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o O " r x'hiv Ue7 - - n, i- - --".'--- me yxM ORPHAS AIRLIfT Harry Holt (right), Oregon rancher, (holds one of tie 81 Korean war orphans who arrived in San .Francisco fronp the Far East Holt, himself the adopted father of eight Korean children, is responsible the organization of "Orphan Airlift," which brought tje children to the United States and new homes. Man behind Holt is unidentified. O" " 1 oBlKtSr. "CALIFORNIA CASSEROLE," Mrs. Margaret E. Hatheiy, Santa Barbara, wins top prize of $25,000 and ying trip to Europe in national contest 'at New York. Winning dish is on stove ( International Soundphoto) 11 -.Vp '4 p . 7 I'M is i - o . o 9s . OW". ' iTti St ; . ofof O S o CONT. We Give Northern o STAMPS o Double Stjmps Prescripfi&nf PHONE0 Cfr DRUG CENTRE rT7 first; y J DO o YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Three Floors of Distinctive Gifts Main Floor Balcony . 2nd Floor Shop them all! Open til 9 p.m. Gift Wrapped FREE .... always the perfect companion. "TRAVELER" EAU DE LAN VI N ARPEGE 2.50 MY SIN 2.00 1ft OZS. FREE Delivery OPEN WEEKDAYS 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. " I i MfMyiVinAMmjMEDFORD, qrEG5n "THE Store of A Thousand Thoughtful Gifts" It's Up to Ike to Push Rights if Legislation To Washington (CQ) President Eisenhower can push his civil rights program through the in coming 85th Congress if he puts enough steam behind the effort. . That, at least, is the opinion of the lawmakers and lobbyists surveyed by the Congressional Quarterly in its rundown on 1957. legislative prospects. The prediction itself is news worthy. Not since the post-Civil war decade has Congress written a major civil rights statute into the books. Aided by Senate rules permit ting virtually unlimited debate, southern Democrats have used their committee chairmanships, their parliamentary skill and, ul timately, their lung power to de lay or prevent votes on civil rights legislation. They are in a position to do so again in 1957. But backers of civil rights bills think their own position is stronger in the new Congress than it has been for many years. Election Returns Cited The reasons: President Eisen hower and the November elec tion returns. Those returns were an eye opener. In city after city across the country, large numbers of Negro voters switched to the Republican column. Politicians of both parties are convinced the "Negro vote," which Lincoln captured for the GOP and Roosevelt seized for the Democrates, is up for grabs again. Northern Democrats, who ac Is That So? Concerning birds. The great conqueror of Asia, Kublai Khan, kept 10,000 hunting birds gyrfalcons, peregrines, and eagles, each with its own falcon er. For hours on end, so the great traveler Marco Polo reports, the great Khan would relish the sport of having his favorite birds pursue cranes and other heavy birds, overcoming them after long, violent midair struggles. Sociable weaver birds of southern Africa, working to gether, have been known to build huge 30-room apartments of straw and grass about 10 feet in diameter and eight feet high in the thorny branches of an acacia. America's only parasitic bird is the cowbird. During her egg- laying season, the hen seeks out the nest of a smaller bird often a song sparrow, ovenbird, yel low warbler or vireo. Shortly after dawn she usually removes one of the eggs of her victim by puncturing it with her bill and carrying it off. Then she lays one of her own eggs. As a rule, she seeks another nest for the next egg. The victimized bird usually does not object to the strange egg and incubates it with her own. The young cowbird is al most always bigger than its nest mates and with greedy insistence usually monopolizes the food brought by the overworked little parents. The upshot, often enough, is that the foster par ent's true young cowbird, feed ing it even though it may be twice their own size. The tailorbird of the Philip pines using an in-and-out stitch carefully sews together the edges of several large leaves with strands of grass and thus forms a pocket in which it places its nest. Song Repeated The house wren, commonly called the Jenny wren, has been counted to repeat its song 6,000 times a day. When the huge-billed toucan beds down for the night, it folds up: he turns his head backward and lays the bill sideways on the top of the back, and then at cented pleas to avoid a party- splitting civil rights showdown before the 1956 election, now rejects counsels of caution. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) Aug. 12 said patience was essen tial in the fight to wipe out ra cial prejudice. On Nov. 9 three days after the election he said, "Democrats are digging their own grave by inacuun in mc field of civil rights." One Republican, long a sup porter of civil rights legislation, describes the change in his party this way: "In the past, many Re publicans who have no reason to oppose civil rights bills have not been notably active in sup porting them. They had no de sire to interrupt their pleasant working relationship with the southern Democrats who run Congress. Picture Changed "Also, they saw no possible political advantage in espousing civil rights. When all the Negro votes were going to Democrats, Republicans were inclined to say, 'Let the Democrats work for civil rights.' This election changed all that." The atmosphere is ripe for a bipartisan civil rights drive. Some 50 groups, organized as the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, are ready to push for action in 1957. All that is needed, they feel, is leadership from the top from President Eisenhower. Mr. Eisenhower endorsed a legislative civil rights program for the first time in 1956. He By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist spreads his fan-like tail and folds that over the gaudy bill and back. The smallest warm-blooded animal in the world is the bee hummingbird. It is slightly over two inches long but more than half of this consists of bill and tail. The robin-sized mockingbird is without doubt America's best natural-born vocalist: not only does it have a set of haunting songs of its own which it pours out from a high perch but it also includes in its repertoire with equal ease the mimicked songs of every other bird and frog in the neighborhood , in cluding the sparrow's chirping, the swallow's twittering, the frog's bellow, and the hawk's scream. Secures Egg To Nest The tree swift not only glues her small cup-shaped nest to its anchorage on the side of a limb high on a tree with sticky saliva but it also secures her single egg to the inside of the nest. Hummingbirds make the most efficient mothers in the bird world usually taking on the entire role of nest-building, in cubating and caring for the young. One in fact, the black chinned hummingbird, has been observed building a second nest and laying eggs in it while still feeding the first pair in the nest! The woodpecker's usual court ing song is a drumming produced by a rapid tapping on a resonant dead limb or even a tin-sheathed eve-trough. It drums so rapidly that one's eye cannot follow the movement nor the ear separate the rolling notes. To give the bill extra driving strength, the bird has powerful neck mucles and some of the bones in its head are fused to resist the constant hammer to which it is subjected. To get food out of the tiny holes, the tongue is extra long and the tip has little barbs on it to help pull the grubs out. