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Ike's Reelection Campaign To Include Necessary Speechmaking Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower said today that his reelection campaign will in clude as much speechmaking as necessary to make his adminis tration's record and goals force fully clear to the American peo ple. He told a news conference that he ii still determined that he will not go barnstorming, and that he won't travel 52,000 miles as Social Security Aid For Women (Editor's Note: The follow ing is on of a series of articles prepared by in Social Se curity Administration describ ing in important changes in the Social Security law en acted by Congress this year. According to the local Social Security office, they will af fect more than 600 women in Jackson and Josephine coun ties, some 200 or 300 disabled persons, and an unknown but considerable number of law yers, dentists and other profes sional people as well as farm ers.) Heretofore there has been a uniform age at which payments could start for all beneficiaries other than children and wives or widows with children in their care. The age was 65. It remains 63 for male beneficiaries. The 1B56 amendments to the law, hofever, lowers the age at which women can receive benefits. Be ginning with November of this year (1956) women can start get ting payments at age 62. Same Monthly. Benefit Widows and (in case there is no surviving child or spouse en titled to benefit payments) de- Nixon Flies to Father's Bedside; Condition Worsens Washington (U.PJ Vice President Richard M. Nixon left today by plane for the bedside of his critically ill father in California. Nixon broke off his Labor day week end vacationing at Man- . toloking, N. J., Thursday night when doctors attending his 77- year-old father said he might not live more than another 48 hours. The vice president hurriedly left his vacation retreat by car without an escort and drove through much of the night to the capital. Suffering Artery Rupture His father Frank Nixon has been suffering from an ab dominal artery rupture since last week. The vice president turned his back on the Republican Nation al convention in San Francisco to fly to his father's bedside after he was stricken. But the vice president's renomination ap peared to be a tonic for the ail ing man and he rallied. The sudden improvement enabled the vice president to return to San Francisco to accept the nomina tion in person. Bally Temporary But the rally was only tem porary and the elder Nixon's condition has steadily worsened. "He appears to be nearing death," a physician told the United Press in Los Angeles. The vice president'first learned his father was failing rapidly after he had completed 18 holes of golf Thursday with his friend. Evangelist Billy Graham. Doc tors attending the elder Nixon advised his son to come to his father's bedside as soon as pos sible and indicated the father might not live more than 48 hours. Sheriff's Office Notified Of Missing Person The Jackson county sheriff's office received a telegram about 6 pjn. yesterday aslring aid in finding a "missing person by name of Joe Saunders believed to be prospecting in (the) area of Medford. Oregon." The telegram was sent by Jerry Rippcteau. Tower Hotel Courts, Dallas. Tex. East coast motorists driving to Florida now can use "upside down" maps that have Florida at the top and New England states at - the, bottom so they don't have to reverse the maps. Qomy Kansas. Cl '" ; Union Pacific's friZ5!mnv ride PORTLAND ROSE ' THE Also direct service to Boise, Dearer I . . Slit Lake and St Loois. .-.." ONLY y Fut- Luxurious. Dependable Serne. - Lcs Portliad 9:30 pjn. Dniy ' lUfJL' UNION PACIFIC jfe CH CApitoi 7-777 1 miWf he did during his 1952 campaign. But he declined to rule out the possibility that he might make at least one train ride through areas where Republican candi dates need help. Might Remove 'ic In reply to other political questions, Mr. Eisenhower told reporters: 1 1. If his political opponents Explained pendent mothers, may begin getting survivors benefit pay ments when they reach age 62. They will get the same monthly benefit that they would have started to get at age 65 under the old law. Wives of retired insured work ers and retired insured working women can, if they choose, start getting benefit payments at age 62. However, the monthly benefit amount payable to them will be somewhat less than the amounts of the benefits they would have received had they waited until age 65. Reduction Continues In case a wife or an insured working woman elects to start getting benefits before age 6o, she will continue to receive a reduced amount after she reaches that age. The longer a woman waits after reaching age 62 and before age 65 to start getting payments, the less the reduction in the amount of the monthly benefit. As stated before, how ever; once she starts getting monthly payments at a reduced rate, she cannot later qualify for the full amount. An example might be a woman who has been employed in work covered by social security long enough to become insured. As sume that her full monthly bene fit amount, based on her average earnings in covered work, is $78.00. If she waits until she reaches age 65 to retire, she will get that full amount every month from then on. But she will reach 62 in November, 1956. If sh? decides to retire then, she gets old-age payments starting with November. 