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10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1950 (Tuesday)
Balloting was light during
first hours of the Oregon gen
eral election today.
Representatives of the in
terstate commerce commis
sion will hold a hearing here
tomorow over the proposed
construction of a Southern
Pacific spurllno from Tolo to
the While City industrial dis
trict. 20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1940 (Thursday)
One person was killed and
four others injured, one crit
ically, in a two-car smash
up on Crater Lake highway's
Kincaid hill Wednesday.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Republican party came out
on the little end of the horn,
In the Presidential election,
but it is still a winner - it
has a new 'titular lender" in
the person of Wendell L. Will-
kie,
its defeated nominee.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1930 (Friday)
A new Humane society
shelter on Midway rd. was
completed this week.
Several new mail carriers
will be added at the Medford
post office Dec. 1 to take care
of the Christmas season rush.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1920 (Sunday)
The mercury dropped to 21
degrees in Medford yester
day to make it the coldest day
of the year.
"Siskiyou," according to a
letter In the Mail Tribune, is
a French word meaning "six
stones."
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1910 (Monday)
In a front page editorial the
Mail Tribune today asked
voters to defeat Democrat
Joshua Patterson in his bid
for reelection to the county
court.
The federal government
this week started improve
ments on that portion of Crat
er Lake road that lies within
the Crater National forest.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina oi (en cornel Is tueerler:
Iran ei eight ll excellent) Hva at
ill ll good.
1. Anti-trust laws arc con
cerned with misleading of con
sumers, banking regulations,
monopoly, or tax loopholes?
2. Ls a truffle hound a
dog that hunts truffles, a pul
ley, or a buookbinding ma
chine? 3. For what U.S. govern
ment agency do the initials
GSA stand?
4. Who discovered the wa
ter route around the tip of
Africa?
5. The Romans regarded
Venus as the Greeks regard
ed Aphrodite, Minerva, or
Cleopatra?
6. A priest is to a chapel
as a rabbi is to a Bethel, Syn
agogue or Mosque?
7. Of what nationality are
most Australians descendants?
8. Arc planets always seen
in the same part of the sky?
9. How many lines must
be drawn on a four foot
square to mark it off in
square feet.
10. Correct: "As soon as I
saw him I knew it was him."
Answers: 1, Monopoly, 2.
Dog. 3. General Services
Adminisiration, 4. Vasco do
Gems. 5. Aphrodite, 8. Syn
agogue, 7. English. 8. No.
9. Six. 10, " . . . was he."
0" NEWSPAPER
CUBUSH,,,
LJ&P-M SOCI ATI ON
Concerning Voting
It's almost all over,
the tale.
Nn mutter hnw it turns out. sortie neonle will
be delighted, some will
..liii iL.
more wiu view me lesuiuj wim iiiiacu mciiugs
We would ioin here with Charles Taft, chair
man of the fair elections practices committee, in
warning against paying any attention to last
minute rumors, smears or charges which cannot
be refuted m time. If they were legitimate, they
would have been brought
campaign.
Be suspicious ot them.
AS TO voting, we believe it to be the duty of
airai'ir tirall-infnpmnrl nuiSinn
We do NOT. however, go along with the
theory that every Tom, Dick and Harry ought to
cast a ballot, whether or not they know anything
about the candidates, issues, measures, or their
significance.
Uninformed, apathetic voters might better
stay home, and leave the business of democracy
up to those who care enough to inform them
selves.
But those who have studied and thouerht about
the election, we do urge
victions.
i"NE final suggestion,
If you are informed
candidates and measures, vote on them; but if
there are others on which you do not have well
based opinions, leave those ballot spots blank.
Too many people, when they see a measure
they don't understand, are inclined to vote "no"
on principle.
This is wrong. It's better not to vote at all,
than to endanger what might be a good measure.
E.A.
Candidate Recommendations
FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
101 John F. Kennedy (D),
and Lyndon B. Johnson (D).
