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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. O MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. I960 "Everyone in Souuiern Oregon Readi The . Mall Tribune" tubllshed bally except Saturday by Murunu r . ... w SI North Fir St Ph BP a-eui wnns-nT w RtTHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Manafer RERAl.D T LATHAM Bui MT eric W ALLEN JR.. Mnt Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor uadbv rutPMAN Teles Editor Diruinn irunTT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ircuiuuiini An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1807 eiincrnlDTinN RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos Sunday Only One year Ss.ao By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point BM Pnlnt Jacksonville. Oold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. RoRue Rlv er, Talent and on motor utes. Dally and Sunday 1 year llflOO DaSIv and Sunday 1 mo ISO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All TemJh JnAdvanc "official Paper of city of Mflford Official Paper of Jackson Coantv United Press International Full Leased Wire U P.l Telephoto Newsplctures ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREATT OFIRCUlATIONS .dvertlstnK RePre"nil,lve,'w,,. n, WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of fices In Nev York Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Atiseies Seattle. Portland St Louis At lapta. Vancouver. B.C NEWlfAPil PUBIISHISS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI C::!::;l..imi.llM.',IIJJlll Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History trom the files ot 'he M,l Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 vari "0- 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1950 (Tutiday) Boyd E. Birdson, 505 Alice si., Talent, was chosen the first "Safe Driver of the Day" Monday, as the Medford Safe ty council'i safe driving cam paign got underway. A proposal for a county planning and zoning law, de feated narrowly by vole two years ago, will again be on the ballot, in November. 20 YEARS AGO S.nl. 12. 1940 (Thuriday) Lee M. Bown, state police captain at Medford since 1931, has been appoimea utyuvy iitnpr Intendent ol state police. Prom Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "One of the valley's outstanding speeders missed a horse, and hit a Dhone pole last evening, and now has a dead phone pole to pay for. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1930 (Friday) It is believed that the Jack son county fair, despite poor attendance, will pay for itself this year. Enrollment at the local high school totaled 696 today. 40 YEARS AGO Soot. 12. 1920 (Sunday) A visiting Marine officer favors changing the name of Table Rock to Castle mou,i tains. Crescent City reports ex cltcmont over the finding of traces of oil near that city SO YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1910 (Monday) Saturday, Sept. 24, will be a bis dav for Medford. On that day the state-wide pri maries will be held and Buf falo Bill will bring his circus to town. Police here arrested a Monesanto, Wash., man for the Chchalls county sheriff yesterday. He Is charged with stealing $2,100 from his wife and then leaving Her. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ai tan cornel Is superior: sevan oi tight it tictllsnri five ai ill Is good. 1. Is the tortoise, elephant, or eagle reputed to have the longest life span? 2. In addition to its use as a disinfectant, what is the other principal use of hydro gen peroxide? 3. "Rocky Mountain Ca narics" is a slang term for birds, donkeys, or fish? 4. A new clause added to a will after its execution Is called a crocus, crocodile of codicil? 5. Which of these nouns are plural: falls, ways, woods? ( 6 Is St. Vitus Dance the name of a plant, ballroom dance, or nervous disease? 7. What species of bird Is known as the "king of birds"? 8. Which state leads in the production of pig iron and steel? S. A person who had read about gcmmology would have learned about what subject? 10. A person suffering from anthropophobia has a morbid dread of what? Answtrsi 1 Torlolia. 2. Bleaching agonl. 3. Donktys. 4. Codicil. 5. All Ihr.o ar. 6. Nervous dlstait. 7. Eagle. I, 1 Pennsylvania. 9. The study of pracious slonti. 10, Of rootl ing parsons. . Christianity Is Strained A Bay Area woman went to church last week and after listening to the visiting minister's ser mon emerged an angered and disgusted citizen. "I thought one went to church to hear a ser mon on how to become a better Christian," she said, "and to learn more about the Lord and the way He wants us to be. But the exact opposite is what we heard." CHE thought, and hoped, that the sermon "dis- gusted" everyone in attendance as much as it did herself. "He talked of the 'big issue' which everyone is aware : the religious issues of the com ing election," this Christian woman reported. "I thought our country was founded for the purpose of freedom and the right to vote for whom he believes," she added. "Instead, in the sermon there was a slandering of other