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t SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, January I, 1937 itter Campaign, Weather Provide Top Headliners in State's 1956 News Parade By UNITED PRESS Politics and weather, the old standby, provided the top head lines in Oregon's 1956 news parade. Overshadowing all else, even the weather, was the bitter cam paing of the presidential election year. It was a topsy-turvy polit ical year in which the state voted overwhelming to return Presi dent Eisenhower to the White House and then elected an al most clean slate of Democrats to the top stat and national offices. For the first time since pop ular election of U. S. senators was instituted In 1914 the state Is represented by two Democratic senators. Also, for the first time, three of the four Congressmen are Democrats. A tragic note touched off the plitical year. Gov. Paul L. Pat terson, who only 82 hours earlier had announced he would enter the senatorial race against Sen Wayne Morse, dropped dead of a heart attack while discussing his forthcoming campaign with political advisors at Portland's Arlington Club. Moving in to fill the breach was former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, also an ex governor. The campaign, one of the bitterest in the state s history, ended with Morse winning hand ily. It was his first triumph as a Democrat. He was twice prev iously elected as a Republican. For the first time since 1934 a Democrat also will sit in the governor's chair. Robert D. Holmes, former state senator and Astoria radio station execu tive, defeated Gov. Elmo Smith by 7,500 votes in the Democratic sweep. The weather ran the scale from heavy snow, ice, torrential rains, mud slides and washout to parch ing 100-dgeree temperatures. The winter storms took a toll of a number of lives and a flash flood pearly washed out the town of Mitchell in central Oregon. Crime and violence also came In for a share of the headlines. Fires Damage Two Harlford Churches Hartford. Conn. (U.R) Fire Monday threatened to destroy St. Joseph's Cathedral, mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, just hours after a fire of suspicious origin all but destroyed St. Patrick's Church here. A third alarm was sounded at the St. Joseph's blaze when the cathedral's ceiling collapsed and trapped seven firemen in the basement. Two of the firemen were un conscious when rescued and were taken to Hartford Hos pital. The other five were treat ed at the scene for smoke poison ing. A mass was in progress when moke was detected in the moth er church and the first alarm was turned in. The mass con tinued to its conclusion and most ef the worshippers left unhur riedly. Others remained until firemen escorted them from the cathedral. Fire Marshal George T. Ken nedy said the cause of the three alarm St. Patrick's fire has not been determined and that he was looking into the possibility of arson. The interior of St. Patrick's was destroyed. Only the stone walls and the steeple of the church were left Handing by the fire. No one was injured in that blaze. Chest X-Ray Clinic Open This Week The chest x-ray clinic at Sac red Heart hospital will be open this Wednesday eveninff and Thursday afternoon, according to the Jackson County Public Health association, which oper ates the clinic. The clinic has been closed for two weeks because of the holi days and will now resume its regular weekly hours, they said. Dr. A. Erin Merkel. county health physician. ur;ed all adults to have chest x-rays once a year. The x-rays are an inexpensive and effective method of discover ing tnherrtilosis and other chest and heart conditions, he pointed out, and annual x-rays can una these conditions while they are in their early, easily curable stages. The chest x-ray machinery was Tinrrhased bv the Jackson Coun ty Public Health association and the clinic is maintained as a part of the tuberculosis control procram in this county. The clinic will be open this Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursday afternoon be tween 2 and 5 P m. GOOD NEWS Hingham. Mass. iU.P Glad Tidings Rock on Liberty Pole Hill in this seashore town was so named because a hunter died quickly. Legend recounts that friends of Jacob Hunter were re lieved to learn that Indians kill ed him without first torturing him. Heading the list of criminal in vestigations was the Multnomah county grand jury's probe into vice and corruption in the county and Portland. The investigation resulted in indictments to nearly two score persons, including Dis trict Attorney William B. Lang ley and Portland Police Chief Jim Purcell. At Albany, four Linn county jail prisoners overpowered the jailer and escaped. One was found dead in the Willamette river, two others were later cap tured and one still is at large. Disasters also took some play away from politics. A $500,000 explosion and fire at the Linnton plant of Portland Gas & Coke Co. knocked out gas service to most of the Portland area and to some 60,000 customers in the Willamette valley for several days. A spectacular fire destroyed nearly a half-mile of Portland's waterfront causing several mil lion dollars damage. A gas plant explosion at Cot tage Grove sent 15 persons to the hospital. Three persons later died. A party of 19 youth hostelers from the East fell into a crevasse on Mt. Hood and a dramatic res cue operation succeeded in sav ing the lives of all but one of the young mountain climbers. The year saw an increase in the number of highway traffic deaths. Through December 30, 419 had been killed on the high ways, compared with a total of 414 for entire 1955. The worst single tragedy snuffed out the lives of five vacationing Califor nians in a truck-car head-on col lision near Grants Pass. The worst plane crash during the year,, occurred near Klam ath Falls when an Air Force plane hit a mountain top, killing three persons and injuring two. Justices Die Death also came to two Ore gon Supreme Court justices. Justice Earl C. Latourette died in August and Justice Walter Tooze died in December. The court made news headlines in other ways. Early in the year the state's highest judical body ruled that cities had the right to fluoridate their drinking water to protect the health and help prevent dental decay of resi dents. The court ruled that the fair trade act was unconstitution al in that non-signers did not have to sell merchandise at set retail prices. The right of power companies to tack surcharges on power rates was upheld. In the business world, some of the state's biggest corporations changed hands. The multi-million dollar Dant and Russell organ ization, one of the nation's lead ing lumbering, shipping and sales firms, was sold to Blyth & Co. investment house. Later portions' of the huge operation were resold to other groups. Georgia . Pacific Corporation bought the Hammond Lumber Company and the M & M Wood working Company, one of the largest plywood manufacturers, was sold to the Simpson Timber Company of Shelton, Wash. Natural Gas Arrives The first natural gas came to Oregon during the year when the huge gas pipeline, from south western United States to Canada was completed. Two Oregon women came in for national attention in 1956. Mrs. Cleo Maletis, a Portland mother, was named Mrs. America at Daytona Beach. Fla., and Miss Martha Shull, Portland school teacher, was elected president of the National Education As sociation at its annual conven tion in Portland. The newspaper world lost a prominent member with the death of Mrs. Maria C. Jackson, widow of the founder of the Oregon Journal. Mrs. Jackson, long known for her philanthrop ic works, left a $1,250,000 Jack son Foundation for educational and charitable purposes. Refugees and Orphans On the lighter side, a Klamath county prosepector. Earl Sher idan, made news when he set up camp on Klamath Falls' main street claiming he owned a por tion of the land under the street and intended to prospect 'for uranium. He later relented and packed up his gear, allowing traffic to once again flow un obstructed along the artery. . Harry Holt, the Creswell farm er who physically suffered from a heart condition but who spirit ually has a heart as big as all outdoors, continued his airlift of Korean orphans to new homes in the United States. Oregon also opened arms and hearts to a large number of Hungarian refugees who fled the Communist terror in their homeland. a blizzard of bargains! certified values guaranteed savings . . . 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