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Matter of DOWN ON THE FARM BY STEWART ALSOP Keokuk County, Iowa Estes Kefauver could beat Dwight D Eisenhower handily in this typi cal Iowa farm county. Adlai Stevenson probably couldn't. But the shift of the formers against the President is perfect ly real, and the E i s e n hower campaign s t r a t e g ists ought to do some hard thinking and hard worrying about it. These large conclusions spring Trom an ad mittedly small but nevertheless fascinating experience two long days of door-to-door inter viewing of farmers in Iowa's Keokuk county and neighboring Muscatine county, with one of the best of professional pollsters, Louis Harris, as guide and men tor. Harris chose Keokuk and Mus catine counties because they vote the way Iowa votes. The two counties came within one per centage point, for example, of repeating Iowa's 67 per cent to Jo per cent vote for Eisenhower over Stevenson in 1952. For the statistically - minded, our two days of polling showed the fol lowing heavy drop in pro-Eisenhower sentiments Eisenhower 47 per cent; Stev enson 35 per cent; Don't Know 18 per cent. Eisenhower 40 per cent; Ke fauver 48 per cent; Don't Know 12 per cent. It is silly, of course, to base confident conclusions on a cou ple of days of interviewing (al though the coverage of a small area was In fact considerably heavier than In most polls). And yet the experience of talking at length and consecutively to nearly half a hundred Iowa farmers left certain very strong Impressions, which seem worth recording . . . . Tn the first place, this reporter went to Iowa with the strong suspicion that the much-advertis ed disaffection of the Middle Western farmers was mostly Democratic wishful thinking. It is not. Many of the fanners we talked to enough of them to make a big political difference MORE FUN ? Vacation Tours ' to ;UFW YDDIf riTVs iHrMi IS days. 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Not this Time." The Eisenhower magic (which this reporter found operating with remarkable power on a previous pulse-feeling expedition with Harris) operates only dimly and faithfully in these parts. Some farmers", of course, deeply admire the President ("He kept us all together when he were go ing apart," one kind-faced old farmer said thoughtfully). No one dislikes the President. But there is surprisingly little of the personal affection for him which is found elsewhere. ever once did a farmer call him "Ike" it was always "Eisenhower," plain and blunt. One man spoke for others among the disaffected, when he said, "I don't blame Eisenhower. He just does what they tell him to do." "They" are the faceless ones who are raising wages and pro fits while the farmer gets less for .what he sells and pays more for what he buys. Hardly a farm er knew anything much abouth the Suez) crisis. But hardly a farmer did not know that the price of steel and the wages of steel workers were going up again. In this area, in short, the Re publicans, including President Eisenhower, are in trouble the experienced Harris says that the switch away from Eisenhower is "as heavy as any I've ever run into." A good many switchers gave the President's health as their reason for changing. But both Harris and this reporter had the same impression that the President s health was often less a reason than an excuse. Ei senhower's illness make it re spectable for a respectable Iowa farmer to vote against him. ... - The Democrats thus have an ex traordinary rjolitiral nnrjor- tunity to exploit- just as Harry Truman did in 1948. But, as a practical matter, they are proba bly incapable of exploiting it. Estes Kefauver is amazingly well-liked among the farmers of Keokuk and Mascatine a number of them, when they heard of his withdrawal, ex pressed obviously heart-felt re gret, and b! imed "the manipula tors." But Adlai Stevenson is not at all well-liked, even by those who like Eisenhower least. "I just don't like the sound of him or the looks of him," one man said. A young farmer in a tatter ed shirt, an intelligent man him self, remarked oddly: "Some times that Stevenson sounds so bright he's kind of nauseating." Even those who planned to switch to Stevenson did so re luctantly "Might as well vote for Stevenson can't do any worse." This dislike of Steven son and it is an active dislike, not just indifference is as real as the disaffection towards Eisen hower. But if Stevenson, as