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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
Aug. 11, 1949 (Thursday)
Ashland policemen sport
new French blue uniforms for
the first time today.
Burelson's new 1 a d 1 e s'
ready-to-wear store opens to
day at Main and Bartlett sts
Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11, 1939 (Fridey:
. Medford's men-folk are re
ported "seriously considering"
a move from absurd coats,
binding collars and useless
ties to more comfortable garb
during the dogs days.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Smoke
from upstate forest fires hid
the hills all week, like fog in
winter, and many wished it
was."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. II, 1929 (Sunday)
Surveys for the Squaw
lake development project are
to start in the coming week.
Seven local residents are
fined for killing deer out of
season.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11, 1919 (Monday)
A census shows there are
25,000 sheep in Jackson coun
ty. The Medford Legion post is
granted a charter.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11, 1909 (Wednesday)
Efforts continue to entice
President Taft to Crater Lake.
A demonstration of electric
cooking proves a revelation
to valley housewives.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five et
sis b good.
.4
1. Of the earth's continents,
which is the largest in area?
2. What body in the U. S.
government has the sole pow
er of impeachment of the
President?
3. On which Mediterranean
island is Mount Etna?
4. "Nelly was a Lady," "Un
cle Ned," and "O'Susanna"
were written by the same per
son; who was he?
5. Are women eligible for
admission to Phi Beta Kappa
Fraternity?
6. If a cake of ice is placed
In direct sunlight and covered
with a black cloth, it would
melt more quickly than if
, covered with a white cloth;
true or false?
7. What does the Latin
phrase per diem mean?
8. In the supervision of the
distribution of an estate of a
deceased person, what is the
difference between an execu
tor and an administrator?
9. Which of these inventors
was responsible for the inven
tion of the air brake?-Erics-son,
Westinghouse, or Edison?
10. The Marseillaise is the
national anthem of which
country?
Answers: 1. Asia. 2. The
U. S. House of Represent-
. lives. 3. Sicily. 4. Stephen Fos
ter. 5. Yes. 6. True. 7. "By
the day." 8. Executor-named
in will; Administrator ap
pointed by court. 9. Westing
house. 10. France.
YALE CHAIRMAN DIES
New Haven-flJPIWProf. John
G. Kirkwood, 52, chairman of
the chemistry department at
Yale university, died Sunday
night of cancer.
Taxes, Lumber & Economics
Property tax bills for
of the country will be
ing to a forecast by County Assessor Ray Shu-
macher.
The increases come
rising cost of operating schools and city govern
ments, and because of the increasing school popu
lation.
None of it is attributable to general county
government. For this year, as for the past three
years, the county is levying no taxes at all for its
own purposes.
THIS, as is well known
well enough) is because of the large income
the county receives from
as payments in lieu of
by the government,
The largest portion
eau of land management. This year the paymen
was the, largest in history $2,314,670 and
is $433,585 more than
ment, in 1954. It represents one half of the
amount received by the bureau (mostly from
timber sales) on BLM operations within the
county.
Another 25 per cent of the total also is allo
cated to the county. But the O&C counties of
western Oregon voluntarily have relinquished
that amount to go into
of access roads and for
AN additional, though
J.! win iiic vj. kj. iuicci cci v iic ail amuuiit
equal to 25 per cent
mostly from timber sales) in the county. This
must be used for school
the O&C income may
any legal way.
It is these funds which permit the county to
operate without taxes
happens if this amount
reduced, is something yet to be decided.)
One lumberman in
that this money is not
though it is easy to think -of it this way. He
makes the point, and it
money which the county
for county purposes (and
too) comes from Jackson county s forest prod
ucts industry.
UIS points are made in a recent letter, por
tions of which are quoted herewith:
"I doubt if very many people realize the tremen
dous impact of this money (the O&C fund) on the in
dividual taxpayer in particular and on the economy of
Jackson county in general.
"This impact manifests Itself In this fashion: The
total county assessed valuation is now set at $86,210,
408.30. The O&C payment amounted to $2,314,670. It
thus follows that the millage equivalent of the O&C
payment related to the assessed valuation amounts to
26.8 mills. This means that a direct saving in county
property taxes to each taxpayer is 26.8 mills.
