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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1SS0 BUVtMKH 2. ma , MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. A 3 Nixon, Kennedy Would Go in Opposite Directions on Farm Issues They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Horn slower the So he fimw.lv headed n HAOi'E CRUISED C Vv rWTTl? PCtt THE BARM AND HEARTHs V Q DAWN TO DUSK ANDl A MR1 life STONE-ANO WOT HOPPENpfj ALL HE PICKED UP ?i4J"Kft PEAO ON, GENTLE READER, VY eSS vJVASA2SHAUU READ OH jr-rs-l WORKlES Vli$QA .THEAmTN? fjfeflM, I GOP Candidate Gunnar Demands Congressmen Clarify Stand Pendleton-HJPII -Oregon Re publican Chairman Peter Gun nar Tuesday demanded that Democratic Reps. Al Ullman, Edith Green and Charles Por ter clarify their position on an "appeasement statement" taken by Democratic Senate Candidate Maurine Neubcrgcr on West Berlin and Formosa. - Addressing Umatilla Coun ty GOP workers here, Gun nar said in late September Mrs. Neuberger said in Salem he would "not favor risking nuclear war to defend West Berlin and Formosa and she was immediately opposed by Republican Candidate Elmo Smith." Said Their Duty "As of today," Gunnar said, "we have not heard whether the Democratic congressional delegation from Oregon sup ports this appeasement posi tion of Mrs. Neuberger. It is the duty of Mrs. Green, and Reps. Ullman and Porter to state their position in this matter." Gunnar said it is of "grave importance that all voters know where their elected rep resentatives stand on this sug gestion that we knuckle under to the Communists." About one-half of the total area of New Jersey is devoted to agriculture, some of it in truck gardens. OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (e) 19S0 Tlmei-Mlrror Syndicate "There's a professor at I MIT," I mentioned the other evening at dinner, "who has taught a machine how to play checkers." "Do you think," my wife said, "there's too much Par mesan in the zucchini?" "Is that all you can say?" I asked. "Well, it's what I want to know. Is there? It's a new recipe." "Ye gods!" I said. "Don't you know what that means?" "Well, good heavens," she said. "Why get all upset over a little zucchini. Here, give me back your plate." "Never mind the zucchini," I cried. "I'm talking about the professor, at MIT. He taught a machine how to play check ers!" "What's MIT?" "Oh Lord," I sighed. "That doesn't matter at all. That part of it's insignificant. The important thing is that this machine learned how to play checkers. If a machine can learn how to play checkers, for lord's sake, what next?" "I don't know," she said. "Chess?" "Thai's not the point," I said. "Checkers. Chess. The game doesn't make any differ ence. It could just as well be Pachisi. Except that idiot game would even bore a ma chine to death." FIVE GREAT Decanter "WEDDED" INTO Golden "I don't think it's an idiot game at all," she said. "We used to play it when I was a little girl. We used to sit on the floor and eat ginger snaps and drink lemonade and play Pachisi." "Doesn't it worry you at all?" "No. Why should it?" she said. "It's only a memory. Why should a memory worry anybody. Sometimes I think you're getting neurotic." "I mean the machine who plays checkers," I said. "Aren't you worried about that?" "To tell you the truth," she said, "1 never liked checkers. To me it was just red. black king, jump. I never had-any iun." Look I said. "Not only lias tnis man taught this ma chine how to play checkers but now the machine can beat him! How do you like that? "Well, I don't suppose it would be much fun if the man won all the time," she said. "Maybe he just lets the ma chine win now and then. Re member when we first played tennis, how I used to let you win? "That's different," I said. "I was trained for basketball. Be sides, you were in love." "Well, maybe this professor is in love with his machine. "That's it!" I cried. "You've got it! You see? If a machine cannot only learn to play checkers but can also beat its own teacher, well they're get ting practically human. The next thing you know they'll have emotions." "I don't see," she said, "why just because somebody is good at checkers it means he's hu man or emotional." "Theoretically," I explained, "you can make a machine do whatever you want it to do. But if the machine gets so smart it begins to think, and to have feelings, then it can turn on you." t 'I know," she said. "Re member that juke box in Honolulu? When we were first married? Whenever you put a nickel in it to play 'Har bor Lights' you always got Im in the Mood for Love . ' "Yes, I remember," 1 said. "And when you put a nickel in for 'I m in. the Mood for Love you didn't get 'Harbor Lights.' You got Nelson Eddy." "I'm afraid there is," she said. "Is what?" I said dreamily. I was adrift in the past. "Too much Parmesan in the zucchini." SUPERBLY BLENDED WITH GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS Your punJtalhcr never lasted belief sshisUy than this. 'ITie best of five great cietantcr whiskies blended ith the best of neutral train spirits male OnUrn U'ttUing so good. i Ql. Code 224-1 $075 Z Pt. Code 224-C piTI.I-'H" WE PLEDGE: (I'nii'rn.si'iiuieiiuiGciiiienweMm are Hire Decanter Reserve Slock. 