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coming Employment, Flow of ncome C! r Hrrnn ni fij 'hi By LYLE C. WILSON United Presi Correspondent Washington OJ.R) The cold statistics of booming employ ment and the flow of income to H.'MV WMM! i n H i v 1 d uals 'iw, and corpora tions add up to the biggest political asset right now in the Republi can locker. P r e s i d ent Eise n h o w e was the party most valuable Lrle C. Wilson Dossession un til he was stricken Sept. 24. His political value must be marked riown somewhat until and unless It is determined that he can lead another presidential campaign. If he decides not to run again the Republican campaign will be waged on the issues of peace and orosrjeritv dank as of today just 12 critical months before next vear's Dresidential election The boom is on. The reports of personal and corporation income and treasury revenue sound it loud and long. Wav back in the early Roose velt years there was a familiar saying around election lime "You can't shoot Santa Claus." Count on Prosperity The late .Alfred Emmanuel Smith wisecracked that one in recognition of the fact FDR was nourine federal funds into chan nels which, led shortly to the pockets of grateful citizens. Re publican strategists are con vinced that what relief and other federal spending did for Mr. Roosevelt, a basic national pros perity will do for the Republi cans and their candidate In No vember. 1956. What the Republicans have to fear is the possibility that the boom will ease off between now and election day. That could be deadly. ' Even though some farm prices are down and others pork example are seriously de pressed, the national economy is setting new records. Personal in come in September was reported the highest in the nation's his tory at a rate of S307,500,000, 000 annually if sustained for a year. Only last January, Mr. Eisen hower estimated that personal income in the fiscal year ending next June 30 would be S298,500, 000.000. The figure steadily has been revised upward. Personal income broke through the S300,- Republican olitica Asset level last May and dropped below that 000,000 hasn't figure. Earnings Exceed Estimates Corporation annual income was estimated first at 838,500, 000,000, then S40,600.000,000. But third quarter earnings were at an annual rate of 543,000,-000,000. Prowler's Story Alters Complexion In Woodward Case Ostery Bay, N.Y. U.R) Po lice indicated today the belated confession of a derelict prowler may clear Mrs. William Wood ward Jr., of all suspicion in the shotgun slaying of her multi millionaire husband. The prowler, Paul W. Wirths Jr., admitted to police Monday he probably made the noise which alarmed Mrs. Woodward Into firing at her husband in the dark. gHe said he climbed to the flat roof of the Woodward mansion ebout 2 a.m. on Oct. 30 and forced open a door to a guest room directly above Mrs. Wood ward's sleeping quarters. Gan Hits Door Jamb ' Wirths said the butt of his shotgun banged against the jamb of the guest room door and he. became entangled " in a" curtain ss he stepped inside the room. A few minutes later, he said, he heard the roar of a shotgun blast. The shot he heard was the one which felled Woodward in the darkened hallway on the floor below. "It sounded like a cannon. I ran like hell and jumped off the roof, he said. Wirths volunteered the con fession which changed the com plexion of the case. When he was first arrested Nov. 1 he maintained he hadn't been on the grounds of the Woodward home the night that Woodward was shot. Detective Chief Stuyvesant Medford United Fre Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1955 Pages 1-6 Back Stairs: Telephone Expansion Plan By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Denver (U.P.) Backstairs at the Denver White House: The White House is not financ ing any of the expansion of tele phone, telegraph or press facil ities at Gettysburg, Pa. The ex pansion of telephone facilities is part of a three-year program that is being speeded up, how ever, because of the influx of reporters following President Eisenhower. If the weather at Gettysburg is uncomfortable for any pro longed period, it still is a good bet that Mr. Eisenhower might spend part of December in the South. An amazing amount of "get well" mail has come to the Presi dent from school children. Liter ally thousands of postcards have arrived at the Denver White House, proclaiming in childish scrawl and sometimes illumi nated in wavering but colorful cravon. that the sender wishes very much for the chief execu tive's recovery. School kids of entire commu nities have joined in well-wishing by mail. The President also has re ceived hundreds of phonograph records from people who had read how recorded music has made his stay at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital more pleasant. One of his finest assortments of records was a gift from Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, former secre tary of health, education and welfare. Two unsung heroes of the tense around-the-clock watch by Pinnell said Wirths reenacted the details of his entrance to the Woodward home and that they "checked out." Detectives said Wirths would "definitely" be a witness in the forthcoming grand jury investi gation. No date for the hearing has been set and it presumably de pended upon Mrs. Woodward's release from Doctors, hospital in New York where she has been confined since the day her hus band was shot. .Portland (U.R) The 60th annual convention of the Ore gon Wool Growers association opens here Thursday. Who'll bring home the bacon if Dad's not here? IS Your Medford Prudential Agents James P. Asber Res. 1007 So. Holly St Tel: 3-1916 Robert A. Fetter Res. Rt 3, Box 2 30- Tel: 3-3788 I J J.UIMIUIWwM Theodore M. Sarnart f viewing ApQroismr 39 South Bartlett Tel: 2-8529 rTTl r'ri rVl lis!-- -Ma Warren R. hayse Res. 1014 S. Grape Tel: 3-1887 Fred F. Sears . Res. 1100 Winchester I Tel: 2-2270 The Prudential INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA reporters at the Denver White House offices on Lowry Air Force Base following the Presi dent's illness was Maj. Gen. John T. Sprague, the, base command ant, and ,Maj., Walter Tkach, the Air Force doctor who is the as sistant physician on the White House staff. Sprague has endeared himself to the White House staff, the re porters and photographers for his several-times-a-day check to see whether anything ' could be done to improve their working conditions. And Tkach has done yeoman service in emergency treatment of staff members and the White House press party who developed minor ailments increasingly as the fatigue of the long watch at Lowry built up. Not to be overwhelmed by the boom Mr. Eisenhower has given beef bacon and beef sausage, a big packing house recently rush ed to Fitzsimons a 69-pound leg of lamb for the President and appropriately marked with a "get well" tag. . Those" aren't mirrcing, uncer tain steps Mr. Eisenhower is tak ing in his daily walks around the hospital. He swings confidently, but not too fast, down the cor ridors in something approaching his old golf course stride. A man who watched him the other day observed, "The only thing miss ing was a golf club in his hand." Diner Patrons Hear Campaign for Mayor Columbus, O. '(U.R) During the election eve campaigning for Mayor of Columbus, a man poked his head into a diner and shouted: "Vote for Sesenbrenner!" "Who was that guy?" a custo mer asked. The campaigner was the Dem ocratic nominee for Mayor, Mayor Sensenbrenner. Portland (U.R) Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay left Sun day by plane to return to Wash ington, D. C, after a two week visit to Oregon. Portland (U.R) Lloyd Gift of Bonanza, Ore., has been named the Pacific Northwest "Grassman of the Year." With these money figures come government reports that October employment was 65 161000 up nearly half a mil lion over September and more than 3,000,000 above October, 1954. All of this represents a lot of money, a lot of buying and a lot of jobs a boom time economy. The political significance is that the treasury will get more revenue this year than it had counted on. A tax cut next year, a presidential campaign year, seems almost assured. And there seems a fair prospect that the budget shortly will be balanced a feat Mr. Eisenhower prom ised when he ran in 1952. Prosperity, a tax cut and a bal anced budget would add up to powerful campaign issues for the Republicans in 1956. - MB;-. -.. '-v ? . in" V Erf v- Your Invitation To Hear . . , Dr. Vincent Bennett Bible teacher end expositor, youth counselor, and former col lege president; was associated with the late Dr. G. 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