MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or.
Friday, July 17, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO .
. July 17. 1949 (Sunday)
Jackson County Sheriffs
Posse concludes its 8th an-
nual Rogue River Roundup.
Bell and blinker signals at
' the Sixth and Main street rail
way crosisngs are tested. May
' be in operation within 10
. days. .
20 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1939 (Monday)
Complaints of star thistle
increasing in the Sams Valley
, Table Rock district are filed
. with the county agent.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "There
are 14,287 motor vehicles in
Jackson county now, the sec
retary of state reports. All of
them passed your correspon
dent on the way home from
Prospect Sunday."
30 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1929 (Wednesday) '
Robert A. Work named
drainage engineer for the
Rogue River valley.
Poultry department of the
Farm Cooperative Exchange
could use a third more eggs
than now available in the val
ley, local manager reports.
40 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1919 (Thursday)
Medford's first community
sing held in city park is re
ported a huge success.
Medford fire department
credited with saving Jackson
ville from burning to the
ground.
50 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1909 (Saturday)
New cannery plant arrives
for Western Oregon orchards,
owned by J. A. Westerlund.
Building boom in Medford;
local lumber companies work
overtime to keep up with
lumber demands.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
- six is good.
1. Who said, "Sir, I would
rather be right than Presi
dent?"
2. German silver contains
no silver; true or false?
3. With what game do you
associate the name Wimble
don?
4. What is N.A.T.O.?
5. Which city in the United
States is nicknamed "The
Hub?"
6. On the George Washing
ton silver quarter dollar, does
the word "Liberty" appear
above, in front of, behind, or
below the head of Washing
ton? 7. In the War between the
States, who commanded the
Union Army on its march
from Atlanta to the sea?
8. Is the flesh of whales
edible?
9. What was the middle
name of Robert E. Lee?
10. How many one thou
sand dollar bills are there in
a million dollars?
Answers: 1. Henry Clay.
2. True (Copper, xinc and
nickel.) 3. Tennis. 4. North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
5- Boston, Mass. o. Anove,
7. Gen. William T. Sherman.
8. Yes. 9. Edward. 10. 1.000.
, Lets Have Some Answers
The other day we suggested that those con
servationists who are chiefly concerned with pre
serving fish runs end their "blind opposition" to
dams, and instead concentrate on developing a
0 1
cooperative program ior preservation ana lm
provement of fishing, dams or no. .
This paper accounts itself a supporter of con
servation measures. It approves of fishing and,
in general, fishermen. It believes that the nation
is in danger of having too many of its most valu
able natural resources,
ery, damaged beyond repair. ,
But, all the same, we are getting pretty dog
gone tired of the fact
a tmy minority are playing dog m the man
ger and holding up benefits for a whale of a lot
of other people.
TPHESE thoughts came
" about the statements
of the U.S. fish and wildlife service about the
corps of engineers' proposals for Rogue Basin
development. He was quoted as saving:
That the main stem Rogue River dam pro
posed at Lost Creek would cut off an estimated
8 per cent of the spring and summer chinook
salmon run. .
That the service
not this portion of the
anmciai metnoas.
That as a result
a main stem dam because
a chance" on losing this
OELLS bells and little
Let's have a few
Roberts :
How do you KNOW
saved, even with a dam?
periments in fish propagation and transportation
over dams your service has been bragging about?
It is possible that a dam, even if it does dis
locate 8 per cent of the run, through stabilized
streamflow and water temperature might IM-
TV"k yV "ST T T I 1 A 1 m 4 A
rau& tne nsneiy oeiow tne dam:
A ND we might ask a few more :
How many fishermen gain their recreation
from 8 per cent of the chinook runs? And how
many fishermen would gain recreation from the
reservoirs proposed? How many boatmen? How
many campers and picnickers?
How much property would be saved if the
Rogue basin proposals are followed, the dams
built, and another flood like '55 comes along?
How many lives saved?
How much will the f isheiy in the Applegate
be improved by the Copper dam you say you
like a dam which is an integral part of 'the
overall plan? Would it equal that 8 per cent loss?
