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.
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Astrology Magazine
Tells of Favorable
Stock Market Period
By ELMER C. 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
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square with
Uranus, and
Mercury is in
favorable con
junction with
Venus and in
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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
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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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