80 Per Cent The f mount she will receive will be 80 per cent of the month ly amount she would receive if she waited until she reached 65. This will be $62.40 monthly in stead of $78.00 per month. If she waits until she is 63 to start getting retirement payments her benefit amount will be $67.60 monthly. Every year, and every month within a year in which she benefits up to age 65, will in crease her benefit amount slightly. The above example applies also to the wife of a retired in sured worker receiving benefits. In her case, however, the amount of the monthly benefit she would get, if she chose to claim pay ments at age 62, would be 75 per cent of what she would get if she waited until she reached age 65. Payments Larger As in the case of the woman worker, the wife's monthly pay ments will be a little larger each month she defers claiming bene fits after her 62nd birthday and before she reaches 65. However, if her retired insured husband should die at any time after she has begun to receive her re duced benefits she will begin re ceiving full widow's benefits plus the lump-sum death payment Now that the starting age for women-beneficiaries is 62 instead of 65, less time in work covered by social security may be quired in some cases for a woman worker to become insured. Gen erally, the required time is one half the time elapsing after 1950 up to the time she reaches age 62 instead of age 65, with a mini mum of at least Vi years of cov ered work. Under the amended law, a person who works con tinuously after 1955 can become insured with fewer quarters of coverage Insured status for women work ers is important not only to those now 62 or nearing that age, but also to certain survivors (de pendent children, widowers, or parents) of some women work ers who reached age 65 or died after June 30, 1954, without having enough covered work to be insured under the old law. If they had enough work to be in sured under the amended law, they or their survivors may be able to qualify for benefit payments. prefer to be known as the Demo cratic party, he feels that is their right. But he added with a laugh that he might on the spur of the moment go along with the Re publican National Committee's announced policy of removing the "ic" and calling the opposi tion the "Democrat party." 2. He has received invitations to make campaign appearances in Oregon, Washington and Ohio and has expressed interest in doing so but no final decisions have been made. 3. He doesn't know whether many labor votes will be swayed by the AFL-CIO Executive Board's endorsement of Demo cratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson. But he pointed out that the AFL and CIO separately endorsed his op ponent in 1952. Some Republicans Concerned A reporter told Mr. Eisenhow er that some Republicans across the nation have been concerned by reports that he planned to wage a "high level campaign." The newsmen said these Repub licans fear a repitition of 'the 1943 GOP "catastrophe." Mr. Eisenhower replied em phatically that he will not be guilty of any lack of candor in bringing out in his campaign every important issue as he sees it. He says he is not going to in dulge in petty name calling be cause he doesn't believe in it, but he is determined to make forcefully clear to the American people that the administration has attempted to carry out every promise it has ever made and will do so in the future. ' Clothing Reported Stolen From Vehicle Charles Bruce Murphy, tem porary resident at the San Louis hotel, has reported to Medford police that his car was burglar ized of $250 worth of clothing between 12 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Thursday while it was parked at Alabams parking lot on Front st. between Main and Tenth sts. Police reported a window of Murphy's car was broken and the door unlocked. No instru ments were found in the area that could have smashed the glass, they said. Articles reported stolen were nine trousers, one suit, 15 under shorts, 40 pairs of socks, two shaving mugs, one green foot locker and numerous papers. ISLANDS INDESCRIBABLE Richmond. Va. (U.R) City tax collector Thomas C. Arm strong will put three islands up for auction Sept. 10, but there's a slight hitch the city doesn't know where the islands are or who the owners are. Armstrong said no taxes have been paid on the islands, which exist on paper, at least, since 1940 and under law they must be sold. Use Tribune Want Ads The Low Cost Way to Sell Items You No Longer Need Oakland Man Joins Piano House Staff Arthur E. Manter has arrived from Oakland, Calif., and is now manager of the organ and piano department of Purucker's Piano House. The new department head is well known in musical circles of the East Bay region. He serv ed as manager of a piano com pany in Oakland for several years and prior to that was staff organist for radio station KMJ of the McClatchy chain. Manter will be remembered by many radio fans in the Rogue valley who listened to his program, Starlight Nocturne, carried on the station from 12 midnight to 1 a.m. continuously from 1945 to 1951. He has served as organist for the Scottish and York Rite Ma sonic bodies in San Francisco. Manter is a veteran of World War II having served with a Marine corps detachment over seas. Manter states that he plans to inaugurate an informal noon hour music time at the store and invites music lovers to visit the store during their lunch hour and listen to request selections. This will begin Tuesday. Mrs. Manter, now a secretary on the staff of the University of California, will arrive soon to join her husband. WHO IS ELVIS PRESLEY? Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) John Fell Stevenson, son of Demo cratic presidential nominee Ad lai E. Stevenson, was asked at a conference of Southern Demo crats Thursday if he licked rock-n-roll singer Elvis Presley.. "Who?" Stevenson replied. "Elvis Presley," said the re porter. "I've never met him." Stevenson Convinced Democrats Gaining Strength Over Nation Chicago OJ.R) Adlai E. Ste venson, just back from a 5,000 mile barnstorming trip which convinced him Democrats "are gaining very rapidly," huddles today with party leaders from five Midwestern states. The Democratic standard bear er will first talk to a conven tion of postal workers and then meet with party chiefs from In diana. Michigan, Missouri Ohio and Illinois. It was the fifth such parley in five days. Stevenson and his running mate, Sen. Estes Ke fauver left here Monday by air and returned from their hectic trip late Thursday night. Sees Strong Party Current Stevenson told Democrats at his last stop, Knoxville, Tenn., that he noted "a very strong Democratic current running in the land." The presidential candidate said this trend had been "gain ing very rapidly in the last six months," and was evidenced in the "enthusiasm" shown by Democrats who attended this week's pre-campaign meetings. , Washington Pension Union Held Communist Front in Cain Ruling Washington (U.R) Former Sen. Harry P. Cain, in his last act as a member of the Sub versive Activities Control Board, today held that the-Washington State pension union is a Com munist front. The Washington Republican, who steps down from the SACB Saturday, recommended that the full board rule that the group is manipulated by Moscow and order it to register with the at torney general. Cain's ruling closed a strange political drama highlighted by two turnabouts first by Cain himself and then by Attorney General Herbert Brbwnell Jr. During his Senate term, Cain was regarded as an ultra-conservative, and as such, was chal lenged by the pension union on the ground that he would not give it a fair hearing. Brownell rushed to Cain's de fense, and the SACB threw out the union's . motion that Cain be disqualified. Turns - Security Critic ' But shortly after, Cain turned into a sharp and vocal critic of the workings of the administra tion's loyalty-security program. For this, he aroused the enmity of power administration figures, including Brownell, and he was not reappointed to the SACB by the President. According to Cain, he received "unshirted hell" from Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams for his criticisms of the security program. While later Hearings on the pension union still were in pro gress in Seattle, the attorney Stevenson said he believed "the trend will prevail" and he will win in November. But he added, "We still have a lot to do." When Stevenson arrived at Midway airport here, he was asked about a current political problem in his home state re placing Herbert F. Paschen as candidate for governor. May Discuss Matter Stevenson said he had "no choice" about the successor to Paschen, who resigned when an employee fund in his county treasurer's office came under in vestigation. But Stevenson admitted that he probably would talk about the matter today with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who is chairman of the powerful Cook county party organization. Da ley was also chajrman of today's regional party conference. After today's strategy huddle, Stevenson scheduled a news' conference- his first full-dress meeting with the press since be fore he became the presidential nominee. . - rrlday, August SI, ISSt general's representative asked to introduce "new evidence" that Cain should be disqualified be cause of bias. The pension union this time rushed to his defense and argued Brownell's action was "hypoc risy." Counsel for.the union said that the union was satisfied it would receive a fair" hearing from Cain. Again the SACB refused to re move Cain from the case. Original Aims Called Good In his decision today, Cain said that the aims of the union were good in the beginning, but that "early in its existence it was infiltrated by the Commu nist Party." He said the result was that the union "is managed, directed and supervised by leaders, the large majority of whom are function aries and representatives of the Communist Party." Cain charged the union, which Jysft AUTOMATIC WOOD HEATERS Grey i tj Mahogany liJjjjl J 1 City topiiaiice 127 NORTH CENTRAL MEDFORD - PHONE 3 Pacific Northwest beer for that end-of-summer picnic The Pacific Northwest Brewing LIT2.WEINHARD BOHEMIAN ClUI HEW (C ME10ELSEM lUt lASCl was formed to obtain liberalized welfare benefits, consistently has parroted the Moscow line. He said the group ; has dis tributed the Communist press and other party literature, aided party officials on trial and con victed of law violation and pro vided a "forum" for Red speak ers. In addition, Cain found the union mimicked the Kremlin's attacks on U. S. foreign policy and fought this country's domes tic policies aimed at subversion. New York (U.R) New York Yankee outfielder Mickey Man tle may be the hottest hitter in baseball, but on the dance floor he's just another out. Mantle competed with three teammates Thursday night for a $1,000 prize in a dance contest on the Arthur Murray television pro gram and lost out. Another Mickey Mickey McDermott, won the prize. deceived AVE. - 5306 Seven fine Pacific Northwest beers are naturally part of those end-of-summer picnics coming up this weekend. Premium quality the result of prime ingredients and brewing skill has made them the favorites of the people who live here, shown by the fact that more than 80 per cent of the beer bought here is brewed here. The familiar stubbies and conven ient cans are good companions, part of the naturalness in Pacific Northwest living. MEDFOKS (OREGON) MAIL TRIBtTWE TOREK Cooler Weather Seen; Medford Records 90 By UNITED PRESS Oregonians starting their last long holiday weekend of 1956 were, told today to expect some showers and fairly cool weather. Weather bureau forecasters said showers were predicted Sat urday morning in western Ore gon with some also forecast for the northern mountains of east Oregon. But there is a good chance that skies will clear by Saturday afternoon with fairly cool temperatures. For those going to the beaches, the forecast calls for mostly cloudy weather for Saturday with a slight drizzle and highs of around 60 to 65. The five-day outlook called for cooler than normal tempera tures. Medford was the hottest spot in Oregon yesterday with 90. The first "railroad tracks" in England, laid on wooden planks over rough earth ruts and powered by horses, date from 1602. li. iiy 137 EAST MAIN STREET ASHLAND - PHONE 9-5831 Industry eiVUf U IUM 9
