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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MONDAY. OCTOBER 10. I960 -everyone tn Soutnern Oregon Beada The Mill Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by ;irtEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUML, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bua Hgr ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mn Editor Sarl h ADAMS, City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'! Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aot Of March 3. 1897 RTTRSCRrpTION RATES lly Mall In Advance. Copy 10c uany ana ounany -i year iiaw Dally and Sunday 6 moi 6.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4 28 Eundav Only One year S4.20 stv r.pTl.n-Tii A n en M.d f nrd Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv. r Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.S0 Carrier and Dealers copy lOo All Terms cash in Aavanca "official Paper of City of Medfortf Official Paper ol Jackson County. United Press International full Leased Wire TJ P.I Telephoto Newspletures MEMBER OF AUDIT BITREAff Advertising Representative : 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. NEWSPAMt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI ""W IHIIMIM U'lllll Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 19S0 (Tuesday) Thirty Mexican nationali are being held in the Jackson county jail for illegal entry into the United States. The U.S. soil conservation gervice this week will begin installation of instrument sta tions that will collect precipi tation data this winter in a 200-mile area of tht valley's watershed. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1940 '(Thursday) Coach Bill Bowerman said that ' Medford high's Black Tornado will have its first string intact when it meets Eureka next week, for the first ' time since the season started. ,'ErOm Arthur Perry's "Ye Smu'dge Pot" column: "Noth ing happened yesterday on the international front, to cause American voters to duck an 'emergency,' and crash into a 'crisis.' The cam paign is expected to reach the ' conniption fit stage ' around the 20th." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1930 (Friday) Plowing and fall seeding Is now underway on Rogue val ley farms. Pear shipment from the valley now total 3,305. "Electricity without cost to taxpayer" lures Oregon vot ers. 40 YEARS AGO OttTlO, 1920 (Sunday) ' "Medford defeats Klamath Falls 29-0 in the first football game between the two schools in years. 50 YEARS AGO pel. 10, 1910 (Monday) ! John F. Stevens, right hand hiati of empire builder James 3. Hill, said here today that the Pacific and Eastern rail road' will be extended from Medford across the Cascades io connect with the Oregon Trunk line "just as soon as possible." .Die District Attorney's of fice here has served noticed Jhat.lt will prosecute any vio lation of the fish and game . bet In this district, whether or hot the office regards the Jaws as fair. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; even or eight Is ncallentf five n l It good. ; 1. A diamond shaped high way sign always means what? ! 2. With what does a carto grapher deal? ; 3. In skiing, is downhill facing or jumping more dan gerous? ; 4. In what sport is the Da- Vis Cup awarded? I 5. Australia is a member of he British Commonwealth of Rations; true or false? ; 6.' What was the name of the bomber, lost In W.W. II, which was recently found in the Libyan desert? j ;7.j What is the capital of Indiana? 8. Who Is President of the United Arab Republic? I 9. How far apart are the ppposlte goal posts of a col lege football field? . I 10. In which house of Con gress do revenue bills origi nate? ... ' Antwiru 1. Slow danger io yourself. 2, Mips. 3. Jump ing,' 4. Tennis. 5. Truo. I "L'i'dy Be Good". 7. Indian apolis. S. Gamel Abdol Nat ton 9. 120 yards. 10. Moutt of HtpitOIttMTa. Why Planning? Some people seem 1 ! - - ll- - 1 - planning is uie uane or, In a narrow sense and it may be. But those who object to all planning forget the immense benefits they enjoy as the result of planning done for and county roads, state and federal highways offer one type of example. Planning, and the modifica tion or even supersession of individual property rights, was necessary to' provide rights-of-way tor tnese roads. A T EVERY hand there are other examples of "the necessity of planning to promote the gen eral interest, where individual rights must be sub jugated to the greater good. Yet many who accept the fruits of community planning and cooperation still argue that plan ning is, per se, impractical or even dangerous. Thev ODDOse ulanners as addled eeirheads. They forget that pioneer ancestors who plat ted the towns in which sometimes much more visionary than any of to day's breed. They