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Friday, October JI, 1952
Illinois Valley News
KICHARD C., JOAN PINKERTON
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an independent weekly newspaper
Published at Cave Junction,
Josephine County, Oregon
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MEMBER OF
OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN.
VOTER CONSIDERATION—
ITS IMPORTANCE IN 1952
Many different bases of reasoning
will lie used by Valley voters attempt
ing to select whom they feel is the
most qualified presidential candidate
before they pull election booth levers
Tuesday.
Many, like the publishers, will
probably take the advice of one of the
candidates himself who, before the
Democratic convention this summer,
said he was not “temperamentally,
physically or mentally’’ equipped for
the presidency. Adlai Stevenson’s ac
ceptance of the evergrowing record
of failures and mistakes of the Tru
man administration, as well as his
own pre-election campaign, bears him
out in this, his own estimation of per
sonal capabilities.
Additional consideration will and
should occupy the minds of Valley
voters, however, as they attempt to
be “sure” they’re making a wise selec
tion.
Some of the questions voters may
ask themselves are:
1. Was the US foreign policy af
fecting Asia such as to discourage
the invasion of helpless nations like
South Korea?
2. Has the U. S. used every avail
able means to decisively end the Kor
ean war to keep American casualties
at a minimum?
3. Although you’re probably mak
ing more money than ever before, do
you enjoy being told how to spend it,
as well as losing your self-respect at
the hands of the ever-growing num
bers of federal bureaus and agencies?
4. Has the administration swiftly
recognized and discharged swindlers
and those with tainted political affil
iations withn their ranks?
5. Has federal spending and the
national deficit been kept at a safe
level ?
Depending upon the reader’s in
terpretation of, and interest in, daily
news reports, he may or may not
agree with the NEWS in its opinion
that the answers to these five specific
voter considerations are “no.”
The wide scope embodied in these
few of the many questions facing
the voter as he considers whether he
will censure or give his approval of
national governmental trends dis
plays the importance of his pre-elec
tion job.
So the NEWS does not recom
mend you just automatically pull
some levers Tuesday, but that you
cast aside old prejudices and affilia
tions and give some real thought and
consideration in your choice of the
right party to occupy the White
House for another four-year stretch.
Voting in itself accomplishes little
good for anyone unless behind it there
has been a careful analysis of issues
and candidates.
Whether you approve of the pol
itical stand of the NEWS or of your
neighbors and friends in this impor
tant presidential election, make sure
you don’t regret in 1956 what you
helped do on Nov. 4, 1952.
AN EDITORIAL: Which Conference Do You Think
Would Beller Preserve Peace?
NO OPINION HERE
If you’re a city voter looking for
any opinion from the NEWS as to
how you should vote between the two
opposing slates of candidates, look no
further. It isn’t here.
Most city residents have had more
time than, we to weigh the accomp
lishments and failures of the adminis
trations under Mayor Salvage and of
his predecessor, Elwood Hussey.
Weigh them carefully and wisely
for the time is about ripe for several
important city endeavors. The leader
ship provided by council members el
ected for the new four-year term aftd
the mayor for two years will be an im
portant factor in the development not
only of the city but of the entire sur
rounding area.
How’s your bath water lately?
Ours is mighty clean. Yours probably
is too, if you’re using city water! Our
thanks to city officials who made it
possible.
Via the familiar grapevine we
hear agitation for immediate annex-
aton is spreading in Cave Junction’s
southern fringe area. How about
your neighborhood? Couldn’t it also
benefit within the next couple of
years from being a part of, and not
just on the sidelines of, the city gov
ernment and its growing advan
tages?
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st p.-ob'em feeing America ioday is:
HOW DO WE STAY OUT OF WAR-WITH HONOR?
In the showJcwn which surely lies ahead, which of the nominees,
Eisenhower or Stevenson, do you want to have speak for you in a meet
ing with Stalin and Churchill? Which man do you think Stalin would fear
and respect? . . . Eisenhower has had vast experience in world affairs
during periods of both hot and cold war. LOOK believes he is incom
parably better prepared for the Presidency.
cepted for liquor enforcement in
spectors with the Oregon Liquor
Commission and *for positions with
the game commission as aquatic
biologist and gam«* biologist.
The commission is also accepting
applications from men with one
year of public contact experience
and a high school education for
future vacancies throughout the
state as driver’s license examiners
with the secretary of state offices.
ESCAPED CON REESCAPF.S
Oregon prison officials received
word from Murphy, Idaho, this
week that Levern F. Bowles who
six mofft+is ago escaped from th»?
Oregon prison’s gun gang had been
picked up on a burglary charge
but escaped from the Owyhee coun
ty jail.