churches and what the visiting preacher thought one of the Presidential candidates be lieves. Actually the preacher has no idea what is in the candidate's heart and soul. The speaker should have cleaned out his own biased, warped and prejudiced sick soul before he stands up in front of another congregation." CHE added she felt the use of her pulpit as a political sounding board "cheapens our church." "I'm sure," she said, when he hears brother scorn his brother for what he believes. The only one She had one hone. "I will watch that such people won t get a chance to use the pulpit for such of propaganda can be against the other but ca or in our small community." Editorially speaking, one can only add : Amen, The World, Coos Bay. Silly Things As in professional wrestling, almost anything goes in politics. You can say anything about a professional wrestler without fear of being sued for slander. And you can make fantastic claims for or against a candidate without creating a bit of fuss. Heres an example: Tho Orprrnn Fnr Nixnn P.nmmit.tep has hfip.n distributing a mailing piece that begins: Dear Fellow American: Lets iace the tacts. Dick Nixon is the one man in America who is qualified to become President of the United States. IF, YOU agree with the Nixon Committee, has it occurred to you what a terrible fix the United States is in if Richard Nixon is the one man in the United States who is qualified to be President of the United We will hear some silly things in this election year but we do not expect to hear anything sillier than his claim. Pendleton East Oregonian. Landmarks A man must pause storms of human passion have filled the sky with the dust of emotions, pause and wonder if the old landmarks are still there. So, when the heat of the day is past and evening comes, a man steps outdoors to look, to feel, to sense this world around him. These late August evenings, a moon well into its first quarter hangs high in the west, where it has been at this phase ever since there was a moon. North, as the dusk deepens, stands the Pole Star, and beneath it and to the west a few degrees hangs the Big Dipper, just where it al ways is on a late August evening. To the east is the Great Square of Pegasus, old and fixed in the firmament when the Greeks first knew it. A MAN listens, and the scratchy stridulation of a katydid rasps at the dusk. There is an answer, then another, and soon there is a chorus. As always, in late summer; as it was before man was here to listen. And, the crickets chirp and trill in the meadow grass, as they have chirped and trilled for several eons. From the edge of the woodland comes the call of the whippoorwill, over and over, repetitious as the years, but re minding a man that birds were here and flying before man came and walked on two feet. A, breeze moves down the valley, and the leaves whisper in the treetops. Trees that count the centuries, a breeze that curled around this earth when the hills were mountains. The leaves whisper, and a man listens, and he knows that there still are landmarks. New York Times. They Were Not Colored One frequently mentioned Southern fear in this integration situation riots" precipitated by among the happy, docile the soutn. In Jacksonville, Fla had every appearance after a number of Negro at White-only lunch counters. The riotous acts were committed by White men. southerners, armed with axe handles, negroes. After that the hostilities spread rapidly, with neither race innocent, apparently, of atro cities. But the agitators were the precipitators Coos Bay.Q "our Lord isn't smiling that gains is the Devil. hone our church leaders lilthy politics. Ihis kind found in Russia, one it shouldn't be in Ameri States? now and then, when the is the spectre of "race "Northern" agitation colored population of last week occurred what of a race riot. It begin students quietly "sat in" who beai the young weren't Northern,1 nor colored. The World, Dennis the ' I'M NOT GONNA CALL lOU 'MlSS WADE'' AW STOP cauin' Mt' sonny." Washington Report By WILLIAM KENNEDY IN TROUBLE Washington - John F. Ken nedy's Democratic presiden tial campaign is in trouble. fit must - and npnKnt,. ..rill -shortly take on a more con servative ? tone if an ac celerated fur ther decline is to be averted This esti mate of the situation - and this forecast of Senator Ken nedy's probable moves to meet it - is an impartial, fac tual one. With it leading pro fessional politicians in both parties privately agree. Though Kennedy is the candidate of the more nearly national of the two parties in voter registration, his early campaigning has not produc ed the truly nationwide sup port for which he had confi dently looked. He had gone a very long way to please the left wing of his party - the labor lead ers and other interest groups which largely dictated the ex tremely iibcral platform of the Democratic National con vention. i rpiUS left wing, however, is ! still not wholly satisfied with him. It obviously is not producing the monolithic backing which he had a right to anticipate. At the same time the mod erate and conservative sec tions