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Young State Opens State Rep. Bob Root will be the principal speaker here to morrow at one of the opening events of the Oregon Young Re publicans state convention. The Medf ord representative will discuss problems confront ing the next session of the state legislature. Root is scheduled to speak at an 8 p.m. buffet in the Jackson .hotel, which will be headquarters for the two day convention. To Siudy Election George Jones; ' Salem, state president, has announced that an important part of convention time will be devoted to an analysis of the recent elect ! n, in which Democrats won contest for U.S. senator, third district U.S. representative, labor com missioner, ana zu seats in the state legislature. . Registration for the conven tion will start at noon Friday at the Jackson hotel. In addition to the Friday evening buffet, the convention agenda includes Sat urday morning committee ses sions on state, national and in ternational affairs; a business meeting with election of state of ficers Saturday at 1:30 p.m., and a banquet Saturday at 6 n.m. in the Jackson hotel. The banquet speaker has not been announced. - George Tomlinson, Multnomah county deputy district attorney, and present Young Republican national committeeman, will be a candidate for president of the state federation. James Hatfield, Salem, president of the Marion Polk county Young Republican club, also is expected to be among the candidates. Winston Carl, president of the host Jacksbn county Young Re publican club, and general chair man tor the convention, has in vited members of alUlepublican organizations to attend the buffet and banauet. Bill Duhaime, Medford, is as sistant general chairman. Other convention committee chairmen are George Sennatt, Ashland, registration, and Foster Hibbard, Medford, housing and entertain ment. Chairmen of standing commit tees are Mrs. Patsy Smithson, Portland, constitution; Stan Dean, rules; Quuintin JEstell, Sil verton, credentials, and Doug Spencer, Eugene, and Verier Anderson, Roseburg, resolutions. Pearson Not Interested In Senate Appointment Portland (U.R) Former State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, Democrat elected to the state' House of Representatives last week, said today he was not in terested in an appointment to the state Senate to fill one of the vacancies caused by election of Richard L. Neuberger to the U. S. Senate and Jack Bain to the Multnomah county commission. "I was elected to the Ho"e end I'm going to serve in the House," he said. njoy up to 4 hours of men The exciting new WEBCOR Studio fono is ideal for music in any room in the home, Automatically plays all. 7, 10, or 12-inch. . . .;. . . records at 33Jf, 45 or 78 rpm : w?th automatic shut-off after the last record " f Q C has been played. UL approved, only J 7 ' loans Convention Here Friday STATE REP. BOB ROOT Speaker for Young GOPs McConnaugheyOK'd As FCC Chairman Washington -U.R) The Sen ate Commerce Cpmmittee, with Democratic members abstaining, today approved 7-0 the nomina tion of George C. McConnau- ghey to be chairman of the Fed eral Communications . Commis- sron. Democrats, who had succeed ed in deferring action ; on the nomination at a meeting Tues-, day,' withheld their votes. - McConnaughey now is serving as commission chairman. He was appointed to. the commission in September and had been a Co lumbus, Ohio, attorney. . Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney, (D-Okla.), said after the meeting that he believes McConnau ghey's nomination will not be approved by the Senate because it is. controversial. New Jersey Demos Will Demand Recount Newark, N. J. (U.R). New Jersey Democrats, on the advice of the National Committee, will demand a county by county re count of votes in an effort to upset a' narrow Republican vic tory in -the Nov. 2 Senate elec tion. ' The decision' to seek a recount tomorrow, one day before the Saturday deadline, was reached yesterday at a meeting between Democratic senatorial candidate Charles R. Howell and two rep resentatives of the National Com mittee. Official returns from all - 21 New Jersey counties showed Re publican Clifford - P. - Case- won election to the U. S. Senate by 3370 votes,, receiving ,861,523 o Howell's 858,158. ooo your favorite music! Ex-Cloud Seeders Attend Advisory Hearing : Harvey : M. Brandau and Eu gene K. Kooser, who from 1949 to 1952 conducted aerial cloud seeding operations in the val ley, returned recently from San Francisco where they attended a meeting of the federal advis sory committee on weather con trol. ; Capt. Howard T. Orvillef USN, is " chairman of the committee, appointed Sy President Eisen passed this year. The committee hower under Public Law 262 was set up to interview, as far as possible, everyone now en gaged in weather control oper ations, or who has had exper ience in weather modification, Kooser reported. , Report to President The collected data, and the committee's analysis, will be re ported to the President by June, 1956, with recommendations