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o O O o o o o TUESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1960 1 r-r MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Nixon Acceptance Speech Lauded in Flood of Letters Washington-OIPD-Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon's of fice claimed today his Chica go acceptance speech has brought an overwhelmingly favorable flood of 24,000 let ters and telegrams. Nixon's press secretary Herbert G. Klein, gave no de tailed breakdown. He said the letters are continuing to come into Nixon's Washington head quarters at the rate of 2,000 a day. Klein said "only a few" critical letters were in the flood of mail. From Democrats, Too He said the letters were sent by Democrats and inde pendents as well as Republi cans and arrived from all parts of the United States plus Europe, Latin America, Ja pan, Hong Kong and the Near East. GOP presidential candidate Nixon and his Democratic op ponent, Sen. John F. Ken nedy, found themselves some what tied down by their legis lative duties in the pre-election congressional session. Kennedy was scheduled to attend a meeting of the Sen- Maurine Proposes Grain for Feeding Portland - (UPD - Mrs. Maur ine Neuberger, Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate, said here Monday that any new national wheat surplus control program must include means of diverting a portion of the grain into livestock feeding. Mrs. Neuberger made the statement while on a tour of the stockyards here with Portland stockmen officials. "Increased consumption is one solution to the enigma of our mounting wheat surplus es," Mrs. Neuberger said. ate Labor committee which is considering legislation to per mit picketing at construction sites where several contrac tors are involved. Kennedy is chairman of the committee's subcommittee on labor legis lation. Breakfast with Ike Nixon and Senate Republi can leaders went to the White House for a breakfast session with President Eisenhower on legislative problems of the po litically - charged congression al session. Afterward, the vice presi dent had appointments with Milton Baker, Pennsylvania GOP chairman, Sen. Clifford P. Chase (R-N.J.) who is seek ing reelection, and Walter Kennedy, a New Jersey can didate for a House seat. Presbyterians Tell Area Fund Chairman George C. Flanagan, Med ford, has been named chair man of the southwest Oregon Presbytery for the 34,000,000 San Francisco Theological Seminary advancement fund. Flanagan, who is vice presi dent and general manager of the Elk Lumber company, will be responsible for campaign operations in the presbytery which covers the southwest ern portion of the state. The advancement fund for the Presbyterian seminary is being conducted in the 11 western states and Alaska. It is designed to raise money for the expansion of physical fa cilities and purchase of addi tional library books needed to meet a doubled enrollment by 1970. 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The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which mer chant was not advertising so that he could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterward. A rich English squire found himself at an embassy reception in London recently, terri fied at being left alone for a moment with a suave Arabian dip lomat. The sqiure hazarded, "They tell me that in your country you worship the sun." The Arab .answered, "So would you if you ever saw it. 1560, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Washington Herbert Roback, staff director of the House Military Operations subcommittee, stating that the group is considering an investigation of why construction of some Atlas mssile bases is lagging: "If you don't have a launching pad, what's the good of a missile?" London Mrs. George Leek, disclosing that she asked her vicar to exorcise a, ghost because it had taken to an noying her family while they were watching television: "Why on one occasion I was admiring a woman's hai an afternoon television show when it (the ghost) brushed right across my face. This awful spook will drive us all to de struction.". Sioux Falls, S.D. Fire Capt. Floyd La Marie, summing up the plight of 65 rioting convicts who forced themselves to surrender by setting fire to the concrete building where they were barricaded. "They cooked their own goose." Washington Carter Products Inc., of New York, manu facturers of "Rise" shaving cream, asserting that a certain "photographic license" is necessary in TV commercials: "If this were not so, most of the pictorial representations now on the air would be impossible to present." Oregon Traffic Fatal To Two; Youngster Drowns By United Press International At least two persons were killed in traffic accidents in Oregon Monday night and early today, and a three-year old boy drowned on an out ing near Eagle Creek. Mary Ellen Burkhartmeier, 18, Portland, was killed when the car in which she was rid ing sideswiped a parked log truck in Southeast Portland early today. Police said the girl appar ently had her head out the window when the car struck the truck. Newberg Man Killed Another two-car accident on Highway 219 three miles southeast of Newberg Monday night claimed the life of Don ald Howard Baldwin; 37, New berg. Seriously injured was his wife. His three children, Lorene, 12; Donald 16 and Gerry 13, were treated and released at a Newberg hospital.