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Steps Leading To McKay s
ecision
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The sudden
decision of Secretary of Inter
ior Douglas McKay to pull out
of the cabinet and run for the
Senate in Oregon was brought
about in a matter of hours by
President Eisenhower's top po
litical advisors, if not by the
President himself..
This is the reconstructed back
ground story, as completely ,as
it could be pieced togetner, oi
this major political develop
ment. Hour-Long Interview
Monday, Mar. 5 In an hour
lone interview with McKay that
afternoon in his office, he told
me he had no plans for the fu
ture except to resign next Jan.
20 and let the President decide
whether he wanted to make a
cabinet change. Either way
would have been OK with Mc
Kay, for he said he was looking
forward to retiring. In previous
interviews, McKay had said he
had no desire to run for the
Senate, explaining that a man
younger than his 62- years
should be tackling that job.
McKay seemed relaxed, gen
ial as ever, and profiting person
ally from the philosophy he ap
plies to his controversy-ridden
job. No matter how thick the
brickbats might fly, "I never go
to sleep at night mad at any
one," he said.
In the month since the late
Gov. Paul Patterson died, he
had been urged by many to re
turn to Oregon and take on Sen.
Wayne Morse. He had held out
adamantly against this idea.
Mrs. McKay was even more
stoutly opposed to it. Up to this
day, no one had successfully
moved either from that position.
Reporter Inqueries
Tuesday, Mar. 6 McKay
told an inquiring reporter for
the Associated Press substanti
ally what he had told me Mon
day" about his future plans.
Wednesday, Mar. 7 McKay
had breakfast with Leonard
Hall, GOP national chairman.
From this point the wheels be
gan grinding furiously. Hall re
portedly told McKay that a pub
lic opinion ' firm hired by the
Republican National committee
had taken a sampling in Ore
gon and found McKay much bet
ter known by the average citi
zen than either Phil Hitchcock
or Lamar Tooze, the two main
Republican contenders for Sen.
Morse's seat.
The day before, Hall told
1,500 ladies attending the Na
tional Republican Women's con
ference here that Morse was a
prime GOP target, next in im
portance to the Presidency in
this year's elections. Party lead
ers didn't want to take a chance
on, a relatively unknown candi
date. McKay was told they
thought he was the man to do
the job.
Unconvinced
McKay left the breakfast
table unconvinced. During the
day he sounded out close advis
ors. Some encouraged him to
run. He said he would have to
talk it over with Mrs. McKay
' that night. That same evening
Attorney General Herbert Brow
nell told a prominent Republi
can that despite the heat on Mc
OKay to run, he was still drag
ging his feet. Brownell said he
was confident McKay would
change his mind by the follow
ing day.
He explained that an 11
o'clock appointment set up by
the White House for McKay
with the president the follow
ing mnrnins would cinch the
matter if McKay were stiU hold-J
ina out when ne arrived ai me
White House.
In this conversation, Brown
ell, who is one of the adminis
tration's top political master
minds, explained that party po
litical leaders here felt that
McKay had not made a satisfac
tory recovery from the politi
cal onslaught of the Democrats
on the "give away" charge. Oth
er cabinet members,- placed on
the hot seat by partisan critics,
had recovered much better,
Brownell added, mentioning De
fense Secretary Wilson.
Not The Attitude
This was clearly not the at
- titude of many western Republi
cans.such as Sen. Arthur V.
Watkins of Utah, who had come
to regard McKay very highly
and defended him frequently on
the Senate floor. There was no
apparent organized effort from
the West, where interior policies
are most vital, to replace Mc
Kay before the campaign got
underway. Indeed, mountain
state Republicans feel they are
riding high now, having won
congressional approval of the
McKay-supported Upper Colo
rado project second biggest
federal reclamation project ev
Are Reconstructed
er proposed by Congress.
Thursday, Mar. 8 McKay
went to the White House that
morning. A top Republican told
the AP that before he arrived
he was still determined not to
run. In any case, by late after
noon he was aboard a flight
bound for Portland with a hast
ily prepared statement explain
ing his decision to oppose Morse.
