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I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1960 "Everyone U) Soutbern Oregon Retdt The Mall Tribune PublUhed baily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINT IN Q CO 31 North fir 8t, Ph 8P 2-4141 ROBERT1 W RlffiC, Editor HERB GREY Advmtliini Manager GERAitD T LATHAM Bus Mrr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Una Edltoi EARL H ADA MB. City Editor HARRY CHIPM Arl, Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE BTARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independenf Newspaper" Entered as second class matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 3 1897 , SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year IIS 00 Dally and Sunday fl mos 8 00 ' Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4JB Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv er. Talent ana on motor routes, Dally and Sunday 1 vear tlBOO Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AH Terms Cash In Advance OfficlaTpaper of City of Medfnrd Official Paper of Jackson County , United PVeii International ruu Leased wire O.P.I Telenhoto Newinlctures TTember o'aTtdit mmEXtT" of ciRUULATiuna Advert. sin Repreientativer WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fice! In New York. Chlcaio De troit. San Francluco. Los Angeles. Beatue, Portland hi. uouis at. Ian ta. Vancouver. B C NEWSPAPIR PUILIIHIRS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIA rfa1IHIMIM'.ll.'.Mil Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History rom the fllai ol The AAail Trlb-jna 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vear ago. 10 YEARS AGIO Nov. 11. 1950 (Saturday) Lewis and Clark college of Portland and San Francisco State will meet In the first annual Pear bowl game here on Thanksgiving. Army Private Don M. Whel den returned to his Medford home today after spending 62 days as a prisoner , of war In communist Korea. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 11. 1940 (Sunday) Funds from the Lions club charity carnival Friday night will be used to purchase two units of "human serum" for local hospitals. From Arthur Perry's r"Ye Smudge Pot" i column: "A number of voters went duck hunting last Tuesday and Re publicans feel like a knot hole dragged through a dish' rag, don't blame them. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1930 (Tuesday) The city observed Armis tice day yesterday with pa rades and speeches and Med ford defeated Bend 1B-6 In a football game. Insurance rates have drop ped In Medford because of the recent purchase by the . city of new fire fighting equip ment. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1920 (Thursday) Local citizens have been urged to mail their Christ mas packages to U. S. armed forces In Germany early. A total of 787 carloads of pears have been shipped from Medford to date. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1910 (Friday) . A bill to close the Rogue river to commercial fishing has passed in the state by at least ZO.OUO votes. A bill providing for the maintenance of the Ashland normal school is now slightly losing in the state but late returns from southern ure gon are expected to pass it. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan cairact It mparlari liven er eiaht It eKcallenti Hre at tlx It flood. 1. In what year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated? 2. What two signers of the Declaration of Independence became presidents? 3. Which government body may bring impeachment pro ceedings against the President of the United Slates? 4. Under which Department does the National Bureau of Standards operate? 5. What noted man declined an appointment of Secretary of State by George Washing ton? 6. What was the last city held by the Moors in Spain? 7. What was Cinderella's coach made from? 8. What Is a lapidary? 9. Which Biblical character lived on locusts and wild honey? 10. What bird can fly back wards? Aniwarsi 1. In 1621. 2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson) 3. U.S. Houia of Representa tives. 4. Commerce. 5. Patrick Henry. S. Granada. 7. Pump kin. 8. Worker In precious stones. 9. John tha Baptist. 