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o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOF. ORE. SUTOAT. SEPTEMBER S3. I960 Everyone In Southern Oregon Rcaria The Mail Tribune0 published Daily except Saturday by S3 North fir jit., Ph SP 3-8141 ' BriRERT w HUHL. Editor KERB GREY AdveHlilnn Manaier ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnl Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor uinnv fTHIPMAN. Telea Editor virnAnn JFAVKTT SDortf Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Ed'tor DALE ERICKSONircuiaiion mir in lTlHVnpnd'ent Newioaoer Knlered aa accond claBB matter at JUeaioni. urejoii. unuci r.u v. March 3. 1807 amnsrwlPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year IIS 00 Daily and Sunday t mot 8.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mo 4.3' Sunday Only One vear S 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford A.hland. Central Point Eafle Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv mr Tal.ni and on vnotor rnutei. Dally and Sunday 1 vear 18 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo 1J0 Carrier and Dealer! copy 10c AJljrerrniJJaan in Aovanci "official Paper of "city of Medford Official Paper off Jackaon ConnU United Press International Full Leased Wire D P I Teephotq Newaplcturea TSEMBEH "OF"XUDIT BirnEAO Of CIRCULATIONS Advertliln H'nresentative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco. Los Anceles. Seattle. Portland St Loull. At lanta. Vancouver. S C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 1 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI ASfSbCO-ATION Zl W J vmum Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History ffom the file! ol The Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 ve' & 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1950 (Monday) Stanley L. Morgan, owner of the Crater Meat company, has been named commander of the Medford company of the National Guard reserve that will be formed here in the near future. The NLRB has ruled that the Elk Lumber company was not in violation of the Taft Hartley law when it discharg ed five employees last year for engaging in a sitdown fol lowing a wage reduction. ' 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1940 (Wednesday) The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce has said It will press for Improvement of the Pacific highway and com p 1 e 1 1 o n of the Tiller-Trail highway.1 From Arthur Perry's "Ye smudce Pot" column: "We started out to say something sassy about the Inability of visitors to Oregon coast points to get good clam chowder, when in came a man from Kansas, complaining he couldn't buy a baked pear here, for love or money." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 25. 1930 (Thursday) High school students will act as traffic cops at the Wash ington school crossing. Storms shrink attendance at Crater Lake to 135,000 for the season. 40 YEARS AGO Sept 25, 1920 (Saturday) County funds that were In the Bank of Jacksonville, which failed recently, will be saved. Sams Valley residents are protesting the lack of bridge improvements by the county in their area. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1910 (Sunday) Insurgents and anti-assembly forces in the Republican party in Jackson county came out victorious as a result of Friday's primary election, even though less than half of the registered Republicans In the county bothered to vote. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tan correct It luparler: tnven or eight) If eicelltnt; five er ii ii eood. Which U.S. President serv ed the shortest length of time? 2. The South Pole was first reached by Capl. James Cook. Roald Amundsen, or Adm. Richard E. Byrd? 3. Which city In the United States Is the largest railroad center? 4. From which direction did Scott's ''young Loch In var" come to woo his bride? 5. Can sea water be made potable by disllllation- 6. Was John Barrymorc married, one, two, three, four or five times? 7. For what was Diogenes searching with a lantern? 8. Which country In the past was often referred to as the 'nntion of shopkeepers'? 9. Were the Ishmaellles, who sold Joseph Into Egypt, Syrians, Egyptians, or Ara bians? , 10. which government ag ency controls the issuance of radio licenses In the U.S.? Answersi 1. William Henry Harrison. 2. Reald Amund sen. 3, Chicago, 111. 4. West. 5. Yes. (. Tour Times. 7. An honest man. t. England. (, Arabians. 10. Federal Com munications Commission. A Good Year for Hating. The hate mongers, cowards to a man, are having a fine time this year. Not in memory have their nasty little lying pamphlets been distributed in such profusion. The notorious, libelous (and completely false) Knights of Columbus "oath" was discussed here recently, and some few naive souls who were dis tributing it, have (we hoped) stopped. But other hate literature continues. IUST the other day someone in Medford found, when he returned to his parked car, a mimeo graphed sheet containing an abbreviated and "up-dated" version of the hoary, old, lying, vici ous, thoroughly discredited "Protocols of Zion." Can anyone with an ounce of intelligence be lieve such obscene slush, when all the evidence of their eyes and ears belie it? Yes, the hate mongers seem to be having a fine time this