4 Friday, Febraary , 19S9
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Medford and Jackson County
History from th files of The
Mail Tribun 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Fab. 6. 1949 (Sunday)
Ashland City Attorney
William Briggs rules invalid
a petition asking for a special
election to fill any city coun
cil vacancies thai may follow
recall proceedings in prog
ress against three councilmen.
The Monica Lind ballet
company of Portland Is well
received here as it performs
under the auspices of the Jun
ior Service League.
20 YEARS AGO
Fb. 6, 1939 (Monday)
County Judge Earl B. Day
. is reported by an upstate pa
per to be in line for appoint-
missioner.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "De
spite the court ruling a Hus
band has the right to slap nis
wife, none of the ilk around
here, have risked death or
permanent injury .
30 YEARS AGO
Fab. 6, 1929 (Wednesday)
John Connor of Medford is
; recommended for "West Point.
' The Ashland hotel suffers
; $45,000 damage in a fire, to
which Medford equipment is
. called to help fight the flames.
,40 YEARS AGO
:Fb. 6. 1919 (Thursday)
' Irvin S. Cobb will lecture
at the Page theater next
I week.
Ed Brown, up and around
again, denies he was a vic-
tim of the flu.
50 YEARS AGO
Fab. 6, 1909 (Saturday)
A second Crater Lake road
"delegation departs tomorrow
for Salem. ....
' The city engineer tenders
his annual report, stating he
'lacks an adequate force to
handle his department's obli
gations. .
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior
sevtn or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
: 1. What color is a sorrel
horse?
2. What is the opposite of
-climax?
3. Senator Morse. Demo
crat, represents which State
in the U.S. Senate?
v 4. An unbranded steer is
Tsnown as a M k?
: 5. Complete the saying:
"Time and wait
6. In which South Ameri
can country is the city of Bo-
cota?
7. What is the singular
form of the plural noun ad
denda?
': 8. A python kills its prey
by striking with poison langs;
true or false?
9. What is the difference
-between a piano and a piano
forte? 10. Of what book of adven
ture is Daniel Defoe the
author?
Answers: 1. Yellowish ex
reddish brown. 2. Anticli
max. 3. Oregon. 4. Maver
ick. 5. '. . iid wail for no
man." 6. Columbia. 7. Ad
dendum. 8. False. 9. No dif
ference. 10. "Robinson Cru
soe." ' "'
Gambling, Legal And Illegal
For the past umpteen
have been a pain in the
otficials, to say nothing
merchants in whose establishments the flashing
monsters have been ensconced.
The crux of the problem is this:
Are they, as advertised, machines "for amuse
ment only" and "games
and out gambling contrivances:
If they are the former, that's one thing
thejrre 04 legally. If
join the outlawed slot
laws against gaming.
IT IS an open secret that in many instances pin
ball machines, though
and amusement, have in
1 ! 1 1
Dimg macnines, witn a
won.
The Grants Pass Courier comments:
- "Obviously, few persons will feed nickles and dimes
into pinball machines just to see the lights go 'round
and round.' The gambling element has to be involved.
Hence the common practice of "under-the-counter' pay
offs to winners.
"We have little doubt - in view of the preponder
ance of legal opinion to this effect - that the Oregon
high court ultimately will get around to deciding that
free-play pin-ball machines are illegal. That, however,
could open the way to further appeals that could be
almost interminable.
"The present legislature could dispose of the issue
with neatness and dispatch, simply by amending the
law to include freeplay pinball machines in the list of
illegal gambling devices."
llE AGREE with the
"be done.
The confusion should
the status of pinballs,
do it easily.
While they're at it
also eret the state out of
of banning gambling on one hand, and officially
sponsoring on the other, through the pari-mutuel
windows at the horse-races at the state fair, and
at the dog-races in Multnomah county.
Gambline is ramblinp. and if public eraminer
is to be forbidden, it should be banned all the way.
But presumably the
are in large part supported by the state's share of
pari-mutuel earnings) is too strongly entrenched
to permit such a clear-cut solution to a moral and
legal issue. E.A.
Freedom For
Jackson county is in
Dimes camoaien. It will
The stated goal this year
The money will be divided between the local
chapter of the National Foundation (formerly the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis), and
the national organization.
