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demos
Senate Apparently
Left in 15-15 Tie;
Veterans Trailing
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First Democrat Win
' In House Since 1937
Portland ,U.R; Democrats
surprised Oregon Republicans
by gaining at least a lu seat. vie
tory margin in the Stats House
of Representatives anui battlin
to an apparent 15-15 ti in the
Senate.
The house Democratic victory
was the first since" 1937 and the
Democrats' havfn't controlled
the Senate since post Civil War
days. Latest returns gave Demo-
crats a 40-20 edge in the house.
The Senate tie 4cft open the
question of who will be presi
dent of the 1957 senate. Republi
cans were expected to run War
ren Gill, Lebanon, a holdover
member. Democratic holdover
senators who, might be candi
dates were Monroe Sweetland,
Milwaukie , and Phil Brady,
Portland. p .
McMinimas Losing .
g Closest senate race- was be
Itveen Democrat Andrew Nater
lin f Newport and Sen. War
VQti .McMinimee of Tillamook.
Nattrlin," manager of a public
utility district, was holding a
US-vote margin with, returns
practically complete.
The Democratic upset saw
Qttie familiary Republican 4cg
q islators go down to defeat, in
cluded were Rep. Kd Geary.
Hiamalh Fails, speaker of the
(J55 ijioUie, whi lost out to
Irry D. Boivan, also of Klam
ath Falls. . ..
Veteran' Republican senators
Paul Geddes, itoseburg; diaries
Bingner, La Grande; John Mer
ruieid and Pat'ioncrgan; Port
land; and John Hounsell, Hood
Riv all were victims of. the
niucrafic. Jvcnp. .. . ".
Republican Heps. Earl H.
Hill, Cushrnan, and Henry Se
mon, feterans of'iu years in me
Legislature. bgthlbsi, - .
Demo Chairman Beaten
Republicans went into ' the
Senate battle needing only three
wins to . cUuch control. They
held 'a 24-6 margin in the 1955
Senate and outnumbered Demo
crats 35 to 25 in the House With
half of its nembgrahip elected
every two yeAs, house Dcho
crats needed only six seats to
control.
e Among candidates" who failed
t catch the Democratic swing
was Robert A. Boyer. state Dem
ocratic chairman front Jackson
county.
Populous Multnomah county
spearhede the Democratic
victory by electing live "tormcr
representatives to the state Sen
ale and sending 16 of their 16
candidates ti the House.
Democrat wenk iiito the
house race with "tllree of their
candidates unopposed to one un
opposed Republican candidate,
George Laymate, Newberg.
The election of Republican
holdover Sen. Mark Hatfield as
secretary of state and the ad
vancement of Democrat Sen.
Robert Holmes to Governor will
force county commissioners to
name replacements of the same
party.
Gill Clairfis Support
For Control of Senate
Salem U.R Warren Gill,
Republican candidate for presi
dent of the 1957 state Senate,
said today he had the solid sup
c port of all 15 GOP senators and
would fight to organize the
house. 0
He said he had "no sympathy"
ith any sentiment to let control
of the Senate go, to the Demo
crats because of their victory in
the house. s
Nunley Offers
To New District Attorney
District Attorney. Walter D.
Nunley, 'Vho was defeated Tues
day in his bid for reelection,
today offered his "best wish.es"
and assistance U desired to his
Deotbcratic successor, Thomas
Reeder. v
In a letter to Reeder, Nunley
said. " . . I ?m frank to admit
that I 'linea- little of the rather
enormous task and1 responsibil
iiy imped upon an individual'
who was ejected to the office.