McKay said he was not urged
by Eisenhower himself to run,
but that Sherman Adams, the
President's chief assistant, "en
couraged" him to do so and it
"pleased" the president when he
told him of his decision. That
day Eisenhower wrote McKay a
letter, saying his decision was
"worthy of the highest commen
dation." Friday, Mar. 9 McKay in
vited Hitchcock and Tooze to a
morning confab to discuss his
sudden entry into the race. Both
sides were surprised McKay
because he had been led to be
lieve by party bigwigs in Wash
ington that Tooze and Hitchcock
had agreed to withdraw if he en
tered the race; Tooze and Hitch
cock because no one had even
mentioned it to them.
When the news leaked out
about what was afoot, McKay
told reporters there was some
"confusion" and he didn't know
whether he would run or not.
This was flashed to Washington,
and in turn the White House got
on the phone to McKay and
Blizzard Winds Whip
Northeastern States
Boston U.R) 'Blizzard
winds whipped snow and sleet
across the northeastern states
Saturday, hurling ships against
the New England coast.
At least 60 persons died along
the storm path from Ohio, to
Maine.
Deaths totaled 49 in the New
England states, six in Ohio, five
in New York, four in Pennsyl
vania and five in New Jersey.
Officials called the blockbust
er blizzard the "wildest" storms
in a generation.
Four Navy vessels and a
freighter Tan aground. Hundreds
of stranded motorists were trap
ped in their cars for hours or
were forced to take refuge in
hotels and shelters. The Coast
Guard sent amphibious ducks to
rescue 33 persons from their
Three Members of
Reno Family Killed
Susanville, Calif. (U.R) Three
members of a Reno, Nev., fam
ily were fatally injured and a
fourth hurt . critically Friday
night when their auto hit a park
ed truck on U. S. highway 395
45 miles north of here.
The sheriff -coroner's office
said Mrs. Dolores Irene Skyr
man was killed instantly. Her
husband, John, died Saturday,
and their daughter, Dawn Rae,
2, was dead on arrival at a hos
pital. A son, John nine mbnths,
was in critical condition, but ex
pected to live.
Deputies said the couple was
enroute to Medford, Ore., to
visit their parents.
Blinded by Lights
The accident occurred, depu
ties believed, when Skyrman
was blinded by the lights of an
oncoming auto and failed to see
a small truck parked at the side
of the road by Richard Scott, of
Ravendale, Calif., while he
changed a tire. He had reflec
tors out. Scott suffered minor in
juries in the crash.
Mr. and Mrs. Skyrman are
both members of well-known
Medford families. His parents
are Mr .and Mrs. Harry Skyr
man, 1711 East Main st., and
hers are Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Bear
don, Lozier lane.
Arrangements were being
made Saturday to have the in
jured baby flown to Medford in
a Mercy Flights, Inc., air ambu
lance plane. Conger-Morris Fu
neral Home was to return the
bodies of the accident victims
here from Susanville.
The parents were notified of
the accident, early Saturday
morning by state police, who re
ceived the first word of the
crash Via teletype from the
sheriffs' office in Susanville.
Yuma, Ariz. (U.R) Two Cali
fornia Air National Guard planes
collided in mid-air . near here
Saturday afternoon, killing the
pilots of both crafts.
Ralph Cake, former GOP na
tional committeeman. Adams
and Hall were on the White
House end of the line to see
about ending the confusion.
Shortly thereafter, McKay an
nounced he was in the race, he
drove to Salem to file, and the
White House formally announc
ed the news here.
Pushed Into Race
Available evidence points to
the conclusion that McKay was
pushed into a campaign he per
sonally did not wish to enter
by party officials at the Wash
ington level who led him to be
lieve he was the strongest of
possible challengers for Morse,
that other Oregon candidates
would welcome his candidacy
and pull out (although they were
not consulted) and that he would
be doing what the President and
the party most wanted him to
do if he knocked off Wayne
Morse.
Motivating at least some of
this pressure on McKay was a
feeling held by some of the
GOP's top strategists here that
McKay had not been able to
combat his Democratic critics as
effectively as they might have
wished and that it would be no
less politically valuable to have
a new secretary of the Interior
as the 1956 campaign got under
way than to have McKay barn
storming up and down his na
tive Oregon after the scalp of
his harshest critic.
homes on Nantucket island, off
Cape Cod, when high tides flood
ed the streets of Brant Point.
