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o o o o Phone Bill Campaign Launched By Farmer Correctionville, Iowa 'U Farmer Lee E. Smith has asked every farmer in the country to call up his local telephone com pany at 8 a.m. next Thursday and order his phone service cut off. The farmers should go with out telephones until the com panies knuckle under and agree to cut their rates $1 a month, Smith said. Smith said he has nothing par ticular against telephone com panies except that they are "stra tegic." A farm strike against the phone companies would call at tention to the economic plight of the farmers, Smith said. He added city dwellers would be welcome to cut off their tele phone service, too, if they are "in sympathy with the farm situation." ' M 52nd Year EDFOR United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Mr DtWil RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Section Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1957 Pages 1 to 6 Little Hope Held Out For GOP In Congress By LYLE C. WILSON Eisenhower in 1956 was Demo- Uniled Press Correspondent cratic. Washington A taking into ac- New Congress count the political trends of the j A new congress, the 86th, will Must Go It Alone Small wonder that Rep. Rich ard M. Simpson (R-Pa.), chair man of the Republican congres- Dast 30 years it is small wonder : be heading toward Washington , sional campaign committee has that some well informed Repub- i in about a year from now after licans have scant hope of win- the 1958 elections. The chances ning next year's congressional ! that it will be a Republican con elections, i gress aren't worth a nickel. The Republican party has not Politicians seeking re-election GERMANS GET MATADORS Bonn, Germany OP! West German forces will be equipped with American "Matador" ground-to-ground missiles cap able of striking more than 600 miles into Communist territory, Defense Ministry officials said today. They said it is planned to set up two "Matador" squadrons under Luftwaffe control. Only U.S. forces in Germany now have the Matadors. swept to a big congressional vie tory and dominated the ensuing congress since 1928 when they elected a majority of the 71st congress. That was the year Her bert Hoover swamped Alfred E. Smith for the presidency. In 1946 the Republicans won the 80th congress, immortalized by Harry S. Truman as the worst ever. They also won by a very nar row margin the 83rd congress which was elected with Presi dent Eisenhower in 1952. These 1946 and 1952 successes were sufficient but not impressive. The 85th Congress elected with naturally run on the record. The record of the Eisenhower Admin istration seems to be making for a slippery track. The track is littered, to boot, with banana peels such as the well-publicized fizzle of the first United States attempt to match the Soviet's Sputniks with a small Flitnik of our own. Farm subsidy and foreign aid costs also are under hot fire. Government spending, which got out of hand under the Demo crats, continues to worry the voters. There is anxiety that na tional defense is not all it should be. A GOOD "FIT" is necessary in Life Insurance too, because you want the best value for your premium dollars. Call the Man from Manufacturers for expert advice. 25-57 o o District Representative: C. "CHUCK" COX 210 Urn St., Medford, Oregon - Tel.: SP 2-8420, suggested publicly that GOP con gressional candidates next year cannot expect to ride far or fast on the Eisenhower coat tails. In late October, Simpson spoke before a Republican audi ence in Alamogordo, N.M., as fol lows: "Not everything undertaken in Washington has met with gen eral voter approval. This is to be expected, and it is up to the can didates for congress within the ranks of the Republican party to make known their dissents and to work to change or to eliminate undesirable policies when elected." Simpson softened that some, but not much, with these words: "A Republican candidate will not be breaking with President Eisenhower if he confines his campaign to local issues and en dorses only those administration policies which meet the demands of the candidate's constituents." Perhaps not, but what Simp son said just about adds up for Republican congressional candi dates to this: They must choose next year whether to run on President Eisenhower's record or away from it. Modern Republicanism seems not to have caught on with the conservative elements of the party without which elements there is not much political fu ture for the GOP or for most of its 1958 congressional candidates. Kilting Photographer Brings Jail Sentence Justice Department Has New Appearance By HELEN THOMAS United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The Justice department is taking on a new look under the dynamic leader ship of Attorney General Wil liam