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FOTTR MEDFORD (OREGON) XvervDoa; in !uuiiern Oregon Read rne &uu lxiDon .fubluhed Daily Except Saturday by KEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-14l BORERT W HUHL. Editor fTKRB GREY Advertlin Manager GERALD LATHAM BuinM Manager ERIC AXXEN JR Managing rwuior IARI H ADAMS CitV Editor BARRY CHiPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SoorU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol March 3.1H9 SUBSCRIPTION RATES e M.ii in Advance: Per CODV JOc. DaUy and Sunday One vear 12 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 650 Daily and Sunday Three ram J0 Sundav Only One tear $3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. JarkMmville Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year 115 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 5c par copy AU Terms Cali jn Advance Official Paper of the City of Medffor orficUl Paper of Jackson Cointy ' L'ruted Press FiI Leajed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advrtfting Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAfTY INC Offices in New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDIIORIAl I association ! vJ O 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISH!! ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1946 (It was Wednesday) Many residents of this area to day report having seen a naming object streak across the heavens last night about 9 p.m. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An eminent ruiprn educator reports, "The upturn of youth is now under way." It's about time, so say we all. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1936 (It was Friday) Miss Ella Gardner, national recreation specialist of Washing ton. DC, and Mrs. ueriruoe Skow Sanford, state specialist in recreation, arrive in Medford Saturday, according to Mabel Mack, county home demonstra tion agent. Model Home tickets will be redeemed at the Jackson County Chamber of. Commerce from 7 to 9 p.m. next Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1926 (It was Saturday) Bill Ly diard, partner of W. A. Gates in the grocery business, is still on an auto trip with his bother, Mrs. J. H. Lydiard. About 135 candidates will be Initiated by the Eagles, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon at Mer rick's Oriental Gardens. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1916 (It was Monday) Odd Fellows picnic and meet ing of Southern Oregon Odd Fellows association at Ashland, Sept. 5, 1916. From Local and Personal col umn: Miss Ina Cochran spent the week end at Eagle Point as the guest of Miss Frances Heath. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S Editorial Research Report 1. Has any defeated pres idential candidate, renominated, beaten the man who beat him four years before? 2. After seven years the value of a new car will be about 25, 1 7 2 . 10, or 2'2 per cent of its original price? 3. Adlai E. Stevenson did or didn't get many votes from Deep South at the 1956 Democratic convention? 4. The U.S. population is in creasing every day byNabout (a) 70. (b) 170. (c) 700. (d) 1.700. ie 7,000 or (f) 17.000 persons? 5. Oldest U. S. synagogue is in New York, Charleston, S. C, Philadelphia, St. Augustine, Fla., or Newport, R. I.? 6. The AFL and CIO while still separate in 1952 backed Sieven son tor president over Eisen hower in that year; right or wrong?. 7. The island nf Sardinia is part of France. Italy, Spain, British Commonwealth, Greece or Mon aco"? The Answers: 1. Yts, Jackson in 1828, W. H. Harrison in 1840, Cleveland in 1892. 2. About 10. 3. Did. 4. About 7000 day. 5. Newport. 6. Right. 7. Italy. MAIL TRIBUNE "Watch It Is rather hard to believe. But the Oregonian is not a champion and defender of the private utilities in their effort to secure a monopoly of electric power from atomic sources. In its lead editorial of Sunday, at least, the highly influential Portland daily takes a stand against the private utilities as far as this source of power is con cerned, that is nothing short of sensational. Listen to this, for example, quote : The recent defeat in Congress of the Democratic-sponsored Gore bill, which would have accelerated federal re search in the field of civilian atomic power reactors, is con sidered a great victory by the nation's private utilities, whose theories on power development the administration has swallowed whole. The attitude of the electric light and power companies in this matter is quite simply explained. They want full con trol over the production and sale of electricity produced through the harnessing of nuclear energy. They want no repetition in the atomic field of the TV As and Bonnevilles resulting from federal experiments with hydroelectric de velopment. What could be clearer or stronger, regarding con trol of atomic power! But that is precisely the attitude the private power companies have always had toward federal competi tion in the field of water power. And their highly ef ficient and highly-priced ever since the