10. Humming Bird. Pre-Election Letters The Eugene Register-Guard, in a burst of pardonable pride, had this to say the other day: "The Register-Guard's 'Mal.lbag' was filled to over flowing through the election campaign just completed. In all, 309 letters of opinions from our readers were published in this newspaper between Oct. 1 and Nov. 7. Probably no other paper in the state published as many ..." While tipping our hat to the Guard's liberality with its readers, we can modestly report that during the same period, the Mail Tribune pub lished 354 letters. And. since the R-G prints a Saturday edition and !l j n in six iewer issues. XITH that quibble out of the way, we can go J on to acree with the-editor are a valuable and well-read part of any newspaper. The Guard said : ". . . To know that so many cared enough to take time to sit down and write letters to the editor was a welcome refutation of the thought that the public ' has become disinterested in our political processes." All in all, it made pretty lively reading, and we think and hope that everyone is the better for the free play of opinion on diverse subjects. n. A. Election Count Too Slow The polls closed at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. A host of people workincr for radio and tele vision stations and newspapers spent most of the night gathering: returns from precinct count ing boards, posting the figures in columns, and adding them, so that the public could know, as soon as possible, the results of its decisions. All through Wednesday, in Jackson county, the vote count dragged on. Enough returns came in so that the outcome of most of the races were known with fair certainty. But it wasn't until Thursday morning that the last of the precincts reported their totals, which in turn were added to the totals added earlier, to give the final results final, that is, except for the absentee ballots, which in at least one case, could change a local election race. IN addition to the reporters and others who spent the night working, there were the ladies of the counting boards. . In at least one case a precinct counting board, largely made up of women of more than middle age, simply gave up in pure exhaustion and went home to bed with many ballots still uncounted. '" Why is this horse-and-btiggy sort of business still tolerated in the second half of the 20th Century? Some states have voting machines, which, while expensive, completely eliminate such de lays and needless expenditure of time and energy. ( IN the long run, by eliminating the cost of count ing - boards, they would pay for themselves. And, in addition to the big, costly machines, there should be other devices possible to speed the process, economically. Charles Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News Review, suggests that ballots could be printed on stiff paper, then either punched or marked with a special pencil. Then the ballots could , be brought to the courthouse cial electronic machine complete results available within a few hours of the closing of the polls. There are two counts tion night, and the slow, canvass. A new system last count the onicial one, thus saving even more money, time and uncertainty. Adequate safeguards could be devised, and the whole operation would, presumably, pay for itsell within a year, it sounds as though it should be pursued. A ND, as Stanton also "legislative action to permit such an investi gation on a statewide basis. He adds: "In fact, Gov. Mark Halfield, when he was Secre tary of State, promised me some investigation would be made. If we had an Investigation, I never was told of any results ... "The next legislature, in my opinion, should pass a resolution authorizing tests concerning a more mod ern method for counting election ballots. A moderate, amount of money should be available to be used in pilot tests. Different systems could be tried In a few smaller counties, until the most satisfactory, least ex pensive, method was found. "It seems to me we should be doing something to replace an obsolete, slow, expensive and inefficient system with something modern." We agree wholeheartedly. E. A. Boy! Would a personal note be forgiven? We were sort of tired after the election. It was a strain, and going 38 hours with only 3 'a hours sleep, from Tuesday morning to Wednes day night, didn't help any. We were feeling the encroaching years. Then, just this morninir, the nicest thine hap pened. The Ashland paper arrived, and we found ourself referred to as "the boy editor." lioy editor ! We haven t felt quite so com plimented since our younvrer dauehter ( now well into her teens) looked up at us from the inno cence of her three years and said, "Daddy, you got big boo eyes." E.A. the M-T doesn't, we did the Guard that letters-to and run through a spe for counting, with the now the fast one elec laborious, official vote could make the first, points out, it would take Dennis the Menace Mrs. Wilson is cookm' boast beef 'tatobs 'rt 3rWY, CORN.AN' APPU PIE'. WSOilOPTrtAT?' Washington Report By WILLIAM TRIALS AND REWARDS Washington The young, toughly able and devoted man who has won this election has won more than a deci sion over his political oposi- tion. He has won a presi dency without 1 o s i n g a na tion's unity. He has op- whit an immense, historic opportunity to be magnanimous in victory and to forward his country s highest interests and purposes. He has won the right to be big enough to bring his young. also toughly able and also de voted