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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1880 4 A "Iveryune in 3-juuiern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily exccpY Saturday by a North Fir SI Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor 3TKRB GREY Adva-tlilng Managal GERALD 1 LATHAM Bu Mgr tRIC W LLZN JR. Mnit Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OUVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE Ehickson circulation Mgr An Indebendent Newspaper Entered aa second clan matter at Men ford OrcRon under Act or March 3 IBI17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hy Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 vear eisno . 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BC '0" NEWSPAPER ISHERS OCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI if hi.vh:,hh Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 1, 1950 (Wednesday) Members of the Disabled American Veterans will con duct their annual sale of blue forget-me-nots this Friday and Saturday in Medford. One of the quietest and best behaved Halloween eclcbra tions was observed in Med ford last night. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1940 (Friday) A steady downpour of ratn last night made Hollowccn hero one of the most quiet and peaceful "in years and years" according to local law en tor c mcnt agencies. From Arthur Perry's "Ye SmudKe Pot" column: "The Halloween blitz last night could have been worse, some claim, but how?" 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 1, 1330 (Saturday) Two Ashland members of the Jackson County Republi can Central committee have bolted the parly to Join Inde pendent cundidate Julius Meier In his bid for the state governorship. Construction of a new bridge across Bear creek at Cottage si. Is being proposed as a means of relieving unemploy ment during the winter months. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 1, 1920 (Monday) Medford was the only city 111 the state this last year to lower its tax levy. The most controversial measure on the county's bal lot will be the proposed trans fer of the courthouse from Jacksonville to Medford. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1910 (Tuesday) Miss May Buchanan won a new 1910 Bulck and Miss Mn rie Elfert won a new upright piano In the Mail Tribune's popularity contest which end ed yesterday. The increase of registered voters in the Medford pre cincts has made it necessary to obtain additional ballot clerks and judges. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is eictllcntt five et six Is flood. 1. What is the common use of tetra-ethyl lead? 2. The eighteenth amend ment was the prohibition amendment; which amend repealed It? 3. To what country do the three monkeys. Sec No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, belong? 4. How many Presidents were never elected? 5. Is sodium chloride pois onous? 0. More than half of the fresh water of the world is collected in what connected bodies of water? 7. Who was Moses' succes sor as lender of the Israelites? 8. What was "Clinton's Big Ditch"? 9. The skin from what ani mal is called lapin? 10. What bird is noted for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds? Answers: 1, Gasoline addi tive. 2. The twenty-first. 3. Japan. 4, Four. S. No, common alt. 6. The Great Lakes, 7. Joshua. 8 Erie Canal, 9. Rab bit. 10. Cuckoo. Not Black Choosing between same as choosing between black and white. Sometimes the choice is almost that obvious, But more often in most cases in fact it is matter of picking between various shades of gray, irom ngni 10 aarn. We do not know of election of next luesday where one candidate is all good and his opponent all bad. We strongly believe tnat most ot tnem are more good than bad, and that in making a wise choice, a voter must be aware or this. "TAKE the race for representative in Congr from Oregon's fourth district, for instance ine canciiciaces common. They are both professional men, one a doctor, the other a lawyer; they are both patriotic men and have both served their country in time of war; Doth are tamily men; both hold the wel fare qf their community and state and nation to be vitally important; both have mends and ene mies, supporters and detractors. DUT this is not to say there is nothing to choose between them. Dr. Durno, the Republican candidate, made a good record of hard work in the last session of the legislature. Some of some we do not; but we esty, integrity, and good motives. He was forth right and generally unequivocal. Charles Porter, the Democratic candidate, has served lor tour years in Congress. He too is hard working. With some of his positions we quar reled, with many we have agreed. His honesty, integrity and motives are of the highest and those who have challenged them in the heat of the campaign, do themselves no credit. (Which also should be said of those who similarly have challenged Dr. Durno.) rOES this mean we think they would be equally good as members of Congress? By no means. Porter, even when he has been wrong, has been actively in search of problems which beset this Sorter has been unafraid to take positions which are mighty unpopular when he thinks he is right. And this makes him particularly vul nerable to attack from scruple to twist these blacken his name. ; COR instance: , .In yesterday's Mail Tribune, one of the ads supporting Dr. Durno, (we cannot bring ourself to believe he could have been personally resuon- siDie stated: Why Castro?" The implication, of still an active supporter strongman. Hut the implication is a flat lie. Porter cheered Castro's victory against the bloody dictator, Batista; urged Castro to with draw from the