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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THIRTEEN
Vote Campaign Stepped Up;
Nation's Voters Apathetic
Br ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON Oft The politi
cal campaign is getting boiler.
The candidates are raising iheir
voices and extending their cruis
ing range. But what do the voters
think about all the shouting?
Until recently, at least, they
have taken it with remarkable
calm.
Some political professionals, ad
mittedly with an ax to grind, say
this apathy has been sloughing oil
in the past few days:
The Republicans say President
Eisenhower's Oct. 8 call for a COP
Congress gave their campaign a
shot in the arm. The Democrats
tay the only apathy they find is
among Republicans.
Associated Press political re
porters touring the country, how
ever, find there still Is no hot
publio Interest In the campaign.
whatever its final 2V3 weeks may
bring except here and there,
where special issues or unusual
situations have arisen.
"The 1954 campaign Is a play
without a villain and the comedy
isn't even good slapstick," says
the AP's Don Whitehead. "The
politicians are working hard to
keep the audience awake, but
everybody seems pretty sure noth
next act either."
I Educators
Hold Meeting
"Developing Citizenship With
Children" was the theme or the
annual Oregon Elementary Prin
cipals' Association meeting spon
sored by the Oregon Education As
sociation, Department of Elemen
tary School Principals and the
State Department of Education at
Salem October 11-12.
The keynote address wasglven
by Dr. Alice V. Keliher of New
York University. Dr. Keliher, a
professor of education, stressed
that a policy was needed to give
parents a better understanding of
the viewpoints of teachers. Her
talk was entitled.'Education, A
Positive Force Today."
Among other prominent educat
ors to speak was Dr. William C.
Jones, dean of administration at
the University of Oregon, Rex
Putnam, superintendent of public
instruction in Oregon and Dr. Har
ry L. Dillin, president, Linfield
College.
Attending from Klamath Falls
were Mrs. Isabelle Brixner, super
visor Klamath County School Dis
trict, Elton Pishback, principal of
Shasta school, Clayton Sharpe,
principal at Pairhaven School,
Stanley Sevruk, principal Keno
School, Harvey Denham, principal
Merrill School, representing the
Klamath County. Schools, Charles
McLin, principal Pelican School
and Dnrrell Potter, principal at
Roosevelt, representing city
schools. ,
Grange Holds
Booster Night
Open house and booster night
program were held at the Poe Val
ley Community Hall on September
29.
After opening ceremonies. Mast
er Rex High read a message of
greeting from National Orange
Master Herschel D. N e w s o m.
Washington. DC, and introduced
Henry Hcndrickson of Sherwood,
state deputy, Bonifay Yancey of
Klamath Falls, county deputy, and
visiting masters.
Tne program was under the di
rection of Lecturer Lillian Reiling
and included an agricultural report
by Paul Breithaupt, a legislative
report by Wilbur Reiling and a
numorous rcaaing Dy marjone wil
ting. Youth Chairman Blanche Hatch
et tpresented a skit. The cast in
cluded Mrs. Priscilla Tubach, Al
ice and Virginia Hatchett, Peter
and Carol Reiling and Virginia
Roenicke. Martha Tubach direct
ed a musical program.
Martha Wenz spoke on home
economics and Its relationship to
the grange. Final number was a
comic skit with Ruth Johnson,
Paul Hatchett, Edwin Wenz,
George Reiling, Neil Witting, Virg
il Koehn and Dot Johnson, as
members of the cast.
Refreshments were served by
the Home Ec members to soma 75
guests, grangers and children.
A carnival and bazaar will be
held November 20. . .
Much the same appraisal voter
apathy, except in certain areas
where unemployment or other is
sues stir interest comes from
other traveling AP men Douglas
B. Cornell, Relman Morln, Jack
Bell and Morrie Landsberg,
AH' their reports came in before
there was time to assess the pos
sible effect of Secretary of Defense
Wilson's now famous remark about
bird dogs and kennel-fed dogs.
Whitehead has been in Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Ohio and Michigan. Cornell has
visited Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin. Bell is reporting
on Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colo
rado, Wyoming, Idaho and. Mon
tana. Morin's territory Includes
New Jersey, Delaware, Connecti
cut, Rhode Island and Massachu
setts. Landsberg has been in Cali
fornia, Oregon and Nevada.
Privately, and sometimes public
ly, many political professionals
agree with- Whitehead's appraisal
written from Louisville, Ky.r
"So far as I can see there isn't
a comDelling issue or perosnallty
around to get the mass of voters
excited. Business generally is good
There's no war. Nobody seems to
be very mad about anything, un
less it s a man who s out of a job.
Here in brief- are the findings
of the AP correspondents who
have been in closest touch with
voter sentiment:
Whitehead So far I've seen
no signs of increasing interest in
the1 campaign, although it is likely
to pick up as election day nears.
With no compelling personality or
issue to stir the people, the elec
tion Is likely to be a contest of
organization with the better
party organizations getting out the
vote and perhaps making the dif
ference. ' '
Bell Voters in the Southwest
and Rocky Mountain States, where
there are several critical Senate
contests, are viewing this year's
campaign with extreme apathy.
