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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medforiv,Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday 6y MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-23 North Fir St. Phone g-Ml ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertuing Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiinesa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managintf Editor IARL H ADAMS. City Editor MARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JE'AETT Soorti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. AnInde pendent Newspaper Entered u econd claw matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oz March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 13 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4-25 Sunday Only One year 2d w twrimr In Advanct Meotora, Ah!and. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove. R&frue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18.00 Dallv and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealera 10c per copy All Term Lasn in Aavance Official paper of the Ctty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertlilng Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Office In New York. Chicago, de trolt San Franciaco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louia. Atlanta. Vancouver. B C. N A T I O N A I EDITORIAL I UsTocfATLQN ESS I U O 11"'""- w - NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 30 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1946 (Monday) Dr. James C. Hayes, well known Medford physician, named president of the Oregon State Medical society at meeting in Cearhart. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a few horticulturists plan to go south to spend the winter and their pear profits. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1936 (Wednesday) Harley H. Miller, who recent ly purchased a home on Crater Lake ave., yesterday moved his family from Portland to Med ford. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce plans observance of Nation Fire Prevention Week. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1926 (Thursday) Judge C. M. Thomas called to Portland by Chief Justice Thom as A.McBride of the supreme court to attend the sitting of the judicial council. The Lincoln school PTA will meet at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1916 (Saturday) The city water, though tem- oorarilv disagreeable to taste and odor, due to draining Fish lake, is not dangerous, accord ing to David Roberg, state health officer. The Jackson county WCTU oDens convention in Medford Friday. 50 YEARS ACO Sept. 30, 1906 (Sunday) Miss Cameron's division of grade two gave a county fair at the schoolhouse Friday. From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. J. H. Adams returned from a trip to Merlin yesterday. What's the Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 Cdttorlml Eesearch Report 1. "One nation indivisible" is a phrase from the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Star Spangled Banner, Gettysburg Address or Pledge to the Flag? 2. The U. S. now has perma nent and uncontested ownership of Okinawa island; right wrong? 3. The Eastern Star order is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, AFL-CIO, American Legion, Masons or B'nai B'rith? 4. First U. S. Secretary of the Treasury was Franklin, John Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson or Gallatin? 5. A man named Joe Smith did or didn't compose "America' C'My country, 'tis of thee")? 6. Which one of these states is perfectly rectangular: Pennsyl vania. North Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming. Washington? 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. now holds a federal office, state office, city office or no public office at all? The answers: 1. Pledge to the Flag. 2. Wrong. 3. Masons. 4. Hamilton 5 Didn't. That was Sam (Samuel F.) Smith. 6. Wyo ming. 7. No public office at all. INSPECTOR Salem (U.R) James William Morgan. Salem, has been hired as a foods and dairies inspector by the State Agriculture De partment. He will be assigned to field work after a short train ing period. The S.P. vs. We doubt if even the "Friendly Southern Pacific" would deny that one cf the best-managed and most prosperous railroads in the country is the Sante Fe. The latter is also one of the SP's most respected and successful rivals. Yet the President of the Sante Fe, F. G. Gurley has a completely different view of passenger traffic and service than has President Rusell of the Southern Pacific. Instead of discouraging passenger traffic and abandoning passenger lines and predicting that in another 10 years there will be none in the USA at least no Pullman service President Gurley publicly declares quote: "More and more people are coming down to our stations and we are trying to take care of them with better trains, smoother road-beds, better all-around service and tradi tional