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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1960 J , A . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. U "Everyone, In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by ' 31 North rir St.. Ph SP 1-6141 HOBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnn Editor JSAHL Ji ADAMS, cary GOlIor RICHARD JEWETT, Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Woman'! Ed'.tor PALE Emuftsuw. circulation ivigr An Indenendont NewiDaner . entered as second elass matter at 1 i jueaiora, uregon. unaar nui uj March 3, 1887 RimRrfBTPTFON RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 100 Dally and Sunday 1 year 15.00 Dally and Sunday mos 8.00 : Dally and Sunday 3 mos. J Sunday only one year aa.au S fnrHAiwfn Advance -Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv ; f Tlnt unH nn ,notor routes Dally and Sunday J year 1B(I0 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c am jrermaaanjnnuvanc Official Paper oTcltv of Medfnrd Official Paper oi Jackson County . United Press International Full Leased Wire TJ.P.1. Telephoto Newsplcturee "TSmber orTTOmT bureau"" OF CIKCULAT1UHB Advertising RepreEentatlve! :, WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York Chicago. De trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. . Seattle. Portland St, Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAI AMsbCfrATIfOh g KJ W IlllllfJ.' Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlslory from the files of ,The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 2, 1950 (Monday) Some residents of Rogue River still protest the naming of a new bridge there "Tail holt" and claim that propo nents of that name "railroad ed" it through the county court. ' The annual Jackson County Community Chest opens its drive tomorrow with Its 1950 goal set at $75,000. 20 YEARS AGO . Oct. 2, 1940 (Wednesday)" .Tnannh CI OrftV. lonB-time Medford resident and former member of the Medford dis trict school board and city council, died Tuesday after a Vtriof illness. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Kmnrioo Pnt" column: "The weather Is. uncertain, It's too warm for an overcoat, ana too . cold to run arouna wunoui a hut Tn (he rural areas it's too wet to plow, but not to go deer hunting." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1930 (Thursday) ' The county court has an nounced . plans to Improve 1 county roads, as a means of 'providing relief employment. ' The Fruitgrowers' League "yesterday voiced' a protest 'over the government's policy fof charging for fruit inspec tion. .'.- "40 YEARS AGO 5 Oct. 2. 1920 (Saturday) : The county court has de voided to put a measure on the 1 ballot proposing transfer of I the county seat from Jackson ville to Medford, j A meeting of all Interested fpersons will be held at Crater ;Laka Monday to seek ways of , bettering conditions there. ; 50 YEARS AGO ' ;Oct. 2. 1910 (Sunday) S Postal receipt In Medford have increased 96 per cent jthls month over last month to a new record high of $4,304. J The Rogue River Valloy .University club, an organiza tion of male university gradu ates, held Its first meeting t-nere last night with 75 per sons attending. NEWSPAPER JJJ-ASSOCIAIION j jV hat's YourlQs? ,1 iNlne or fen correct is superior; :j jseven or eight Is eacellenti five at ! .six is good. 1. Does a planetarium house ;exotlc plant life or marine :ille? J 2. Aroyl acelatc has an odor alike which fruit? J 3. In which slate of the U.S. fdld the Whiskey Rebellion oc cur? f 4. Of the big game animals ;in the U. S., are there more Snoose, deer or bear? J 5. Who was responsible for the "Massacre of the Inno cent!" at Bethlehem? - 6. Is the right side of a j ... ship (lookmg forward) the : starboard I ' the port side? i 7. i "The Three Sisters," j "Rainier" and "Hood" are all what? 8. - What did Napoleon say an army marched on? " O nM I onn TrnloWv u,k. w was oanisnea irum me uosh, die a natural death in Mexico? 10.' "Pickett's Charge" oc- m.imhuS In whit fltwisltm hut. tie of the-' War Between the V Slates;? .;. '..-., ': i 11. i Neither. (Me-dei oi rap reitmtiiion of tha planetary vatemh 2. Bananas 9. Feniv ( ty'vaniai 4. Deem 5. Herodi V Btaxboarai 7. mountains; .Its stomach) 9. No, h was - fusfjslntladi 10. CUttyeburg. Rivers and Partisanship In 1948, the Rogue River Basin project was killed. It died in the cross-fire of people interested in irrigation, flood control, power, fish, and rec reation. ' . p ' These varying interests could not compro mise their differences. Later, after a long series of delicate negotia tions, the Talent project wa$ "chopped off" from the overall basin development project, and re ceived the support of the people of the basin, at best, or a lack of noisy opposition, at worst. It was authorized, and is now nearing com- ' , DUT the Rogue project itself lay dead. And it staved dead until two thihe-s ban Dened : ; " 1. Disastrous floods Rogue, from above Shady Cove to below Grants rass, in me winter oi 2. A VlPoi'ous. lmnetnnns. nrririifiniis