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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1980 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mill Tribune" Published bally except Saturdayby 33 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-8141 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor HERB GREY 'Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr. URIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mn! Editor ZARL H ADAMS, City Editor.. HARRY CHIPMAN. TeW Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor dale erickson, circulation Mgr An Indenendent Newroaoer Entered aa second class -matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3, 1807 STmsCRTPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy too . ualiy ana sunaay i year aiD.uu .Dally and Sunday fl mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mot. 458 Sunday Only One year 84.20 Sh. ParHM Tn Advance Medtord , Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Bill .Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue. Rlv .er, laieni ana on aiuui, .uu. 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NEWSPAPEI PUiLISHE 'ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITOMAI 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 Oci. 20, 1950 (Friday) The Jackson street bridge will reopen to traffic some time this week, City Council man Elmer Chllders said to day. , . , A member of the interstate commerce commission will visit Medford this week end to get first-hand information on the cause and effect of the severe freight car short age in southern Oregon. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1S40 (Sunday) Ft.. Lewis. Wash., officers and construction crews rush ed Drcnaratlons today for ar rival next month of the first wave of Pacific northwest conscripts. - From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "GOP nominee Wlllkle has invited the President to share the olalform with him at Baltl more October 30, and take chances with him of getting hit by an egg, wastebasket or tomato. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1930 (Monday) Medford will meet Klam ath Falls at Klamath Falls In a football contest for the second time this season. The county budget commit tee has boosted funds to pro vide for road oiling in rural areas next year. 40 YEARS AGO I Oct. 20. 1920 (Wednesday) Most wood sidewalks in the . city are now being replaced with cement ones. Jackson county how leads the state in total pear acreage SO YEARS AGO Oci. 20. 1910 (Thursday) The special water commit tee appointed by the city council three years ago, was discharged last night by the council with an expression of gratitude; the committee saw the successful completion last month of the city s new $500 000 water supply system. Southern Pacific railroad has announced that it will make the area surrounding' Its new $50,000 passenger de ' not into a nark and will also provide for maintenance of the property. What's Your 10.? Nine or fen correct Is superior: wn or eight ts ncellenti five er six Is goerf. 1. Is the knot a unit of ipeed or of distance? 2. What Is the name of the long whose chorus begins, "Just a song at twilight . ."? 3. In baseball, what is the keystone sack? 4. From whom did the Unit ed States purchase Alaska? 5. How many dozen in a gross? 6. Name the author of "Cru sade In Europe." 7. Who was the last Czar of Russia? 8. What is the "spice of life"? ... 9. For how many days were the banks closed during Roo gevelt's bank holiday in 1933? 10. What measurement of time is reckoned by the length of time it takes the earth to circle the sun? Answers: 1. Speed: 2. "Love's Old Sweet Song": 3. Second base: 4. Russia: 5. Twelve doien; 6. Gen. Dwight V. hlsenhowen . 7. Nicholas 1I 8. Variety! 8. Three daysj 10. Th. yeas'. The Two Men . Last Friday Mr. Nixon made a speech at Bev- erly Hills on "The Gravest Problem Confronting America, which is how to win the struggle for peace and freedom." . But there is not one word in the speech say ing what Mr. Nixon intends to do to win the struggle. The whole speech is devoted to describ ing the machinery by which Mr. Nixon hopes to find out how to win the struggle. The machinery consists of a series of commit tees and conferences, and of two individuals, Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Lodge: THERE is to be first of all a committee in the Defense Department consisting of all the Sec retaries and the Chiefs of Staff who will tell him, presumably unanimously, what he should do about defense. No mention is made of the fact that what the defense establishment and the country need most of all is not another confer ence and more investigation, but decisions bv the President, decisions about how much to spend, decisions about which of the services is to do what. This proposal to sit by the Secretaries and the Chiefs of Staff is a promise that we are going to have more of the very same executive wnicn we are now suiienng irom. This passivity pervades all the rest of Mr. Nixon's proposals. He wants to have Mr. Lodge, not the President himself, act as Supreme Com mander in all the non-military aspects of the cold war. Between