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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MONDAY. AUGUST . I960 4 A "Everyune in Southern Oregon Readfl The Mail Tribune" Published Dolly except Saturday by MRDFOHD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 nnni-DK " W TJ T TUT SlJlin. HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAX-D T LATHAM Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of . March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi. 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' 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1950 (Tuesday) The Jackson county selec tive service board reported to day that it has received an ad ditional call for 86 men to re port for physicals. The Crater Babes, girl's Softball team, defeated a Klamath Falls team 19-0 yes terday. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1940 (Thursday) The packing school spon sored by the Traffic associa tion and the Fruitgrowers league opened yesterday in Pinnacle plant No. 2 with 120 pupils in attendance. From Arthur Perry's "Ye ; Smudge Pot" column: "What ever became of the New Deal notion of a few years back whereby the people were go ing to have too much of every thing by not having enough of anything.': 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1930 (Friday) Walter Holmes, 11, Med ford, has been up a tree now for 245 hours and says he hopes to set a world record before he comes down. The government has an nounced it will spend $25,000 this year on Crater Lake road improvements. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1920 (Sunday) Ashland's population is now 4,283 according to the federal census. of sugar yesterday and have sent to the south for an emergency supply. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1910 (Monday) W, K. Newell, president of the state board of horticul ture, told local fruitgrowers yesterday that the one thing that can help them the most is cooperation with one another The U.S. bureau of soils is making one of the most com prehensive soil studies tests in the Rogue valley that has ever been made on the west coast. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the capital of Can ada. 2. Is the larger part of an ocean liner above or below the waterline? 3. Who's Fifth and Ninth Symphonies are regarded as world masterpieces? 4. Is the highest grade of paper made of wood pulp, rags, or sugar cane? 5. In which months does spring begin in the South Temperature zone? 6. Was Jackson, Johnson or Lincoln nicknamed "Old Hickory?" 7. In the Army, which is the next rank above private? 8. Steel is an alloy of iron and - what? 9. What was the name of the Duchess of Windsor be fore she married? 10. Name the oldest of the following cities: Sante Fe, N. M., Plymouth, Mass., Jamestown, Va St. Augus tine, Fla. Answers: 1. Oitowa. 2. Be low. 3. Beethoven's. 4. Rags. 5. September. 6. Jackson. 7. Private, first class. 8. Car bon. 9. Mm. Wallis Warfield. 10. St, Augustine. mnium-.H.'.iuM Hoover "In each of vour bade you an affectionate goodby. My goodbyes, however, did not take, and I have been bombard ed with requests to do it again for the fourth time. Now unless some miracle comes to me from the good Lord, this is finally it." The speaker was Herbert Clark Hoover; the occasion the 27th Republican national conven tion. His remarks, as were his previous farewells, were greeted with cries The former President who will be 86 on Wed nesday was in a sense saying goodbye to the na tion, for his speech was televised on three nation wide networks. Characteristically, his remarks transcended politics as he cited America s fright enincr moral slump," and called for the "stimula tion of American nationalism" which "might give support to our defense of LIERBERT Hoover at 1 1 younger image before 30 years ago. Gone are collars and the never-quite-in-place dark neck ties. Gone is the high stiff rounded prose style, replaced by a vigorous and occasionally daring method oi expression, 1958, and at Chicago. The blacksmith's son aire early in life retired from public life in June, 1955, after 41 years of almost continuous service, but he remains much in Whether in his suite in the Waldorf Towers in New York or the 17th-floor suite he customarily engages in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, he works a seven-day week, iu to VI hours a day. Although he tries to winnow down his public en gagements, he makes a score of speeches or more every year. His one concession to "age" : he now rises at 7 o'clock rather than 6. LJERBERT Hoover was the first Quaker to hold the nation's highest office, also the first Presi dent to be born west of the Mississippi River. He was the first President trained in science, and he now is greatly disturbed at students in this country applied to science in the Hoover gained world of Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, as Commission er for Relief in Beligum and U.S. Food Admin istrator in World War 1. When appointed Secre tary of Commerce by Harding in 1921 (he con tinued to serve under Coolidge), he had had no background of partisan politics, and had held no elective public office. In recent years he has the pre-Presidential image. Last December he was voted the eighth "most admired" man in the nation. This busy, prolific man is no sobersides, either. His favorite hobby is fishintr, most