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: Polls Indicate Democrats Likely To Gain Control of Both Houses 142-Year-Old Illinois Hotel Still Thriving Tutsday. October 28, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBOKE PTVB Elizabethtown, 111. (U.R) tiful White brick, hotel Is In ex cellent condition ' and a good stopping place. . In Abraham Lincoln's day, guests paid 25 cents for a meal of smoke ham, cabbage, beans and corn ' bread, with no rule against extra helpings. A. bed for the night was "one-bit," 1214 cents. It's quite a bit more now. The hotel was known as Mc Farland's tavern in those days, but it now is back in, the hands of descendants of the builders. The young republic of the Unit ' Eight cases of communicable disease were ' reported to the county health department last week. Among them were two cases of pneumonia, one at Phoe nix and one at Camp White, and single cases ot mumps, Apple- gate; scarlet fever, Medford; tu berculosis, Talent,' scalp ring worm, Ashland; influenza, Med ford and mononucleosis, Med ford. The mononucleosis case was previously reported as hen-, atitis. ed States of America was fight ing for its life in the War of 1812 when the Rose hotel, oldest hos ; By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent . I Washington (U.R) Thirty even senators and 432 members t the House ot Representative!; Morse To Vote Democrat tinue to be the presiding officer Senate seats, the Democrats need to win 20 to 'come up with a bnre majority of 49 in the 84th Congress. But with Morse's help they cruld win only 19 and still organize the Senate. The Repub licans require 14 victories among the 32 contests to hold Senate control. ' ' ' There are 71 unopposed Demo cratic candidates for the House and two unopposed Republicans, Rep. Leo E. Allen of Illinois and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts. telry in Illinois, was built here on the banks of the Ohio river. of the Senate. Despite its 142 years the beau Of the 37 Senate seats up a week from today, 13 are now held by Republicans and 22 by Democrats. But five Democratic candidates in: he South have will be elected one week from "today to com plete the mem bership of the no Republican opposition. One of the five, Edgar A. Brown, is opposed in South Carolina by another Democrat, J, Strom Thurmond, a write-in, conserva tive, candidate. ; Of the 3 remaining contested I t J J 84th Congress. m Sen. Marga- "C 'M ret Chase v I Smith, Repub- R e p u b 1 lean House rnem- l-Tle C. Wilson bers were elect ed in Maine last September. Maine also elected a Democratic governor, Edward S. Muskie. , Republicans have acknowledg ed a Democratic trend in some areas and various polls reflect such a condition. The poll con sensus seems to be that the Dem ocrats are likely to win control of both the House and Senate. The expiring 83rd Congress was elected with President Eis enhower who ran far ahead of his congressional ticket. At the opening of the 83rd Congress in January, 1953, Republicans had merely courtesy control In the Senate and a small actual mar gin in the House. The division was: : ' Senate: Republicans, 48, Dem ocrats 47, Independent. 1. House: Republicans 221, Dem ocrats 212, Independent 1, va cant 1. , The division In the 83rd Con gress as it ends: - Senate: Republicans 49, Dem ocrats 46, Independent 1. ' House: Republicans 218, Dem ocrcts 212, Independent 1, vacant : , : Independent Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon did not vote against Republican organization of the Senate in January, 1953, but he has announced that he will vote next January with the Demo- crats on organization of the Sen- ' ate of the 84th Congress. Demo- crats, therefore, need pick up only two Senate seats to obtain an organizational majority of 49. : They need six more House seats for an organizational majority in the 84th Congress. , By organization is meant elec tion of the speaker in the House and the president pro tempore in the Senate and all committee chairmen. The organizing party also determines the number, of majority and minority, members of all committees. The clerk of the House and the secretary of ' the Senate along with lesser serv ants of the legislative branch also are "chosen by" the party with the majority of votes in either chamber. The Senate president pro tem pore is not a powerful legislative official. But the party holding the speakership and the commit tee chairmanships of Congress possesses tremendous powers. Those officials can make or break a legislative program , whether it be offered by a presi dent of their own political faith or an opposition president. ,' Nixon Still Senate President - Regardless of the outcome of . next week s election, Vice-Presi dent Richard M, Nixon will con- Much To Depend on Sa a r P r i m e M i n is te r In Approving Statute By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Foreign Analyst Portly, jovial Johannes Hoff mann wasn't even at last week's Paris conference on West Ger man armament and his name was hardly mentioned. But a lot will depend on him in carrying out of the French German agree ment on the future of the rioh little Saar coal and iron cbinu iMcimnn region which was a vital part of the agree ment to arm the Bonn republic. Hoffmann is Prime Minister of the Saar and also its minister for foreign affairs, European affairs, public works and reconstruction. Politically, he is practically a one-man show. It will be up toHoffmann to run the referendum in which Saarlanders will be asked to ap prove the new "Saar Statute" negotiated by French Premier Pierre Mendes-France and West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer, -i : -. Under the Saar Statute, the Saar's coal and iron industries will remain under French con trol. The Saar will be put under supervision of the Western Euro pean Union, under which West Germany is to be rearmed. The Union will appoint a high com missioner for the Saar. General Election To Follow , ' If, as everybody expects, Saar landers approve the statute in their referendum, a general por litical election will follow. The present ban on pro-Ger man parties will be lifted. They will be' permitted -to campaign against the statute in the refer endum. But in the election, they will be forbidden to make the statute an issue. It will be up to Hoffmann to conduct the referendum and the election, and to hold the pro-German parties in check. Hoffmann will have to face ac cusations by extreme German right wingers that he is a traitor because he has supported the eco nomic tie-up between the Saar and France and the virtual sepa ration of the area from Ger many, of which it has been a part for centuries. . He will have to brave the pos sibility that a fanatic might as sassinate him.- He was tnreatened with death two years ago. The virtual "Europeanizatlon" of the Saar fits in with Hoff man's idea of complete European unity including the pooling of economic resources. Prime Minister Since 1947 Hoffmann is 64. He has been Prime Minister since 1947. His friends call him Jomo. On Friday nights one may find him phiying cards at a hotel in Saarbruecken, the capital, with his cronies. He speaks a heavy-tongued south west German dialect, and some what rusty French. Hoffman's joviality is deceiv- ing.- He served in the German army throughout World War I. He became a newspaper editor in Saarbruecken. The Nazis, whom he had fought fiercely, forced him out. He fled from the Gestapo first to Luxembourg, then to France and finally to Brazil, He returned to the Saar in September, 1945, and entered politics actively. He founded the Christian People's party, which he now leads, and led it to a big victory In 1B5Z. Albany Bureau To Investigate Titanium Washington (U.R) Plans to use the Bureau of Mines facil ities at Albany, Ore., and Bould er City; Nev., to develop new methods for production of titan ium were announced yesterday. The General Services Admin istration and the Interior De partment said the Office of De fense Mobilization had instruc ted GSA to arrange a research and development contract with the Bureau of Mines. , The Boulder City facility has been closed since September and the GSA said it had made "val uable contributions" to the early development of titanium. 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