Medford mail tribune., March 17, 1960, Image 4

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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
it YEARS AGO
March 17. 1950 (Friday)
Ashland doctor faces $10,
00 law suit after the car he
Bad been operating struck
nl killed a 16-year-old girl.
JLarge number of valley
vasidents expected to journey
fc Crescent City for dedica
tion of large dock, built by
ajMizens.
YEARS AGO
Jgarch 17, 1940 (Sunday)
Gov. Charles A. Sprague
agrges all Oregon citizens to
ooperate with federal census
takers.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
fmudge Pot" column: "A
sure sign of spring is Port
tender who showed up here
ifesterday wearing a Panama
id seersucker suit."
C YEARS AGO
Search 17. 1930 (Tuesday)
Final arguments in crim
inal libel suit against pub
lisher of local weekly, now
underway; should go to jury
tciiay.
City wins state Supreme
Court decision in Big Butte
springs water suit.
40 YEARS AGO
Sarch 17. 1920 (Thursday)
A predicted raise in gas
olin prices on West Coast
will affect Medford.
A heavy steelhead run
$tts in Rogue and fisher
man flock to event.
tSASS AGO
astak 17. 1910 (Thursday)
fruitgrowers recently or
ganized Rogue River Valley
Imit and Produce association
tat soliciting subscriptions
fo aital stock.
Portland newspapers
pledge support when cam
paign to raise funds for Cra
ter Lake kighway reaches
that city.
Cbl's Your I.Q.?
Win or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ot
sis is good.
1. Were Italian Fascistl dis
tinguished by their silver,
brown, black or red shirts?
o. Are members of the Pres
ident's cabinet elected, or ap
pointed, to office?
3. Which southeastern State
is called the "Peninsula
State"?
4. How many guns did the
famous USS Constitution
("Old Ironsides") carry? 5.
What causes the bursting of
a frozen water pipe? 6. When
Franklin D. Roosevelt died,
he was at one of his favorite
spots; name it. 7. Do verte
brates, or invertebrates, have
backbones? 8. Who was the
author of the "Fourteen
Points"? 9. On what inland
sea were the ancient cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah? 10
Complete the title of the John
Fox novel, "The Little Shep
herd of."
Answers; 1. Black Shirts,
2. Appointed. 3. Florida. 4. 44
cruris. 5. Expansion ot the wa
ter when freezing. 6. Warm
Springs. Ga. 7. Vertebrates,
8. President Woodrow Wil
son. 9. Dead Sea. 10. "King
dom Come."
riBFEU DIPLOMAT DIES
Washington-flJPD-Ray Ather-
ton, 76, a career aipiui"'"
this roirntrv's first
ambassador to Canada, died at
bis home weanesaay.
75 Still
The flare-up of discussion over whether the
United States should or should not comply with
requests, if made, for birth control information
and assistance in other countries, has died down
pretty well for the moment.
The argument, one may recall, was about
whether birth control is or is not a fit subject
for governmental involvement. '
. What was almost entirely overlooked in the
arguments, which made the rounds in govern
mental and religious circles, is how the nations
in question might feel about it
"THE Times of India, published in Bombay, is
one of that nation's most influential papers.
A few months ago, it had this to say on the sub
ject: .
"Many surveys in this country have already shown
that even the people-in the rural areas are not as
averse to family planning as is generally thought: In
deed, a World Health Organization study in a village
In Mysore and in a housing unit near New Dehli "
showed as many as 75 per cent of the married couples
were keen to . learn some effective way of limiting .
their families.
"In some areas the percentage of those willing to
use contraceptives is no doubt smaller, but even their
old prejudices are breaking down as a result of the
increasing pressure on land.
"The point is that even the majority of those who
are willing to take to family planning are not in a
position to do so for lack of adequate facilities. Only
about 600 family planning clinics have been opened
in the rural areas so far. This means that hardly one
village out of a thousand has easy access to competent
advice on family planning.
"It is true that the Government is in no position
today to distribute contraceptives freely to every fam
ily in every village. But it could have tried. It has
failed to make family planning an integral part of the
community deveopment plans.
