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PRESENTS SAFETY PLAQUE Mayor Diamond L. Flynn of
Medford, at left, is shown presenting to Ashland's Mayor Phil
Stansbury a plaque in recognition of Ashland's record for pedes
trian safety during 1951. The presentation was made at a chamber
of commerce luncheon last week. The plaque honors Ashland as
one of few cities in the nation under 10,000 population which had
no pedestrian traffic fata'ities last year, and was presented on
behalf of the American Automobile association and the Oregon
State Motor association. Harry Morris, president of the Ashland
. chamber, looks on.
Phoenix Again Must Vote on Cify Budget
Phoenix The city of Phoe
nix will have a budget election
on $10,370.91 over the 6 per
cent increase limitation on Mon
day, August 4, from 12 noon to
8 p.m. at the city hall, according
Camas Youth Freed
On Manslaughter
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
William Perry Randolph, 17-
year-old Camas, Wash., boy was
free Tuesday on a suspended
three - year prison term after
being held in connection with
the fatal shooting of a teen-age
Camas girl.
Randolph, who fired the shot
that killed Mrs. Frances Doyle
Miller, 17, also of Camas, plead
ed guilty to a manslaughter
charge Monday before Superior
Court Judge Charles W. Hall.
Police said that Randolph
shot Mrs. Miller accidently on
June 26, when the two were
scuffling in an auto for posses
sion of a scarf. Randolph was
holding a .32 caliber pistol which
discharged, inflicting the fatal
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to Mayor E. R. Claflin.
The election will be on the
same matter that was passed by
the voters before and is neces
sary due to a legal technicality
which made the prior election
invalid, Claflin explained. This
is the third budget election this
year for Phoenix. The budget
was first turned down, then lat
er passed by a large majority
following a public hearing at
which the objections were heard
and compromised.
This is the fourth election this
year that has had to be held
again. Others have been at Gold
Hill, Rogue River and Eagle
Point, all for legal deficiencies,
NINE DISEASE CASES
Only nine cases of communi
cable disease were - reported in
Jackson county last week, it was
reported today by Dr. A. Erin
Merkel, county health officer,
One case of tuberculosis was dis
covered in Medford, which also
reported one case each of scarlet
fever, pneumonia, chicken pox
and German measles, and two
cases of influenza. Two cases of
impetigo were reported from
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Many Servicemen May Lose Votes
Due To Lack of Absentee Ballots
Washington (U.R) Some
600,000 servicemen overseas
will be deprived of their right
to vote in November because
many states and Congress failed
to provide adequate absentee
ballots.
That was the estimate made
Tuesday by military officials,
who pointed out the servicemen
come from states which make it
impossible or very difficult to
cast votes while not home. The
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Atomic Powered
Airplane Engine
To Undergo Test
Idaho Falls, Ida. U.P.) The
Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced Tuesday that facilities
to test an atomic powered air
plane engine will be built at the
sprawling national reactor test
ing station in Eastern Idaho.
Design, development and pre
liminary fabrication of the pro
totype aircraft propulsion reac
tor are already being done at
Lockland, O., by the. aircraft
gas-turbine department of the
General Electric Co.
To Assemble Engine
When the preliminary work
in Ohio is completed, the atomic
power plant which if success
ful will open the door to a new
concept in aircraft range will
be assembled at the Idaho site
for testing.
An airframe to utilize the
first atom fueled aircraft en
gine already is being developed
by the Air Force and the Con-solidated-Vultee
Co., builder of
the Mammoth B-36 intercontin
ental bomber.
No Time Schedule
AEC officials here would not
speculate on any time schedule
for completion of the $33,000,
000 test project. But it obviously
will be some time before con
struction and testing of the pro
totype and final atomic motors
are completed along with a
fuselage to carry them.
Because of the energy noten-
tial of fissionable material is so
great for example one pound
of uranium 235 has the energy
equivalent of 1,500 tons of coal
a successful bomber powered
by atomic energy would have
a tremendous operational ranee.
limited primarily by the dura
bility of its crew.
Aluminum Company
Strike Settled
Washington (U.R) The fm
Steelworkers sent orders to its
members todav to cancel a
strike, originally set for mid-
nignt i uesday,. against, .the Alu
minum company of America.
The strike, which wmilrl nave
slashed the nation's aluminum
production by 25 per cent, was
averted late Monday when the
CIO union and Alcoa settled
their six-month-old wage dis
pute.
The agreement, hammered
out under the direction nf Watre
Stabilization Board Chairman
Nathan P. Feinsinger, provides
a "package" 21.4 cents an hour
increase for 15.000 CIO Steel-
workers in 10 Alcoa plants
across the nation. Sixteen cents
of the "package" will be in a
straight pay, boost, and the rest
in "fringe" benefits.
Coast Guard Presses
Hunt for Eight Men
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Coast Guard cutters and flying
boats joined Tuesday in a wide
spread air-sea search for eight
men who have been missing in
the choppy Pacific since a fish
ing boat exploded at sea Sunday.
Three survivors of the wreck
of the fishing boat "Spare Time"
were rescued from the sea Mon
day, and the body of one of the
12 men aboard was pulled from
the water six miles offshore
Monday night by life guards.
Coast Guardsmen, life guards
and private boat owners search
ed far into the night. The Coast
Guard said flying boats from
San Diego, Calif., would join to
day in the search for the eight
men still missing.
