Off & Running

In other political developments last week:

> Harold Stassen, 58, the G.O.P.'s perennial candidate for almost anything, hopped back on the treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party."

> Representative Robert Griffin of Michigan, 42, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin Labor Act and one of the most active young Republicans in the House, became a candidate for the Sen ate seat of ailing Democrat Pat Mc-Namara, 71, who is expected to retire.

Griffin, a sure winner of the G.O.P.

nomination, faces strong opposition from Michigan's union leaders, who regard his law as antiunion. His probable Democratic opponent: ex-Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams or Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh.

> Representative Prentiss L. Walker, 47, the first Republican elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, declared that he would oppose Democratic Senator James Eastland, 61, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Walker will have the back ing of Mississippi's small, well-financed, tightly organized Republican organization, is given an outside chance of beating Eastland by giving Mississippians a choice between a "conservative Republican and a double-standard Democrat."

> Governor Frank Morrison of Nebraska, 60, a Democrat, announced that he would contest the Senate seat held by 'conservative Republican Sena tor Carl Curtis, 60, floor manager for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 G.O.P.

Convention. The departure of Morrison, popular three-term Governor in a traditionally Republican state, opens the way for a gubernatorial bid by Demo cratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, 32, younger brother of John F.

Kennedy's top aide. Probable Republican nominee: Val Peterson, 62, Gover nor from 1947 to 1952, former Federal Civil Defense Administrator and some time Ambassador to Denmark.

> Robert Straub, 45, Democratic state treasurer of Oregon, said he would op pose Republican secretary of state Tom McCall, 52, for the governorship to be vacated by the G.O.P.'s popular Mark Hatfield, who is running for the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Maurine Neuberger. Neither Straub nor McCall is expected to receive serious opposition in the primaries. The Democrats have yet to come up with a candidate willing to contest Hatfield's Senate bid.

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