of the party-outside the South, as well as in it - are feeling increasingly left out. The more Kennedy does for the left wing the more he dis turbs the moderates and con servatives - and the less the left wing seems ready or even willing to go all the way for him In order to make up the difference. In the meantime, it is be coming clearer and clearer that this country is simply not prepared for any admin istration based on any ad vance liberalism. It has, in deed, not been at any time in the last decade. Kennedy's dilemma, there fore, is sharpening day by day. The realities are putting rising pressure on him to re turn to where he has always actually belonged - to he moderate Democratic center and away from the left wing into which he was placed at the Democratic convention. QOME of the platform's most controversial passages ao not now and never did repre sent his own philosophy. He Is, of course, theoretically re sponsible for It all. But the facts arc that he was a busy man then - desperately look ing for delegates - and much which got into that platform was news to him until it was all over. What, specifically, then may now be expected? This correspondent has reason to believe the following will oc cur: 1. A re-cvcluation of the whole Kennedy attitude to ward the south. The Senator is becoming convinced he can afford to write off no single slale there. Or, to put it another way, he Is becoming aware that not enough big northern industrial states are so safe as to make heavy southern losses acceptable. 2. A statement soon by Kennedy of economic views which will significantly de part here from the new deal Ish tone of the platform and put some heart Into moderates and conservatives. 3. A contlnuatlon-and even a deepening - of the present Kennedy con centratlon on American military and diplo matic preparedness In this world. In conviction he be lieves it his duty to keep thumping away at this. (Even William 8. White Menace 9-12. O S. WHITE though he knows many will not like his suggestion of a country falling behind Russia, he will not desist from re sponsible criticism. And, pa renthetically, whether he is right or wrong, for this atti tude he deserves great credit.) r AND in purely political " terms he needs, as a Cath olic, a grand issue of this kind to try to drown the "re ligious issue" now proclaimed against him by a large group of Protestant ministers which has openly declared war on him on religious grounds. Talking about the minimum wage and all that is not get ting him very far. He is dis covering that labor blocs de mand 100 per cent allegiance, every day, and that even 90 per cent they will not really reward. (Copyright, 1960. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS From Leopoldville - In Af rica: A reported Invasion of Ka tanga province by Premier Patrice Lumumba's t r o o p s confronted the United Nations with ITS BIGGEST CHAL LENGE SINCE IT BEGAN POLICING THE CONGO. With the threat of a full scale civil war hanging over the steaming African nation, Lumumba, strengthened b y the support of his Congolese parliament, demanded that United Nations give up con trol of airports and the Leo poldville radio station or PULL ITS 16,000 TROOPS OUT OF THE COUNTRY (thus permitting Russia and her stooge Lumumba to take over.) WHAT is the challenge? It is this: The 'United Nations Is go ing to have to choose whether it will permit Lumumba, as communism's stooge, to take over all of Central Africa or whether it will say to Russia (and maybe Communist China) YOU CAN'T DO THAT. If you try it, WE'LL FIGHT! IN OTHER words The United Nations is facing another Korea. It's Just that flat. WHO Is Lumumba? The London Times de scribed him the other day in these words: "Mr. Lumumba's final accession to power (in the Congo) would not only face the world with one more unpredictable and virtually MANIACAL national leader but also with one who is clearly becoming a communist puppet." That Is to say: Lumumba is another Cas tro. Both are communist pup pets. Both are playing the communist game. WHAT is the communist game? Let's do a little supposing. Suppose United Nations says to Lumumba, communism's maniacal stooge in Africa: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT. You can't take over ail of Central Africa. If you try It, we'll fight." That, presumably, would mean another Korean - type war in Africa. LET'S do some more sup posing. Suppose Castro gets brash er and brasher. Suppose he invites In Russian troops and or Russian missiles and Rus sian warplancs. Or attacks the U.S. naval base at Quan tanamo In Cuba. Or does something elst that will com- Foreign Notebook: Laotian Takeover; Trouble in Berlin; Huks On Move Again By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Backfirt A well informed source just arrived in Tokyo from South east Asia gives this interest-in-if-true version of events behind the re cent m i litary take -over of the govern ment of Laos: When para troop Capt. Kong Le seiz ed control of the L a o t ian capital of piiiL"NKHSO.M Vientiane last month in a Southeast Asia coup d'etat, his battalion was ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 publication 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. ' Pseudo-Science To the Editor: Your quo tations from Dr. Goldham mer's survey tell us almost nothing. If we don't know what these achievement tests are, the survey is meaning less. The questions submitted to sixth graders might better be submitted to fourth grad ers. These tests . were un doubtedly compiled by pro fessional educators to test their own theory of educa tion. I know graduates who are well informed, but they in variably have superior minds, and above all, an intellectual home atmosphere where their mind could grow. As for the majority, these "above aver ages," they must spirit them out of the state because we seldom encounter them. You are not so gullible. Read this report again, a re port by a pseudo scientist about a pseudo science. Let's measure these kids against what we think they should know, not against what the professional educator thinks. To rank above average, measured against a mediocre whole, just gives the people a false feeling of satisfaction. It's too bad they didn't rank below average. Then it might arouse people to improve the score. Also in the same issue of your paper read Kennedy's program for education. Not one dollar to increase the quality of education. William L. Smith Route 1, Box 542 Central Point, Ore. What Is "Fair"? To the Editor: With Vice President Nixon up and back on his feet again, he will be able to answer the innuendos, slurs and half-truths directed at him when he was down. No hit, no run, two error Kennedy in his two untrained going-to-bat attempts in for eign affairs, hurled every thing at the Vice President, down to the dish-rag and kitchen-mop, was mostly the result of a stubborn revenge f u 1 Democratic controlled congress whose legislation was mostly so pork-barrelish, President Eisenhower felt compelled to veto it. But Vice President Nixon, ever the gentleman, resorted to none of such Kennedy tac tics. In Friday's MT for in stance, Kennedy continued to lash out at Nixon over Re publican necks with his in creasingly frayed and tactless charges, along with his ad mittedly impossible - to - fill promises of slums cleared away and replaced with fine homes, a helping hand to the needy, (of course the chronic beggcr, chislcr and those who refuse to work) so like prom iser FRD who proclaimed, "that our boys will ncvah, nevah fight on foreign soil, no man shall go hungry" if he was elected, but he failed to pel us, in self-defense or in compliance with our Monroe Doctrine, to FIGHT HIM. That would mean another Korean-type war in the Carib bean. IN THAT event That is to say, in the event of two Korean-type wars at the same time Who will do the bulk of the fighting? Who will do the bulk of the paying? You know who. It will be the old gentleman with the chin whisker. IN CONCLUSION: All of that - lighting a United Nations war in Africa and a war of our own in the Western Hemisphere, both at the same time - would spread us pretty thin. Spreading us thin all over the world would be just what Russia would want. This African business Is getting serious. Settling it without war is indeed going to call (or all the statesman ship United Nations can muster. on a training exercise planned by American military advis ers. The exercise, according to this source, was designed to teach the Laotian troops how to take over a city. The source insists it is true and says that the American advisers were shocked when Kong Le turn ed the mock exercise into the real thing. Trouble in Berlin Communist border restric tions against West Berlin caught American officials there by surprise. The Ameri cans had declared firmly that nothing serious would happen. Now, there seems to be no doubt that the Communists have started a campaign to get the Western allies out of Berlin. It may be expected to add that vital, "who is willing to work", which promiser no- hit no-run two-error Kennedy is careful not to do. What was Richard Nixon's quoted remark in Friday's MT? Just a simple one in his usual friendly way. that the religious angle must not be used by his campaign man agers in any way, whatsover. This seems to us here and many we have talked with, to be the mark of a gentleman. Harry Truman, darling of the Pendergast Kansas City machine, stepped in with his "Give 'em Hell Jack", an empty meaningless thing, but tasty to the mouth of unthink ing and easy to hurl at any one, anything opposing them. But the crowning thorn of all came in our own home paper MT, Aug. 28, where in a reprint from back in 1957, a hired reporter, raked and sifted through for doubtful morsels in Richard Nixon's struggle to feed and shelter his small family and his up hill fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Helped him with that rare sight-into-time gift that rare sight-into-time gift shifty testimony of the Tru man administration darling, Alger Hiss. Fighting virtually alone, Sen. Nixon defied the insults and "red-herring" slurs hurled at him by then Presi dent Truman and henchmen to bring