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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1959)
PJJapnrilllaii's Conservaftoves to Return To Power, PoBSticaD PoDDs DndDcate London - OJPD - If polls, po litical writers anc the man-in-the-street are correct, Prime Minister Harold MacmiUan's Conservatives will return to fkwer this Thursday with a drastically reduced majority in the House of Commons. This is the most generally perdicted outconu of the Oct 8 general election, the fifth in Britain since the end of the war. . But there are many who believe Hugh Gaitskell and the Labor party might win, with 20 or 30 seats to spare. No one, not even the most Tory (Conservative) newspa pers, is predicting that; the Conservatives will increase the majority of 60 they now have in the House of Com mons. Close Election Seen There are some who be lieve the election will be so close that neither the Con servatives nor the Laborites will have a large enough ma jority to govern and that a new election will have to be called within - year.' Britain must go to the polls to choose a new House of Commons every five years. The present Parliament was elected in 1955. Macmillan, who has been Prime Minister since January, 1957, announc I n t he Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Russia's Mr. K and Red China's Mr. M are in a heavy conference in Peiping. What they are talking about is locked in the deepest secrecy. Mr. K is sup posed to be trying to convince Mr. M that this is no time for war drums and scalp dances. On the home front, the steel strike drags or . . . and so do the negotiations. The steel barons are reported to have offered more wages in return for less rocking chair pay. The expectation is that the eff er will be declined. Federal Judge LaBuy strips DuPont of all voting rights in General Motors but overrules a government demand that -f u w.. .n v..w billion dollars worth of stock in the big auto firm. What the decision means is that DuPont can keeD the shares but can't vote 'em. HMMMMMMM. Pretty tire some fare. Like corn pone and low-on-the-hog meat for weeks at a time. (I use the term low-on-the-hog meat be cause the commoner . . .'and earthier ... term isn't at home in polite company, such as the readers of this news- naoer.) - - Let's change the menu. UP m JJ-SUilU ijms county, a huge migration of black birds is pouring in. In the Tumalo community, they are covering acres of fields. Along Crooked river, they are inter mingling with the stock, ap parently enjqying the associ ation with the browsing ani mals. Themigration is excep : tionally early. .A , There are other omens of an early winter. Juniper ber-r ries are abundant. Hair oh many animals is heavy and winging southward. A two foot coat of snow has already whitened the upper slopes of the Bachelor and the pinnacles of the Three Sisters. -v All this leads Bob Chand ler, the gifted editor of the Bend Bulletin, to say: "Here's hoping that the birds, the ani- animals - and the berries are right. Nothing would be of more value to this region than a good old-fashioned winter." Amen! - ; " MORE ABOUT blackbirds: The Redding Record Searchlight reported some time ago that immense flocks of them, arriving unseasonal ly early, have caused heavy damage to grain crops and have stumped Shasta county agricultural officials as to what to do about it. V Bruce Wade, Shasta county agricultural commissioner, re ported at the time that "if this continues it is possible that 0 to 25 per cent of the total wheat crop will be destroyed." A THOUGHT: A, Rush the word to the de- p a r t ment of ' agriculture -which is about to break the federal treasury's back trying to administer a farm program that is piling up immense and growing surpluses of wheat. :. Maybe the blackbirds will solve the problem, . this sym- rNE MORE in v posium: -: Jim Welch, of the Salem Capital-Journal, takes his pen in hand to offer some advice to Oregon hunters, who have been asked this year to kill porcupines as ' well as deer. He says: "This poses a problem: How to distinguish a porcupine. A deer, as every hunter knows, is about the size of a small cow or a big man who's hunched over ... A porcupine is tiny, like a dog, a baby pig or a tomcat. When it's unexcit ed it bristles no more than a wire-haired terrier ... But small children afe close to the same size, too. And since the Great American Hunter gets a bad case of glaucoma the moment he grabs his 30-30 this can be pretty rough on next, year's kindergarten class." . . - . So . .