government, to hold free elections but, when it appeared the new strongman was betraying his own liberal revolution, Porter was as strong in his criticisms TPHE whole incident is that Porter is a man that events in Cuba did not justify his hopes cannot Jbe held against him. They were hopes held by the whole free world for a while. His hope was misplaced. v There is another Latin American country where Porter's position proved to be correct. (And his opponents don't say so much about this one.) For years he has been warning of the fascist like regime of lrujillo. And, after these years, the state department and the Organization 'of American States this summer arrived at the same conclusions Porter had reached long before. AS for Dr. Durno, despite our liking for him ' personally, and our respect for his motives and his hard work in the legislature, we just do not see him as an effective member of Congress particularly when the choice is between his conservative, largely negative approach, and Por ter's dynamic, forward-looking, positive ap proach. This, then, is the choice. It is not black vs. white, nor bad man vs. good man. It is a choice between two good men. One of them would take a go-slow approach ; would not "meddle" in foreign affairs (which will decide the ultimate question of peace or war) ; would not vote for a great new Dunes Sea shore park because it's "a waste of money"; would, in short operate from the basis that things are pretty good the way they are. a TTHE other is awar of plicit in a nuclear age dom around the world ; of the growing needs of our older people for dignity anil aid and medical care based on a sound, social security program: knows of the benefits to the state of increased recreational areas; and who has demonstrated by hard work and quick intelligence that he has, can, and will continue to serve his district and nation in all significant ways. Porter is vitally aware of both the challenges and the dangers of the 19li0s. Durno, we believe, is not. x That is why the district would be the loser if Porter is not returned to Congress next Tues day. E. A. i and. White two candidates is not the a single instance in the ess nave several things in his votes we agree with, give him credit for hon solutions for the many nation today. opponents who do not positions just enough to does rorter encourage course, is that Porter is of the red-tinged Cuban as any one. revealing, for it indicates of hope and of courage. the vast dangers ini- ; of the threats to free Dennis the Menace '(YlWh ' T "ir "I I li-"--ir-nr 'LOOK.KID. "iOU SAID THE GUY PUT HIS WIFE IN OHB. I OIDNT. SO OONTASKAfS HOW US UO IT I West Mourns Impending End Of Political H.Q. Activity By DICK WEST Washington - IUPD - On elec tion night, the Democrats plan to have a "victory party" in the Mayflow er hotel. The R e p u blicans plan to have a "victory parly" in the Sheraton-Park hotel. One of these c c I ebrations sm win, ui course nick wen mm Into a wake before the evening is over. Either way, it will be a sad night for me. I will be sad because there won't be any presidential cam paign headquarters left for me to visit. For an inveterate is i rAn. .mi Washington Report By WILLIAM JOHNSON IN THE MIDDLE Washinglon-The last week of the great campaign now opens with three of the four p r i n c I p a Is facing possibill- the re pudiation of his own ticket in his own state. . Republican pro-- klcntial n n , .1 o I o Wtlllnm S. n , , j whit. R i c h a r d M. Nixon seems hard pressed in California, which sent him first to congress and then to the senate and then helped to elect him vice-president. GOP vice presidonlial nom inee Henry Cabot Lodge is given little chance of decisive ly influencing Massachusetts, a state where Lodges and C a b o t s have been men in power for generations. Massachusetts Is widely thought to be safe for another native son, Democratic presi dential candidate John F. Kennedy, and his second man, Sen. -Lyndon B. Johnson. IT IS Johnson who faces a great public test and a spe cial private sadness. Immense bitterness toward him has welled up in Texas, a state whose foremost politician he has been for a decade and more. It would, of course, be no easy thing for any of these four campaigners to have to admit on the gray morning after election day that he had been unable to secure his own backyard for his party. Nixon would be hard hit if he should lose California, with its 112 electoral votes. And he would be brutally hit, indeed, if such an eventuality should turn out to be the dif ference between his national success and his national fail ure. gain, Lodge will feel real regret it Massachusetts goes against him and Nixon in the way It looks to be going -heavily. But neither of these person al setbacks would be, in hu man terms, anything like the loss of Texas, with its 24 electoral votes, might be to Lyndon Johnson. IjiOH neither Nixon in Cali fornia nor Lodge in Mas sachusetts has come under anything like the two-sided attack that has been John son's lot. Texas conservatives and u It r a - conservatives like to "take care of their own" - in both senses of that phrase They may generously reward one they believe to have stay ed within their tradition. They may savagely punish one Johnson whom t h c y be- believe to have left that tra dition. The northern extreme lib erals, at the same time and for exactly opposite reasons, IfT.