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1 MAlLTItl8UNr,M4fM4,er. XU Monday, 0t. 5, 1959 Nixon Praises Series of Reports By GOP Advisers : Washington-flJPD-Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon said today Republicans oppose pro gram ? which place "too much emphasis on federal govern ment action not because they promise too much but because they would produce too lit tle." Nixon made the statement in praising a series of reports prepared by a panel of Re publican policy advisers. Rights Emphasised - The reports emphasized the importance of individual rights as against "the heed Jess growth of the central gov ernment in Washington" and attempted to define Republic an party aims. ' 1 Nixon called the reports "'one of the most useful and constructive statements of goals and principles ever is sued by a political party in the United States." "Too often in the past the actions of Republican Admin istrations have been dynamic but our words have been static," he said. Believe in Future The vice president said the "reports "bring home the fact .that we are conservative be cause we want progress." "As a party," he said", "we Slave faith in America and a .belief in its future a future in which people rather than government will play an ever .increasing and dynamic role." A science panel of the GOP policy group recommended Sunday that the United States .stimulate an "age of intel lect" by tripling spending on research in the next 17 years. To Shun Control The Republican advisers urged that the government promote and support the sci entific effort but not try to control it. The report ' rejected specif ically the idea of creating a cabinet post of Secretary of Science, warning that "the great danger to scientfic cre ativity is over-organization and the centralization of ad ministrative power." j Publishers Call Castro Dictator San Francisco - (UPD - Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro was called "a dictator" by some Latin American pub lishers Saturday, who charg ed him with intimidating the Cuban press. The attacks were made in a meeting of the Free Press committee of the Inter Ameri can Press association after Cubans had stated that they now enjoy free expression, but admitted that they were nervous about the future. The committee eventually will draft a report on the situ ation, but in spite of the charges made here, it appear ed that the report would be restrained and diplomatic. Charles E. Scripps, chair man of the board of Scripps- Jloward Newspapers, suggest ed that the committee com municate with Castro to urge him to continue present free doms and to expand them. Julio de" esquita Filho, publisher of Brazil's o Estado, aid the committee should "open credit account for Castro." He said the, Cuban leader should be given time to quiet his country. V "I ask that the committee take the attitude of a psych arist." he said. "The people of Cuba are living in a revolu tion and there is a collective neurosis." ISRAELI JEW DEFECTS . imn - An Israeli Jew defected to the United Arab Republic Saturday because oi "ill treatment and bad living conditions" ! in Israel, UAR sources reported toaay. Lads & Lassies Days TO EARN MORE Deposits Made by the 10th... EARN From the 1st... - Jackson County Federal Savings loan Astfn 126 East Main MedfjrdV Oregon Laborites Ms; Conservative London (UPD - If Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan leads his Conservatives to victory in the Oct. 8 general elections, it will mark the first time any party has won three in a row since World War I. Many observers believe the Macmillan bid will be a suc cessful one. But the Laborites have been creeping up in the opinion polls and some poll sters even hint that a Labor victory is possible. However, Britons Find It Increasingly Difficult To Be in Public Office London-UP&-You can't make money in British politics, so there must be some other good reason why more than 1,500 candidates are battling for 630 seats in the House of Com mons. . Some, like Sir. Winston Churchill, who will again sweep to victory at Woodford, Essex, in the Oct. 8 voting, bave been in Parliament so long they wouldn't know what to do with themselves back in the role of private citizens. Some" are out for power, to wage the class war or to wind up a successful business career on a back bench. Traditions Continued Others are continuing fami ly traditions of "service" which run back to the start of parliamentary rule, when members of Parliament bought and sold seats to the highest bidder and started family fortunes through graft and nepotism. Today the graft is negligible and there is no selling of seats, apart from the internal party deals whereby supporters are awarded candidacies for serv ices rendered. Members of Commons to day are paid 1,750 pounds ($4,900) a year - 1,000 pounds taxable salary and 750 pounds tax-free expenses. By British standards, this is a comfort able income, but for the mem ber most of it is swallowed up in expenses and secretarial salaries. 