The money will go for treatment of polio cases
(past, and, if any, future), as well as basic re
search into virus diseases, birth defects and arth
ritis. THE National Foundation has been under
counts:
1. It refuses to join with united funds in
money-raising campaigns, insisting on going it
alone, and
2. It is perpetuating itself by broadening its
scope, after its primary purpose, the conquering
of polio, was largely accomplished through the
Salk vaccine.
We believe that there is some basis to both of
these criticisms.
DUT this is still a free country; the March of
Dimes is as entitled as any other group to go
out and ask for voluntary contributions, and there
is no question in our mind but that it is still doing
excellent work.
The time may come, as is being ever more
widely suggested, that a sort of "united fund" for
medical causes be organized, to combine the
various campaigns for cancer, heart, arthritis,
rheumatism, and the more obscure diseases, so
that there will be only two major fund drives
each year one for medical purposes, the other
for the charitable and character-building ones
usually associated with community chests and
united funds.
This would have the added advantage of pro
viding some logical way of allocating medical
research funds to points where they are most
needed, rather than having this allocation depend
solely on who can raise tha most money.
DUT there is no such plan in operation as yet.
Most of the health-agency campaigns are
independent, although a few have settled com
fortably under the mantel of the united funds.
All, as far as we are concerned, are doing the
best job thev can. according to their Ho-Tits. and
we would not urge a "boycott" of any of them
as has been urged by some papers and individuals
in the case of the March of Dimes and the Cancer
society.
One editor put it this way:
"There can be no exclusive rights to solicitations
for charity or philanthropy."
We agree, and suggest that gifts be appor
tioned on the basis of the generosity and sympa
thies of the donor. E.A.
years, pinball machines
neck to law enforcement
of many ethical retail
of skill," or are they out
the latter, however, they
machines under Oregon's
billed as devices of skill
truth been used as gam-
1 mm m
casn pay-on ior games
Courier that this should
be cleared up, regarding
and the legislature could
(faint hope), they could
the hypocritical situation
county fair lobby (fairs
Fund Drives
the midst of a March of
last for another week.
is $10,000.
Dennis the
'1 577 CDNT Sit KWA SOFT OCsmtMl COlSD
40 A IS A iiiilMAiii ........
Defense Minister,
Malinovslcy, Man of
Week, Newsom Says
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
Man of the week: Marshal
Rodion Y. Malinovsky, de
fense minister of the USSR.
The hour: A
speech before
the 21st con
gress of the
Communist
Party in Mos-
fnw ovf nil in tr
. , a
;j trie power 01
soviet mignx,
especially mis
siles. T1!.
fHU Aewsom "is quote
(directed to the Western pow
ers): "Your arms are too short,
gentlemen."
A play on words? If so, a
grim jest.
A Play On Words?
There is little suggestion of
humor in the background of
the bulky Malinovsky, who
became a professional soldier
at the age of 16 and who now
is both a member of the pow
erful' Central Committee of
the Communist Party and
commander of all the armed
forces of the USSR.
If there were a play on
words at all, it was to com
pare the West to the smaller,
outmatched prizefighter who
finds himself in a ring against
an opponent taller and with
a longer reach.
For that was his theme.
The West, he said, continued
to make preparations for the
war. But he said Western
methods were obsolete and
that the Soviet Union had
missiles that could reach any
point on the globe with pin
point accuracy.
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev opened the 21st
party congress last week with
a speech which ran more than
six hours. As would any good
politician, Khrushchev had a
little bit for everyone. It has
been left to speakers since
then to spell out the meaning.
Malinovsky's was the Soviet
military voice.
A Miss Is a Miss
U. S. reaction was imme
diate and skeptical. Pin-point
accuracy? Even a miss of 10
miles over a 5,000 mile range
still is a miss. Intercontinen
tal missile superiority? Per
haps in. number now, yet. But
later, no.
And for the present? Even
now, fully operable 5U. S. in
termediate missiles on Allied
bases can reach any military
target in Russia.
Malinovsky, like Khrush
chev, was born in the Ukraine.
