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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1958)
Communications Lefters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, ilthough under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial (or publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to sdit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters Submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessanlv represent the views ot the saper; in fact the contrary i oftsrt !he case. Editor's note: Several last-minute communications dealing with political sub jects could not be printed. Two lacked proper signa tures and addresses, and others arrived loo late to be included with those which arrived before deadline time. No letters of a politi cal nature will be pub is h e d tomorrow, election day. For Mrs. Nye To the Editor: The basic concept of the legislative branch of both our state and federal government is that the house of representatives shall give the broadest form of rep resentation possible to the people of our state and na tion. All walks of life are en titled to representation. The framers of our government did not intend that the legis lators should be all business men, all farmers, all working men, all professional men or all of any single segment of our community. ' Tested by this principle, in my opinion, it is not intended that two of the same family should be the sole representa tives of a diversified county Such as Jackson county. The prime object of our represen tative form of government would be lost by such repre sentation. For a number of years had the opportunity of serv ing on the Medford school board with Eve Nye. In my opinion she is one of the fin est and most intelligent board members that I have known She knows the problems of state government and, if elect ed, will give this county able, forthright and independent representation. Otto J. Frohnmayer, 1656 Spring St., Medford Elect Mr. Larry Sheehan to the sheriffs office of Jackson county on Nov. 4. C. J. Babb Box 224 Rogue River, Ore. Likes Sheehan To the Editor: 1 have known Larry, Sheehan for 10 years and have found him to be .very honest and sincere in all things. He is very progressive and has a very good idea and opinion oi what the county sheriff should do and be of traffic and saves, a five mile benefit to the people of Jack son county. If you desire these things don't be misled by those who say differently. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Here's an intriguing little item from San Francisco: The Grand National, Live stock Exhibition, Horse Show and Rodeo opens a ten-day run at the Cow Palace. Exhibits opened at noon and a COW MILKING DEMON STRATION was scheduled for 5 p.m. WHY is that intriguing? For a possible answer, let s turn to a lime squiD in the news from San Rafael, in Marin county, across the Bay from San Mateo county, in Ihe edge of which, by nar row squeak, the Cow Palace Is located. The item reads: Municipal Judge Harold Haley took strong action Tuesday against two teen agers who DROVE AN AUTO OVER THE FRONT LAWNS OF- 25 MARIN COUNTY HOMES because they thought it would be FUN. The driver of the car was sentenced to 10 days in jail, fined S75, given three years probation and ordered not to drive for 90 days. His com panion was sentenced to five days in jail, fined S25, placed on three years probation and ordered not to drive for 30 days. ' Damage to the 25 lawns was estimated at about SI, 000. Runs On Record To the Editor: My record has been sent to you- in parts throughout the year and in summary in various forms more recently. Naturally, as an incumbent, I run on my record. It irks me, 1 11 admit, to have that record distorted and to have distortions step ped up in the closing days of the campaign; Of course can't answer all the charges nor do I believe it necessary, It amazes me to find that I am "soft" on Communists, uncaring about plywood iworkers, and a Congressman fho votes to raise bread pric es. The facts are otherwise. I have never advocated softness with respect to Communists. I have done much research about the plywood market- and every newspaper com menting on the debate con cerning a hardwood quota concluded that I was right, namely, that our softwood in dustry would not be helped by a quota on Japanese hard wood plywood. My Republican opponent in sists that because I voted to have the House consider the Ombnibus Farm bill I must have been in favor of the bill. This is not true and I have personally explained to him that I always vote to con sider bills reported out