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Dec. ItJ 1S96 (Monday) o
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man of Medford0 Safety council
organized aytogue Valley Coun
try club. o
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copiously over the vsjlee is fine
forjPucks and next :ring'weeli.
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Dec. 16, 1936 (Wednesday)
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resenting ag investment of $22,
000 is urSierway at the Jiedford
Ic and Storage company on
South Fir jt.
A superseding ordinance reg
ulating pin-bal machines is
adopted by0 Medfool city cun
1. SO YEARS AGO
Dee. 16, 1926 Thrday)
Southbound air mail plane
piloted by Pat Patterson crashes
Into butte near the Mt. Ashland
mine while flying in a heavy
(Christmas Seal fund is tmead
of last year's mark) at thisiime
according to Mrs. Alice Hollo-
way.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16. 1916 (Saturday)
Medford j anior band will make
Its first appearance at the Med
ford senior band concert at Nat
atorium Tuceday.
Fred H. IJopkins of Central
Point, one of valliy' pioneers
In use of Irrigation, reports 50
per cent ga: ino alfalfa rop
through Irrigation water.
50 YEARSAGOo
oSc t5, 1906d (Sunday)
London Times announces ed
lriJx, that wr between Rus
sia and J.ipan is imminent.
From Lqral and. Persona! cl-
Supertntendent Carnahan
of the Blue Lege mine returns
to th mine aftr a oeriod in
Msdford. o "
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cA$a3, Africa, or Canada?
O t-3. Dora) Mispah or Mizpeh
laean "watch-tower"?
4? Who is the author of the
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ons. 5. To shut off debate. 6. No.
j prisoner-of-war camps. 7. Yes.
C Posiiive. 9. Sixteen. .10. No.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Political Prognosis
The Ftatc press (about 90 per cent Republican)
is still trying to figure out what happened to them
on November 6, and devise ways and means to pre
vent a similar catastrophe in 1958 and I960.-
According to one of their most vigorous diagnos
ticians, therf are many things to do.
In the first place the Republican candidates should
not be "debate-shy" as they were this year. They
should not only refuse to dodge challenges by their
opponents but accept them and go to bat, on the
issues.
WE ARE glad to second the motion.
No. 2: they should abandon the "easy way"
ih the future as they have not, in the recent past, and
instead of talking to selected groups almost exclu
sively G.O.P., should welcome members of the op
posing party also and submit (as Wayne Morse always
has) to an open "question hour" afterward.
That is a good idea also.
fTHEN it is suggested, instead of letting the Demo
crats get away with their "demagogic jargon"
about the party of Big Business, Wall Street, the Ar
lington Club, and all that
bring out the rRUIH and show the voters, that
among the members of these groups, particularly the
latter, are many who have done yeoman service to
their tommunities, the state and the nation, particu
larly in. "areas of distress" and the political activity
of such types from- the standpoint of the public wel--fare
is needed and should be prized.
e e e a a
J7ROM purely a party standpoint that is a natural
ambition, but we seriously doubt if it can be put
over successfully politically speaking,
p For these terms are not demagogic. They are used
i only in a symbolic senre and are based on the truth.
The Grand Old Party IS basically the party of Big
Business.
The .boys on "Wall Street" and in Oregon, the
membejs of- the exclusive and attractive Arling
ton plub, ARE overwhelmingly Republican which
is no crime and for generations have been.
There is or should be no intimation they are
not gentlemen of the highest character and standing;
no denial that "many of them do yeoman service to
their f ellowmen" particularly in "areas of distress."
But they DO also have, and are proud as a whole
to have, the Big Business as opposed to the Little
Business, point-of-view, while there are many voters
in the country who just as sincerely believe the
country needs a party more concerned with the wel
fare of the latter than the former.
So this is a perfectly
particularly where economic values and public wel
fare are concerned. We don
licanism can do much about it, any more than they
can have their cake of "peace, prosperity and plati
tudes and eat it too. There
the two major parties, and
what every impartial and
be a fact.
It is not a theory cooked up for political purposes
only, it is a condition that
CO WHILE we have no particular objection to this
effort we can't go along with it, and don't believe
it will get very far as an issue.
