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"Everyone Id Southern Orecon Readi The Mail Tribune'1 Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North rir St.. Ph 8P J-141. ROBERT W "RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advei-tislni Manafar uKKALU T LA1HAM BUS llgT ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Edltol EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soortl Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation B1T An Indenendent Newinaoer Entered at second class matter at , Medford. orfRon unner aci oi March 3. Uin KITRSCRIPTION RATES Ily Mail In Advance Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 vear along Dally and 8undey- mos M Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4 JS Sunday Only One vear 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eaitla Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rotjue Rlv mw Talant and Alt iTintnr mUttS Dolly and Sunday I vear 1B0O Dally and Sunday I mo I. SO Carrier and Dealers copy I0e AJI Terms Cash In Advanc "f'lclaf Paoer of Cltv of Mrdfofd Official Paper of Jackson Conntf United Press International Full Leased Wire O P.I Telephoto Newsplcturas MEMBER Or AUDIT BimEAtT OFCIRCU1.ATIONS XdvertMne Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of- ttmm In WU Vorlt ChlOSCO DC trolt. San FrnncUco. Los AnReles. Seattle. Pnrnand t liouis i- lnpta. Vancouver. B C "O" NEWSPAMt. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI A SIS 0 elf T IO h Z J J riiniM .'.II.'.MII Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ol Tht Mall Tribun. 10, 20, 30 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1950 (Thursday) The Medford city council last night voted to lake legal action against businesses which have not purchased or renewed their business li censes by Dec. 1. Oregon's public welfare ad ministrator has promised to investigate the distribution of Jackson county welfare funds. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1940 (Saturday) A burst of bombs in the sky Monday morning will sig nify the opening of the annual American Legion Armistice Day celebration here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mon day is the 22nd anniversary of the end of the war, that was going to be the last one- but wasn t. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1930 (Sunday) Jackson county cast a SO per cent vote, the highest in years, at the last election. Many local persons are won dering what to do now since the electorate turned down a bill that would have banned commercial fishing in the Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1920 (Tuesday) The Medford football team Is drilling hard for its annual Armistice Day game with Ashland. A New England dinner will be served to Ashland residents by the Wednesday Afternoon club on Armistice Day. SO YEARS AGO . Nov. 9. 1910 (Wednesday) Oswald West, who won the governorship of Oregon by an estimated 4,000 votes, was the only Democrat to be elected to slate-wide office in yester day's election. The prohibition measure was soundly defeated In Ore gon yesterday by an estimated 15,000 votes. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan corract li luparlar; 11 von or aighr U axcelUnt) Nva at tlx (s good. 1. Does an electric fish ac tually discharge electricity? 2. What is the fleur-de-lis called In America? 3 Who Is called the "Father of Baseball"? 4. When signing a bill docs the President always Indicate In writing the time of sign ing? 5. "A soft answer turneth away-:" What? 6. Add two numbers lo this logical numbers series: 3 9 7 8 18 16 9 27 25 12. 7. A mathematician who works on insurance problems Is called an underwriter, ac tuary, cartographer, or agent? 8. Lundrum Griffith and Taft-Hartley deal with what subject? 8. Unscramble these cities: Sallad, Oslobn. Tatlecs, Tuble. 10. May a United States President veto a declaration of war made by the Congress? j Answersi 1. Yes. 2. The iris. 3, Abner Doubleday. 4. Not only, when time is of extreme importance. S. Wrafh. (. 36 34. 7. Actuary. 8. Labor. 9. Dal las, Boston, Seattle, Buite. 