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FOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) Ohio Campaign for Senate Seat Finds Candidates Not Speaking Editor's notf This It another of the dltpatrh on the rnoit Important and lnterettlnc election conwsta acron the country. BY HASKELL SHORT United Preii Correspondent Columbus. O. (U.R) The heat of the party fight for con trol of the next U. S. Senate is demonstrated nowhere more viv idly that in Ohio where the can didates are not on . speaking terms. They are Republican Sen. George H. Bender and Dem ocratic Cov. Frank J. Lausche. The GOP figures it almost has to hold Bender's seat if it is to wrest a Senate majority from the Democrats. The present line up is 49 Democrats and 47 Re publicans. A parade of top speakers, led by President Eisenhower and seven cabinet members, has visited Ohio. The Democrats have sent in their top campaign ers too, counting on Lausche, five times governor, to pick up a Senate seat. Challenged To Debate Bender and Lausche began battling clear back in February when the senator challenged Lausche to a series of debates. The governor replied, "I do not intend to engage in a shouting contest all over Ohio with you." Bender, aware of Lausche's personal popularity and grass roota campaign technique, crack ed that he, too, likes to pat small children on the head but accused Lausche of being silent on the issues. Lausche blasted Bender for using his free mailing privileges to send a weekly newsletter to constituents. Bender fired back that Lausche travels in state cars and planes, that his picture is in publications mailed at state expense. Both men are 60 years old, both are from Cleveland and both have been in politics most Stevenson Proposes Blanket Health Plan For Low Income Group Libertyville, 111. (U.R) Dem- o c r a t i c presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson has proposed a new health plan under which the federal government would guarantee blanket health cover age for even the penniless. Stevenson called for a system of voluntary insurance to assure payment on a basis of need of hospitalization and medical ex penses. In outlining his "Program for the Nation's Health," Stevenson said he was opposed to any sys tem of "socialized medicine." "I am equally strongly in favor of a program to make com prehensive private health in surance available on a voluntary basis to all Americans, so that no American will be denied good medical care for financial rea sons," he said. Coverage Now Limited The statement was the third major outline of policy by Stev enson on a specific subject since the start of his presidential campaign. Stevenson said more than 100 million Americans now have some form of health insurance, but only three per cent of the people have comprehensive plans for covering doctors' bill, sur gery, hospital costs and other ex penses. He added that there are AN (ED For schedules or MAIL TRIBUNE of their lives. Lausche started as a lamp lighter, became a police court judge, common pleas judge. Cleveland mayor and governor. Bender began in politics in high school when he campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt. He has serv as state senator, congressman and two years ago won the Sen ate seat left open by the death of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Voters Confused Bender has drummed the issue that Mr. Eisenhower needs a GOP majority in Congress. Lau sche, aware that it was a telling point, said he might vote with Meany Makes Appeal For Morse Support Seattle (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon's converted Dem ocrat, was described yesterday as labor's "champion in the halls of Congress' who must have la bor's support in his bid for re election or "he's lost. The plea in behalf of Morse came from President George Meany of the AFL-CIO in a speech before some 500 delegates to the annual convention here of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters International Union. Meany, speaking just before Morse was scheduled to address the convention, said the senator was engaged in "the fight of his life" against former Oregon Re publican Gov. McKay. When Morse addressed the convention, he said that what he termed a "slump" in the con struction business was because of the GOP money and housing policies and added that Presi dent's campaign into the North west apparently was planned be cause Mr. Eisenhower was told "things were not good in Wash ington and Oregon." many ways in which this type of insurance could be available to all, particularly low income families. "It is clear," he said, "that some form of federal aid will be required to achieve this goal." Federal Aid The former Illinois governor said this federal aid could be a re-insurance plan under which the federal government would make long, term loans to labor, cooperatives and other groups which have group health insur ance programs. He also said the federal government might make matching grants to states to pay some of the costs of voluntary health insurance for low income families and individuals. Such a program, he said, should be based on the principle that "those who can pay their own way should, that those who can pay a major part should pay that part, and that those who can pay little or nothing should pay what they can and should be assisted with the rest." Stevenson also called for a federal loan and scholarship pro gram to subsidize students who want to train for medicine, and he urged a continuation and ex pansion of'the Hill-Burton pro gram of federal financing for hospital construction. FRANCISCO Money-saving joint fares fares call 2-6161 or your Wednesday, Oclober 10, 1956 the Republicans to organize the Senate if necessary to give a Republican president control. His