Bodies Found
The bodies of three sailors
were found in an open whale
boat d'asf" ashore at the entrance
to Newport, R.I., harbor. Five
persons died in a fire that de
stroyed a Westbrook, Me., home
at the height of the blizzard.
The lives of nearly 750 men
were imperiled when two de
stroyers, a destroyer escort, a
radar picket destroyer, a tug
boat, and a freighter were toss
ed about like corks and then
slammed aground on the rocky
New England shore by winds up
to 83 miles per hour. The
freighter crewmen were rescued
by breeches buoy after a night
of wintry horror and the Navy
refloated its destroyers one by
one.
The Italian freighter S. S.
Laura Lauro was damaged off
Norfolk, Va., when it was blown
into two U. S. destroyers at the
naval base.
High winds caused a second
collision in the Norfolk area
when the Swedish freighter Ny
land rammed a mothballed Lib
erty 'Ship, the E. Kirby Smith,
in Hampton Roads, Va.
Highways throughout the
storm area were clogged with
drifts of snow up to 10 feet
deep. Huge tractor trailers jack
knifed on slippery roads in New
York and West Virginia, block
ing traffic for hours. Hundreds
of automobiles were abandoned
in deep drifts and snowplows
clearing highways buried still
more cars under snow scraped
from roads. '
Hitchcock,
Two candidates for major of
fice were in Medford this week
end, and another will visit here
next Saturday.
In town yesterday were Philip
Hitchcock, Portland, a candi
date for the Republican nomina
tion for U. S. senator, and
Charles O. Porter, Eugene, can
didate for the Democratic nom
ination for congressman from
the fourth district.
The third candidate, who will
speak here next Saturday, is
Dave Shaw, who is running
against Porter for the Democra
tic congressional nomination.
Porter at Luncheon
Porter met at luncheon Satur
day noon with a small group of
friends and supporters to out
line his campaign plans and to
discuss the issues on which he
will run. He criticized President
Eisenhower for what. he called
"his inability as a career sol
dier to understand his job and
take it seriously," pointing to
the president's vacations, his in
sistence on one-page memos t on
complex problems, and his dele
gations of power.'
For the most part, Porter in
dicated, his campaign against
Cypriot Extremists
Ambush Two British
Patrols; Two Dead
At Least 15 Injured
In Violence Outbreak
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Cypriot
extremists ambushed two Brit
ish security patrols Saturday and
bombed an army truck in fresh
outbreaks of violence that left
two persons dead and at least
15 injured.
One British security officer
was killed and two others wound
ed late yesterday, several hours
after an extremist was killed.
Eight men, including five Brit
ish commanders, were injured
in another attack.
Later, two bombs were thrown
into the back of an army truck
at Kyrenia a trouble spot that
was already under 24-hour cur
few injuring four British sold
iers. European Injured
One European was injured
last night when masked men
raided a mining concern at Lim
ni and fired a pistol into his
office.
One of Saturday's attacks oc
curred in the area of Rizckar
passo when extremists hurled
a bomb into; a British patrol
jeep, killing the British security
officer and injuring two other
occupants.
In the first attack, a band of
12 extremists poured a barrage
of automatic weapons fire and
bombs into a Commando patrol
southwest of Nicosia.
The battle was fought in the
ruged snow-covered Troodos
mountains, about 35 miles south
west of Nicosia. It erupted even
while British troops moved in
to ev'ct 20 families from
Nicosia's "terror town" where
21 murders or attempted murd
ers have been committed in
recent months.
Frost Warnings May
Start Here Monday
Frost warnings for fruit grow
ers will probably begin on Mon
day, March 26, unless they are
needed earlier, according to R.
Roy Simpson, official frost fore
caster, for the U. S. Weather Bu
reau. Don Berry, Jackson county
agent, said that all fruit grow
ers who have not brought their
thermometers to the. county
agent's office for testing should
do so as soon as possible.
Berry stated that pears are
still in the dormant period here
and most growers are now ap
plying dormant spray.
Development of the pear buds
is about normal for this time of
year and blossoms may be ex
pected on about April 8, the nor
mal blossoming date. Bud de
velopment at this time last year
was somewhat behind schedule.
Investigation Into
Death Continues
Investigation concerning the
death Friday morning of a 30-year-old
mother of three; Mrs.
