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HAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL 4 Monday, November 3, 1958 Meeforim Tribune "Everyone to Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. ROHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Hgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JB, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES Br Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAMt 82 k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfjTgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 3. 1948 (Wednesday) Diamond Flynn has been elected Medford's new mayor, with 72.3 of Medford's regis tered voters casting ballots. Frank Van Dyke and Ben Day are elected to the state legislature and William Mc Allister to the state senate. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 3, 1938 (Thursday) Tfire Medford men have in certiorated as Bull Frog Min ing company, with prospec tive operations in placer 5 mines near Rogue River. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The rain brought out the weaker sex in galoshes, that flopped "around like a Democratic can didate on the presidential coat-tails." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 3. 1928 (Saturday) KMED, now broadcasting on a lower wave length, re c e i v e s enthusiastic reports from new listeners in Cali fornia. Talent High school students wage a carnival to raise mon ey for the physical fund. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 3, 1918 (Sunday) The U.S. bureau of hatch eries supports the state fish and game commission in its opposition to the Rogue river fish bill as giving gill netters a monopoly on commercial fishing. The Junior Red Cross plans a drive to collect tinfoil. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or sight is excellent; tits or six is good. 1. Name the largest state in area east of the Mississippi river. 2. Complete the saying, "An apple a day ." 3. Can water be heated much above its boiling point? 4. Over which ancient land did the nynasty of the Ptole mies rule? 5. Leonardo da Vinci con ducted research in glider fly ing; true or false? 6. Which part of the Bible is held to have been written during the Apostolic Age? 7. Scottish kings were an ciently crowned at Glasgow, Scone, or Edinburgh? 8. The unofficial Vatican news agency is named Fides. What does the word mean? 9. Will four one-inch pipes discharge the same volume of water as one four-inch pipe? 10. Correct the following sentence: "She made a des sert in which she used whip cream." Answers: 1. Georgia. 2. "Keeps the doctor away." 3. No. 4. Egypt 5. True. 6. The New Testament. 7. Scone. 8. Faith. 9. No. 10. "She made a dessert in which (he used whipped cream." Candidate Recommendations CONGRESSMAN: Vote 102, Charles 0. Porter. GOVERNOR: Vote 104, Robert D. Holmes. LABOR COMMISSIONER: Vote 106, Nor man 0. Nilse.n. STATE SENATOR: Vote 108, Gordon ' Hudson. . STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Vote 110, Robert B. Duncan. COUNTY CLERK: Vote 113, Bereth P. Hopkins. COUNTY COMMISSIONER: Vote 116, Chester H. Wendt. . COUNTY JUDGE: Vote 119, Earl M. Mil ler. SHERIFF : Vote 121, Joseph D. Walsh. (City of Medford) COUNCILMEN: Roy P. Wilkes (Ward I) and Stanley Stark, (Ward IV). Measure Recommendations No. 1: Vote "Yes." No. 2: Vote "Yes." No. 3: Vote "Yes," No. 4: Vote "Yes." No. 5: Vote "Yes." No. 6: Vote ."Yes." No. 7: Vote "Yes." No. 8: Vote "Yes." No. 9: Vote "Yes." No. 10: Vote "No." No. 11: Vote "Yes." No. 12: Vote "No." No. 13: Vote "No." Medford sidewalk "No." The Campaign Ends No registered voter can factually complain that he or she has not had sufficient information about the candidates and tomorrow. There may have been, indeed, almost too much information, too claims, charges, counter-charges, and conilict ine statements. Voters have also been supplied with voters pamphlets, sample ballots, voting poll information, to say nothing of mail, TV, radio J and newspaper ads. It gets confusing at times. But, as one of our columnists, Joseph Alsop, and his brother Stewart, say in their new book, "The Reporter's Trade," the American people generally do a pretty good job of winnowing out the truth from the false, and casting a pretty in telligent ballot in the long run. THE campaign, which culminates tonight, start ed out quietly, but by last week it had heated up considerably in several quarters, r Tomorrow, however, the sore-pressed voter to make his choices in peace and dignity, alone with his conscience in the privacy of the voting booth. This is the way it should be. Tf Americans ever lose the precious right to vote, they will have lost their freedoms the one on wnicn ail omers hinge. IT SHOULD not be necessaiy to remind voters that it is both a right and a duty to vote. Nor should it be necessary to remind them that their votes DO count. ! A one-vote margin is not as unusual as' it might seem, and only through the aggregation of single votes are political decisions made. One vote out of thousands may seem insignificant. But people as individuals are not insignificant, and