Pierce Rogers. Only a few weeks on the job, Rogers already is acting like a new broom sweeping clean. In that brief time, the new "A.G." has filled two of four top level vacancies in the de partment. He . also has made some staff changes, and a nurriT ber of top strata shifts appear to be in the wind. The handsome, hard - driving Rogers is gathering around him bright and brainy men bearing like him the stamp of "Modern O O it's iIdselI SHOWTIME ON THE ROAD IKE M IF YOUR UFET ME Stt-WF fill I PiK mo SCA o I This $2 precision scale model Edsel is yours as a gift when you take a test drive with us in the '58 Edsel. Call righh away-and make it a date. (Offer limited to adults only) 00 O LOCAL PRICES START AS LOW AS for the 2-door Ranger Sedan (State and local taxes extra) ft- COLEMAN-EDSEL SALES, INC. Sixth and Fir Republicanism." Two such men are Federal Judge Lawrence E. Walsh, -the new deputy attorney general-designate, and W. Wil son White who will head the new civil rights division. Two Jobs Open Rogers still has to pick men to fill the top job in the crimi nal division and the office of department legal counsel. No abrupt shakeup is antici pated but gradually and smooth ly Rogers is expected to place around him his own coterie of legal experts. Meanwhile, Rogers has stepped into the shoes of former Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. like a pro long groomed for the post. As number two man in the department under Brownell, Rogers had a hand in all the policy-making decisions and a big ger hand In seeing that they were carried out. That Rogers is a comer in the Eisenhower administration and the Republican heirarchy is gen erally conceded. His rise in the national political picture has been swift. Presidential Timber As attorney general, the affa ble, blond - haired, blue - eyed Rogers will be constantly in the limelight'. Some observers be lieve he will be presidential timber some day. Rogers ranks next to Vice President Richard M. Nixon as GOP glamor boy. But they are not rivals for political favor. They are close friends, and Rog ers is among those plugging the hardest for Nixon . to win the next presidential nomination. Rogers' new prominence in the Republican sun was spot lighted after President Eisen hower's Nov. 25 cerebral attack. Acting at the request of the White House staff, Rogers ques tioned the doctors, studied the situation, and came up with the decision that no delegation of presidential duties was neces sary. Nixon and Rogers hovered close to the President during those critical hours when the doctors were confirming their diagnosis. They have teamed up many times. Nixon Asked His Advice It was to Rogers' home that the vice president sped for ad vice and comfort when Presi dent Eisenhower suffered his heart attack in 1955. During the 1952 presidential campaign, Rogers was one of Nixon's chief political advisers. He was at Nixon's elbow during the disquieting days that fol lowed disclosure of the private fund raised by California friends for Nixon. It was Rogers who told Nixon to appeal to the public as he would to a jury. The result was the famous broadcast in which Nixon said -the only personal gift he ever got was his dog "Checkers." Rogers is lean, broad-shouldered, six feet tall. He is photo genic and as handsome in a clean-cut way as a movie idol. Rogers is 44, a half-year younger than Nixon. In addition to charm, he posseses ability. He "won his political spurs when as counsel for a Senate investi gating committee during the Truman administration, he help ed to expose the "mink coat," and "deep freeze" scandals. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Hollywood (IP) Actor An thony Franciosa must serve a 10-day sentence for striking a news photographer, but he has been granted a week's postpone ment to fulfill movie commit ment. The postponement was grant ed Friday after the stage and screen actor lost a plea for mod ification of a battery charge for striking News Photographer Bill Walker of the Los Angeles Herald-Express last April 19. Walker and several other pho tographers were attempting to take Franciosa's picture as he and Actress Shelley Winters left a court hearing in down town Los Angeles when the in c i d e n t occurred. Franciosa knocked Walker down and broke his camera before court bailiffs broke up the scuffle. The actor and Miss Winters since have been married. Dead Line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day. except 10 a.m. for Monday; for Sunday, noon Saturday. Safecrackers Again At Work in Portland Portland (IP) Safecrackers were at work in Portland again during the week end. Police reported some $700 was taken by safecrackers who broke into a double-door safe at the Overall Laundry company and carted off an inner vault. 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