the now almost inevitable Democratic candidate, can somehow over come it, if he can somehow man age to communicate warmth and sympathy and simpleness, it be gins to seem just conceivable that the 1956 election may not be quite the tedious- foregone conclusion it has seemed till now. 1936 New York Herald Trtbnne, Inc. SAFETY FIRST Your account is insured to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. ADEQUATE RETURN - Our current dividend is at the rate of 3 per annum. INVEST NOW Secure your own future with savings. FIRST FEDERAL i& Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly R. F. Kyle, President In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS Farm problem stuff: The department of commerce says the annual rate of farm earnings fell almost half a billion dollars in June, as compared with the rate at the end of May. It adds that agricultural earn ings for the first half of this year were well under the com parable figures for 1955. Meanwhile The commerce department says TOTAL U. S. PERSONAL IN COME for June was at a record annual rate of 324J4 billion dol lars. That was 1V4 billion dollars more than in May, which was the previous record month. For the first six months of 1956 personal income in the U. S. was at the annual rate of 320 bil lion dollars, or about 21 billion dollars more than for thecorres- ponding period of 1955. nnHAT is to say: -1- At this present moment in nistory, American farmers are earning less and less while other Americans are earning more and more. That's why the farm problem is regarded by the politicians as having possibilities. Going on with the farm prob lem, let's turn now to Charles Shumai, president of the Ameri can i arm Bureau Federation. He tells the AFB's Northeast sum mer conference now in session at the University of Vermont that the farmer's real problem lies in the cost of products he USES, and in marketing costs rather than farm prices. He adds: "Our tendency in the last few years has been to look to Wash ington for solutions to our prob lems. But less than 20 per cent of the decline in national farm income was due to INCOME DE CREASES. Eighty per cent was due to INCREASES IN COST. "The farmer's solution to re duce costs must be to eliminate much of the labor from market ing and processing." VlfHAT he is saying, of course, " is that the real bite in the farmer's trouble lies in the fact that while prices of what the farmer has to sell have been go ing steadily down prices of what the farmer has to buy have been going steadily up. But he goes farther than that. He is tellinff us that not onlv has the farmer been whipsawed be tween falling prices for what he has to sell and rising, prices for what he has to buy. In addition, he is feeling the bite of modern food processing, which is an im mense labor saver for the house wife but WIDENS THE SPREAD between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays for food. Modern food packaging light ens kitchen drudgery. It speeds up and therefore tends to cheapen food handling. It must be added, I think, that it also tends to increase food consump tion. But, as Farm Bureau Presi dent Sh'uman says, it undoubted ly increases the spread between the price the farmer gets for the food he produces and the price the consumer pays for it. Just how that problem is to be solved, no one is yet prepared to say and it should be noted that while President Shuman calls attention to the problem he doesn't offer a specific solution for it. But I think it will be generally INVEST WITH CONFIDENCE AT FIRST FEDERAL GOLD HILL 50th Anniversary Observed By MRS. SAM ELLIOT Gold Hill Raymond Richard Wakeman and- Alice Harriet Wakeman celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversary, Wednes day, July 28, at- their home on Kane creek. The wedding cake was brought from Myrtle Creek by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brill. Mrs. Brill is a sister of Mrs. Wake man. Also present were her brother, S J- Bailey of Ashland and his wife Mable; Mrs. Clara Bailey, a sister-in-law of Myrtle Creek; a neph'ew, Maurice Bailey of Ashland, and his wife, Velma; one son, Roland Wakeman of Yreka and his wife, Calneva, and three ' of their four -children, Buddy, Ricky and Cathy; another son, Lester Wakeman, of Kane Creek, and his wife, Waunevia, and two children, Steven and Leslie. Their daughter, Mary Adele Wakeman, was unable to attend because of her work in the Chico bank. They served a cafeteria lunch eon followed by a mock shot gun wedding with the ceremony performed By Maurice Bailey. Mrs. Wakeman is a native of Binghamton, N.Y. They have spent most of their life in Cali fornia and moved to Gold Hill a year ago from Red Bluff. There are quite a few Boy Scouts leaving Sunday for Camp McLoughlin. The boys leaving from Gold Hill are. Jack Jones, Johnny Elliott, Butch Harrison, Frankie Balch, Howard Misner, Arlen White, Donald Fisher, Charles Johnson, Buddy Smith Roy Beman, Ray Dusenberry and David Molloy. