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TO URTZZK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Democratic Catholic for Washington (U.P.i Demo cratic party strategist are de bating whether the time is ripe to break a 28-year-old taboo against nominating a Catholic. Proceeding on the assumption that Adla! E. Stevenson will be nominated for president at next week's national convention at Chicago, some highly-placed Democrats believe a Catholic vice presidential candidate might be just what the 1956 ticket needs. Sen. John 7. Kennedy (D Mass.)and Mayor Robert F. Wag ner of New York are Catholics frequently mentioned as strong contenders for the vice presi dential nomination. Whatever the outcome, the fact that Democratic leaders are seriously canvassing the field of potential Catholic nominees rep resents a significant change in political thinking. Religion Was Major Issue No Catholic has been nomin ated for national office in the United States, by either major party, since Al Smith was de feated in the bitterly-fought 1928 election campaign. Smith's Catholic religion was a major issue in that campaign, particu larly in the heavy Protestant and traditionally Democratic South. His Republican oppon ent, Herbert Hoover, carried sev eral southern states in sweeping to victory. It is noteworthy that some southern senators are among the Democrats who are now sympa thetic to the idea of nominating For Your Listening Pleasure . . . ROY EVERSON at the Piano! MON DESIR DINING INN -Near Central Point Ymi'll ntoy th delicious foods . . . tht delightful atmosphere . . . the warm hospitality at MON DESIR . . . Phon NOrmandy 4-2513 for rostrvations. torsi Ms hjtM$- STRAINED Fruits & Vegetables 12 rj-ei. cans Featvred Mow At Strategists Debate Vice President a Catholic vice presidential can didate. In their private discussions on the eve of the convention, these Democrats give weight to three arguments: , 1. Stevenson's divorce hurt him politically in 1952, especial ly among Catholic voters. A Catholic running-mate would be a good antidote. 2. The U. S. Catholic popula tion has increased 37.5 per cent since 1945 and now totals more than 33.500,000 men, women and children. It can be assumed that at least one third of these are adult registered voters. While no informed observer be lieves that American Catholics vote as a solid bloc the exist ence of any group of more than 11.000,000 voters with a pre sumed common loyalty is a pow erful temptation to politicians. Bias Declines 3. Anti-Catholic bias in the South appears to have declined sharply since 1928. This is the observation of both Catholic and Protestant churchmen and it is generally supported by the soundings of politicians and pro fessional pollsters. Although the South is still a predominantly Protestant region, the number of Catholics in 17 southern and border states increased from 2,- 778.381 in 1945 to 4,157,512 in 1955. Against these arguments Dem ocratic strategists are weighing the still-vivid memories of the 1928 campaign. They remember how Smith was charged, in pri vate whispers and finally in pub- For Famoms BABY FOODS ft i., .. . Av 8k JUNIOR Fruits & Vegetables $1.09 2VA-9I. 1 cans JOm a fl Friday. August Id. 1958 Iic speeches, with being "sub- servient to Rome." Already confronted with the problem of maintaining party harmony in the face of racial an tagonisms stirred up by the school integration dispute, many Democrats may be reluctant, when the chips are down' at Chi cago next week, to take a chance on creating a "religious issue" too. McKay Cites Morse's Desertion of Party Oswego, Ore. (U.R) Douglas McKay said in a speech here last night that his Democratic oppo nent. Sen. Wayne Morse, "has finally admitted that his deser tion of the Republican party was not principle above politics." McKay said it was "a matter of putting personal pique and dis appointment above principle." . McKay quoted a published re port which said "Morse said he made his decision to pull out of the Republican party after the Oregon Republican delegation to the 1952 convention voted not to place him on any of the con vention committees." Said Mc Kay: "That statement contrasts strongly with the -New York Times story in 1954 which stated that 'Morse said President Eisen hower was a slave to big busi ness and political expediency, and would do anything to win an election. For that reason, he said, he had to quit the Republi can party'." 50 MARRIAGE PROSPECTS Houston, Tex. (U.R) Vida Hutto, who wanted a husband so badly she advertised for one in a newspaper, said today she has lost eight pounds in addition to her job. But things aren't all bad, according to the pretty, brown-eyed, 22-year-old stenog rapher. She has been contacted by 50 "interesting" prospects, one from as far away as Fin land, whom, she says, she would like to meet. irtmds Like . c Sfassen Support May Backfire Jefferson City, Mo. (U.R) There were indications today that Elroy W. Bromwhich, Mis souri's Republican national com mitteeman who endorsed openly a national dump Nixon cam paign, might wind up as the cen tral figure in a dump Bromwich movement. Efforts will be made at pre- convention caucus in San Fran cisco Aug. 19 to get Bromwich to step down as chairman of Missouri's 32-member delega tion, a party spokesman, who declined the use