TUESDAY. NOVEMBER I. I960
...Communications ...
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contrary is often the case.
Aid Requested
To the Editor Now is the
time for all good men to come
to the aid of a new Medford
newspaper.
Mrs. William R. Uhrlne
:J , 60 Summit ave.
Medford.
Congressman's View I
To the Editor: We read an
article in the Storm Lake Pi
lot Tribune of Storm Lake,
la., which we feel should be
brought to the attention of the
public. It is regarding a presi
dential candidate.
Congressman C h a r 1 e s B.
Hoven was in Storm Lake for
the "Hoven for Congress"
Buena Vista Caravan and the
Republican dinner. He stated
"A Senator's reputation .as
an effective legislator is built
on actual performance and at
tention to his duties and con
stituency." "Senator Jack Kennedy's
record of absenteeism is one
of the worst in Congress,"
Congressman Hoven of Alton
declared.
- Hoven said, "In the Senate
itself Kennedy has been ab
sent on 331 roll calls since he
became a Senator, and this
does not include those he
missed due to illness in 1955."
The 8th District Congress
man pointed out that Senator
Kennedy is chairman of the
African subcommittee of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and is now speak
ing with much authority about
our foreign relations with the
African continent. The record
discloses, however that Ken
nedy's concern is somewhat
tardy since he did not call his
subcommittee into session a
single time this year, Hoven
stated.
Hoven said Kennedy also
discusses disarmament, say
ing, "no issue could demand
more priority of top level at
tention than disarmament, yet
on April 4, 1960, the commit
tee staff reported that Ken
nedy had not attended a sin
gle meeting of the committee
since he was appointed to it in
1958."
Hoven also pointed to the
deep concern which Senator
Kennedy now professes for
problems of the aged. Ken
.nedy is a member of the Sen
ate's subcommittee on these
problems but has never at
tended a single one of their
20 meetings.
"It is commendable for a
presidential candidate to have
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high hopes, high spirit and
lofty expressions," Hoven
concluded, "but conscientious
voters are more interested in
a record of solid performance.
The public should know that
Kennedy's absenteeism record
is one of the worst in the Congress."
Mrs. I. C. Williams,
511 King si.
Medford.
What Is Bigotry?
To the Editor: For some
time I have wanted to write
to the communications depart
ment of the Mail Tribune. It
is not conducive to do so how
ever, in consideration of the
obvious one - sidedness of is
sues which approach any of
the Mail Tribune's prejudices.
Undoubtedly such letters as I
wish to write, of truths, of
facts, have been sent to you
already, for a very few letters
that hint mildly of vital basic
truths have been printed,
while documented, authenti
cated facts are completely ig
nored or passed through only
by being toned down of the
facts to a mild form or a faint
shadow of the real.
Why don't you print of the
heartless butchering of well
over five hundred thousand
people in the area of Croatia
in Yugoslavia in the years
1941-42. 'The atrocities com
mitted in Columbia, South
America in the last ten years.
The bigotry practiced in
Spain now. (The screen door
said to the needle 'you got a
hole in you'.)
I have spent eight years of
my life in residence of many
foreign countries; not as a mis
sionary, which would have
been much, much better, but
which occupation could guide
one in approvals or disapprov
als of the character of peoples,
nor a government servant sub
ject to restrictions. But I trav
eled and lived witn people
through Mexico, Central
America, much of South Amer
ica, oarts already mentioned
in Europe, Asia, the Near
East, the Far East, in fact in
everv continent of the world.
You are to be commended
for not publishing letters of
hate or malice of which there
are undoubtedly some, though
you seem to be void of virtue
when it comes to suppression
of hate letters against certain
segments of Christianity or
the United State government.
But for suppressing vital
basic facts or being partial to
misleading statements and
half-truths . which approach
anything contrary to your par
ticular Dreiudlces, wnue en.
tnvinff vour unique monopoly
of the news in this little val
ley, while stating that you are
impartial in communications,
etc is this not bigotry?
Dan Scott,
967 Gibbon. Road,
Central Point, Ore.