opponent up from this defeat into a close, creative advisory association with the new administration. Thus could a truly all-na tional front be drawn up against the brooding menaces of an iron-curtained world which could not care less whether this nation calls It self "Democratic" or "Repub lican" so long as it stands as the great barrier to the de signs of Imperialist Commun ism. 1VIUS could a genuine bl- partisanship in action, at the highest level, be brought abous. Thus could the United States continue to have the services and the ideas of both of the two men who have conducted the most gallant, the most demanding and the most rewarding po litical campaign in our his tory. It was the most gallant be cause each man bravely car ried on his back an "X" of special cruelty John Ken nedy in the so-called religious issue; Richard Nixon in the "I-don't-like-his-face" issue. It was the most demanding be cause never before had a pair of aspirants to the presidency borne for so many long weeks such physical arid emotional and nervous burdens in going out to see so many voters in so many places. It was, in part, the most rewarding because never be fore had aspirants answered so fully and with such com parative candor the demands not only of each other but of the public. But in the main it was so rewarding because we reach ed election night in this gen eral awareness: While we had seen a tremendous fight we had seen a fight which was, so far as the two top figures were concerned, a clean and decent one all the way. It was a struggle worthy of a grown Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF IRVING LAZAR, legendary Hollywood agent, got his start in World War II when he persuaded General Hap Arnold to sponsor a show about the Air Force, and then obtained the services of Moss Hart to put the show over. "Winged Victory" was the result, and so suc cessful it was that Lazar was promoted from lieu tenant to captain. Unfortunately, how ever, the company to which Capt. Lazar was assigned was composed of men just released from army prisons and stock ades as tough a crew of malcontents as ever loathed a commanding officer. The first time Capt. Lazar addressed them two rocks flew past his head. The second time there was a riot. Lazar, 5-foot-4, might have met his end there and then, but the fact is that his pursuers actually lost him in the fog. Lazar today drives about Hollywood and sells story prop erties for several times what other agents think they are worth. C I960, by Bauutt Cut DUUibutcil by King retime Sjrallate S. WHITE up country in this sixth dec ade of the 20th century. TT was said that they were 1 both men of great ambi tion and so they were. But it was an ambition, for all Its heat, which never caused either to attempt to seize the great prize at the cost of tear ing apart this country, the last, best hope for peace and order In this world. Never before, in this col umnist's experience as a po litical writer, had two presi dential candidates been, in the last analysis, so nearly free of all small-time partisan nas- tiness. The public, I believe, had widely sensed this, long before the campaign trails would wind to an end. This is the explanation why so many hated, as they would put it, to see cither man lose This is why, apart from the handful who take their poli tics as exercises in compul sory hatred, no one wants now to exult over the exhausted body of the loser. TT is not merely compassion A however, which dictates a generosity from winner to ward loser. It is also good old common sense. The second man in this race has still plenty to offer to his country There can and should be one president, and one only. But it surely can do no harm for him to seek the opinion and even the help, on some of the greatest issues before him of the one who lost. Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the gathering In 1940 of the clouds foreshadowing Ameri can entrance into the second world war, brought opposition party leaders Into genuine participation in his govern ment. These times are no less urgent. These times, as both candidates so rightly said all tnrougn tne campaign, de mand the best and the least petty of all that is in us all. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Depoe Bay Inn Damaged by Fire Depoe Bay-dlPD-The Whale Cove Inn Hotel near here was heavily damaged by fire Thursday night and early to day. A fire official said two- thirds of the structure, located 1V4 miles south of Depoe Bay, was destroyed and estimated damage at between $30,000 and $50,000. The Whale Cove Inn Motel, a 10-apartment structure near the Hotel portion, was not touched by the blaze. ir3 T Adenauer Man-of-Week; He's Facing New Threats, Political and International By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man of the weeki West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The place: Bonn. The quotei "Age is some times a burden, but it has something in its favor. . . He who has spent years in various public positions has gained experience that youth cannot possibly match." The wily 84-year-old Christian-Democrat who has gov ;rned West Germany ever since the coun try was creat ed 11 years ago now faces what may prove to be toughest p a r 1 1 a m e ntary election tarn palgn. Arrayed PHIL NEWSOM against him is- Willy Brandt, 46, Socialist mayor of west Berlin. Brandt's staunch opposition to Communist Infringements on the freedom of his Soviet-encircled city has won popular- in the Days News By FRANK JENKINS What of the election? On the basis of the popular vote, it is a VERY CLOSE election. Less than ONE per centage point separates the two candidates. Which is to say: If Nixon could have got one and a half more votes out of each 100 cast, he could have won a majority of the popular vote. GO MUCH for the Preslden- & cy. Let's now take a look at the congress. As this is written it looks like the Republicans have made a net GAIN of about 13 seats in the house of rep resentatives. It appears that they may have made a gain of two seats in the senate It looks at this moment like conservative Southern Demo crats will continue to hold about as many important com mittee chairmanships as in the past and so will be able to team up with conservative Re publicans to head off legisla tion that both regard as too liberal. That is about the same situ ation that has existed through out both Eisenhower admin istrations. A S BETWEEN the two, Ken- nedy tended throughout the campaign to promise more spending if elected. Will he continue, as he seemed to promise, to be ultra liberal with the taxpayers' money7 win he back con tinued big spending, even if it means continued big defi cits? rpHAT is an interesting ques- tion. To us who call our selves conservatives, fiscal re sponsibility in government was the BIG issue. We believe that if a nation is to remain great it must REMAIN SOL VENT. Oh the face of it, we have LOST. But Let's take a look at the past. FDR campaigned in 1932 as a tight-fisted money con servative. He lambasted Hoo ver's spending. He called it RECKLESS spending. He promised if elected to pull in the nation s fiscal horns. He became the greatest spender of his time. SO, YOU see, it is histori cally possible that Mr. Ken nedy might shift his position on spending now that he has been decisively elected. Personally, he has a hard- headed fiscal background. The Kennedy millions weren't ac cumulated by reckless han dling of money. This, please note, ISN'T a prediction. It is merely a cita tion from history, CRITICISM of the loser in a hard-fought battle is al ways in rather questionable taste especially if one has been a follower of the loser But those of us who call our- selves conservatives can't wholly throw off the feeling that if Mr. Nixon had been a little more of a conservative in his campaigning he might have gained that one and a half votes out of each 100 cast that seems at this moment to have constituted Kennedy's margin of victory. As of now our party system is fuzzy and confused. The parties are split both verti cally and horizontally. Both have conservative wings and radical wings. So . . . elections tend to be a STRUGGLE FOR POWER, rather than a battle for sincere convictions. WHAT of the future? Well, the GOP might well study closely the lessons of this election and quit try ing to carry water on both shoulders. It might accept its real mission in our political system and become the sin cere CONSERVATIVE party. If that should hrippen, WATCH BARRY GOLDWA-TER, l Si lty that seriously challenges Adenauer's own. Each man will try to pre sent himself to the electorate as America's choice for chan cellor. Brandt already is argu ing that the U. S. election of John F. Kennedy-a man three years his Junior-proves the po litical tide favors the young.- Both candidates will visit Washington early next year to confer with Kennedy, Ade nauer in February and Brandt in March. The chancellor is expected to arrange a second Ballot Fraud Not Extinct- Wilson Recounts Examples By LYLE C. WILSON, Washington - (UPt - On the record of past elections, last week's polling probably was cooked in spots. Your vote may have h f f n sfnlpn. , f If you have been voting long it is not unlikely that your vote has been stolen before this. Lvi c wllsoo ne nation al Municipal Review (NMR) reported four years ago an Honest Ballot Association (HBA) estimate that at least one million votes were stolen in the 1952 election. HBA chief investigator George Abrams then warned: "Election frauds are in creasing., Nearly every area in the United States - big city, small town, cracker-barrel village - has some type of election fraud. It may be in a national election or one