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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30. I960 "Bvftnrooa Id Bouthtrn Oregon nmmaa trim iuu tudub Published Dally except Saturday by North fir tt, Ph ROBERT W RUHL. tdltor RXRB GREY Adv -tiling Manager ' U1KALU T LATHAH DUB fair URIC W ALLEN JR., Mnt CditOI EARL H ADAM8. City Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON, ClTCUIaUon MfT An IndMwndent Newioaper Bntered aa leeond elaaa matter at ateazora, ureron. unaer aqi oi March S, 1897 rfR&CltrpTTON RATES By MaU In Advance. Copy lOe LM1J7 ana aunamj , rvw eB- ' Daily and Sunday S moi 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 4JS Sunday Only One year S4 SO . By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Call Point. Jacksonville. Gold Rill . Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue FUv mr Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday year $18-00 ' Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All Terma caan in Aovance Tifrtelal Paper of City ef MedforT Official Paper or Jackaea Comity United Preee International PuU Leaaed Wirt OJ.l. Telephoto Newapleturea ' ' MEMBER Or" AUDIT BUREAU- or cmcuLATiowa Arfwrtt.lH Renreiewtatlva; wf.st nnr.inAV CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chtcafo De. trolt, San Frandaco. Loa Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louie. At- lanta. vaneouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER SUSHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAI Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ef The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years age. 10 YEARS AGO , Oct 30, 1850 (Monday) October this year hai been the wettest month since weather recordi have been kept here with the monthly total so tar registering 8.87 Inches, 7.58 Inches mora than normal. Six officers from the Med ford police department are attending a basic police train ing school which started to day in Grants Pass. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1940 (Wednesday) The Medford city council last night voted to eliminate the city real estate depart ment and apportion the work formerly done by that office to other departments. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "China is reported in a mood to Join the Axis powers, and become an enemy of democracy. America should lose no time, and strain every nerve and muscle to deliver all relief rice before the move comes to pass." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 80. 1930 (Thursday) ,': A Portland firm was award ed the contract to pave Crater Lake highway from Eagle .Point to Trail. Special policemen will be on duty here tomorrow night which Is Halloween. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1920. (Saturday) Two respectable gentlemen engaged in a fist fight in downtown Medford yesterday over the proposal to transfer the courthouse from Jackson ville to Medford. ' ' Three citizens were fined $10 yesterday for getting drunk on lemon extract. 80 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1910 (Sunday) The city's new water sup ply system was temporarily shut down yesterday when the pipeline crossing little Butte creek burst, What's Your I.Q.? Nine ef ten earner Is aeaeriefi seven er elf kt la euelleM) five 04 Is la fees'. . 1. Without looking - how many, holes are on the disk of a dial telephone? 2. What types of fish are found In the Great Salt Lake in UtahT 3. What President of the United States wrote the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution? 4 What sea disaster was partly responsible tor caus ing the Spanish American War? 5. What was the first major league team to win a World Series? 6. What was the "promised land" to which Moses led the Israelites? 7. Where was Simple Si mon going when he met the pieman? 8. Do the Green Mountains of Vermont belong to the Ap palachian or Bltteroot range? 9. The Ganges river emp ties Into what body of water? 10. We've heard It did-but Is it a fact that London bridge once fell down? Answers! 1. Ten. 2. None. 3. James Madison. 4. Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine 5. Red Sox. (. Canaan (New Pales line.) 7. To the fair. 9. Appala chian. 9. Bay ef Bengal. 10. Yet. A item earned tt away In 1091. d?N County Over the past several days, we have reviewed, briefly, every candidate and measure which will appear on the Nov. 8 election ballot, except the candidates running for county office. These local offices district attorney, county assessor, county commissioner, county treasurer, and county surveyor are all important posi tions, even though the races for them lack some of the drama of those which have received more publicity. ; County government is close to its own con stituents, and for this reason the voters have a somewhat better chance auainted with the candidates although it must be admitted they don't to do so. E. A. District Attorney TVia rlinfinnr nttnimpu tpphnifallv is a Rtate nttinar (tho ato.ro nnva a but his jurisdiction is limited to this county. It is a quasi-judicial office, and the incum bent is called upon to make many decisions af fecting the rights of his neighbors. He is the atafn'o wimlnal nrnaerntnr for the fnnnt.v and the UVMMV eJ vi lelitiliea vwwwvwev owe. , ww-"-- legal advisor for county government. In both Xl. u1m Iv nn nvnu v...nll lvllllVlAlrt Ml vl Ulcsc rules, 11c can cacii iiiucii uixiucuic what sort of a community we have. He has ,heavy responsibilities, and consider able discretionary