Ratification Ends
Milwaukie Strike
Milwaukie U.R) CIO Un
ited Auto Workers, Local 492,
said Tuesday its membership
has ratified a three-year contract
ending a 47-day strike against
International- Harvester's Mil
waukie service parts depot.
The contract calls for an im
mediate four-cents-an-hour gen
eral wage increase for all em
ployees, plus an annual four-
cents-an-hour raise payable in
August, 1952, 1953 and 1954. An
escalator clause based on the
Bureau of Labor Statistics price
index also is included in the
contract.
tioned within the United States
but not close to home are in
cluded. No Absentee Provisions
Two states South Carolina
and New Mexico have no ab
sentee provisions at all, accord
ing to a Defense Department
survey.
During World War II, practi
cally all states revised election
procedures to enable fighting
men to cast ballots 'back home.
And Congress provided a feder
al ballot to make double sure
servicemen would have a chance
to vote for federal officials.
But many states have let their
soldier ballot laws lapse. And
the federal law expired with the
Japanese Treaty which ended
World War II.
Appeals to States
Secretary of Defense Robert
A. Lovett sent appeals to the
states earlier this year when he
discovered how inadequate state
Forest Group Opposes
Dropping Truck Tax
Portland (U.R) The Asso
ciated Forest Industries of Ore
gon, one of the state's leading
lumber products groups, an
nounced Tuesday it is against a
proposed constitutional amend
ment to do away with a weight
mile tax for trucks in Oregon.
Trucking organizations and
the AFL Teamsters Union were
largely responsible for placing
the initiative measure on the
ballot.
Charles E. Ogle, Salem, secretary-manager
of the forest in
dustries group, said it opposed
the measure because it "would
result in relatively short haul
trucks carrying logs, lumber and
other forest products paying
more than their share of taxes."
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absentee voting laws had be
come. The administration tried
unsuccessfully to push a new
federal ballot law through Con
gress before adjournment.
Most state legislatures were
not in session this year, and gov
ernors were reluctant to sum
mon special sessions in an elec
tion year.
The Senate passed a bill pro
viding a federal ballot in cases
where a state does not have an
adequate absentee ballot But
despite several pleas by Presi
dent Truman the measure died
in a House subcommittee in a
hassle over states rights.
Bill Opposed
Subcommittee Chairman Omar
Burleson, D-Tex., said he op
posed the bill because he said it
would give the federal govern
ment a chance to get "its foot in
the door" in regulating state
election procedures.
Rep. Charles A. Halleck, R
Ind., said it should be left up to
the states to provide absentee
voting machinery.
Seven states, including South
Carolina and New Mexico, re
quire registration in person. The
others are Alabama, Delaware,
Florida, Louisiana and Utah.
Four states Florida, In
diana, Montana and Utah do
not accept a postcard as an ap
plication for a ballot.
Utah Provides Vote
Utah, however, provided legis
lation last June, during a special
session of the legislature that
will enable its servicemen to
vote this fall.
Defense Department officials
testified that at least 45 .days
should be allowed, particularly
in the case of men in Korea, for
sending out and returning ab
sentee ballots.
Twenty-three states allow less
than 45 days. Four states Flor
ida, Kentucky, Massachusetts
and Texas do not have any
specified time period.
Yerba Buena.-original name of
San Francisco, was derived from
the abundant growth of the plant
Tuesday, Julr 29, 1952
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FIRST LESSON Senator Richard M. Nixon (left) gets his first
fishing lesson from Dwight D. Eisenhower at the G. O. P. presi
dential candidate's hideaway near Fraser, Colo. Nixon, Republican
vice presidential nominee, joined the general at the mountain
retreat to help map their campaign.
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Kefauver in Red After Campaign; He's Unworried
McMinnville, Tenn. (U.R)
Sen. Estes Kefauver said he
wound up his bid for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination in
the red but "I'm not worrying
about it."
Kefauver said reports "might
be about right" that he , had a
deficit of $30,000 in his cam
paign fund.
"I'm not worrying about it,
Candidate Derived From Roman Times
New York (U.R) Candidates
are called candidates because of
an old Roman custom. In Roman
times aspirants for public office
dressed themselves in spotless
white garments and practically
invited the opposition to throw
mud at them, says the Book of
Knowledge.
Often unlucky and unpopular
would-be consuls and praetors
slunk home after a hard day's
electioneering with their once
gleaming togas spattered with
rotten eggs, over-ripe vegetables
and the mire of the gutters,
which was the Roman way of
saying no.
The Roman politician lacked
the comparative safety of the
broadcasting studio. He had to
stand up in front of the voters m
the Forum and take it, and take
it home on his costume.
The word candidate comes
from the Latin "candidus"' which
means "gleaming," "white,"
"spotless," and is also the root of
our word "candid," which most
people associate with election
eering and election promises
only indirectly.
REPRESENTS LABOR
Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas
McKay has reappointed S. P.
Stevens, Portland, as a member
of the advisory committee of
fair employment practices act
representing labor.
however." he told the United
Press. "Several good friends of
mine have indicated they will
help to get it released."
House Mortgaged
The senator said also his house
in Washington is mortgaged but
that the mortgage has nothing
to do with his campaign.
It was mortgaged when I
bought it in January of 1949. I
took over the mortgage and it
has nothing to do with my cam
paign fund," he said.
Senator and Mrs. Kefauver
flew here Sunday to join their
four children in a visit on the
farm of a friend. Cowan Old
ham, near here. He said he had
not made any plans as to how
long he might stay.
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