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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1960 4 A "fcotucitf . ktfltL. koiW ru cnr Aviijii iuwm CIRAU) T LATHAM. Bui, Uft XKKW ALLEN JX.. Mn( tftltar EARL. H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CKTFMArl, TeW Editor iucraro jxwrrr. spsrta Editor OUVE STARCH! R, Women'e Editor PAU gruciwjn. tarcuimon Mir An Independent Newapaper rod m eeoond el us minor ot Modford. Oreeon, undor Act ot Mrcnj, 1117 uBScnirnoN rates Br Mil) In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunder 1 rear (19.00 Dally and Sunday 4 mot. IM . Pally and Sunday moa. JS Sunday Only one yoar .SO By Carrier In Advance Uadford Aahland, Contra Point Earl a Paint. Jacksonville. Geld Rill Phoenix. Shady Core, Rogue Rlv. or. Talent and on Motor rnutoa. Daily and Sunday year tll.M mur arm ounaiy j mo. i Carrier and Dealora copy Ida AH iarrna mn in AOTanoo "official Paper of City of Medfard Official Paper of Jacaon Conner 1 United Proaa International full Loaeed Wire DJJ. Telophoto Nawaplcturoo ." ltEMBER OT'atttH llJMAr or CIKCULATlOni Advertlrlnf Repreientattra iVTST HOLIDAY CO.. I INC Of ficer In Now York, Chicago, De troit, San Fran dice, Leo ATngelee. lanta. Vancouver, oarae, rornana. m, iouia. ftv , m.c. NATIONAL IDITOIIAI ggT"g6' Flight o' Time Meetere) and Jaekeen County History from tho filet ef The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 end 90 veari ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1110 (Friday) .' All volunteer Army enlist ed reservists in the Medford area have been ordered to take physical examinationi starting next week. The federal government is expected to Issue an order soon that will make possible a switch of land between the city and federal government so the city will be able to build a second water pipeline from Big Butte springs. JO YEARS AGO , Aue. 11, 1140 (Sunday) The state game commission In court today contended that a diversion dam being con. structed on the Rogue river near Gold Hill Interferes with migratory fish. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: Na tional emergencies continue to spring up like mushrooms and service stations. This land, if one possesses a nim ble imagination, is in constant danger of a 'blitzkrieg' from everybody by the Hudson Bay Eskimos." 0 YEARS AGO Aug.. 11, 1030 (Mender) President Herbert Hoover has cancelled his scheduled, visit this summer to Crster Lake. Extra fancy Bartlett are bringing $40 a ton in the East, to the delight of local glow ers. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1M0 (Wednesday) The Bank of Jacksonville has been shut down and Its president confined to Jail. Ken Lilly of Ashland has been signed by the New York Oiant baseball team. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1110 (Thursday) Secretary of the Interior R. A. Bellinger has decided to make a two-day inspection tour of Klamath Falls but will pass up a visit to this elty. A Medford couple was mar ried here in a Chalmers-Detroit auto yesterday and are probably the first ever to do so..-. What's Yonr I.Q.? Nine Of fee somtet Is superior! era or eight Is enalteati Nre Of 1. Is vanilla bean the fruit el a species of orchid? 2. The name of the London residence of the British Royal family is Buckingham, St. James, or Hyde ParkT 3. At 12 o'clock noon East tern Standard Time In the U.S., what time is it In Mos cow, Soviet Russia? 4. Who Invented the pendu lum? 5. Which French ruler had the same name as a form of French pastry? 3. Judas committed suicide by what method? 7. What fur is often called "royal fur"? 9. Which U.S. President was called the "Great Emend pator"? 0. The name for a male swan is cob, cod, or cog? 10. Was the first public building erected in Washing ton, D.C., the Capitol, White House, or Treaaiirv? Answersi 1. Yes. 2. Buck ingham. 3. I p.m. 4. Galilee. s. napoleon. I. Mj henfinf. 7. Ermine. I. Abraham Lin coln. I. Cek. 10. "While House, "Special "All U.S. civil slrcrsft, without exception, re to bo grounded during the night of September 940, 1960. So will all military aircraft not actually participating in Air Defense Exercise Sky Shield." This quotation is from a "Special Warning" carried in the current issue of the AOPA Pilot, magazine of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As sociation. It goes on to explain that the entire North American continent north of the Mexican border will be the target of a simulated enemy attack, with the North American air defense system op posing them. It says "this exercise will make all U.S. and Canadian airspace unsafe for any other flying." fXNE can say, "Aha, our defense forces are on w the alert. Good for them. They need the prac tice. And grounding all little enough price to pay." Then come the second thoughts. If Russia decides to out an order grounding U.S. and Canada. North will have to coDe with how they can. So what 1 1 . jta t t. a- ail civil aircraiw jusi w for the "defenders"? THE test is unreal. 