year. We pity them for their cow ardly, dirty little minds. E.A. Legislative Know-Nothings E. B. Lemon of Corvallis, retired dean of ad ministration at Oregon on the new state scholarship commission since it was established by the the granting of state scholarships out of poll tics." He has been chairman. His term is coming day Governor Hatfield reappointed him. The appointment went before the Oregon sen ate's committee on interim appointments. They turned him down, without giving any special reason why they TPHREE members (all Lemon; two (both him. But this party split hullabaloo raised by upstate newspapers on what should be a non-political The Oregon Statesman calls them "Peevish Politicians." The Corvallis Gazette-Time3 terms them "Two-Bit Politicians." The Oregon Journal says Lemon s rejection Bulletin calls two of the tongue in cheek, and says they (Senators Gren fell and Gleason) "don't actually know better," if their antics in the 1959 n OVERNOR HATFIELD has called the action "political chicanery" and "irresponsible," and the Albany Democrat-Herald declares that chicanery is the right State Sen. Monroe is a little less harsh on but he did deplore the action and said that Dean Lemon is "probably the best qualified man in Oregon on the practical side of scholarship problems." The interim committee should gather on its own volition and reverse action, which presumably fact that the scholarship commission granted awards on merit, rather than on pork-barrel type recommendations from If they don t, Governor mit Dean Lemon's name next January, and let these opportunistic legisla- , A 1 . 1 . 1 J? L- -V. ...I' Ll J cors taKe meir lumps nom colleagues. E.A. Ball of Fire Some Medford people, lucky ones, saw a big fireball shoot through the skies here last Tuesday evening, at o:Ub p.m. The fireball a meteor was a big one, and was seen generally throughout the Pacific North west. Apparently it exploded with a Hash which lighted peaks overlooking Central Oregon s high desert," according to the Bend Bulletin. DHIL BROG AN, associate editor of the Bulletin, is something of an expert on meteors, and is coordinator for this area Society. He reports: ". . . Many persons In the Pacific Northwest, In Washington, Oregon and Idaho, saw the object. A pre liminary check indicates that the meteor, which blazed when it struck the dense atmosphere possibly some 200 miles above the earth, came into visibility over Oregon and exploded over eastern Washington. "Unless fireballs are unusually large, they gener ally burn into dust before hitting the earth, due to atmospheric friction, skywatchers report. However, when the type known as a 'bolide' explodes, some of cooled fragments at times reach the earth. "American Meteor Society members (I.e.-Phll Bro-' gun) said that if sufficient readings can be obtained, an effort will be made to chart the course of the object, determine the height at which it exploded, and trace the area where meteorites from the explosion may be found. "This was the second brilliant fireball observed In the Pacific Northwest this month. On the night of Sept. 2 at about 9 a.m., a big meteor flamed through the northern sky." jMUCH remains to be AT1 meteorites (as they in reaching the earth). But much has been learned through scientific observation, particularly regarding their behavior when they hit our atmosphere. the biggest mystery source of these visitor from space, -Were they chunks of rock and metal thrown out when a long-vanished planet exploded and formed the ring of asteroids? Are they of solar system origin? Or do some of them reach us only after billion- year journeys through inter-stellar space? inese questions probably can t be answered in full until man himself nets into snace to find the answers personally, rather than deducing them from the meager evidence of' fireball ana meteorite. E.A. , State college, has served 1959 legislature to take to a close, and the other did so. Democrats) voted against Republicans) voted for doesn't account for the matter. is peevish. The Bend members G-Men, with session are any measure word. Sweetland (a Democrat) his political bedfellows, its self-seekintr. netu ant was motivated by the legislators. Hatfield should resub to the full legislature meir more enngmeneu lor the American Meteor learned of meteors and are called if they succeed remaining is the original Dennis the Menace 'An when oc Margaret says I'M GONNA STICK THIS STAMP ... 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 printed in this column do not contrary is often the case. From a Goldwater Fan To the Editor: What man ner of man are you sending to Washington to represent the citizens of your Fourth district? I refer to the in cumbent, Charles O. Porter- and I hasten to add that I am a registered Independent (a Barry Goldwater fan) and not a worker for either of the two major political parties. A year ago last spring, at about the time Fidel Castro was being wined, dined and feted in this country, with a typical operation buildup at Princeton and at my own alma mater, Harvard, I wrote a letter to my congressman, Hon. Laurence Curtis, en closing some published mate rial which shed considerable light on Castro's red back ground and affiliations. From the evidence then available, I expressed doubt at the wis dom of all this support for the young revolutionary lead er. Mr. Curtis replied that he did not have answers to my doubts but was passing my letter on to your Con gressman Porter who, ne saia, took a particular interest in these matters. A week or so later I re ceived from Mr. Porter copy of his reply to Mr. Curtis, a renlv which contained the following categorical and un- eauivocal statement: No one in the Slate De partment believes Castro is a communist or communist sym pathizer, nor does any other responsible person wno warns to get the facts straignt. Copy of that letter is in my files. Perhaps some of Mr. Port er s constituents wouia ukb to know whether he and the State Department have had occasion to change their minds during subsequent de velopments. 