"The immediate need is to extend the network of
family planning clinics in the villages and to intensify
the effort to find a contraceptive which is cheap,
effective, simple to use and easy to store ... If this
promise (of recent successful contraceptive research)
is fulfilled, it should be easy to popularize family plan
ning in the rural areas with much less expense.
"But even with a cheaper method, it will be neces
sary to allocate far larger funds fof family planning
if the birth control campaign is to cover the entire
country. There is talk of providing about 750 million
rupees ($158 million) for family planning . . . There
is need not only to increase this allocation to at least
a billion rupees ($210 million) but also to make sure
that every rupee is put to far better use than has been
the case so far,"
.
ANOTHER major Asian
.10 eel ii 10 aiou cA&vt.uigijr vuiittiiitu auvuu iiiis
pressure of population on land, and is sponsoring
official measures for family planning.
A recent issue of "The Asian Student" quotes
a minister of the government as saying the na
tion's "economy growth, culture, peace, and even
its existence," are at stake.
Unchecked births in that nation, it stated,
could wreck the government's new five-year
"austerity for prosperity" plan. The minister of
health and social welfare said a curb on the birth
rate is necessary to prevent a food shortage, and
that "already most families barely manage to
subsist." ,
The article continues:
"Family planning has been the official policy for
the last year. Its object is to stabilize the population
within the next decade at not much more than
90,000,000. '
" 'This we must do,' said Brig. Mohammed Sharif,
director of health, 'or the consequences are unthink
able." DAKISTAN (which in size is about half-way
between Texas and Alaska) hopes to stabilize
its population at around 90 million.
India, more than twice
a population estimated
(The DODulation of
about 9M, million; of Alaska a mere 167,000.)
Considering that not
and that the programs of
being pushed, are still
cause for concern in
populated lands.
JAPAN has had what
cessful birth control
and its rate of growth
almost cut in half in
Japan's land area is
I exas, but its population
that of Texas. "
But by reason of its
ization, by intensive cultivation, and by its use
of the ocean as a food
managed without widespread starvation.
But in India and Pakistan the problem of pop
ulation control and famine are not matters for
idle speculation, nor casual debate of moral is
sues. They are a lif
THESE are the hard facts which are in the minds
. of those who believe
to Asian nations which
matter of survival as food shipments or 'capital
investments.
Indeed, as someone pointed out, our refusal
to grant such assistance would be meddling in
the internal affairs of other nations as much as
anything we could do.
By acting, we can influence other nations'
hopes for the future; by not acting, we can do
tne same.
The whole question
some. But it is also a
Asia. b.A.
an Issue
nation, next-door Pak-
the size of Alaska, has
at. nearly , 400. million.
Texas, bv contrast, is
all of their land is arable,
industrialization, while
backward, there is real
these unbelievably over
. .
is probably the most suc-
program of any nation,
has slowed remarkably
the past few years. -
less than half that of
is more than ten times
high degree of industrial
resource, it has so far
e-or-death matter.
that birth control advice
request it is as much a
is a valid moral issue to
mighty practical issue, in
Dennis the
It's SOMETHING NSW. 1 HAVE
TO SET HIM TO BED.
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the
views of the paper; in fact ths contrary is often the case.
"Disturbing" Questions
To the Editor: Despite your
eloquent editorial Sunday,
there are a few disturbing
questions I would like an
swered. Why was Mr. Smith
assigned to Medford? You
don't expect us to believe it
just happened, or that there
was no other place for him
where a Negro colony al
ready exists. It doesn't seem
fair to him or to the citizens
of this area who have been
so fortunate in avoiding the
tensions that inevitably follow
mingling of the races.
What were the motives of
the official responsible for his
appointment to this post? Is
he a tool of the N.A.A.C.P.,
using him as an opening
wedge for planned influx of
colored people? Or a vindic
tive Southerner burned up at
some of your pro-integration
editorials?
What is so unique about our
economy that we need not
fear a sizable number settling
in our area once they become
established? As to the overall
question of integration, in the
ory it sounds nice to break
down all social barriers, but
what will be the ultimate re
sult? How long will it be be
fore the NJV.A.C.P. will test
the constitutionality of state
laws forbidding intermar
riage? What would the ver
dict be with our present Su
preme Court? Anyone who
tries to kid himself that the
removal of social barriers will
not lead to intermarriage had
better consider the tragic case
of the New York professor
whose teenage daughter
wanted to marry a Negro ball
player. Neither she nor her
friends could understand why
anyone should object.
