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FOOHTEEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. August 30. I9SS Sen Ellender 'Amazed' at What He Saw on Recent Tour of Russia New Delhi, India (U.PJ . seem to be getting softer in the Sen. Allen Ellender (D-La.) said j United States." today he was "amazed" at what After visiting Western Rus- he saw during his recent three-. sia, Ellender flew over the Ural week tour of the Soviet Union. The Louisiana senator arrived in India last week to begin his one-man investigation of tbe U. S. Information Service nil In. Mountains to Alma Ata in Cen tral Asia, where the Soviets are building a new manufacturing center. Alma Ata also is in the region ternational cooperation Admin-! where the Soviets do much test- 1st ration programs here, in Cey-. ing of nuclear weapons. How Ion and other countries of ever. Ellender said he did not Southeast Asia. j ask to see any atomic plants, al- Ellender, who also visited though he was allowed to see Russia last year, said the Rus-1 anything he asked about, sian people were working hard He said that near Alma Ata and reminded him of America's there are huge new farms which "pioneer workers." j are irrigated, as well as new The senator spent most of his i industries. time touring and seeing things he missed last year. The Soviet Union's agricultur al workers and equipment im prejed him, but he said the Rus sians are "20 years behind us" in agricultural gear. Farmers Inefficient He said that although Russia this year has a magnificent crop. it will lose 25 to 30 oer cent of it in inefficient handling Describing his trip. Ellender said he travelled by road from Moscow to Talta and visited the manufacturing center of Kharkov. "I visited man ufacturing plants, automobile plants and tractor factories." he said. "I also visited the new city of Stal ingrad. which is being built a few miles from the old city. They are going ahead with building a really fine city. The senator said he saw water turbines for dams being built, some as large as 36 feet in di ameter. He said the largest in the United States ran only 38 to 42 feet. "At Kharkov I saw some of the largest lathes I have ever seen," he said. Everyone Working Ellender added that his over all impression was one of peo ple "working, working, work ing." "I saw women carpenters and women bricklayers," he said. "It appeared that the Russians are Rubber boots will last longer and keep their original shape better if the insides are propped up with cardboard when the working and getting harder. We boots aren't being used. Postmaster Talks To Office Managers Postmaster Moore Hamilton spoke on classifications of mail and service offered under each classification at the regular 'monthly meeting of the Nation al Office Managers association in the Medford hotel Monday. John Patton, manager of the local state employment service, introduced Gordon DeCoss who is to make a survey in Jackson county of all male and female employees as to their work classifications. The survey is be ing made under the supervision of the state agency. The business machine show will be held Sept. 26, 27, and 28 at the Walker building, hours 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, it was announced by Monte Stram of Davis Transfer and Storage company. Vern Bacon, a new member, was introduced to the group by Frank Martin of Ross Lumber company. Bacon is an employee of the Medford Credit Bureau. The meeting was presided over by President Alvin M. Miller. "There was a big crop of beau tiful rye," Ellender said. "About 350,000 university students were there helping to save it it was so big. They came from Moscow and other cities in the East, and lived in tents and worked in the open fields. It reminded me of my own college days when I worked on farms during the summer." Asked whether he had flown in any new Russian jets, Ellen der said, "no." "I saw only four jets in all the time I was there,"' he said. "All my flights were in Russian DC3s. When I flew to Alma Ata only two of the eight airports I landed at had cement strips. The rest were just fields." Ellender said he found the Rus sian people very friendly and very curious. "They are hungry for news," he said. "I am going to tell (Theo dore) Streibert (head of USIS) to tear up his plans for USIS offices in London and Paris. We don't need them there. We could do more good giving news to the Russians." Social Security Coverage Explained (Editor's Note: The follow ing is one of a series of ar ticles prepared by the Social Security Administration des cribing the important changes' in the Social Security law enacted by Congress this year. According to the local Social Security office, they will af fect more than 600 women in Jackson and Joiephine coun ties, some 200" or 300 disabled persons, and an unknown but considerable number of law yers, dentists and other pro fessional people as well as farmers.) To become insured under so cial security a person must have been in work covered by the law for a specified length of time. The amount of work re quired is measured in "quarters of coverage" which, in a general way, corresponds with a calen dar quarter of work. Coverage Varies A self-employed person gets four quarters of coverage for a year in which he has $400 or more in net earnings from self employment. The usual require ments for becoming insured are Quotes From the News For Your Listening Pleasure . . . ROY EVERSON at the Piano! MON DESIR DINING INN - Near Central Point Yeu'll enjoy the deltcieue feed . . . the delightful atmosphere . . . the warm hospitality at MON DISIR . . . Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 for reservations. By UNITED PRESS Columbia, S C. Farley Smith, temporary chairman of a group of insurgent South Carolina Democrats, on an attempt to keep the state's eight electoral votes from being cast for either presi dential candidate: "We believe this will be a grass roots uprising." London A British Foreign Office spokesman on what would happen if Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to agree to a satisfactory Suez Canal solution: "A rejection by Colonel Nasser would lead to a new situation." Washington President Eisenhower in an appeal for world wide support of the American plan for international operation of the Suez Canal: "This program was conceived in an atmosphere of friendly conciliation and, in my opinion, ought to rally behind it the sup port of all the nations and peoples that believe, in the processes of international justice and conciliation." Sioux City. Iowa Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson on the verdict of the working people regarding the Republican administration: "The working people of this country have had four years to judge the promises and performance of Mr. Eisenhower, and they have now rendered their judgement. The verdict is 'no confi- dence.' " 1 Washington Press Secretary James C. Hagerty expressing ; White House reaction to the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorse- ment of Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson for president: "I'd prefer to wait for the vote of working men and women on election day and not on the vote of an executive council." Clinton. Tenn. Kerry Shattuck, 17. president of the Clinton High School student body, who presided at a student meeting on maintaining integrated classes at the school: "We didn't feel we should discuss the issue of Negroes staying in school since that is the law of the land." py JAM i. Lie AM This Evening-6 p.m. Hawthorne Park See and hear your Republican candidates for state and national offices: Governor Elmo Smith Douglas McKay Harris Ellsworth ..' Sig Uriander Carl A. Francis . and others ' . SMORGASBORD DINNER (Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and will b. served by your candidates and elected officials) ' tm ..uif .fan.mmt-mi'm Main Speaker Secretary of the . Interior FRED A. SEATON MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT Dinner tickets will be on sale this evening in Hawthorne Park (Tickets $1.50 each cover cost of food only) SOUTHERN OREGON'S FIRST BIG 1956 REPUBLICAN RALLY ADMISSION FREE Pd. Adv. Jackson Co. Republican Central Committee one quarter of coverage out of every two calendar quarters elapsing after 1950, provided there are at least six quarters of coverage. Under the amended law, a person who works con tinuously after 1953 can become insured with fewer quarters of coverage. This change in the law permits seu-emploj-ed professionals and others brought under social se curity, as' of the beginning of tnis year, to disregard their years of non-coverage in acquir ing an insured status under so cial security. ror example, ut. Jones, a self-employed dentist, is now age 63. He had never been in work covered by social security before January 1, 1956. Dr. Jones will reach 65 in 1958 two years after his self-employment first be came covered under the amend ed law. . . . If his birthday is before April 1, he will need to have a quarter of coverage in each of the eight quarters elapsing after 1955 and up to the quarter in which he reaches 65. If all these quarters are quarters of coverage, he will be insured for old-age benefits if he elects to retire at that time Birthday Factor If Dr. Jones' birthday occurs in the second calendar quarter oi tne year, he will need nine quarters of coverage before then: if he reaches 65 in the third quarter of 1958, he will need 10 quarters of coverage before that time. If his birthday is after the end of September, 11 quarters of coverage up to that time will be required. For death benefit purposes. Dr. Jones would be insured as early as. April 1957 if all six of the quarters elapsing after 1955 and through the second quarter of 1957 are quarters of coverage. tie would not then be insured for retirement benefits, as he would not yet be 65, but if he should die at that time, surviv ors payments could be made , to certain of his dependents, as he would have met the minimum, requirement of six quarters of coverage. Average. Earnings Ordinarily, benefit amounts are based on a person's average earnings in employment or self employment covered by the law after 1950. If all the time elaps ing after 1950 were used in fig uring this average, self-employed professionals newly brought under social security would have five years in which these earn ings were not covered and would count against them. The amend ed law permits the dropping of these five years. A self-employed dentist, law yer, or any other person whose work was first covered by so cial security this year, will not have his average earnings re- ! duced when he qualifies for ben ! efits because his wo'k was riot covered in the year & through 1955. Adlai Urged To Take Campaign 'Down Every Farming Side Road' Sioux City, Iowa lU.PJ Adlai Stevenson was urged yesterday to take his "grass roots" cam paign "down every side road and get the truth direct to the farm ers" in his attack on Republican farm policy. The Democratic presidential nominee received the advice at a seven-state meeting during which farm and Democratic Party leaders gave him a hand ful of brickbats to hurl at the GOP farm program. 