"Therefore, a taxpayer with an assessed valuation
of $5,000 is saved $134, which he would be paying
were it not for this O&C payment. In other words, by
using this 26.8 mill measurement, each taxpayer can
easily determine the effect on his tax bill by multiply
ing the 26.8 mills by his assessed valuation." .
PtOM this discussion
ccuciauy i.uiicku aiLiiuutdii iu UVC1IUUM LUC
"surplus" funds which
used, and also the possibility that the budget
n i l a n j iv
nugnt wen joe somewnar,
out-of-pocket taxes) he
role of the forest products
"One of the most pertinent points to this whole
story is focused upon the source of the O&C money.
With but very minor exceptions the entire fund comes
from the sale of timber located upon O&C lands. The
buyer in this case, and the actual source of these funds,
is the forest products industry of Jackson county.
"Were it not for a healthy, progressive lumber in
dustry in this county capable of purchasing and, most
important, paying for such timber, these funds would
not be available. The impact of such a situation on
each taxpayer is easily measured by applying the 26.8
mill formula referred to above."
TTHESE facts, of course,
It results, as outlined,
But it also provides the
payroll, and the dollars
bread, shoes, automobiles and newspapers are,
in large part, lumber dollars.
This leads to such questions as: How healthy
is the lumber industry? Can we continue to de
pend on it as a source of wealth for the indefin
ite future? How well is it
of other materials? And
now created can be utilized in the future?
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But in general terms, the supplies of timber (in
ederal ownership and
tained-yield and tree farm ownerships) will last
indefinitely at a certain
Also, the industry is
of self-examination aimed at the utilization of
waste products, the improvement of its competi
tive position, and its stabilization as a long-range
producer of a wide variety of goods.
Every resident of this
in seeing that the questions are answered affirm
atively. The more progressive firms are moving
in this direction. We wish them well. E.A.
Subcommittee Kills Trinity Project
Washington-TOPD-The House
reclamation subcommittee to
day voted 13-9 to kill the con
troversial "partnership" plan
for private power develop
ment at California's Trinity
River project.
residents in many parts
higher this year, accord
largely as a result of the
(although, perhaps, no
the federal governmen
taxes for property owned
of it comes from the bur
the second - largest pay
funds for the construction
reforestation.
smaller, amount comes
of their earnings (again
and road purposes, while
be used by the county in
year after year. (What
is cut off, or seriously
this area has pointed out
manna from heaven, al
is a valid one, that the
uses to eliminate taxes
to reduce school taxes
of tax savings (which is
are budgeted but not
smaner n it came irom
goes on to discuss the
industry. He says:
represent only one way
in direct tax reduction.
county's major single
which are spent for
meeting the competition
how much of the waste
in pnvately-owned sus
level of production.
going through a period
community has a stake
A subcommittee spokesman
said the action ends the four
year fight over private vs.
public development of Trinity
energy. The spokesman said
that no further action is re
quired by the full House Inte
rior committee.
Dennis the Menace
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often th case.
New Name Needed?
To the Editor: The cogno
men of "tourist" to a stranger
visiting our state is wearing
itself ragged. The connotation
is developing the stigma of
former terms such as "green
horn," "sucker," "cheechako,'
pigeon," and many other
similar words used to denote
individuals who are easily
mulcted.
Just the mere mention of
being a traveler is enough for
good mark-up in prices
Shrewd individuals on the
shady side can spot a new
comer ten city blocks away.
And woe be unto them and
their residual experiences.
Were it not for another
word, also bearing semantic
disrepute, I should be willing
to call our yearly visitors
"fellow travelers.
George Distell
156VashtiWay
Medford
Economics Will Solve It
To the Editor: The incendi
ary letter Mrs. Leonard Ma-
theus had in the Sunday
"Communications" struck
right at me.
I am a millwright m one of
the mills in this area, and my
duties have to do with the
burner at our mill. During the
two years time I have worked
at this mill we have installed
different grates, added blow
ers, put water on the top of
the burner and also have a
watering device that sprays
the sawdust down before it
enters the burner. The blow
ers have worked perfectly,
the water comes gushing out-
and the smoke pours forth!
