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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Mat ter of Br JOSEPH ALSOP ON BAY AND BEACH Brooklyn, N. Y. (U.R) Nei ther Dwight D. Eisenhower nor Adlai E. Stevenson would find very much to cheer about, if they took time off from their larger duties to go among the voters o f Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach, here in the wilds of Brooklyn As in most jokcyh aiop parts or the country, the President is not doing quite as well today in these two very different and highly significant New York City districts as he did back in 1952. But in Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach, Eisenhower's losses are not as yet fatal. Adlai Steven son's gains are not as yet signif icant. The real balance of power seems to rest with the undecided voters, who plumped for Eisen hower four years ago and are now genuinely in doubt about where they want to go this time. TAY RIDGE and Brighton Beach may not mean very much to any but professional politicians familiar with the finer shades of New York state politics. Nonetheless, they are very meaningful even in national terms. Two great national voting groups with considerable inner coherence, Jews (without too many really rich Jews to distort the picture) and Catholics (in cluding many Catholics of Irish descent) are strongly concen trated in Brighton Beach and Bay Ridge. Physically Bay Ridge appears somewhat the older section. The avenues are busy enough, with here and there a church or a store selling religious articles to proclaim that this is a Catholic stronghold. But the side streets are drably quiet, lined with long, drab rows of rather old gray brick working class houses, of the sort that shelters one family upstairs and another downstairs, with a complex admission system of bells, buzzers and primary and secondary floor doors to bewil der visitors. Over towards the Ridge itself, where the view is pretty, a few of the larger, older, more spa cious houses still stand proudly In their own yards. And there are trees everywhere: the streets are full of pleasant-mannered, rosy-faced children; and alto gether Bay Ridge is not a bad place at all. Neither is Brighton Beach, although here the two family houses are replaced by vast, dreary warrens of apart ment houses; and instead of churches, of course, there are synagogues and Jewish commun ity centers. THE two districts are closely comparable, too, in income level. In Jewish Brighton Beach, you find more enterprisers men who make their living from small shops and stores of dif ferent kinds. In Catholic Bay Ridge you find more people who work with their hands but they are generally men in the higher paid trades and industries. If there .is a differential, it favors Brighton Beach. Yet Brighton Beach is solidly, almost passion ately Democratic, while Bay il No Money Down On Approved Credit As Low as $2 A WEEK EXCITING NEW ranlVOfoV AiS Aalms" picture V anywhere in only 299?s Til InfUH 26 In. vtewoble area. Phono-feck. Ton control Mode 21T73S. This new console swivels to face you! Has 'High-Sharp-and-Easy" tuning . . . new "Living Image" picture Balanced Fidelity Sound. Finishes: mahogany grained or walnut grained: limed oak grained, (extra). Come m see the Enfold today! Fact y Jo,Ph Alsop Ridge is rather strongly Repub lican. ' The story was almost boringly repetitious in the vast apartment house on Brighton Beach's Coney Island Ave., where the able pro fessional poller, Lou Marris, and this reporter sounded out Jewish election year sentiment. One nervous-seeming woman ap peared to be covering up a Wal lace vote in 1948. One brisk, in-f telligent, morbid man had voted for Eisenhower in 1952 but was i now rather glumly returning to the Democratic fold. "I find I like Ike the man but not Ike the Republican poli tician," he said. QTHERWISE, t h e responses '-'were solidly, orthodoxly Democratic: and this was largely true even with respect to the Senate race between the Repub lican Jew, Jacob Javits, and the Catholic Democrat, Robert Wag ner Jr. Despite his party, Javits did get a couple of the Jewish apartment dwellers votes. Yet these were people who had not bothered to vote two years ago in the race for the State Attorney Generalship. Again and again, on the other hand, the people who said they had chosen Javits in stead of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in 1954, now said that they would vote the straight Demo cratic ticket. In contrast, although Javits was still slightly in the lead in Republican Bay Ridge, Bob Wagner was attracting a good many of the Catholic voters. As for Stevenson and Eisenhower in Bay Ridge, the picture was rather simple. The great majority of Catholic voters who chose Eisenhower in 1952 to be specific, nine-tenths of those polled in three populous, typical blocks of 84th Street were sticking with Eisenhower now. Almost all of their fam ilies had been stauchly Demo cratic two decades ago A sprink ling of them "like Ike" much less than they liked his bitterest enemy, Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy of Wisconsin. "But I guess we'll stick with Ike this time," one office worker said. "Anyway, he's better than Stevenson. I just can't cotton