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Kefauver Given Fair Chance To llfin Democratic Presidential Nomination
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f LYLE C. WILSON
Untied Press Correspondent
Washington CU.PJ Sen. Estes
Kefauver's chance of winning
the 1956 Democratic presidential
nomination is
no more than
fair, despite
which he is the
man to watch
next year.
For one solid
reason: Kefau-
ver is a sen-
o u s obstacle
in the path of
Adlai E. Stev-
Ljle C. Wijrfon e n s o n. The
middle-aged (52) Tennessee sen
ator has not formally announced
fw the 1956 contest. He is going
through the preliminary mo
tions, however, and the odds are
long that Stevenson must get by
Kefauver to win.
Sitting back cool, comfortable
and with an ace in the hole is
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York. The fates of these three
men, who are so unlike, are tied
securely together; the political
Davy Crockett from Tennessee,
the polished, easy-mannered
man from Illinois, and Harri
Tnan, who would be the richest
president since George Wash
ington. Stevenson's Decision
Approaches
The season is approaching
when Stevenson must say yes
. or no to the question whether
he will run again. Democrats
will not draft Stevenson again.
That's where Kefauver's coon-
skin cap will be right in the cen
ter of the ring. The senator is a
deadly primary opponent. He
licked President Truman in New
Hampshire's kickoff primary in
March, 1952.
...
Kefauver went on to win pri
maries in Wisconsin, Nebraska,
Illinois, New Jergey, Massachu
setts, Maryland, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Tennessee, South Da
kota and 0California. Some of
these were mere courtesy votes
which did not bind delegations.
He split Ohio and Florida.
Lost at Convention
The Tennessee senator prob
ably had the largest public fol
lowing of any Democrat when
the national convention as
sembled in Chicago in 1952. Ke
fauver was well ahead on the
first two ballots, then the pro
fessionals, led by Mr. Truman,
did him in. Stevenson was the
.winner.
Kefauver will go into the pri-
I If - f if
im I
ESTES KEFAUVER
Serious Obstacle
manes again if he moves at all
next year, and that puts it up to
Stevenson to enter and meet
him. A series of primary losses
to Kefauver would be enough to
bench Stevenson for life.
Then would come the S64.000
question. . Would' Mr. Truman
and the other party leaders
whom Kefauver has offended
accept him this time?
Bear Creek Offices
NearingCompletion
More than 40,000 square feet
of new office space at Bear
Creek orchards is expected to be
occupied by Oct. 1, officials of
the company said today.
David Holmes, co-partner in
the company, said finishing
touches were started in the one
week. The general office build
ing was constructed by the "tilt
up" method concrete walls
poured and dried horizontally,
then raised into position. '
At the north end of the new
structure will be executive of
fices. The building will include
new display rooms.
The outside of the general of
fice building will be finished
later, Holmes said, after the in
terior is prepared for occupancy.
Leslie Poole of Portland is
engineer and Smith - Phillips
company, also of Portland, is
the' general contractor.
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SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1955 Pages 1-6
Mysterious Balloons in Midwest
Continue To Puzzle Officials
By UNITED PRESS
Midwest officials are up in
the air over three mystery bal
loons that appeared and disap
peared Sunday at high altitudes.
The silly summer season,
which began several months ago
when hoses were reported bur
rowing into the ground, drew to
an 'equally silly end as nobody
claimed any of the balloons.
One of the huge floaters hov
ered over the Chicago Loop at
an altitude of nearly 100,000
feet for a short time and then
began to drift out over Lake
Michigan, where it was seen no
more.
"All we know is that it's a bal
loon and it's friendly," officers
of the 22nd Anti-Aircraft Artil-
Shorn Wool, Mohair
Support Prices Told
Washington (U.R) The Agri
culture Department has an
nounced it will support prices
of shorn wool at 62 cents a pound
and Mohair at 70 cents a pound
in the marketing year beginning
April 1, 1956.
These are the same support
levels in . effect for the 1955
marketing year.
These are the same support
levels in effect fo rthe 1955
marketing year.
Officials said no changes were
made because it is too early to
determine the effect of the new
support program which took ef
fect this spring..
The program was designed to
raise national wool production
from 233,000,000-pounds in 1954
to 300,000,000 pounds annually.
The 1955 wool clip has been es
timated officially at 228,000,000
pounds.
The 1956 wool price is equal to
106 per cent of the "fair earn
ing power" parity level. The
Mohair price is 92 per cent of
parity.
lery in Chicago said. But they
didn't explain how they knew
it was friendly.
Other Balloons Sighted
Other balloons were sighted
over Wisconsin and Central
Ohio.
A fourth balloon, believed to
have been set aloft for experi
mental cosmic ray research, was
shot down near Fowler, Ind., by
an Air Force plane using a sv
called "electrical impulse", guni
In Washington, Air Force of
ficials refused to explain such
weapons, but a Chicago research
scientist said they may be re
mote control devices for letting
gas out of balloons.
Reports from Fowler said the
balloon was launched six days
ago from Lowry Air Force Base
at Denver, Colo., but officials
at Lowry said it didn't belong
to them.
Manufacturer Says Not His
Maybe, they said, it belonged
to Winzen Research, Inc., of
Minneapolis, Minn. But Otto
Winzen, president, of the firm,
said nope, he didn't launch that
one. At least he didn't think
so.
Winzen doubted that it could
have been the one -he launched
Sept. 1 at International Falls,
Minn., which "refused to come
down" and was last seen Thurs
day floating lazily out over New
Brunswick and toward the At
lantic ocean.
. In Central Ohio, another mys
tery balloon was sighted drift
ing on an east-northeast course
just north of Columbus. Sheriff's
police at Columbus said they
were told the balloon was sent
up by weather experts. But the
Columbus Weather Bureau de
nied any knowledge of such bal
loons. They said maybe the Air
Force knows something about it.
The Air Force said to see the
Weather Bureau. .
McKay Says Deputies
Own No Power Stock
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay has
advised a House Government Op
erations Subcommittee that his
top deputies connected with
power development projects do
not own any electric utility
stocks.
Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.),
chairman of the subcommittee
which has been holding hear
ings on Interior Department
activities in the sale of electric
power from federal dams, had
inquired particularly about any
haldings by McKay, Undersec
retary Clarence A. Davis, As
sistant Secretary Fred D. Aan
dahl, Department Solicitor J.
Reual Armstrong and Edmund
T. Fritz, Associate Solicitor for
Reclamation and Power.
28-Year-Old Meets Father for First Time
A 28-year-old North Carolina
telephone installer met his fa
ther for the first time in his life
here at 11 a.m. Sunday. Larry
A. Jarrett, a Western Electric
telephone employee, from Ash
ville, N. C; arrived in Medford
with his step-parents Saturday.
Jarrett was introduced to his
true father, Carl M. Reed, 52, of
Camp White, Sunday morning.
Reed has been at the veterans'
domiciliary since November,
1954.
The younger man planned to
leave for his eastern home to
day. The pair did not wish to
give any 'details of their long
separation.
Roseburg U.R) Gary L. In
nerebner, 19, of Roseburg, was
killed yesterday when his fiber
glass car crashed into a power
pole and burned on Highway 99
north of here.
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