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History from the The
Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40
and 50 vaara age.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21. H5Q (Wednesday)
Medtord city council ap
proves bid of $30,000 for new
aerial Udder truck for fire
department.
Approximately 11,484 stud
etns enrolled In Jackson coun
ty school.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21. 140 (Friday)
Big send-off planned for
men of Company A nd ""
quartert detachment, 3rd Bat
talion, 186lh infantry, as they
leave for year of active duty
at Ft. Lewia, Wain.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Your,
,nd fearful Democrats s "
maintain GOP Nominee Will
kie i 'talking too much -like
moat everybody le.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept 21. U30 (Sunday) .
Jackson county scores hit
with exhibits at ' ,fa,r-
Owen-Oregon mill to oper
ate shift throughout winter.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1220 (TuaidaT)
Interest In deer hunting
slumps locally with the sma 1
est number of hunters in
woods In many years.
C. A. Swope, Grants Pass,
and Roy Prultt, Medford,
killed three bear and a deer
on hunting trip near Diamond
lake.
SO YEARS AGO
... ii. 1110 (Wednesday)
Cattle reported selling for
4V4 cents are scarce and Is
highest price ever paid for
cattle this time of year.
Heavy rainfall reported
Monday night In Central
Point
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er tea eeriest to parlei;
ova er eight b eicallwlt Mve et
hi to teed1.
1. Is a bimonthly magazine
Issued once every two months,
or twice a month?
2. Is It possible for a pres
idential candidate to receive
a majority of the popular
vote and yet not be elected!
3. Did Alexander Graham
Bell discover the telephone?
4. Certain kinds of birds'
nests are used as an article
of food in what country?
5. The Roman numerals
CCC Indicate what Arabic
equivalent?
6. Is It true that snow never
falls In Florida?
7. Name the ancient phil
osopher who drank hemlock.
8. Is Florida an Indian
name?
t. In what card game does
one peg 81 holes to win?
10. How soon after a de
cision is rendered by the
U.S. Supreme Court does It
become effective?
Answers! 1. Once every
Iwe months. 2. Yes. 1. He, He
invented It. 4. China. I. 300.
I. No. 7. Socrates, t. He.
(Spanish) 8. Crlbbage. 10.
Immediately.
New Office Building
Planned in Soem
Salem-flTO-Satem Title Co.
has announced plans tor a
$280,000 office building In
downtown Salem offering
20,000 square feet of apace
and parking tor car) on the
roof.
The one-s t o r y structure
will be at the Intersection of
Chemeketa and Church lU.,
la the northeast section. .,
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IAI
Elmo Smith
In the campaign for
each of the candidates
(D) and Elmo Smith
tages.
Each is trying to capitalize on these advan
tages, as is right and proper in an election cam
paign. Some of the claims, counter-claims and argu
ments have been pretty silly, but this is, we
suppose, inevitable in an election drive.
On the face of it, we believe that Mrs. Neu
berger has had the best of it so far, and that she
has better qualifications
United States senator. We probably will continue
to believe so until the
Smith comes up with something more impressive
in the way of campaign material.
DUT Smith has one advantage that Mrs. Neu-
berger doesn't. He is a pilot and flies his own
plane. And it is natural
this to his advantage.
In doing so, he has
of the licensed pilots in Oregon, setting forth his
views on the laws, regulations and policies now
governing civil aviation.
"I believe that private aviation and personal flying
will quickly be eliminated under the policies now being
followed by the present F.A.A. act."
And we have reason to believe that a sub
stantial number of private and commerical pilots
agree with this assessment whole-heartedly.
jMITH continues:
"Regulations already In force and those planned
simply will make it impossible for the average person
to afford the red tape and financial costs to take an
interest In flying. Even the days of the smaller ex
ecutive aircraft may be numbered. With the costs to
be arbltararily imposed, many businesses that are now
finding aircraft economic assets will not be able to
afford them.
"This Is more than Just a threat to the pilot, air
port and aircraft operator. It seems to me to be a
genuine threat to the aircraft manufacturer.
"Almost all of us believe in safety in the air. Most
of us went along with the present administrator In
his safety program, until It turned Into a program to
to make the air safe by eliminating all private flyers
from the air.
