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_LI FOR PAPRJRCHASING IEW. COLA JERS nUST NOT USB.) (CAUTION: ADVANCE LEWIS COLUMN FOR RKIEASE HHURSDAY, SEPTECBER 7. A.M. AND P.N. PAPERS. MUST NOT BE PUBLISHRD BEFORE THAT DATE.) WASHINOTON REPORT BY FULTON LEWIS, JR. COPYRIGHT, 1961,KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.S WAShInarON, SEp. 6--Republican Senate Whip Toa Kuchel may tind a rough-and-tumble primary battle on his hands next year for the GOP Senatorial nomination in California.. It would come from freshman Congressman John Rousselot, a 33-year-old conservative who feels that Kuchel has been "too liberal". in his Senate actions over the past several years.. Rousselot is now sounding out support in his native state for the race. A recent tour from north to south convinced him there is grave dissatisfaction on the part of many GoP regulars with Kuchel's voting. Rousselot, former chief of his state's Young Republican. organization, would have little difficulty finding campaign workers.. Funds for the primary are another matter, and estimates are that he would need at least half a million dollars for the race. There is considerable dissatisfaction on the part of the GOP Senate leadership with Kuchel's recent performance. There have been, for instance, ten key Senate votes, on which defecting Gop Senators have given President Kennedy legislative victory. On six of those ten, Kuchel deserted the party leadership. Only three Republicans have a worse record. Leadership disagreements with Kuchel go back to April, 1959 and the bitter fight over the Kennedy-Ervin labor reform bill. It was Kuchel at that time who "sold out" -- in the words of one GOp chieftain -- to organized labor and maneuvered a union-conceived amendment through Congress that destroyed the Mcclellan bill or rights and diluted an effective reform bill beyond recognition. After then-Senator John Kennedy had lost his battle against the Mcclellan provisions, union top brass went to Kuchel for support. Kuchel had originally voted in favor of the bill of rights, Which was passed when Vice President Nixon broke a tie by casting the deciding vote in favor. AFL/cio legislative director Andrew Biemiller, himself a former Congressman, got to Kuchel, however, and somehow persuaded him to defect.. (MORE)