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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. MONDAY. OCTOBER 17. 196a '.' - Everyone in Southern Oniu Redj The Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday fcry y MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North rir SU Ph ST l-ei4 ROBERT W BUHL Kdltor HERB GREY Advotltinj Unf GERALD T LATHAM Bos UgT ERIC W A 1. 1 FN JR. Mot C4itr EARL B ADAMS. City Hdltf HARRY CHIPMAN TeSe Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soofts Editor OLIVE STAR CHER Wooteal E4tor DALE ERICKSON CtroiUtton Ufl An Independent KtrntiDO1 Xntered as second ciass matter at uedtom. orcrcn niwer Act ex March 3 1CT subscription rates By Mall tn Advance Copy 10c Dsny and bunaay 1 year ais" U Daily and Sunday 4 moa 8 00 " Daily and Sunday 3 mot 4-45 Sunday Only One veer 4 SO By CarrierIn Advance Med lord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jickronville Gold Hill Phoenix Shidv Con Rofue Ri . 'er Talent and An tflotor routef Daily and Sunday 1 veal 118 00 . Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1 .50 Carrier end Dealer copy 10c All Terma caan in Advene - Offlcfil Finer of City of Medford J OfflrUI Paper of Jacknon Countv United Preta International Full Leaaed Wire n P 1 Telenhoto Newtnicturea ,"MEMBtrR OF AtJDIT-BUREAlT" Or CIRCULATIONa ' XrifTfferin RrarkntAtiver - - WEST HOLIDAY CO- INC Of fir tn Mow Ynrk ChlcaffO De. 1 Seattle. Portland St Lou It At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER UBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAI 1A!6' Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson Countv History from the flits o Tht Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veari ago. 10 YEARB AGO Oci. 17, I960 (Tuesday) A total of 28,500 persons are registered to vote In Jack son county, compared to tit fi3 Inst unrlnff.' Manager Paul A. Hatton of the veterans administration domiciliary . at Camp wnue said today he has received authorization to increase the capacity of the veterans cen ter from 500 beds 10 lit oeas 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 17. 1940 (Thursday) Dr. Francis Townscnd said . in Grants Pass today that ;-me drafting of millions of men is a tragic mistake. If we are at war, let us acknowledge it and make war. If not, let us call upon volunteers." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "ine President borrowed $1 from the Postmaster General yes terday, who fortunatoly had one. Imagine Hitler Borrow ing a reichs note from gen eral and the general not hav- lng one. 30 YEARS AGO : ' '. nrt. 17. 1930 (Friday) The city of Medford yester day hauled away on iruvna vi t m.nt iin nn streets leaves i- and warned residents they must cease tne practice oi ...,..ninD lpavei into nutters. Congressman Hawley will pay a visit to tne vauey nexi week. 40 YEARS Alio -Oct. 17, 1920 (Saturday) & innrist shoHer has been proposed for construction in Ashland s L,ltnia par. A now derrick at the Trlgo nil ujr.ll in Fern vallcv Is completed and readied for operation. 50 YEARS AGO net. 17. 1910 (Monday) ' The Mail Tribune will not be published tomorrow be cause the power plant at Gold Ray will be snul down tor in Medford's new Southern Pacific railroad depot, built at a cost of S5U.0UU, win be formally dedicated tomorrow What's Your I.Q.? Nina oi ten cornet la superlen Hven ot eight is euallent) Hv sis is good. . 1, What is the oldest State Capital in the U. S.? 2. What type of story did Agatha Christie write? 3. What is the principal use of American oak bark? 4, How many states border on Canada? 5. From what plant dp we get linseed oil? 6. What is the largest gland In the human body? 7. What is braille? 8. In what State was Calvin Coolldge born? 0. What do we call a group of persons which is hired to lead applause? 10. What insect carries ty phus germs? o Answers: 1. Santa Ft. N. M. 2. Detective stories. 3. Tan ning leather. 4. Nine - Me., N. H., Vt., N. Y.. Minn., N. D.. Mont., Ida.. Wash. 5. Flax. (. Liver. 7. Print read by the blind by touch, t. Vermont. 9. A claque. 10. Body louse. STORMS HIT ITALY Rome - IUPU - Snow up to 30 Inches deep, torrential rains and landslides caused wide spread damage and disrupted communications in northern Italy Sunday. NATIONAL , Conant on Intel-scholastic athletics and marching bands are to be condemned in junior high schools. There is no sound educational reason for them and too often they serve merely Graduation ceremonies with diplomas and cap and gowns have no place at the junior high school level. ; The difference between a good school and a poor school is often the difference betwen a good and poor principal. : :' Duties of teachers which are peripheral to the main task of teaching should be minimized and constantly re-evaluated. No other duty takes pre"dence over classroom instruction. , The use of uncertified personnel for nonpro fessional duties is one of the new developments that will be watched with interest. The nature of the facilities in shop and home economics often requires small classes. These small classes . . . spell