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ANNUAL BAZAAR of the St. Augustine's Church in Mer
rill will give away a bride doll with a complete outfit of
clothes, made by Mrs. Joseph Brandejesky of Klamath
Falls, on Saturday evening, November 8, at the parish
hall. A smorgasbord dinner will be served from 6 until 8
p.m. with no charge for preschool children. Mrs. Jackie
O'Connor, Klamath Falls, Mrs. Donald Brechtel, Malin,
and Mrs. Dan Barry, Merrill, are dinner co-chairmen. Mrs.
Don Ratliff, president of St. Augustine's Altar Society, is
general chairman of the affair which will feature various
booths, including fancy work and cooked foods, and
games.
Survey By New York Paper
Indicates Democrat Gains
Nearly As Many Salesmen
As Buyers In Land Boom
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
ORLANDO. Fla. (NEA) If all
the lots staked out in Florida's
incredible land boom suddenly
sprouted houses and occupants, the
state s population would jump by
30 million
plants have been built in this area
lor proximity to tne iape Canaver
al missile test base 80 miles from
here.
But the bulk of Florida's popu
lation boom has consisted of el
derly people. A survey of the
firms promoting these big land
V.vm at Indavs rpi-nrd rate oftproiects reveals that upwards of
construction, it would take more 1 7a per cent oi me customers nave
than 10 years to build homes on
the countless subdivisions where
sites are now being offered.
1 doubt whether one ot those
electronic calculators could have
kept up with exact figures on acre
age and funds invested," says a
spokesman for the Florida Real
Estate Commission here in Orlando.
Theer are 30,000 licensed real
estate salesmen and brokers in
this slate, a ratio of land-sellers
to land about triple the average
in other states. And that does not
include thousands of salesmen. en
gaged in mail-order and out-of-state
land-selling activities. Honda tana
is being peddled in all the states,
territories and dozens of foreign
countries
Florida is enjoying a substantial
industrial expansion. This is bring'
ing in new citizens. Many defense
NEW YORK (AP) The New
York Times said today a nation
wide survey of political conditions
by Times correspondents indi
cated Democratic gains in the
House of Representatives in the
Nov. 4 election.
The Times said the general im
pression, slightly more than two
Weeks before the election, was
that the Democrats might gain
from 15 to 40 House seats.
This would give them a com
fortable majority in the next Con
gress. When the present House
was at full strength, the Demo
crats held 23S seat, and the Re
publicans 200.
The Times said the survey was
not intended as a final forecast.
It noted that many races were
reported close and subject to
change in the closing days.
Not, included in the survey were
Maine, which voted Sept. 8, and
Alaska, where elections will be
held Nov. 25.
The Times survey reported:
Democrats were confident and
many informed Republicans pri
vately agreed with them that
they would add to their present
House majority.
Correspondents of the Times re
ported that the Democrats had
fair to excellent chances of adding
one or more House seats in New
York. Connecticut. New Jcrscv,
Pennsylvania, California, West
Virginia, Indiana, Michigan,
Washington, Maryland. North Da
kota, Kentucky and Ohio.
There seemed to be little chance
that Vice President Nixon would
get the nationwide vote of confi
dence in the Eisenhower adminis
tration for which he has asked.
Nixon has urged campaign audi
ences to vote for Republican
House and Senate candidates who
would support President Eisen
hower's program.
There were few signs of the
landslide that some Democrats
predicted when they said their
party would gain 60 to 80 House
seats.
Other samplings of political
opinion reinlorce the impression of
Ihe limes survey that the Demo
cratic gains m the House propor
tionately would fall below the ex
peeled Democratic increases in
Senate scats.
Recent surveys, including those
by teams of New York Times cor
respondents, have shown that the
Democrats might gain as many as
10 or 14 Republican-held Senate
seals, while no Senate seat now
held by a Democrat is in serious
danger.
The last Senate was divided 40
Democrats to 47 Republicans
Education Commissioner
Relates Capital Views
Official Cites
State Ruling
OLYMPIA (API Unless the
law is changed the state can't
withhold industrial insurance pay
ments to Stale Penitentiary pris
oners disabled by pie-prison on-
the-job injuries, an official said
Monday.
A. L. Wiley, supervisor of the
industrial insurance program,
commented after State Rep. Tom
Copeland (R-Walla Walla) report
cd at least three prisoners were
drawing money for loss-of-time
accidents that occurred before
they entered the prison.
Wiley said the attorney general's
office held in. 1956 that eligible
claimants in such cases were en
titled to compensation.
"Under the opinion, Wiley said,
'our hands are tied until such
time as the law is changed."
Wilev said he didn t know how
many prisoners tlfiw are receiving
industrial compensation, but he
added his department sends a doc
tor into the prison to check closely
on such claims.
"If the doctor says they can do
even the lightest work such as
sweeping floors in the prison
we'll cut them off," Wiley added
"The ones who arc receiving pay
ment are physically unable to
even sweep floors.
eventual retirement in Florida as
their motive or buying.
