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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1960)
O OCD GO O O WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNEMEDFORD. ORE. OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith lc 1960 Times-Mirror Syndicate The political pollsters don't seem to be too sure of them selves this year. They remind me of a ma gician who keeps pawing ground in his hat but can't come up with the rabbit. So far, about all they've found out from their mysteri ous samplings is that the peo ple who haven't made up their minds, or who won't tell, which is the same thing, will decide the election. Anyboy knows that. It's al ways what you don't know that hurts you. , It isn't of much use to be told that the score is 45 per cent for Nixon, 45 for Ken nedy, with 7 undecided and the other 3 under the narcotic impression that Mr. Coolidge is still in the White House, keeping everything shipshape. I'm taking my own poll. It's realistic and foolproof. I'm polling children. Of course I can't cover much beyond my own neighborhood. But if it's sound here it's sound any where. All I do is ask children how they're going to vote for Nixon or Kennedy. I don't fool around discussing the is sues or religion or whether Mrs. Nixon or Mrs. Kennedy spends more of her husband's money in I. Magnin's. I ask them. They tell me. You can figure 100 per cent of the time that this is how their mothers and fathers are going to vote, too. This morning, for example, I interviewed a boy on his way to school. He lives down the block. I think he's in the second grade. It doesn't mat ter how little they are as long as they can talk. "Hi, there!" I called out. You have to win their confi dence. "Who you going to vote for sonny? Kennedy?" "No, no," he said. "I'm for MIXON!" "Why Mixon?" I asked. "Is your mama for Mixon?" "No, no," he said. "My mama's for KENNEDY. My DADDY's for Mixon. He says, my daddy says, Kennedy's CRAZY. My daddy says, he says, my MAMA's crazy, too. "Listen," he said, "I have a bee in my lunch." He held his lunch sack up to my ear. There was a bee in it, all right. He went on up the hill to school to continue his progressive education. ' How do you like that? I not only discovered the vote of that family; I found the hus band and wife split, 'and was able to determine precisely how they were split. Can George Gallup do that? I also have my own boy working for me in junior high. He's the only operator I can afford. He says he and his friends play a game on the way to school. They count the Nixon and Kennedy stick ers on cars. "There'll be a whole flock of Nixons," he reports, "and you think he's way ahead. Then along comes a whole flock of Kennedys. And then there'll be a lot of strays, that aren't for anybody. It's about even except for the strays." Can the professionals do better than that with their systems and machines? Try it yourself. But don't bother to interrogate high school students. They are sop histicated and some of them think their fathers don't know everything. Policy on Minutes Upheld by Thornton Salem -IUP11- The policy of a union high school board in Clackamas county permitting inspection of the district's minutes and records only at regularly-called meetings is 'not arbitrary and unreason able," Attorney General Rob ert Y. Thornton said Tuesday. It was pointed out that the clerk of the district is a part- time employee and has no "usual business hours." Thornton said that due to these circumstances, it was within the power of the board to set such a policy. The Clackamas county dist rict attorney's office asked for the opinion. William Neighbors, formei economic officer of British East Africa, challenged mem bers and guests to "pray, work and think about Afri ca" at a meeting Tuesday evening of the Rogue River Valley Knife and Fork club. Speaking on "Africa, Mys terious Awakening G i a n t," Neighbors told of life in Rho desia, Uganda, Kenya, Tan ganyika and Zanzibar and ex plained that "we need the black man and he needs us." The speaker told how Jomo Kenyatta, as head of Kenya, started the "hate the white man" theme which grew into Mau Mau warfare. He ex plained that Kenyatta, who ACCEPTS CHECK Medford Mayor John W. Snider (left) receives a S500 check from Rotary Club President Fred R. Brennan for support of the parks and playgrounds projects of the City of Medford. In making the presentation Brennan said that the donation was in line with the club's policy to support worthwhile civic functions. He added that the club feels that the development of the city's parks and play grounds deserves monetary support. Other activities of the club include the sponsoring of a foreign student in Medford under the American Field Service program. Photos in the background are of Medford's sister city, Alba, Italy. ' (Knackstedt photo) Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New York-Richard Hogan, 22, after he was captured try ing to sneak into the United Nations grounds with a Molotov cocktail: "I was only after Khrushchev, nobody else but him. He is insulting the Uniled States." David Douglas Voters Approve Bond Issue Portland - (UP1I - Approval of a $1,839,500 bond issue for construction projects was given Tuesday by voters in the David Douglas school dis trict. The vote was 3,231 yes and 1,582 no. STORM THREATENS Tokyo iUPU, - A tropical storm with 52-mile per hour center winds was headed for Luzon, the Philippines, today, U. S. Air Force weathermen said. Boston, Mass.