coming Employment,
Flow
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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
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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
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Tel: 3-1916
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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.
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