4 Thursday, November 6, 1958
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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
Nov. 6, 1948 (Saturday)
The final if' unofficial tally
of how Jackson county voted
in Tuesday's election shows
Dewey led Truman by nearly
four thousand votes.
The 20-30 club reports ne
gotiations are under way to
present in Medford a second
Broadway production, "John
Loves Mary," with cast of
Gotham professionals.
20 -YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 193& (Sunday)
Medford high, school and
the city s traffic safety coun
cil are cosponsoring a safe
driving school for adults and
students.
From Arthur ferry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Stock
men have begun to fret how
they will get rid of their hay
If they will be patient, they
will get a bulletin from O.S.G
suggesting they -feed it to
their cows."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1928 (Tuesday)
Heavy voting in Medford
and Jackson county raises
hopes of a turnout as high as
80 per cent.
Boy Scout buglers sounded
assembly at the city's polling
places at 8 a.m. today.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1918 (Wednesday)
Jackson county has appar
ently elected the entire Re
publican ticket. .
A new war drive to raise
,$31,275 in Jackson county for
united war work is to start
Nov. 11. .
. What's Your I.Q.7
'Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
,six is good.
1. The human body has 10
12, or 14 pairs of ribs?
" 2. Which American - made
automobile, currently manu
factured, bears the same name
s the surname of one of our
Presidents?
J 3. Flag is a name commonly
applied to which one of these
ilowering plants-dahlia, iris,
peony?
4. In connection with the
Cyclops, a Greek mythological
xace of giants, what peculiari
ty was supposedly evident in
the forehead?
' 5. "Old Ironsides" is a nick
name for which U. S. Frigate?
' 6. Name the movie actor
who portrayed the "Judge
Hardy" role in the "Andy
Hardy" series?
: 7. Identify, the radio team
who are noted for their char
acterizations of the operators
bf the "Fresh Air Taxicab
Company."
8. According to the Bible,
how many commandments are
there?
9. Reykjavik is the capital
of which island near the Arc
tic Circle in the North At
lantic? 10. Was the dictionary com
piled by Noah or Daniel Web
ster? Answers: 1. 12 pairs. 2. Lin
coln. 3. Iris. 4. A single eye.
5. U.S.S. Constitution. 6. Lew
is Stone. 7. "Amos 'n' Andy.
8 Ten. 9. Icelamd. 10. Noah.
Post Mortem
In every election there are disappointments
and gratifications for practically everyone.
If anyone in Jackson county voted exactly the
way that all the races finally came out, we don't
know who it is.
But in the case of Tuesday's election, the grati
fication we feel exceeds the disappointment. By
and large we are pleased with the overall results,
despite the fact that some of the candidates and
measures we supported lost.
Probably everyone feels that way.
fYUR chief gratification came from two races.
One was in the congressional contest between
Charles 0. Porter" and Paul Geddes, a race in
which we thought (and said) unfair campaign
tactics were used against Porter. '.
The congressman was returned to office not
by any overwhelming majority, but by a larger
majority than he received two years ago when he
defeated Harris Ellsworth. In 1956 he lost Jack
son county by more than 1,700 votes; this year he
carried it by several hundred.
THHE other race the outcome of which pleased
us cpnsiderably was that for state representa
tive, where Bob Duncan led the Democratic tick
et, gained the most votes of any candidate for the
legislature, and increased his margin over the
next-highest candidate from about 1,300 in 1956
to about 1,500 this year.
In both cases we feel that the result was not
only a vote of confidence in good men, but also
a repudiation of campaign tactics and practices
which discredited themselves.
IN ALL other cases, candidates we supported, or
whom we did not support but of whom we ap
prove, won.
Mark Hatiield, while we think he will not be
the governor that Bob Holmes has been, is a hard
working and, we believe, sincere young man, not
too different in political philosophy from Holmes.
We feel sure he will grow in the job, and wish him
well. "
Dr. Dumo, who at this writing appears to have
won Jackson county's state senate seat by a slim
margin from Gordon Hudson, has ability and in
telligence. He hasideas (particularly along the
lines of what is needed for older citizens of the
state), and we believe that with his election, he
will assume his duties with determination and be
a credit to this county.
MRS. EVE Nye should
and Duncan are of differing political parties, we
feel certain that both have the temperament and
intelligence to work together constructively on
matters concerning Jackson county, despite what
ever philosophical differences they may have.