-MfrR leach aikW Mr of candidate-watcher like my self, this is tantamount to a catastrophe. The election will leave me feeling like a fisherman would feel if all the trout streams suddenly dried up. It was, therefore, with heavy heart that I set out this week to pay my final pre election calls at the offices of the Democratic and Republi can National Committees, which have been the nerve centers of the campaign. Everywhere a Headquarters I kept remembering those glorious pre-convention days last spring when the town abounded with presidential hopefuls and there was a cam paign headquarters on virtual ly every corner. S. WHITE will give no credit to John son, whatever may happen. So a poignant irony may be at work in Texas. If the Kennedy-Johnson ticket loses that state, it will actually be most of all because of the ad. v a n c e d liberal democratic platform. Johnson in his heart can not really like all of that plat form. All the same, he has never said as much. He has felt It his plain duty, once' he took the , nomination, to go on with it to the end. In ac cepting that nomination he took an enormous risk with his southern friends, Texan and otherwise. A ND the ultra-liberals in his party had always disliked him mainly because of where he was born and they still do. Whatever he did as demo cratic leader of the senate, he was automatically wrong with them. They complained he was a "sectional" and not "national" politician. Now, he has proved once and for that he is at any rate just that a national-minded poli tician. But if Texas goes Republi can, who will the ultra-liberals most bitterly censure while the Texas conserva tives are pouring on censure from precisely the other side? Lyndon Baines Johnson, of course. mere is a saying among ball players that you can't win them all. Johnson may well have reason to say that with the advanced liberals, he can't win any of them, even if he chances political suicide to carry national party in terests. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF IT WAS IN SEPTEMBER, just after the opening of the women's college that ornaments the town of Saratoga, As usual, a good many of the girls visited the bank to open checking accounts, writes Frank Sullivan. One of them was a naive fresh man, Sho wanted to open an account very badly, "How 'much do you wish to deposit in the account?" asked an offi cial of the bank. The maid looked at him in starry innocence. "Oh, I don't want to 'deposit' anything," she said. "I just want to open an account." Limerick from Dr. Anthony Collum: There's a story they tell about Rona Going 'round in a black silk kimooa. Don't think for a minute There's anything In it That is, anything much besides Rona. 0 by Bennett CtrL Distributed hy Xlnf Features Sjrndicat Difference Between Seem Irreconcilable; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Despite occasional messages of goodwill between the lead ers of Communist China ana Soviet Russia, their ideologi- cal differ ences con sta tute a major split on the bedrock prin ciples of Com munism. And . 1. t T I . n .4 f o. eass?! Its'- PHIL NfcWSUM wall J"a innocent bystander. The United States is in the background as an economic and military giant which must be reckoned with by both. The Russians say there must be "peaceful co-existence." The Chinese Communists say that eventually, there must be a war to the death. Russia has called in world Communist leaders to Moscow this month to try to ease the My first stop was at the Democratic committee because I happened to have been in that neighborhood. And when I say "neighborhood," I am using the term loosely. Since the campaign began, the committee has become so far-flung that nobody can see it all at once, even with the naked eye. It now occupies parts of eight buildings, one of which is bound to be near by regardless of what neigh borhood you're in. The Democratic Digest staff and the correspondence sec tion are located at 1106 Con necticut ave. The mimeo graph, record and speech-writing departments are at 1737 L st. The advisory council and the speaker's bureau have suites at 1028 Connecticut and the advertising and women's bureaus are at 1801 K st. The farm, business and vice presidential divisions are at 15th. and K; the registration and citizens branches are at 261 Constitution ave., and ab sentee voting is handled at 021 17th st. Publicity Director Harassed ' I learned all of this in the main office at 1001 Connecti cut, which is where I caught up with Sam Brightman, the committee's publicity director, who was looking rather ha rassed. After advising me to grab an empty chair "before some one starts typing in it," Brightman said the commit tee, whose normal staff num bers 75 to 80, now had 370 paid workers, plus uncounted legions of volunteers. Even so. It was short-handed. "The Republican committee operates like an advertising agency," Brightman said. "We operate like a small town newsoaper on the day of the big fire." In another week, regardless of who wins, the fire will be out and everybody will have a place to sit down again. Brightman said some of the pressures generated by the campaign already had begun casing off. But the committee has taken steps to guard against any premature let-down. As I was leaving, I noticed that a large precautionary sign had been posted by the elevator door. "Only eight more days," it said. "Beware of Deweyitis." LAUNCHES NEW A-SUB Paseagoula. Miss.