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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
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-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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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