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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
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slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH
holds plates firmer and more com
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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.
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In
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