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Averell Harriman's Campaign Moving at Accelerated Pace Br RAYMOND LAHH j United Press Correspondent "Washington (U.PJ Gov. Ave rted Harriman'f campaign for the Democratic presidential nomina tion is moving at an accelerated pace less than a week after Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Es tes Kefauver finished slugging each other ki the presidential primaries. The Harriman campaign con formed to all advance indica tions by getting airborne as soon as the primaries were over. The New York governor la belled himself an active candi date this week end in a switch from his previous "inactive" role. Then, on the NBC tele vision program "Meet the Press" Sunday, he expressed the belief that he would be the strongest Democratic nominee because of his background of experience in the Roosevelt and Truman ad ministrations. Harriman's next major move will come at Denver next week end when he meets with support ers from 11 Western and Mid western states. Has Strong Support Harriman goes into the pre- convention campaign with a solid foundation the assurance of about 90 delegate votes from his home state. This is roughly 13 per cent of the 686V4 dele gate votes needed to win the nomination. Furthermore, Harriman strat egists are understood to be counting on all of Oklahoma s 28 national convention votes and all 12 from Idaho. Other states where they hope to pick up votes are reported to include Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyom ing and Utah. The Harriman managers also were understood to feel that Michigan's 44 vote delegation may favor his candidacy after a first ballot vote for Gov. G. Men nen Williams. Like Harriman, Williams has challenged Steven son's view that the Democras should follow a course of moder ation. The entire Harriman strategy Is based on the assumption that Stevenson, now the front runner, will fail to muster a majority vote at the convention. Then Harriman could expect to inherit Stevenson's strength from popu lous Northern states. He also is considered the favorite of former President Truman, who may swing much weight at the con vention. Comments On Ike ' Harriman also said In his tele vised Interview that President Eisenhower's Illness should have no effect on his bid for a second term. Mr. Eisenhower's ailment, the 64-year-old New York gov ernor said, is "the kind of ill ness anyone can have." Harriman declined to estimate his present convention delegate strength or to criticize his two chief opponents, Stevenson and Kefauver. In another political develop ment Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) mentioned a few possi ble Democratic vice presidential nominees during a television in terview, ABC's "College Press Conference." Neuberger named Sens. John F. Kennedy (Mass), Albert Gore (Tenn), Kefauver, and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn) as possibilities for second place on the Democratic ticket. The Family Council Editor Note: Ths Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, a newspaper editor, a women's pafje editor and two newspaper writers. TheM consult .with eiernymen of all laluu and denominations. All letters are held In complete confidence. Mrs. R. W. I refuse to go to court. Bill Mother is greatly to blame. Mrs. R .W. My husband has left me after 40 years of married life and he accuses me of having turned our three children against him. From the very beginning, my husband has gambled, but at first it was only a few dollars a week. During the last few years, how ever, my husband has contri buted almost nothing to our home, but has spent all his eve nings playing cards in a gamb ling house. Because of his addiction, I was dependent on my children for financial help. Our needs were not great and they never failed to bring their contributions each week. It always pained me to feel they were depriving them selves because of my husband's weakness, but, I long ago gave up any hope of breaking him from his habit. A few weeks ago, my husband must have had an especially bad run with the cards. He came home one day and insisted that I give him the household money that the children had contribut ed. The children found out about it and they tipped off the police to the gambling place, with the result thst my husband was ar rested along with others. Now I have lost him, but my chil. dren insist that I should have brought him to court for non support. This I cannot bring myself to do. Bill Our mother is as much to blame as our father, because she has put up with too much. Our father has a job and is earn ing enough to support our moth er and provide for their old age handsomely. But he not only fails to do so, he even steals the money we contribute. He managed to resist his hab it for years to the extent of rais ing us as children when he had no alternative, but mother re fuses to realize that she is to blame now by giving him an alternative, at our expense. We do not mind doing things for our parents, but we don't want to continue supporting a gambling house. We are serious ly thinking of withdrawing our support unless mother takes ac tion. The Council: Mrs. R. W. is definitely unfair to her chil. dren. She should not confront them with a choice of supporting gambling and withdrawing their support from her. She should take their advice and serve no tice on her husband, that, unless he provides a reasonable amount of money for their home, she will go to court. The. trouble here is that not only is the husband surrender ing to his weakness, but the wife is also doing so. If she puts up a fight she will not only free her children of an unfair bur den, but she may also help her husband to overcome his addic tion, much as he is disposed to cling to it. The fact that the children have been loyal and have cheerfully made sacrifices should not be held against them now. They are right and reasonable in re belling against their father's con duct and their mother's supine ness. v (Copyright 1956. General Features Corp.) The northwest regions of Aus tralia produce the warmest weather, while the coolest tem peratures are to be found in the extreme southeast section. Iran has the richest single oil field in the world. Is That So? Your most important single camping investment is your tent; and there are many types avail able. If you intend to make your camp trips a pick-up-and-go af fair, then the tent should meet these two nomadic needs: it should be light, and quickly erected. For this, perhaps the old Army pup tent, without ends, makes the best overnight shelter. 