10. Yes.. Campaign Is the campaign too This year, even more than in past years, we have heard complaints that it is; that candidates are kept on the road too long, that they suffer Irom "over-exposure, tends to get weary of it all. There is merit in these complaints. But some of the proposals, that campaigning not start until the first take into consideration politics, particularly on TTHIS is a huge nation, miles from Maine to to Florida. With some are separated into diverse groups with diverse interests and problems, it takes a certain amount of time for a national campaign to "jell," and it can t be rushed too much. On the state level, however, there is a lot to be said for shortening the campaign. Starting early in April, the candidate is kept on the run until the primary in late May, then, after a brief respite, he is kept going again through the summer and fall until the first Tues day after the first Monday in November. XE SEE no reason why Oregon s primary elec- tion should be held so early. Wouldn't Aug ust or early September do It would have the advantage of "bunching" all the local politics into period, and also would posure time for the candidates, without drag ging the debate on ad nauseum. The legislature may possibilities of such a thing. Some of its mem bers already are discussing it. E.A. Our Staff and Politics . Ypsrprrlnv afternnnn a notice which had been on the Mail Tribune's bulletin board since early last spring finally was taken down. It said this: "All News Staff: "As 19G0 is an election year, it Is probable that each of you will be called upon to do some reporting of political events. "This is reminder (probably not needed) that we must guard against slanting such coverage, either in tentionally or unintentionally, and write it as 'straight' as we know how. "There are three things, principally, to watch: "1. Don't be influenced by your own political leanings, whatever they may be. "2. Don't be Influenced by friendships with candi dates or political party officials. "3. Don't be Influenced by the Mail Tribune's edi torial position on candidates or measures. Opinion be longs on Page 4 NOT in the news columns." a LIOW well our staff, which includes members of both political parties, lived up to these in structions we must leave to the judgment of our eaders. Mistakes were made. justices to candidates happened. (Once, a major candidate s name was story. It was the result although you d never convince him or. that.) But, despite these commission, their record, we tninK, was good. They followed instructions. They wrote it as "straight as they knew how. They made every effort to keep the news columns fair and im partial. We are exceedingly proud of each of them. E.A. Which? There is a man in Ashland, a friendly type, who writes a column for the daily newspaper there. Not long ago he wrote one criticizing the Medford school system for "over-emphasis" on athletics. Too much push-push-push, he opined. It was pointed out to him that athletics -is just one phase of a well-rounded school program of curriculum and activities, and that most Medford athletes were also scholars. a a A WEEK or so later, however, he came out with "a blast at Southern Oregon college for lack of enthusiasm and student participation at football games. He records the fact that he attended three different colleges, and that, "in each instance, the members of the student bodv attended all home football games OR ELSE.'' And while he didn't ing games should be made compulsory, he hinted strongly that he thought it would be a good idea. NE poet remarks, "Consitency, thou art a jewel," while another writer declares that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." But we do wish our friend would make up his mind. If athletics in high school should not be over emphasized on the participation level, why should it.be over-emphasized in college on the spectator level And we can think of few things drearier than attending some sort of event football, tiddle winks or discussion group in which we have no interest, particularly when we have better things to do. E.A. Too Long? long? and that the electorate of October, say, do not the realities of American a national scale. stretching thousands of Hawaii, and from Alaska 180 million people, who just as well? a three or four month provide adequate "ex wish to consider the Some inadvertent in completely lelt out of a of a typographical error, errors of omission and exactly say that attend MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Dennis the Menace iJlllllSlrWl "l&U SURE GOT A NfBWSMFE!' ' Communications Letters lo the Editor must beat the name and eddress of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is World War I Vets To the Editor: Over 41 years ago veterans of World War I were discharged from service with $60, an old worn out uniform, no job, and there were no laws to make the boss give him his old job back. Some difference with World War II. They could draw $20 per week for 52 weeks, or until they got a job they could borrow up to $20,- 000 to buy a business or farm and they could go to school and gel paid while going. I wonder if World War II vet erans know who got all these benefits for them? Veterans of World War 1 now need pensions. Their av erage age is 66 years. They need the younger veteran's help now. If they don't get help soon