TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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"Raid" Protested
To tlio Editor: I want to
xproa emphatic p r o t e 1 1
against tlio latest limb of por
tlonit of tlio Phnonlx School
district by lho School Reor
ganization committee The
Iioorgiiiij:nllon coiuniltlcs In
supposed to bo a Jackson
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county committee, not a sub
ccimmlUoo of the Mcdford
ichool bon id.
This la tho third raid on our
district since September, 10911.
Tho first ruld wan to cover
tho "unknowing" purchase of
u school alto within tho I'hou
nlx School district's boundnr
lea by tho Mcdford School
district, Tho second ruld win
In "straighten" the boundary
lino between tho two districts.
At this time, u gentlemen's
agreement win reached to the
effect thut no further raids
would bo mndc.
Now, In less than two your
and regardless of the "gonllo
men'a" agree m e n t, another
rnld has been nearly com
pleted - a fnr as tho reor
ganization cominlttee U con
cerned, it la completed. With
what kind of gentlemen la
Phoenix d o a I Inst? Aruiuused
value of these three steals
will amount to nearly $800,
000 - not to mention further
potential taxable value.
According to the attorney
for tho transferred area, tills
lust ruld Is bused on the need
to get 03 children out of
district composed of "militant
aliens" (foreigners) who arc
not socially equal to the 63
children. I wonder by what
strange undemocratic reason
ing this self-appointed expert
on the caste system deter
mines that the residents of
Phoenix ore "aliens" and
dangerous to tlio social well
being of these 03 children.
Little Is mentioned about
whother the children are get
ting a good education In Phoe
nix. This la very prohnbly
because, according to South
ern Oregon college, students
comlt.g from Phoenix, got bet
ter grades than those from
Medford.
We cannot expand because
w are now surrounded by
Ashland and Medford. It is
time, it Is past tlmo, for slop
ping the plecemenl digestion
of the Phoenix School district,
which this same Reorganiza
tion committee presumably
established as a permanent
district.
M. E. Norton
Box 85
Phoenix, Ore.
We Can Take Heart
, To the Editor: Since ex
pressing my preference for
John F. Kennedy for presi
dent, because of, rnthcr than
despite, the fact that he Is a
Catholic, I have received a
surprising amount of mail
from Medford residents who
take violent exception to my
remnrks.
I do not feel that we need
fenr hovlng a Catholic ns
president, especlnlly Kennedy
who, I nm confident, would
moke a good American presi
dent. Ills chief advisers, by
the way, arc Adlnl Stevenson
nnd Chester Bowles, both non
Cnthollcs. The Catholics are a minority
In this country and It Is ex
tremely unlikely that they
will dominate Congress or the
Supreme Court, Since foreign
affairs are among our chief
problems, Kennedy's election
would have a terrific impact
for good on our South Ameri
can cousins. It would also
be n stunning blow to Com
munist propagandists every
where. When a predominantly
Protestant slate like West Vir
ginia gives Catholic Kennedy
an overwhelming majority In
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In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Politics:
Nelson Rockefeller and
Richard Nixon "meet In se
cret" at Mr. Rockefeller's
home In New York City. The
only other person present, re
portedly, was Mr. Rockefel
ler's press secretary, Robert
McManus. Mr. Nixon flew In
from Washington for the moot
ing and the talks began at
7:30 Friday evening and last
ed until 3:20 a.m. on Satur
day. As thn two men talked,
over the hours, they consulted
from time to time with mem
bers of the Republican plat
form committee.
At the conclusion of the
talks, Mr. Nixon flew back to
Washington,
TN
Ithi
A statement Issued after
the meeting, Rockefeller an
nounced he and Nixon had
ACHIEVED AGREEMENT on
issues ranging from foreign
policy and defense to the na
tional economy, farm policies,
education and a program for
civil rights.
He added:
"These constitute the basic
positions for which I have
been fighting. If they are em
bodied in the Republican plat
form as adopted by the con
vention, they will constitute
a platform that I can support
with pride and vigor."
INTERESTING question:
Who took the Initiative in
calling the meeting?
Was it Mr. Rockefeller?
Or was It Mr. Nixon?
BY WAY of answer, a dis
patch from New York by
AP's Gerald Miller on Satur
day morning reports that it
was Rockefeller's protest on
Friday that preliminary plat
form planks on such key is
sues as foreign policy and de
fense, the national economy,
farm policies, education and
civil rights were lacking in
strength that reportedly
moved Nixon to try for an
eleventh hour meeting of
minds.
Anyway
Agreement on the party
platform seems to have been
A S
Try and Stop Mo
By BENNETT CERT
IN' HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, "More Than Meeta th By,"'
Photographer Carl Mydans tells of day la 1810, wfua
a shrieking, hysterical Chinese woman In Chungking beggee
him for a coin or two as
she held aloft her dead
infant, waving it by one
foot, "like a butcher with
a plucked chicken."
Mydans gave her a
little money, and a few
hours later, unable to get
the tragic picture out of
his mind, returned to the
spot where he had seen
her. There she sat, a bowl
of rice at her side, hap
pily feeding her infant
very much alive and con
tented. "Then." writes
Mydans, '1 understood: when people are starving; any 1
is a iair one mat adds a few more days to We."
. .
