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MEDKORP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORTJ. OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 163 J emi(giftirDll TradDftiini (FDDws Yyimg Jmfa By ROBERT WALTERS United Pnii International Cincinnati, Ohio -UPI- It is rather unusual for a freshman representative to be- called "senator" in protocol - con scious Washington. But it hap pens all the time to Rep. Rob ert Taft Jr. That any Taft in Congress is almost automatically label ed "Senator" is indicative of the power and prestige, per haps greatness, of Sen. Rob ert A. Taft of Ohio who last it vi .raw o sat in the Senate chamber a decade ago. Sen. Taft, the most emi nent Republican legislator of his time, died of cancer 10 years ago - on July 31, 1953. He left behind a great politi cal legend, a large and al ready successful family and legions of admirers. Rep. Taft, 46, serving his first term as congressman at large from Ohio, is the son of the late senator. "Personal friends and dis tant admirers of my father approach me almost daily in Washington and call me 'Sen ator,' " says Rep. Taft. "Many of them have the idea that he represented their position. They're sometimes correct ari sometimes not. "Often they expect me to vote the way my father did. Although I share many of his ideas, I have to be honest about my own political posi tion. I suppose it's something I'll live with all my . life." Although widely known as "Mr. Republican, the late senator was usually identi fied with the party's conserv ative wing. As a result of that work, the younger Taft says his support, has been sought by those backing Sen. Barry Goldwater for the Re publican presidential nomina tion. But Taft, his own political future uncertain, has thus far refused to endorse any po tential candidate. ..V JkrfZIk I II I J 1111.. A, wsto r y hp ilk iTJ Win W 1 ':T,1 FAMILY REUNION- Here is the Ohio Taft family, part of the family tree which is eight generations old and several thousand members strong. This family portrait was made in 1921. Front row (L-R) are Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, with her daughter, Eleanor; Mrs. William Howard Taft, with grandson, Robert, Jr.; William Howard Taft. with grandson, William Howard III; and Mrs. Rob ert Taft. Back row (L-R) are; Frederick J. Manning; his wife, former Helen Taft; Robert, Maria, Horace and Charles Phelps Taft. (UP1) Forest Soils Conference Scheduled in Corvallis Corvallis - Foresters and forest soils scientists from throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico will be at Oregon State university Aug. 26 to 31 for the second North American Forest Soils Confer ence. The first such conference was held five years ago in Michigan. Joining with the university in sponsoring the conference are the Soil Science Society Area Horses Place First in Yreka Event Flash and Vee Vee Reed, horses owned by Ralph Car rell, Butte Falls highway, took first places in the filly and mare classes at the first annual Yreka Horse show re cently. The Carrells, who operate a quarter horse ranch in Eagle Point', also plan to show several quarter horses at the 42nd annual Josephine County fair, Aug. 24. of America and the Society of American Foresters. Ore gon's Gov. Mark O. Hatfield will be speaker for the Aug. 27 banquet. The conferences are organ ized periodically to review and' discuss recent research contributions in forest soils, soil classification and surveys, and the use and application of soils information in various phases of forest land manage ment. Keynote Address "Fitting Forest Users to Forest Soils" will be the topic for the opening keynote ad dress by C. A. Connaughton, regional forester for the U. S. forest service, San Fran cisco. Now vice president of the American Forestry Asso c i a t i o n, Connaughton was president of the Society of American Foresters in 1960 61. Research workers from throughout North America will present 36 scientific pa pers during the first three days of the conference and Grand Opening Schulzke's GERMAN SAUSAGE and DELICATESSEN (Formerly European Sausage) FRIDAY & SATURDAY 8:00 to 6:00 (Closed Sunday's) then go on field trips the final three days through the forests of the Alsea Basin, the Cas cade Mountains and Central Oregon. Research papers will cover such topics as seasonal pat tern of nutrient absorption by forest trees, movement of floor, nitrogen accretion in forest soils, soil physical prop erties related to erosion haz ard, the influence of individ ual soil and physiographic factors on the growth of Douglas-fir, and drainage patterns and their signifi cance to soil and water man elements through the forest agement of mountain lands. He has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, but the party's wide-open race for the top spot on the ticket has left that trial balloon suspended. Regarded as a more likely possibility for Taft is a 1964 