President Eisenhower's flexible
farm price support program had
been built up as a major issue,
and it has that prominence in a few
states. But in others the flexible
vs. rigid parity proposals don't
seem to strike any campaign
sparks. . .
Cornell Whether there will
be a pickup in interest before
election day is hard to say. You
get the general impression there
won't be. Proprietors of barber
shops and rural beer emporiums
tell you their customers don't have
much to say about the election.
Morln Registration Is at a
postwar low in New York City in
spite of a concerted Democratic
effort to stimulate it to support
the party's ticket, entirely com
posed of New York City men. In
Maine, where the election already
has been held, the vote exeded
1950. But in Connctlcut Vice
President Nixon drew crowds of
only a few hundred. Television is
an invisible ,factor in the whole
region. '
Landsberg people seem weary
of politics, though there has been
a definite pickup of voter Interest
in California, Oregon and Nevada
for local reasons. Nevada sudden
ly found Itself with a senatorial
race as a result of the death of
Sen. McCarran ,D-Nev.
Oregon GOP Club
Convention Held
SALEM W) The Oregon Repub
lican Club opened its annual two-!
day convention here Friday with
800 delegates.
Feature of the first day's session
was a panel discussion led by the
party's lour congressional candi
dates. I
Atomic Pool
Use Urged
NEW YORK m President
Elsenhower urged American indus
try and leaders in technology
Thursday night to aid in develop
ment of the atomic pool he has
proposed.
A message from the President
was read at a dinner session of the
,annual conference on Atomic En
ergy in Industry,
Elsenhower described the atomic
pool plan aimed at harnessing
the vat energy of the atom for
the building of a better world
which he proposed to the General
Assembly of the United Nations
Dec. 8.
The President's message 'to the
conference was read by Dr. Wil
laid P. Libby, newly appointed
scientific member of the Atomic
Energy Commission,
The three-day conference, which
ends Friday, is being attended by
1,000 industrialists and atomic sci
entists of a number of nations. The
conference, dealing with the peace
ful uses of atomic energy, Is being
held under auspices of the National
Industrial Conference Board. The
board Is an independent and non
profit institution for business and
Industrial fact-finding through sci
entific research.
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GETTING READY FOR THE SHOOT in he Hart Mountain
area early in the hunting season were Reno . DeBortoli, 1480
Dayton, and Chuck Smith, 25 1 7' Orchard Way.
HOME EXTENSION
KENO
By Mrs. Lane Smith
The Keno Home Extension Unit
was called to order by the vice
president Mrs. Leonard Ramsey at
the home of Mrs. Lane Smith Oc
tober 13. The roll was called and
the secretary read the minutes of
the last meeting. -Treasurer's re
port was read.
Mrs. Merle Anderson offered to
give an extra meeting on the "Em
bossing of Thin Metals" on October
27 for those who wish to make
Christmas gifts.
A motion was made that a book
be purchased by Mrs. Lane Smith
for the purpose of making a scrap
book for the Unit.
The project "Creua' a Embroid
ery" was taught by Mrs. Joe De
Grande, and Mrs. Lane Smith. Pot
luck lunch was served at noon with
Mrs. Ralph Cecil as a special
guest Singing was lead by Mrs.
Cecil Howard. The November
meeting will be held at Mrs. Hen
ry Buckingham's home.
Those attending the m-e e t i n g
were Mrs. Cecil Howard, Mrs.
Leonard Ramsey, Mrs. Ray Hin
shaw, Mrs. Dick Wick, Mrs. Hen
ry Buckingham, Mrs. Merle An
derson, Mrs. Dan Scherer, Mrs.
John Olthoff, Mrs. Robert Rowton,
Mrs. Joe DeOrande, Mrs. Charles
Martin and Mrs, Lane Smith.
"TlNDttY HEIGHTS """"
By Mrs. Fred Schlegel
"Creative Embroidery" wasthe
project for the October 13 meeting
at Joan's Kitchen. Leaders were
Mrs. Corda Everhart and Mrs.
Helen Owens.
A brief business meeting was
held. Members ate sack lunches.
Seventeen members Including
several new ones were present.
Suggestions on how meetings can
be made more interesting will be
used to answer roll call on No
vember 10 when "Touch Ups for
Wood Furniture" will be present
ed by Hope Holbrook.
ALTAMONT
The October 8 meeting of the
Allamont Home Extension Unit
was held at Joan's Kitchen at the
fairgrounds.
Wilina Groves, chairman for the
coming year Introduced Hope Hol
brook, extension agent.
The project, "Touch Up for
Wood Furniture" was led by Miss
Holbrook.
The next meeting will be held
Thursday, November 4 instead of
November 2. election day.
Year books were filled out and
the committee chairman, and pro
ject leaders were selected.
The traveling prize was donated
by Mrs. Cecil Peyton and was won
by Mrs. Pauline Christen.
A potiuck luncheon followed the
meeting.
POE VALLEY
BT Mrs. F. O. Freuer
Mrs. Nina Nyback, owner of the
Surburban Flower Shop, guest
speaker at the recent meeting of
the Poe Valley Garden Club gave
an interesting talk on the culture
of poinsettias, describing the diffi
culty of growing. She also gave
pointers 1 on how members may
care for plants and flowers pur
chased at the flower shops.
