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A Nieho's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That Br HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prau Future Writer Washington (U.R) A kid in the South went to visit a buddy on a neighboring farm and ask ed "W here'i Johnny?" J o h n n y's mommy said her lad was "down in the hog house cool ing off." It wai no joke. A lot of hog houses are ,.. Krl.oi. air condition ed these days. And so are a lot of cow barns, and even side walks, according to the Air Con. ditioning and Refrigeratoin In stitute. The University of Missouri made some notes not long back and found that air-conditioned cows give about two gallons more milk a day than their sis ters suffering from the heat. A cartoon in one paper "quoted" one cow as saying to another: "What we need is bigger buck ets," meaning "Where will we put all the extra milk?" Dugouts Will Bs Cooled According to the air coolers. baseball players soon will have air-conditioned dugouts. That could cool off a few hot-headed managers, also. In some places in the South, sidewalks are air-conditioned, but that sort of thing has not yet come to humid Washington. When July and August hit this town the coolest place to hit for is the White House open five morning a week for us hot tour ' ists. The Forrestal, the new air craft carrier, has an air-conditioning unit "big enough for two big buildings." That statement would take a lot of proving, but suffice it to say that the vessel is well cooled. Gold mines in South Africa couldn't operate down deep a mile or more without air cool ing. Neither could the copper mines in Montana. Air conditioning also has something to do with the fast development of the polio vac cine. Without cooling, some of Stevenson Plans Labor Day Speech To Open Campaign Chicago U.R Adlai E. Ste venson will open his campaign for the presidency with an ad dress at a Labor Day rally in Detroit's Cadillac square, it was reported today. Sources close to Stevenson said the Democratic candidate would follow his Detroit appear ance with a speech before the American Legion in Los Ange les some time later in the week. Other talks by Stevenson were scheduled Sept. 11 at the Liberal party convention in New York and Sept. 12 at a $50 a plate fund raising dinner in Har risburg, Pa. His campaign manager, James A. Finnegan, said Stevenson would conduct a campaign us ing whistle stop train trips and airplane hops for key addresses around the nation. TV Address Slated He said Stevenson will delivei the first of six scheduled half hour television addresses Sept 13. The Democrats also have purchased 89 brief television spot announcements plugging the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket at the end of popular television programs, he said. Former President Harry S. Truman will be used "to full capacity" in the coming cam paign, Finnegan said. Finnegan also made it clear that President Eisenhower's health would be soft-pedaled as a major campaign issue. He said the "average Ameri can rebels at the thought of a man's illness becoming the focal point of a campaign." the important tests might have been delayed. Church Attendance Up The rest of the country is looking with envy to New York where a whole fleet of taxi cabs are air conditioned. A lot of churches are cooled, too. Air conditioned clergymen around the country say attend ance is up as much as 44 per cent, and that collections are considerably, too. Even Abraham Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, 111.,' is air-conditioned. Air conditioning is fine while you are sitting in front of a gadget that chills. I don't worry too much about small boys who run to the pig house to share the pleasure with the boars and the sows. All I know is, when the lit tle boys get back out under the boiling sun they will be as hot, or hotter than they wre in the sty. Me, I'd rather sweat than freeze to death in the summer. Sometimes these cooler peo ple get it too cool. A man can stand just so many summer colds-. Ike, Nixon Photos Posted at Convention San Francisco (U.R) Al though nominations aren't in yet, there are two immense pictures of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon at one end of the Cow Palace where the Republican National Con vention is being held. At the other end a large sign bearing the slogan "peace and prosperity" from 1856 to 1956 commemorates 100 years of the Republican party. Also on the i sign is a painting of a gold coin bearing the likenesses of Presi dent Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln. Oregon Accidents Claim Two Lives By UNITED PRESS Traffic accidents claimed at least two lives in Oregon over the week end and three other persons were presumed drowned in a boating accident. A 21-year-old Woodburn truck driver, Charles Bilyeu, was killed Saturday when a fuel truck he was driving plunged off the Woodburn-Molalla high way and rolled over. He was pinned in the cab of the vehicle. Mrs. Helen Frasch, 79, of Spirit Lake, Ida., died in a Pendleton hospital Saturday as a result of injuries received in a two-car crash 31 miles west of Pendleton Friday. Six other persons were injured. One person was known drowned and two others pre sumed drowned at Taft Satur day afternoon when two fishing boats capsized while trying to cross the Siletz bar on an ebb tide. Roy Smith, about 45. of Cutler City, was drowned. His teen-age son. Ron Smith, and Wendell Kuhlman, about 40. of DeLake were still missing and presumed to have drowned in the sea. Two other members of the fishing party were saved