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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, January 35, 195B Kefauver Editor's note: This is the second of four dispatches on the 1956 Demo cratic presidential hopefuls. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington vU.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver has shucked his coon "skin. cap. With more dignity, if less sure-fire publicity, he is campaigning again for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. Kefauver is 52. He was gradu ated by his Tennessee constitu ents in 1943 from the House to the United States Senate. He was re-elected in 1954. The senator zoomed to national popularity months before the 1952 Democratic national coiv vention on public interest arous ed by his televised investigation of organized crime. He led the field on the first two convention ballots and would probably have been nominated but for the out raged opposition of his party leader. Kefauver had offended by op posing and defeating President Truman in New Hampshire s 1952 presidential primary. It isn't done. But Kefauver did it He took his TV show into Chi cago, spotlighted a policeman whose bank balance seemed over-large and contributed there by to the defeat of Democratic Sen. Scott Lucas. Mr. Truman licked Kefauver with Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois four years ago. Mr. T, says he has no favorite this time, and Kefauver reports they have made up, if not kissed. Maybe so. Smoke Clears Kefauver for a while was be et on his home grounds when there was talk that Tennessee's national convention delegation would be pledged to Gov. Frank Additional FHA Loans Available In County ' Farmers in Josephine and Jackson counties may apply for additional loans for financing 1956 Operating expenses, Wil liam N. Young Jr., local agent for the Farmers Home adminis tration, has announced. Loans may be' used to pay a wide variety of farm and home operating expenses, including purchase of fertilizer, tractor fuel, "livestock feed and seed, Young said. 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Kefauver Assured of Tennessee Support Washington (U.R) Sen Estes Kefauver's bid for the Democratic presidential nomina tion has escaped some possible embarrassment in his own back yard. Gov. Frank Clement of Ten nessee announced yesterday he has withdrawn as a possible "fa vorite son" candidate for the presidential nomination. He said Kefauver "is entitled to fair and full opportunity in his home state." However, Clement urged his state to send an "unbound, un pledged and unpressured" dele gation to the Democratic Na tional convention. He is expected to control the delegation. Kefauver Grateful Kefauver said he is "grateful" for Gov. Clement's generous attitude." "To have the full backing of the people of my state would certainly help in my campaign," he said. Other political developments: 1. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland pondered whether to enter the GOP pri maries in New Hampshire and Florida. A Florida group open ed a "Florida for Knowland" campaign. The senator said he will look over the New Hamp shire political battlefield this week end. He would collide with President Eisenhower in both primaries. ' . 2. Adlai E. Stevenson said he wishes 1 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "would practice what he preaches" about shak ing confidence overeases. But, the Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination said in stead Dulles is "boasting about his ability to brandish bombs and balance on the brink of war." Eisenhower Group 3. The newly reactivated Na tional Citizens for Eisenhower Deluxe chrome faucet 5-year parts warranty! Cutting board, cutlery drawer! Gleaming STAR WHITE finish! As advertised in LIFE and POST! NOW AND SAVE! fmitcimjutciethi Center Coonskin Kefauver has signed up for pri mary election's in Florida, Calif ornia, New Hampshire and Wis consin. He is looking Minnesota over, although the farmer-labor Democratic organization there is stacked for Stevenson. Man-To-Man Combat But he will meet Stevenson in Florida and California in any event a man-to-man combat of Kefauver's own choosing. So the chips are down in both states. Stevenson is the front-runner organization named three offic ers: George M. Cheston, Phila delphia. attorney, as treasurer; Peter H. Clayton, New York at torney, secretary and general counsel; and Richard L. Tobin, now on leave as public affairs director of the New York Her ald Tribune, public relations di rector. Medford Police Chief To Attend Conference Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin, president of Oregon state police chiefs' association, will attend a traffic safety roundup in Portland, Wednes day, Feb. 22. The roundup, sponsored by the Highway Lifesavers commit tee of Oregon Citizens. Inc., will submit a citizen's program which will aid official agencies in reducing deaths, personal in juries, property damage and other economic losses from traf fic accidents. Reports on the Portland teen age conference on traffic safety, driver education study, and the responsible driving code contest in Oregon high schools will be given. The Highway Lifesavers com mittee has as an objective the reduction of the loss of life and injuries, and the reduction of economic loss, which in 1953, when the committee was organ ized, reached $43,000,000 an nually. " After the Hawaiian islands had established themselves as a republic, they voluntarily had their domain . annexed to the United States in the status of a territorial possession in 1898. There are at least 150 species of the maple tree. CABINET SINK! MEDFORD Cap; Plans More and stands to suffer most from defeat. If Kefauver could beat Stevenson in both states, the chances of the man from Illi nois would shrink substantially. Stevenson and Kefauver each publicly welcomed the other into the pre-convention campaign. The fact is, they are political poison to one another and each knows it. But for Kefauver, Ste venson might have passed up the primaries altogether. It seems that he would have liked it that way. Another Investigation The senator has another inves tigation going now juvenile de linquency. He's chairman of a Senate judiciary committee. Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (D-W. Va.), chairman of the full committee, deprived Kefauver of the plum he wanted. That was chairman ship of the subcommittee to in vestigate anti-trust and monop oly practices in big business. General Motors recently was on that griddle. Kefauver rightly figured there would be much good publicity in that subcommittee chairmanship. Kilgore relented a bit. He depu tized Kefauver to conduct the Dixon-Yates phase of the sub committee's work. But the Ten nessean has not found a substi tute for his televised 1950-51 program of big and little punks. He has some advantage in the possibility that the party bosses may not be as stubbornly op posed to him now as four years ago. 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Trade Said Monopolized The government had accused the two firms in January, 1949, of having "unlawfully restrained and monopolized trade and com merce in the manufacture, distri bution, sale and installation of telephone equipment." The consent judgment was filed in federal court at Newark, N.J. It listed "approximately 8600 existing patents" under which licensing and sublicensing rights were exchanged between the two firms and General Electric Co., Radio Corporation of Amer ica, and Westinghouse Electric Corp. All of them will be licens ed "royalty free" to all appli cants. NO FUN FOR FUN Portland U.R) Chin Hing Fun, 50, yesterday was sentenc ed to IV2 years in prison by Federal Judge Gus J. Solomon for sale of narcotics. Fun also was fined $300. Dignified in love with the tall man from Tennessee. Can Match Campaign Smils Kefauver is a big man, fit for. pro basketball. He isn't handsome but he almost can match Ike's campaign smile. Women always are aware of it when Kefauver enters a room. He likes people close up, doesn't flinch at patting an infant, damp or dry. The senator has a lot more of the common touch than do his.principal opponents, Stev enson and New York's Gov. Av erell Harriman. They are city folks. Kefauver plays the coun try boy role and does it well. Outstanding Citizen He's a New Deal-Fair Deal candidate, as who isn't, barring those Democrats who couldn't be nominated anyway?. He is solicitous about Mr. Eisenhow er's health, an attitude general ly prevalent among Democrats, most of whom sympathetically insist it would be inhuman ' to ask Ike to run again. . Kefauver recently described the President as "an outstand ing citizen of the world." He said the Republican party was "an awful load for him to pull along." Here are some of his points of view: Foreign Policy As of last November, Kefau ver figured the administration's foreign policy "has in large measure been a failure." He said the President's State of the Union message failed "to point out how the glaring mistakes of the administration in foreign policy are to be rectified. And he told New Hampshire voters that the U. S. "has been scaring our friends in the North Atlantic half to death NATO has been falling apart at the seams and has been held together largely through the efforts of statesmen of other nations." Security and Defens . "I would feel better if the President's message had given some assurance that there will be no further attempt to slash the Air Force and the Marines, TVA Starving to Death The President submitted "a disgracefully shoddy budget" fbr TVA. The administration has Number Sweepstakes Here's how: simply take proof of owner shipyour title, owner's card or registration certificate to any Plymouth dealer and regis ter your motor number on the FREE entry blank. It's that easy. Nothing to buy! PLYMOUTH Presidential Drive been "starving TVA to death'' for three years and now is trying to "bleed it to death, too." Mr. Eisenhower . had proposed that TVA meet most of its 'future needs by bond issues upon which of course, TVA would have to pay interest. Farm Promises Said Broken The day after announcing his candidacy, Kefauver told a ga thering of Maryland Democratic leaders that Republican "brok en promises to farmers" are among "the many issues the Democrats must take to the peo ple." Kefauver is a high subsidy man. He objects to Mr. Eisen hower's program on grounds that (1) is would provide no im mediate relief as would a re turn to 90 per cent of parity payments- and (2) a "more basic objection" that the program is based on a "philosophy of scar city" instead of surplus to be used for the general welfare at home and abroad. 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