the President and the Secretary of State, between the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, there is to be Mr. Lodire. He will have no legal authority whatsoever to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. This is a recipe for building into the Administration jealousy and confusion. MEXT, Mr. Nixon would convene an "extended 11 meeting with perhaps a hundred men and women representing a cross section of American me." This mass meeting would be supposed to review and survey and assess the nation's foreign policy which, says Mr. Nixon, "would have a significant impact on the global struggle !" Next, with an insatiable aDDetite for commit tees and conferences, he would have a series of regional conferences of all the free nations of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Their task would be to strengthen the United Nations and the free nations "politically, economically, socially, and militarily." Next, he would ask the NATO states to strengthen NATO and to coordinate and direct aid to the under-developed countries. Next, he would have a conference of the heads of government of the American republics. Next, he would have a conference with the heads of the new African states. , Next, he would have a conference with' the heads of the Asian states. To make all this fruitful and constructive and devastating to our adversaries, he and Mr. Lodge would participate in all these conferences, and so, too, would Governor Rockefeller if he can find the time. THIS is the way Mr. Nixon proposes to find out what his foreign policies ought to be. It is a bad way. For committees and confer ences do not propose policy. At best, they pro duce the proposals, the issues, the choices, among which the genuine executive makes his decisions. It is highly significant that never once does Mr. Nixon face the fact that the foreign policy of the United States is formed by the decisions of the President. - This extraordinary conferences is a device ing the real task of the judge and decide. The oldest and most hackneyed device of a weak government is to appoint a com mittee and call a conference. THIS revealing speech confirms the . impres oi'nn that, has ornwn strnncrpr sinpp the TV debates began. It is that Mr. Nixon is an inde cisive man who lacks that inner conviction and self-confidence which are the mark of the natural leader and governor of men. This has appeared most clearly in the Que- moy-Matsu affair. Mr. Nixon has exhibited a lack of knowledge of the facts of a trreat Question of war and peace, about which he is supposed to have had first hand knowledge. In the second debate he did not know what the Eisenhower policy was, and he had to be re-educated for the This is most significant because it reveals such a weak, infirm, inaccurate grasp of a great issue. THE CONTRAST with Mr. Kennedy has be nnma vow; ahnrrv ( V.UI11V IVIJ uiv j-re ' It has been truly impressive to see the preci sion of Mr. Kennedy's mand of the facts, his instinct tor tne crucial Doint. his sintrulavslack of demagoguery and slo ganeering, his intense concern and interest in the subject itself, the stability and steadfastness of i i i-; i i u .- nis nerves anu ins tuuiuess And throueh it all have transpired the recog nizable marks or. tne man wno, oesiaes Deme highly trained, is a natural leader, organizer, ana ruler of men. (Copyriiht Use Maw York back and hope to be told passivity and . weakness array of committees and for postponing and evacl President which is to third debate. mind, his immense com aim ins tuuirtge. Walter Lipumann. Herald Tribune, Inc.) Dennis the Menace I KNOW 1 10OK TERRIBLE. BUT TWAtS THE WAY W eoiTA iooK when you go ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use 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. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views oi the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. The City's Airport To the Editor: In reply to Mr. McLeod Maurice's remark that "it looks as if Medford just went out and bought the property .without consulting the county" (Mail Tribune, Tuesday, 101860), I would like to say if the city had not provided us with an airport, our air transportation facili ties would be as non-existent as our railroad service. Back in 1952 our airport facilities were sub - standard, and the landing strips were al most obsolete with the com ing of the Convairs and other large, four engine craft, but when government funds were available on a 60 per cent 40 per cent (the city's portion) basis, a farsighted city .coun cil could not sit around and wait for the county to decide whether it would help with our airport needs. Thanks .to the late Mayor Diamond Flynn and Council- men Dwight Houghton, John Snider, Harold Fry, Stanley Jones, Earl Miller, Frank Runtz, Paul Selby and the late Elmer Chllders, our airport facilities were modernized and functional. Now with the advent of jet airliners, our air strips again face the problem of obsoles cence, and again the city (or county) will be called upon to Improve it. I do not know whether the city will solicit county aid, but certainly the county should be considering the problem and should have