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POLITICAL CONSERVATISM
Readers of this column don't have to be remmo«.- ..ait we
are unflinchingly conservative in our political views. Indeed,
we are and have been for a long tim e proud to be referred to as
conservative. We like the word. It is dignified, meaningful,
denotes responsibility and, to use an idiom, backbone. We only
regret that so many basically sound-thinking democrats and re
publicans in Oregon have the false feeling that the term is just
a wee bit degrading because the higher-ups look down their
noses at us.
Most prominent among our "regrets" in Oregon is Governor
M ark, who by conviction and training is basically a conserva
tive, but a man who has permitted unprincipled and conforming
influences (mostly from the East, including the presently consti
tuted G .O . P. National Committee) to swerve him and his most
ardent supporters into the position of being almost parasitic
hangers-on to the Great Society movement. Their devotion to
what they considered political expediency has blinded them to
the latent conservatism of Oregon voters— a latency which we
believe has just about run its course. Idaho took off its dark
glasses couple weeks ago and threw Smylie out the back door.
California has demonstrated its resurgent conservatism several
times in the last few years and our believing hope is that they
w ill repeat in a most large way for Ronald Reagan in November.
Two weeks ago, in conversation with a very w ell known and
ardent republican of Southern Oregon, we came to the mutually
rueful conclusion that Bob Duncan had pulled ahead of H atfield
in the race for the Senate. Sunday's news stories of a political
poll verified our thinking. But it is still not too late for Mark.
If he would forget his unholy alliances, come out flatfooted for
the conservative cause and back his words with conservative ac
tion from the governor's chair, Oregon would send him to Wash
ington in November, where he could be a valuable representa
tive of Oregon Americans and help the Senate retain the Consti
tution of a free people. Bob couldn't do that, because he is too
dedicated to the Society which believes Oregon people do not
have the intelligence to run their own business; so he wants to
give the Washington intelligentsia a free rein to manipulate the
affair* of our state while we pour our votes down their funnel--
bowing our knees to their whims. He and his society no longer
recognize that our nation is made up of fifty United STATES.
So happy are we for the many signs of returning ballot box
responsibility a ll over the country that we wish to give our .read
ers herewith some of the comments of HUM A N EVENTS of Aug
ust 13. This weekly periodical is tops in the national field and
carries the finest stable of competent, intelligently informed
writers in the country, a group most v ita lly concerned for the
conservation of free Americanism. T o -w lt:
Labor’s Assault on Reagan
The big guns of organized labor, paying off pre
vious debts to California's Edmund G. “ Pat" Brown,
A c now mobilizing a frantic
effort to salvage the gover
nor’ s re-election c h a n c e s .
Aware of his desperate uphill
struggle to beat conservative
GOP candidate Ronald Rea
gan, labor's moguls are amass
ing a giant slush fund of S3
million to use on Brown's be
half. California labor leaders
say they’ re prepared to- wage
S t AG AM
as massive a campaign as they
did in 1958 when the unions buried Big Bill Know-
land and right-to-work under an avalanche of money
and propaganda.
The bosses of organized labor are fairly reeling at
the prospects of a Reagan victory. Not only is their
privileged s|atus with the Brown Administration hang
ing in the balance, but a Reagan win would break
the tight grip the Democrats and the A FL-C IO have
had on the most populous state in the nation.
Reagan, as former head of the Screen Actors Guild,
is no anti-union man, but the labor leaders know
thai unlike Brown, Reagan won’ t bow to irrespon
sible union demands.
But there’s more at stake for labor than just
who controls California. The persistent fear that
haunts union chieftains is that politicians across
the countrv might sec the advantage of turning
conservative if Reagan can win in the biggest
population state in the nation.
If this should be the impact of a Reagan triumph,
the AEL-C IO would see it> Socialistic spending pro
grams fall by the wayside in Washington as well as
in the Golden State. Hence, the frenzied campaign
to block the GOP gubernatorial candidate.
The AFL-C IO , headquartered in Washington, has
already turned on the steamroller. The Memo of
labor s Committee on Political Education, which is
circulated to nearly one million union members in
California, has devoted an entire issue to Reagan,
maliciously attempting to link him to anti-Negro,
anti-Semitic hate groups.
