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TOTH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDvTRIBUJfE "Everyone la Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-23 North Fir SI Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor JTXRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor pALE ERICKSO.M. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year 918.00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press rull Leased wire MEMBEfl Or AUDIT BUREAU CF CIRCULATION Advertising Renresentative : WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOOI-ATLQN W NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 31. 1946 (Thursday) Jackson County Pomona Grange opposes the 3 per cent gross income tax bill, the Town lend bill. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Snow now adorns the higher elevations. Tha outdoor lovers, in a few more Sundays, aboard skis, will be confronted with the prob lem of dodging one tree, to hit bigger one. 20, YEARS AGO Oci. 31, 1936 (Saturday) Double counting boards will function in next Tuesday's gen eral election in 43 of Jackson county's 70 election precincts. Turkey production this sea ion in Jackson county will total 60,000, about 15,000 more than last year, according to County Agent Bob Fowler. 80 YEARS AGO Oct. 31. 1926 (Sunday) Medford will have a new $150,000 fruit packing plant if tentative plans are carriea through, according to L. A. Banks. Little local interest taken in the general election next Tues day. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 21. 1916 (Tuesday) Mill machinery for ADDlegate Lumber company, which will op erate in Medford, will arrive here within three weeks. Four cars of Rogue River val ley Newtowns sold in London at 11 to 14 shillings per box. 10 YEARS AGO " Oct. 31, 1906 (Wednesday) Medford branch of First Na tional bank expects to open Monday at new location. Heating plant being installed at Ashland normal school will be ready for use soon. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1959 Edi'-orlaJ Besearcb Report 1. If the Eisenhower-N i x o n tirpkt wins on Nov. 6. Nixon will or won't be the first GOP Vice President ever reelected? 2. TJnesco is a UN agency on disarmamen, racial equality, scientific - educational - cultural matters, or labor conditions? 3. Largest Communist party in western Europe is in Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain or Sweden? 4. Most Southern states voted for Stevenson or Eisenhower in 1952? 5. What the British calls "draughts" is called in .the U.S. chess, checkers, bingo, duplicate bridge, darts or parcheesi? 6. Auto tags of which state carry the legend "Heart of Dixie"? 7. Stevenson, losing all these large states in 1952. ran best in which: New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Ohio, Michi gan, Texas? The answers: 1. Will be. 2. Scientific - educational - cultural matters. 3. Italy. 4. Most for Stevenson. 5. Checkers. 6. Ala' bam a. 7. Had highest percentage of votes in Pennsylvania. Local Measures No. 51 "yes." No. 52 "yes." No. 53 "yes." No. 54 "yes." No. 55 "yes." No. 56 "yes." Annexation proposals to be voted on by resi dents of Berrydale and Grandview - Kenwood districts "yes." E.A. For a Progressive City The Mail Tribune recommends a "yes" vote on each of the four proposals (Nos. 51 to 54, inclusive, on the ballot) which go to make up the "capital improve ment program." No. 52 is for an arterial street program. It is badly needed to provide, now and in the future, faster and easier cross-town and through-town driving. The situa tion is bad now. With predictions that traffic will be doubled in the next 10 to 15 years (and earlier pre dictions erred on the conservative side), the program is almost a "must" if Medford is to be well-served in the matter of arterial streets. The cost will amount to a number of dollars a year for each' property-owner, but much, if not all, of that will be offset by savings in gas, oil, tires and wear and tear on automobiles, to say nothing of drivers' nerves. MO. 51 is the off-street again is a badly-needed town congestion, and which will be needed even more m The cost will be born by downtown merchants and property-owners (one-third of the total), and by those using downtown parking facilities. It will not become an added tax burden under forseeable circumstances, It is designed to be entirely self -liquidating, with park ing meter revenues paying most of the bill. Selection of the sites for the parking lots will be left up to the capable professional city engineering staff because, first, they decide where they are most needed, and second, to prevent any possibility of real estate speculation in connection with the program. VTO. 53 and 54 are "good to improve and develop the city's storm and sani tary sewer systems. The cost is relatively vitally needed (just ask where high-water occurs community has a stake m favored over another where such