of his name, said. State GOP headquarters in Jefferson City said it has been deluged with calls from dele gates and party members who were unhappy over statements released by Bromwich in Wash ington and St. Louis. In the statements, Bromwich said there was "much evidence that a majority of the people want a change in the vice presi dential nomination." Perry Compton, Republican state chairman and an open sup porter of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, denied flatly that what Bromwich said was true CBS Joins Protest On Newsmen Ban Washington (U.R) The Co lumbia Broadcasting System joined in the mounting protest today against the State Depart ment's ban on a visit to Commu nist China by U. S. newsmen. Theodore F. Koop, director of CBS Washington news and pub lic affairs, said such a visit "would preserve our traditional freedom to gather and distribute news, and would prevent any suggestion that the government was trying to control the move ments of American reporters." In a letter to Secretary of State John Foste Dulles, Koop said "accurate reports from trusted American newsmen would be superior to the propa ganda material" now being put out by Radio Peiping and other news channels. In Djakarta, Indonesia, the in dependent English Daily Times of Indonesia criticized the State Department's action, saying "the United States has delivered a cruel blow to the freedom of the press." Morse Calls McKay 'Johnny Come Lately' Myrtle Creek, Ore. (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse last night called Douglas McKay, his Re publican opponent, a "Johnny-come-lately liberal" who is "re sorting to political expediency to cover up his sorry record." Morse said McKay had develp ed "a sudden interest" in federal aid to education since filing to run for the senate. He charged that in 1952 and 1954 McKay was supporting Republican can didates who are opponents to federal aid to education. Morse spoke to mill workers at a breakfast in Wolf Creek this morning and planned appear ances in Jackson county today with a major talk at the fair grounds in Grants Pass this eve ning. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK SON COUNTY PROBATE DEPARTMENT In the Matter of the Estate of Walter Hueners. deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I have been appointed Administratrix of the above estate by an order made therein on July 18. 1956; all creditor! having claims against said deceased are hereby notified to present the same, dulv verified and with proper vouchers attached, to me at the office of Roberta. Kellinjrton & Branchfield. 201-5 U.S. National Bank BldR.. Med ford. OreRon. within six months from the date of this notice. , . , Dated at Mcdford, Oregon, this 20th day of July, 1956. Mae Jean Huenera Administratrix NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT AND REPORT No. 9643 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON PROBATE DEPARTMENT In the. Matter of the Estate of LEE F. CONNER. Deceased Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed her final ac count and report in the above entitled estate and by an order ol the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Jackson. Probate Depart ment, the hearing upon the same has teen set for the 7th day of September. 1956. in the Circuit Court Room of the Jackson County Court House in Med ford, Oregon, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock a.m. All persons having objection there to are notified to present the same on or before such time. Date of first publication of this notice is August 3rd. 1956. Mamie Mae Conner Mamie Mae "Conner. Administratrix "of the Estate of Lee F. Conner. Deceased. McAllister, Duncan Brophy Attorneys for Administratrix NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUXTY OF JACKSON PROBATE DEPARTMENT Tn the Matter of the EsUte of MARGARET MARTHA HAMILTON, Deceased Notice is hereby (riven that I. the undersigned, by an Order of the above Court duly made and entered on Aug ust I. 1956. was appointed Executor of the above-named estate, and that I have duly qualified as such Execu tor. AN persons having 'claims against said estate are hereby notified to pre sent the same, with proper vouchers, to me at the office of my attorneys. Van Dyke & Dellenback. No. 8 Goldy Building. Medford. Oregon, within six months from the date of first publica tion of this notice. Dated and first published August 3rd. 1956. Homer Jeffries Van Dyke & Dellenback Attorneys for Executor Stassen Says Too Extreme' Campaigning By Nixon Prompted Efforts at Replacement Washington U.R Harold E. Stassen said today that re- ports of Vice President Richard M. Nixon's "too extreme" cam- paigning in the 19a4 congres- sional elections influenced him to start his campaign to deprive Nixon of renomination. Stassen, on leave as President Eisenhower's disarmament advi ser while he directs the dump Nixon drive, said he had been told that Nixon's campaigning "had not helped" Republicans because it was "of too extreme a nature." The reports, he said, came from Eisenhower support ers who are worried about the effects of renominating Nixon for vice president. Stassen said he had been forced "with a heavy heart" to recognize that Nixon's contro versial position also would hurt Hodge May Enter Guilty Plea, Ask Prompt Sentence