forget that in pioneer times bold visions of tomorrow were incentive for com munity actions that insured progress. They forget that bold vision is necessary today more than ever beiore. Eugene Kegister-Uuard. , Too High The Texas Cn maL , . . , 77 ' " " icAotu uasuune. has lOinen tnp npf-rnlniim iv,-li,of,.,,c ,u... r rni-f tn mir nff 5fo v vu L,uu ii i a i.n ii . Enclosed with current credit card bills is a m,we pampniec entitled, Too High." iOO hlf?h for what? er, the gasdhne maker reduced, and it implies ui viegun snouia De cut Dack too. piNE. But the petroleum industry, along with the rest of us, is constancy pressuring both the state and fprWnl immiinma.i w,.. - - o'"""ku iui muic anu Detter hiphwavs. Wa a,,a nffinn. i u.ii... ,. v mt ' , gowning muic anu uewei highways. That's why gasoline taxes are averae- cijwj a gauon over to exactly that figure in uoes me lexas Lo. or not? Lowerinc the taxes nn , ------ jjvuuuiiv it aii nut I tOU.lt in an increase in gasoline consumption, as the gasoline people argue, especially when 'you take into account a dark suspicion that the tax reduc tm will be promptly absorbed by an increase in gasoline prices at the manufacturer's level. A good case can be made, in fact, that gasoline taxes have no effect on gasoline consumption! LL that a decrease in .the gas taxes wiu do is 'eliminate revenue used to build roads. These new hichwava avo. fav ideal schedules now. To delay the construction pace would be inconvenient to the point of fool hardiness. . Actually, the oil industry's campaign against high gasoline taxes" should not be taken serious ly. Amost Pertainlv the nnmnoirrn ia Knoarl nv, u j a , , v w idea of taking the heat ."6-. iii.a ui acuuiic a uiaine uiey may not deserve, but which they'll avoid at any rate. Coos Bay World. A Place to Leave No Mark Among a normal man's higher ideals is the uiieu expressea nope mat ne wiu leave the world a better place for having passed this way. The wilderness advocate is an odd ball, his chief hope is to pass and leave no mark by which those who follow will know he has gone before. There is an increasing clamor by these people that a small wilderness be given guaranteed protection against loggers, road builders and others who would "harvest" the wildnerness or scar its face. This clamor grows as more and more people realize how rapidly our true wilderness areas are shrink inghow little land is left in which a man can travel and find no sitrn that man has o-nno thia . - o way before. we can sympathize men cause iur uicoc uava uicv nave no leuay Roosevelt to lend a helping hand. Portland ivepuilel. View From Frankly I am delighted that football here in Ashland has not reached the hysterical level it has in Medford. Where they apparently begin grooming their high school teams in the fifth grade. Winning a state championship can't be as im portant as all that. Many states, by the way, have long since abandoned state chamnionshiDs in hiarh school football and I predict it in uregon. After all, hicrh school it is cruel to put them under such heavy pressure to win, win, win. Football is supposed to be a gamwhere 22 boys have fun with a lop-sided ball. When it becomes such a savage business that the high school coach is paid a higher salary than the science and English teachers, then something is rotten upstairg.jAshland Daily Tidings. t to think that community P .V T 1 1 L men lnuiviuuai rigms. in particular situations, before them, fjity streets, they live were planners, For What? ' - oi - a nf Tv.. . - J "Taxes on Gasoline Are Tnn rnVVi argues, and it urges that that state taxes 6 cents tne country, and amount Oregon. want highway expansion o-nanl ' iJ "-fj 11 o fcfnocu uil LUC off the oil companies for e,-..- with these people and Ashland will happen in due' time bovs are still bovs and Dennis the Menace 'OHyes.Mf.s.AlrrcMeu.j'VE utim ...Communications ... Letters to in Editor -must bear tho nima and addrest of ih writer, although under certain cireumtiances tho uta of a pen name or initial for publication it permissible. Tho Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not contrary is often the cate. Count Your Blessings, No. 2 To tne Editor: I see our Southern Oregon neighbor has been at it again. He says the communists will make it interesting for our next Presi dent. No doubt they will. But, how, is what I'd like to know, Certainly not by being peace ful. Our neighbor says the com munists have free swinging. Just how does he mean? The communist controlled people don't have anything free, So he must mean the Communist government. All they can swing is lies, death and des truction. Just like they swung in Korea. By swinging their guns and bombs into the lives and ihomes of the free South Koreans. What did the South Korean people do to