'. Marvin Madden is a Dersonabler. intelligent
young man. After Indoctrination into the duties
of the county clerk, we expect him to do an excel
lent job.
Chet Wendt with another term as county com
missioner, Earl Miller as county judge, and Joe
Walsh as sheriff we expect to serve the county
well. None are flamboyant nor boastful, and we
expect good, solid, productive performances
from each of them.
We are particularly hopeful that Wendt and
Miller can work together with Ralph James to
develop a much-needed and well-rounded parks
and recreation program for Jackson county, now
only in a formative stage.
X MONG the measures, it was particularly grati-
fying to see the county home rule measure ap
proved so substantially, both in Jackson county
voting and throughout the state as well.
It will change nothing as far as county govern
ment is concerned. But it makes it possible to do
so in the future, if in the minds of the legislature,
and of the people of the county, it should eventu
ally be done. v
The measure passed almost 3 to 1 in the
county, and by a substantial margin in the state,
demonstrating that people are becoming aware
of the drawbacks of county government as now
constituted. -
"YREGON'S voters apparently cast their ballots
against measures which would (or, . which
they thought would) increase taxes. We have in
mind particularly the capital improvement mea
sures on the ballot in Portland, the modest in
crease in legislators' pay, and the veterans loan
measure on the state ballot. The way the ballot
title was worded voters could have thought the
loan proposal might raise taxes although in fact
it w-ould not have ; it might actually have saved
a little money for the state.
The teachers obtained their objective, that of
being able to serve in. the legislature and then
return to their jobs without sacrificing half of
their legislative pay. We
Teachers should be able
ture, although we thought this proposal was a
singularly inept way to
might cause unforeseen
MO, BY and large the
And it certainly demonstrated to perfection
a thesis we have long held that voters are not
bound by party loyalties. They are probably in
fluenced by them, but are far from bound.
A state with a Democratic majority elects a
Republican governor; a county with a Republi
can plurality votes for a controversial Democratic
congressman ; the largest single vote for a local
candidate goes to a Republican candidate for
sheriff and the second-largest to a Democratic
candidate for the legislature.
That's the way it should be. E.A.
make an outstanding
have no great obiection
to serve in the legisla
go about it, and that it
problems.
election turned out well.
Dennis the Menace
Matter of Fast
Washington In the c a m
paign that has now merciful
ly come to an end, the most
i n t e r e s ting
single feature
has been the
role of Vice
President Rich
ard Nixon.
Despite all
the stir Nix
on's campaign
paigning has
caused, very
few people
how much he
really did. For example, he
must be credited with raising
more than $1,000,000 for his
party, and this at a time when
the Republican campaign
committees all over the coun
try were suffering from acute
financial anemia. His pulling
power brought over $260,000
into one $100-a-plate dinner in
Indianapolis; and a . single
half-hour Nixon pep talk to
only 20 Chicago fat .cats pro
duced checks totalling more
than $35,000.
Again, Nixon's persuasions
as well as Nixon's example
played a big role in propelling
President Eisenhower on to
the rostrum as a "fighting
campaigner." The President's
distaste for his highly un
characteristic appearances as
a tub-thumping partisan is a
matter of common knowledge.
But Nixon and the Republi
can National Chairman,
Meade Alcorn, got Eisenhow
er to go through the unpleas-
ing motions all the same.
rriHESE achievements were
wholly secondary, more
over, to the Vice , President's
main effort as his party's
chief stump speaker. It was a
most extraordinary effort.
Nixon took the stump in
earnest at the end of Septem
ber. From then until voting
day, he hardly paused for
breath, criss-crossing the
country to answer any call
for help, bursting into New
York where his help was not
exactly hankered for by Nel
son Rockefeller, and general
ly driving himself to the
naked verge of physical pros
tration. The first thing to note about
this truly demonic perform
ance is that it represented a
total change in the Vice Pres
ident's own plan and strategy.
The original Nixon script for
this election called for a much
slower-paced effort and a very
much less down-to-earth ap
proach. He was to campaign,
of course, but he was to cam
paign as one somewhat above
the dusty struggle as a Re
publican statesman rather
than a Republican partisan.