QNE might even get a little more pointed as to
the questions : Like this one :
If there were 43,429 chinook counted in 1942 :
44,000 in 1947; 33,000
1958: how long is this fishery going to last, any
way? And what are you
What happened to
ramento river after the Shasta dam was built?
Didn't it do more to improve salmon fishing than
Li 1 1 '1 11r TTTT1T 1 1 A
anyimng tne iisn ana wiiaiue service & aia i
And finally. Mr. Roberts, is the U.S. fish and
wildlife service really interested in a maximum
tishery, for the enjoyment of as many people as
il-l - o iL a. a -i -t ... i i i-i i
pussiuie i sjr is it interested oniy in a last-aitcn
eltort to preserve the last, lingering remnant of
a dying fishery which is now almost as much a
legend as it is a fact? ,
The people as a.whole pay for the support of
the service, and we like to think they are entit
led to some pretty clear answers to these ques
tions. They haven't received them yet. E.A.
Civil Defense Changing
Ever since the end of World War n, and
more particularly after the advent of the "Cold
War," there has been talk about "Civil Defense."
There has also been a great apathy and lassi
tude on the part of, people generally about it.
About the only ones who did much about it
were those dedicated souls who maintained the
"skywatch" stations, until that chore was taken
over by military radar. . .
A few others were assigned jobs in CD, and
some of them actually worked at it.
DUT by and large, the general populace could
1J n't care less. They refused to belive that an
annihilating war could come, or that there was
much they could do about it if it did.
For years, CD plans were based on nuclear
attack, and the evacuation of. cities. Jackson
county was organized as an evacuation center.
But with the advent of missiles, thinking
about problems of civil defense have changed.
Could a city the size of Portland be evacuated
in the few minutes warning it might have? Any
one who has seen the jam-up of cars on a holi
day week end, with only a fraction of the popu
lation leaving, knows the answer is "No."
TASK force headed by Nelson Rockefeller
has now issued a report which putsthe em
phasis on home shelters, not evacuation.
If you're hit by a H-bomb, you're dead. If
not, your biggest threat is from radioactive fall
out. Therefore, have a home shelter which will
Erotect you and your family from fire, secondary
last, and, most important, radioactivity.
It is barely possible that this approach, offer
ing something tangible and realistic, and some
thing each family can do, will have results in
civil preparedness which the vast ideas of city
evacuation never did. E. A.
including its sports fish
that a few fishermen
.
to mind while reading
of Mr. Travis Roberts
doesn't know whether or
run could be, saved by
the service is opposed to
it doesn't want to "take
portion of the fishery.
-'
fishhooks.
answers from Mr. Travis
that the fish 'can't be
What about all the ex
in 1953 and 15,000 in
doing about it?
the fishing on the . Sac
Dennis, the Menace
THfS GRAHDSOH Of MINE IS ALL 80!
AND m Mi! GOODMQHT, KfDS.
British Elections
Act Seen as Model
i
For New U.S. Law
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (LPU-lnis is a
re-play of some advice which
was unheeded some months
ago when the
Senate was
tinkering with
the idea of. a
clean up job
on the U.S
election proc
ess. The Sen
ate is about to
I TX I tinker again,
i DUt no much..
Lyle C. Wilson me a a v l c e
was that interested Senators
consider the Representation
of the People Acts which
govern British elections. Brit
ish rules are strict. More im
portant, they are enforced.
British socialists wrote RPA
in 1948-49. British conserva
tives and liberals cheerfully
accepted restrictions which
would shock the ringmasters
of American politics. The
shock would be equally great
to a political, boss, a labor
boss or a billionaire.
No Loans Allowed
Use of automobiles to haul
British voters to and from
the polls is limited. There
is a top limit on spending. A
candidate may not treat a
voter. No campaign cigars.
The smallest loan -made in
good faith by a candidate to
a voter would be cause for
disqualification if, by chance,
a British election were called
within six months of the .loan
transaction. Anyone may take
members of his household by
automobile to the polls, but
he may not offer a neighbor
such a lift.
Autos Limited
A candidate's campaign
manager or agent may regis
ter before polling day a fixed
number of automobiles to
transport voters, one for every
2,500 voter in a city, one for
every 1,500 in the . country.
A car which has mechanical
trouble on polling day may
not be replaced.