Needless to say. I have learned
a great dejal and am keenly
aware of what lies ahead for you
atnd the people of my county "
Nunley continued. "It may be
that tvy strong and continuing
interest in good law enforeement
for this community has resulted
in t!t fact that I have" perhaps
given nore of myself to the work'
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PAYS OFF ELECTION BET Don Faber, co
owner of Faber'i Supermarket in Central
Point, who was reelected mayor of Central
point Tuesday, pushes Bill Bailey down Cen-
tral Point's main street in a wheelbarrow, in
compliance with an election wager between
the men. Bailey, a Democrat, and owner of
Dardenelle Richfield Service in Gold Hill,
bet on Morse and Faber bet on McKay in this
election. The friendly argument started when
Preliminary
S ta r t o n P rog rams
Preliminary work will start
in the immediate future for
Medford's arterial street and
sewer programs, according to
City Manager Robert Duff.
The three segments of the
capital improvement program
were approved by voters in the
general election Tuesday.
The arterial street program
will be financed through a $220,
000 general oblisation bond
issue and a $143,000 tax levy
each year for 10 years.
Bond money will be used to
pay right of way costs and other
preliminary expenditures. Work
ing capital for the project from
the- tax levy will be included in
the 1957-58 city budget and suf
ficient funds should be on hand
by January, 1958. Duff said, to
start actual work.
Authorize Agreement
The council last night cleared
the way for one portion of the
arterial street program when an
agreement- with Sears - Roebuck
company was authorized for ex
tending 10th st. through between
Centra and Riverside aves.
According to the agreement,
the company will dedicate a
strip of land 86 feet wide on an
alignment recommended by the
city. Dedication also would be
made to extend two north-south
alleys to the proposed 10th st.
right-of-way.
The city will improve the
street within a year with curbs
guttcrs and paving. The city will
finance the project. The esti
mated cost of the portion of
10th st. is S9.60Q. Funds for con
struction would be from the
state tax street fund, which
showed a balance of S63.596.51
Sept. 30.
Because the need for certain
storm sewers is urgent, general
obligation bonds totaling S95,-
Assistance
than I should have. For this rea
son I am moved to lay aside my
keen disappointment at not being
reelected and to offer you what
ever help I may, in your opinion,
be in position to give ... I make
this offer although I realizs,'be
cause of the apparent variance
in our beliefs concerning the of
fice and its policies, you may
have no nerd of my help. . . "
Reeder defeated the Republi
can, incumbent by a 3,061 vote
margin. Reeder received 16.026
votes and Nunley, 12.965.
While in circuit court yester
day. Nunley received an emer
gency call notifying him that
his mother-in-law became crit
ically ill while visiting her
brother in Eureka. Calif. Mr.
and Mrs. Nunley are with her
in Eureka today.
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MEQFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NO'
Work to
00U will be sold soon to start the
six - year expansion program.
Bonds will Day for the inter
ceptor yne along Eighth st. to
Bear creek. '
The rest of the storm and sani
tary sewer programs also will
get underway in the immediate
future, Duff explained. Accumu
lation of funds for the projects
is necessary before actual work
can start. Preliminary engineer
ing and development of plans
are underway.
The storm sewer program will
be paid by a continuing levy of
347,500 annually over a six-year
period. The annual levy for the
sanitary sewer program will be
$19,000.
Duff said he was compiling a
report on the Grandview-Ken-wood
district where annexation
was approved by residents Tues
day. The district's liabilities and
assets will show the actual cost
of the annexation to the city.
The reports are being compiled
before an election is called in
the city for Medford residents to
vote on the matter.
Holmes, Porter
Piling Up Lead
Portland U.P.) Robert D.
Holmes, Astoria radio executive,
continued to pile up a lead over
Elmo Smith today in the Oregon
gubernatorial race. It is the first
time Oregon has elected a Demo
cratic governor since Charles J.
Martin was elected in 1934. With
2.490 of the state's 2,532 pre
cincts counted. Holmes was lead
ing by a vote of 358,044 to 350,
407. Charles O. Porter, Eugene at
torney, enjoyed a lead of slight
ly more than 4,000 votes over
Harris Ellsworth for the 4th
district's seat in Congress. With
597 of the districts 620 pre
cincts counted. Porter had a
margin of 84.762 to 80,733.