by the quick action of Russ Bailey, the owner of a boat moorage at Taft. DO NOT DISTURB Beccles, England (U.Ri T h e start of the annual regatta here was delayed by a small cabin cruiser moored in the middle of the river. An official' went out to the cruiser to ask it to move but returned redfaced. "It's a honey moon couple," he said. "They don't want to be disturbed." Death Certificate Expected for Hitler Munich. Germany (U.R) A Berchtesgarden court will issue a certificate the end of this month officially declaring Ad olf Hitler died 11 years ago, au thoritative sources said here Sat urday. Once the death certificate is issued the Berlin denazification court can proceed with its at tempt to confiscate Hitler's pro perty for the West German Republic. Father Saves Tot From Lake Drowning Oswego (U.R) A two-year-old girl was saved from drowning in Lake Oswego yesterday. Little Karen Louise Roskoski, Port land, was pulled from the water by her father, alerted by shouts from the child's uncle who was in a second-floor room of his lake front home. Clem Roskoski told police he saw from the room that his niece was floundering in the water and called to his brother, Clar ence, father of the child, who was near the lake but had not seen his daughter's difficulty. The little girl's father dived in and pulled the child ashore, according to Clackamas County Deputy Ray Bevens. Californian Swims Strait of Juan de Fuca Victoria. B. C. (U.R) Amy Hiland, Long Beach, Calif., Saturday became the first wom an to swim the frigid strait of Juan de Fuca. She swam the 18.3 miles in the 50 degree saltwater in 10 hours, 51 minutes and three seconds, the fastest time the feat was ever accomplished. Government Costs Decline Reported Washington ;;U.R The Cen sus Bureau reported today that the cost of running federal, state and local governments in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, was down almost $1 billion from ; the year before. The drop was due primarily , to a S6 billion cut in defense i spending by the federal govern-, ment, which more than offset a j 10 per cent rise in outlays by state and local governments, the report said. j Total spending in the period j ran to $109.7 billion, of which i Monday, August 20, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE S20.4 billion was spent by states. Local governments paid out S26.2 billion. The federal gov ernment's outlays for nonde fense purposes totaled SI2.4 bil lion. Defense spending in the period amounted to some S40.7 billion. On a per capita basis, govern ment cost S664 for each of the 165,271.000 persons in the coun try on July 1 last year, the bu reau said. National defense spending was S246 for each per son; and spending for all other functions was $418. Revenue collected by all lev els of government in fiscal 1955 amounted to $107.6 billion, about $1.6 billion less than the previous 12 months. Violent Storms j Leave Eight Dead j Eight persons were killed ! when a row of violent storms ; ripped across Ohio and West-; ern Pennsylvania Sunday, leav ing more than $500,000 damage. Two of the dead were counted at Sharon, Pa., where a tree toppled on. the roof of a shelter housing 80 persons at a reunion ! party. Fifty-seven of the guests i were treated for injuries. I Storms, triggered by an in vading cool front, hit hardest in Northern Ohio. Winds up to 75 miles per hour flattened power and telephone lines in the Cleve land area. The cold front sweeping down from Canada dropped tempera tures and brought rain as far south as Texas. i San Angelo, Tex., was drench ed in a five-inch rainfall while rains of more than two inches fell over the Texas Panhandle, i North and Northwest Texas. i BAL Floor Model and Demonstrator Sta rts TO DAY ...SUN DAY ! Everything in the store goes? Savings on some models over 300 J. H.'Lusk Piano Co 333 South Riverside OPEN EVERY DAY 'TIL 9:00 P.M. Family of Five Dies In Auto Collision Camden. S. C. (U.R) A family of five from North Olm stead, Ohio, died when their automobile smashed into a bridge abutment Sunday and burst into flames. Police identified the dead as Robert Gray, his wife Betty, and their three children. Sue, 6; Gary 8; and Douglas 13; all of North Olmstead. The state highway patrol said Mrs. Gray, driving at the time, apparently fell asleep. She was thrown clear of the car, patrol men said, but the others died in the wreckage. A passing motor ist found them after the fire had burned itself out. Patrolmen learned after trac ing the license plates that the family was traveling to Ft. Lauderdale. Fla., to visit Mrs. Gray's mother. Pilot Bails Out Of Damaged Plane Salem (U.R) A Naval re serve pilot bailed out of his flam ing Navy AD-5 attack bomber just south of Salem Saturday night, minutes before the crip pled craft crashed about a mile from the city. State Police identified the pi lot as Lt. Jg. Donald John Play ans, 34, Portland. Playans bailed out of the plane and landed in the back yard of a nursing home about one mile south of here. He was given first aid at the home and transferred to Salem General hospital. His injuries were reported to be not serious. Officers said the plane crash ed into an open field south of the city but tore down power lines and damaged a shed when it plunged to earth. Dead line Sunday Classified U at I noon Saturday; 10 am Monday lor Monday: other daya 5 30 previous day Swimming Pools 3 to 5 Week Completion The Nation's Finest Your Local Pool Co. Northwest Swimming Pool Co. 712 S. Grape St. Phone 3-4340 Medford, Ore. Eve. 3-5664 . . 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