The state air pollution men
were up at various times and
solemnly told me to keep it
hot, don't use blowers-use lots
of air, reduce water and add
water!
They say they see hundreds
of burners in the course of
their business and mine is do
ing fine!
I have one excellent cure
for all this "nuisance," and
that is just don't put any saw
dust in the burner! However,
that complicates things as I
have never been around any
mill that was running that did
not produce sawdust.
Now if we wish to go fur
ther and assume the pear
growers were not permitted to
smudge and offices to be heat
ed, we could achieve our hope
of a pure, sparkling air free
of contamination.
Now, Mrs. Matheus, I am
sure you will want to lead our
parade of enthusiasts by plug
ging your fireplace and stove
pipes up. man t you realize
you were Just as busily pollut
ing the air as anyone? It won t
cost you too much to change
over completely to electricity.
Perhaps I am being snide
when I ask you why you came
to this bustling community?
Wasn't it because the mills
were pouring forth lumber
and the orchards heavily
laden with fruit?
As Judge Earl Miller asks
for patience, so do I because
every millman in the busi
ness knows that smoke repre
sents wood and wood in the
burner is not lumber on a
freight car.
To my knowledge there
have been a number of at
tempts to salvage edgings and
mill ends-by remanufacturing,
but it just has not proved eco
nomical as yet. .
I know of mills which have
spent many thousands of dol
lars for chippers to remove
the bark from logs so they
would have clean chips to
ship to paper plants, only to
find they had a white ele
phant, and have to cease op
erations.
Government is always un
wieldy and cumbersome, and
to inflict our lumber industry
'DENNIS?'
with restrictions and laws
would only do injury because
as economies are effected and
changes are made in produc
tion this problem will solve
itself.
C. T. Sheppard,
2660 Crater Lake ave.,
Medford.
Law Said Needed
To the Editor: Once again
we have had a terrible fire
and once again the age-old
complaint was voiced: "Fire
fighters have been seriously
handicapped by the mobs of
curious who jammed the high
ways and made passage of
vital men and equipment dif
ficult." How much longer is this
senseless custom going to be
permitted? At every fire it is
the same; the empty-headed,
criminally-curious thrill seek
er, makes the always hazard
ous job of the fireman infi
nitely more dangerous and
difficult. Many lives have
been needlessly lost because
of them.
In addition to the four or
five hundred laws passed at
ea -h session of the legislature
we need one more and one
with teeth! A law making it
a criminal offense for a per
son to be in the vicinity of a
fire unless that person has a
vital need to be there.
One penalty might well be
the immediate impressment
into front line fire-fighting
service of any person so
caught-male or female. When
a few of the thrill seekers
have fought to exhaustion or
maybe been trapped behind
the lines because of more
such as they, they will surely
think twice before dashing to
the next fire.
Our Jackson county delega
tion could do the people no
greater service than to initi
ate and work " hard for the
passage of such a measure.
N. von der Hellen,
Eagle Point, Ore.
No Logic in Waiting
To the Editor: This writer
is all for preservation of our
wilderness areas. But the
simple fact remains that sur
vival of any fauna or flora
tribe depends on its adapabil
ity to changing conditions. By
taking irrigation and indus
trial waters from the Rogue
river and restoring none, we
have brought the once marve
lous salmon runs close to ex
tinction. So what are the salmon do
ing about it? Just one thing
ine remnants of tne once
mighty tribe gather in the di
minishing coolness of shaded
deep pools of the lower Rogue
river waiting the coming of
the cooling fall rains. If the
rains are too late in coming,
then the salmon are made too
late in their procreative
spawning cycle and that run
is largely lost. It is just that
simple and deadly so. For the
cold-water salmon to try the
struggle up the shallow, "re
portedly 80 degree plus, moss-
choked trickle of the lower
Rogue river would be just as
deadly.
So why this Hesitating Han-
na time-wasting tor an en
largement of these waiting
pools to gargantuan dam size
and make the Rogue come up
somewhere to its too largely
advertised possibilities as re
turning fishermen claim has
been done by building of the
Shasta dam. But this is not all.
