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V o G MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFJ ORE. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER t, I960 1", "Everyone In southern Orejroa . . . Rnrii The Mill iTloune Jr'ublUhed bUy except Saturday By I'D. North Fir St.. Ph SPJ-6141 MRiiiunu rum i wim HERB GREY Adveftiainj Managor GERALD T LATHAM Bui. Mgr. SmCW. ALLEN JR, Mn; Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Tei.. '' RICHARD JEWETT. Sporte Ed tor t ; olive ,"n:rss PALE -: " ' r .t NjiufnBoer .O el.,. Setter t tvi -Medford. Oregon, under Aot 01 .1 rr- S'-iiU-Au o'i-nm .V.S r - 'By M.11 - K Adv;c.. Copy 10c : . Dally end Bunoay j. . SSK ! S,,i.v3 moi. 4 Dr.TSriin Advence-Medlord r'Aihl?nd, cwtr.1 , E . ?xrSh.d7cov..ffou.Rlv rnoeni, ,----,;r.. 'CtY... rir,rf.r .nil- Dealeri copy Wo ah Termi Cwh In Advanca $. ruu'eerwir.- OF CIRCULATIONS apffSBf" "fioESBv cK. Tnc or 210';;.r " at LouiiT At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. 'NEWJPAf ( UILISHES 'ASSOCIATION NATION At ipiTORlAI Flight o' Time Mall Tribune 10. 20. J". u and 50 yean aoo- 10 YEARS AGO Sepl. 6. 1950 (Wednesday) The Medford city council last night approved without dissent Mayor D Umond Flynn's appointment of John w Snider aB councilman to succeed Neil Davidson, who vangelUt Billy Grah . who will arrive in -Me.cUc.rd today, drew a crowd of more than 9,000 when he spoke in Eugene last night. 20 YEARS AGO The first intensive enlist ment campaign here in the i. ininmatinni)l emerg- a cncy was begun today follow- lhtc the Initial meeting ot iLfnrri'a national defense A-ihni- Perrvs Ye ' Smudge Pot" column: Im ''pTrted Campaign Wisecrack: Wlllkie Is trying to get the President behind de - bate r ball." 30 YEARS, AGO ' " Sept. B. 1930 (Saturday) , The first rain since June 4 1:,' fell in parched-dry Portland ec?orsdlng of the mouth -ol "Vv the Rogue river is sought by sportsmen. . The new Orange hall at Mi Williams was dedicated yes- MMiOmiig of the Ruch road is -nearly computed. 40 YEARS AGO .al ADA IMnnrllVl rEj- i'j.niiiv nf ft Medford . rth Fall.- hoief fir. .ion. 4 with 16 otner pci.u,.. -' .week, remains unknown. , .Sheriffs deputies are comb r:ih'g the area around APPJf-,4-vgate for an escapee trom the county jail. ' SO YEARS AGO , ! fl.pt. 6. 1910 (Tuesday) '. The First Infantry left Med 1 "ford today for their Vancon 'i'ver Wash., Army barracks after having spent the last two weeks fighting Jackson county forest fires. Thai's Your I.Q.7 ' !;:Wn or ten cotrael li wytrton nven oi elM If taeellenti vo ot In It ood. K:."!i 1 ..tri Aibllcae.'1 In- "troduccd during the reign of Cftarlcmagne, a reference for : fortune telling, ecciesiasiicui prayer, or law? i 2. Over what country did ; file House of Plantagenet oii'ce reign? ' , 3. Is the original Rialto In Venice, Wyoming, or Lon- ! Do tlie "horns" referred i Kin the book of Daniel have ! SH historical significance for t tiie futurc7 ! In which stale are the ; Carlsbad Caverns? ' -8. I the claymore a weapon i !6hce used In Scotland or Ire I -land? ! 7. Whit Is ethnology? , . 8. In . which of Charles i iilckens' novels Is the hero .'in called "Little Nell"? o I. "rnnpln.inn." a avn- v-onym of "end," a termination . -, of . anything which occupies r apace? ' ....jin Whlrh (Inrman com ' "niander In W.W.II was nick- n.mH 4h "np.nrt Fox"? Aniworir 1. Fortune " loll ing. 2. England. 3. Venice, tt.io A. v.. i. Now Moxieo. '' j'iy Scotland. 7. Science of the ' - Tacoi of man. t. "Old Curios ity Shop." I. No, 10. Marshal Erwln Itommol. . 'Sky Shield' Still Unrealistic A week or so ago we spoke critically of the "Sky Shield" exercise scheduled for Sept. 10. . During a six-hour period, all civilian aircraft, and all military aircraft not participating, will be grounded, while th. Air Force's defense sys tem is given an all-out test. The pi-itifism rams to the attention of the federal aviation agency, which provided acldi tional information concerning the program. JN a letter, a spokesman said : " 'Sky Shield' will be the latest in a series of air alerts wh!h have been held during the past several years. It will be the largest such exercise ever sched uled in peacetime, and is designed to provide the nec essary framework for testing the North American Air Defense System. It is thus considered to be a vitally important training operation essential to defense readiness. "The 'Sky Shield' alert differs from previous exer cises in that it will involve the entire radar and elec tronics system employed in the air defense of the North American continent. However perfect any de fense system may appear to be, it cannot be relied upon In any emergency unless it has been tested thoroughly. ' . "In the interests of safety, the civil aviation auth orities in both the United States and Canada have concluded that