'Sens of Compromise' The hard - working British "sense of compromise" shows well in this business of a mem ber's pay. It is considered enough to compensate MP's without private means for their loss of earnings else where, but not enough to at tract "spivs" and easy-money boys. Even so, entering the House of Commons is a financial strain for many, especially labor union candidates, and there is a growing feeling that either the basic salary or the expenses should be increased. Former Prime Minister Earl Attlee once said, "Our MP's are grossly overworked and underpaid." Parliament, he said, is the world's "most ex clusive and expensive club." Consequently, year after year many MP's find it im possible to stand the pace fi nancially. They either decline to contest the next election or, if the problem is acute, they can resign by applying for stewardship of the "Chiltern Hundreds." This is an imagi nary, and only nominally paid, official post whose pos sessor must resign his seat in Commons. It is, in. fact, the only way a member can re sign. This year, with the cost of living and expenses higher, than ever, and no raise in pay, more than 100 MP's have an nounced their decision not to stand for reelection. Many of these are quitting for other Flames Controlled Aboard Freighter St. George, Bermuda -uJPD A storm - tossed American freighter with 55 persons abroad succeeded Saturday night in controlloing" raging fires in two of its holds and reached Bermuda with- a Coast Guard escort. The Coast Guard Cutter Duane radioed that the fire, which at one time was describ ed as "blazing fiercely," had been controlled aboard the South American bound freighter, SS Mormacteal, af ter a battle of more than six hours in rough seas and 40 mile an hour winds caused by Hurricane Hannah.. The Mormacteal anchored off the entrance to St. George harbor last night and the Coast Guard said the ship planned to move through the channel and dock this morn ing. , ; Two Coast Guard cutters stood by the . ship, which re ported a fire in its No. 1 hold was extinguished and the once-fierce blaze in No. 3 hold was only smouldering. ARTIST DIES Florence, Italy-(CP-Painter Alberto Zardo, 83, well-known in artistic circles here, died Sunday. . Creeping the Conservatives point out they have a number of assets in their favor. ' Times Are Good Employment is high and times are good. The British man-in-the-street is earning more money than ever before and he is thanking Macmillan for It. ' In addition, a clever Con servative Party publicity cam paign has built up Macmillan to the point where he is con than financial reasons, but money is believed the main cause for the record number of those "retiring from public life." - . Bring Own Sandwiches Others, more determined, cut costs by bringing their own sandwiches rather than paying for lunch in the House cafeteria; riding bicycles or walking instead of driving; or starting new- careers in tele vision which enable them to work while Parliament is sit ting. A group of Laborites have opened a Soho coffee bar to supplement their earnings. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTEDNATIONAL Palm Springs, Calif-James Hagerty, White House press secretary, replying to questions about a possible summit meeting: s - . "There has been no agreement or decision on a time or place for a summit meeting and ihere will be none until we hear from all oar allies." Chicago-Walter Moran, the pilot of an American Airlines f our-engined passenger plane, who helped guide a student pilot in a small plane to a landing in Schenectady, N.Y.: "This young man was a cool character. He used every piece of equipment to his best advantage." Benson, England-Air Commodore John Whitworth, ad dressing the remnants of a 300-corps of cadets after 60 fainted during inspection: "I have a few words to say to you-io all of you who are left, anyway." Las Vegas, Nev.-Actress Eva Gabor after marrying New York millionaire Richard Brown, her fourth matrimonial venture: "This time is for real." Soviet Executive Fares Better Than Ordinary Citizen Washington (UPD - Now the Russians have a "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" ulcers and all. A description of the modern d a y Communist "organiza tion man" was contained in a report issued by the joint Congressional Economic Com mittee. - It said the Red executive has "come far" since the days of the revolution. "He bears little resembl ance to the flamboyant party director of the early days whose credentials were years in czarist prisons, escapees from exile and oratory exer cised in stirring the masses," the report said. 