recent ly what iie calls ' lishing tor older persons sitting in a skiff off the J 1 J! -1. TT I J. among his uncompleted so he has been quoted and "making speeches." Slavery lor Doneusn. ne uses actenamff Daseoau eames We're slaves to things we don't understand, including machines. The other day in the Fort Rock area, about as far from noplace as a body is likely to find himself, the car quit. Just quit. bend was bu miles away, potential tow bill quite was neaven Knows wnere. One crets out his screw apart, that's what. And the way it ought to go, ougnt to go lhis accomplishment, wasn't distributing whatever it is that distributors distribute, was one of the great victories of our lite. We're still bragging about it, and doubtless will until our friends walk the other way when we approacn. "VET, that really isn't such a great achievement, The paternal ancestor, back around World War I, negotiated the Mt. Hood hierhwav then a pair of wagon ruts, in his Model T. Along the way he broke a spring. What did he do? Call somebody? He did not. He went into the woods, cut a sapling and made himself a new spring, ngnt there on the road. People were more self Now we're slaves. Yet, we wouldn't worry so much about our thralldom to the automobile, if we better understood our master. Eugene Reg ister Guard. The Shortest Speech A dozen times prior to Gov. Mark Hatfield's delivery of his 288-word speech nominating Richard Nixon we saw references to the shortest nomination speech of them all the 27-word ef fort which put Abraham Linocln in nomination. We were curious as to what powerful-packed words of exhortation could have been used to re sult in this little-known Illinois lawyer being nominated for President. Here then, for the record, is the speech, given by Norman B. Judd, in Chicago in 1860: I desire, on behalf of the delegation from Illinois, lo put in nomination, as a candidate for the President of the United Slates, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. And not one reference to the titanic ten sions that test our times. Salem. At 86 last three conventions. ot No! JNo! freedom. 86 somehow , casts the public than he did the high stiff rounded as demonstrated botn in who became a million the public eye today, the lack of engineering and the larger numbers boviet Union. fame as the appointee been growing back into Florida keys and waitinir J . 1 11 tasks. And secretly or he "hates" conventions E.R.R. I960 a tact which made a formidable. A telephone so what does one clov driver and takes t,hP cur he puts it back together or the way he thinks it miner a distributor that - sufficient in those davs. Oretron Statesman. Dennis the 'Don't settod cwsg.iroey. H Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necossarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is Devilish Queer To the Editor: It seems to me that the men who become politicians and are elected to office forget to use common horse sense in making and passing laws. If the 85th Con gress, controlled by the Re publicans, wanted to help balance the budget, why did they vote the president such a whopper of an Increase in salary? Then all Congressmen. To top it all they voted ex presidents $25,000 and their widows $10,000 so they could live as they had become used to living. Not one veto was used on this. (Did they have that much before?) But when the 86th Congress voted all the little working cogs an in crease in pay, a veto. A Forand bill to help the aged was swept out of the way for a watered-dowrr af fair that's not passed. Social Security disability, my how easy to get, six months you don't work, then apply. If it so pleases them at the big of fice you get processed in another six months. By that time you have starved to death for all they care. The little cogs are entitled to a way of life they are used to when young the same as the Big Wheels. When the president steps down he will draw $25,000 plus his five-star general s re tirement pay. And it's all out of the taxpayer's pocket. I wonder, was Dave Beck so bad after all? The wages of the congressmen and presi dent should have been by the vote of people. While waiting in a friend s car on the street of Medford, I've seen old people going through the garbage barrels In back of the stores search ing for food. Devilish queer, eh, what? Gladys Hamilton Route 2, Box 468 Medford. Herblock "Poison" To the Editor: I am a sub scriber to your paper, but I get darned tired of seeing your partisan Herblockhead ads. Why don't you keep this poison off the front page and If you are absolutely deter mined lo run it, put it on the editorial page (where it be longs)? We Republicans pay for and read your paper also. Why do we have to be sub jected to Uiis junk? Rex Vowell 1219 Queen Anne Medford. Public Hearing To the Editor:- Regarding Copco rate increase, your pa per recently printed an arti cle entitled: "Collier Raps Copco at Yrcka Hearing," in which "California State Sen ator Randolph Collier of Yre ka attacked the Copco for their proposed increase in rate before a California Pub lic Utilities hearing, stating that before Copco comes be fore this commission, they should prove themselves and do something for their cus tomers." And "with reference to re ported power fluctuations, Collier said, I think before they regulate their rates, they should regulate the power." I agree with Senator Collier, because we in