inauguration of President hisenhower has been working toward two main objectives, one: To prevent any extension of federal power (Hells Canyon, for example) in this country, and two: Work steadily toward the transfer of TVA and Bon neville types of public power to private power control as far as that is possible. As the Oregonian continues : This policy of course is not very attractive to the aver age American, who likes to see his country in the forefront of everything. So it has been necessary for American utili ties to put on a public relations campaign to persuade us that things really are coming along fine. ' RecenUy the St. Louis Post-Dispatch drew anguished outcries from the power industry when it asserted editorial ly: "Not a single commercial-scale atomic plant is being built in the United States by private enterprise . . . There is not even any such plant directly in sight. The only large re actor going up in this country is government-financed." The evident reference was te the 100,000-kilowatt pres surized water reactor being built at Shippingport, Pa. Since this is under construction by the Western Electric company ' and will be operated by the Duquesne Light company, it has been pointed to with pride as an example of private enter prise at work in the atomic field. THE FACT THAT THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION IS PUTTING UP $80, 000,000 OF ITS $85,000,000 COST IS SELDOM MEN TIONED. NEITHER IS THE FACT THAT THE AEC HAS AGREED TO ABSORB ALL COSTS OF ELECTRIC ENER GY GENERATED AT THE PLANT IN EXCESS OF EIGHT MILLS PER KILOWATT HOUR IN ITS FIRST FIVE YEARS OF.OPERATION. Could the selfishness and hypocrisy of the electric power combine, be brought into sharper relief than in that uncompromising indictment? And it is the judgment not of -the St. Louis Post Dispatch but the conservative and strongly Republi can Portland Oregonian, which we had always sup posed perhaps incorrectly was the great friend of the private power utilities and the sworn enemy of such public power projects as TVA and Bonneville, which their party and its leader so vehemently con demned as "creeping socialism." m TJOWcome? The Oregonian concludes by claiming its editors are still worshippers of that GOP idol known as "free enterprise," but it takes rather a contrived and comp licated route to prove it. For example, quote : "The federal government will not intrude further into the power busines unless the congress so wills it. And the chances of this it seems to us will be greater if the Ameri can public gets fed up with the private utility tactic of try ing to delay progress until it is convenient for its stock holders to let it go forward." X'E lack the Oregonian's knowledge of what the ' government will do either before or after Nov ember 6th, we don't even know which party will then be in control of the congress, but we DO know this: as far as anything in life can be known in ad vance and that is : The private utilities will try to delay progress from the standpoint of the general welfare as opposed to the profits of its stockholders in the future, just as it has dotie in the past; it will also try for the same rea son and the same purpose, to secure, as the Oregonian. maintains, a monopoly in the atomic Held as it nas for decades tried to secure a monopoly in the field of electric light and power. And the effort will con tinue as the Oregonian indicates until the American people get fed up with it and with them. And when they DO, then brethern and sistern, "Watch Out!" R.W.R. Tydings' Wife Loses Bid for Senate Seat Baltimore, Md. U.R Con tractor George P. Mahoney political foe of ailing ex-Sen. Millard E. Tydings today re placed him on the Maryland Democratic ticket to oppose GOP Sen. John Marshall Butler. Mahoney defeated Mrs. Elea nor Tydings, the former sena tor's wife, for the nomination by a vote of 97 to 55 Monday night in the Democratic Maryland Central Committee. Tydings barely defeated the Baltimore contractor for the nomination in a hard-fought Democratic primary last May. He withdrew from the race last week because of a prolonged ill ness.. His wife, a daughter of former Tuesday. August 26, 185S Out!" lobby in Washington, D.C. U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Joseph E. Davies, announced her candidacy in a surprise move over the week end at a meeting of Maryland Democrat ic Women's Clubs. Four of Baltimore city's six districts and five Maryland coun ties went for Mrs. Tydings. The other 18 Maryland counties and two city districts cast their unit votes for Mahoney. Mahoney pledged himself to fight for a Democratic victory. His victory climaxes an intra party battle which broke into the open with Tydings' an nouncement last spring that he was a candidate for the Senate seat he lost to Butler in 1950. Parties7 Civil Rights Planks Seek to 'Bridge7 North, South Washington CQ) Demo cratic and Republican platform drafting committees Builders of the programs the parties will take before the voters this year have managed to construct a pair of