to that guy." fF THE few Catholic votes " Eisenhower lost, moreover, Adlai Stevenson actually gained only one. The rest were in the undecided column. Again Eisen hower had lost about a quarter of his non-Catholic supporters in these three blocks of 84th Street. But in this group too, Adlai Stevenson had made a net gain of only tine trifling vote. The rest of those who had left Eisen hower had merely moved into the undecided column. Altogether, the picture that emerged in Bay Ridge, particu larly, made the course of cam paign seem more important than ever. And at the moment, campaign developments seem to be favoring the President. (C) New York Herald' Tribune Inc. Manila (U.R) Tribal chiefs In Balabac, Palawan, of the West Central Philippines, have con cocted a secret potion capable of making total strangers fall in love with each other, the Philip pines News Service claimed to day. and $01 unA om I J the rooi Hl Krueger & Al Thompson 237 E. Main Phone 2-2456 We Cjrry Our Own Contracts Service from our own RCA aurhoriied TV shop. aw I iJ.X I ltviee, lawae Ptcfe .ife?ZMl ?M dsr Sunday, October 14, 1956 fir NEW DIRECTOR E. H. Sing master, Ashland, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association. Singmasler, senior partner in the Singmaster and Jones insur ance agency of Ashland, was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ralph Billings, also of Ashland. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Significant note in the news: British troops and police are battling frenzied Chinese mobs with riot guns, bayonets and tear gaj in an attempt to end ANTI FOREIGN rioting in Kowloon, which is the mainland part of the British crown colony of Hong Kong. At least eight Chinese are re ported dead and hundreds of persons have been injured. T ET'S take a sharp and realis- - tic look at what is happening in Kowloon. ' Suppose the Chinese domi nated GOVERNMENT and bus iness in Medford. Or the British. Or the French. OR THE RUS SIANS. Or the subjects of any other foreign power. WE'D RESENT IT. We'd resent it because, like all the other peoples of the earth we want to run our own she bang. We'd probably start riots, just as the Kowloon Chinese are doing even if we knew that a lot of us would get killed in the rioting. T'HIS is why the Kowloon ind dent is significant: The days of colonial imperial ism on this globe that we call The Earth are DRAWING TO A CLOSE. COMMUNIST Russia is now the ONE GREAT colonialist- imperialist power. She holds under her stern thumb all the surrounding conquered nations that are commonly referred to as her satellites. She keeps them under her thumb because she has GUNS and the people of her satellites have none. They know that if they revolt against their imperialist Russian masters they will be slaughtered like sheep. the might of Russian communism won't stand forever against the tidal wave of nation alism which means the natural yearning of all peoples to run their own affairs that is sweep ing the world. T0 YOU recall Achilles the " hero of Homer's Iliad? He had a weak spot. The weak spot was his heel, where his mother held him when she dipped him in the waters of the Styx to make him invulnerable. She forgot that her gripping fingers kept from his heel the magic water of the dark river. So, when he was wounded in the heel by an arrow sped from the bow of Paris, the son of Hec tor, he DIED. TJUSSIA'S Achilles heel is the " inherent foulness of the bru tal communist system of colonial imperialism under which she holds the victims of her con quests. TIO! HUM! I suppose I'll have Mo add a dash of politics to this serving of hash. An analyti cal note on the wires today says: "Adlai Stevenson's suggestions that H-bomb testing be ended and that the possibility of halt ing the military draft be ex plored have turned into two of the hottest issues of the cam paign." TT IS MY personal opinion that Mr. Stevenson doesn't believe either statement. As an intelli gent person which he is he couldn't. And if elected he will take no positive steps to stop either bomb testing or the military draft. He's just beating the drum to attract the votes of wishful idealists who never stop to rea son things out realistically. Daily's U-Drive Medford. Airport Democratic Sweep in Alaska Not Sure Indicator of November Vote BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Democratic sweep in this past week's Alask an election cannot be regarded as a surefire indicator of the out come of the outcome of the national presi dental election in November, but neither can it be dis r e g arded as casually as the R e p u blicans would like to Root smitb dismiss it. .Alaskans, of course, could not indicate their direct preference for either President Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson because they continue to live in a territory of the United States. Proved a Portent Nevertheless, over the years, the month-early Alaskan elec tion of territorial officials and members of the legislature has provided a portent of things to come nationally. For example, after going Democratic during the Roosevelt and Truman era, Alaska went Republican by landslide porportions in 1952 just a few weeks before the country at large elected Eisen hower by similar