Frtitnr's note: We have, in
deed, tossed into the waste
basket some few letters which
viciously attack the loyalty,
faith and patriotism of-many
r.f nnr fpllnw citizens. We do
not believe, however, that we
have been guilty of suppress
ing "facts." The sort of thing
montinnpH in the second para
graph of the letter above have
been rather thoroughly re
ported in our news columns
from time to lime.
dm Better Than None
To the Editor: A few days
ago there was a complaint
oiven ahnut the high prices Of
the new skating rink. I'd like
to say that they're gradually
lowering the prices. If people
iIH think of what they're
getting I don't think they'd
gripe so. There is a Dig iioor,
music by an organ, snack bar
and a host of other nice facili
lips
I've met the people who
VOTE
November 8th
Good citizenship de
mands that you VOTE.
Don't let anything in
terfere with the exer-
eise of this privilege.
work there and all I can say
is that every one of them are
wonderful people. The owner
himself is a very nice man
and he doesn't deserve to be
talked about as giving "such
ridiculous prices." He gave us
a rink with his own money
and time.
What thanks does he get?
Everyone only gripes about it,
instead of being thankful that
at last they have what they've
been waiting for.
If the people of Medford
would only think of what
they're receiving for their
money and of the great
amount of money and effort
they took to build it, they will
appreciate the arena better.
'One is better than none."
Jerri Mcntzer
840 Palm
Medford.
Someone Must Pay
To the Editor: Why is It
that when the thinking Demo
crats see war on the horizon
they turn and vote Republi
can? T havp lust finished read
ing an editorial in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, "a
ripmnrrat naDer." in which it
states that the greatest prob
lem which the leader oi me
Ampriran npnnlp must face
in the next four years is the
communist threat oi worm
domination, how to contain it
now. and how to eventually
trinmnh nvpr it.
The editor endorsed Kicn-
ard Nixon with high honors.
stating that he is the best
trained man ever to be a can
HiHatp for thp riresidencv.
Why would any one want
to vote for a man who prom
ises every one canay, as jonn
Kennedy does, and tnen wno
expects to reach into our
pocket to pay for it.
Our national debt now
pvistintr which was largely
of the Democrat's making, is
now costing us minions in in
tprpct nnnnallv to. maintain
whv Hn up wish to burden
our children and grandchil
dren with a greater debt?
Snmp nnp is eoine to have to
pay for this foolishness some
day.
Ralph C. Oakes
943 Ross Lane
Medford.
Hprhlorlr Hit Aaain
Tn (ho Editor: I'm writing
in regard to the cartoon you
printed in your paper e naay
t nnHprcfanri vou get these
pictures from a wire service.
T .1.. .inriprctanH that this
nmpr is Dredominantly JJem
r I .
ocratic. But snowing anuurci
party in this light is going
too far.
Thi partnnn is trying to
drag every other person that
is of high standards down to
the low level of thinking and
speech that the ex-president
apparently has. I don't think
that Mr. Truman has
brought either dignity or re
spect to him or the office he
once held.
t moopd if this naDer can t
find another cartoonist with
litiip mnrp imagination so
n nm in havp to die the bot
tom of the barrel up and
draw it into a picture sup
posed to be a cartoon.
I have spoken to many peo
ple about this and they have
mentioned it to me and they
rtwaa with TT1P that this haS
gone far beyond being funny
or even good clean criticism.
I have been so disgusted
with cpvpral different pieces
of journalism that I have
come across on ine ironv ui
tv,io nmnr hut thin has taken
the cake.' I have heard Mr.
Nixon speak many different
times and never once have I
ever heard him use slang, let
alone this very educated way
of speech.
T am a first time voter and
I don't think anyone really
appreciates a candidate, run
ning for this high office, be
ing shown in this dim ngni
I hope it doesn't occur again
Mrs. J. R. Burns
Box 78
Hilt, Calif.
Fnaineerina
To the Editor: I am rapidly
coming to the conclusion that
the engineering colleges are
substituting a college degree
for good old fashioned horse
sense. I can show anyone in.
terested some very good ex
amples which would readily
indicate the conclusion is jus
tified. On the road going past Wil
low Creek reservoir on the
east side, the engineer who
laid out the road evidently
thought It worthwhile to go
up hill if one could have the
pleasure of going down the
other side. I have been unable
to find anyone who could
mention a good reason for go
ing about 50 feet above the
dam when it would have been
as cheap to construct the grade
at a constant elevation above
the high water mark along
the east side of Willow Creek
reservoir, and made it easier
on log trucks and other ve
hicles.
west of Butte Falls can be
seen a saddle in the ridge
which was the best location
for the road, but the county
made no effort to go through
the saddle. Instead they have
spent several thousand dollars
of public money over a period
of more than 30 years in try
ing to widen the curve nearly
100 yards southeast of the
saddle so it could be consid
ered reasonably safe. How
ever I have seen a couple of
loads of logs dumped on the
outside of that curve. It's a
miracle no one has been under
one of them. The money spent
in construction and widening
of the curve would have put
the road through the saddle
and have been in a nearly
straight line. I wonder how
much ex-county Engineer Ryn-
ning had to do with that.