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kofahl are visiting their son, Colonel' Har old Kofahl, his wife and four children, Tish, Mike, Robert and Pat. The colonel and his wife are from Falls Church, Va., where he has an office in the Pentagon. Colonel Kofahl is chief of the personnel procure ment division of the Air Force. They stopped at Salt Lake City to visit Mrs. Kofahl's mother, Mrs. J. B. Petersen and at Menlo Park, Calif., to visit the colonel's sister, Mrs. J. H. McMasters, and family. Pat Ross, son of Mrs. Amy Ross, was here on leave from the Navy last week and has now left for two months training in refrigeration. When his training is finished he will rejoin his ship the Southerland in Formosa. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hoffman of Highway 99 have a house guest, Mrs. Helen Wagoner, of Leithfield, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Price Sr. and son, Johnny, have re turned from a six weeks trip through the Southeast of the United States. They went by the southern route and visited Mrs. Price's sister at San Antonio, Tex. They held a family reunion in Atlanta, Ga., at the home of Mr. Price's parents, J. A. Price. They went on to Tampa and Zepherwells, Fla. On their re turn home they went sightsee ing in Salt Lake city, Utah. The HEC had an unusual meet ing this last week It turned'out that it was for the most part a mother and daughter meeting since most of the members had for a visitor a mother or daugh ter. Guests were, Mrs. Edna Foote and daughter, Mrs. Edna Mae Foote, of Lynnwood, Calif., Mrs. Lena Laricks and her moth er, Mrs. Charity Garrington, of agreed by this time that the so lution doesn't lie in an appeal to the politicians. Magazine Ad Features Native of Valley Ed Schieffelin, a native of the Rogue river valley and fourlder of the famed Tombstone mine in Arizona, is featured in a U.S. Savings Bond advertisement in the July issue of House Beauti ful magazine, according to Miss Claire Hanley, Jacksonville. Miss Hanley said Schieffelin,, now deceased, was born on the Schieffelin donation land claim adjoining the ristorical Birdseye place west of Gold Hill. He left this valley in the 1870's or thereabout, Miss Hanley said, and found several mines in the southern section, of the western United States, acquiring a for tune into the millions of dollars. 8 Exposure Roll... REPRINTS W1) L C V PENNYWISE 323 E. flain Munsie, Ind., Mrs. Gertie Rose- crans and her daughter, Mrs. Buelah Barnett, of Albany, and Mrs. Sadie Frink Cyphers. Mrs. Cyphers is a pioneer in Sam's Valley and has recently return ed. Cecil Gabe was remembered with a Get Well Card, Mrs. Bob McDaniel was sent a sympathy card as her son Lt. H. Lockwood was killed recently in a plane crash at Fairbanks, Alaska. JACKSONVILLE Jubilee Opened Yesterday BY MRS. C. S. HOSKINS Jacksonville Today is the second day . of Jacksonville's ninth annual Gold Rush Jubilee, sponsored by the Jacksonville Lions Club. Last year during the two-day community event ap proximately 7,000 out of state visitors', guests from neighboring cities and home town people thronged the streets of Jackson ville. The custom of a yearly Jubilee began in 1948 and the first Gold Rush Queen crowned was Miss Barbara Taylor. Each year new attractions and entertainments have been added making the an nual celebration a "looked for ward too, event. Some of this year's attractions include a 4-H Club Livestock show at the high school grounds and a display of work done by the home economics group of the 4-H club being held at the old post office building. There also is an art display by the Southern Oregon Society of Artists at the new Library m the Oregon Fourth in Tree Farm Numbers Oregon with 214 tree farms now rates fourth in the nation in tree farm acreage, C. A. Gil- lett, managing . director of the American Forest Products In