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9 " tr I nree dig. election Issues Picked By Editors, Officials Washington- (CQ) -The Big Three of economic issues-inflation, recession and Govern ment spending -will domin ate the 1958 election cam paign according to editors and Congressmen polled by Congressional Quarterly. Editors from all sections of the country put the cost of living at the top of their list of issues, with recession and unemployment in second place. Republican Senators and Representatives said Federal spending and taxing was the biggest issue they could see, and put inflation and reces- Two Persons Hurt In Aufo Accident , A one-car accident early Sunday morning at the inter section of Table Rock and Airport rds. resulted in minor injuries to two persons, state police reported this morning. Officers said that Keith Arlen Branson, 20, of 710 Palm st., Medford, and Jeof frey David Heim, 19, of Klam ath Falls, were treated at Sacred Heart hospital follow ing the 2:10 a.m. accident, and were then released. Heim was driving the car west on Airport rd., accord' ing to reports, and as he slowed for the intersection at Table Rock rd. his brakes grabbed and the car started into the ditch on the side of the road. He told officers that in an attempt to miss the ditch he accelerated, continu ed across Table Rock rd., and ended up in the ditch on the far side of the road with the car. on Its top. 1 ?-t WORKING in office at New port, R. I., President Eisen hower signs mass of bills passed by Congress. sion third and fourth on their list. Democrats said the reces sion would be their biggest talking point, with -inflation next in importance. 515 Replies The annual Congressional Quarterly survey of issues drew responses from 325 lead ing editors and 190 members of Congress this year. With the pocketbook prob lems so much in the forefront, few other topics appeared on the lists of the top five issues. The editors gave third place to control of labor unions, which has become a hot issue since the 85th Congress failed to pass the Kennedy-Ives bill Republicans put the same issue in second place, but Democrats largely ignored it. The problem of ethics in Government with specific reference to the Adams-Gold-. fine investigation-rated fourth place on the editors' list, eighth with the Democrats and 10th with the Republicans. Foreign policy was the fifth choice of the editors, ranked fourth with Demo crats and came in eighth on the Republican list-. ReDublicans and Democrats agreed that farm policy was the fifth most important issue before the country, while edi tors ranked it eighth. Democrats put in a strong plug for Social Security bene fits - their third-favorite talk ing point but this topic fell far down the list for Republi cans and editors. ' . " Overlooked Issues Almost as interesting as the issues that were mentioned were some . that were over looked. ' 1 The question of Mr. Eisen hower's performance as Presi dent, a major matter in the last two campaigns, ranked only seventh with the editors, and tenth with the Democrats. Republican Congressmen ig nored it almost to a man a pretty clear indication that there will be little coattail- riding this year. The missile race with Rus sia, subject of so much debate in Congress, came in tenth on the editors list and ranked even lower among Congress men of both parties. School integration - as a political issue between the parties ranked just above the missile race with the edi tors and was- mainly ignored by Republican and Demo cratic lawmakers. The general civil rights question did, not make the list of the top ten issues, either. (Copyright 1958 Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- RUDYARD KIPLING, particularly outraged by autograph hounds, was reading peacefully in his garden in England one day, when a neighbor barged in with, an American who an nounced "she could never eo home and face her hus band without shaking the ' MJj band of the immortal Kud yard' Kipling." Then she eyed the author-poet, noting" he had on an old, thread bare suit, was unkempt and scowling darkly. "I never dreamed," she quavered, "that you were going to look like this." "I don't look like this!" thundered Kipling. This is one of my off-days. You've caught me being pestered by imbed lie celebrity chasers!" When Oscar Wilde was sentenced to prison, he was led out of the courtroom into a drenching rainstorm. Heartbroken, but unbowed, he remarked to the prison Warden in whose custody he found himself, - -So this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts! She doesn't deserve to have any." C 1958, br Bennett Cert Distributed by King restores Syndicate. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . Lefs talk for a moment to day about territorial limits. At this particular hour in his tory it is a rather interesting subject. It is especially inter esting because of this little squib in the news that as this is written hasn't received much play in the headlines: "Red China has extended its TERRITORIAL LIMITS 12 nautical miles off the main land. The communists said this puts BIG QUEMOY ISLAND inside Red China's territory." WHY is that interesting? ' It's quite a story-much too long to be gone into in detail here. It tracks back to the beginnings of internation al law. Under international law, the territorial- limits of a nation was generally agreed to extend out three miles from its shores. Beyond this limit was agreed to be international waters, free to the ships of all nations. This three-mile limit was vaguely regarded as the limit of cannon range. Here is the point: WITHIN this three mile limit the authority of the na tion concerned has been re garded as prevailing. RUT- - As time passed (and as the range of cannon was ex tended and -aerial bombing came into the picture) condi tions changed. In men's minds, at least, it was accepted that three miles is a pretty short distance. So a LONGER dis tance came to be talked about But, whatever the distance, the - authority of the nation within the limit has been ac cepted as prevailing. That is to say: If the Red Chinese can establish a territorial limit of 12 nautical miles they will establish a claim that these islands of Quemoy and Matsu are THEIRS. Little Iceland is flirting with this same theory in its claim to all the fish in the seas within 12 miles of Ice land's shores. 