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WRECKAGE STUDIED Members of a Navy research team began the job of re covering instruments from a stratosphere gondola that crashed to earth in a field near Blaine, Kan., Sunday after carrying Cmdr. Malcolm Ross and Dr. Charles B. Moore 13 miles high for a close telescopic look at Venus. Ross was injured in the landing after a successful ascension .from Rapid City, S.D. ' (UPI Telephoto) GOP Leading Demos In Race for Funds By Congressional Quarterly . Washington - Republicans are back in their accustomed place, comfortably ahead of the Democrats in the race for campaign funds. Three months ago Congres sional Quarterly reported the startling fact that in the first five months of 1959 Demo cratic campaign committees received more contributions than their Republican coun terparts. It was the first time since 1949 that had been true. Now the situation is back to normal. The GOP wiped Dut the Democrats' lead with a single stroke a June din ner in Washington that brought in $372,0u0 at $100 a plate. The Republicans, who trailed by $183,000 in contri butions through May, led the Democrats by $492,000 at the end of August, according to a tabulation of official reports. The Republicans had taken in $1,494,449 and the. Demo crats, $1,002,368. The GOP advantage is probably even wider now, thanks to the fast start the party has made on a drive to collect 1,000 gifts of $1,000 each before Christmas. Oplimism Revived Republican spokesmen link the improvement of party fortunes directly to the re vival of optimism over its chances in the 1960 election. After the Democratic sweep in the 1958 elections, GOP fund-raisers found the dol lars hard to come by. President Eisenhower's spirited drive to curb "spend ing" by the Democratic-controlled Congress - a drive in which 'Republican Congress men joined enthusiastically convinced many of these re luctant contributors that the GOP was not dead, the Re publican spokesmen say. The June dinner-a tribute to Republicans in Congress was a . greater financial suc cess than the promoters had dared to hope. ' Meantime, the Democrats have raised record amounts of cash -for them but still find they must scrape to pay their bills. The party took in more in the first eight months of 1959 than it did in all of 1957 - the last previous noi - election year. But almost ' a third of the million dollar receipts were earmarked specifically for reduction of the carryover debt from the 1956 campaign. More than $460,000 still re mains to be paid on that debt, and current expenses barely are being meu At the end of October the Democratic Na tional" committee was two months behind on the rent for its headquarters. National Chairman Paul M. Butler Nov. 7 blamed the "tight money" situation on the failure of the states to meet their assigned quotas for support of the national committee. Butler said only three states - Maryland, South Da kota and Nebraska - and the District of Columbia had paid their 1957-59 quotas in full. In iart, the financial plight of the Democrats seems to stem from the controversy over Butler himself, whose statements on civil rights and other subjects have aggra vated many party regulars. Most of the Southern states are far in arrears on their quotas and many Southern leaders apparently agree with Georgia Democratic Chair man John Sammons Bell that "it would be the height of foolishness for us to furnish financial aid for Butler." In an effort to pry more money from the state organi zations, Butler Nov. 7 an nounced that delegations to the 1960 convention in Los Angeles would be seated and housed according to the de gree of financial support they MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday Nov. 30, 1959 had given the national com mittee. (Copyright, 1959. CongrM '. sional Quarterly, Inc. We Give 4?L GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central 3 P Balloon. sts Get Look at Venus . Blaine Kan. -IDPB- A vet eran Navy balloonist was in jured slightly Sunday in the rough, landing of a balloon that had carried two men 13 miles high for a closer look at Venus, but he was ex pected .to be on his feet again today. - Suffered Shock Commander Malcolm Ross suffered shock when the gon dola ripped loose from the big plastic balloon, struck a In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By FRANK JENKINS Thanksgiving aftermath:' In Washington (DC.) George N. McRae bashed his wife in the head with a table leg when she complained she had no money to buy any thing for a Thanksgiving din ner. Two hours later, in mun icipal court, he was sentenced to the district jail for 30 days. HE GOT THERE JUST IN TIME TO HAVE A THANKS rnrran TiritfivnrTj. np tttr. KEY AND ALL THE TRIM MINGS. Meanwhile his wife, with ten stitches in her head, went home to their seven-year-old son and an empty icebox. 1 ivumvinunmm. In the statutes, Justice is represented as Dunaioiaea while she holds up the scales. In this case, she must have had her ears plugged also. "PROM HEMEL Hempstead, England: A 16-year-old boy was or dered held bv court officials . while they considered his par ents' complaint that their fon- 1. R e f u s e d to let them watch television. 2. Kept the bathroom for himself while forcing his fa ther to shave in the kitchen. 3. Locked his parents up at night. 4. Siezed his father's week ly paycheck and forced his parents to live on an allow ance. T HOPE THESE parents are students of English liter ature. If so, they must now know how Frankenstein, the student in Mrs. Percy Bysshe Shelley's romance, felt after he had created his monster. T7ROM Cape Canaveral: American space scien- tists swallowed the disap pointment of their inanks- giving Day moonshot failure and pushed ahead with plans for their next moon probe. They offer this excuse: The ' effort to circle the moon with a missile-boosted satellite was roughly -equiva lent to trying to hit a fly in the left eye with a rifle at a distance of six miles. A THOUGHT: might need fewer excuses if thev talked less about their shots BEFOREHAND. The Irishman who told all about how ho -mas GOING to rub the bull's nose in the dirt is a case in point. He talked too much too soon. ( If SHE'LL REMEMBER... Jf EVERY DAY OF THJEYEARJJW 8IVE HEBA IitclieiiAZd dishwasher... and shell be forever grateful because KitchenAid will give her the time she wants to do those extra things . for you and the rest of your family.' And KitchenAid will give her the cleanest, brightest tableware she has ever seen. What model? You can t miss because KitchenAid makes a model for every kitchen. 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Stereotyper Head Due in Portland Portland-dJPD-James Samp son, International president of the Stereotypers Union, was expected here tonight to take part in talks aimed at settling Portland's 21-day old news paper strike. Members of the Stereo typers union went on strike Nov. 10 and members of other unions employed by the Oregonian and Oregon Jour nal did not cross picket lines. Federal Mediator Elmer Williams was expected to try to get both sides together again soon in a resumption of talks. Two joint sessions have been held since the strike started with no pro gress reported. The two newspapers were continuing to publish com bined editions in the Oregon ian plant. . " Bodies Recovered From Columbia Kalama-UPD-A twin-engine Piper' Apache plane, which had crashed in the Columbia river a mile ' and one half south of here Saturday night, was recovered from about 35 feet of water Sunday. The body of the pilot, Alex ander Bruce McEachern, 52, was found in the back seat of the craft Deputy Sheriff John Esprzo, said the impact of the crash apparently forced McEachern's body , back in the passenger cabin of the craft. The body of Richard Jones, a passenger in the plane, was recovered soon-after the crash. Corbelf Looks To Senate Presidency Portland- (UPI) -Senate Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) says he believes he has' enough support to be elected president of the state Senate in 1961 if the Democrats re tain control of the upper chamber. The 1959 Senate had 19 Democrats and 11 Republi cans. Seven of the Democrats are holdovers for 1961. Corbett said he had re-; ceived pledges from a ma jority of Democrats in the ; last session that they would j support him. ' r j State Sen. Harry Boivin of j Klamath Falls also is a candi date for the Senate presidency. 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