they won't need il, for they are dying at the rate of 130,000 per year, 360 each day, one every four min utes. Yes, veterans of World War I got the adjusted insurance (called bonus), $1.25 per day for overseas service and $1 per day for home service. But they had to wait until 1945 to get it, if they lived that long. Then there was the great depression. Some of the vet erans went to Washington in hopes of getting some of the bonus money to feed their families. You know what hap pened. President Hoover or dered General MacArthur to run them out of Washington. The General carried the order out to the letter, with help from a young officer named Eisenhower. Some of the vet erans were shot, the resl were run out and their belong ings burned. That was a proud day in American history. I don't think any of these great men can ever forget what they did to those veterans. Remember those veterans were unarm ed, ragged, hungry, and some had their wives and children with them,. Yet some folks will say lliose were ine good old days. C. A. Krelschmcr 734 SW Burgess Grants Pass, Ore. Keep 'Em Coming To the Editor: You are to be commended for your pa tience and lack of prejudice in continuing to print letters from crackpots condemning the Herblock cartoons. They are the first thing I look at when I open the paper. I voted for Eisenhower and I'm voting for Nixon, but I still think that Oct. 28 car toon was amusing and straight to the point. Keep them coming and keep them right on the front page. Stan Pardee 1260 Iowa st. Ashland, Ore. Interesting World To the Editor: As these lines are being written the eastern sky has just come ablaze. Those who miss watch ing some of our sunrises miss half the day, along with the sunset we witnessed last eve ning from Mt. Ashland's sum mit. I am led to wonder why so many persons kiep their faces down and dim t look up? Reminds me of the closing theme song on a Sunday radio program. It goes like this: Keep looking up. thy God is still the same today. Keep looking up, He will not fail thee come what may. Keep looking up the darkest cloud will pass away. So do not doubt but keep on looking up. Yes. some of us get so em broiled in the cares of this life, in even politics, that we somehow fail to realize that God still rules. l often the case. Several days ago we drove over to the coast. Along the way some things attracted our attention which made us chuckle a bit. We'd seen the' ad about a 7-day sale with acres of free parking, etc., etc, His acres were there alright, on state highway property. and the 7 days were going right on past the deadline. Only thing they didn't have was red tape, so it said. I use red oxide coated tape in my recorders so I didn't bother to stop. Then some eye catching signs began to ap pear. "Live Dragon," "Giant Toads," "Rattlesnakes." We noted a number of cars. Being in a hurry we couldn't wait for crowds, so we kept going, .The mammoth redwoods and the ever troubled sea were beautiful. The return trip was also interesting, even at lunch time. A jar of honey got spilled on the seat. We "stuck" together all the way home. As we c a m e on by where the fabulous' dragons, rattlers, cobras, etc., were we decided we'd have to come back later and spend a couple of days. The same cars were still there. It must be a long tour. One friend whom I ask ed about the dragon said, "Sure, we dragged-on through the place." I did think of stop ping for the free souvenir I've always wondered about taking up the offer of some hotels. "Kids free it says I could sleep in the car. Well we have a interesting world. Henry Johnson Jr 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Thank You To the Editor: Our thanks for a fine paper, especially during this Presidential cam paign. We have profited by the editorials, both E.A.'s and the syndicated columns. Our vote goes to Mr. Porter, thanks to you and some of your letters from 4th district Oregonians. Potpourri we like, too, and feel your news is as authentic as is possible. Mrs. Frank Madden Route 1, Box 100 Cottage Grove, Ore. P.S. - Forgot to mention - our vote is for Mr. Kennedy also. Mobutu Fights To Curb Lumumba Leopokiville -IUPU- Strong man Col. Joseph Mobutu fought today to keep pro- Soviet Premier Patrice Lu mumba from staging a power comeback while President Joseph Kasavubu is out of the country. Mobutu declared flatly Tuesday night he would not permit Parliament to meet un less Moise Tshombe. secession ist-minded president of Ka tanga province and arch-foe of Lumumba, agrees to par ticipate. Tshombe already has de clared he will not take part in any government in which Lumumba is involved. Area Bank Officials At Eugene Meeting Phoenix-Managers and as sistant managers of a number of branches