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J o o Increasing Political Pressure May Require Release of Benson U4 4 4 I.yU C. wusoa BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington HP The word around town is that his enemies at last have bracketed Ezra Taft Benson with their gun fire. If this be true, there will be a new sec retary of a g r iculture shortly. True or false, Ben son probably will not sur v i v e in the cabinet if the Farm Belt re jects the Republican Party again in next year's congressional elec tions. Only President Eisenhower's affection for and loyalty to his agriculture secretary have kept Benson in office so long. The secretary has been in po licical trouble since Feb. 11, 1953, the second month of the first Eisenhower administration. It was on that day that Benson spoke in St. Paul, Minn., sug gesting that the government subsidize farm prices only as "disaster insurance." Price sup ports should not, Benson said "encourage uneconomic pro duction, heavy surpluses and subsidies." Demands for Benson's resigna tion became urgent and numer ous by the autumn of 1953. The President ha been defending his farm man ever since, a mat ter of four years. Politics May Bench Benson Benson's departure would not importantly change administra tion farm policies. Pressure of politics, perhaps, will compel Eisenhower to bench Benson, but no such pressure is likely to change Eisenhower's approach to the spending of tax revenue to cope with agricultural sur pluses. A political pro added up Ben son's political plight like this: "The farmers don't like him!" A great many farmers ob viously do dislike Benson as much or more than they dislike the price support policies he represents. This political fact of dislike of the man is ex pected to be an effective argu ment with Eisenhower that po litical expediency may require Benson's resignation. A more effective argument, probably, than the equally factual fram discontent with administration farm policies. The real argument for Ben son's departure is based on the belief of a great many Repub lican politicians that the party would win more congressional seats next year without him than with him. The opposition to Ben son within the Republican Party enjoys the weight of numbers. It will be difficult for the Presi dent to resist. Harder Next Year More difficult to resist, how ever, would be the pressure for Benson's retirement after next year's elections if, as is likely, the Republicans lose again. Eis enhower, by then, will be no more than a caretaker party leader, a man forbidden to run again, even if he wished to do so. A president in such a position probably would give extra weight to the opinions of all the Republicans who might be nom inated to succeed him and to the r.rgings of the party men who would be responsible for the 1960 presidential campaign. Benson cheerfully tells all questioners that things are a bit better on the farm front and that he has no though of retiring so long as Eisenhower finds him useful. Benson is no quitter. Neither does he shrink from trouble, tough situations and hard decisions. A bulge in farm prices or a Republican congressional vie -tory next year would put Ben son on Easy Street, politically, if he still is around. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Changes Planned in Highway Department Salem (W The State High way Department said today that nine civil engineers and 20 en gineering aides in the Portland area would have to be laid off or accept a. reduction in rank. Highway Department Person nel Director Gene Huntley said he expected most of the men would accept demotion. All but four of the men could be fitted into jobs with a lower civil ser vice classification, he said. Huntley said the layoffs were partly due to seasonal decline in construction, to new aerial sur vey methods and to use of the department's new electronic computor. While the highway building program was expanding with federal aid, the projects are more concentrated and required fewer men in some categories, Huntley said. Civil engineers involved, Hunt ley said, were mostly transit men, draughtsmen and senior in spectors. The highway depart ment is forced to make similar layoffs every year, Huntley said, but the concentration in the Port land area is unusual this year. How about going sentimental in this space today just for a change? The thought if suggested by Dr. Fred Singer. Dr. Singer is an astrophysicist who lives in Virginia and works at the Uni versity of Maryland, just across the Potomac river. Astrophysics is the science that deals princi pally with the constitution of the celestial bodies. That makes him an expert on space satel lites, space missiles, space trav el and so on. He is a hard-headed scientist and is one of our leading author ities .on this business of outer space, including fantastic weap ons and counter-weapons that may travel through outer space in order to reach targets half way around our terrestrial globe. TT WAS Dr. Singer who sug gested recently that shooting a rocket to the moon would be perhaps as simple in these day? as falling off a log but would have little military value. The moon, he added, might be a handy place to test out nuclear bombs because in such a case we wouldn't need to be worried about radioactive fallout, but otherwise hitting it with rock ets would be more or less a waste of time. All this is cited as proof that he has a highly PRACTICAL mind. OUT The other day he had to take a . long rail trip. In the Corvallis Grade Crossings Said Safe Salem (IP) The State Public Utility commission said today that three grade crossings of the Southern Pacific railroad in Corvallis were in compliance with safety provisions. The crossings are at intersec tions of Harrison, Monroe and Jefferson, streets. However, further study of the traffic flow along Western ave. or "A" street to the railroad crossing will be made to deter mine how it can be made less hazardous, the PUC said. Salem HP) Here's a switch. Farmers in Lake county have complained that deer hunters are a little to helpful. They closed gates this past season which were supposed to be open. They suggest: Leave the dates as they are found. Woman Dies After Given Cyanide Shot Houston, Tex. (IP) Mrs. Mar garet Van Alsteine died in agony in a doctor's office Thurs day as a hysterical nurse real ized she had given the woman a dose of deadly sodium cyanide by mistake. Mrs. Emily Nash, 46, a labora tory technician since 1928 for Dr. Joseph West, told police she gave the 67-year-old woman, who came to the doctor to see if she was suffering from diabetes, a dose of poison instead of a glucose mixture. Mrs. Nash went into hysterics as the doctor vainly attempted to save the woman. Mrs. Nash told police she had prepared the glucose mixture and placed it on a shelf by the sodium cyanide. When Mrs. Van Alsteine came in for her diabe tes test, Mrs. Nash picked up the wrong mixture. As the poison began sicken ing the woman, the doctor en tered and discovered the mis take. He immediately adminis tered adrenalin and tried to re vive Mrs. Van Alsteine, but she died on the floor as he worked over her. The medical examiner re turned a verdict of accidental death. course of the trip, this idea oc curred to him: Since we are planning to launch an earth satellite any way, and since the talk is that if we're going to we'd better do it as quickly as possible, why not make it a shining CHRIST MAS SATELLITE that would go spinning round and round the world and since it would be definitely proclaimed and iden tified as a CHRISTMAS satel lite it would carry to all man kind our Christmas wish for peace on earth and good will to ward men. Friday, November 22, 1957 MEDFORD (OJtlGOV) HAIL TUlUt VE fPHE idea intrigued him, to he got himself a piece of paper and sat down in the observation car and wrote it all down. In it, he declared that it is not neces sary for the United States to demonstrate any overwhelming technical superiority over Rus sia, for after all we HAVE tech nical superiority over Russia in spite of all the talk that is going around to the contrary. BUT He said THE WORLD IS CRYING FOR A DEMONSTRATION OF EFFORTS TOWARD PEACE. llfHEN his piece was finished ' he read it over and was quite impressed with it him self as all of us are apt to be when we take a flyer at that kind of writing. So when he got to his destina tion he gave it to the reporters and the reporters carried it back to their papers and from the newsroom of the papers it got onto the teletype. That is how come it is men tioned here. TT ISN'T as sentimental as it sounds. For After all in the long pull It will be the CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD that will de feat the foul schemes of Khrushchev and his fellow con spirators in the Kremlin. Coyotes Still State's Most Destructive Animal Salem IP The state agricul ture department said today that coyotes still are Oregon's most destructive predatory animal. Almost half of the 1,162 live stock and poultry losses report ed from July 1 to Oct. 5 were blamed on coyotes. tTHE PUREST ASPIRIN TABLET KNOWN 'Positively NO i&ZZtf&Sk. 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