1 would-but my last two letters to Mr. Porter, written since the first of the year, have not Deen swered. Being a strong States Rightcr; it is not my purpose to interfere in the politics of another great state. On the other hand, there is every reason to believe that the citizens of another state would welcome any facts which help them to weigh the judgment and capabilities of a candidate to an import ant federal office. ' Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. 23 Woodman rd. Chestnut Hill 67, Mass Beware The Sales Tax To the Editor, and the peo ple of Oregon: My husband and I came to Medford to vis it my parents, and from here we four went to British Co lumbia. Let me tell you how fortunate you people in Ore gon are. First, in Washington tncy tax you to death, 40c a night above the motel price. We stopped at a drug store for cigarettes 33 cents a pack age, or $2.80 a carton, tax added upon the $2.80. Believe me I only bought two packs. The druggist and I were talking and he soys everybody goes through Waslngton as fast as they can and buy as little as possible. He said when the tax was lower they had more people stopping and buying. In fact can you imagine tax on groceries? We live in California and have sales tax there, but we don't have to pay taxes on our food. Gasoline tax, yes. Who doesn't enjoy good roads? But I do hope the people of Oregon never, and I mean never, vote in a sales tax. After going all the way up north, there was never any thing more beautiful for pic ture taking man in Oregon. We visited some beautiful placet in Portland that Cana-, '.er's plav tosr ofpice' ON THE BHD OF HER NOSe' necessarily represent the views of the paper) in tact tne da couldn't come up to. i And a visit to Eagle Point and more pictures of the old Grist mill, to Jacksonville and the museum, beautiful beyond compare. We were snapping pictures so fast that I told my husband maybe our camera would get overheated. And Crater Lake oh, gee, I can't begin to tell you how grand that was. Everything was wonderful and what made it more so was no sales tax. So keep your state free of sales tax. You never know where the money goes anyway. It takes the peo ple to vote a sales tax, don't be foolish because you don't have to vote when they want to raise it. We started in with a cent and a half, now each city has a tax on top of your sales tax So people of Oregon beware and keep people visiting you. Mrs. A. A. Weishaar, 5016 Elizabeth st., Bell, Calif. Where Were We? To the Editor: It is not our purpose to employ space on the obvious, but we will com mend E. A. for conquering space in his editorial, "Na tional Health Plan". In our opinion he got ,the most value out of the editorial column in quality and quantity that was possible. We note by a news item that Candidate Nixon is still trying to make political hay out of the U2 incident by say ing that his opponent Ken nedy was naive in suggest ing that the President express regrets. A little tact at the time might have saved the summit. We are of the opin ion that Mr. Nixon might be overloading his craft by suggesting that all join hands in supporting his cause as Mr. K of Moscow is visiting the U.N. It is hardly fitting that everyone should sneeze when the President looks toward the sun. After all he is a President and not a king. And many there are who believe he was a poor choice. Times change and minds of men with them. Today we clamor for a saint and not a soldier. Pen and parchment, peace and plenty, and not swords and heroes, drums and bombs. Or am I dreaming? Oh, we will know after the election. In a democracy such as ours we get the kind of order that we wish and deserve. At least the majority do. The minority, well, they don't matter. We are the sum total of our knowledge and we learn the hard way. By ex perience that is. Or do we? Unemployment . . . insecurity . . . high rent , . . high taxes . . . high cost of living . . . inadequate edu cation . . , class cleavage . . . religious intolerance . . . crime . , . low stanaara oi culture . . . low appreciation of the arts . . . strong appe tite for tobacco, alcohol and drugs ... no social cohesion . lack of neighborlincss and community solidarity . . . pelf, pride and poverty. And in the "richest coun try on earth . No wonder the communists find so few obstacles. No wonder Castro took Cuba, lock, stock and barrel. Now where were we? Oh, yeah, National Health Plan. Another pipe dream? Call the Friendly Undertaker. Walter Recce Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Autumn