re garding federal legislation on weather modification. Kooser reported that the Ore gon weather control law was discussed and that those attend ing agreed it to be satisfactory. The only objections pointed out were that it prevents research and experimentation by small private operators or firms, Koos er said. He explained that in Oregon cloud seeding cannot be done without first spending some $800-$1000 for a license and about $700 for a $100,000 insurance policy. Decreases Possibilities Kooser said that it was felt this decreases the possibilities of progress in weather modifica tion research, inasmuch as most of the satisfactory methods of weather modification in use to day have been developed by small operators with limited funds. Charles Pennypacker Smith, meteorologist for Pacific Gas and Electric company in California, presided at the meeting, held at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Manuscript Tells Source Of Name for America Vhitehall, Wis. (U.R) A manuscript found among the books of the late H. A. Ander son, Treampealeau County his torian, has this theory as to how America got its name. It is generally agreed that the country was named after Amerigo Vespucci, but the manu script by Charles A. Johnson savs America was named after Leif Erickson the Scandinavian explorer. Like this: "America is properly ncmed after its real discoverer, Leif, the son of Eric. The prefix-'amt' in Scandinavian means 'land of and the combination Amt-Eric', or America, simply means 'land of Eric." ; Black Widow Spicier. Old Resident of North Madison, Wis. (U.R) The "latrodectus macatans" black widow spider to you is seldom seen in the North, but it is an old resident according to a Uni versity of Wisconsin spider ex pert.. -. Prof. Herbert Levi, of thP uni versity's zoology department, said the black widow is pre valent in the state, but likes InHtfimra farther aiCTiv from man cj O" , than do its southern relatives. . In the South, the spider beds down in buildings, but it prefers wooded areas in the North. Levi said "the spider serves a useful purpose. Its coarse web makes dandy cross-hairs for op tical work. ; ' . j. More people buy N!i:fei ' j' ; ; and enjoy Maxwell House Grange Urged To Oppose Turning SCS To Stales . Spokane (U.R) Represen tatives of soil conservations dis tricts today approached nation al Grange leaders to urge that the Grange take a stand oppos-i ing a proposal which would, ini effect, turn the soil conservation f service over to the states. i Indications were that the Grange, in its 88th annual con vention here, would take some action opposing the plan. Na tional Master Herschel Newsom was the only member of an ad visory group which made the proposal to vote against it. Gradual Assimilation Although the plm was not of ficially made public, it was learned that it involved a grad ual assimilation of soil conser vation service functions by the various states with the amount of SCS costs paid by the federal government gradually decreas ing. Whether the Grange will formally oppose the plan will not be learned until later in the nine day convention because all ses sions are secret. - An Armistice Day observance, special committee reports and the annual youth banquet were scheduled tor today. Mendes-France Starts Anti-Alcohol Drive Paris (U.R) Milk-swigging Premier Pierre Mendes-France opened a limited offensive against alcohol today, causing the world's thirstiest people to mutter in their wine glasses. Mendes-France won approval cf his anti-alcohol program from the cabinet last night, but most of the provisions need approval of the - temperamental French National Assembly. The program would raise taxes on hard liquor, limit the number of bars, close saloons at least five hours daily and increase the fines assessed drunkards. Mendes-France is not an advo cate of all-out prohibition, but he has expressed alarm over statistics which show that the per capita consumption of alcohol in France is three times greater than that of the United States. Eugene Woman's Suit Set in San Diego ' San Diego, Calif (U.R) A jury tomorrow "will begin hear ing testimony in the civil suit for $175,000 asked by the wife of a University of Oregon pro fessor from San Diego Police Chief . Elmer Jansen and two grocerymen. The wife, Mrs. Mary Ellen Allton, charges the three illegal ly caused her arrest-on check forgery charges. . Jansen is charged with libeling Mrs. Allton in a letter to the Eugene, Ore., police department. The grocerymen, Harold R. Hab erman and Clyde McCain, are being sued for falsely identify ing Mrs. Allton. , . . Charges against .Mrs. Allton were dismissed in Superior Court as a case of mistaken iden tity. : , The trial opened yesterday. Tokyo : (U.R) An upper house committee complained to Tokutaro Kimura, head of Jap ah's growing military force, that his naval frigates sought safety in a recent storm that whipped across Hokkaido instead of help ing stricken fishing boats. "Our friy'tes never sought haven," Klnura replied proudly. "They only temporarily changed their course." ' ; .