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SUNDAY. Alliance of (Editor't No lei Whil. Western attention it focus ud on int mora dramatic intarnal political disputes of Franc, Britain and Wast Germany, thar may ba ser loui iroubU brewing in an other important area of the Western alliance - Italy. In this dispatch a veteran reporter of the Italian scene pinpoint! the dangers.) By ERNEST SAKLER United Press International Rome - OJPD - The laborious ly manufactured alliance of Italian Catholics and Social ists may have died unnoticed in the heat of a Roman sum mer. On the surface, nothing has happened. And possibly nothing will happen in the next few months, until the approach of general elections In the spring forces political groupings to show their hand. But if the ruling "center left" alliance that currently Is holding Italy together Is ever pronounced dead, it will mean it was killed Aug. 7. On that day parlament mem bers adjourned a debate on elcctrial nationalization and swarmed happily to the mountains and beaches on a summer recess. Houses Cannot Escape "Filibuster or no filibuster, summer vacation or no sum mer vacation," wrote Social- Astronauts Have Learned n "v ASTRONAUT CHOSEN Anollier Amor- the oilier astronaut knows that sooner or lean astronaut will rocket Into space in a Inter one of them or one of their successors, few weeks. His name is Walter Marty will lose his life to space. Schirra is shown Schirra Jr. Although 39 years old, he has with model of Mercury Spacecraft In front an intense love of life. Schirra as well as of map of the world. (UPI) RUSSIAN 'f Dint lWV,,& Ofnul juitn ALPH (burne SPACE JUNK U. S. scientists announced rd Alpha II, III, and IV, which arc orbiting In Washington, DC, Saturday that they had the rat t h, and Alpha 1., apparently deslroy discovered "space Junk," possible remnants rd upon reentry into the earth's atmosphere, of a Soviet effort to launch a Venus space This is one of the frw instances of a de probe recently, but which failed. Shown tected Soviet .-ipaee failure by American In this newsmap are the three sections label- space trackers. tl'I'I) SEPTEMBER 2. 1362 jr .:.-)i, 4v ' '2. J f ) ' ALLIANCE SHAKY The laboriously manufactured al liance of Italian Catholics and Socialists may have died unnoticed in the heat of a Roman summer. If the ruling "center-left" alliance that currently is holding Italy to gether is ever pronounced dead, it will mean it was killed Aug. 7 when Parliament members adjourned a debate on electrical nationalization. Failure to pass it this summer 1st leader Pietro Nenni on June 16, "we feel that the houses cannot escape the cate :y-: 1 :. . , ..: ', ; Mk Wit , .f Italian Catholics, Socialists May Have gorical imperative of giving absolute priority to the na tionalization measure and of ' Mr ALPHA II 179 mi. 4 ALPHA III alpha iv m 145roi. m its from possible Venus shot) may mean that the bill will never be passed, that Pietro Nenni's party will refuse to sever its Communist links, that the government alliance will end up on the rocks, and that Premier Amintore Fanfani's Christian Democrats will call on the voters to give them an absolute majority to run the country alone. Fanfani is shown at left, Nenni at right. (UPI) approving It - or rejecting it, as is their right - between now and August." By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press International Washington - (UPII - An other American astronaut will rocket Into space a few weeks hence. His name is Waller Marty Schirra Jr. He Is 39. No one could be more grateful for life than he. He lives It in tensely. He has authored it twice. Marty Schirra won't ob ject to what is going to be said here. It is an old story to him. He has known it Farming in County Said Big Business Despite the yearly tips and downs connected with agricul ture, farming continues to be big business in Jackson coun ty. Most local farmers held their own last year and a num ber of them made out better 4-H Members Win Ribbons for Entries in Fair Jackson and Josephine county 4-11 club members took their share of home-economics contest ribbons at the Oregon State Fair in Salem last week. Gretchen Ousterhout, Eagle Point, won a blue ribbon in the Easy Meals C section with her whole-wheat muffins. Lin da Wnddell, Eagle Point, won a red ribbon. Linda Talley, Central Point, received a red ribbon in the Easy Meals A section with all purpose flour muffins, and Sue Alt, Grants Pass, won a red ribbon with her pastry flour muffins in the Easy Meals B section. Kulli llenney, Medford. won a blue ribbon in the Food Ad ventures A class with a plain butter cake. Alicia F.hnore, Applegate, and Sue Morrow, Rogue River, both received red ribbons with their butter cakes in the same section. Mindy Hacked, Medford, won a red ribbon for her nut bread in Foods Adventures B class. In the home Improvement contests, Janis Cate, Central Point, won a blue, and Mari lyn Scholte, Grants Pass, a red ribbon in the Groom Your Room section. Colleen Fninek. Medford, and Christine Wiley, Ashland, both won red ribbons In the Plan and Decorate Your Room section. Knitting contest winners were Donna Mang. Central Point, with a red ribbon in Advanced K.iittmg A class tsweatersi. and Linda Rasmus sen. Medford. and Carolre Kuest. Medford, won blue and j red ribbons respectively in In j termediate Knitting H (pull- over sweaters). it exists T0d AY f... WHSTE TRs&ss-r ill lest" 'Mi Lei Mi'isTie ii Despite this declaration of "imperative" by Nenni, who is the real power behind the to Live ever since he won his Navy wings. He has lived with it more closely than ever since he became one of the seven Mercury astronauts. He is living with it now in the final weeks before his flight into space. What Marty Schirra and the other astronauts have learned to live with so familiarly that it no longer troubles their sleep U the presence of danger. Their spacecraft and rockets are as reliable and than they ever did, even though some sections of the country fell considerably be hind 1960. The findings are based on a national survey made by the Standard Rale and Data Serv ice and on reports issued by the Department of Agricul ture. They show that Jackson county farmers accounted for gross revenue of $14,067,000 in 1961. It represents total re ceipts - before taxes and be fore deductions for the cost of operations. The figure takes into ac count the cash proceeds from farm marketings together with Government payments and "income in kind," which is the value of products grown and consumed on the farm. The cash returns from the sale of farm goods were from crop marketings, which brought in 49 per cent of the total, and from sales of live stock and livestock products, which netted 51 per cent. Heavier Payments Only to a small extent was I the improvement In the past I year due to increased prices i received for farm products. To a greater extent it was due to heavier Government p a y mcnts to farmers, principally for reducing the acreage de voted to certain crops. Another contributing factor iwas the more efficient farm ling of the remaining land. The result, in many instances, j was that as much was pro Iduced on the smaller number !of acres as had been turned out before. i Mechanized equipment for i the handling of livestock and the increased use of tractors and other machinery made it possible. I In Jackson county In the past year, the 514.067,000 in I gross receipts, in terms of the i local farm population, was 'equivalent to $2.64S per capita. The Department of Agri culture reports that a better ' farm year is now In the making, nationally. It reports a 2 per cent rise in net income for the first six months of 19SJ, due chiefly to better re j turns from crops. No improve ment was visible in the live I stock picture, however. eCMtaeaf MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON present government, the the chamber and senate did nothing of the kind. No one has emphasized the defeat or even called it a de feat. But it may be when the electrical nationalization bill will never be passed, that Nenni's party will refuse to sever its Communist links, that Ihp Dni'prnmunt allinnrp will end up on the rocks and that Premier Amintore Fan- people. fani's Christian Democrats i To Nenni, who had been in will call on the voters to give the opposition with the Com them an absolute majority to munists for the past 15 years, run the country alone. ! it meant a chance to seize a None of these predictions share of power, swing the can be guaranteed. But neither can they be ignored, The ways of Italian politics are subterraneous. What has been going on is the strangest of all political battles. With nine-tenths of the parliament membership ostensibly in favor of the na tionalization bill and of the center-left alliance, and only one-tenth against, there ought to have been hardly any bat tle at all. ' Yet the Socialists may have lost it. It all started last January, when the ruling Christian Democrats agreed after years of bitter battles to let Fan fani try his bold center-left experiment. The decision was largely the work of diplo matic party secretary Aldo safe as men know how to make them. The fact re mains, and the astronauts are aware of it, that sooner or later one of them, or one of their successors, will lose his life to space. A space official recently put it this way: "Every time an astronaut gets into his capsule and is strapped down for flight, he knows it may be his last day on earth." The astronauts aren't the only ones who know this. President Kennedy knows it. The men who direct the space program know it. Then why mention it? Worried About Reaction Many space officials are worried about what the public reaction will be when the innevitable hap pens and an astronaut is lost. Whatever happens to them, the astronauts want the American space pro gram fulfilled. Would public reaction to a tragedy jeopardize this most ambitious of all hu man undertakings? "If we kill an astronaut," one space authority re marked recently, "will there by cries of 'I told you so in congress, and else where, and demands that we halt this 'bloody bus iness'?" Chairman George P. Mil ler, D-Calif., of the House Space committee is one of those who wonder if enough has been done to prepare the public for occasional disaster. In a recent speech he said: Course of Events "Some day we are going to lose a man . . . this is the normal course of events . . . the astronauts know this they are all test pilots." uiis Top Wi Sporl Shirts Sport Coats For the Medford Rotary Club's Annual Used S US it Ki 1 u The Medford Rotary Ciub, cooperating with the American Field Serv ice, sponsors boy or girl from another country for I full year at Medford High School. This fine program, part of a nation-wide move ment to foster world understanding, it financed in part by an annual sale ef used suits. That it why Rotary asks YOU to contribute one or more min t used suit, and any other item of