To the Editor: Lazy days, autumn's In the air. lack Frost will soon be here, Then baswn leaves every On Lightening Cold By ERIC SEVAREID At the United Nations the first shock of the colliding cohorts from the four corn- i ers of the earth is over, and as we regroup for ehe next collisions, we might look to our baggage train. We could lighten our load for greater flexibility if we rid ourselves of one cumbrous piece of im-pedimenta-the concept of the "uncommitted bloc of new nations." They are new nations in the legal sense and they are mostly uncommitted to either the Communist or the Liberal societies, but they are not a "bloc", because that implies uniformity of aim and the last thing they will tolerate, once they get their confidence, is to be treated as a bloc. At the bottom of our astig matism about these new sov- ereignties is conscience. The liberal conscience is, indeed, the celestial fire, or none ex ists in the political world But this is one of those oc casions when the fire is not hardening and tempering us but clouding our vision wan the smokes of misconception. exceed 400 words. The letters where. Little brown pods are throw ing out their feathery seeds. They are pretty as can be Although they are only weeds. The little birds are still full of song. But it won't be long, Then the winds will howl around the eaves. Dead leaves come drifting down Leaving naked trees. My mountains now are a verdant green, But a little later in a cloak of ermine will be seen. Mns. Walter Scholer Williams, Ore. None Are Perfect To the Editor: I suppose some have gotten the idea that all I do is sit around and write letters. Actually very little tune is spent this way. However the time devoted to writing is taken from the golden hours of the day. At the moment it is 4:55 a.m., a cheery fire is crackling in the stove, while all else is quiet save for an bccasional logging truck thundering by. When I say thundering, I mean just that. If my old 49 Plymouth produced half that noise, I'd probably have free board the rest of the winter in the county lockup. I noted in the M-T that someone who had contributed to the communications page had received an obscene phone call. This is typical of what any one can expect in this day and age when they endeavor to hold up the high standards many cherish. When the oppo sition can find no grounds to defend their position, they begin hurling "brickbats." Speaking of obscene lan guage, one wonders where our youth pick it up. A local well known businessman told me the other day of one of his visits to a much publicized outdoor theatrical perform ance held every summer in this area. It seems a very cul tured element, so called, at tend these performances. My friend told me of the shocked surprise many expressed one evening this summer. This reminds me of the "gentlemen" out In the Klam ath spud patch who couldn't seem to talk without a certain word being used. A friend of mine piped up one day the following: "Say, it's bad enough to get that stuff in your hands out in the barnyard, much less in your mouth." Yes, we parents and older ones should set a right exam pie. My little 5-year-old Patsy, a while back followed right in my tracks as I plodded over a Mt. Ashland snowbank. That little curly-headed youngster thinks the world of her daddy. Sad to say there are times when I see her repro ducing some of the bad traits that I have to battle with. Putting off doing something is one. "Yes," I can hear you girls say in the classified de partment. Please don't all of you readers put off paying for your ads as I did recently. No, none of us are perfect, are we? Henry Johnson Jr., 2400 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. No Timber "Steal" To the Editor: Without pre suming to being a mining man, I would like to point out a few fallacies In the so called Al Sarcna Scandal. If the United States govern ment would quit sacrificing the mining Industry to help the farmer, there would be no Al Sarcna. By pegging the price of gold in Oie face of rising mining costs our gov ernment has put the miner out of business. By trading sur- We have looked at these peoples through our own end of the telescope and we have seen that all of them have been made to feel racially in ferior, that all have suffered (and benefited) by colonial exploitation, that all yearn for the good material life. Even Americans, with prec ious little cause, feel guilty toward them all. We have therefore assigned them a common personality. They have confirmed the mis conception by talking, upon occasion, as if they did posses a common identity. In Africa they have joined to protest apartheid, deepening our be lief that they are all resent ful of the white man, which is not so; they have joint y condemned French atomic ex plosions in the Sahara, giv ing us the impression that they are, in high morality, horrified by violence and pa cific at heart, which is not so; they have a sense of soli darity with the brown Afri cans along the Mediterranean, and this is not so. (Indeed, beneath their solidarity talk, when they meet there is the most profound sense of alien ation betwern brown and black African leaders.) And because they have talked of "Pan-Africn iism" and the "African personality" we have been misled to think