an answer if it is called upon. Being now better informed, perhaps Mr. Maurice will do some "missionary work. Marina Gardiner 3777 Old Military rd, Medford The Word Is Out To the Editor: Republicans' expectations have been re duced to the desperate hope that they can win only one statewide office in Oregon this year - secretary of state. The word is out that State Senator Monroe Sweetland the Democratic nominee for secretary of stale, is their number one target. The voters of Oregon should prepare themselves for a bar rage of campaign advertising - billboards, TV, radio, news paper ads - for Howell Ap pling Jr., the Republican can didate. Some of it is already evident. No Democratic candidate can hope to match the high spending Republican advertis ing campaign which will be waged against Monroe Sweet land. The only thing to do is to put voters on notice that they can expect to see every Madison Avenue advertising trick in the trade used to de feat Senator Sweetland. This desperate effort should be recognized for what it is -an attempt to buy a public office with a big advertising and promotion budget. I don't think the voters of Oregon will be fooled. They know the sorry record of the appointed secretary of state whose operation of the office has caused more confusion and waste of taxpayers' money than any administra tion in recent memory. And they know, too, that Senator Sweethmd Is an experienced public official whose distin guished record of public serv ice In Oregon makes him uniquely qualified to be Sec retary of State. C. Girard Davidson Democratic National Committeeman for Oregon Portland, Ore. Catholic for Nixon To the Editor: The papers and magazines are full of talk how people are just vot ing their religions in this lection. Especially a lot oi visit ytofit. articles are that Catholics are backing Kennedy. I am a Catholic and proud to be, and I am 100 per cent back of Richard Nixon. Many other Catholics feel the way I do but do not speak out openly, but there are some who do so. One of Vice President Nix on's earliest backers in Ore gon was Secretary of State Howell Appling, and also Nix on's campaign manager, who is a state senator, Anthony Yturri of Vale, Ore. I am sure there are many, many others who are also Catholics who would be proud to be counted in back of , the Republican candidate. Maybe some others will write your newspaper when they read this letter. Peter F. Connally Route 3 Grants Pass. Ore. What's He Hunting? To the Editor: Mr. Wirth's letter, Monday, Oct. 17. Mr. Wirth, you seem to have an uncanny insight into affairs with which you have apparently had little expert ence (i.e. hunting). I'm one of the "favored few" .who in dulges in the sport. The woods are literally strewn with bodies. Those who are not dead are dead drunk. Ghastly, isn't it? So far however, due to poor marksmanship, I ve missed every one of my enemies. And the number of children who aredestitute because we hunters deprive them for our own selfish pleasures is heart breaking. No. Mr. W., don't go hunt ing. It would be a sheer waste of your valuable writing time. Besides, your mind is obvi ously too full to be able to absorb the vast beauty and tranquility that the forests have to offer. Next year, as I huddle in my protective foxhole watch ing a glorious sunrise, I'll think about you whose pen is more vicious than any rifle manufactured. As I chick the safety catch on my own. weap on, 1 11 be hoping that some one shut off your ammunition too. Five dollars Is a meagre price to pay for a few days of relaxation, deer or no. And the clean, healthy atmosphere surrounding sportsmen surely beats the foible hunters at home. For what are you hunting besides gripes. Mr. W. - a medal? G. Farfan 723 South Newtown st. Medford. Thornton Cites Record To the Editor: Your recent editorial leaves the impres sion that the overall record of the attorney general's office in the supreme court during my administration is highly unsatisfactory. This is erroneous. Actually, this office has been upheld in better than two out of every three cases referred to the su preme court In the 7V years that I have been attorney gen eral. This is a slightly better average than the combined average of the circuit judges of the state. The fact that we won is rarely mentioned in the press. The reversals are well publicized by my politi cal opponents. viur revei sais uwve i-uiue mainly in the cases "with political overtones, as ex Governor Charles A. Sprague, respected editor and publisher of the Salem States man, aptly expressed it Fri day. For example, we were reversed In the Elmo Smith case where the question was whether Mr. Smith had filed his Voters' Pamphlet mate rial within the time allowed by law. Assassination of Japanese Leader Keeps Treaty With U.S. in By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor A Samurai sword in- the hands of a fanatic, 18-year- boy has changed the complex ion oi japan s current polit ical campaign, with possible far - reaching and unfortun ate effects on the d e fe n s e treaty be tween Japan and the Unit ed States. The sword took the life of Japanese Socialist leader Ine jiro Asanuma, who had been a vociferous