country-betrayer Hiss to conviction and jail. And what is Nixon's reward? A question as to his right to the title of a gentleman, by bannering it in quotes "Gen tleman." If this fails to be un fair, an alltime low in poli tics, what does? F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Americanism To the Editor: In reply to Mr. Edwin A. Olson s letter, may I say your definition of socialism is quite correct, the way you apply it to modern government is far fetched. As to the Founding Fathers' effort to keep the Govern ment out of "our private lives," they could not be ex pected to foresee the changes that have taken place since they wrote the Constitution. They did, however, provide a sound means by which amendments could be applied to legally keep abreast of the ever changing times, this in itself is one of their great dis plays of wisdom. As to F.D.R. starting the breakdown of the Constitu tional Government, it started much before that. F.D.R. did revolutionize our way of life by having the courage to launch a movement which saved this country from a con dition similar to the Feudal system of old. True, we pay a huge tax, taking a great bite out of our earnings. But what working man of pre-F.D.R. days could afford a car costing $2,500 to $3,000? Many do now. Also true, we have a great unpaid debt, but we have had two expensive wars starting from scratch. We were com pelled to create a national de fense in which one airplane costs as much as our total air force planes of 30 years ago. Mr. Olson, are you old enough to recall the plight of the indigent old folks prior to the social security days? Did you ever visit one of those poor farms to which these old folks were sent? Those poor farms were a blot on the face of civiliza tion, an insult to the dignity of the inmates and a reproach to any Christian people. Do not grieve over the good old days gone by, for believe me. the best' part of those days lay In the fact they have gone by or served as stepping stones to a better way of life. Don't mourn the loss of freedom, but recognize that freedoms must change to meet the demands of an ever changing way of life. Think, talk and work for Americanism, protect and include every sort of interfer ence with traffic to the city, and perhaps Communist in spired disorders within it. Trouble in Philippines? The Communist Huks are on the move again in the Phil ippines and it could spell trou ble for the United States. Ma nila sources say not to be too surprised if the Huks try to create a situation in the Phil ippines similar to that created in Cuba by Fidel Castro's rev olutionaries. The targets are students, labor, U. S.-owned oil refineries, plantations and American military bases. Tax Dodgers The South Korean govern ment is in a dilemma over what to do with the nation's perfect it by helping to make it so desirable no substitute will be sought. All this can be done within the framework of the Constitution by making it a Government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. C. R. Burrill 122 Vilas Rd. W. Central Point, Ore. Nothing More Precious To the Editor: It is almost midnight, Sunday, and every tick of the clock brings closer the moment when the eldest of my three children will go to school for the first time. How eagerly he awaits the morning! All is in readiness - new clothes, haircut, shiny lunch pail, and he. himself, squeaky clean and sleeping safely in his bed - waiting, waiting. Strange how this afternoon it all sounded so thrilling and exciting and fun, anticipating his breathless arrival home from school with a dozen and ten wonderful things to tell me all at once! But tonight there is a nag ging thought in my mind that makes sleep hard to come by. Every year the editors must print the results of someone's thoughtlessness. Some one was in too much of a hurry to wait while a school bus loaded or unload ed. Some one's child didn't come home when the others did. At times it hasn't been the motorists fault - but then should it ever be? Give the children more than a chance! Now maybe I can get some sleep. I can't tow him to and from school on my apron strings, I can't flag traffic for him up on our busy four-lane highway. But I can WRITE and you can READ and most of us can DRIVE - let's handle that wheel with caution! Nothing on earth is more precious than our children. Mrs. James Browning 48 Charlotte Anne rd. Medford. What Is a Democrat? To the Editor: Mrs. Tibbet, who describes herself as "one of the hundreds of Democrats for Durno," asked several questions regarding Congress man Porter's qualifications in her letter in Thursday's Com munications column. Perhaps she could answer a couple of questions for me. First, if she is a Democrat it must be because she be lieves in the philosophy of the Democratic party, agrees with the principles and aims es poused by it for nearly 200 years and illustrated by its platform. How, then, can she justify her . support of Dr. Durno, an ultra-conservative whose views are the antithe sis of those of the Democratic party? In my .opinion, one cannot be a true Dem":rat, and, at the same