Top Democrats Throw
Last Campaign Punches
Washington (CPD Demo
crats threw their final punch
es at the GOP yesterday
while Republican National
Chairman Meade Alcorn told
President Eisenhower the Re
publicans could regain con
trol of the House in the Con
gressional elections next Tues
day. Although Eisenhower and
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon made their last appeals
Friday night for the votes to
restore the GOP to control
of Congress, the Democrats
held back their final display
of firepower yesterday.
The nation votes Tuesday
to elect 33 of the 98 Senators
serving in Congress next year
and 432 of the 436 House
members. The Democrats are
heavily favored to retain con
trol of both chambers.
Soma Upsets
Alcorn told the President
however, that Republican
candidates will win some upset
victories and recapture con
trol of the House. He declined
to tell reporters and states
where he expects upsets and
declined to make a prediction
about the Senate, which he
admitted would be tough for
his party to win.
Adlai E. Stevenson, twice
defeated Democratic Presi
dential nominee, told a party
meeting at Minneapolis that
-Republican leaders were guil
ty of "intemperate campaign-
Collins Named PT&T
Plant Manager Here
Frank L. Collins, Portland,
has been named southern
Oregon district plant manager
lor .facinc lelepnone com
pany, succeeding Howard J.
Boyd, who is taking a leave
of absence, according to J. H.
Creager, manager for Med
ford. Collins, now division plant
supervisor in Portland, will
be responsible for overall su
pervision of telphone installa
tion and maintenance in Jack
son county and throughout
southern Oregon. Collins'
Headquarters will be in
Eugene.
The new district plant
manager started his telephone
career in 1929 as a messenger
In Portland. He subsequently
became a clerk, a line as
signer and held other craft
jobs as' well as filling a va
riety of supervisory positions.
During the Vanport flood of
1948 he' directed maintenance
and restoration of telephone
facilities in the disaster zone.
Boyd, district plant mana
ger for southern Oregon since
1942, will receive a new as
signment when he returns.
ing" which would leave a leg
acy of bitterness. He said
"smiles and explanations"
from Eisenhower later would
not easily erase this feeling.
Lack of Leadership
"For the lack of leader
ship in the White House, we
must look to the Congress for
the new ideas, for the leader
ship and the great debates as
we hammer out new policies
for the future," he said.
Stevenson said he feared
the United States was losing
ground in its efforts to ach
ieve peace and that the world
was facing greater dangers
than at the start of the Eisen
hower Administration.
At Salt Lake City Senate
Democratic leader Lyndon B.
Johnson called on Eisenhower
to suspend aid for highways
in Indiana pending a Senate
investigation of highway scan
dals in that state. Those scan
dals have figured in the Sen
atorial campaign between Re-
Timber Valuation
Ruling Reversed
Roseburg-dTO-Circuit Judge
Carl E. Wimberly Thursday
declared that State Tax Com
mission attempts to set Doug
las county timber and timber-
land assessments on the same
basis as Lane and Coos were
unconstitutional and capricious.
The judge reversed a tim
ber valuation ruling of the
Tax Commission and upheld
the Douglas County Board of
Equalization which had slash
ed tne valuations by one-
third. He affirmed the right
of the Board of Equalization
to use the values assigned to
timber and timberlands as
found by the county assessor
in 1955.
The decision alters the taxa
tion picture for some 40,000
Douglas county taxpayers
since the early September or
der by the Tax Commission
increased values on timber
lands from $14 million to $21
million. In .terms of actual
revenue, it snuted about
$420,000 of the tax burden
from other property to pri
vate timber owners. Judge
Wimberly's finding came as
a result of a court challenge
by .Roseburg Lumber company.
publican Gov. Harold H. Hand
ley and Vance Hartke, the
Democratic nominee.
Labor Racketeer
Johnson also criticized the
Administration for failing to
jail some of the Labor racke
teers exposed in the Senate
investigation of corruption in
unions. He said the Indiana
scandals involved "allegations
of tie-ins" between Republi
can -union officials and a GOP
state administration.
He accused the GOP of ig
noring the needs of the west
and said it offered "only a
veto of the future."
"It is time for Americans
everywhere to override this
Republican veto of American
progress," he said.
'Split Down the Middle'
Sen. George A. Smathers
(D-Fla.) said in a Miami speech
that the Repubilcans were
"split down the middle" on
foreign policy. Referring to
speeches by Nixon and Sen.