He is 60 years old and is re
garded as the USSR's great
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A DVERTISING WIZARD Bernice Fitz-Gibbon describes the
teenage period as "perhaps the most important in a life
timethe bridge between adolescence and adulthood, between
Maltex and Miltown, be
tween Buster Brown and
Balenciaga, between mud
pies and mud-packs, be
tween spinning the bottle
and heating it at 2 A.M."
"Cast your bread upon
the daughters," Miss Fitz
Gibbon advises prospective
advertisers. "Teenage busi
ness is almost recession
proof. Mom may let out her
old yellow, Dad may pull in
his belt, but you can just
bet sister's going to get a
new dress for that Saturday
night prom! Americans are that way."
"This was rather a red-letter day in my life," boasted a manufac
turer to his wife. "They gave me one of those new-fangled aptitude
tests."
"Good grief," gasped his wife. 'It's a lucky thing for us you own
the company!" ,
C 1359, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate. -
Menace
est military authority on the
Far East.
He is also' recognized as
one of his country's toughest,
most brilliant field command
ers. He has never visited the
West, but in World War I had
some contact with American
soldiers and regards them as
good fighters.'
He has won the Order of
Lenin at least twice. Some
reports say, five times.
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 6. 1926
News was brought to
Baker from the Mother
Lode of the opening of the
Balm Creek) ore shoot at a
point 80 feet farther west
than any previous opening.
The sorted ore gives a gross
: value of $48.03 per ton. $3
of it in gold. Excited pros
pectors are crowding Into
the area.
Editorial Comment
DST AGAIN
Keps. F. F. Montgomery of
Eugene and Shirley Field of
Portland, both Republicans,
have introduced a bill which
would put a daylight time
measure on the 1960 ballot.
The Legislature should pass
this bill. It would not, in itself
establish daylight time in the
summer months, but it would
give the voters another chance
to express themselves.
In I960 it will have been
six years since Oregon voters
had this chance. They voted
for Standard time in 1952 by
a margin of 8 to 5. They voted
again in 1954, again approving
mandatory standard time, but
only by a margin of 6 to 5.
This in itself represents a con
siderable change in public
opinion from 61 per cent to
55 per cent.
In another six years as
great a change, and likely a
greater one, will have come
about. This is especially true
because television, a novelty
m 1952 and 1954, but a part
of life late in the decade.
There is no point in argu
ing the merits of either time
system at this point. But it
does seem reasonable that the
people again have a vote in
the matter. Eugene Register-
Guard.
Stop Me
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bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
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pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
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edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Old Mines
To the Editor: At the turn
of the century the environs of
Gold Hill, Ore., then a thriv
ing community of 700 popula
tion, were the scene of much
gold mining activity and busi
ness ventures. Among some of
the early producing mines
were the Braden quartz mine,
one mile south. The Million
aire on Blackwell hill, also
the Centennial placer mine on
Kane's creek. Other notable
mines were the Lucky Bart
and Corporal "G" mines on
Sardine creek, the Sylvanite
two miles east near the river
and numerous unnamed one
man operations.
Around that era the late
Judge C. B. Watson of Ash
land and Gold Hill wrote a
book on the geological for
mations comprising the south
western mining district of
Oregon known as the Klam
ath range and Siskiyou Island
upheaval, which according to
geologists was a large island
surrounded by an inland sea
The few remaining strata of
sea shells found -today, seems
to corroborate that statement.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman, "
Medford, Ore.
In the Day's News
Br FRANK JENKINS
If you've been reading Ore
gon newspapers in the past,
you must have heard of Dr.
John F. Sly. If you continue
to read Oregon newspapers
during the current legislative
session, you'll hear about the
Sly Report.
You may ask:
Who is this Dr. SlyT 1
What is the Sly Report?
TR. SLY "is the director of
" Princeton Surveys, of
Princeton university. He is a
noted tax expert. He was
hired by the Oregon State
Department of Planning and
Development to tell us what
we .can do to our tax struc
ture without getting it out of
balance with the tax struc
tures of COMPETING states
and thus SCARING AWAY
the new industries we must
attract if we are to have
MORE PROPERTY AND
MORE INCOMES TO TAX
(Having more property and
more incomes to tax is what
is meant by the term "broad
er tax base.")
