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Medford and Jackson County
History (ro.n the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 3, 1950 (Tuesday)
Gov. and Mrs. Douglas Mc
Kay arrived at the Medford
hotel this morning to begin a
series of appearances that will
keep them in southern Ore
gon most of the week.
Four horticulturists from
the Netherlands arc spending
several days in Medford this
week studying the local fruit
growing industry.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 3, 1940 (Thursday)
In compliance with a recent
school board ruling, a seventh
'. grade girl student was sus-
! pended from Rogue River
grade school Monday for fail
ure to salute the American
flag: the girl is a member of
Jehovah s Witnesses.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
price of hogs is gently rising.
A federal agency fears this
will derange prices, and unless
checked will make a ham
sandwich cost more than a
hog."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 3, 1930 (Friday)
- The Oregon State Labor
Federation convention opened
here today.
Eighteen students from
Jackson county have enrolled
at the University of Oregon
this fall.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 3, 1920 (Sunday)
Jackson county won the
third place prize at the recent
state fair,
Wheat has dropped below
the $2 per bushel mark here.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 3, 1910 (Monday)
: Cornice pears from the Hill
crest orchards received the
banner price of the year to
date when they sold recently
for $8.70 a box in New York.
- Two days of predicted rain
will bring a temporary halt to
apple picking in the valley.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior:
liven or eight Is excellent) five ei
lis Is good.
1. In southern U.S., would
; a "Yankee Dime" mean a hug,
or a kiss?
2. Baton Rouge is the cap
ital of which State?
3. Which word is iiejorrect-
PUBLISHERS
-"ASSOCIATION
iy usee: mere were two or
three, or at the most, a dozen
. people there."
; 4. Name the capital of
: Egypt.
5. In which slate Is the
famous Snoqualmie water
fall? 6. How many Jacks show
ing only "one eye are in a
standard deck of 52 plnyiae
cards? O
7. "He came out from the
house," What is wrong with
the sentence?
' 8. In its journey around
the earth, in which direction
does the moon travel?
9. How many inches are
one mile?
i 10. In what language was
the Magna Charta written?
Answers. 1. Kiss. 2. Lou
isiana. 3. People, should be
replaced by persons. 4.
Cairo. 5. Washington. 6.
' Two. 7. "Out" should be fol
lowed by "of," not "from."
8. West to East. 9. 63,360.
10. Latin.
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What's
There's a woman in the Gold tt area (whose
name we didn't catch) who has a far better
memory than "E.A."
She called Saturday,
"Aren't you just cifusing us more? In May,
I voted 'yes' on the doer control measure, because
I didn't want dogs confined. And I did it becaus
mat s what a Mail Tribune story said.
She's right so very right.
gici we were wrong
editorial here Friday.
THE ballot measure was worded then (and will
UC again 11CAL IIlUlllIl J mua.
"For clogs running at large yes."
"For dogs running at large no."
And that's even worse than the way we mis
remembered it.
All of which troes to prove two points :
1. That confusion
minds of editorial writers as well as others) over
the silly ballot wording, and,
2. That editorial writers had best do their
homework before rushing into print, depending
solely on a faulty memory.
A NOTHER call we received Saturday was from
" a lawyer who thought we were a bit too rough
on Jerry Scannell, the deputy district attorney
who we accused of doing nothing to abate the
confusion. ;
Our lawyer friend said the whole trouble
stems from an old law (we agree), that there
have been no amendments to it to clarify its in
tent or application, and likewise no court de
cisions on which to base a legal opinion.
Thus, he said, the district attorney's office
has no basis to offer any advice.
"THIS may be true.
But, as legal counsel for the county, it seems
to us that the district attorney s omce Has an
obligation to do its utmost to clarify any legal
questions arising (and in this case they're com
plex), or, failing that, to admit defeat and come
out and say plainly they don't know, and that it
will take a court to unravel the tangled skein.
The district attorney's office did neither. It
wrote an obscure, fuzzy and (as far as we're con
cerned) totally meaningless "opinion" for the
county clerk.
Does ANYbody know the score? E.A.
