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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1960)
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Vancouver BSC NEWSPAPER JBUSHEM 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1950 (Wednesday) Mayor Phil Slansbury was reelected by Ashland voters yesterday over ex-Mayor Tom Williams in a bitterly con tested race. J Jackson county, following tlie nation-wide trend In the general election, yesterday gave a clean sweep to Repub lican candidates. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1940 (Friday) The citv of Medford will celebrate Armistice Day Mon day, with aerial bombs, a par ade and a football clash be twecn Ashland and Medford high schools. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Word comes from Texas that Vice President Garner did not vote last Tuesday, but took a walk Instead. In the light of events, it was a good idea, and there should have been more doing the same." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1930 (Saturday) Charles P. Talent has been named state traffic officer .for Jackson and Josephine counties. The Salvation Army is mak ing plans to bring Christmas cheer to Jackson county In digents. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1920 (Monday) Enrollment in Medford schools this year is 1,405 and many classrooms are crowded The annual Jackson county Red Cross drive will start Nov. 11. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1910 (Tuesday) From all indications Med ford today will cast one of its heaviest votes in history de spite a heavy downpour of rain that is soaking the city Local betting odds favor Republican Jay Bowcrman 10 to 7 to defeat Democrat Os wald West in the race for gov ernor of Oregon. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or fan cornel Is superior; Sevan or tight Is eacellent; Hva six Is good 1. Who won the world's heavyweight boxing chain pionship by beating Bob Fitz- Simmons? - 2. What is the lowest rank ing chessman? 3. In contract bridge, what bid, successfully made, would give the highest score? 4.- Is Hie Yukon territory principally in Canada or Alas ka? 5. What rank does a new West Point graduate hold in the U. S. Army? 6. What type of cloth and a log road share the same name? 7. In which religion Is Ra madan a holy month? 8. What part did Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders play In World War I? 9. Give the next three num bers in this logical numbers series: 5 7 10 6 8 11 7 9 12 10. Correct the following sentence: "He lay the book on the table." Answers: 1.' James J. Jf- fries; 2, Pawni 3. Seven no trump, vulnerable doubled and redoubled: 4. Canada) 5, Stcond lieutenant: t. Cordu roy; 7. Islam; 8. Nona; Span-ish-AmerJean War; 9. t 10 13; 10. "Hs Jald . . ." P4 NATION A I E0ITORIAI 'Qgfr.wiiiiiiiiw....i.iij Voting The campaign is over everyone. And the decision is now up to the sovereign voter. And, thank God, in America no one goes into the voting booth with him to tell him now to vote. It is up to him. and Within a few hours collective decision has been, and all the noise and confusion of the long, hard, sometimes bitter cam paigns will, we honesoon be forgotten. "THERE are some people who will not vote. 'Pl-iin ira Vinti noiron i mo rvt nave iiiv-i business of voting is the a nation which has a government by the consent of the governed. In too this is not true. And while, in actuality, the United States is a representative republic, years, a democracy, where every voter can cast his ballot for President IT IS a rather shocking American Heritage Foundation, that an esti mated 19 million Americans will not be able to vote today, through no And. as an article in ily Weekly last Sunday a whole is the loser. Whatever the reasons tion, outmoded residence ever we nope to see tnem wnitxiea away, for in America today, it is to the advantage of every one if everyone is able to vote. A ND we say this despite the fact that we believe "that only those people who are adequately informed on measures SHOULD exercise their privilege of franchise. America was founded on the proposition that a well-educated well-informed electorate can be trusted to make the right decisions. Universal sufferage is an ideal to be achieved, but so is its brother idea, that the nation should be literate and informed. We do not believe that either of these ideals has as yet become outmoded. E.A. The Decision Was Right - It may be recalled that four or five years ago, when the state highway to a decision on the route the Medford area, the Mail Tribune opposed the Bear Creek route, which finally was selected. We did so on the grounds that it would further tend to bisect the city, railroad and Bear Creek dition, do irreparable damage to Hawthorne park. We accepted the highway commision s deci sion, however, with as good grace as possible, al though we still believe siderable. IT DOES not follow, however, that we disagree with the city council in its action of last week in accepting a highway commission offer of some $160,000 for the Hawthorne park and Girl Scout day camp park areas, which the freeway will occupy. If the freeway HAS (and it's too late to change that decision now), let's get on with the job, and be fair to ourselves and the highway commission. All things considered, for the property seems to its desire to get the highway built is also com mendable. T'HE commission is, of being subject to criticism no matter what ac tion