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i ST K-F Reservations " Due Soon; Traffic Safety Is Subject Mrs. O. A. " Eden, 211 Gen nessee st, secretary of the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club, re minded members today that res ervations for next . Monday's meeting must be in her hands by Saturday, Dec. 11. Speaker at the dinner will be . James A. Pryde, chief of the Washington state patrol, who will tell of Washington's highly successful battle against traffic accidents. Chief Pryde, one of the nation's 'top experts on traffic - safety, i3 a veteran police officer . who has earned a nationwide reputation for the campaign which Washington has conduct ed to cut down traffic accidents and death. Many of his ideas have been- adopted by other states. ; . , Before S-D Day His talk will be two days be ; fore "Safe Driving Day,", pro claimed by both President Eisen , hower and Gov. Paul Patterson '' to point out the extreme import - ance of reducing the nation's t traffic toll, both in deaths and ? injuries. Objective of the day will be to see if it is possible to have one day with no traffic fa talities throughout the nation. The popular radio program, "Could This Be You?" is pro duced through Chief Pryde's co operation, and he is expected to discuss actual traffic cases, hu morous as well as tragic, similar . to those described on the pro gram in explaining the work of his department. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. I jj .... . 1 I " ' ' MAIL HUB I MEN'S SHOP I 229 EAST MAIN STREET ' r f I ..... . , , . Open Wednesday Until 9:00 P.M. ? A Nkhol's Worth of ... Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington U.R) Sen. Ever ett McKinley Dirksen, the Re publican from Pekin, 111., recit ed on the floor of the Senate some of the "robust lan guage" used by senators in the long ago. Some of those sena tors got a lit tle nasty, ac cording to the official record r e rj o r ted bv Harman Nichol the gent from Illinois. Using terms like "liar." "Dirty dog." Making the Senate a sewer for the vaporings of a senator." "Jackasses." "Rotten filth." And "Cards that are red with the blood of treachery." A small segment of the Air Force, has done something nice for the kids who sit home and wait for daddy to come out of the blue yonder. This outfit has had printed up letter heads with a picture of Santa on the top, holly, on the bottom. Idea is to write a note to Santa. Put a six cent stamp on it and mail same to Fairbanks, Alaska. It is tak en there by Air Force courier. It come back, with Santa's "signa ture" on it. And postmarked pretty close to the North Pole. Something that would warm the heart of any child. During the dying days of the Senate's special McCarthy ses sion, a lot of congressmen walk ed through the winding marble halls of the Capitol. Old House members were coming over to visit senator friends, shedding party lines on the" ,way. 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Strictly, it was wait in line, including the gentleman who came up to Paul and an nounced himself as "a new con gressman." The new one took his place in line. The Chamber of Commerce says that the big government is wrongly called "federal." "Federal," the C of C figures, equals central plus local govern ments, and the thing in the Dis trict of Columbia is Washing ton government, which is hard ly any government at all because nobody has a vote. The C of C, which is a good one to stick its official neck out, says: "Because of the importance of retaining a federal government system, it would appear useful to stop referring to Washington as the 'federal' government. "It would be better to call it the 'national,' 'the central' or the Washington government.'" Woman Claims Coats Switched in Restaurant New Haven, Conn. (U.R)' Mrs. Richard Schwartz has com plained to police about the high cost of living. Mrs. Schwartz said dinner in a restaurant here cost her over $300. ' She said she was wearing a $500 Persian lamb coat when she entered the restaurant and a $200 one when she left. Some one had switched coats on her. careful Ike-Knowland Meeting 'Fiction' Washington U.PJ The White House described as "newspaper fiction" today published reports that the GOP high command is trying to arrange a peace meet ing between President Eisen hower and Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland. Press Secretary James C. Hag gerty was questioned about two of these reports. One of them said a source close to the White House had reported efforts to ar range a meeting between the President and the California sen ator. The other said members of the Cabinet wanted to get the two men together. , Knowland has differed openly with Mr. Eisenhower on Far Eastern policy. He also voted