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o SIXTEEN MEDFORD fOREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, March 21, 1956 Warning by Taft on Presidential Election System Change Recalled Washington OI.R) Sen. Clif ford P. Case (R-N.J.) today warned that a proposed constitu tional change in the Presidential election system would nullify Republican chances of capturing the White House. The proposed amendment, co sponsored by 54 senators, would leave the Democrats as "the dominant party and establish the Republican party as a permanent minority," Case said in an inter view. To buttress his argument, Case today circulated among Repub lican senators a 1950 letter by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft warning of "the dangers" of changing the present electoral system. Taft then warned Re publican congressmen that a sim ilar constitutional amendment would be fatal to the hope of electing a Republican president if the election is in any way close." Second Day of Debate The Senate today went into its second day of debate on the cur rent proposed amendment. It would revise the present "win-ner-take-all" system by which all of a state's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate win ning a majority of the state's popular vote. Instead a state's electoral vote would be divided between candidates according to the popular vote or according to the vote in the individual con gressional districts. When the amendment was first introduced earlier this week, it was co-sponsored by 31 Republican senators, including William F. Knowland. Case, how ever, was obviously hopeful that the resurrected warning by Taft would change the position of sev eral Republicans and prevent the amendment from winning the necessary two-thirds vote of approval in the Senate. Argument Outlined Case outlined this argument as to why the amendment would hurt Republican presidential chances: The only way the Republican party can win the presidency now is to offset the Democratic vote of the solid South by win ning the votes of a few large Northern states. 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Klamath Youngster Said Still Missing Klamath Falls U.R) Ten-year-old Alvin Decker, who dis appeared from his home here three weeks ago, still has not been located or any trace found as to his whereabouts. The par ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Decker, has issued a new appeal for any clue that might lead to the location of their son, who was last seen as he departed for school. Bloodhounds, flown to the scene shortly after the lad's dis appearance, traced the boy's footsteps to the railroad yards. A search of all empty cars in the Klamath Falls yards and many in California that had left the local yards was to no avail. The grandmother, Mrs. E. G. Dickison, has come to Klamath Falls to help in the search. Ear lier it had been thought that the boy might attempt to go to her home in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Strike Settled at Albany Plywood Plant Albany, Ore. (U.R) The strike - bound Lynn plywood plant here was free of pickets today after an understanding was reached between union and management. Since the strike started three weeks ago the plant has been operating with, a partial crew made up of about 40 stock- Polio Combated By Salk Vaccine, Dr. Francis Says Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) The doctor who endorsed Salk vaccine for the public said Tues day it has safely and effectively combated polio in its first year of widespread use. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., direct or of the University of Michigan Polio Evaluation Center, said "data from the past year strong ly supports results obtained in the 1954 field trial of the vac cine." "Throughout the nation, rates for paralytic cases among unvac cinated patients have been two to 10 times as great as among the vaccinated," he said. "The rates are 3.2 per 100,000 among the vaccinated, compared to 13.2 per 100,000 among those not get ting the vaccine." Results of Research Francis, who gave his own report April 12, 1955, disclosed the results while delivering the Gudankunst Memorial lecture at the university's Public Health school. He based his statements on results of research by the communicable disease center at Atlanta, Ga. "There can be little doubt that effective vaccination can be se cured with an inactive virus vacine, provided the vaccine it self has sufficient potency," Francis said. He said variations in the potency of individual lots caused much of the initial difficulty with the vaccine. "No laboratory confirmed par alytic cases occurred after vac cination with a vaccine morethan 70 to 75 percent potent," he said. "Revaccination up to a year later induces a sharp booster effect, even when the original vaccine was of limited potency." holders and about 75 no:; anion employees. Union officials said that all employees would be back to work this morning. The difference arose when the company discharged 12 men who allegedly refused to handle ve neer sheets shipped in from else where, contending it violated their contract. 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