1 And for an unreal and thus unproductive ex ercise, the U.S. and Canada are asked to give up all civilian flying for a period of six hours. This will be between 3 and 9 a.m. on the Eastern seaboard, and between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Pacific Standard time. Schedules of commercial airlines will be foul ed up beyond all recognition, travelers incon venienced, and hypothetical millions or dol lars wasted so the fly-boys can play cops and robbers. Emereencv air traffic will be delayed. Forest Service planes will be grounded and six hours can be a long time in the life of a forest fire. Air ambulance planes (including our own Mercy Flights) will be unable to . . ' 1 or mercy ana six nours life, or death, of a sick or WE'RE all for military eairl an matw times But this exercise, of extremely dubious mili tary value, will not only create havoc with air schedules (including air mail), but also will very definitely threaten lives and property. All in all we'd say it is a pretty stupid project. And while on the subject, who in heck has th authority to tell several thousand Americans to stay out of the sky, anyway borne general who thinks it's a good idea? And under what statutory authorization 7 The whole thing smacks of military brag gadocio, leavened with not a little unconcern for civilian convenience, and a certain unreality as to what any future war and Soviet intelligence may be like. E.A. Forest Signs, Again A week or so ago we were taken to task for a "remarkable" suggestion voiced earlier in this space that the lumber industry, and the federal forest management agencies, could do a lot for their public relations by putting up signs ex plaining what they are doing. This suggestion was, mational signs at logging were visible to the public. So it is with1 particular interest that we note the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm Association has plans for this very thing. o a o o o THE August 6 issue of "Tree Farm News Notes" - pumisned by suuir A reports: "Roadside signs will be used by SOCTFA to explain to tourists and local residents the logging activity they see along main traveled highways . . . "The sign idea has been kicking around for some time, but this marks the first action on it in this area ... It will explain the type of logging being done, the economic story of the wood being harvested, some comments on the job of reforestation being carried on, and a big plug for Keep Oregon Green. This in formation should be of Interest to those who use the highway and see the logging operation. Too often, through a lack of understanding of logging practices, the average person will think an area is being denuded when actually the timber, like a field of grain, is being harvested properly and the area is being re seeded for future crops . . ." Good for SOCTFA. to good logging and clean-up practices in public areas, this should do a great deal to modify the "woodman spare that tree" type of thinking. LTE ALSO noticed, on a recent trip through Darts of the Shasta. Lassen. Tahoe. Tnivahe and Inyo National Forests, a variation in the ef fectiveness of National matters to the public. In one of them, where the highway went through a clear-cut patch, was a sign saying ronderosa rine rlantation, which drew at tention to small reproduction growth otherwise not noticeable. Smaller sicng elsewhere also encouraged cood forest practices, pointed road routes, names and iniormation of use to the ;; ; It all helps. E.A. Evervhnrl no one have responsibilities any more? Oregon Statesman. Warning" non - military aircraft is a attack us, it won't send all civil aircraft in the American defense forces the emergency as and is the good of grounding 1 - . i J I. 1. mane n uecepuveiy easy carry out their errands 1. 1 ' 1L. can De crucial in uie injured patient. preparedness, and have in particular, for infor operations where they Combined with attention Forest signs explaining out forest camps, gave destinations, and other traveling public. Dennis the 5a...- "ttW KITH? WflOf OUT ai as - UUsTVnilll Matter of Fact - jomPh i.oP MORTGAGING THE FUTUR Washington - President Ei senhower has now passed over the recommendations of his I I Secretary o f State and ig nored the Re publican plat form s prom ise to "Intens ify, accelerate, and increase" the national defense ef forts. Quite natu saying so in TSSEfrtCSar rally without plain words, the President's Message to Congress indicates he has merely decided to un freeze the last Congressional sessions' added appropriations for special defense projects. These funds were voted against the President's wish. They were instantly frozen by the President s and the Budg et Bureau's order. And now the act of taking these funds out of the refrigerator again is presented as Important and significant. The best way to gauge the real nature of this decision ot the President is to take a look at the problem of