it takes. It can be assailed for paying too much of the taxpayer's money for rights-of-way ; it can also be attacked for not paying enough. In most cases, it is attacked both ways is an indication that it is to be fair. In commenting along gon Journal recently had "All of this points up what Is often forgotten: High way officials In negotiations with contractors and prop erty owners are rct handling their own money, in the case of the frreway system, It Is largely federal money. In the end, this Is the people's money. They are charged .with handling it prudently. "They have ttj follow careful guidelines. This some times make them appear to be 'tough.' But ... the line between 'toughness' and 'looseness' Is apparently a narrow one. . "In a program as big as this, the highway depart ment cannot escape criticism from one side or an other. In this case, it is getting it from both sides." DRINGING these generalities down to our own situation, the commission's offer, while below some estimates of the value of the park land, was also considerably above lhe city, if it is imaginative and forward looking, will be able to park properties, and develop them, at least m part, for the eventual benefit of the entire area. And while we hate Hawthorne park, we do the state's offer would thing except, perhaps, to take the city into a condemnation suit, where it might have lost more than it could have gained. in this instance.. we believe the counci decid ed wisely. E.A. Ideals to the great relief of his conscience. we will know what his nrl ni'af a-ia-rl frit f - no f Vi n uiiuviouiU) iui w tio me very essence of living in many parts of the world, it is also, once every lour of the united btates, fact, as reported by the choice of their own. the Mail Tribune's Fam reported, the nation as poll taxes, discrimina requirements, or what commission was coming of the new freeway in already divided by the itself, and would, in ad the damage will be con )' to go down Bear creek the commission's offer us to be a fair one. And course, in a situation of at the same time which probably doing its best similar lines, the Ore this to say: other estimates. use the money to acquire to lose the full value of not see that balkintr at have accomplished any MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Dennis the Menace TVEBEBN Wm LIVER TOUCUAGMQXW. HE Communications Letters to the Editor must bear th nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances th us of a pan nam or initial for publication is permissible. Th Mail Tribune reserves th right to edit all Utters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Th letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views ol th paper; in fact th contrary is Lavs and th City To the Editor: I have won dered for many years why the people of Medford rake all of their leaves and debris from their yards into the gut ters. I rake my leaves, and carry them to my back yard, where I dump them for mulch for my flower beds. People will spend much money for sawdust and Multi-Bark, when they have leaves which are much better. If they don't go into the gutters, they smudge up so bad we can't breathe, by burning. Take a look at the Kla math Falls streets, and then look at ours. Are we proud of this? We have a drainage ditch in our front yard on the street. For seven years we have been after the city to dig it out. Because of their ex cessive street cleaning, they have ignored us. We under stand that our taxes pay for this sort of thing. And we feel we are entitled to it. Shall we next get down our hands and knees and beg or shall we continue to pay high taxes for something we don't get? I hope someone will take an interest in this Thank you. (Name on file) Medford Bang-Up Halloween To the Editor: I would like to thank all the Medford resi dents who so thoughtfully gave paper-wrapped treats to the goblins knocking on their doors on Halloween. Some of you, I'm sure, had to short your own grocery list to include a large carton of gum or candy bars. Those of us. who have little ones appre ciate the work that it took for some of you to pop corn, make candy or cookies, and then wrap them individually It you could see the beaming faces over the tray full of goodies, which will last for weeks as after-dinner treats, you would know that your work was not in vain. It is true that some goblins and witches do not seem ap preciative at the time. But after scraping soap from our windows and cleaning eggs smashed candy, pieces of pumpkin and paper wrappers from our sidewalk, I still want to thank all of you on behalf of the little ones for giving them a bank-up Hal loween. Sally S. Champlin, 621 J st. Medford Many Thanks To the Editor: Wt wish to lake this opportunity to thank the Medford Mall Tribune for the very nice Item on the front page of Thursday's paper, con cerning my return to the stand In the courthouse. We are also very grateful to the Crater Lions club for getting us start ed in this new venture, to Dick Moody and station KMED for their treatment of this news, and to the many old friends, especially Ben, as well as the many new ones, who have come by to wish us well. To all a sincere thank you. John E. Ragsdale 125 South Holly St. Medford Why Laughf To the Editor: My little girl ii not quite 8 years old yet. and her faith in people is still (we hope) as pure as God can make it. Recently. I sent her down to a store. When she re turned home, she was very ex cited. They were having an