very high costs. "NE way to improve morale and to stop the exodus of good teachers from grades 7 to 8 is to equalize the teaching load of all teachers in grades 7-12. x ' I consider the lack of what educators call articulation one of the most serious problems in many school systems. Elementary school teachers seldom meet with junior high school teachers, who in turn, seldom meet with senior high school teachers.: The gymnasium is more important in colder regions of the nation than in those warm, areas where children can have side most of the school question whether in such areas the gymnasium is a necessity for satisfactory instruction. I personally recommend three groups in aca demic courses with the bulk of the pupils. in a particular grade in a large middle group. 'Pre ferably, the grouping subject by subject. I WISH to emphasize . . local school board. The izens everywhere is to choose the best people available for membership on school boards. It is by no means guidance personnel. Obviously, it is better, to J . 1 i. I- J it. l i n ll. aeiay me expansion or tne guidance; sian man to employ unsatisfactory people. Instruction in the basic skills begun in the elementary school should be continued as long as pupils can gain from the ment applies particularly metic. . . ,.,.'.; The recommendations purposely conservative ; 1 ii i ea practices in a numper many new and interesting revolutionize instruction years to come different tion, the use of television for example. All of these I see no inconsistency current practices and ideas. i (The above are hiehlitrhts from the report on America's Junior High schools by James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, former High Commissioner to the Keport on American The Medford System The opposing teams coaches were puzzled. teams had rolled up a real king-sized twister dur ing.the 59-60 season that was sweeping the state in one major sport victory after another. Could anyone stop the mighty Medford teams? What was their secret? Meanwhile the Medford fans 'were eatintr it up. They didn't try to long as it produced the the experts worry about comes r FIRST it was football. fVloil' nvrinQrfe avtA eight-district playoff to cnampionsnip. Then they did the same remarkable thine- in basketball. And remember championship worked out tuHuies ua in uune in some s iai.es. n is a nara fought, rough-and-tumble scrap with major A-l teams all the way to the finish line. And there were no upsets in the record. Next came the baseball season. And aerain the Medford system paid off as they tumbled the strong Parkrose Falls teams 3-1 at the state play off in Multnomah Stadium at Portland. This made three state championships in three major sports, a first in Oregon sports' history, and an enviable record for any school. MOW about the system. These strong .teams 1 were not merely a batch of finely coordinated bodies. Every one of these players were in there to win on the scholastic score board as well. Medford High is recognized as one of the top educational institutions in the nation, havine- gained that reputation by being one of the first to use the graded curriculum where the students are divided into regular, college prep, and ad vanced classes. This rare combination trained bodies, excellent mination to win was the system that produced results. And nobody has a patent on this. (Re printed from "Young Life, the Magazine for Young America.") Junior Highs as public entertainment. physcial education out year. Indeed, one can should be accomplished . the importance of the task that confronts cit easy to find competent instruction. This state to reading and arith' in this reports . . are they represent establish- j i i. mi oi scnoois. mere are developments that may in , grades 7 and 8 in forms of staff utihza' and teaching machines, await the test of time. in adopting the best of looking forward to new Germany, and author of High school.) were mystified. The The "Black Tornado" analyze the system. As desired results, they'd let the "whys and the ' how One by one they downed wtunt oil f V n. tirnif ?v f V a take the Oregon state . . . this isn't a mythical on paper by a poll of of shara minds, well- coachine. and a deter Dennis the -Menace 'VMTMIS MAW FINGERS OtO.AW. WIISON 1 ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of, the writer, although under certain circumstances the us of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter! submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not contrary la often tn cast. Record Is Cited; To the Editor: A recent let ter signed by a Mrs. Morrow referred to me in unflattering terms. I believe that none of my friends in Jacxson coun ty will take these accusations seriously, but perhaps I can clear up any resulting miscon ceptions. An endorsement by labor does not imply ownership of a legislator. As a matter of fact, the present Republican candidate for Congress enjoy ed a labor endorsement two years ago . when running for the State Senate. I am pleas ed, not only that labor approv es my record, but that my work has received