of committee. I don't believe in killing committee - approved legislation without a hearing For a while my opponent was accusing me of losing "important Central American bases." I asked him about this. He told me he read in the newspaper that some bases had been lost. He couldn't re member which paper or when. "Well, all right," I said, "but how come you keep say ing I lost them?" "You were down there, weren't you?" was - his reply. Well, enough of that. You're not interested in charge and countercharge at this point. All I wanted to do was call the above matters to your at tention, and so repeat my willingness to furnish any in formation you may want about my record or other qualifications. Charles O. Porter, Member of Congress IVHAT'S the connection be tween that escapade and the milking "demonstration at the Cow Palace? Let's put it this way: Two or three generations ago in our America, more or less every family kept a cow. Taking care of the cow, in cluding milking it night and morning, was a part of the daily life of the teen-agers of that generation. That and the other chores so vitally necessary in the economic life of that day - such as buck sawing wood for the kitchen stove and splitting kindling to get the fire going in the morning. These and a multitude of other tasks kept the young sters OI tnai aay ana se ju busy they had little time left for pure deviltry such as driv ing a car across 25 beautiful lawns just to see what would happen. ABOUT a century and a half ago, Isaac Watts wrote in his Divine Songs: "For Satan finds some mischief still for IDLE hands to do." . 1 suspect that is still true. Rejects "Crude Appeal" To the Editor: The story in your paper yesterday about Senator Morse's charges against Secretary ' Hatfield, concerning the tragic accident 18 years ago, recalled to my mind something very similar that nearly happened to me several years ago. As I was driving west on the Jacksonville - Phoenix highway, along a straight sec tion in broad daylight, a little girl 4 or 5 years vold sudden ly rose from a stretch of grass and weeds bordering the' highway and darted across in front of the vehicle I was driving. Having rounded a curve shortly before this, I was fortunately driving fair ly slowly, and I saw her in time to apply the brakes and avoid hitting her, for which I shall always be thankful. When I looked at the weeds, and grass along the highway, I was amazed that they could have concealed even a small girl, for they didn't seem tall enough. But since" she had risen from a prone or crouch ing position before she ran across the highway, she had been completely hidden un til the moment she stood up. It is certainly a tragic thing to hit a child, whether the child is concealed by grass, obscured by dark clothing in the dark or in a fog, whether on foot or on a bicycle. Their actions on roads are so quick and unpredictable -when they are very young, that they rep resent a traffic hazard that worries me constantly. But I cannot help wonder ing if Mr. Hatfield may have been confronted with the same sitation I saw, namely, that of a child being conceal ed in grass not tall enough to hide a standing child, but quite tall enough to hide a child crouched or lying on the ground. This could have hap pened in his accident, in which case his testimony that he could not see through or over the grass would have been quite true. In any event, Mr. Morse has used deplorable last-minute campaign tactics in bringing up a tragic personal incident many years old. He is attempt ing to sway the emotions of voters, rather than their rea sonable thinking. We 'must surely feel anger against Mr. Morse and sympathy for Mr. Hatfield, but in any case, we should not allow this crude appeal to our emotions cloud the political issues in this election. Whichever way we vote, let it be solely on the basis of our candidates' rec ords as public servants, not on a personal smear. . Rhoda M. Williams, 1975 Houston rd., Medford. From Lyle Paull To the Editor: You know, folks, it is too bad that a person gets mixed up in the affairs of a city when his only aim is to attempt to promote himself. A person of such character doesn't take the time or make an effort to find out the truth or state it. Mr. Wernmark told the people of the city of Cen tral Point how their planning commission was pulling some thing under the table to help Mr. John Cupp with a sub division that is outside the city. The truth is folks, that the planning commission of any city inspects and approves or disapproves the plans of any subdivision with a six mile radius. Mr. John Day submit