THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. I960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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California Remains Mystery State in Coming Presidential Election
Demo Majority
No Guarantee
Kennedy to Win
By JAMES C. ANDERSON
Sacramento, Calif. -, RIPO -California,
a rich prize with
32 electorial votes, is a mys
tery state in the coming pres
idential election. T
Although new registration
figures show Democrats with
a husky bulge of 1,368,922
voters over Republican totals,
that by no means guarantees
Californians will choose John
F.' Kennedy, the Democratic
nominee, over Richard M.
Nixon on Nov., 8.
Californians, despite party
registration which for a dec-
ade has run 3-2 Democratic,
are an independent lot. Thou
sands of Democrats joined
GOP votes in 1952 and 1956
to help elect Dwieht D. Ei
senhower.
Who is the favorite as of
this moment-Nixon or Ken
nedy?
Proof that neither is can
be found in the fact that both
parties marshalled their big
gest oratorical guns for a final
assault on the Golden State
the last three weeks of
the campaign.
Plans New Swing
Kennedy, who already
whistle-stopped the length of
the state in September, plans
New Suhtan Pills
May Be Challenge
To Sun Bathers
Chicago-CScience Service)
Methoxsalen, the new suntan
pill, is not a cosmetic but a
potent drug to be under the
direction of a physician, three
dermatologists report in Ar
chives of Dermatology pub
lished by the American Medi-
cal association here.
Two other research groups
-,, reporting in the same issue
: say that Man-Tan, which is
: typical of the new suntan
producing lotions containing
dihydroxyacetone (DHA), a
three-carbon sugar, is appar
ently harmless. The DHA is
able to tan the human skin
without exposure to the sun.
Suntan pills enhance the
dark color of the skin and
increase' tolerance to sun
light in those who burn easily.
No Effects
Drs. J. Donald Imbrie and
Lester L. Bergeron, Portland,
Ore., and Dr. Thomas B. Fitz
patrick, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, reported that
in a study of 40 men and
women no unpleasant side ef
, fects or severe burning occur
red because all followed a
guide of gradual sun expos
i ure. All were volunteers,
i mainly students and research
. personnel from the University
of Oregon Medical School.
; "We urge that methoxsalen
' be given only to patients who
' understand its indications and
hazards," the investigators
say, stressing that the pills be
. taken for medical and not
cosmetic reasons.
The two groups of physici
ans who studied the effects
of suntan lotion agreed that
DHA appears harmless after
trying it out on 35 and 15
persons, respectively. DHA is
a triose sugar, . wnicn on
combination with a water-sol
uble substance on or near the
skin surface, discolors the
horny layer varying shades of
brown. Patients with vitiligo,
a skin disease characterized
by smooth, light-colored patch
es, showed varying response,
with darkly pigmented Neg-
J roes finding DHA ol little
help. ,
Liu Susceptible
Drs. Howard I. Maibach
and Albert M. Kligman of
Philadelphia, who collaborat
ed on the DHA article, say
that the face, as a rule, is less
susceptible than the extremi
ties and that older senile skin
often acquires a mottled and
irregular shade.
In a preliminary report Drs.
' Saul Blau, Norman B. Kanof
and Louis Simonson of New
York said DHA produced no
Inflammatory reaction after
S 30 days of use.
All the DHA researchers
say the suntan lotion offers no
protection from the ultra
violet, or tanning rays, of the
; sun.
Hatfield Cites
Disaster Curbs
' SnlmniPn-f;nv Mark Hat
field told civil defense work
' ers here Wednesday that there
are eight points necessary to
minimize the enects oi a war
nauspH disaster in Oregon.
They include an efficient
warning and communication
svstem; evacuation of the
Portland and Klamath county
tarcrni- arpas and radiological
monitoring in all parts of the
state to detect radioactive
fallout.
Other important develop
ments, he said, are reception
and care of evacuees from tar
ffot areas. Hpvelorjment of fall
out shelter facilities the rural
civil defense program, con
tinnitv nf eovernment agen
nine nf the rnnahllltv to man
age essential resources in time
of emergency. ,
WELFARE LEAGUE
0 New York The Child Wei
''Tare league of America, form
ed in 1920, has members in
182 cities located In 44 states
to return for a double-bar
reled assault on vote-heavy
Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco the week before elec
tion. His running mate, Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,
will make his initial drive
in California next week, with
appearances in Los Angeles,
San Diego, Fresno and Sacra
mento. And that old warhorse,
Harry S. Truman, will give
the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a
helping hand with a major
speech at Berkeley on Oct.
28. Democratic bigwigs say
Adlal Stevenson, still about
the most popular figure in
the hearts of most California
Democrats, is available for
still another pitch in the West
-and probably will be called
upon. .
As for the Republicans,
Nixon wound up a strenuous
four-day swing , through his
home state last week. He will
return once and maybe twice
in the closing weeks of the
campaign, concentrating on
northern and central Califor
nia and probably making a
quick trip to Los Angeles.
His running mate, Henry
Cabot Lodge, has finished his
campaign chores in Califor
nia but the GOP will call on
Thomas E. Dewey to give the
ticket a helping hand with
speeches In San Francisco and
Stockton.
The new registration fig
ures show an alltime record
breaking total of 7,464,626
eligible voters, 4,295,330 of
them Democratic. Since the
June primary Democrats have
gained 681,835 new voters
while Republicans picked
up 406,433.
Since Eisenhower captured
the state in 1956 by 607,533
votes, the Democratic percent
age of the total vote has in
creased from 55.7 to 57.6.
The Republicans' share, mean
time, shrank from 41.2 per
cent in 1956 to 39.2 for this
election.
Only three of the slate's 58
counties now show a GOP
majority of registrants -sparsely
populated Alpine
and Mono counties and subur
ban Marin.
Los Angeles county, where
40.3 per cent of the total
state vote is concentrated,
shows 577,188 more Demo
crats than Republicans.
Yet, voter registration is
no proof Kennedy will win
here.
Citei Past Elections
U.S. Sen. Thomas H. Ku
chel, a Nixon man, said Cali
fornia is not "partisan-minded"
and cited Eisenhower's
dual victories in 1952-56 to
prove it plus the fact that
Earl Warren, a Republican,
was elected governor three
straight times in the 1940s
and was followed by another
Republican, Goodwin J.
Knight in 1954.
"I don't think registration
figures provide an accurate
key," Kuchel said.
Democrats are by no means
certain that Kennedy will win
despite the numerical supe
riority of their party's regis
tration. "We could win by a bundle
or lose by a bundle,'' said one
highranking Kennedy strate
gist. "Right now we just
don t know.
Many observers, alter test
ing the political pulse in the
state, predict Nov. will be
a cliff-hanger similar to tha
1848 election.
In that year, when the
Dewey-Warren ticket was a
heavy favorite over Truman
and Alben W. Barkley, Tru
man finally won by only 17,
865 votes out of a total of
4,076,981 cast.
It could be that close again.
Less than three weeks before
the election, the tide does not
seem to be running strongly
in California for either Nixon
or Kennedy.
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