One of the penalties for
breaking some of these cam
paign and election day rules
is disqualification for the can
didate and punishment for his
campaign agent. The agent is
responsible for his man's con
formity with the rules. An
agent may practice after ab
sorbing a course in election
law and obtaining a certifi
cate of proficiency.
Voter Has Protection
A candidate may spend $280
of his personal funds in his
personal campaign. The agent
may spend between $1,600
and $1,800, depending on the
constituency and that is all.
The candidate is disqualified
if his agent spends more than
that.
Sturdy protection, for the
voter and assurance that his
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
HOITY-TOITY lady entered a pet shop, and announced she
was in the market for a first-class dog. 'This one looks
good," she ventured. "Has it got a pedigree?" "Lady," the
owner assured her earnest
ly, "if this dog could talk,
he wouldn't speak to either
of us!"
-..-;
Two Alaskan .gallants were
rejoicing over the details of a -date
one of them had had the
night hefore. The first ex-t
plained that the girl had worn'
one of those furry hoods that
go over the head. "Parka?"
Intermupted the second. 'Til
say," said the first "In fact
I could hardly get her to go
home."
"The new fad in diplomacy,"
observes Bill Vaughan, "is to release the text of the international
communication before it is sent. This' saves time by allowing the
recipient to blow his top about the message before he even gets it."
0 1959, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate.
vote will be counted are en
trenched in the British elec
tion system and in British tra
dition, which is more than
can be said of the United
States. It has been a long,
long time since any British
ballot boxes have been tam
pered with or stolen, espe
cially from official premises,
all of which, and more, has
happened in the United States
more recently.
Goons Would Be Jailed
If a labor goon or a big
business goon or any goon
showed up around a British
polling place, he would be
chucked in jail; another
switch on U.S. election habits.
Mainspring of - the Repre
sentation of the People Acts
probably is the designation
of responsible individuals in
each election contest. The re
sponsible persons are . the
agents of the contending can
didates. Part of their job is
to prevent violations of the
strict rules imposed by RPA.
Perhaps that much of the
British system would work
here.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Mr. K., speaking to a throng
of delegates at a meeting of
mmers unions in the Polish
town of Sosnowiec, says:
"I give you our solemn
pledge that never, never,
NEVER shall we launch ANY
war " against ANY country
ANYWHERE at ANY time.
HMMMMMM.
Wmilrln'r it Vie WmvmiTP.
FUL if we could believe him?
CJO MANY amazing things
J ar hanripnin?
Already it is possible to
have breakfast in New York
and lunch in San Francisco.
We're getting ready to leap
off mto outer space, and may
be discover a limitless number
of new worlds.
Hard-headed actuarians are
looking forward to the time
when people will live to be
100 and are taking steps to
adapt insurance policies to
this anticipated longer span of
life.
Lmitless power from the
atom seems to be just around
the corner.
Athought:
Why don't the researchers
and the scientists turn their
attention seriously to the de
velopment of an infallible
TRUTH SERUM one that
would work EVERY TIME?
TF there is one thing this
world needs above every
thing else, it is TRUTH.
An infallible truth serum
would do away with propagan-
Stop Me
ill
Kassen on Trial in Iraq; He Insists
On Forgiveness, Reds Posing Threat
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man-of-the-week: Pre
mier Abdel Karim Kassem of
Egypt. The place: 'Baghdad.
The quote:
"F o rgiveness
is our duty."
In the year
that had pass
ed since, the
July 14, 1958,
revol ution
that toppled
Iraq'ifflon-
archy, it could
Newsom be said that
Kassem had practiced what he
preached.
Kassem, 44, . a brigadier be-.
fore he became . premier, a
farmer's son before he be
came a brigadier, is not a
vindictive man. He has held
out steadfastly against his
Communications
Letter to the Editor must
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the writer although nder cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Facts and Fantasy
To the Editor: Outside of
the dental profession and dis
pensers of jewelry, we do not
know much about gold any
more. They have found a new
use for gold. Some parts of
those missiles are gold plated.
Miners have labored to dig
gold out of the earth and the
government took it and put
it in a hole in Kentucky. The
word is, "mustn't touch."