Instead of these steep and
narrow confines of the un
natural, scary and body bruis
ing concrete fish-1 adder, it
would seem much better to
build a detour for the up
stream urged salmon on the
order of those in Scotland
which are a series of 10 foot
to 30 foot pools with natural
smooth rounded rocks forming
the spill-way, which affords ,
Geneva Talks Accomplish Postponement
Of Berlin Showdown If Nothing Else
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
Geneva (DPD The Berlin
showdown has been postponed
for months-perhaps for years.
A nuclear third world war
over the divided city is less
likely now than at any time
since Nov. 27, 1958, when So
viet Premier Nikita Khru
schchev rocked the West with
his ultimatum to get out of
Berlin in six months.
In the opinion of informed
and responsible Western diplo
mats, easing of the Berlin
crisis was the main achieve
ment of the Big Four foreign
ministers conference which
ended here last Wednesday.
Crisis "Talked Out"
The Berlin crisis and the
Khrushchev time-bomb were
'talked out" in Geneva, in
the belief of Western diplo
mats. And the 10-week dead
lock of the Western and So-i
Shenandoah Park
Described;
Eyes 'Dunes' Plan
By RICHARD NEUBERGER
U. S. Senator, Oregon
Some 2,000 people had to
move to make way for the
new National Park in the Blue
Ridge Mountains. This was the
Shenandoah, which FDR ded
icated in 1936. A lot of local
folks grumbled at the time.
What would replace home
steading, grazing and lumber
ing in the uplands?
But we heard no complaints
on the recent weekend which
Maurine and I and our nieces
spent at Big Meadows Lodge,
in the heart of the Shenan
doah. Roads were teeming
with cars. Campgrounds over
flowed to three times their
normal capacity. Neither love
nor money could secure ac
commodations for late arrivals
at the lodges. Every seat was
taken an hour before the na
ture lectures began.
Owners of filing stations,
motels, inns and restaurants
all told us of single days when
as many as 36,000 men, wom
en and children visited Shen
andoah National Park and
attendance this season is up 14
per cent from 1958. Last year
Shenandoah was toured by
1,655,266 people. This is near
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Aftermath of Roseburg:
Our lawmills grind constant
ly. Starting with the U.S.
congress and running down
through the state legislatures,
the initiative and referendum
machinery and the city coun
cils, they pour out a steady
stream of legislation some of
it good and a lot of it undigest
ed trash.
The lawbooks bulge and
swell increasingly, straining
to contain the mass of stuff
that is crammed into them,
BUT
Over all these years
Nobody in Oregon or, ap
parently, in. Washington or
California appears to .have
thought of putting together a
simple and effective code of
procedure for transporting
necessary but DANGEROUS
explosives from their point of
origin to their point of use
with a minimum of hazard
to the public, and then EN
ACTING IT INTO LAW.
SO
What happened at Rose
burg happened.
The tragedy of it is that it
WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPEN
ED if over the years we had
directed more thought and ef
fort toward sane and construc
tive and FUNDAMENTAL leg
islation and less effort toward
what might be termed legisla
tive fluff and froth.
F CAN'T be argued that the
situation that resulted in
the Roseburg tragedy sneak
ed up on us without warning.
It DIDN'T.
A dozen years ago, in Texas,
there was a precisely similar
tragedy. In the Harbor of Tex
as City back in 1947, a ship
an easy climb for the sea mi
grants and cool resting places,
helping to maintain the sal
mon runs of Scotland for
countless generations.
Equally important is the
fending away of the salmon
fry from the murderous tur
bines on their seaward jour
ney. It will be interesting to
know what results were ob
tained from the installation of
the fish protective screens at
Savage Rapids dam early this
year. One thing is sure. There
is no logic in opposing the
building of dams on the Rogue
river till the last salmon
gasps out its life in the heated
moss-choked waters in its
lower reaches.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200 F
Central Point i
viet foreign ministers led in
directly to the exchange of
visits between President Eisen
hower and Khrushchev.
When Khrushchev sprang
his ultimatum last November,
the West was caught by sur
prise. Worse still, it was
caught without any agreed
policy.