this is the way they govern themselves. , It is the best way yet devised. A NEWSPAPER-editorial writer is probably UlC UlllJ 1UU1HUU01 111 U1C V-UlIlIllUllltJ W11U, 111 effect, bares his political soul prior to an election, makinc- recommendations rio-ht down the line for the candidates and measures he believes to be in the best interests 01 the community. ., As such he is fair game for all partisans who disagree with him. He does this thankless chore not, as has been said repeatedly, in any attempt to dictate to voters how they should cast their ballot. That's impossible anyway, and any editor think ing he could do so should have his head examined. He does it because, as an interested and close observer of the political scene, he feels that his views, his interpretations, may possibly be help ful to some undecided voters. In some cases he does it because he is convinced that there is a real and important superiority of one man over anoth er, in which case he cannot avoid becoming an advocate. IXTELL, the campaign is about over. We have made our choices. They are listed above. We consider two of the races to be the most important, that for congress from this district, and that for state representative. In the first, Congressman Charles O. Porter deserves election hands-down over his opponent, on the basis of effectiveness, courage, independ ence and over-all responsiveness and ability. In the second, State Rep. Bob Duncan deserves-reelection on the basis of ability, first, and secondly as a repudiation of the snide tactics used against him. But in these races, as in the others, it is the voters who will finally decide. E.A. j measure, No. 51. Vote measures on the ballot many claims, counteiv will be quiet, allowing the most important of Dennis the Menace 'L0CK,DA9!RUFFF0UQWPUS7V CHURCH!!' Roscoe Drummond Reports . . . (Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) HOW TO WRITE TO CONGRESS Chicago -One thing which impresses a roving . corre spondent looking in on this Congressional campaign is the lack of communicatipn the lack of regular contact between members of - Con gress and the voters. Most of the time it is as though there was a dead wire between Capitol Hill and Main Street. v It seems to me for the most part: That relatively few voters really know what their repre sentatives in the Senate and House did to them-and for them. That very few Congress men have any sustained or re liable means of knowing what their constituents are think ing. WHAT needs to be done? I incline to look at this mat ter from the standpoint of the voter and what is needed is: 1- A better means by which the voters can keep tabs on how their Congressmen and Senators are voting-continu-cusly, not just as a quick look before voting. 2-A better means by which the voters can regularly get their views to their Congress-men-their views of what they want done in Washington and the way they want it and not as a lobby for anybody ex cept the interested citizen. A beginning is being made to do both of these things. This fall the Congressional Quarterly, an independent re search organization in Wash ington, provided about one hundred of its newspaper cli-ents-those who asked for it with "a meaningful box-score of how the Senators and Con gressmen of each area v6ted. It also provided a place for each paper to fill in the known views of the opposing candi date (if not a member of Con gress) and a convenient place for each voter to fill in how he would have voted. This kind of reporting is particularly helpful to voters who find themselves looking over politicians who, after do ing "all they can on earlier ballots to kill a measure, vote for it in the end so they can stand on both sides, depend ing on their audience. A GREATER need is to pro vide a good mechanism by which more voters, outside of purposeful pressure groups, can make their views heard to better effect in the halls of Congress on major issues. There are two main hurdles Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE CANDIDATE for a minor political office in western Texas was renowned .for his absolute honesty and, sure enough, here is the report on expenses of his campaign that he filed along about November 20: "Lost 1,349 hours think ing about the election. Also two front teeth and a piece of left ear in a personal en counter with my opponent. Donated one beef, four shoats and six sheep to county barbecues. Gave away 2 pairs of suspenders, 4 calico dresses, and $3 in cash. Kissed 126 babies, walked 977 miles, shook hands with 2,344 people, told 10,000 lies, got bit by 91 dogs, and talked enough nonsense to fill 400 volumes. And after all that, I was elected by a 53 majority!" - A local movie theater manager had this phone conversation the Other day: a girl called up and demanded, "What have you got on today?" He answered, "A charcoal gray suit" , "Who's in it?" she persisted. "I am," said the manager. "Oh, shucks," said the girl. "I've seen that already" and hung up. O 138. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kiss features Syndicate. in the way. One is that most citizens, unless reaiiy worked up or responding to some or ganized lobby, refrain from writing their Congressmen be cause they do not think their letters count for much. The other hurdle is that there is rarely enough spontaneous voter expression to make up a reliable and influential guide to public opinion. Can these two hurdles be surmounted? It seems to me that the Ac tive Citizens Opinion Poll in Chicago points the way. Here is a not-for-profit, non-partisan group, headed by Prof. W. P. Cortalyou of Roosevelt University, which does three things. " ONCE a month it submits a series of yes-or-no ques tions relating tothe main aspects of such topical issues as tax reduction, postal rates, foreign aid, policy toward Red China, to all participating vot ers throughout the country. Anyone can participate by paying a small fee covering costs. It analyzes and tabu lates the answers and then sends the results to all partici-pants-and reports its findings to all Congressmen. Expanded and more fully developed, this could be a valuable and continuous re flection of public opinion ap plied at the point where it would count most. Mr. Cortal you does not consider that his group is necessarily the best instrument for carrying out this of-the-people, for-the-peo-ple report to government. It seems to me that this is a useful experiment which ought to be taken up on a larger scale, possibly with the aid of one of the foundations. I am not arguing that Con gress should abdicate its inde pendent judgment or make its decisions solely on the basis of polls or letter-writers." I am arguing that the inter ested, independent voters ought to have the means of making their views visible and influential. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. GOOD REASON Memphis, Tenn.-OJPD-Zoo of ficials have found out why buddy, a male baboon, was so cool toward the new mate they ordered for him. The mate, shipped here from San Antonio, Tex., also is male. A new photographic paper makes a visible print instant ly. It is for use in recording instrumental data. Reuther Seen Emerging as Most Widely Known Non-Office-Holding Politician By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington -UPD - One sure thing bet on Tuesday's gen eral election is that big la bor's Walter P. Reuther will emerge from it as the most widely known non-of-fice holding p o 1 itician in the (United States. The r e a- Lyie c. wuson sons, however why Reuther's name and fame so terrorize many Republi cans and most political con servatives are not generally known to the voters. The ba sic fact is that Reuther is a brilliant political strategist possessed of large funds with which to implement his strat egems. Exhibit A in support of that fact is Michigan's Democratic Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Wil liams - a shoo-in Tuesday for a sixth term. Williams per sonifies big labor's power in Michigan politics and in that state Reuther personifies big labor. Exhibit B is what happen ed in the 1956 Democratic National Convention one mid night after former President Harry S. Truman had brought proceedings to a dead stop by his maneuver to make Gov. Averell Harriman of New York the party's presidential nominee. Except for those delegations already openly committed to Harriman or to Adlai E. Stevenson, the Demo cratic politicians gathered in Chicago took safe shelter where they could find it, awaiting the outcome of Tru man's political game. Stevenson Switch Engineered Uncommitted delegations remained uncommitted. Dele gations prudently and safely Matter of Fact aisoP KING HUSSEIN'S VACATION Washington - "Don't look- now," one is tempted to say, "but they're planting another bomb in the backyard." In the midst of all the elec tion promises of p e a c e-in- our time, this really seems 41 to be the only tactful way of suggest ing Joseph Alsop mat more oaa trouble may be coming soon it A 1 in the troubled Middle East The strong possibility of trouble arises from the simple fact that brave young King Hussein of Jordan is now planning to leave for a "vaca tion" in Europe on Nov. 9 The King's mother, Queen Dina, and most of the other members of the Hashemite house left Jordan "on vaca tion" or "for their health" some time ago. Queen Dina's brother, Sherif Nasr, is also leaving soon. The King's younger brother, Prince Mo hammed, will go on vaca iton" with the King. TN SHORT, when King Hus- sein begins his vacation, there will be no Hashemites left in the Hashemite king dom of Jordan. The king's power will be left in the hands of a Council of Re gency, which is reportedly composed of the old Circas sian leader, Said El Mufti, the f romer crisis-time Prime Mini ster, Dr. Khalidi, and other moderate nationalists. But young Hussein's 'firm pres ence and unyielding courage are the chief supports of the present regime in Jordan; so the betting is that the Council of Regency will not reign for very long. The betting is, in fact, that Jordan will be rapidly taken over, invHussein's absence, either by the pro-Nasser Egyptian underground, or by the Communist underground, or by. both together. It is as certain as