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10 A MOf CfcY, MAY 21. 182 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON fieffr strieMRg Indicates Gain Tor Republicans in rOavember Voting Editor'! not: Two years ago Uncle Sam conducted hii regular 10-year not count. At a result 25 states gained or loit seals In Con great, confronting them with the agoniiing task of overhauling their congres sional district!. The follow ing dispatch describes the outcome and how it may iigure in next November's battle for control of Con By RAYMOND LAHR Washington -UIPD- State legislatures have finished the agonizing job of congression al rcdistricting along lines which indicate a small gain for the Republicans in this November's c o n g r e ssional elections. Rcdistricting alone cannot give the GOP control of the national House of Represents tives next year. They still will need a strong favorable tide to gain the 44 seats they must have to muster the necessary majority of 218 House members. Reports from UPI bureaus and national party officials indicate the Democrats prob ably will lose 17 seats they now hold and gain 11 as a result of rcdistricting. This would be a net loss of six. For the GOP, there is an Indicated loss of four and gain of six for a net gain of two. In 13 other districts, both parties claim an edge, or the outcome is considered too Close to call. These findings are based largely on historic voting pat terns, ihey could be changed as issues or strong candidates develop. Twenty-five slates gained or lost House scats as a result of population shifts shown by the 1960 census. The legisla tures in 20 of these states have rcdistrictcd. In each of five states, which gained one House seat each, one additional congressman will be elected from the state at large. These are Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Texas and Hawaii. The Maryland Legislature passed a rcdistricting law, but it can become effective only If approved in a referendum next November. Therefore It can have no meaning before l!)fi4. There is still a remote pos sibility of reapportionment in Michigan, where Gov. John Swainson vetoed one plan, But further action is consid ered very unlikely. Prolonged political strug gles preceded the adoption of reapportionment laws in a number of states notably Mai sachusetts, Pensylvania, Illinois and Minnesota. Any state losing one or more seats had to redistrict to avoid electing its enUre delegation from the state at large. The House will revert to 435 members next year from its present 437. Two tempo rary seats were created, pena ing the I960 census, when Hawaii and Alaska were granted statehood. Only in New York and Cal ifornia would substantial changes in the party lineup of state delegations result from new reapportion m e n t laws. In New York, where the delegation is being cut from 43 to 41 members the Repufr lican-controlled legisla t u r e adopted a plan which appears to eliminate six Democratic seats and create four new GOP seats. California's delegation Is being increased from 30 to 38 seats. The Democratic legisla ture rcdistricted to give the Democrats at least six and Dossibly eight more seats. Here are assessments of the political effects of reappor tionment laws in other states: Alabama: Loses one seat in a nine - member Democratic delegation. A deadlocked leg islature finally approved a plan to nominate candidates in the existing nine districts with eight to be chosen from a statewide runoff. Arkansai: Loses two seats from its delegation of six Democrats. Ariiona: Increases its dele gation from two to three members. The new third dis trict is listed as a toss-up; it is composed of Democr a t i c counties which produced a GOP majority in a special congressional election last year. Florida: Its delegation is enlarged from 8 to 12 seats. The GOP is conceded one of the new scats and given a longshot chance to pick up another, but a probable Dem ocratic gain of three scats is indicated. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. CURRENCY METHUSALEH THE U.S. DOLLAR The Methusaleh of all the 92 currencies which govern the economic and financial life of this globe is the United Slates dollar. As of this month, the U.S. dollar is 28 years, four months old meaning this is how long it has been since the 1034 legal devaluation cut the gold content of our currency. No other currency of any significance even comes near ours in durability, an analysis in "Pick's Currency Year book," to be published In August, will show. The Guate malan quet7.nl, the Haitian gourde, the Honduran lempira. the Panamanian balboa haven't been devalued since 1934 either but whnt do these currencies count for? "'The great group of Sterling Area currencies, governing," as Pick says, "the economics of nearly 730 million people." Js just over 12H years old. The world-wide Swiss franc was devalued a bit nine years, five months ago. The Russian ruble is a baby at one year, five months. The Israel pound Is only four months old. The Canadian dollar is the infant of them all. Just a few days ago, an enormous speculative raid against the Canadian dollar