- -We do believe, however, what Is meant by the
"Arlington club crowd" has too great an influence
in state politics today,
would be wise to pass about the controls a bit, m
stead of concentrating them all in one section of the
state metropolis.
LJOWEVER, as stated before, we don't believe there
is going to be a radical change in party registra
tions or controls, as far as the G.O.P. is concerned,
until there is a change in some of their fundamental
principles and the quality
dates.
We shall not indulge
sons" but unless the Grand Old Party does produce
a better slate of candidates than they did this year
and by better we mean better from the standpoint of
their records, abilities and
have to suffer tne bitter pangs of decisive state de
feat. R.W.R.
Was World War II a Blunder?
Speaking of the state press, we have been sur
prised to note in this post-election period not only
increasing criticism of the Eisenhower foreign policy
but in some cases a definite trend toward reactionary
isolationism.
One of the leading "outside of Portland" papers
for example, deplores the
for Britain is being considered, and entering the Sec
ond World War was a terrible blunder and a near-
fatal American mistake.
The time-honored claim is made, that had the
U.S.A. kept out of the war, allowed Hitler to crush
Soviet Russia and then
of the way made mincemeat of "Der Fuhrer," we
would be sitting on - top -
balanced budget, practically no national debt, and a
prospenty unequalled ;n
THAT is a pretty picture
1 how about the facts?
In the first place our contemporary seems to over
look Pearl Harbor and the Japanese attack.
Would he have ignored that incident in infamy,
and allowed Japan to take over China, Hawaii, the
Philippines and the Pacific?
We can't believe that.
Although the editor does not say so our assump
Sunday. December IB. 1956
sort of "junk," they should
legitimate campaign issue
t thmk the "New Repub
IS that division between
it is silly to try to deny
objective observer knows to
EXISTS.
and that the Republicans
and records of their candi
in any "odorous compari
beliefs they will again
fact that more financial aid
with now-hated "Ivan" out
of - the - world today with
the history of mankind.
a pleasant dream but
Matter Of FaCt
THE ASTONISHING
HUNGARIANS
Washington It now begins to
seem that the brutal intervention
of the Red Army by no means
ended the Hungarian story. In
stead, it seems possible that an
effective, nationwide guerilla
movement will be organized
there. And if the astonishing
Hungarians succeed in organiz
ing such a movement the West
as well as the Soviets will be
faced with appallingly difficult
decision.
For if the Hungarian revolt
had been no more than flash in
the pan, quickly and easily sup
pressed, mere words would have
IK
V3-
2
do&eun Aisoo Stewart A nop
been enough. But if the resist
ance continues, the United States
and its allies are going to decide
what, if anything, to do about
it.
The Hungarians appear to be
brilliantly turning Soviet tech
niques against the Soviets. For
the Soviets, unlike the American
military, take guerilla action
very seriously indeed as a tech
nique of warfare. When he was
War Minister under Stalin
Soviet Premier Bulganin boast
ed that the Soviet Union posses
sed "an entirely novel doctrine
of warfare" which would permit
the Kremlin to earn its ends
without resort to regular army
warfare. The "novel doctrine
was, of course, based on guerilla
tactics.
IN FACT, the "novel doctrine"
Kaf-lr in T on'n ...Via m.At.
that "guerilla warfare is the
inevitable form of struggle when
the mass movement has reached
the stage of rebellion." The doc
trine has worked well for the
Communists. Communist Gue
rillas have harried Western posi
tions from Malaya to Greece. And
at least three Communist gueril
la leaders Tito of Yugoslavia
Ho Chi Minh of Indochina, and
Mao Tse Tung of China have
fought their way to full power,
In a remarkable treatise on
guerilla warfare, Mao Tse Tung
has laid down the requirements
for effective guerilla action. One
is the support of the mass of
the people. "Guerillas are fish,'
Mao wrote, "and the people are
the water in which the fish
swim. If the temperature of the
water is right the fish will multi
ply and flourish."
The temperature of the water
is wholly right in Hungary the
bitter Hungarians hate the Soviet
conquerors to a man. But gueril
las need arms as well as hate.
