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.';
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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 .
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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. '
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