Please don't insult our in
telligence by quoting the Dec
laration of Independence and
the Bible. Every school boy
knows that many of the sign
ers of the Declaration of In
dependence owned slaves, and
if you ever read the Bible you
would certainly know it op
posed the integration of the
Israelites with the Philistines,
a race that must have been
very similar to their own.
What we need is a modern day
Moses to lead the Negroes
back to their homeland. We
could aid them in establishing
their new homes and help re
settle the European settlers of
Africa who after three hun
dred years, are not accepted
there either.
The new state of Israel
shows what can be accom
plished if there is enough ef
fort put forth. Mr. Muhammad
could be such a leader if we
gave him the necessary sup
port. (March issue of the
Header's Digest).
Howard Wilson,
Route 1, Box 280,
Central Point, Ore.
Editor's note: It seems to us
Mr. Wilson overlooks a sim
ple, but vital, point. A citizen
of the United States is en
titled to the rights and priv
ileges accorded any other cit
izen, whether, he is black,
green or blue. If equal justice
under . law is denied any
group, then no other group is
safe from persecution. Mr,
Wilson's interpretation of the
Bible and the Declaration of
Independence is intersting,
too. Do his copies say "All
men are created equal (except
those whose skins are a dif
ferent color)," or "Do unto
others (except Negroes) as ye
would have others (except Ne
groes) do unto you"? That
ain't the way we heard it.
P.O. Service Hit
To the Editor: Have you
ever expected an important
letter or package and never
Menace
TO 6EAT HIM TO THE DRAW
'
received it, even though you
know it was mailed? If you
haven't then why don't you
move to Phoenix? Oregon,
that is, not Arizona. I have
lived here in Phoenix, Oregon,
for close to eight months and
I've had numerous letters just
plain never get hero and' some
that are first sent to Arizona
and then back here, which
makes the news in them old,
or if it's an important letter,
then the news is of no value
after the delay in receiving it,
This is not only maddening
but stupid on the part of the
post offices across the coun
try. I find it hardest to for
give the Valley post offices,
though. Take for instance, last
October I had a record mailed
to me from Medford. I'm still
waiting for it to arrive. Then
in January of this year I had
some pictures mailed to me
from Talent. Same thing, I'm
still waiting!
I'm not alone in this com
plaint, as I've heard others
voice the same feelings. We
don't hold the non-receiving
of mail against our local P.O.,
as they can't put it m our
boxes if they never get it in
the first place.
All this brings up the sore
spot of the proposed increase
in postage rates. Really now,
why should the post office
workers get more money
when they aren't even earning
what they now get? Before
we have to pay a penny in
crease for each stamp, I think
it only fair for the workers
in the various offices to get
busy and be sure that Phoe
nix, Oregon, and Phoenix,
Arizona, mail gets to the right
states. After all we here in
Oregon are on the map.
Aggravated
(Name on file)
Phoenix, OREGON.
Many Helped
To the Editor: We think
this is just the column for this
letter.
We, the relatives of Daniel
Hanscom, 81, of Jacksonville,
who was reported lost on the
Applegate, wish to thank all
the many friends and neigh
bors who gave their time to
help in looking for him.
Many people spent the en
tire night Friday and most of
Saturday, and we are very
grateful to these people. We
thank also the sheriffs office,
the state police, and Police
Chief Frank Carter of Jack
sonville.
Irving Hanscom
Phoenix
John Hanscom
Ashland
Cecil Hanscom
Jacksonville
Chester Ingram
Ashland
Young Scientists
To the Editor: Admission of
gigantic Alaska to statehood
brought a fresh avalanche of
jokes at the expense of Texas.
One story of the Lone Star
State, however, seems worth
occasional repeating.
A Manhattan - born lad's
folks moved to Texas. His
teacher asked her history
class about the Alamo. The
New York boy never had
heard of its massacre. How
ever, excitedly, up went his
hand:-"I know. It's ice cream
on top of apple pie."