Springfield, 111. U.R) De posed State Auditor Orville Hodge may plead guilty today and ask for an immediate jail sentence. But State's Attorney George Coutrakon said he would oppose any such move. Coutrakon said he wants a "stiff sentence" for Hodge, ac cused of conducting a million dollar raid on the state treasury. In Chicago Thursday, Hodge, his wife and his son pledged to turn over S520.000 worth of as sets in partial restitution for his fraud. Illinois Attorney General La tham Castle disclosed the olfer of payment and commented that it would "pretty well clean Hodge out." Coutrakon said Hodge's law yer, Arthur M. Fitzgerald, came to him late Thursday and aked about the minimum sentence the disgraced politician might get. Fitzgerald then told Coutra kon that Hodge might go before Circuit Judge L. E. Willhite to day and change his plea of guilty. He already has pleaded inno cent to 46 indictments charging forgery, confidence game and embezzlement through phony checks issued by his office dur ing his 3'2 years as state audi tor. If convicted on all 46, he could be sentenced to a maxi mum of 690 years. Hodge also faces similar fed eral indictments to which he has pleaded innocent. Sfassen's Campaign 'Like Gasless Plane' San Francisco (U.R) Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) says Harold S t a s s e n's campaign against Vice President Richard M. Nixon was "like an airplane that had no gas." Dirksen said Thursday it was a "boomlet that never got off the ground. No one took it seri ously except Harold, and it's gone with the wind now." Dirksen arrived here for a few days' rest before the GOP Platform Committee opens hear ings next Wednesday. The Re publican National Convention opens Aug. 20. Asked if Stassen had per manently wrecked his political future, Dirksen replied, "It cer tainly did not help him, and that's a rank understatement." He said the 60-man Illinois dele gation of which he is chairman is 100 per cent behind Nixon. JUMBO MILK SHAKES JACK'S DRIVE-UP FRIED CHICKEN H Fried Chicken M Nest of in. Golden French Fries.. IT'S RODEO IT'S HERE! A FREE ROOT BEER with the "GREAT DANE" DOG this Fri. Big "T" Steak Sandwich 39c "T" for Tasfy - "T" for Tender Open 7 JACK'S DRIVE-UP. SUNDAES 15c & 20c i Republicans in the forthcoming presidential election campaign. 'Soft on Communism' During the 1954 election cam paign Nixon pressed the theme that Democrats were "soft oh Communism." Stassen made the statement in an "open letter" to every delegate to the Republican Na tional convention and every GOP governor, senator, and con gressman. He said he would send a copy of the letter to Nixon. Stassen said in his seven-page letter that he "could not in good conscience remain silent" after getting the reports of Nixon's vulnerability. Stassen, for the first time de tailing why he had launched his attempt to replace Nixon with Gov. Christian Herter of Mas sachusetts as vice presidential nominee, said that Eisenhower supporters told him that Nixon "would cost many votes" in Northwestern states. Says Nixon Lost Oregon He said these Republicans blamed Nixon's "too extreme" campaigning in Oregon in 1954 Italian Line Files $25,000,000 Claim New York U.R The Italian Line filed a S25, 000,000 claim against the Swedish American Line today in federal district court for the loss of the luxury liner Andrea Doria. ' The Swedish American liner Stockholm collided with the An drea Doria off Nantucket July 25. Both lines have blamed the other for the tragedy which re sulted in the sinking of the 829,000,000 Italian liner and the loss of 50 lives, five aboard the Stockholm. The Italian Line petitioned the court to deny a Swedish American Line action which would place the blame for the collision on the Andrea Doria. The Italian Line has charged that the Stockholm veered into the Andrea Doria. The petition asked that the Swedish American Line be or dered to pay for deaths, injuries and losses resulting from the sinking of the Andrea Doria in water too deep for salvage. It charged that the Stockholm had failed to keep a good look out, failed to make effective use of its radar, was moving at im moderate speed in a heavy fog, failed to sound proper warning signals, and kept to a forward course instead of reversing its engines when danger of collision was apparent. Listing Groups Meet In Talent This Week Members of the Medford Mul tiple Listing Service, Inc., and the Ashland Multiple Listing bureau discussed cooperation in real estate sale to the mutural benefit of both groups at a meeting at the Tally-Ho in Tal ent this week. The groups felt that in view of millions of dollars being in vested in construction in the Medford-Ashland basin . the in terests of the two centers will tend to merge in the future and to service the need the com bined efforts of both groups would be available. Among the projects mentioned are the Talent Irrigation project. Rogue Valley Memorial hospital and highway projects, which in dicated the growth of the area, members said. They added the combined . listing services can play an important part in fa cilitating real estate transactions. 