ted plans for his subdivision in the Table Rock area, Mr. Hoover submitted his plans for the subdivision south of Crater Lake highway near Camp White. Mr. Newt Mead submitted plans for a sub division South of Beall Lane and West of the Central Point, Jacksonville highway. So you see it is not unusual for plans of a subdivision to be sub mitted to a planning commis sion. Unless the owner of a sub division is seeking to annex and become a part of the city, the plans are never presented to the City Council and at no time are there any public hearings unless the property is being annexed. So you see, Mr. Freeman Mason and - Mr. Bill Colley and the rest of your very able planning commission have not betrayed you as Mr. Wen mark suggests. Lyle Paull, City Recorder, Central Point. Seek Court Hearing To the Editor: We are tak ing the liberty of writing a letter to every newspaper in the state, hoping that it might be regarded of interest to their subscribers to learn that an open committee has been formed to assist Officer Rob ert Wampler, formerly of the Oregon State Police. We hope to raise, by contribution, suf ficient funds to pay for a transcript of the proceedings of his trial in Salem Oct. 14 and 15, 1958, so that he might appeal to the circuit court. If you will recall- he was the state police . officer that was tried by the department on charges initiated by the superintendent dealing, gen erally, with failure to observe departmental rules regarding the discussion of departmental affairs with other than super ior officers. Considering the nature of the hearing given it is not surprising that he was found guilty, and as a conse quence we, as a . committee, feel that his case should be reviewed by a fair and impartial- circuit court. We be lieve that justice can not be truly done until Mr. Wampler is afforded such a hearing. We of the committee, seriously doubt the fairness of the de partmental hearing, in view of the superintendent's admin istrative ruling denying the accused the right to legal counsel, the composition of the trial board, and what ap pear to be the apparent po litical motivations involved. The committee does not in tend to become ' involved in any political maneuvering, but merely wish to see that Officer Wampler has his day in court. He is a family man with 18 years of service in the state police department, and we feel that he has certainly earned this right to fairness and justice. Contributions may be made to the Justice for Wampler committee, care of Harry A. Harris, chairman, 101 Hogg building, Oregon City, Ore. The names of contributors will remain anonymous if so desired. Laurence N. Kezar, Secretary, Justice for Wampler Committee, Oregon City Reg. 4.45 FIREPLACE GRATE Hoover Replies To the Editor: In reply "to Mr. Bert Smith and his re marks on Corey road, about Mr. Wendt and myself. For Mr. Smith's informa tion: Corey Road was deeded to Jackson county on Aug. 3, 1956. The right of way was sought by the neighborhood and "county for several years, as it takes care of a heavy trip around the old system. Also for Mr. Smith's infor mation: We only own two lots on Corey Road; the land we have been subdividing this year lies from half to two miles from the Corey Road. Mr. Smith is right on one count. I am for Chester Wendt for commissioner, be cause he has been one of our outstanding commissioners. C. C. Hoover 2095 Gregory Rd. Medford Two "No" Votes To the Editor: I would like to comment on a couple meas ures. No. 3 sounded all right till the voters pamphlet informed me that the legislators will also have the power to vote "allowing themselves pay ment for daily expenses." My decision is NO for No. 3. No. 4-Capital Punishment. Who can say how many are deterred from killing because their own life is in jeopardy? We might get some light on the subject from the prison it self where the. inmates "talk shop." Fear has always been the big deterrent from crime. Dr. Alvarez, who is a mod ern thinker if anyone is, had this much to say on the sub ject several months 'ago. "Anyone who is against capi tal punishment should live in the lifer section for a while. These men are killers. Guards don't go there except by 2, 4 or 6 strong. Anyone who comes near them is in danger. All they want is to get free to kill some one else." He went on to say they were just like mad dogs. Why should murder be put in the same class as robbery? The fact that the rich escape the penalty has nothing to do with abolishing capital pun ishment. That just means simply, plainly and terribly that a crooked lawyer or judge or combination of both has