the appro bation of farmers and their organizations for work on agriculture bills; from minor ity church and racial groups for working to protect their basic rights; and from indi viduals in both parties who have always found me will ing to help solve their prob lems. The public will . be inter ested to know about the "right votes" on which labor rated the legislators. I apolo gize for my votes to no one for they cover a wide range of subjects. They (and I) favored mea sures to Improve community college law and to request federal aid for education, to prevent discrimination based on race and on age, and to improve the lot of migratory workers, to revise the income tax law, to repeal the ami picketing law as recommend ed by the Republican gover nor, to extend and revise un employment insurance, to in crease workmen's compensa tion benefits, Improve the oc cupational disease law, estab lish a minimum wage of $1 an hour and 40-hour week, to restrict the use of wire-tap evidence, protect Oregon's share of the federally-produc ed power from the Columbia river, and opposed compul sory insurance against the un insured motorist. In previous, campaign I have been charged with be ing in the pocket of the big railroads. I said then that I would vote my convictions re gardless oi its enect on my law business. The people should know that my retainer with the railroad was termin ated by them shortly after my first session. Now, my opponents say I am a Union "boy." If one ex treme charge won't defeat me, they will try another. I have never received one cent of campaign contribution from organized labor. I am not, have not been, and will not be, beholden to any per son or group. I hope that the voters of Jackson county will look at my record and not be influ enced by irresponsible and unfair charges which are so easy to make, and which my opponents seem to think are necessary part of their campaign. Robert B. Duncan ' 1500 Terrace dr. Medford Dodd's Objective To the Editor: Senator Thomas J. Dodd has stated in effect, that the Senate Intern al Security Subcommittee is Interested in only this: did the Communist Pary partici pate in organization of Dr. Pauling's petition? Was it used, and if so by whom, to further Communist and So viet policy? , '; . The machinery capable of destroying Senator Dodd is becoming activated; indeed this machinery is available to anyone who dares to use his Congressional powers to ex pose tht truth about com munism in tht United States. The recent Communist at tack on the Houst Committee URI3T. . necessarily represent the views of the paperi in fact the on Un-American Activities in San Francisco was in line with a long standing party aim to destroy not only the HCUA, but also the Senate Internal Security Subcommit tee and every other 'enemy' seeking to expose the threat which communist activities represent to, the internal se curity of this nation. (From a report to Subcommittee by J. Edgar Hoover). So many editors find it re pugnant to accuse the com munists of disloyalty to the United States. Their tempers are reserved only for those who expose communist aims and influences. The fact that some congressmen have the gall to exercise the constitu tional provisions designed to protect the Nations against subversion makes them even more despicable in the eyes of the pseudo-liberal press. Robert Howard 828 B West 14th st. Medford. Bury Tht Issue To 'the Editor: The most important issue of, the cam paign is Kennedy's religion. If anyone thinks that it can be silenced by Nixon's de cision not to mention it he need only get as much anti Catholic literature as I have received to be convinced of its existence. There is no Catholic party in the United States. Catholics number less than 25 per cent of the entire population, and even less than that in Con gress. Can anyone point out a representative or senator vho voted as a Catholic and not as a Democrat or Repub lican? . i , It is Imperative that we show our maturity as a na tion by burying this issue for ever. I know of no better way of doing It than by electing Kennedy president. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. What Art tht Issues? To the Editor: In your issue of Oct. 11, Howell Appling Jr. "charged his Democratic opponent, Monroe Sweetland, with 'stalling on the issues of this campaign' and demanded that Sweetland 'answer some important questions for the people of Oregon about your record'." , He then cited these "is sues," all but one of them having to do with taxes. In other speeches else where. Mr. Appling has beg ged off taking any responsi bility, as secretary of state, for public policies. His job is only administrative, he says. Well, which is it? If the job of secretary of state is only administrative, what do the formation of tax policies have to do with it? The fact is that Mr. Appling is misrepresenting, on two counts, while trying to have his cake and eat it too. First, the secretary of state's office has nothing to do with tax policies. That is the job of the Legislature and of the Executive Department. Second, the secretary