- (UPI) -The USS Snook, the Navy's 22nd nuclear powered submarine, was launched Monday by In galls Shipbuilding Corp. The sub. which will be ready for action late next year, was named after a World War II submarine which sank 17 enemy ships. Ten.ee j present rift in the Peiping- Moscow axis, but few persons expected the Red summit to succeed. The differences are too great between the two. Three Major Precepts Communist China founded its government on three ma jor precepts: Alliance with the Soviet and other Commit- Matter of Fccf y Joseph alop THE "PRESTIGE DEBATE Washington - Most curious moral and political questions are raised bv the Nixon-Ken nedy dispute about Ameri ca n prestige in the world, which has now been joined by P r e s i d e nl Eisenhower. These ques tions were es pecially vivid JOSKP1I ALSUP ly posed by a recent issue of a great national newspaper. It contained both the text of the President's Philadelphia speech on Friday, and the text of the most recently unearth ed confidential survey of the prestige problem by the U. S, Information Agency. Here was the President, all bland reassurance, telling his hearers that all the kings and queens and prime ministers who have streamed through the White House "had no doubts about U. S. prestige.' He did not say whether he meant to include Cuba's prime minister, Fidel Castro, for ex ample; but he added with dig nified indignation: "In any case, whatever was America's image abroad at the beginning of this political campaign, it tends to be blurred today. This is because of unwarranted disparage ment of our moral, military and political power." TUT here too, on an almost- " adjoining newspaper page, was an official report from the "very men the President himself had charged with re sponsibility for the "Amer ican image," as he likes to call it. Their report, based on extensive soundings in West ern Europe, bore the recent date of Oct. 10. And these men were saying that our most valued allies now believe the United States has fallen behind the Soviet Union In space, in scientific capability, in military power, and even in future economic potential. " "Confidence in U. S. ca pacity for world leadership (also appears) less than satis factory," the report glumly summed up. It is hard to remember a comparable spectacle. There has been nothing quite like this superb denial, by the President himself, of the plain truths so recently reported by his own official subordinates. Or perhaps there has been. For one recalls Stanley Bold win shoving into his desk drawer, as things of no ac count, the British intelli gence reports on Hitler's re armament. rjPHE moral question thus -- raised is whether the Pres ident, like Baldwin, is con sciously deceiving the nation an act that was held to be a capital crime in ancient Athens. The answer is surely in the negative, for one can question Dwight D. Eisenhow er's essential morality. As far as he is concerned the solution of the riddle eems to lie in the Byzantine atmosphere of the Eisenhower White House. Harsh realities do not easily penetrate. Thus the President, with darker and darker clouds rising on every horizon, keeps happily assuring his visitors that "people-to - people relations" are what really matter, and delightedly recalling the hun dreds of thousands who cheer ed him in India and Brazil. But this issue to the moral question hardly extends to Vice - President Nixon. He chose to say it was downgrad ing America to talk about our declining prestige, long after the U. S. I. A. had made its main, notoriously grim but as yet concis led report to the National Security Council, of which Nixon is a member. Al lowances must be made for the President, but explana tions are in order from the President's fav younger and far tougher intended heir. IEANWHILE, there is the political question, about whether this business of pres tige really matters very much. Superficially it sounds like adman's stuff, especially when you start talking about it In such pure Madison Ave. terms as the "American image." In reality, however, pres tige matters greatly, because it is like a quotation on the international political market, and a quotation directly based, furthermore, on the market's shrewd estimate of each nation's power and lead ership. A nation with little power but great leadership Russia, Red China U.S. Is Bystander nist countries; expansion of Chinese Communism through Asia; undying hostility to ward the United States. It has shown no indication of chang ing these. Soviet Premier Nlkita S. Khrushchev, though display ing no great amity toward the United States, has been may have considerable pres tige, as Israel does today. A nation with established power and phony leadership may re tain prestige, as England did in the early 'thirties. But for the highest quotation on the international market, a nation needs the wisest leadership and the maximum of power together. At the present moment, moreever, the way the stock of America is quoted on the market is of truly desperate importance, since a horde of new nations and old nations in flux are now making their investment choices. Guinea, Ghana, Cuba and too many others have already conclud ed that America and the West are poorer investments than the Soviet Union. If the count less other new and changing nations make the same choice as these, the situation will be uncontrollable. That is the heart of the matter, (c) 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of s pen name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary is often the case. U.S. Needs Porter To the Editor: The world is in a great crisis. This means that the United States, the State of Oregon and the Fourth Congressional District of Oregon, also, are in great danger. No one realizes this better than your distinguished representative in the U. S. Congress, the Honorable Charles O. Porter. As a North Carolinian, and therefore not a constituent of Congressman Porter, I have been concerned whether I should write you about this distinguished Oregonian, lest I be considered presumptious in doing so. But like you, I am an American citizen as well as a citizen of another American state. This means that we both need the best possible men in the Congress of the United States in these times of terrible trouble. In the light of this, I hope your readers will