JeanGunter, 209 Scenic dr.,
Ashland, will not be completed
for several days, District Attor
ney Walter Nunley reports.
Mrs. Gunter's husband, Jack,
30, reported to Ashland police
shortly before 10 a.m. Friday
tht he had found his wife shot
to death with a .22 rifle.
Porter Discuss Campaign Plans
Republican Incumbent Harris
j Ellsworth will hinge on the is
sues of "peace, prosperity and
good government," as well as on
issues of public power and con
servation. He assailed Ells
worth for undeservedly claim
ing a major share of the credit
for the authorization of the
Talent project, and for obtain
ing funds for it. He also criticiz
ed him for failing to debate with
Porter on the Al Sarena mining
claim matter and public power.
Return to Eugene
Porter expected to return . to
Eugene tomorrow after a two
day swing through southern
Oregon which included stops at
Cave Junction and Grants Pass.
Hitchcock was busy confer
ring with . friends and political
supporters in Medford over the
week end His only public talk
during his current visit will be
at noon Monday when he ad
dressed a meeting at the Jackson
hotel' sponsored by the Jackson
County Republican Women.
Hitchcock Saturday announc
ed the appointment of Robert S.
Rukovina, 11, Almond st, plant
superintendent for the Rogue
River Packing Corp., as his cam
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APPLAUSE Russian leaders are shown ap
plauding ballet performers at Bolshoi theater
in Moscow as they entertain H. K. Hansen,
third from left, Danish prime minister. From
left, they are Anastas Mikoyan, V. M. Molotov,
Hansen, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and
Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev.
FR
APlKLIfJ
County Budget Will
e More Detailed
Jackson county's new budget
is expected to be completed
earlier than last year's budget,
and will be more detailed than
ever before, County Judge Rod
ney Keating reported following
Friday's all-day budget meeting.
The budget committee, start
ing work on the new budget one
v'eek in advance of last year's
starting date, carefully studied
each budget request submitted
Friday by the various county de
partments, but made no deci
sions, Judge Keating said.
Clearly Explained
This year's budget, the judge
declared, should, more clearly
show the public -exactly how
much "money 'each function of
the county " government is re
ceiving. For instance, lie ex
plained, allotments, for road and
bridge construction will be pre
sented by individual project
Census of Ashland
Residents Slated
Ashland A', census of Ash
land residents will be taken be
tv een March 26 and 31, accord
ing to Elmer Biegel, city super
intendent. Ashland's city council recent
ly authorized the census so that
the city's pro-rata share of cer
tain state funds' will be increas
ed with proof of population
growth since the 1950 federal
sensus. The federal count show
ed 7,739 residents within the
city limits.
Information the nine census
takers will record will include
name, age and sex of every per
son residing in the houseshold.
A home, apartment, hotel, motel
or permanent, trailer court is
classified as a household.
Any housesholder who does
not plan to be home during the
daytime while the census is
under way is requested to write
down the information, place it
in an envelope outside the front
door and mark the envelope
"for the census taker."
paign manager for jacKson
county.
High Level Campaign
The former Klamath, county
senator, now director of public
relations for Lewis and Clark
college, . Portland, reported Sat
urday he ' plans to conduct a
high-level campaign during the
primary race, based on his con
viction that he has v a better
chance to defeat Sen Wayne
Morse in the general election
than does Douglas McKay, the
secretary of the interior and for
mer Oregon governor, who is his
chief primary opponent.
He plans no attack on McKay,
Hitchcock "declared, but neither
does he plan to attempt to de
fend McKay's record. "Doug can
take care of that himself," he
said.
Hitchcock expects his chief
primary support from the more
liberal and younger elements of
the Republican party, he said,
and he declared he has been en
couraged by the response to his
candidacy among this group.
General Election
His argument as to the gen
eral election is that he would be
free, as McKay would not, to de
BEATS
orders, rather than a lump sum
to cover all road and bridge
projects as has been the policy
in the past.
The committee will first study
budget requests on an overall
basis. Later it will be broken
down and figures will be avail
able. Individual items, salaries
and wages will be considered
near the end of the study.
The judge said that the head
of each department will be call
ed before the committee to ex
plain the budget request for his
particular department before
any decisions are made. These
people will be called before the
group in order of the size of
their departments, starting with
the largest.