of state's office has many policy decisions to make with regard to state institutions (as a member of the Board of Con trol), to state fiscal policies (as the state auditor) and to state and local elections (as tht state elections officer). Now, on these very relevant matters, Mr. Appling has been virtually silent, and quite understandably. He has avoided the question of repeated bungling in his elections office, other than to blame office clerks and others. Ht seldom mentions the man agement of state institutions or his auditing functions, and ntvtr offers ideas for mora Foreign Notebook: New SHAPE Commander; Philippine Politics By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook New SHAPE .Comamnder American military 'brass- hats in Europe now predict that Gen. Lauris Norstad's sjIJMsm successor 'MS as commander ol NATO forces will be CI A d m . Ar- leigh Burke. The United States oppos 3 es a n y at tempt to name a non- puil newsom American to the post, a view which President Eisenhower . point ed up in a letter to Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany Politics Manila observers expect im portant developments soon in effective handling of social and fiscal problems. Instead, he viciously at tacks Mr. Sweetland's motives and irrelevantly talks about taxes, knowing that such tac tics offer mileage with un informed voters. Senator Sweetland, on the other hand, has discussed the relevant issue of what he would do if he were secretary of state, and what his op ponent has done as secretary of state. Senator Sweetland has fre quently offered fresh ideas for better treatment and rehabili tation of the unfortunate peo ple in the institutions; he has often suggested better ways of conducting the state's fis cal . affairs, and he has throughout the campaign come up with suggestions to make elections more simple and more democratic. Mr. Appling is the last per son who should try to claim that his opponent will not dis cuss the issues. . Ken Johnson Research Director Democratic Party of Oregon Salem, Ore. Anti-Porter To the Editor: Some per sons defend Congressman Porter's behavior on the grounds that he wants peace and ' democracy throughout the world. I believe this to be true. But Senator Durno and the rest of us have these same , worthy aspirations for the world ... it is simply Porter's lack of judgment and the irresponsible way he goes about trying to achieve these objectives that make him un fit to represent us in Con gress any longer. Since the campaign began Porter has back-paddled his support of Castro but in a speech in the House of Repre sentatives on Jan. 28, 1959 Porter stated: "No, I do not believe that there has been any blood bath in Cuba nor do I believe that Castro and his 26th of July movement are denying fair trial to ac cused war criminals, although I believe their procedures should be much improved. My opinion is based on two years of observing the Cuban situation!" . . . "Since Castro took over Cuba there has been respect for civil liber ties. The press has been en tirely free. (Cong. Rec. Vol 105, pt. 1, pgs. 1152-56.) Porter s naivete might be a joke if it weren't that Castro publicized this support Cuba as the feelings of a U.S. leader to lend strength to his dictatorship. This Porter record coupled with his support for Red China is too much. I would gladly try to help him get his passport to Communist China if he would just agree to stay. Russell Tripp 1160 West 25th st. Albany, Ore. Dear Proposal To the Editor: May I have a word with you in regard to the hunting season? As all sportsmen know, when the deer reason opens you can see strings of cars lining our highways on their way to get a deer. This in cludes all kinds of people, with all kinds of Intentions and plans. Not all of them are out for deer, but some are beer parties and for an outing with deer hunting as an ex cuse for a dishonest person to shoot a person for whom he might be holding a grudge, through a pretense of acci dent. It might be done too, by carelessness through having imbibed too much liquor, or it can be Induced by heart failure, or at least other caus es. Anyhow, every year there are from ont to a dozen acci- ( the Philippines negotiations with the United States over the. status of American bases in the Philippines and with Nationalist Chinese over the overseas Chinese problems. The reason: Foreign Secre tary Felixberto Serrano is in the race for the ruling Na cionalista Party's vice presi dential nomination . for the 1960 elections and would like to accomplish some dramatic diplomatic coup Inside Story - The will of Japanese war time Premier Hideki Tojo is expected to be published soon. The will is said to give Tojo's explanation of why Japan lost. Sources who knew Tojo well say that, in a nutshell, dents, some fatal, due to the hunting season. Many or most of them I might say don't get any deer at all, and most of them could buy beef steak cheaper than what their deer meat would cost them. I would suggest a plan whereby all these deer li censes be withdrawn, with money refunded, and declare an