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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14, 1948 (Thursday)
Mediord's fire department
plans a training program.
From "Side Glance s;"
"Friends congratulating a lady
card-player on her newly ac
quired ability to identify her
own auto."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14, 1948 (Friday)
A district Boy Scout rally
is scheduled here tonight.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
Utah hunter killed a deer with
ft baseball bat. Here is a sate
hunting weapon, barring the
imaginative possibility of mis
taking one's companion for
an in-shoot."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14, 1928 (Sunday)
County Engineer Paul Ryn
ning reports completion of
construction and improvement
of two miles of Dead Indian
rd.
Plans are underway to re
vive a local branch of the
National Rifle association.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14. 1918 (Monday)
A special city election on
charter amendments is sched
uled tomorrow.
The local draft board is
holding physical exams this
week at the rate of 100 a day.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
six is good.
1. Do houseflies bite?
2. Complete the following
saying, "I would rather be
right than "
3. When an individual eats
more starch than is needed
by the body, the excess is
stored, in the body as what?
4. Chopped apple, celery,
nuts, With mayonnaise, served
on lettuce is called a
salad?
. 5. Which President of the
U. S. owned an estate near
Nashville, Tenn., named "The
Hermitage"?
6. The Yangtze River is in
Siberia; true or false?
7. Was John Cabot an Eng
lish, or an Italian, navigator?
8. Washington, D.C., is lo
cated north, or south, of the
Mason-Dixon Line?
9. Aboard a yacht, would
meals be prepared in the gal
lery or the galley?
10. How many major league
baseball clubs are there in
the American and National
Leagues?
Answers: 1. No. 2. "Presi
dent." 3. Fat. 4. Waldorf. 5.
Andrew Jackson. 6. False.
(China) 7.' Italian. (Sailing In
British employ.) 8. South.
9. Galley. 10. Sixteen.
Mountbatten Praised
For Film Cooperation .
Hollywood-IIIPD-Lord Louis
Mountbatten, Britain's first
sea lord, was praised Monday
by 20th Century-Fox Studio
chief Spyros Skouras for his
cooperation with the Ameri
can film industry in produc
tion Of films with Royal Brit
ish Navy settings.
Mountbatten arrived here
from a tour of San Diego mili
tary installations to attend a
luncheon in his honor given
by the association of motion
picture producer.
Optimistic Signs
Maybe it is a state of euphoria induced by
the recent glorious weather, but it certainly
seems to us there have
news that could be classed as "good news" lately.
Work has started on the big shopping center
off Jackson street. Workmen were busy doing
last-minute levelling there, yesterday, and com
pleting a big construction shack. Actual construc
tion will get under way soon.
Start of Rogue Valley Manor, the $5J mil
lion retirement home on top of Barneburg hill,
is due shortly after the first of the year. Core ;
drilling, to determine sub-foundation f ormations, j
was being done yesterday. j
I
T'HE Civil Aeronautics
A tentatively, it plans
tions to the routes of both West Coast and Pacific
Airways, which will make Medford iust that
much more readily accessible from north, south
and east. This will be a
to the transportation facilities of the Rogue valley.
The "Make Medford
ports strong and favorable response to its cam
paign to make Medford a sightlier, .pleasanter
place in which to live.
The Senior Activity
to older people a place to
and a more active role in
over the week end.
EMPLOYMENT is up. The lumber market i? go
ing great guns, at the moment, with a few ups
and downs, but generally is far above what it was
a year, or even six months, ago.
It was a nrettv ffood
and while there was considerable hail damage
it wasn't as serious as
gested.
And, while it was a long, hot, diy summer, the
forest fire record in this part of the state was
good. (Let s keep our
need ram to ena tne lire aanger.;
There are still a few fly-specks on the body
politic and economic, but
future looks better than it has for a long time,
hereabouts. The optimistic signs outnumber the
gloomy ones, 10 to 1. E. A.
Leave Religion Out of It
"All men shall be secured in the natural right to wor
ship Almighty God according to the dictates of their
own consciences. No law shall in any - case whatever
control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious
opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience. NO
religious test shall be required as a qualification for any
office of trust or profit."