THE motive for this earlier
strategy was obviously to
conserve and strengthen the
marked gains the Vice Presi
dent had . previously been
making among independent
voters. According to those
who are closest to Nixon, the
old strategy was torn up and
Try and
.Insepb Alsup
realize jusi
-By BENNETT CERF-
THE ARGUMENT in Toots Shor's famous New York chop
house had been proceeding for some time now. "You ask
him! You're the one he smiled at when he came in."
'TV.r' 1u cillir Tnn Vral '
do it. No man can resist an
innocent looking blonde."
"All right," conceded
Joan and marched up to the
subject of discussion.
"Mr. Hemingway," she
said, "please don't think us
silly, but we've been argu
ing about your beautiful
beard. My friend thinks you
sleep with it outside the
covers. I'm sure you're the
kind of man who tucks it
inside. Which is it?"
"Young lady," said Hem
ingway firmly, "I sleep on my stomach."
. ......
The driver of a car full of students coming: home from a football
wingding registered anguish as one of the songsters hit a particu
larly sour note in the rendition of "Stardust."
"Here, Tom," he begged, "you drive. You're too drunk to sing."
1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate.
Joseph Alsop
a wholly new script was writ
ten at the moment when the
Vice President began to sus
pect, that his party was likely
to suffer a really demoralis
ing defeat.
According to the same per
sons, the real key to the new
Nixon approach, and the real
key to the revised Nixon
plans for I960, is to be found
in the Vice President's many
admiring references to Presi
dent Truman's campaign in
1948. To the extent that this
was possible, all these refer
ences to President Truman
were designed to put heart
into the Republicans this time.
But above all, they were de
signed to persuade the Repub
licans that even if they suf
fered a disaster this time, they
could rely on Nixon to win
for them two years from now
with a real two-fisted, no-holds-barred
attack.
TO this reporter, the wide
spread Democratic charge
that the Vice-President has
been campaigning in the gut
ter seems decidedly exagger
ated. His brief renewal of the
old charge of disloyalty in the
State Department raised
ghosts of a repellant past. His
California speech on national
defense was both a flat denial
of his own excellent defense
record, and a thoroughly ten
dentious presentation of the
ugly facts of our national stra
tegic situation. . It was easy
easy enough to be shocked by
this sort of thing, especially
because it was so inconsistent
with the style Nixon had
adopted during the last two
years.
Yet even the two cases 'cit
ed, though they alienated a
good many people who had
been impressed by Nixon's
change of style, did not great
ly transgress the limits the
same people have allowed
Nixon's opponent in campaign-time.
Furthermore, Nix
on's entire campaigning per
formance has left him in just,
the situation he aimed fori
Most Republicans who will
have a say at the 1960 con
vention are now convinced
that Nixon is one man with
whom the party can hope to
win.
' One thing, and one thing
only, can break this image
the public opinion polls
which, as Nixon so often says,
"beat Bob Taft." But judging
by the isolated polling : tests
this reporter has made be
tween the Vice President and
Sen. Jack Kennedy of Massa
xiusetts, tne ' single danger
that now besets Nixon can
still be very formidable in
deed. (Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.) '
Congress failed to appropri
ate funds to support West
Point in 1815. Its superintend
ent, Maj. Joseph G. Swift, bor
rowed $65,000 on his personal
credit to keep the academy
open.
Stop Me
'Dr. Zhivago' Not Strongly Anti-Red;
But Some Passages Must Ire Communists
By JACK V. FOX
UPI Correspondent
New York -UPD- This Rus
sian novel, "Dr. Zhivago," the
one that won the Nobel Prize.
What does it have to say that
could cause such frothings of
hatred and indignation in the
Soviet Union?
Only 200,000 copies of Bor
is Pasternak's book have been
printed so far in the United
States so it figures that
only .about 1 out of 800 Am
ericans have read it.
For those who haven't:
"Dr. Zhivago" is the story
of a physician, a sensitive and
well educated man, whose life
disintegrated in the chaos that
followed the Bolshevik Revo
lution in 1917.
Most readers will find' it
heavy going. It is a rambling
book in the sweeping style of
Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
with a bewildering cast of
characters. Its plot line is
hard to follow; Zhivago's love
of three women is rather aca
demic. Recites Post War Events
What must make it "trea
sonable" in Communist Rus
sia is its absolute candidness,
its honesty, its calm recital of
shattering events and scenes
from Moscow and in the Urals
in the years after World War
I. ,
If the reader were not
aware what a furore Paster
nak's work has wrought in
the Soviet 'Union, although
never published there, he
would be hard put to judge
the book particularly anti-Communist.