Rep. Sam Coon was out of the
running in his campaign for re
election to Congress from the
second district With 433 of 439
precincts counted, Al Ullman
was leading Coon 52,188 to 30,
929. Sen. Wayne Morse had ex
tended his margin over Douglas
McKay to slightly over 60.000
votes in their bitterly-contested
race for the U. S. Senate. With
2.490 of the state's 2,532 pre
cincts reporting, Morse had a
lead of 385,033 to 325,010 for
McKay.
Salem U.P. Secretary of
State Earl T. Newbry said final
payment of $2061 has been
made to each county fair to
bring the total for 1956 to Sli.
837 from racing fund monie3.
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Faber began slipping campaign literature in
Bailey's groceries. Faber, who claims Bailey
began talking in a loud voice in his grocery
store and embarrassing him in front of cus
tomers, challenged him to the bet in which
the loser was to push the other three blocks
down main street and back again in a wheel
barrow, buying him a cup of coffee on the
way.
French Communists
Avenge Burning
Paris (U.P.) The French
Communist party called a mass
march on Paris tonight 4o av
enge the burning of the party's
headquarters by an angry mob
protesting Russia's military op
pression in Hungary.
Paris was one of several cities
throughout the world where vi
olent anti-Communist demon
strations erupted in a spread
ing protest against the Soviet
Army's ruthless suppression of
the Hungarian revolt.
In New York, Latin America,
the Far East, Iceland and major
cities of Europe, tension mount
ed over the Russian interven
tion. As a protest gesture, diplo
mats in worldwide points Wed
nesday night boycotted Soviet
festivities commemorating the
39th anniversary of the October
revolution which put Lenin and
his followers in power in Rus
sia.
The most explosive situation
was in Paris. Wednesday night
thousands of screaming students
set fire to the French Commun
ist party headquarters and the
offices of the Communist news
paper Humanite.- At least 100
persons were injured in rioting
which continued through dawn.
More than 200 others were ar
rested. Salem-iU.R) The State Agri
culture Department says the an
nual search for the Khapra
beetle would start in Oregon
grain warehouses nxt week.
'It's Not A Magic Wand, Is It?'
Balloon Sets New
Altitude Record
Before Crashing
Science Thwarted -In
Hunt for Secrets
Rapid City, S.D. 'U.R) A
huge Navy balloon that carried
two Naw pilots to a new manned-balloon
altitude of 76,000
feet went out of control and
landed near Kennedy, Neb., to
day. The two pilots apparently
"walked away" from wreckage
of the stricken balloon. Cause
of the near disaster was not
determined immediately, but a
theory was advanced that the
balloon began leaking helium.
The big, helium-filled plastic
balloon was launched from the
Stratobowl near here at 5:19
a.m. (PST) carrying the two
men and a maze of scientific in
struments to pry new secrets
from the fringes of space.
Just after reaching 76,000
feet, the balloon's gondola be
gan spinning dizzily on its lines
and the balloon began dropping
fast.
The balloon began its fall
shortly after 8 a.m. and was on
the ground by about 9 a.m. It
started to fall at a rate of about
1,300-feet a minute and gained
momentum as it neared the
earth.
Try To Regain Control
Commanders M. D- Ross and
M. L. Lewis, the two men riding
m me gondola, declared an
emergency situation and
buckled themselves into their
seats. They dumped ballast in
an attempt to regain control,
but the gondola continued spin
ping to earth.
The balloon was reported
down and the pilots "walking
around" about eight miles south
west of Kennedy, Neb., in rough
country just south of the Bad
lands. The balloon was to have
stayed at maximum flight for
about two hours and the total
duration of the flight was to
have been about eight and one
half hours.
The pilots didn't get a chance
to make any of the experiments
which were the main object of
the record-setting altitude flight.
Soviets Demand UN
Stay Out of Hungary
United Nations, N. Y. (UP.)
Thi- Soviet Union and, its gun
supported puppet regime in Hun
gary today demanded that the
United Nations stay out of Hun
gary but the General Assembly
began debate on the problem of
getting a U.N. mission into the
revolt torn satellite.