These are the second,
tions of Article I of the
of Oregon;
They are good, sound,
and fully in the American
of church and state. Not only do they set the
course for the ship of state to sail in its official
apacity: they also set what should be the tenor
of office-seekers within
I TNHAPPILY, people
these Constitutional
1 1 i 1
wmcn is not always ionowea .during political
campaigns. We have seen instances, right here
in Jackson county and not
a man s religion being
We feel that such action is in the worst possi
ble taste, that it is violative of the spirit of the
constitution, and that it is a curt denial of a phil
osophy which has been hundreds of years, abuild
ing. . ' -
People who brine: a man's religion into a cam
paign should be ashamed. Some of them are
. 1 . ,1 . . T ? .11 1 il
at least to tne extent oi dissimulating sucn action.
-" $ - -
A LL of which is by way of deploring the fact
"that, intentionally or inadvertently, a relig
ious issue was shoved into the gubernatorial cam
paign upstate last week.
The details are neither edifying nor particu
larly pertinent,- so we'll skip them here, and we
have a suspicion that the religious note was
struck sort of by accident, and by misapprehen
sion on the part of workers in the campaign
not by the principals themselves.
But, as Editor Charles A. Sprague of the Ore
gon Statesman points out:
"Perhaps it is for lack of really significant issues in the
governorship campaign that it has become more than
usually personal.' Better get back to politics and leave
religion out."
Amen. We repeat, the Silly Season is upon'
us.
E.A.
Report Those Events!
Ernie Hood, the hard-working county chair
man for the Jackson county Centennial observ
ance, has issued a "last call" to people in the
county who are interested in having community
events and celebrations properly promoted for
the Centennial year. '
Anything wrhich might be a tourist attraction
from a rodeo to a Roster Crow to a hillbilly
Jamboree to a Catfish Derby should take its
place on the list of Oregon events to be publi
cized nation-wide during the coming year.
They should be. But unless they are reported,
and included on the "master calendar" of events,
the won't be.
Ernie can be reached at SPring 3-2059. E. A.
been a lot of items in the !
Board announced that,
to grant long-sought addi
manor break in adding
Beautiful" committee re
Center, which will offer
go, a place to do things,
the community, opened
near ciod this vear. too
some early estimates sug
fingers crossed we still
generally speaking, the
third and fourth sec
Constitution of the State
sensible proscriptions,
tradition of separation
the state.
v
being what tney are,
provisions set up an ideal
11 1 1 . 2 ' 1 i I
too long ago, either, of
dragged into politics. .
'1 GOT A BIS RANCH INT0W6! WrW SDO&NMLUOtf COWS
'N HO?SSI Atf TW WHITE fWS."
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
JOHNSON and KENNEDY
Washington A communi
ty of practical interest, though
nothing nearly so firm as an
actual alli
ance, is being
broadened be
tween the for
ces of two
Democ ratic
p r e s idential
p o s s ibilities
for 1950. The
immediate op
erating center
William s white of this move
ment is in the South and the
border states.
Unless the nomination is
to go to an advanced liberal
as well it might - the focus
of convention power is likely
to fall somewhere between
Senators Lyndon B. Johnson
of Texas and John F. Kennedy
of Massachusetts.
Johnson is prospectively the
convention's dominant . figure
in the area running from the
center to the right of the par
ty but not the far right.
Kennedy is prospectively its
most important figure in the
area running left of center to
the left but not to the far
left.
e
r
T NOW looks not impossible
that form these situations
their followers might merge
to dominate the convention.
Indeed, it is not inconceivable
that these situations will go
so far as to produce nominees
Johnson for President and
Kennedy for Vice-President
though it is most unlikely.
Johnson is a liberal South
erner but still a Southerner
by geography and being
any kind of Southerner has
been bad news at any Demo
cratic convention for many
years. It will no doubt be even
worse news in 1960, barring
the small though real possi
bility that the Democrats
might decide they could not
usefully compete all the way
with Richard M. Nixon, the
probable Republican Presi
dential nominee, for the mas
sive Negro voting bloc on the
civil rights issue.