auction in town and had a pi ano. She asked if she might have it, because she loves mu sic and seems to have a natu ral talent for piano. I tried to explain we couldn't bpy it now, But sh said sht K.id $2 III I ffil s often th case. in the bank; she could use that. I told her it wouldn't be enough, but she said she would like to try. So I gave in and got her the $2. Happily and " very bright eyed she set off. In my heart, I knew she would never suc ceed in her mission. But when she returned home, down cast and dejected, tears framing her eyes, my heart broke. The disappointment of be ing turned down was bad enough. But did they have to laugh at her? How are we parents ever going to help our children to learn to respect others when grown ups have no respect for the child's feelings? She of fered the man every penny she had. She earned It all by helping in the house. We can only hope there are not too many people in the world who have so little regard for oth ers, child or grownup. Mrs. Ruth Luplnl 455 North Sixth st. Central Point, Ore. Washington Apple Crop Boycotted Yakima - (iiPD - The Team sters Union Monday an nounced it was starting a na tionwide boycott of Washing ton state's multi-million dol lar apple crop in connection with a strike thai began Aug. 27. The boycott was announced by James Farrington, secre tary-treasurer of Fruit and Vegetable Packers Local 760 of the Teamsters. Farrington said the action was ordered after negotiations to settle the strike, which has idled 1,300 workers, had fail ed to bring a settlement. He said the boycott would begin in California, particu larly in the Los Angeles area. Farrington said pamphlets bearing the message, "Don't Buy Washington State Ap ples." are being distributed by Teamster Union members in all parts of the country. The local also began picket ing the Ackley Fruit compa ny plant near here Monday, bringing the number of fruit warehouses being picketed in the Yakima valley to 33. Blue Scout Jr. Space Try Fails Cape Canaveral, Fla, - IUPD -A U. S. attempt to probe 24,500 miles into space failed today when a "poor man's" rocket malfunctioned and dropped its small payload into the Atlantic ocean minutes after blast-off. The Air Force fired the slender, four-stage Blue Scout Jr. on a trajectory that was supposed to take 29.4 pounds of radiation measurement de vices on a 10-hour trip into space. The payload was designed to conduct studies scientists said could lead to a system for detecting high-altitude nu clear explosions triggered by any nation on earth. The Air Force announced two hours after the launching that "preliminary telemetry reports indicate an early burn out of the second stage mo tor" In the solid-fueled ve hicle. This "reduced the over-all performance of the Blue Scout Jr." and sent it plung ing into the Atlantic ocean about 250 miles southeajf of th cape, tht Air Fore id. Awesome President By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor American voters today place upon the shoulders of one man the most awesome bur den ever to be borne by a single individual. A m i n ute with pencil and paper pro duces a list of more than a dozen major world prob lems which the new presi- dent must meet. Some are so Dress ing that he scarcely will have a chance to take off his coat and roll up his sleeves before having to deal with them. Some go back through both Republican and Democratic administrations but have be come no less important with time. List of Problems All are Hanpprnne anrl all have in them, if tint the rtne. sibilities M world war, at least tne possibility of changing world history. Here is the list: Dtsarmament. Nuclear control. The Algerian revolt. Divided Korea. Southeast Asia-Laos and Ger- Viet Nam. Berlin and divided many. Washington Report By William S. Whit UNITY IS THE NEED Washington - As the long struggle over the American presidency end3 at last, the affairs of the world beyond urgently de mand an at tention which for weeks they have not had here. We have all been so intent on how two American par ties were going in our East that we have largely ignored what has been going on in the Far East. Communist China has not been idle there while we have had our political cam paign here. Indeed, this very November will be a critical month, in the view of American intelli gence officials Involved in a cold war and not in our war of ballots. Next week's gath ering tn Moscow of world communism's leaders may well determine the future shape of Soviet relations with the United States and the rest of the West. HOW far will the cold ffln9tir-ixm nf tha nnumrf.il Chinese Communists push Ni kita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union into a tougher line to ward the West? Some experts here believe that Khrushchev, under Red China's snnr mav open new pressures on the western position in Berlin to take advantage of the haitus here resultine? from th mm. ing change in administrations. Again, wnile we here have been watching with hot inter est what has been hannpninff between political parties in our norm, France has been Watchine with rnlrt hnnntoe. ness what has been happening in ner North Africa. The bloody Moslem rebellion to tear Algeria frnm Frnncj, nn. tered its seventh year just the other day-and with ever growing Communist interfer ence on the side of the rebels. And even as our own peo ple were preparing to go quietly to the polls, here, a left wing splinter movement in Britain was raising in creasingly shrill