improvements are needed. THE entire, four - point program has been well-flir.ni-rKT-nf nnrl ie cimiti Tin- tov r.of -frw oil tV..11 of them amounts to 10 mills (1 cent) per dollar of assessed valuation per year. This will decrease as valuation in the city increases, and as the programs are concluded six years in the case of the sewer program programs and 10 years for the arterial street program. The four should be thought of as a package for progress in the city, although they will be voted on separately. Each one deserves approval on its own ments". E.A. Little Annexation A small area in east Medford voted against annexa- tion to the city when the big Southeast Medford area voted to join the city. About Voters in the city, under state laws,, can vote to bring m to the city any area entirely surrounded by the city as this is. It's undesirable to have area within but not part ministrative confusion and should vote "yes" on this little annexation. E.A. Big Annexations Citizens of the Berrydale districts have petitioned to join the city mostly be cause it is the easiest and fastest and perhaps only way to get sanitary sewers. Other benefits of city with this as well as the are part of city life, which We believe residents of benefits from annexation they approve it, we would recommend to city voters (who sooner or later will have to vote on it, too) to make it possible. b.A. Fluoridation Fluoridation is a health measure and a proven one. Opponents for reasons have attempted to scare ing it poison, socialized medicine, dictatorship, and so on and so on. Supporters including dentists, public health officials and others who should know what they're talking a proven way of reducing and that it is safe and economical. It's a question of who dental health of the youngest generation is worth a dime a month to you. We recommend a "yes" Wednesday, October 31. 1958 parking measure which step toward easing down again is needed now, but the future. are in the best position to housekeeping" measures, low, the improvements are anyone who lives in areas regularly), and the entire seeing that one area is not three blocks are involved. a small- "island" of county of the city. It causes ad- difficulties. City voters and Grandview-Kenwood services, of course, go along necessary regulations which some people do not like. the two areas would gain not otherwise obtainable. If best known to themselves and confuse voters by call , a vast majority of doctors. about point out that it is dental decay m children. to believe, and whether the vote. E.A. Editor's note: The pre-election volume of letters to the editor has become so great that it obviously will be im possible to publish them all prior to election day. An at tempt is being made to select those of greatest interest, and on subjects not previously and repeatedly discussed. Letters which are brief and to the point will have the best chance of being published. Duncan Explains Position To the Editor: A recent letter suggests my disqualification for the legislature because our law firm is local counsel for South ern Pacific. No wrongdoing is charged. If this is the worst that can be offered against my can didacy, I have no fear of the outcome. It is no secret, and I have publicly discussed the fact, that our firm represents Southern Pacific. Regardless of the merits of the train controversy, they are entitled to legal representa tion as is every other citizen. As their attorney I have tried to represent them honestly and to the best of my ability. I owe none of my clients any allegiance as a legislator. Southern Pacific has contributed nothing towards my campaign. I have the same limited pass on their trains that other local counsel carry. It has been of no value to me for some time. Southern Pacific is only one client. We also represent lumber mills, fruit growers, truckers, carpenters, farmers, laborers; people who are potential pass engers and shippers on Southern Pacific. Even were I so disposed self interest would dictate against a course of unfair bias in favor of one client over another. Every group in this state has interests and legislative prob lems peculiar to them. I have told labor groups, teachers, vet erans and farm groups the same thing that if elected I would support their legislative pro posals when I thought them in the public interest and would oppose them when I thought them wrong. My position on any railroad problem will be exactly the same. Our Republican state senator is a lawyer. Some of his clients have legislative problems. Both Republican representatives are businessmen. Business 1 o b b i es are active in Salem. No one can give up his livelihood to be a legislator. Each has, I am certain, made decisions honestly, wheth er right or wrong. I ask the voters of this county to consider who would better represent them: a lawyer whose knowledge of our county s prob lems is as broad as the interests of his varied clients, who has a growing