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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1960 ""'"Seryon in Soutliarn Oraiw Raada Tha MU Trlbunt" FublUhed Dally except Saturday fcjr , U North Til gt., Ph 8P aSMl ROBERT W RUHL Editor UTRB GREY Advdtltini Manafal GERAL.D T LATHAM DUS Mffr (ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Edltoi .KARL H ADAMS. City Editor II mnu miniMiH T-.l Clt, RICHARD JF.WF.TT Snorta Editor - OLIVE STARCHER Woman'a Editor '. DALE ebickbon circulation maT ' An Indanandant' Wewioaner 'Cntered aa teeond elasa matter at 7 Medford. orecon under aci oi March S, JS97 L stmsrRiPTinN RATES By Mall In Advance Copy 10c i' Dally and Sunday 1 year aiJOO t Dally and Sunday moi J 1 Dally and Sunday 3 moi 4 28 J Sunday Only Ona vear M 20 Br" Carrier In Advance Medford Aahland Central Point Eat ! l Point Jacksonville Gold , Hill Phoenix Shady Cova Rofue Rlv dr- TiUm mi .nntnr rnutet 5 Daily and Sunday t vear 118 JO 'TJa'.lT and Sunday I mo 1A0 '"Carrier and Dealera - cony 10c All Terma Caih IrAdyanc "Official Paper of City of Medfor Official Papar of JacHon Couatf United Pre International Pull Leated Wire O P.l Telephoto Newiplcturea MUMBF.R Of Allnff RirREAU OF CIRCULATIONS XdvertTjin Renretentatlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of flcei In New York Chlcafo De troit. San FranclKco. Lol Amelea Seattle. Portland St LouU At lanta. Vancouver B.C NEWSPAPER FUlUsHEIS ASSOCIATION E0ITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei ot The Mail, Trlbun. ;IO. 20, 30 40 and; 50 vtari ege. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 14. 19S0 (Tuesday) The Jackion County Com munity Chest now stands t bout 63 per cent of Its J75, 000 goal. A total of 3,500 pounds of clothing and toys left Med ford today for Korea. The goods were gathered by local school children, churches, the aters, stores and the general public. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1940 (Thursday) The picketing regulations of Oregon's union control law, declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court re cently, became officially dead today. From Arthur Perry's "Yt Smudge Pot" column:., "An other auto has failed ta lick its weight In locomotives at a crossing." 30 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 14, 1930 (Friday) An Eagle Point resident was killed yesterday during a raid by authorities on a still In the Reese creek district. TJie 'first, snow of the year,., amounting to four inches, Was reported at Prospect today. 40 "YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1920 (Sunday) , Church officials today laid the cornerstone-for the new Methodist Episcopal church south on West Main st. A suspected forger threw a stick at a guard yesterday and escaped from : the ' Jackson county jail. 50 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 14. 1910 (Monday) Medford '.Fireman Warren Bodge died today of injuries received Sunday when Chem ical No. 1 of the local fire department crashed into a tel ephone pole at the corner of Main and Front sts. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar la correct la luperlan even or aiaht Is ancellentj five ai - til ii flood. 1. "I believe In the United States of America as a govern ment of the people, by the people, for the people . . ." is the first phrase of what? . 2. A person who makes a business of influencing or urging Congressmen to pass legislation is called what? 3. The redisricting of a stale or territory In order to obtain better election results Is called g ? 4. What Is' (he "supreme law" of the United States? . 5. With what part of the Constitution do you relate the terms assemble, searches, double jeopardy and , self-incrimination? - 6. Connecticut, Georgia and Massachusetts ratified the Bill of Rights In 1785, 1850, or 1937? 7. The U.S. determination to discourage European coun tries from extending their systems to the Weslern Hem isphere Is embodied In what doctrine? - 8. When l Pan -American Day? 9. For what does the Six teenth Amendment provide? 10. May the Supreme Court of the U.S. overrule a previous decision? A n s w r si 1. Amtrican'i Creed. 2. Lobbyist. 3. Ger rymandering. 4.- U.S. Consti tution. 5. Bill of Rights, t. 1937. 7. Monroe Doctrine. 8. April 14. t. Income Tax. 10. Yt. NATIONAL Congress Is Congressman Charles O. Porter's defeat in this district at the hands of Dr. Edwin Dumo of Medford illustrates once again that the position of U.S. representative is a local one, even though congressmen work in the heady atmosphere of wasningion ana in ine v. a. vapuoi. Voters do not mind, tors to De involved in national altairs, to be ac tive in international affairs nnrl pvfen tn hp wnrlH figures.,. But members of A ' 1 ill . l w rrv annnr. mo nri they are elected from Iowa, let's say or the price t- t - .1 ii ai ui jjiywouu ii mey are are eiecieu irom me A. T:-L..iL -j- r r uui in jjisu jci oi vregun. THERE is scarcely a serve as a spokesman lems. It is expected by not name a congressman How many readers can name the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee? As a mat ter of fact, there are newspapermen in Washing ton who cannot name that gentleman. Voters do not wish their congressmen, for that matter, to be very active in national affairs or to take the "national" view. With the excep tion of Congressman Sam Rayburn of Texas, who is speaker, Congressman John McCormack, who is majority leader, or Congressman Charles Hal leck, who is minority leader, there are few, or noi congressmen who dare with comments for publication varying from the view of their constituency. THE role of a congressman is local. This may 1 be a bad thing. But it is true. And it has been made so by congressmen themselves, all of whom were elected in whole or not to forget the price of Congressman Porter of plywood. But he said, when he was elected the first time in 1956, that he'd devote approxi mately a third