'Broken Promises A number of farm leaders ac cused the Eisenhower adminis tration of a series of "broken promises and praised the Demo cratic farm plank as "the best mat any political party has ever had." The "goal of 100 per cent of parity income" for farmers was particularly noteworthy, Glenn Talbott, President of The North Dakota Farmer's Union, said. Other leaders urged, however, that the Stevenson Midwest cam paign must be more vigorous than in 1952. "We have never had a better chance than this year," Paul Opsahl, President of the South Dakota Farmer's Union, said. "But we have got to travel down every side road and get the truth direct to the farmers." It . appeared Stevenson was aware of this need and was map ping plans to implement it. Appearances Discussed James Finnegan, Stevenson's campaign manager, confirmed that Stevenson would appear at the National Field Days near Two Women Killed In Car-Train Crash Jefferson, Ore. (U.R) Two women were killed outright near here yesterday evening when their car was struck by a South ern Pacific passenger train at a private grade crossing. State police identified the vic tims as 53-year old Bernice Skel- ton and 80-year old Maud Wied, both of Jefferson. Officers reported that the northbound train struck the car as it turned off the Marion road onto the private road about one half mile east of here. Apparent ly the women failed to see the train as it bore down upon them, police said. Mrs. Wied was a member of one of the pioneer families of this area, her ancestors crossing the plains to settle in the Ore gon country. Her twin sitter. Myrtle, of Jefferson, survives. Also surviving are 78-year old twin sisters, Mrs. Sherman Brown and Mrs. Henry Aloert, both of Portland. Colfax. Iowa. Sept. 22. Iowa Na tional Committeeman Don Mitch ell said he discussed several other possible Iowa ?,-pearances. although plans were not yet completed. Finnegan was "fully aware" of the need for Stevenson to campaign "often" in Iowa and other Midwest states, he said. Several farm leaders aimed most of their barbs at Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. Corbin Crawford, head of the Iowa chapter of the National Farmers' Organization, accused Benson of "malfeasance in of fice" and said the farmer "is not interested in more broken prom ises" from the GOP. Kenneth Hones. President of the Wisconsin Farmer's Union, attacked Benson's handling of the beef and pork purchase pro grams. He said packers' profits had gone up just about as much as farm income from beef and pork had fallen. Benson, he. said, "transferred farmers' income to packers' pockets." Must Get Income To Farmers He said the Democrats should stress parity of income, rather than parity of price alone. . This was echoed by Opsahl, who said. "We've got to get in come to the family farm if farm ers are to stay on the land." The Democratic farm plank came in for repeated praise. Ste venson's running mate. Sen. 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Mary Teresa Gentry and Viv ian Clark Huntington filed suit in Federal District Court yester day alleging they were heirs of Phillip Murphy, one of the men who organized the bank in 1850. The Misses Gentry and Hunt ington charged that when the bank was organized, each mem ber shared equally in the assets. They claimed old members were j "frozen out," when the bank j was reorganized. j Walter McGovern, one of the attorneys handling the suit, said j his clients lay claim to a fund I estimated at $8 million, "but the j final accounting could run much higher. Weather Hampers Ml. McKinley Search Willow, Alaska (U.R) Bad weather today hampered the search for Wayne Berry, the 20-year old Prineville, Ore., hun ter lost in the bear-infested wil derness fringing the east border of Mount McKinley National park. All search planes were ground ed but at least 20 men in ground parties were combing the area where Berry was hunting when he vanished. v The ground parties were giv ing close attention to several ra vines in the region choked with shoulder-high grass and brush. These ravines are known to be the favorite haunt of Alaska bears. Berry has been missing on a sheep hunt in the area for more than a week. Two reports Tues day' that he had been found proved to be erroneous. Glass plates are submerged in Narragansett Bay at varying levels for times ranging from one week to several months and the organisms that have grown upon them are studied under the microscope and photographed. Medford Growers For dependable low-cost pest control... use these proved Du Pont fruit chemicals t Keep scab off apples and peart with Du Pont "Fermate" or, "Zerlate". Either fungicide can make your fine-finish program more profitable. Fruit gets proved protection combined with mild action. 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