dustries, announced this week. . On July 1 of this year Oregon's tree farm acreage totaled 3,524,- 931. Georgia, with 3,795,743 acres, leads the nation in total acreage; Florida is second with 3,603,014 acres; Alabama third with 3,558,242 acres; Texas fifth with 3,389,881 acres; Arkansas sixth with 3,372,423 acres and Washington seventh with 3,322,- 994 acres. Certified tree farm acreage in 43 participating states now to tals 39,587,554 acres as compared with 37,838.910 acres on Jan. 1 and 35,396,564 on July 1 a year ago. Mississippi leads in the num ber of certified tree farms with 910. Texas is second with 831 and Alabama third with 663. Three more states, Vermont, Connecticut ,and New York, launched the tree farm program during the first half of this year, Gillett reported. Launching cer emonies in Indiana are planned for this month by Fores Pro ducts Industries, the national sponsor. NOISE OR MUSIC Oceanport, N. J. (U.R) Mag istrate William Ulman com plained at a borough council meeting that Sunday morning builders were "hammering me awake" every wek end. He got no sympathy from fellow coun cil members. Mayor Edward C. Wilson told the judge he should be up and about by 8 Sunday mornings. Buildings Supervisor Thomas M. Ross chimed in that the noise was "not hammering but music." Court Records Danny Eugene Gilman. no operator"! license, $5. . Donald Edward Ruffdich, no opera tor's license and excessive noise, $15. David Lawrence Espey, violation of basic rule, $10; and failure to stop at stoo light. $5. John Franklin Watson, reckless driv ing. $25. Delbert Valentino Sharp, violation of basic rule, $10. John Seymour Beynen, violation of basic rule,. S5. Charleen Gwendolyn Hewitt, viola tion of basic rule. $10. , DISTRICT COURT John Alfred Hogan, overload. $161. Arthur Richard Dionne. violation of basic rule, $25, bail forfeited. Glenn Herbert Mills, no safety chains. $15. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Jimmie M. Gleason, Crescent City. Calif., and Ruth Louise Powell. 162 North Pacific hwy.. Central Point. Sunday, August 5, 1956 CECIL AND CECILIA Miami (U.R) A lonely frus trated bridegroom-to-be nearly went wild before a crowd of 200 persons Friday when his mail order bride arrived from Aus tralia. There were sighs as love sick Cecil charged to a fence to kiss Cecilia. It was obvious the crowd thought the two camels made the loveliest couple at Crandon Park Zoo. old Brunner building on South Oregon st. A Sunday morning event of interest in connection with the Jubilee will be two special Old Time Gospel services at 10 a.m. ad at 11 a.m. Aug. 5 at the old Historial Church across from the Jacksonville Museum. The Rev. Richard Merriman of Ashland will conduct the services. Mr. and Mrs. M. Perreard and four children recently returned fom a vacation trip to visit Mrs. Perreard's mother and other re latives in New York. En route home they visited relatives in Denver, Colo. Other returning travelers this week were Mrs. Valentine Cho mel and her sister Miss Roselie Mesnage, from a five week vaca tion visiting friends in Wal halla, N. D., and in Winnepeg, Canada, and St. Boniface and Learier, Manitoba. They also visited Yellowstone park. The Rev. and Mrs. Jack Brans ford of Bay City, Oregon, former residents here, announces the birth of a new son July 28. He has been named Timothy John. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wall of Jack sonville and their daughter, Dor is, drove to Bay City last week end to visit the Bransfords. Miss Wall remained there to help Mrs. Bransford for the next three weeks. Evelyn Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Johnson, broke her arm this week in a fall at home. . Mrs. Adla Gwain recently cele brated her 80th birthday and was given a surprise birthday party by the Jacksonville Royal neighbors who presented her with an electric blanket. Her granddaughter, Mrs. Bar "Met tler, and her four great grand children drove up from Napa, Calif., and stayed for a weeks visit. Vf Unbreakable Polyethyline f DISH PI Monday Guaranteed unbreakable. Will not rust, chip, dent or mar. Has a soft flexible finish protects china, glassware and sink. Holds 1 1 qt. water. Red, yellow or blue. Size 141 in. x 1214 in. x 5 in. ' Ladies Bouffant SUPS Reg. $3.98. SAVE Nylon net, 3 tier and very full. White, pink and blue. Ladies small, medium, large. . e- J. J. NEWBERRY Co. 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