12) Ever 6'OC- of the Straifht Wniiktr contained in each bollle 130V II ' years eld or more. I3 Only Hie "heart" of the finest Cram Neutral Spirits l70V s "wedded" here,! by our special eullem oroceu. (4! these whiskies ire tree our trenure house of lied whis kies, issurini uniformity of quality and hifhllt slindardl. HAS HAD NO PEERS (g FOR FIFTY YEARS strmxti Must - m rsnof - itiaiwi wMisutt - ut t m ot a i s ni ota i i m ot rSirn 11 wi - - NttMiiisfvTfHiriiirf m trine ustiuiH to .mow, n. Washington - IUPII - The State Department Tuesday discounted but would not deny reports that the United States may be considering a reduc tion of Its troop strength in Germany. Eyes 01 Government By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington-The two presi dential candidates have indi ratprl thov would, if elected, go off in op p o s ile direc tions on the complex farm issue. Vice Presi dent Ft 1 c h ard M. Nixon would g e ner a 1 1 y favor a gradual with .i .-i t n.n Rom stall", uiowoi m ...- federal government from con trolling the nation's farm economy. Sen. John F. Kennedy would institute the toughest control program ever design ed for agriculture to cut com modity surpluses and raise farm income. The farm issue is a major one in the campaign because it is generally agreed that the efforts of the past eight years have failed to resolve the problems of mounting sur pluses and falling net income for the farmer. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, the controversial symbol of these years, has been sent on a goodwill trip to South America to avoid being an embarrassment to the Repub lican ticket. The Eisenhower administra tion made some headway in its program. It did reduce the farm price supports, increase surplus disposal at home and abroad, remove 30 million acres from production through the soil bank. But as of now farm income is down 25 per cent below eight years ago while non-farm income has risen; and the government in vestment in stored wheat, corn, cotton, barley, butter, rice, dried milk, soybeans, peanuts, grain sorghums and other minor commodities amounts to $8.5 billion; and the portion of the annual fed eral budget devoted to financ ing farm programs Is $5.6 bil lion, second only to national security and interest on the national debt. Although the government has failed to cope successfully with these conditions, it is not alone to blame for them. The postwar agricultural revolu tion has brought advances to the farm which have provid ed increased productivity on less land at a rate beyond the consumptive needs of the pop ulation. The issue in the campaign is where do we go from here? Would Reject Concept Nixon, speaking in general terms, has said he would re ject the concept that federal controls can bring the farm economy into balance on in come and supply and demand. His emphasis would be on whittling down the surplus stocks in hand by giving greater paymcnts-in-kind of government -owned commodi ties from the storage bin to farmers who agree to plant less. His program also men tions converting more of the surplus into high protein foods to upgrade diets at home and abroad. Once supplies came into line with demand, Nixon says the government should with draw from the farm economy, abolish production controls and start a new system of nrice supports based on the average market price of each commodity in the years im mediately preceding a crop year. This would reduce sup port levels. Kennedy starts from the premise that the government must help the farmer manage his supply If he is lo have the bargaining power in the mar ket that industry has for its products when it produces only what the market can ab sorb to prevent falling prices. He advocates "supply man agement" which would be Truman Deplores Ike's Cuba Stand New York -UiPD- Former President Harry S. Truman Tuesday charged the Eisen h o w e r administration "re fused to enforce the Monroe Doctrine" in regard to Cuba and allowed Communism to move "5,000 miles closer to our shores." "We should have just told them they couldn't come in," Truman said of the Communist-tinged regime of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. "Presi dent Grover Cleveland did the same thing in Venezuela. "There should have been a man in the White House who knew where he was going to go and what he was going to do. That is what happened in regard to Korea." SOUSA MAJOR DIES Chicago tUPH Jack (Pea cock) Kelly, 63, onetime drum major for John Philip Sousa and leader of the Great Lakes Navy band, died Monday. EDITOR DIES White Plains. N.Y. - IWli -James F. Gressler, 41, editor and vice president of the White Plains Reporter Dis patch, died Monday. The Medical Roundup - fl ft y" tm.rltus Consultant In Medlrlnt Mayo Cltnlr Emeritus Pruressor of Medlcint .Mayo Clinic (Rrtliter and Tritium Syndicate, I960) 1)11 .W.VAItK' which one my HERB HUNTER FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR SUCCESS Thtrc'i juit one thing about rutti for lucctst thy do not work unlets we do. ' A certified Srote of Oregon Appraiser ' A working man's approach to taxts. ' A man who listens to people Paid political ad by Hunter (or County Assessor Comm., 409 Lynnwood Ave. handled differently for each commodity, depending on its needs. Devices would include strict marketing or sales quo tas, direct subsidies, market ing orders and agreements, land retirements, flexible price supports. 