ranrliri ana intelligent young Eugene lawyer, Charles O. Porter by name, was elected Congressman from this district in November of 1956. " . TheRfi two fflf'tni'S hrpaf.hnrl now lifo l'nfn tha long-dormant plans. , It js now a "live" : issue. Studies are Wfill alnno'. Tf is hahavad thav nan ha COmnleterl in t.imp tr ni 1962, during the second gress. - Its chances of passage then look good. rNE of the moving v"' rolling again was sprang up after the 1956-56 floods, which had the cumbersome name of Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources Association. This was composed of many local organiza tions, But in practice, its governance was handled by a 16-man board of directors. They are all men who are dedicated to even tual development of the Roeue basin. And this time, it had been hoped, varied "special interests a plan which will harm and benefit all. This is commendable. : .-',;, DUT there is such a tiding as being so dedicated " to a single objective that you can't take into consideration anything else. ' , There is such a thing as not recognizing other worthy projects which (in these single-minded, dedicated eyes) might , conceivably delay the tning you re wonting tor. There is such a thing as being blind to politi cal realities, engineering realities, and the reali ties of widespread public opinion. And there is also non-partisan organization tor violently parti san purposes, while, at up1 one's hands in mock horror at "dirty old politics. IF WE read the signs aright, the small board of 1 directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Watei; Resources association has trapped itself in that cul de sac which often is the dead-end for single-minded, dedicated organizations which won't listen to the opinions of others including, be it noted, some of the groups which comprise its own membership. It has played dog - Rogue River Valley Irrigation district, which wants and needs the Agate Dam project, on the grounds that this small project, to be tied in to the Talent project, might delay the over-all basin project their Holy of Holies. And this despite the best possible political and engineering advice that such would not be the case. . ' ' THEY lashed out at the Agate proiect as a small, irrigation and recreation valley. And this week thev Congressman Charles 6. Porter (without whohi the Rogue, project would still be a dead issue), largely because he, too, supports the Agate project. ' They did so by using the device of calling themselves "non-partisan" (which they are, or should be), and expressing a self-righteous horror at a frankly partisan press release he had issued for use AFTER he was to meet with them the other night. : - yjLTELL, it's the silly season, so one can expect " more of this type of thing. But one is tempted to wonder how much sub- rosa partisanship entered into the decision to withdraw Porter's invitation to the "non-partisan" board because of his frank and open parti san approach to his campaign for reelection. , Either they re babes in the political woods, or else thev'i'e out gunning for the Congressman and upholding the partisanship to do it. We see no third alterna tive. . : , . ; QN SECOND thought, maybe there is a thh'd alternative. Maybe they're afraid to listen to Porter, and his factual recounting of what has been done on their pet project, plus his "political" pitch for support. ' , . , v Maybe they're afraid he just might convince them that he's right. And wouldn't that be awful ! It reminds us of the little girl who said : ' "I'm awfully glad I donrt like spinach, be cause if I did, I'd eat stuff." E.A. bit trip, main atom if tha j.oo - bb. - pspnf. f.Vio nrnnnaalo in session of the 87th Con factors in getting things an organization which the differences of the ' could be reconciled m no one special interest. such a thing as using a the same time throwing in - the - manger , with the Medford Chamber of but important, bit of development for the vented their sn een at lily-white banner of "non- it, and I hate the darn Dennis the '-" " ' 'l"1'1!,. ' ' g) iqSP. 7HC tWL S-rP7fe IXM.d I donY cAlllbttuce J CALL POTATO SAIAV Matter of Fact M 'THE SPEECH' ' En Route with Nixon - In pelting, rain in Memphis, in a thin drizzle in Arkansas, be fore a poor crowd', in Queens and a good crowd, in Mineola, and In other plac es too numer ous to men tion, Vice President Nix on has been d o g g e d ly making "the speech" in the soomewhat nervous days since the television debate with Sen. Kennedy. 