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t 1 L.ifiesE; hJK B'?UCTV As speelators look on from windows Wealthy Italian Searches For Gold Every Sunday Turin, Italy (U.R) Early modern machinery and a lone every Sunday morning, 71-year I prospector couldn't compete, old Giovanni Mattioti packs a Every year my fortune dwindled rucksack with salami, bread and j as the price of gold dropped, so In the Day's News By FPANK JENKINS Today's dash of politics: An Oregon voter (a Southern Oregon voter at that told friend of mine the other day: "I certainly like this Adlai Stevenson. I voted for him four years ago, and I've never had it so good. I'm going to vote for him again this year." T'HE bureau of statistics of the U. S. labor department re ported the other day that living costs rose .3 of one per cent in September to a RECORD level The bureau's index reached 117.1 per cent of the 1947-1949 base period. The bureau said the Septem- ber living cost level was nearly two per cent higher than a year ago and 2.8 per cent higher than in January 1953 at the start of President Eisenhower s administration. TT SOUNDS bad, doesn't it? 1 Reading just that and going no farther, you might howl like a wounded wolf. You might even smack your right fist into the palm of your left hand and snort: "I'm going to VOTE DEM OCRATIC, so help me Hannah! I just can't take this constant rise in the prices of everything I have to buy. It s killing us com mon people." w AIT a minute. Let's read a little farther. wine. He puts on an old shirt and dungarees, pulls a battered black Stetson over his crop of white hair and carrying his shov el and gold pan under his arm trudges into the Turin hills to search for gold. Giovanni Mattioti usually stops at the first stream he comes to. He puts the rucksack in a cool place and hurriedly makes for the water"s edge. Quickly he shovels sand into the pan and then gently shakes it. Operation Repeated Hour after hour he repeats this operation, deeply absorbed and oblivious to his surrounding. Perhaps by noon he has found one or two specks of the shiny, precious metal. But this tanned and wrinkled old man of Turin does not care how much gold he finds for he is wealthy. Mattioti made his fortune 50 years ago in Alaska and the memory and gold fever of that time has never left him. "When I am out by a stream with my shovel and pan," said Giovanni. "I'm back in Alaska. I remember' the people I knew then; the trees and the wolves, the big brown bears that could crush a man in two or three sec onds. I remember the rough towns and the rowdy saloons. I can feel again that strange ex citement. Best of all, now I've forgotten the terrible hardships and danger." InvMted Money Mattioti left Italy when he was 22 years old. He arrived at Fairbanks, Alaska, broke and hungry, but ha found a job an hour after he landed at $5 a day with food and lodgings. The work was digging wells and he did this for four years and then struck out on his own. "By 1913 I had $48,000 in the bank," said Giovanni. "I had made my fortune you couldn't help it. But about then the big companies moved in with their I decided in 1930 to come back to Italy." Mattioti invested his money in oil and bought a service station in Turin. But he could not for get the' time he had spent in Alaska. "The itch to get back there nearly drove me crazy," he said. "A couple of years I tried panning gold in the streams here. I got such a kick out of it that I decided to do it every Sunday. It's the same thing, I suppose, as hunting, or fishing for other men. I make money too not much I.will admit. By evening, if it's been a good day, I might get a couple of grams in my little bottle that's worth about $2." Rome Policemen, Students Clash Rome vU.Ri Riot policemen swinging clubs clashed with screaming anti-Communist stu dents today in Rome's worst riot since the 1953 Trieste dem onstration. An estimated 20,000 students, waving Italian flags and anti- Soviet banners, clashed with police near Piazza Venezia in Central Rome as they tried to march on the headquarters of Unita, the' Communist news paper. Using wooden clubs ripped from park benches and the poles of their flags and banners, .the students attacked the solid line of carabinieri and riot police who blocked their path with police trucks. One group of students braved the raining blows of. police batons, grabbed a small police car and overturned it, injuring its occupants. Another group spotted several Communist newsmen walking to their offices and swarmed over them, seriously injuring one. TN SEPTEMBER, the labor de- A partment's "index" reached 117.1 per cent of the 1947-1949 base period. In the jargon of the statisticians that means that in September of this year living costs were 17.1 per cent higher the average for the period be ginning in 1947 and ending in 1949. That, the bureau said in its report the other day, is 2.8 per cent higher than in January 1953, at the start of President Eisenhower's administration. If you will subtract 2.8 per cent from 17.1 per, you will 14.8 per cent left. THAT is to say: Of the 17.1 per cent in crease in the cost of living that has taken place in the years since 1947-1949 "base" period, 14.3 per cent occurred in the years when the Democrats were in power and only 2.8 per cent in the Eisenhower administra tion. That sounds quite different. 