MONDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE.
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ernational Situation Occupies Minds of Rocky Mountain Voters
rut
Domestic Issues
Being Replaced
By World Worry
By DAN DOi'ERTY
Denver (UPb Cries of "no,
no,V came from 10,000 Den
vcrites when Sen. John A.
Carroll, (D-Colo.), asked: "Are
we satisfied with what is
going on in Cuba?" and "Are
we satisfied with what has
been happening in the world
the last three or four years?"
The shouters were admit
tedly mostly Democrats in a
mostly Democratic city, gath
ered to hear Sen. John F.
Kennedy talk. But they re
acted to the questions on for
eign affairs and defense and
remained relatively impassive
when reclamation, natural re
sources and other Western
standbys were mentioned.
Thereby they reflected the
trend among voters in the na
tion's high country, the moun
tain states of Montana, Wyo
jning, Colorado, New Mexico
jnd Utah.
" These states, without excep
tion, went for Eisenhower and
Nixon in both 1952 and 1956.
This year, the situation
-throughout the region, is, as
kne political writer put it,
"in flux."
- Before, natural resources
."development, farm problems
.and other domestic issues held
way in this region, but today
JJepublicans and Democrats
'alike agree with Colorado's
Republican Chairman Jean K.
-Tool that "the international
"situation is first on every
"body's mind. They haven't got
-any farm problems, highway
.or any other kind if there's an
il-bomb whistling overhead."
If there is an exception, it
is New Mexico, where the po
litical atmosphere has not
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Defensive Fringe Thinking
Shown at Steelworkers Meet
STRONG BUT LITTLE This little boat
is powerful enough to pull a dinghy and
two men. At the helm, or reins in this case,
is Capt. Frank Becker, skipper of Becker
Tugs at Detroit, Mich. Behind him is Ray
mond Tarenski, 49, builder of the miniature
"shrimp boat". Tarenski spent a year build
ing the craft. It is 6Vs feet long, has an 18
inch beam and draws eight inches of water.
The boat is built of aluminum and has an
engine that develops l horsepower at 125
pounds of steam pressure. The model is
guided by pulling the ropes.
(UPI Telephoto)
been greatly stirred by the
"great issues." In this mush
rooming state Catholics no
longer dominate and religious
considerations are a factor.
This is particularly true in
heavily Protestant southeast
New Mexico. The normally
Democratic majority in this
region has been sullen since
Los Angeles; Kennedy's sup
port comes from more popu
lous Albuquerque.
Sen. Dennis Chavez, (D-
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N.M.), who is not seeking re
election, has charged fellow
Democrats Gov. John Bur
roughs and National Commit
teeman Tom Brown, both
from eastern New Mexico,
with not working hard enough
for Kennedy.
Both have denied Chavez'
charge, but Burroughs, ob
servers say, is running scared
in his race for reelection
against Republican Edwin L.
Mechem, a three-time gover
nor whom Burroughs narrow
ly ousted in 1958.
Another place where re
ligion could be a factor is in
eastern Montana, a region
with many Protestants of
Scandinavian extraction. But
in Montana, as in Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah, there has
been little overt talk of re
ligion in the campaign. When
Kennedy campaigned in Salt
Lake City, he stressed the
past tribulations of the Mor-
mon people who predominate
there, making a strong bid for
the state's support. The Latter
Day Saints Church, most po
tent force in Utah, has re
mained quiet on the issue.
Surprise in Primary
Utah Republicans expressed
surprise when Democrats out
polled them by a wide margin
in this year s primary, but He-
publican Gov. George D.
Clyde predicts a GOP victory
in the state none the less.
Only in Wyoming do Re
publicans outnumber Demo
crats, and Wyoming elected
an almost complete slate of
Democrats two years ago,
ousting former Sen. Frank A.
Barrett and former Gov. Mil
ward Simpson. Republicans in
all five mountain states claim
the swing is to their side now,
however.
In Colorado and Montana,
the two best organized politi
cal forces are labor and the
Farmers Union. Both support
the Democrats, although the
nomination of Sen. Lyndon
Johnson, (D-Tex.), as Kenne
dy's running mate was not
overly popular with these lib
eral forces. Republicans, on
the contrary, claim to be bene
fitting greatly from the vice
presidential candidacy of Hen
ry Cabot Lodge. ,
Bowles Questions
Nixon's Ability
Portland-niPII-Rep. Chester
A. Bowles (D. Conn.) told a
Portland audience Sunday
night that a Democratic ad
ministration "can create the
kind of conditions to encour
age peace."
Bowles, a foreign policy ad
viser to Democratic Presiden
tial Nominee John F. Ken
nedy, also questioned the abil
ity of GOP Candidate Richard
M. Nixon to deal effectively
with what he termed the po
tentially explosive foreign
situation.
He made his remarks at a
$10 a plate Democratic fund
raising dinner at the Neigh
bors of Woodcraft hall which
was attended by approximate
ly 300 persons.
The former Connecticut
Governor and ex-ambassador
to India declared "Mr. Nixon
recognizes that foreign affairs
is the central issue of the
campaign, but he made a
statement that 'we can't talk
about it'."
