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27 January 1968
DREW PEARSON
Partin Reign May Be Short-Lived
BATON ROUGE—Edward G. Partin, star witness in the
trial of Jimmy Hoffa, is now reigning supreme over
the inet and the Supreme Court, this in advance
and anTeamsters in central Louisiana.
he faces a rough race any- nounced: "If
"I'm not going to have Partin and a bunch of hoodlu
anyone
violates
ms way. And to run
on an In- the law of the United States,
running this state," Gov. McKeithen told us. "We have
no
dependent ticket, without the whether white or
problems with law-abiding la- •
black, they'll
bor. But when gangsters raid
reward for his testimony, Par- rooster, would 'mean certain land in jail."
a construction project and
tin was permanently released defeat.
Simultaneously he summonshoot men up at work I'm' go- - and, as Chief Justice Warren
The only way Johnson could
ed
2,000 state troopers to reing to do something about it. put it, "the state charg
get'.
his
name
on the ticket
es
"Partin has two Justice De- have apparently vanish
ed into would be to get 1,000 inde- main in the background in
partment guards with him for
pendent voters to sign a pe- case of trouble. Rap Brown
thin air."
fear Hoffa
tition
and there are probably appeared but
While
in
a
Baton Rouge jail,
burned no draft
will retaliate
Partin confided to a cellmate: not 1,000 registered independ- cards.
against him,"
ents
in Louisiana.
"I know a way to get out of
Gov. IVIcKeithWhen asked for comment
Gov. McKeithen, however,
here.
They
want
Hoffa
more
en said. "This
has
regard
some
ing the tactics of the
ideas
of
his own on
than they want me."
gives him imthis battle of the ballots.
govern
or
Baton
of Louisiana, Brown
Rouge
has
never had
munity."
such a siege of labor violence
said:
"How
can I comment on
The gover"I'M NOT going to have a
as it's seen since Partin came
the
actions
nor referred
of
a moron?"
back from the Chattanooga ballot minus the names of
*
to an incieither
of
the
candid
ates
of
the
trial with two Justice Departdent in PlaDR.
ALTON
two
Ochsne
major
r of Tu-'
parties
," he told
ment guards to protect him.
quemine
lane University is the first
us.
when 45 to 50 nREW PPARSON
PRESIDENT Johnson may
"Somebody asked me who man to call public attention
men shot up 30 workers of not know it, but friends of ex- is going to, put Johnson's to the link between cigarettes
the W. 0. Bergeron Construc- Gov. George Wallace of Ala- name on the ballot. I
told and cancer. Dr. Ochsner has
tion Co. who were laying a bama are planning to keep him 'I am. I'm the gover
- removed approximately 2,000
sewer. The shooting occurred LBJ's name off the ticket in nor.'
lungs as a result of cancer.
when the labor gangsters Louisiana next November.
"I like Judge Perez," said
"While the death rate from
tried to prevent work on the
Leander H. Perez Sr., boss the governor. "He said when smoking is
high," he told us
project and, having failed, of the so-called Democratic I was elected that he would recently, "most
people forget
Party in Southern Louisiana, differ with me `frequ
opened up with shotgun fire.
ently.' the loss to the nation from
Bergeron, president of the is maneuvering to give I'm going to differ with him sickness. In
1965 there were
Baton Rouge Construction Co.; George Wallace the emblem occasionally. This is one
of 88 million man days lost from
his father, Ivy J. Bergeron, of the rooster, which on a those occasions."
sickness in bed as a result of
63; and A. C. Bergeron, his Louisiana ballot means the
Gov. McKeithen has his cigarettes. In addition, there
Democratic Party. He would own way of dealing
brother, were wounded.
with Rap were 76 million man days lost
also give George Wallace the Brown, the Ku Klux Klan
and from work. On top of this
PARTIN IS the man whom Democratic nomina
tion. John- other racial extremists. Last there were 360 million
man
Chief Justice Warren de- son would
have to run on a year, Brown came to Baton days lost as a
result of parscribed as "a jailbird lan- ticket other than
the Demo- Rouge with the announced in- tial disability.
guishing in a Louisiana jail cratic party and
get an em- tention of staging a draft"If you figure that it costs
under indictments for such blem other than
the rooster.
card-burning rally. Simulta- $40 a day to support an ill
state and federal crimes as
With Johnson anything but neously, a contingent of
the patient and $20 a day to supembezzlement, kidnaping and popular in Louisi
ana, as a re- KKK arrived from Georgia port a partially ill
patient,
manslattghter." He was taken sult of his champ
ionship of intent on breaking up the ral- that makes a total
expense of
out of jail to testify against civil rights and
his appoint- ly.
$15 billion lost through illness
Hoffa at Chattanooga. As a
ment of Negroes to the cabMcKeithen got word of all from cigarettes."