been a traitor to the law he promised to uphold. -Do we abolish all laws -because crime can't be stopped? Should the law against bank robbery be set aside because some robbers are never caught? A governor took the law in his own hands and so justice has been thwarted in our own county. Now in Oakridge a man has been killed.. Shot in the back first, then, as ' the poor fellow tried to crawl away shot three more times. Is that crime no more than armed robbery? A case in northern California was a 7-year-old boy. When the mur derer was caught he said "You should have heard him scream." Yes, just a sadistic sex fiend. My vote is a decided NO on No. 4. Note: I didn't say all law yers were crooked. I said "a" crooked Jawyer. Ella Powell 162 North Front st. Central Point, Ore. Death and Beauty To the Editor: In regard to the 'communication' in the Tribune" for Oct. 31 of Dan F. Krotz II of Eagle Point on Capital' Punishment, I say he is very ignorant and perhaps is unaware of the fact that in nocent persons have been executed in the past for crimes which it was proven at a later date to have been done by some other person, or perhaps that would be un important to him. There has been evidence in troduced which indicates that no person convicted of mur der in Oregon and subsequent ly released has ever again been guilty of murder. In regard to the campaign to "Make Medford Beautiful", it is obvious that the Editor of the Mail Tribune has failed to consider that there are two sides to the question. Perhaps the esteemed editorial staff of the Medford Mail Tribune could get out of their foam rubber lined chairs and con tribute some good honest la bor and possibly some expense money if they wish to "Make Medford Beautiful." I fully agree with Mr. Arthur H. Peterson of Port Orford, Ore., in this evening's paper in re gard to the above subject. Personally, I only stay in Medford long enough to make necessary purchases. Perhaps our esteemed (????) editor of The Medford Mail Tribune. I. myself, wouldn't live in Medford if I was to be given the place. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Rt, Box 80 Butte Falls, Ore. Individual Opportunity To the Editor: Tomorrow is a day few people in the world have the freedom to enjoy. Regardless of one's political affiliation or the particular candidates one favors, this day gives each individual an An electronic counting sys- opportunity to in some de gree insure that this freedom will continue. See you at the polls, Donald L. Stathos, Chairman, Jackson y County Republican Central Committee From Bob Root To the Editor: Representing Jackson county for two terms in the state legislature taught me one important political fact. This is that the most effective members of the house or the senate are those who show true independence of action in their voting. Little attention is paid and little consideration given to a mem ber of the legislature who, right or wrong, follows a course outlined for him by others. For this reason after care ful consideration of the can didates and issues involved I am voting for Eve Nye and Mel Lattie. Bob Root, ', 229 Bradford Way, . Medford. Duncan's Advice To the Editor: Newspaper advertising appearing in the closing days of this campaign posed a large number of ques tions for me to answer. Throughout the campaign, as interest has been shown in my record and questions asked, I have answered all questions either on the radio, television or in the paper. At this late stage I cannot afford the space or time necessary to state my position on all of these ques tions. I am able to and most willing to do so, and would urge anyone who is really in terested in the answers to phone me or call on me and I will be happy to discuss them all. - A newspaper known as "The Republican Call," dedi cated to advancing the cause of the Republican Party, ap peared on my desk recently. James Short, the Republican chairman, warned all Oregon voters that they should guard against., "last-minute smear campaigns designed to mis lead the voters and unfairly discredit Republican candi dates." . He stated tha "it is reasonable to question state ments and accusations lodged at the last moment . . ." Short also said that he believed that "candidates who are not con trolled by special interest groups are those-most gener ally subject to these tactics." While Mr. Short's remarks were not issued in my defense, I suggest that they are most appropriate, and would urge the voters to heed them well regardless of the party to which the victim of this tech nique may belong and regard less of the office for which he