1 TOTE, please, that the Chi- ' nese Reds are extending their territorial limits claim 12 NAUTICAL miles off the mainland. That also is inter esting. A nautical mile is long er than a land mile. A land mile is 5,280 feet. The nauti cal mile used by the U.S. Navy is 6,080.27 feet. The nau tical mile used by, the British Navy is 6,080 feet A nautical mile is the practical equival ent of one-sixtieth of one de gree, or a minute of arc, of the earth's circumference. A nautical mile is about 1.15 land miles. Anyway, by using nautical miles, the Chinese extend their territorial claim a little farther out. l - Four reasons your savings are safe with us; You get a real feeling of solid security when you put your money in an Insured Savings and Loan Association like ours. We display the emblem of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation which means your savings are protected these ways 1 . Your money is principally invested in loans to help build homes truly a sound investment which helps build our community. . 2. Our experienced officers select these investments. They know .. this market and how to arrange good, sound home loans. 3. After meeting high standards to qualify to display the; rSLIC emblem, our Insured Association is examined regularly by government officials to assure continued safe operations. 4. Your savings are insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings -and Loan Insurance Corporation, an agency of the U.S. Government. .These are just some of the reasons why saving with us does r"a.ke a difference. , FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager . Convenient Street Parking - ' c to c?7 9 THE interesting part of it all is that this territorial waters claim by the Chinese Reds MIGHT result in the Quemoy-Matsu islands ruckus winding up in TALK instead of shooting. Many strange things can happen - especially when a lot of bluffing is going on. American Airman Kills Japanese In Gun Accident Tokyo (UPD A U.S. air man today described as "a horrible accident" a shooting incident in which he fatally wounded a Japanese passen ger aboard a train. But pub lic anger was swelling and the U.S. Army feared another Girard case. The airman was Peter E. Longpre, 19, of Lakewood, Calif., on duty at Johnson Air Force" Base when a rifle he was carrying fired and fatal ly wounded Sachiyuki Miya mura, 22, a music student who was riding by in. a train. 'Deeply Sorry Longre issued a formal statement today saying, "I am deeply sorry." Col. Ray Vindiver, commander of the air base, expressed his own "deepest personal and official regret" for the incident. Van diver appealed for the "under standing and good will" of the Japanese and said he hoped the case could be resolved with "equity and justice." But already groups were at work in Japan to revive the jurisdiction issue which had been fought once before under similar circumstances in the case of Sp3c William S. Girard who shot and killed a Japanese woman on a rifle range. Investigation Demanded The powerful S o c i alist party told the supreme procurator-general's office (pub lic prosecutor) today it was difficult to interpret the Long pre case as an "on duty crime" and demanded it conduct a thorough investigation." Longpre, in his statement, said, . "I accidentally dis charged an M-l rifle which I carried in the course of my duty ... I did not intend to shoot at anyone or anything. I didn't realize that there was a magazine in the rifle at the time of the incident." 1 Newsprint consumption in Sweden has risen more than 90 per cent since 1937. New Miss America Sets Out To Collect Fortune With Title Atlantic City, N. J.-fljPD-A brown-eyed Mississippi choir singer, who was named Miss America Saturday night, set out today to collect the for tune that goes with the title. Mary Ann Mobley, 21, Brandon, Miss., college sen ior, who never had a date until she was 16 years old, became the first Mississippi entrant ever to win the beauty title shortly before midnight Saturday in a nationally tele vised finale to the week-long pageant. "I used to be the biggest AKraViam T.innnln was nnno offered the governorship of Oregon. Lightning Starts Many Fires in N. California San Francisco - (UPD -Foresters were on the alert to day for a new rash qf forest fires expected as a result of another day of thunderstorms over Northern California. The thunderstorm, ac companied by scattered show ers, touch off "at least 50 fires" in Northern California's timberlands during the week end, according to Deputy Cali fornia Forestry Chief C. E. Metcalf. v , Out of Control The most serious fires were raging out of control in Hum boldt county, where lightning started 10 fires. One blaze, near Alder-point on the Eel river in southern Humboldt county, had burn ed over 750 acres of brush and timberland. It was being fought by 140 men, including convicts from San Quentin prison. A second major fire was re ported near Honeydew in the southwest section of the coun