"Every reasonable step should be taken to make
flying safe. We should eliminate the buzzing goons
and completely irresponsible people. But to bring
' safety by curbing all activity is a ridiculous and un-
real program.
"Under the present philosophy, If it was applied
to cars, you could no longer drive, if you were In
the wrong by denting a car with your fender. If the
same rules of safety would be applied to the deadly
automobile, there would be very few cars on the road
and the cost of safety and communications equip
ment would keep them ground most of the time.
"I thoroughly believe in a sensible safety pro
gram. I also know the problems of the causal flyer
and of general aviation, I believe I can do a good job
of presenting the case for general aviation in the
U.S. senate."
I
AS WAS shown in a Mail Tribune feature
article last Sunday, private flying has an im
Dortant Dlace in the economy of southern Oregon.
Elmo Smith, as a pilot, knows this. He also
knows that private and
threatened bv some arbitrary, unauiy strict, ana
unreasonable regulations
reauire such expensive
place perfectly adequate
present) that many flyers
And in presenting his case to pilots, he is
working a rich lode of votes, for there are thous
ands of pilots in Oregon, and they constitute an
influential group of people.
IN A way, we are sorry to see this injected into
politics, for it is or should be an essentially
non-political matter.
But the F.A.A. has gone so far into unreason
ableness that Smith is
ing it out into public view. Only in this way can
it De corrected.
We have attempted from time to time to
make our own small criticisms of the F.A.A. and
the way it is being operated at present, without
any noticeable results. '
The consensus of pilots is that they are grad
ually being squeezed. out of the air.
ODDLY, this applies also to the airlines, which
have been battling some F.A.A. regulations
they deenv unnecessary, unduly restrictive, and
needlessly expensive.
The same applies to the airline pilots associa
tions, to the private pilots groups, and to those
interested in general aviation in general.
So. whether or not we support Smith for
election, we are glad to put on the record his
well-substantiated complaints about the F.A.A.
Question
When the federal government pays 90 per
cent of the cost of the big interstate highway
network, this is commendable foresight and serv
ice to the nation as a whole.
When it is proposed that the federal govern
ment undertake to finance a tiny portion of the
costs of the schools of the nation now under
staffed and inadequate it's socialism, by cracky!
une wonders which is more important to tne
future of America a first rate highway system,
or a first ratoeducational system 7 -E.4,
ahd the F.A.A.
the United States senate
Mrs. Maurine Neuberger
(R) have certain advan
for the high office of
election on Nov. 8, unless
that he should try to turn
mailed a sheet to most
general aviation is being
some of which would
radio equipment (to re
equipment in 'use at
simply couldn't afford
doing a favor by bring
Dennis the Menace
tsers Futt of steps?4
...Communications ...
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contrary is often the case.
Fall Beach Plug
To the Editor:
"Today was a turquois day
Set in an ancient silver
setting
Of Indian summer."
The beautiful days of fall
re here with low tides for
clam digging, expanses of
sandy beach, nights when the
sea is phosphorescent, and
many days with little or no
wind.
Later in the season these
days will be punctuated by
sou'westcrs which bring with
them the heavy seas so inter
esting to watch, bring out
lies of agate beds from un
der summer sand, and bring
up on the beaches who-knows-what
to provide interesting
beach combing.
If you found the coast ex
pensive in July and August,
come now! 11 is economically
impossible to operate even
the simplest resort on two
months' income; if you spread
your patronage more evenly
the resorts can spread their
rates more evenly, too. Do
not, however, expect to find
rooms, preheated and bright
ly lighted, for nothing; for
each resort there is a point
below which it is cheaper to
leave a room unoccupied.
If you found the coast fog
gy in July and August, come
now! Most of our fog is over
for this season, and when in
land valleys are shrouded in
ground fog which may cling
all day, the coast is usually
clear and sunny. Come to sec!
If you found the coast cold
in July and August, come
now! Indian summer is as
beautiful here as it is In the
rest of Oregon, and In winter
the coast is warmer than the
Inland valleys.
So bring your waterproof
-either you'll be glad to have
It or you won't need it - and
visit the coast soon and often.
Elizabeth Swan
Yachats, Ore.
The Rtal Evil
To the Editor: I wish to
commend Henry Johnson Jr.
for his efforts to "jar" some
people Into action on the li
quor problem.
