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
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were bitter about the Eisenhow
er administration.
My notebook is crammed with
examples of such bitterness, but
one quotation will do for the
rest. A youngish man with an
unhappy face and faded blue
eys, standing with one foot on a
hog trough: Sometimes I won
der of they've got some Com
munists working in there Ben
son making that statement where
the litle farmer wasn t import
ant, and that. Sure I voted for
Eisenhower. 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Three Boys Arrested
For Part in Theft .
' A 15-year-old boy and two
14-year-olds, all of Medford,
were turned over to juvenile
authorities after their arrest
Wednesday in connection with
theft of items belonging to L. G.
Frick, 1654 Thomas rd, and John
Brewold, 110 Renault ave., the
sheriff's office reported Satur
day. Frick reported to the sher
iffs office the theft on July 1
of an air cooled one-half horse
power motor taken from a trac
tor belonging to him. He said
the motor was valued at $64.
Brewold reported the theft
sometime between the night of
July 22 and morning of July
23 of several items at the loca
tion where he is building a house
near the Griffin Creek school.
The items included two scooter
wheels, sun glasses, screwdriv
ers, plyers and a thermos jug.
The three youths confessed
the thefts and were to appear
with their parents before juve
nile authorities Friday.
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