get such a surprise attack? They re fused communism.. The com munists showed their desire for peace by murdering thou sands of people who wanted only to be left free. . As for the communists beinc honest, they aren't. For ex ample, some years back the government of India signed a peace treaty with Red China. It wasn t many years after the signing of this treaty, the Red Chinese showed their honesty with armed aggres sion against the India border. The Russians showed their de sire for peace by furnishing me norm Korean aggressors with arms and war materials. Again the communists showed their honesty by breaking the Berlin treaty. I certainly would like to know something good about communism. If communism Is so great and wonderful, why are the East Germans leaving home by the thousands and moving to west Uermany? Why have all the millions of Chinese peasants escaped and come to Hong Kong? Why did the Hungarian people try to free themselves? With all this evidence against communism, how any one can want it for their kind of life is beyond me. All I can say about the com munist - leaders is they are power crazy fanatics, who have no concern for other human life or property. Just like Hitler was. . I think some people better quit feeling sorry for them selves, and, as I said before, count your many, many bless ings. Don Turnbough Box 18A Applegate, Ore. Realittlc Policy To the Editor: It Is easy to throw brickbats at elected officials who have initiative to think and courage to speak out. The Republican candi date for Congress and his sup porters have been throwing wild generalities at Charles Porter because he is not con tent to let America lose the battle for men's minds. Porter's opponents claim he is "soft" on communism be cause he once supported Cas tro, and weak because he had the courage to change his po sition. Their attacks show no knowledge of Cuba or the reasons Castro gained power. I visited Cuba twice during dictator Batista's reign. It was a country without democ racy or freedom, of midnight arrests, torture, graft and cor ruption. Batista did nothing to build the country's econ omy or alleviate terrible pov erty. HrQvas hated and feared in Cuba but honored and sup ported by our government. When Castro wi power he visited Amcca seeking aid for Cuba's economy. He was not seen by our President or Secretary of State. He was given no aid. Only after the failure of his visit did Castro become belligerent t o ward puthim to eea six rw$i' necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the . , our government, Only then did he turn to the Russians, A different attitude in Wash ington might have changed history. For years our policy has been to support Latin Ameri can dictators. Our great corporations have reaped huge profits in these countries while the people have lived in squalor. Is it any wonder that America is unpopular in Latin America? Too many congressmen sup port an ostrich foreign policy of sUcklng America's head in the ground and assuming everything will turn out well. They believe America can do no wrong and righteously close their eyes to diplomatic defeats. Apparently the Re publican candidate supports the ostrich approach. We are fortunate there are some congressmen like Charles Porter who recognize the existence and aspirations of other people and are will ing to challenge old concepts. Unless we treat other peoples as equals, we will find our selves alone in a hostile world. Perhaps if we had listened to Porter two years ago Cuba would be friendly. No man is perfect, but at least Congressman Porter has courage to think and fight for a realistic foreign policy which is our hope for survival. Jonathan Marshall 2186 University st. Eugene, Ore. Letter Evil To the Editor: I am happy to see that you and your Newsy Newspaper have final ly decided to get out of the middle of the road. In answer to the lady from Lozler Lane, Mr. Kennedy and his brother keep bringing up the religious issue to show that they are not afraid of it and to beat others to it. When I quote from a news paper clipping I have before me, "The current farm sup port program is costing the taxpayers. $1,000 PER MIN UTE," I am not too pleased with the past performance of either of the entries in the race. Even though I have been raised as a Protestant, I am a Democrat, and of the lesser of two evils, I choose The Hon. John Kennedy, believing that he can work better with his prcdomlnatly Democratic con gress. Owen C. Gearhart Sr. White City, Ore. Who's Next? To the Editor: A few months ago I inquired of the Jackson county sheriff and state police office as to having our resi dential area posted for speed and was told I would have to contact the state speed con trol board. I wrote the state speed con trol office in Salem and re ceived an answer. "Dear Sir "In reference to your letter. you will have to contact your local sheriffs office for infor. motion on this matter. "State Speed Control Board" Who do I see now? Hope you print this. W. B. Burge 2537 Robin Lane Central Point, Ore P.S. - Maybe some of the prominent1 speeders out here will slow down. Seriously Speaking To the Editor: It was for my good that a friend warned we against writing lightly in these troubled times when serious thoughts should be up permost. She made me a chanced, wuiiiuu, uiuuKii I uu icret mihi tl U T J- t , . 