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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.
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