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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
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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.