bridges over the chasm between northern and southern emotions on the school segrega tion issue. But will these few hundred words of plank stand the strain of 10 weeks' campaigning for both southern segregation and northern desegregation votes? Already party workers are sawing the beams of the opposi tion's handiwork. A successful demolition job by either side will enhance its chances to win in November. Both Adlai E. Stevenson and President Eisenhower are cove tous of the votes of northern liberals and Negroes and south ern friends of segregation. Thus, the giant straddle on civil rights: In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In the upper echelons of the Republican party in the pre convention days of 1956 there were two controversial figures Richard Nixon and Harold Stassen. At the convention that ad journed last week, the fortunes of Nixon soared spectacularly. Stassen's fortunes nose-dived. T ETS deal first with Nixon. Why is he a controversial figure? T'HAT question isn't easily an swered. He is a personable young man. He is courteous. He is pleasant. He handles himself with discretion. He has carried out with striking success every mission that has been entrusted to him. Almost without excep tion his former colleagues in the house and the senate speak weU of him. They do so without res ervation. In their voices, when they praise him, there is none of that peculiar inflection that indicates that the speaker's words and his OPINIONS do not necessarily coincide. , Above all, he has won the unqualified approval of his great chief. President Eisenhower. And in this convention that has just adjourned the support that won him UNANIMOUS renomi nation was not synthetic. It was GENUINE. It wasn't just a deal among the delegates. The crowds were with him. Their applause told that rather clear ly. VET it can't be denied that he is a controversial figure. Why? THE ANSWER is all the more difficult to find because those who say they are opposed to him so seldom have a definite reason for their opposition. They are vague about it. For ex ample: Chatting at breakfast this morning with the waitress a pleasant middle-aged woman with graying hair I started off with the usual bromide: "How did you like the convention?" un, she said witn unmis takable enthusiasm, "Isn't Eis enhower wonderful? I just love him. But that Nixon I can't stand him!" "Why not?" I queried. As so many anti-Nixonites do, she hesitated. "Well," she final ly said, "he's so cocksure of himself." "That." I said, "doesn't sound to me like a very good reason. The vice-president of the United States cant be wishy-washy. When he acts, he MUST be sure of himself." QHE PONDERED a moment, as if searching her own mind. "Well," she finally said, "I sup pose my real reason is that the Democrats tell us working peo ple we must vote for Democrats because they are our friends and the Republicans are our ene mies. But I'm going to vote for President Eisenhower anyway. I love him. I have faith in him. He's a good man. But I don't know about Nixon. They say he's against us working people." WHAT of Stassen? What was "he up to? I wouldn't know. And I wouldn't go so far as to say he was wrong in what he did. This is a free country. Any man has a right to do as he pleases with in the limits of the rights of others. He had a perfect right to oppose Nixon. But at this con vention his popularity nose-dived because of the way he han dled himself. When he saw the error of his way and withdrew his opposi tion and asked to be allowed to second Nixon's nomination, his request was granted. If he had got up and laughed and said he knew when he was licked and was happy to make it unani mous, he would have been re ceived back into the fold with enthusiasm. Instead, he took one minute to make his seconding statement and 19 minutes to de fend himself unconvincingly for what he had done. That cooked his goose. The Republicans "accent" the Supreme Court's desegregation decision and the Democrats "recognize" the Supreme Court and its work. The Republicans call for "deliberate speed" in the face of the "complex and acute ly emotional problems" created by the 1954 decision. The Dem ocrats "reject all proposals for the use of force to interfere with the orderly determination of these matters." What is the reality behind these carefully chosen phrases? Where do the parties really stand on civil rights questions? The conscientious voter who peers behind the platform and examines the record of the last Democratic and Republican Ad ministrations and the views of the' 1956 candidates will find: 1. In the past eight years, generally Republicans in Con gress have given more support to civil rights measures than Democrats. But neither party, when it controlled Congress, could pass a single major civil rights bill. In 1949, a majority of both House Democrats and Republi cans voted for an anti-poll tax bill. It died in the Senate. FEP Bill Dies In . 