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i. .3 SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, December 8, 1954 Gar el's R ecount Petition Seen Cause of Change in Methods Of Choosing GOP Committeeman By WILLIAM WARREN United Press Correcpondent Salem (U.P.) The furor caused when Jess Gard, Republi can national committeeman from Oregon, requested a recount in the Neuberger-Cordon senatorial race brought talk among legis lators and others actively inter ested in politics today about making the office of national committeeman chosen by the state central committee rather than elected at the primary. Interim committees brought several legislators most of them Republicans to the capitol here Friday, the day Gard petitioned the elections subcommittee of the Senate Rules Committee in Washington, D. C., for a recount of the vote that sent Democrat Richard L. Neuberger to the Senate and ousted Sen. Guy Cor don, Republican. And they were virtually as one in expressing exasperation with Gard for making the move, which they said put the Repub lican party in Oregon in a bad light. Gard-Boehnka Differ Gove. Paul L. Patterson, Re publican, said the request put by Gard in the" national capital, which apparently caught Repub licans here at home off guard, said the request "doesn't come from Oregon and doesn't come from the Republican party." Those here at the capitol were quick to note that Gard has been iat cross purposes with Ed G. Boehnke, chairman of the State Republican Central committee. On the other side of the fence, Monroe Sweetland, Democratic Man Still Finds Tree Climbing Fun Schenectady, N. Y. U.R) Joe Mack liked to climb trees better than anything else when he was a boy. Today, many years and trees later, he still does. As head of the City Forest Department, he also has plenty of trees to climb. Mack has charge of cutting down diseased trees, raising trees in two city nurseries and spraying to control insects. Since 1937 he's been injured twice. But, he believes that "if a fellow really knows what he's doing, he stands little chance of getting injured." Insurance companies disagree. Rates for tree-elimbers are the same as for steeplejacks. The biggest part of Mack's job is destroying diseased trees. But he'd rather raise them. ) In one nursery, he has 40 to 50 varieties of trees for later planting in city parks. In an other, he has 1,300 trees. A pound of cotton can be spun into about 70 yards of fabric or can be made into about 200 miles of yarn. It's never too late for Boxed or Personalized Christmas Cards at MEDFORD STATIONERY 210 East Main Hallmark Rust Craft Norcross national committee from Oregon, on occasion has been at cross purposes with Howard Morgan, chairman of the State Democratic-Central committee. And this prompted talk over the week end of changing the Oregon system to selection of the national committeeman of each party by the state central com mittee of that party, as is done in other states. One legislator here, who said he did not wish to be named at this time, said he was considering that the matter of making the change be referred to the voters. Post Important Those talking of this change say that in this way, the na tional committeeman of each party would be more apt to work harmoniously with the state com mittee and keep more closely in touch with its chairman 'before making a statement or request that could affect the policy of the party in the state. 3 One Republican observer here, who was among those discussing the change and who said he be lieved he would favor it, pointed to the other side of the picture. He said grouping all the party jobs in one basket might tend to make for formation of a po litical machine. He balanced this off by saying that in other states with which he was fa miliar, no such machine had de veloped, and so far as he knows, Oregon is the only state in which the parties choose their national committeeman at tne pons in stead of by the party committee. And he made this added point. ine political lacts 01 lite are that comparatively few voters attach much significance to elec tion of the national committee man at a time wnen tney are concerned with nomination for president of the United States and other high officers, and many vote for Mr. A, B, or C because their names come first on the ballot. Yet for the party itself, the choice of national com mitteemen is of prime import ance. 117 S. Central Phone 2-8075 2-4546 SEE WARDS CHRISTMAS BOOK For Last Minute Gift Selections fn selecting your last minute gifts, turn to Montgomery Wards wonderful Christmas Book. Just make a list at home and then call our direct line phone number. 