1 Veteran members of the Nixon campaign entourage call It "the speech," because It always is, always has been, and presumably always will be just about the same speech. It has the uniformity, and some would say, the approxi mate intellectual consistency of toothpaste. It may be squeezed out long or short; but this is the only significant variation. Technically, "the speech" is not an absolute innovation in American politics. Judging by reports, Senator Kennedy's shorter orations are also high ly standardized. In the pre- convention campaign of 1952, Sen. Robert A. Taft, one of the least artful and most forthright leaders in our his tory,; also made the same points in the same words on every street corner and plat form in America. Indeed one suspects that Nixon's use of the speech" is imitated from Taft. , BUT there is an important difference between "the speech" that Nixon delivers, and the flat, pedestrian, opin ionated, fact-crammed, trans parently honest, wonderfully self-receiving discourse that all reporters following Bob Taft eventually came to learn by heart. In the speech, as deliv ered by Nixon, there is much emotion but there are almost no facts at all. A reference to the link between the cotton bolls in Mrs. Nixon's ceremo nial bouquet and the cotton output of Arkansas is about par for the factual course. There is no self-revelation in 'the speech," either; only Nix on's public personality is on view. As to the opinions ex pressed, they are all contain ed in the following shortened version of the speech : ReliKlon. Ideals, the fam- Uv. America, the voters, Pres ident Eisenhower, Henry Cab ot Lodge, and peace are all good things! Communism, poverty, Khrushchev, appease ment, farm surpluses, ana war are . all bad things! Senator Kennedy Is also a bad thing, because he keeps saying that America's world position has been deteriorating. But that does not mean we have no problems. Take (here Insert your favorite problem, whether it be civil rights, or farm surpluses, or the balanca of military power in the world). This U a nation al problem . . , We need to make progress in this field All Americans must move forward . . . W must leave no one behlndl" T H E sentences emphasized -l arc those the Vice Presi dent actually used, when out lining his proposed specific solution of the civil rights problem in Memphis. But al most the same sentences serve him almost equally well to outline solutions for all the other problem!!. "Progress," "moving forward," "keeping America first," are also good things. As can be seen, "the speech" docs not offer its hearers an indigestible Intellectual diet. That docs not mean, however, (hat It is unsuccessful. As a salt smansnip, u l. very good indeed. There arc moments when it comes 30 close to a television commer-, cial that you expect to hear I Menace an' tomatoes salad; SAIAD'" Joseph Alsop a boast about "the BIGGER, more GENEROUS quart con tainer." The use of these well tested devices of emphasis is effective, although not always attractive. It is all the mose effective, too, because of the happily simple Nixonian division- be tween good things and bad things. A throbbing lilt in the speaker's voice invites the listening thousands to cheer for peace, America, and fam ily life. A sudden hardening of tone calls for hisses for Khrushchev, war, and weak ness. And the invited respons es almost automatically occur, as though buttons had been pushed in the crowd. YET one cannot avoid won dering why this highly intelligent, remarkably well informed man, capable of such an effort as the accep tance speech at Chicago, should be stumping the coun try with a standard campaign speech of Just this kind. Is it because, he thinks the vot ers are like queasy infants who reject any nourishment moire solid than pablum? This has not been his view in the past. - Or is it because Nixon thinks the best campaign strategy is to begin with tele vision commercials, and to go on to something more serious later on? This may be the case. He has already begun to publish special position pa pers, like the interesting one on education. On special oc casions, too, he has addressed himself in some detail to spe cial, topics, as in his farm speeches. Yet, "the speech" remains a mystery, - all the same, un less, you simply assume that Nixon Is mainly trying to avoid the Charybdis of Bob Taft's kind of Republicanism and the Scylla of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's more novel and controversial brand. If this is the answer to the riddle, the double effort of avoidance is successful. But it must be add ed that this effort has also landed the Vice President in a kind of , middle-of-the-road void. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Election Striking No By ERIC SEVAREID For the expectant European audience, the Presidential campaign, so far, has been a drear and dis tant failure, a drama devoid , of meaning to 1 them -indeed, almost a play of shad ows without living actors. Inter est abroad is declining, not 1 n t ensifying, sevareld as the climatic period of the play begins. This is so not only because Khrushchev has been dominat ing recent headlines, not only because most Europeans can not tell a Democrat from a Re publican, not only because they know America will re main a democracy whoever wlps. It is chiefly so because neither candidate has launch ed a personality or an idea with the carrying power of trans-Atlantic trajectory. Nei ther has uttered a speech or a sentence that has stirred the European spirit or charmed its intellect.