Worth repeating, perhaps
because Texas junior scien
tists are making history just
now with their science fairs
and parallel ventures into re
search, with, part of their
state semi-arid or "desert'
can one not expect some start
ling discoveries in the bio
chemistry of desert , plants?
One recalls herein how much
we owe one oncoming young
scientist as to aluminum. An
aluminum slag paperweight
on this desk is from a plane
Economic Independence in 10 Years Is
Israel's Aim; Impressive Strides Made
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The State of Israel still is
operating in the red. But its
leaders see hope of economic
i ndependenee
in lis years.
If it is a
chieved it
will be at
least partly
due to Israel's
intensi v e ef
forts to culti
vate the new
nations of
Phil Newsom a i r i c a. bne
already has made impressive
strides.
Israel'! closest friend in
Africa is Ghana to which she
sells tires, air conditioners,
building materials, radio sets,
fruit juices and ideas. Close
relations also are building up
with Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea,
Chad, Kenya, Uganda and
Ethiopia. Hundreds of Israeli
are serving in Africa as teach
ers, advisers, company direc
tors and chemists.
Tries To Break Bonds
They are part of Israel's in
tensive attempt to burst the
bonds placed around her by
her Arab neighbors and to
build up both profits and
friendship.
In the drive to penetrate
Africa's growing markets,
Israel has important elements
on her side.
In many of the new Afri
can nations, both the Western
powers and the Arab nations
wreck. It crashed in the Elfin
Forest near writer's cabin.
Aluminum in 1865 cost $545
a pound. The market recent
ly now was 18c. One now
reads of aluminum at a possi
ble power cost of only 1 cent
per pound.
Reduction cost came from
the research of a young Ohio
an. He had the imagination
to grasp the possibilities of
the featherweight "silver"
that then was a laboratory
curiosity. Do we not need an
adequate replacement birth
rate of the researchists? Mor
ons breed like rabbits.
C. M. Goethe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16, Calif,
RTP
To the Editor: The reader
is rather puzzled by the recent
interchange of challenges be
tween the Republican and
Democratic organizing chair
pien, in re peanut throwing
and registrations. As I under
stood the initial challenge,
hurled by Mr. K. C. (Swede)
Wernmark, the contest was to
be in the registration of vot
ers; whereas Mr. Walsh ap-
parently feels he has been
asked to participate in a ses
sion to determine which party
is the more proficient in tos
sing the lowly goobers.
Now, I may be in error, but
it appears to me that the
steak and peanut bit was to
be the reward part of the con
test, NOT the objective.
What does RTP mean?
Simply an old army motto.
Read The Paper. Meaning;
get the facts correctly.
G. O. Loomer
132 Almond st.
Medford
Rogue River Rose
To the Editor: In the spring,
so the poet -tells us, a young
man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love. In the spring
an old man's thoughts often
turn to the opening of the
trout season. With such
thoughts in mind, Grandpa
and I recently took a driye up
the Rouge River.
While Grandpa looked for
a likely spot to drop a hook
in the brook, come trout sea
son, I walked through the
woods. Upon hearing a noise
I gazed up into a tall, green
fir tree. And, 'bless my heart,
there hanging from a limb by
his tail was one of Everett
Acklin's monkeys. As I stood
there looking upward, en
chanted, in a sweet tenor the
monkey sang these words:
Rouge River Rose lives by
the Rogue River,
She can't catch fish so she
eats frog's legs and liver.
Now Rogue River Rose is a
wild mountain girl,
Her voice is so shrill it will
make your hair curl.
Oh! Rogue River Rose is a
girl mighty sweet,
She's a real nature girl with
spreading bare feet.
Now Rogue River Rose
can't read a book,
She eats her food raw for
she ne'er learned to cook.
All you young fishermen
don't stay out late,
For spring is a comin' and
Rose pines for a mate.
This ends the tale of Rogue
River Rose.
It might even be true as
everyone knows.
Grandma.
P.S. Should this reach
"Letters to the . Editors,"
which we enjoy so much,
kindly omit my name. Grand
pa takes a dim view of my
literary efforts and he might
not take me fishing when sea
son opens.
