SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, October 10, 1955
Republicans Find Little Comfort
In Connecticut Election Returns
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) There is
mighty little comfort for the Re
publican party and its ailing
p r e s 1 dent in
election re
turns from 128
small towns in
in swing -state
Connecticut.
The returns
got lost last
week in the big
news breaks of
the day, but
they were the
tyle C. Wilson first pollings
since Mr. Eisenhower was- strick
en in the last days of September.
Democrats did not sweep the
state. Far from it. But among
the towns they did win were
Hamden, for the first time in 50
years; Sterling for the first time
in 40; New Fairfield after a
lapse of 35 years; and Ledyard
after 30.
- Eighty town administrations
stuck with the Republicans and
six deserted from the Democrats
to fix Republican holdings after
the election at 86 towns.
Twenty-five towns remained
faithful t? the Democratc and 15
formerly Republican towns
switched, giving the Democrats
a net of 40. Two towns held non
partisan elections.
Not Major Defeat
These figures do not repre
sent a major defeat for the Re
publican Party, but the trend ob
viously favored the Democrats
who gained more than they lost.
The loss of Hamden especial
ly is cause for GOP concern in
the Nutmeg State. This is a big
and important town ' in a con
gressional district which has
sent a Republican to Washing
ton in the last two congressional
elections. The Hamden vote fig
ured significantly in those 1952
and 1954 GOP victories. 1
Republican strategists doubt
less will study the returns with
care, being especially alert to
any indication that the Connecti
cut Republican organization
needs overhauling.
Swing - states are important
even though they may be small,
as is Connecticut, with only six
votes in the electoral college. A
basic Connecticut trend would
be likely to extend considerably
through New England where the
Republican Party has made a
substantial comeback and can
not afford to retreat.
Must Hold Their Own
New England has nine Repub
lican senators and 23 representa
tives in the 84th . Congress
against three Democratic sen
ators and 10 representatives.
The Republicans must hold
their own or, perhaps gain a bit
in New England next year to
achieve control of the new 85th
Congress. In light of that neces
sity, the returns from Connecti
cut's small towns will not arouse
Republican enthusiasm.
Returns from Connecticut's
1954 congressional and guberna
torial polling were mixed. Abra
ham A. Ribicoff, a Democrat, de
feated Republican Gov. John
Lodge, who sought reelection.
But Connecticut sent five Re
publicans and only one Demo
crat to the House of Representa
tives. There was no senatorial
election last year but Republi
can Senator Prescott Bush is up
in 1956. The party cannot af
ford to lose him. Bush reached
the Senate on President Eisen
hower's coat tails in 1952 to
complete the term of the late
Democratic senator, Brian Mc
Mahon. '
The swinging tendency of
Connecticut elections is shown
by some recent presidential re
turns. The state cast its electoral
votes in 1936 and 1948 for Dem
ocratic candidates. It went Re
publican in 1940-44-52.
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Jesse Neff Rites
To Be Wednesday
Jesse Vincent Neff, 86, pio
neer resident of Jackson county,
died in a Medford convalescent
home yesterday after having
been ill for several months. Mr.
Neff, born in Clay county, Mis
souri, Sept. 10, 1869, came to
Oregon with his parents as a
small boy and lived here almost
80 years, working as a carpenter
and farmer.
Funeral services will be held
at Conger-Morris chapel Wednes
day, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m., with the
Rev. C. W. Frost officiating. In
terment will be in Central Point
cemetery. .
' Survivors include two sons,
James T., Medford, and Lee M.,
Portland, and five grandchil
dren. Mr. Neff's wife, Loma,
died last year.
When the Neff family first
came to the county they lived
in the area now known as Black
well hill, and later near the site
of Talent. As a boy he attended,
school in Central Point and re
membered well the late "Profes
sor" Hall, well known early-day
teacher in this county.
Woman Takes Life
01 Son and Self
Oswego (U.R) Bodies of an
Oswego woman and her eight-year-old
son were found in their
home last Saturday by a neigh
bor. They were dead from the
same pistol the woman's hus
band used 11 days ago to end
his own life.
Clackamas county coroner
Leslie Peaks listed as murder
suicide, the deaths of Mrs. Mar
garet Emerline Schoonmaker,
46, and her son, David.
The woman was the widow
of Dr. Perry L. Schoonmaker,
a dentist who was found shot
to death Sept. 28 in his car on
the Columbia river express high
way near Multnomah falls. His
death was listed as a suicide.
United States Said Ahead
Des Moines (U.R) A top
Atomic Energy Commission of
ficial said today that the United
States is two or three years ahead
of Rissia in developing peaceful
uses for atomic energy.
But the official, W. Kenneth
Churchill Popularity ,
Credited To Germans
London J(U.R) A British cor
respondent reported that he told
a waiter "I hadn't realized ho
was so popular with the
French," after he saw 50 people
stand up and sing "For He's a
Jolly Good Fellow," when Sir
Winston Churchill entered a
Monte Carlo hotel.
" 'In truth he's not,' the waiter
said, Taut 80 per cent of those
people are German tourists.' "
On Peaceful Atomic Use
Davis, director of the AEC re
actor development program, said
this country is "losing" the race
with Russia to educate "suffic
ient numbers" of atomic scien
tists and engineers.
ith Green Denies
Resignation Reports
Portland U.R) Rep. Edith
Green (D-Ore.) has denied re
ports that she intends to resign
her Congressional seat to seek
election as Oregon Secretary of
State.
Mrs. Green yesterday told a
breakfast meeting of Multnomah
County Young , Democrats that
she will seek reelection to the
House of Representatives in
1956.
Mrs. Green, who had recently.
returned from a trip to Alaska,
said she was "more convinced '
than ever",' that the territory
should be granted statehood, but
she said she felt there was little
hope statehood would be grant
ed in the next session of Con-
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