The Nome Nugget

Raving Louisiana
Governor Hauled
To State Hospital

BATON ROUGE, La., (P) Hoarsely screaming curses, Governor Earl K. Long of Louisiana battled all the way with sheriff's deputies last night as they hauled him to a mental hospital for the second time in three weeks.

"God damn it, God damn it, God damn it," the rumpled and sweating Governor bellowed.

"Hell, I'm not going to get in there," he yelled when they tugged him into a sheriff's car to take him to Southeast Louisiana State Hospital at Mandeville.

The 63-year-old Governor swung a roundhouse right at a deputy but missed.

Dr. Chester Williams, coroner of East Baton Rouge Parish, said Governor Long had suffered from delusions of persecution.

The medical name is paranoic schizophrenia.

But Long remained unconvinced that he needed hospital treatment.

"I don't feel I need to be hospitalized," Long told physicians at the Mandeville institution.

Dr. Charles Belcher, acting superintendent of Southeast, indicated Thursday night in an interview with the Associated Press that Long must remain in his hospital at least 30 days.

This latest chapter in the weird and tragic story of Earl Kemp Long pitched Louisiana politicians into additional jitters. Who is to take his place as Governor is the big question.

Lt. Governor Lether Frazar, it is supposed, will step into the breach. as he did when members of the Long family flew a drugged and unwitting Governor May 30 to a psychiatric clinic in Galveston. Texas. However, nothing is certain.

In his New Orleans hotel, the Lieutenant Governor hastily declined to say one word on the situation.

"They may impeach me for being so dumb," Frazar told newsmen,

"But I don't know where I stand."