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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.
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