of the First Na tional Bank of Oregon met at the Eugene hotel, Eugene, Nov. 1 where they were intro duced to their new president, Ralph J. Voss. Included in the group pres ent from the Rogue valley were Joe Moore, manager of the Medford branch: Cliff Ay res, manager of the Cen tral Point branch: R. C. Isaacs, manager of the jsh- Kennedy, FDR, Compared; Wilson Eyes Nixon's Mistakes in Election Campaign By LYLE C. WILSON Washlngton-rtlPD-The Demo crats have come up with another break-away runner in the image of their all-time all Ameri can, FDR! Sen. John F. Ken nedy ran for presi dent in the Roosevelt tra dition. Not only did he Lyi. r. wni lane me Dig cities in the big states with their great clusters of elec toral votes. Kennedy also blasted smal ler communities off their Re publican foundations. Batavia and Rome, N.Y., for example, small cities with Republican traditions like that of an old time Union League club. An aging staff officer of the original New Deal forces sum med it up a fortnight before polling day after Kennedy's imperial progress through the city of New York. "Can't Be Beat" "That fella," said the old New Dealer, "can't be beat. We've got another Roosevelt. He smiles out of the back of his head. We're back in the White House for sure." Republicans will blame their candidate for a massive party defeat. Some GOP stra tegists were complaining in September and early October that Vice President Richard M. Nixon's campaign was too soft. Some of them continued to complain of too little and too late after Nixon went all out in the stretch drive. From the campaign side line it appeared to this ob server that Nixon lost this presidential election in defer ence to the solid sports max im that the best defense is not enough to win the ball game. The offensive team gets the scores. Circumstances and fancy Democratic strategy put Nix on on the defensive in this campaign. There were other President of UN Calls Committee On Congo Dispute United Nations, N.Y. - UPD -General Assembly President Frederick M. Boland summon ed the credentials committee into session this morning to decide a battle between rival delegations seeking to repre sent The Congo. Delegations sent by Congo lese President Joseph Kasa vubu and the leftist-leaning premier he deposed, Patrice Lumumba, have been in New York since the assembly open ed in September but the Con go scat has been kept vacant. The full assembly was called lo meet this afternoon for the second round of the Congo debate which brought a charge from the Soviet Union Tuesday that the Uni ted States wanted to "liqui date" the Lumumba regime and replace it with a "pup pet" government. Kasavubu, addressing the assembly h I m self, declared that only he had power to appoint a U.N. delegation and that the one named by Lumumba was illegal. He read a list of his dele gates but the Katanga news services in New York report ed later that one of them, Everist Kimba, foreign min ister of the mineral-rich seces sionist province of Katanga, refused to serve. Ismael Toure of Guinea in troduced an eight-power reso lution calling for recognition of Lumumba's delegation. He insisted delegates appointed by Kasavubu had no legal power until their appointment was ratified by Parliament. PTA Bock fo School Night Well Attended Applegate - The Applegate PTA held a back to school night" recently which was very well attended. The teach ers met with parents and ex plained the courses, teaching and grading methods and par ticipated in a question and an swer period. The program was followed bv a short business session during which a collection was taken up for gifts for mental health patients and a request made for those wish ing to give gifts to bring them to the December meeting. Ap propriate gifts arc yarn, em broidery thread, cosmetic items, but no scissors or sharp items. Refreshments were served by first and second grade mothers. The fifth and sixth grade rooms won the room count. land branch: Chester E. Irish, assistant manager of the Med f o r d branch, and Emmet Whitham, assistant manager of the Ashland branch. Present and future policies of the bank were discussed it the meeting. I factors. In the tidal wave of election news there were bits and pieces suggesting that that there was in fact a mas sive Roman Catholic support of candidate Kennedy in the North and East. Precise analysis of returns from many areas shortly will answer the question which plagued the campaign: Which candidate did the religious issue help or hurt and where? Debates a Mistake The TV confrontations debates, so-called must be put down now by Nixon and his friends as a ghastly mis take. No. 1 apparently dis posed of a big Republican is sue: that Kennedy was a bay sent by the