The Hungarian resistance now
has considerable stocks of weap
ons, since about three quarters
of the Hungarian army went
over to the rebels. For the time
being but only for the time
being it is believed here, the
Hungarians have enough weap
ons to mount effective guerilla
operations
TF THEY do so, the Soviets
can adopt either of two tac
tics. They can, if they will, make
a Carthaginian peace, in effect
destroying Hungary as a nation.
mt , . . .v
tion is, he would have had the U. S. enter the war
but kept out of war against Hitler.
But Hitler declared
shortly after that Pearl Harbor attack and proceeded,
principally via U boats, to
How could the United
self respect or dignity, have kept out of war under
such circumstances?
LJOWEVER, for the s;ake
sumed we had refused to go to war, at least in
Europe.
Is there any reasonable
help not only in supplying ships, munitions, arms and
food, but also forcing Germany to fight on two fronts,
Soviet Russia would have
Then what? With Russia out of the way we would
have crushed Hitler?
We don't believe it
are many military experts
lantic who would supuort
With Russia demobilized to the East, Europe out
of it to the West, and Britain gasping for breath, it is
doubtful that the Normandy invasion would ever
have been considered much less launched.
It might, of course, if
happened. But what happened DID happen.
CO, AS we see it, instead
to England and western Europe in its present
crisis, we should approve
for the task is an expensive and painful one, but for
essentially the same reason we entered World War
II because it was, in the
terest to do so.
The cost was great and continues to mount, but
how about the cost of the
complete Japanese control
control to the east, with
in between?
It is thai "alternative" we believe, that our wor
thy contemporary seems to forget. R.W.R.
By J., and Stewart Mio,
But they cannot half-destroy
Hungary.
A tactic of limited frightful
ness is the worst way to deal
with guerillas, as the Nazis dis
covered. Such isolated acts of
frightfullness as the murder of
all the inhabitants of the village
of Oradour-Sur-Glane, for ex
ample, and the deportation of
only a few hundreds of thousands
of Frenchmen to Germany,
greatly strengthed the French
wartime resistance.
There are obvious reasons
why the Soviets may hesitate to
adopt a tactic of total frightful
ness. The alternative is the policy
which the Germans in the end
adopted throughout the German
wartime empire. It is to try to
hold only the larger cities and
the main lines of communication,
relying on forays into the gueril
la-held countryside to wear
down and eventually destroy the
resistance.
This policy did not work for
the Germans because the allies
air-dropped tons of supplies to
the anti-Nazi resistanct. But it
unquestionably will ultimately
work for the Russians, if the
Hungarian resitance is not like
wise supplied. And this is why
the prospect of a continuing
Hungarian resistance may con
front the West with an appalling
choice.
a a
FOR, if an effective Hungarian
resistance movement is es
tablished its leaders will surely
ask the United Nations, which
has already condemned and de
clared illegal the Soviet action
in Hungary, for assistance. As
sistance cannot possibly be sup
plied covertly. One expert guess
is that it would take 150 air
craft sorties a month, and an
elaborate logistic system, to sup
ply a serious guerilla force in
Hungary. And any sucn opera
tion would obviously involve,
amone other risks, the risk of
world war.
The alternative is to stand
idly by while the Soviets grind
the Hungarian resistance slowly
into bits. No doubt standing idly
by is sometimes the better part
of wisdom. But it may be as un
pleasant as disregarding the
cries of a small animal caught in
a trap, while it is worried to
death by a large one. At the
very least, the Soviets should
not be assured (as Secretary
Dulles assured them when Pol
and exploded) that we will nev
er in any circumstances do any
thing at all but talk.
Copyright 1956 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Reorganization of
Department Told
Salem CU.R) Director
Warne Nunn Friday announced
reorganization of the State Mo
tor Vehicle department to ab
sorb more than a dozen small di
visions into seven major div
isions.
Nunn said no employees
would lose their jobs but the
reorganization would bring the
work of the departments closer
to the director.
The seven divisions and their
managers will be: traffic safety,
James Banks; fiscal division, J
R. Williams; administrative ser
vices, Leo Hegstrom; field oper
ations, Charles Grove; motor
vehicle registration, Robert
Gile; driver licenses, John Ker-
rick; and financial responsibil
ity, Harold McCoy.
war on the United States
wage it.