John N. Webb, a University of
Florida population expert, says:
Between 1950 and litov the state
sained more than a million and a
third in civilian population. This
has contributed to a 50 per cent
increase of persons 65 years of age
and older. This is striking when
compared with a rate of increase
around 20 per cent in mis group
the nation as a whole."
Another University of Florida ex
pert, George B. Hurff, says:
Ease of living, tne neiiet mat
there's more elbow room here,
sunshine and warmth and good
fishing, in about that order, are the
things people think they will find
in Florida which make tnem want
to retire here. The trouble is, some
retirees find that the problems re
suiting from uprooting themselves
to come here are not compensated
for bv the sunshine
The University of Florida is plan
ning extensive new researcn on
this Question.
Newspaper and state otlicials are
YAKIMA (AP) The slate's
administration of the National De
fense Education Act will not be
interfered with by the federal
government, a federal official told
Washington stale educators Mon
day. Lawrence G. Derlhick, U. S.
commissioner of education, made
the statement in a conference with
members of the Washington State
Research Committee for the Gift
ed Child.
But, Derlhick said, his depart
ment is tapping the best educa
tional brains in the nation in or
der to work out guides for use by
the individual states for im
plementing the act. which was
passed by the last congress.
He said the federal government
does not intend to force the states
to conform to a set pattern, al
Demos Hear
Solon's Wife
ALBANY, Ore. AP, - Mrs.
Richard L. Neubcrgcr told an Al
bany Democratic rally Monday
night there is much in common
between successful teaching and
effective political leadership.
The wife of Oregon's junior De
mocratic senator, speaking on be
half of a measure to allow teach
ers lo serve in the Legislature
aid it was "one of the most justi
fied measures on the ballot this
November."
"Not only would this amend
ment put teachers on equal terms
with the rest of the citizens of the
state, it would make it possible
for the public to draw on the
great potential 0f leadership and
lusckground which our teachers
can offer," Mrs. Neuherger said.
She is a former school teacher
and three-ierm member of the
date Legislature.
MEETING SET
CORVALLIS 'AP The annual
sectional meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Agricultural Engi
neers will be held at Oregon State
College Oct. 22-25.
Scheduled speakers include Eu
gene G. McKibben, head of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
research service.
though individual plans for guid
ance and counseling of young stu
dents toward higher education
must be approved by his office
belore Hinds can be released
Derthick met with the commit
tee at the invitation of Lloyd J
Andrews, state superintendent of
public instruction, who appointed
the group to study guidance and
counseling of the state's gifted
children. ,
Derlhick is here as a guest of
(he Washington Stale School Su
perintendents Assn., now holding
its annual meeting.
The convention was told by An
drews Monday that it was the su
perintendents' responsibility to sec
that students get the most educa
tion for the money.
He told delegates they should
"promote and encourage practices
that will give our children the best
education with the greatest effi
ciency in the use of funds, per
sonnel and facilities available
Increase Noted
In Forest Fires
OLYMPIA (AP) Forest and
brush fires burned over nearly 28
times as many acres this .year
than in 1957.
The State Department of Natural
Resources reported Monday that
1.566 fires burned over 16,170
acres through Oct. 15 this year!
while 42 blazes singed 581 acres
during the same period of 1957.
Most of the blazes were blamed
on lightning, smokers, debris
burners, locomotives, campers,
arsonists, slash burners and log
ging operations in that order.
constantly warning possible cus
tomers for Florida lots to see any
land before they buy it and be
sure they understand what living
conditions are like in the state
Everyone (ears a repeat of the
notorious land boom of the '20s.
Some land which is under water
part of the time is being offered.
Some swampland is being peddled
by crooks. But this appears to be
minute fraction of the total
sales effort. The vast bulk of the
selling is free of fraud or chican
ery.
And a great deal of the boom
is in the offering of attractive lots
and homes which will give low
cost retirement in a land once be
lieved only available to the rich.
Ten dollars down and $10 a moat
for four io six years will get you
a lot with maybe some shade and
close to the water.
Lots selling for $2,000 will guar
antee shade and water. Oceanfront
property at Cocoa, for example, is
between $175 and $700 a front foot.
Al Sarasota it's between $300 and
$2,500 a front foot.
There are some jokers in the
picture. Persons buying Ihe $10-
down lots who want to sell within
the next few years stand a good
chance of losing money, experts
say.
By Ihe time this land is offered
to individual buyers most of the
speculative value has been drained
off. One tract of land wound up
-jiwisiiiaaaauf
eviiw sH bur times, with each
seller t.,ig a handsome profit,
before it was finally broken into
lots of public sale.
On some projects, most of the in
come from lot sales is going back
into large advertising programs,
with promised improvements be
ing short changed. If sales slow
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down these projects could collapse,
and lot buyers v. ' be stuck with
unimproved land.
"The hope for this boom continu
ing is to keep it clean," says a
Real Estate Commission lawyer.
"If we do this nobody will feel he
has been cheated by Florida real
estate." -
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