20c JUMBO MILK Shrimp & Fries. .59c Fish & Fries 49c W 7 W TIME and WE'VE "TUC sDCAT King of the Days a Week to Serve You 'BECAUSE OF WINDOW SUNDAES 15c & 20c part for the defeat of Sen. Guy Cordon, a Republican, by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, a Democrat, that year. Stassen said he was told that Nixon would alienate the labor vote in the coming election and that this could cost the Republi cans the states of Oregon and Washington. - Stassen made the letter public at his headquarters. He told re porters at the same time that he was "extremely encouraged" by the prospect of success in his campaign against Nixon. He said the "attitude" of GOP convention delegation chairmen and Republican governors has "changed markedly" about re nominationg Nixon since Stas sen opened his attack on the vice president July 23. Mail Mushrooming Stassen said more and more Republicans are swinging to his position on Nixon and that funds to run his campaign are coming in to his headquarters "satisfac torily." He said his mail has mushroomed into thousands of letters and many contain checks. Stassen also announced that John H. Thorpe, secretary-treasurer of the Michigan Federation of Labor and delegate at large to the Republican National con vention, has endorsed Stassen's dump Nixon campaign. Thorpe sent Stassen a message saying Railroads Ask Hike In Passenger Fares Washington (U.R) A group of eight Eastern railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Com mission today for permission to raise passenger fares to meet ing operating losses. Six of the railroads asked for a 5 per cent boost in coach fares and a 45 per cent increase in first class passenger fares. The other two railroads asked only for the higher coach rates, which would not effect commutation fares. . . The nation's railroads esti mate they lost about $640,000, 000 last year on passenger serv ice. Railroads asking for both in creases were the Chesapeake and Ohio, the New York Cen tral, the Norfolk and Western, the Pennsylvania-Reading Seal shore Lines, and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The carriers that asked only for the coach increase were the Lehigh Valley and the Reading Railroads. 'PATIENTS' FORSAKEH Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) Gen. eral Hospital transferred all but two patients Thursday to the new University of Tennessee Memorial Hospital. A mother cat, the hospital's last obstetrical case, hid two of her three-kitten litter. The kittens could' not be found at moving time. - Dead line Sunaay Classified 1m at noon Saturday: 10 sum Monday tor Alonday. other days 5:30 previous day. GENUINE CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS! Candle Rooml Medford Hotel to 1 A.M. Daily-' 4 to 11 P.M. Sunday SHAKES 20c Medford's largest 19c Hamburger Palace Out North Riverside - "THE PLACE TO Dipped in Batter Baked in Bun Tummy Tom Turn CORRALED A NEW SPECIAL! lAME Dogs' .a Purchase of a - Sat. & Sun. OUR SPECIAL Bar-B-Q Beef or Pork Sandwich... 49c - Fast Service Plenty of Parking SERVICE YOU PAY LESS' SUNDAES 15c A 20c Herter would be "an improve ment" over Nixon but that Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California would be even "better." Aluminum Crews Return To Work New York (U.R) Aluminum workers streamed back to work today under terms of a new three - year, no - strike contract which ended a nine-day strike. The agreement between the Aluminum Company of Ameri ca, and the United Steelworkera was signed here today. The Alcoa-US W agreement, similar to the recent steel strike settlement, calls for wage in creases and fringe benefits to taling 45.6 cents per hour over the three-year period. Alcoa immediately announced a cent a pound price increase in basic aluminum pig, effective today. The 4 per cent price hike placed the cost of aluminum at 25 cents a pound. Some 18,000 workers had struck against Alcoa, cutting aluminum production in half. The Reynolds Metals Co, which employs about 10,000 USW workers, was scheduled to meet with the union today in Washington. Signing of a con tract similar to the Alcoa settle ment was expected. Alcoa and Reynolds produce about 50 per cent of the nation's aluminum. The Alcoa contract provides for an 11.8 cent per hour pay raise the first year, 10.7 cents the second and 9.7 cents the third. The average alumnium workers' wage will be $2.68 an hour in 1959 under the new con tract. The pre-strike average was $2.22 an hour. Myrtle Creek Wreck Fatal to Californian Roseburg (U.R) Mrs. Sarah L. Richmond, of Los Angeles, was killed instantly four miles south of Myrtle Creek, Ore., last night when the ear in which she was riding crashed headon 'with a freight truck on Highway 99. Hospitalized at Myrtle Creek with serious but not critical in juries were her three children. Reginald, 16, driver of the car; Edward, 34, and Lorna, 13. State police said young Rich mond apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The car crossed a highway divider and hit the northbound freight truck.. Driv er .of the truck, Robert Ken worthy, Lake Grove, Calif., was not injured. The Richmond fam ily had been visiting friends in Cottage Grove, Ore. The tragedy was the second in two days Involving California motorists with freight trucks on Oregon highways. Yesterday five vacationers from the San Francisco bay area were killed in a collision with a freight truck near Grants Pass, Ore. JUMBO MILK SHAKES 20c A Short Drive MEET AND EAT" POODLE DOGS 19c 911 NORTH RIVERSIDE SUNDAES 15c ft 20c
