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) G federal Aid To Education Greaiesf Need, Morse Says Tokyo (IF! Sen. Wavnp Horse of Oregon said today "the greatest foreign policy need of the United States during the next 50 yean is federal aid to education- The Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the United States cannot stay ahead of Rus sia in manpower, and that its only hope to remain ahead of Russia "in is brainpower." UT B Higher Caliber Morse, chief American dele gate to the recent Common wealth Parliamentary Confer ence in India, warned that Rus sian education on 'the high school and college level may well be of higher caliber than it is in the U. S. "I would hate to see an across the - board test on all education between high school students in Russia and the United States," he said. Morse, a teacher himself for 21 years, said it is alarming to realize that "23 per cent of the high schools in the U. S. do not offer a course in chem istry or physics." Process Superior He said Russia's educational process of finding bright stu dents and providing them with a college education was super ior to the U. S. emphasis on mass aducation. Morse also said he favored settling the issue of war and AUSSIES BATTLE BLAZES Sydney, Australia HP) Hun dreds of residents in remote ru ral areas of New South Wales spent Christmas Day fighting bushfires which have burned out more than two million acres of pastureland. Firefighting crews burned firebreaks 40 miles long in attempts to save the threat ened towns of Roto, Mathanga and Euabalong during a heat wave with temperatures as high as 113 degrees. Use Tribune Want Ads peace through the United Na tions. "An extraordinary session of the United Nations to dramatize the war and peace issue with all nations laying down their blueprints for peace is prefer able to a summitt meeting be tween the heads of the great powers," Morse said. Umatilla Road Workers Get Raise Pendleton HP) More than 60 Umatilla county road depart ment employees will receive a wage increase of five cents an hour effective Jan. 1, "County Judge D. R. Coow said today. Judge Cook said the boost was a "bonus for ... an excel lent job," and was in line with a rise in the cost of living. He said it was separate from anoth er proposed increase of 10 cents an hour for the road employees expected next July. Russia Promotes Woman in Party Moscow (IP) Mme. Ekate rina Furtseva, the first and only woman to achieve a prominent position in. the Soviet hierarchy, was relieved of her duties with the Moscow city party commit tee Wednesday night to work full-time activities on a nation al level. An announcement said Mme. Furtseva has been "freed from her commitments" with the Mos cow unit "in connection with . . . her transfer ... to perman ent work as a secretary of the party Central committee." Mme. Furtseva will be suc ceeded as first secretary of the Moscow committee by Vladi mir Ustinov, the announcement said. It said the shift was de cided at a plenary session of the Moscow committee. Western observers today saw little significance in the move. They said it was simply a rou tine decision usually made Canadians Plan To Buy Pendleton Hotel Pendleton (IP) A group of Canadian businessmen headed by Charles Nemetz of Regina, Saskatchewan, planned to pur chase the lease of the Pendleton hotel today. Purchase price of the 100-room hotel was not an nounced, but it is believed to be in excess of $75,000. The hotel is owned by the Pendleton Hotel Corporation. Nemetz represents United Ho tels, Inc., with hotels in Canada and Washington state. He is former owner of several Cana dian utility firms, including Dominion Electric of Regina. when the leader of a subordin ate party organization is elect ed to the secretariat of the Communist Party Central com mittee. - - Mme. Furtseva has been a secretary on the central com mittee since February of 1956. She also is the only woman of the powerful party Presidium. Thursday, December 28, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEJT Norma Jalmadge Funeral on Friday Hollywood (IP) The body of Norma Talmadge has been re turned to the land of make be lieve where she reigned as queen in the golden days of the silver screen. The beautiful star of the silent screen died Tuesday in Las Vegas, where she had lived since 19.46 with her third hus band, Dr. Carvel James. She was 60. : Funeral services were sched uled tentatively for Friday aft ernoon, pending the arrival from Florida of Miss Talmadge's sister, Constance. A third sister, Natalie, lives in Santa Monica. All the Talmadge sisters were famous in the pre-talkie days, but Norma was the "queen" of Hollywood as a romantic star and as the wife of movie mogul Joseph Schenck, whom she "wed in 1916. EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES Sloatsburg, N. Y. 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