Nation: Idaho: Standoff
Given the treat of electing two Senators at once, Idaho cannily sent a liberal Democrat back to Washington in the company of a conservative Republican. Boyish Democratic Senator Frank Church, 38, won a second term. Greying Republican Len Jordan, 63, who was appointed to the Senate after the death last September of venerable fellow Republican Henry Dworshak, won a full term by defeating Gracie Pfost, a five-term Congresswoman and the Queen Bee of Idaho politics. But Idaho eyes were really centered on the campaign for Governor, in which Democrat Vernon K. Smith came out for legalized gambling à la Nevada. Incumbent Republican Robert E. Smylie hollered no so loudly that the issue buried all others. Smylie, without really trying, was elected to a third term.
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