Democrats to do a man's job. Nixon was acclaimed by his supporters as a skilled de bater, a master of the hard hitting campaign. Nixon's en emies called it differently. They said Nixon had an in stinct for the jugular. However that may be, the defensive fighter must back away so long as he is on the defensive. And Nixon backed. Atomic Headache NowChronic In Britain; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Ever since the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiro shima, the world has suffered from what might be call e d atomic headache, fre quent 1 y e x prefsed by ag gressive neu tralism. The throb bing pain in creased with the develop ment of intercontinental mis siles, and this week was reach ing a stage of near-epidemic proportions In Britain. Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE LAST GIMMICK (Written the day before the election.) As evidence that nothing new put forward in the last days of a campaign should be b e lieved or taken serious ly, let us have a look at Mr. Nixon's pro posals on Sun day. He pro posed "to carry the idea of freed o m" into Eastern Europe. The proposal was put forward so late that it could not be de bated. But for the sake of the record and on the chance that Mr. Nixon might be elected, it cannot be ignored. For if the world had any reason to believe that this is a serious American official plan, there would be grave doubts about whether we have any idea where we are or where we are going. Mr. Nixon's plan is that if elected he will invite to this country the leaders of the Communist nations, invite them to make a personal tour of the United States. In re turn for this privilege, he will suggest to them that Indi vidually and collectively they invite President Eisenhower "to carry the torch of free dom" to Poland, East Ger many, Czechoslovakia, Hun gary, Romania, Bulgaria, and - believe it or not - the Baltic states. The Baltic states are Striking Teachers Return To Classes New York - HOT - Striking New York schoolteacher went back to classes today, ending a one-day walkout af ter the board of education promised it would not press any charges against them. The delegate assembly of t h e United Federation of Teachers voted Tuesday night to accept proposals from or ganized labor leaders that they return and submit the strike issues to the board. Three top labor leaders were ready to help mediate, accord ing to Mayor Robert F. Wag ner. None of the city's more than 800 schools was closed in the walkout Monday, but 273 were picketed and the school board said nearly 6,000 teachers were absent, about 4.600 of them apparently be cause of the strike. The UFT. an AFL-CIO af filiate, is seeking equaliza tion of salary stcp-ups. addi tional pay for specialized training, sick pay for full time substitute teachers, duty free lunch periods, a collec tive bargaining election and dues checkoff. i M Waltsr LlQDmarm Kennedy chose to attack the Eisenhower a d m 1 nistration. Nixon chose to defend. The blockbuster issue wnlch proved to be Indefensi ble was the issue of prestige. Nixon must have been aware of that when he insisted and sought to prove that United States prestige was never higher in the world. The vice president was the first and for some time the only top member of the Eisenhower administration to warn the nation of the international im pact of the first Communist Sputnik. The counter-issue Nixon might have developed, but did not, was that if United States prestige had slipped, the slip page was not wholly nor, per haps, even half the responsi bility of the Eisenhower ad ministration. There were many facets to the question of prestige. Prestige Issue Hurts A slippage in U.S. prestige, however, seemed to fit the pattern of world events. And while the vice president and Henry Cabot Lodge were Polaris Involved It came from the announce ment that agreement had been reached to supply anchorage to U.S. missile firing atomic submarines in Holy Loch, in the Clyde River 30 miles from Glasgow. Party Lines Crossed Explosive reaction crossed political party lines and was summed up by an editorial in the Times of London which said: "To put the matter bluntly, the British people do not want the submarines to be going from Holy Loch to Holy Cape - the point near which the Russians claim to have shot down the RB47." The latter was a reference lippmann an integral part of the Soviet Union and, therefore, Mr. Nixon proposes to get Mr. Ei senhower invited to make a tour in Ihe Soviet Union. A ND in Mr. Nixon, we hear, so we are being told, the voice of experience. This greatly informed and deeply experienced world statesman is going to send Mr. Eisen hower to carry the torch of freedom into the Soviet Union. Mr. Eisenhower, who