- Driver of the other car, Bruce Clayton Foss, 23, Aur ora and his wife, Roberta, a passenger in the car were in jured. Stale police said Foss was placed under arrest and would be charged with negli gent homicide. A three-year - old Eagle Creek boy, David Frank Hall, 'Radio Mirror' Shot Postponed Cape Canaveral, Fla.-IUPII-The federal space agency to day postponed because of technical difficulties the launching of a 100-foot diame- eter "radio mirror" balloon satellite. No details of the troubles were released. The shot was rescheduled for eWdnesday, The satellite was to have been launched aboard a Thor Delta three-stage rocket be fore dawn today. The difficul ties arose when the count down reached "t minus 25 minutes." The balloon, named Echo I, is designed to circle the earth about 1,000 miles up to en able scientists to experiment with bouncing radio signals. Scientists believe a series of echo-type balloons could open the door to worldwide tele vision and telephone com munications within the next few years. was drowned at Bonnie Lure park near Eagle Creek Mon day evening. Sheriff's officers said the child was on an out ing with his aunt, Barbara Warnholtz, Eagle Creek, and several other children, when the accident occurred. Officers said the boy was playing on a sliding board and apparently slid into deep water. His body was noticed in the water and recovered. Rescue efforts failed to revive him. FREE IN DOWNTOWN MEDFORD A $2 purchase with any member merchant gives you 1 hour's free parking. 1 TO O I MAIN St I It's Wonderful! In I Tl 1 l&l l-f-! f I " " A fine parking lot! This is great! The Park and Shop insignia led me right to this easy-to-park, convenient lot. Medford IS progressive! It's fun to do business here. 7 CLEAN LOTS AVAILABLE RiotinaConvicfs Back in Prison Sioux Falls. S.D. (UPD Sixty-five rioting convicts were held in solitary confine ment at the South Dakota State Penitentiary today while officials tried to find out why they staged a short lived rebellion at the prison. Wardei. G. Norton Jameson question the inmates to find out who the ringleaders were and how many took an active part in Monday's 90-minute riot. The rebels set fire to a prison industries building where they were barricaded but then had to give up when the smoke became unbearable. All the prisoners were recaptured. Four guards were overcome by smoke and two inmates received minor injuries dur ing the uprising. Jameson said the prisoners look no hostages and made no demands during the "poor ly planned" riot. He said it was the most orderly demon stration I've seen in a long time. in the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Friday was the 15th anni versary of the dropping of the first atom bomb on the Japan ese city of Hiroshima. That suggests a question: Where were you on Hiro shima Day? I have a strong feeling that every adult per son living on this earth re members vividly where he was and what he was doing on that day when the catacyls mic news broke that an atom bomb had been loosed upon an enemy city. When we saw the scream ing headlines and heard the tense voices of the announc ers, we all realized instinc tively that an older and more familiar era was ending and a newer and probably grim mer era was dawning. It was a shattering thought. rpHAT first atom bomb to be dropped upon an enemy killed 60,000 persons outright. injured 100,000 more and left 200,000 homeless. The killing of 60,000 per sons in one military attack isn't too staggering for the hu man mind to grasp without reeling. At the battle of Cannes in 216 B.C., when the army of Hannibal the Catha ginian met the army of Varro the Roman in Italy, 50,000 men were killed, chiefly Ro mans. But that was one man with a sword killing another man with a sword. The atom bomb at Hiroshi ma was different. It involved almost the element of the supernatural. It was accom plished by ONE bom b which suggested the thought that if man could make one atom bomb he could make an unlimited number of atom bombs. Suppose ALL of them were loosed at once? W it QMSfnM UfflUUMllllllmHIllI PLAY LAST CALL for Summer Play Clothes! COME IN - CASH-IN on These ... 11 H A T suggested this (hnnffht- Might it not have been bel ter if Albert Einstein hadn't orignally theorized that mat ter and energy are NOT dis tinct but can be CHANGED INTO EACH OTHER? That was the earliest dim beginning of the atom bomb, which has now progressed to the hydro gen bomb. That leads to this thought: Man now possesses the power to destroy this planet upon which he lives. GRIM question: WILL HE DO IT? rpHAT leads to this line of thought: Most of the tragic evils (tragic because they could have been prevented) from which mankind has suffered during the centuries of which we have a historical record have arisen out of TOO MUCH POWER CON CENTRATED IN TOO FEW HANDS. That brings us to this con clusion: Somehow . ; . just how we don't yet know ... a way must be found to prevent too much power from falling into too few hands. r ONE more thought before ending this think-piece: The word LIBERAL is be ing widely bandied about these days. What is a liberal? MARTIN Luther was a lib oral. He foueht against loo much power in too few hands. John Huss was a lib eral. He fought against too much power in too few hands. (He was burned at the stake.) Simon de Montfort was a litt ered. He fought against too much power in too few hai. 'i. (He died in battle, fighting the king who wanted too much flower.) Those men were LIB ERALS We need that kind of LIB ERAL leadership. 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