family and knows the current school problems, who is a veteran, who has spent much time working on community bet terment projects, or men whose lives have been devoted to one business, whose children are grown, and who are more apt to look upon change with suspi cion rather than with hope for progress and -a better future. This is the real issue of this campaign. I am running for representa tive because of an interest in government and because I feel that our democracy is strong and will remain strong only if we are willing to make sacrifices to work at the job. If your read ers feel that I would make a good representative, I would appreci ate their votes and promise to do my best to justify their con fidence. Robert B. Duncan, Democratic Candidate for State Representative Ha Supports Duncan To the Editor: The public is entitled to know that the letter which appeared in your issue of Oct. 29, signed by Jerry A. Mc Gee, was the work of two Re publican lawyers, whose interest in the Southern Pacific is small, but whose interest in maintain ing Republican monopoly of the State Legislature is large. If Mr. McGee insists, I will be glad to furnish names and details. The plain fact is, as we all know, that during 18 years of Republican state administrations and Republican dominated legis latures, the laws relating to the powers of the Public Utilities Commissioner have been kept weak and ineffective. As a con sequence, when any railroad discontinues service, months can expire in hearings with the Com missioner powerless to act until the hearings are concluded. The public no doubt noted the con trast recently when the South ern Pacific attempted to curtail a service which affected the State of California. The attempt ed curtailment was quickly blocked by action of the Calfor nia Railroad Commissioner, sim ply because California state ad ministration and legislature had given the Commissioner power to act immediately. It is amusing that Mr. McGee's spokesmen would try to make a big deal out of the fact that Representatives Mann and Lit- trell appeared at a hearing. The public, no doubt, has greater interest in what Mann and Lit- trell did at the last session of the legislature, in the way of introduction of bills and votes on legislation, in regard to this and similar issues. I do not re call either Mann or Littrell in troducing any legislation of any nature in reference to railroads. If they feel so strongly about curtailment of service, they had Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name an4 edilreas or the writer, although under certain circumstances the uu of a pan name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune retervet the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. the opportunity to do something about it in the 19SS legislature, Their failure to do so li llio beat indication of their effectiveness. The truth is that so long as the voters continue to support the same type of state administra tion and same type of legislature we have had for 18 years, noth ing effective will be done. The hope lies in the election of leg islators and state officials who have the courage to back their words with action. Such men are Robert B. Duncan and Robert A. Boyer. The implication that Bob Dun can is a hireling of Southern Pacific is an insult to the intel ligence of the voters. I know of no man in Jackson county who is more conscientiousvand would do a better job in the entire pub lic interest than Duncan. Let us have no more hidden spokesmen in this campaign, but let it be decided on the real Edward C. Kelly 906 West 4th St. Medford, Ore. Sees Morse Victory To the Editor: Six years ago the powerful Republican dicta tors did all possible to defeat Senator Wayne Morse at the pri maries because they could not bluff nor buy him and his in- tluence. He was then running as a Republican. Like T.R., Nor- ris, LaFollette; et al, he could not bear the bosses and their "persistent pertinacious selfish special interest" policies, so he quit the party, as many other good men have done. Independent-minded Democrats and Re publicans, and others who do their own thinking, supported and elected Sen. Morse. Again, looters of the public domain, would-be grabbers of the Ameri can Indians' miserly "allotted," then mostly swiped, reservations, are sticking the dagger into Sen ator Morse in the dark of the night. That little radio "spot" after the 10:30 p.m. news is a sample: "Did you know that Wayne Morse was absent 100 times from voting in the Senate? I wouldn't want him to represent me, would you?" Wayne Morse and ten other Western Democratic Senators voted against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-prepared Land Ex change bill, designed for more looting of the public domain. Eleven Western Republican sen ators voted for the bill. Morse also voted against S. 3444, the Long bill, planned public land grabbing. Senator Morse voted for the housing project, Social Security