forced a devaluation to a new peg at 92'i U.S. cents. This means a Canadian Importer will have to pay around 51.08 for every $1 of U.S. goods brought across the border. At the same time, prices of Canadian goods which are ex ported will be cut across-the-board and Canada hopes this win snarpiy increase her sales abroad. We have achieved our unmatched record of dollar stability in the face of difficulties which would have cruihed the currency of a nation not 10 rich, reiourceful or wedded to baiic financial conicrvatlsm ai ours and, don't kid yourtelf, ihe difficultiei have been major and are mounting now with alarming rapidity. By achieving this, we have contributed mightily to the rcsiorauon oi economic prosperity throughout the free world By making our dollar the pivot of the West's currencies, we liave given our allies strength on which to draw. By giving and lending billions upon billions to nations In need, we have saved the free world and we laid the basis for the prosperity wnicn fciiropc. particularly, enjoys todav. We have done this with our powerful, durable dollar and there s no reason we shouldn t claim the credit. Rather, ihrrcs every reason we should claim It, especially at this point. For the blunt fact Is our dollar is now feeling Ihe effect of our past and present generosity. Year after year, at we have aent many more billions of dollars around the globe than we have earned in aalei of goods around the globe, foreign creditors have built up manive claims against our gold reierve and our gold board ha been dwindling steadily. The short-term claims of foreigner! against us are up to towering S23 billion: our gold reierve it down to a 23-ytar-low of under $16.5 billion. In October 19B0, when vicious and utterly unfounded rumors about the Kennedy Administration's plans to go In for wildly Inflationary programs and to devalue the dollar were spread through Ihe world's financial capitals, a danger ous speculative raid on the dollar did develop. The dollar could have tumbled then had not Kennedy issued an un qualified denial, had he no! shown his understanding of the need for orthodoxy in federal finance, had not our Cen tral Bank and Treasury taken a series of steps to bolster the dollar's safeguards. Our dollar is not in the clear thninth r,r rr,rt it TWn short-term claims exist. Our gold reserve Is sinking cveryl ween, we arc running a prions deficit In our balance of payments and no near-term solution Is In sight. A devalua tion would cut the prices of goods which we export, make us more competitive In the world's markets. Of course we can't expect foreign creditors, bankers o, speculators to have any sentimentality about the U. S. when their poekethooks are involved. But a Evaluation of the dollar would shake the financial foundations of every nation. For their own'sakes, they would be wise not to push us loo hard or underestimate what this would mean to Ihem. Hawaii: Gains one seat for a total of two. both to be filled at large. The new scat is counted a toss-up. Illinois: Loses one seat for a new total of 24. The Demo crats are expected to lose one and possibly three seats from redistrict ing. Iowa: One Democratic seat eliminated in cutting the dele gation from eight to seven. Kantat: In reducing the seats from six to five, the legislature merged the dis tricts of Democratic Rep. J. Floyd Breeding and GOP Rep. Robert Dole, who are rated about even, Kentucky: One Democratic seat eliminated in cutting del egation from eight members to seven. Maine: Loses one seat in tbawe-member Republican del egation. Maryland: Delegation is in creased from seven members to eight. The new seat to be filled at large is expected to be influenced greatly by the outcome of the governorship race. Massachusetts: Each party is expected to lose one seat in reapportionment which cut the delegation from 14 to 12 members. Michigan: its delegation is increased from 18 to 19, with the new member to be elected at large. The new seat is like ly to go to the party winning the governorship. Minnesota: Loses one scat in a delegation of nine. The legislature merged Democrat ic Rep. Fred Marshall's dis trict with that of Republican Rep. H. Carl Anderson in what appeared to be a Demo cratic strength was added to the district from which GOP Rep. Walter H. Judd is retir ing. The outlook in both dis tricts is uncertain. Mississippi: Loses one seat in six-man Democratic dele gation. Missouri: One Democratic seat eliminated in cutting del egation from 11 members to 10. Nebraska Loses one of four Republican seats. New Jersey: A proba b 1 e Democratic gain of one seat in expanding the state from 14 to 15 districts. North Carolina: Remapping 12 districts into 11, the legis lature put Democratic Rep. A. Paul Kitchin and GOP Rep. Charles R. Jonas into one dis trict, which both parties now claim. Ohio: Adds rjlie seat for a total of 24. The new congress man at large is viewed as a probable Republican gain. Pennsylvania: Loses three seats for a new total of 27. Each party expects to lose one seat and another district is listed as a toss-up. 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