Income Figures , , ' -
Judge Keating explained that
the committee has not as yet re
ceived fiffures on a number of
income items, including the for
est service; state liquor license
and gambling funds.
Anyone interested inHhe bud
get is welcome to meet with the
committee, he said, but must
call the county court for an ap
pointment. Next meeting will be Tues
day, March 27. Subsequent meet
ings will be held on Friday,
March 30, and on Tuesday, April
3.
At Friday's meeting M. Thom
as Wray, Medford, was named
chairman of the budget commit
tee. Secretary is Roger F. Rath,
Ashland. The other member is
Arnold Bohnert, Central Point.
$200 Taken From Local
Pharmacy Store Friday
About $200 in bills and an un
known amount of checks were
taken between 6 and 7 p.m. Fri
day from Wainscott's Pharmacy,
322 East Main st., according to
a report to city police fro mthe
owner, Harold C. Wainscott.
He told officers that the
amount was taken from an open
safe during regular . business
hours and that the checks and
cash, mostly in $1, $5, and $10
bills, were contained in a pa
per bag.
bate the broad issues of public
policy, including foreign affairs,
farm problems and the others,
with Senator Morse. If McKay
were the candidate, he said, the
campaign would tend to take on
the aspects of a personal feud be
tween Morse and McKay, based
on a narrow range of issues hav
ing to do with interior adminis
tration. .
- Hitchcock said he believes he
could appeal to a great group of
liberal and independent voters
as McKay- could not do, and
would in addition have the sup
port of regular Republicans in
a campaign against Morse " on
the issues. A strong Eisenhower
supporter, Hitchcock said one
of these issues would be Morse's
attacks on the president and the
administration which, he said,
has earned the overwhelming
support of the people.
Shaw, who will be in Medford
next Saturday, will speak at an
open meeting of . friends and
supporters at 7 p.m. that day, at
the Phoenix Grange halL The
public is welcome, but those
planning to attend should make
reservations by Friday by tele
phoning Mark Norton, Phoenix
3-2888.
Diplomatic sources have reported charges
brought against Josef Stalin by Khrushchev as
the start of a discrediting campaign. The
charges are reported to have been made in a
secret speech tp the Communist party congress
recently. -(International soundphoto)
MEDFORD
Quakers Take First
State Championship
Since 1921, 73-60
By DICK JEWETT
Mail Tribune Sports Editor
MacArthur Court, University
of Oregon, Eugene Franklin
High of Portland downed a
fighting Medford Black Tor
nado, 73 to 60, here last night
to capture the Oregon Class A-l
basketball championship. It was
Franklins' first state title since
1921.
The Quakers took the lead
early in the second quarter, built
up a substantial lead in the third
quarter, withstood a spirited
Medford 12-point rally, and then
pulled away again against a
pressing Tornado team to win.
' .1 As in Franklin's previous
three tournament games, Bjarne
Jensen was the difference with
his rebounding and high ' scor
ing. He also got the help of Er
nie Spargur, Jim Kuhn, Jack
Luhrs and Glen , Hutton, with
their shooting and ballhawk
ing., Jenson scored 27 points, and
cleared the boards of 22 re
bounds, while Bob Tisdel was
Medford's high man with 17
points.
Score was tied thi.ee times,
and the lead changed hands six
times before Franklin went
ahead to stay. The period scores
wece all in Franklin's favor,
16-13, 31 to 25, and 53 to 46.
One and one-half minutes into
the second quarter, Khun scored
driving in on a fast break to
give the Quakers a 19 to 18 lead.
They stayed in front from there.
Widest Margin A
The widest lead of the game
was 17 points at 53 to 36 with
one ani. a half minutes remain
ing in the third quarter. That's
where Larry Copple and Larry
Gober each, with three buckets ;
sparked a rally to cut the Frank-!
lin lead to 53 to 48.
Medford employed a press
ing game, and got the surge go
ing, but after they cut their def
icit to five points, fouls helped
Franklin on the' road to pull
away.
The new champion Quakers
and runner-up Tornado each
placed a man on the all-state
basketball team. Jensen at cen
ter and Bob Tisdel at guard on
the first team. On the second
team the Quakers placed Spar
gur at forward and Medford got
Dick McLaughlin at the other
forward.