the airborne alert. A maximum airborne alert was urgently requested last winter, by the brilliant man who has personal respon sibility for the American de terrent, the Strategic Air Commander, Gen. Thomas S. Power. o o a IN THE PERIOD of the mis sile gap, which we have now entered, the SAC air bas es in the U. S. and overseas are nakedly exposed to the Kremlin's long range and me dium range rockets. Existing systems provide viewer warn ing against a missile strike. Hence the only way to have a truly invulnerable deterrent during the period of the mis sile gap is to keep the maxi mum feasible number of SAC'S B-S2 bombers constant ly in ethe air, with bombs aboard and ready to fly to their targets. According to General Pow er, a maximum airborne alert is needed now. The mood will be vastly more acute in 1961 and 1962, when the missile gap will be very much wider. This need in 1961 and 1962 will not be cancelled out, ei ther, by a Presidential order for construction of more Po laris submarines, which can not be at sea before 1964 or 1963. A maximum airborne alert is now Impossible, however, for the simple reason that air craft in flight wear out their engines and other parts. SAC does not have a spare parts backlog big enough to main tain a serious airborne alert without continuous attrition of IU B-52 force. With extreme caution, the last session of Congress therefore appropri ated an additional $85 million to buy a larger reserve of B-52 spart parts for SAC. This is one of the appropriations that has now been unfrozen. . ITNLESS Budget Bureau pet- u tlfogging negates the un freezing (which is quite possi ble) SAC will therefore be permitted to acquire the capa bility of mounting a continu ous airborne alert. BUT THE JOB WILL ONLY BE COM PLETED NEXT SPRING, since nine months have al ready been lost because of the President's obstinate resist ance to Gen. Power's recom mendation. AND AN ALERT OF 80 BOMBERS IN THE AIR WILL Bf THE MOST THAT SAC CAN HOPE TO MOUNT, EVEN BY NEXT SPRING. There is a simple measure for the feckless inadequacy of this belated gesture. The for mer SAC commander, Gen. Curtlss LcMay, has never been one to overestimate the effecUveness of air defense. YET GENERAL LeMAY USED TO MAINTAIN THAT SAC NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO SEND Orr A FIRST 2" Menace (OR ALLIGATORS'. ' STRIKE OF 1,000 AIR CRAFT. General LeMay 'did not ar gue that It was necessary for SAC to deliver 1,000 cargoes of nuclear bombs, which would be ridiculous. He ar gued that a first strike of 1, 000, bombers was tactically necesary, to make sure of overwhelming the defenses and reaching all assigned tar gets. Furthermore, General LeMay set up his requirement of a 1,000-plane first strike in the period when the Soviet air defense was relatively very weak. a e a SINCE then, and particularly in the last 18 months, the Soviet air defense system has been greatly strengthened. But the American government, with the missile gap staring us in the face, has now de cided that it will be quite enough to have a sure first strike capability of only 80 aircraft! More money - and very lit tle more money - would buy more airborne alert. An addi tional $100 million of appro priations now would permit an alert of 160 B-52's by next spring. An additional $150 million would give the means to prepare a maximum alert of over 200 B-52's. With the hound dog missile added to the B-52's, this kind of maxi mum alert would be a reason ably reliable deterrent, unless the masters of the Kremlin go mad. But if the spare parts are not ordered now, the alert will not be possible later. A whole series of other cas es might be cited, to show how the future is being mortgaged to suit the present convenience of the Budget Bureau and the wishes of the President. If this goes on, President Eisen hower's successor, whether he be Vice President Nixon or Senator Kennedy, may well not Inherit the means to de fend this nation and the free world. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 23 Injured in Airliner Downdraft Rome. (UPD A L o nd o n- bound airliner from Malta hit a downdraft over the Italian coast today and plunged 600 feet, throwing passengers against the roof. Twenty-three persons were injured, eight seriously enough to be hos pitalized. The accident occurred about 10 minutes before the British European Airways Viscount with 49 passengers aboard landed at Rome's Ciampino Airport. The pilot radioed for doctors and ambulances to meet the plane. The eight passengers hos pitalized were Italian and Maltese. , Socio Security for Doctors Turned Down Washington - (UPD - The Sen ate Finance committee has turned down a proposal to put doctors under Social Security. Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said the committee voted 11-4 Wednesday to elim inate Social Security coverage for doctors from a House passed bill. He said the American Med ical association had asked such action. SWISS GUARD INSANE Rome - (UPD - A former member of the VaUcan Swiss Guard Wednesday was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of shooting his commandant In April, 1959. Adolf Ruckert, 25, was or dered committed to an Insane asylum for five years. He wounded Col. Robert Nunllst after being dismissed from the guards. The Vatican turned over jurisdiction in the case to Italian authorities. Communications l.oitors io the Editor must bear the name and address ef the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of s pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mall 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 necossarlly represent the views of tho papert In fact the contrary is often the case. An Encounter To the Editor: Some few years ago we were In Jack sonville, wearing a scotch plaid shirt, suspenders and a knapsack with a gold pan, and met up with a young ener getic news reporter who ask ed us if we were a long time prospector. We answered in the affirmative, and he began to talk by asking ponderous questions about how many figures in four ciphers of gold we could account for finding? Not wanting to be plagued with a conscience of being a cheerful liar, we perhaps ruin ed an illusive gold story that could have been a yard wide and all gold studded right out of the mother lode district. Well, as we began to tell him in a modest way that we only managed to eke out a living - and no more - our candid reporter friend brought the versatile dialogue to a rather sudden ending and a muffled close. We never did hear or read of our short interview of ven ture or adventure, and added up the facts that it takes to turn out the elements of a sensational story plus evi dence and realism, too. Truth is stranger than fic tion. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford. Poured Water-and Rain To the Editor: I would like to say a few words about Dr. Durno's letter in the Mail Tribune Aug. 4. I am disabled for w o r k. Have been for over two years. I get over $100 a month Social Security, just me and my wife. But as Mrs. Gillaspie said in her letter, I know of peo ple that are not getting but $40 and $50 a month. Would Dr. Durno feel financially se cure if that was all he had coming in to live on? He says It Is not political. Why does he want to wait until January, 1961, after the elections, to decide on It? We know the Medical association is not go ing to do anything unless it Is for the good of them. That Is why they fight the Forand Bill. . i Even If Dr. Durno says It Is not political, if we read the papers and listen to the news, we know they have made a political football out of the Forand Bill. Dr. Durno says, "I would further recommend that need be determining factor and that this investigation be car ried out on a local level by local agencies that presently exist." That also looks like politics to me. I know people that are on relief, and some are get ting pensions, that say they are afraid to vote, that they might lose what they are get ting. I feel different about that. I feel if we don't get out and vote better and help fight our own battles, we are going to lose what we have got. I think we should speak up and vote for what we think is right. Let's stop having water poured on us, and the candi dates for public office tell us we were rained on. I don't know about Dr. Dur no's wealth. I have seen his home. If he paid his debts he said he owed when he came here and has what he has now in 30 years, the people here have paid him well for his services. You can't blame him for wanting to protect it. If he is elected to congress, I am sure he will. Also the Medical as sociation. J. W. Klmbrell 515 Western ave. Medford Housing Mathematics To the Editor: On Friday. July 22, your paper carried a story regarding the visit here of Robert Campbell, director of the Lane county Housing Authority and his talk to the Rogue Valley Council on Aging, about pub lic housing for low income senior citizens. According to the account in the paper, each unit costs $12,000. In order to be eligible to live ir. one of these units, the individual must have an in come of $3,200 a year or less, and his rent will be set at 20 per cent of the income. Thus, a maximum of $640 per unit will hf charged as rent, ranglnr presumably to as low as $200 ner year. The projetS is financed by a 40 year mort gage at 4V4 per cent Interest. The annual payment re quired to retire a $12,000 mortgage at 4V4 per cent in terest tr $624.96. A $12,000 dwelling In Medford, if it bears its fair share of the tax load, would be taxed at $243 per year. Thus principal, in terest and taxes would amount to $867.96. If the maximum annual rental is $640, it Is obvious that the balance of cost, to which must be added maintenance and administra tion costs, would have to come from general tax revenues. Now the Rogue Valley Council on Aging is pressuring the. county court to install such a project here. The aver age citizen in