1. I should help Nicekitty Khrushchev to learn our ways. He simply shouldn t shake his pudgy little finger. pound doublefisledly, oriml- Foreign Notebook: Tired Princess; French-German By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Midwest Trouble Fresh trouble is looming in the Middle East. The surprise reconciliation last week be tween King Hussein of Jordan and Premier Ab dul K a r i m Kassen of Iraq when Jordan r e c o rgnized the Baghdad r evolutionary governm e n t PHIL NEWSOM caught United Arab Republican President Gam; Abdul Nasser napping. The alignment between Jordan and Iraq spells, poten tial danger for Syria Iraq never has abandoned its am bitious plans for an alignment with Syria and has reiterated them several times since the overthrow of- King Faisal. tate monkey-shines. Too, he should not say "Everyone in the UN had his nose in his hand." He wasn't looking straight. We Americans use handkerchiefs. In Sept. 26 Mail Tribune, I read that Mr. Khrushchev ranted. Away back when I used to rant. It got me no where. . ' I could have told ol' Funny face that, but he wouldn't have listened. Anyone who ever did listen to me, got no where, also. I am for Mrs. Eaton. She had a perfect right to visit her foreign friends if she likes the ones who kowtow to her while hating her coun try and all its other citizens. - With me, "It's love me, love my dog." . Personally, I like our land of sunshine and high taxes even better than I like our three purps. I sure do like Democrats! I kinda like Re publicans too, but I won't let on 'til after election. We gotta have the high taxes to raise money for shoot ing equipment, for if the blamed Russians send a man up to the moon, we good neighbors will have to help him back down to earth. We are good Samaritans if ever, and whenever, needed. We'll raise that tax money if we have to rake up leaves and sell 'em -for tobacco. Yes sir, there's no moss on our roofs. I sure showed my friend, Ena, that I take life seriously, for everything I have written is important! Don't answer that. Meet me at the polls. Gram, Jacksonville, Ore. Nehru Naive? To the Editor: I heard that great sophomore debater Tricky Dick call Senator Ken-, nedy naive, and I was sad, then suddenly I remembered that he called the great Nehru naive many times. If this man who is surely one of the giants of the cen tury Is naive in the book of this secret funder, the "naive" truely must fall like a bene diction upon this uncommonly gifted senator. Lou WUhelm 2905 SE Franklin Portland 2, Ore. No Legislation To the Editor: In Portland Oct. 6, Lodge gave a magnifi cent speech. It was like Wood row Wilson and F.D.R. rolled Into one - but without the enabling legislation. Jim Harris Box 187 Tualatin, Ore. Early Bird To the Editor: TV and peo ple, wake up! Mothers who get up at the dawn's early morning would like some thing to enjoy with their sec ond cup of coffee. I would, any way. , The world news would be a good starter early. A show may be to enjoy before working very hard"." The main thing I want too know is this: Why are we trying to get another channat in here when the one we have isn't awake until noon? Husbands will say the wom en will never get anything done if TV is on early. Well, this is a question to them. -Why should we women that stay at home and never leave the house do &e same thing every day without a break? Some will say, I don't have time to watch TV early. Well, there are a few whogyould '"(8) (5 hav( their days changea' a little, and if you never leave the house, what do you do for a change? Why have another channel Diplomats believe Nasser now will tighten his grip on Syria, and this could mean real trouble. Japanese Princttt They say Japanese Crown Princess Michiko is "worn out" from her hectic tour of the United States with Crown Prince Akihito. Palace of ficials in Tokyo have order ed a "complete rest" for the pretty young princess before she and Akihito leave in No vember for state visits to Washington Report By WIlllAM UPSIDE DOWN - Washington -This might well become known to history as -the year of the upside- down, presi dential cam. paign. I t abounds with the odd and the in c o n g r uous. Little has gone accord ing to old form. And if we do not know