improvements; worked hard and voted for Civil Service retirees benefits; forest access roads; soil conservation; forest, wildlife, recreation facilities im provements; flood control meas ures; public school benefits; American Indians protection and better treatment; Hells Canyon high dam; harbor and waterways improvements; coastal oil for all the people of the U.S. benefits, etc. These are but a few of the many Morse activities in the in terest of the people; and show that he is not a slave to the spe cial interest politician dictators the "persistent pertinacious selfish special interests," the likes of which George Washing ton wrote to Patrick Henry on Jan. 15, 1779. With Senator Morse and enough more good public-spirited, far-sighted repre sentatives in the House and Sen ate, Oregon and the U.S.A. will be protected against the looters. Senator Morse was elected by the people of Oregon, not just those labeled "Republican," and Oiegonians, all of us, will re elect him Nov. 6. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. On Berrydale Annexation To the Editor: As E.A. so aptly stated in his editorial dated Oct. 29th, 1956, a choice is given us in the Nov. 6 elec tion between "remaining in the country" (with all its advantages and disadvantages) and "coming into the city" (with all its ad vantages and disadvantages). Almost all of us have already carefully weighed this matter and find the advantages in coun try living much greater, or we would not live there. After studying Mr. Duff's very beautiful map and becoming more and more confused with costs for water rates, fire pro tection, assessments, etc., of the many districts, I still must go back to the old ideas given us by the Medford Mail Tribune and the statements made at the City Council meeting. It was then stated that our tax rate would be from one-third to one half higher than it now is. WOW1 With costs already pretty rough, I had better find out what I get for these added taxes. 1. I get added Police protec tion. 'I don't need it. I'll call 2-6113. They are very effi cient fellows and much much closer. 2. I get added Fire protection. 'I don't need that either. Central Point Rural Fire District, for which I now pay taxes are in my opinion outstanding.' 3. I get street lights. "Thank you, but for the more than $100 increase in my tax rate per year maybe my neighbor and I could Leltsrt aubmitTttd for publication must afford to put up pole ourselves arid put a light on It.' 4. 1 get roads maintained at their present level. THAT ONLY If my roads are paved I, as a property owner, pay for them and that Is not included in the Increased taxes I pay. Then lets face It, our big prob lem is sewer. That problem is "vital" to a small area to be an nexed. We know of their great need, just as do the city planners. How can one group put them selves up as saying, "It is a policy you must be annexed"? Remember this at no time have we been guaranteed a sewage system. If we are an nexed we can then, again, pe tition for a sewer. It is then up to the city to accept or reject us. These sewers will be a direct assessment to each property hold er and not to be paid by our increased tax rate. Also is it fair that I help you pay for downtown storm sewers, street paving, and parking area that I, now outside the city limits can't vote on but will help pay for, if I am annexed to the city? A gentleman stated at a meet ing at Howard School recently, "We are fully aware of the need of some of the residents in the Berrydale area for a sewer. We doubt that these people could be stopped if the protests were loud enough. If, then, annexation is not a fair thing to all people con cerned. let's vote NO to this proposal. Then pledge ourselves as a unit to help these people without giving up our country wav of livine." I thank this gentleman. Mrs. Eldred F. cnariey Route 2, Box 377 Medford, Ore. For Judge Burns To the Editor: I believe that the American voter always wel comes the opportunity to learn more about a candidate for of fice, however large or small. Judge Nelle W. Burns of Ash land, has for 14 'years filled the office of Justice of the Peace. She has enjoyed an excellent reputation for efficiency, fair ness and honesty, both in public and private life. Her character is of sterling quality. In the primary election, Judge Burns won by a large majority, in the Ashland precincts. This bears out the fact that the people who know her have faith in her ability as an administrator. Many a decent, honest candi date has gone down to defeat. Let's not let this happen to Judge Burns. Mrs. B. J. Krug 231 Van Ness Ashland, Ore. Opposed to Measure No. 4 To the Editor: On election day, Ballot Measure No. 4, "Qualifica tions for County Coroner and Surveyor," should be defeated. This measure is misleading. Actually, should this measure pass, all that would happen would be the removal of the of fices of Coroner and Surveyor from the constitution; thus no longer