cries at a conservative British r. nvnrn. ment's decision to permit American missile-firing sub marines to be based in Scot land. e ALL around the world, great potential perils have been gathering: peril to the West In general in the mass ing of world Communism planners in Moscow; peril to the Western Alliance in France's long agony in Al geria; pern to the ancient Anglo-American partnership from the shrill hnatilr sures of minority laborites in London. So the new Anierirnn Pri. ident will come into power in a world of helchtenine ten- sions and dangers. He must somehow find a way to strengthen the alliance of (he West. He must somehow as sist France, our oldest allv. even though he will certainly not be able to support France in Algeria. (Both our parties have long since gone over to nrartirnlK autnmatir aiinnrtrt of all so-called "independ ence" movements, good or bad, and against all so-called Colonialism, bad or good.) HE MUST somehow work in true tandem with a Bri tish Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. whose greatest iiuinv aueugiii lies oeen ..is- '"St William t. White List of Problems Facing New in Foreign The rise of neutralism. The future U.S. attitude to ward the United Nations. Cuba. Other Latin American rela tion;. The Middle East-Palestine, and relations with the United 'Arab Republic, Iraq and Jor dan. The Congo and the contest for influence among the new African nations. Trade and U.S. foreign aid. Roots in Cold War Most of these have their roots in the cold war relation ship between the United States and its allies on the one, hand, and Communist Russia and its allies on the Wilson Gives Tips for Vote Watchers on Election Night By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - IUPD - Best ad vice for the political amateur who will be hearing the re turns tonight on TV or ra dio: Listen close ly to the pop ular returns. Leave the more complex calculation of the electoral vote trend to iie c. wiisoT the experts. The comparative popular vote usually indicates the presidential election trend many hours before there can be any definite allocation of electoral votes. This tends to be true whether the election is close of lop-sided.. A land slide, of course, begins to identify itself strongly in early returns. The 1948 Truman -Dewey election was close, especially so in several states such as Illinois, which HST carried by a hairline 'margin. Even so, the hourly United Press com- Anti-Sweetland Pamphlets Result In Filth Arrest Hillsboi-o -IUPD- The arrest of a fifth person in the anti Monroe Sweetland pamphlet distribution case was disclosed Monday afternoon with (he appearance of Mrs. udrey Henry, Portland, before Wash ington county distVict court. She was charged in a pri vate complaint by James E. Wolford, a resident of the county. She was specifically charged with "assisting in dis tributing a false political pub lication attacking the charac ter, morality and integrity of a candidate." She was released on her own recognizance with no date set for a preliminary hearing. Four other persons were ar rested earlier in Multnomah county in connection with the pamphlets. Meanwhile, in Portland, Mrs. Louise Gronnert, one of those indicted last Friday, filed suit for $200,000 against Sweetland and Dist. Atty. Charles E. Raymond. She seeks 550,000 from Sweet land, alleging slander in state ments she claimed he made Oct. 25. She also seeks S150, 000 from Sweetland and Ray mond, charging conspiracy to have her indicted. Sweetland is the Demo cratic candidate for secretary of state. PLANE LANDS SAFELY Jacksonville, Fla. (UPI) A Navy transport plane carrying Rear Adm. David L. McDon ald and 53 other persons turned back from 200 miles at sea Monday and made an emergency landing here after one of its four engines failed. The plane had taken off frov.t the Mayport, Fla., naval air station from a rendezvous with the carrier U.S.S. Sara toga on duty in the Mediter ranean. friendship with a President who is retiring, Dwight Ei senhower. Thus, the new American President will require a rea sonably united United States of America-this above all. H is, therefore, of immeasurable value that our campaign at home was, . on the whole. fought with responsibility and without creating wide, lasting divisions among the people. This, an unbroken nation, is the best of all our weapons fpr the new years now ahead. We here at home are "glad it is all over now," speaking of the compaign. But the diplomats here from friendly countries are "unspeakably glad that it is"-and that it did not tear us apart-as one of them just told this corre spondent, mopping his face. (Copyright. 1960, by Ujited Feature Syndic!, Ink ) Relations other, especially Red China And this must remain the No. 1 problem. Within each of the prob lems listed above are numer ous smaller ones. For example, United States foreign policy is keyed to the United Nations. But what hap pens if Red China should be admitted to the UN over U.S. opposition? U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold Is trusted by the United States as an ex ponent of rue democracy. But his term of office runs out in 1963 and Russia already has pledged that neither he nor his like will ever hold the of fice again. What does the U.S. do then? pilation of popular votes in 1948 showed Truman leading in the first few hundreds of votes tabulated. He never was headed. Big Stales Important Vice President Richard M. Nixon's chance of being elect ed President