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. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1960 Here's Chance To Test Yourself on Knowledge of Presidential Elections MED. Washington - IUPD - How much do you know about this year's presidential candidates, and the presidents and presi dential elections of the past? Here are 20 questions to test .your knowledge. Some are tricky. Score yourself for each cor rect answer. Here's how to rate yourself: 100 points - perfect score. 85 or better - you must have peeked at the answers. 75-80 - you're a careful newspaper reader and a whiz on this subject. 40-70 - good. You know as much about it as the average Washington correspondent. 20-35 - average. You're just a casual newspaper reader. 15 or less - you flunked. THE QUESTIONS 1. Name two of the seven vice presidents who succeed ed to the White House when a president died? (Score 5 points if you get two right, zero for partially correct answer). 2. Name the date on which the voters will go to the polls next month. (Score 5 points if right). 3. Name two states which have never voted for the los ing candidate in a presidential election. fScore S nnints for each correct state). 4,- There is one state which . has voted for the Republican presmentiai candidate ever 1 since it became a national party, name the state. (Score . . 5 points). ' : . 5. Name a state which has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election in which it has participated since the Re publican party was organized. (Score 5 points). 6. The youngest and the oldest American p r e s idents have both held office since the turn of the century. Who was the youngest? (Score 5). 7. Name the oldest presi dent. (Score 5). - 8. Both presidential candi dates - John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon - and both vice presidential candidates -Lyndon B. Johnson and Henry Cabot Lodge - are married and each has at least one child. Which one has a son? (Score 5). 9. Kennedy, Nixon, Lodge and Johnson have all served as U.S. Senators. Which has been elected most often to the Senate? (Score 5). 10. Which was the youngest when first elected to the Sen ate? (Score 5). 11. Kennedy, Nixon and Johnson have all served in the House of Representatives. Which was the youngest when first elected to the House? (Score 5). ;.: No Experience ai Governor 12. Neither Kennedy nor Nixon has had experience as a state governor. When was the last presidential election in which neither candidate had experience as a governor? (Score 5). 13. It is rare for a Senator High Speed Low Heat aytag Halo-of-Heat MEET 1 1 7 j NO HOT SPOTS F (T GENTLE A ,TOO A f EVEN MEAT I I HOT IN ) SURROUNDS 0NE SPOT CLOTHES Olhu Dryers do this... Clothes come in contact with concentrated heat as high as 200'. Result: Overdrying is common. flew Maytag Dryer does this . . . Regular loads dry at 100 to 1 Id. Ends overdrying, yet Clothes ' dry fluffy with fewer wrinkles. . , . APPLIANCE CO. "Medferd'i Home laundry Specialists" 406 E. MAIN ST. PHONE SP 2-5302 to be elected president. When was the last time a man was elected president while serv ing as a U.S. Senator? (Score 5). 14. It is rare, too, for a vice president to win election to the presidency while serving as vice president. How many times in the last 100 years has a man been elected to ti e presidency while holding the office of vice president? None? Once? Twice? Three times? (Score 5). 15. What happens if neither Kennedy nor Nixon wins a majority of the presidential electoral vote? (Score 5). 16. How much difference in age is there between Nixon and Kennedy? Two, three, four, five or six years? (Score 5). 17. What was the year of the closest presidential elec tion since the turn of the cen tury? (Score 5). 18. What candidate for president was beaten in the popular vote and beaten in the electoral vote but was never theless chosen president? (Score 5). 19. How big was the mar gin of popular votes by which Harry S. Truman led Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presi de ntial election? 50,000? 500,000? 1,000,000? 2,000,000? 3,000,000? 5,000,000? (Score 5). 20. Who is going to be elect ed president in this election? THE ANSWERS 1. Score five points if you named two of these seven -John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Harry S. Truman. 2. Nov. 8. ( 3. New Mexico and Ari zona, both of which balloted for president for the first time in 1912, have always backed the winner. If you said Alas ka and Hawaii, give yourself 5 points for each. Neither has yet voted in a presidential election, so neither has ever voted for a loser. Any other answer is wrong. 4. Vermont. Maine spoiled its perfect Republican record when it voted for Democrat Woodrow Wilson in 1912. 