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o j TUESDAY. JUNE 7. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At his now celebrated press conference in Moscow the other day, Nikita Khrushchev (let's not refer to him any more as Mr. K; in most of our country Mr. is a term of respect) spoke bitterly of Pres ident Eisenhower as "Irre sponsible, unfit for office and dangerous as the head of a major state." He pictured Ike as "virtually a stooge for John Foster Dulles at the 1955 summit meeting." He shouted: "President Ei senhower is completely lack ing In will power, but that does not excuse him for not exercising authority over such men as Nixon and Secretary of State Herter . . . who are leading the U.S. along a path that could bring a new war." He concluded by offering Ike contemptuously a job as ' "manager of a kindergarten in Russia, where he could do no harm." facing are no new thing in the world. BIG question: What IS the situation that Khrushchev faces? A ND so on. "There are suggestions by the more than 400 newspaper, television and radio corres pondents who attended his conference that he was prac tically fit to be tied . . . that he used language unfit for publi cation or broadcast, so the translators and the news writers toned It down to bring it within the limits of decency. COMMENT? This fits the situation: "WHOM FORTUNE WISHES TO DESTROY SHE FIRST MAKES MAD." XITHO said that? " It has been often plagiar- ' ized during the intervening twenty centuries, but it ap pears to have been said first about 42 B.C. by Publilius Syrus, an actor in the type of Roman theatre that 2,000 years ago filled the place that is now filled by the newspa pers and the news and com' ment magazines. Anyway ... it indicates that men like Nikitia Khrush- cnev and situations such as Khrushchev appears to be Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE IN A dispatch, Bill Ryan one of the AP's top foreign af fairs commentators, says: "Khrushchev's latest dia tribe leaves the strong impres sion that the huge and mighty Soviet Union is UNDER THE CONTROL OF MILITARY LEADERS . . . The man who outwardly is the sole boss- the premier of the Soviet Un ion and the first secretary of its communist party-now acts like one over-anxious to prove to SUPERIORS how willing he is to carry out their in structions .... 'The big difference be tween the Khrushchev of to day and the Khrushchev who last September ruled the roost is that today's Khrush chev seems to have been pull ed down off his private cloud and given a strict line to fol low. If he deviates from the line, the signs indicate, THE RUSSIAN ARMY WILL RE PLACE HIM." Li- 1 i lor fri I la! II re JOHNSON'S STRATEGY Washington - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, having battled painfully and long with his friends, is at last and with great sigh of relief prepar es ing to contest J! his enemies, 1 i i Two years .1 ago all man ner of backers began to ca- 1 n 1 anA in white ' storm at the big Texan that he must be come openly and at once a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. No man ever had more well meaning advice from more supporters of more different kinds. For the Johnson friends run quite a gamut. They run from the most liberal of the old Roosevelt New Dealers and Truman Fair Dealers to the "safest" of southern conservatives. (There are also some liberal Republl cans who do not like the G.O.P. less but - this year like Lyndon more.) THAT is to say: Havine hpen MADE MAT) Khrushchev will now be des troyed unless he kow-tows properly to his bosses. No wonder he's upset. TN conclusion: The Soviet bosses . . . who ever they are . . . fear only one thing - SUPERIOR POWER. It's up to us to stay more powerful than Russia. ITOW shall we do it? xlWe can't do it by spend ing money recklessly and un wisely for things we can get along without. Staying power ful will cost money and the way to provide the money, without weakening our econo my, is to cut out the waste, HOUSEHOLD TRAIL An average housewife walks about 8.5 miles per day. THIS SIGN li the Answer to Care free, Convenient Shop ping Downtown! Shop These Merchants Who Make This Service Possible TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT1 Acme Hardware Alexander & Brown Andy's Jewelry Anders Photo Shop Barker's Bell's Gifts & Homewares Brainerd's Brophy Jewelers Burelson's Burelson's Hairfashions Burk's Awnings months still later, he moved just a bit forward and ac knowledged he would not ob ject to being put in nomina tion at the Democratic con vention. Now, finally, a na tional Johnson for President organization has been opened. So Johnson is now a "candi date." The whole cat has come out of the bag with agonizing slowness, a quarter-inch of fur at a time. But now that it is out, the critter will be seen to be pretty lively for all its long imprisonment. Assessor Reviews Plan for Easing Property Taxes Jackson County Assessor cated to operational school Leonard Electric Co. Leon's McLain Drug Centre Mann's Department Store Medford Flower Shop Medford Pharmacy, Inc. Medford Plate Glass & Mirror Co. Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio Mode O'Day Shop Montgomery Ward rpHIS most mixed of all -- political companies num ber such men as Abe Fortas, Roosevelt's under secretary of the interior, and Oscar Chap man, Truman's secretary of the interior. It numbers mod erate southerners like Sen. George Smathers of Florida; liberal easterners like Sen. Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island; liberal western ers from all over the place; old-line blue-blooded southern ers like Senators Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia and Richard Brevard Russell of Georgia. This group of the long, the short and the tall has been united on only two things: (1.) Admiration for Lyndon Baines Johnson as the great, virtuoso politician even his antagonists admit him to be. (2.) Absolute certainty among most of them that this great, virtuoso poli tician was making every pos sible mistake in what he was doing - or rather not doing in his soft pursuit of the presi dency. But Johnson himself knew two years ago, and has known every day since, what he pro posed to do and when, as this corresoondent can positively testify. He knew from tne start that his geography was against him and that his posi tion as Democratic leader or the Senate put heavy re straints upon him. AFTER all,' the other main Demo cratic presidential asDirants. Senators John F. Kennedy and Stuart Syming ton, both