However, right here. I
wish to slate that I have
great faith in the standards
of living adhered to by the
great majority of the Ameri
can people, yea, and faith in
their ability to think an issue
through.
It is not the majority of
our people that are abusing
the privileges we have en
Joyed In this great nation of
ours!
True, the use of liquor can
produce a lot of misery, suf
fering and evil, but It is only
by the abuse of it that these
evils exist. Why not do some
"brass tacks" thinking? Is it
not true that the abuse of
handling the automobile can
cause (and does cause) untold
suffering, misery and death?
Is it not true that the abuse
of other necessities of life,
like food, money, and fire,
cause uniold misery, suffer
ing and death?
So, Henry, instead of "lam
basting" liquor as a great
evil, why not put me oiame
where it belongs? Our two
greatest "rattlesnakes" that
roam our country today
mlaht be called "Ignorance
and "lethargy". Were it not
for Ignorance, and Indiffer
ence, none of the above
named things, including li
quor, WOUia De a menace 10
the public health or saiety.
To me our loo is ciear u
Is to bend our effort toward
constructive action by giving
what we can in lime and
money In support of our
democratic Institutions.
These Institutions are: the
schools, the churches, the
YMCA, and similar youth or-
ganliatlons. If f-v e r jr o n ej
the right to edit all letters with a view to ciaruic.uon .
would only increase their ef
forts to build character in
our young people today
through the home, and all
our other wonderful institu-
tions that help to eliminate
the serpents of ignorance and
indifference then we'll need
not fear tomorrow! .
Are we, Henry, really do-
ing our share to make our
country stronger strong
enough to withstand the ever
present menace of spreading
communism?
Philip Lee Burns
. 121 Bush st.
Ashland, Ore.
Third Alternative
To the Editor: There are
three approaches to the prob
lem of getting and keeping
the peace in our time.
There is the tremendously
costly one of continuously
adding to our already im
mense military potential,
thereby hoping to ward oft
any power contemplating de
signs against our safety.
The second approach is to
gel all the great powers to
agree to a very substantial
reduction in armaments so
that none would have the
temerity or ability to attack
any other country. It is al
ready proving to be a long
drawn out procedure that
could take several years to
consummate.
The third is your corre
spondent's plan for peace, i.e.,
invite to our land, on a paid
tour 100,000 Russians each
year for five years. Arrange
for them to meet us face to
face in workshops, stores,
homes, theaters, stadiums, etc.
In that way they would learn
at first hand just what kind
of people we are. It is a di
rect, sensible way to peace.
In a speech at Princeton,
N. J., Kennedy said: "We
must seize the initiative in the
cold war with bold imagina
tive programs launched with
good-will and launched from
strength."
As Walter Recce of Merlin,
Ore., stated in a letter to the
Mail Tribune: "Mr. Frisch has
made a fool proof suggestion
-that would be the best in
vestment the United States
ever made."
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Trip
To the Editor: On my first
trip from Ashland to the Trin
ity Alps in a 1012 Reo auto
mobile, I had more trouble
than I would have trying to
drive an Oregon Flea Circus
Try and Stop Mo
By BENNETT CERF
LT. COL. VERNON WALTERS has reassuring words for
interpreters who fear that they soon mar be replaced
by electronic brains. The Colonel was invited to a demon
stration of a formidable
new mechanism that
supposedly was equipped
with a 4000-word vocab
ulary in two languages.
The phrase "The spirit
is willing but the flesh is
weak" was ted into the
machine in one of the
languages. And here's
the translation that came
out in the other: "The
liquor is still good but
the meat has gone bad."
The manager of the clas
sified ad department of aa
Artsona gaiatta was proud to receive this testimonial from a
satisfied customer: "Dear Sir: Your ads sun bring results. Ity
lost dog has been returned plus seven pups."
The beatnik," rejoices Burton HlUis, "is' rapidly going tht
way of the American buffalo to which he bears a strong resemblance."
Ua tsr laaaiU fail ttstrftislil by :
Khrushchev Still Is Menace in Africa;
Reds Said
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Nikita Khrushchev may
have lost a battle In the Con
go but he has by no means
MrjaaBi lost the war
Africa.
r.Jii It was a dip
V 1 o m a tic set
rf C back for Khru
V jkj!' s h chev when
17 Afro-Asian
mem bers of
the United
-rM Nations reject
ed the Soviet
pan. newsom charge that
U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold had bungled in
the Conga and, instead, urged
that Hammarskjold continue
"vigorous" action there.