- From this contest Europe has received nothing remotely comparable to the skyrocketing conceptions of Wilson, Roosevelt, Stevenson, even Willkic; nothing that could make Europeans in the gloom of darkening events, say with the poct-'But Westward, look, the land is bright!" ' Those closer to the field of battle may know why this is so, whether the two men are Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE TV DEBATE The TV debate was a bold innovation which Is bound to carried forward into future cam paigns, and could not now be abandon ed. From now on It will be impossible for any candidate 1 for any im portant elec- tWra r1foA in Walter ' - - -' '. , u 1 upBDiann a v oi d t h 1 s kind of confrontation with his opponent. This will have consider able consequences. One of the most interesting is that it will break down . the synthetic candidates, the men who communicate with the public only by reading speeches that other men have written The TV confrontation forces a man to speak for himself For which he will still be able to recite passages writ ten by others-as bJth Ken nedy and Nixon did - the whole effect is the product of the candidate himself, and not of his ghost writers and public relations men. In this first try, which can be improved in the future, the main impact was not that of a real debate. It was the showing, as no other medium could, of the two personali ties. TV, it is often said," is a truth machine. What the ma chine revealed is hard to put into words. But 'we may be sure that the chief effect of what it revealed will not be felt immediately in the opin ions of the voters but on their unconscious attitude towards the two men. That is probab ly the r e a s o n why imme diately after, the debate it proved impossible to measure the' effect on the election - fF THE experiment itself, v I would make two criti cisms. The first is that the camer as, which can be very search ing but can also be cruel and sometimes unfair,-, were very hard on Mr. Nixon. I do not for a moment suggest that they were intended to be un fair. Almost certainly, how ever, they were not corrected for his photogenic defects They made him look sick. which he is not, and they made him look older and more worn than he is. I do not understand the technical reasons for this. But they should be studied. For it was a misrepresentation and we must make sure for the fu ture that the cameras are in fact impartial My second, criticism is that the procedure, as agreed to by the candidates themselves, prevented the exchanges from becoming a genuine debate. The candidates should be able to question one another, sub ject to the right of the mod erator to rule a question as out of order. There is no rea son, except of course the prudence of the candidates themselves, why there should be interposed between them a panel of interrogators Furthermore, in my view if there is to be a genuine de bate which is to have a decis ive influence on the national election, an hour is too short a time to devote to. domestic affairs. There is something unsuitable in having the two men, one of them is to be the saving their heavy shells for the climax, or are restraining themselves for fear of loosing, in the wrong direction, a land slide among the immense number of apparently unde cided voters-or whether they simply have no incandescent ammunition in their lockers. Whatever the reason, a dull sense of resignation is creep ing upon the most attentive Europeans', even upon those who had given up on Mr. Ei senhower long ago and were so certain that the change to either Nixon or Kennedy would be an electrifying change, heralded by a thrilling campaign battle of young and bold Ideas. 5 They have found no cause for excitement in either man, in terms of arresting Soviet advances, in terms of cleans ing the dirty international weather or even in terms of their own specific needs and problems. Those very few with inti mate experience of America can read between the lines of the campaign speeches and re alize that Kennedy cannot harp endlessly upon America's physical weaknesses without risking a negative reaction; that Nixon cannot truly urge Americans to greater efforts without tacitly admitting ad ministration failures, and yet cannot say that all' is well be cause he has embraced the Rockefeller doctrine of exer tion. They can see that each man is boxing a very confined compass. , But there ii much that they be fell Uppmann next President of the United States, told that they have three minutes and 20 sec onds" to turn up. If these de bates are worth having at all, they should be allowed to run on without rigid time limits until the two principals them selves have had their full say. If that proves to be bor ing to some of the audience, it will be enlightening to the rest of it. . AS FOR the show itself, eanh nerson's reactions are personal and subjective. My general feeling was that both men treated each other with dignity and respect, and be haved as the citizens of a free county are supposed to behave. My main surprise came from the fact that I expected Mr. Nixon