Several wpeks ago five union bigwigs, representing
millions of dollars, huddled with California A FL-C IO
leader Thomas Pitts in the St. Francis Hotel in San
Francisco to plot their anti-Reagan strategy. Meeting
with Pitts were A l Barkan, national director of COPE,
the A FL-C IO 's political action arm; Roy Siemiller,
president of the International Association of M a
chinists; Paul Jennings, head of the International
Union of Electricians; Paul Hall, he.d of the Seafarer’s
International Union, and Joseph Keenan, head of
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
W A S H IN G T O N
AND
"S M A LL
B U S IN E S S "
B y C W I l,S O N
420
HARDER
It is doubtful that anyone, ter how the reason for such
following a heuted argument Infringement Is rationalised,
with the wife at the breakfast chaos and anarchy results
table, rushes out and throws
• • •
rocks through the windows of
One
of
the
grave manifesta-
all the houses down the block
| tions of the times is the report
• • •
ed fact that in the localities
This would be considered as around Watts. Rochester, and
quite an unwarranted action, other places where riots have
and would lead to some grave occurred there has been a phe
nomenal jump in the sale of
consequences.
firearms
T h e ju d g e
w o u ld u s
• • a
d o u b t e d ly
No
one
can
blame any person
hold that your
for taking such precautions for
d o m e s tic
protecting life and property.
p ro b le m Is
But It Is quite significant, and
not one that
not pleasantly so, that hundreds
Is shared by
and perhaps thousands of peo
th e n e ig h
ple who would not normaT'y
bors.
have a gun In the house now
• * •
feel it Is essential.
In essence,
C. W . H a rd e r
• 0 0
this explains
Thus, the Great Society is
the resolution before the Cong
ress by Rep Craig Hosmer of transforming into the Shaky
California which is supported Society, where decent, law
by the nation's independent abiding citizens feel they can
business proprietors by a ma no longer depend PR uwveS of
jority of 72 per cent in a poll law and order .to protect then..
• oo
by the National Federation of
Independent Business.
This Is. without doubt, one
• * •
of the most serious problems,
Congressman Hosmer’s reso If not the most serious, to ever
lution would pul the Congress face the American Republic.
on record as asserting that the
• • •
right of society In general, and
In
the
storied
old West, the
the individual in particular, has
principle of every man for him
a right to protection of proper
ty and life that Is paramount to self was the law. One only has
to visit the "Boot H ill" ceme
all other rights.
tery in Tucson, Arizona, where
* • •
there w»s buried the losers in
Unless this basic right is re countless altercations, to note
affirmed. the Great Society that justice depended on who
could well turn into the Disas could draw fastest and shoot the
straightest.
trous Society.
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• • •
So far. mankind has found no
substitute for law and order,
and it has been the experience
of history that whenever law
and order breaks down, no mat-
It seems high time that the
Congress recognise Congress
man Hosmer’s effort to estab
lish that there are no excuses
for violating law and order.
Joining them were the leaders of many California
A F L-C IO unions and representatives o f local labor
councils throughout the state.
Pitts branded Reagan “ a real danger to la b o r"
and said the “ prim e” goal was the election of
Brown. What emerged from this meeting were plans
to “ unleash the most sweeping registration drive in
the state's history."
The anti-Reagan campaign, moreover, is to be
topped by a statewide full-tim e political action direc
tor, with a northern and southern assistant. In each
congressional district, there w ill be at least one fu ll
time “ coordinator.” The state AFL-C IO , meeting
this week in San Diego, plans to accelerate this
anti-Reagan drive.
e Pin. ECONOMY market
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IEÏÎERS
EDITOR
T O THE EDITOR
Another opportunity for the
young people of central
Point ha* fallen by the w ay-
side, thank* to the complete
COMPLETE BEVERAGE LINE
FRUITS & PRODUCE
DELICATESSEN
apathy of the adult* of this
com m unity. The FYlday ni
night dance« held In the
The Chicago Tribune, however, sounded an oppo
site note: " I f Smylie’s formula and philosophy for
successful Republicanism were so infallible, why is it
that he could not win in a primary in his own party
in his own state? Why, if conservatism is dead,
was he beaten by conservatives?. . . .
" N o matter what volume o f propaganda the
‘ liberals' launch, conservatism is still what animates
the Republican rank-and-file."
Here were the results of other contests:
• Kansas: Republican Sen. James Pearson handily
rebuffed a primary challenge by Rep. Robert Ells
worth, who has rapidly been transforming himself
into a Lindsav-type liberal. Ellsworth had been part
of Lindsay's ‘ ‘ Wednesday C lu b ,” a group of liberal
Republican lawmakers that tried to push the House
Republican leadership to the left.
• Missouri: By more than 2 to I Rep. Durward
G. Hall (R) trounced Aurora attorney J. Hal Moore,
who had attacked Hall for his staunch conservatism.