Mr. Khrushchev s Big Lie
The use of lies and falsehoods by Communists
is nothing new and normally does not require
special comment.
But Nikita Khrushchev's use of the Big Lie
technique before the
Assembly had a breathtaking impudence which
made it a special insult, to uie mieiiigeuce.
The lie was as simple as it was enormous : The
head j5f the greatest colonial empire of the present
day told the people of the world he has no col
onies, and spoke sanctimoniously as the enemy
of colonialism. The man who ordered the Hun
garian Revolution throttled in blood dared weep
crocodile tears over the fate of the many states
now members of the United Nations who have
been given their freedom with no struggle of any
I:ind in recent years. It was a shameless per
formance. ,
LET us look at the Soviet colonial empire. It
consists of two parts. One part is made up of
states nominally independent, but enmeshed so
completely in Moscow's military, political and
economic power that they cannot act with true
independence. These states are:
Poland
East Germany
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Albania
Bugaria
Outer Mongolia
North Korea
THE other part of the Soviet colonial empire
is made up of the non-Russian peoples and
lands which were first subjugated by the Czars,
incorporated into their empire and then resubju
gated by Lenin and Stalin so that today they ate
still vassals of Moscow. Many peoples live in the
prison of nations that is the Soviet Union today,
but the chief ones among them are the following:
Ukranians
Byelorussians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians O
Armenians
Georgians
AzerbHijanis
Uzebeks
Q Turkmen
Kirghiz O
Tadjiks
Tartars
Yakuts
Buryats
But all means let all colonialism be ended as
soon as possible. But let the United Nations and
the world make sure that the Soviet colonial em
pire be included. That empire, unfortunately, has
grown while the other empires of the past have
been dissolving before our eyes. New York
Times.
Mr. K's Convincing
Khrushchev's violence am? nasty behavior at
the United Nations.nd his attack on the. respect
pire be included. That empire, unfortunwrely, has
probably done more to convince doubting Amer
icans that the U.N. ka good thing, after all, than
anything that has lrappened for ye's. -E.A.
C. '
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tlfe Score?
and said:
so very wrong in an
still is rampant (in the
United Nations General
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Drama of Politics
To the Editor: If we were
to give this essay a name we
would call it: The Drama of
Politics.
Shakespeare tells us that;
"All the world's a stage," then
he proceeded to w.ite political
dramas. Any one that is inter
ested in politics or Shakes
peare will note the political
flavor of his plays. And that
is the main thing that makes
them universal classics. Of
course there are a great many
people who read newspapers
that do not know what drama
is or what politics are. Some
people think that only wars
are drama, not realizing that
they are also politics. We also
have cases where there is re
ligion in politics, but more
often there is politics in re
ligion. We define politics as the
clash between economic and
social classes. In other words,
individuals and groups with
an axe to grind. The interests
of the man that owns the axe
and the boy that turns the
grindstone are not identical.
In time there develops an
emotional conflict. Drama is
born of a conflict of interest
and is given expression in
clash of personalities and
groups of individuals, classes
and nations.
When large groups clash
within a nation it is either a
riot or civil war. When inter
ests of national ideologies
clash in violence it is just
another war. That which is
called a cold war is conflict
ing interest on ideologies
maneuvering for a strategic
position or advantage. Our
political campaign is a skirm
ish between progressive forces
and the element of reaction
in defense of the status quo.
To any one interested in
world affairs these are thrill
ing times. It was sheer drama
when Mr. K assaulted the
UN. It was spectacular drama
at the storming of the Bastile.
Dramatic repercussions fol
lowed the firing on Fort
Sumter, Then there were the
ten days that shook the world
and it has been trembling ever
since. We have been treated
to so much drama since the
Russian revolution that it has
become commonplace. Inse
curity and conflict has been
a way of life. We have ex
perienced so much suspense
that our nerves are calloused.
Only the ignorant have been
blissfully happy.
The strategy usea against
the spread of Commuriism was
largely a campaign of vilifi
cation and ignorance. Witch
hunting became a vogue. Of
all of our political leaders in
the national capital, Charlie
Porter has madeOthe most
realistic attempt to meet the
menace of a changing world.