to be the more ag gressive of the two. It turned out that he was on the defen sive, responding to the chal lenges which Mr. Kennedy put to him. I have since read the text of the debate, and it supports this impression of Kennedy's holding the initiative. But the impression is less vivid in the text than it was, for me at least, in the viewing. And that difference was due, I believe, to what the cam eras did to Mr. Nixon and to, the general effect of his phy sical vitality being lower than Mr, Kennedy's. F -sef FACT, so much did he seem to be on the defensive that I became convinced that he was far from happy and comfortable in the position he occupies on the welfare mea sures, and on the question of economic growth. It would be only a little exaggerated to say that he sounded as if he wished he had Kennedy's side of the argument. Cer tainly he had no burning con victions against the Kenne dy position, and to my ear he was diffident and apologetic in dealing with it. This effect of being in a minor key may well be the result-I am reasonably sure it ,is the result-of his trying to deal with three conflict ing pressures, one coming from Goldwater reactionar ies, one from the Rockefeller progressives, and one from the Eisenhower record itself. As a result of these pres sures he looked and sounded like a man who knew that he was in a difficult position and was determined to preserve his dignity and to make the best of it. ' POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Potluck has been miss ing from this page the last iwo Sundays. It was the victim of a sur plus number of things the Potluck editor (who also has other chores) had to do. It may or may not be re vived. - . ' Did you miss it? Do you want it back? The Potluck editor wants to know whether it's worth the effort to write the col umn each week, or whe ther readers would soon er have more serious things to read about. Sparks in Europe feel both men could say about Europe and its problems. They can get no clear conceptions, at least from the campaign speeches as reported abroad as to how much the candidates believe in the economic inte gration of Europe and how strongly they would push it; whether they would oppose dcGaulle's anti-integration in fluence, encourage or discour age British entry into the Common Market, restrict, or expand the arming of Ger many. They do not know what value either man places upon free Berlin. They do not know how keenly either man realiz es the implications of the tre mendous role the President has sketched out for the Unit ed Nations, the effect, for ex ample, of general UN custodi anship over Africa upon Eu rope's own pace and system for altering the status of Al geria or Kenya or Nyasaland. As for the Asiatic tinderboxes, while th-y know both Nixon and Kennedy would refuse to deal with Red China, they have no idea whether either man would withdraw those fragile hostages to our com mon fortune, the off-s h 0 r e islands. The truth is that Europe does not know either Nixon or Kennedy. Kennedy has not recently appeared in Europe, and while Nixon' has visited Britain, he left a confused and Impermanent impression. As far as Europe is concerned, Mr. Nixon suffers from having been the understudv of a President that Europjj, - to Try and -By BENNETT CERF- T HERE'S ONE swank hospital in New York where rich folk go to rest up from the merry march of cocktail parties and galas. The town's best brawls have been held in some of those private hospital suitesl One day a group of a male patient's friends in vaded the premises with a whole case of liquor and before long everybody,-including the pa tient, was pie-eyed. The next inorning the donor of the liquor woke up with a very guilty con science. Ho phoned the hospital and asked to talk to his incapacitated pal, Biff Carter. "Sorry," reported a hospital attendant, "but Mr. Carter is no longer with us." - ; "Good Lord!" gasped the caller. "What happened?" e "Mr. Carter was so sick this morning," explained the at tendant, "that we had to send him home." t i860, by Bennett Cerf. Blstril uted by King Features Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK From Whittler, Calif.: Dr. Albert Upton, chairman of Whlttier college's English department and a former pro fessor of Vice President Nix on, says he thought the Kennedy-Nixon TV debate was a disappointment. "I never saw two such eggs laid in my life," he told a reporter. "I suppose we have to regard It as good when two American politi cians act as gentlemen. "But if that is what is known as a history-making debate, I hope they , call off the rest of them." rpUT! Tut! Dr. Upton. I'm afraid you're getting old. In these days GLAMOR is the big word. FROM New York: Emily Post, internation ally famous authority on the social graces, dies. She had been in poor health for sev eral years. WHO was Emily Post? She was a gracious influ ence in the world. Born in Baltimore in 1873 into a gra cious and cultured family, she made a career out of good manners. Her book, Eti quette," written in her mid dle