3? C - a For a permanent family camp where the shelter will be set up only once, nothing is better than a standard wall tent with 2-foot walls on the sides to permit the entire enclosed space to be used. This provides ample room for beds and gear and space to-move around in. In rainy country, a small stove may be set up inside with the stove pipe led out through an asbestos ring in the top. This will allow cooking in side, provide warmth against cold rains, anr make it possible to dry out wet cl-Jthing. All mighty handy. However, for we'.-k end or fortnight camping, I would put in with an umbrella-type tent. It should have a sewed-ir floor of heavy waterproof canvas, a screened door and window. For rainy days, you can spread a flap across the front for cooking perhaps between tent and car. A happy advantage of this tent is that you can give the in terior a shot with a DDT bomb shortly before you go to bed and then sleep in absolute freedom from all creeping, crawling, bit ing, and stinging things. Buy Tent in Advance Buy your tent well in advance of your trip. Why? Because you will want to experiment in setting it up properly. Believe me, in the hands of an amateur even the simplest tent can be come a fractious monster. Better try it out week ends in your dwn backyard because every bit of experience will be invaluable when you hit the outdoors. You'll soon know when your tent is pitched correctly (others of course do, too, and it bespeaks your woodsmanship). A well setup tent will have a trim ap pearance, with the canvas stretched taut, and with a maxi mum of head room and floor space for whatever type of tent V PJGENE BURNS Rjngar-Naturalist it Is. Incorrectly pitched, It will have an awkward look, seeming too wide or too high or too nar row, and the canvas will be flap pint; and wrinkling in places. Before pitching your tent, I'd suggest tnat you work over the to-be-tented area carefully. Get down on your prayer bones and go over every square inch. Re move all stones, twigs and roots. You'd be surprised how a tiny pebble under your back can take on the dimensions of a boulder by morning. To erect your tent, first stake down the corners of the tent. Practice alone will show you how far apart to place the stakes. Then raise the pole or poles. Raised, you may wish to rear range the corner pegs so that the tent will be trim. In high country, summer show ers are not unusual. So be sure your campsite is well drained. As an added precaution, dig a ditch directly under the upper wall of the tent before the sky even puckers up for a rain so that when . the rain does come the water will run off the tent as well as carry away from around the tent. Few Basic Rules And now for a few basic rules. Before leaving home, check your tent to see there are no holes and that your ropes are strong, so they will not give way in a storm. Once set up, keep your canvas stretched. Stretched, it will not only shed water better but also stand severe winds. Place your tent so the en trance faces away from the pre vailing winds or storms. Should the wind get into the front, the tent may go down and will per haps be badly torn. In a rain storm, brother, that's not good. Use stakes that are large enough never underestimate the pow er of the storm. Do not build your campfire too large or too near your tent when dry it is inflammable. And use wood that does not throw sparks. For this, bi:A, poplar, white pine and jack yine are good. Avoid spruce and cedar. When you break camp and it will always be reluctantly, I hope pull up all your stakes and stack them neatly since per haps you can use them again. Be sure your tent is dry before you fold it along the seams where it is strongest. Should the tent have a water-repellent double-duty floor, fold it so that the floor is on the outside. That done, fill in the ditches and mound the dirt two or three inches above ground level. Re move all signs of your having camped there. In brief, leave Monday, June 11.' 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THHEa, 1,100 Received U0 Degrees Yesterday Eugene (U.R) A group of more than 1,100 students re ceived degrees at the Univer sity's 79th annual commence ment program. Dean Douglas Horton of Har vard university's school of divin ity, the featured speaker at the afternoon program, warned grad uating students not to allow their knowledge to narrow down in the future years. He said that some graduating students consider . commence ment as the high point of their intellectual careers, then slip into mediocrity. your campsite in a better condi tion than you found it. That's the final, unmistakable touch of the good woodsrr.in. (Copyright, 1956. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangements with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! c-c Medford Mail Tri bune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Steel Production Nears New Record Cleveland, O U.R) A new production record for the steel industry appears certain in 1956, according to Steel Magazine, de spite threats of a nationwide steel strike and an expected third quarter decline in mill op erations. The publication predicted a record output of at least 122 mil lion tons.. Current demand has lost some of its force. Steel said, but the letup has not reflected in any slackening of steelmaklng oper ations. National production rates have held steady at 96.5 for four con secutive weeks, and would be just under the all-time high set last March, except for the Bir mingham steel strike. Weekly production has aver aged about 2,375,000 net tons better than the weekly average in any month last year, except for a two week period in the 1955 fourth quarter. Owner Solves Repair Problem; Blows It Up Poitiers, France (U.R) Louis Vuillenier's 91-year-old, 32-room chateau was gradually falling apart. Vuillenier had neither the money to repair it nor to pay the rapidly-mounting tax bill. Police said today the owner finally solved his problem with one quick stroke. He placed 130 sticks of dynamite under the big house and blew it up. Alaska has more unreserved public domain than all of the 48 states combined, U. S. survey figures show. DAD'S O DAY IS SUNDAY JUNE 17th Remember all Dads who are FATHER 7 GRANDFATHER k V HUSBAND BROTHER UNCLE SON See our setecKom of M CjvjLULvvaya. i mania. mbihJ COMING! "Fashions In Food Prizes O Gifts O Refreshments Four Leaf Clover Days PARTY! en (nvmo THo) granges? fUTfflx. V 11 mam to W 03! M RMS