- - Reclamation Delegates Table Resolution on Pa rtnersh i p Power Portland, Ore. (U.R) The Na tional Reclamation Association refused yesterday to approve a resolution reaffirming the ad ministration's ."partner ship" power development policy. Delegates to the NRA's 23rd annual convention tabled a reso lution favoring the .partnership policy advocated by President Eisenhower. Secretary - manager William, E. Welsh said the dele gates believed the matter "sug gests further study." It was the only one of 35 reso lutions the delegates refused to adopt. Wording of Measure The measure said in part that the NRA "encourages state and local agencies to join, with the federal government and . . . pledges its active support to the program in order that the de velopment of the resources ... of the Western states . . . may pro ceed on, a sound and practical basis Truman's Gift in Eisenhower Museum Abilene, Kan. -Oj.R) One of the exhibits in the Eisenhower museum here is a book, given to President Eisenhower by his predecessor, Harry S. Truman. The book, "Mr. President," written by William Hillman, is about the Truman administra tion. It is inscribed "to a great general with kindest regards-." The date of the gift was Aug. 13, 1952, a few . weeks before Mr. Truman took to the road in an. effort to defeat Mr. Eisen hower in the 1952 presidential election. British Socialists To Vote Ratification London j(U.R) Britain's So cialist members of Parliament decided today to vote with the government for ratification of the Paris agreement for German rearmament. y The Socialists accepted the party leadership's recommenda tion for approval by a reported vote of 124 to 72. The party's position on Ger man rearmament had been de bated for two days behind closed doors at the House of Commons. Dewey Will Join New York, Law Firm New York U.R) Gov. Thom as . E. Dewey has bought a 10 room New York apartment .and will join a prominent law firm here at the end of his term, it was made known today. Dewey will become a member of the firm of Root, Ballantine, Bushby and Palmer, which was founded by the late Elihu Root, secretary of state ; to President Theodore Roosevelt-and winner of the Nobel peace prize. , TOMBSTONE MYSTERY Kagoshima, Japan (U.R) Historians at last have solved the mystery of a 300-year-old tombstone shaped like a com bined sake cup and bottle placed on the seaside, near here. ' It marks the grave of, a Samurai warrior who so impressed- his lord with his capacity for sake (rice wine) that the lord promis ed to erect the monument in memory of the super-tippler. ' The Navy operates a corre spondence school with more than 150,000 Navy and-Marine stu dents. " v : ,. . Thursday. November 11, 1354 " Welsh said the NRA delegates felt the association should defer taking position on. the matter at the. present time. As its last order of business last night, the convention voted to hold its next year's meeting at Lincoln, Neb., the home of President C. . Petrus Peterson, who was elected to his fourth term as NRA chief. Other Officers Guy C. Jackson, Anahuac, Tex., was named first vice-president. He was nominated by Charles L. Kaupke of California, Two Autos Damaged In Highway Accident - Cars .driven by Eugene Darrell Wheeler, 23, of 611 South Riv erside ave., and William Harold Alger, 54, of 419 Pearl st., Med ford, collided at about 1:25 p.m. yesterday oh Highway 99 near Kim's restaurant, according to state police. ! Damage to both cars was con siderable, ; officers said, but no serious injuries were" reported at the accident scene. FRIDAY and HandD SLICED PINEAPPLE 214 TIN DUNDEE CLING PEACHES Halves 2Vi TIN $11 u Snowdrift SHORTEIlltJQ Young, Tender O) o DELICIOUS APPLES S&H GREEN STAMPS (yil . GOOD BEEF ROASTS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE who resigned the post earlier. Other officers named were L. E. Coles, Prineville, Ore., second vice-president; Herber L. Buck, Billings, Mont., treasurer, and Welsh as secretary manager. All directors for the 17 mem ber states were reelected at state caucuses, except H. T. Godfrey of Murray, Utah, succeeded D. D. Harris of Lay ton, Utah. Resolution Altered A resolution dealing in some detail with the application of project revenues'- was altered substantially by the delegates be fore it was approved. The modi fied resolution directed the asso ciation president to appoint a committee to study the use . of power revenues to aid reclama tion projects.- Dr. R. G. Gustavson, president of Resources of the Future, Inc., told the convention that "solar engines may be pumping irri gation water where fuel is scarce"' sometime in the near future. He also predicted solar energy used with electricity to heat homes, v - ' . SATURDAY mi i 1 , HllOfcMJILiSI. Simeniz Non-Scuff Floor Wax qt 98c Blue Lady ............ ......1. .......l .59 Pink Lady .. . -.. ..... 1 .99 Rug and Upholstery Cleaner Home Clipper BROOM VEL-FAB tg 29c AJAX CLEANER . 2 c" 25c MOP 'HEAD 49c 00 SPRING MOP . 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