FOR U.S. SENATOR (SHORT TERM)
103 Maurine B. Neuberger (D).
FOR U.S. SENATOR (LONG TERM)
105 Maurine B. Neuberger (D).
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS,
4TH DISTRICT
108 Charles O. Porter (D).
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
110 Monroe Sweetland (D).
FOR STATE TREASURER
No Recommendation
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
113 Carl H. Francis (R).
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE,
JACKSON COUNTY (VOTE FOR TWO)
116 Robert B. Duncan (D). . ... .
118 Evelyn (Eve) Nye (R).
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
120 Gerald J. Scannell, Jr. (D).
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
122 Ray J. Schumacher (D).
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
123 Paul B. Rynning (R).
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
125 Karl L. Janouch (D).
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR
No Recommendation
NON-PARTISAN BALLOT
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
POSITION 4
129 William C. Perry.
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
POSITION 5
130 Alfred T. Goodwin.
FOR JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
131 Orval J. Millard.
E.A.
Measures Recommendations
STATE
1 Fixing Commencement of Legislator's
Terms Yes
2 Daylight Saving Time No recommen
tion. 3 Financing Urban Redevelopment Proj
ects Yes
4 Permitting Prosecution by Information
or Indictment No
5 Authorizing Legislature to Propose Re
vised Constitution Yes
6 State Bonds for Higher Education Fa
cilities Yes
7 Voter Qualification Amendment Yes
8 Authorizing Bonds for State Building
Program Yes
9 Compulsory Retirement for Judges No
10 Elective Offices: When To Become
Vacant No
11 Financing Improvements in Home Rule
Counties Yes
12 Continuity of Government in Enemy
Attack Yes
13 War Veterans' Bonding and Loan
Amendment Yes
14 Personal Income Tax Bill No
15 Billboard Control Measure Yes
COUNTY
16 Dogs Running at Large No recom
mendation; except we suggest voters
inside Medford city limits not vote. .
E.A.
and tomorrow will tell
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them to vote their con
along the same lines.
and convinced on certain
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Matter of Fact y
WAITING FOR THE
VERDICT
San Francisco - This huge,
amorphous, fast- changing
state is a good place to say
farewell to the 1960 cam
paign, not on
ly because
C a lifornia is
politic ally
c r u c ial, but
also because
I C a lifornia is
J o d d ly repre
sentative.
Senator
Kennedy's
c a mpaign sa
fari passed through the state
only a couple of days ago, in
a continuous storm of cheers
from countless thousands of
people whose imaginations
Kennedy has plainly captur
ed. Vice-President Nixon is
now hurrying up and down
the state, in his turn, some
what shrilly warning of the
doom to come if the Demo
crats win the election. He too
is being cheered by countless
thousands.
Meanwhile, a reporter who
is asked to forecast the out
come can only describe the
conflicting evidence. The evi
dence is multitudinous, but
the main. items may be sum
marized as follows:
1MIE Republican leaders are
frankly worried about Cal
ifornia. That is why Vice
Presideni Nixon is making a
stepped-up final effort here.
But the Republicans genuine
ly continue to hope for a nar
row win. They think the so
called religious issue is help
ing them, on balance. They
believe Nixon has a strong
following here. And they pin
much faith on President Eis
enhower's last-minute appeals
for support for Nixon.
The Democratic leadership,
in contrast, Is soberly opti
mistic but far from cocky.
Tlie Democrats argue that the
Vice-President has little or no
appeal except to members of
his own party. If this is true,
Nixon can hardly carry Cali
fornia, where Democrats
greatly out-number Republi
cans. "Nixon, the Democrats
keep saying, "is no Eisenhow.
er, and Kennedy has caught
fire with our people."
In addition, a successful rcg.
islralion drive would seem to
have aided the Democrats. No
less than 150,000 Mexicans,
for instance, were put on the
rolls In the Los Angeles area
alone. But the local opinion
polls, while showing that Ken
nedy has gained ground im
portantly since September,
also continue to show an un
predictably close race,
,
ADDING up the evidence,
this reporter is Inclined
to guess that California will
end in Ihe Kennedy column;
and if Kennedy carries Cali
fornia, he is virtually certain
to be the next President. But
instead of dealing in mere
guesses of this sort, it is more
Interesting to take each of the
possible results, and to see
what the reasons for tills re
sult will be.