anything can be, at least, that a coup d'etat will be tried. And it is equal ly certain that the likelihood of the attempt being defeat ed wil be reduced by approxi mately 90 per cent by the King's absence from the scene. Among the local experts opinion differs as to King Hussein's motives. Some, argue that he has in fact de cided that it is hopeless to continue his struggle in Jor dan. Others suggest that he only wishes to test the strength of the existing Jor danian structure, and really means to return and rule again if the structure holds together. At any rate, some sort of a blow-up in Jordan, successful or unsuccessful, is universally feared in the narrow circle of those who know the facts. . . ! , .... THE prevailing pessimism about the outcome is in dicated by American policy committed to iavorite sons, remained so. The convention was in stalemate. The big Michigan delegation, of which Reuther was a member, was committed to favorite son Soapy Wililams. The conven tion situation was such that a break of favorite son or un committed delegations t o either Stevenson or Harri man would have obtained a fast nomination. In such circumst ances, Reuther summoned the Michi gan delegation to caucus one midnight, firmly told Wil liams that he no longer was Michigan's favorite son candi date, and firmly advised the delegation that it had better switch to Stevenson, right now. The delegation switched. The United Press reported from Chicago on Aug. 16, 1956: "The UP bulletin of what happened was timed off at 2:39 a.m., an early hour, but fatal to the hopes of the governor of New York - and to the hopes of the governor of Michigan, too, if he had been thinking . that he might gamble the control of a big favorite son delegation into something like the vice presi dential nomination. "Big Break" "That UP bulletin said: 'Gov. G. Mennen Williams said early today he will urge Michigan's delegation to throw its 44' votes to Steven son.' "That was the big, deter mining break in this conven tion. In a matter of hours Williams was at Stevenson headquarters tendering his delegation's votes. . Big Ohio and New Jersey were not far behind. That was the neatest trick of the Democratic National Convention, especially since Williams not only was com pelled to relinquish his own delegates but, worse, to give makers' suspicions of the British role in this matter. A good many actually think that the British, having got their troops out of Jordan, are now quietly encouraging the King to get out too. The suspicion rests on the argument that the British think the King's cause is hopeless, at least for the long run, and further think that less damage will be done if the end comes quietly, without bloodshed and in the King's absence. These prospects constitute an ironical footnote to all the trumpeted claims ' about the Anglo-American intervention in Lebanon and Jordan. But a great deal more than the fu ture of Jordan is unfortunate ly involved in this story of King Hussein's "vacation" plans. For one thing, the Israelis can quite easily react very violently to any change of government in Jordan, most probably by militarily occuping the west bank of the Jordan river. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion has con tented himself with tellins the Knesset that he will not tolerate the "presence of foreign troops on the west bank." But he has conspicious- ly failed to say what he would do about the mucn more likely development -the seizure of power in Jor dan by the Nasserite under ground, with or without Communist support. EVEN IF Israel remains calm, moreover, there are all those circumstances which once caused President Eisen hower to proclaim that Jor dan's independence was "vital" to American interests. That was during the last crisis in Jordan, in the spring of 1956. The President made his statement because a Nas serite successful coup in Jor dan was then expected to set off a chain reaction of other coups in other Arab coun tries. The danger has ceased to exist in Iraq, because a coup has already taken place there. But there is still plenty of room for chain-r eaction effects in Saudi Arabia, and above all in Kuwait and the other Persian gulf' shiekh doms, which the British are still swearing to hold by mili tary force if need be. Alto gether, a pretty kettle of fish is on the fire, and one can pray that it will not come to a boil. (c) 1958 New York : Herald Tribune Inc. A small, airplane is being I sold in kit form for assembly by the owner. Don't Ntglcf Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, dip or wobble when you talk, est, laugh or ineeaeT Don't be annoyed and einbarraaaed' by such handicaps. FAS TEETH, aa alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth ' more firmly set. Gives confident feel. Ing of security and added comfort. No gummy, gooey, nasty taste or feel ing. Get FASTHSTS today at fny tfruf aountff. them to Stevenson whom he regarded as unfit. Two weeks later Reuther did his stuff again. He ram med through the AFL-CIO Washington Report By William S. Whit THE THORNY ROSE Washington - Not the least of a thousand