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MONDAY. AUGUST 29, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. A 5 Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE ..Congress-And lhe Election ... Washington - The Demo cratic presidential ticket has no doubt been at least thoreti- '1 cally injured by the com parative fail ure of the bobtailed ses sion of Con gress now drawing an grily toward its close. wiito ' ' a great mis take, however, to bet very much that this injury is neces sarily real or enduring. Equal ly dangerous - and the more Experienced Republicans both know this and privately stress it -" is the assumption that the session will automatically increase the lead claimed in -recent polls for Republican presidential candidate Nixon over Democratic presidential candidate Kennedy. (These very polls, by the way, are strongly suspect as to accuracy among the Nixon people themselves. They wish they could believe the figures, put they don't. They think it much too early to get any re liable reading of public feel ing, and so do the Democrats.) AND despite academic po litical theories, the plain fact is this: There is now no necessary relationship what ever between what any party does or doesn't do in Congress and how that party's presi dential nominee may fare in an election. Three successive times this point has surely been established. The Democrats took Con gress in 1954 in the face of the most popular Republican president in history, Dwight Eisenhower. In 1956, at the very moment he was piling up a second and even greater landslide victory, they took Congress again. In 1958, at a time when every rational political observer agreed he still held the country pretty much in his hands the Demo crats won Congress again. . There is hardly the slight est question- that they will win Congress again this year regardless of who wins the presidency. No senior Repub lican known to this corespond ent seriously disputes that out-Jook portunity the issues bound up in world affairs - dealing with Khrushchev, keeping the peace. Ticket-splitting as between the presidency and Congress is a fixed habit. There is, moreover, a sec ondary, but not inconsider able, fact. The Kennedy-Johnson slate can be reckoned to have been badly damaged only if one assumes the Dem ocratic convention platform was politically a poor one in the first place. For the im pression left by this session is not solely one of the in ability of Kennedy and John son to bring off legislation they wanted. Judy Garland in Another Comeback London -UPD- Judy Garland had more reason than ever today to make Europe her per manent home, as she said last week she planned to do. She put on a one-woman show at the London fauamum Sun day night that wowed audi ence and critics alike. I've had many wonderful moments, but it would be hard to beat this one, she said. Some of the critics called it another comeback," and Peter Evans in the Daily Ex press remarked that here was an entertainer who "has prob ably made more comebacks than a Cape Canaveral rocket." 'I don't know about that," said Judy, "but it was great." AN w doxes? The principal rea son is that men are elected for Congress in quite differ ent ways and for quite dif ferent reasons than for presi dent. The real and controlling and gut issues are usually local, or at most . regional, rather than national and in ternational. - Indeed, if Nixon had to de .pend on the local strength of the Republican party, con gressional district by district, he probably could save him self the trouble of running at -all. But the point is that he does not have to depend on that strength. This is precise ly why he has unhesitatingly grasped as his one great op- EQUALLY strong im pression has been that of two young men frustrated in their efforts to implement part of that platform by "old guard" southern Democrats and Republicans. This will be seen as a good coalition it majority of the country turns out to be in more or less con servative frame of mind. But if a majority turns up in a more or less liberal mood, Kennedy and Johnson will then be seen as the victims of stuffy, bad old conservatives. Such a circumstance would only increase the determina tion of the more or less lib eral majority to give them a hand. Nixon has known all along that he can't compete with the Democratic ticket if the public is really going to make its decisions primarily on so called liberal domestic issues His bet is that this isn't how the public will decide; Ken nedy's bet is that it is. In a word, nothing basic has chanaed very much. (CoDvriohi. 1960. by umxea Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Echo Not Bothered By Earth's Shadow Washington - (UPD - The Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration reports th Echo I communications satel lite has suffered no ill effects from its quick trips through the earth's shadow. The satellite, launched Aug, 12, now is beginning to move more into the shadow, causing a temperature change that some feared might affect the celophane-thin balloon. But a NASA spokesman said Sunday the shadow hasn't meant a thing to Echo's orbit. Laurance Rockefeller Says Now is Time for U.S. to Plan Its Outdoor Recreation Needs MILLION MARK Twenty states have one mil lion or more motor vehicles. By JAMES L. KILGALLEN United Press International New York-dJPli-The time is urgently here, in the opinion of Laurence S. Rockefeller, for America to work out the outdoor recreation needs which its zooming population will require in the next 40 years. Rockefeller, who is chair man of the National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review commission, said in an inter view that his commission, which is studying the prob lem, has "a unique and excit ing opportunity" of vital im portance to the country. "We hope to establish out door recreation as a basic need of all the people," he de clared. "Outdoor recreation should be provided on a national, state and local municipal ba sis to meet the needs of the people. That's our goal." Rockefeller pointed out that the population of the United States is growing rapidly, and that its people have more lei sure time, more money to spend and better transporta tion than years ago. At the same time, he warned that the supply of land and other rec reation resources available to the people is diminishing. Sees Modest Work Decrease The commission headed by the 50-ycar-old Rockefeller, grandson of the famous John D., was established by Con gress in 1958 to study the out door resources of the lands and waterways of the United States. Its purpose is "to re view present outdoor recrea tion resources and those that will be required by the. year 1976 and the year 