Roscoe Drummond
Reports . . .
(Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann,
during the latter's trip to Russia.)
PASTERNAK VS.
KHRUSHCHEV
New York The invective
and violence with which the
Soviets are reacting to the No
bel award to Boris Pasternak
for his great novel, "Doctor
Zhivago," is a fair measure of
the way the Kremlin still feels
it must barricade the minds
of the Russian people.
To assess the fear and
trembling with which the So
viet dictatorship- views the
Pasternak novel, it is neces
sary to realize that "Doctor
Zhivago" is gentle and muted
criticism "compared with the
slashing indictments of as
pects of American society in
the works of such U. S. writers
in the 'twenties and 'thirties
as Upton Sinclair, John Dos
Passos and John Steinbeck.
"Doctor Zhivago" is not anti-revolutionary;
it is pro-revolutionary.
It is anti-Czarist
and it is not pro-capitalist. It
does not attack the aims of
Communism, but some of its
methods. It speaks for intel
lectual integrity and human
freedom.
And the Kremlin finds it
not only unsafe for the Rus
sians to read it but unsafe for
them to view Pasternak with
anything but loathing if the
Kremlin can put it over., .
WHAT do the Soviets fear
from Mr. Pasternak and
his example of fearless hon
esty? -
They fear that if Pasternak
goes unchastened, unsmeared,
and unpunished, too many oth
er writers and intellectuals
will assert similar freedom.
They fear that Pasternak's
example of independence will
be catching.
They fear that in light of
what has happened in Hun
gary and Poland any further
growth in intellectual free
dom, tentatively allowed dur
ing the de-Stalanization per
iod, might spread and under
mine the regime itself.
Therefore several hundred
obedient writers and artists
are called together to pass res
olutions without even read
ing what the condemned au
thor has written since his nov
el has never been published
in Russia condemning his
work as a "malicipus squib,"
as "traitorous" and "reaction
ary slander."
The Russians must remain
content or at least remain
looking out the barred win
dows of their iron curtain
while free peoples elsewhere
acclaim and devour the superb
historic novel by a Russian
whose only crime is that he
breathes the spirit of freedom.
It must wound the pride of
many Russians that the only
way they can know about the
masterpiece of one of their
literary greats is through the
accounts broadcast over the
barrier of Soviet jamming by
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When, for example, Zhiva
go. returns to Moscow after
being wounded in army ser
vice, Pasternak writes:
"His friends had become
strangely dim and colorless.
They had been much more
vivid in his memory. He must
have . overestimated them in
the past. Under the old order,
which enabled those whose
lives were secure at the ex
pense of others while a ma
jority led a wretched exis
tence, it had been only too
easy to mistake the foolish
ness and idleness of a privil
eged minority for genuine
character and originality."
Sums Up Feelings
But Zhivago's feelings later
are summed up:
"I don't know a movement
more self-centered and more
removed from the facts than
Marxism. Everyone is wor
ried only about proving
himself in practical matters,
and as for the men in power,
they are so anxious to estab
lish the myth of their infal
libility that they do their ut
most to ignore the truth. Pol
itics doesn't appeal to me. I
don't like people who don't
care about- the truth."
Pasternak's book has a re
curring religious theme, but
it is more an exposition of
the frustrations of attempting
to lead a simple life, in one
passage, Zhivago asks the
book's heroine what ruined
her marriage.
"Ah, it isn't a matter of in
dividuals, of being alike or
different in temperament, or
loving and not loving," she
the Voice, of America and Ra
dio Liberation in the Russian
languages. The "Voice" will
soon broadcast a six-part ser
ies drawing heavily from the
novel.
"T.OCTOR ZHIVAGO" is
" not primarily propagan
da. It is the cry of a brave and
honest man's soul against the
betrayal of the- Russian peo
ple's revolution against Czar-
ist repression and the substitu
tion of a more evil and per
vading repression, in its place.