ty. One hundred men were trying to control this blaze, which had blackened 650 acres. A third major fire was 90 per cent uncontrolled Sunday night after blackening 750 acres of timber, brush and grass 30 miles east of Red ding in Shasta county. For estry officials said they had no hope of bringing the blaze under control before late to day. Small Fires Reported A number of small fires, possibly as many as 250, were reported in Monterey coun ty. All were being controlled. Lightning started a fire near Lakeport in Lake coun ty Sunday, while other blazes raged out of control in the foothills of the San Joaquin valley. The weltherman said there was nothing unusual about the thunderstorms except that they had reached the coastal, areas. He predicted most of them would1 be over by Tuesday. tomboy you've ever seen," she later told a press conference. "I had long . pigtails and I wore braces on my teeth for four years. I was 16 when I had my first date." Broadway Her Goal Miss Mobley, who wants to sing and dance on Broadway, won the coveted title over 52 contestants from 46 states, the cities of Washington, D.C Chicago and New York, and Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. She weighs 114 pounds and measures 34Ms-22-35. She won a total of $10,000 in schplarships, $15,000 in clothes, furs, an auto and a television set, and the oppor tunity to earn a small fortune during her year-long reign. A total of $38,000 in scholarships was given to the 20 top winners among the 52. First Stop New York . The runners-up for ; Miss America were: Miss Iowa, Jo anne Lucille MacDonald, 20, of Ames, a S3,000 scholarship; Miss Oklahoma,' Anita Bryant, 18, of Tulsa, a $2,500 scholar ship; Miss California, Sandra Lee Jennings, 18, of River side, a 82,000 scholarship, and Miss North Carolina, Betty Lane Evans, 18, of Greenville, a $1,000 scholarship. The first stop for Miss Mobley after Atlantic City was New York City. There she will be fitted for a com plete wardrobe and furs and make the necessary business arrangements for a year-old beauty reign. Mary Ann expects to re turn to her family's home a year from, now with a tidy little nestegg of $50,000 earned in personal appear ances, advertising endorse ments, television guest spots and other activities. She alsa will travel to Europe. ' DISAPPEARING while fly ing from Adana, Turkey, near Soviet Armenia, U. S. Air Force transport plane piloted by Lt. J. E. Simpson, is believed forced down by Russian fighter planes. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, September t. IMS I EAST EVANS CREEK Neighbors Club to Meet By NELLIE BERGMAN East Evans Creek The Friendly Neighbors club - of the meadows will meet for their first fall meeting at the home of Mrs. Frye Sept. 10 for a potlck on Meadows road. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Brinn of LaGrand visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Coul ters last week. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wolf of Baltimore, Md., were recent visitors in the Vinson Hunt home. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph EXPRESSING concern over Red China's attacks on Que moy Island, U. S. Air Force flies General Curtis E. Le May, strategic bombing ex pert, to Formosa. Whaley of Castro . Valley, Calif., spent a couple of days with the Hunts. Guy and Susan Fitzgerald of Central Point spent the week visiting : at - the Beers home. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maples den of Horse Creek, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Hukill of Applegate were guests at the Amos Maplesden home re cently. Mrs. Vera Stingley also was a visitor. They all at tended the dedication of the Meadow church. Mrs. Lloyd Beers was a Wednesday afternoon visitor in Prospect with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Sanderson. Capt. Virgil Gibson, who is stationed with the Air Force at San Bernardino, Calif., and family . spent a week here looking about his new prop erty. He has bought the Her the huckleberry patch from The Manitoba River com mission serves more than 150,000 customers on 43,000 farms. man Garnardui place on An- tioch road. Those going on a trip Int the Meadows were Mr. and Mrs. Bonham, Mrs. Thelma Beers, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bishop. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beers and John Terry were Sunday evening visitors for a barbe cue supper at the Jess Terry home near Central Point. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Terry and daugh ter, Debbie, and Dorothy Ter ry of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bergman and Elmer Danson of Trail, and Mrs. Rhoda Frye of Idaho went to the huckleberry patch, where they were met by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Danson and daughter of Trail. Jack Ansures of Medford vi6ited briefly in the Bergman home Sunday with Elmer Danson and Mrs. Frye of Idaho. Red Cross volunteers gave 2.208,000 hours of service in 176 Veterans Administration hospitals in the United States in 1957. AUTOGIASS Phone SPring 3-3613 SELBY GLASS CO. 303 North Bartlett hear the new sensation in sound STEREOPHONIC Verl G. Walker and Voice of Music invite you to an Pioneer Room Jackson Hotel A Thursday, Sept. 11 S X St 7 , 12 Noon through jaMw" 1 ' E"loy demonstrations ! w I rt?tt I H 1 1' ! 1 1 1 1-! 1 1-! !l-j I m etereo muiie and sound I ij ilk 1 1 1 1 1 H ji ! 00 ; ! J t tee 35 model of record llfS'llllW ' I'i'-ll'' - 's Inl playen and tape recorders. ifllllll ''1 H jjj-'i'-N I j j Bri"B family iff I 'jfiiH 3 j ! 1 1 ' : " I v enioy coffee and donuts r ufillPwIH ! 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