has been refused admission to the So viet Union by the Prime Min ister of the Soviet Union, is somehow to get around Mr. Khrushchev and go into the Soviet Union. He is to go there, so Mr. Khrushchev has now been told by Mr. Nixon, in order to arouse the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, against Mr. Khrush chev. Apparently Mr. Khrush chev will be so charmed with this idea that he will invite Mr. Eisenhower to come and arouse them. Mr. Eisenhower is also to go into East Germany, "alutcd as he arrives we hope by the Red Army, in order to arouse East Germany against the Soviet Union. The same is to happen in each of the captive nations. Individually or collectively, they are to ask Mr. Eisenhow er to come and arouse them. To make sure that their in vitation causes them the greatest amount of trouble, in ruling their restless, they are also to invite Mr. Hoover and Mr. Truman. TT WOULD take a lot of hard - work to think up a more Try and Stop Me ' By BENNETT CERF AN AMBITIOUS COUPLE sent their 12-year-old daugh ter to a fashionable school, hoping to eradicate her tomboy traits. A fortnight later they received this notes "Hi fans! Your worries are over. I'm nally growing very ladylike. All we talk about here is hoys. Please send me .a water pistol. Love, JiH," An executive of the "What's My Line" TV show Just bought a house in Long Island. "It's only twenty-two minutes front Times Square," he boasts "If you're shot out of s cannon!" LIMERICK DEPARTMENT: There was a young man of Devizes Whose ears came In two different size.. The one that was small Was of no use at all But the big one copped numerous pnzrs. O UtO. by Suuutt Cvt, CtjUOuUd t7 Slst ratturv tWliMt (tiONESDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1960 making their all-out defense, Eisenhower admin istration underlings leaked to Kennedy headquarters reports of guv. ernment polls which certified that U.S. prestige had, Indeed, slipped. These polls and the cvi dence of the day by day news seemed to support wholly Kennedy's charges and to im peach Nixon's defense. Nixon might have met and mastered the prestige issue from a dif ferent tack. On most other fronts Ken nedy out-maneuvered his Re publican opposition with promises to out-perform the Eisenhower admin istration over the whole range of gov ernment. Nixon sturdily chal lenged that President Eisen hower had done well and that Kennedy could not do better but would do worse. Nixon did not, however, pin the Democrats on the fact that Kennedy was vague, minus detail, on how he would ac complish his wonders. Nixon and Ike together couldn't make Kennedy an swer: HOW? to the U.S. Air Force recon naisance plane which the Rus sians shot down over inter national waters last July 1, with death to three of its crew members and capture of the other two. It came as a shock lo Bri tons that the American plane had flown from a British base, and, along with the U2 inci dent, quickly was seized upon by neutralists who make it a favorable argument that hasty U.S. action could plunge the world into war. The first of the U.S. missile-firing nuclear submarines, the George Washington, be comes operational next week, and presumably would be the first to use the British base. Its missile is the 28-foot-long, two-stage Polaris which has a range of 1,200 miles car rying a nuclear warhead. Immune to Attack Its deadliness lies not only in its warhead but from the fact that it can be fired under water from a constantly shift ing position practically im mune to counterattack. Violent opposition lo its Scottish base sprang from two main sources. One of these was that vocal branch of the Labor Party which demands destruction of all of Britain's nuclear wea pons. The other was the far more widespread feeling that if the submarine is to operate from a British base, then Britain should be a full partner in determining the circumstances under which its missiles would be fired. The furor has not yet reach ed a state of emergency. But it was another example of growing neutralism in Britain, and of the occasional strains to which Anglo-American re lations are subjected. impossible peace plan. I have done some hard work, and I suppose that Mr. Nixon if elected could write a letter to Mr. Khrushchev calling upon him to resign and inviting him to come and live in Los Angeles. It would not be one bit sil lier. Nor would it show any greater lack of understanding of the nature of the Com munist power, nor would it show a greater lack of ex perience which is supposed to teach a man what he can and what he cannot do. Let us then be glad that the campaigning is over, and that there will not be any more last minute gimmicks. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. w