In contrast to the claims of
the engineering profession, I
say they waste more money
than they save.
I ll be glad to point these
and other similar situations
out to anyone interested. I'm
very much inclined to think
I ra right in the theory men
tioned at the head of my let
ter. Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star route
Butte Falls, Ore.
Boyden Qualified
To the Editor: The people
of Jackson county are fortu
nate to have available a com
petent man like Mark Boy
den for county surveyor.
I am a .non-resident of
Jackson county; however in
my practice as a professional
land surveyor, I have had to
do a considerable amount of
surveying in Jackson county,
which gave me the opportu
nity to come in contact with
the surveys of other survey
ors practicing in Jackson
county. From this experience,
I find that the surveys by
Mark Boyden are of a very
high standard.. People get
something for their money
when they have a survey by
Boyden.
The county surveyor is cus
todian of the county survey
records and it is necessary
that these records be kept in
order. From past experience,
Mark Boyden is a very cap.
able man for this position.
Marvin C. Ramsey
724 N.E. Madrone st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Frogs
To the Editor: Some of us
like living in Lynn M. Wat
kins "Small Worlds" where
Mother Nature blots out pol
itics for a while.
His tale of Chameleons re
minded me of a sight I saw
near Campbell, S. D., many
years ago.
Mrs. Bickner and I were
going after her cows one eve
when we came upon a natural
amphitheater which she called
a "Buffalo wallow." It was
two-thirds full of muddy wa
ter. Three sides of it were
absolutely crowded with frogs.
The fourth side was the stage
where one frog performed as
well as a human actor. He
turned cartwheels and flip-
flops in all directions. I had
believed that a frog's whole
life was spent in jumping for
ward.
I laughed and spoiled the
whole scene, for in one instant
every frog was out of sight
beneath the mud.
There must have been 300
frogs, at least.
Mother Nature s Friend,
Gram
Jacksonville, Ore.
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Both Candidates
Touring California
In Last-Ditch Try
Sacramento -flJPD- John F. . and Los Angeles. His Los An-
Kennedy and Richard M. Nix-j
on have mapped last-minmei
campaign sorties into Cali
fornia in an effort to capture
the state's 32 electoral votes.
Kennedy will make his fin
al bid for California support
in a two-day swing starting in
Los Angeles today with ad
ditional stops scheduled in
Long Beach and San Diego.
On Wednesday the Demo
cratic standard-bearer turns
to Northern California with a
major rally at the San Fran
cisco Cow Palace plus an ap
pearance at San Jose.
Nixon Plans Swing
Vice President Nixon will
make his last appeal for votes
in his home state in a concen
trated swing on Friday even
ing and Saturday, Nov. 4-5.
The Nixon campaign plane
will arrive from Spokane,
Wash., at Fresno on Friday
evening for a rally. On Sat
urday, he plans to make ap
pearances in San Jose, Hay
ward, Oakland, Bakersfield
Time of Need
To the Editor: I can some
what understand "Name on
file's" feeling of abuse by un
fair treatment, but it isn't
going to do any good to feel
that way.
Being an amputee for many
long years, I began following
sawmill work and during the
fall and winter of 1956, was
unemployed and only receiv
ed partial unemployment com
pensation, which could not
cover rent and food needs, so
we moved into the coastal
woods and slept in our car
by a river and cooked in a
fir bough lean-to.
While dragging in fire wood
on crutches one day, the
crutches slipped and I fell
driving the leg stump through
my pants leg and the bone
out through the flesh and deep
into the ground. My daughter
was going to try pulling me
over to camp but before I pass
ed out from shock and pain
I asked her not to do so, but
try to cleanse out the dirt and
get the flesh back over the
bone, then cover me until I
became conscious again and
could help move myself.
We could not afford a doc
tor and I could not draw un
employment because of being
unable to accept work. That
was a tough winter and we
knew that as the Lord alone
saw us through by healing my
leg without an infection and
furnished fish and game while
my daughter nursed me by
constant care. Though it put
her one year behind in school,
we knew that the same Lord
would extract payment one
day from the individuals that
felt so good over being
capable of all refusal of need
ed aid at the time of need, as
he does now.