proportions. In 1954 s mid-term elections, Alaska swung heavily back into the Democratic camp and so did the nation in the congres sional elections held across the country that November. The incomplete returns from the 1956 balloting in Alaska show that Democrats won 33 out of 39 election contests. Signifi cantly, Alaska's Delegate to Congress, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, won by about 2 to 1, whereas in 1952 he just scrapped through over his Republican opponent. And Alaskans selected three Democrats over three Republi cans to come to Washington, D. C, in January as "provisional senators and representative" to lobby for statehood and take their seats in Congress if state hood is granted. Election Statements Leonard Hall, chairman of the GOP national committee, issu ed an election eve statement that the Alaskan election would mean nothing nationally inas much as statehood was the ab sorbing issue in Alaska and that this would provide an indicator of things to come nationally. There is no question but what statehood is the big issue in Alaska but the controversy among candidates this year was not whether Alaska should have it or not, but over which party was the more likely to bring it to fruition. Alaskans settled the pros and cons of statehood in their spring primary by adopt ing a new . constitution which will take effect when statehood is granted, and by agreeing to send three elected officials to Washington to lobby for state hood in the same way that Ore gon and half dozen other states WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? C. R. 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Democrats to Washington, despite the warning that if President Eisenhower is re-elected they would probably fare better with Republicans. Interpreted Several Ways This may be interpreted sever al ways. Democrats like to think that it means the voters hope for a victory for Stevenson, who would presumably be more sympathetic to the cause of statehood when it is presented by Democrats from Alaska hence their choice of Democrats over Republicans as provisional members of Congress. Another interpretation is that this was Alaska's way of revolt ing against the plain fact that Ei senhower has opposed Alaskan statehood and Stevenson has fav ored it. The Fairbanks Daily News - Miner, a pro - statehood newspaper that regards itself as independent with Republican leanings, gave the president a frosty going-over recently for U. 1 to Supply West Germany With Arms Washington (U.R) The United States expects to supply West Germany with about $2.5 billion worth of military equip ment during the next three years. Officials said Saturday the arms-for-Germany program still might be changed. But they es timated that the West German armed forces would get around $1.5 billion in American mili tary grants and arms sales would total about another 51 billion. The way for arms sales was cleared with the announcement Friday of an American-German agreement on purchasing pro cedures. The accord was signed by Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., and Ger man Ambassador Heinz L. Krek eler. Use Mall Trunin Want Ads The Low Cost Way to SeU 4 Weekly-From Ford Tickets! 25 GALLONS AWARDED DAILY-A NEW FORD TICKET POSTED EVERY DAY! 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Shown above is Clyde Moody with one of his Holsteihs in one of three modern-type milking stalls in the dairy's parlor. One of the features of the dairy to which Mr. and Mrs. Moody point with especial pride is the spic-and-span, sanitary milk house. The Moodys' son and daughter, both married, and a full time milker complete the staff. Their milk is sold through the organization in which they hold membership, the Milk Pro ducers, league of Jackson County, to leading distributors of Grade A Milk in this area, Jorgensen's, Snider's, Gilman's and Cloverleaf. Those who get the health habit of drinking at least three glasses of milk every day are encouraging Jackson County's second largest agricultural industry, dairying. Adv. NEXT FREE FORD Commie Federation Moscow (U.R) A Com munist federation on lines sim ilar to the British Common wealth may emerge from the recent dramatic developments in the Communist world, diplo matic observers said Saturday. They said the new federation, if it materializes, probably will be a loose one and not a substi tute for the pre-war Comintern (Communist International) or the disbanded Cominform (Com munist Information Bureau.) The federation most likely would be a free association of Communist states, united by the common Marxist ideology, and FORTUNE 1 iiiinii 1 11 11 11 L3 U U U UUU U CELEBRATION! OUm - OCTOBER 26th South Central at So. Riverside Nay Be in Making cemented through economic co operation and coordination, the diplomats said The organizational break through for such a federation, they said, already has been made in the Communist mili tary alliance consolidated at Warsaw. It set up a unified mil itary command with headquar ters in Moscow under the gen eral direction of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. Yugoslavia is not a member of the alliance and observers said they did not believe Mar shal Tito could be persuaded to join now.