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Estes Kefauver, whose name has been mentioned as a possible candidate on the Democratic ticket, was, as always, coy. He forked his salad, looked over his eye-glasses and said: 'Let's talk about electric trains and how to fix 'em." It was a lunch break and the Senate was fixing to adjourn until the 84th comes along. Talks Toy Trains "David," said the Senator, "I'm afraid will never grow up to be an engineer. He's too care less with his trains. And here I am about to have some free time, and what do I face? A repair job on diesels, cabooses, switches, rails and to Pullman porters which are supposed to jump in and out of the cars, lugging lug gage. They don t lug any. luggage because some connection is bust ed. And who has to fix things around my house? Me!" The gentleman from Tennes see said that some unthinking re porter once wrote a little piece tor the papers suggesting that Kefauver was one-third senator, one-third lawyer and one-third mechanic. "Linda, my 13-year-old read that to her two sisters, Diane and Gail, and David, who is eight," the Senator said, "and now I not only have to fix elec tric trains, but mechanical dolls and other things as well. It can wear on a man who has his head set on a bit of 'coon shooting, So that's what the Senator will be doing with his free holi day time. Fixin' and some more fixinVNot only trains and bust ed doll houses, but the repairing of bike tires, plumbing around his house here, and taping up some of the wiring around the place. 1 coum write a companion piece to that hit song called 'This Old House'," Sen. Kefauver said. And when tne Senator gets finished with repair jobs for the kids and his lovely wife, Nancy, he like as not will get some calls for help from some of his neigh bors. Charlie A. Halleck, a Republi can from Indiana, may well have a leaky faucet. Or perhaps Lister Hill, the Senior Senator from Al- abamawill come up with faulty wiring. Or another neighbor, ben. John J. Sparkman, of Ala bama, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the last election, might need some advice on how to wrie up an electric tram. To P-TA , And after he has his pinkies worn to the nub, he'll have to take paint and grease off his hands, dress up and go with Nancy to a Parent-Teachers meeting. The Senator doesn't mind. He has an interest in his children and is popular as an ordinary stand-upper at the PTA sessions. "All I do is raise my hand at these small gatherings," the Sen ator said.' "Then I get up and say my little piece. : Sometimes I make., my point. A few times I have been shouted down. Like the time well, never mind." It's worth a half hour of your time to walk down the halls of the capitol with Sen. Kefauver, He shakes every hand that is ex tended. Asks about the kids. Just like he was in the middle of a campaign which he isn't. Yet. Young Beagle Named For Bridge Expert Louisville, Ky. (U.R) Fire men here have given the name Ely Culbertson to a young beagle they rescued recently because he's a bridge hound. The firemen found the dog perched on a narrow bridge pier on the Clark Memorial Bridge over the Ohio River. A 40-foot extension ladder had to be used to rescue tha stranded dog. ; The beagle apparently was washed through a large storm sewer drain ' r?., n on the bridge during a down pour. . Editor's Note: Snath Africa lias a racial problem of such magnitude that one of these days it may boil over into violence that will encompass the entire. "Dark Continent." Here Is a picture of conditions there. Johannesburg. South Africa U.P.) The word is "apartheid." It means "apartness" or segrega tion of races. In the United States there arp 10 Whites for every Neero. In the Union of South Africa there are four non-White for every White. The Whites are the des cendants of the Dutch and Eng lish settlers. This most advanced and Western of the African na tions has a new premier. His name is Johamles Gerhardus Strydom. He succeeds the veter an Dr. Daniel F. Malan. Malan believes firmly in apartheid. Strydom is far more extreme. Many Degrees Unlike the United States where segregation is understood as affecting Negro and White, South Africa has degrees of definition. Whites are generally known as Europeans. . Natives (Negroes) are referred to as non-Europeans. They also are called Bantu. They them selves like to be known as Afri cans. A term resolutely opposed by the Dutch-descended Afrikanders. Colored are not Negroes but half-castes. Indians and Chinese are grouped under the terms Asiat In this country today, natives and colored work as domestic servants in homes of Whites, as farm, factory and mine laborers. They cannot, except in the Capetown area where liberal tradition is stronger, ride on European transport. Instead they have their own buses and street cars distinguished by colored bands. ' Trains -have separate com partments for Europeans and non-Europeans. White hotels do not admit natives, colored or Asiatics. Natives cannot buy liquor ex cept for Kaffir beer but colored, Indians and Chinese may. There are separate benches for Whites and non-Whites in public .parks, ; railway stations and bus stops. Separate entran ces have been : built ' for race groups at all main railway sta At coastal resorts the best beaches are reserved for Euro peans. There is no mixing of races in public schools. They are entirely separate for White, col ored, native and Asiatic. There is a university for na tives only at Fort Hare. In vir tually the only common ground for races in South Africa, a small number of each race group is accepted at leading White universities. By law, natives and Asiatics are forbidden to vote. Colored may vote only in the Cape. 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