The missile shooters have
been shooting at the ' moon
for some time. They finally
hit it, and filled it full of
holes, and the moon-light all
leaked out, and there was no
more moon, forever. The peo
ple of the Earth were dis
mayed, but the missile shoot
ers rejoiced exceedingly. We
are reminded of the saying,
"The operation was a success,
but the patient died."
Our President does not
shoot at the moon, but he
keeps in practice. It is rumor
ed that he may take time off
from his golf duties and the
shooting of little "birds for
pastime, and visit the White
House some time this year.
The cold war became a hot
war, and missiles flew around
the earth, thicker than mos
quitos in a swamp! No one
was left alive excepting one
man. He took his plane and
flew to Africa, landing near
a jungle. He tacked a note
on the plane and disappeared,
In a nearby tree were two
monkeys watching. They
climbed down, went to the
plane and read the note:
am the last living man on
earth, I am going into .the
jungle and lose myself."
The -monkeys became very
thoughtful. Finally one mon
key said to the other. "Do
we have to start this damn
thing all over again?"
Edward C. Root,
3261. J-ville hwy,
Medford
Red Infiltration
To the Editor: Some weeks
ago Columnist Lyle' Wilson
accused the U.S. people of
'fat-head complacency' in re
gard to communistic inroads
here in America. Just what
Mr. Wilson wished or expect
ed us to do is hard to know,
We might emulate Latin
America or the Middle East,
where they resort to mob ac
tion in busting windows,
throwing stones at wno or
whatever is handy, and rais
ing hell in general when they
become dissatisfied with the
status 'quo. But it so Happens
our way of life here does not
include that, at least not very
much thanks be. We proceed
to write a letter to the editor
or -to our representatives in
Congress that generally fails
of any violent reaction, save
for the writer of such being
looked on as some sort of
crack-pot, especially when it
clashes with popular-line-of-
thought.
Just what has Writer Wilson
done to throw light on the in
roads communists have made
in our labor unions? Our very
serious union labor troubles
seem to be quite a hot--tato
with Mr. Wilson and other
column writers. About the
time Mr. Wilson was making
said remark, a publication
was doing something about it.
da-which is one of the curses
of the world. As communica
tions become more and more
perfect so that every time a
pin drops anywhere on this
earth we hear it in a few mi
nutes propaganda becomes
more dangerous.
An infallible truth serum
would make possible the ad
ministration of exact justice
because we would know then
who did it. An infallible truth
serum would revolutionize
politics by disarming the
demagogues.
Its possibilities for good
I Ji..jl
I VeJI
ix ttx i
Phil
would be illimitable.
more bloodthirsty followers
and prevented the execution
even of those convicted of
plotting against him.
Now he was commemorat
ing his revolution and he had
his standard reply for hecklers
in his audience who shouted:
"Death to traitors."
"The law and the state," he
said,- "are responsible for
judging people."
Will Be Seen
How Kassem himself will
be judged still remained to
be seen. .
That he remained alive and
in office after a year of plots
and counter-plots was in it
self no mean accomplishment.
More time was needed to
learn whether he would,
-As the West feared, prove
to be a perhaps unwitting tool
of communism.
-As his detractors charged,
turn out to be a dreaming
idealist but a weak and vacil
lating leader, or,
-As he -saw himself, be a
leader caring for his "five mil
lion children" through a tran
sition period with ihe end re
sult that "the people will be
'No Servants' Among Enlisted
Men; They're 'Personal Staff
By FRANK ELEA2ER
Washington -(UPD- Thank
goodness weve got it straight
ened out now about those en
listed men who cook, make
beds, baby:sit
4j ana mow grass
ior tne gener
als. It turns out
they aren't
really serv
ants at all.
They are pro
fessional men
in pursuit of
Frank Eieuer tneir careers.
Assistant Defense Secretary
Charles C. Finucane cleared
it all up Thursday for House
Armed Services subcommittee
which had been a little upset
It was mostly a misundertand
ing, apparently, and we re
porters, as usual, were large
ly to blame.
Wrong Word Used
"It is one thing to refer to
an individual as a member
of a personal staff or as per
forming personal services, and
quite another thing to refer
to him in the capacity of a
servant," Finucane explained.
"The use of proper termi
nology will serve to clarify
statements appearing in the
press recently concerning the
number of individuals serv
ing on personal staffs."