He wants to learn.
Walter Reece
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Builders - Not Spoilers
To the Editor: First of all
thanks for a very good paper.
1 enjoy your editorials and
sports coverage. Q
But since this is an election
year, I must gel my two oils
in. What amazes me is this -
with 00 per cent of the papers
and 97 per cent of ths maga
zines in favor of thiCicpubli
can party since the mid-thir
ties, the Democratic party still
continues to grow. With every
daily in California pro-Republican,
the Democrats have a
huge majority. The only
reason I can figure out is that
tho people know who gave
thorn WPA, CCC, Social Se
curity, Federal Housing, GI
Bill of Rights, TVA, Unem
ployment Insurance, tighter
banking laws, tigSV marfj't
control of Wall st., flood con
trol of all major rivers, coun-
i''rhere i.t not a state in the
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
ORE.
necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
U.S. which has not progressed
under the Democrats, includ
ing our neighboring state of
Washington, which by the
building of the huge dams on
the Columbia, has been trans
formed from agricultural and
forest products into industrial
ones. Their forest products
now rank ninth on the list.
These are but a few items
that I can think of now. In
closing I would like to say the
only mistake FDR ever made
was to make Eisenhower what
he is today, and that the Dem
ocratic party is a party of
builders and not of spoilers.
George Roekel
1001 West Harbcek rd.
Grants Pass, Ore.
With His Boots On
To the Editor: Ever hear of
John Day valley? Well, it is
a short secluded valley lying
on the eastern slope of the
Siskiyou range of mountains
where the mountains make a
left-angle turn south in west
ern Siskiyou County, Cali
fornia.
As the story goes, as told to
me almost half a century ago
by an old time miner of south
ern Oregon, John Day, a
mountain hermit and alleged
horse thief, was a notorious
character and had full control
of a one or two mile long
valley named after him (later).
His surroundings were so se
cluded and protected by nat
ural boundaries that all of
ficials of the frontier law en
forcement agencies were at a
disadvantage to approach the
much sought after mountain
man villain who evaded the
outside world as much as pos
sible. After a rendezvous in Yre-
ka, Calif., by night rides un
der disguise, he ventured to
be bolder one day, through
misjudgment, and on that fa
tal day he was recognized by
the law officers and a shoot
ing affray took place on one
of the principal streets and
John Day was overwhelmed
by a posse and died as he had
lived with his boots on.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford.
SheV'Regusled" Too v
To the Editor: "Bravo" for
your editorial re Uog Con
trol. My sentiments exactly!
Perhaps more pressure from
your "news medium at least,
would result in some proper
service to the people of this
area from the district at
torney's office!
I have called the county
clerk's office about this mat
ter and have received exactly
the kind of "double talk" you
mention, which they were
merely passing on to me from
the district attorney's office.
I say also "I'se regusted!
Mrs. Russell Carr
li45 Madrona lane
Medford.
Time To Wake Up
To the Editor: JJsincerely
hope that Congressman
Charles O. Porter and all oth
ers who would officially rec
ognize another gangster led
nation, Red China, had the
opportunity of watching the
real Khrushchev at the U.N.
on television. His perlorm-
,Wj during Harold Macmil-
lan's address only proves the
real Soviet and Comiaeinist
objective, i.e., to have-tmly
what they want.
Considering that Mao Tse-
tung thinks that Khrush.hev
has gone soft, how can any
body in his right mind be
lieve that recognition of Red
China would be a step toward
world peaS2 Or th it admit
tance to the U.N. would do
anything other than put
another desk pounder and
wrecker of the league of free
nations into of position of
using this body as a place to
spread Communist doctrine?
On the other hand, if we
(.
ForeinNotebook: Khrushchev's Tirade
Seen Tied To Berlin; Airlift Possible
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Jigsaw Puzzle
West Germans think they
have the answer to Nikita
Khrushchev's attacks on
United Na
tions Secre
tary General
Dag Hammar
skjold and his
demands for
reorganization
of the UN sec
retariat. They
b e lieve h i s
ground for rejection of UN
intervention if the Berlin cri
sis gets hot. UN effectiveness
in the Congo spoiled Khrush
chev's plans there and the
Germans believe he wants to
take no chances that the same
thing happens to him in Ger
many where his prestige
stakes would be higher.
want to sell out the small na
tions of the world who are
looking to our system as the
best way of life, then recog
nize Red China and make it
be known that we have
capitulated.