would they be elective offices. I am opposed to having our public officials appointive They must remain elective. I am also opposed to the move to make the Attorney General ap pointive. It is unwise and unsound to throw away one program with out offering a substitute. This would happen should Measure No. 4 pass. Should Measure No. 4 pass, is quite possible that the Cor oner's budget for each county in the state would be increased by some $25,000 to $35,000 per year. At no time have' the police departments requested this measure. Therefore, they must be satisfied. Measure No. 4 should be de feated. Carlos Morris Funeral Director Medford, Ore. No Gold, He Says To the Editor: The piece writ ten by Jim Whipple regarding Ai Sarena mine is not the truth, I am a miner too. No gold in a volcanic formation. Biggest assay they had was $3, and something if they had $22 ton ore, why did they not have it assayed, show it in their application for patent. Many of their samples showed nothing. We admit they done a lot work there, hunting ore, found none. Now that $300 or $400 ton story, not a word truth to it. I am 80 years past. perhaps know as much about mining as Whipple. So such ore there, never was. He can't pan a color gold in a ton that stuff, Why he wants to write such story I don't know. Don't be lieve a word. H. H. McClung 375 S.W. "K" st. Grants Pass, Ore. Like a Lioness To the Editor: I am a mother of very young children. When they grow up I want them to have smiles with teeth in them There -are hundreds of moth ers in Medford who feel as I do There are millions like me aU over the United States. We know that fluoridated water will help our children's teeth, and we have the assurance of every responsi ble medical and dental organiza- .tion that fluorides in the correct quantities are absolutely safe for everyone. Each year, every day, there are more parents who are ask ing their communities to help them safeguard the health of their children. This year we ate asking you. The Natural Foods association wants to accomplish the same purpose by changing our eating habits. I too am for raw carrots. and down with tootsie rolls. But don't want to make a career of nutrition, and I certainly don't intend to grind my own what ever-it-is they grind. I want raw carrots and fluoridation. Incidentally, no matter what their bonemeal supplier says, fluorides in the right quantity are safe. A number 56 is an odd symbol for an issue that involves fundamental emotion, the de termination of parents to protect their young from harm. That is the stuff that makes lionesses charge on blazing rifles to save their cubs. It is the reason I am writing this letter to the editor and asking you to vote for fluo ridation. Mrs. John Brandenburg 824 Brookdale rd. Medford, Ore. Economy To the Editor: Let s consider the economy of fluoridation. The opponents of fluoridation consider such a program waste ful because only a small percent age of the city water supply is used for drinking. Other uses for water such as bathing, washing, and irrigating are brought to our attention. I would like to restate a point made by Dr. Dotter on the television panel. Do you consider your auto mobile brakes useless when you don't actually have your feet on the pedal? Do you think your place of worship is wasted on Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Satur day?" Even though we do drink only a small percentage of the water, it is a vital part and, if it con tains the proper elements, can mean the difference between good teeth and poor dental health. Fluoridation is a lone range program. True, children benefit most, but the children of today are the adults of tomorrow and the effects of good teeth are life long. In time 100 per cent of the population will benefit. Poor dental health results in poor general health. Don't be misguided by false economy. Vote yes for fluoridation. Mrs. Ruth E. Frederick 712 Whitman st. Medford, Ore. Leave Water Sweet and Pur To the Editor: I surely do agree with the doctor and two ladies who do not want to drink 'teeth." How silly and gullible can the public get? Most of the children with poor teeth come irom families who have too many payments for "automatic" everything to put nourishing meals on the table. My husband's wages have never been up to our govern ment s standard of common liv ing, yet our two sons were born in eastern Montana, a place noted for bad teeth and goiter, and raised from 11 and 3V4 years old, right here in the Rogue Riv er valley, in fact right on the same road, and neither one has ever had a cavity or dental bill. They 'are now 30 and. 23 years old. Of course they were raised on that poison, raw cow's milk, you know the kind that bossy really gave. Not homogonized, pasteurized, decreamed and de- milked liquid that is about as nourishing as the warmth one could get from trying to burn ashes. They had all of the crude home made bread and cookies made with pure home grown lard