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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repealed It?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
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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.
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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.