Bowles claimed that for
eign policy has to be discussed
in a sober, responsible way
and commented "We must
strive for a return to the bi
partisan foreign policy which
has been interrupted for eight
Worlds
'Around
By Lynn M. Watkins
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial Editor
New York - (UPI) - With the
steel industry in the throes of
its worst recession since the
late 1930s, the
temper of the
s t eelworkers
at their recent
convention in
Atlgntic City
was one of de
fensive fringe
thinking.
This is the
gist of a spe-
uenry Bechtold cial report on
the convention by the editor
of Iron Age magazine. Tom
Campbell said talk's with dele
gates and union officers dis
closed fear that the steel in
dustry now was a six to nine
month business.
He noted that some com
parisons were made with the
coal miners who now number
less than 200,000, as against
more than 650,000 not too
many years ago. The oft-mentioned
culprit to plague steel
workers, he said, was automa
tion.
Doctors Criticized
Even doctors, hospitals and
Insurance firms came in for
bitter criticism at the steel
union meetings. Campbell
said that so strong is the feel
ing among steel union offi
cials over doctors' fees, hospi
tal service and alleged un
necessary operations that the
union advocated pilot clinics
for pre-paid medical attention.
If anything comes of this
pilot plan, Campbell said, the
bill would fall to the steel
companies which now pick up
the tab on the health plans.
Job security emphasis also
was spa?ked by the after
effects of last year's 118-day
strike and the subsequent re
cession in steel. Campbell said
there was marked criticism of
the apparent slowness of the
Joint Work Practices Commit
tee and the Human Relations
Committee "to got off the
ground." These groups were
formed as part of the latest
steel contract.
Little Committee Action
Thus far there has been no
more than exploratory action
by these committees, the Iron
Age editor said, noting that
the consensus at the meeting
was that it would be a miracle
if any agreement were to be
reached on the explosive sub
ject of work practices by the
deadline at the end of Novem
ber. Campbell pointed out that
ironically the two cochairmen
of the Human Relations Com
mittee are union president
David J. McDonald and R.
Conrad Cooper, U.S. Steel
vice president, the two same
people who failed to reach
any kind of agreement In last
year's negotiations until after
the 116-day strike. Personal
feelings of the two tend to
enter into the picture, he
added.
In addition to the medical
care plans, Campbell elated,
the main topics of discussion
on and off the convention
floor were supplementary un
employment benefits, social
Insurance and pensions. There
was very little talk about
wage goals in the 1962 bar
gaining sessions, but they are
expected to come along as a
routine demand.
The union wants a thorough
revision of the unemployment
benefits. This, Campbell said,
appears to stem from the
rapid deterioration of work
ing time for many employes
not too long after last year's
strike.
There also is fear that the
steel industry will move rap
idly into more automation,
with a much lower operating
rate as "normal."
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of Sanskrit at Harvard Uni
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Low-Tide' Billbug
Lives By the Sea
Anyone who has any knowl
edge at all about beetles
knows that these creatures
have peculiar habits and often
are found in strange places
And, too, we all know these
hard - shelled insects get
around; some species can be
found in just about any en
vironment and many under ri
diculous circumstances in
places where a bug has no
right to be.
We expect to find bugs in a
garden; in a rotting log, in
forest litter, under boards,
pieces of brick or cement, but
who would expect to find
them living on a tidal-flat
along a seascoast and close
enough to the sea that their
homes are inundated at least
once every 24 hours. By rights
no Insect, no matter how
queer, is expected to inhabit
such an environment.
Are Agreed
Scientists are pretty well
agreed that, as far as is
known, no species of insect,
or individual either, actually
lives in saltwater. But the
low-tide" billbug prefers to
reside within sound of the
pounding surf and murmuring
tide.
The billbug actually is clas
sified as a beetle, or what
some people call a weevil; one
of the small insects that
crawls around in dry flour,
some even in tobacco and
drugs, some of them poison
ous. Some varieties of weevil
make their homes in peas,
beans, cotton and all manner
of other crops.
The billbug, as its name im
plies, has a bill or snout. This
long beak is used to cut a slit
in the stem of a salt-water
reed where an egg is laid. The
newly hatched larvae will use
its little snout to burrow in
the stem of the plant.
The other part of the com
mon name, "low-tide," indi
cates the incoming surge of
sea water that often covers
the water reed as well as the
contained larvae of the bill
bug. Apparently the little bug
doesn t mind in the least.
Remain Satisfied
Down through countless
generations of "low-tide" bill-
bugs, these tiny insects have
been perfectly satisfied with
their living conditions, using
the reeds of water plants for
egg depositing. As far as is
known, and right up until a
few years ago, the billbug has
confined most of its activities
to salt water reeds, but he,
like most bugs, can easily
change his habits, and his ap
petite.
Times change, of course,
and present-day billbugs can
and often do forsake their
place by the sea and move
onto and into other plants that
grow a distance away from
the shore.
They can invade the crops
that man has cultivated and
become one of man's enemies.
The low-tide billBug still
retain its "bill" but canCe-
come something else besides a
low-tide dweller. It can be
come a high-land pest.
(Raleased by The Register and
1 Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
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