Twenty-three nations were on
the list of speakers on the Hun
garian situation before the emer
gency General Assembly session
opened today. More were certain
to be added before the debate
was through.
The assembly adopted early
Sunday by a vote of 50-8 a reso
lution condemning the Soviet
Union for sending troops to crush
a rebellion of Hungarian citi
zens. North Bergen, N. J. (U.RJ
A two-engine plane plunged into
an apartment house today, kill
ing at least three persons, police
said.
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Johnson, Knowland
To Confer Friday
On Congress Plans
Democratic Whip
Defeated at Polls
Washington (U.R) Senate
leaders Lyndon B. Johnson and
William F. Knowland will con
fer here Friday to lay plans for
organization of the next Senate
under continuing Democratic
control.
Congressional sources disclos
ed the two men will discuss the
problem while they and other
congressional leaders are here
for their meeting with Presi
dent Eisenhower on the .critical
developments in the Middle East
and Eastern Europe.
Johnson and Knowland will
be continuing their present roles,
Johnson as leader of the Demo
crats and Knowland as head of
the minority Republicans. But
Democratic Whip Earle C. Cle
ments won't be back.
He was defeated by Republi
can Thurston B. Morton who fi
nally won out in an exciting
Kentucky race which wasn't set
tled until this morning.
Senator- elect Frank J.
Lausche of Ohio today assured
Democrats that they will have
hairline control when he remov
ed himself as a possible pivot
man in the crucial voting on
Senate organization.
Lausche, nominally a Demo
crat but independent-minded,
has refused to say whether he
would vote with his party or
with the GOP on Senate organi
zation. One defection from the
Democrats could give the GOP
control.
But Lausche made the sub
ject without meaning today by
pointing out he will stay on as
governor of Ohio until Jan. 14.
The Senate is expected to be or
ganized by then.
Type of Campaign
Ends in Demo Win
State Democratic party chair
man Robert Boyer, Medford at
torney, said today the Democrat
ic victory in Tuesday's election
resulted from the type of cam
paign waged by the Democratic
candidates throughout the state,
and their willingness to take the
issues to the people.
Oregon voters reelected Sen.
Wayne Morse, Democrat Robert
Holmes was named governor,
and Robert Y. Thornton, Dem
ocratic attorney general, was re
turned to office. Democrats also
won the majority in the state
house of representatives, and
lied in the number of state sena
tors. Boyer himself was a close
third in the race for representa
tive from Jackson county in the
state legislature. Robert Duncan
and incumbent Al Littrcll were
elected.
Boyer said' "I think the re
sults of this election, more than
anything else, indicate the
strength of the democratic pro
cess. It's my hope that this elec
tion will stimulate a more af
firmative attitude on the part
of all candidates and that the
bitterness and hate that seemed
to underlie this campaign will
no longer be a part of Oregon
politics."
Boyer said he was proud of
the Democratic party organiza
tion in the state, and feels "that
the Oregon Democratic landslide
has to be attributed to a rejuve
nated party organization in every
county of Oregon."
PEDESTRIAN HIT
T. J. Ferguson, who operates
the Columbia hotel in Ashland,
was struck by a car while cross
ing the street at Riverside ave.
and Sixth st. shortly after noon
today, according to Medford Am
bulance service attendants. Id
entity of the driver was not av
ailable at press time. Extent of
Ferguson's injuries were not
known. He was taken to Rogue
Valley hospital.
Harold Frye, Retiring Councilman, Is
Elected President of Medford Council
Harold Frye, retiring city
councilman from ward III, was
elected president of the council
last night after John Snider,
ward 1 councilman who was
elected new mayor Tuesday, of
fered his resignation as council
president.
Snider resigned as president
and recommended Frye for the
position as a gesture to Frye,
who retires from the council
this year after serving 16 years,
which probably constitutes a
record. Frye will continue as
council president until the ex
piration of his term in office at
the end of this year.