Johnson had a heart attack
in 1955, and though there has
been no recurrence, this is a
political liability. Perhaps
worst of all, as a Texan he is
identified by many with fat
oil and gas "barons", and all
that. FinaUy, there is a genu
ine continuing doubt that he
would "go" for the noirtina
tiOh anyhow.'
All the same, he is the most
powerful single man in the
Democratic party today as
well as its ablest politician,
measured on actual perform
ance. Such facts do not neces
sarily enchant political con
ventions: but they never do
a man any harm and -some
times they do him some good.
KENNEDY, too, has certain
inherent liabilities. There
is his religion both parties
have been "afraid to nominate
a Roman Catholic since the
defeat of Alfred. E. Smith in
1928. And there is his youth-
he will be only 43 in 1960.
Nevertheless, these two pol
iticians both victims of cir
cumstances for which they are
not responsible but with
which they must reckon -are
being progressively drawn
closer together. More exactly,
their supporters are being
so drawn.
Powerful Southern politi
cians, . including a potent
handful of Governors, are
speaking in increasingly high
tones of Kennedy, privately
as well as in public. Their at
titude could easily be over
evaluated. Kennedy is not
their first choice; rather, he
is their choice if finally they
must face some alternative
nominee as Governor G. Meg-
nen Williams of Michigan or
Governor AvereU Harriman
of New York.
Their true first choice un
doubtedly would be Johnson.
The pro-Kennedy movement ,
If ri
in the South thus is basically
a hidden pro-Johnson move
ment. That is, the Southern
hope it will be Johnson at the
end but are maneuvering not
to the left without any altern
ative position to a Mennen
Williams, say, if it turns out
that Johnson will not seek the
nomination or cannot get it.
SOME of the most realistic
of non - Southern Demo
cratic politicians, too, are now
privately talking up a Johnson-Kennedy
ticket. In part,
their motive is completely s&r
ious; in part, they are sending
up small trial balloons to test
public reaction. . . " .
The net of it is that John
son and Kennedy are increas
ingly being presented as lead
ers of party groups between
which there need be no irre
coiiciliable conflict. One rea
son is that Kennedy has al
ways .. h a d much Southern
goodwill as was spectacu
larly shown in 1956 when.
under Southern leadership, he
very nearly took the Vice
Presidential nomination away
from Senator Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee.
But the rock-bottom reason
for It all is this: Kennedy,
though a Northern liberal, is
no extremist on the race ques
tion, though he has a good
voting record from the Ne
groes' viewpoint. And John
son is very far from a extrem
ist Southerner. He is, in fact,
the principal reason why the
first civil rights bill ineight
decades got through the Sen
ate in 1957, unsatisfactory
though it was to the all-out
civil rights advocates.
(Copyright, 1958. by Fea
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
Editorial
Comment
POLITICS -AND RELIGION
lhe gubernatorial race
seems to have involved not
only the candidates but their
press agents. When Marguer
ite Wright, press representa
tive for the Holmes campaign,
prepared a press release on
the Governor's speech - at
W e s t m i n ster Presbyterian
Church, Portland,, she put in
by way of preface the clause:
"Evidently, in answer to re
ports that Secretary of State
Mark Hatfield had used his
identification with church ac
tivities to get votes ..." This
touched off Travis Cross,
press representative for Hat
field, who promptly cried
"character assassination" and
labeled the attack "vicious
and vindictive."
In his own speech in his
comments on political moral
ity, Holmes had made no
mention of his Republican op
ponent. But his denunciation
of such campaign techniques
as "identifying Almighty God
with my political party," and
his self-exculpation of any
such indulgence himself were
so strong as to seem, to point
directly at his opposition. If
his press agent drew that in
ference it is not surprising.
Whether Hatfield has been
pnltivat ine the "church an
gle" we cannot say-reporters
haven't picked it up.
Both candidates declare
that one's religion should not
be a factor in the political
campaign, but their press
agents accuse the other side
of employing it. Religion is
always an ugly subject to be
injected into politics--and
one often hard to keep out.
In this instance it" adds noth
ing by way of enlightening
voters on the political issues
between the candidates.