they ore heading for a uni fied Africa with all that would imply for a new count erweight in the world balance of power. But they are nowhere near that stage and are not likely to reach it in our generation. They are not a "bloc", save for specific votes against spe- plus wheat and other farm commodities for foreign min erals, our government has se verely curtailed our domestic production of lead, copper, silver and zinc. A miner with the constitu tion right to his timber, to timber his mine, should have the same right as the dairy man with Milking Shorthorns. When the beef value exceeds the milk value, why should he not butcher the critters in stead of being forced to milk them? Steve Wilson is just an ex ample of a good business man, and hundreds of people in our area depend on him for em ployment. I, personally, re sent any inference that he is a timber thief. I am firmly convinced that without gov ernment meddling, mining and the lumber industry would balance themselves. I think Oregon would do well to encourage its mining industry and put up a strong resistance to this being a so called "timber steal ex ample." Mason Anderson, I Box 76, Applegate, Ore. Do Unto Others . . ." To the Editor: We have heard much on "equality; no discrimination; all people be ing created equal and with equal protection of the laws and constitution with like ap plication thereof to every per son." We have created a big is sue on the Negro and enacted special laws and court decis ions to protect these rights to them. This may be O.K., but what has happened to the tax payers? By the same token are they not entitled to like protection? The Constitution prohibits the creating of 'class" or privileged persons. On the taxing situation, let's look at two forms for comparison. Two people own homes side by side on lots of the same size. The number one home cost $50,000; the number two home cost $5,000. Both agree that they want the service of sewerage and secure it. Each of them pays the same equal amount for the cost of installation and are assessed the same for the service. This is equality with no discrimination. For the service of govern ment, however, although each receives the same service, protection and privileges, the number one person pays 10 times more taxes than n.i.a- ber two person docs. In so doing the government has created classes of people the poor; the middle class and the rich -and tax each according to his "class" or worth. In other words "soak the rich" or according to 'ability to pay." The rich must pay a penalty for hav ing or saving money or value to their detriment and to the benefit of another class of people. The majority of people arc in the "middle class" and sit back and let the other fellow pay some of his taxes for him. He Is satisfied with that method of taxing because his next door neighbor pays most of the government tax be- cause he is rich. I believe that if one is a good citizen he will stand upon his own feet and meet his honest share of taxation. Then if taxes get too high the majority of the people would insist upon less gov ernment, which in turn would make better citizens of us War Baggage Train ific-and limited-targets, such as apartheid, and it is a mis take to think about "winning them over" as a bloc. As their common targets are removed, their common ality will be stripped away; and most of the targets are being remove.. The French even the Belgians-can take heart from the fact that sat urating, anti-British emotions, bred in the bones of Nigerians I and Ghanians, are already i vanishing as they quickly vanished in India itself. Africans by nature are even 1 less given to the grudges of neurotic self-pity than are ' Indians. I The truth is that the Euro i pcan or North American na- tions are far more of a "bloc" than the African or Asiatic j nations, and the reason is that the former have reached I the maturity phase of nation alism while the latter are barely entering the adolescent phase. European nations are far readier to limit their own separate sovereignty, the price of commonality, than any of the non-white nations. Why we expect the newest nations to leap over the historic phases of viru lent self-ccnteredness in their progress toward maturity is beyond one's understanding. Save where an exterior physical force obliges cohes ion, as with Russia and East Europe, dictatorial govern ments are in their very nature inimical to collective purpose and action between nations, barriers to what natural feel ings of cross-border common identity may exist. And sure ly even . those who read as they run must realize that all. I have advocated "tax ac cording to ability to pay" but in so doing I cannot believe our times have changed so much that it is necessary to abandon our principle or fed eral constitution. I write this with the hope that many will re-evaluate themselves and may begin to think in the light of "do unto others" as one would like done unto themselves. Ray O. DeMars 708 West Second st. Medford What Manner of Man? To the Editor: What manner of man would appear before a self-interested and tightly organized set-up, as most of our labor unions are, and to them say: "What the Ameri can labor movement wants for America is what I want for America and what the American labor movement opposes I