Two Hollywood starlets stopped to admire a display of D
ternlty dresses In a WUshlra Boulevard window. "Amy." decided -on
starlet suddenly, "If these dresses get one bit outer, rm going
to have another baby!"
O ltta, br BvuaU Cut Distributed by SDrif features iTaoVat '..
reached by Nixon and Rocke
feller. In that event, all that re
mains for the Chicago con
vention to do is to write a
platform embodying the
agreement that has been
reached and name the Repub
lican candidates for President
and vice president.
THAT leaves this question:
Will Mr. Rockefeller ac
cept the vice presidential
nomination ... or will be re
fuse it?
AS TO THAT, Saturday
morning's dispatches re
port that on Friday many Re
publicans felt that if the two
men could come to a general
agreement on the platform it
would pave the way for a
Nixon-Rockefeller ticket.
But at a hastily summoned
predawn conference Cafter the
private talks between the two
men) Rockefeller's press sec
retary told the newsmen that
the New York governor had
repeated his stand that he
would NOT run in second
place. Asked if Nixon had
asked the governor point
blank to do so, McManus rev
plied: "No comment."
W5
;LL, we'll see what we'll.
see. ;
At the beginning of the'
Republican national conven
tion, who would have sup
posed that Lyndon Johnson
would accept (apprently hap,
pily) the Democratic nomina-.
tion for vice president?
Many strange things happen
In politics. v
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SELBY
303 N. Bartlett, SP 3-3645
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WHOSE HANDS? Con you match the hands with the
faces? The faces (from left) are Vice President Richard
Nixon, U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Democratic
Presidential Nominee Sen. John F. Kennedy and his run
ning mate, Sen. Lyndon Johnson. The hands are enlarge
ments from photos taken during CBS televslon appearances
by the four men. Give up? The hands belong to Lodge (top
left), Kennedy (top right), Johnson (bottom left) and Nixon
bottom right).
(UPI Telephoto)
the Democratic primary elec
tion we can all take heart at
the progress being made In
our country In reducing religi
ous prejudice.
David Friseh,
P. O. Box 292,
White City, Ore.
Crowded Pool
To the Editor: Yes 1 have
been down to Hawthorne Pool
recently and, as Mrs. Fltzsim
mons says. It Is very, very
crowded, which probably ac
counted for the fact that they
were Jumping off the edge of
the pool without regord for
those Blrcady In It. If they
waited for them to get out of
the way they would probably
still be standing. With that
many lively young people try
ing to have a good time all at
the same time, it's difficult
for them to be mannerly.
I do not object to discipline,
In fact I'm all for It. What I
objected to was the way in
which it was being adminis
tered. The kids were starting
to think It was a big joke and
were working real hard for
those laps.
I sympathize with Mrs. Fitz
simmons though. I know it
must have been terribly diffi
cult to show her troop of Girl
Scouts the finer points of
swimming with all of the oth
er kids In the pool and Mrs.
Frascr that got dunked three
times. (For what its worth, my
son tells me they only dunk
the pretty ones.)
Mrs. B. J. Wyatt
1122 West Eighth st.
Mcdford.
Principal Enemy
To the Editor: As I see H,
and no doubt as every intelli
gent human in the free world
sees it, the most powerful and
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devastating enemy we need to
eliminate is the devil, and his
hunger for greed and lust, his
destruction of the fine Ameri
can homes. Communism and
its kindred ambitions are
weak and of no significance
whatsoever, in comparison.
The enemy within our
hearts is the only serious
tragedy, as of now. Only we,
here in this great America,
can fully appreciate how very
serious is this danger. And if
we aren't on the alert, and
soon, then we have already
been "took."
It is later than we think.
The most powerful and influ
ential Man the world has ever
known, who used as His only
weapon Faith and eternal love
for His fellow man, is the
Humble Christ. We would do
well to stop and remember
His accomplishments and con
duct ourselves accordingly.
Mrs. Mary Williams,
Central Point, Ore.
Sheriff Checks
Drive-In Riot
Portland - (WD - Multnomah
county Sheriff Francis Lam
bert said Monday that an in
vestigation conducted by his
office has shown no improper
conduct by county officers in
the July 15 near-riot at the
"Jim Dandy Drive-In" restau
rant here.
Lambert made the investi
gation on complaints by the
five persons arrested and
charged with inciting a riot
at the restaurant.
The five charged are Eu
gene Rosllng, 23; his wife,
Jean, 20; Gary Lloyd Grif
fiths, 21; Dale E. Watts, 23,
and Jack R, Bowlands, 20, all
of Portland. The case comes
up in Circuit Court In Sep
tember. Lambert's office said there
was a crowd of more than
100 persons at the drive-in
restaurant when officers arrived,
Arson Suspected
In $10,000 Fire
SIlvorton-IUPII-Arson Is be
ing explored ns the cause of a
blaze which destroyed the
abandoned B & R sawmill
here early Monday.
Fire Chief Larry Carpenter
e.itlmnled replacement value
GOP AIDS DEMOCRATS
Jackson, Miss.-fllPD-Repub-licans
here offered free "sur
vival kits" today to Demo
crats recently returned from
their national convention. The
kits contain "aspirin for head
aches, sleeping pills to ease
consciences and tranquilizers
to calm Jangled nerves."
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