TN HIS final report, Dr. Sly
- says there is "little leeway
in the present tax structure
for a substantial increase in
expenditures." That is to say,
if we increase expenditures
materially under our existing
tax structure, we will scare
new industries away from
Oregon.
In explaining why that is
so, he brings in a term, that
will be over the heads of most
of us. He calls it "tax sacri
fice," and adds that Oregon
is already making a substan
tial tax sacrifice in terms of
income.
What he means by this term
is that if your income is ris
ing but your TAXES are RIS
ING FASTER you are making
a tax sacrifice. The tax sacri
fice in Oregon, he says, IS
increasing. In 1953, the Ore
gon tax "sacrifice" was
10 higher than U.S.
17 higher than Far West.
13 higher than Washing
ton.
22 higher than California.
In 1957, the tax sacrifice in
Oregon had risen to-
34 above U.S.
43 above Far West.
30 above Washington
53 above California.
In other words, back in
1953 taxes in relation to in
come were HIGHER in Ore
gon than in the areas with
which Oregon must compete
for new industries and new
population. By 1957, taxes in
relation to income were
MUCH HIGHER in Oregon
than in the areas with which
Oregon must compete for new
industries and new popula
tion. That isn't a favorable situa
tion. If it continues, Oregon
will LOSE OUT in the race
for new industries and new
population.
Oregon can t afford tnat.
SO
The state of Oregon needs
to spend 'pretty cautiously
for the more we SDend the
more we'll have to tax. The
more we have to tax, the less
attractive Oregon will be as
a location for new industries
and new population.
TffHAT of Dr. Sly?
He is an able citizen and
a likeable character. He is as
common as an old shoe. He is
easy to talk to. .
But-
He knows his business. I
think we'd better take his ad
vice and not spend so liber
ally as to tax ourselves out of
the competitive picture.
Ghost of Ed Starling
In Georgia's Woods
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington -UPD- If ghosts
do walk, then the shade of
Col. Ed Starling will be down
there in
5 'v w If iulKJ wuuus
ef f Cv M this week end
f'ieW Ll where Presi
dent Eisen
hower is
shooting
quail.
Ed was a
Kentucky
i i
Vrl C. Wilinn cuiunei woo
looked like a general and act
ed like a field marshal. He
was a sharp shooter. Ed
abandoned ordinary shooting
habits in his early youth and
went into the brush for quail
with nothing heavier than a
.410 shotgun.
For your information, a
.410 is almost a rifle with a
bore slightly larger than
cigarette. The number of shot
in a .410 shell is mighty few
and the number of shooters
who can knock over quail
with such, brief armament
probably is fewer. It is a re
markable feat that Eisen
hower sometimes guns with a
.410 and gets birds, too.
Taught Cal To Fish
Ed would like that. Ed al
ways got quail when he hunt
ed, an almost perfect shot. It
was Ed who interested Calvin
Coolidge in fishing. The
colonel was a lifetime Secret
Service man - better with a
pistol than a shoulder gun.
Back there in 1923, Coolidge
had been asked about fishing
on an upcoming vacation.
"Don't think I'll fish,"
Coolidge replied. "Fishing is
for small boys."
There was an election on
the next year and Starling, a
member of the White House
details, persuaded Coolidge
on vacation to pose- with rod
and reel just to humor Amer
ican fishermen who didn't
like that crack about their
favorite sport. Coolidge not
only posed, he caught some
fish. Thereafter, Coolidge
usually vacationed where the
fishing was good.
Good fishing was not the
only vacation factor. Coolidge
was a close man with a dol
No Hint of Crash
By Airplane Crew,
Enqineer Asserts
Chicago-flJPD-The American
Airlines plane which crashed
in New York's East river was
"dead on" course and the crew
had no hint of impending dis
aster, according to a crew
member who was handling the
throttle at the time.
Flight Engineer Warren
Cook, one of eight survivors
of the Tuesday night crash
which killed 65 persons, told
his story of what happened
in the cockpit of the ill-fated
turbo-proD airliner to his
wife, Flora.