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Unofficial Count
Shows Morse
a. .
Carries
Sen. Wayne L. Morse carried
Jackson county by 21 votes, ac
cording to a complete but unof
ficial count of votes in Tuesday's
general election, completed this
morning.
Results published yesterday
were from 84 of the counfy's 94
precincts. Returns from the last
missing precincts put Morse
aliead.
Change Other Races '
The final results also changed
the indicated outcome of two
other races, and in some cases
made them so close that only the
official canvass will determine
the outcome with certainty.
The last returns showed that
L. Peers Wilmeth, Ashland, de
feated Mrs. Nelle Burns in her
race for reelection of justice of
the peace for the Ashland dist
rict, which it appeared she had
won in incomplete returns. The
final vote was 5,538 for Wilmeth
Petition Signed
Protesting Freeway
In Medford Limits
A petition bearing about 70
names representing business in
terests in Medford will be pre
sented to the state highway com
mission protesting a proposed
Highway 99 freeway route,
through Medford city limits.
The petition was circulated by
Mrs. J. E. Harper. 716 East Jack
son St., Medford, to Medford
business establishments. It was
prepared and will be mailed to
the highway commission by K.
G. Denman, Medford attorney.
Although no sDecific route was
mentioned in the petitioni it was
in protest to the proposed Haw
thorne park line, following B.ear
creek through Medford; -and tha
proposed Genessee route east of
Bear creek within the city limits.
Four Proposals
The Bear creek route ap
peared the "least disfavored" oi
four proposed freeway lines at a
hearing conducted by the high
way commission in Medford Oct.
25. Other proposed locations in
clude the Hillcrest route east of
the Medford limits and the West
Side route. "
The petition stated that -an
"expressway route through Med
ford will impede the orderly and
attractive growth and develop
ment of the city and result in
great damage to Medford and to
its residents."
The petitioners added that
they "request location, of the
freeway route anywhere outside
the city limits of Medford.
State Representative Al Lit-
trell, a member of the interim
highway committee, announced
recently that the highway com
mission may consider a survey
of a route along the foothills,
east of the proposed Hillcrest
route.
Morthland Improving
From Serious Illness
County Commissioner L. G.
(Shy) Morthland is reported
"slowly improving" at home aft
er suffering a severe penicillin
reaction on Oct. 31, which
caused him to be hospitalized
for several days.
Morthland was defeated in
his campaign for reelection by
Democrat Ralph James. Morth
land received 13,B97 votes and
James received 14,619 votes.
Mrs. Morthland reported to
day that the commissioner suf
fered a bronchial disorder more
than two weeks ago and was
given penicillin at that time
The allegic reaction did not oc
cur until several days after the
drug had been administered. He
was reported in serious condi
tion at the hospital, until late
Tuesday, when he returned
home.
Mrs. Morthland said her hus
band is not expected to return
to his office for another week
or 10 days-
Portland ,U.R) Alden L.
Linn, 54, a Maupin sawmill
operator, died in a local hospi
tal Wednesday.
He has been a Medford resi
dent 25 years and proprietor of
the Summit Grocery store on
West Second .st. and Summit
ave., for 23 years.
Frye served 10 of his 16 years
on the council as chairman of
the park committee. It was
while he was chairman of the
committee that Hawthorne park
was developed. He is presently
chairman of the streets .and
roads committee.
While Frye has been on the
council the city has installed
traffic lights and parking meters
and improved the city street
lighting system. Frior to 1940
County
O
and 5.414 Mrs. Burns, a niar
gin of 12$ votes ouPof almost
11.000 cast., O
The late couC in W'ard III
of Mcdfojd brought R. L. Van
Sickle 2 votes heal of (Sirs.
Marina Gate in thei race for
the council. The final vote total
was 892 for Van Sickle. 890 Q
for Mrs. Gates totals Enclose o
that they could be changed by
the official canvass.
