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NO. 80
Cordon, Patterson Win
Segregation Issue
Voted On in South
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WASHINGTON - (APl - T w o
P proposals to continue school seg
< relation in the Deep South high
lighted a record Hat of special
M issues decided Tuesday by voters
4 of 37 states.
In all, they balloted on 232
ft constitutional amendments and
I special proposals, while also
I electing state and national office
5 holders.
The issues ranged from Michi
" gan's fight over legalizing bingo
| for charitable organizations to a
ICalifomia plan for raising maxi-,
m mum old age pensions from $80
if to $100 monthly.
Louisiana and Michigan citi
zens voted on special Korean war
ft bonuses. In several states there
:|was the question of whether to
Hborrow millions of dollars for
Jury Subpoenas
Chicago Records
<’HICAGO-( APi-In an unpre
■ cedented action, a federal grand
Sf jury Tuesday subpoenaed elec
* lions officials and records of 14
H Chicago precincts for examina
Jt tion at 10 a.m. CST Wednesday.
The summonses were served on
H John S. Rusch. chief clerk of the
! board of election commissioners.'
The lightning federal investi
gative action was announced by
JUS Attorney Robert Tieken, who
| earlier assigned three assistants
|§ to watch for irregularities in the
■Chicago voting.
County Judge Edmund K. Ja
Jrecki, ex-officio head of the elec
tion. board, commented, "never
before in the history of the elec
tion board has this been done."
Taken declined to specify the
basis upon which the precinct
officials and records were sub
poenaed.
public project*. Fourteen Mates
considered raising wage* or
changing working condition* for
state official*.
LouiHiana and Georgia voted on
proposal* frankly designed to by
pass any supreme court order
to carry out its May decision
that segregation of white and
Negro children in public schools
is unconstitutional. The court is
expected to decide how to imple
ment this decision after hearing
plans from Interested parties in
December.
Louisiana voters had before
them a proposed amendment to
the state constitution to provide
for continued segregation in ele
mentary and secondary schools,
under the police power given the
states by the Tenth Amendment
to the U.8. Constitution. The
high court's ruling was based
upon the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
The Louisiana proposal also
called for a special election to
consider the next step, if one
is deemed necessary.
In Georgia, the issue was a.
proposal to permit granting of
state funds to individuals for
educational purposes, thus pav
ing the way for eliminating the
public school system in favor of
state-supported schools.
Eugeneans Use
Voting Machine
EUGENE — (AP) — Election
board officials saved time but
voters did not. That was the opin
ion of election board chairman
Clyde E. Wright on the use of a
voting machine in Tuesday's elec
tion here.
It was the first time such a ma
chine had been used in Oregon
since the late 1920s. The machine
for the trial run was provided by
Gene Rossman, Oregon agent for
the manufacturer.
Wright said 118 ballots were
cast at the precinct where the
machine was in use. "Voters seem
to catch on to the machine sys
tem fast, but the fact that we
had only one machine made vot
ing procedures a little slower than
in past elections," Wright said.
Wright reported that results
of the voting on the machine were
tabulated in 15 minutes.
Every Vote Counts
ROSEBURG — (AP) — Mrs.
Bruce Elliott of Roseburg voted
Tuesday, although it took a
stretcher to get her to the polls.
She was in Mercy hospital here,
recovering from heart surgery.
She got attendants to take her by
ambulance to her precinct, and
then carry her on a stretcher into
the polling place. Afterward, she
went back to the hospital.
Hartman, Shisler Lead
In City Council Races
Robert Hartman was leading
the rare for city council member
as reported in the unofficial re
sults from 64 out of 68 precincts
in Eugene, at 11:30 p. m.
Hartman had 1,234 votes
against Ray Siegenthaler’s 965
One Measure Passes;
Three Others Defeated
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p
PORTLAND-*AP»-Elmer "Gal
lon Jug" Deetz, the Canby dairy
man who hates milk control be
cause it hampered his operations,
apparently succeeded in getting
rid of the 21-year-old Oregon law
that lets the state fix milk
prices and establish producer
quotas.
Asserting that no one gave
him a dime to help him in his
initiative campaign against milk
control, Deetz apparently came
out on top in Tuesday’s elec
tion, with a 125,124 to 106,723
vote in favor of his repealer. The
returns were from 1619 to 2499
precincts.
The measures to put Oregon
on daylight saving time every
summer and to throw commer
cial fishermen out of the coastal
streams apparently were beaten,
too.
The daylight time bill, spon
sored by Portland’s Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, was losing,
137,974 to 99,907.
The fish bill, sponsored by
sportsmen and bitterly opposed
by the commercial fishermen,
was behind, 117,800 to 100,160.
Another bill that was being
defeated was the state property
tax measure, losing 112,560 to
88,962. The legislature submitted
it as a proposed constitutional
amendment to provide a 6-mill
state property tax limit, which
now is provided only by a law.
It also would remove the 6 per
cent limitation, under which state
property taxes can’t increase
more than 6 percent in a year.
By 2 a.m. Wednesday the As
sociated Press had not reported
on any of the other four issues
which appeared on the Oregon
ballot. Issues numbers one, two,
three, and four concerned the
following in their respective or
der:
No. 1—a constitutional amend
ment-to permit the Oregon Legis
lature to fix its own salaries.
No. 2—a constitutional amend
ment to permit Legislature to di
vide counties into districts for
election of state congressmen.
No. 3—a bill to correct some
technical defects in the measure
to authorize” a mental hospital
for aged in Multnomah county.