'Lives Well Enough The committee said its study Roseburg Has Long Way To Go For Showplace Roseburg (UPD Many lo cal problems remain to be worked out before the devas tated area of downtown Rose burg can be rebuilt into a lumber industry showplace. Lumbermen and - city and civic leaders met here the other night to start plans on a program for redevelopment of the area wrecked Aug. 7 by an explosion and fire which claimed 13 lives. Idea Presented The idea of rebuilding the are? into a showplace for the lumber industry was brought up by Francis Brown, editor of Western Builder, a trade magazine. He suggested that architect Richard Neutra of California be hired and lum ber associations tentatively agreed to do so. A committee of local lumbermen plans to meet with him Oct. 10. No Assurance State Rep. Al Flegel said, however, . there apparently was no assurance that all property owners in the area would agree to the idea. Another hurdle is a plan of the State Highway Depart ment to rebuild the 10th ave. bridge over the South Ump qua river. This would put the bridge approaches in the heart of the area where the city wants the new development. First railroad in Illinois was constructed in 1850. Up on Miish Victory sidered virtually a public he ro.. On the other hand, the La borites are somewhat divided over basic questions of pol icy, such as the issues of na tionalization and nuclear weapons. The election announcement in September came at a time when the two top Labor lead ers, Hugh Gaitskell and Aneu rin Bevan, were in Moscow. It. was an ill-timed trip. They Work in the House, too, even for the lowliest back bencher, is no bed of roses. .- The late Lord Hudson, war time agriculture minister, was guilty of only slight exaggera tion when he said: "No one has any concep tion of heaven until he has been a member of the House of Commons and then left it. Those who have never been in always think that they have missed something, and those that are in know that they are in hell. The only way is to have been in and then to have come out." . showed "The Soviet manager may not live well when judg ed by the standards of his American counterpart, but he does quite satisfactorily com pared to the ordinary Soviet citizen. . . "He is given powerful mon etary incentives to turn in a first-rate job. Yet never in his life will he have any certainty of tenure in his post . . ." The report said "The execu tive ulcer rate is high" and added that he is "A man with power but he is no indepen dent decision maker. "He is an organization man, filling a slot in an industrial bureaucracy which has lines reaching to the very heights of Soviet power." Soviet Economy Gains The committee's report con ceded that the Soviet economy is developing in some cases faster than that of the United States. But the gains are not as great as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev claims, it said. A number of professors, economists and other experts pointed out in the report that comparisons are difficult to draw because of basic differ ences in the economic systems of the two countries. They generally agreed that the Soviets are making big strides in industrial produc tion. John P. Hardt of the Cor poration for Economic and In dustrial Research said, how ever, there was a question as to "How long the Soviet citi zen can be kept without autos and in cramped housing space with few of the conveniences common to western homes." Select. Your Name Imprinted Christmas Cards Now! Over 35 Albums to Choose From -On the Balcony at Seen had hoped to catch hometown headlines, but news about them was blotted out by Presi dent Eisenhower's visit to Britain. . Both, however, are optimis tic about Labor's chances on Oct. 8. In general, Gaitskell and Bevan, if elected, would fol low the same pro-Western line as the Conservatives. They would, however, be more lib eral on colonial affairs and undoubtedly would fight to get Communist China admit ted into the United Nations. This will be the fifth parlia mentary election in Britain since the end of World War II. Labor came to power in 1945 in an upset victory over Winston Churchill and held on with a tiny majority in the 1950 elections. The Conserva tives returned to power . in 1951, also with a small majo rity, and stayed in office in the 1955 elections. Since the last election in 1955, Conservative fortunes have gone up and down. They reached their lowest point in early 1957, after the disastrous Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone and the res ignation of a tired and ailing Sir Anthony Eden. Macmillan was named by Queen Elizabeth to replace Eden as premier and since that time he has fought to regain British prestige in the world and Conservative Par ty prestige at home. Lead in Polls - Recently - published public opinion polls claim the Con servatives have a 5 per cent lead over the Laborites, enough to give them a maT jority of 65 seats in the 630 m ember House of , Commons. This compares with the ma jority of 58 they held in the recently dissolved Parliament and the majority of only 17 they had for three