:
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.
The administration said that
under the proposed contract the
facilities will do research work
on the production of titanium
tetrachloride from domestic
ores. ' . . "
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