years, established her as an authority on proper be havior and made her world famous. It is a complete encyclope dia on how people should be have in.all kinds of situations, In it, she erve rules for all occasions. But5 she emphasiz ed above all her own belief that good manners are less a matter of rules than, in her own word "a sensitive awareness to the needs of others." ' She was able to adapt her self to changing social condi tions and revised her buok at frequent intervals to include new practices of polite be havior. CJUGGESTION to Mr. Kroosh Buv vourself a codv of Emily Post's book. Study it carefully, thoughtfully - even prayerfully. Note its disap proval of those who make themselves bulls in china shops. Heed its precepts - es pecially those having to do with the importance of a sen- put it bluntly - has grown tired of; and Mr.- Kennedy suf fers from the fact of having supplanted Adlai Stevenson, the American beacon for an astonishing number of respon sible Europeans, and the man whose mind they feel they do know. I suppose no Presidential candidate in mid-campaign would accede to this sugges tion, and none would do so purely In the interests of al lies, who are not, after all, doing the voting. But there is one simple act that would bring the whole campaign in to focus for Europe and other foreign regions; one act that would reveal the minds of the two candidates in world terms. That would be the public des ignation now, by each man of his prospective Secretary of State. Whatever the names, whether Bowles or Stevenson or Dillon or someone else, they would be the names of men who have accumulated mean ingful, dissectible records on the specific problems of Eu rope, Africa and Asia. If the two names were now would be able to take the first woud be able to take the first real measure of Nixon and Kennedy and to see if they do significantly differ on the great global Issues. Indeed, it is not only the outside world that would feel enlightened, but a fair few millions of per plexed American vote"rs. (Distributed 1960 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) Sf op Me JENKINS sltive awareness of the needs of others. If you will do this, - you might be able to make some thing of yourself yet. , . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tile name and address ol the writer although under cer tain cirtumetencea the use 01 b Ben nnme ot Initial for publica on is Dermisslble. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Count Your Blessings t To the Editor: It seems wa have a person in southern Oregon who has a very low opinion of the United States. Every day, or so, this man writes to this paper complain ing about the U.S. and show ing his liking for Russia. He says we have poverty. I guess we do, some, but for every family in the U.S. who is hard pressed, there are many more in Russia who are worse off. I don't believe U.S. government has ever starved ten million (or more) citizens to death as the Red Chinese have. Or forced us to live in communes. , Another time he spoke of death on our highways. Well, for my part, I would rather die on the highway than be murdered by Russian tanks, as the poor souls in Hungary were. These poor people want ed only to free themselves from the Hell of Communism. I wonder if this person has ever thought about what would happen to him if he lived in a Communist coun try and was caught . saying the things he now has the freedom to say. If this per-' son I'm speaking of thinks he can have more freedom in some Communist country, then I suggest he get going. As for me, I am proud to be an American citizen. Here in the U.S. I can vote for whom I want to be my leader. He might not win, but I have the freedom to vote. I wonder how many common people in Communist countries have this freedom? Yes, our government has re strictions on us all right but, for every restriction there are freedoms too many to write in this space. He spoke of losing his prop erty to the government. Well, he's lucky. The people in Com munist countries don't own any property to lose. If Communism is so won derful, why is it that for every person who leaves the West and goes to live in the East, we have a million or two who leave the East and comes to the West to live? When they are asked why they left their homeland of Communism, they all say, we wanted to have freedom. So my friend, I think you should count your blessings while you still have some to count. Don Turnbaugh, (A Korean Vet) Box 18-A, Applegate, Ore. Thanks To the Editor: We would like to thank the residents of Medford for the kind recep tion given us on our recent candy sale for the Oregon Crippled Childrens Hospital School in Eugene. This school is for children from anv nart of Oregon who need special scnooung and therapy be cause of physical handicaps. Because of the generosity of the people In this area we were able to send over $300 to the school. Deepest thanks from Alnha Lambda and Delta Omea chapters. Mrs. C. R. Harrison Secretary. Alpha Lambda Epsilon Sigma Alpha Int'l Medford.
