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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, Dee. 17, 1959 Dems Leave Little Doubt Benson Will Be Target WASHINGTON AP) Demo crats lett little doubt today they will continue to make Secretary Of Agriculture K.zra Taft Bensun t political target despite their loss Of an Iowa House scat. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Monti disputed the contention ot GOl' National Chairman Thruston B Morton that the results in an Iowa corn-hoc area showed farmers don't blame Benson .solely for low prices and other agricultural ills. Mansfield is assistant Senate dem Ocratic leader. "Both candidates in the House contest said they were opposed to Benson's farm program so that hardly could have been the de ciding issue," Munslield said.. Instead, he conceded that a He publican upswing is on from the Inw mark the GOP reached when the Democrats won landslide vie Door Open 6:45 p.m. NOW PLAYING! EES- msr mom ' H His -.hi Cc3oiME NSION HATORI: PI MCI 7:00 t 10:15 LUJ. Suspense -Packed Western Hit 1 dank CLARK ben COOPER TY& lori NELSON -'v vary .Show ot 8:45 ONLY lories In Senate and House races in 1058. -Morton and Vice President Richard M. Nixon saw the begin ning of a GOP comeback in the election of Republican John Kyi over Democrat C. K.dwin Gilmour in Iowa's fourth district special election. Nixon called it "dramatic evi dence" of a GOP upturn that should encourage the 'recruiting of strong party candidates .and give incumbents in marginal districts a shot in the arm. "I have felt there have been substantial gains in Republican strength beginning in the latter part of the summer and early fall." Nixon said. "This election demonstrates that that is the case. "If we can continue this rale of progress, this means that the hopes that have been expressed (or a Republican House of Rcpre scnlativcs in lliGO are based on a solid foundation." Morton lold a news conference Wednesday his own observations on a nation-wide tour, plus the Iowa results, have given him new hope that Republicans will hold their lines in midwestern senator! al contests and perhaps knock off some Democrats. He said this optimism is based primarily on the belief that there is widespread voter support for "President Eisenhower's dynamic leadership in the field of foreign affairs" and on the belief that Republicans "are better qualified to expand the economy." While he conceded that some Republicans don't like Benson's flexible price support program, he said he is convinced there is "a strong realization that responsi hility for the farm situation does not rest in one man, as the Demo crats have tried to say." Partly because of this, Morton s'aid, he now expects Republican senators to hold on to their jobs in Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and Idaho. He said the party expects to retain tile North Dakota seat occupied by the late Sen. William Langcr in a special election next June 28. Morton listed Wyoming, Mon tana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Rhode Island as states where lie GOP will try the hardest to defeat incumbent Democrats. But he made It clear he has no llusion that the Republicans can regain control of the Senate. They now are outnumbered 65-3B in that body. Irises bloom at the edge of the Arctic. But, they will not grow near the equator. mass, f-i ii:mV3 It's a real big treat for everybody in every fam'dy ! DON'T MISS IT! I -I "DENNIS THE MENACE" RgMEWBER .... mq CM77SS!' Record Year Predicted For Industry, Commerce By ELMER C. WAI.ZER IT I Finanrial Editor NEW YORK UPI Prentice Hall in its MM) outlook for indus try and commerce foresees a record year in 19ft0 with practical ly all lines rising, and making their best showing in the first half. Late in the year, the firm finds prospect of some slowing down. In line with olher recent fore casts this one places gross nation al product at $501 billion to $510 billion, a rise of 5 to 7 per cent It looks for a 1 to 2 per cent rise in the cost of living and but a tiny change in wholesale prices. About the only place where a decline is anticipated is in hous ing starts, but overall-construction is expected to set a record high. Among the records anticipated arc steel, construction, . chemical and plastics, textiles, retail trade, electric utilities, electrical equip ment and electronics, rubber, to bacco, apparel, appliances, home furnishings, meat and poultry, and paper and paperboard. . Automobile production is ex pected to attain its second best year. Coal is expected to make a good gain. So are the railroads The service looks for a rise over 1059 of about 8 per cent in advertising and publishing. Agricultural equipment faces curtailed volume, with farm in come slated to decline. Good gains are looked for in beverages, with distilled spirits up 15 per cent after a 25 per cent rise in 1959. Cuts in housing are expected to trim shipments of lumher, cement plumbing supplies, brick and tile, but surging industrial construc tion will bolster the Viw outlook for structural steel, glass and paint, Prentice-Hall says. All packaging segments are pre dicted on the upbeat in KlfiO. Dairy products arc expected to rise with milk, butler, and cheese leading an upturn in prices. Further Increases In lflfiO arc looked for in drugs and toiletries. Growing population and higher in comes are seen aiding food pro cessors. Natural gas sales, up 10 per cent in 1959 are expected to duplicate that rise in 1960. The first half of 1960 is expect ed to be the best. The second half may see some resistance to the recovery. The tight money squeeze, says Prentice-Hall, "will eventually topple the Wall Street Bull market. "And that's likely to push the 19M business boom ripe for top ping out in any case into a mod erate decline, running into 1961. "Uncertainties about changes which a new administration- Republican or Democratic will make in such vital areas as de fense spending, tax rates, and labor legislation will add to pre vailing business and investor un certainty toward the end of I960." After ' this slowdown, Prentice Hall expects another new auto, housing, consumer durables, capi tal goods, and stock market boom marking the start of a big new business upthrust for the surging sixties.' , . The firm injects a warning that applies to the coming year and beyond: "We still haven't found the ans wers to the double threat and challenge that continue to cloud the promising long-term outlook. "The unchecked threat of chronic creeping inflation could eventually force devaluation of the dollar. And the challenge