Southern Ore gon have the same problem, and I have personally com- Menace nose wrxsHOWMys!' often the case. plained about it to the P.U.C. and Copco. Furthermore, I have com plained over the discrimina tory electric rates charged by Copco to small businesses. I only asked for just and hon est and equitable rates, which were promised me in 1953, but nothing happened until 1958 when Copco got big- hearted and gave the small business a few cents relief. Here is a comparison be tween residential and com mercial rates: For instance, on a total of 2100 kilowatt hours consump tion of electric power, busi ness is charged $64.50; resi dential is charged $27.60 for the SAME amount of elec tric service. Business Davs $36.90 more than residential - well over twice as much. You be the judge and see for yourself Whv I nnrl mnnv other business people have complained, and why so many businesses go out of business. The Public Utilities Com mission will continue its hearing on Copco's reauest for an increase in its residen tial rates on Tuesday (tomor row) at 9:30 a.m. at the Court house in Medford Please come and express your feelings. This is a PUBLIC hearing -and the public should be heard! Frank Koch 412 South First St., Central Point, Ore. Letter Too Long To the Editor: With interest I noted the letter of Frank Christian in your issue of 8-3-60. In your box at the head of the letters to editor it states that letters "must not exceed 400 words." Mr. Christian's letter was in excess of 600 words. It would be of no con cern to me except that when I sent in a letter suggesting that perhaps Mr. E. A. was not the all-knowing messiah and prophet he seems to take himself to be, that letter was returned to me unpublished because it exceeded 400 words. Evidently your poli cy is that if the letter agrees with your viewpoint as Mr. Christian's obviously did -there is no observance of the regulation, or should I say there is a convenient over- lokoing of the regulation. If there is a letter critical of your policy - the 400 word limit is a good gimmick to use as an excuse to not pub lish it. . No doubt Mr. E. A. in his infinite genius will descend from his lofty pedestal and with tolerance and patience speak to this Ignorant peas ant and tell me why. Except for the paper's political lean ing, such policy reminds me of the Hearst press or the Chicago Tribune which I am sure you abhor as befits all good democrats to do. E. L. Wcstlund 114 South Ooakdale ave. Medford, Oregon Editor's note: No slight to Mr. Westlund was Intended. The over-length letter slipped in through oversight while E. A. was on a week's vaca tion out of town, without the cutting, or returning for cut ting, usually practiced. As a matter of fact, letters at odds with editorial views usually arc given preference in this column, other things being equal. Foreign Notebook: Adenauer Seeking To Avoid Trade War Among European Blocs By WILLIAM J. FOX From the foreign editor's notebook: Mediator Adenauer West German Chancellor Washington Report y WILLIAM THREE-FRONT BATTLE , Washington - Suddenly the presidential campaign is a three - front war. Cheerfully ig nored is that tradit i o n a 1 period of un declared and partial armis 1 1 c e between nomina ting con ventions and Labor Day which we used to know in presidential election years. This time they are going at it immediately and hotly. And it is plain that until election day there will be no pause. The first front engages the presidential aspirants direct ly. Kennedy the Democrat, in his HRQ in Hyannis Port, Mass., huddles with a length ening list of volunteer lieu tenants. And even as he draws up his central battle order he keeps his main batteries firing incessantly upon Nixon, the Republican. - Nixon is making his GHQ a mobile one. He swoops down for a few hours into his native California. Then he pulls up his forward command post - which is his airplane - and plunges into the newest state, Hawaii. His direct shelling of Kennedy is, for the moment at least, somewhat less intense than the fire he is getting from that quarter. THE second front is the bat tle of handouts - the news paperman's term for the form al statements, charges, mani festos and such handed out by politicians. The multi copying machines run already at burning speed in Kennedy headquarters in Hyannis Port. They are turning fast, too, in Nixons rear command post here in Washington. Already far more words have been flung in this way by both sides than ever be fore had been flung before mid-August had been reached. The third front is the floor of the United States Senate. The resumed session is still formally to open. But already a marshaling and counter marshaling goes on there for a politely savage struggle which may have great influ ence on the outcome in No vember. THE Kennedy-Johnson forces will, of course, be under Kennedy's ultimate command, there as elsewhere. But in this one theater of action the second officer, Senator Lyn don B. Johnson, will have a great and possibly a decisive hand in the Kennedy-Johnson strategy. For in the Senate Johnson, as still the majority leader, is still the senior officer present. What Kennedy and John son mean to do is to run up, in weeks' time, a legislative record of popular appeal and liberal cast. These bills they will send to President Eisen hower to accept or to veto. If he accepts them Kennedy and Johnson can probably