Margins in the other races on
the Unofficial count were large O
enough.sb the outcon.4) probably
will not te charged by the of
ficial canvass, which may take
a week or mjre tS complete in
most cases.
For Eisenhower
The county voted forQEisen-
hower over Stevenson, for Har
ris Ellsworth, Republican, over
Charles Porter, Democrat, for
congress; for Gov. Elmo Smith
over Democratic Robert Holmes
for governor; for Mark Hatfield,
GOP, over Monroe Sweetland,
Democrat, for -secretary of state;
for SOP State Treasurer Sift
Unander over Demgcrat Wilc
Smith, and for Democratic at
torney general Robert Y. Thorn
ton over Republican Carl Fran
cis. Bob Duncan, Democrat, and
Al Littrell, Republican, at the
apparent winners of Jackson
county' twoseatP in the state
house of representatives, defeat-
ng Democrat Bob Boyer and
Republican 9.d Mann.
Tom Reefer, oDemncrat, de
feated Republican District At
torney Walter Nunley by a mar-
em of moe than 3.0CW votes
the finai count and Ralph James.
Democrat, apparently cl:!jtd
his Victory over GOP County
Commissinnr L. G. hy) Morth
lan by sjihtly more thaa.700
votes out of more thin 2o,500
fast.
Substantial Margin
Democratic County Treurer
Karl Janouch kept ffice ley a
substantial nrgin, defeating O
Republican Mrs. Anna. Scott,
fcounty Surveyor PauloSynning,
who was unoppo?d fer Teelq
tion. was an efteption to the al
most complete Democratic sweep
for locai offices. He rgceivSl a O
complimentary rote of0 21,059.
Alf Mekvold, also unopposed
rfor reelection as covftl.y school0
supqrinienaeni.wreceivea IB.iWJ
votes. , o - vi
Suptente Court- Justice Wil
liam M. Jlc.-Wister, former of
Medford, was givenOo104D9
write-in votes in &is race for
election to the ofjice to whidS
he recently vfes appointed. 1-8,-0
math Falls Circuit jijdge Dgvid
Vandenberg receicd 72J, and
Peter Welch of Multiftmah boun
ty had 17.
With the exception t the
Ward III council eleclif?. resulfa?
of city voting wre unchanged
John Snider was elected magpr
by 1.675 votes out omore than
8,000 cast. Ed Hall was elected
councilman for Ward A1 Brad-O
ford for Ward II aliavist 2 to 1,
and Jimmy Dunlevy for YrarA
IV by better thar 2 to 1. O
Defeat Mas&res
Voters defeated fluoridation
and off-street paftint butQap
proed Che four other city mea
sures arterial streets, storm
and sanitary sewers and fcie Sis
kiyou, Heights annexation.
Mofe than 85 per cent of the
county's over 35.000 registered
voters cast ballots Tuesday
the highejt turnout In many
years.
Cwnplele and final unofficial
returns are given in a story n
page 14 of today's Mail Tribune.
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Weather
FORECAST: FOC valleys and
fair above 3,000 feet through
Friday. Low tonight 38. Hifih
Friday 50.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 52
Lowest this Morning 39
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunhet ,
Moonsct ,
6:54 a.
4:56 p.
10:12 p.
First Quarter
PROMINENT STARS
'Atdeharan, rises e p.
Procvon. low in cast.. 10:59 p,
VISIBLK PLANETS
Mxrs. in the south
west 10:50 p.
Jupltrr, lv In Ast 2:56 a.
Venus. ries 4:03 a.
there were no traffic 3j;hts or
parking meters.
In 1940 the city millage rate
was 17, Frye pointed out, and
is now only 18 mills. This in
clude; an increase of one mill
for parks and four mills for i2
fire department, he said. The
council has a!ays believed in
progress for Medford, he added,
but been conservative in taxing
the people.
--Frye said his attitude has al
ways been "to do what I could
for MedfSrd." He concluded that
it has been gratifying to him "to
have been part of the city'
growSh."
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