years be fore the 1955 election. Elections in Britain, unlike the United States, are strictly controlled. The actual election campaign can last only three weeks and candidates' expens es are kept to a rigid mini mum. Personal Expenses The most a candidate can spend is 450 pounds ($1,260). He also is entitled to 100 pounds ($280) of personal ex penses, including travel and hotels. He can send every elector one letter free of charge. , If he wins, his salary in Commons is 1,750 pounds ($4, 900) a year. , There are more than 1,500 candidates for the 630 seats at stake in the Oct. 8 election. Anyone over the voting age of 21 can be a candidate, except clergy of the Church of Eng land, the Church of Scotland, Church of Ireland, Roman Catholic Church, and those holding offices of profit un der the crown. The polls will be open from 7 a".m. to 9 p.m. Probers in Laos Decline Comment Vientiane, Laos (UPD Two United Nations fact finders flew back Saturday from a visit to northern Laos battle areas but declined to say whether they found evidence of aggression by Communist North Viet Nam. Simultaneously, the pro Communist rebels of northern Laos warned they could not guarantee the safety of U. N. investigators who ventured into their area. The two U. N. fact finders, Brig. Gen. Heriberto Ahrens of Argentina and Ludovico Barattiera di San Pietro of Italy, arrived here from Sam neua aboard a military C-47 transport. They strode past newsmen waiting to ask them questions. They had flown to the prov ince of Samneua, one of the centers . of activity by the Pathet Lao rebels, Thursday. They took a side trip to Sam teu, southwest of Samneua. Samteu has figured in the fighting but the government troops appear to be back in firm control there. BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS f Folklore of Coachwhip Snake Served Purpose The coachwhip snake, prob ably received its name be cause of its extremely slender body that reminded someone of a whip. Folklore and the implied belief the reptile could whip a man to death. served a definite purpose back in the days when things were not very well under stood. . ' ' Old time slaves were told that the snake would lash a person to death who was caught out after dark, which perhaps : served to frighten folks to stay indoors. Of all the rather large fam ily of "racers," to which this snake is allied, the coachwhip is the most active, as well as the fastest These two charac teristics alone would give some reason .to the supersti tion that this snake would chase a man and regardless of how fast he went, the rep tile would be a step and a wiggle behind. The whipping idea, was added to impart the necessary deterrent to a su-. perstitious people, who lived in mortal terror of anything they did not understand. Resemble Whip Even a casual glance at this slender snake does sug gest a whip as the tail ends in a sharp point, not unlike the "cracker" at the end of a lash. The markings of the tail also resemble the braided strands of the old-fashioned buggy whip. The coachwhip is distribut ed throughout the southeast ern part of the U.S. In the southwest the whipsnake is a somewhat shorter species of this reptile. Some live in the desert where they feed on other snakes, lizards and mice. All the snakes in this iilxmii rru II 1 . - a in 1 1 hi 11 1 1 jt"- rr TT In the groove . . . the swoony Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins group are harmless. They are, however, all equipped with very sharp feeding teeth which can inflict a superficial wound, but they have no fangs or venom. All the family of "racers" are alert, active and rather rapid travelers. They receive the name "racers" from the habit of chasing their .prey; being able to outrun most of the animals they prey upon. Old Myth V The old myth of the so called "blue racers" is part of the folklore of America. Many old legends are handed down regarding the mad race between men and these snakes. Some claimed the race last ed for miles or until the ex hausted victim escaped in doors or up a tree. No scien tific records ever disclosed any actual race being run be tween man and snake for any distance. Of all the racers the sou thern coachwhip would come the closest to-equaling this feat, if a snake would attempt it, for it is about the most ac tive of all the snakes of America. Like most of the harmless snakes, this one pays its way in the number of mice and other rodents it kilis. Its numbers have been se verely reduced in most sec tions of its range. Aside from man, its most dangerous en emy is the King snake, which searches out and kills every coachwhip snake it can find. If the coachwhip snake could only live up to its name and its reputation, it surely would lash its snake-enemies to death. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) About 27,000 die in U. S. home fatalities each each. 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