'Parity of Income' Farmers should have "par ity of income," argues Ken nedy. By that he means the farmer should get a price for his commodity which repre sents a fair return on his capi tal, labor and management. For example, according to a Kennedy farm adviser, it means a farmer with an in vestment of $100,000 in land, buildings and equipment ought to earn at least as much as "a good plumber." He ought to get a four per cent return on this investment, plus $100 a week for his la bor, plus $1,000 a year for hi management skill, yielding a parity of income of $10,200. Nixon claims that Kenne dy's program would result in a 25 per cent increase in con sumer food - prices. - Kennedy denies this. The problem isn't so simple for either candidate, for only Congress can enact necessary legislation to alter the govern ment's approach to the farm issue. In Congress there are conflicting interests repre sented by sectional represent atives some senators want high supports for the crops of their states, such as cotton and tobacco, corn or wheat and by the shift of power in the country trom the rcral to the urban areas. Either man, as the new president, will have to exercise his fullest powers of lrfluence to engi neer a new farm program. Types ind Stages of Asthma Every week dozens of un happy wheezy people write asking how they can get rid of their asth ma. I imagine they hope I'll send a magic p r cscription, but I cannot, if only be cause there arc so many causes for asthma, and I cannot guess correspondent has. He may be highly aller gic, or he may have a badly damaged lung., or a damaged heart, or he may be going into a spell of asthma when ever his wife goes on an alco holic bender. As I think back over the stories of some of my patients with asthma, I can remember well the man who alniosl quit wheezing when I took away from him his favorite pillow full of goose feathers - to which he was highly sensi tive. 1 remember the girl who got well when her doctor made her get rid of her cat. Unfortunately, when I hud seen her, 1 hadn I had sense enough to do this. I remem ber the wealthy girl who got asthma whenever she rode her favorite horse. I remem ber the wife who got asthma in severe spells al night. By having her keep a diary, I discovered that the spells came whenever she made bis cuits and breathed in some of the flour as she sifted it. I remember so well the woman who lost her asthma the day she came to the Mayo Clinic to sec me and stayed in a hotel in Rochester, On asking, I found that she would be well when she went to visit one sister, but not when she visited with another sister. After doing some de teclive work along these lines, I asked her husband, who was a builder, to examine the houses in which she never wheezed. He soon found that the difference was that in the "bad" houses there was much use made of a pressed type of board. When he man sent me, in an envelope, some dust scraped off of this type of board. When the man sent me woman, scattered this dust into the air in my office she got asthma as soon as she came in. Can Give Pleasure This type of detective work in the diagnosis of asthma can give a physician great pleas ure, particularly when 11 quickly leads to relief of his patient. I remember how my old professor used to tell us stu dents that in order to become asthmatic one should be born with a tendency to it. Then, one should keep running into some allergen such as a dust, or an animal dandruff, or some tiny feathers, or some pollen, or some bacterium or mold. Often, in his childhood, the person who is headed for asthma wilt suffer much from hay fever. Sometimes the liny fever seems to lead Hie child over inlo asthma. Sometimes there appears to be a psychic factor. Half of the children with severe and chronic asthma who arc taken to the Jewish Home for such children in Denver lose their wheezing as soon as they go in the front door. Perhaps in their home they were upset by two very worried and fussy parents, or parents who were constantly fighting or talking about divorce1. As I have often said in this column, half of the patients suffering in an attack o f asthma can get relief if just put into a hospital, Why is this? Probably because in a hospital room the patients gets away from much "house dust" to which he is very sen sitive. The hospital room is kepi clean and fairly free from dust, and it has a mo nastic simplicity - witli out stuffed chairs, drapes and car pets. An asthmatic friend of mine suffered a severe flare up of his disease when his wife made him move into a luxuriously furnished apart ment. Every night he set up for hours wheezing away; and it was all due to the expensive carpet the woman had bought. Changes Take Place As my old professor used to say: with asthma, you have heredity, and then you may have to have irritant dusts Finally, after years of wheez ing and hard coughing, perm anent changes lake place, particularly in the thousands of little air-sacs In tile lungs, They keep dilating and rup turing', one into the other, until the person has a bad em physema - something that will be a handicap to him for the rest of his days. Always, thereafter, he will have a ten dency to be short of breath. The health of many asth matics is menaced by colds. These get the victim to cough ing and wheezing. After the asthmatic gets past 40 he may be a bit wheezy most of the time. In the worst cases, the taking of every breath is an effort. This effort is all the harder because the man's lungs may be al all times ex panded as far as they can go. As a result, the chest becomes barrel-shaped, and the mus cles in the front of the neck, which tend to lift up and open up the chest, are con stantly contracted. Also, with an old asthma, hurtful changes take place in the right side of the liearl-which pumps blond through the lungs. With all these changes, the man's wind gels worse, perhaps so bad that Ile gets all out of breath just trying to put on his clothes in the morning. His face becomes "pinched" and In- looks anx ious. Obviously, in order to avoid these final stages of asthma, a man ought to make great efforts to conquer the disease in his youth. Dr. Alvarez' booklet on asthma, allergy and hay fever may be obtained by sending; 25 cents and a large, stamped, self-addressed envelope witli your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syndi cate. Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. 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