Turtle Lake High School - Trojan Yearbook (Turtle Lake, ND)

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Landslide Sweeps Eisenhower Into White Houses, Republicans Control Both Houses of Congress History finally caught up with the Democrats, and the coalition that ruled the nation for twenty years now lies crushed beneath one of the most spec- tacular upsets sinee the Civil VVar. In popular vote, the COP won by about 5,000,000 and in electoral votes its ratio ot victory was about four to one. In winning election as the 34th Presi- dent of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower eut deeply into every bloc that had made up the Democratic coali- tion, except the Negroes. He piled up spectacular votes in the big industrial cities of thc North. He proved amazingly popular with organized labor. He ran strongly in neighborhoods that were pre- voritism in the Administrationg by the suspieion that lleds still played an under- cover role in the State Department. Eisenhower promised to solve the problems that beset the nation, and the people believed in his capacity to re- deem this promise, Looking to the past, the Democrats said: You never had it so good. But the people were looking to the future and they wanted something from it which they didnlt think the Democrats otlered them. They wanted, however big the order, restoration of peace to the worldg an end to ever-mounting government expendi- tures and taxes, an end to careless moral- ity in Washingtong and at the same time a move to the right. away from big gov- ernment and toward traditional concepts of a free enterpnse economy. The voters ehose the future. And they ehose Eisenhower and the Republican Party as its custodians. l-How Great the Victory Herbert Hoover swept -10 of the 48 states. but Eisenhowerls victory over Stevenson nevertheless was far more spectacular than Hoover's over Alfred E. Smith, and far more signitieanl. Hoover was running as the candidate of the ma- jority party: Eisenhower was thc standard-bearer of a party that had been in the minority for twenty-years. dominantly Irish-American and Italian- Aineriean. And he won back the farm vote for the COP. Most important of all, he smashed the Solid South, almost certainly beyond re- pair. Virginia, Texas, and Florida, at least, never again will be one-party states. So overwhelming was Ilce's victory over Adlai E. Stevenson. in fact, that he swept Republican majorities into the House and Senate with him. The Republican landslide was only partly the result of Eisenhowefs popu- larity, though his popularity, even with longtime, devoted Democrats, could hardly be overestimated. Sooner or later, the Democratic coalition was bound to eiumble. Many Republicans believe it would have fallen apart in 1948. had it been pounded hard enough. The reason was the nature of the coali- tion, It was an alliance that included the extremes of conservatism in the Old South and radicalism in the urban North. lt was brought together by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the days of depression and it started disintegrating during the Truman Administration in the days of postwar prosperity. Voters generally had grown tired of Democratic rule. They were troubled by the war in Ko- rea, which seemed like an endless blood- lettingg by the spread of Communism in the worldg by the draftg by high prices, by the revelations of corruption and fa- Mamie and Ike: A call for unity and dedication in a moment of triumph ,wo Ike and Nixon This years election was an 1 important event as far as the ' students were concerned. P. D. P. and hlstory classes were following the election closely. Just before our PTSSld6Dt was elected we held a mock election in which the entire student body took part. fIke wonj Ike's victory speech was recorded by some of the students and run off the next day for the benefit of the hlgh school. Stevenson gnllnntly hailed Ike Alter the convention: A talk on strategy and fish

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'7ze,,,4 PURPOSE OF NEWS ITEMS: This year's annual staff decided to use a few annual pages for pictures or write-ups of different things of importance that have happened throughout this years school term. The staff felt that this would be time and money well spentg because someday we'17 'look back at our school annuals and see pictures of what might have been the beginning of a great industry, or maybe even a Renaissance as far as North Dakota history is concerned. Bgb 'Or 'iw fronbzir staizgsgad lu-tg, L Petro, egg. -mea Beautiful sight taken in the morning from our library window. 8 608,59 'ho Q9-M . -bgB9!h3gLenB-beggfxnlae H6651 'lf WI' user sw 1' O Q Of a no ' web te was :gifs 319,235 to prim V951 sa! ir- nick and W ' -67

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. ww. 61111012 Fam, uvmcf srnucruns WFFH commmo emamxmeur uv BACKGROUND, MAY 1952. 'i '5 2'v.7.Q S The Garrison Dam project means very much to the farmers of today and of tomorrow. This project is doing and will do much more to help the farmers. Its irrigation will make the land very fertile and profitable. This dam is the largest earth filled dam in the United States. North Dakota might someday be known as a great oil producing anea. One of the first wells to be dug was right southwest of Turtle Lake. Tioga oil wells were the first to produce. An oil refinery is being built in Mandan now during the summer of 1953. Both the dam and the oil are proving that North Dakota is advancing. Someday North Dakota will be known as one of the most important states in the United States. 69 AG 'Zh' 1 5 ug pjfi Q '14 .gli rf' L. d. Kit 1-'w Kf'ixf, l A 4 1 A P ll f u BTANDOLIFD - MCLEAN f 1 Turtle Lake, N. Dak. ya A I Same oil well taken at different angles w,iiF19 I . -ii 1, Ms 'N---... r 'Q K '- .K A' '-.4-X llc f as g is K V AA.,-.Y lf' 4 l riigpaff,-A g ' 4 1.x-K33f,,L5m 4 h CT L' MA. ,mu in F- , . :gs-11.5, .. .W WM '.,.',g,,.gL. , n 3 ,Q iw H g r 7 1 V xx k . v ..