If Nixon is the winner, the
reasons will not be far to seek.
Somewhat mysteriously, the
Vice-President rejected the
great opportunity given to
him by the stirring drama of
the Republican Convention.
Instead of talking in his own
voice and speaking his own
mind, Nixon chose from the
outset to present himself to
the electorate as a sort of syn
thetic Eisenhower.
The man himself is certain
ly more interesting and morel
if
Two Apologies
In an editorial on this page recently, Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton was criticized for what we thought was
a misleading "cost estimate" on Measure 15. He informs us
the cost estimate is prepared by the state treasurer, assisted
by the department of finance and administration and the
tax commission, not by the attorney general, as we Indicated.
We extend to him our apologies.
Two letters In communications recently, both attacking
legislative candidate John Grcgoy, apparently were sisned
with fictitious name and address, Mr. Gregory Informs us.
This too we regret. E.A.
Joseph Alsop
impressive than the "image"
Nixon thus sought to project.
But since Nixon made this
choice, there can be no doubt
that a Nixon victory will be,
at bottom, an Eisenhower vic
tory. It will be a national in
dorsement of the Eisenhower
viewpoint, which is blandly
optimistic about America's
situation in the world, but
deeply conservative and even
pessimistic about the poten
tial of the American economy
and social system.
If Kennedy wins, on the
other hand, his victory will
not constitute a rejection of
the Eisenhower-the-man, who
is still much loved. It will
mean, rather, that the coun
try now feels the need for a
new viewpoint and a different
impulse in the management of
our affairs.
rTHE widespread business---
man's opinion, that Ken
nedy is a wild economic radi
cal, has no visible foundation
in any identifiable fact. But
Kennedy most certainly does
not share the intense conser
vatism of President Eisenhow
er, who has been described,
by none other than Vice Pres
ident Nixon, as "really to the
right of Bob Taft about do
mestic matters."
Above all, Kennedy is not
apprehensive or pessimistic
about the American economy.
He does not fear that the
smallest movement will de
range the free American sys
tem. Like Nelson Rockefeller,
he believes' that there is no
problem which cannot even
tually be solved, and no neces
sary bill which cannot be
fully paid, by the device of
stimulating national growth.
His economics, in fact, are the
economics of the Rockefeller
Report on this subject.
In Kennedy's eyes, more
over, growth is now a life-and-death
matter, for world
reasons. For Kennedy also be
lieves that vastly greater
American efforts are urgently
needed, if the forces of free
dom are not to lose the dire
struggle for the world.
The choice in this election
then, lies between strong faith
in the American growth po
tentlal plus grave doubt about
the world future if the Amer
ican potential is not used to
the full, and the exact reverse
on both counts.
(c) 1960, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Portland State Names
Public Service Alan
Portland - (UPII - Mark How
ard of Portland Sunday was
named Director of Public
Service at Portland State col
lege.
Howard, who has been pub
lic information officer for the
State 'Board of Health and re
lated state agencies since
1948, will assume his duties
Dec. I.
Eisenhower Plans To
Vote of Gettysburg
Washington - (UPD - Presi
dent Eisenhower plans to cast
his ballot for Vice President
Richard M. Nixon shortly aft
er the polls at Gettysburg,
Pa., open at 7 a.m. Tuesday,
the White House said today.
The chief executive plans
to fly to Gettysburg by heli
copter from the White House
south lawn.
Eisenhower will return to
Washington immediately af
ter voting.
Foreign Desk: Canterbury and
Japanese
By PHIL NEWSOM
UP Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Iceberg Meeting
One top source in Vatican
City ls calling the forthcom
ing "courtesy visit by the
Archbishop of Canterbury to
Pope John
XXIII an "ice
berg meet
ing". Not be
cause it is ex
pected to be
frigid, but be
cause there is
more beneath
the surface
than the first
piiil nkwsom announce-
ments and comments show.