Cook indicated that a "mix-
Snow Deposited
In Plains States
By United Press International
A snowstorm swung south
ward out of Colorado today,
depositing two to three inches
of snow across Northern Ar
kansas and Southern Missouri
and into Tennessee and South
ern Kentucky.
In the north, a numbing
cold front sent the jnercury
to near 30 below zero in
Northern Minnesota and to
20 below in the Dakotas.
The storm swept out of
Colorado Thursday after
piling up snow depths of
more than two feet in the
Rockies, 14 inches at Steam
boat Springs, Colo.,. 8 inches
at Denver and a half-foot
across the Eastern Plains.
At Little Rock, Ark., a
B25 medium bomber crashed
during a sleet storm Thurs
day night while coming in
for a landing, killing one of
five crew members.
Audrey Hepburn's
Injuries Revealed
Hollywood-OTD-A complete
physical examination of Au
drey Hepburn has revealed
the 29 - year - old Academy
Award winning actress re
ceived two fractured verte
brae and a sprained ankle in
her tumble from a horse while
on a film location nine days
ago in Mexico.
It was at first feared Miss
Hepburn had received four
fractured vertebrae.
Doctors said Thursday that
the petite actress was free of
complications and probably
would be able to sit up and
perhaps walk in about 10
days. She was returned here
Monday from Durango, Mexi
co, by an ambulance plane.
lar - his own or the tax
payers. It was his habit to re
quire merely a special car at
tached to a regular train when
he travelled. He and Mrs.
Coolidge were content with a
table in the regular dining
car, and ordinary passengers
could use that table after the
President and his wife had
dined.
Coolidge liked free board
and room. If his on the cuff
vacation visit became a part
of a big real estate sales
ballyhoo, as one did in Flo
rida, for example, Coolidge
could overlook it and hope
that the suckers would get
their money back, in time.
Pictures Can Lie
It was that way toward the
end of Coolidge's elected term
when he and Mrs. Coolidge
were persuaded to spend a
free Thanksgiving at an
enormous Virginia plantation
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
SPENDER VS. SAVER
Washington The two out
standing 1960 Republican
Presidential possibilities are
setting out in the most sharp
ly separate
ways to ex
ploit what is,
after, all,' usu
ally the "gut"
political issue
the pocket
book issue.
vice - presi
dent Richard
1J Hivnn TlfiC
Williams. "
white turned up
not to his vast surprise, since
this was exactly how he want
ed it as top man on the
anti-inflationary board Presi
dent Eisenhower has establish
ed to be the Administration's
high council on economic
matters.
It is more than possible
that before it is through this
"Cabinet Committee on Price
Stability and Economic
Growth" will be speaking in
tones louder than those of the
White House itself. It is
weighty group to begin with.
up" in reading new type alti
meters in the Electra jet air
liners might have been re
sponsible for the crash.
The account was printed
Thursday night in a copyright
ed Chicago Tribune story and
by the Chicago Daily News.
Cook, who has been ques
tioned several times by avia
tion officials, gave hi wife
virtually the same report as
he gave investigators when
she visited him at a New York
hospital.
Sitting Between Pilots
The Tribune quoted the 35'
year-old airman from Aurora,
111., as saying he was sitting
between the two pilots main
taining 140 knots air speed
as the big craft approached
La Guardia field.
The crew members were
"completely astounded when
the plane hit the water," Cook
said. He said the pilot, Capt.
Albert DeWitt, "told me to
maintain 140 knots air speed
and that's what I was doing.
"So far as anyone of us
knew, this was a perfectly
routine approach.-We expect
ed to break out of a cloud
and see the runway lights
ahead.
"The pilots were using the
instrument landing system
and were dead on. The next
thing I knew we were in the
water.
"The only thing I can sug
gest is that they might have
had a mixup with those new
altimeters. They are a new
type and there was some diffi
culty reading them."
Cook told his wife the alti
meters, which tell the pilot
the plane's altitude, might
have been misread because
"it isn't easy to cross check
between the pilot's and co
pilot's Instruments in that big
Electra cockpit."
Misread in Training
The Tribune said the cock-
pit contains two of the new
type of altimeters, one tor
each pilot, and. they are re
garded as the best instruments
in their field. . . .