My daughter did finish her
schooling and as a gift of God
received one term of Bible
college. The same group made
her quit to go to work to
support me after people no
longer hired me because of
age and disability; we still do
not resent the treatment by
these people.
The Rev. A. Gilman
322 South Riverside ave.
Medford.
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sizzler. Inclined 30 degrees to the right it's got an uncanny way with a gallon of regular.
Mounted on the engine is a new device called an alternator-generator. It makes the battery
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Sfes campaign Includes a
two-hour telethon on Satur
day night.
Strategists for both candi
dates obviously regard Cali
fornia as a prime target since
they are allotting two days
of precious time in the final
week of the campaign to the
golden state. ,
Kennedy already has tour
ed the state once in a whistle
stop train trip and plane ride
from the Oregon border to
San Diego in September.
The Democrats also turned
all their firepower loose on
California in the last two
months Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson, Kennedy's running
mate; ex-president Harry S.
Truman, who delivered a typ
ical "give 'em hell" attack on
Nixon last Friday in Berkeley,
and Adlai Stevenson, the par
ty's presidential candidate in
1952 and 1956.
Lodge Helps Out
Republicans countered in
force with Nixon spending
four days in Southern Calif
ornia earlier this month plus
campaign swings ny nis run
ning mate, Henry Cabot
Lodge; "Non political" ap
pearances by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and
an assault by Thomas E. Dew
ey, the GOP Presidential
candidate in 1948.
Both parties express confi
dence in their chances of car
rying California. But a sur
vey of top party leaders in
the past two days snowed
Democrats predicting greater
majorities for Kennedy in
California on Nov. 8 than He
publicans believe Nixon will
amass.
Despite their on-the-record
optimism, a considerable num
ber of party bigwigs say pri
vately that California still
is very much of a toss-up and
that it could go either way
depending on the success or
failure of the last minute ap
peals by the two candidates.
Dewey Rules Out
Post in Cabinet
New York - (UTD - Thomas
E. Dewey, two-time unsuccess
ful Republican candidate for.
president, has virtually ruled
out any cabinet post for him
self, if Vice President Richard
M. Nixon is elected president.
Dewey said Monday "I can't
think of anything that would
induce me ever again to take
public office." The former
New York governor was then
asked if he was "leaving any
loopholes" in such a rejection,
and he replied, "I certainly
am not."
Dewey, whose political ad
vice reportedly has been
sought by Nixon, said that the
p r e s 1 dential campaign be
tween Nixon and Sen. John
F. Kennedy was "Just about
as close as it was two months
ago." But he declined to pre
dict who would ie elected.
DON'T EVEN PAT IT
Chicago - IUPD - Leslie D.
Inglehart, 26, was accused
Monday of causing $100 dam
age to a small foreign can
when he kicked It.
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315 E. 5th, Medford
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Campaign
Quotes
By United Press International
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon:
(To reporters in Washing
ton): "I think the tide is run
ning our way and I think
we're going to win . . .
"Kennedy's campaign peak
ed a little too early . , . Our
campaign is moving faster
and that's what counts."
(To airport crowd at Teter-
boro, N.J.): "America is at a
critical point. Do we go along
with experienced leadership
or do we take a chance on in
experience?" In a statement commenting
i Kennedy's challenge to
bring President Eisenhower
to a fifth TV debate): "For a
man who has Harry S. Tru
man, Adlai Stevenson and the
almost forgotten Lyndon John
son sounding off in different
directions, Sen. Kennedy's
statement is juvenile.
It sounds like a schoolboy
trying to taunt his superiors.
1 u oe giaa la aeoaie mm
and his whole family any
time they like . . .
What the country really
needs is a debate between
Jack and Lyndon, the Demo
cratic vice presidential nom
inee." (At Ridgewood, N.J., rally):
"Kennedy has been showing
such an ignorance of eco
nomics that he has disquali
fied himself for the presi
dency. If this seems to be
tough talk, It is meant to be
tough talk."
Sen. John F. Kennedy:
(To student rally at Temple
U n 1 v e r s ity, Philadelphia):
"Nixon is afraid to go to New
York alone so he is taking
Eisenhower with him . . .