Oregon Is now paying 35 per cent of his in come in taxes at all levels. Perhaps for you and me, this is not too bad, but let us- con sider the burden that will be placed upon our children. If our children have a normal work span of 40 years, 35 per cent of their earnings in. taxes would mean 14 years devoted entirely to the payment of governmental costs and that without any increase in the tax load such as would in evitably result from the wide spread adoption of projects such as this housing project. Our children have no voice in the governmental affairs of the nation. They can only look to their parents for pro tection against the increasing burden of taxation. One way that you can help to protect them is to phone or write the county court expressing your opposition to this extravagant housing proposal. Dick House 113 East Eighth st. Medford. The Devil Exists To the Editor: In reply to John Reando's letter in Fri day's Communications, I agree -we don't need an old bogey man Devil, but like it or not, we've got one. If we accept God, we must accept the Bible and it is full of Satan's contemptible acts. People who blame him for the world's woes are not silly, they're putting the blame ex actly where it belongs. Jesus (John 8:44) says that Satan was a liar and a mur derer from the beginning. He proved himself such when he caused the first pair, Adam and Eve, to become disobe dient, bringing the sentence of sin and death upon them and upon all of mankind. (Gen. 2:17-3:4,5 Rom. 5:12.) Satan was not created a devil or Satan, but was origin ally a righteous, cherub of God's creation by means of The Word, the first begotten Son of God. He made himself such by rebellion against Al mighty God. He is not the ugly monster that we picture him but an ex. tremely beautiful creature and he had a very responsible position in the garden of Eden as the Anointed Covering Cherub. It was because of this that he became lifted up in pride, and unrighteousness was found in him. (Ezekiel 28:12-18.) He became so con ceited that he decided to ex alt himself and place his throne above the stars of God and make himself like the Most High God. (Isa 14:11-15.) Finally (Rev. 12:9) we find him cast out of heaven, "the original serpent, the one call ed Devil and Satan." Rev. 12- 12 says '.'Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea. For the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short time." The whole world is lying in his power. (1 John 5:19.) The greatest deception Sa tan practices is to blind the people to his existence, so don't think that he always uses evil works. Second Cor, 11:14, 15 says that he also ap pears as an angel of light. In knowledge we have hope First John 3:8 says: "For this purpose, the Son of God was made manifest, that he might break up the works of the Devil." Rom. 16:20 says that soon Satan will be crushed under foot. James 4:7 tells us to "resist the Devil and he will flee far from you." Mrs. B. J. Wyatt 1122 West Eighth st. Medford. A Dream Dying To the Editor: Recently, Dean Acheson correctly stated: "The first duty of so ciety is to survive." Society is a moral organism, a juridical institution based on justice. The first duty is to protect, and vae "second" duty is to promote the general welfare. In 1776, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Indepen dence, a philosophic document which acknowledges "a cre ator," not French in origin, but English frorr the teach ings of John Locke, whose "natural law" theories were taken from Sidney Hooker, who took them almost word for word, from Thomas Aquinas. Hooker took his social principles from Robert Bcllarmine and Suarez. Both of these men believed, "his tory" is the parent of political science. The "blueprint" to carry out the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, is the U.S. Constitution, which was also drafted at Philadel- Drummond (Walter LloDtnan It on vacation. from Waihinjron In nil abienae.) JOHNSON AND ROCKEFELLER Washington - Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller are the- "secret weapons" of the Kennedy and Nixon Presidential campaigns. There are remarkable paral lels In the roles they will be playing - and in the stake they have in the result. Each will be campaigning to elect the man he tried to de feat for the nomination. Each is eoina to elve every- (hint, hp's cot to helD his party's ticket win. Neither .Inhnson nor Rockefeller is a half-way, half-hearted politi cal ally. One, or the other may well exert a decisive influence on the outcome, so close is the election expected to be. Finally, neither can lose! Tf he is able to heln elect Mr. Kennedv. Lvndon John son, as his Vice President, will strategically nower- ful position in the Administra tion, influential with the rres Ident, Influential with Con nross. influential in the na tion. If Mr. Kennedy is de feated, Senator Johnson will emerge as a formidable and nationally established claim- ant for the Democratic