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0 Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart AIsop THE FRUSTRATED DEMOCRATS "Washington The Democrats are beginning to feel rather like the butt of the classic old swim ming hole joke. While they have been hap pily disporting themselves in the water, shouting mer rily to' each other about the fine prospects for 1956, the t- li: j Joseph Alsop nepuuui;dn hu ministration has stealthily made off with all their clothes. i The Administration, in short, h done a downright brilliant job of aborting every major Democratic issue. Consider a typical sampling: Faipn Issue: This was to be, of course, the Democrats' biggest . inzle issue for r"3F i.-'"! V .VP,, m Mil ttl 7" f 195 6. Until very recently, the Democrat ic dream of the future was clear. They (rwould pass a farm bill re toring fixed 90 per cent of par ity, and giving Stewart Alsop the farmers all sorts of other goodies, like special "soil banks" payments for keeping their'land out of production. The President would veto , this bill, and the Republican goose would thus be1' cooked to a turn. It may work out that way. The farm issue is certainly still the most dangerous the Administra tion faces. But the Administra tion has taken over the soil bank idea,, and other ideas first ad vanced by the Democrats Sen. Hubert Humphrey, principal Democratic farm policy idea man, complains loudly that "They're stealing my babies." TLfOREOVER, the Administra tion is playing its trump card on the farm issue President Ei senhower. Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Benson is political poison in the farm areas. But the President himself is still im mensely popular with the farm ers. The Administration plan now is to have the President move front and center on the farm is sue, selling the Administration program, and above all persuad ing the fanners that the Demo crats' fixed support program will pile up higher surpluses and depress prices still further. A nationwide Presidential telecast devoted entirely to the farm is sue is being seriously considered. And there are signs of doubtful ness already among several Dem ocrats about the vote-getting po tentialities of high fixed parity. Taxes. The Administration has the Democrats nicely boxed in on the tax issue. The Presi dent has sternly said that a bal anced budget and debt reduc tion must come before any tax relief. The Democrats strongly suspect a plot. They suspect that, along about June, there will be a jubilant announcement from the Treasury that due to bril liant economic management, a surplus, perhaps as high as $4,000,000,000, is in sight for the 1957 budget. Therefore the vot ers will be pleased to hear, a balanced budget, debt reduction, and a nice dollop of tax reduc tion too will all be possible. THE SUSPICION that this is what the Administration is up to amounts to a firm convic tion among many shrewd Demo crats. But what are they to do? If they try to beat the gun with tax reduction now, they will be accused of fiscal irresponsibility am' unbalancing the budget. As a practical matter, moreover, any considerable tax reduction for the "little fellow" could only be compensated for if the oil de pletion tax allowance loophole were closed. It is enough to point out that the Democratic leaders of both Houses come from Texas. Education. Here again, the Democrats thought they had a winning issue for 1956, and in the House they have ready a big school construction bill. But here again the Administration is ready to box them in with its 51,250,000,000 school program. On this issue, moreover, the Democrats are in a peculiarly frustrating position, since one of RV State Bank Holds Stockholders Meeting The annual stockholders meet ing of the Rogue Valley State bank was .held Friday at bank headquarters, 1109 Court st. The bank declared a S5 per share dividend for 1955. All of ficers and directors were reelec ted. . , ' The annual report was given by Executive Vice President Clarence H. Young. Vice Presi dent Ralph Pierce stated that the bank has had a satisfactory year of growth. Total assets at the time of the meeting were listed as S3, 089, 782.60. During 1955 the bank had deposit increases from $1, 483,466.64 to S2,906,705.90. Loans increased from $511,712. 81 to $938,767.84. their number, Adam Clayton Powell of New York, is prepared to introduce an anti-segregation amendment which would almost certainly kill the bill. AND SO it goes. The road con struction and social security issues have been largely aborted in the same way. Democrats like Senators Walter George and Richard Russell are angry about the foreign aid budget, but the Democrats certainly cannot win the election by cutting the living daylights out of the foreign aid program. On other issues, like natural gas, the Democrats are bitterly divided among them selves. It is impossible, of course, to predict what issues time and the course of events will produce. Let the Communist bloc make an aggressive move an attack on the Chinese offshore islands, for example and the now