States, with any decency,
of argument, let it be as-
doubt that without U.S
soon been crashed
and we don't believe there
on either side of the At
such a thesis.
what happened had not
of begrudging more aid
it. not with any enthusiasm
long view, to our selt-in
only alternative, namely
to the west and Hitler
poor old isolated Uncle bam
Today and
By Walter
MR. DULLES AND
MORAL FORCE
As reported from Paris no
text has been published Sec
retary Dulles said on Tuesday
that NATO,
while main
taining its mil
itary strength,
should in its
internat i o n a 1
dealings rely
on moral
force. This has
been the line
taken by the
A d m i n i s tra-
tion both in the Hungarian and
in the Egyptian affair. It has
meant the setting up of a work
ing theory, in my view a false
theory that the alternative
to the use of military force as an
instrument of policy is propa
ganda that is to say arousing
Editorial Comment
MAN OF THE YEAR
This is the time of year when.
readers of Time magazine sub
mit their nominations for that
magazine's "Man of the Year"
award. Usually the award goes
to a politician or a general.
But this time we nominate
and we're sure all other good
sinners will agree with us an
obscure foot doctor in New York
City. His name is Maurice J.
Lewi and he just celebrated his
89th birthday in the restricted
manner his physicians have in
sisted upon. His cigar consump
tion has been reduced from 14
a day to three or four. And his
highball consumption is limited
now to one before dinner and
one before bed. He's had to quit
card playing, not upon doctors
orders, but because his failing
eyesight prevents him, ofttimes,
from distinguishing between the
king and the jack and that's
very important.
His formula for a long and
active life:
"I do as I please and never
waste energy resisting tempta
tion." Eugene Register-Guard.
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Polish straw in the wind:
Leaders of some 30,000 Polish
steelworkers at Poznan have
threatened to strike if the (eom
munist) government tries to sup
press a resolution condemning
Russia for intervening in Hun
gary. The resolution, which cli
maxed three days of anti-Soviet
demonstrations in Poznan, de
mands that Russia withdraw its
forces from Hungary immedi
ately and that U.N, or Warsaw
pact troops replace- them.
7"ARL Marx, the founder of
communism, must be turning
over in his grave. He looked for
ward to strikes by the workers
as the final blow that would fin
ish off capitalism.
Instead, it looks like strikes
by communist-oppressed workers
may be the weapon, that will
finish off communism.
HOW communism works:
The general strike in Hun
gary was scheduled to end the'
other night. Two of the striking
workers' top leaders had been in
vited by the communist govern
ment to come to the parliament
building to negotiate terms. Al
though warned by their follow
ers, they decided to rely on com
munist pledges of safety and
went to the meeting.
They were arrested as soon as
they arrived, and it was believed
in Hungary the two leaders will
be the first to be hanged as
counter - revolutionaries under
the martial law decree issued
by the communist Premier
Kadar.
THINGS like that buttress the
conclusion that the institution
of Kremlin communism is so
foul that in time it must fall of
the weight of its own foulness.
IF we can keep the Kremlin
commies from starting a shoot
ing war to save their own skins.
rpHERE is another interesting
development this morning.
In an address to the Indian
parliament, Nehru reports that
25.000 Hungarians have been
killed by the Russians at a cost
of 7,000 Soviet troops. This,
Nehru says, is the estimate just
given to him by India's ambas
sador K.P.S. Mer.'-n, who had
been sent by Nehru to Budapest
to gather information on the ac
tual situation there.
Menon (he isn't the Krishna
Menon who has .been so violently
anti-American they aren't even
related) reported to Nehru that
he found conditions in Budapest
"reminiscent of the civil disobe
dience movement in India"
against the British.
That is to say, the Hungarians
are using against the Russian
communists the same tactics that
were successfully used by Nehru
to get India out from under con
trol by Britain.
IN conclusion:
If conditions in Hungary are
so terrible as to shock Nehru,
who has been leaning strongly
toward Russia, they must be
pretty badv
pi S " rl
aksntei
Waiter LlDDtaMJin
Tomorrow
Lippmaas
a r
public opinion by putfingeforft
declarations and Speeches ando
resolutions condemning, deplor
ing and denouncing.