opponent of the treaty and a strong supporter of demands for closer rela tions between Japan and Red China. The ruling Liberal-Demo crats had hoped the treaty now was a dead or at least dormant issue. But instead, when young Otaya Yamaguchl ran scream- In this case the Supreme Court split 4 to 3, with three justices agreeing with our in terpretation of the law. Yet I hear no loud hue and cry from the governor that these three justices who agreed with me are "incompetent," (although he said I, was in this case) or that the circuit judges are "incompetent" whenever they are reversed. It would indeed be a sorry day for Oregon if the attor ney general and the judges of the state were to be intimidat ed by this type of name-calling by Governor Hatfield over decisions he did not happen to like. These systematic ' attacks are all part of an organized plan by an unscrupulous lit tle group of power-minded young men in the state house. Their plan is to "purge" any Democratic officeholder who stands between them and complete control of the ex ecutive branch of Oregon's government. The governor has already appointed the oc cupants of three top state elective offices and 12 cir cuit judges. Only the attor ney general ' stands in the way. This is the real issue here. It is not just a matter of Re publicans versus Democrats, or Democrats versus Republi cans, but an attempt by this little group to take over lock, stock and barrel. I do not think the people of Oregon want one-man. con trol of their government, and I do not think they will buy these smear tactics. Robert Y. Thornton Attorney General No Time Confusion To the Editor: This is my first time with a letter to the editor and it concerns day. light saving time. I was raised in Butte, Mon tana. In Montana every year they opened businesses, held organization meetings and church services one hour earlier starting in the spring and returned to the other time in the fail, There was no changing of clocks what ever and no confusion in time. Transportation lines did the same by changing their schedules in the spring and fall. ! If this could be adopted throughout the nation there would no be confusion what ever in the time for any thing. Bliss Heine, 116 South Ivy st. Medford The Closing Door To the Editor: It s just an old brick building on top of the hill. It served its commu nity and it served it well, but due to the lack of funds we are ready to shut the doors. In doing so, we forgot to look inside, to see what, else we were doing. I have been a patient and also an employee at Sacred Heart hospital. As a patient I had the best of care and it never failed, every morning I'd have a visitor-a little Sis ter with a sweet smile and a "good morning, how'are you today?" Her leaving words were "God bless you." Yes, this little sister who loves humanity, poetry and plays the organ well, has ded icated the biggest part of her life to us, this community. It makes no difference to what faith you belong, to little sis ter we are all God's children. and we're treated the same. She never seems to tire, al though her hours are long. and never, never once did lit tle sister speak a harsh word to any of us her employees. When we needed her she was there at 3 a.m. or any' other hour. Yet, and for these) many PHIL NEWSOM ing across a speaker's plat form in Hibiya ' Hall and plunged the' foot-long sword into Asanuma's chest, he gave the Japanese left wing a martyr and restored the treaty as a central issue in Japanese politics. Japanese elections are ex pected to take place late next month. Premier Hayato Ikeda and the Liberal - Domocrats had hoped to maintain or even increase their strength in the Diet where they now hold 286 of the 467 seats. In the last general elec tion, Japanese voters over whelmingly demons trated their preference for close ties with- the United States. Even as riots against the new defense treaty erupted throughout Tokyo and in oth er Japanese cities last spring and summer and Premier Nobusuke Kishi's government fell, it was felt that the vast majority of Japanese either supported the treaty or recog nized it as a necessity. But there is in Japan a strong feeling of neutralism and the recent swift turn of events has given the neutral ists and the left wing a rally ing cry. The treaty signed and rati fied by both governments, would be in no immediate danger even at the hands of an anti-treaty majority in the Japanese Parliament. hours of hard work, through the many years that little sis ter has made her home at Sa cred Heart hospital which we know she loves, we show our appreciation by sending her out, and breaking her heart Somehow, somewhere, we will have to work hard for the money which is needed to keep the doors open, and also prove ourselves worthy . of this sister's faith in human nature. Mrs. Irma Henderson 729 Dakota ave. Medford Tie Down the Load I To the Editor: As a resident and property owner on Table Rock rd., I wish to call to the attention of the readers of the Mail Tribune a problem I have never seen discussed in this column. Table Rock rd. seems to be the main route traveled by those wishing to dispose of garbage, trash, etc., by dump ing at the Camp White