Sante Fe courtesy." That "courtesy" item, unlike the "friendly" item, is no empty gesture. We would leave it to anyone who has traveled any distance on the two roads to decide which assumes the customer is always right and which doesn't. Moreover the financial statement of the two roads during the past 20 years shows that genuine courtesy and consideration pay on the Santa Fe, and have paid consistently and handsomely for years. As to the SPS doctrine of "doom and gloom," here is what the Santa Fe President says, quote : "The latest sign of the times is our new high-level "El Capitan" introduced July 15th. This rather spectacular two story train runs daily between Los Angeles and Chicago and it requires 5 complete trains to supply the demand. This meant a multi-million dollar investment, but the El Capitan has been a sell-out from the start. In addition our other fine trains such as the Super-Chief, the San Francisco-Chief and the Texas-Chief continue to enjoy their great popularity." M 0 defeatism here for the Sante Fe. No weeping ano. 1 " wailing about the lack of public demand, no meek surrender to the competition of air, motor or bus travel. The Santa Fe doesn't senger market either, or fall to save money. It goes out gets it. Listen to this challenging statement from the same source, quote : "During the past 15 years (1940-1955) Sante Fe pas senger volume has increased 84 in passenger-miles and is continuing to increase. This was during the greatest period of expansion in air-travel in the history of the world during the period also of the greatest increase the country has every known in motor car registration encouraged by vast highway improvements, with more to come." THAT is the reply of the dirge sung by the bF future of passenger travel Instead of raising the the battle before it has been lost, this up and coming railroad goes out with better service, better road beds, more modern trains, to WIN it. And those who know the history of the Sante Fe (which serves much the same territory as the SP) are confident it WILL win. "IXHY can't the SP do what the Sante Fe has done? ' Well one answer is there are no "Gurleys" at the head of it. A S has often been remarked in this papers criticism of the SP and its efforts to secure a return of pas senger rail service to Southern Oregon, we have and we believe the people have no complaint to register against the local representatives of this "billion-dol lar-corporation" they are and accomodating as they BUT with all passenger service beween Eugene and Dunsmiur California abandoned there is little they can do, as far as the and better public relations Our complaint is, and personal one not against any particular individual, but against all those "higher ups" in the SP system, who finally determine what the policy of that railroad should be. We regard it as the most mercenary, reactionary and utterly antiquated railroad policy now existing in the United States. We also know if F. G. Gurley of the Sante Fe should ever be looking for a job, we fear he wont be just where we WISH he would go, and GET it! R.W.R. "The Man If a man from Mars should be sent to the earth to get the low-down on the 1956 campaign, we feel sure that after a few days survey he would take the next rocket-plane back to his celestial abode and ask for another asignment. b or to observer the present political hodge-podge just doesn't make sense. How would he explain or whoever is writing his can VIP's who are publicaly at least so strong for him. In Colorado for example Mr. Nixon soared high in the empyrean according to the strongly Republi can and reliable Oregonian. Nixon predicted that the 4 clay week is a logical and imminent consequence of the Eisenhower fiscal policies that the prospect of two automobiles, 3 tele vision sets, a better house and a dozen other comforts for every American family, etc., etc." may be con fidently expected if only Mr. Eisenhower is re-elected "The Man from Mars" after doing a little research would find that for four years the Republican leaders have been using the term "New Deal" as a political epithet and a philosophy that the people of America had chosen the Grand Old party to not only shun but Sunday. September 30. 1958 the Santa Fe try to "price out" the pas back on "night crawlers" to get the business and it Santa Fe to the funereal as tar as tne present and by rail is concerned. white - flag and abandoning as courteous, competent come. rail passenger department are concerned. always has been, not a From Mars" any objective and impartial Richard Nixon for example- speeches? And the Republi Today and By Walter MUST WE FAIL? The Suez affair is being brought to the United Nations amidst predictions that nothing useful can be exp e c t e d to come from the move. Must we take this de f e a t i s m for granted? That depends I venture t o think, on what is behind the move. Have Great Britain and France turned to the U. N. because they have run out of ideas, and cannot think of what else to