authority to go with them, WE believe that either of the candidates-r-Alan Holmes, Republican, and Gerald Scannell Jr., Democrat would serve ably in the office. As nearly as we have been able to ascertain, both are honest, integrious, competent 'lawyers. Holmes has had experience as a deputy DA, as municipal judge, and in private practice. On the basis of experience alone, he probably has somewhat superior qualifications. But Scannell has been chief deputy DA for three years, and had similar experience in an other county. He has handled much of the trial work of the office recently, with considerable success. So there isn't much on that score. ( e e THE choice, then, must be made largely on the riaai'a nf their nersnnnlU.v nnrl arlihldps. After consultation with a number of lawyers for whom we have respect (and in both political parties, by tne way), we nave come to tne con clusion that Scannell will be our choice. We have had our differences with him on the matter of opinions he has rendered, but on ex amination they appear to be legally sound, even though somewhat confusing in syntax. Believincr that either man would serve ably, we recommend a vote for 1 " County Commissioner Paul Rvnninp-. Medford Remiblican. for - j - t a . manv vonvs .Tarksnn veyor, and Edwin H. Taylor, Democrat, Central Point area farmer and businessman, are the two candidates for county commissioner. Both are good men. On the basis of demonstrated ability and ex perience, we recommend the election of Paul Rynning. E.A. County Assessor Candidates for assessor are Ray Schumacher, the incumbent, a Democrat, and Herbert Hunter, a Republican. The office is largely a technical one, with little or no Dolicv-makiner function, but requir ing ability and experience to do well. We have heard good reports of the way Schumacher has conducted the office, and see no reason for a change. , We recommend hjs re-election. E.A. County Treasurer ' The candidates for treasurer are Chester Rapp, young Ashland car salesman, a Republi can, and Karl Janouch, the Democratic incum bent . ., Our impressions of this contest are similar to those concerning the assessor's office election. We Rpfi nn reason to chance, and thus recommend the reelection of Karl Janouch. E. A. County Surveyor The'race for surveyor has been a bit heated. Ed McGinty, the Democratic candidate, has charged that Mark Boyden, Republican, present deputy surveyor, has improperly used county of fice facilities for his private business. This is always a hazard when public officials are permitted by law and the nature of the of fice to do work outside the office. But in this particular case, where the job is part-time and the pay is low, it seems a sensible solution, and we fail to see any wrong-doing, despite Mc Ginty's rather intemperate charges. Also, Boyden has stated that, if elected, he will establish his own private office away from the courthouse, and separate his two functions public and private. , DOTH men appear to be adequately qualified for the office, though Boyden's educational qualifications seem to be superior to those of Mc Ginty's. Boyden's general experience has been at least equal to McGinty's, and his experience in the office is also an asset. We shall probably cast our own vote for Boy den, but make no recommendation. E.A. Offices to become well ac- always take the trouble nnrtfon nf his salarvl. to choose between them e e Scannell. E. A. , . ountv entrineer and sur Dennis the Menace 'Our BABy sitter just called Today & Tomorrow By Walter KENNEDY AND THE NEW DEAL Having seen something of the New Deal in the thirties, I have been struck with how much alike and how very different are the Roosevelt ate and the Ken n e d y cam' paigns. The differ ence is that Roosevelt was if 13 far more "ra- Walter Unpmann dlcal" than Kennedy is today. The simi larity Is that Roosevelt did in the thirties what Kennedy will do now which is to bring new blood and new brains into a tired and dis couraged government, The secret of Kennedy's ap peal lies in the hope he arouses that the country will enter into a time of renewal and revival, of hope and of energy, of fresh interest and of confidence. e e e THE difference is import ant and highly significant. It Is not, I think, an over simplification to say that when Roosevelt took office at the depth of the Great De pression, he committed him self to a substantial change in the structure of the social order. He set out to reduce the political and economic power of the banks and cor porations and to build up the countervailing power of the labor unions, of the farmers. of the Negroes and other de pressed and submerged mi norities. ' It was upon this radical structural change that Roose velt established the welfare state. The controversies which Roosevelt aroused in the thirties were violent and bitter. They were much more violent and bitter than those which Kennedy arouses, ex cept of course among his reli gious enemies. The great bit terness and violence of the thirties was due to the fact that the central issue then, unlike the central issue now, was a change in the Internal balance of power among so cial groups. For many who felt that they were hurt by this change Roosevelt was regarded as a traitor to his class. The cut ting edge of their bitterness was not that he provided wel fare measures for the poor, but that he pushed through changes in the relative status and power and privileges of Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ANEW ALARM