1950, the Republicans, against Democratic opposition, pushed a voluntary Fair Employ ment Practices bill through the House but could not muster the votes to end a Senate filibuster against the measure. In 1956, a majority of Repub licans managed to tack an anti segregation amendment to the school construction bill, only to see the amended bill lose--with a majority of Republicans vot ing against the final measure. Also this year, a majority of House Democrats and Republi cans voted for an omnibus civil rights bill. It went to the Senate in the last week of the session, never came to a vote. 2. The last two Presidents Democrat Harry S. Truman and Republican Dwight D. Eisen hower used different tactics but were equally and complete ly thwarted in their legislative civil rights programs. Truman launched his 10-point program in 1948and each year thereafter sought unsuccessfully to have it enacted. Mr. Eisen hower waited until 1956 to pre- Matter of Fadt By CONTRASTING THE PARTIES San Francisco There was one virtue, at any rate, in having the Republican Convention begin just as the D e m o c r atic C o n v e n tion ended. It made the contrast between the two p a r t i e s singularly vi vid and immel- d i a t e. Y o ia could see th e .ii,:md aimju sirengins an a weaknesses of each -with stereiv scopic clarity. For example, one of the great strengths of the Democrats is their rich riot of competing per sonalituis. Chicago crawl ed with Demo crats of note and stature. There wire two front Krnk c a n d i d a tes, Adlai Steiren son and Ave- 11 U...m..n Stewart AioP inere was another, Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who is highly likely too be a front rank candidate four years from now. The strength o the second level was displayed in the exciting Vice Presidential race. And among the group of political organizers there were plenty of big men, including the important new face of Adla'i Ste venson's able manager, James A. Finnegan. IN CONTRAST, the most obvi ous weakness of the Rapubli cans is the fact that they have now become a one-man party. Dwight D. Eisenhower y no means typifies the Republican viewpoint as Robert A. Taftt used to do. A great many of the dele gates who screamed thetnselves hoarse for him in the Cow Pal ace very sharply cfcagrae with many of his policies. If He ever makes" a really bold attempt to implement the foreign affairs sections of his acceptance speech, for instance, trav Presi-1 dent will surely be opposed by j most of the Republican Senators and Congressmen who aire now so desperately anxious to ride back into office on his coat-tails. But the Republicans are, a one-m?n party just the same, be cause Dwight D. Eisenhower is the only Republican candidate with a tinker's chance of win ning a national election After four years in control of the White House, in fact, the Re publican party has i become poorer, not richer, in. notable personalities of national stature. If Eisenhower wins a,gjain, the greatest Republicau problem will be to develop men who can carry on where he leaves off. And it will not be an easy problem. TUT it is the Democrats who are poor, and the Republicans i sent a mcure modest two-point program, that it, too, foundered in the Senate. 3. Both . Presidents made use of their eccecutive authority to lessen discrimination in areas of federal control. Truman can claim credit for, initiating some moves; Mix Eisenhower for push ing them to completion. Both stught with some suc cess to reduce discriminatory practices by private firms with government contracts. Both set up agencies to protect federal civilian workers from prejudi cial action. Mr. Truman began, and Mr. Eisenhower completed, the desegregation of the armed services. 4. Under both Presidents, the Department of Justice went into the courts on the side of persons claiming; infringement of their civil rights. Truman's Justice Department argued in 1950 for an end to segregation in interstate railway diners and Mr. Eisenhower's Justice Department sought in 1954 bo end all segregation on trains and in stations. The last Democratic Attorney General. James P. McGranery, and the present Republican At torney General, Herbert Brown ell Jr filed briefs with the Su premo Court urging it to do what it ultimately did order an end to segregation in the public schools. Ike. .Adlai Similar 5. The stated views of Presi dent Eisenhower and Democrat ic Prresideritial Candidate Adlai E. S'tevenson on civil rights are so close they could read each other's speeches without embar rass'jnent. S tevenson pledged in his ac ceptance speech to "press on . . . toward the fuller freedom for all our' citizens which is at once our party's pledge and the old Amer ican promise." Irtr. Eisenhower, in his 1956 Strife of the Union message, called for "an expanded effort on every front ... to assure our citnzens equality in justice, in opportunity and in civil rights." Both reject the use of force to inlpose desegregation and both opposed the addition of the anti seigregation amendment to the scfliool bill. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) Job and Stewart Alscp who are rich. In the other signi ficant area of politics, the area of issues. This happy situation (the Republicans owe to the singu lar political astuteness of "Dwight D. Eisenhower. If the party as represented in Congress had been left to itself, it would quite certainly have spent its time generously manufacturing issues for the enemy, in the manner of the 80th Congress. But by wise and moderate action in many dif ferent fields, from social welfare to the administration of the labor fields, from social welfare to the administration of the labor laws, Dwight Eisenhower quietly cap tured the Democrats' issues. Except for the health issue above all, plus the regionally im portant farm and public power issues, the Democrats now have no straw left to make electoral bricks with. And while one must always recognize politician Ei senhower's primary responsibil ity for this Democratic misfor tune, it is also necessary to note that the Democrats have them selves to blame as well. Many people have pointed out that their long experience of opposition left the Republicans, particularly the Congressional Republicans, sadly unprepared to act as a party in power, but it is also true that this long experi ence of power and responsibility left the Democrats sadly unpre pared to act as an opposition. Specifically, they forgot that political issues do not lead an independent, God-given exist ence of their own. They did not realize, any longer, that issues have to be made, and made in particular by the opposition. And they neglected to make several of the most important issues, for which there was ample raw ma terial lying about, because the task of making issues is almost always unpleasant and contro versial at the outset. THE classic example in our time was Winston Churchill's handling of the issue presented by the rising menace of Nazi power. Churchill had to undergo years of ostracism and abuse be- cause he insisted on the vital importance of that issue. But in the end. because he stood the racket when the going was rough, he was the sole, inevitable Prime Minister in' England's darkest hour. The Democrats did not have to be Churchills to make very great and stirring issues in the areas of defense and foreign policy. For instance, they only : had to have some knowledge of the problem, to show some guts in discussing them and to ham-: mer away until the country turned its attention to the prob- , lems. But they did not do any of this because it would have been j initially uncomfortable. ' And so today, while Adlai Ste- I venson frankly regards the de- j fense and foreign issues as far I and away the most important of ( all, he has said with rueful frank- : ness that he does not think 1 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication muat not exceed 400 words. Lily D. Blackwood To the Editor: Last week one of the Rogue valley's oldest churches laid to rest a life-member. Lillian D. Caldwell was born at Buckhorn Mineral Springs, southeast of Ashland, and spent most of her almost 93 years at Phoenix. Her husband, Richard T. Blackwood, helped construct the old church building, erected in the pines near the cemetery, and dedicated in 1875. In 1926, Mrs. Blackwood turned the first shovelful of ground dedicating the building site of the present edifice. Flowers were a gift hallowed in her heart. For 30 years and more she cultivated and lov ingly carried them to the house of the Lord. Gladiolas being her favorite flower, and her passing occurring at "glad" harvest, Mrs. Bert Stancliffe decorated Sunday morning's sanctuary with pink and white blooms. Vivian Stancliffe Jackson and her husband, George, were here from southern California for this service. On Monday, the memori al day, a band of "glads" was ar ranged back of and flanking the casket. A cross of white "glads" was placed at the right of the bier. Offerings of asters, delphini ums and other seasonal flowers, brought by friends, were a love ly contrast as they graced the altar rail. The daily "walk" and be havior of this person was in my memory a benediction, even if there had been no eulogizing by pastors. The Reverend Mr. Clark and Mr. Volkman spoke with heartfelt comfort. Mrs. Gene Thanos, acquainted with "Aun tie" Blackwood since her tiny girl days, gave the vocal selec tions. Mrs. Hale Loofborrow was at the organ. Some friends who had cared for her with loving hands follow ing an injury about 20 years ago surely felt mixed emotions at this sacred service. This, to us remaining, is more than the passing of a pioneer. We've committed her soul to God gladly yet with sorrow. She was most precious to a wide circle of friends. " Mrs. Nellie M. Poling Route 3, Box 201 Medford, Ore. Commends The MT To the Editor: I congratulate you for your excellent editorials. Especially for the one in the Aug. 16 issue, headed "More Al Sar ena." It is the most truthful, fair, broad-minded and Democratic appraisal of this controversial act I've ever read. I heartily en dorse every word of it. Particu larly where you say that the "Al Sarena Deal" was undoubt edly "within the