do? Or will they, with the United States in the role of mediator on behalf of their interests, work out a Western policy which fits the realities of the United Na tions? THl ar: E pessimistic predictions ' arise from the assumption that Great Britain and France will ask the Security Council to approve as the terms of a settle ment the proposals which were agreed to by 18 out of the 22 na tions who were at the first Lon don conference. These are the proposals for international "op eration" of the canal. As at-Ieast two members of the Security Council, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, are expected to re fuse approval of the Western terms, it would follow that little or nothing would then come of having gone to the United Na tions. But is it wise to bo to the United Nations with a proposal which we know is bound to fail? It seems to me that in going to the U.N. we are recognizing at least two compelling considera tions. The first is that the West ern proposals are not of such an ultimate and vital character that we would be justified in going to war to compel Egypt to accept them. The second is that the Western proposals are, there- lor, themselves negotiable, and that we are in the United Na tions in order that a negotiation can be brought about. The al ternative which is to treat the Western proposals as essentially non-negotiable, as in the nature of an ultimatum would be ster ile and certain to alienate the Kina ot international ODinion which the West has gone to the U.N. to win. It will be better not to have gone at all than to refuse to negotiate when we get there. A POLICY of negotiation in- " side the U.N. should have as its primary objective the work ing out of proposals which have wide and powerful international support. Great Britain and France, and in a measure the United States as well, are in a weak position which they must correct before they can hope to come to satisfactory terms with Naser. They have exposed to all the world the fact that the mil itary threats were mostly bluff. I hey have exposed it to the world that the talk about a boy con was oasea on no serious study and on no serious prepara tions for a boycott. It is plain for all to see that the 18 sup porters of the Western proposals are not strongly or reliably united behind them. It is plain too that, owing to the way the Big Three played their cards at the first London conference, Nasser has the support not onlv of the Soviet Union but, for all practical purposes, of all the non-European powers. Our primary objective must be to end the moral and political isolation in which we find our selves. How is that to be done? By remembering that there were two plans at the first London V aiier LiDDmann destroy. What can be the cause of such a complete reversal, with the "white-haired" boy of the ultra-conservative Republicans, not only following the New Deal line but making an effort apparently to surpass it? IMAGINE the reaction of the Republican GHQ for example if Adlai Stevenson had endorsed organized labors hope of a 4 day week, with 2 cars, 3 TV sets, and a dozen other comforts thrown in? Yet such a statement by Stevenson would not be out of character for he is a Roosevelt New Deal Democrat not a lead er of a party that for 4 years has fought and ridiculed such "nonsense." Wouldn't Mr. Leonard Hall immediately play the well known record about demagoguery, cheap appeal to the labor vote, creeping socialism, a fatal blow to free enterprise and the American way of life? Of course he would. But with the GOPs second in command saying it no such outcries are heard, the only possible sour note being a phone call from the White House NOT congratulating Mr. Nixon on his speech as here-to-fore but asking only about his health. (The President knew his team mate had been running a temperature and it is possible he feared the fever had risen and his pitch for the labor vote when he was delenous.) RUT to return to the visitor from Mars, what would he make out of all this noise, fury and confusion? Our guess is, (assuming the Martians rate logic con sistency and reason high) he would give it all up as a bad job and decide that linger longer so long as it presidential election. R.W.R. Tomorrow Lippmann conference, the Western plan for international operation and the Indian plan for international supervision, and then by offer ing in the U.N. to found the new negotiations on both of these plans. The differences between the two plans can be enormous or they can be small, depending upon how much the two sides want to agree. THIS primary negotiation would not be with Nasser but in fact with India and with the Soviet Union. It is not possi ble to negotiate successfully with Nasser as long as we pro pose terms which the Soviet Union and all of Asia will back Nasser in rejecting. In the U.N. we have a chance to correct the mistake which we made, so it seems to me. at the first London conference. The mistake was to prefer a plan, which however desirable was Impracticable, to a plan which has the support of all the nations concerned. This is not to forget to mini mize the ambitions of Nasser or the high probability that his act at Suez is only one in a series of such acts which are being planned in neighboring coun tries. On the contrary it is to be acutely aware of what we must expect in the Middle East, and to insist that we must not alien ate ourselves now from the powers of Asia, that we must make the most and make the best of the collaboration which they are prepared to work out with us. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Con.n.uRications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words. She Prefers Morse To the Editor: I am not a per son who likes to enter the polit ical communications arena but I can't resist answering Mrs. Lynch's little dissertation about her Banty hen. Obviously Mrs. Lynch does not live on a farm. If she did she would know that in these Re publican times it doesn't make a lot of difference what her hen sits on. She is just donating her time anyway. Perhaps the risk is less in hov ering the walnut. The hen won't have any chicks to feed and just about everything the farmer has to buy has gone up in price. The things he has to sell have gone down in price. That's characteris tic of Republican administra tions, I'm beginning to realize. We had a Republican friend in the White House once. But that was a long time ago. His name was Theodore Roosevelt. Many farmers became Republicans be cause of him. Like Ray Gill, they are changing their affiliations to day. When Mrs. Lynch refers to Senator Morse I also know of whom she speaks. My son was a law student under Senator Morse at the University of Ore gon and if there was ever a man, who as professor and as a states man, encouraged people to do their own thinking, that man is Senator Morse. His opponent, Douglas McKay, on the other hand, made his position clear re cently in Eugene when he declar ed "The issues are not important. It's the votes that count," shock ing even the calloused Vice Pres ident Nixon, according to reports "alter ego" had made that the earth was no place to was in the throes of another Matter of Fccf by IKE IN TROUBLE What Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa Although President Eis enhower is liked in these parts as elesewhere. 3 candidate i.is- enhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical m i d Western farm comm u n i t y i which s u r-; rounds this small town.; Stewart Alsop Candidate Eis enhower's trouble is so deep that Adlai Stevenson, who is hardly liked at all, has an excellent chance of carrying Keokuk coun ty, which in the past has always voted almost to the last per centage point the same way as the whole state of Iowa. These conclusions are based on an arduous survey of farm senti ment in Keokuk county, by this reporter and Walter Ridder of the Ridder Newspapers. It was a strange experience. For we kept thinking that something must be wrong, that the heavy switching of previous Eisenhower voters to Stevenson which we found must reflect some isolated picket of Democratic sentiment. So we kept moving to some other part of the county. But almost every where the pattern was the same, w II ' ill KsrsV KaEsa I exactly the same words es T WAS with genuine relief ! pccially the younger men. that we found at last two i Indeed, the deDth of what can Stevenson-to-Eisenhower switch- ers, a chatty old man in bi-focals and a lean chicken farmer. If it had not been for the old man and j the chicken farmer, the results i would have been too lopsided to believe. As it was, of the 40 farmers we interviewed, often at length, 57 per cent had voted for Eisen hower in 1952 (a few percentage points less than the actual Eisen hower vote) and fully three out of five were now intending to vote Democratic. In short, if our sampling meant anything and it was much heavier than the normal sampling in a single county in a national poll Stev enson may actually better Eisen hower's 1952 landslide among Keokuk county farmers. Statisti cally, these results may not seem impressive. Yet the way the farmers talked was decidedly im pressive, in a number of ways. This reporter visited Keokuk county once before, in early Aug ust, and was surprised to find Estes Kefauver remarkably pop ular, and running well ahead of the President. But Adlai Steven son wsa not popular at all, and it seemed at the time that the President would probably beat Stevenson rather easily here. - T'EFAUVER is still more popu lar than Stevenson, by a wide margin. But the angry re sistance to Stevenson seems to have mysteriously evaporated, and the Stevenson-Kefauver tick et appears to have inherited all Kefauver's previous strength, and more besides. Many farmers were bitter in in the Portland Oregonian (not a pro-Morse newspaper). Mae B. Richardson, (Registered Republican) Precint No. 73A, Jackson County. Littrell States Position To the Editor: I would like to call your attention, at this time, to something