At one point Pasternak
writes:
"If the beast who sleeps in
man could be held down by
threats any kind of threats,
whether of jail or of retribu
tion after death then the
highest emblem of humanity
would be the 14on tamer in the
circus with his whip, not the
prophet who sacrificed him
self. But don't you see, this is
just the point what has for
centuries raised man above the
beast is not the cudgel but an
inward music: the irresistible
power of unarmed truth, the
powerful attraction of its ex
ample." And a character in "Doctor
Zhivago" muses: -
"When the revoltuion woke
him up, he decided that his
century-old dream was com
ing true his dream of living
on his own land by the work
of his hands, in complete in
dependence and with no ob
ligations to anyone. Instead,
he found he had only ex
changed the oppression of the
former state for the new,
much harsher yoke of the rev
olutionary super-state. Can
you wonder that the villages
are restless and can't settle
down."
So today Boris Pasternak
lives alone outside Moscow
not knowing what will happen
to him next.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Popularity depends on your ability to get along with
people, and the better you learn to adjust to each situation
the more easily you will make friends. You will find that
you can make those adjustments more successfully if you
have yourself well in hand, and the only way to get yourself
in hand is to know yourself, to turn yourself inside out as
you would an old pocketbook shake out the dust and
tidy up the contents. . .
t Betty, Connell : ' .
- Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
W -. Frank Morgan - Harold; Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030
replies. "All customs and
traditions, all our way of life,
everything to do with home
and order, has crumbled into
dust in the general upheaval
and reorganization of society.
The whole human way of
life has been destroyed and
ruined."
Could Take Exception
And Khrushchev and Co.
could certainly take excep
tion to one of .the final pas
Redstone Missile Test
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD
Five years of research by
German and American scien
tists came to an end " Wednes
day night with the 34th suc
cessful flight of the Army's
"workhorse" ' Redstone mis
sile. '
The Army announced after
the weapon blasted off that
the Redstone was now "fully
operational" and "has been in
the hands of NATO troops in
Europe since last June.
The Army said the 250-mile
Morse, Neuberger
Wire Hatiield
Portland - (UPD - Both of
Oregon's Democratic senators
sent messages of congratula
tion to Republican governor
elect Mark Hatfield.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.l
whose attack on Hatfield high
lighted the closing days of the
campaign said: "The supreme
court of the ballot box has
rendered its verdict. You win.
Congratulations."
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.), told Hatfield he ex
pects to continue to cooperate
fully with the state adminis
tration, under your governor
ship, in all matters and oc
casions which may call for the
collaboration 'or coordination
of federal and state action
Factory Layoffs
Decline Sharply
Washington-OIPD-The Labor
Department has reported that
factory layoffs fell sharply in
September - a month when
they usually hold steady.
The department said Wed
nesday that layoffs dropped
from 19 for each 1,000 per
sons employed in August to
14 in September.
Total Wrings exceeded total
layoffs, tesignations and dis
charges in September for the
fourth consecutive month.
TTWM9K
. I want to'thank the many
friends who w-orked for
and supported me in my
campaign for the office of
County Judge, and to ex
tend my congratulations to
Mr. Miller uppn his victory.
Scott Hamilton
sages:
"In all this time something
definite should have been
achieved. But it turns out that
those who inspired the revo
lution aren'.t at home in any
thing except change and tur
moil, they aren't happy with
anything that's on less than
a world scalet For them, tran
sitional periods, worlds In the
making, are an end in themselves."
Successful
tactical weapon that vanished
in a heavy overcast was the
last that would be fired in the
research and development
phase of the Redstone project.
Future firings, officials said.
would be handled by troops in
training.
The Redstone has become
known as the booster for the-
famed Jupiter-C, which put
the first American satellite
into orbit last January afterr
Russia had accomplished that
feat twice.
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Bite Once, Bite Twice
To the Editor: When Mr.
Mcrse made his untimely at
tack on Mark . Hatfield, he
probably had one of two
things on his mind. Either he
felt that he is held in such
high esteem by the people of
Oregon that he can say any
thing he pleases (in .which
case he certainly learned very
quickly that he was wrong),
or he has decided not to run
for the Senate again when
this term has expired. Either
way he has done Oregon a
great service. In one speech
he did more to show the type
of man he really is than we
could have done in lour solid
years of campaigning against
him. ,
And since I can never re
sist tossing a moral into any
given subject, may I remind
the Democrats of that old Chi
nese proverb "Dogee that
bitee once will usually bitee
twice even the hand that
feeds it!"
Mrs. Ann Hamilton .
905 Grant St.
Medford