indefinite closed season. Withdrawn hunting lands from public use and fence these preserves, in the case of deer, so that at a designated time and place these deer might be rounded up and slaughtered under govern ment supervision. The meat should be butchered and fur nished to hospitals, county homes and homes under the supervision of the welfare, orphans, children, andor un fortunates anywhere,' also the county or state prisoners. If there is a surplus, the balance should be sold to the public at cost. This .plan should be supervised with the state bearing the cost and being supervised by ihe sheriffs and game wardens of the counties or local authorities. This game is really public property, and only a favored few can afford the luxury of hunting anyhow. J. P. Wirth 3022 Butte St., ' Klamath Falls, Ore. Winter in tht Desert To the Editor: Is not mid winter an excellent time to read up on desert lore and plan a vacation there? There is always the possibility of one of those matchless floral color . displays. These may come but once or twice in a lifetime. They depend upon the just-right concentration of the desert's sparse rainfall. Even in ordinary years we are fortunate in having the desert within overnight mo toring after 60 years of desert exploration, including camel trips on African desert, elephant excursions in Hindu stan, also field studies in our West Coast deserts from So nora to Chile, writer finds most of interest in U.S.A.'s own Southwest. One example is Scott's oriole. This bird weaves its nestling's cradle on, say, the tip of a Joshua tree branch. The material is threads from Agave. This is the plant from which Mexican peons make pulque. Here is another in stance of "Mother Nature first at the Patent Office." Desert Indians' shoe-material is agave-cordage sandals. Did they learn its 'strength from Scott's Orioles? C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea st., Sacramento 16, Calif. Do Unto Others ... To the Editor: Would you please print this In your col umn. "Who Done It?" I would like to let you know about my peeves. My next door neighbor is an eld erly man and totally blind. Just recently his landlord, knowing it was hard for his blind tenant to find his way home placed a' pipe deep in the ground of his front lawn, with a heavy cord tied to it, so he could find his way home and to his room. About a week or so ago, some smart alec bent the pipe down to the ground, which prevented my neighbor from finding his way home to his room. Well the pipe was fixed, but between last night and this morning some wise guy pulled it out of the ground, making it very hard for my blind neighbor. Tell me, what's wrong with the people of today? Don't they have any respect for the blind or their elders? Do they always have to be destructive and hurt -others? When I was a child I was brought up a lot different and was taught to respect every one. Another peeve: Every so often my tele phone rings and I rush from the kitchen or the garage to answer it, only to find some saucy brat on the other end of the line, who is very nasty when I answer, or just as I answer the phone they hang up on me. The only reason we have a phone is for emergency calls. Tojo blamed it on the fact that other Asian nations would not cooperate with Ja pan. , Leave Chaos Behondt Next month's local elec tions are expected to go far toward determining whether Italy is to have a stable gov ernment with well-defined policies or continue amid the political chaos wnich has pro duced a series of unstable governments. The: elections will be the first real test of national feelings since the 1958 general elections. If there is clear support of the parties -of Premier Amintore Fanfani's middle - road gov ernment, that government will carry on as perhaps the strongest in a decade. such as to call a doctor, etc, I hardly use the phone myself to call friends or gossip, and I .think this thing should be stopped. If I could find out who these brats are, I'd sure give them a piece of my mind. I hope whoever does these things will read this and cor rect their mistakes before it is too late. I don't mind so much about the phone, al though it isn't very pleasant to answer it, ' only to hear some nasty - remark from from brat at the other end. But to make things un pleasant for the blind,' it's time something s should be done about it. One never knows what's ahead of us. So please, "Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you." Mrs. Flora Moore 136 South Holly st. Medford. Infamous Techniques To the Editor: There has been a concerted campaign of late to reflect on Congress man Porter's loyalty through use of the infamous tech niques: guilt by association, half-truth innuendo, etc. Cyrus ; Eaton, a conserva tive Republican on domestic issues, has what many con sider an excess of faith in the merit of negotiating with Comunist leaders in order to maintain peace. His interest in common with Mr. Porter is peace, not Communism. Mr. Porter has been but spoken in his criticism of the Castro regime from the time Castro veered from the dem ocratic