Perhaps it is for lack of
really significant Issues in the
governorship campaign that
it has become more than usu
ally personal. Better get back
to politics and leave religion
out. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Bitter National Debate in Japan
Over Stronger Police-Powers Bill
By DAY INOSHITA
UPI Corrtspondent
Tokyo -(UPD- A bitter na
tional debate is shaping up
over charges that Prime Min
ister Nobusuke Kishi is try
ing to turn back the clock
and revive the notorious war
time "thought police" in Jap
an. Proceedings in the Diet
Ore gon Co ngressm e
Above-Average Vote
Washington-(CQ)-Only sev
en of the Senate's 96 members
said "yea" or "nay" to each
one of the 200 roll calls of the
1958 session.
; House. Members did some
what better 47 of the 428
Representatives (seven seats
were vacant) posted perfect
scores for the 93 roll calls re
corded in their chamber in
1958.
Most of their colleagues
were not far behind, however.
Congressional Quarterly's an
nual study of voting partici
pation shows that the average
members of Congress voted on
87 per cent of the session's roll
calls slightly less often than
each of the three previous
years, when the average score
was 88 per cent.
Voting participation scores
are based on the percentage of
all roll calls on which a mem
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
THE BLINTZ ELECTION '
New York By any practical-test,
the biggest moments
in the New York Governor
ship campaign
have been
g u s t a t ory.
Fir st Nelson
R o c k e feller
publicly ate a
-I cheese blintz.
And then Av
verell Harri
man hastily
topped Rocke
feller, by joy
4ospb Alsop
fully consuming both a cheese
blintz and a plate of gefullte-
fisch.
Maybe it sounds cynical to
take this competitive public
ingestion of Jewish delicacies
as the symbol of this cruicial
fight for the Governorship of
the most populous state in the
union. Afterall, the incum
bent, Harriman, is a seasoned
public servant and a great
figure among the Democrats,
And the challenger, Rocke
feller, is literally the only
really promising new contend
er that the Republican party
has produced in this rather
critical election year
Both candidates have Cer
tainly made the conventional
speeches about the issues. But
the issues have thus iar maae
less impression than the candi
dates', indefatigable blintz-
ontin-r.' Dizza-munching and
street-corner handshaking.
IT IS
really a fascinating
1
rthough mildly bewilder
ing) public spectacle, to see
these, two enormously rich,
exceDtionally able, intensely
Dublic-spirited and deeply
serious men, both mainly seek-
in a election by the same
homely methods. As Rocke
fpller . is the nfjvice blintz-
eater, his performance is per
haps more interesting.
Imaeine, then, tne corner
of 103rd Street and Lexing
ton Avenue, on the verge of
the dark slums of Harlem's
Puerto Rican district. A crowd
of perhaps a hundred people-:-
half childrenT nas Deen at
tracted by a car-mounted loud
speaker. The organizer of the
occasion, the sheepdog of the
corner flock, is the chairman
of Puerto Ricans' for Rocke
feller, Anthony Toro. Toro is
of Venezuelan descent, and he
is on hand, one suspects, be
cause he formerly did a good
deal of work in South Amer
ica for the RockefeUer-fin-
anced International Bat lc
Economy Corporation. But as
an adoptive Puerto Rican, he
seems to be most successful.
fTVHE" candidate is a bit late,
X hut the Rockefeller station
wagon at length draws up to
the kerb, chauffeured by the
coordinator for Negro Affairs
of Citizens for Rockefeller,
James Hudson. (In Ordinary
life, coordinator Hudson is
superintendent of Winthrop
Rockefeller's Winrock Farm,
down in Arkansas; but he has
retained his Harlem voting
residence.) The candidate
leaps from the station wagon,
asking in apparent surprise,
Why, who have we here?"
Bedlam promptly ensues.
The children scream. The
adults shout. The bearers of
banners, wave their printed
proclamations: "Rockefeller
Terminara la Brutalidad Po-
liciaca" and "Fondacion
Rockefeller acabo con la Bil-
arzia en Peurto Kico." lhe
candidate puts on a Mexican
hat, and picks up a child, also
In Mexican hat, to'the child's
evident delight. 'A lady with
Ofcceptional lung power
shrieks into the microphone .
4 -""lRI
have been brought to a halt
over the Kishi government's
controversial police duties
law revision bill.