The dispatch stated that Bowles
hud picked a lock on his cell door
and unscrewed a metal plate from
the door of th«* outer cell block,
tried to break into th«* sheriff’s
safe and departeil.
HEADS LIQUOR BOARD
William A. Spangler of Klamath
Falls was appointed Friday to suc-
ceed Robert L. Elfstimo, Salem, as
(hairman of the Oregon Liquor
Com mission.
Governor Douglas McKay who
mad«* the appointment had high
praise for Elfstrom. The late chair
man who resigned recently is a
candidate for representative in the
legislature from Marion county.
accept the nomination or endorse pervisory positions with the state.
ment of any other party, other Stat«* Civil Service Director James
than the one in which I inn regis
'1. Clinton announced this week.
tered."
Applicants must have an exten
By Murray Wad*
di«* knowledge of all phases of
STATE NEEDS WORKERS
ELIGIBLE VOTERS
laundry operation and some laun
BALLOT CONFUSING
Applications are being accepted dry supervisory experience.
Oregon is near the top of the
The long general electron ballot
until November 7 foi laundry su
Applications an* also being ac-
list of states making substantial
with national, state and county
gains this year in voter registra
positions to fill and 19 measures
tion.
to vote on that have confusing
There are 851,516 persons in
titles, some with the new fangled
this state who have qualified to
“price tags." will have a tendency
vote at the general election No
for voters to mark only on-the
vember 4.
top of the ticket or vote “No" on
most measures.
This is an all-time record.
The increase is approximately
13 per cent over the 1950 regis
tration and at the first glance it
seems to be a very gratifying gain.
However the gain i* nearer three
per cent as the state has been
growing in population for the past
ten years at a rate of five per
cent a year, or ten percent since
1950.
rhe i«publican.* have a very
slight lead in reg;st ration. The
difference between the total
registration of the two party* in
Oregon is le«s than five-eighth*
of one percent «»f th«» total
registration.
Capital Parade
Tlia grec
The “No” vote trait shows a
distinct trend in the polls mad«?
during the past week One of the
most extensive polls made was by
Dan Clark arm Associates of Port
land. It showed a 50 percent “No”
vote on the measure to approve a
constitutional
amendment
that
would forever prohibit par-mutuel
racing anti only 30 percent favor
ing the measure.
It would appeal- that the voters
are not going to undo the work of
the legislature which hits brought
more than a million dollars to the
state general fund and nearly half
a million dollars to county fairs
and 4-H club shows.
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Robert Marshall, Washington, D.
C., who is in charge of all recrea
tion work for the U. S. Forest
«Service, was a visitor of the local
ranger district over the weekend.
•
Mrs. Chris Wendt returned last
week from an extendetl visit in Los
Angeles where she has been visit
ing relatives and friends.
The Valley of
Yesteryear
Mr. and'Mrs. Cliff Johnson of
O’Brien made a trip to Redding and
Alturas, Calif., for a week’s visit
with relatives and friends.
•
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ilarker of
Prineville, Oregon are visitors in
the Valley for a short time.
•
10 YEARS AGO
October 29, 1942—Mr. anti Mrs.
C. C. Babcock spent last weekend
visiting relatives in Eugene, re
turning home Monday evening.
a
•
Mrs. Jerry Foster and Miss Ruth
have been visiting at the home of
Mrs. Amos Vahrenwald near Hol
14 YEARS AGO
land. Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Vahren
November 3, 1938—H.C. John wald are sisters.
son and his son Carrol, left Sun
day morning for their home in
Bob Flemming of Holland has his
Portland after visiting at the horn«? two sisters visiting him from Port
of Dr. and Mrs. A. N. Collman.
land for an indefinite stay.
•
ELECT A VETERAN ’
MORSE CANT CHANGE
I'nlc'S Senator Wayne Morse
resigns his seat in the senate he
cannot “resign” from the republi-
«•an party. This is the opinion of
David O'Hara, state supervisor of
election^ v ho oiii'ted the Oreg n
election law pledge which a can
didate is required to take:
“I am a duly rvgistere«! member
of the republican party. If nomi
nated f >r the office of United
States senator at the primary
nominating election to be held in
the stat«* of Oregon the 19‘.h of
May 1950, I will accept the nomi
nation and will not withdraw, and
if elected will qualify as such
officer.”
In an >ther paragraph the law
reads
If Dominated. I will u«t
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The tricky milk initiative promoted by
an out*of-state grocery chain...
WOULD PUT OREGON’S MANY
SMALL DAIRY FARMERS AT
THE MERCY OF BIG BUSINESS!
VOTE 333 X NO
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