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MONDAY, JUNE 27. I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE ami is BATTLEGROUND Washington - The land of the split-level house and the backyard barbecue pit-which forms a vast I 1 y en larged American middle class is to be the decisive b a t ! tleground I n I this fall's 1 president 1 a 1 I election. Var m n r a William . n 4 h . n Whlto they did four years ago, both parties are now centering their appeals on suburbia. For It is to suburbia that the voters have been moving in a long, immense, sustained leap. The census bureau now dis closes that the population of suburban areas adjoining ma jor cities has grown by an incredible 47.2 per cent in the last decade. And this change has snow balled as it has gone along; it has been faster in the four years since the last president ial election than it had been in the four years before that election. THE total population of 189 standard metropolitan areas is now put at 109.000, 000 - or 61 per cent of the grand total for all the nation. Moreover, most of the great cities themselves have been shrinking as people have moved to the suburbs. Four of the biggest cities - New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit - have actually lost population. Los Angeles alone among the big five has gained. To nearly all professional politicians, as to most of the rest of us, figures and statis tics are pretty dull stuff. But the pros in both parties are manfully both reading and digesting these figures, since duty Is duty. And they are making their plans on the basis of what these figures add up to. They are not only well aware that it is in suburbia that the votes lie. They are equally aware that it is in suburbia, far more than on the farms or in the apart ments of the big cities, where reigns beyond possible chal lenge the new boss-sex in this country, the female sex. INDEED, suburbia is largely a feminine creation, with its opportunities for flowers, in numerable women's club luncheons and others things which make up the good life as It is seen in 1960. (It is only the old man who must wrestle with the daily com muting). So it is that on every day and in every way the Repub lican party -and the Demo cratic party alike will offer what might be called a soft hard sell for the presidential candidates. It will be a soft sell In that the accent will be on a quiet, well-tailored dig nity, so far as may be pos sible, in tune with the gardens of suburbia and the nearby country club. It will be a hard sell in that down underneath all this amiability each party will try to weave the final impression that its nominee is surely the tougher of the two - in a nice way, that is. THE programs now prepar ed by both political con ventions make the point clear ly: the plan is for compara tively brief televised sessions with "plenty of punch" - but, it is hoped, not too much of it. Everything conceivable is being done to make watching over the TV as pleasant as possible. Moreover, both parties will choose comparatively young nominees who look, each and every one, more like briskly successful brokers than like the common conception of old style politician. Vice-president Richard M. Nixon at 47 is far from decrepit, either in years or in appearance. Neither of the two strongest Democratic presidential aspirants. Sen. John F. Kennedy (43) and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (51), is a venerable old party, and neither would come in last on a national list of best-dressed men. The same can be said for the man who Is presently in No. 3 place among the Democrats, Sen. Stuart Sy mington (59). It is not merely a party that will win in 1960; suburbia will win, too. The "labor vote" and the "farm vote" - these are of course still significant. They are not, however, nearly so significant as they used to be. To each of these groups very down-to-earth pitches will be made, in terms of what are called "gut" interests - mean ing plain self-interest. To suburbia the pitch will be on a higher plane; here the mel ody will be more important than the words. (Copyright. 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . Grand Canyon Fire Continues To Rage Grand Canyon, Ariz.-OJPD-A thousand men continued to day their six-day battle against a persistent forest fire that already has burned more than 7,500 acres of timber in Kaibab National forest. Aiding the men were bull dozers, helicopters and light planes that dropped fire quenching borate chemicals on the blaze in a remote cor ner of Grand Canyon Nation al park. The firefighters, 300 of them Zunl Indians, thought they had the blaze contained late last week but strong winds pushed it outside fire lines. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A PRETTY LASS answered an ad for a secretary, but came back home in high indignation. "The man who interviewed me came up behind me and deliberately pinched me," she reported, "so I slapped him in the face and walked out." "I wouldn't have done that," mused the mother. "Why didn't you report him to the head of the firm?" "Mama," explained the girl, "the man who pinch ed me is the head of the firm." Two lads front the deep South were tooting merrily along the highway in a bat tered Jalopy when the driver suddenly Jammed on the brakes. The boys shuddered as an express train thundered by a scant six feet before them. "Whatcha blow that horn for?" gasped the passenger. "I didn't," answered the driver. "That horn you heard wa3 Gabriel's!" Shelley Berman says he's discovered a Chinese restaurant in Chicago that's so good all the rickshaw drivers eat there. I860, by Bennett Cert. 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WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York - VPD - If you want a good period for the stock market wait until Mars is in favorable trine with Sa turn and in adverse square with Uranus, and Mercury is in favorable con junction with Venus and in adverse con junction with Sun. That'll be from July 11 to 20. This information came from the June, 1960, is sue of the "Official Astrology Magazine." The article is headed by a note which says it is intended to be educational and "is pre sented without prejudice." One thing that stands out is that the unidentified writer knows the lingo of Wall Elmer Walier Sherwood Youths Injured in Crash Portland (UPD A Sherwood teen-ager was injured serious ly and two companions were slightly hurt when the car in which he was driving left state highway 212 near the Salem freeway at Tualatin. Seriously hurt was John L. Dickson, 17, who suffered a fractured skull and broken thigh bones in both legs. Also hurt were Larry Beck er, 16, Seattle, and Ronald L. Salzer, 16, Sherwood. Police described the car which Dickson was driving as a "hotrod" and said it skidded along the roadway for 250 feet, rolled over into a gully and came to rest on its side in a ditch in three feet of wa ter. The youths were brought to Good Samaritan hospital. Cochairmen Picked By Elmo Smith Portland-fflPD-Ralph E. Wil liams and Howard B. Somers of Portland, have been select ed as state co-chairmen for ex-Gov. Elmo Smith's cam paign for the United States Senate. Smith, a Republican, is op posing Democratic candidate Maurine Neuberger for a sen ate position. Somers, 43, is a church and civic leader in Oregon and is a partner in Camp and Com pany, an Investment securi ties firm. , Williams, 46, g r a d u ated from the University of Ore gon and from Northwestern College of Law, College Professor To Defense Seminar Dr Marshall E. Woodell, professor of social science at Southern Oregon college, has been selected to attend the defense strategy seminar at the National War college. Ft. Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D. C, July 10 to 23. Dr. Woodell is a command er in the Naval Reserve and is currently assigned as an instructor at the Naval Re serve Officer's School 13-2 Portland, (Ashland exten sion). Commander Woodell will be one of five Naval Officers from the Thirteenth Naval district and one of approxim ately 200 officers from the U. S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force who will participate in the codrie. People 50 Years of Age Should Be Classified as 'Elderly' Street and also has some ad vice to offer. For the period July 1 to 10, he says: "Astrologically, in vestors should shift their in vestment portfolio to at least 75 per cent fully invested in companies with good six month statements on earn ings." Market experts would go along with that idea of in vesting in stocks whose com panies are producing good earnings. For the July 11 to 20 per iod - the one dependent on Mars and Mercury - the writer has this to say: "Stocks will move well dur ing this cycle. Strength will be somewhat selective and a few wide gains will be carved out. The blue chips will re cover during this cycle. To Give Confidence "Metals, electronics, pharm aceuticals also are favored. Favorable reports of store sales will give confidence and activity to these issues. Automotive sleuths are sharp ening their pencils trying to figure out where the industry is headed for in 1961. "Positive aspects: Point to the general summer rise in i the averages." Incidentally, the months of July and August generally are good months in the mar ket with the summer rally on the go most of the time. In September, the market runs into irregularity. The astrologist follows the custom and holds that in the latter part of the month prices will sag on higher volume. By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-il'Pli-Prof. George J. Wayne startled a bunch of middle-aged scientists by as serting that people of a mere 50 years of age should b e included, for scientific accuracy, among "the el derly." Between the ages of 40 and Ueioi smith 50 the signs of aging are already abundantly present in most people, he said, "Who has not experienc ed that rather startling diffi culty in visual accommoda tion?" he asked, referring to sudden trouble in reading phone books .-.nd other small print. And there are those "In creasingly discernible changes in physical stamina, and that pervasive sort of thickening into middle-aged respectabil ity." Emotional Problems Dr. Wayne is a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. In a recent lec ture he was emphasizing that the elderly have emotional problems which are not en tirely of their making These problems are made by young er people in generally depre ciating the "old man" and the "old woman." "Rarely is the elderly per son accepted within work sit uations as a genuinely pro ductive member," he said. "The best that he can expect is the condescending forbear ance, as though he is being tolerated until a more suitable younger replacement can be eased in." Elders Protest You can see that "the spe cific behavior characteristics of the aged-the suspiciousness, the sulks, and the temper tan-trums"-are not altogether un reasonable, he continued. The elderly, "are protesting and battling, understandably, against being eased out "Perhaps nothing sums up the attitude toward the aged which is now prevalent in our country as eloquently as the cold and business-like manner in which they are disposed of by means of old-age insur ance, pension plans, manda tory retirement, domiciliary institutions and various meth ods of public assistance." He thought all these things were to the good but the trou ble with them was that they served more "to discharge our own feelings of guilt than to fulfill the needs of the aged as individuals." It is possible for people to grow very old with grace and happiness and the reason more of them don't is less physical than it is psy chological, he said. Many of the aged Indulge in "accusations, spiteful be havior, temper outbursts, and sitdown strikes" in dealing with their younger relatives. This behavior comes from qualities of their character which have been present all along, but when they were younger, these qualities were surmounted by their sense of being useful. 'Tough Problem' "In other words," Wayne said, "the lid is removed from the Pandora's box of charac ter traits by the miserable, dependent status Imposed by the mere process of growing older." It's a tough problem be cause the attitudes of people aren't going to be changed ov ernight or even easily. Yet about 40 million Americans are over 50 years old. If you insist that 50 years is too soon to be classified as elderly, the fact remains that by 1975 there will be about 20 million Americans over 65. Therefore, the problem must be solved, and these at titudes must be chanucd. The social sciences can lead the way, and Wayne made it clear he included medical science. We must all "push toward our common goal of adding life to years, rather than just years to life," he said. Veteran Isolationist Dies in Minnesota Alexandria, Minn. - (UPH Former U. S. Sen. Henrik Shipstead, 79, a dedicated isolationist who voted against the United Nations Charter died Sunday. Shipstead served 24 years in the Senate, the first three terms under the Farmer-La bor label and his last as a Republican. He was defeated in 1946 by Sen. Edward J Thye and went into retirement. Missing Boy Scouts I Found by Searchers Hood River - (IW - Half a dozen Portland area Boy Scouts, reported lost on a 20 mile hike, were located safely early today, the sheriff's of fice reported. The Scouts, 12 to 14 years old, had been reported miss ing in rilled country of Eagle Creek state park. Deputy Sheriff Mel I.in gren piloted a search plane which spotted a campfire at 12:30 a.m. that had been start ed by the Scouts, sheriff's of ficers said. A ground search party loft to escort the Scouts uut of tilt-area. 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