The Communist - led Zen
gakuren National Students
Federation has, ordered na
tionwide demonstrations and
protest rallies on Oct. 23 and
28.
A group of leading schol
ber casts "yea or nay" votes
the only kind that affect the
outcome of roll calls.
Among the ' Senate's 100
percenters, vop honors unques
tionably belong to Sen. Mar
garet Chase Smith (R-Maine)
as the -only member with a
perfet score for three years
running. The only other Sen
ator to miss none of the 107
roll calls Of 1957 as well as the
200 of 1958 was Sen. Henry
Dworshak (R-Idaho). Perhaps
the most unusual score of
1958, however, was that of
Sen. William Proxmire (D
Wis.). His 100 per cent was
achieved despite a rugged pri
mary contest and reelection
campaign.
House Records
In the House, Rep. Paul
Brown (D-Ga.) maintained his
record as the member with
the longest unbroken record
that "Tammany Hall and Har-
riman done a big mistake by
taking the Puerto Rican peo
ple for granted." Then the
candidate, showing that he
takes no one for granted,
makes a graceful little speech
in Spanish, which touches off
a perfect frenzy of cheering.
THAT ends what has to be
called the organized part
called the organized part of
of the morning, for want of
a better word. Rockefeller
leaves the loudspeaker and
plunges into the crowd, shak
ing hands right and left, and
occasionally bestowing a
Spanish style "abrazo" an
embrace of greeting. The Mex
ican hat, now rising above
and now being engulfed by
the heaving multitude, seems
like a -frail barque in a high
sea. One gasps when the hat
seems to go under forever,
But suddenly there is an open
ing in the ranks, and there is
Nelson Rockefeller, grinning
with obviously unaffected
pleasure, slightly rumpled and
minus his hat, but crying out
to Tony Toro s too protective
subordinates, "Let me get at
the people; they're the ones
I want to see."
So the candidate sets off
down Lexington Avenue, sur
rounded by a tis'iit knot of
children, adult admirers, pro
fessional organizers and pho
tographers. There are enough
children at the knot's center,
struggling to hold Rockefel
ler's hand, to make him seem
a bit like the pied piper
caught In a mob scene. But
with extraordinary agility, he
continously escapes from this
perambulating encirclement
to shake hands with street
corner gossips, grocery-store
patrons and owners, barbers
and customers for haircuts,
and anyone else who may hap
pen to be on Lexington Ave
nue on this, bright autumn
morning.- - - "
AT ONE point, he stops to
patronize one of the count
less shoeshine boys who
swarm on " these Lexington
Avenue sidewalks. Getting a
shoeshine is probably the next
best thing to eating a yam or
some Puerto Rican delicacy,
which is impossible because
the Puerto Rican restaurants
are not open yet. At any rate,
the gesture is greeted with
immense enthusiasm, and
another period of bedlam re
sults. There is bedlam again
for a short set speech at the
corner of 111th Street. There
is super bedlam in the market
under the railroad tracks on
Park Avenue. And so it goes,
for a full three exhausting
hours, which altogether fail
to exhaust Rockefeller, how
ever. The last hand at Lexing
ton Avenue and 125th street,
is shaken with the same en
thusiasm as the ifrst.
It is all very unlike the
Lincoln-Douglas debates or
Gladstone's Midlothian cam
paign. It is very, much like
the same performance, when
put on by Avefell Harriman.
And odd as it may seem, the
spectacle has considerable
Warmth and charm.
(c) 1958. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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3-day "get-acquainted" size only 69t. Or
get Economy size, save $1 .67. All druggists
ars and intellectuals in Tokyo
and Kyoto have launched
their own independent cam
paign against the government
reform.
The Socialist Party, the
Communist Party and Sohyo,
Japan's powerful three-million
member labor federation,
bill.
But a lot of ordinary peo-
n Ma i h fa i n
Records
of 100 per cent voting partici
pation, .begun in 1951.