However, they were mis
read by American flight crews
training in the Electras, wmcn
only recently were put into
service, and American Air
lines had planned to install a
third altimeter in the center
of the instrument panel, ac
cording to the Tribune.
The newspaper said Eastern
Air Line crews who are fly
ing Electras also have com
olained that the new altime-
i ters are easily misinterpreted.
Cook told his wife there
was "absolutely nothing
wrong with the airplane and
the way it was operating."
May Be
With Ike
for which a smart promoter
needed some fast publicity.
The promoter was about to
transform the big . house and
spacious ground into an ele
gant and expensive country
club. Ed Starling went along
to Virginia as a member of
the Secret Service detail.
Newsreels of that holiday
showed Coolidge on the trap
range, crumbling clay pigeons
to dust like a Massachusetts
Daniel Boone. It was the first
Washington had known that
Coolidge could handle a gun.
I saw that newsreel and won
dered. Long years afterward, I
asked Ed Starling about it.
"Ed, I didn't know Cal was
such a great shot."
"Couldn't hit a barn," Ed
replied. "I was standing there
just out of camera range with
my .410. Every time Cal
shot, I shot. And I don't miss."
S. WHITE
And Nixon, it may be report
ed with total confidence, cer
tainly has not joined the en
terprise for the purpose of
hiding it, or himself, from
public attention.
GOVERNOR Nelson Rocke
feller of New York, for
his part, has offered the high
est spending budget in that
state's history, $2,041,000,000.
And he has accompanied this
with a demand for the biggest
tax rise ever asked of a nerv
ous New York l egislature, a
$277,000,000 increase.
All this means that the
country is to be treated to
a rare spectacle before the
1960 GOP National Conven
tion. It will be a contest be
fore a nation-wide audience
as to which of the two most
favored youg men in - the
party can show the most vir
tuoso skill in handling the
economy.
Nixon has made one of the
truly basic decisions of his
career in deciding to identify
himself all the way with an
essentially conservative pol
icy of public spending. The
Cabinet committee, of which
he has been appointed chair
man, is loaded with "sound"
Republicans of the anti-spend-
ing school. It includes the
four most conservative mem
bers of the Eisenhower Ad
ministration Secretary of the
Tresurery Robert B. Ander
son, Secretary of Commerce
Lewis Strauss, Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben
son and Postmaster-General
Arthur E. Summerfield.
GOVERNOR Rockefeller, on
his side, has equally made
a profound choice. He
is going to be, frankly, a
"spender," and thus make
from the start a powerful ap
peal to the "modern" or lib
eral Republicans. But he is
also making some appeal, if
a rather diluted one, to con
servative Republicanism m
calling for more taxes while
he calls for more spending.
The first political com
mandment to the Old Guard
Republicans is: Thou shalt
not spend. The second com
mandment, though it has far
less impact with the Old
Guardists, is: But if you are
absolutely determined
to spend then, for heaven's
sake, at least don't further
run up the deficit between
income and outgo.
Thus it is that Rockefeller
intends to have his cake and
eat it too: To go along with
the spending demands of the
modern Republicans, but to
be one of those rare politi
cians who will ask for more
taxes as well as.Tnore appro
priations. mHERE are elements oi
great opportunity and
great risk in both the Nixon
and Rockefeller approaches.
The Nixon way is more like
ly to be helpful to him at the
National Convention; the
Rockefeller way is more like
ly to be helpful to him in the
Presidential elections if he
gets that far.
For the convention will be
lareelv run by regular and
Old Guard Republicans who
are deeply committed, in pol
itics and in human fact, to
budget-balancing. The dele
gates on the wnoie are rareiy
the "spenders."
But the history of at least
two decades indicate mat
the voting public is far less
interested in a balanced
budget than in dams in the
Far West, reclamation in the
arid states, farm subsidies
most everywhere, and wel
fare in the cities.
Thus, the Nixon policy
risks some alienation of the
public as the price of holding
the affection of the conven
tion delegates. The Rockefel
ler policy risks some aliena
tion of the convention dele
gates as the price of holding
the affection of the public.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)