5. There's only one - Geor gia. Louisiana voted for a Re publican in 1958, North Caro lina in 1928, Arkansas- in 1868, Mississippi and Alabama in 1872 and South Carolina in 1876. 6. Theodore Roosevelt. 7. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 8. Lodge. He has two sons. Nixon and Johnson have two daughters each, Kennedy one daughter. 9. Lodge. He was elected to the Senate three times, Johnson and Kennedy twice. Nixon once. v 10. Lodge. He was first elected to the Senate at the age of 34 in 1936. He was a year younger than Kennedy was when Kennedy was first elected to the Senate in 1952. 11. Johnson. He was elect ed to the House in 1937 at 28. Kennedy was 29 and Nixon 33 when they won their first elections to the House. 12. The election of 1908. William H. Taft, secretary of war, defeated William Jen nings Bryan, editor, author and former congressman. 13. Warren G. Harding, elected president in 1920, was the only man in history to be elected president while serv ing as a U.S. Senator. 14. None is correct. A vice president has not moved to the White House through the election route for 124 years. House Makes Choice 15. The House of Repre sentatives selects a president with each state delegation get ting only one vote in the bal loting. The Senate elects a vice president, if neither can didate for that post gets a majority of the. electoral votes. 16. Score 5 points, if you said four years. Nixon is older than Kennedy by four years and almost five months. 17. The election of 1916. Woodrow Wilson went to be1 thinking he had lost the White House. But the Republican celebrations were premature. California's 13 electoral votes swung to Wilson by a margin of 3,000 votes. A shift of only about 1,500 votes in California would have elected Republi can Charles E. Hughes. The final electoral count: Wilson 277, Hughes 254. 18. John Quincy Adams. With 132 electoral votes need ed to win the presidency, An drew Jackson got 99 and Adams 84 in a four-man race in 1824. Jackson also out polled Adams in popular votes. But since neither had a majority of - the - electoral votes, it was up to the House to choose a president. It chose Adams. 19. 2,135,747. 20. You're just guessing. No score. ORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. G Campaign Quotes CommissionSeeks Legal Opinion on Welfare Dispute : Portland - IUPD - The State Welfare commission sought an answer from the Attorney General's office at its regu lar meeting here Friday on who is going to set the stan dards of Oregon Welfare , the Welfare commission . or the department of finance-and administration. The answer could deter mine just how much food is doled out to welfare cases and the disposition of some $40 million the state gets from the federal government to handle programs other than general assistance. The matter came up when the finance department re fused to approve a welfare re quest that general assistance food allowances be raised from 85 per cent to 100 per cent of a standard low cost diet developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funds Available Excess funds are available for the increase, the' commis sion said. The commission said that in order to. get federal aid, only one state organization may set standards; The com mission also voted Friday to take the problem to the Fed eral Bureau of Public Assist ance as well as Alty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, i Leon D. Margosian, admin istrator of Finance and Ad ministration, said in refus ing the request, that the Ways and Means Committee of the 1959 legislature, found the request for $750,000 to im prove the food program was a supplemental item above the regular 1959-61 budget requirements." He said in view of this ac tion, his department could not approve the request. He suggested that the item be submitted to the 1961 legislature. Bank Debits Lower During September Eugene Bank debits for southwestern Oregon includ ing Curry, Jacskon and Jose phine counties decreased by 5.5 per cent In September 1960 as compared to August 1960 and increased by 4.6 per cent a year ago, according to a report from the University of Oregon,' bureau of busi ness 'research. ' Debits for September 1960 totaled $95,307,424; for Au gust 1960 the total was $100, 893,827, and for September 1959 the total amounted to $91,121,400. - Oregon, with 158 banks re porting, had an increase in bank debits in September 1960 of 2 per cent compared with August 1960, a decrease of 6 per cent over Septem ber 1959. da aaj 'jcjk ado fsT clean op bHh and gt ready (or winter expenses (jjftIp trm rriettdr loan dim $25 to $1500 tUY FINANCE COMPANY 185 L Main St. PfcotMC MU. 9-5421, AiMpeid Oh lfliwn iniirJIirela m tM bant a low eiut fw Br United Press International Sen. John F. Kennedy: (Speeches at Madison and Milwaukee, Wis.): The Eisen hower administration has had a "consistent history of in difference and failure" on disarmament. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and he "both want peace," but "dis agree fundamentally" on how to achieve it. Nixon's peace program "was based on the premise that the battle for peace was a battle of words that we could end the threat of war by talking it away." "Words alone will never impress Mr. Khrushchev," be cause the Soviet premier "can talk louder and longer than either Mr. Nixon or myself." Khrushchev will agree to dis armament only when convinc ed armed force "can never bring a Communist victory." The administration has "virtually ignored" the prob lem and there has been "no real disarmament policy"' in the past eight years. "As a re sult of this failure, we have been steadily unprepared on disarmament. And the Soviet Union has consistency had the iniative in the eyes of the world." (Milwaukee question and answer period): Regarding his Catholic faith, he has "strongly supported the Con stitution and separation of church and state. If elected president or if I continue in the Senate, I shall continue my devotion to, the Constitu? tion and support of it" La Crosse, Wis., speech): Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson "h a s brought them (the farmers) close to ruin, and Mr. Nixon proposes to continue it." Farm condi tions are a "pit of depression . . . the only thing that won't go down is the explanations of Benson and Nixon. The only thing that has gone up is the cost of what the farm er buys.", Vice President Richard M. Nixon: (Telegram to Kenne dy). "I will be glad to have my representatives meet with yours at any convenient time to discuss possible arrange ments for a fifth TV-radio debate in depth on this sub ject of paramount importance - Cuba." Since Nixon had "told you . . . that I was preparing an answer" to Kennedy's fifth debate challenge "I find it difficult to understand your continued public statements to the effect that 'I am afraid to meet you in debate.' Such a statement is sophomoric and not worthy of one who is run ning for the highest office in this land. Furthermore, you know it is untrue." Regarding policy toward Cuba - and how to handle Premier Fidel Castor - "I favor an economic and politi cal quarantine . . . specifical ly you state that 'we must attempt to strengthen the non Batista, Democratic anti-Castro forces in exile, and in Cuba itself to offer eventual Mail Tribune Toured By Phoenix Students Sixteen members of the journalism class of hPoenix High school toured the Med ford Mail Tribune building Friday. Accompanied by their instructor, Mrs. Mildred Hart, the students visited the vari ous departments including the news room, circulation, adver tising, and business offices and the shop area. They also viewed the press in operation. Students included Betty Dean, Marylou Lawrence, Dotti Arney, Laura Griffith, D.lnl. "-..-J.. n;il T ........ T in. da Ray, Gary Colfax, Sharon Miller, Marian Troxel, Cyn thia Butler, Mike Consbruck, James Bentley, Lylc Logan, Barbara Beer, and Dixie Davis. hope of overthrowing Castro. Thus far these fighters for freedom have had virtually no support from our govern ment.' " "This clearly means - quot ing New York Times Corres pondent James Restun - 'a clear violation of the inter American treaty prohibition against intervention in the in ternal affairs of the hemi sphere republics.' end Times quite. "It is my firm belief that the course of action proposed by is recklessly danger ous . . . here we have a clear cut difference of opinion in volving policy considerations of the highest importance and involving a decision that the next president may have to make early in his term. The people are entitled to know why each of us holds the views that we do so that they can make an intelligent choice between us." Jackson County Needs a Man With EXPERI ENCE for the Office of COUNTY COMMISSIONER PAUL RYNNING Hat It! PAUL RYNNING will look after the interests of the taxpayers. PAUL RYNNING is interested in the preservation of county resources. PAUL RYNNING favors the development of recrea tional areas. PAUL RYNNING will continue expansion and develop ment of the County Road System. ELECT Paul B. Rynning County Commissioner VOTE 123-X Pd. Pol. Ad by L. C. Taylor, Chairman, P.O. Box 624, Medford llelijaU' W V i Greyhound Offers Year Round Air Conditioning Controlled, all-weather, year-round air conditioning is one of the many features of Greyhound Scenicruiser Service that makes any time of year "bus travel time." With all Scenicruiser Service buses are air condi tioned for every season, pas sengers can relax and enjoy their trip regardless of the weather outside. 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