sit in the Senate -and in Johnson's party there. He was aware that a thrusting and open Johnson candidacy would break the Democratic Senate apart this year and last in bitter rivalries. It would have destroyed the Democrat ic Congressional record wnicn Johnson simply had to make, both for his party's sake and his own. So first, and for months, he refused even to discuss the presidency. Next, as time moved on. ne aammea we office would be attractive, but suggested he could have little hope of it. Then, and many Buster Brown Shoe Store Morrison's Men's Wear Central Rexall Drug Century Sporting Goods Chapman Jewelers Chris The Tailor Dempster Furniture Fashionette First National Bank Fosters Medical Pharmacy Frake & Smith Ginn's Flowers Goldy & Henielman Hadley's Medford Inc. Home Appliance Co. Hubbard Brothers Dr. Earl T. Johnson Jewett Office Supply Johnston 4 Stewart Karl's Shoe Stores Ltd. Lamport's Sporting Goods Larson Appliance Co.Q Lawrence's Jewelry J. J. Newberry Co. Norfield Shoe Co. Pick's Apparel Purucker's Music House Inc. Rath's Robinson Brothers Scarlett Auto Supplies Sewing Machine Center Sims Cycle ' & Hobby Shop Swem's Gifts The Toy House Trowbridge & Flynn U. S. Nat'l Bank Van Lee's Wainscott's Pharmacy ; Weeks & Orr Furniture Weisfield' Inc. Western Auto Supply ( Western Thrift Dr. Frank M. Wilson Woolworth's HAT Johnson has done is make masterly use of the most difficult thing in politics, the art of timing. Timing has brought the big break of the kind he had to have if he was really going anywhere anyway: It has per mitted him to offer himself as the strongest man to deal with Khrushchev. He has known always that he would not win the nomi nation by "running around with my shirt-tail out holler ing for it," as he once put it in private. He has known that he would get it, if at all, not because of a skill in pub ic relations that is very small but because of a skill in lead ership that is undeniably very large. All this is why Lyndon Johnson, who humanly likes his well-wishers and dislikes to say no to them, is glad that now it is only his ill-wishers he must engage. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Ray Schumacher discussed his proposed five-point plan for the easing of property taxes at the Medford Chamber of Commerce roundtable lunch eon in the Jackson hotel Mon day. Under the plan, the "bur den" of property taxes would be eased by removing from them the taxation "burden" of the schools. It also calls for a 3 per cent sales tax to pay for school costs. He told the group an aver age of 63 per cent of all prop erty tax levies in the state, and 80 per cent of all levies in Jackson county, go for schools. By taking schools out of the levy, it would reduce property taxes by one-half, he said. Schumacher recently pre sented his proposal to the As sociation of Oregon County Assessors, the state tax com mission and the legislative in terim committee on taxation Five Points Under the plan, the assessor proposes that the following five points be enacted into state law: 1. School property taxa tion be limited to bonding is sues only 2. All taxing districts be limited to a maximum of a 20 mill levy on the true cash value of all property. 3. A 3 per cent sales tax be I enacted which would be alio funds 4. The sales tax school funds be administered on the state level, and distributed to counties on the basis of the number of students. Amount of distribution would be based on the average cost per student in the state. Additional Money 5. Any additionad money for school purposes would come equally from the state's general fund and a county school property tax fund (as opposed to a school district property tax levy). Schumacher said that be sides cutting the total amount of the property tax levy, the plan would also have the effect of 'Laving schools paid for by more people based on "what they spend from their incomes." Another effect would be, he said, that schools would be forced to create a better and more efficient system through planned objectives if the school cost per unit child method is adopted. One person attending the luncheon told Schumacher he is in favor of having localities pay for their own schools and not have them going up to Sa lem for money. Cost of Schools Schumacher answered him by saying it is his opinion that costs and administration of schools has gone beyond the "little red school house stage." He added that larger school districts will probably always have to pay a little more to help the smaller school dist ricts, under any equalization plan. In conclusion Schumacher said, "in the five-point plan I believe that property tax re lief can be equally divided among all property taxpayers, and the tax load carried by more people using the serv ices of schools and government." CHAIRMAN'S WIDOW DIES New York-iUI'll-Mrs. Nettie Gardner Ryan, 90, widow of John D. Ryan, former board chairman of the Anaconda Co., died Monday. Fairbanks Plane Crash Kills Man Ncnana. Alaska - (UPII - A Fairbanks businessman was killed and an Alaska Superior Court judge seriously injured Monday when their plane sank while landing on the Tanana river east of here. The dead man was identi fied as George Nerhbas, a Fairbanks oil distributor. He was a passenger in a plane piloted by Judge Everett Hepp, also of Fairbanks. Judge Hepp, who was re cently appointed to the Alaska Superior Court, was taken to Fairbanks for emergency treatment. BATHYSCAPH DIVES San Diego, Calif.-fllPD-The Navy bathyscaph Trieste, which dived a record 35,800 feet in the Pacific last Janu ary, will make seven more dives off Guam within the next three months. The Navy said Monday the new dives would average about 6,000 feet, or slightly over one mile. Lt. Don Walsh, who made the record dive with Swiss scien tist Jacques Piccard, will make the new dives with Navy Lt. Lawrence A. Shu maker. Tallahassee, Fla. - IUPD - The Florida Game and Fish Com mission reported Monday pro fessional hunters killed 18, 735 alligators during the 1959-1060 gator hunting season. ii unii iiiimi niurlfi Mill OO THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 9-12 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thurt. & Sat. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday ADMISSION FREE1 MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER East Jackson Blvd. at Biddle Road Does this modern way of living offer YOU any advantages? Come find out. See more than 60 new mobile homes and travel trailers. 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