dump. Anyone driving along this road can see the results. Trash is strewn along the roadside by those neglecting to properly secure their loads. Seems as though after leaving the city limits they speed up, causing the trash to be buffeted by the wind. By the time they reach our prop erty, cardboard boxes, paper, rags, mufflers, tin, tail pipes, limbs from pruned shrubs and trees, and other articles of trash too numerous to men tion are being scattered all along the way. In order to keep a neat ap pearance . for our property. the property owners must pick up and haul to the dump other people's trash. The state police have informed us that it is a misdemeanor, pun ishable by fine, dumping or allowing trash to scatter along public roads or private property, and if a license number can be secured a complaint can be lodged.- We do not wish to resort to such drastic measures. So, please, dear people, tie down those loads and watch as you drive that your load is not falling off, or if it does, please stop and pick it up, so that we, too, can present a neat appearance. - Oralee Montgomery 3479 Table Rock rd Medford ' We Need It To the Editor: I'm sure that many people will agree with rhe when I say that we need the Sacred Heart hos pital very badly. Rogue Val ley hospital can't possibly handle all of the people, that have to have hospital care. even though they are adding on a new wing. What would we do in case of enemy attack? We might be able to use what's left of private homes and businesses, but we still would need more than one hospital. The federal government is sending missiles and rockets into space which we do need for national tlefense. They loan billions of dollars to oth er countries and even plan on sending a hospital rocket into space with doctors and patients. Instead of shooting a hos pital into space why don't they "shoot" some of that money they will spend for that rocket to Sacred Heart to keep its doors open? This all-important hospital takes care of charity cases, too. These people get the best of care including x-rays and expensive medicines and doc tors they need, even though they can't possibly pay for that care. Maybe this is one of the reasons why they must Political Forefront It has, however, covering clauses which are subject to modification. These clauses deal with privileges accorded to American military forces based in Japan. They could be modified to the point of making them unworkable. Japanese who favor - the treaty do so both because of Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop IN SUNRISE TOWNSHIP Sunrise Township, Minn.- You would have to go a very long way to find another stretch of count ryside more glorious than Sunrise Township, in Chicago coun ty, on a fine, bright - aired autumn day. This a gen- rolling mmaJM Inn i . . 1. hi V, ...il. x a 11 u, win. . ... t , u broad fields, and many wood lots full of pheasants, and small white farm houses with big red barns. In autumn, this land borrows the colors oi ns own cock pheasants - the bronzes and red browns and sharp reds of the oaks and other hardwoods marvelously mingling with the tender greens of the feathery pines. So much beauty, you feel, must bring with it a good life. Except for the most indus trious and the most fortunate, this land is not providing a good life. You do not notice it at first, because the houses and barns have not had time to fall into decay; but a good many of the Sunrise Town ship farms have actually been abandoned in recent years. To many more farms, the farm families can only cling by close. Many people prefer Sa cred Heart because of the good care they get. Are we going to let such a wonderful hospital close? Couldn't the people of t h e valley help pay off that "door closing" debt? Let's try! We need Sacred Heart hos pital! 1 Mrs. Chester Stevens ' 504 Edwards st. Medford. Tie Up the Kitties To the Editor: Remember the Reciprocity act one, of our presidents tried to enact between Canada and USA? Well, it didn't work. It is somewhat like" the dog and cat situation in Med ford. You can't make friendly feelings there either. . I have a dog tied up in my yard with a 50 foot leash. I have no trouble with him as long as cats keep away from the premises to eat his food, etc. Two times he chased them and broke his leash. The first time I caught him very quick ly, but the second time, be fore I could get to him, he came home without his col lar and license tag. You know, I think you folks with pet cats should keep them confined on their premises like we do our pet dogs. It could be done, you know. Remember the kitty with the collar and bells on? Well, just tie a pretty ribbon to the collar and hitch it in your yard. Just try it folks and see how you like it. That would keep it from causing trouble and being a nuisance to other people and dogs who are tied up. Mrs. Mary Morgan 618 East Ninth st. Medford. Ten Commandments To the Editor: Recent his tory has shown how man, cre ated by God in His likeness, born to this earth to live with out sin and given the Ten Commandments to follow to achieve that way of life, has failed. The Jews were perse cuted by the Germans; the Catholics by the Russians and their