European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              There Are 15 freshmen in the clan of 69 in the world i most excl Lve club the . Senate one Barry Gold water is a regime. The is the second of a two Jairt series by the associated frets profiling the newcomers. Richard s. Schweiker Pennsylvania or he freshman senator from Penn Al Sylvania thinks he s made a lot of Progress since he first went to washing ton eight years ago As a freshman con Gressman. In 1960 he was last in seniorityno.435 among All congressmen. Today As a Republican senator he second in rank among the newcomers right behind Arizona s Barry Goldwater and no. 88 of the 100 in the nation s upper chamber. Golly that s really moving Dehwei Ker  ran hard As of Early Jan uary of 1968 in the successful Pursuit of the Seal held for 13 years by demo crat Joseph s. Clark , when defeat was certain late election night conceded without bitter Ness and said Schweiker will make a Good . Senator but i think 1 Wouldhave made a better  the 42-year old Schweiker would t have said i that Way if be had been the loser. His style is Flat unemotional but careful very careful. He s a Guy who works hard at his Job and who is devoted to his family he has four children which he says Isis Only Hobby. When he reads it s to Golly that s really moving. Build up facts for ills work he con siders himself a Liberal and Independent but does t antagonize conservatives. He has Little. Time for Idle conversation. This has been said about him and he cherishes the image it is one of the Little ironies in Dic Schweiker s life that some people actually mistrust him because he is god fear ing upright Noble honest and sincere. He is boy scouts the Jaycees the rotary club Church every sunday family first Young Man of the year Home Loving nonsmoking clean living Bridge playing firemen s picnic clean Schweiker has ideas Down the mid dle of the Road. He propels Energy where he lacks  Hope one of my trademarks will be to put a Little More realism a Tittle More practicality a Little More feet on the ground approach to our Urban prob Lem solving he observed. Schweiker has roots in Pennsyl Vania dutch tradition and is proud of his membership in the Schwenkfelde sect that came to the colonies before the american revolution i search of religious Freedom. Schweiker who represented a pre dominantly White Well to do Rural Industrial heavily Republican congressional District with a mixture of conservative and Liberal leanings. Intends to continue the open door office policy that has proved 80 popular "1 feel very strongly about the person Al service Angle of an elected representative says Schweiker. His concentration on business afterword War a service in the Navy and before be turned his whole career to politics left Little room for Romance. When in his Early 80s he had no Stead girl his Mother who longed for grand children Cut a picture from a news paper and told her son that s the sort of girl you ought to  w mom the  Congress Man responded and tossed the clipping on his desk some time later i happened to com across it recalls Schweiker. A Friend of mine who knew the girl arranged Blind Date. A few weeks later we were engaged some insist that Claire a television performer turned Bride housewife and Mother is the real Power now behind the Schweiker political rocket. Nothing is done without Claire s Opin Ion being asked friends say from the Campaign photographs to the Gist of the speech tends to be conservative. Peg 12 Edward j. Gurney Florida he 54-year-old freshman senator tooled his big Blue Sedan through traffic turned on the radio listened briefly then clicked it off and reminisced about his associates while a con Gressman. Ours was a conservative grouped Ward j. Gurney of Florida said of the chowder and marching society a group of two dozen congressmen who met every wednesday at 5."there was Gerald Ford Mel Laird John Burns Bill Cramer. We had whole lot of  the Republican lawmaker speculated on life in the Senate As he drove. Ill probably be talking with an chatting with the conservative members on the Republican Side. John Tower Peter Dominick of Colorado Robert grif Fin of Michigan Barry  sen. Tower sent letters to Rich floridians in october 1967, urging the to support Gurney s candidacy and pointing to his "97 per cent conserva Tive voting  Gurney pulled into a parking  the car he took with him the Green foam rubber Pillow be uses to Cushion a world War n Battle injury. It was at the Rhine in 1945, and Tan commander Gurney was leading his men deeper into Germany when a Tsiper Bullet Tore through Bis hip damaging his spine. It. Col. Gurney s weight slipped from 175 to 95 before he re covered. But he walks at a fast clip now although a Limp is noticeable. Muhney said he would push expansion of the space program at Cape Ken  s going to be a different emphasis under Nixon the three term con Gressman said. I Don t think there s going to he any great spending next year but certainly Nixon is not going to launch any new welfare programs that s what Hurt the space program Oil Der  said postwar defense monies should be funnelled into new bombers and new missiles and he said the seeking of nonproliferation treaties Witt communist the stars and stripes nations is futile because they Don t keep their word the thing about Nixon s programs he talks about most is the concept of tax  s harness the talents of the Busi Nessman he says. There s too Man amateurs in the poverty  Gurney was born in Portland Maine graduated from Colby College in 1935, from Harvard Law school in 1938, an from Duke Law school with an advanced degree in taxation in 1948. Taxation should be subject to con Stant review he said. However he is against abolishing the Oil depletion Al Lowance which he compared to depreciation on machinery and against negative income tax. Welfare payments should be base Don need and a negative income tax would militate against getting people of the Rolls said Gurney. He said the 10 per cent income tax surcharge should be dropped As soon As possible. Gurney left a Wall Street Law firm for Florida in 1948, when Republican office holders were As rare As icicles in  Suu talks of Florider and  he is a conservative but not a conservative of the old Southern