A policy whicn restj wnouy.
or even principally, on .tne ai-
or even prmiij,
ternatives of military force and ,
moral force is like a stool which
has only two legs. ItwiiJ not
stand up. The third and miss
ing leg is to have negotiable pro
posals. The three mdes of in
ternational action are diploma ye
force, aand propaganda, and to
act on the theory that the alter
natives are force or propaganda
will lead either to eutility or
disaster. The real alternative to
vsr is negotiation, and no states
man should eve? be allowi to
forget it. o
THE hard core of diplomacy is
the third li)g, the working
out of proposals which, are ne
gotiable because they c&ne Qto
grips with the issues of a con
flict. It is here that the United
States policy has been lackinj,
most especially in the Hungari
an tragedy. c
Quite rtghtly, so at Iast it
seems to m, the President took
the decision that he woulnot
intervene in Hungary vith mili
tary force. But that deaision car
rion wiih it T hflipvp Ihp mora?
responsibility of a full dress at
tempt to bring about a nego
tiated settlement in which the
Hungarian nation would achieve
a position comparable wnn mai
of Poland or Yugoslavia.
Jt is not good entough, indeed
it is embarcassing, to do no more
ihan to hurl adjectives at Kadar
and the Soviets while we as
sure them that we won't fight
and while we shpw them that
we do not know how to a.ego-
tiate The Western, world, witho Cne of thYmore astute mem
the United" States in th lead,
should be addressing the Soviet
Union with proposals for a
Etiropean system within which
the nations of Eastern Europe
can live iti security and in
tianal freedom. o
a a
THIS is urgent business, a.d
Secretary Dulles is Aviting
great trouble, for the future if
he stands where he has beeif re
ported as standing in Paris on
Tuesday. On the one btn& he
was saying that we would not
intervene. On the other hand, rie
was aying that we hope for rg
bellion against and withirj, the
Soviet empire. This is to play
with fire in a situation which is
highly explosive.
The whole situation needs to
be brought under control,
brought into a manaable per
spective, and this can be don
only if somehow perhaps in
a mission by the Secretary Gen
eral of the United Nations to
Moscow there are set going
diplomatic negotiations dealing
with a system "of European se
curity. Copyright 19SS New York
Herald Ttibune Inc.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyrleht. 19S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q True or fafse: The 85th
Congress, when it assembles Jan.
3, will have more familiar faces
than any since ,1912, when the
House of Representatives reach
ed its present strength of 435
members. .
A True. Only 46 new Rep
resentatives were elected in
1956. Nine new Senators were
chosen,, out of 32 up for re
election. Three of the nw
Senators will replace retiring
Incumbents.
Q Only one sitting govemof
was successful in his 1958 bid
for a seat in Congress. Caw you
name him? "
A Ohio Gov. Frank J.
Lausche (D), who defeated In
cumbent Sen. George H. Ben
der (R). Two other governors
failed to win Senate seats: Ar
thur B. Langlie (R-Wash.) amd
William C. Marland (P-W.
Va.).
Q The 84th Congress had a
lower mortality rate than any
Congress' in the last 20 years
The average for the preceding
10 Congresses was 17 deaths per
Congress. How many died dur
ing the 84th: (a) '8; (b) 3; (c) 14;
d) 1?
. A (a). The 84th Congres
made history by suffering no
deaths at all during its first
session in 1955. Two Senators
and six Representatives died
after, first-session adjourn
ment, but the 841h still had
the lowest mortality fate of
any Congress in the last 20
years.
Q True or false: No Mem
ber of the House whe sought'
higher office in 1956 was suc
cessful. A True. Three lost in bids
for Senate seats. They were
Repi. Thomas Dodd (D-Conn,).
Clifford Young (R-Nev.). and
Glenn Davis (R-Wis.). Rep.
Robert Mollohan (D-W. Va.)
won the Democratic guberna
torial nomination in his state,
but lost the election to his .
Republican opponent.
O At least two retiring Sen--ators,
both Democrats, will con
tinue in public life after they
give up their Senate seats. Can,
you name either on of them.
