THE ELECTION
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REPUBLICAN STATEMENT
. "Rigidly fixing price supports
at 907c of parity without regard
to supply conditions and so
encouraging surpluses that de
press market prices is for the
farmer mockery and deceit. It
robs the farmer of a chance for
full income parity.": President
Eisenhower.
Charlie Shuman, president of
the American Farm Bureau, big
gest farm organization in the
United States, and the majority
of AFB's 1,632,000 families have
voted consistently for less gov
ernment rather than more.
Shuman reminds us that unman
ageable surpluses were relative
ly unknown until government
replaced the free market with
politically administered prices.
Herschel Newsom, master of
the national Grange, oldest and
second-largest farm organization
says "We should have a system
that encourages private trade
rather than state trade."
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson says, "You can't solve
economic problems with political
tools" and further that, "The
dead hand of surpluses, built
up by unwise price policies of
the past, is the main barrier
today to farmers participating
in our general prosperity.
President Eisenhower's farm
policy is set forth with pride and
with the conviction of a man who
believes that if the record is set
forth plainly he can trust others
to measure its merits. The pro
gram includes:
1. A vigorous campaign to get
rid of surpluses
2. Encouragement to farmers
to produce for the market in
stead of for government storage.
3. Recognition that it's better
to build up our soil fertility
bank than needlessly to exhaust
this precious resource at tax
payers' expense for unneeded
food and fiber.
4. More research for new
crops, and for development of
new uses for old crops.
5. Fewer controls, with gov
ernment cooperating, not dictat
ing. 6. More efforts to help the
family farmer help himself, on
the theory that he can do more
on his own than government can
do for him.
This is a sound program for
the farmer, and a fair one for the
taxpayer yet all the Democratic
party has to offer the farmers of
America is a return to the Rigid
Support Program-the very pro
gram that is responsible for the
farmer's plight today.
"Of the total decline of 33
points in farm prices since early
1931, 27 points were accounted
for in the era of high, rigid
price supports."-The New York
Times.
DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT
The platform adopted by the
Democratic National C o n v e n
tion and endorsed by its can
didiates for President and Vice
President Adlai Stevenson and
Estes Kefauver contains many
planks which are of vital in
terest to the people of Ore
gon. One of these planks de
serves elaboration and discus
sion, namely, the promise that,
if elected, the Democrats will
undertake "the resumption of
rapid and orderly multipurpose
river - basin development
throughout the nation."
Oregonians have a special in
terest in that pledge because
much of the state's present pros
perity is based on the multipur
pose development of the Co
lumbia River's tremendous flow.
Until 1933, the Pacific North
west made relatively skimpy use
of the Columbia's "watery gold"
Its flow was allowed to run out
to sea almost unharnessed.
There was not a single big dam
on the main stem and few dams
on the major tributaries. Timber
and agriculture were the main
stays of the region's economy.
As a result, when lumber prices
fell the wood-based industries
went into a decline, often a
serious decline. Agriculture, as
we well know, fluctuated up
and down and provided for most
farmers an uneasy and uncertain
livelihood.
With the coming of the Dem
ocratic administration, multipur
pose development of the Co
lumbia was pushed hard. By
1938 Bonneville Dam was pro
ducing electricity, and by 1941
the first generators at Grand
Coulee the world's largest pow
er project was on the line.
Other federal projects followed
Hungry Horse, McNary, The
Dalles.
These undertakings made a
tremendous contribution to the
prosperity of the region. For one
thing, they provided enormous
supplies of low-cost power. Fed
eral projects now generate al
most two-thirds of all the pow
er produced in the Pacific North
west. Low-cost electricity brought
the elecrochemical industries,
such as the Reynolds aluminum
plant at Troutdale, the Harvey
plant now under construction at
The Dalles, and the Hanna nickel
plant at Riddle. It is estimated
that the aluminum industry
alone is responsible for 85,000
jobs in the Pacific Northwest.
Cheap federal electricity, fed
into the Northwest Power Pool
and used by practically every
family in Oregon, enabled the
farmers to get out of the ker
osene age and into the electric
age. It greatly reduced the
Kefauver Predicts
'Giveaways' Will
Lead To Victory
En Route With Kefauver
UPJ Sen. Estes Kefauver pre
dicted today that an unprece
dented administration "give
away" of natural resources will
help elect the Stevenson-Kefau-ver
ticket in November.