Presi dential nomination in 1964. Tf he is able to helD elect Mr Nixon. Governor Rocke feller will emerge from the campaign with enhanced pres tige. He can either accept a hicrh nost in the Administra tion or run for re-election in New York in 1962. If Mr. Nix on is defeated, Mr. Rockefel ler will become the outstand- phia eleven years later - In 1787. Jefferson's much quoted figure of speech, "the wall of separation of church and state," is taken from a letter Jefferson wrote to a Baptist minister, in Danbury, Con necticut, 30 years after he wrote the Declaration of In dependence. In 1776, Harvard college was 140 years old. Establish ed in 1636, with a $500 grant from the "public funds' of the Massachusetts Bay Col ony, it adopted as the college motto "Christi Gloriam" (For the Glory of Christ). Today, many of Harvard's professors and students have adopted their own motto of, "Nullius in Verba" (not bound to re vere 'he word of any particu lar master). Is it any wonder that pri vate religious schools' enroll ment since 1950 have increas ed 14'i per cent, while public school enrollment has increas ed only 42 per cent. Why lo 400,000 attend Jewish paro chial schools in New York City? Few liberals will ever quote Jefferson's use of the expression, "Swinish Multi tudes," which he wrote in a letter U Mann Page, August 30, 1795. Today, both political parties claim Jefferson. He would not feel at home in either. Jeffer son was an aristocrat, who desired an agrarian republic, governed by an "educated elite." He feared "the mobs of great cities," that "our governments will remain vir tuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agri cultural." O'Shaughnessy, the Irish poet, once sang: "For each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth." Stephen E. Gillis White City, Ore. O Aoom hem lK CewrihewM NIANK MOSS AN HAIOtO SNODOIASS, rUNttAl DOOCTOOS DAT CM NIGHT WO4030 Ask us about tho OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN which we heartily recommend and endorse. Reports Romoo Drwnmone1 reports ing claimant for the Republi can nomination In 1964. SENATOR Johnson was re luctant to accept the Vice Presidential nomination. Ho preferred to remain as Ma jority Leader of the Senate. He accepted necause senator Kennedy made it an Issue ot party loyalty under clrcum- - stances In which Mr. Johnson could hardly refuse. It may turn out well for both. Johnson may be able to hold most of the South for Kennedy and, if so, this would be the first time that a Vice- Presidential nominee has helped carry a single state for the national ticket. This would make Lyndon's influence in the campaign politically unique. But there is a large political dividend which Senator John son' is already beginning to earn for himself in this cam paign. He is having a superb op portunity to free himself to tally from the false image, which many Northern voters still hold, of his being a South ern anti-liberal, reluctant on civil rights. Mr. Johnson is none of theso things and he is rightly tak ing full advantage of his rola in this election to disprove tho myth. He started right out in his campaign-opening speech in Nashville, Tenn., where he could have understandably been tempted to compromise on the liberal promises of the Democratic platform. "Wherever I may go," he said boldly, "I will never speak as a Southerner to Southerners, nor as a Protes tant to Protestants, nor as a white to whites. "I will speak only as an American to Americans -whatever their region or their religion or their race." In Los Angeles Senator Johnson simply could not hur dle the opposition of the le bor leaders to his nomina tion and the feeling of the Northern Democratic politi cians that he could not win the rank-and-file labor vote. Now, Walter Reuther pro claims his "enthusiastic sup port" for the two "excellent" Democratic nominees and warmly praises Johnson's Senatorial record. It is clear that Lyndon Johnson will be either a pow erful force within a Kennedy administration or a powerful contender for the Presidential nomination four years hence. GOVERNOR Rockefeller has a comparable relationship . to the Nixon campaign. The Vice-President thinks the elec tion so close that the electoral votes of one sizable state will decide it. Rockefeller annoyed h i s party and helped Nixon by in sisting upon a more progres-: sive, outspoken platform. If " he can help Nixon carry New York's 45 electoral votes, he will have demonstrated his good faith and party loyalty. Whatever the national result, Rockefeller will have a valu able future. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MOVIE DIRECTOR DIES -.: Santa Monica, Calif. (UPO -Academy Award winning movie director Frank Lloyd, 73, died Wednesday in St. John's hospital. Lloyd's "Mu tiny on the Bounty" won the . best picture of the year award . in 1936. He also won Oscars for direction of "The Divino Lady" in 1929 and "Caval cade" in 1933. every minute of every day