that I think the people in southern Oregon should know. Oregon has been one of the foremost states in keeping their highway depart ment out of politics. The high way commission is appointed by the governor and their duties are to build and maintain high ways, along with the state park system. The legislative branch, of which I am a member of the House of Representatives, is elected by the people to draft and pass laws which they feel are necessary to govern the admin istrative department of the gov ernment We have been very cognizant of this for years and try not to influence them in any way and do not interfere in highway mat ters as long as they keep within the bounds of our laws and stat utes. If we find that a correction should be made in our laws, then we correct it. I think this is the way it should be kept as politics could be very ruinous as it is in a lot of highway departments of other states. I have never tried to use my influence over the highway de partment or the commission in designating any of the by-pass routes of Medford. We hope that you will publish this at an early date. E. A. Littrell, Medford. Good Eggs vs. Nuts To the Editor: We certainly think Mrs. Katherine Gribble Lynch's comparison of Wayne Morse to the little Banty hen setting on a nut is very good. It covers the whole situation in a nut shell. Mr. Morse, like the little hen believes he can produce results by giving his full time to the job. He believes, like the little hen he can hatch a healthy, happy chick. Also, like the little hen it is beyond his power to alter the contents of the nest. The moral of this story is don't be a nut. Let us give our selves and Wayne Morse a break by putting fertile eggs in the nest. Mrs. Wilma Stauffer, P. O. Box 186, Butte Falls, Oregon. Stewart Alsop August, but, again for mysterious ' reasons, they are much more bitter now. Bedevilled by drought and low hog prices, the farmers feel let down by the Eisenhower administration. We found no one bar perhaps a furious old lady on the front stoop of an unpainted shack who disliked the President per sonally. But hate is not too strong a word to express the feeling of a good many for Agri culture Secretary Benson. Indeed, the violence of feeling is hard to exaggerate. One burly young man with a police dog hinted at direct action. "By God." he said, "this can't go on much longer, and there are plenty of us younger men around here to see that it doesn't." His sentiments were echoed, in mild er form, by many others. TiHE wellsprings of bitterness -- are wholly economic the "health issue" has made virtual ly no impact at all. Listening to the farmers talk, one sensed how politically incautious the Presi dent has been to surround him self with men from the big busi ness world. "Eisenhower's a good man," a farmer said, "but he's got all these big shots telling him what to do, and they don't care a hoot for us small people." Others said almost the same thing in almost only be called class feeling among many farmers most of whom had two cars in the yard and a big deep freeze in the kitchen was truly surprising and even alarming. Many quite genuinely believed that they were being discriminated against and exploited by a nameless but powerful class of "big shots." ALTHOUGH Keokuk county has in the past always voted like the state, this year it has been especially hard hit by drought and hail. Keokuk is a corn-hog county, too, and the corn-hog farmers have been hurt more than most. We talked only to farmers, and the merchants in county towns are more depend ably Republican than the farm ers. Yet when these disclaimers are made, the fact remains that candidate Eisenhower is in' des perately serious trouble among such farmers as those we talked to here. There is, in short, no cheer in Wat Cheer for the Presi dent or his party. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. h Ihs Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In South Korea, an assailant blazed away with a pistol at South Korean vice - president Chang Myun. His aim was bad and the Korean Veep suffered only a wound in his left hand. The shooting was done by a political opponent. TN NICARAGUA a few days back a political opponent took a pot shot at the Nicaraguan president. His aim was better than the Korean's. TN ELECTION years a lot of us are inclined to get cynical about our political system. But It's a lot better than Korea's and Nicaragua's. TN FACT x I'm pretty sure that IF ALL GOVERNMENTS THROUGH OUT THE WORLD WERE AS GOOD AS OURS there wouldn't be many wars. THE Federal Reserve Board says that a SLOW-UP IN THE RATE OF SAVINGS which normally fills demands for cred it has been a big factor in the much-talked-about tight mon ey" situation and the advance of interest rates. savings, the board tells us, have failed to keep pace with ris ing demands for goods, and for credit and capital to finance con sumer purchases. Business de mands for money and credit to expand plants and increase pro duction have risen