H a ll’ s healthy victory margin in the primary stunned
political observers in the state.
the swimming pool commit
te e . What excuse do the
parent* of the 150 teen* who
6th grade;
M s . Laura Patterson, 5th •
grade; Lawrence Shearer,
5th grade and Charles W il
son, 5th grad^^. ,
New teacher* at Richard
son a re i- M s . Jean Barn
hart, 3rd grade; M r*. Donna
Coleman, 3rd grade; Tom
Fryback, 4th gradei Mr*.
Jill Gairow, 5th grade and
Allen Reltzenstein, counsel
Isn't it about tim e we
change ?
Carole L. Van Voorde
447 N. 5th
Central Pointe, Ore.
To the Editori
Our C ity Park 1* just a -
cross the street from my
lor.
Teacher* returning at Rich
ardson arei First grade -
. fr i. Ruby Bradshaw,. M t .
Rhoda Haskins, Mia* Ila Mae
Hlginbodiam, M r*. Eleanor
McDonald,Second grade -
home and the home of my
sitter, Lu Elll* Bodin. In
open view where we can
tee who 1* using it and how
they enjoy the privilege of
It* use. At this tim e thert
are 7 can parked, with th<
passenger* seated at a row
of table* enjoying the park.
The last few week* of my
late wife "Petie's" life , the
enjoyed sitting where she
could look out our front
Mrs. Janey Harbour, M s .
N ile Johnson, Mis* Oljvia
Ryerson, M i . Betty von der
H ellen; Third grade - M s .
Susan Ambrose, M s . Cara
N e ill; Fourth fpade - M s .
Olive Manley, M s . JoAnn
Settler, M s . Lois Sullivan
windows and see the c h il
dren playing, romping on
the lawn, running through
the sprinkler spray enjoying
and 5th grade, Wesley C la flii
New teacher* at Jewett arei
M s . JoAnn Anderson, 1st
grade; M s . Marjorie Cowling
1st grade; M s . Joyce Tlnketh,
2nd grade; M s . Dorothv
W olfe, 2nd grade and M s .
Leota Larisa, 3rd grade.
T e a c h e r* returning at Jewett
the life that a ll children are
entitled to. And the can
wondering how many of our
residents, tax payers, c lti-
LBJ’s Union Bias
noticed Just what a wonder
ful place our park Is?
Legislators on Capitol H ill have expressed disgust
at LBJ’s blatant pro-union bias in the handling of
both the airline strike and the steel industry’s de
cision to raise prices on sheet and strip steel.
Lodges, Churches, Civic
Organizations, our Good
Fire Department, C ity Em
with tra ile n , camp e n , e tc .,
from every state in the un
plus Canada, stopping long
enough to eat their meal
tre t First grsJe - Mr*. Oakley
Bowers, M * . Mary Gardner
and enjoy the coolness of the
shade. The workmen, Pow
and M s . Vera Steele Second
er C o ., telephone company,
Hlway workers, carpenters
aad e - M s . Helen Dressier,
M s . Ethel Morrison, M s .
and men from a ll walks of
labor and life , coming
here to enjoy the few min
utes they were allowed for
their lunch hour.
Viola Schwab; Third grade -
M s . Ruth Brewster, Mias 1
Mabel Dodson, M s . M Udrid
Elkins, M s . Auilrey Wingfielc^
Fourth grade - M s . Margue
rite Black, M s . Catherine
McDonald, M s . Ruth UHe,
M s . Gleason remarked on
several occasion* the pest
year, how beautiful
and w e ll kept the Park 1*.
Raymond M ile r , M s . Lois
Webb.
And what a wonderful shrine
It is in the c ity . These word*
I have ported on to the City
New teachers at Gold H ill
School* arei M s . Elsie Re-
neau, Ho me ma king; M s .
Louise Ryn, Language Arts;
MU* Dorothy Burgess, M u le
grade* 1 - 8 ; M s . Ann Cra
mer, 3rd grade; M s . Agatha
Larson, 3 - 4 grades and
M s . Ann Stubs, 2nd grade.
Administration at various
times, and I am sure that
they a* a group appreciated
the compliments. But I am
t a u and so on have ever
In the case of the onc-month-old airline dispute,
it is pointed out, the President refused to act for
weeks until Congress and public pressures finally
forced him to. And when he finally tried coaxing
a settlement from both industry and labor, he did it
When the striker* rejected this plush deal, LBJ said he was
use of our Park,
unhappy, but, once again, refused to do anything to end the
I have made It a point to
strike and threw no temper tantrums at the unions for their out- visit w ith any and every
rageou* demand*.
fa m ily that drive up with a
But when the steel companies jacked up their prices last
camper air tra ile r. I have
week, the Administration im m ediately let out a howl.
talked with people from
The head of U. S Steel, the largest steel company, said h
Maine, Vermont
concern's price boosts were w e ll under the 3 .2 per cent prio
Delaware, Florida, two from
guidelines. Yet w ithin hours after U .S . Steel had announc.