Styles Bridges (D-N.H.), he
said there was a "deep-seated
diference" between camps for
which those two men spoke.
In a 15-page pre-election
statement last night, Bridges
said increased Democratic ma
jorities in Congress could
mean "another new deal from
the bottom of the deck." He
charged Democrats with "pav
ing the way to socialism" and
with being "softer" than the
GOP toward Communism.
Nixon left Seattle, Wash.,
yesterday to spend the week
end campaigning in the new
state of Alaska, which holds
its first election Nov. 25.
Polls Reveal Public Favoring Democrats
Washington - (ITD - Public
opinion polls generally have
indicated that Democrats will
increase their congressional
majorities in the elections
next Tuesday, but some in
volving individual races have
cheered Republicans.
On the basis of surveys tak
en in October, the Gallup and
Roper national polls both gave
substantial margins to Demo
crats running for congress.
"The semi-final Gallup poll
published last Sunday said
58 per cent of the voters
checked during the first half
of October indicated they
would vote for Democrats
compared with 42 per cent of
GOP candidates. If that mar
gin prevails on election day,
Democrats presumably would
win their largest majorities in
the House and Senate since
the 1936 crest of the Roose-
More that half the people
accused of crime in the
United States can't afford to
hire a lawyer and they're as
sured of legal counsel in non
capital cases in only 22 states.
Cheque books were first
issued to depositors in British
banks in 1781.
Business Gains
In Portland Area
Portland -(UPD-Bank clear
ings, home building, retail
sales and construction in gen
eral in the Portland area gain
ed during the month of Oc
tober, according to month-end
business reports.
A late-fall run on suburban
home building and urban
apartment house projects com
bined for a building permit
total in Portland and Mult
nomah county of $11,680,395
for October. The figure was
nearly double that of last
year. '
A gain in bank clearings,
which reflects money in cir
culation, showed a total of
$979,865,565", or more than
nine million dollars over last
year and 64 million dollars
over the September figure.
Favorable fall weather was
listed as an important factor
in the building upswing.
Physics To Be
Taught by Films
Phoenix Three units in
physics will be taught at Phoe
nix High school this year
through motion pictures pro
duced by Encyclopedia Brit-
tanica Films, E. M. Skipworth
vice principal, has announced
The three units covered will
be sound, electricity and mag
netism and atomic physics. A
total of 53 films will be
shown, he said.
The course was originated
under the sponsorship of the
fund for the advancement of
education, and developed by
a committee of science-educa
tors under the national acad
emy of sciences.
Skipworth said it is the
first complete academic course
ever put on film in its entire
ty. Dr. Harvey E. White,
physicist at the University of
California, is instructor.
Umatilla Blaze
Covers 200 Acres
Pendleton-(UPD-A forest fire
in the Umatilla National For
est spread over 200 acres by
late Thursday night and fire
fighting crews were still try
ing to get a line around the
blaze Friday morning.
Fire Control Officer V. Jay
Hughes said the fire was be
lieved started from a hunting
party's warming fire not prop
erly quenched.
The blaze was in the steep,
heavily timbered region near
the mouth of the Big creek
on the north fork of the John
Day river near Ukiah.
Another fire of undeter
mined origin broke out later
Thursday in the Umatilla for
est about 35 miles southwest
of Pendleton. Reports were
hazy on the amount of acreage
covered, but crews moved in
near the Lucky Strike forest
road in heavily timbered land.
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COUNCILMAN From WARD ONE
A Proven FAIR and RELIABLE COUNCILMAN
FAIR
You are invited to check on Fred's
integrity, honesty and impartial
attitude toward all matters cominp
before the Council during the past
four years with any member of the
present Council and our able
Mayor. This is not an endorsement,
but an open invitation to check on
his effectiveness from those who
have served with him.
Let's Check the Record ... '
Present Chairman of City Finance Committee.
Helped secure $29,000 from General Sewer
Fund for the Berrydale Sanitary Sewer District to
cover additional costs of putting in gravity flow
sewer system instead of pumping station which
would be of greater cost to maintain and ulti
mately of greater expense to entire city.
Helped develop Arterial Street program.
Worked for Storm Sewer installation.
Fought for Sanitary Sewer Districts to be placed
on Fair and Equitable basis.
Urged annexation of Phipps property that they
could pay their fair share of Laurelhurst Sewer
District assessments.
