Cashier, Puritan, Quack

Only last week was Kansas sure whom its electorate had made Governor on Nov. 4. After a careful recount of ballots there were 319 more for Harry Woodring than for Frank Haucke. Harry Woodring, 41, is the first Democratic gubernatorial winner in Kansas since 1922.

Thus ended the State's strangest election. The appeal to the voters by both the Republican and the Democratic candidate was that he had been State head of the American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship.

When the campaign was at its height and too late to have his name printed on the ballots, Dr. John Richard Brinkley announced his independent candidacy on a platform advocating: 1) drought relief through building an artificial lake in every Kansas county; 2) free health clinics, including assistance for prostate troubles. This latter long had been his specialty, advertised over his powerful radio broadcasting station KFKB. Though expelled for his activity from the American Medical Association, he has prospered. He also offered rejuvenation, grafting goat glands in patients' groins for $750 each. No newspaper supported him, but over his radio he cried: "Let's pasture the goats on the State House lawn!" and came within, a few thousand votes of doing it. Although his adherents had to write his name in on the ballot, he received 188,339 votes, only 28,862 less than Cashier Woodring.

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