and lots of eggs. Ate all the candy they wanted, after a good breakfast and dinner. Drank soft drinks if they could hold them after eating meals at regular hours. As one of my daughters-in-law said. Mom, you never talk much about the doctor bills you had for your boys. What did you do for your babies?" I said, 'Honey, I wouldnt know what to do with the 'hybrids' you girls are raising these days. In my time people just had regular babies." Its hard to imagine anyone being stupid enough to spoil the wonderful clear, cool, mountlin water that we are blessed with here. Just Up your food bill and Down your payments and leave the sweet pure water just as God intended it and your dental and doctor bills will be few and far between. Harriet Hagerman 1375 South Columbus Medford, Ore. Doomed, By Golly! To the Editor: Fluorine, flu oride; chlorine, chloride; what lethal sounding chemical terms assail and confuse us in the issues of today! A dusting off of school textbooks would seem in order, that we might in some manner forestall the slow, green death that confronts us. Fluorine, we learn, is an ele ment of the chlorine family. This sounds wicked enough indeed, since chlorine is described as: "an element isolated as a heavy, greenish-yellow, irritating gas of disagreeable, suffocating odor." That's enough. Oh, deliver us from the diabolical schemers who would foist upon us any brackish brew of such toxic con tent! Let's recall more about this potential exterminator. Chlo- rides. Sodium Chloride. What! Shades of Socrates quaffing the hemlock, that's table salt! Oh no! But wait, let's face facts. Thou sands of people die in the U.S. each day. Each has regularly consumed dosages of sodium chloride, containing a derivative of the chlorine-fluorine family. Draw your own conclusions! We are doomed by the subversive plot of capitalistic manufacturers who falsely label this obviously harmful compound as simple table salt! C. M. Stockard ., 3484 Forest ave,, Medford, Ore. . Against Foreign Policy To the Editor: With the Middle . East pot boiling over all over the place, it begins to look as if the great American peace party will need a major miracle to keep us at peace even until Nov. 6! As a direct result of the match less "brinkmanship" of John Foster Dulles, (who has been apt ly described by ; a California news writer as a person "who was born with a silver foot in his mouth") we are now in a most unenviable position. Hav ing championed Israel against the Arab world from the time of its inception as a nation, and having persistently thumbed our official nose at Egypt ever since our refusal to finance the Aswan Dam, we now stand poised to fly to her aid if the UJU. Secur ity Council determines Israel to be the aggressor, as the super ficial evidence seems to indi cate that she is. If this is sup posed to indicate a consistent policy for Middle Eastern deal ings, it has me too confused to figure it out. The one thing I am sure of is that I do not want more of the same for the next.' four years. In this period of chaos and complexity in world history, for any political party to maintain that a vote for its candidates is a vote for peace is an insult to the intelligence of every think ing voter. True we are a great and powerful nation, but we do not live in a sort of blissful vacuum where our own decisions alone can determine our destiny. Instead we live in one world whose physical boundaries shrink with every passing day, and our fate, for better or for worse, is inextricably bound up with the fate of all mankind. It is sheer wishful thinking to imagine that our present greedy, wasteful standard of living can or should be maintained in definitely when much of the re mainder of the world never knows the experience of even having enough to eat. We need to be reminded that our fabulous prosperity end our peace as well, are directly de pendent upon a free flow of raw materials most of which we neither produce nor control. In stead they come from many of the so-called "have not" nations the economically under-developed countries whose darker skinned peoples are weary unto death of our arrogant ways and our vacuous theories of white supremacy. Unless we can have the kind of national leadership that knows where it is going before it finds itself perilously teetering on "the very brink of war," one that can develop a foreign policy which combines vision for the future beyond our own selfish, nationalistic desires, with sym pathtic appreciation of the dig nity, the viewpoints and the needs of the Arab world and the vast multitudes of Asian and African peoples, we shall know neither peace nor prosperity in the next four years nor will we deserve to do so. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. . High Fidelity Masterpiece -in fine furniture THE BERKSHIRE AM-FM radio-phonograph. 25 waifs, 12" and 15" bast plus two horn speakers. In mahogany $495. 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