dock, announces "Postage Stamp Maga zine," wiU soon be On the market guaranteed to get the laziest sluggard out of the hay. First a gentle bell sounds, then a louder one, fol lowed by constantly swelling music. If this finds you still in bed, the alarm next simulates the barking of wild dogs and the screech of fire sirens. Its final trump card is a complete anti-aircraft barrage. "There ought to be just one additional device," suggests the editor of "Postage Stamp." "If all the above fails, an auto matic signal should go a out to the nearest undertaker." e John Fuller enspeots that a pro-Yale secretary has been tam pering with a New Haven newspaper's stencil for Harvard's dis tinguished daily. It reads: "The Harvard Crimson." Fuller made another noteworthy discovery In New Haven: a Chinese piano player named Wong Keye. e Jay Quran's motto for the week: "Fleas dont talk while I'm Interrupting." OUS0, fcy Beaattt Cart Distributed by Xlag reaiurae aVoiicate flat, 049 and canceled our, Uppmann banks, corporations, unions, farmers, and Negroes. e e rTHIS radical issue is lack-- ing In the present contest, For the situation has changed in the course of these 30 years. The balance of the so cial group has changed very considerably. Big business now deals on even terms with the big unions and there is a rising sentiment that both need to have imposed on them a sterner social disci pline. The farmers still have serious problems. But they are not, as they were before the New Deal, on the outside of government looking in. In 30 years there have vir tually disappeared 'those problems of power and privi lege which were the central concern of the New Deal. This has come in part be cause of the New Deal itself, In greater part it has come because of a technological and managerial revolution which ..has expanded enor mously the productivity of the American economy and the distribution of its goods among consumers. e , OINCE there is no issue of J social power, the whole spectrum of what is the left, the center, and the right has shifted to the right. Unlike any other large country in the world, there is no socia list, much less a Communist, party In this country. I would describe Kennedy's social philosophy and program as about the same as that of the British Conservatives under Mr. Macmillan. They are hardly distinguishable from the philosophy and program of a progressive American conservative like Governor Rockefeller. What Kennedy stands for is not a change in the structure of our society. In this funda mental respect he is undubit- ably conservative. He does not intend to take the ship of state apart and rebuild it to a new design. What he does Intend to do is to provide it with a captain and officers who know where they are going and have the will to go there. For a ship, however soundly it is de signed and constructed, can drift aimlessly in the stormy seas if it is not properly fueled and navigated and commanded. (c) I960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Matter of Fact LET'S HAVE THE DOCUMENTS Washington-There are now two cases in which the Eisen hower administration has a clear duty to produce all the official documents, in order to settle grave issues .oicwl Kv thA i"""1 IFrei idential L fc" a campaign. The first has already r a 9 n h rl an inerrju i EfTH w acute stage. It arises from Vice President Nixon's repeat ed assertions that American prestige is at an all time high overseas, and his charges that it is "downgrading America" to say that our prestige has declined. It has now been authorita tively revealed that the U. S. Information Agency conduct ed an official inquiry into this very matter of American pres tige during the summer. Soundings taken in many countries showed decline in American prestige. According to the "New York Times," the data produced by the inquiry disclosed "an almost unani mous belief that the Soviet Union is (now) the leading military power." e e WHEN this became known, the House sub-committee on Government Information asked for the data in ques tion. The U. S. Information Agency, pleading "executive privilege," has now refused to release the data. Since com parable data have been re leased in the past, the plea of privilege is distinctly pecu liar. The second and even more Important case of this sort also arises from the Vice Pres ident's more recent assertion that the American govern ment never contemplated abandonment of Quemoy and the Matsu islands. Precisely the contrary story has been repeatedly published. The most authoritative ac count was given in the "Satur day Evening Post" by this reporter's brother, Stewart Al sop, after the last Quemoy Matsu crisis in 1958. This ac count, which was not official ly denied, stated that in April, 195S, the President and Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles agreed "that it ulti mately would be best for all concerned for the National ists, with American logistical support, to evacuate the off shore islands. THE persons chosen to per suade Chiang to carry out the President's wishes were the Chinese Nationalists' best friends in Washington, Adm. Arthur Radford and former Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson. But the Vice President now claims the object of the Robertson Radford mission was to secure a mere military redeployment, and not to obtain actual evacu ation of the Islands. On being queried, former Assistant Secretary Robertson somewhat amplified this claim by the Vice President. The aim of the mission, he