'V'OW let's hear Ike's story. In a public statement the other day. President Eisenhower pointed out that while consumer prices have risen 2.8 per cent during his administration REAL WAGES of factory workers ("real wages" are what you can buy with your money) have risen 8.6 per cent. That means this; At the end of these three and a half years, the factory worker is nearly three times better off (in terms of increase in his buy ing power) than he was before Ike came into the picture. TS THAT a sound reason for any working man to vote against Ike? It looks to me like a pretty good reason to vote FOR him. TN ELECTION years, this is a big question among editors: Shall we or shall we not offer advice on how to vote on every ballot item come Election Day? That is, shall we tell the people how to vote on EVERYTHNG ballot measures and CANDID ATES alike? S 1 ? I : i. ' : - 5' V 1 V s in i KOIiD--. CROW UGHTER...MILDER.ee PROOF 1 1 1 J ft I I flw.-- WW ntim f j I ul & iris i3eiS3 1""! ac feral Available in a lighter, milder 86 Proof bottlina of such suDerh quality it nas become s -in m sr America most popular bourbon! KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Oia 4 .n 100 Proof Bottled in Bond mailable as usual wJSk- OLD CROW tanrrtir Snixs old crow Distillery co..div.of national Disi.PRQacoRP,FRANiifORT.Kii. GETTING personal, don't do it. Whv not' Well, there is a fine town on the Pacific Coast that has al ways had an outstanding news paper, run by able and compet ent people. It regularly tells people how they should vote on EVERYTHING. "Taking a stand" its editors call it. When I go there, everybody I talk to on the subject speaks somewhat slightingly of the town's newspaper. I ask WHY adding that I think their news paper is an exceptionally good one. I get this answer: "Oh, the essobees WANT TO RUN THE TOWN." Little Woman's Slap Sends Robber Fleeing Portland 4U.R) A plucky 65-year-old woman, who stands five feet tall, sent a would-be robber fleeing last night by slapping his face. Mrs. Ora I. Lansing said she was in the rear of the grocery she and her husband operate when a man in his early 20s en tered and began helping himself to cigarettes. Mrs. Lansing said that when she asked the man what he wanted he pushed her. She said she instinctively swung end landed a slap against his face. She said the youth ran from behind the counter, paused at the door and left. Mrs. Lansing said he carried a gun. South Haven, Mich. (U.R) "I owe you some money," a man told Barbara Lamb, clerk in the Bureau of Public Works here as he handed over S21. He told Miss Lamb he left town broke in 1935. owing that amount to the BPW, and never had been able to get it out of DONNING "I LIKE IKE" spectacles to make point, ex President Harry S. Truman tells Democrats at $100. a plate dinner in Washington Republicans are looking at world through rose colored glasses. (International) Air Force Testing Supersonic Bomber Washington (U.R) The Air Force has begun testing the na tion's first supersonic bomber while the Navy announced plans for a giant nuclear-powered super-carrier. The bomber reportedly de signed to attain speeds of about 1,000 miles an hour is expected to make its first flight in 10 days. It began ground taxi tests Monday. Construction of the nuclear powered supercarrier a giant 43 per cent heavier than the For restal is expected to begin next year. The Air Force said Monday the new bomber the P58 "Hus tler" made its first taxi run at the Fort Worth, Tex., plant of the General Dynamics corpora tion Cpnvair division. Tutidiy. October SO. 1951 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELETEH Sheppard Murder Case Reopened Cleveland U.R Assistant County Prosecutor Saul Dana ceau said today a "telephone tip" from an unidentified city prompted him to reopen the in vestigation . of the Sheppard murder case. Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 32, osteopath of suburban Bay Vil lage, is serving a life sentence ! in Ohio Penitentiary for the ; July 4, 1954, bludgeon slaying of his 31-year-old wife, Marily Reese Sheppard, in their lake shore home. Danaceau said he remained convinced that Sheppard is guil ty, but said the tip led to "new facts" in the murder mystery. Sheppard was convicted after a sensational trial here, Dec. 21, 1954, on second degree murder . charges. His conviction was up held by the Court of Appeals and Ohio Supreme Court. It now is pending- before the U.S. Su preme Court. Danaceau said he received "a long distance telephone tip," and : had visited the city from where the call came. He refused to name the city, , but said he decided on his return . here to launch the new investi gation. Danaceau said he had asked : the Cleveland police department to help with the new investiga-; tion, but had received no reply , to his request. j Ontario Woman Flees Burning Buildings Ontario U.R) Mrs. Edna Wood of Ontario escaped with her life and only a handful of clothing here early today when her two-story Airport Cafe and service station burned to the ground. She estimated loss to building and equipment at S10.000. Mrs. Wood told authoritiei she was alone in the building when she heard the first of two explosions. She ran outside and within minutes the structure, near Ontario airport, was en gulfed in flames. Cause of the blaze was not determined immediately. Dead line Sunday era wined ta at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday lot Uonday: otner davi 5:20 orevioua day Read and Use Classified Ada The Community's Biggest Marketplace DZZ u From Circling the Block in Downtown Medford in Vain Search for a Parking Space? THERE IS A REMEDY!! 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