oppose"? What manner of man, even though baiting for votes, could be at all sincere in such a sweeping declaration? If he really meant what he said he would have to go along with Boss Hoffa of the Teamster's Union who, bitterly opposing the Senate Investigating Com mittee digging into complaints by his own members as well as strike ridden industry, threatened to call a nation wide strike. Such a disaster can only be imagined, bringing ruin to our cherished freedom and all we hold dear. And mind you, this amounts to treason that Webster defines as: subvert ing the government of the state to which the offender belongs. Subverting means to upset; ruin; overthrow, cor rupt. What manner of man would subscribe to such a debacle-breeding thing? Boss Quill of the RR Main tenance Union did just this when, by a single order, he brought the entire system of our strongest railroad, the Pennsylvania, to a dead stop from New York to St. Louis. It stopped 755 daily passenger trains carrying commuters to their daily jobs. Stopping over 800 daily freight trains, many of them carriers of perishable products. Why was this done? Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A FABLE FOR TODAY: A road selling hamburgers hearing, so he had no radio. eyes, so he read no news papers. But his ham burgers and weenies were wonderful, so he did a landoffico business. At the peak of the sea son, his son came home from college, and was shocked to hear that he had ordered a bigger stove and cash register to take care of his thriving business. "Pop," cried the son, "haven't you heard? The country is In a seri ous recession. Things are going to pot!" The father reasoned, "My son is a senior at college. H knows what the experts are saying. He must know what't what," So he cancelled the order for the new equipment, took down his electric sign, and fired his cook. His business fell off 50 in two weeks. "You sure were correct," he told bis ion. "We're in a recession all right I never would have known it if yon hadn't told meT ' virtually every new nation created since the great war is now or will be governed by the Strong Man. This is a pity, but it seems to be a pitiable necessity. The almost universal pattern of these nations-attempts at par liamentary and party rue giving way to anarchy, coups and one-man rule-is evidence acceptable by all but the mystical that conditions for our kind of free government simply do not exist among these peoples. ' As we lighten our baggage train by dropping impedi menta, let us get rid of our confusion between national freedom in the world and in dividual freedom in the na tion, along with our miscon ceptions about the uncom mitted "bloc". The intelligent leaders of these countries suf fer only temporary illusions about this; the Russians suf fer none at all. Since situations do exist in which conscience doth make cowards as well as fools of us all, it is easy enough to understand Khrushchev's courage in invading New York. He has lightened his baggage train and given his shock troops total flexibility by dropping the item called conscience along with illus ions. But this war is likely to be won by endurance more than flexibility, and in a war of siege, men come to need every useful item of supply available in the quartermast er's stores. Khrushchev may find that his missing item, like the horseshoe nail in the fable, will turn out to be the critical item. (All Rights Reserved) Because the Pennsy wanted to continue its 114 years of un interrupted public service by farming out some of its car repair work where it could be done at less cost than in its own union dominated shops. Doing this so as to remain sol vent, free of red-ink. ' What manner of man would sub scribe to such union labor procedure? The staid old morning Ore gonian of Portland, brought in a modern type of machine that one jnan could operate, so they could transfer the other three operators required by the old process to other work. The Typographical Union opposed this, demand ing that the three operators be feather-bedded, i.e., receive usual pay but doing no work. The management refused. A long and costly strike ensued, dynamiting of paper-hauling . trucks for which a Union official was tried and con victed. What manner of man subscribes to such as this? No other than John Kennedy, if he means what he says, Demo cratic choice for president of these United States of Ameri ca. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Questions for V.A. To the Editor: A quesUon for which I am seeking an answer: Why do the authori ties at Camp White V.A. fa cility send applicants for ad mission to the Salvation Army when they have plenty of beds at Camp White? Do they know that it is ap proximately two miles from downtown to the shelter? Do they know that the men they send there have to leave at 7 a.m. and cannot return un til 5.30 p.m.?. Do they know that men requiring special diets cannot receive same from S. A.? Do they realize that they are imposing on the S. A. and the city of Med ford? And needlessly, because there are plenty of vacancies at the facility. What are these applicants going to do when the rainy season arrives? J. V. McGrath Salvation Army Shelter Medford. Stop Me man lived by the side of a and weenies. He was hard of He also had trouble with hi