When will we wake up to
the war that is now in prog
ress? If we don't realize it we
should, the fight has been on
for years and every step that
Communists gain is bringing
them closer to the time when
"they will bury us", literally.
Gene M. Williams
1017 Reddy ave.
Medford.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Portland last week, Dr.
While-Stevens of the agricul
tural division of the Ameri
can Cyanamid company told
us that while what is happen
ing to American agriculture
as the result of a law may
not look very good to us now
it may be very good for all
of us over the long pull.
TS HE right?
Or is he wrong?
It's hard to say. In search
of an answer, let's take a look
at Gold Beach, over on the
Southern Oregon coast. In
the interval between the days
of old, the days of gold, and
the recent past, the principal
industry of Gold Beach was
commercial fishing.
There was a cannery at the
mouth of the Rogue. It pro
vided a market for the fish
ermen who spread their nets
for the salmon when they
entered the river in their an
nual runs.
That went on for decades,
Then, as in the case of agri
culture, there came a law. It
was a law iorbiading com
mercial fishing in the Rogue.
IIHAT happened?
" The cannerv closed. The
fishermen lost their jobs. The
town stagnated. For a time,
the picture was a gloomy one
Then . . .
There was a change.
There came the sportsmen.
They came at first in small
numbers. They went home
and told of their catches.
Hearing the stories, MORE
SPORTSMEN CAME. They
wanted boats. They wanted
guides. In the course of time.
the former commercial fisher
men were earning MORE as
guides and boatmen than they
had ever earned before.
THE sportsmen were fol
lowed by the tourists. The
tourists demanded more and
better roads. With more and
better roads, MORE TOUR
ISTS CAME. Also more
ijrtsmen. The sportsmen
not only wanted to fish. They
wanted to take their fish
home with them. That result
ed in a custom cannery, which
does a thriving business. The
sportsmen and the tourists
wanted places to stay, so new
and modern motels were
built. In time, there came saw
mills and plywood plants, pro
viding payrolls.
And so on. Today Gold
Beach is one of the brightest,
busiest, handsomest small
cities on the northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon
coast.
rTHERE are problems, of
course.
For example:
The fishermen and the tour
ists come in thousands. In the
aggregate, they catch a lot
of fish. When the commercial
cannery closed, it closed down
and dismantled the hatchery
it had maintained. With no
hatchery, there are fewer lit-
-ted
West Germans expect the
Communists to step up their
campaign against free West
Berlin on Oct. 15 in connec
tion with the scheduled meet
ing of West German veterans'
organizations. The West Ber
liners expect the Communists
to close off Berlin travel to
persons attending the meeting,
just as they did rectfnUy
against a meeting of persons
expelled from Germany's
former eastern territories. On
that occasion, the West in
stituted a "baby airlift" cir
cumventing the Communist
ban on rail and road travel.
African Turmoil
When Britain granted inde
pendence to Africa's most pop-
Free Electors Ominous Sign
For Jack
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (UPW The most
anxious news from the South
for Sen. John F. Kennedy
p r o b ably is
from Georgia.
Georgia i s
an anchor
state of the
solia South. It
never has
bolted a Dem
ocratic nomi
nee for presi
dent. Only
A r kansas
Lyle C iVUson
shares with Georgia that dis
tinction of party loyalty.
Georgia now seems to be
moving away from the Demo
cratic party in a national
sense. Many Georgians would
tell you that the move is the
other way, that the political
party of their fathers has
moved away from Georgia.
The solid evidence of move
ment is last month's straw
vote in Georgia on the ques
tion whether the state's presi
dential electors should be
pledged to vote in the elec
toral college for the Demo
cratic presidential ticket. An
overwhelming vote for pledg
ed electors was expected.