principles on which he made his appeal to the Cuban people. Recognition of Red China would no more make us Com munists than recognition of Russia has made us Commu nists, or than recognition of Spain has made us Fascists. The conferences Mr. Por ter has attended abroad were not sponsored by Commu nists, were composed for the most part of delegates from NATO countries, and were on disarmament and world law. These people who imply that Mr. Porter is soft on Communism are either shamefully misinformed and lack respect for the FBI and our other security agencies which have given Congress man Porter top security clearance, or are conducting a calculated smear campaign in the best McCarthy tradi tion. Carol Richman 2527 Agate st., Eugene, Ore. Questions To the Editor: Though I may be a visitor and new comer here and not know all the background data I should, I was struck by the aptness of "E.A.'s" editorial on Parks and Recreation. The success ful business men of the court must be naive indeed not to have expected an additional resource to be used. They have not read about the Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ANEW SINGING STAR popular with teen-agera at any rate sai.g the same song three times running in Miami recently. An agent finally asked him, "Is that the only number you know?" "Of course not, said the singer. "It's just that this song seems to hound me." - "I can understand why," grumbled the agent "You keep mur-' dering it!" What word denotes mora in tht singular than it does In the plural? Answer: hair .... What word con tains two (ucceaaivt dou ble letters? Answer: book keeper .... A prize bull swallowed an unexploded bomb in a meadow one day. Cme-word description of tht situation: Abominable. Same scene after tht) bomb went off: noble .... This sentence of 29 letters uses every ont in tht alphabet: "Quick wafting Zephyrs vex bold Jim." "Why do we go to sea every morning?" an old salt In Nan tuck ot explained to a nosey tourist. "Just for tht halibut" 0 1M0. bj Bauatt Cart. Distributed tqr Kins Wmtuim meleata In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS There may have been room for doubt as to who came out ahead in the first two debates. There was little room for doubt in the minds of thought ful people (meaning people more interested in facts than in the., techniques of foren sics) that Nixon was the win ner in the third. ' The debate the other night revolved largely around the tiny islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which lie within artil lery ' range of the Chinese mainland, Kennedy said they aren't worth fighting for. Nixon said if we give them up and RUN the Chinese com munists will accept it as a sign of weakness and will FOL LOW us. , That .. . in all probability , , . would result in war. HOW are we to know? Well, we judge the fu ture by the past. SOMEWHAT more than a decade ago Mr. Acheson, then U.S. secretary of state, said in effect (at least, he gave that impression) that wa wouldn't fight for Korea. The Chinese communists took us at our word and MOVED ON KOREA. . .. We DID fight. -The Korean war followed. In his Quemoy 'and Matsu position last night, Nixon was talking hard common sense, based on experience. Kennedy was talking pious nonsense. THAT raises another ques tion: , How about Guantanamo? AS OF now, Guantanamo is of relatively slight mili tary value to us. It was built as a base for our fleet in the days when naval control of the Carribbean area was all important to us. Those day are past. But- Suppose we announced that we wouldn't fight for Guan tanamo? What would Castro do? Most of us think we know what Castro would do. He'd do what the Chinese communists did in Korea a decade ago. He'd move in to TAKE Guan tanamo. We'd fight to HOLD IT (because we couldn't af ford the loss of prestige that would follow abandonment and also because we couldn't afford to let Russia take it over as a submarine base) and war would follow . . . as it did in Korea. TN PRINCIPLE, Nixon is fol lowing the ancient rule for what to do when facing a menacing dog: DON'T RUN. Look him fearlessly in the eye. If you do that, you may BLUFF HIM OUT. If you run, he'll TAKE YOU. It's a good rule. I THINK most of us feel that foreign policy is the BIG is sue of this election. After list ening to the third debate, which revolved largely around foreign policy, I'd personally feel MUCH safer with Nixon in the White House. LEADING LADY DIES Berlin -UIPD- Henny Porten, 70, one of the first and best known leading ladies in Ger man silent films, died Satur day. crowded conditions in other areas? They wish to tap funds al- located to other services. Which ones? Work which in June they considered essential (didn't they) they now con sider unnecessary? What is the relationship be tween recreation and state ex tension? That's a fine program but is it recreation? Maybe for the benefit of strangers, you'd write an edi torial about the O and C money. What is it being saved for? It really does exist? It's not like the legendary money in Mama's teapot? Delia Thomas, Nevada City, Calif. Stop Me