race of the U. S. Senate. To successfully follow his fa ther's footsteps in the Senate, Taft would have to defeat almost-certain opposition in the GOP primary Bnd then unseat Democratic Sen. Ste phen Young. Not Committed To date, Taft has refused co commit himself to any thing but completion of his present term in Congress. Although the best known, Robert Jr. is only one of four sons of the late senator. The eldest, William Howard III, foreign service officer, a member of the Science Ad visory council to the secretary of state, recently completed assignments in Mozambique and Ireland. The other tjrothers are Lloyd, 40, a member of the New York Investment Bank ing firm, and Horace, 38, an associate professor of physics at Yale university. One of Rep. Taft's two daughters, Sarah, 20, a Rad cliffe college junior, last month became the first of the senator's grandchildren to marry. Only a few weeks earlier her older brother, Robert A. II, 21, graduated from Yale. He plans to attend law school. Taft's two other children are Deborah, 16, now attending the Concord school, in Con cord, Mass., and Jonathan, going to school in Washing ton. Senator Taft was one of three children of William Howard Taft, president of the United States from 1909 to 1912. Both his brother and sister are alive today and active in community affairs. Keeps Family Tree Charles P. Taft II, 67, is an attorney, member of the Cincinnati city council, unof ficial "keeper of the family tree" and a power in the city's charter committee, a coalition of independent Re publicans and Democrats which once held a majority on council but now plays a somewhat lesser role in city politics. He held a number of vital government posts during World War II, was the first lay president of the Federal Council of Churches and cur rently devotes much of his time to promoting expanded international trade. His sister, Mrs. Helen Her ron Taft Manning, is the old est surviving member of the family. A resident of Haver ford, Pa., she only recently retired as head of the history department at nearby Bryn Mawr college. Since that time she has accepted several tem porary teaching assignments in Texas, including one at the University of Texas. The Ohio Tafts - not to be confused with the thousands of other Tafts across the coun try who are members of other branches of the family - trace their lineage back to Alphon so Taft, who settled in Cin cinnati in 1838. Served Under Grant Alphonso, secretary of war and attorney general under President Ulysses S. Grant, was married twice and had six children, one of whom was William Howard. Going back even further, the entire family Is believed to be descended from a Rob ert Taft or Taffe who eml grated from Scotland with his wife Sarah around 1670 and was the father of five sons. A carpenter by trade, he first lived in Braintrec, Mass., and then settled in Mendon, Mass. Although not a lettered man, he was a Mendon selectman and an In fluential landowner. Amateur historian Charles P. II notes with pride that Alphonso's great-grandfather on his mother's side was Ed ward Rawson, secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Col ony. The Taft family takes offi cial note of all this tradition every five years at a mass reunion in Mendon, continu ing a practice that started in 1874. The most recent gath erings, in 1955 and 1960, at tracted approximately 300 Tafts. Another is scheduled for 1965. 8 Generations Old Eight generations old and several thousand members strong - Charles is not sure of the exact total - the fam ily's influence can be best visualized by describing the activities of some of Its mem bers: -Eleanor, one of Charles' children, is the wife of a Se attle, Wash., surgeon. -Her two sisters are Sylvia, married to the head of the physiology department at the University of Rochester, N.Y and Cynthia, the wife of the liaison official between the U. S. State department and the National Aeronautics and Space agency. -Hulbert, a half-brother of the late senator, built the Cincinnati Times-Star into a major newspaper prior to his death in 1959. -His son, H ilbert Jr., is chairman of the board of the Taft Broadcasting Co., which operates radio and television stations in Cincinnati, Colum-1 bus, Ohio, Birmingham, Ala., and Lexington, Ky. -Former Agriculture Secre tary Ezra Taft Benson is a member of still another branch of the family. Sixth ' and Central BOOTOOT OPEN 'TIL 9 300 YARDS ONLY! cfl CLOSEOUT SUMMER FABRICS Assorted cottons, 2-10 yds., and soma muslin 2 yards and shorter Combed Cotton Sateen Prints 100 cotton everglazed prints. 36 inches wide, first quality, wash and wear finish- 2 to 10 yard lengths. 2 DAY SALE PRICE Solid Color Corduroy 100 cotton, 36 inches wide, machine wash able, 2 to 10 yard lengths. 2 DAYS ONLY (6)(o)c Everlon Drip Dry Curtain Permanent finish tailored curtains. 61x81. Little or no ironing. 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