It can now be revealed that
arrangements for the meeting
in December were worked out
in delicate negotiations over
the past six months. Don't ex
pect any immediate spectacu
lar results In compromising
some of the differences be
tween the two big churches
and establishment of a mode
of unity.
Cabinet Shakeup
Look for a major shakeup
in the cabinet of Japanese
Premier Hayato Ikeda fol
lowing the Nov. 20 elections.
Ikeda has said in his cam
paign speeches that he will
stick mostly with the mem
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
WAITING THE CHANGE
Washington - A rare hour
of brooding pause, a long mo
ment of silence and waiting
and expecta
tion now be
gins to per
vade Washing
ton.
This is the
eve of a great
change - from
eight years of
the Eisenhow
er administra
tion to an en
tirely different administration
of new leaders in a new world.
It brings an odd quiet to this
ordinarily frantically political
city.
It is not unlike the sudden,
exhausted calm which falls
late on Christmas eve when
shops so recently so clamor
ous with customers are in an
instant empty and the lights
in the show windows are go
ing out, one by one.
One moment you had been
moving about among the urg
ently milling men of the two
national political committees.
The next moment you find
these pros starting to pack up
their charts, speaking wearily
and softly at last - of their
partisan hopes, and beginning
to let the mimeograph ma
chines run down.
ONLY rarely do the fortunes
of politics bring total new
ness to this national capitol.
Not since 1952, when 20 years
of Democratic control of the
White House were ended in
the election of President Ei
senhower, has there been any
sharp and absolute break be
tween past and future. And
the most recent such break be
fore that had occurred in 1932,
when Franklin D. Roosevelt
defeated Herbert Hoover.
Thus this city now senses
the near approach of the third
truly new national political
atmosphere, the third truly
new group of top leaders, it
has known in three decades.
And while the prudent still
avoid flat predictions as to
whose newness it will be-that
of Democratic candidate John
F. Kennedy or Republican
candidate Richard M. Nixon
somebody's newness is surely
at hand.
If Nixon should win, the
great broom would sweep
WHIIam
Whit
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
TtTHEN JOEY ADAMS visited Israel he was impressed
" with many signs of progress on all sides, but remarked
that ho hadn't spotted a single golf course. "Golf?" shrug
ged nis guiae. "now can
wa have golf in a land
as tiny and beleaguered
as ours? One long drive
could become an inter
national incident!"
The producer of a recent
Broadway comedy that had
been roasted to a f are-thce-well
by the criUcs met an
old classmate and asked
him, "Boon to see my new
show yet?" "No, and Via
not planning to go. either,"
was the frank reply. "I
hear it's a disaster."
"Are you kidding?" countered
you read our ads?"
A popular restaurant in Philadelphia burned to the ground.
The owner of the cutery across the road professed to be hcart
nirii. "Poor Joe," he sighed. "It's the first time in three years
the food's been hot enough in his dive!"
O I860, by Btauett Out. OlttrlbaM Sine eaturej Syndic!
Shakeup;
bers of his short-lived pres
ent cabinet when he forms a
new government -that is, if
he and his party win the elec
tion, as they are expected to
do. But sources close to the
premier say that only about
three posts will remain un
changed. Ruble Revaluation
Members of a Russian trade
delegation which now is in
the West German capital of
Bonn are hinting broadly
that the Soviet Union early
next year will revalue the
ruble so that it will be on a
one-to-one basis with the
American dollar in interna
tional trade.
This ties in with similar
reports from other sources in
recent weeks and appears to
be part of the Soviet cam
paign to claim that its econ
omy is on a par with that of
the United States. At present,
the nominal exchange rate for
the ruble is four to the dol
lar, with a tourist rate of 10
to one.
Berlin Traffic
The Communists are build
ing up a propaganda cam
paign that could set the stage
for interference with Berlin
traffic. Western officials wor
ried by Communist charges
that illegal war goods are be
ing produced in West Berlin
S. WHITE
wide. Republican though he
is, he would bring in his own
advisers - and from his own
generation, on the whole. For
campaign purposes he may be
at this moment Mr. Eisenhow
er's junior. But as president
he would be just that - the
president, without rival in the
government or in the structure
of his party.