-Albert Nordin, 21, of Whitman, Mass., a Marine recruit who survived the crash of an Elcctra turbo prop airliner into Boston narDor, recalling umi ne umtr-cu out after swimming clear of the wreckage: "I don'l know who rescued me but I sure thank God. i. m.. V..I, VanlmM mnnaeer Casev Steneel. flUSUUI BM-llcw aviix o-- -- - - picking Art Ditmar to pitch the first game of the World Series with the f lttsourgn riraies: "I have faith in the guy. After all, he has won the firsi game of important series for us all season." New York -Rubber company foreman Abraham Hahn, suing the TV show "This Is Your Life" for half a million dollars because it pictured his home life as happy when he actually was suing his wife for divorce: "I'm not going io make believe everything all right when it's not. It was one of these fake programs and I m lick of it." : ENTERS INNOCENT PLEA Boonville, Ind. -IUPU- Em mett O. Harshfield, 53, plead ed innocent Tuesday to first degree murder charges in the slaying of 11-year-old Avril Terry. Warrick County Cir cuit Judge Addison M. Bea vers set Jan. 9 for Harshfield's trial. The girl's hacked body was found in the Ohio river last August. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without ftnr nf inreurn Ifclsn teeth dronnlnc. slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder haB no Diimmv. crone v. n&sfcv tasts or feellnc. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). unecKs -piate oaor (denture breath). Get FASTKKTH af wy drug counter. African Problem Subject of Valley Knife, F8rk Club Rose Festival Officers Reelected Portland fllPD The entire slate of Rose Festival associa tion officers was reelected Tuesday night. It was the first time in the history of the Association that all officers were re elected. Re-elected were Edward L. Casey, president; William R. Moore, first vice president; Don Chapman, second vice president; Henry Baldridge, secretary, and Allen O. Car- den, treasurer. The Festival also released tentative plans Tuesday night to hold pageant night shows and the Queen's coronation at the new Memorial Coliseum. was sentenced to seven years in prison, is now in isolation in northern Kenya. Neighbors explained thSu Christian faith shown by many of the natives was the most important thing in end ing the Mau Mau incftents. Speaking at the Rogue Val- 890,000 Voters in Oregon Expected Salem -IUPD- State Elections Director Jack F, Thompson predicted today that about 890,000 Oregon residents will be registered to vote for next month's general election a new record for the state. The deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 8 election is this Saturday night at 8 p.m. Thompson said fragmen tary reports from counties in dicate the old record already has been broken. The previ ous high was 877,952 regis tered voters in 1956. In last May's Oregon pri mary. Democrats had an edge of 55,581. Thompson said the Demo cratic voting registration for tlie general election surged at the beginning while now the Republicans, which began la ter, are .picking up. Hesaid that from the fig ures available td him now, the margin of plurality at the close of registration is "any one's guess." He said that as of last Fri day, Multnomah and Lane counties set new records for voter registration. ley Country club, Neighbors feels that freedom is coming too quicky for the African countries. He added that the United States was not ready to supply these countries with diplomats who speak the language while Russis is. He stressed that Russia is battling against "freedom" in all the African countries. He said that the United States needs the African countries for their vast minerals and other raw materials. The United States, he add ed, also needs more friends. "We must humble ourselves in other c o u n t r i e s," the speaker continued, "we must be nice people in the eyes of foreigners." In concluding Neighbors Thornton Calls for Buyer Protection Independence, Ore. IUPU Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton Tuesday called for creation of a state consumer protection division to protect the public from "misleading advertising, fly-by-night soli citors, advance fee schemes and other miscellaneous de ceptive practices and consu mer frauds." He said present laws as well as existing state agen cies "are not equipped to do the job." Thornton said such agen cies have been created in New York, Texas and Geor gia, and put under the attor ney general offices in those states. reviewed FBI Director J. Ed gar Hottver's list of what in dividuals can do to fight com munism. Some of these in cluded learn about commu nism, exercise the right to vote, know history and heri tage of your country, fight apathy towards communism, attack bigotry wherever it ap pears and continue our belief in God. The speaker stressed the importance of continued for eign aid and backing of the United Nations. Neighbors is currently a public relations specialist for tlie city of Los Angelea. On exhibit following his talk wer some of the warfare im plements of the Mau Mau or ganization and some of the handicraft produced in other African countries. The speaker was introduced by John Pletsch, club presi dent. Others at the speaker's table were Mrs. Pletsch, Mr. and Mrs. Justin Smith; Jack Edson, vice president, and Mrs. Edson. Introduced prior to the talk were 28 new members, five associate members and five guests. We Are Proud ... Of our new funeral home. "There is none finer anywhere in Southern Oregon." This com ment is not ours. It comes from outsiders who should know. We hear it constantly. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 In C. M. 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