There was a straw vote
majority of more than 20,000
for free electors. Except as
it may detract from the ag
gregate of the electoral col
lege vote for the Kennedy
Johnson ticket, this is no
cause for unrestrained Re
publican applause. The vote
is not at all evidence that
Georgians love the Republi
can party more, but only that
Georgians love the national
Democratic party less.
All good citizens might re
joice in the outcome of the
straw ballot as evidence that
the South is moving, if slow
ly, toward a legitimate two
party system. The straw vote
was not binding on the elect
ors, who may or may not de
cide to cast free rather than
pledged votes in the electoral
college.
If they cast free votes, it
would not follow that they
would go to the Republican
Nixon-Lodge ticket. More like-
Iv. Georgia s electors would
vote fc-V some notable South
ern conservative, such as their
own Sen. Richard B. Russell
or Sen. Harry P. Byrd of Vir
ginia. If such maverick
Georgia electoral votes and
others similarly freed in the
South prevented either major
party ticket from obtaining an
absolute majority, the contest
would go to the House of
Representatives.
Southern c o n s e r v atives
would like that. In the House,
tie fish to go out over the bar
to return four years later as
big ones. So far, the com
mercial fish hatchery has not
been replaced by a sport fish
hatchery.
WHAT to do?
Here's what they're do
ing. They're buying salmon
eggs in the state of Washing
ton and hiring them hatched.
Then they bring the little fish
back to the Rogue and put
them in ponds to grow -ger.
When they reach the
right age they turn them
loose in the river to go out
over the bar return (it is
hoped) four years later as full
grown fish to provide sport
for the growing number of
sports fishermen.
THEY call the operation
Salmon Unlimited and fi
nance it by selling member
ships, after the manner of
Ducks Unlimited. It s some
thing of a gamble. Maybe the
salmon will come back to the
place where the eggs were
taken instead of coming back
to the Rogue, where they
were released from the ponds
they tarried in while getting
big enough to take off for
whatever far places the salm
on go to while they arfesrow
ing up.
Anyway, it's an interesting
experiment and the Gold
Beach Dopltre willing to
gamble. They've gambled s(i
lot since the gold mining days,
and so far they've done all
right.
J2i
us country, Nigeria, it left
tribal and cultural divisions
as deep as those in the Congo
- but with nothing resembling
the Congo mess. The jger
ians are better educatSrand
more accustomed la govern
ment. But, as in tSr Congo,
one region is rich and popul
lous enough to overrule the
other two. In the Congo, it is
secessionist Katanga. In Ni
geria it is the rich and feudal
north, composing one of Ni
geria's three regions. In ad
dition, tribal rivalries have
resulted in demands that the
three existing regions be
broken into six smaller ones.
Rioting and violent deaths al
ready have resulted. More are
likely.
in State of
each state would have a single
vote, 26 votes being necessary
to elect a president. Under
such circumstances, Southern
states could, would, band to
gether. It could happen. The state's
rights bolters tried to bring
that about in 1948,' failing by
a whisker. More immediate,
however, is this question:
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
EVEN ODDS
Washington John F. Ken
nedy is now running a vast
collective thing called the
Democratic party against a
r e I a t l v ely
smaller if still
huge collec
tive thing
called the Re
publican par
ly. Only sec
ondarily is he
running
against Rich-
-i TV.T ATIvn
William 8. auu.
White Richard
Nixon is now running funda
mentally against a man called
Kennedy-and never mind the
the parties too much.
This is one of the several
reasons why this presidential
election is so extraordinarily
hard to predict.
Kennedy, though no mean
contender in any personality
contest, is neverthless not
really depending on his ap
peal as a person. At bottom
he is depending on the Mosaic
like cummulative appeal of a
party which is far the larger
of the two about 6 to 4. And
though he presents himself
as more modern than Nixon,
Kennedy also calls up mem
ories of a more remote past.
TJE stresses what the Demo
"cratic party did two dec
ades ago, in the era of Frank
lin Roosevelt. Nixon stresses
what Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Nixon not the Repub
lican party have done in the
past eight years.
These differences in em
phasis are no accident.
The final impression Ken
nedy wishes to leave is this:
"Look at what the Democratic
party historically has done
for you."