TF KENNEDY should win, a
like broom would sweep-
and even wider.
So the inner scene here is
remindful most of all of twi
light. One long day is ending;
another is just over the rim
of the clock. "Twilight" de
scribes the mood of many here
- in the White House, in the
high, politically appointive
posts of the bureaucracy, and
in the capitol. There, too, cer
tain members of the House
and Senate are drawing,
whether they sense it or not,
toward the close of their ca
reers. A whole era is ending. A
cavalcade of history is now
fast tailing off into the past,
like a parade of troops which,
seemingly endless, all the
same comes at last to an end
on the last, lingering note of
the last band in the line of
march.
TN THE OLD lands in old
days the expression was
"The king is dead; long live
the king." In Washington now
the spirit is the same, though
fortunately the harsh word
"dead" is not applicable. In
Washington now the spirit is
this: "Farewell the past; hail
the future."
For nostalgia is not by a
long way the whole tone,
though it is the keynote of
the city's mood. For while
many here are thinking of
Auld Lang 5yne-if it comes
to that-many are thinking far
more practical thoughts. If
Nixon wins, who will go into
what cabinet job? If Kennedy
wins, what will happen to so
and so?
It is not the tail end of the
big parade - as it never is the
tail end of any big parade
which really holds the eyes of
many. It is the head of the
big new parade now forming
up at the other end of Penn.
sylvania avenue.
(Copyright, I960, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
tha producer angrily,
"Don't
Ruble Revaluation
and shipped to the West. They
deny the charge.
Algerian Mediation
An attempt by some of
France's former black Afri
can colonies to mediate in the
Algerian conflict is in the
Communications
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Second Choice
To the Editor: More on our
old friend (??) Paul Rynning.
I personally think that if Paul
Rynning gets into office as
county commissioner, any
hope we may otherwise have
for decent roads may as well
be thrown out the window.
I'd much rather see some
one in that office who had
no experience at all, in their
thirties or forties, than a man
of 70 to 80. Experience is fine
but we don't need that as
much as we need fresh ideas.
In one respect, it's nice to
know the ropes, but Paul
knows too darned many ropes.
What I would like very
much to know, why doesn't
Paul Rynning retire and get
a good rest.
Some years ago I read of a
man running for office who
had a big political rally and
after the speeches were all
over he cornered a lady in
the audience and asked that
she vote for him. Said she,
"I won't vote for you but will
say 'you're my second
choice.' " Pressed for her first
choice she said "Anybody,
just anybody.'.'
That, in short, Is my atti
tude toward anyone who has
held office for over 20 years,
one office, mind you. That's
not like moving from be
ing member of a city council
to mayor to representative in
a legislature to state senator
to member of U.S. House of
Representatives to U.S. Sen
ate to Vice President to Pres
ident. That could be consid
ered as being a progressive
type of politician, in a sense,
anyway. At least one would
progress from one office to
another. But to spend one's
life in one office! That's just
too darned long.
Like the lady I just told
about, Paul Rynning is my
second choice.
Floyd R. McCabe
Butte Falls, Ore.
Repudiate Tactics
To the Editor: Charles Por
ter has demonstrated that he
does not have to resort to un
fair tactics in order to win an
election; he has concentrated
entirely on his own record
and the issues, never stooping
to question his opponent's mo
tives or patriotism.
The same cannot be said
for Durno, who by employing
McCarthy's technique of guilt
Editorial Comment
EDGE OF
The well-heeled campaign of Edwin Durno for Congress
has slipped over the edges of propriety in many respects, but
the ads which asked "Why does Porter encourage Castro?"
are the worst examples of political innuendo in Oregon cam
paigning today.
Why does Porter encourage Castro? Of course, the answer
is he does not.
But the ads ask the question and leave the impression
that he does, or has. Porter's campaign budget of $12,000
leaves him precious little with which to answer these in
nuendos, which are provided in great abundance by the $36,
000 campaign budget which the Durno forces will admit to.