The North' Atlantic Treaty
(NATO) Allies at their Christ
mas meeting in Paris talked
tough about never being driv
en out of Berlin. But there
was a lack of conviction in
their tough talk.
They had no plan of action
in case the Kremlin cut off
access routes to Berlin. Fur
ther, it was doubtful whether
public opinion in Britain and
some other European NATO
countries ever would have tol
erated a nuclear world war
over Berlin.
The hectic "peace missions'
Senator
ly equal to the entire popula
tion of Oregon.
Reminded of Opponents
As we saw the Shenandoah
Park Rangers in their natty
uniforms, the naturalists and
botanists on the trail to in
form wayfarers, the neat
lodges, the cars from every
state (including Oregon) all
we could think of were the
people who are such determin
ed opponents of our own Ore
gon Dunes National Seashore
bill. '
Some antagonists of the
Oregon Dunes contend our
Seashore would be too large
35,000 acres. Shenandoah Na
tional Park covers 193,473
acres, and it is in a state with
considerably less than one-
half the area of Oregon.
We' do not expect a park on
the Oregon seacoast to attract
as many visitors as a park in
the .crowded Eastern states
But we do know that the vast
advertising and heraldry
which comes to every Nation
al Park unit will help to make
the Oregon Dunes Seashore a
great tourist success. We wish
some of the doubters could
have been with us in the
verdant wonders of the Shen
andoah!
JENKINS
loaded with ammonium ni
trate (as was the truck at
Roseburg) exploded and snuf
fed out half a thousand lives.
Half a thousand lives might
have been snuffed out in busy
Roseburg if the explosion had
occurred at 2:30 pjn., with
the downtown area crowded
with people, instead of at 1:30
ajn. with the business district
practically empty.
rpHE Texas disaster stirred
J- no warning thoughts. It
prompted no serious study of
the dangers inherent to the
transportation of tricky ex
plosives. Our lawmills went
right on grinding out laws
that could be done without
and giving relatively little
thought to preventing such
things as the Texas City and
the Roseburg explosions.
THE horse has been stolen.
The nitv of it is that the
same horse has been stolen
TWICE. It is highly probable
that this time the barn door
will be locked.
Anyway, let's hope so.
Let's go farther than mere
ly hoping. Let's DEMAND
that in the future pur law
making bodies take care of
first things FIRST. The public
safety certainly should head
the list of FIRST things.
ROSEBURG has been dealt a
staggering blow. As this
is written, the loss is estimat
ed at ten million dollars or
more. Tnat is a neavy loss in
a relatively small city.
Businesswise, Roseburg will
recover. Its people have cour
age and enterprise. They have
faith in their city, which is
the center of a rich area. New
buildings will rise to take the
place of those that have been
destroyed or dangerously dam
aged. The new will be better
than the old.
But at least ten lives have
been lost.
Those ten lives can never
be replaced.
Western Spending
Tops National Average
Washington-flJPD - A survey
of 1959 retail sales showed
Monday that westerners spent
more than Americans in other
regions.
Retail spending in the West
averaged $1,347 per person
for the year, 15 per cent above
the national average of $1,169,
according to a bureau report.
About one per cent of farm
crop value is spent tor pest
controL
of Britain's Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan to Moscow,
Paris, Bonn and Washington
in the spring merely pointed
up the Western state of jitters
without achieving much in the
way of a United Western
policy.
New Phase Starts
But the Geneva foreign
ministers talks, which opened
May 11, ushered in a new
phase in East-West relations.
Khrushchev let it be known
that his six-month ultimatum
was elastic-that it didn't much
Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop
Letter lo a Humphrtyite
Dear Jim:
Forgive me for carrying our
argument into print. A politi
cal reporter's
impartial loy
alty to the
facts is his
most impor
tant asset, and
I feel I must
defend myself
on this point,
in this unac
customed pub-
JnSph Aisop lie manner.
You complained about my
account of a poll laboriously
taken in a Queens election
district - a district that gave
President Eisenhower heavy
majorities in 1952 and 1956,
and also gave Governor Nel
son Rockefeller a comfortable
majority in 1958. Since you
are promoting the Democrat
ic Presidential candidacy of
Senator Hubert Humphrey, I
can see why you did not like
this poll's decidedly sensation
al results.