'What Mr. Nixon does not
understand is that President
Eisenhower is not a candidate
In this election. Mr. Nixon and
I will face the voters alone
next week. It's Nixon vs. Ken
nedy, the Republicans vs. the
Democrats, and I look to the
future with some degree of
hope.
(To predominantly Negro
audience at Philadelphia hous
ing project): "When the Rev.
Luther King was arrested, Mr.
Nixon's headquarters Issued a
statement - no comment. If
that's what you want, you
can have him."
(In nationwide TV speech
from Philadelphia dinner):
"If
our people are complacent,
self-satisfied, content with
things as they are and un
concerned with how they soon
may be, then our prestige and
our Influence will surely con
tinue to decline . . .
"I do not downgrade Amer
ica. But I do downgrade the
kind of leadership It has been
getting from the Republican
party . . ,
'If we stay grounded on
dead-center. If we content our
selves with our material goods
and our easy life and our rosy
reassurances, then the gates
will soon be open to a lean
and hungry enemy."
FEATURE WRITER DIES
Los Angeles -d'PD- Darsie L.
Darsie, 64, golf and feature
writer for the Los Angeles
Harold-Express who for a
time served as assistant man
aging editor and chief editor
ial wpllpr nt thp camp nn.nt.
paper, died Monday.
itl
Opllor.il it modest cost
Wall Street
New York-OIPU-Standard it
Poor's believes that while it
is Impossible to pinpoint the
bottom of the market, stocks
are not now very vulnerable
on at least two counts: (1)
They have been sufficiently
depressed to make adequate
allowance for an expected re
cession and (2) Monetary fac
tors via the Federal Reserve
are such as to lend support.
Spear & Staff says that
much of the recent scare soli
ng has been due to pre-elec
tion jitters and the feeling,
right or wrong, that business
might be hurt by a Democra
tic sweep. The ability of the
market to bounce back re
cently has induced Spear to
feel that any such apprehen
sion has been discounted.
Accused Slayer ,
Takes Own Life
Reno, Nev. - (DPI) - Simon
Poth, 78-year-old accused slay
er of his neighbor, committed
suicide in his Washoe county
jail cell Monday.
Chief Criminal Deputy Wil
liam Driscoll said Poth slash
ed his throat with a razor
blade. He was dead on arrival
at Washoe medical center.
Poth was held in connection
with the stabbing of Leo Conn,
70, last summer. He disappear
ed shortly after the slaying
and later was apprehended in
Astoria, Ore., through coinci
dence when some Reno trav
elers recognized him and noti
fied police.
WORKERS SETTLE
Oak Ridge, Tcnn. - (UPD
Striking atomic workers at a
plant which produces fission
able uranium ratified a new
contract Monday night with
Union Carbide Nuclear Co.
calling for a pay increase of
nine cents per hour. The vote
by 1,850 members of the Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Work
ers Union ended a 16-day
strike.
SAVE TAX DOLLARS
This measure puts the State in the billboard business.
It specifically provides that the few advertisers allowed
space on State boards would pay for erection and
maintenance of them. But who pays the tremendous
cost of acquiring needed private land and building
long access roads? YOU DO. Federal and State tax
dollars .. . your dollars . . . would carry the burden of
this costly measure.
DON'T HURT JOBS & PAYROLLS
This bad bill completely abolishes billboards on inter
state highways, unwisely curtails them on 16 through
ways. RESULT: Hundreds of roadside businesses
such as motels, hotels, restaurants, vacation resorts,
service stations, stores etc. would be denied the right
to tell motorists of their facilities. Jobs and payrolls
would be lost , , , Oregon's important tourist industry
would suffer.
IT'S A BAD BILL
We agree, billboards should be controlled, but this had
bill is not the answer. As one highly regarded Oregon
newspaper editor states, it is a bill of "deceit". PRO
TECT your pockctbook . .' I PROTECT Oregon jobs
and payrolls ... On November 8th, vote NO on No.
15 . . . it's a BAD bill.
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Chatter
Investors Research company
maintains that the market
may back off jlightly but for
nil practical purposes the
September low will hold. Fur
thermore, It says, we should
see a period of general rally
through the election and to
the year end.
International Statistical Bu
reau advises that no matter
who wins the election, gov
ernment spending will con
tinue to rise during 1961 al
though the Democrats should
be more liberal with the out
lays. octors
costless
The average family
spends only 566 a year
, for doctor bills . . . only
$38 for prescriptions.
One pack of cigarettes
daily, costs about $90
a year.
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