Everyone knows Porter has met Castro and talked to
him, and that Porter applauded the overthrow of the bloouy
Cuban dictator, Batista, by Castro's forces in early January
of 1959. Question: who didn't applaud Castro's victory? There
were those who did not, but they weren't admitting it at tha
lime of the overthrow, for Castro rode to worldwide acclaim
for having ousted the tyrant.
Congressman Porter, whose name is cheered throughout
Latin America wherever free men are allowed to gather,
went to Cuba a few weeks after Castro's triumph and met
the man, was alarmed by some of the things he saw on tha
horizon, and warned about them shortly thereafter in a
speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. We do
not have that speech at hand. But he said he clung to high
hopes for Cuba after Batista's downfall and wishprf flastrn,
would step aside, allowing more experienced heads to govern
the island nation; and at the least, he advised Castro to shave
his beard, don non-military clothing and return Cuba to
something near normalcy and free elections as rapidly as
possible. He expressed fears of Castro's inexperience and
worried about some of Castro's advisers oulsiHp the 2Rth nt
July Movement.
What Porter said has been
merit of freedom-loving peoples evervwherp. Thp 2Rih nf
July Movement has been forgotten and Castro has edged
far to the left; Cuba is for all intents and purposes a Com
munist satellite. (There is strong evidence this could have
been prevented by actions of friendship toward Cuba by
the U.S. administration early in Castro's regime.)
- - -
Since his first trio to Cuba
Porter has repeatediy sounded the alarm at what was hap
pening in Cuba. Did he retain hope that it would work out
agreeably in the end? Yes, he did. For approximately the
first year Castro was in power. Congressman Porter clung
to a hope the situation could be saved that Castro would
realize his errors. Porter did that. And so did all the rest of us.
Encourage Castro? Of course Porter did not oiti,o,,nK
the Congressman was encouraged by Castro's initial victory
and disappointed by its eventual meaninglessness. This emo
tion has been shared by millions.
The full truth is not, of course, to the Reouhlimn pnrfl.
date's advantage, so he puts out the simple message "Why
does Porter encourage Cuba?"
tie doesn t wait for tha answer. Coos Bay World,
Rome;
wind. Three black African
leaders arrived In Paris re
cently to confer with Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle. Pre
mier Mamadou Dia of Sene
gal is expected to undertake
a similar mission to Algerian
rebel leaders in Tunis,
by association, has attempted
to smear Porter by question
ing his patriotism and link
ing his name with that of
Communist leaders.
The fundamental philoso
phies of the two men are so
different that the entire cam
paign could have been devot
ed to discussion of these dif
ferences and of the issues af
fecting the voters. It is most
unfortunate that Durno has
seen fit to cloud this cam
paign by injecting unneces
sary extraneous matter con
cerning Porter's loyalty: he,
like everyone else, knows
Porter to be a loyal, consci
entious American and it is an
insult to the voters' intelli
gence to waste their time on
such falsehoods.
A man who resorts to tricks
like this to gain votes dem
onstrates an inability to guaga
the voters' wishes: in past
campaigns candidates who at- .
tempted to smear their op- .
ponents were repudiated on
election-day. I hope the voters ;
of Oregon's Fourth District i
will express their distaste for j
such tactics by casting their
votes for Charles O. Porter
who, by his conduct in tha
last four years, has proven
himself worthy of the Peo
ple's trust. '
Henry F. Padgham, Jr.
Box 294,
Medford.
Stop and Think
To the Editor: I have read
most of the communications
with the good and bad of the
candidates. I know how I am
going to vote. Do you? This
is to those that are on tha
fence, wondering which way
to go.
If you had a larger business
and needed a business man
ager, would you hire one that
was always on the job or one
who spent one-third of his
time talking vacations or play
ing golf? That is what we have
taking care of our U.S., tVa
largest business to all of us.
If we elect Mr. Nixon wa
will not need a congress, so
that will save us money to pay
more taxes. Mr. Nixon will
take Mr. Eisenhower and Gov
ernor Rockefeller to the White
House with him.
This may sound foolish to
you, but before you go to tha
polls, Tuesday, stop and think.
Nina Simmons
' Central Point, Ora.
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