it will be necessary to restrict civil flights within the continenlal United States, Alaska and Canada for the brief period of six hours on Sept. 10. "The success of the mission is greatly dependent upon the unrestricted use of electronics counter-measures, as well as upon the ability of North American Air Defense Command interceptor aircraft to climb directly toward 'targets' without regard to established 'scramble' corridors. In addition, freedom of action must be provided for the redeployment of units as required during the course of the exercise. Further, severe 'jamming' of FAA air traffic control radars is anticipated resulting from the use of 'chaff by the 'attacking' forces. Attempts to jam defense radars and air-ground communications facilities are also expected. Considerable numbers of both 'attacking' and 'defend ing' aircraft will be engaged over the entire North American continent (north of the Mexican border). "For these and other reasons, the administrator of . this agency has decided that it would be extremely unsafe for any non-participating aircraft to operate during this period in the airspace over the United ' States and Alaska. A similar decision has been made by the civil aviation authorities in Canada. "The leading civil aviation organizations in the United Stales, representing both commercial and gen eral aviation, have signified their whole-hearted sup : port for the 'Sky Shield' exorcise. They have re ; quested the cooperation of their memberships in mak ' Ing adjustments In schedules so as to avoid conflicts '' with the hours set aside for the alert." t CO far, so good. If the exercise is necessary, no one not even the estimated 37,000 airline passengers, and pilots of some 700 general aviation aircraft, who will be affected should complain. And, with all the jets swooshing around, and tVm lnmminff onrl uittinlrinrr H. wouldn't, hp Rtlfp for other planes to be in the air. Our criticism went a bit deeper than that. It auestioned the usefulness of the operation to begin with. IN the first place, the : ,n:,n.. u: ,. l io lajjtuiy uejng BujJiJianieu uy me age 01 111111 tnt. v.:nr.;im ai iu il: i.l i kaijr uuoauca. nun iui una reason -wie pitins sound a little like planning a defense against varaujr . in an age Ui iiiaiuiiic guns auu icuuvo. aeconaiy, even n we were to De auacKea by an enemy using jet aircraft, electronic and chaff jamming, and all the rest, they aren't going to give any advance warning to civil aircraft to -1. , 1 1 - i mi . 1 1 l i r get out, oi me Ky. ineyre going 10 auacn they do) when it suits them. For this reason, clearing the sky of civil air .;n ...,t ,,..i:.,i: t; jiauca win uicaic an uiu eaiiatic siiuctiion which will not test the true capabilities of our defense. E. A. Boomerang James (Scotty) Reston, the Washington cor resoondent for the New York Times, in common with a great many other people, is concerned over the viciousness of some of the religious big otry which has sprung up in connection with the Presidential campaign this year. But, he points out, there's another side to the coin, too. And he comments: Fortunately, the anti-Catholic campaign is now so widespread and so savage that it is beginning to boom erang, There Is a law of politics, similar to the law of dynamics, that every pressure creates a counter pressure, and that is now beginning lo happen, With two months still to go before election, mniiKi llArt i-iMi IdiVi r f i vli f f Vi l i 1. t n rv t.tmla Will keep the crawling things Dr. Durno's Engaging Smile j.b una uccu .uiu i,v no uy guuu v.imw vnv Dr. Edwin Durno of Medford hasn't gotten his : a. l - I. - nn.n:..f "Drt,-. eaiiijJiugn oil me grouim Phnrlpa Pni'tpr. lint, thnr. We have watched the charming; and highly intelligent gentleman from Medford m his almost weekly visits throughout the 4th district, and we xiave iouna mac u nis glUUIIU) IV IO Ull llliaolVJ 111 III k'VUU vn.evo" v." ... Dr. Durno's engaging smile and sincerity is naving an eneci uuti suuuia nuiivf xve. i ui wi come home, but quickly ! u... r..i:.. t-.. iiuw cmuve ui, inriiu 9 uuaiits on inc Asiatic trips of Charlie's, and on his former back- -1 i . si . v 1 0 mg 01 iasiro, on me uyrus liaion money ior a peace meeting will be, we do not know. iJUL , , , it ia iuuu iui luuiiniii . . . turn vc u be worried if we were Rep. Porter. Dr. Durno is a nice guy; he's a smart guy, and he wants to go to Washington. age of military aircraft i... i-i. - r : t : under their rocks. E.A. as ue i una agauioi. jvcjj. we rlmiht. campaiKTi is nut uii tuc rv ..n..i. ii, Coquille Valley Sentinel Dennis the "WOW1 1 MUST 6E GF20WIN'! I NEVER SEEN TTSSfT NUMBER 6EPOKe' Today & Tomorrow By Walter FRUSTRATED GIANT Cuba and the Congo, Cas tro and Lumumba, have been a new experience for which 11 ei ai jooji we were not ltSS prepared, and f 4 - are