The final impression Nixon
wishes to leave is this: "Look
what Dwight D. Eisenhower
in whose administration I my
self haveserved -has done for
you."
If Kennedy could assume
that all the country's more-or-less
Democratic voters
would go for him he would
never irecd to get out of his
office chair. If Nixon had to
assume that all the more-or-less
Democrats would so vote
then, would be no point in
his ever leaving his chair,
for he would have no chance
anyhow.
Tsy and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
"11 TOSS IO-RT'S triumphant autography, .Act One, has
-L'-l occasioned a certain amount of kidding by some envi
ous contemporaries. His old-time collaborator, George S,
Kaufman, for instance,
phoned him to report,
"Moss, your book is such
a smash that all your
fellow playQ'ghts have
decided to pay you a sig
.nal tribute, for the next
year every one of them
has promised to name the
first act of his new play
in your honor, Act One!"
o
-Qnissionary, back from
a long and arduous tour of
duty among the cannibals
of New Guinea, was asked,
"Do you think you made
any progress over there?" "I
timistic missionary. "On Fridays now I've noticed that the)
cannibals eat only fishermen."
Oscar Wilde, at a London hotel, once ordered a water cress
.FWdwich. What the waiter brought was too big for the finicky
Mr. Wilde. "Isked for a water cress sandwich," he snorted,
"not a loaf of bread with a field of green in the middle of It!"
O1960, by Seanett Cert Distributed by Kla( resume Syndicate
A,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1960
British genius for compro
mise is expected to show at
its best in this week's labor
party conference at Scar
borough, Yorkshire. The prob
lem wili be whether to sup
port theejiefense policy of par
ty leader Hugh Gaitskell,
which depends on the nuclear
deterrent and the western al
liance, or to go with that of
Frank Cousins, a powerful
trade union leader who wants
Britain to abandon nuclear
weapons. The split could cost
Gaitskell his job or it could
result in a compromise involv
ing partial agreement with
both sides. It would satisfy
no one but it would leave the
party intact.
Georgia
What do the rumblings of
Georgia rebellion mean for
the Kennedy - Johnson ticket?
Not merely in Georgia, but
throughout the South?
Five Southern states bolted
the Democratic ticket in 1928.
Four in 1948 and 1952. Four
years ago there were five
Southern bolters. It is begin'
ning to look like a trend.
S. WHITE
A LL the same, the Broad
way and Las Vegas odds
makers continued to favor
Nixon. (This correspondent,
parentheticaly, wouldn't risk
a dime on the outcome at this
point.) Essentially what they
are betting is that the ticket
splitting of the last two presi
dential elections will char
acterize this one, too. They
are gambling that Nixon will
get practically all the tradi
tional Republicans plus a big
bloc of independents and dis
satisfied Democrats, as Gen
eral Eisenhower certainly did
in 1952 and 1956.
Whether they are right in
this nobody can say. But one
thing can be said for sure:
There are, at any rate, far
more complicated and unread
able factors in this election
than in any we have ever
known.
My own hunch is that the
gamblers and the pollsters,
too are taking a tremendous
risk in trying to be even half
positive about anything. For
a single example: Even if Nix
on carries a popular majority
there is a far greater than
normal possiblity of a Ken
nedy victory anyhow.
Under the system, of course,
a man winning a state by a
single vote takes all that
state's electoral votes. Ken
nedy is going allout, to a de
gree rarely seen, for the
states of massive electoral
power. Precisely six of the 50
states California, Illinois,
Michigan, New York, Ohio
and Pennsylvania-could hand
him 181 of "the 269 electoral
votes needed for election.
rpHESE six states, morever,
-- mostly are precisely those
in which the so-called "Cath
olic issue" might well help
rather than hurt, and where
pro-Democratic union labor is
the strongest.
Give all those six to Nixon
and one could predict a Nix
on landslide, considering his
probable greater rural and
small-town strength than
Kennedy's. Give them to Ken
nedy and you could predict
at least a Kennedy victory,
regardless of Kennedy's pop
ular vote total.
All early predictors are
quite welcome to have the
field alone.
(Copyright. 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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