Grandma
(Name on file)
Medford
are suspect - the West be
cause they are the former
colonial powers and the Arabs
because they were the former
slave traders. As a new na
tion, Israel has no such his
tory. Also as a new nation
gradually achieving success,
Israel's institutions are of spe
cial interest to the Africans.
These include trade unions,
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
WHY ADENAUER
WORRIES
Washington Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer has come
to Washington with the aim,
almost public
ly avowed, of
pleading with
the President
to take a firm
line at the
summit on the
great and ag
onizing prob.
lem of Berlin.
A full 16
joseph alsop months have
passed since Nikita S. Khrush
chev opened the unending
Berlin crisis with a roar of
crude menace. It is very odd
indeed, therefore, that the
German Chancellor should
hope to influence President
Eisenhower's policy in any
direction whatever. In a nor
mal administration, there
would be no doubt at all, by
now, about the President's
position. And the Chancellor
would of course know about
that position and would have
no further hope of changing
it, whether for good or ill.
Yet the Chancellor plainly
regards the President's posi
tion on Berlin as uncertain
and subject to change. One
reason for this, as previously
reported in this space, is the
highly equivocal way the
President himself has talked
about Berlin, even in the
highest councils of the West
ern alliance.
A T THE Paris meeting in
December, for instance,
the President remarked to the
other heads of state that Ber
lin's freedom must certainly
be defended, but added that
Berlin was indefensible except
by an H-bomb war, which
was unthinkable. This circu
lar statement, getting exactly
nowhere, would have upset
and worried any man in the
German Chancellor's shoes -even
a much less suspicious
man than Konrad Adenauer.
Yet it should also be noted
that Adenauer's worries about
Eisenhower are quite certain
ly multiplied many times over
by still another element in
the pre-summit situation. This
is the attitude of the British,
It is fashionable in many
quarters, here, and in Paris,
and in Bonn, to condemn this
British attitude with extreme
severity. Certainly no one can
admire the "Germans-are-
beastly" campaign that is now
being waged in London. It
unpleasantly recalls the
"Czechs-are - ghastly - people
campaign that was waged in
London before Munich, which
was simply the preliminary
self-justification of the advo
cates of betrayal of Czecho
slovakia. .
rST the actual British at
titude on Berlin does not
deserve such widespread con
demnation. It starts with the
President's second and third
premises, that Berlin can only
be defended by an H-bomb
Russian Dancers
To Tour States .
New York - (UPD - Seventy
members of the Georgian state
dance company from Russia
arrived here today by char
tered plane to begin , a two
week tour of the United States
and Canada.
The company will open its
tour Sunday evening with a
performance at the Metropoli
tan Opera House.
The company's tour was ar
ranged as part of the cultural
exchange program agreed to
by the U.S. and Russian gov
ernments. It will include stops
in Boston, New Haven, Conn.,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit,
Grand Rapids, Mich., Chicago,
Minneapolis, Des Moines, Den
ver, Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco, Berkeley, Calif., Port
land, Ore., Seattle, Vancouver,
B.C., Toronto, Ont., Montreal,
Philadelphia and Washington.
ISSUES PROCLAMATIONS
Washington-flJPD - President
Eisenhower Wednesday pro-
the week beginning July 24
as National Farm Week, the
week beginning Sept. 17 as
Constitution Week, and Sept
17 as Citizenship Day. .
A CHILD AT HEART
Los Angeles -(UPD- Dancer
Lea Anscott's attempt to
change her name to "Baby
Doll" was denied in Superior
Court Wednesday because the
name is a "term of affection!
towards children." I
! 1
consumers' cooperatives, co
operative agriculture and the
organization of villages by
units of soldier-farmers.
Crisis Helps Israel
Out of the shamtDles of the
Suez crisis in 1956, Israel
made one enormous gain
which has helped both her
economy at home and her
African trade.
This was the opening of the
war, which is unthinkable. It
goes on from there to advo
cate almost any kind of con
cession to Khrushchev, up to
and including de facto rec
ognition of East Germany,
but not including surrender
of political freedom of the
West Berliners. This may be
an utterly wrong attitude, as
most American policy-makers
passionately believe. But it is
at least straightforward rath
er than circular, coldly log
ical rather than vaguely op
timistic. The moment when this
British attitude was mostly
openly manifested was in the
second round of last year's
Foreign Ministers meeting on
Berlin. Not long after the For
eign Ministers re-assembled
at Geneva, British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd dis
closed to Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter new in
structions which he had just
received from Prime Minis
ter Harold Macmillan. . These
required Lloyd to propose
new concessions to the Soviet
viewpoint going far beyond
the West's agreed "Geneva
package."