sharply. SAVINGS haven't kept pace with these increases in demand. T'HE Federal Reserve Board through the workings of the Federal Reserve System, which is too complicated to go into here, can create credit, which is another way of saying that it can manufacture money. I think it is better for all of us and MUCH better for our children that the Federal Reserve Board in the present situation is ad vising the saving up of more money rather than the manu facture of more of it. Big busts are apt to follow booms that are permitted to get too big on borrowed money. rriHE State of Oregon has de- ciaea mat vu miles an nour shall be the legal top speed on the freeway between Portland and Salem. State Highway En gineer W. C. (Dutch) Williams says the speed on the new four- lane route from Portland to the state capital should be kept at this figure so that a lot of people may be kept from killing them selves this winter. He says one motorist was ar rested recently for barreling along at 110 mph over the new freeway but demanded a jury trial and was acquitted of speed' POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A proud father we know rec ently announced high hopes for his six-year-old son as a foot ball star. The boy came home one day and announced he ran, with a football, all the way for a home run. At a planning commission meeting last week, one peti titloner made mention of auto biles "swearing around the corner." While he obviously meant "swerving," the commission was so intrigued with the idea of a car swearing, and around corner at that, they they kept referring to it all even ing. County Commissioner Chester Wendt two years ago used the campaign slogan, "Win With Wendt." He thought it was orig inal, and was quite proud of it. Last week, while traveling in Grant county. Wash., he express ed surprise to see a campaign poster: "Win With Wendt." He learned that Wes Wendt (no relation or acquaintance) is running for the office of com missioner of public lands. He also learned that, while there is a similarity in names and type of office, there is still one major difference. The Grant county candidate is a Democrat. The Jackson county commissioner is a Re publican. While on the subject of county offices. There's a cer tain county agent, we are told, who does not believe in "mis cellaneous" files. Where does he file items which seem to have no classification? Why. he files them in the circular file "O". Police Chief Charles Champ- line, a strong advocate of the institution of marriage, has con ceded bachelors have at least one advantage. In congested nasal tones, he told of catching the flu from his wife and small daughter. One of our married staff members was home with the flu Saturday, but we wonder if he caught it from his wife and children. She came by the office to pick up some papers for him while he re mained in bed. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q Two third parties figured prominenUy in the 1948 Presi dential election the Dixiecrats, or States Rights Democrats, and the Progressive party. Which Presidential candidate, the Dix iecrats' J. Strom Thurmond, former Senator, or the Pro gressives' Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President, received (a) the greater popular vote; (b) the greater electoral vote? A Thurmond won on both counts. He received 1.169.312 popular votes to Wallace's 157.063, and 39 electoral votes to Wallace's none. Q At least three Presidents of the United States have headed third party tickets after they held that office. Can you name two of them? A Martin Van Buren head ed the Free Soil party ticket in 1848: Millard Fillmore, the American or Know-Nothing ticket in 1856; and Theodore Roosevelt, the Progresive or Bull Moose ticket in 1912. Q Can you match some prom inent third parties with records they have established? (a) Prohibition party (b) Progresive party of 1924 (Robert M. LaFollette) (c) Socialist party (d) Progresive party of 1912 (Theodore Roosevelt) (1) greatest electoral vote ever won by a third party candidate. (2) longest continuous series of Presidential candidates. (3) greatest popular vote ever won by a third party candidate. (4) put up same candidate most often. A (aM2), since 1872; (b)-(3). 4.831.470 popular votes; (cH4). Norman Thomas; (d)-(l), 88 electoral votes. Theodore Roos evelt's Progressive party (the Bull Moose party) also won the highest percentage of the popular vote cast (27.42 per cent) although fewer total votes than LaFollette received in 1924. ing presumably under Ore gon's basic rule which permits variance of speed according to driving conditions. I'd hate to see Oregon's "basic rule" abandoned, because under proper conditions it permits in telligent variations of safe speed, but 110 miles is too fast any where, and it is MUCH too fast on a road carrying heavy traffic even if it is a four-laned free way. The Vatican did not become the official residence of the popes of the Roman Catholic church until sometime late in the 14th century.