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous ref erence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters Please address your letters to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ForrestalTo Head For Mediterranean Norfolk, Va. U.R The su percarrier Forrestal will head toward the Mediterranean Jan. 21, the Navy here said today. The 60,000 ton warship will leave from Mayport, Fla., for duty with the U.S. Sixth Fleet. A spokesman said it is the first time that a ship of the 60,000 ton class has joined American naval forces on foreign stations. The Forrestal's sister ship, the Saratoga-, is slated for the Medi terranean later next year. Atlantic Fleet Headquarters said the. Forrestal will arrive in the Mediterranean early in Feb ruary to relieve the 45,000 ton carrier Coral Sea, which is slat ed for transfer to the West Coast. Civil Pass called for a bipartisan commis sion to investigate civil rights problems, a separate civil rights division in the Department of Justice, and most important strengthened civil laws to pre vent and punish violations of civil rights, particularly the right to vote. The program delayed by the House Rules committee finally was approved by the House by a lopsided 279-126 vote. But it reached the Senate so late July 23 the President's advisors told him there was no chance for action. Mr. Eisenhower is expected to push the same program in 1957, and House passage again seems assured. The real struggle will come, as it always has, in the" Senate. First Round Early The first round in the Senate battle will be fought opening day, Jan. 3, when a small, bipar tison group attempts to change the Senate rules and make it easier to cut off filibusters. Odds are heavily against their succes. A similar effort failed, 70-21, in 1953. Presidential inter vention could be decisive, but it is not really esxpected. In 1952 Mr. Eisenhower was quoted as favoring a curb on fili busters, but during the 195a de bate on a rules change, Senate GOP Leader William F. Know land (Calif.) said Mr. Eisenhower "clearly understands the . . . rules of the Senate are for the Senate of the United States alone" to decide. Sen. Charles E. Potter (R. Mich.) backing the rules revision Dec. 11 said "I would hope" the President favors the move but added he had no plans to enlist White House support. Decisive Test Later A more decisive test of Presi dential leadership will come la ter, when the Administration's civil rights bills actually reach the Senate. Civil rights advo cates claim at least eight of the 15 votes on the Judiciary com mittee enough, they say, to overcome opposition to the measures by Chairman James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.). If they can blast the bills out of Eastland's committee, a fili buster almost certainly will en sue. Under existing Senate rules, 64 votes will be needed to im pose cloture and cut off the de bate. Democrats say they can fur nish about 24 of the votes. That means 40 of the 47 Senate Re publicans would have to be swung into line. Only one man can do that, and at that stage all eyes will turn to the White House. 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Business Trend Up This market growth will be in line with a further upward trend in general business activ ity. Our national gross product for 1957 should be somewhere in the neighborhood of $435 bil lion, with disposable income reaching possibly S300 billion as against $287 billion in 1956. We also can look forward to another year of substantially full employment. On this basis, and with a prevailing confidence in our economy, personal consump tion expeditures should also con tinue to increase from current levels. Although it has been histor ically proven that prosperity and pro'gress are not based on war or peak level defense expendi tures, we can look forward to somewhat higher spending in that area, too. This should be in British Soldiers Slain at Nicosia Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Gunmen shot down two British soldiers early today when' they called at The Times of Cyprus office to pick up newspapers for their unit. The men were killed by a blast of sten gun fire a few hours after the government released 25 prominent Cypriots held un der the island's emergency reg ulations. British troops sealed off the old walled inner city of Nicosia and a search was begun for the assassins. Thousands of workers were held outside the city walls by barbed wire and troops with weapons. on a small scale from from 85c Plus Tax .-. from 59c from 89c pair Prices to FitEvery Budget 'I n"" MEC&fD-S to open a charge account WED70RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBtftJE FIVK the neighborhood of $42 bilfion. Other gevernment spending- fed eral, state and local also should rise some. Housing Steady The construction i n d 41 s t r y, which set new highs in each of the last four years, should also continue its upward trend. Housing starts should remain steady with more emphasis on non-residential building. With the new highway pro gram just getting underway, spending for highways should be at least $750 million above 1956, or a total of around S8.5 billion. The tremendous demand for capital equipment vfill continue in 1957 and expenditures are even expected to show an in-; crease. ! These figures can add up to but one thing another good business year in 1957. My cone fidence in this, of course, is premised on our continuing;, sue-" cessful effort in maintaininga peace in the world. o MotheryMay I Have A New Pair of To Wear jOn Christmas? $1.00 Plus Tax Juit ene f mary rlreiio $t45 styles, of course.0 She'will 3 be so proud because they , are Buster "Brown Shoes. o r- Buster Brovrn Shoe Store o o o 0 o Fluhrer fildg. IS So. Central O O : . 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