stated to this reporter, was to "re Voters Will Choose By ERIC SEVAREID Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge. who eagerly seeks the job of putting his shoulder to our c o nstitutlonal fifth 'wheel, the vice-presidency, is not c e le brated In the land of the knowl edgeable for prof undity. Yet it is he who has blurt- SevareM , .. ed ut lumpy, unpalatable truth-that "we are in for 25 years of international tension." He might have stretched the time-table even further. But, while the Back Bay pecking order may ordain that the Lodges and Cabots speak only to God, there is no evidence that God has ever answered, so 25 years is a bold enough guess, even for a iJrahmtn devoid of doubts, without the double-check of a countdown from on high. Lodge is Dennis the Menace in this campaign. In his barg ing insouciance he fails to de tect the raiment on naked emperors, and with this blunt prophecy he has cheerfully denied the implication of near ly everything Nixon and Ken nedy have been saying. They have been suggesting in their sales pitches that they keep remedies Just under the coun ter for all our ills, from Latin gunmen and African tribalism to the Communist obsession with world revoluUon, Now Lodge has gaily announced that all that stuff under the counter is Just palliatives, plasters and concoctions not yet approved by the A.M.A. Like most present day poli ticians with the noble excep lli'l ie """? y Joseph Alsop duce the number of troops on Quemoy and the Matsus," so that the loss would be less "if the islands fell" under Chinese Communist attack. The Robertson phrase, "if the islands fell," would seem to be the key to the puzzle. Obviously, the President can not have wished to cut the troop strength on the offshore islands, so that the loss would be less "if the islands fell," unless the President envision ed the fall of the islands as a quite possible and acceptable eventuality. He cannot have envisioned the eventuality, if, in 1955, he considered that it was essential to defend the islands. e EVIDENTLY, therefore, the President in 1955 wished Chiang to withdraw his major forces to strengthen the de fense of Formosa and the Pes cadores. Some troops could have been left on the offshore islands, but they would have been treated as expendable outposts at best. In the out come, Chiang adamantly re fused to do anything of the sort. As a result of the phony "unleashing," he had commit ted most of his best troops to the islands, and he told Rad ford and Robertson that he meant to keep most of them there, as he did. This was one reason, In turn, why Secretary Dulles insisted on a strong stand in the Quemoy-Matsu crisis of 1958. In 1958 not so many Nation alist troops were still com mitted on the offshore islands that their loss would have gravely impaired Chiang's power to defend the main is land. The other reason for the Dulles decision was to avert the total loss of Asian confi dence in the United States, which would have occurred if the islands had been given up at the Chinese Communists' gun-point. The gun-point evac- " Don't Be Deceived tion of Stevenson, the two Presidential candidates have been pandering, in effect, to that deep glandular urge we all feel but all know to be false-the desire that history come to a stop, at least for a breathing spell. The Com munists not only know It will not stop but jam down the accelerator at every oppor tunity. Kennedy and Nixon know it too, but only Lodge proclaims it, in the tones of the instrument that both an nounces and penetrates fog. There are no "solutions," no magic formulae, American traditional belief to the con trary. There are only pallia tives, stop-gap preventatives and new experiments to be tried, for ours is the age of limited opportunities. That is why this campaign does not really represent a choice of "policies." The totally honest voter has to admit to himself that he just doesn't know whether getting rough with Castro will "solve" that prob lem any better than adopting what the British call "master ly inactivity"; he doesn't know whether giving up or defend ing those off-shore islands is the better way of avoiding wcr with China; he has not the faintest notion whether delivering atomic arms to Germany or withholding them gives the better prospect of quieting Russia in Europe, whether we should encourage De Gaulle to be tougher or more lenient with the Algeri an nationalists, whether tight or easy credit offers the bet ter long-term prospects for our economy. So only a relative few wiln cast their vote on policy. More will vote on pariy sad the vast I IPOTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) . It was a near thing, 'this week. Potluck almost became a casualty of politics again. But, in the very nick of time, who (or what) should come gallop ing to the rescue, just like the United States Cavalry? The Hoover Hi-Lite, that's who (or what). So, friends, with Immense gratification and relief, we give you the writers for that sterling publication, who are little concerned at the mo ment, bless 'em, with Amer ica's prestige or lack thereof. the farm problem, the ques tion of medical care for tne aged, or such-like. Their concerns are more along the lines of the coming of Fall, Halloween, Colum bus day, and so on. Take it, kids: I like fall because -I love the pretty leaves. I love fall because I like to walk in the rain and fog. I love fall, all of fall. uation of the other offshore islands, the Tachens, in 1955, had.shown how grave the loss of