Even if a Member is unable
to be present for a roll call,
he can go on the record by
pairing with another absent
member, announcing his stand
or answering the Congression
al Quarterly poll, so that his
costituents may know his posi
tion. In 1958, the average mem
ber was on the record 94 per
cent of the time, either by vot
ing "yea" or "nay" or by de
claring his stand on the roll
calls he missed. A total of 38
Senators (eight more than in
1957) scored 100 per cent on
the record in 1958. In the
House, 114 Representatives
(almost twice as many as the
60 in 1957) made their stands
known on every roll call.
Local Scores
In Oregon, Sen. Wayne
L. Morse (D) had a voting par
ticipation score for "yea" and
"nay" votes in 1958 of 93 per
cent. -
k
These votes, together with
his declared stands on the roll
calls he missed, put him On
the Record 100 per cent of the
time. .
Senv Richard L. Newberger
(D) voted "yea" or "nay" on
100 per cent of the 200 roll
calls in 1958.
By way of comparison, the
average Senator had a voting
participation Score of 86 per
cent, an on the record score of
96 per cent.
In the House, Rep. Charles
o. Porter (D) had a votine Dar-
ticipation score of 94 per cent
ior tne 83 roll calls' of 1958.
He went on the record on 99
per cent of the issues. The av
erage representative had a
voting participation score of
87 per cent and went on the
record 94 per cent of the time.
(Copyright 1958 Congressional
Quarterly Inc.)
Dean of Army
Pilots Dies
Dayton, Ohio -(UPD-- Col.
Stanley M. Umstead, 62, once
known as the dean of all
Army pilots, died Monday
night at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base hospital after a
five-month iUness.
Umstead, who retired to a
farm near here in 1951. lod
ged more than 13,000 hours
nymg time during his 32
years in the service.
He flew 350 different mod
els and types of experimental
aircraft, including everything
from Jennies, the first U. S.
military trainer, to the B19,
world's biggest military air
craft in the late- 1930s. He
was test pilot for the -first
B19.
Umstead began his military
career in 1917 when he was
graduated from the' first Air
Corps officer training course.
He was chief of the flying
branch at Wright field from
1937 to 1942.
He is survived by his wife,
Edna; three daughters; a
son,. Capt. Stanley M. Um
stead Jr., a jet. fighter and
interceptor pilot at McGuire
Air Force Base, N. J.; three
brothers and eight grandchildren.
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pie who remember the "Tok
yo" thought police and th-
"K e m p e i" gendarmerie of
World War II are just dis-'
turbed enough over its pro
visions to throw their weight
against the government in
the fight.
Some political . observers
predict the fight could grow
serious enough to rnrlt the
10-year-old conservative nrio1
in Japan for the first time.
lhe center of the contro
versy is a bill presented to
the Diet last month by the
Kishi government. This mea-;
sure greatly strengthens po
lice authority as outlined in
the police duties law enact-'
ed in 1948 under the Allied
occupation when emphasis
Was unon remnvincr fn,,-
the danger of another "do-'
lice state."
Among the controversial
points are stipulations em
powering police officers to
take juveniles and drunks in
their "protective custody,"
and take measures to prevsnt
crimes or the development
of "dangerous situations" in.
eluding entering homes and
crossing private property
without warrants.
Government spokes men
say the revisions are neces
sary to enable police to deal
with a rising juvenile crime
wave, the increase of gang
sterism in postwar Japan, and
extreme actions by Commun
ists and Radical Unionists.
Accusations Outlined
Critics point to Kishi's rec
ord as a minister in the war
time Tojo cabinet and his
longtime record as a bureau
crat, and claim he is trying
to centralize more power in
the government so he can
stifle the labor movement in
Japan and strangle the op
position. They claim that police can
invoke these powers to
break up opposition rallies,
revive "thought police" check
ups in the home and hotels,
and bypass the constitution
to take political enemies out
of circulation.
The general view 'is that
many of the measures are
needed, that this is a case
where left-wing extremism
has bred extremism in the
opposite direction, that Kishi
has no purpose in mind ex
cept to clamp down on gang
sterism and left-wing hood-
lumism, but he may be go
ing too far in his reform. :
One of the arguments
against the bill which is most
frequently heard is that it
leaves too much to the judg
ment of the individual police
officer. Newspapers, especial'
ly, are not prepared to con
cede policemen have that
much judgement, in view of
a series of recent attacks by
police against reporters cOv
ering news events. -
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