involving local school boards, judges or highways." IIP Kennedy Expected To Face New Soviet Diplomatic Push Washington- IUPD -Top U.S. officials are convinced that President-elect John F. Ken nedy will face a new diplo matic offensive by the Soviet Union shortly after he takes office. ' They said that the incoming president, who campaigned for a more dynamic American foreign policy, probably will be put to an early test by Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev despite the favorable reaction in Moscow to Ken nedy's election. Offensive Renewal Expected Khrushchev is expected to renew his diplomatic offensive against the West on Berlin, demanding that the United States and its Allies evacuate the Rcd-encircled'city. He also Ike Relaxes at Augusta Club Augusta, Ga.-(UPD-President Eisenhower relaxed at the Au gusta .National Golf Club to day apparently satisfied with preliminary plans for relin quishing government control to President-elect John F. Kennedy. White House News Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Thursday that the President was pleased with arrange ments to date and "would be delighted" to meet with Ken nedy "at the senator's con venience." Kennedy said in Hyannis, Mass., he expected to consult with Eisenhower In Washington' late this month The President, stressing the need for "continuit y" in American foreign policy, urg ed that Kennedy appoint an adviser to meet with Secre tary of State Christian A, Hcrter. And he also suggested immediate talks with Budget Director Maurice A. Stands and observers from the Ken nedy administration. Coast Guard Aids Stricken Sailor Coos Bay - IUPD - The U.S. Coast Guard helped a Canadi an sailor, aboard his vessel and stricken with an appendi citis, get medical attention late Thursday. The sailor was identified as Ronald Baeley. Baeley was removed from the 152-foot Canadian mine sweeper HMCS Fortune and taken to McAuley Hospital here. The Fortune was about 40 miles south of Port Orford on maneuvers when it radioed for help. The minesweeper was di rected into the lower bay at Coos Bay where a Coast Guard boat took Baeley ashore. Attendants at McAuley Hos pital reported that Baeley's appendix was removed and listed his condition as good. visit sometime between March and West Germany's elections in September. Besides hopes of improving his chances of victory in the election, Adenauer has anoth er interest in current U.S. pol icy. He hopes to head off an East-West summit conference on the German problem. At a press conference Thurs day, he expressed hope that the new U. S. president would "take the world a major step forward in the sphere of dis armament." He is expected to Samuel H. Still, an election investigator for Congress, said in a 1956 NMR report on elec tion scandals that: "Approximately 50 public figures who occupy high state and municipal offices today would not have won them had the election been carried out according to law." Abrams and HBA fingered the 1928 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be governor of New York, citing "the fa mous slow count." FDR beat Republican Albert Ottinger. "Democratic boss Ed Flynn's cronies," said Abrams, "sat quieUy in the Bronx counting ballots at a snail's pace until 2 a.m., when the traditionally Republican up state returns shown Ottinger's exact margin. "When the boys knew how many votes were needed, they went to work. Republican ballots (in the Bronx) were thrown out under any pretext. Lead concealed under the fin ger nail and every other trick to invalidate Republican bal lots were used. Mr. Roosevelt probably will renew pressure for German peace treaties on his terms. However, these are only two of a multitude of problems from the Congo to Cuba.which must be handled by Kennedy and whomever he selects as secretary of state. There is every evidence, as Kennedy has said, that the United States and its allies stand at a critical point in history. The task facing his new administration is to seek and put into effect policies which will give, the Western world a greater initiative in the relentless struggle against Communist expansion. To Take Advantage Kennedy plans to take full advantage of President Eisen hower's offer to ease the tran sition between the old and new administrations. In the field of international affairs, this will involve closest con sultation with White House arid State Department offi cials oh the variety of .ever changing problems which de mand constant , attention. A listing of the principal issues illustrates the magni tude and complexity of the task which the young presi dent faces in the field of for eign policy: These include Berlin, Ger many, disarmament, a nuclear test ban, Cuba, The Congo, relations with NATO allies, and the question of a summit conference. Forces Patrolling Cities of Algeria Algiers, Algeria -WPD- Heav