anie saysWhite er has ex Aainin to do -PAIN By DOTTY C.R FF TH Former secretary of state and attorney gen- eral candidate Mark White has a lot of explaining to do about his refusal to extradite on alleRed murderer, White's Democratic pri- mary opponent, Price Daniel Jr., icl here Th ursday. f'Daniel, a former speaker - eaker of the House, said if White had granted a request by the State of ' New York to extradite Robert Elmer Kleasen in 1974. "those two Mormon ' missionaries would not have been murdered." ' Prosecutors claim Kleasen, whose death sentence was overturned on a legal technicality, murdered two young . Mormon • missionaries about six months after White refused- to extra- dite Kleasen on a New York assault charge. Gov. Dolph Bnscoe upheld the , denial. • White has said "the . allegations in New York' were of a very peculiar nature. The facts support- ing the allegations up there would not consti- tute a crime in Texas." U ,ataatme,,),. c represented Kleasen in various matters and New York prosecutors have told the News they felt lhe evidence warranted extradition. ---1 MiTer—s-aid he knew nothing of the case .except what he had read in newspapers (Kleasen is under federal indict- ment in Austin for fire- arms law violations) but that White is "either a pc.T.W:----a-d mini st r3Tor or The s soTt on law. .arid 2/1 older in refusing to ran another state's re ii Texas records of______the ex-IF-Mir-m-1i empt have been lost, accordingto an Daniel went on to • accuse both White and Republican candidate: James Baker of trying t0 buy the attorney gener-. al's office based on White's statement that he would raise a half-mil- lion dollars for the pri- mary and linker's that he would rnise SI million. Saying he had raised S80,000 with 744 contribu- tions averaging S100 a piece. Daniel said their statements "smack of an office open for bidding or up for sale." "As far as big sums of money, Fm the underdog." Daniel said. But Daniel has one advantage in the race that his opponents will have to spend money to equalize and that is his name identification, partly inherited from his father. Price Daniel, state supreme court justice and former governor. Daniel angrily refuted White's contention that he is trying to cash in on his father's well-known name and accomplish- ments and that voters wouldn't fall for another case of mistaken identity. as they did with the elec- tion of former Supreme Court Justice Don. Yarbrough. "The reaction to his personal attack on me and my family has had a, backlash effect." Daniel said, noting- his term as speaker of the House and president of the 1974 Con- stitutional Convention give him his own creden- tials. "Making a comparison to Don Yarbrough is absurd," Daniel said, not- ing that he always uses the "Jr." to distinguish himself from his father_ "I haven't made a speech yet where I've asked any- one to vote for -me because of my father." . Claiming to be ahead of White by 3-to-1 according to a Houston television station poll, Daniel said he recently completed a 30-day tour of the state, .something "most candi; dates don't. do until spring" before the May primary, ; While in Dallas, Daniel • named Jim Sale, in vest- ments businessman, as - chairman of his Dallas County Campaign Steer- ing Committee, - which included a broad spec- trum of Dallas support ranging from business- man Charles Kirkham Jr. to Pauline Medrano, oil the liberal-labor-oriented Medrano Others on the list include State Reps. John Bryant and • T.H. McDonald; former state representatives Zan W. Holmes and Jim Vecchio; attorney Adelpha Calleio; Mike Dodge, Dallas Dem- ocratic Forum president; attorney and former city council member Joe Geary; businessman and national Democratic Party contributor Mil- ledge Hart; justices of the peace George Allen and Ann King; Betty McKool. wife of former state sena- tor Mike McKool; Moura NIcNiel, women's advo- cate; and Dan Weiser, lib- eral political strategist. MOLAi Zi216,1 "to J2Y 1°4; P614 diaNkva) t• -44 )44) -elSotta-- LA) /4_tlytis 6f10., cytt1=1-,-e, Az-A-445 . m loyee in the secrt tate s7fleg„.