of Russian and Chinese Communism on an economic, political, scien tific, and possibly military ram page has yet to be squarely confronted." SET BI.OOD DONOR RECORD MARIETTA, Ga. ' UPI The Georgia Division of Lockheed Air craft Corp. said it set a national record as the largest industrial blood donor Wednesday when 693 workers gave blood to the Red Cross. SiwdA TODAY! GREGORY PECK DEBORAH KERR X Tb lwyi bold, bitter. i iS ,1 n it e Ajyl j wtioTriiiroi r.xon Infidel. ! NKW KM! 2 . . . Many American Families Practice Birth Control Editor's Note: This is the second of three background dis patches on the current contro versy over birth control. It re ports on the actual practices of American families, and on legal restrictions. By LOUIS CASSELS WASHINGTON (UPI)-A large majority ot American families practice some form of birth con trol. That fact has long been obvious from the U.S. birth rate, which consistently remains far below the biological maximum. It has been confirmed by study conduct ed jointly by the University of Michigan research center and the Scripps foundation for population research. The researchers interviewed 2, 713 white married women be tween the ages of 18 and 39. Ex cept for the fact that no Negroes were included, the women inter viewed were a scientifically-se- lected sample of the nation's population, with all religious m or BEIPVED INFiDEL ' '"14 Eddie Albert iheiltb Grabinl JERRY WALD'S PROOCCTION Of .OnemScOP COLOR by DE LUXE Stereophonic Sound HENRY KING SCREE.NPIHY BY SY BARTLETT DOORS OPEN" AT 6:45 Criminal Case Goes To Jury For Verdict NEW YORK (UPI) - The fed eral government's most massive effort to break the rackets syndi cate since the days of Al Capone goes to the jury today in the trial of 20 accused conspirators at the notorious Apalachin, N. Y., meeting of 1957. U.S. District Judge Irving Kauf man was to instruct the eight men and four women jurors be fore they receive the case. Prosecutor Milton Wessel wound up his case Wednesday night with the charge that the de fondants were so bound in silence that "grown men cry" rather than reveal what happened at the Apalachin home of the late Jo seph Barbara two years ago. Most of the defendants have criminal records ranging from narcotics and illegal gambling to white slavery and suspicion of murder. It is widely believed that Apalachin was a meeting of the "board of directors" of the rackets to discuss national prob lems. But the federal government charged them only with conspir acy to obstruct justice by lying about what did occur. The offense carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment. "We have not,' cannot and do not prove what was going on at the Apalachin meeting," Wessel said. "The conspiracy was suc cessful. "People may ask,' 'what kind of conspiracies can't be beaten by the federal government, by the FBI?' 'It is the kind that binds these people together so tightly in si lence that grown men cry. They are bound by bands so strong to lie that it will take a verdict of guilty to break those bands." All the defendants are of Ital ian descent and there have been suggestions that most were mem bers of the Mafia, the Sicilian terrorist society whose code Is silence to the death; The meeting occurred only a few weeks after racket kingpin Albert Anastasia was shot to death in a New York barber's chair. Slate Poline Sgt. Edgar Cros well was the man who spotted the gathering of about 60 men driving gleaming limousines at the hill top home near the tiny village. After he summoned reinforce ments and set up road blocks, Barbara's "guests" took off by foot through the fields and woods. Not a single defendant testified in his own defense. Most of them previously told a grand jury and investigating of ficers they "just happened" to drop in on old friend, Barbara because they had heard he was ill. groups and economic brackets in cluded in the right proportions. The findings, recently pub lished, show that 62 per cent of ihe women expressed "unquali fied approval" of birth control, and an additional 12 per cent ap proved with some qualifications. The initial question was so worded that all forms of birth control including the "rhythm method" approved by the Catholic Church were included. The researchers then asked about the methods of birth con trol used. They found that standard con traceptive devices were used, oc casionally or exclusively, "by 89 per cent of the Protestants and X per cent of the Jews who practice birth control. While the rhythm method was most widely used among Catholic wives, the research team said that a "very significant" percent age of Catholics acknowledged regular or occasional use of con traceptives. The number who ad mitted using methods condemned by their church constituted 30 per cent of all the Catholic wives covered by the survey, and more than 50 per cent of the Catholic wives who had said they prac ticed some form of birth con trol. Although few Americans real ize it, there is a federal law, still on the books, which makes it a crime to import, mail or trans port in interstate commerce "any article for the prevention of con ception." This law is called the Comstock Act in honor of Vice Crusader Anthony Comstock, who pushed it through Congress in 1873. Many slates adopted "little Comstock acts" during the same period, banning the manufacture or sale of contraceptives or the dispens ing of birth control advice. Enforcement of the federal law has been invalidated by a famous court decision rendered by Judge Learned Hand in 1936. All but two of the state laws have been repealed. Connecticut and Massa chusetts still have anti-contraception laws. The Massachusetts law permits druggists to sell appliances "for the prevention of disease" and the state officially closes its eyes to the fact that these appliances can also, be used to prevent conception. In Connecticut, however, the law forbids even the use of a contraceptive device. Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, medical director ' of Ihe Planned Parenthood Federa tion, commented recently that this law makes the citizens of Connecticut "the largest mass criminal population in America." Several court cases are now pending to challenge the consti. nationality of the Connecticut law, and one of them may reach the U.S. Supreme Court next year. TOWER FURNITURE'S Friday - Saturday Special! " Electric Sunburst WALL CLOCK t 195 Black (UL puJ Face l f S&H Open M. Night j J stTmp". ' iB(0 PARKING 10T ADJACENT j jj1 C 12th & Mailt . , Ph. TU 4-8858 SUSPEND 11 GUARDS IUIFORD. Ela. 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