Trials and errors oL growing
plants in hot houses were de
scribed. Mrs. Nyback described
wnere pianis originate and uie
need lor knowledge of suitable
soils, the period of time for bloom
ing.
Nurserymen regulate heat, light
and moisture for Ideal growing
conditions.
She also spoke on the care of
house plants.
Haile Selassie
Visits London ,
LONDON Ml Emperor Halle
Selassie of Ethiopia paid a cere
monial visit Friday to the Old
City of London, where he surprised
his guests by presenting the lord
mayor with a -pair of magnificent
elephant tusks
-The2-year-old Emperor Is here
on a state visit.
Just after the Emperor had been
presented with the address of wel
come sealed In a beautiful silver
casket, he turned to the lord ma
yor. Sir Noel Bowater, and indi
cated there was something yet to
follow.
Thereupon, the tusks', a shield
and a pair of hunting spears were
brought into ancient guildhall's
"1884 room.
NEW PLAN
TOKYO lPI Japan has drawn
ud a three-year plan calling for
an outlay of S80 million dollars
to revive her aircraft and muni
tlons industries, the newspaper
Asahl reported Friday.
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Intelligence Agency Asked To Confirm Solon's Record
KANSAS CITY W Rep. Doug
las Stringfellow today turned to
the Central Intelligence Agency
seeking confirmation of his state
ment that he parachuted behind
enemy lines on a secret World
War n mission. '
The 32-year-old Utah Republican
raid he would have to depend on
me CIA to release its files on him,
alter the Army Times in Washing
ton questioned whether he really
was a war hero. He called a copy
righted article in the Times an
unfounded politically Inspired at
tack."
The Times, which has. no offi
cial Army connection, asked in the
story under the by-lines of Editor
Harold G. Stagg and Managing
Editor Les Honeycutt.
was Congressman Strimrfellow
the heroic and lone survivor of
an OSS 'cloak ana dagger' opera-
uon ... or was Congressman
airingieuow a private first class
wun ine 62nd Armored Infantry
Division who served overseas less
than one month, but never saw
combat, although he was serious
ly injured and disabled" while on
a roiuine assignment?
Stringfellow told a reporter here
iasi nignt: .
"Rumors and innuendoes besnn
circulating about me last summer
and they have increased in scope
and viciousness. Stagg called me
irom Washington last Monday and
said he. was going to print thus
story unless It was refuted by a
high official of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
"We were a long way apart I
was in Ogden, Utah and there
seemed to be no opportunity for
us to sit down together and talk
it over. I couldn't reason with him
on the phone."
The congressman said that if the
CIA declines to release its rec
ords, he "would be in "a hell of
a lot of trouble."
In. Ogden. Keith II. Jaques,
Stringfellow's administrative as
sistant, said the CIA "because of
the nature of its responsibility, is
not permitted to make its records
public" but that the White Houso
had been asked to make an ex
ception in this case.
The congressman flew in here
from Denver, where he talked
briefly with members of the Presi
dent's staff, reportedly about the
Army Times article. Murray Sny
der, assistant presidential press
secretary, said he did not see
President Eisenhower.
Stringfellow stopped here on his
way to Butler, Mo., where he gave
a campaign speech on behalf of
Republican Rep. Jeffrey Hlllelson,
who is seeking reelection.
Stringfellow related -here last
night that he volunteered for Army
service Nov. 8, 1942, was called
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OSBURN HOLLAND
EUGENE, ORR. MEDFORD
Thoroughly Modem
Mrs. J. E. Barley Joe Barley Jr.
Proprietor! ,
to active duty on April 8. 1943.
and that in June 1943, while be
ing given special training at Ohio
State University, he was Inter
viewed by a man from the Office
of Strategic Services. He said he
volunteered for the type of service
the interviewer had discussed with
hini. , '
"I think it was Sept. 25, 1944,
that I was taken out of my com
pany at Ft. Campbell, Ky. and
told I was going to be a mem
ber of an advance guard," String
fellow said.
He said he and 30 other men
were flown across the Atlantic to
North Africa and on to Italy.
Eventually, he said, they parachut
ed behind enemy lines in Germany
to capture a certain German..
He said he once was told the
German was Dr. Otto Harm, a sci
entist, but he now is uncertain of
whether it was Harm.
The Germans captured him and
four other parachutists, he said,
but all escaped eight days later
with the aid of the German under
ground. He said lie was flown back
to United States to rejoin his old
outfit less than three weeks after
he started the mission.
The congressman, a first-termer
has braces on his feet and walks
with a cane. He was Injured by a
land mine explosion in France In
Nov. 19, 1944.
Managing Editor
Resigns Post
SAN FRANCISCO W L. 8.
(Larry) Fanning, 40, a member
of the board of directors of The
Associated Press Managing Edi
tors Assn., resigned Thursday as
managing editor of the San Fran
Cisco Chronicle. Neither Fanning
nor the Chronicle gave any reason.
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