Rounding out the first team,
were Charlie Warren, Eugene,
and Roger Johnson, Marshfield,
forwards: Chuck Rash, Jeffer
son, at guard. Others on the
second team were Norm Weis,
McLoughlin High, center, and
Mike Doherty, Lincoln, and
Doug' Lundstrom, Eugene, J at
guards.
In the third place game, Lin
coln High of Portland defeated
Marshfield, 72 to 57.
(See other story on sports page)
Sports Bulletins
Corvallis (U.R) UCLA,
champion of the Pacific Coast
conference, walloped Seattle
university 94-70 in a wild,
foul-filled NCAA consolation
basketball game last night be
fore 10,000 fans.
Corvallis, Ore. OJ.R) All
American Bill Russell led the
University of San Francisco
to a 92-77 victory over Utah
last night for the Don's 53rd
straight victory. It advanced
the defending national'! cham
pions lo the semi-finals of the
NCAA tournament.
ted
Khrushchev Claims
Late Premier Led
Life of Murderer
Riots Reported in
Stalin's Native State
Washington (U.R) Russia's
Nikita Khrushchev has accused
the late Josef Stalin of murder
ing 5,000 Red Army officers in
an incredible life of crime, lust
for power, and irrational fear of
treachery.
Informed sourcses reported
Saturday that Khrushchev made
the sensational charges in an
emotion-packed-at times tearful
speech before a special meeting
of the 20th Communist Party
Congress in Moscow on Feb. 24. .
Stuns Delegates
They said Khrushchev told
the stunned delegates the once-
idolized Stalin refused to be
lieve Hitler would attack Russia
until it was nearly too late, ran
away from Moscow when it was
under fire, nearly wiped out the
Red Army high command in
the bloody purges of the 1930s,'
kept his aides in constant fear
of sudden death, and in later
years suffered from phobias and
delusions.
The detailed disclosure of the
Khrushchev speech came amid
reports of rioting in Stalin's
native state of Georgia and
worldwide speculation over the
implications of the present Sov
iet regime's attacks on Stalin.
The Georgia riots were in pro
test against the current Soviet
campaign to discredit Stalin.
The State Department declin
ed to comment beyond saying
it had heard rumors about the
speech and the rioting. But
Allied diplomats, piecing togeth
er information from a variety of
sources, said . Khruschev , did
embark . Russia' on a deliberate
campaign to destroy the Russian
peoples' belief that Stalin had
been a good leader.
Saturday the official Com
munist newspaper in Tiflis, cap
ital of Georgia, said that "the
courts must crush" violations of
law and order in that state.
It called for "the exposure of
all kinds of provocateurs, hol
ligans and hostile elements, all
who violate socialist law, order
and the rights of Soviet citizens."
Tiflis was the sole capital of
all the Soviet republics which
observed the third anniversary
of Stalin's death on March 5
with memorial meetings.;
The meetings were reported
to have been followed by street
demonstrations.
t Washington reports said the
riots occurred between March
5. and March 9.-
Evergreen Bus Lines
To Suspend Service
Mechanical difficulties and a
shortage of equipment will force
the Evergreen Bus lines to sus
pend service on one morning
schedule for part or all, of next
week, according to Manager
Ralph Matthews.
He said the special run in the
morning, which includes West
Main St., Ross lane, West Jack
son st., Spring st., Hillcrest,
East Jackson st. and Charlotte
Ann rd. will not be made Mon-
day. He is not sure how long the
suspension will remain effective,
but it may be most of the week.
The special afternoon run to
Roosevelt and Hedrick Junior
High schools will be suspended
too, he said, but the regular
East Main st. run will be routed
by the schools to pick up homeward-bound
children at 3:45
p.m.
Spring Officially
Starts Early Tuesday
Winter officially ends and
spring begins Tuesday, March
20, at 7:21 a.m. (PST).
At that hour the center of the
sun is directly above the equator
for a brief period of time as it
crosses from the southern to the
northern hemisphere, and all ov
er the world day and night are
of equal length. Hence, the word
"equinox," meaning equal night.
The vernal equinox Secure
around March 20 each year. Au
tumn, or fall, is introduced by
the autumnal equinox, on or -near
Sept. 23. -
Due to irregularity in the
earths' rate of speed as it trav- ,
els around the sun, the two equi
noxes are approximately, but
not exactly, six months apart.
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