may be running. Thank you for this space. May I urge everyone in both parties to be sure to vote for the one whom they think will do the best job, regardless of party. Robert B. Duncan State representative Medford tern can total simultaneously the output of 40 production or processing operations. Watermelons were grown in Africa. first MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, November S, 1958 5 Nova Scotia has some of the highest tides in the word. The highest tide recorded was 104 feet in 1869 at Burnt coat Head, Nova Scotia. There are five languages in official use at the United Na t i o n s conferences English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Smart If X$ Ueal, 4 3v . Dad! MvvsrvpJ "My daddy is smart! He has a life insurance program which includes plans for me and mommy and my brothers and sisters." This little boy is saying that his daddy has a plan that will pay him or his family more than he's put in no matter what happens, so long as he keeps it going. That's getting life insurance protection and saving money at the same time. He's doing it with the BMA Preferred 3G-Pay Life Plan. Here's how it works. At his age of 25, he deposits $171.70 a year. In the next 30 years, he puts in $5,151.00. During all that time, he has $10,000 life insurance constantly protecting his family. In 30 years, the cash value of his policy will be $5,821.20 which is $670.20 more than his premium deposits. How's that for making the dollar do double duty? Pro tection for today. Money for retirement tomorrow. This is the plan for you! . ' Here's how much you save (based on $10,000 contracts) Policy Issued Annual Cash Valu Gain Ovr Total At Ag Deposit In 30 Years . Annual Deposit. 7S I $171.70 I $5,821.20 1 $670.20 30 194.80 6,402.00 558.00 35 224.00 6,971.90 251.90 Educational funds, additional retirement income, accident and health benefits can be included in your BMA 30-Pay Life Plan. Ask your BMA representative. Business JYIejv's Assur.nce Home Office: Union Station Plaza, Kansas City 41, Missouri S.M.A. Representatives In Your Area: Homer J. Bringje Clifford W. Curl, 204 W. Main Sr., Medford, Ore. t P. O. Box 783, Medford, Ore. Phone SP 2-8696 Phone SP 2-8943 Harley D. McMaster, 204 W. Main St., Medford, Ore. Phone SP 2-8696 Bar-steel wood grate. 26-in. front, 23-in. back Open ends. Black. Other sizes in stock. - Beet!: j5MT DEMOCRAT TATi G 5) My Record J) ECONOMY a) Ranking Democrat on Ways and Means. b) Voted "no" on more budgets than any other member c W. &M. c) Action not talk in cutting spending. d) Member of Emergency Board. 2) EDUCATION a) Supported increased Basic School Support. b) Supported increased funds for Jackson County c) Supported S.O.C.E. Building Program. d) Served on Interim Education Com. e) Kept top professors in Oregon with higher salaries 3) TAXATION a) Supported special session which reduced taxes below '55 level. b) Supported increased Basic School Support to reduce property tax. w-f . . n Li. a i v: ii a . r: cj ciiminaie uouoie Assessments in rvinys ngw. iiuiei iiai. 4) INDUSTRY a) Supported loss carry forward and accelerated depreciation to improve tax structure. b) Opposed extension of governmental controls. c) Supported new Department of Development and Planning. d) Worked for better passenger service and lower freight rates. e) Arranged for state backing for Federal Minerals Bill. 5) LABOR o) Supported State Conciliation Service. by Supported Apprenticeship' program. c) Worked for improvements in Workman's Comp. & Unempolyment Compensation. 6) CIVIL RIGHTS a) Supported Civil Rights legislation. b) Sponsored measures opposing capital punishment. c) Worked to improve administration of justice and for new judges. d) Opposed extension of bureaucratic powers. " e) Chairman of Judiciary Com. member Legislative Counsel Committee. GWATOVI My Beliefs 1) That the general welfare comes before partisan politics. ' 2) That.government should represent all and be dominated by none. 3) That we should pay for government according to our ability. - 4) That labor and management should work together for welfare of each. My Aims 1) Economical progressive government 2) Fair distribution of Tax burden 3) Improved and speedy administration of just'e 4) Improved adoption and juvenile laws. 5) Fair distribtuion of Basic School Support 6) Community or Regional Post High School Training 7) Preservation of National Resources 8) More industry and more jobs for Oregon, " 9) New techniques to meet problems of education. Vote 00 -ROBERT DUNCAN ffor REPRESENTATIVE Duncan for Leg. Comm., Ward Spatz, Chmn., Medford, Ore.