law." It reminds me of an old saying, "It isn't the poor itinerant who steals a loaf of bread because he is hungry who endangers mankind so much as the man who has education money, power and attorneys and accomplishes his questionable aims within the law . I live near Portland where public thought and opinion is largely influenced and formed by our two ultra reactionary Re publican papers the Journal and Oregonian. Indeed, I would be surprised to read an editorial in either casting a shadow of doubt on the worth and legiti macy of anything sponsored by ex-Senator Cordon, McKay, Pres ident Eisenhower or the Repub lican party. So it is truly re freshing and encouraging to read your editorials and know that others share like opinions and ideals, and have the civic in terest and moral fortitude to ex press them. In regard to our present cam paign, it appears that we have two distinct philosophies, and they are not as so many big Re publicans claim Socialism ver sus freedom and private enter prise, but rather The welfare of the majority of the people versus the welfare of the few. (Hap) Guy Lake 31 North Orange it. Medford, Ore. Not a "Bum" To the Editor: I just read what is to be done with the "Stranded Transients." About three years ago, along in winter, late in the' evening, a man came up to me on the cor ner of Front and Main sts. and asked if I knew where he could get a job, that he was broke, and had not eaten all day, and no room for the night. It was storm ing something terrific. I thought I would not want my dog to be out on a night like this. So I there is much mileage in them". And Stevenson is right, no doubt, because issues cannot be made at the last minute either. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. NOTICE TO BUYERS , 0F4-H&F.F.A. PORK-BEEF-LAMB Have OK Market Meat Experts Gut & Wrap Your Meat for Your Freezer Phone 3-4462 gave him $3 to get something to eat and a hotel room. He asked me to give him my name and address, which I did. The next day, I went to the hotel to see if he had found a job, and I learned he had not even stayed the night before. So I laughed about it. "Just, another bum," I thought. Well, a year later one evening I got a phone call. I asked who it was, and all they would say is "a friend," and wanted my wife and I to meet him up town and go to dinner. We went and to our surprise this previous "bum" was a gentleman. W had a very nice dinner, he gave me my $3 back, and said he had used the money for a bus ticket to get out of town, and that he had wired his sister for some money. And due to the storm did not get an answer. You can see how I Jelt after my saying "just another bum." (Name on File) Medford, Ore. From CD Chief To the Editor: I have had the pleasure of reading the July 20 and 22 issues of the Mail Tribune and note the detailed reporting of the- national exercise. Opera tion Alert." Particularly effective was your method of reporting the chronology of events to the pub lic by summarizing the messages as they were received at the county civil defense control cen ter. Congratulations on your en terprise in developing the news potential in Operation Alert, which would have affected every phase of human activity, if it had been an actual attack. Val Peterson, Administrator, Federal Defense Administration, Washington, D C. Why Apologize? To the Editor: Anent your ed itorial of Sunday, Aug. 26, titled "Let Oregon Decide," please be advised that you have put the right man in the wrong place. By the right man I mean that Mr. Ralph T. Moore has express-' ed so righly the thinking of most of us Oregonians who have to apologize for Wayne Morse. But convinced that there are, in our fair State, enough intelligent vo ters who are tired of these apol ogetics, we look forward confi dently to rectifying our position come election day this Novem ber. By the wrong place I mean that I know, of my own know ledge, that Mr. Moore is no habi tue of Club cars, Country Clubs or cocktail parties, as you insin uate, but rather their diametric opposites. If, on the contrary, you were to search for him in the Presbyterian church or the Ma sonic Lodge, I am confident that you would find him in one place or the other. . John C. Smith, 127 South Keene Way Dr, Medford, Ore. Device Tested To Replace Human Brain Washington U.R) The U. S. Geological Survey is testing an electronic device called "Sur wac" that may ultimately re place the human brain in com puting streamflow data on the nation's principal rivers. But Geological Survey Direc tor Thomas B. Nolan said today the 250 persons now engaged in this work will not be fired. In stead they will devote more at tention to interpreting the data turned out br the electronic computer. Phone 2-4940 We have a low cost pol icy which covers fire and theft of our boat and motor. With so much traffic on the lakes and rivers this summer, we need collision coverage. Do you write such a policy? MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY MARKET fl 1202 Koith Rivenieei i OPEN EVERY L NIGHT TIL A dHDNIGHT 4
