Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 10, 1957
ThJd CAPITAL JuUKNAL
Section' 1 Page 3
power votes in the industrial
states lose their significance.
Nixon Good Bet for 1960 as
Candidate for Presidency
By LVI.E C. WILSON I both parties to win Negro voters.
In ted Press Staff Correspondent Neither party can win nationally
WASHINGTON (I'PI A good, without substantial Negro support
winter book bet today would be unless it be in a contest so one
Richard M. Nixon against the sided that millions of balance-of-
tiein or the next Republican pres
idential nomination.
The political breaks have been
going for the young man from
California in the weeks since his
reelection as vice president. The
biggest break, of course, was the
fact that he and President Eisen
hower polled a record vote last
November.
Their tally seems to have refut
ed the claims of Nixon's opponents
that he would cost the ticket some
millions of votes. Nixon's greatest
political disadvantage is the fear
of some Republican leaders that
he would not be a prime vote get
ter on his own.
Doubts Hurt Tatt
Identical doubts served to kill
off the late Robert A. Taffs
chances for the Republican presi
dential nomination.
"I like Taft, but- " was the
way millions of Republicans
backed into their explanations of
why they wanted some other pres
idential nominee. These doubts
will severely handicap Nixon.
Otherwise, political events are
breaking well lor Nixon in terms
of prestige and Republican party
influence. Mr. Eisenhower con
tinues to demonstrate his confi
dence in Nixon. Good publicity is
just as valuable to a politician
w-ith himself to sell as to a manu
facturer with some other fancy
product.
Mr. Eisenhower's selection of
Nixon to investigate the situation
of Hungarian refugees in Austria
was a publicity jackpot. To the
confusion ot his left-wing detrac
tors, Nixon returned from Austria
a champion of relaxed immigra
tion regulations.
Takes Filibuster Stand
To their further confusion. Nix
on was given an opportunity last
week to take a position on the
Senate filibuster dispute. Nixon's
position placed him right in the
middle of the so-called liberal
camp. Moreover, it placed him on
record with Negro voters as one
of those whose interpretation of
Senate filibuster rules would favor
enactment of far-reaching civil
rights legislation at this session of
Congress.
The Communists and some
others who dislike the vice presi
dent for less reason called a per
sonal foul on Nixon for his Sen
ale filibuster position. They held
that he had acted in self-interest.
The facts are that there is
scramble among politicians of
Ship Missing
Mysteriously
LONDON Iffl .Shipping circles
Thursday posted "missing" after
the name of the 7,124-ton British
freighter Nordicstar, last heard
from 13 days ago in the winter-
whipped North Atlantic.
Fear was expressed that the
ship may have floundered with her
crew of 37, most of them Greeks.
Ro,al Air Force planes flew out
cnAn fiflnr H-mn rnnrnntrrii inir
J their search some 300 miles west
. of Land s Knd. bhips of all na
ttionalities doubled lookouts and
scanned the horizon for some
trace of the Nordicstar.
The missing steamer, bound
from Philadelphia for Le Havre
with a cargo of coal, last mes
saged Dec. 27 to say she expected
to arrive on schedule at the
French port Jan. 3.
The mystery of the Nordicstar
was heightened by the fact that
she was traveling a busy ship
ping lane.
Mohammed was born at Mecca,
Arabia, in 570 A D.
Top Japanese
Pilot Killed
. In Jet Crash
HAMAMATSLl, Japan Wi -One
of Japan's best p.'.ots. a veteran
of the Pearl Harbor attack, was
killed yesterday in the new Jap
anese air force's first aerial col
lision in its three year history.
Sabre jets piloted by Lt. Col.
Masanobu lbusuki and Mnj. Gen.
Harhiro Setoyama brushed while
flying in formation and went out
of control.
Both pilots were ejected from
their cockpits but lbusuki's para
chute did not open. His body re
portedly plummeted into the
ocean.
Setoyama, who is commander
of the air force's 2nd wing, was
slightly injured.
lbusuki was a veteran of Pearl
Harbor, Rabaul, Saipan and other
Pacific war battles. Setoyama
was a navy bomber pilot during
the war.
White Pelicans at full growth
have a wing spread of about one
hundred inches.
ONE SCRATCH CRASH TOLL
MIDWAY, Ky. W-A scratched'
finger was the only Injury among
five persons In a grocery stora
when a car rolled 150 feet down
a street and smashed into tht
hllilHinc nrfiperc tairl (ho hrslrji.
on the parked car apparently
failed. Damage to the store wa
estimated at $1,500.
Construction
Mark Set 10th
Straight Year
,. - ...
$14 Million Spent for
Building in U. S.
In 1956
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON W Americans
pent a record 44V billion dollars
on construction in 1!)., setting a
new money peak for the 10th
successive year.
The report was made today by
the Commerce and Labor depart
ments, which have predicted con
struction outlay will soar to a new
464-billion-dollar peak in 1957.
In 1955 expenditures totaled just
tinder 43 billion dollars 30V4 bil
lions for private construction and
$12,400,000,000 in public building.
The physical volume of new
building In 1958 was 2 per cent
below the unprecedented 1953
level. This indicated that con
struction dollars bought less, with
costs being somewhat higher than
In 1955.
Industrial construction passed
the thrce-billio i-d( liar mark for
the first time in history, but home
building investment declined by
1C per cent, from 15 billion dol
lars to 132 billions.
The government report said
housing mortgage demands had to
compete increasingly in 1956
"with the heavy demands for
funds from many other sectors of
the economy."
"Even so," the report said, "the
13H billion dollars of new private
housing put in place in 1956 was
second only to the extraordinary
volume of the previous year.
"The comparatively high level
of home building in 1956 reflects
In part the continuing pressure
of a sustained demand for larger
and better equipped homes,
backed by rising incomes; i
steadily Increasing and highly mo
bile population: and accelerated
rehabilitation of urban centers.
Virtually all categories of pri
vate construction activity gained
In 1956 other than housing, farm
construction and hospital build
Ing
Private construction expendi
tures combined totaled $30,800.
OOO.ooo in 1956. only a little abo'
the record 1955 figure. But pub
lie construction rose 8 per cent
to a new high of $13,400,000,000.
More Paid to Jobless
Than Taken Into Fund
PORTLAND OP Oregon paid
$3,147,000 more in unemployment
compensation than it took in from
employers last year. T. Morris
Dunne, chairman ot me siaie i-n-emDlovment
Compensation Com
mission, said yesterday.
He said a 1955 law was
Mame. That law increased maxi
mum benefits from $25 to $35
weekly, and resulted in average
benefits goinj up from $21.92 to
$2S 44 weekly, he said.
Death in the gas chamber Is the
penalty for murder in Arizona. Cal
ifornia. Colorado. Missouri, Neva
da, North Carolina, Oregon and
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