Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 26, 1954, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text: Miracfe of Private Enterprise Speeds Results of Ballot Count Trt.?.rato!.,n'orm,n America Uonir SLS v?t""' " - m ? "".J task. ytS'?. throuib the enttrprUe w n worKK. ew York (U.R) Acr o s s enc at nightfall on Nov. 2, liny noises of some 2,000,000 voters recording their decision, .. aurarcn 01 ballot pencil and , cuck 01 irachine lever, will cease and the silence will re vive itseit into a question. .It is the one big question that piques America, ami free world that looks to Amer ica, every two years on election night. Who won? "Key, Joe," the reporter asks "ie cierk at election headquar- i oemna tne cigar store. "Who won?" . And in thousands of precincts the question is echoed, the an swer given in small figures that add up to the big answer. By daylight the next day, the voter knows most of the an swer. By noon, he will know for sure who won. His newspaper, his radio, his television will tell mm. Who Provides the Answer . W nn nrnvirlM thia .. nncurar within 12 to 18 hours after the polls close- Who tabs the na tion s political pulse, who adds up the small figures from 150,- Schooling for Prince Charles ' Being Studied London (U.R) Prince Charles will be six years old next month and all of Britain Is debating whether the heir to the throne should be educated by private tutors or whether he should go to public school, , - The conservative element . thinks Charles should remain in the hands of tutors, at least for a few more years. Public School Favored ., But another faction wants the future monarch to be educated in a rough and ready public school such as Gordonstoun in Scotland. The Duke of Edin burgh was educated there and he would like to see his son get the same tough training. A decision by the royal family is expected around the time of Charles' birthday, Nov. 14. At that time another decision prob ably will be made affecting the prince's future. , , ' This is whether the youngster should be proclaimed the Prince of Wales. The Welsh are anxious for this to happen as soon as possible, but Queen Elizabeth feels her son Is .still too young . to understand the majectic cere mony it Involves. Eugene (U.R) Eugene city officials said they are consider ing plans to request a new fed eral census as result of a sur vey showing the city has had a population increase of nearly 10,000 since the 1950 census, Washington (U.R) ' Sec retary of Interior Douglas Mc Kay has appointed Carroll A. Burroughs as acting superinten dent of Coronado National Me morial, Arizona. . Use Tribune Want Ads 000 polling places, who assesses the meaning of the vote after pulling it together from across the country? If you asked the man in the street, the man whose pocket book and job might be affected by the outcome, he probably would tell you the answer is furnished by a vague entity he calls "the government."- 1 He couldn't be more wrong. The coverage of a national elec tion is a miracle of private en terprise, a modern miracle of communications, planning, painstaking tabulations, and the sweat of , thousands of toiling newsmen. Only One Media The great press associations alone are equipped to collect, tabulate, and disseminate the re- Five Underseas Volcanoes Found Neat Hawaii Isles ; Los Angeles U.R) Five un dersea volcanoes, probably form ed within the last million years, have been discovered southeast of the Hawaiian Islands, it has been disclosed here. The disclosure was made by Dr.. Kenneth C. Emery, profes sor of geology and oceanography at the University ol souinern California; who said that al though one of the cones is 12,000 feet high, its crater stiU is 5300 feet below the ocean surface. . Discovered by Echoes . The volcanoes were discov ered by echo soundings, Emery Said;: ' i The other volcanoes, he add ed, have heights of 10,500 feet, 55001 feet, 9000 feet and 3000 feet, all under the ocean's sur face. The 5500 foot volcano is 11,500 feet under water. "They may become new is lands of the Hawaiian chain in few hundred of thousands ol years, " Emery saia. -ine sea mounts are in an area in which 4553 earthquakes were detected in six weeks in 1B52." Emerv said evidence strongly suggests that the center of vol canic activity in the Hawaiian Islands has migrated slowly from northwest to southeast. Chessman Turned Down By High Court Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court . has refused . zor the seventh time to grant a hear ing to Caryl W. Chessman, Cal ifornia convict who wrote a best selling autobiography from his San Quentin Prison death cell. However, the court said Chessman may apply in an ap propriate federal district court for a writ of habeas corpus to test the fairness of his trial. Chessman's execution had been stayed by a California judge pending his appeal to the Supreme Court. By today's ac tion, the high court washed its hand of the matter. It is now up to California as to when he will be executed. Chessman has been confined in death row for six years await ing execution in the prison gas chamber. - FrJR RR ECTSTON S"E WTN'G AT LO.WrLOW. PRICE SINGER'99' r rsan This famous SINGER Round is now an even better buy than features such as: Dial Tension Hinged Presser Foot Back Tack Stitch' Lightweight Carrying Case And now you can make many beautiful decorative stitches without attachments. FREE HOME TRIM Bobbin Sewhig Machine ever before. See the new 10 95 DOWN PRICE $119.95 '.. Easy Terms liberal Trade-In Allowance SINGER SEWING CENTER lkimiiMMMidiiriifiManiMiMiiilM 121 EAST MAIN ST. PHONI 2-7153 OPEN WEDNESDAY EVENINGS TIL 9 suits on a national . scale. Only they have; the communications, the far-flung organization, and the trained manpower. All other news media look to the press as sociations for the national re turns that spell party victory or defeat. . The United Press will have 6000 editorial workers laboring through election night. It will use 350,000 miles of leased wires over which the vote will pour in, and from which the news papers, radio, and TV will get the national facts and figures that are passed to the waiting public. The cost of this one night operation by the United Press in . getting the answer to the "big question" is around $100. 000. . : In 1844 James K. Polk got the word that he had been elect ed President of the United States from a . messenger who rode horseback 40' miles one autumn night from Nashville to Columbia, Tenn. The voting had begun weeks before. Candidate's in next week's election will know who won and who has control of Congress -by noon Nov. 3.' BUSY President Eisenhow er walks quickly to his limou sine at Washington airport on his return from handshaking, speech-making, doorbell-ringing swine into Connecticut and New York. He will leave the capital "again for more campaigning in Pennsylvania. Neuberger Foes Said Hiding Issues Portland U.R) . State At torney General Robert V. Thorn ton last night charged that the opponents of Richard L. Neuber ger, Democratic nominee for the U.S. senatorship, were "dredg ing up stale smears in a desper ate attempt to hide the real is sues of this campaign." Thornton, in a Portland radio talk, asked why "Cordon's wrecking crew," was not talk ing about the "real issues, such as full development of the Co lumbia, tidelands oil,"' and oth ers. The attorney general said that he felt Ncuberger's program was "the best one for the people of Tuesdar. October 26, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Portland State May Double Enrollment Portland ttl.PJ Portland State College will almost double its enrollment in the next 10 years, according to a report re ceived by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. , The report, compiled by Port land State officials, said enroll ment is expected to reach 5414 students by 1965, compared with slightly more than 2300 this year. The rate of increase is about 300 students a year. The report also outlined plans for eventually housing the col lege on a four-block campus im mediately south of the one-build ing now occupied by the school. The report estimated that $5,- DONT TRADE A RECORD FOR A PROMISE! Re-elect . GUY CORDON U.S. SENATOR ' Paid Adv. Cordoa for U.S. Senator Com., John Nleeermeyer, China. 040,000 more will be needed for construction by 1965. Some $2.- 500,000 already has been budget ed by the state system for two new PSC buildings in the next six years. 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