statement drew heavy edi torials fire and left voters some what confused although Ohio- ans have become pretty ac customed to Lausche's vigorous independence. The governor is plugging for Adlai Stevenson and for Michael V. DiSalle, the form er federal price stabilizer, who is running for governor against Republican Attorney General C. William O'Neill. Newspaper polls show Lausche leading but Bender gaining. A Dayton factory worker who supported Lausche in the past said he has decided the governor is "too wishy washy." A Colum bus mechanic said he likes Lausche "because he thinks for himself while Bender brags about his blind support for Ike." One of the unusual aspects of the race is that Democrat Lau sche does not have the support of organized labor because of his independence of it in the past. Japanese Holdouts Discovered in Mindoro Manila (U.R) A "colony" of some 50 World War II Japa nese Army stragglers was dis covered in the mountains near Roxas in Mindoro Province, ac cording to reports reaching Manila today. Authorities and residents of Roxas and Mansalay found the Japanese when floods inundated the two towns in Southern Min doro last week and forced towns people to evacuate their homes and seek safety in the moun tains. The Japanese are believed to be remnants of the garrison which slipped out of Calapan before American and Filipino troops entered the provincial capital in 1945. Union Ready To Talk At Feather River Mill San Francisco (U.R) A spokesman for the United Broth erhood of Carpenters said today the union had "the door open for new negotiations with the Georgia-Pacific Corp. aimed at settling the violent two - year strike against the Feather River Pine Mills at Feather Falls in Butte County. Joe C a m b i a n o, executive board member of the union, said "We're waiting momentarily to hear from the company but there's no settlement in sight." The last negotiations were held 2 '.-2 weeks ago. Several men have been beat en, a bridge was burned and a truck was dynamited in strike violence. Eight Brink's Bandits Get Life Sentences Boston U.R) All eight Brink's bandits received life sen tences yesterday for the nation's biggest cash robbery. Those sentenced by Superior Judge Felix Forte were: Joseph F. McGinnis, 53, Bos ton, the alleged "brain s": Adolph (Jazz) Maffie,' 45, Quin cy; Anthony Pino, 49, Boston; Vincent J. Costa, 42, Pembroke; Michael V. Geagan, 48, Milton; Henry Baker, 50, Natick; Thom as F. Richardson, 49, Weymouth; and James I. Faherty, 45, Bos ton. The eight took $1,218,211 from Brink's five years ago. Travel Agent The Family Council Editor'! nota: The Family CouncU consist! of a Judge, a psychiatrist, threa clergymen, m newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers, each article Is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not five advice; It merely report! on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mrs. L. V. My husband wants me to retire and grow old. L. V. A man has a right to his wife's company. Mrs. L. V. I am 59 years old, in very good health and have a good job in a large department store. I love my work because it brings me in contact with so many young people. I enjoy talk ing to them and sharing their activities. My husband is 65 and wants to retire. He is the quiet sort. He's perfectly happy if he doesn't see anyone from one end of the week to the next. He is a teacher and can retire on an adequate pension. He wants me to retire now too so we can both relax and enjoy life. But what he calls relaxation and enjoyment would bore me. I dread going off into retirement and just growing old. I want my husband to enjoy life in his own way. If he thinks he can be happy with nothing to do, it's all right with me, but why should he be so dependent on me that I have to retire with him? Mr L. V I think that after 40 years of marriage, a husband has a right to expect to enjoy his wife's company in his old age. My wife can get a few hundred dollars more a year in pension money if she works for the next few years and she seems to find this more important than me. The Council: Mr. L. V. is .just ified in his belief that a man has a right "to enjoy his wife's company in his old age" and Mrs. L. V. is being a little off hand about his problem when she tells him to "enjoy life in his own way." The question is, will L. V. be able to enjoy life with or without his wife's company when he has retired. The answer is, probably not. Retirement seems like a beau tiful dream to someone feeling tired and oppressed by the daily grind. But experience has shown that a steady diet of "relaxation" is death to mind, spirit and body. Even the "quiet type" like Mr. Tib mm hsd g &Bg Give the United Wy Back the United Medford Crusade Published as Public Service by THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Wetlern Company owned and optraltd by Waltrn Peoplt L. V. requires a certain amount of regular responsibility and i contact witn people to make life worthwhile. Mr. L. V. seems offended that his wife doesn't leap to join him and points to the additional money as her motive. But his wife appears to be less concerned about this than he does. She sees much more clearly what total retire ment would mean. Perhaps Mr. L. V. finds his duties tiresome and wants a change and the chance to slow down. In his work there are many opportunities for part time basis. This would give him a new and refreshing outlook and leave him plenty of time to develop other interests and hob bies. Mr. L. V. is now not only plan ning badly for himself, but mak ing an unfair demand on his wife. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) FLYING "A" HEATING OIL Phone 2-8277 McGinty Fuel Go. For better Make it with To Buy or Sell - Use french toast Holsum Bread Tribune Classified Ads