ily armed' mobile security forces today patroled the ma jor cities of Algeria to smash any violent Armistice Day demonstrations by French set tiers incensed at President Charles de Gaulle's Algerian policy. The mood of the French sett'ers was ominously rem iniscent of the days of the extreme rightwing insurrec tions against De Gaulle in May, 1958, and January, 1959. At least two persons were killed and nine wounded in the port city of Oran Wed nesday night. The violence was blamed on Moslem ter rorists. Five persons were injured in clashes with police in Al giers following an anti-De Gaulle rally. And in Pans itself, seven Algerians were killed and one seriously wounded In a gun battle between rival Moslem nationalists. SOME CRUST New York -d?D- Defeat was sweet for Mario Bousoulas, owner of a New York diner. He lost an election bet to his cook. Chris Karagianis, who collected by throwing a pie in his boss' face. press the point that disarma ment, rather than Germany, should be the chief topic ui any early summit talks. Adenauer Is customarily un easy about East-West talks which might formalize the di vision of Germany, abolishing whatever faint hope remains of reuniting the nation by any means short of war. His remarks Thursday in cluded a comment that agree ment on disarmament would make it easier to solve other problems. woke up governor with a 28,- 000 state-wide plurality. Ha had a whopping 95,000-vota margin in the Bronx." Tha Bronx Is one of the borougha comprising New York City. Michigan Ruli Doubted NMR recalled that in 1950 Harry F. Kelly was believed to have defeated Democrat G, Mennen (Soapy) Williams In Michigan for governor by 4,000 votes of about 1.8 mil lion cast. A recount gave tha election to Williams by a margin of 1,154 votes. "A comprehensive non partisan study made four years later," said NMR, "by the University of Michigan's Samuel J. Eldersveld and Al bert A. Applegate concluded: " 'The law's requirements for ballot security were dis regarded by election officials in precincts involving mora than 123,000 votes. In one case, testimony of election of ficials indicates that boxes and ballots were violated after having been properly sealed on election night'." NMR cited a report by a U.S. Senate subcommittee on privileges and elections after the 1952 contest in which Democratic Sen. Dennis Cha vez defeated Republican Pat rick J. Hurley for the Senata in New Mexico. NMR quoted the report as follows: "At least 55,000 New Mexico citi zens were deprived of their constitutional rights to a secret ballot . . . sworn evi dence of fraudulently altered ballots was obtained in 33 precincts." NMR added: "Paper ballots, still used in two-thirds of tha United States, offer the great est opportunity for fraud. They are easy to change, easy to fake, easy to stuff." Communications Letters to the Editor must boar the name and address ol the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of s pen name oi initial for publica tion is Dermisslble. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters wttb an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmittea for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words Vegetarian Dogs To the Editor: They're muz ling the.se dogs at the wrong end. I never was afraid of them EATING my flowers and shrubs. Russ Renner 375 O'Gara st. Medford. A Bouquet To the Editor: Kindly ac cept this is a token of appre ciation from one of the con tributors to your "correspon dents' column". Your liberality was in af fording space in the Mail Tribune for all who wish to express their thoughts of whatever nature, so long as they conformed to a loosely defined standard of decency and respectability. Yours has been a genero sity sedom afforded and un parallel in space given to your readers in which they could give vent to their views and emotions. I have tried not to abuse this great American privilege of free speech and free press you have made available, whereby we may enjoy an exchange of thoughts on any subject. I sincerely thank you. C. R. Burrill 122 Vilas rd W. Central Point, Ore. Movies for Children To the Editor: In the past year at our local downtown theater, there have been very few movies that I feel would be fit for my chidren or any other children to see. When ever there is a i a for children one they -..d see and enjoy up go those prices. They always lust raise the children's prices for these good movies, leaving tha prices the same when other movies not for children are playing. If you have a big family it is almost S5 to take them to movie. My children Just don't go at all any more, just because of this. It would seem they could make a good profit with the regular prices when so many would go to these rare good movies. I wonder if I'm the only one that feels this way. Mrs. A. A. Alexander 709 Lawnsdale Medford. i