Aided m the opening and paving of East Jack
son Street.
Placing effort now in development of park and
recreational program, and creation of an assess-
ment district for the downtown area to provide
off-street parking at no expense to residential
area taxpayers.
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Member present City Council . . .
Jackson County Chamber of Com
merce . . . Medford Safety Coun
cil .. . Rogue Valley Memorial
Hospital Founder's Group . . . Past
President Medford Merchant's As
sociation . . . Rogue Valley Gideon
Camp ... 1 958 Chairman Com
mercial Division of United Medford
Crusade. President, board of di
rectors of the newly formed Med
ford Gospel Mission.
He has proven ability.
He is a man of integrity.
He has the right qualifications.
His interests are the same as yours
as he is a large taxpayer.
Re-elect Fred E. ROBINSON
Your COUNCILMAN From WARD 1
Paid Adv. Fred E. Robinson for Councilman Committee
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart V. McQueen
2136 Hillcrest Road
Mr. and Mrs. Tom G. Polk
2127 East Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin B. Goltz
1532 Stratford Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Helmer T. Tinseth
1300 Queen Anne Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Gleason
2684 Crater Lake Highway
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McCullough
29 North Keene Way
Mr. and Mrs. Austin L. King
1298 Crater Lake Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Bush
202 North Bameburg Road
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Withrow
247 Berrydale Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Neilson
2130 East Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Erick De Place
1392 Poplar Drive
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Pence
511 Mary Street
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Friesen
2690 Connell Avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Al Carrara
537 Mary Street.
Business and Personal Background
Owner Robinson Bros. Men's Store.
Owner Robinson Hotel and Building.
Active businessman in Medford since 1938.
Graduated from Medford Senior High School 1937.
Owns own home at 1 1 6 Sunrise Avenue.
He and lovely wife. Donna, parents of three boys,
17, 9, and 5 and one girl, 15.
Mr. and Mrs. Coy Bailey
42) North Riverside
Mr..W. HJones -701
North Riverside
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Martin
1386 Hilton Road, General
Chairman
Be SURE to
VOTE Tuesday
"A Proven Fair and Reliable Councilman"
velt New Deal.
It was that Gallup poll
which Vice President Richard
Veterans Offered
Priority on Farms
Salem War veterans are
offered priority in the pur
chase of 27 full-time farm
units in the Columbia basin ir
rigation project in Washing
ton, Vere A. McCarty, service
division manager for the Ore
gon department of veterans'
affairs, has announced.
Application forms are avail
able in Oregon from county
veterans' service officers or
the Salem and Portland offices
of the state veterans' depart
ment. They must be filed by
Nov. 14 in the office of the
bureau of reclamation, Ephra
ta, Wash.
The farm units, located near
the towns of Moses Lake,
Quincy and Othello, range in
size from 78 to 156 irrigable
acres and in price from $1,393
to $3,157.
M. Nixon discounted this
week on grounds that it did
not reflect what he said had
been a swing to the GOP lat
er in October.
The Roper poll found 74
per cent of. the voters likely
to vote Democratic, 31 per
cent Republican, eight per
cent for split tickets, and 14
per cent undecided or not in
tending to vote.
'Take Your Choice'
In the hotly contested race
for governor of New York,
bookmakers have set the odds
at 6 to 5 and "take . your
choice" between Democratic
Gov. Averell Harriman and
Republican Nelson Rockefel
ler. The California poll pub
lished Oct. 24 in newspapers
in that state gave Democratic
Attorney General Edmund G.
Brown 54 per cent and GOP
Sen. William F. Knowland 35
per cent, with 11 per cent un-
!n Order To Serve You Better
the new office of
Dr. Robert J. Urie
OPTOMETRIST
is now located at
820 East Main
Vi Block East of Cottage Street
Parking Area Entrance on East Main at Corning Court
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, November 2, 1958 t
decided, in the gubernatorial
race. In the Senate contest,
the poll gave Democratic Rep.
Clair Engle 48 per cent, Gov.
Goodwin J. Knight 40 and 12
per cent undecided.
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67xl2 All Wool Wilton 89.55
12 x!43 All Wool Wilton 227.50
9x17 Heavy Viscose 152.15
95xl2 Heavy Viscose 131.85
63xl5 Wool Wilton 179.50
9 xlO Wool Axminster 99.50
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