against senate condemnation of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.), with whom the adminis tration is at odds. "I'm not going to comment on stories that have no basis of truth," Hagerty said. . Capehart To Ask Further FHA Probe Chicago U.R) Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) said he will present a resolution to the Sen ate in January asking for further investigation of the" Federal Housing Administration. , Capehart, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, headed most of the FHA hearings in recent months. ""We only scratched the sur face in going as far as we did," Capehart said. "I'm going to ask the Senate at the very first op portunity to continue the in quiry." . . ' ;; '. . . Capehart returned yesterday from Rio De Janeiro, where he attended an economic conference of Latin American countries and the United States. Capehart said he found most Latin American countries to be in "fairly good economic shape." Suspended Liquor Employees Back Portland U.R) Two - Oreson Liquor Control Commission em ployees were back at work in tneir former status today after Commission Chairman Lester Ireland lifted their suspensions. Thomas J. Sheridan, assistant administrator, and Floyd E. Bur ton, supervisor of stores and agencies, were susoended earlier following a governor's investiga tion into cnarges tttey had ac cepted gratuities from distiller's representatives. In ordering the two back to wors yesterday, tne commission also gave notice to emrilovees that no favors could be accepted from agents of the alcoholic bev erage industry and that violators would be discharged imme diately. A regulation to that effect is being prepared by the commis sion attorney, but a hearing must precede its adoption. . Defectives Arrested As Bribery Suspects Reno, Nev. (U.R) Two vet eran police detectives, James Franklin, 47, and Mike Saloni san, 44, were arrested yesterday for an alleged bribery conspiracy in a carefully arranged trap by the district attorney's office. District Attorney Jack Streeter refused to divulge the details of the trap, and Reno police .were not informed of the action- until the two officers were booked at county jail and released on $2000 bail. - - Streeter's deputies arrested the two detectives as they sat in their car immediately after they were alleged to have accepted $180 to "go easy" on a 'woman arrested on a false check charged. - , Police chief L. R. Greeson said both men were suspended immediately pending outcome of the case. - Myrtle Point Logger "' Faces Extortion Charge Portland (U.R) A 25-year-old Myrtle Point logger was brought to Portland Monday for a hear ing on federal charges of at tempted extortion. Junior Clyde Jemes was ar rested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Satur day for allegedly threatening to kill Harry Dement, president of the Myrtle Point Security bank, unless Dement left a parcel con taining $10,000 at a designated spot. ' Federal agents arrested the logger "in the immediate vicini ty" of the drop-off spot, accord ing to the agent in charge of the Portland FBI office. , , - . Visiting Policeman Learns of Crime Wave r Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) Visiting Policeman Milo . Clar ence pf Bremerton, Wash., today learned the hard way about the crime wave here. When Clarence parked his auto on a downtown- street thieves broke into it and stole Electronic Brain To Compute Electric Bills Chicago (U.R) ' Chicagoans who wish to complain about their electric bills may have to argue with an electronic brain in the future. The Commonwealth Edison Co., said the giant brain soon would begin making out the company's bills. Dec. 10 Deadline For ASC Balloting Deadline for filing ballots in the community committeemen election in Jackson county for the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation program is Friday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m., according to ASC officials. Persons not yet receiving bal lots should obtain them from the ASC office in the courthouse. All commercial 'farmers are eligible to vote. Friday will, also be the dead line for accepting conservation practices under the 1954 pro gram, they added. The 1955 pro gram handbook will be publish ed about Jan. 1, it was reported. 117 SO. CENTRAL 6-Unit Electric Freight Train with accessories; plastic locomotive and tender, 2 gondolas, box car, caboose. Transformer with circuit breaker. .... .13.95 Gilbert. Erector Sets In Sets priced- 8.35 Lone Ranger Horse. Inflatable plas-tic,heat-sealedseams.20whigh.1Jr9 Series 8-Iight set. Assorted color . Plastic Sleeping bulbs with clip to keep erect 79e Weatherproof cord Army Training Center over 80 pes. 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