In the first place, said the
assistant secretary, it says
right in the law that 'no offi
cer of the Army may use an
enlisted member of the Army
as a servant." So obviously
such practices wouldn't be tol
erated.
Of course, "personal staffs"
are provided for certain gen
erals and admirals, and for a
limited number of colonels
and captains. Members of
these staffs, erroneously pic
tured heretofore as houseboys
and yardmen and the like, ac
tually are relieving our busy
officers of "numerous admin
istrative chores," associated
The U.S. News and World Re
port conducted a survey of
the burgeoning steel issue by
interviewing a hundred or
more of steel-workers in their
homes, on the job and in the
poor-mans club, the popular
beer tavern. Practically 100
per cent of the steel-workers
were against any raise m
wages or strike to obtain such
Their reason? Every time they
got a raise, prices of things
they had to buy edged up so
that the raise helped them not
at all and never did recoup
the losses sustained in the
strike. -
How about the wild-cat
strikes by steel workers? A
disgusted traveler from that
troubled land seeking a new
home in the west, tells me
that every one of such wild
cat strikes are red inspired,
generally with knowledge and
help from union heads to jus
tify their demands for a
strike. But the most telling
part of the U.S. News and
World interview was that not
one oi tne steel worxers
would or did reveal their
name, which was reason
enough for their saying that
they would go on strike if so
ordered. Think it over, Mr.
Wilson.'.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200 F,
Central Point, Ore.
NEW ENVOY NAMED
Vienna - (UPD - Radio Buch
arest Thursday night an
nounced the appointment of
George Mahovetz as a new
Romanian minister to the
United States. Mahovetz suc
ceeds Silviu Brucan who will
become the Romania delegate
to the United Nations, the
broadcast said.
governed by themselves."
He announced a step in
that direction when he said
political life in Iraq would
Lbe restored within the next
year and a newly elected par
liament established by July
14, 1960.
Dust Over Baghdad
Desert dust hangs in a red
haze over Baghdad and to it
in the last year has been
added the dust of untended
streets and of half-demolished
buildings which in some areas
give Baghdad the looks of a
bombed city.
The half-demolished build
ings are mementos of a gran
diose betterment scheme first
undertaken by the now-dead
King Faisal and his premier,
Nuri-Es-Said.
It was a scheme which call
ed for new, broad boulevards,
for village projects to aug
ment peasant incomes, for fac
tories, dams and irrigation.
Kassem's government has
taken over the plans almost
in their entirety but in the
last year there has been no
progress.
Kassem himself says he
, with their important posi-
tions.
Finucane was unhappy
about the unfortunate impres
sion apparently held by some
people that "these types of
occupations are in some de
gree degrading." He said the
fact is that "millions of Amer
ican citizens make honorable
and self-satisfying careers of
these very professions."
Subcommittee chairman
Melvm Price (D-Ill.) com
mended Finucane for his
"very clear" explanation
However, there was one hard
to-please member.
"How many stewards are
there assigned to the chief
of naval operations?" demand
ed Rep. Frank Kowalski (D-
Conn.), a former enlisted man,
West Point graduate, and ca
reer officer, who first aired
the ugly charge that GI's by
the thousands were working
as servants.
Kowalski Has Answer
Finucane didn't know. Ko
walski said the number was
six.
The congressman said three
stewards each' also were as
signed to some other admirals
here. What do they do? He
wanted to know.
Finucane said they maintain
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
CANTER TO GALLOP
Washington Vice President
Richard, M. Nixon will soon
quicken to a gallop his pres
ently canter
ing pace in his
race for the
1960 Presiden-
tial nomina
tion.
1 4 The Nixon
-J people are pre
paring ior tne
Vice President
an autumn it
inerary of ap
pearances at important points
around the country which will
have a peculiarly critical
quality. It will not, of course,
be billed as a pre-Presidential
tour; but that is what it is in
tended to be.
The set purpose is to get Mr,
Nixon into fast motion early
and with a frankness that is
unusual for a year ahead of
national convention time. The
aim is this: To frighten to the
rail, and clear off the course
any dark horse that might be
named Rockefeller.