2000." The 15-member commission is scheduled to report its find ings and recommendations to the President and the Con gress by the fall of 1961. At a recent meeting of the com mission and its advisory coun cil at Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, Rockefeller report ed that "excellent progress" Marine Corps Taking Officer Candidates San Francisco - The Marine Corps has announced that it will accept applications for this fall's officer candidate course until Sept. 2. College graduates who would like to fulfill their mili tary, obligation as Marine officers are urged to call their local Marine recruiters. lliJll fer Iff ,a;i!4 TENSION IN FLORIDA A crowd of Negroes and whites run past a downtown Jacksonville, Fla. store as simmer ing racial tension breaks into violence Saturday. New violence exploded today when a while member of the NAACP was beaten minutes after he and 92 others were sentenced in connection with the week end riots and vandalism. (UPI Telepholo) j' Get a bigger slice of living . . . open a savings account with us! 3r Slice your income any way you want ... but put one slice, regularly, in a savings account with us. 2 Here your money will earn more money for you . . . ana get you more oi tne f, good things of life. Twenty-five million savers are getting a bigger ? slice of living the Insured Savings v and Loan way. Why don't you ? i-- CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 PER ANNUM I FIRST FEDERAL " Savings & Loan Assn. of Medfcrd 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager In-Service Program Slated for Phoenix District Teachers Phoenix - In-service meet ing for all Phoenix school dis trict teachers will be held during the week of Sept. 6, school officials have announced. Training sessions will start at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, with a meeting of all Phoe nix and Talent teachers in the Phoenix High school gymna sium. Organizational meetings with building principals at the high school, the junior high school and two elemen tary schools will follow. A workshop and demonstra tion will be conducted by the Jackson county curriculum materials center in the Phoe nix High school gym Tuesday morning for all teachers in the district, officials said. Speakers Scheduled Speakers scheduled for the training sessions include Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, who will discuss teaching science; Dr. Richard Byrns, Southern Oregon college, teaching lan guage arts; Dr. Clinord Min er, SOU, social 5iuuie&; ui. Dean Fred tlscner, L.eni, Utah, new methods of ap proach in teaching mathema tics; Fenton McAllister, Grants Pass, grade school physical education; and Dr. Betty Dunlop, auu, social studies in the elementary schools. Mrs. Orva Taylor and other remedial reading teachers in the school system will discuss and demonstrate the science research associate's remedial rpadine program Ihursaay, Sept. 8. The remedial reading program is being expanded in the Phoenix district schools. The Phoenix High school remedial math and English nroerams will be discussed the afternoon of Sept. 8. Physical education instruc tors and coaches will meet Thursday, Sept. 8, to outline a coordinated physical educa tion and coaching system for Phoenix and Talent schools. The week's activities will culminate with picnics for school teachers and their families. Oregon Republicans Name Six Elecfors Portland - (UPD - Oregon Republicans Saturday picked six electors who will cast bal lots in December if the ticket of Vice President Richard Nix on and Henry Cabot Lodge wins the November presiden tial election. The electors include Mrs. Don Richardson, Salem, first congressional district; Victor Thompsen, Hood River, sec ond congressional district; Mrs. Frederick W. Young, Portland, third congressional district, and Mrs. Stella Cut lip, Coos Bay, fourth district. Chosen from the state at large were Herman Oliver, John Day, and Don Stathos, Rose-burg. COMEDIAN RESCUED Wcstport, Conn. - IUP1) -Bert Wheeler, old-time come dian, was one of five men rescued Sunday when their boat overturned in Long Is land Sound. Wheeler, 65, was nationally known as a funny man as a member of the Bert Wheeler-Robert Woolsey com edy team. IMPORT SOURCE Canada buys 25 per cent of all U.S. commercial exports. was being made. , Rockefeller told UPI at his New York office that "the constructive use of leisure time is one of our major ob jectives." He recognized that the five day work week is now the general rule in America but added "there is room for a great difference of opinion as to whether the future work week will go down and down." He expressed the "personal opinion" that any further les sening of the work week will be "modest" over the years ahead. Outdoor Life Needed "I do not think a continu ing, diminishing worn weeK is sound." Rockefeller said. "I don't think it is good, or prac tical, or that it will happen. "Our neighbors, such Russia and China, are not going to do that, we need work to maintain our position in the world. Work is the key to leader- shiD and success as a nation. The individual needs it. It gives him satisfaction and hap piness. Work gives dignity and meaning to our individual lives. The nation needs hard working people and people need work to be happy. Outdoor recreation, Rocke feller said, is "one of the most favorable keys" to a construc tive answer to the wise use of leisure time. He said it man sits around and drinks beer, or spends too much ot his leisure time just watclui.g television, it is not construc tive. Nor is attending horse races constructive, he added, be cause it encourages people to gamble." Poinline out that the popu lation of the United States is now nenring 180 million, he said there is every indication that it will be more than 300 million by the year 2000. Hopes For Action Rockefeller said he was "excited" over the fact that the stale of New York at the comins election will vote on $75 million bond Issue for nark and recreational areas "This is important," he said. "If the people vote this money, It will demonstrate that not only Is it needed but it is wanted. It would be evi dence that the people believe outdoor recreation is a basic need for all the people. "Similar programs have been considered by other states, and some of them are actually being implemented. "If various states, do not buy land for park and recrea tion use now, they won't be able to afford it later. Land values, are steadily getting more expensive as resources are being put to other uses." Rockefeller's commission is working on a $2.5 million ap propriation in conducting its comprehensive study all over the nation. 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