It also was a setback -whether
momentary or not re
mains to be seen-when Congo
lese Col. Joseph Desire Mobu
tu seized government reins In
the Congo, ordered the Soviet
and Czechoslovakian diplo
matic representatives out, and
through a California Bug Sta
tion.
I did learn a few things
on this trip. I learned - How
to fix two dozen flat tires
and numD them up Wltn
hand pump. I learned - How
to back two miles down
steep hill to let a mule team
nass.
I also learned - How to take
a shower bath in a creek.
It was a hot summer's day
when I ditched the car in Pea
nut's Creek at the end of
the trip. I drove the car into
Peanut's Creek to soak the
wooden wheels so I would
have wheels to put the new
tires on when they got there
from Los Angeles. The last
tire blew up in the creek,
just as I stepped out to get
the suitcases off the running
board.
In yust vun bang, I had all
the California dust blown off
me, and got a good shower
bath to boot.
Everett Acklln
Ashland, Ore.
Summer's Last Day
Sees Sunny Skies
By United Press International
The last full day of summer
in Oregon today was marked
by sunshine but the weather
man said frost, fog and high
fire danger would herald the
first day of fall.
Summer ends and fall be
gins at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Freeze warnings' were is-
sued for Eastern Oregon areas
for early Thursday with lows
downs to 25 in the Bend area.
Western Oregon also will get
chilly morning weather, with
fog patches expected.
But the weather also will
be dry and forest fire danger
will increase rapidly in all
areas of the state through
Thursday. Humidities down
to 12 per cent in South Cen
tral Oregon are predicted,
with east winds across the
Cascades.
Two Charged With
Murder in Idaho
Gooding, Idaho - IUPD - A
young man and woman stood
in district court here Tuesday
and quietly listened while
first degree murder charges
were read agains them. -
Rodger Hall, 22, and Mary
Catherine Hampton, 18, are
charged with the gunshot
death of Dr. John Hunt, Port
land, a plant pathologist,
whose body was found in his
car a year ago last August in
the desert near Bliss.
Eyeing Republic of Guinea
made it stick.
By setting himself up as a
"strongman," Mobutu also
neutralized Premier Patrice
Lumumba who had relied
chiefly on the Soviets for his
outside support. 4
Prepare for Setback
But it is a rare thing for the
Soviets to be caught without
a previously prepared posi
tion, and so a setback in the
Congo does not find them un
prepared. The new position and the
new man might well be the
African republic of Guinea
and its Marxist-trained Pre
mier Sekou Toure.
Guinea, once France's sec
ond richest possession south
of the Sahara Desert, reject
ed membership in the French
community and declared its
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Buenos Aires:
Retired Navy Captain Er
nesto Recaredo Vazquez took
over as Argentina's new chief
of police after an investigation
of corruption charges among
high officers. President Ar
turo Frondizi appointed him
after removing from the top
Argentine police spot Rear
Admiral Ezequiel Niceto ve
ga, a TRUSTED FRIEND who
was married to Frondizl's
sister-in-law.
HMMMMMMM.
This man Frondizi seems
to be all right ... to have
what it takes to "hew to the
line and let the chips fall
where they may." In most of
Latin America, it takes cour
age to crack down on a rela
tive who. has been doing
things he shouldn't.
Frondizi seems to incline to
"Hew to the right line, and let
the chips fall where they
may."
WHO is Frondizi?
He is the first man to
be chosen president of Ar
gentina in a FREE election
after the fall of Dictator Juan
Peron. When Peron finally
fell in September of 1935, he
was replaced in November of
the same year by a military
junta, which chose General
Arumburu provisional presi
dent. He restored civil liber
ties, dissolved the Peronist
party and RETURNED EX
PROPRIATED PROPERTY to
its rightful owners.
In the first free elections
after 12 years of Peronist dic
tatorship, Dr. Arturo Frondizi
was elected by a landslide. He
has had his troubles, but he
seems to have done a pretty
good job.
All of which seems to offer
some hope that after Crazy
Man Castro has had his fling
the Cubans may tire of him
and elect a decent Cuban
President in a free election.
Anyway, let's hope so.
