.
In reply to the Shipley let
ter, Mr.. LukenS wrote q Dear
Carl" letter saying:
90. Since you are having
difficulty filling all of the pre-
cinct chairmanships, and since
I do not wish to resign, / would
be only too happy to continue
with my position as precinct
chairman until you actually
have someone willing and able
to take over"
Mr.. Lukens, who may or may
not be deposed, said he would
groom a precinct organizer.
He insisted precinct work
for him was not a STRAIN" nor
a routine" He assured Mr..
Shipley he would be delighted
to discharge my precinct duties
until I can hand you a working
organization in Southwest 81"
Neither Mr.. Shipley, in Lon
don, England, nor Mr.. Lukens,
in Lawrence County. Pa, could
be reached for comment last
night.
A committee spokesman said
that the Pennsylvania trek was
typical Of Mr.. Lukens' schedule
which was bound to conflict
with precinct organization.
This spokesman said Mr..
Lukens would go to Norfolk,
Va, on the 18th of August; to
New Haven, Conn, on the 18th;
to Orlando, Fla, on the 18th; to
Point Pleasant, N. Y, on the
goth; to Birmingham, Ala, on
the oath; to Lake Herman,
s. OAK, on the Goth and 30th,
and to Cowen, w. Va, on the
31st.
Two Factions
District Republicans have
divided into vocal factions for
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