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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."
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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,
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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.
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61-year-old woman driving at
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killing two of them. The third
girl escaped serious injury.
Mrs. Aura Easlcy of Toledo,
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slaughter. Police said wit
nesses reported Mrs. Easley
was driving her auto about
60 miles an hour when she
swerved around two cars
stopped at an intersection and
rammed into the girls.
Virginia Ann Sabo and
Carol Sue Decker were killed
Diane Marie Grcsser was
treated at a hospital and re
leased.
Police said Mrs. Easley and
her husband came here nine
weeks ago. They said Mrs,
Easley had been examined by
a psychiatrist shortly before
the accident.
PROTEST COUHT RULING
Mobile, Ala.-ffiPD-The state
of Alabama will ask the U. S,
Supreme Court for a rehear
ing of the case In which the
court ruled Alabama ! on
shore oil rights extend only
3.5 statute miles into the Gull
of Mexico, Gov. John Patter
son said Monday. The high
court ruled Tuesday that
congressional law passed
1953 gave Texas and Florida
rights extending 10.S statute
miles into the Gulf, but limit
ed Alabama, Louisiana and
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