only oe' M rJI ginning to un- ?x8i3 d e r s tand. A 'w i je year ago tne lJ 'M sphere of In- 'ST' J Sovic' Union & T 'f 11 was contained -JsJ In n,,nlrin in Lippmann Europe and in Asia which were physically contiguous to the Russian and Chinese iland mass. But now the Soviet Union's Influence has extended into far distant contients, into Africa and the Americas. Without subscribing lo the view that Cuba is already a Soviet satellite, like for example Czechoslovakia or Romania, there is no doubt that Castro's Cuba has become dependent on Moscow. Castro is relying on the Soviet Un ion to prevent any form of ing a blockade or quarantine, aguinsl him. Ho is also rely ing on Moscow, as the sugar and oil deals have shown, to counteract economic sanc tions by the United Stales. HjUIE experience is bewilcier- -- ing and frustrating not only because it is so novel and so unexpected, but be cause it does not fit the con cepts lo which we are ac customed. Speaking frankly, we are accustomed to being regard ed as the supreme military power In this hemisphere our power being restrained by our own ideals and by our own voluntary pledges to our good neighbors. Now for the first time In a century, lor the first time since Napoleon III Intervened in Mexico dur ing our Civil War, we find ourselves on notice that we must not, even if we wanted to, intervene in Cuba. C a s t r o's revolution has placed Itself under the mili tary protection of the Soviet Union. Nothing like thai has happened in this hemisphere within living memory. MY OWN view is that II would have been wiser to be cooler in the face of this challenge, and to downgrade It Instead of advertising it at the San Jose Conference. For what actually happened between Castro and Khru shchev Is that Mr. K. promis ed to protect Castro against our doing something we have no intention of doing. We have no Intention of using our military power against Castro, being absolutely bound not to do so by the Inter-American treaty. What Mr. K. promised is that if we do what we are not going to do, he will start the third World War which he has no Intention of starting. The military aspect of the Castro-Khrushchev pledges is a complete phoney. Instead of treating It with shattering seriousness, we should have shrugged It off as meaning less The fact that we took it so seriously not only In flated it out of all reason, but it laid us open to an untrue but embarrassing retort; Why, since we are not going to Intervene, arc we In such a frenzy at being warned not to Intervene? We have made it harder for ourselves to convince our neighbors and the world that we. really arc not thinking of military Intervention. IfOR the present, inside Cuba Castro has a free hand, providing always that no American lives are lost. The Declaration of San Joso made It quite clear and ex plicit once again that our American neighbors are solid ly against Intervention in any Menkes Lippmann form. Since there is to be no intervention, lindividual or collective, Castro has nothing to fear unless it be from the Cuban people themselves. That being the situation, it was, I think, a mistake to put our main emphasis on squeez ing out of our neighbors ver bal punishment of Castro, It would have been better to shrug off the phoney military deal between Cuba and the Soviet Union, and to put our main emphasis on appealing to the American stales to me diate actively the useless and senseless quarrel which Cas tro provokes. A weak power could not do that. But we are a very strong power, and in a great power nothing is so impres sive as restraint and nothing is so nanclsome as magna nimity. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear lho 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 necessarily represent the views of the paper: in fact the contrary is often the case. Reverence in the Cemetery To the Editor: After see ing the picture in the Mail Tribune showing the destruc tion in the Eastwood I.O.O.F. cemetery, and reading some of the answering articles and letters written concerning same, I thought T would go see for myself, as I have loved ones buried there. I found the pillow stone, on my dear fa ther's grave, rolled off the base onto the ground. We were there not too long ago and it was all right; so it has happened recently. I, myself, have seen boys using tlie monuments for tar gets. One in particular had a glass covered ornament, which they had broken. 