QUESTION:
Who first coined the
phrase: "Hew to the line and
let the chips fall where they
may?"
IT WAS first spoken by Ros
coe Conkllng in June of
1880 at the Republican na
tional convention in Chicago
in a speech nominating Ulys
ses S. Grant for a THIRD
TERM as President of the
United States.
Conkllng was a great orator
and he delivered a powerful
speech and created wild ap
plause that lasted for 25
minutes. He began by saying:
"If asked what state he hails
from,
"Our sole reply shall be -
"He comes from Appomatox
"And the famous apple
tree."
Farther along In his speech,
Conkllng said: "He will hew
to the line of right, let the
chips fall where they may."
N SPITE of the anti-third
term tradition, Grant re
ceived 304 votes and soon
after the balloting began he
got two more, bringing his
total to 306, which he held al
most to the last. On the 34th
ballot, James A. Garfield re
ceived Wisconsin's 16 votes,
and on the 36th ballot he re
ceived 399 votes, or 21 more
than were necessary for a
choice.
The antt-thlrd term tradi
tion which worked strongly
against Grant in the 1880 Chi
cago convention, remained un
broken until 1940, when the
Democrats nominated Frank
lin D. Roosevelt for a third
term, with World War II In
the offing, and he carried 38
states to Wendell Winkle's 10.
He was elected to a fourth
term in 1944.
CONSERVATION WORK
Weed-Roger Zwaniiser of
Weed has leveled 19 acres
which he plans to plant to im
proved irrigated pasture. Jim
Elsea of Montague has laid
out 800 feet of head ditch.
Both Jobs were planned and
laid out by the soil conserva
tion service. i
independence in 1958. Toure
harshly told French President
Charles de Gaulle:
"Guinea prefers poverty in
freedom to riches in slavery."
Toure, grandson of a le
gendary West African emper
or, came up through the ranks
of France's Communist-dominated
General Confederation
of Labor, received additional
training in Prague, Warsaw
and Moscow and became pres
ident of the confederation in
Guinea.
The confederation, became
his springboard to political
power and his strong anti-colonial
feelings made him a
natural target for Moscow
after Guinea's achievement of
Independence.
Visited United States
Hopefully, the West has
chosen to regard Toure as
more a nationalist than a
Marxist. He has visited the
United States as well as Mos
cow,
'Campaign Wife' Is
Col umn Written by
Mrs. J. F. Kennedy
By DICK WEST
United Press International
Washington -ffl?D-'Mrs. John
F. Kennedy, the only poten
tial first lady who was once
a card -carry
ing journalist,
resumed her
news paper
career this
week as an
unpaid colum
nist for tne
Democr a t i c
National Com
mittee. In a sense,
Mrs. Kennedy and I are now
colleagues and I wish to wel
come her return to the fold.
However, I hope that her non-
salaried status doesn't start a
new trend.
The title of her column,
which the committee is dis
tributing on a weekly basis, is
"Campaign Wife." This would
make a fine title for a radio
soap opera, but it has certain
drawbacks as a column head
ing. It means that in November
she either will have to change
the title or retire again.
Writes Of Frustration
In her first column, Mrs.
Kennedy wrote of "How Frus
trating It Is" to have to stay
home and tend to her knitting
while her husband is out cam
paigning. At least I assume
she has been knitting.
The reason she can't join
Selective Service
Duties Outlined
Portland-ICPD - The. director
of Selective Service, Lt. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, said Tues
day the calling up of men to
fill draft quotes Is only about
10 per cent of his organiza
tion's duties.
Gen. Hershey said other du
ties involved keeping track of
Wi million standby reservists,
encouraging young men to en
list in branches of their
choice, helping to see that col
leges have students in speci
alized fields such as engineer
ing and medicine and keeping
the public conscious of its ob
ligation to keep the country
strong.
"We can't defend an indif
ferent public," Hershey told
a luncheon meeting attended
by Gov. Mark Hatfield and
Oregon Selective Service of
ficials. He said the rate of rejection
of men called up for examina
tion continued to be high,
about 30 per cent on the na
tional average. This is at
tributable in cart, he said, to
higher standards adopted in
1958.
Woman Achieves
Altitude Record
Los Angeles - (UPD - A wom
an who has psssed tests as
a candidate to become Ameri
ca's first female astronaut
flew Monday to a height of
37,010 feet-more than seven
miles - In a twin-engined
plane.