understand my support of Charles O. Por ter for reelection. I have spoken from the same plat form with him in the interest of American security and world peace. On both of these subjects he is botli well in formed and sound. Through the Congressional Record I have followed his governmen tal activities in many direc tions. He favors equal opportun ity for all Americans in the full realization that democ racy cannot be safe so long as any groups are denied full citizenship. He wants better schools, more conservation of our natural resources, better medical care and the elimina tion of slums in the cities and on the farms. He has the necessary vision and experience. He will con tinue to honor you and serve this country well in the Con gress of the United States when returned to the Con gress. Hugh B. Hester, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, (Ret.) Chapel Hill, N.C. Home Rule To the Editor: In reply to Mrs. Marina Gardiner: I ap preciate your enlightenment on how leading citizens of Medford went out and pur chased land in Jackson county and converted it into a mod ern airport without county aid. I join with you in com mending the men who had the foresight and courage to do it, although you did not include Mr. Frank Farrell. As city at torney he made a very posi tive contribution. Mr. Farrell is one of the members of our county com mittee studying Home Rule, and Mr. Earl Miller, whom you did mention as one of the prime movers in the airport project, is now one of our county commissioners. The travesty of the situa tion is that Mr. Miller, in his present capacity as county judge, finds himself and his associates lacking in authority to do anything directly in con nection with the Medford air port. The reason is that Med ford is incorporated as a city under Oregon laws. This im parts to its citizens, and their duly elected officers, the right to decide to buy land In the enough of a realist to know the U.S. is strong enough to ininct incalculable damage in a nuclear war. Khrushchev has said the ba sic principles of Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin must be mod ernized to conform with mod ern conditions and that the only alternative to war is peaceful co existence. The Chinese Reds call this devia tion and will have no part of it. Mao Major Rival Khrushchev's major rival for Communist leadership Is Mao Tze-tung. Mao, a mystic, regards himself as the true disciple of Marx and hews with no deviation to the Marxist-Leninist teaching that cap italism and Communism must inevitably fight a war to the death, nuclear bombs notwith standing. There has been no indica tion Peiping would even send an official representative to the Red summit meeting in Moscow. Last February it merely sent an observer, Kang Sheng, to a Moscow meeting of the Warsaw pact nations. Kang openly dissented with Khurshchev's .estimate of the U.S. potential and spoke out strongly against any easing of U.S.-Russian tension. Peiping gave his speech the official stamp by broadcasting it over Peiping radio and publishing it in the official newspapers. county and accept the respons ibility of financing the airport project in cooperation with an agency of the federal govern ment. The citizens of Medford and other incorporated com munities enjoy various forms of Home Rule, yet neither these same citizens or those outside the communities, as tax payers and voters of the larger entity (the county), en joy any similar right of self determination for the general good of the county. In order for the county, as it functions at present, to fi nance an airport of its own, it would be necessary for a nucleus of the voters to initi ate action and place a measure on the ballot for a general election. Then, if the project carried, it would have to be referred to the state legisla ture for the majority approval of all 36 counties. It sounds grotesque and cumbersome, docs it not, and it could take years. This is one of many phases of Home Rule our committee must consider in deciding whether or not to recommend a charter for the county as a whole. Thank you for affording me this opportunity to explain one of the apparent shortcom ings of county government as it exists today. Please under stand these are my own per sonal views and not those of the committee of which I am a member. It is to be hoped your per sonal Interest in our study of Home Rule for Jackson coun ty will continue. MacLeod Maurice Rogue River, Ore. YES on SIX To the Editor: Some of us in the State System of Higher Education are afraid that Bal lot Measure No. 6 may go down to defeat. What worries us is that some voters may read only the title: "State Bonds for Higher Education Facilities. ' Read like this, the word "Bonds" hits the reader who then thinks "bonds-money-taxes," and votes "no" without going any further. The truth, of course, is that Measure No. 6 has nothine to do with taxes at all. It is a measure which will allow the state to borrow money for buildings, like dormitories. These buildings are not ff- nanced by taxes, but are paid for by the students who use them. This has been the sys tem used in Oregon for many years now. But with the in creased number of students pouring into the colleges, even more dormitories are needed. This Measure, No. 6. simply gives the state the right to in crease its borrowing power, so that necessary buildings can be planned for now. I repeat-it will NOT cost the tax payers a cent. I hope that my friends and I need not be afraid, and that voters will read all of Meas ure No. 6. To insure that they do, all of those who read this letter can do education a fa vor by passing the word: Vote YES on SIX. Elmo N. Stephenson President Southern Oregon College Ashland, Ore.