seems to depend on his pulling power in seven big states - California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, New York ani in Michigan. LAeonard W. Hall of New York is N i x o n's campaign manager. Hall bases his claim that Nixon will win on be lief that the Republicans will carry five of those seven, los ing only Michigan and New York. If those, and two or more of the other big ones, ap Political Experts Shaken by Gorilla Election Candidate By DICK WEST Washington - (UPI) - Political experts here were thrown into a dither today by the last- minute entry of a gorilla as a write-in can didate in one of the Georgia c ongrcssional races. Most human politicians de rived little comfort from the fact that the gorilla's candidacy was regarded as a joke in his home district. Some of them recalled that they themselves were regard ed as jokes when they first got into politics. To them, therefore, the gorilla was no laughing matter. There was no doubt that congressional candidates of both parties the country over would be keeping a close watch on the election returns tonight to see how the gorilla fared. If he receives any sizeable support, outside of the zoo, it will add a new dimension to the election post - mortems Wednesday. Some of the win ners may have to reevaluate their positions and undertake agonizing reappraisals before the next election. Further Clouds Picture The gorilla's hat, or pelt, was thrown into the ring too late to have any impact on the pre-election polls. Conse quently, it was viewed here as another imponderable in the already clouded election picture. Campaign strategists of both parties were reluctant to comment on the development publicly for fear of further Try and tjysry fir. By BENNETT CERF- HARRY OLIVER, self-proclaimed "desert rat," owns wise old dog named Whiskers. Oliver noted tha9 Whiskers was growing just a wee bit deaf, so he bough.fr him a hearing aid. Whis kers mistook the aid for a new kind of dog bis cuit and swallowed it. "Now," maintains Oliver with a perfectly straight face, "poor old Whiskers keeps hearing his stomach rumble and thinks it's thunder. He keeps scampering inside the house to get out of the rain." Oliver is the Inventor of the annual Palm Snrintre law rlntf contest. The laziest dog and its owner both get prizes. The contefft was discontinued after a fiasco in 1957. Both the dog and) its owner were too lazy to move ten feet and collect theUJ prizes. "Who says it never rains in our desert?" demands Oliver "We had a 6-inch rain only last September. By that I meanj that the drops were six inches apart." e e Harpo Marx, who talks plenty in private life, defines Caiifor nia as a state washed on one ilda by the Pacific and cleaned or th other by Lu Vagus, , a uea. by BMBttt Ctrl DJtufiwHl It SIbm fHtucM SmAiwM i TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1660 Field In Algeria, the United States faces a real dilemma. To support France mean.-; o risk the friendship of Afri- m nations supporting l:ei:in rebel demands for indcoen ence. To support the rebels means risking the friendship of France and possibly the future of NATO. And aside from all this is the practical certainty that one or more of the great world leaders will pass from the scene in the next four years. Chancellor Konrad Adenau er of West Germany is 84. President De Gaulle of France is 70, Nehru of India, 70, and Chiang Kai-Shek, 72. Nona has a visible heir. pear to be drifting away from Nixon in late evening returns, go to bed-the election probab ly is over. Early indication of Repub lican weakness in Kansas, In diana and Illinois would mean that the GOP comeback in the Midwest has been stopped dead-und that Sen. John F. Kennedy will be elected. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio returns will indicate the extent to which President Eisenhower has been able to help Nixon in the whirlwind campaign' windup. A Nixon victory in all three would constitute a 64-gun salute to Ike's political oomph - and it would mean the White House for his boy. confusing the voters. Soma said privately that it probably was a local matter which would be forgotten after tho election. "It's just another indica tion of how badly the Demo crats are split," a minor Re publican functionary opined, after being assured he would not be quoted by name. He admitted, however, that he had no solid evidence that the Georgia gorilla was a Democrat or that there might not be gorillas in other zoos of the Republican persuasion. Factions Search Zoos In general, the reaction in political circles here could be described as "whistling in the dark." There was an under current of apprehension, based partly on unconfirmed re ports that certain splinter fac tions already were visiting zoos in search of future standard-bearers. Nor could it be forgotten that Pogo, a comic strip pos sum, received considerable backing in one of the previous campaigns, particularly in ju venile and "egg-head" groups. In attempting to assess the situation calmly, I would say that we can look forward after the election to a closing-of-the-ranks among human politic ians, regardless of their dif ferences. No congressman is likely to attack another congressman too sharply if he has reason to believe that both might be replaced by gorillas. There are some observers, of course, who scoff at the prospects of a gorilla ever holding public office. But there was a time, you know, when they thought the same thing about women. Stop Me 0
