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4 Nunley, Duncan To Debate Bill At Ballot Forum ' Walter Nunley, Medford at torney, and Robert Duncan, state representative, will dp- bate the capital punishment bill, measure number 4 on the Nov. 4 ballot, at the Ballot Measures Forum, Monday, Oct. 27, at the Congregation al church. The forum, sponsored by the Social Action committee of the church, is a regular event of the church each elec tion year. It will start at 7:30 p.m. and be held at the church. Speakers who have back grounds in matters pretaining to each of the 13 measures which will appear on the bal lot wili be heard during the evening. - The measure title to ap pear on the ballot and speak er for each Include Ted Mc Lean, fixing state boundaries; , Dale Farnham, increasing . funds for war veterans' loans; Henry Padgham, salaries of state legislators; Mrs. Ben Day. financing urban rede velopment projects; modify ing county debt limitation; and thye county home rule amendment; Manville Heisel, special grand jury bill and temporary appointment and assignment of judges; Dr. A. Erin Merkel, authorizing dif ferent use of state institution and authorizes discontinuing certain state tuberculosis hos pitals; Wilbur Fish, state pow er development; and Mrs. Maxine Smith, persons eligi ble to serve in legislature. . Moderator for the forum : will be Emmett Bullard. The public is invited to attend. South Africa maintains weather stations on Tristan de Cunha and Marion Islands and an observation station on Gough Island. Crowsnest Pass, a route through the Rocky Mountains south of Crowsnest Mountain, has an altitude of 4,444 feet. The elephant, once the longest living mammal, has a life expectancy of five years. Washington Report By William S. White lip RISKS SUBSTANCE Washington President Ei senhower is risking the sub stance of his critical last two years l n t h e White House in trying to become a "give 'em hell" politi cian in the campaign. More over, he is the wrong man in Williams White uiewiuuBwoi at the wrong time and in the wrong places. This is not real ly his fight. First, it is not a truly national election, but only a series of highly mixed local and regional contests on issues more parochial than na tional. Second, he owes noth ing to the very GOP wing 'for which he is turning himself inside out in the evening of his public career. And even if it were his fight, his tactics are not the tactics that have won for him the far greater fights he has won in the past. Twice he beat the Democrats by being exactly what he is not being now himself. He is not a genuine partisan, and never was. He is not a "regular" Republican, and never was. He is not even a politician as he himself has often said and never was. It is not possible to say that he is doing the Congressional Republicans no good any where. It may even be that he has arrested here and there what had seemed a pell-mell rush to the Democrats. IT IS NOT entirely clear, however, that in highly critical races he is doing Re publican nominees more harm than good in obediently but not convincingly presenting himself as a "tough" Repub lican partisan flinging epithets like "radical" at the Demo crats. He is also gravely injuring his own wing of his party the "modern" or liberal Re publicans. RCA VICTOR'S SOUND SPECTACULARS FOR '59 Hear these New "Living Stereo" Records Or on Regular Long Plays j"' WZ& " : I LPM-1772 PUnUCKER MUSIC HOUSE 111 North Central, Medford Phone SP 2-5702 All this is made perfectly plain, for one illustration, in New York. There, Nelson A. Rockefeller, the modern Re publican candidate for gover nor, has publicly if politely disavowed the President's at tacks on Democratic "radi cals." Mr. Rockefeller says frankly that he wants to woo rather than to drive away all the Democrats he can which is precisely what Mr. Eisen hower dJd in twice rolling up vast Presidential majorities. The "new", Eisenhower is bad news to the moderns, who can live at all only with some Democratic support and who can have no national spokes man of any real power after the Eisenhower retirement in 1960 unless Mr. Rockefeller wins now in New York. AND THE ''new" Eisenhow er is also bad news to the I President himself in two ways: It is creating unnecessary ani mosities among the Congres sional Democrats, who on the voting record have often been more useful to the President than the Republicans. And it is setting up a condition in which the regulars will control almost everything in sight within the GOP once the November spasm is passed. Except for such possible is lands as might be established by la Rockefeller victory in New York, the regulars will have liquidated whatever is left of the Eisenhower wing before the new Congress is two months old. They will have done this regardless of which party is then in control there. For the President, by heed ing the regulars and staking his prestige in a non-Presidential campaign, has deeply compromised the powerful in dependent position he has held so long in the GOP. He is now only tryjng to do what Vice President Richard M. Nixon is doing and he is not doing it nearly as well. , HE IS doing it badly for two reasons: His heart is not in it; and he is no Nixon on the stump, just as he is no Harry S. Truman. Nixon and Truman can dish it out and can take it. The President canot do either very easily. The image now being offered of a "fighting" Eisenhower simply won't go down. The hard words are too often ac companied by apologetic smiles. All the same, President Ei senhower has adopted the line of his junior, Nixon. Thus the whole Republican national leadership has been turned over to the faction made up of the orthodox Republicans, like the vice president, and of the out-and-out Old Guard, like Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel of Kansas, the Senatorial cam paign head: This faction has courage, and, for the most part, candor. It is, however, the faction that lost five successive Presiden tial elections for the Republi cans beginning in 1932. And it is the faction that tried to reject General Eisenhower himself at the 1952 conven tion. And, for a final irony, the President is now going all-out to assist this faction to return the Republican party to the public image it had before he came along to change it. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Questions, Answers on Vets Loans Measure Are Reviewed Great Britain's exports of passenger automobiles reached a record of 426,000 in 1957, an increase of 90,000 over the previous year. Salem H. C. (Hub) Saal feld, director of the state de partment of veterans affairs, last week announced some "facts and figures" on the vet erans loans measure on the Nov. 4 election ballot. He said there has been con siderable misunderstanding of somp of the provisions of the proposal, and he provided the information to set the record straight. His information, in question and answer form, follows: No Tax Lvy Q. is there a tax levy in volved in Measure No. 22? An. There is no tax levy or appropriation from the General Fund involved in Measure No. 2. The Oregon veterans farm and home loan program is self-sustaining and makes a profit. In fact, the profit from ,the program also pays the expenses of the De partment's Service Division program of assistance to wid ows, "orphans, hospitalization, and disability compensation cases which would have to come from tax funds if it were not for the earnings from the loan program. Q. Does Measure No. 2 in crease the net State debt? A. Nc Measure No. 2 does not increase the net State debt. A look at the financial statement of the State of Ore gon on Sept. 1, 1958, will show the outstanding bond ob ligation of the veterans' farm and home loan program as $85,000,000, but on the asset side it shows $91,824,954.92 A net gain to the State of Ore gon of $6,824,954.92! This net eain is expected to increase by approximately $1,000,000 per year based on the present operation and economic con dition. -Self-Supporting O. Is the veterans loan program self-supporting? A. Yes, it is entirely self- sunDortinff and requires no tax levy or appropriation. The program has made a net op erating revenue of $5,135,581 as of June 30, 1958, after pay ing all administration costs, interest on the bonds, and ex penses of the service Division of the Department. Q. Is there sufficient mort gage, money available to meet the needs of the growing State of Oregon? .., A. Unfortunately, Oregon does not have large financial centers like eastern states. While Oregon lenders have done a tremendous job in the past with short supply of mortgage money with the State they are constantly striving to attract eastern cap ital to help out the serious mortgage money shortage in Oregon. Farm, Home Loan The Oregon veterans' farm and home-loan program has brought into the Oregon mort gage pool more than $88,000, 000 and with this has made over $138,000,000 in loans in all counties of Oregon. During the tight money period in 1957 the veterans' program was called upon to lend over $39, 000,000 to bolster a sagging economy and assist not only veterans, but the lumber in dustry, labor, builders, con tractors, lenders, and all al lied trades, industries and businesses. Last year veterans paid more than $2,000,000 in taxes to help the Oregon tax payer. The demands on the Oregon veterans' Home and Farm Loan Program have been his torically inversely proportion al to the amount of mortgage money available from private sources-when money is tight the demand on the program is great, and when mortgage ...in a suit made wrinkle-resistant with our SfaClu CALL US NEWTOWPRICE On Washable RUGS "FINISHING TOUCH"! 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Although the recent increase in assessed valuation gave the program an addition al 869,000,000 in bonding authority, the demand is so great that this will be used up shortly after the end of next year. The Oregon Journal said on October 7, 1958: ". . . the windfall of 869,000,000 in bonding authority realized from the Wiley Smith stunt may be taken away in whole or in part by next fall, after a new Multnomah county as sessor is elected, or any time thereafter an assessor decides to reduce the ratio. One candi date already is committed to revert to the previous ratio if he's elected." If the above happens and Measure No. 2 fails to pass, it will be approxiamtely 1967 before the program could is sue any more bonds to make mortgage money available to help the economy of the State of Oregon. New Cattle Group May Be Proposed Redmond -(UPD- Secretary of the Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation, Ed Coles, indicated Friday that an Oregon Cattle Feeders association may be proposed at the OCA's fall meeting Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. He said there appears to be a great deal of interest in forming an organization that would be an affiliation of the OCA but remain a separate group instead of a standing committee. ' Edgar C. Reir, a Washing ton state county extension agent who helped . organize the Washington Feeders as sociation, will explain the value of such a group at Fri day's meeting at the Redmond National guard armory here. Fulbright Committee Members Appointed Salem-flJPD- Appointment of Dr. Leland E. Hess, Oregon College of Education, to the Oregon State Fulbright com mittee and reappointment of four others was announced on Friday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Continuing on the commit tee, which screens Oregon candidates for Fulbright scholarships, are Dr. James C. 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