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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER S, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Three Imponderables Will Influence Election Result United Press International The longest possible, quiz lest, flyingest, most electronic presidential campaign In his tory will be over on Tuesday, and observers hang predic tions of Its outcome on three imponderables: -How big is the religious issue and how far buried from competent pollsters? -Where does the American pocketbook hurt and how bad Is the ache? -Which man - Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon or Sen. John F. Kennedy - has sold himself to the voters as a stronger personality? A United Press International compilation of election fore casts by three national maga zines and various state polls showed Kennedy carrying 21 states with 268 electoral votes - one short of a majority -Nixon carrying 20 states with 143 votes, and nine states, with 126 votes, still in question. The last full campaign week produced an increase in name calling, a renewed question about Kennedy's health, an insinuation of Improper in fluence in a loan made by a Howard Hughes firm to Nix on's brother and charges of "r i g g e d" TV commercials from both sides. Late Smear Tactics Charles P. Tart, chairman of the non-partisan Fair Cam paign Practices commit tee, suggested that voters ignore any smear tactic brought up so late as to be impossible of proof, or dis-proof, before election day. President Eisenhower cam paigned with Nixon in New York City and for him in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, de riding Kennedy as a "young genius" deceiving the voters by "juggling promises . . . dis tortion of fact,. . . fiscal shell games." Both he and Nixon charged that Kennedy's and the Democratic party's pro gram would result in either higher taxes, increased infla tion or devaluation of the dol lar. Kennedy, jibing at Nixon for hanging onto Eisenhower like a circus elephant, con tinued to emphasize a need to build America's economic strength at home and prestige in the world to preserve the peace. He suggested for the first time that a corps of American young people be re cruited to spend several years working as volunteers in the under-developed nations. Criss-Cross Country Both presidential candidates criss-crossed the country, hit ting 11 states between them, speaking on street corners and at giant rallies and shaking hands as fast as they were offered. Both made concen trated assaults on the big electoral states of New York, Pennsylvania, California and Texas. The UPI poll consensus showed Kennedy favored in New York and Pennsylvania, Nixon in Texas and California undecided. The campaign, opened by tradition over Labor Day week end, has been long by calendar chance, with the first Tuesday after the first Mon day in November falling at the latest possible date. It has in many respects been con fusing to the voters, pollsters report. Jet speed travel has made it difficult for anyone to keep up with their movements. The institution of the television "debates" replaced some of the set piece TV speeches of former campaigns, transfer ring the selection of issues to some extent from the candi dates to the questioning pan els of newsmen. Many Voters Confused Pollsters reported many voters said they were more confused than enlightened by the TV discussion of issues, but found the "debates" help ful in making personality judgment of the candidates -which may, after all, be the ..lost decisive judgment in any election campaign. Kennedy, less widely known than the Vice President at the start of the campaign, stood to gain more from the side-by-side ap pearances and, in the judg ment of most observers, did so. His Roman Catholic re ligion, however, remained the puzzler which was stumping some experts and causing others to make poles - apart forecasts. Thoroughly com petent opinion was expressed that: Kennedy, although ap parently ahead in the race, could be swamped by a still submerged anti-Catholic vote; a wholesale switch of Roman Catholic votes to Kennedy will more than offset the votes of a n t i - Catholic Protestants; there isn't any wholesale switch of Roman Catholic votes, and some members of his own church are voting against him on religious grounds; whatever religious voting exists is reflected in competent polls. Money Issue Difficult The pocketbook issue is dif ficult to assess because it ranges through so many cam paign issues, each with a dif ferent impact on varying groups of voters. The Demo cratic candidate - who has campaigned strongly on a need to jack up the national economy - is generally expect ed to carry areas of unemploy ment and declining industry, but the choice becomes highly subjective in other areas,' de pending largely on an indi vidual voter's guess as to his own immediate economic fu ture. The appeal of Republican charges that Kennedy's pro gram would produce an in tolerable burden of either taxes or inflation is equally difficult to measure. Johnson Raps GOP For Poor Reception Beaumont, Tex. - (IIPD - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson said Sat urday that demonstrations Friday in Dallas, Tex., where men and women shouted "turncoat" and "Judas" at him and his wife, proved that Republicans have made this "a campaign to prevent peo ple from s p e a k i ng their minds." Congressman Bruce Alger of Dallas, the only Republi can congressman from Texas, was in the midst of yester day's demonstration with a sign saying, "LBJ sold out to Yankee socialists." Most of the other demon strators carried Nixon signs or wore Nixon buttons. They jostled Sen. and Mrs. John son and mussed Mrs. John son's hair while they were trying to get across a street and through a hotel lobby so Johnson could make a speech. Dallas Democratic cam paign manager Barefoot San- !M tV VOIKIWAOCN 0' AMt.lC. Do you think the Volkswagen is homely? Every line in a VW is functional. The snub nose cuts down wind resistance. The body hugs the Interior workings. Nothing protrudes. "At first you think she's the homeliest thing you ever saw," says one VW owner. "But pretty soon you get to love her shape. And after awhile, no other car looks right." The VW doesn't go out of style. You can hardly tell a '60. from a '50. But we continually make changes you cannot see. Example: new , synchromesh first gear; you now shift into low without stopping. Is the VW homely? It depends on how you look ot it (and how long). Come in today for a good long look and see tor yourseir. MORSE MOTORS Southern Oregon Volkiwagen Hcidquartcrl 6th and Ivy - MEDFORD ders said Alger had asked him what he thought of it and he told Alger it was "trashy." Johnson supporters said the demonstration will boomerang in their man's fa vor. He is Democratic candi date for the vice presidency. 'Only a Minority' Johnson, stopping at Beau mont airport in his campaign plane told a crowd of about 2,000 persons the demonstra tors were "only a minority." "No man is afraid of facing up to such people," he said "But it is outrageous that in a large, civilized city a man's wife can be subjected to such treatment. ' "If a United States senator and his wife cannot walk through a hotel corridor in Dallas, what will happen next year and the year after that? "What will happen to all of the groups and all of the people with whom the Re publicans disagree? "What will happen to mi nority groups they do not like; what will happen to any American they do not like; what will happen if these peo ple get power and authority?" After his Beaumont speech, Johnson took off to New York for a rally. He will return to Texas to day and spend the rest of the time before Tuesday's elec tion campaigning in the south ern part of Texas, his home state. Names Urged for Artificial Parts Washington -(Science Service)- Discussions of artificial kidneys, hearts, and lungs have become so confusing some scientists see the need for a standard naming system for man-made body parts. The problem, says Dr. Wil liam A. van Bergeijk of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J., is that sci entific reports invariably com pare the artificial device with the real organ. In such cases, the reader gets lost and can not tell whether the writer is referring to the device or the "prototype." To dispel the literary fog, Dr. Bergeijk suggests using the suffix -mime, from the Greek "imitate," in conjunc tion with the root word for the organ represented. Thus an artificial kidney would be a nephromime. The system could also be used to name mathematical models of or gans and functions. A new nova that can be seen as a faint object with the naked eye or binoculars was discovered March 7, 1960. 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