No. 4—a constitutional amend
ment to raise from 8 per cent to
10 per cent the number of signa
tures required to put a constitu
tional measure on the ballot.
for council member from ward 4
From ward 2, Warren Shisler was
ahead of Eyler Brown 511 to 368
E. S. Wengert was leading Julio
Silva by 60 votes for a position on
the Eugene Water and Electric
Board. Wengert had 371 votes;
Silva had 311.
In Eugene city issues the clos
ure of the airpark on Chambers
street won 3546 to 2076. The issue
for bonds to build a new public
library also passed 3311 to 2406.
In an. unofficial count of 174
of I^ane county’s 213 precincts,
Winfred W. Smith was ahead in
the race for county assessor with
13,676 votes to George A. Stock’s
12944.
Candidates for county commis
sioners were Robert W. Straub
with 14137 votes; Kenneth Niel
sen, 13223: Robert D. Maclay,
13136, and Frank Bradford, 11075.
Two will be elected.
Grace Shiska was leading over
Olga Freeman for county treas
urer. Shiska had 13704 votes to
Freeman's 13193.
New York Village
Divided 'Half-Half
CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.-(AP)-A lo
cal option vote Tuesday made
this Washington county village
half wet and half dry.
The main street is the divid
ing line, with half of the village
in the town of Cambridge and
the other half in the town of
White Creek.
Voters in Cambridge approved
the sale of liquor for consump
tion on and off the premises.
The sale of liquor is prohibit
ed in White Creek.
Republicans Lead
In Major Contests
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
I (JR I LAND-(AP)-Paced by Senator Guy Cordon and
Governor Paul L. Patterson, the Republicans were ahead
Wednesday morning in every contest in Oregon’s election.
Cordon, who engaged State Senator Richard L. Neuberger
in the most bitter campaign Oregon has seen in many years,
held a fair-sized lead over his Democratic opponent.
Patterson won re-election easily over former Portland
mayor Joseph K. Carson Jr.
Congressman Walter Norblad ami Harris Ellsworth were
re-elected, while the state s other Republican congressman,
Sam Coon, held what seemed to be a safe lead.
Only in the third district, Multnomah county, was there
a CiOse race, with Tom Eawson McCall clinging for his po
litical life against Mrs. Edith Green, Democratic Portland
housewife and Parent-Teacher association leader.
State Senator S. Eugene Allen, Republican, was headed
for victory in his contest for state labor commissioner.
W ith the hot power issue dominating in all races, the results
might be considered a victory for the Eisenhower-McKay
partnership plan, under which the Northwest’s dams would
be built by the federal government, private power companies
and local agencies.
With Neuberger carrying the banner, all of the Democratic
candidates denounced this program as a “giveaway,” and
advocated federal development of the Columbia basin.
Cordon, who has served 10 years in the Senate and is chair
man of the committee on interior and insular affairs, saw his
lead increase steadily throughly the evening. In 1925 of 2499
precincts, Cordon’s lead was 173,018 to 190,607 over Neu
berger, a 41-year-old Portland writer.
Neuberger had only a small lead in Multnomah county,
where the Democrats lead in registrations and where his
chief strength was supposed to be. However, the returns from
this county could change in complexion Wednesday, because
not all votes were counted Tuesday night.
Neuberger, making his bid to be Oregon’s first Democratic
senator in 40 years, w'as ahead in only 10 of the 36 counties.
Patterson, seeking election in his own right for the first
time, won by a big margin. Carson didn't even carry his home
county of Multnomah. He was ahead only in Columbia, Curry,
Harney and Union counties.
Patterson’s margin over Carson was 193,090 to 138,272.
Oregon s delegation to the US house of representatives
would remain solidly Republican if McCall, 41-year-old radio
commentator and assistant to ex-Governor McKay, beats
Mrs. Green. But the outcome will remain in doubt until the
last votes are counted. He was trailing Mrs. Green by a scant
35 votes'at 7:30 Wednesday morning. With 687 of 815 pre
cincts reporting, Mrs. Green was ahead, 37,260 to 37,225.
McCall unseated Representative Homer D. Angel! in the
May primary.
Norblad, in the first Northwestern district, won another
term in congress, beating Donnell Mitchell, Willamina, by a
2 to 1 margin. Ellsworth, dean of Oregon’s delegation, has
served since 1942 and was ahead of Charles'O. Porter. Eu
gene lawyer, in Southwest Oregon’s fourth district by a
38,738 to 36,472 margin. ^
Rep. Coon, who is trying for a second term, was in front
of his fellow townsman, A1 Ullman, Baker real estate man,
by a 6-5 margin.
In the only race in which the power issue didn't figure,
Allen, former editor of the AFL’s Oregon Labor Press and
who was denied labor’s support, was ahead of Norman O.
Nilsen, Portland plumber, 90,196 to 83,131, in the labor com
missioner contest.
Headquarters of GOP
Visited by Eisenhower
WASHINGTON - (AP) - Presi
dent Eisenhower paid a surprise
visit Tuesday night to Republi
can national headquarters in
downtown Washington a few
blocks from the White House.
Asked if he saw any straws in
the wind yet, Eisenhower said:
“Oh, no. I don't know anything
yet.
"I just came up here to see this
headquarters and thank these
people who have been working so
hard.”
He planned to return to the
White House, pick up Mrs. Eisen
hower, and then drive to the home
of Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey for dinner.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said no special
arrangements had been made for
election returns to be received at
the Humphrey residence.
That meant the President prob
ably would get the results on tele
vision and radio, just as millions
of other Americans were getting
them.