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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.
Republicans would lose this
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offsetting advantage if they had
to split the electoral votes of a
state with the Democratic party.
In New York, for instance, the
electoral vote would likely be
split 23-22, instead of the win
ner capturing all of the state's
45 electoral votes. But in the
traditionally one-party states , of
the South the Democrats would
continue to maintain their de
cisive margin, with the result
that one Southern state could
have as much weight as three
New York states in the electoral
tally.
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."
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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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