1 have seen children riding their horses through there, not keeping to the roadway too woll, A few years ago we had a cement coping placed around our babies' graves, and cov ered the graves with white rock. We went there many times, and found the neigh bor children had been using it for a sand box, their shov els and other toys left on the grave. Children used to be taught to reverence a cemetery, and not lo even tread on the graves. Many modern chil dren are not taught to rev erence anything. We have driven past the mausoleum, and noticed many beer cans strewn around, evidence of a drinking party the night be fore. I admit tlie cemetery docs not have very good care, but docs Mr. Hoskins get very good wages? Mr. Hoskins does, not live there, and to keep the untaught children and trespassers out, he would need a guard on duty until after the wee hours, as many modern children must do as they please (self-expression you know, or they won't amount to much In the world). The eltdren that will grow up to be worthwhile are the ones thai are taught to con sider other people, and prop erly rights - Mrs. H. E. Webber 740 West Jackson st. Medford. Moro of the Same? To the Editor: I wonder if a majority of the people of the 4th Congressional District feel as I do about the quality of representation that we Various Theories Given for Apparent Ideological Rift Between Russia, China By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the Foreign Editor's Notebook: Take Your Choico For many weeks, with some help from Moscow and Pei pini?, there have been reports of a growing rift between the Soviet Un ion and Red China, mostly over Niklta K Ii rushchev's declared poli cy of co-existence with the West. One re- l'liii. nkwsom port nas 11 thai Russia is concerned espe- Matter of Fact EISENHOWER'S NON TRANSFERABLE MAGIC Cleveland, Ohio-If anyone needs proof that President Eisenhower's personal popu- Tttmrf laritv has done little to land. The re turn to old D e m 0 c ratic voting habits looks like be ing a massive JO.SKl'U ALSOI- migration this year, in this key city of the key state of Ohio. This is the deduction that has to be drawn, at any rate, from a highly intensive poll of three swing precincts in Cleveland by Ray Dorsey and Bill Williams, of "The Cleve land Plain Dealer," and this reporter. We can speak with authority for these precincts. They cast a total of only 904 votes in 1956, and we rang doorbells along Torbenson Drive and West 100th st., and West 39th st. until we had filled out no less than 140 polling sheets. The results require only a short introduction. In brief, the people of these precincts, unlike the people of Cle e land as a whole, are predom inantly Protestant. Our sam- have in Washington. I am concerned about the lack of positive good that our pres ent representative has done, and the great harm that he has done to our relations with other countries. The cost of his salary has been a waste of our tax dollars because he refuses to represent us. Some of the policies of Represen tative Porter should be point ed out as they definitely do not represent our view. They are: 1. Porter's acceptance of the Castro Regime in Cuba. 2. His condemnation of our ally, Nationalist China on Formosa. 3. His willingness to aban don Quemoy and Matsu Is lands in the Formosa Strait. 4. His willingness to trade with Red China. 5. His present suit against the U. S. State Department to force the U.S. Government to issue a passport so that he can visit Red China. This would be very unwise as the Reds would use his visit for propaganda purposes. 6. His recent attendance at a Communist sponsored trade meeting in Sweden. His ac ceptance of several thousand dollars from industrialist Cyris Eaton for travel ex penses to go to this Commun ist sponsored trade meeting. 7. His condemnation of our foreign policies in Latin America. It is difficult to believe that the people of the 4th Con gressional District wanted this kind of representation from their congressman, yet this is tlie record of Charles Por ter. Do these views coincide with the will of the majority of the electorate? Do we want more of the same? Robert R. Mooers, M.D. 1040 Harvard ave. Roseburg, Ore. Clown Turns Serious; Sets Record At Rodeo Salem-WD-Wllbur Pluagh or of Prather, Calif., a cow boy who is usually a clown turned dead serious Monday at the Oregon State Fair ro If t help his par fl t j'l" ty. Proo ls IS r?j easy to find i I M here in Cleve , deo and turned in a rcrord bulldogglng time. It took him only 4.4 seconds to break from the chute and rope ' and tic a steer. The earlier mark was 5.2 seconds. Plaugher, 37, is rodeo clown but frequently enters events And is up In national standings. 1 cially over Red China's friend ship with East Gerninny, whose deputy premier and Red party boss, Walter Uu bricht, long has been known as a Stalinist and therefore an opponent of coexistence. The conclusion is that a mounting Russian fear of China might lead to Russian willingness to make conces sions to the West. Another report has it that Red China soon may make some n e w pronouncement dealing with her reported ideological dispute with the Kremlin. This pronouncement might emphasize again Com munist China's close ties with the Soviet Union, but would come at a time when Red Chi- By Joseph Alsop pie included 71 Protestants, 67 Catholics and four Jews. Thus it was weighted in Vice President Richard M. Nixon's favor on the so-called relig ious Issue. VUR sample was also weighted in Nixon's favor by the test of votes previous ly cast. The precincts were chosen as probably baromet ric, because they had given handsome majorities to Presi dent Eisenhower, and had then turned around to give majorities, in 1958, to Demo cratic Gov. Mike DiSalle. Our sample duly showed a Di Salle majority. But it also showed an Eisenhower ma jority proportionally far ex ceeding the precinct totals in 1956. The people in our sample had in fact given no less than 71 votes to Eisenhower and only 39 to Adlai E. Stevenson, with 30 not voting that year. But these same people, who had gone for Eisenhower al most 2 to 1, now went for Sen. John F. Kennedy by better than 6 to 5. The actual vote was 65 for Kennedy, 50 for Nixon and 26 undecided. - Maybe Ray Dorsey, Bill Williams and I are wholly wrong, but we all think that our three precincts were strictly average neighbor hoods, exactly representing the kind of neighborhood that cut Cleveland s normally huge Democratic majority down to a mere 30,000 votes in 1956. You can see how the Eisenhower magic worked in Cleveland that year, when you remember that in 1958 DiSalle got 207,900 votes in Cleveland, against only 6o, 600 for the Republican guber natorial candidate, O'Neill. Anyone who visited pre cinct BB or Ward One, or AA of Ward 26, or L of Ward 6, would at once conclude that these neighborhoods were Republican territory. On all their pleasant streets, we saw only one apartment building and found not more than two two-family houses. In two of he precincts, most houses dated trom tne maiding Doom of the early twenties. But tney nave -Been admirably kept up, and one found one's self wondering why more people, nowadays, do not choose homes of this sort, with big, haphazard shaped rooms and wide, vine-shaded porches. The third precinct was newer, glossier, and even more prosperous. N riiHE people in these neigh-- borhoods were what you might call middle-middle in c 0 m e - industrial workers with well paid specialties, salesmen, accountants, fore men, and the like. They were cheerful, intelligent, high in their average interest in pub lic affairs, and remarkably free of the religious-political feeling which Dorsey, Wil liams and I had previously found in Akron. To be sure, Nixon did sub stantially better than Ken nedy among the Proteslants, and Kennedy did substantial ly better than Nixon among the Catholics. But in very large measure, this difference appeared to arise from dif ferent previous voting habits in the two groups. Among both Catholics and Protes tants, Kennedy got the lion's share of the pro-Eisenhower Democrats, and these had been Catholics in great ma jority. If you try to judge the vote in Cleveland and Cayahoga county by these three pre cincts - which it is admitted ly dangerous to do - you get an interesting answer. Ken nedy's vote, in our sample, was slightly below DiSalle's vote In 1958, more than twice Stevenson's vote in 1956. Suppose the rest of Cuyaho ga county shows the same trend as these three super- average Cleveland precincts. Then Kennedy ought now to Gassy? Stop heart Gas 3 Timet Faster CtrliMllUratsiTlnttewt BCLL-ANS III Ittt ntutulitf 3 limtiai .utfi itomicll icitfilt 1. m min.tr a minv Ititfini riinlitf tablm Gtt 8CU-4NS tiday for Ihi latin- Iwn nlKI 15 al irxniti. Sim ental U BCU Mi Cianiltiiti, a. y. fu lleeiel (ill taxslt. na also ardently Is wooing Soviet - oriented . Communist neighbors such as North Ko rea, Outer Mongolia and Viet Nam. There appears to be no doubt that Red China and the Soviet Union each has a dif- inite idea about how the teachings of Marx and Lenin should be interpreted. There also appears to be no doubt that any hope of a break be tween the two in the fore seeable future is groundless. Each has too much need of the other. Power Politics t In western Europe,' Commu nists are predicting that Khru shchev will take advantage of his trip to the United Na tions to issue a new warning on Berlin. He has been quiet lately on the Berlin issue, but is said to be standing firm on his demand that Ber lin be declared a so-called free city and to believe that time for a "settlement" is approaching. Such a demand on his part might help curb Chairman Cows Get Congress' By DICK WEST Washington-ttlPD-The Demo crats and Republicans have been blaming each other for the failure of Congress 1 0 pass certain bills at its late lamented ses sion. But Rep. Frank Thomp son Jr., (D-N. J.), puts the blame on Rep. H o w ar d W. Dick west bmitn s cows. Before we examine Thomp son's complaint further, it might be helpful if I