The altitude was a record
for planes in the 3,858 to 6,.
816-pound class. The previous
record was 34,862 feet set
earlier this yesr.
Jerrie Cobb, 29. Okdahoma
City, said her only discomfort
during her hour and 49-mbv
ute flight from Santa Monica
Airport on an Aero Command
er was cold feet.
Miss Cobb made the flisht
in connection with the Na
tional Business Aircraft As
sociation's annual convention.
She said the flight had nothing
to ao wttn her desire to be
come eventually the. first
woman in space. '
it
Dick west
But this week, on a tour
which included hunors in the
Soviet capital and in Red Chi
na, he arrived tor a visit to
Indonesia aboard a jet liner
which the Russians thought
fully had loaned him.
Whether nationalist or
Marxist, the bulk of Guinean
trade has in the last two years
swung almost entirely to the
Communist bloc.
Guinea has barter agree
ments with the Soviet Union,
East Germany, Czechoslo
vakia, Poland, Hungary and
Communist China. Soviet ce
ment goes into Guinean struc
tures and highways. Hungar
ian buses serve the capital of
Conakry. Khrushchev is
scheduled to visit Guinea this
year.
Intriguing to the Soviets is
not only Toure's stature at
home but in all of West Africa
and his leadership in a move
ment for a union of West Afri
can states.
her husband on the camnalirn
trail is because she is expect
ing her second child in De.
cember. So, she said, "I de.
cided one way to keep from
feeling left out was to tallc
through this column to the
friendly people all over the
country I would have met
while campaigning."
In her previous experience
as a journalist, Mrs. Kennedy
conducted an inquiring pho
tographer column for the
Washington Times - Herald.
She went around taking pic.
tures of truckdrivers and ask
ing them questions like "What
do you think of the new Paris
fashions?"
She Was Shy
One of Mrs. Kennedy's
former co-workers told me
that she was rather shy in
those days and seemed to find
this sort of thing distasteful.
On occasions, some of her
male colleagues would lend
her a hand.
I might add that Mrs. Ken.
nedy was, and is, a very at
tractive brunette and I sus
pect this made it easy to get
volunteers.
Subsequently, she got mar
ried to the present Democratic
presidential nominee and the
Times-Herald merged with the
Washington Post. But I sup.
pose this was only coinciden
tal. Last Monday, Mrs. Ken
nedy invited some of her
sister journalists in for tea
and shop talk. The conversa
tion naturally touched on the
recent controversy over how
much she and Mrs. Nixon
spend for clothes.
Mrs. Kennedy made it plain
that she has no intention of
engaging in a wardrobe feud
with her Republican rival,
and I sort of rezret this. It
would have made good column
material lor the both of us.
Nixon Challenged
By Senator Morse :
Washington - IUPI) - S e n .
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.X ! has
challenged Vice President
Richard M. Nixon to say
whether he agrees with New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller's criticism of the ad
ministration - backed medical
care plan for the aged. ..-
Rockefeller has criticized
the plan's means test pro
vision and method of financ
ing. He Indicated he would
postpone New York participa
tion In the federal-state pro
gram until the next Dresiripnt
couia make changes.
Morse said Tuesday, "in
view of the fact that ; . .
Nixon and . . . Rockefeller
are supposed to have agreed
on a liberal legislative pro
gram ior the Republican par
ty, lt is only fair to ask . . .
Nixon-if he is ready to make
the same pledge for reform
of the medical aid program
for the aged that Gov. Rocke
feller discussed . . ."
Three Cars Damaged
In Highway Crash
Three cars sustained minor
damage from a three-car col
llsion yesterday on Crater
Lake highway near Four Cor
ncrs.
A car driven by Alba Lloyd
Wooton, 50, of 532 Plum St.,
Medford, attempted to pass
a csr driven by William Hos.
ken Hansen, 46, of route 4,
box 371P, Medford, when the
acicdent occurred state police
said. As the Wooten car pull
ed back behind the Hansen
car, bumpers became lodged
causing the rear end of the
Hansen car to hit a car driven
by Horace Lee Deston. 41, of
route 1, box 283, Talent, in
the north bound lane.
Wooton was Informed that
a complaint would be filed
against him charging passing
with insufficient clearance,
police Mid.