confidence would be. But from the knowa rec ord, and judging by that tell tale phrase, "if the islands fell," President Eisenhower certainly wished for a peace able trooD withdrawal, not at gun-point, after which the off shore islands could be treat ed as expendable. The feeling that something should be done to "get Chiang off the islands" was again strong in the Eisen hower administration after the crisis of 1958. Once again, the known record should be supplemented with all the documents in the case, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. (Courteiy Oregon Journal) Man, Not majority will vote on person ality. Woodrow Wilson once said that the national instinct is "for unified action and it craves a single leader ... A President whom it trusts can not only lead it, but form it to his own views." This is still true, 50 years later. Even in our age of pulse-taking, endless committees and com missions of experts dedicated to "finding the way," we fall back on the simple, tribal in stinct of choosing a Man. ' In any case, the problems of America and the world are now so fluid and unpre dictable that present "policy positions" are almost mean ingless. What counts are the intelligence, understan ding, emotional balance, and, above all, the strength and will' of the human mortal we assign to the frightful task of trying the new experiments. Little wonder that in the television debates the country has been weighing two men, not two arguments. I have been try ing to do the same, reassem bling my own impressions of Nixon and Kennedy over the years. They are these, in part: Both men have been deeply, single-mindedly dedicated to self-education in public af fairs. Both are work horses; either would accomplish in a day three times what Eisen hower accomplishes. Kennedy has the wider lib eral education, though he is by no means the literary schol ar his handy quotations from the classics would suggest. Kennedy is liberal by convic tion; Nixon is liberal through poliUcil pragmatism and has no systematic, philosophical base to his thinking. Nixon assumes middle-class Do you like fall? I do. (Barbara Leavltt. Grade 8) Halloween night is now in session, Out of the graveyard comes a procession Of witches and goblins and many ghosts, And all of those weird, un i '' canny hosts. Ohhl Look' out! They're coming toward you. Be careful! Be carefull ' They might devour you. Comes dawn, they go back: to graves so deep. 1 For one more year they'll peacefully sleep. (Jean Hinkle, Grade 6) e On Halloween the witches fly. With their black cats in in the murky sky. They lip and loom over our head. They howl so much they wake the dead. ' The dead turn over in the grave. The bats and vultures rant and rave. The headless horseman steals along. Chanting his weird and scary song. . Yeu may see this gory sight If you go out on Hallow een night. Ron Duce, Grade 8 We are boys and girls from Mrs. Shepard's second grade room. Mitchell Danielson brought a model of a cricket to school. We learned a lot about crickets. These are some of the things we learned: Craig: Crickets chirp at night. Mother Crickets lay eggs, in the dirt. Janice V: A cricket chews rugs. A cricket is an insect. Pamela: A crickets has six black legs. He chirps at night. Crickets have 6 parts to their bodies. He can sing with his wings. Mitchell: You can tell how hot or cold it is if you listen to the number of chirps he makes. Mollie: The cricket chirps at night. The cricket keeps its eggs in a tube. The end. Cynthia: When a cricket chirps 129 times it is 70 de grees. A cricket is black. ( We had a turtle in our , room. Mark Sparso and Joyce Holmes' found him one day. We put it after wards Into an aquarium. ' We fed him bugs, but he ' wouldn't eat. One day we took him outside and watch ed him crawl away. We . miss him. (Mrs, Colley's second grade room) Halloween is here, All the children cheer, Goblins are creeping, Children are leaping. (Robin Cossette, Grade 3) ' 1 Witches are soaring. Bats are roaring. Moons are light. Pumpkins are bright. (Bobby Mayer, Grade 3) Policies mores and values to be the normal life-he has never known any other; Kennedy is fundamentally indifferent to them. Neither is a religious man (as Eisenhower is not), all the public posturing to the contrary, , Nixon's self-confidence Is somewhat febrile; Kennedy's goes to the roots of his being. I would say that he is the "whole man," save that in his absolute lack of fear, self doubts or awe of the preslden cy'there is something disturb ing, as with those medal-winning infantrymen in the war whom psychiatrists concluded lacked some chord or nerve cell normal to men. By the same token, Kennedy is de void of self-pity, while Nixon can indulge in it. e In the sense that their am bitions rule their lives and the lives of their Intimates, both men are intensely self centered. Nixon is sensitive to the hurts suffered by him self; Kennedy is sensitive nei their to his own hurts nor to those suffered by others. As President, Nixon would act a great deal of the time with an eye to the votes for his reelection. Kennedy's su preme confidence would make him less cautious and calculate ing In this respect. I am not at all sure that Kennedy is a more intelligent or conscientious man than Nixon. What I feel quite sure of is that he is a stronger man, the kind of human crea ture who can make a fateful decision and, like Harry Tru man, sleep soundly in his bed. . (Distributed 1980 by The Hall Syndicate, Ine.) (AU Rights Reserved)