questions faced during World War II by 1 Roosevelt and Churchill was that of deal ing with the a u s t ere and p r o f o undly difficult Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle was the heart Williams white of French re sistance in the black old days of Nazi occupation. His own frigid honor and patriotism and his immense usefulness against the Germans made it imperative for- Washington and London to get along with him. But his very good qualities also made him a stubborn, proud, highly sensitive asso ciate who caused much wry headshaking among Roose velt, Churchill and their col leagues. He was the rose; and he was the prickly thorn. And to grasp the one was, usually, to be a bit stung by the other. This allied experience of long ago is being repeated now all over the Western al liance, and markedly so here in Washington. A decade and a half later De Gaulle has again become a great hope and a great dilemma to the rest of the West. TRANCE'S capitulation to Germany thrust iron into the soul of every true French man. And the truest -of all is Charles de Gaulle. This col umnist,- as a war correspon dent, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame at the tail-end of De Gaulle's party when the general marched in there on the liberation of Paris for the Te Deum, the mass of thanks giving for deliverance. The memory will never die of the general's stiff, still face, free of regret or triumph but full of an old suffering that even he could not hide, as he knelt at the consecration of the Host in the ancient cathe dral. New as the years have pass ed, he has washed away much, but not all, of what sensitive Frenchmen felt as a stain upon one of the world's oldest and proudest military tradi tions. At home, as a fabulous ly successful Prime Minister, he has already restored France's domestic strength and confidence. A T the moment as the story romps iir in Hatf he is at tempting nothing less than to push France up to the very pinnacle of world power and prestige. He is asking that the 15 - nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization be over laid with a super-directorate of only three, the United States, Britain-and France. This would mean France would demand a voice equiva lent to the voices of associates incomparably more powerful -the United States-and very much more powerful-Britain. Too, De Gaulle would pre sumably attempt to have a Reasonable Funerals '(Priced for Everyone) felt S ' 4(oJ "fay '4 , j : ' ' S '"- I x fy f FRIENDLY, Executive Council a big labor endorsement of the Steven-son-Kefauver ticket. Reuther lost in 1956 but expects bet ter luck in 1960. hand in decisions of a kind in which not all of NATO put to gether has thus far attempted to take any such role. It might even mean, for example, that he would claim the right to participate in what have been this country's own 'decisions about such matters as For mosa in the Far East. Already, his proposal has- brought an ill-repressed con sternation among such other NATO partners as Italy and West Germany. No Italian government, no free German government, could expect to last long after telling its peo ple, that it would allow De Gaulle to place France above . them. TT has not been easy for the partners to accept the pre dominance in NATO even of the United States-a predomi nance at least justified by the harsh reality of our power and made tolerable in our great care not to throw our weight about. All the same, any flat rejec tion of De Gaulle's plan would shake NATO to the core. For he is understood to have hinted that without great concessions to France's desire to regain past glory, he will find NATO of ever-de creasing interest. And, finally. all ,in the West are fullly aware of the great contribu tions he has already made by pulling France together. No one in the West would wisely deny him any prestige helpful to France so long as the price was not unbearably high to the remainder of the West. Thus it is that many anxious diplomatic conversa tions are going on here be tween Allied and United States representatives. In the end they all center upon a sin gle hope: that somehow Wash ington can meet De Gaulle, for the good of De Gaulle and of all, with some accommodation that the others in NATO at least can live with. (Copyright, 1958, by United Features Syndiales, Inc.) Ike To Speak on Asia Development Washington -flJPD President Eisenhower plans in his Nov. 10 Seattle speech to make recommendations for helping the economic development - of Southeast Asia the White House said today. The President will speak at 10:30 a.m. (PST) to the open ing ministerial meeting of the Colombo Plan nations, an or ganization formed for the co operative economic improve ment of South and Southeast Asia. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said the schedule of the chief ex ecutive's flying trip to the Northwest would be announc ed within two days. James Madison was born March 16, 1751, at Port Con way, . Virginia, the eldest of 12 children. PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT J HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