When polled a few days
ago, this Republican-voting
district gave the Democratic
front-runner, Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, a
lead of nearly five to one over
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon - and this was after
everyone had seen and ad
mired the Nixon-Khrushchev
television show. It gave Ken
nedy a lead of much more
than five to one over Gover
nor Rockefeller. And it show
ed Kennedy running approxi
mately three times better than
Humphrey and the Senate's
two other Democratic Presi
dential aspirants, Lyndon
Johnson of Texas and Stuart
Symington of Missouri.
1SI HAVE said, these were
sensational results.
should not have published
such results from a single
small district, if the little pott
in Queens had not fitted so
exactly with much larger, as
yet unpublished polls that I
have heard about from Re
publican sources.
One of these was a private
ly sponsored poll of New York
State taken by the inquiring
Dr. Gallup. This one gave
Kennedy over 60 per cent of
the statewide vote. Another
was a national poll taken in
July, presumably for publica
tion but somewhat surprising
ly not released. This one gave
nationwide results almost
comparable to those which
Gallup obtained in New York
As you can easily see, any
candidate who scores above
60 per cent in a statewide test
has got to have many pockets
of 70 and 80 per cent support.
Such pockets of super-enthu
siasm are essential, in order
to overwhelm the areas tradi
tionally attached to the party,
Hence I concluded that my
Queens results were not too
exceptional to see the light.
That leaves us with a ques
tion, however. What on earth
are the sources of this mass
support for Kennedy, that all
the pollers have found?
,
JUDGING by my own" ex
periences of pavement
pounding and doorbell-ring
ing, I would say that Kenne
dy's mass support has four, inter-related
sources. To begin
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matter to him whether it was
stretched out a couple of
months or perhaps longer, pro
vided East-West talks were
going on.
The May 27 deadline, when
Russia should have lowered
the boom on Berlin, passed
without so much as a delay
to a truck on the Berlin Auto
bahn while the foreign min
isters talked in Geneva.
It became pretty obvious to
the West that Khrushchev
himself preferred talks to
H-bombs.
with, he has clearly impress
ed tne electorate as a consid-
erable political personality in
nis own right. The general
liking and admiration for him
in turn give added weight to
his special advantages. These
are as follows, in reverse or
der of their importance.
First, the politicians mav be
appalled, but the voters are
pleased by the fact that Ken
nedy does not look at all like
a politician. I imagine vou
will agree that the character
of his picture on the front
pages helped Charles A. Lind
bergh to become an enduring
national hero. By a similar ef
fect, the Kennedy image has
been fixed in the public mind.
Second, and more signifi
cant, the labor reform activi
ties of Kennedy and his broth
er Robert are strikingly popu
lar. No less than three of the
64 Queens pollees, all union
members, answered the ques
tion on Kennedy: "Which
brother do you mean? I'll vote
for either."
Third, and most significant.
Kennedy gets the votes of an
extraordinarily high percent
age of the Roman Catholics
who have moved into Jhe Re
publican party. In the Queens
poll, he did better than the
other Democrats among the
Protestants and Jews, getting
all nine Jewish votes for in
stance. But the 42 - Catholic
pollees were the people who
gave Kennedy such an enor
mous edge over his Democrat
ic rivals, and helped him to
wipe the floor with Nixon and
Rockefeller.
OF COURSE New York
State is not two-thirds
Catholic, as that Queens dis
trict was. In the New York
electorate of 15.7 million,
there are only 5.4 million
Catholics. But at least half of
the State's Catholic voters
chose President Eisenhower in
1952 and 1958, and the Catho
lics also contributed heavily
to Rockefeller's victory over
Averell Harriman. On the
showing to date, Kennedy
seems to be able to bring
something like three quarters
-or close to 2,000,000-of New
York's Republican-v o t i n g
Catholics back into the Demo
cratic column.
That is a remarkable fact,
which explains the Gallup
poll above-cited. As it hap
pens, I am a Republican; and
furthermore, I should most
like to vote for Senator John
son among the Democrats. But
personal preferences ought
not to prevent political re
porters from publishing re
markable political facts.
Sincerely,
Joe Alsop
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