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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
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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
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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
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get out, oi me Ky. ineyre going 10 auacn
they do) when it suits them.
For this reason, clearing the sky of civil air
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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
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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 !
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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
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under their rocks. E.A.
as ue i una agauioi. jvcjj.
we rlmiht.
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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.
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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
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1. m min.tr a minv Ititfini riinlitf tablm
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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.)
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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. -
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a designation conferred by the
Oregon Association of Indepen
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note professional standing in
the business. Call 4 "C.I.A."
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sional Insurance Agents.
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