exactly where we are going, we certainly know we are going somewhere new. Long tradition gave a Vice President nothing to hope for later, unless his chief, the President, should die. Having been a Vice President was, in fact, an excellent way never to be deliberately chosen for President. This time, the Re publican presidential candi date, Richard M. Nixon, is not only a sitting Vice President but one who reached the top nomination with no real chal lenge, LONG tradition had it that vice presidential candi dates should be far more seen than heard - and not even seen overmuch. This time, the vice presidential candi dates, Sen. Lyndon B. John son for the Democrats and Henry Cabot Lodge for the Republicans, are campaigning with a no less loud vigor than their chiefs. They are stirring a public interest not incomparably smaller. Long tradition has it that vice presidential nominees were in every way junior to the heads-of-ticket. This time, the older and more exper ienced men are running hap pily in second place. They are reversing the old order in which the younger were al ways crowding the footsteps of the older. Cabot Lodge was powerful in the very senior Senate when Nixon was an unknown freshman in the very junipr House of Representatives. Now Lodge takes every cue from Nixon. A year ago Lyn don Johnson, as Democratic leader of the Senate, had a relationship to Sen. John F. Kennedy like that of a presi dent of a large corporation to jits newest third vice-president. . NOW Johnson, the erstwhile unchallenged leader, fol lows in every way the lead of his erstwhile follower, Jack Kennedy. Yesterday has become to- in here that doesn't come on until noon? Or this is the main question, are we being forced into it by our own channel coming on late? Some won't like TV to be on early. Well, there is an off and on, on my TV set and I hope there is one on your set too. Iris Huff Route 3, Box 186B' Medford Try and Whit -By BENNETT CERF- A N INGENIOUS SOUL leased the languishing men's hat department in a big store and soon had the dismal sales figures perking up. He would edge up to every hatless man in the store and say, "Get on the job; stop stalling." "What do you mean?" the indignant gent thus accosted would splutter. "Tra a CUSTOMER here." "Pardon me," the hat man wQuld murmur re gretfully. "Without a hat, you look like a CLERK." Three times out of four, the customer would hurry right over to the hat department and buy at least one hat to im press into immediate service. Sudden thought by Clif Trevor: "What holler would entue, if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them aa they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce!" , ' ' "Flattery," warns William Inge (author of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs") "is like perfume. The Idea, is to tmell it, not wallow it" Mideast Troubles; Iran, India, Nepal and Ethi - oDia. Outbursts are expected lat er this month when 3,000 West German troops go into Eastern France to train in areas allotted by the govern ment. Victims of the Nazi re gime are expected to join with the Communists in viol ent anti-German demonstra tions. But the French police are likely to crush any dem onstrations swiftly before any real trouble starts. When, as, and if U.S. Gen. S. WHITE day and tomorrow. Nixon used to hold the copyright on the "tough" campaign line. Now the elegant Lodge of yesterday is surely quite as "tough" - and often "tougher - as he barnstorms for the G.O.P. ' A little while ago Johnson, from his place of great power in the Senate, could disdain to speak at all. And when he did speak on any important matter he usually read from a . carefully prepared text while Kennedy listened and ad-libbed from the back row, Now it is Johnson who is ad-libbing his way across the country, sampling the pas trami in delicatessens, patting startled tots on the back, throwing away the written addresses and "giving .'em hell" like Harry S. Truman, e TN THE PAST, the wives of A candidates were not "is sues," but for the exception of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Now Pat Nixon and Jackie Kennedy are each reckoned to be a political force hardly less formidable than a na tional committee. Finally, the most unassail able proof that we are indeed in changing times comes from the west. In a recent foray into Oregon Richard Nium was brought up short by a sign, held by a small boy, reading "Dick and Hank." "Dick," of course, Nixon knew pretty well. But "Hank" he had not thus far run across until realization came that Lodge's first name was in truth "Henry." It used to be said in Boston that the Cabots spoke only to the Lowells and the Low ells spoke only to God - or perhaps the other way round. Here is surely the ultimate change wrought by the cam paign: The patrician Cabot Lodge has now become just good old Hank. (Copyright, 1960. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Students To Hear About NROTC Plan Naval representatives from the various regular naval re- service officer training corps units and naval recruiting sta tion will visit high schools this month to speak about the NROTC program. According to Chief Murray J. Emmerich at the Medford Navy recruiting office, the students must make applica tion for the program prior to Nov. 18, the date by which all applications must have been received at the educational testing service, Princeton, N.J. The regular NROTC is government college sponsored program in which the student takes a regular four year course including one naval science course per semester and participates in summer cruises on Navy ships. interested students may contact the local recruitine station tor further informa tion. Stop Me Training 1 Lauris Norstad steps out next year as haiu uuiiuuiiiiaer, there is bound to be trouble over his successor. French President Charles de Gaulls is reported planning to de mand the job for a French man, possibly retired Gen. Jean Valluy. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appears set to support De Gaule. How ever, U.S. military men are not likely to let ' this plum get away from them without a terrific fight. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS What of the second debate? Well, a professional TV measuring service (American Research Bureau, Inc.) says an estimated 62 '4 million per sons viewed it - about 12 mil lion fewer than saw the first one on Sept. 26. It adds that about 25 per cent of the sets turned On dur ing the period were NOT tun ed to the debate and 40 per cent of all TV sets weren't turned on at all. That is to say: The novelty tends to wear off. THE Associated Press mada another 100-person check immediately after the debate in ten cities from coast to coast. It found that, in the vast majority of cases, Kennedy supporters REMAINED Ken nedy supporters and Nixon supporters REMAINED Nix on supporters. Only 20 of the hundred reported that they had been influenced in any way by the debate, and none of the 20 changed from one candidate to the other. IIERE ARE three opinions, 1a reported by United Press International: Former President Truman: "I think Kennedy got the best of it." GOP National Chairman Thruston Morton: "Nixon was the clear winner." Mrs. John Smith, Denver housewife: "I was making grape jelly, and didn't watch them too closely." A NOTHER interesting opin- inn? John Roosevelt, Republican Son Of FDR. camnaiffninr fnr the GOP ticket in Oregon, said in Portland: "The basic issue of this Prpairlpntial tiV. et is which nartv pan tin the better job in foreign relations. i minic vice-r-resident Nixon is well equipped to handle for eign policy." He didn't nrM hnf nrnlrl have, that Nixon has the ad vantage of h&vinff ne his run. ning mate Henry Cabot Lodge, wno is growing rapidly in statesmanship stature. Kenne dy has as his running mate Senator Lyndon Johnson, who was a pretty big man before he gave his strange and un expected allegiance to Kenne dy, but doesn't seem to have grown much since. INTERESTING sidelight: oeurev a e r v i c e agents checked t h p vlrp DRINKING WATER. Studio officials assumed a similar check would be made to pro tect Mr. Kennedy's drinking water, but when questioned the Secret Kprviro calH tho law assigns them only to the president . and the vice-president. HMMMMMMMMM. We'vp all hpnrrl nf rinnincf horses before a big race, but wno would nave supposed the time WOnlrl rnme urhpn nnliti. cians would be suspected of doping a Presidential candi date's drinking water before a debate? What's politics coming to? QPEAKING personally, i t 3 seemed to this writer that Mr. Kennedy had the edge all the way through. .That isn't Unnaturalr Ha is tho r-hnlloncr. er. Mr. Nixon is the defender. The challenger always has the advantage in such a case. He can soar arnunrl in tho unnpr blue, with no restrictions. The defender is restricted by his record. These are trnuhloH timoc . . in our country and in the world. Few people are happy and contentorl ulth tho wav things are going. In such cir cumstances, tne challenger be comes the knlrjit in shining armor whose task it is to lead the people out of the darkness into the light. That adds interest tn hia proposals. W rJ CO FAR in these debates, fis 13 cal polios of the cflfdl- dates and tholr nartios hovo scarcely been mentioned. To many ot us, tney seem impor tant. Our total debt, public and private, is getting within shooting distance of a TRIL LION dollars. That , a lot of debt. HnV aro ! anninn tn handle it? One can't help hoping that in the two debates that remain fiscal nollrioa mill hoxnmo major subject of discussion.'