European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wallace on the Campaign Trail Tittle gi2wkw2 pm stripes by Rex a staff writer f Ottle George spoke for his dad Judy four years said Lurleen he can sing for Kwh the folks turn out to hear Ala Hamas first lady in her Campaign for governor will get a glimpse also of the v Roll style of George Wallace and the governors 1 plan to take them with me to a few governors wife there pretty i got up the other morning to watch them on a Tel Evl Don George 14 and next to youngest of the wallaces four is an eighth Grade Pupil at Bellingrath Junior High school in Montgomery he plays an elec tric guitar and sings in the four years during his fathers successful race for Young George made a few speeches for standing on a Bair to reach the Micro phone the told the crowds my father Tail Good 1 want you to vote for the elder Wallace is campaigning but this time Hes trying to get Marife elected instead of How both of them have made it Abun Dantly Clear that if Wallace becomes Alabama first woman Gover nor George will continue to make the policy decisions and run the state government As he has since his inauguration in january he is barred by Law from succeeding pausing to Uek after the youngest it Javale candidate Urfe a the Mage Sutton daring a she might be a bit Are after she became a Wal lace spoke for two minute at a rally in Birmingham the governor talked for More than 30 Wallace has made no attempt to discussion of her recent a the disclosure that she was treated for my health is she declared with 1 have statements from the doctors if it becomes Neces sary to use this was Al cleared up and a final Check a cult before we made the announcement that i would there is absolutely nothing wrong with she said she anticipates a whisper lag Campaign about her and in prepared to answer after her operation in january of this the doctors issued a statement say ing no further evidence of malignancy could be found and that the cancer had been they said they found no reason Why she could not carry on a Normal Wallace said the response to her Campaign for governor has been trem even before i announced and since then she said she has received an average of s to 400 letters a she Hopes to answer each with the help of two typists working sometimes into the Al he governors wife spends much of her time with her children George Lee and who still lives at and James Par of they All encouraged me to she they think its after they have been around Roll tics for a Long the governor spent six years in the legislature and six years As a judge before becoming chief exec they have encouraged me All Wallace has entertained thou Sands of visitors at open House in the gleaming antebellum executive mansion on busily travelled South Perry Street in since she moved into the the governors wife has done to lag herself for an official Etc Talag Haar eur of teas Vail tog women she and her Secretary plan the Means and handle the grocery two negro Cooks prepare the even the excitement of a political Campaign must take an occasional Back scat to other big events in the Wallace the most important thing around Here in quite Wallace re was when Peggy got Herdrik ers License on her i shh birthday in Jan that All anybody talked about for if she is Wallace has promised to continue what she Calls the Prosperity and efficient government which has been so much in evidence during the administration of my l do 1 look nervous she asked with n in in of i Wouk be at Tett bought of being the first woman gov she i think Well win it pm Jev confident thai we will win 8 Wallace shares her husbands militant segregationist Wallace and her Nus band have it they will  uie state in the demo interview the togetherness with i reference to their first appearance 1w6 together Sengsi of Ivest by David Dpi staff writer George wallaces candidacy for the governorship of Alabama As a Standm for her husband Nas a col Worful precedent in Texas in Miriam a Ferguson put on a Sun Bunnel and set out across Texas to Clear the name of her impeached James Farmer Jim after a Campaign aimed at mothers and Sisters and marked by such slogans As me for a and two governors for the Price of made heated eight men and moved into the governors like Lurleen a Ferguson was a wife and Moth first Ana a politician she had never been a and she preferred to be at Home with her two but when she became governor she took Over the office in fact As Well As in name she once vetoed a Dill backed by her she was a str no liquor was permitted in the mansion during her and she made it Clear women wer not to smoke in her Wallace is an attractive woman of but a 49 and somewhat despite the Folksy nickname which she a was a cultured woman who had been educated in a fashionable finishing school the stars and studs Mas political career was almost As turbulent As her there were charges that Farmer Jim bought votes by Selling clemency for and these charges continued through Mas two terms As or did not run for reelection in but two years later she opposed Ross a wealthy and in she again opposed Sterling and won by contested 1 Armor Jim was a hero to the but in 1917 the Texas House i representatives brought 21 impeachment counts against him and the Senate sustained 10 of the charges included improper depos iting of state interference with the University of Texas and illegal the Senate held him ii contempt for refusing to disclose the source of a personal in 1934 the Ferguson announced they had Wun honors enough and they re tired from but in at the age of a again ran for u Pappy a songwriting flour Salesman who toured the state with a hillbilly band Defeated a and five when a plod in most of the famous names to Texas politics paid homage to to