The Democratic vice presiden
tial nominess said he and Adlai
Stevenson, the party's presiden
tial candidate, will win in "large
part" because of public resent
ment against the "cynical and
callous attitude of the Eisenhow
er administration towards its
public trust."
'Giveaways' To Stop
"Adlai Stevenson and I shall,
come this January, bring the
giveaways to a complete stop,"
the Tennesseean said. He made
the statements in a speech pre
pared for delivery at a five-county
political rally in Roswell, N.M.
Kefauver declared that the
Eisenhower administration had
forsaken conservation policies
established by another Republi
can president, Theodore Roose
velt. The senator said the "public
trust has been abandoned to pri
vate profit" in the administra
tion's policies on the public do
main. Goes To New Mexico
Kefauver winged his campaign
into New Mexico after a stren
uous day of speech making and
handshaking in drought-stricken
central Texas. Aides said he
planned a major speech on atom
ic energy later today at Los
Alamos, N.M., site of an import
ant atomic energy installation.
In a formal speech at Waco,
Tex., Monday night, Kefauver
charged that the Eisenhower ad
ministration has been too con
cerned with "Wall Street" to
hear the dictates of "main
street."
Painter Tumbles 165 Feet and Survives
electric bills of store owners.
The federal dams also im
proved navigation on the Co
lumbia, provided some flood
control, and yes actually im
proved the salmon runs.
When the Republicans came
into power in 1953 they stopped
the Columbia River development
program. Not a single new dam
has been started on the main
stem since 1951, and those begun
in recent years Ice 'Harbor on
the Snake. Hills Creek and
Cougar were due to the valiant
efforts of Democratic members
of Congress from Oregon and
Washington.
If the Democrats win this elec
tion, they will surely resume
Columbia River development.
The serious shortage of electri
city which now threatens us will
be avoided. More electrometal-'
lurgical industries will come to
the state. Inexpensive power for
our homes, farms, and factories
will be guaranteed and in
abundance.
Tbis is the stake which the
people of Oregon have in a Dem
ocratic victory.
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Cascade Locks (U.R) A paint
er, working on the Bridge of
the Gods .vhich links Oregon
and Washington here, yesterday
plunged from the top of the
bridge to the ground 165 feet
below and lived.
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Wash., was painting at the top
of the bridge when he lost his
footing and plunged earthward.
Some 8i) feet below he crash
ed into a staging that had been
rigged, broke through it and
plummeted on toward the
ground.
He passed through the beams
of the bridge unscathed, then
v.as caught in a web of tele
graph wires that paralleled the
railroad tracks beiow.
The wires bounced him off
into a pile of rocks along the
railroad right-of-way.
He was taken to a Hood River
hospital where examination re
vealed a broken arm and leg.
Doctors today reported his
condition as satisfactory.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford and vicinity: A few cloudi
with a chance of light showers over
the mountains, otherwise fair through
Wednesday. Low . tonight 45. High
Wednesday 75-78.
Western Oregon: Cloudy with a few
showers in the extreme north portion
late Wednesday afternoon, otherwise
' fair tonight and Wednesday. Low to
night 38-48. High Wednesdav 62-7? in
. n.nh.rn in'erinr "TJI in .Anlh int...
ior. 65 on coast.
Northern California Partly cloudy
tonight and early Wednesday and in
creasing cloudiness late Wednesday.
Little change in temoerature.
LOCAL DATA
TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday
62: aobve normal 2.
Record high this date 94 in 1952.
Tuesday. October 2, 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVS
Record low this date 31 In 1950.
PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid
night, none. Midnight to 10 a.m.. none
Total this month none, .05 inch be
low normal.
Total since Sept. 1. .64 inch. .06 inch
below normal.
HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 241.
highest this a.m. 891.
CITY High Low Prec.
Brookings 68 48
Crater Lake 63 37
Grants Pass 84
Klamath Falls ..
MEDFORD Portland
. 83
69
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Garden Grove, Calif. (U.R)
Fortune tellers will not have to
check their crystal balls today
to learn they should stay out of
this city. The City Council is
considering an ordinance requir
ing fortune tellers, hypnotists
and astrologers to pay $100 per
day for business licenses.
Macao (U.R) An explosion
in a firecracker factory on Taipa
Island off this Portuguese posses
sion killed three men today. 1
Spokane 66
Yakima 73
Eureka
Red Bluff
Sacramento
San Francisco .
Los Angeles
Phoenix .
Denver
Chicago
Miami -
New York -
Washingon, D.C. .
63
92
87
74
80
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