satellite nations, and now the Amen"-- notists persecuting American Cath olics. And yet thf 3"-'';t leaders, know the Ten Com mandments and how in the eyes of God they are violat ing them by continuing to preach religious persecution, They are also violating the very concept of our constitu tion which gives every Amer ican the right to worship in his own manner. Believe me, readers, you and you alone are responsible to God for the way in which you lead your life. Remember the Ten Com mandments. How many are these Baptist leaders break ing? God has said, I am the way of Life, Believe in Me and you shall have Life ver lasting. Don't let wrong thinking leaders influence you on elec tion day. If you believe, that Mr. Kennedy is the right man for president, vote for him, if not then vote for Mr. Nixon. I believe they are both hon orable men and Americans. Vote for the man you believe in, and not his religion. W. A. Hall 823 Pennsylvania ave. Medford. fe"' ' VVv ; the flow of U.S. dollars brought by the Americari for ces there and because ffhey feel that a militarily weak Japan cannot afford to stand alone. It remains to be seen how much recent events have caused their numbers to dwindle, if at all. taking city jobs to swell their incomes. Behind Sunrise Township's surface loveliness, in truth, there is the wide spread tragedy of the Ameri can family-sized farm. "We used to get by pretty well," the people tell you, over and over again. "But everything ,we have to buy costs more now, and every thing we have to sell brings less. So "there ain't many that get by anymore." THE friendly Sunrise Town ship people are also pretty bitter; and the bitterness is all the more impressive be cause most of these peopla are visibly tough and self reliant. But in Sunrise Town ship, the pull of religion is at least as strong as the pres sure 1 of economic circum stance. This is a region oi stern, church-going Protestant ism. The farmers' resentments are not being converted into anti-Republican votes, because of Sen. John F. Kennedy's Catholic faith. "I can't vote Republican be cause I'm a farmer. I can't vote for Kennedy because I'm a Protestant. So I'm just not going to vote at all," says wiry Harold Olson, a Demo cratic member of the Town ship Board, who gave his vote to Adlai Stevenson in 1956. There were others like Ol son among the Stevenson vot ers. And among the Eisen hower voters, there were parallel cases-farmers too dis gusted with conditions to vote for the Republicans another time, but unwilling to vote for Kennedy because of his faith. OVER all, Eugene Newhall and Eugene Malott of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, and, this reporter, talked to 39 Sunrise Town ship farmers and farm wives in the course of a long day's driving along the Township's sandy roads. In 1956, these people had . given 18 votes to Eisenhower and 17 to Ste venson, with four not voting. In 1958, they had cast 18 votes for Gov. Orville Free man and only 13 for his Re publican opponent. They now gave 16 votes to Vice Presi dent Nixon and 16 to Sen. Kennedy, with the rest unde cided or actually determined: not to vote for President this time. Even if you passed over the rock-ribbed Republicans, who were voting first for their party and only sec ondarily against a Catholic, the votes of very nearly a quarter of all the people we questioned were in some measure influenced by religi ous feeling. A good indicator of the in fluence was the high vote for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who ran a mile ahead of his Republican, opponent among the people we talked to. As most of the religiously influ enced farmers also said they liked Kennedy as a man antl preferred theDemocratia farm program, Kennedy would probably be getting a Humphrey-size vote if he were not a Catholic. At the same time, resentment of existing conditions was badly hurting Gov. Orville Freeman, al though he is a Democrat. Where Humphrey ran well ahead of Kennedy, Freeman ran well behind. TlHE peace Issue, which the - Republicans have allegedly patented, had little apparent importance in Sunrise Town ship. To be sure, there was old Victor Ranberg, who, de clared belligerently: "I'm vot ing Republican like I always do, because I went for that Wilson in 1916, when he prom ised to keep us out of war; and he had me in uniform before I knew what had hit me But the main Sunrise Town ship drama was the conflict between economic discontent and religious feeling. It is both preventing the big gains the Democrats might have made from the farmers' plight, and limiting the Republican gain from dislike of Kennedy's Catholicism. 'Judging by the reports oi expert local observers, this conflict is producing much the same sort of result all over Minnesota's predomi nantly Protestant farm areas. President Eisenhower's Min nesota majority in 1956 was by no means enormous. The Republicans can still lose this state, if Kennedy does much better than Adlai Stevenson in the big cities and in the German Catholic farm coun ties. These other voting groups ' will give the ftaal answer in Minnesota, if SoSfrise Town ship is at all indicative. Copyright 1960. New York Herald Tribune Inc. V a 1