claim the credit - or blame - for what is in them. If the Presi dent rejects them, the Ken nedy - Johnson forces will counterattack - not the Presi dent but Nixon. Nixon, for his part, will be operating in the Senate with out any assistance from his running - mate, Henry Cabot Lodge. Lodge, our Ambassa dor to the United Nations, in tends to go on with his duties there. But the Vice President will not be without his re sources on the floor of the Senate. He is still its presid ing officer. ALREADY, more over, he has the undoubted support of the whole Republican side of the Senate. No Republican there at this point of crisis, whatever his past differences with Vice President Nixon, is now going to help in the destruction o f presidential candidate Nixon. Taking all in all, it would 'Sea Monster' Seen On English Coast Scarborough, Eng. - UPD -Residents and tourists thought they had found a cousin of the Loch Ness monster Sunday when a 50-foot sea monster was spotted at sunrise. But the monster turned out to be a phony, left over from a local festival. "It's not every day one has to dispose of a dragon," ex plained Derek Towle, a mem ber of the committee in charge of cleaning up after the festi val. "We decided to launch it floriously in the sea, and sink It later." blazing Whit Konrad Adenauer is expected to mediate between Britain and the six-nation common market bloc to prevent a wide open division of Europe into S. WHITE appear at the moment that Nixon was a bit outgunned on each of the three fronts of this war. But there is this to remember: Nixon is still far the most experienced national campaigner in the field. And he is a field commander who before this has turned seem ing disaster into actual tri umph. To sum up, as an old-fashioned army, communique might put it: there is heavy and unexpectedly early action on every front. Already, the fog of war hangs heavily everywhere. And the issue is in doubt - as it well may be until the very last day of the firing. i (Copyright, 1960. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS In a closely-watched Ten nessee Democratic primary election Estes Kefauver won a third term nomination to the U. S. Senate (which in Tennessee is equivalent to election) with a stunning landslide victory. As this is written (with returns in from 90 per cent of the state's 2,635 precincts) the vote is: Kefauver 433,007. Taylor 218,981. The big issue of the election was civil rights. Kefauver rep resented the moderate liberal element. His opponent, Judge Andrew Taylor, stood pat for segregation and states rights. TENNESSEE is an interest intf craf. Tt hoc Innff hoon known as the Volunteer State because in every war since the Revolution it has supplied two or three times as many volunteers as were called for by the federal government. Tennessee was the last state to break away from the Union in 1861 and the first to be ad mitted to the Union again after the war between the states had e nded. It fought through the war as a Southern state, but when the war ended there was no waving of the bloody shirt in Tennessee. Its people went to work courage ously and in the difficult days of the Reconstruction they managed to rebuild their economy under the new con ditions. A PECULIARITY of the state is that no resident of it ever calls himself just a Tennessean. He is either an East Tennessean, a Middle Tennessean or a West Tennes sean. East Tennessee is a moun taineer land, with all the characteristics of a mountain country. Its people tend to be small farmers. Middle Tennes see is a bluegrass country, with blooded horses, beef and dairy cattle. It has most of the characteristics of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. West Tennessee is the Old South. The "land o' cotton," bordering on the Mississippi, 01' Man River, with romantic river boats and white-columned Big Houses in its back ground. But Even in tradition-hallowed West Tennessee Kefauver got a substantial vote, breaking even with his opponent in many precincts and even car rying a few. VVHAT does it all mean? ' I think it means that if the South is left reasonably alone and is given a reason able amount of time, it will solve its own civil rights prob lems. Just as the people of Tennessee, including aristo cratic West Tennessee, got to gether and solved their diffi cult reconstruction problems and came out of it all a pros perous, modern American state. Such a solution, if and when it is reached, will be far better for our country as a whole than a forced and too hasty decision based on the cold-blooded vote-chasing that has characterized so much of the PURELY POLITICAL civil rights battling of recent years. Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No lnnirftr be innnrwl At- feel 111-Bt- fftse because of loose, wobbly false teeth. PASTEETH. an Improved alka line inon-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates. Get f A3TKKTH today at anjrdruf counts two warring trade groups. Adenauer fears that unless some compromise is reached, the entire Western European defense alliance could be weakened - with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev the chief winner. Adenauer recently met with French President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, and the issue was among those discussed there. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan journeys to Bonn this week, and the eco nomic issue will also be con sidered then. The upshot is expected to be an understand ing to form a joint forum for close consultation between the two rival groups. Political Relations Far East observers look for American-Filipino relations to continue to improve and for those between the Soviet Union and Japan to get better. But' they forsee that Japan will remain at odds with Com munist China and look for a continued delay in the re sumption of talks to normal Drummond (Walter Lippman is on vacation. from Washington in his absence.) WHY KENNEDY LEADS Washington - Fortunately no one can foresee how this Presidential campaign is go ing to end. But we do know how it is beginning. It is beginning with Senator Kennedy in a visibly strong position, with Vice President Nixon facing an uncertain, uphill prospect. Both nominees and most po litical writers are agreed on that. Mr. Nixon counts himself the underdog and he isn't just saying so to avoid overconfi dence. He means it. He is planning his campaign accord ingly. Mr. Kennedy knows that his problem is to hold the strength he already has and to keep the independent and registered-Democratic voters, who twice supported General Eisenhower, from voting for a Republican President again. The immediate questions to look at, then, are these: What are Kennedy's campaign ad vantages? How far do they put him ahead? Can Nixon close the gap? HPHERE are four factors which combine to give Kennedy favorable odds at the outset: 1-The majority of voters are overwhelmingly Demo cratic and have been almost uninterruptedly for 28 years. Evidence: the Republican par ty as a party has won a ma jority of the voters only once in the past 14 Congressional elections. Thus the Republi cans have been a minority party in 13 of the past 14 Con gressional elections-from 1932 through 1938. Only once did the Republican Congressional candidates get more votes than the Democratic Congres sional candidates; that was in 1946 at the peak of Mr. Tru man's temporary unpopular ity. 2 - President Eisenhower's popularity has never rubbed off on the Republican party. After the narrow Congression al majority in 1952, President Eisenhower continued to mount in favor and the Re publican party continued to decline in favor. The Presi dent won more decisively; the Republican party lost more Need vh the lJllvery fI llll Every detail of III 'n our nanc's v W that all will be petence and tl ize relations Deiween japan and the Republic of Korea. Short-lived Government South Korea's new govern, ment is being counted out be fore it's solidly in power. Many observers in Seoul are predicting a life of only a few months, and no more than a year at the-longest for the present regime. The reason: Economic prob lems that may be too tough to conquer, especially when winter sets in. These will be aggravated by a reported cut of $40 million in American economic aid funds for this fiscal year. African Federation British hopes are rising for avoiding another "Congo sit uation" in the British . ruled Central African Federation. An agreement for limited in ternal self-government reach ed in London with Nyasland's fiery nationalist leader Hast ings Banda has been hailed as a triumph for those advo cating a gradual movement towards freedom in African colonial territories. Reports Roscoe Drummond reports decisively-lost three consecu tive Congresses. The Demo cratic majority for Congress reached nearly 6,000,000 votes in 1958. Recent public opin ion polls show a still greater disparity. 3- At every level of govern ment, from Congress to court house, the Democratic party and the Democratic organiza tion is immeasurably stronger than the Republican. Evi dence: the U. S. Senate stands 66 Democrats, 34 Republicans. The U. S. House of Represen tatives has 280 Democrats, 152 Republicans. There are 34 Democratic governors, 16 Re publican. The Democrats have majority control of 29 state legislatures, the Republicans in seven. The "U. S. News and World Report" notes that ot the 177 largest cities, 128 have Democratic mayors, 49 have Republican. 4- Organized labor is strong, er than ever, more united, better financed than ever, and will be more active in support of Senator Kennedy than it was in support of Adlai Stev enson. These are formidable assets for Kennedy at the start of his campaign. What does Nixon have with which to counter these disadvantages? TT IS a fact that party strength is not automatical ly translated into votes for the Presidential nominee. The American political habit is to vote for the man, not the par ' -. "nosing a President. Kennedy will have to win this .c.uocratic swing vote; he won't inherit u. ivixon will have his chance to win it. While Nixon does not have the asset of being a war hfcro, a leader above partisan poli tics, he is already far better known to more voters than is Kennedy. He has had wider training for the Presidency, more direct experience in world affairs. ? Nixon will also be present ing himself to the nation as the most progressive Repub lican since Teddy Roosevelt. Together, these are the rea sons both Kennedy and Nix on see this as an unusually close election, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) ; Anticipated, Wish Observed ' a funeral service can be left comforting knowledge attended to with quiet com- houghtful understanding. perl: Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT -