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Religion, Oil Depletion Allowance Give Kennedy Trouble in South Census Recount Gives Colombia Major Headache By GERMAN RESPINOSA Bogota, Colombia-IUPD-More than two million "lost" Co; lombians are giving the gov ernment a major headache., They're the little men who weren't there when the last census taker came around. To explain: The last nation al census, in 1951, calculated Colombia's population at 11.5 million people. In 1959, how ever, when it came time to brush up the statistics, the government estimated the population at a, little more than 13 million." This estimate was based on the accepted per cent ratio of annual population growth. . Estimate Horrifies The national planning board, however, has heard with horror an outside ex pert's estimate of a 15.3 mil lion Colombian population at the end of 1959. The resurvey was carried out by a Canadian expert, Omar E. Lemieux, after a re vision of official government figures. The discovery has caused a great deal of official hand wringing. Almost, you might say, a state of alarm. Every government statistic relating to per capita income, the cost of living, the gross na- Medford Tribune SECTION C MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1960 PAGES 1 to 12 L$v y iv Ik t x v ! -Ar i r c&m 'ORIENTAL' POLITICIANS Politicians went Oriental at San Francisco during a banquet in behalf of the Nixon-Lodge ticket in northern California. This trio wear coolie hats ballyhooing their candidates during a dinner staged by the Golden Gate Repub lican Women's club. Chief speaker was Utah Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, center. At left is Joseph Martin Jr., the new Republican national committeeman from California in whose honor the meeting was held. At right is Mrs. Earl Louie, member of the GOP California state central committee. (UPI Tclephoto) tional product, etc. has gone by the boards, discared, ob solete. . Worse yet, the office for na tional planning has had to re vise its estimates of popula tion needs. , The government is grateful to Mr. Lemieux for "finding" its "lost" peoples. It wishes, however, he had done It sooner. ft f i 9 1 ft if p ' if I? $ IK fit If , ' ' --pTT jjm fits M ;TZl!7 13 v fit rfr V Y ' i 3 Iff -"; V? A ryi'si - ' . and - I "'-tn and because Holsum THE PREMIUM QUALITY BREAD is daybreak fresh, you get to eat all the bread you buy. Try a loaf today... tomorrow, sure mXD tt CGJ0 gBRiUiaiHB Texas, Oklahoma Favor Nixon in Straw Ballots By PRESTON McGRAW Dallas, Tex. - IUPD - If John F. Kennedy subscribed to the Baptist religion and oil de pletion allowance, he'd be as sure as a Democratic presi dential candidate can be in September that he's carry Texas and Oklahoma in No vember. But since Kennedy is a Catholic and the Democratic platform committee opposed the oil depletion allowance. he has a hard fight in these two states that have a lot of Baptists and oil wells in them. Richard M. Nixon, the Re publican candidate, has, in fact, come out ahead - fre quently as much as 2-1 - in most of the unofficial polls and straw votes taken since the national conventions. But professional politicians and other observers reflect that the polls and straw votes before the 1948 election show ed Thomas E. Dewey ahead of Harry S. Truman. "It is purely idiotic to pre dict the November election In September," Robert Hollings worth, chief political writer for the Dallas Times Herald, one of the biggest uncommit ted newspapers in the stale, said. "I remember 1956, when it was looking pretty rosy for the Democrats in Texas and then the Suez crisis blew up. At that time, Adlai Stevenson was talking about disarma ment and ending nuclear tests and the voters left him in droves." Go for Ike President Eisenhower car ried both Texas - where he was born - and Oklahoma in 1952 and 1956. There are 24 electoral votes in Texas and 8 in Oklahoma. The Republicans in both Texas and Oklahoma have been united from the start for Nixon. Not so with the Demo crats and their man. Gov. Price Daniel summed it up for Texas Democrats when hecklers interrupted him in the midst of his key note speech in the recent state Democratic convention in Dal las. "We are going to have har mony even if we have to fight fcr it," Daniel said. And he almost did have to fight for it. Arch - conserva tives in the party wanted to jettison the entire Democratic national platform. Daniel wanted to support the nation al candidates without support ing all of the national plat form. In the end, with some maneuvering, Daniel had his way. The convention purged two electors who said they'd vote for Nixon in the Elector al College even if Kennedy won. It also barred six un cooperative delegates. Texas Republicans held their state convention ' the same day in Galveston and it was harmony and Nixon all the way. The most billigercnt resolution denounced Lyndon B. Johnson for trying to get elected to the vice presidency and Senate at the same time. It is about the same story among Democrats in Okla homa. Many legislators and other Democratic party lead ers don't like Gov. Howard Edmondson's "Ivy League approach" to government. Oil is always a sensitive is sue in Texas and Oklahoma because the economies of the two states are so closely tied to It. The whole Democratic executive committee in Texas went over to Eisenhower in 1952 for promising to support a bill giving the states con trol of oil under their tide- lands. The oil depletion allowance - it gives an oilman at 27 Vi per cent deduction on his in come tax for any income de rived from oil - is almost as important an issue this year. It can also be downright embarrassing. Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, who is pledged to support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, is a big oilman. The Democratic platform is for cutting the depletion al lowance out; the Republicans claim they are In favor of an allowance. But there are more Baptists than oilmen in Texas and Oklahoma-1 .500,000 in Texas and 400,000 in Oklahoma -and a large majority apparent ly are opposed to Catholic president. They include Dr. E. S. James, editor of the Baptist Standard, which has a 350,000 circulation. He is opposed to Kennedy and he explains that he and other Baptists are not opposed to him as a man, but because of the "totalitarian system" of the Catholic church. Expressions of r 1 i g ious opposition range from the vicious to the ridiculous. Polls N.wtm.n Richard M. Morehead, of the Dallas Morning News' statehouse staff, polled 15 cor respondents In the Capitol at Austin. The Morning News supports Nixon. Morehead said the corres pondents predicted, 8-4, that the Republicans will carry Texas and the remaining three said it was a tossup. "Generally, the reporters expressed the view that few opinions are really changed by political campaigns - al though a larger - than - usual number of Texas voters seem undecided today," Morehead wrote. "The poll disclosed that most of the statehouse writers feel that Texans' reaction to the Democratic National Con vention was negative in July and that the majority of voteri still will feel the same way in November." Johnson's being on the tick et probably has not affected the religious outlook - he is a Protestant - one way or tha other in Texas or Oklahoma. It will be an accident if ha doesn't win at least one of ficc, since he is on the ballot for two: the U.S. Senate and vice president. Noninflationary Growth Predicted Washington - (UPD - Treas ury Secretary Robert B. 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