drop in a few words of background on Smith. You probably are aware that this tall, courtly Virginia gentleman is chair man of the House Rules Com mittee. But there may be a few Americans who havent heard about his corollary feats as a husbandman. Toward the end of each congressional session, the Rules Committee invariably has on its shelf several bills which are highly prized by some House members but highly distasteful to Smith. Down On Farm Supporters of these meas ures to put a lot of pressure on Smith to call a committee meeting for a vote on whether to send them to the House floor. At such times, Smith has been known to disappear for a few days, explaining upon his return that he had been tending to something down on the farm. On one occasion, he bland ly told a search party he had be running somewhat behind DiSalle in this county that so often decides the outcome in Ohio. But DiSalle's Cuyaho ga county majority in 1958 was just under 200,000. A present Kennedy majority of at least 150,000 is suggested by our sample. And that is generally considered the mag ic figure which assures a Democratic margin in the state as a whole. Such is the direction shown by this last and largest of the straws in the wind that the "Plain Dealer" men and I obtained in Ohio. As a straw, it is worth study, but only if you bear in mind that the wind itself may change be fore November. (Copyright 1960, Now York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Counsel With . . Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan ,.1 sf f Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. its r .i3. 1 1 Bt?ac I PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD IIISURAIICE Agency 27 North Holly Strut both. Impatient East German Communists and the Red Chinese. Diplomatic Merry-go-round3 . Filipino and Amrlcan ne gotiators in Manila are about ready to take another ride on that troublesome old dip lomatic merry-go-round - the military bases issue. The im mediate outlook is for much talk and little real progress. New American Ambassador John Hickerson isn't expected to have any more success in ironing out some of the prob lems than Charles E. Bohlen did during two years of hag gling. Chief stumbling block is a Filipino demand for legal jurisdiction over U. S. serv icemen involved in a crime. Atom Tests Despite protests from Afri can nations, France is expect ed to go ahead with announc ed plans for a series of under ground atomic tests in the Sahara desert this winter. The date predated for the first such test is Oct. 15. Smith's Blame for Record been absent because his barn had burned down. Since then, the closing days of Congress have been referred to in some quarters as "barn burning time." One of the congressmen who have been left '0 fiddle around while Smith's barn burned is Thompson, a New Jersey Democrat. In a state ment issued today bemoaning the chairman s agrarian pur suits, Thompson described Smith's cattle as "the most powerful herd in America." "As long as Congressman Smith is out of Washington attending to his herd - and exercising a pocket veto of desperately needed legisla tion - the House Rules Com mittee cannot function," Thompson said. Herd Shares Responsibility Therefore, he added, "this herd shares with'the conserva tive Republican - Southern coalition the responsibility for holding up a great deal of the, 'must' legislation of the past several Congresses including: the present 86th Congress which has just adjourned after being almost complete ly frustrated." Thompson said that while thinking of possible ways to keep Smith in the capital he had hit upon the idea of mov ing the cattle to Washington. He said suitable pasturage could be fou id on the grounds of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a government-owned mental in stitution located near the Capitol. This, he said, would en able Smith "to look after his cows without undue strain or hardship" and to "combine his public role as chairman of the House Rules Commit tee and his private role as herdsman." I'll give Thompson credit for being a thinking man, but his plan could backfire. Smith might go down to his farm at a crucial time and stay until the cows come home. Portlander To Head Oregon March of Dimes Portland-IUPD-Local public relations man Don Ostensoe has been named as head of the coming March of Dime campaign In Oregon. Objec tives of the 1961 campaign will be prevention of birth defects, arithritis and polio. - FOR PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE SERVICE CAU A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT "Certified Insurance Agent" is a designation conferred by the Oregon Association of Indepen dent Insurance Agents to de note professional standing in the business. Call 4 "C.I.A." Medford has five such Profes sional Insurance Agents. 1 t