A Waller F. George (D-Ga.)
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stiron a street where one ob
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our newshea was waling. Al
ways t' inquiringoreporter, sheP
osed around, listening loo- ,
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but shecame Iick to the office
,w - n t-
claimingthat one oftheinvesti
gatiftg offices was wearftigo a? .-j,
uniform with the words 'JJnited u
State PSlice" embroidered on
the sl5e e. Sorg up and down 0
tat'ffh it saia. o O O
o She w-as met with skenijeisra-j
both in the office, ana in th "
sheriff's andolice departgjen
where she told the same story.
fhaU ie reuses to a.it np, fi
thoughts that she iw fce sarg 0 0
uniform f nSktoday. ami e- 0
rei? the sleefcs emblti. AI
she won't let us tell jhat. o Q
fegegia iprling. in "
0t Lincoln tyhool. ?or
the "Lincoln J3jnd." tfrajt: O
SYesliy 0 our pl?ii0
Stuck some holfe $h fet.
He toad us it would bring hWn
u?k and we were very glad"
of that. Then he yent away
lefcking lik a holiday."
He sounds nike a icepost-
man. and Eugenia sounds ke
a nice girl, lerry Christmas
to atem bothH
n
Tle um of $271 wasQiiven to
the Red Cross last wek by the
Mail Tribune and itsgempittyees '
(with Shore still to come fros,
affiliated KYJC workers), repre
senting the amount which would
have f one isjo an exchange of
dollar gif refreshments, and
soQon, at its traditional Christ
mas party, and which it was de
cided to skip for the berfefit of
Hungarian Refugees.
bers of the news staff remarked
that there are two classes of peo
ple who should be grateful,
"Hungarians and the wives of
Mr employees.
We have heard reports that
other companies-and firms re
doing the same thing this
year. We also kno a man
who gav8 up smoking and for
the past month has propped
the price of a package of cig
arettes into a jar for Hungar
iat relief. And a couple of
businessmgn in Portland bet
each other that they would 9
a week without any lunches.
They di it, and the money
saved went to the same pur
pose. 0. .
A mother and her young son
were? in a local bank the other
day, and the teller asked the
boy what he wanted for Christ
mas. "A cat,'0 he replied. The
telr aske if he wanted a kit
ten or a fulljj;rown one. His
mother laughed and explained
that he didn't want a feline-type
cat, but a Caterpillar tractor
type "cat.7?
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We don'lgknow how much
truth there is in it, but the
story flame to us by devious
means that a valley resident
1 was overheard to say to his
friend from the Rch area, as
he departed, "See you later.
Applegater." Q
a a a
And now. In the gay, holiday
spirit, we have a couple of stor-
ties about members of our own
siatt:
The gal reporter who showed
up at thecourthouse the other
morning who, when she started
to take notes for a story," dis
covered she'd forgotten her pen
cil and had to borrow one from
the county employee giving the
sfory.
Ald,
The city editor who claims ho
just can't hear well when he
has his glasses on.
Oh, well, -eil have our lag
tie burdens, donT we?
Sfeen-Resignsas' '
Oregon State Senator
Pendieton (U.R) State Sen.
Lowell Stee said Saturday he
does not plan teg complete hS
current term in the'Oregon Leg
islature. 0
He said he would af the
Umatilla County Courtto name
a Successor as soon as possible
to tak over hisfleat in the
Senate, explaining he was re
signing fc "pconC reascQ; be
yond rr control."
Th Republican la--naker
said he hSd prepared several
bills f8r introduction in the Sen
ate wnen it convenes next
month. He said if bm successor
is one who willtake over the
job of intrdrjuefhg these bills,
he will ask that hisoresignation
be madeoeffective at oncj;. Other
wise, he nwy go to Salem long
enougei to presentPthe bi-ii and
resign shortly afterard.
Steen is serving is ofsecond
term as Senator from Umatilla
county. The Urr.Otilla County
Court mu. arapoint a Republican
to succeed him.
will advise Predenfe Eisen
hower v NATO matters.
Earle C. Ctements (D-KyJ will
become a Perpcratic jarty
functionary, ponilSy tMudincj
I the Senate Campaign CAmmit-
lee.
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