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Bruising Political Fight Shaping Atlanta (U.PJ One of the Democratic party'i most bruis ing political fights of 1956 is shaping up in Georgia between the veteran Sen. Walter F. George and former Gov. Her man Talmadge. One day this week, Talmadge, 43, is expected to announce pub licly that he will run against the 78-year-old chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee in the Sept. 12 primary. Dem ocratic nomination is tantamount to election in Georgia. Old Gene's son, who got his start in politics by locking retir ing Gov. Ellis Arnall out of of fice and taking over nine years ago, will be returning to the political wars after 16-month layoff, George, in the twilight of a public career that spans 40 years and six Senate terms, is being thrust into a slugging match against an adversary of prdven shrewdness and skill. George Standi on Record The way things appear now, the big campaign issues will be states' rights, foreign aid, con stitutional government and George's record. Although Talm adge is an outspoken segrega tionist, he dosen't plan to "yell nigger all summer, his asso ciates say. That might change as the campaign warms up, The veteran senator-architect No Other Starch Gives You The Vano Touch That Means So Much -2 ii' r.n ni t -2 II I I &S53 Perfect Starching Easier Ironing No Sticking no scorching $ No Lumping No Mixing No Boiling No Guessing No Waste If vnn'ra tint iiciW lons you're working too hard! of last year's summit conference and an outstanding congressional figure on international affairs and finance is ready to stand or fall on his record. Talmadge's campaign strategy will be a denunciation of what he considers a trend toward fed eral encroachment on states' rights and a blast at the foreign .aid "giveaways." What about this man Talm adge who has been dreaming for years of going to the Senate? He was known as a rather "wild one" in his youth at the University of Georgia and later as a young lawyer and World War II Navy officer. But the years have tended to sober and settle him and he is looked upon with respect by many who had none for his late father. Talmadge has some of the ways of his father and looks much like him, although he doesn't have the gaunt face and spare frame of old Gene. Like his father, he has a burning hatred for those who attempt to overturn Georgia's racial seg regation. He is a bit self-conscious about carrying on some of the old Tal madge trademarks. His voice has lost the buzz-saw rasp of the old man's and he refuses to be maneuvered into uncomplimen tary picture angles. "Every time they take my pic ture they want to get my hair down over my face and. a half inch of cigar rammed in my mouth," he says. All Scales Can Be Fixed, Official Says Columbus, O. (U.R) There isn't a scale made that can't be "fixed," if somebody wants to cheat, according to Russell D. Webster, manager of the Colum bus office of the Toledo Scale Co. A scale being "light" one third of an ounce either way can make a tremendous difference over a year's time, he pointed out. In a year's time, the loss or gain could amount to more than a ton. A ton of hamburger at, say, 50 cents a pound would amount to $1,000. A state scale sealer says: "You can seal the scales or pump but you can't seal the operator." Famed Appian Way May Be Retired Rome U.R) The famed Ap pian Way, over which every thing from Roman legions to American jeeps have traveled, may soon be retired after 2,268 years of service. The threat to the proud high way comes not so much from its age it is still less bumpy than many newer roads but from archeologists who want to ex plore the secrets of its construc tion. For the past year and a half, a long segment of the road has been closed to accommodate the diggers. ' Today reports have spread that the government does not plan to put that part of the road back into use at all, and many Romans are already pro testing. It's still possible, how ever, to drive past Gina Lollo brigida's pink villa on the an cient way. Romans probably are even more enthusiastic about the road today than they were when it was built in 312 B.C. by an en gineer named Appuus Claudius Caecus. The Romans of that day had good reason to be pleased, Ap pius' superhighway ran straight as an arrow toward the rich Greek cities of Southern Italy, which small but ambitious Rome coveted. Hardly was the last stone laid before Roman legions were marching south to conquer the Greek cities, and carts soon were rumbling back over the Via Appia with the spoils. -Upstart Rome was on the way to becom ing a great power. Any threat to the road is likely to provoke a hot controversy. Only two years ago, the people of Rome got the government to stop the building of brilliant new villas along the road on the grounds the buildings were un worthy of the Via Appia. Travelers along the road today see a wealth of ancient ruins, insluding tombs, temples and viaducts. They may also- see the church built on the legendary spot where Peter had his vision of Christ. Wednesday. May 9, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIROTT CTVS W 1 BLOOD-STAINED EVIDENCE The ouster by the United States of two members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, accusing them of "objectionable and im proper" conduct in the case of five Russian seamen who left asylum in this country to return to Russia, came hard on the heels of testimony by the sailors' landlords before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in Washington. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Wassilli Kowalew, displayed a blood-stained shirt (above) worn by one of the sailors the night he disappeared, and told the subcommittee the sea men were visited by two Russian-speaking strangers the night before they vanished. More Water in Autos Than in Leaky Boat Dayton, O: (U.PJ Maybe autos should be listed as liquid assets. More water goes into a car than into a leaky boat. ... Rubber manufacturers alone use 300 gallons of water for each pound of synthetic rubber, ac cording to Dayton Rubber Co. engineers. Additional thousands of gallons go into the making of the car's foam rubber seat cush ions. Ten gallons of water are need ed to process a single gallon of gasoline. Each pound of steel lanes as gallons. In ail, it takes at least 15,000 gallons of water to build a car. - BY THE Z&Jy EARH FROM THE U AT.... I SWIHGSHOAH ISSOCIftTMII lit to Mam VtSori In approximately 30 countries throughout the world the death penalty has been eliminated by law or tradition. ' Yellow Snowballs Plaster Automobiles Syracuse, N. Y. U.R Mo torists driving along a certain city .block during a snow storm found those yellow snowballs weren't jokes. 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