TO ABANDON the horsy
metaDhors so dear to Doli-
ticians (and political writers),
the Nixon people now really
hope to win the contest this
year, in all but form, rather
than next. They believe:
1. That any polite hanging-
back by Mr. Nixon, in defer
ence to the tradition that no
one must admit early that he
really would like to be Presi
dent, would be quite foolish
this time.
2. That current events and
circumstances have put the
Vice President in a position of
great relative strength.' Now
is the time, they reckon, to be?
gin to' exploit that strength
with no nonsense.
It is not only the public-
opinion polls that are current-
ly making Mr. Nixon look
good to many Republicans.
There are also these things:
His increasing importance
in foreign policy, as evidenced
by his coming mission to Mos
cow. His very useful relations
with a Republican National
Committee that is "neutral"
neutral, that is, for Richard
M. Nixon.
His association with the
generally successful "econo
my" drive.
William S.
White
wants more jobs, more houses,
more hospitals, more schools
for his people.
Details for Ministers
The dreams are his, but the
details for his ministers to
carry out. And his ministers
have come and gone in such
a parade they scarcely had
time to get acquainted with
their underlings, let alone
have time for solid accom
plishment. . ?
Iraq has all the resources
of mideastern wealth-land,
oil and water. It is the world's
sixth largest oil producer and,
even in revolution, its cur
rency has remained among
the soundest in the Middle
East
Kassem has said he wants
peace in the Middle East and
that he is a believer in the
United Nations. '
Until recent weeks, he en
joyed full support of the Com-'
munists. But now they . are
getting restless and may be
lieve his usefulness to them
is about at an end. When they
decide that, some- of the ques
tions about Kassem will be
decided.
the public quarters in which
the admirals live.
Kowalski said his inquiry
shows they maintain the quar
ters by making the admirals
beds, cooking and serving their
meals, sweeping their floors,
and scrubbing their toilets.
How much do these serv
ants cost the taxpayer?" Ko
walski demanded.
"We have no servants in
the military," Finucane re
sponded. Only Covers 2.070
, As for "personal staffs," he
indicated they can't cost very
much, because only 2,070 sol
diers, sailors and airmen are
so assigned, all over the
world.
Kowalski thought the key
word here was "assigned." He
wondered how many more
GI's, carried on the books as
clerk-typists or tank drivers,
actually just work for gen
erals. I
Finucane said he resented
this deeply.
By now it was close to I
p.m., and the subcommittee
quit for lunch. I guess Finu
cane's party planned to eat at
the officers' mess at the Pent
agon. Anyway, two chauf
feured cars were wating to
take them away.
THE wider understanding of
him being created by re
porter Earl Mazo's excellent
and thoroughly responsible
biography, "Richard Nixon."
The book is no syrupy cam
paign document But precisely
because it is honest, it neces
sarily highlights the Vice
President's best quality, his
competence, though not hid
ing his worst, his occasional
partisan savagery.
The soundness of the new
strategic determination of the
Nixon forces to try to grasp
the prize this year hardly
seems open to question. A
plan showing of great Nixon
popularity among organization
Republicans this Fall could do
even more than convince Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York not to challenge the Vice
President for the top place.
Conceivably it might even
cause him to accept second
place on that dream of true
blue - Republicans, a Nixon
Rockefeller ticket for 1960.
HE Nixon men in many
cases are the same men
whose choice in 1952, the late
Sen. Robert A. Taft, went
down before General Eisen
hower in the Presidential con
vention. Among their painful
memories is an awareness that
they waited too late to push
Taft all-out. No such mistake
will be made this time, not
even in the South, where GOP
convention votes are often
worth more than GOP votes in
the election.
' Indeed, some senior Nixon
associates see the South as his
area of greatest potential dang
er at the convention, simply
because that region has been
aided so long by Rockefeller
family benefactions. There,
will, therefore, be special ef
forts to seal off the South from
any Dro-RoJcefeller forays.
But Iicre alone the national
pattern of the Nixon pre-con-vention
campaign will be
broken.
For the present plan is to
have Mr. Nixon's claims pre
sented there not by himself
but by others. The fact that
he is no public hero in the
South is frankly faced. This, is
one section he is unlikely to
enter this fall.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) t