apparel not now in use. Phone Your Favorite Cleaner FREE PICK UP SERVICE MEDFORD ROTARY CLUB Moro. who talked everyone into accepting it as the only way of salvaging party unity. The result was the present government, composed of the pro-Western Christian Demo crats and the two smaller parties but resting entirely on the outside support from i neutralists Nenni Socialists. I rru man,, u, irfotu I different things to different eovernment to the left and show that he could serve the (worker's cause more effec Communist tively than hi; competitors. Profitable Collaboration On the other hand, Nenni did not want to give up prof itable collaboration with the Communists in labor unions and city councils where they hold power jointly. To Fanfam's faction, and to the smaller parties of the center-left, it meant a chance to break from the right, drag the moderates on the path of social reform and lure Nenni away from the Communist camp. To other Christian Demo crats under ex-Premier Mario Scelba, it seemed a horrible mistake, a surrender to the The history of the aulo mobilc, of the airplane, of bridge-building, of explora tion, of pioneering general ly is the history of men who risked their lives. For every new aircraft model that comes out, ac cording to Miller, two test pilots die. Space flight, too, will claim a toll of lives. The Space Science board of the National Academy of Sciences has said: "Men will perish in space as they have on the high seas, in Antarctica, in the heart of Africa, and when ever they have ventured in to unknown regions." America has taken pride in the fact that its flights into space have been made in public on television, in fact, with the world watching. James E. Webb, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), noted that "people all over the world rode with John Glenn." They rode again with Scott Carpenter. They will ride with Marty Schiira. This openness has won for the United States a kind of respect that the secret ive Russians, for all their space spectaculars, cannot hope to win. HELP We need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly 773-7335 IP US! Coals -Slacks Socialists and the "antecham ber" of Communism. They said the only reason they were not voting against it in parliament was for the sake of party unity. To the vast majority of the Christian Democratic par- i ,v' anc presumably to Moro mmseii, u was a wnm ; strengthening the party s : power in national me, Run- i ning the country with one big ally is easier than with sever I al small ones pulling in many ! directions, as was the case in ! the past. ! Would Be Easier But running it alone would be still easier, and the Chris tian Democrats may be man euvering in that direction. In fact, it is conceivable they agreed to the center-left ex periment in the first place only to wreck it, discredit Nenni and beat him at the polls. Such tactics might have a chance. They worked with the rightwing parties, which lost heavily in the 1958 elections I because their support of the government confused the voters Nenni's position is now much the same. To achieve their one-party government, the Moro moder ates have two possible strate gies: Stall Socialist-demanded legislation until Nenni walks out of the government in pro- But the Russians have managed so far to conceal from the world whatever disasters and disappoint ments they may have suf fered in space. This the United States cannot do. Rockets are dangerous beasts. Space is hostile. And some day, as Webb said, "We will have to take it on the chin openly." "The country has come to know our astronauts quite well," Webb said. "The manner in which they face and react to stress and danger makes them an in ' spiration to all of us. "If we are to ride into space with them via tele vision, we cannot avoid being there if tragedy strikes." $ GET A HANDY HOflOEED $ on Signature Only! BACK TO SCHOOL CASH Loans to $1500 Home Owned & Operated " t . i iviuiMei i-kum CRATER FINANCE IS LIKE MONEY FROM HOME ji j -h i El- J 8 CRATER FSNAMCE K 135 PINE cpSitnt L 084-1 273 f Died test, or demand that Nenni cut his Communist links be? fore the elections, which he can hardly do. There are indications the Christian Democrat are working in both directions. Even if the nationalization legislation is eventually adopted before the elections the coalition still could be wrecked by last-minute de? mands for a clean break be tween Nenni and the Comr munists. There has been A growing campaign to that ef feet in past weeks in indei pendent newspapers normal ly close to Moro, such as Rome's II Messaggero. Break Not Expected , No one really expects Nen ni to break with the Com; munists before the elections and risk losing the support of the leftwing rank and file. If the center-left ends on the rocks either over electric ity or over the Communist is sue, the Christian Democrats probably would campaign for an absolute majority to rur( i the country alone. If they got it, it would be Aldo Moro s masterpiece - but it would also unleash massive opposi tion from the left. The struggle then would be; clearcut and dangerous, with tN threat of an attempted Co imunist-coup on the one hai 1, or a retreat into dicta torship on the other. PLATE SEBIflCE Cracked or broken dentures repaired. Missing teeth re placed. 29 YEARS EXPERIENCE Cleaning and Polishing QUALITY DENTAL LAB 220 S. Central 772-6013 lJ:xk L ,i ""v f v II (' , V t 1 Jk. ! .VS ' Jr j? 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