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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.
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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.
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Racial ProbIem: Threatens To Boil
Into Violence in South Africa
SCORING for prosecution, Mary
Cowan, laboratory technician,
tells of identifying blood spots
in house where Mrs. Marilyn
Sheppard was slain, during
trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard at
Cleveland, O. (International)
Sen. Kefauver Coy
In Candidacy Talk;
Likes Toy Trains
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff
Correspondent
Washington U.R) I said
to the Senator, why don't we
talk politics and about who's go
ing to be in the White House if
Ike doesn't run.
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.
Should a non-European be
come a 1 doctor or lawyer, his
practice is limited to' non-Europeans.
Recently an Indian doctor
was refused permission to admit
Old Freighter Resumes
Runs on St. Lawrence
Waddington, N. Y. -(U.R) An
old freighter recently stopped at
the St. Regis Paper Co., on the
St. Lawrence river it's first run
since it was sunk seven years
ago with a loss of 12 lives near
Iroquois, Ont.
The vessel, once known as the
Milverton, and now called the
Clary Foran, at first was written
off as a total loss after being
rammed and sunk in i the St,
Lawrence. But later she was
raised and refitted over a two-
year period.
his patients to Pretoria General
hospital because it would be
difficult for European nurses to
take his instructions.
Non-Whites cannot ; become
members of Parliament. Na
tives and colored are represent
ed by Whites.
GUNMAN GETS S1I.000 .j
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Saturday and escaped with $11,
000 in cash and checks after
locking the owner's wife in an
icebox, police reported.
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