Canada, Utah, Idaho, Mo,
it* decision, Gardner A ckley, head of the Council of Econc-
docens from C a lif .,
Advlsers, released an LBJ-approved statement declaring the. .ti Ore. and Wash. Each tim e tE
price hikes were "irresponsible."
the people have payed com-
Ackley impugned the patriotism of U .S . Steel by saying thh lpllm ent* to the Park, and
was not the tim e to raise price* when "American* are fighting
the hospitality of the C ity,
overseas." Yet nowhere did Ackley declare that the price rise Very few have le ft a mess
was inflationary, as the demand* by the striking airline unions from their lucnhes, meal*
clearly are by Ackley's own standards.
and play activities.
Ackley, moreover, indicated that the Administration was
I kw ” .• that you have a
seriously thinking of trying to roll back the price hikes as it hai small paper and cannot
successfully done with the copper, aluminum and steel Indus-
print a ll that I would like to
trie* in the past.
gay in regard* to oui Park.
In short, LBJ refuses to take reprisal* against labor union*
Teacher* returning at Gold
H ill School* arei W alter '
Dohertv. vice principal,
M s . Muriel Battalia, Dean
. of C irl*^ Norman Holden,
Sth grade; James Holiojvay,
M a th .; M s . Jest Jacobson,
Sth grade; Paul McBeth, 6th
ployees a* a group, use this
perk many tim e* during the
year for their picnics, rec
reates periods, Lodge Cere
monials. Children Guidance
on the basis of a proposal which exceeded his own wage guide- hour etc, Our FI—
y — ntgry
line* by some 34 percent.
School Classes make much
But Please print what you
which react in a far more "irresponsible" manner than industry, can and IN V IT E EVERYONE,
i
Ronald Me
Kenna, 6th grade; M s .
f
Erma T aylo r , 6th grade; £•
them Into Medford a ll the
tim e .
• In Tennessee, former Gov. Buford Ellington
triumphed in the Democratic gubernatorial primary
over John Jay Hooker Jr., a 35-year-old Nashville
attorney who was considered a Kennedy liberal. E.
W illiam Henry, a close friend of the Kennedys'
and former chief of the Federal Communications
Commission, was Hooker’ s campaign manager. The
Tennessee contest also saw Sen. Ross Bass (D.-Tcnn.)
lose to Gov. Frank Clement in the senatorial pri
mary. One reason for the Bass’ defeat: his oppo
sition to right-to-work.
The most notable victory chalked up by conserva
tives occurred in Idaho where thrcc-term Gov. Robert
E. Smylie, who has spent much of his time baiting
Goldwater and his allies, was overwhelmingly repudi
ated in the GOP gubernatorial primary by State Sen.
Don Samuelson, a staunch conservative. According
to the latest returns, Samuelson clobbered Smylie,
the actual favorite, by a vote of 52,832 to 33,619,
sweeping all but six of the state’ s 44 counties.
Gov. Smylie’s long tenure in office (he has
served 12 years as governor) was definitely a
factor in the race, but politicos say he would
not have received such a thumping defeat save
for his noisy support of Republican liberals.
Smylie, a darling of the Ripon Society, backed
Nelson Rockefeller against Goldwater in 1964, only
lukewarmly backed the senator after he won the
nomination and then demanded the scalp of Dean
Burch, Goldwater's pick as GOP party chairman,
when the Arizonan lost to Johnson. Following G old
water’ s defeat, Smylie lined himself up even more
closely with the party's liberals and took after the
Goldwater supporters in Idaho.
Maureen Shore, .Math
Harvey Tonn, Boy*
M s . Grace Brownlee, 6th
grade; Mrs. Barbara Jaquei
6th grade; Mr*. V io la Lair
6th grade; Donald McCoy,
game* and activities such at
skating and dancing, they
only have parent* who com
plain about having to run
Can labor turn the tide against Reagan? Unlike
the Knowland campaign in 1958, Reagan is going
into this fight with a united party behind him. Nearly
every major official who worked for George Christo
pher, Reagan’ s primary opponent, has now pitched
in to work for Reagan himself.
Five state primaries and a local election in the
South last week have again revealed the growing
conservative sentiment among voters across the
country.
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; octal S ‘ miles; Mr*
give?
Our children do not have a
movie theater, they do not
have a swimming pool, they
do not have a building for
• Democratic results in both Michigan and Tennes
see can be considered setbacks for Bobby Kennedy.