- ' Jim says "Don't shoot until you feel the temperature of its nose If it's cold, it isn't Little Alfie. Then move your hand back. If it needs a shave, shoot it." ed the current election Sept. On paper, at the time, the 8. Conservative chances of an overwhelming win seemed excellent. The public opinion polls gave them enough edge to win a majority of some 120 seats. The economy was booming, the international scene was quiet, the atmosphere appear ed to be one of "why change?" But the picture has altered in the last three weeks. Lead Whittled Down . The Conservative lead in the British Gallup poll has been whittled down. Labor has had the campaigning in itiative from the beginning. The political writer of the strongly Conservative "Daily Mail" said at the end of last week he believed Labor would win. ' ; . The "why" of the pro-Labor swing (if the polls can be be lieved) is difficult to answer. But these factors have play ed a part: ; -No one political party has" won three elections in a row in Britain for more than 100 years. The Conservatives are trying to do it now. Some ex perts hav reported a feeling that some voters, believe it is "time for a change." Business Groups Claimed Taking Filth Amendment Washington . - (OPD - Sen. Gale McGee (D-Wyo.) com plained today that business groups were taking "the eco nomic fifth amendment" at Senate hearings on unem ployment problems. . McGee is a member of a special committee which Mon day began a broad study of the causes of unemployment and proposals ' for easing its impact on the economy. He and other committee Democrats tangled during the hearing with spokesmen for the U. S. Chamber of Com merce and the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Said 'Playing Games' McGee accused George G. Hagedorn, NAM research di rector, of "playing games" and "ducking questions" on industrial pricing and produc tion practices.- He said Walter D. Fackler of the Chamber of Commerce was "amiably evasive" in his testimony. . "Those fellows are not in terested in trying to help us get the hard core of informa tion we need," he said. The committee, which heard from labor and management representatives at the open ing session, planned to con tinue the hearing today wjth a panel of labor economists1.'; An average adult, person has 4 to 6 quarts of blood weighing 12 to 15, pounds. ' P r?, ,1 B a TTLC O Sf THE D Ci HENDERSON C O .. to U.I S VIL LC. KE NTUCKV-A N O CIN ON N A fi OHIO THIS1STI1K ii: "jUESTBCTOffl VKKXOWIRW IT IS m4e (re ahr Hit fiast trains, ifcw M 1 1 (bppt Distilled Ha axpns las btM pra4 -a. t ?! J0CMCO3B KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON g oRiaiKAL WHISKEY u :f VERY MUJ) AND CLEAN THISvhiskTittchprafcrrd:-: by fnters of fine Xeatttcfcy boatbon far itt dno, mttd Utte. -rwtf COSTLY ? b,; T mm tit Peak of fit K POT. IT KM the CF 3 mash proctSM xciumvrif h 9. AWSf.-V&jW Original and Senuint BOTTLE 11 -llAAa srnrrzr Qt. Pt. In addition, the Labor con stituency organization, equiv alent to the ward system of American politics, has been rejuvenated and revitalized. This was a result of their defeat in 1955. The Conserva tives, on the other hand, have lacked hard political prepar ation in some of their con stituencies, according to many observers. . , - : . ; v -A lot of unrelated facts appear to have been working against the Conservatives. The 1956 Suez invasion, Cy prus, the riots in Nyasaland, the deaths of Africans in Kenya's Hola detention camp, may have cost the Conserva tives independent votes. Promises Made , i --The Laborites have prom ised to increase old-age pen sions and abolish the sales tax on household goods., and clothes. The pension issue in particular has been one of the biggest campaign battles, and most observers agree that la bor has, as a result, put the tories on the defensive on this matter.-r ' i ; ; -The" tiny, ineffective but still-alive-and-kicking liberal party has entered more than 200 candidates in key consti tuencies. By tradition, a vote for a liberal has meant a vote taken from the conservatives. There is the possibility, some observers fee -that the lib erals could drain off just enough ' conservative votes in enough constituencies to give labor -the edge. "-L a b o r . propaganda has seemed more effective. The la borites have made brilliant use of television and radio. There are now more than twice the number of .televis ion sets in Britian as there were in 1955. Labor's view point is thus reaching into more homes. Edge in Polls Yet despite all this, the Conservatives still have the edge in public opinion polls. Their campaign slogans have been "you've never had it so good," and "why let la bor ruin it?" Many say that the national prosperity may give the Con servatives the win. At any rate, the election will turn on the more than 100 so-called "marginal" seats. These are constituencies where the present MP, labor or conservative, won last time with a minority of 3,000 votes or less. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1?59 . Salem Radio Station Man's Estate $236,782 Dallas, Ore. -OJPD- Glenn E. McCormick, Salem radio sta tion owner who died June 23 of injuries suffered in a high way crash, left an estate of $236,782, it was revealed to-, day- McCormick owned Station KSLM here and also had' a half interest in a station at Merced, Calif. ' RAWNY A la AT CEESEAL . The O is for oats, the K is for Kellogg' s Inthedotjsofla Scottish Highlanders like Big Otis, had "secret weapon.. Their whole oat cereal gave them - the energy they needed to fight their battles. OA Big Otis says: g-ir-right new . breaEtfast for ads and lassies Hardy Scots, like Big Otis here, years ago used to down an oat cereal that gave them strength and vigor. Now, you get brawny nourishment from good whole oats, in Kellogg's OKs. They're new in form, new in flavor QK all the way. TODAY t You get brawny nourishment from good whole i ? oats-nature's m- highest protein grain in new KeUogg's OKs J. the new cereal mu a U& on flavor, OK on nourishment. IK RB.O.fllWMV NEW OAT CEREAL mm Ms 1 4 - ,.4 r'J-3 0 1959 by Keflogg Company 86 PROOF O