dormant defense and foreign policy is sues will dominate this election year. But for the moment, by the simple expedient of adopt ing large hunks of the Demo cratic program, the Administra tion has reduced the Democrats to shouting, "me too, but more so." (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday other days 5:30 Dreviousday Look to the Future! Choose GAS Appliances! ifvfi i u KV t - - e C7?2V...and be practical too with an automatic (704- range IF IF 2 OKIY SERVICE ... IS DEPENDABLE SPEEDY - COSTS LESS ON ALL GAS RANGES FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY PACIFIC COMPANY SERVICE Phone 2-5284 UTILITIES UTILITY Medford, Oregon Is That So? Although it is one of the most sublime spectacles on earth, a severe ice storm is a disastrous calamity to forests and those in them. . Almost unknown in Europe, the ice storm is a specialty of our American climate. Its crip pling pathway can be predicted with telling accuracy but not the By EUGENE BURNS Hanger-Naturalist parried by the spine-chilling tin kle of broken glass. Thus a whole forest can be knocked flat with an increasing racket, a hundred thousand trees destroy ed within a few hours, creating a devastation as great as any hurricane. Tremendous as the 'instant damage may be, others go unno ticed but they are equally kill ing. When branches are torn off, easy access is given to fungus and insects while the litter on the forest floor when dried in the spring heightens the danger from forest fires. For the animals of the woods, the results of the ice storm can be pathetic: deer may break through the icy crust formed Sunday, January 15, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE T1VB over the snow while chased by a coyote and cut their legs badly or even break them; wolves run ning atop the crust may now overtake and pull down a floun dering moose; rabbits may freeze their feet so they become solid balls of ice and starve; birds may have their feet frozen to the branches and die within a few hours; and pheasants may have their wings frozen solid and suc cumb overnight. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in handsome Sealcraft binding. 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In Canada, only the Yukon and the Northwest Territories and the high Arctic north of the timberline are exempt because they are too cold and dry; in the U.S., only six states are spared from periodic onslaughts Flor ida and southern California be cause they are too warm, and New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada because they are too dry. Its coming is so predictable that one must await this devas tating terror once in every three years, as it cuts a broad swath from New England and the Mid dle Atlantic states westward through the Ohio .valley, the lower Great Lakes region, and on, into Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. In the Pacific North west it will occur every five years. In some regions such as the wooded slopes of the Shenan doah mountains in Virginia, an i experienced forester will not be I able to find one mature tree standing which has not had branches ripped away giving easy access to fungus and insect enemies slow and ruthless killers. Cold Rain Freezes The more severe ice storms come during a steady downfall of rain when the temperature falls one or two degrees below freezing. Upon striking an ob ject, the cold rain freezes, spreading an enveloping shaft of crystal on weeds, grasses, branches and the feathery twigs of trees. In these storms, the great old trees tend to suffer more dam age than, younger, . pliant trees; tall ones more than small ones which may bend in graceful arches sometimes with their tips frozen solid to the soil. Those with conspicuous V-shaped forks are liable to split wide open first under the heavy load. And cu riously, dense low - branching evergreens are sometimes saved by making support ice skeletons of icicles which reach down ward from branch to branch un til they touch the ground. An ' envelope of ice an inch thick is not uncommon in this storm causing a tree of average height to carry up to five tons of ice! Worse yet,' even two and three inches, thick ice are re corded in heavy storms. In the great storm in Michigan, Febru ary, 1922, hundreds of thous ands of trees were destroyed and one twig which was weighed had its weight multiplied 132 times by its icy envelope. The damage is heightened when high winds spring up be fore the heavy load is melted then trees remaining upright de spite the heavy weight of ice, fall before the purchase of the wind against their enlarged, ice coated branches. Frightening Sound The sight and sound of an ice storm in a forest can be awe1 inspiring and frightening. If the wind waves the branches, there will first be a noisy clatter of icy fragments wherever two boughs strike together. Then smaller twigs and branches begin to break and fall. Then the major havoc may begin. Great trees are uprooted. Trunk split open. Trees bend over and trunks snap. 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