time, .'tirport a Re publican candidate. :or Con gress of the United Stiles who strongly opposes the funda mental beliefs and goals of the Democratic party. Second, what Is her defini tion of the term, "meddling in foreign affairs"? (Dr. Dur no's favorite expression.) A Congressman represents every constituent in his district and since world peace is the pri mary concern of these con stituents, his first responsi bility is to do everything with in his power to promote peace; without it, the ranchers will not be here to worry about parities and price supports and there will be no private enterprise to build dams. Charles Porter pledged him self four years ago to spenti one third of his time working for world peace, and we of the Fourth District should be grateful that we have a Repre sentative whose concern for us extends beyond the con fines of the Fourth Congres sional District of Oregon. Are we not citizens of '.he United States and the world, not merely the Ejurth District? iiuiu, mi. nooei iiaiea businessmen who evaded taxes and made illegal profits under the Syngman Rhee re gime. Many government offi. cials are hoping the United States will give more guid ance to them in resolving this critical problem. There is pressure for stiff punishment and fines but even .the least economic -minded officials know that too stiff punish ment only would harm the na tion's economy, if not wreck it. Labor Pains' Great Britain's Trades Un. ion Congress has gone on rec ord again against nuclear weapons and for increased na tionalization I of industry, pos. ing a severe problem ior La bor party leader Hugh Gait skell and other party officers who will meet at Scarborough next month. Labor party lead ership is committed to the poi icy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent and soft pedalling further nationalization. They cannot change their policy without discrediting them, selves. that as a "good Democrat" she will vote for Dr. Durno, I would be interested to know whom she is supporting for other state and county offices. Marjory E. Madden 1317 Springbrook rd. Medford. Morals Offenses To the Editor: The public has had the privilege to read the opinipns of many people on a variety of subjects through the benefits of free dom of the press. However, I think it is about time the public be made conscious of another subject, and that is the alarming' number of morals charge arrests that have been made in this area in the past few months. We don't know how many of these situations go unre ported either - no doubt it would be frightening. Too many of us shrug off an un pleasant fact as not ever hap pening to us but to the other fellow. Our family found out the hard way that this is not the case. Two members of our family had the misfortune to en counter two morally unfit characters in one month. We called the police and followed through on the cases to see that the utmost was done to punish these characters. But to my opinion it was not enough; the police department can only do so much, then it is in the hands of those with more authority. Our laws are very inade quate concerning morals cases and it is about time the public demanded a change to protect small children and women from the unpleasant and damaging contacts with these men. In my estimation, these characters should be executed or sent to prison for life with no chance for parole, depend ing on their record. These arc strong words, but anyone who has had first hand experience will agree with tne! Remember, unplens ant things don't always hap pen to the other fellow - you or one of your family could be next! (Name on File) Medford. Chickens Roosting To the Editor: It is lament able the way the Communist countries are causing us to lose our freedoms in Amer ica. There is an old saying that it is bad form to mention "rope" in a house where a member of the family has been hung. By the same token it is bad taste to mention the Olympic Games in Rome on account of the Russians tak ing so many prizes. It is get ting so that people cannot speak or write on any topic without it being necessary to mention Russia in a favorable light, unless it is Cuba. And now Cuba is a skeleton in the closet. It begins to appear that all the brainwashing that we have been subjected to is a -ort of chicken that has come homo to roost. It is a boome rane 'hat has cut out our tonsue. To mention Russian progress in their own country or abroad is to be on a par with the messengers of old who were delegated to ' be bearers of bad news. As a ru e such bad news were reports of defeats of the king's arm ies. The messenger was promptly executed. Now it ap pears that the Russians have taken the sport out of sports. Where do we go from here? This essay is inspired by people interested In timely topics and current capers around the world. They write to me and cry on my should er and wail their woes be cause they can't look upon the world objectively ithout being told to pack their bags and go to Russia. ' Our only conslation is to give our candid opinion: They don t have to go. Walter Reese Galice rd., Marlin, Or.