order. Gurney campaigned for stiffer Law enforcement measures and feels the fed Era government should subsidize stat and local police agencies but in the form of bloc Grants with no strings the appointments of supreme court justices should be reviewed every six years in Gurney s View with Justice subject to reconfirmation or removal by the Senate based i their perform Ance. Gurney lives with his wife on a Lake at the end of Green tree drive in Winter Park fla., where he served As May Orin 1961. His two daughters Are married. Friends Eay Bis wife. Natalie still i shaken by the suicide of their son John during the Spring  beat his democratic opponent former gov. Leroy Collins by a 250,000-vote margin. He had predicted he would win by iaf.000."i like to be on the conservative Side said Gurney. The Theodore f. Steven alaskan e made no Bones about it he had tried twice to be elected to the . Senate and lost both times but he would keep trying until he got that or some other major  f. Stevens he insists on be Ift called fed finally got the  but by appointment. Be was be elected. By a fellow Republican Ala Kagov Walter Hickel named to be Secre tary of the Interior by president elect Nixon alter sen e. L. Bartlett d Alaska. Died dec. U in a Clevelan Hospital. E Stevens 45, a lawyer from Anchorage says politics in t just a Hobby with him it s a Way of  and in fact alaskans can recall few years in the past half dozen when Stevens has t been campaigning. He i generally considered a Republican of the Liberal Wing and supported gov. Nelso Rockefeller of new York for the presidential nomination in 1964.last year Stevens lost to banker and former Anchorage mayor Elmer Ras Muson in the gop senatorial primary. Rasmuson in turn was Defeated by Democrat Mike gravel who had upset Veteran sen. Ernest Gruening in the democratic primary. Stevens who tends to Tweed jacket Sand smokes a pipe was elected to the state House of representatives in 1964.he was re elected in 1966 and was named majority Leader of the crop con trolled House. A pugnacious debater he occasion ally loses control of his Quick temper in the heat of Battle. Stevens who was decorated for serv ice As an air Force Pilot in world War ii in China was Active in state Republican affairs before his first unsuccessful sen ate  wants to be assigned to the sen ate Interior committee which handles much legislation vital to Alaska. Demo crat gravel also wants to be in the same committee. Bartlett s term had four years to run but Stevens will have to stand for elec Tion in the next general election in 1970. Stevens leaves no doubt he will try for that remaining two years of the term. Politics is of Way of  Mike gravel Alaska Alaska s new democratic senator Mike gravel brought to the Art of campaigning for office in Alaska a style that will leave its Mark for years to  38-year-old real estate Developer won the major Victory in his Battle for Senate seat by upsetting Veteran sen. Ernest Gruening Dalaska in the a gust primary. Although Gruening s dovish views on Vietnam and his advanced age 81, were considered factors against him Gruen ing and other observers attributed gravel s primary win to his scientifically planned Campaign Laid out with the Aid of a political  in Advance that he would t delve into personalities he stuck to the plan and instead sold himself to the voters with a Village by Village stump ing tour climaxed in the final Days be fore the primary by a saturation Tele vision Campaign in the state s major cities. The program was always the same a 30-minute professionally produced film biography. F French Canadian extraction Mau Rice a name he never uses gravel was born in Springfield mass., the son of a painting contractor. After boyhood in what his film called the hungry Hill Section of that City he served a Post world War h stint Asan army intelligence agent in Europe. He worked his Way through Columbia University and set out for Alaska in1956. He worked As a real estate sales Man and on a track maintenance Crew with the Alaska Railroad before enter ing a venture on borrowed capital to develop a Large trailer court in an chorale. Gravel branched into real estate development on the Kenai Peninsula rid ing the Crest of the Oil Boom there inthe late 1950s. He took a moderate stand on Vietnam and campaigned on the theme of developing new jobs for alaskans whose10 per cent unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. Transportation is another favorit theme. He proposed federally subsidized use of hovercraft to provide transportation to Alaska s vast Road less areas and a Rural Airport development program. New style of campaigning. Robert w. Packwood Oregon far right Marlow w. Cook Kentucky right Robert w. Packwood Oregon at 36, Robert w. Packwood Oregon Republican is the youngest Mem Ber of the  Portland attorney served three terms in the Oregon legislature begin Ning in 1963. He unseated 24-year vet eran Democrat Wayne Morse by Les than 3,300 votes in a recounted novem Ber election. Marlow w. Cook Kentucky Kentucky judge for the last eight years Marlow Wcook succeeded Republican Thruston Morton who did not seek  Cook 42, served in the Kentucky House of representatives for two terms. He is married and has four daughters and a son. Barry Goldwater arizonan Arry Goldwater returns to where he served 12 years before his unsuccessful 1964 bid for the presidency. The 60-year-old Arizona Republican took Over the seat of retiring sen. Carl Hayden a Democrat who was president pro Tern of the Senate and a member of Congress for 57 years. Goldwater Defeated an administrative aide to Hayden in the general election. After being elected to the Senate in1952, Goldwater steadily built a reputation As a spokesman for conservatives in the Republican  was an executive in the family s department store business before jump ing into politics. James b. Allen Alabama attorney and Democrat James , 56, took the Senate seat fro Alabama held by Democrat Lister Hill who did not seek re election. Alle whipped Republican Perry o. Hooper in  was twice lieutenant governor of Alabama and served in both the Ala Bama House and Senate. He was a Strong supporter of former gov. George Wallace. Barry Goldwater Arizona returns to Senate saturday the stars and stripes pose 13