In the Michigan senatorial primary, G. Menncn
W illiams defeated Detroit M ayor Jerome Cavanagh,
who had taken the line of the “ peaceniks" on Viet
Nam. W illiams generally supported the Adminis
tration position. Cavanagh had help from two pub
lic relations men, W illiam Haddad and Robert
C lam pitt, both considered very close to Bobby.
THANK YOU
Merv Gleason
632 Manzanita ST.
SCHOOL STORY eont'df
attend the«e dance* have to
Many union members revolted, however, and this
attempted transfer of funds has been temporarily
blocked by a Los Angeles court injunction. The
injunction was obtained on behalf o f the union
membership by Rollie Vernon Peterson, a registered
Democrat and a union member in good standing.
Whatever the final disposition of the case, it reveals
the extent to which both Brown and the unions are
willing to go tc block Reagan’s campaign bid.
Voters Frown on Smylio
SHRINE.
M s . Taylor ha* five c h il-
ren of her own and a heavy
work load. She 1* active on
• Georgia: In a local election in Savannah, Gold-
water Republican J. Curtis Lewis Jr. was elected
as mayor, the first Republican ever to hold this
post. Georgia oldtimers say they do not remember
any Republican having ever run for mayor before.
Lewis, moreover, swept in an entire Republican city
council with him. The outcome, say the pros, bodes
well for the GOP in Georgia this year, particularly
for Rep. Howard (Bo) Callaway, a Goldwater Re
publican who is running for governor.
But party unity, in a state which is 3-to-2 Demo
cratic, will nol produce an automatic win. In spite
of the polls, the pro-Rcagan forces w ill be unable
to coast to any victories in the face of the massive
assault by labor's big battalions.
YOUNG AND OLD T O COME
AND .V IS IT O U T C IT Y
for chaperones, and round
Legion H a ll for the teen*
have been cancelled. Theae
dance* were made possible
almost solely through the
hard work of one person,
KBs. Eleanor T aylo r. She
ha* had to clean the hall,
find the band, lite ra lly beg I
Smylie’ s loss has sent more than a few shivers
down the spines o f liberal Republicans who view
Samuelson’ s victory, along with
Reagan's primary win in Cal
ifornia, as part o f a conser
vative trend in the GOP. The
panicky reactions o f the East
ern Establishment press illus
trate the liberal apprehension.
Weeping for the Idaho gover
nor, the New York Times
lamented his defeat as "a vic
tory for the die-hard Gold-
SAMUELSON
waterites.”
The Washington
Evening Star, a long-time proponent of "m oderate"
Republicans, warns that this "upset should be taken
seriously . . . It should double the determination of
the moderates to make certain that 1964 can never
happen again.”
9 to 9 SUNDA Y
up the refreshment* every
week a ll by h e n e lf.
The zeal o f Big Labor is apparent from a re
cent move of the leaders of Local 12 of the
Operating Engineers in Los Angeles. W ithout
the slightest nod to union members wishes, the
executive officers tried to transfer 550,000 of
general union dues into Brown’s campaign.
Brown had sought to get this union’s backing
by permitting the union to “ recruit” 3,500 non
union state employes now protected by civil
service.
Arch Monson, Christopher's statewide chairman,
is now actively supporting Reagan; Tom Pike, Chris
topher’s Southern California chairman, is now Rea
gan's Southern California co-chairman; Marco
Heilman, Christopher’s state finance chairman, has
become a member o f Reagan's finance executive com
mittee. And this touches on only a few of the
pro-Christopher people who have joined the Reagan
bandwagon.
Central Point
•
grade; M a . Yvonne M illa r,
6th p a d e , Jack ParkarT* 7
—
Science; Marvin T h ro n e ,,
Band; First p ade - M s .
W llda Frank*, M s . Barbara
Toner; Second grade -
Mrs. Mary Howell; Third
grade - M s . Mlkfred M ic k ,
Fourth grade - M s . Rebecca
Ertremado, M s . Ida v o u ,
Buskirk.
New teachers a t Sams V a l
ley Schools arei M s . Suoan
H endison, 1st grade, M s .
Nina Huffman, 2nd . 3rd
.grades, other Richey, 4th
• r a d e , M s . Jean DaArmood,
7th grade; rlchard Thelral,
7th - Sth grades, M s . Mar
lene Gunn, M a le and S h a -
Lynch, 4th - 5th grade*.
Tcachets returning to Sana
V a lle y arei M s . Rudella
Anderson, 2nd grade, M s .
Althea fttrrcson, 3rd grade,
M s . Zalda Acker, Sth r ^ i
Philip Lynch, 6th grade and
PWlUp Sweat, 8 th g r.d e .
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