Lloyd did not act on his
instructions, because Herter
told him in effect, "We've just
asked Khrushchev for the
week end, so you'd better
wait a bit." This was how
the British learned of the Ei
senhower invitation to
Khrushchev a little before the
other allies.
SINCE then, much effort has
been devoted, in all the
various working groups, to
make sure that the British
will not do in the future, at
the summit, what Lloyd so
nearly did at Geneva. The
American policy-makers on
the working level profess to
be much encouraged by the
result of these efforts. Yet
the strong possibility remains
that when and if the going
gets rough ' at the summit,
Prime Minister Macmillan
will quickly revert to the pol
icy outlined in his instruc
tions to Lloyd at Geneva.
The existence of this strong
possibility in turn raises some
crucial questions that are as
yet wholly unanswerable.
What will the President do,
if the Western united front
is broken by a sudden British
retreat? Will Eisenhower also
retreat, and reform his front
in the line marked out by
Prime Minister Macmillan?
Or will Eisenhower stand
firm, alone if need be, and
fight the issue out on the
ground he has chosen?
These questions are all the
more troubling, because of
the signs that the President
himself has not fully thought
through his terrible, quite
possibly impending choice be
tween surrender and a risk
of war. No wonder, then, that
Chancellor Adenauer has
come to plead for firmness,
and to beg for hard commit
ments on the problem of Ber
lin.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli ship
ping via the port of Ellat
prior to Suez. The gulf was
an Arabian sea whose en
trance from the Red Sea was
blocked by Egyptian guns. A
United Nations force now oc
cupies the former Egyptian
positions and Israeli shipping
passes freely, opening up the
whole of the African east
coast.
Via the Eilat-Haifa pipeline
Israeli industry now received
Middle Eastern oil instead of
obtaining it through the long
haul from Venezuela.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Did you ever hear of the
Gordian knot?
It was tied by an ancient
Phrygian king named Gor
dius. The oracles decreed that
whoever could untie the knot
would become ruler of all
Asia. Many ambitious people
tried to untie it, but without
success. It was a complicated
affair.
Then along came a Greek
named Alexander, known to
history as The Great. He took
a look at the knot. It was "a
toughie. It seemed to defy
untanglement by human fin
gers, bo Alexander drew bis
sword and CUT it.
And that was that.
WHY go into all this?
' Well, in naming an in
terim successor to Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger, Governor
Mark Hatfield of Oregon
faced a knotty problem. It
seemed to him that his in
terim appointee would have
the inside track in the race
for election as senator from
Oregon. He didn't want to
give ANYBODY the inside
track. He wanted it to be a
tree Held and no favors.
What to do?
In his dilemma, the legend
of Alexander came to his
mind. So he CUT the knot.
He cut it by annointin: Su
preme Court Justice Hall S.
Lusk to the interim term.
JUDGE LUSK is a extin
guished Oregonian. He is
ranked as one of the most
scholarly justices to have
served in the last quarter of
a century on his state's high
est court.
He is a lifelong Democrat,
thus qualifying under the Ore
gon law requiring the ap
pointee to be of same political
party as the individual form
erly holding the office. He
has lived in Oregon since
1909. He has served on the
Oregon supreme court since
1937, having been appointed
to that office by Gov. Charles
H. Martin, one of Oregon's
most distinguished Democrats.
AND-
He is in his middle 70's,
and thus will be unapt to be
bitten by the bug of political
ambition - preferring, in all
probability, to retire at the
end of his interim "appoint
ment to the not unpleasant
and quite distinguished status
of a former U.S. senator from
his chosen state.
Governor Hatfield is to be
congratulated. By a states
manlike decision, he has re
solved what might have de
generated into a political
Donnybrook Fair, with good
ness knows how many po
litical heads broken.
WATCH him.
He seems to have what
it takes.
He may go far.
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