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-
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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.
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