of his time to international prob lems and he determined to live up to that promise. The murder of Gerry Murphy on Dominican Dic tator Trujillo's orders ave him an entrance in to Latin American affairs which worked well for his good when he was re-elected in 1958, but which had turned sour.on His concern with international affairs brought many trips abroad and over a period of four years gave the impression to home folks that he was "flitting around" a good deal. This was an in correct impression, but the voters en masse re ceive impressions slowly.. ynce the impression is locked into .their political subconscious, it is lock ed there for good.. - CONSEQUENTLY when Porter came up for re- election this year he turned out to be vulner able to a well-financed ($35,000 minimum) cam paign against his weak points by a candidate, whose conservative beliefs in no way conform to the rpnes and desires of those who elected, him; and Avnose own party (Republican) is in a con siderable minority in the tory-over rorter was narrow' m terms of votes. But it was gigantic in terms of party registration. .Porter from the day he began campaigning in September (Dumo had been campaigning since April ) was of f -stride. Durno's well-planned ad vertising campaign ("Why does Porter encourage Castro?") and similar twists of fact drove him to infuriated defense instead of attack. QF COURSE, attack is difficult when financing is slender in a political campaign, and Porter did attempt to talk about plywood and social problems close to this district s heart, but it never got through the public's T ; l i impression remained iixea prooaoiy iorever that Porter was more interested in the well-being of Dominicans and Hottentots than the well-being of the people of the Fourth Congressional Dis trict of Oregon. Congressman Porter tive of this district in the Congress. He won't be after next month, because being a congressman is a local job. Loos Bay World. Job Well Done A year ago Hall S. Lusk was a Supreme Court justice whose term ran until 1963. We do not know what his plans were if he intended to re tire from the court at age 79 or if he intended to continue on the court. But, instead of finishing out a lone and dis tinguished career as a justice, he went to the Senate for the few months remaining of the term of the late Richard L. Neubergcr. There he served well, if briefly. As the senate adjourned its post-session, the Congressional Record was packed with sincere praise for the short-term senator from Oregon. TUESDAY Senator Lusk ceased to be a senator. 1 , He's back in Oregon, now, and here he will make;,hisvh6me after a visit to California tosee members of his family. Members of the Supreme Court have expressed the hope that he'll come back to give them a hand hasn t said he will or won t. ' W hope he does. This distinguished justice who showed up so well in the Senate will be more than welcome, lending his learning, his prestige, his integrity to the further development of the law in Oregon. Eugene Local Job exciting, woraiy air oi trie .. . , in fact expect, U.S. sena the House they expect . i 1 1 i rp m onvn nnn nnoa t U.S. senator who cannot on international prob the country. But you can with whom this is true- take a "national" stand in part with promises corn or plywood. . did not forget the price him by I960. Fourth District. His vic consciousness, where the i was an able representa on a pro-tern basis. He Register-Guard. Dennis tha Menace SlHG US THAT SPOOKY COLLBGE SOJG.Mf?. IvIlSON ' VW KNOrV.'t3COU,4W9-U!,.,... ' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear lhe name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view io 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 paperi in fact the contrary is often the case. i , "rlllrruirf"' s " "Fill It up "rat it Fill It Up" , To the Editor: You may be a bit surprised at this station ery, The cartoon (above) ap pears on the reverse side. The writer secured a boun tiful supply of these interest ing cartoons. You'll see them posled around Ashland. So far only one very influential gen tleman refused to post it in his place of business. It's a free country. I only feel sorry for persons who are afraid when it comes to Issues like the liquor problem. If we have convictions on matters pertaining to the wel fare of fellow humans, and by our lethargy and apathy stand by and let them go the way to destruction, well, I shudder. Dr; Andrew Ivy of the Uni versity of Illinois Is perhaps the most famous authority on Flag Discourtesy To the Editor: At the Vet eran's Day parade, I was watching It from in front of Mann's Department store. And, from where I was stand ing, I did not see ONE person salute the flag of the United States as it passed, as many times as it passed. It makes one wonder If the people ot this great country really realize what it means to live and be a citizen of this United States of America. If they did. how could they be so thoughtless of their own flag? Patsey Mathes 904 Kenyon Medford. Voicti In the Night To the Editor: Voices in the night. Nameless voices, taunt ing us, taunting our loyal friends, for our "wasted" ef forts In trying to return that so-and-so Nixon to high office And what is our sin, if sin it be? Is it because we feel duty-bound to vote for a prov en man, proven loyal and ca pable? A man resolute to al iow In no way the use of the religious issue in his election program? But voices ot the night, opposition voices, reli gious tinged, keep coming in. Mostly female voices, young t. upi the alcohol problem today The following quotes are from him: "Most delinquency, broken homes, felonies,, are either a direct or indirect result of drinking, which costs the American public from $50 to $60 billions each year. It is estimated that for every dol lnr spent for an alcoholic bev erage, five dollars are needed to repair the damages. Alco hoi even in small amounts in creases the accident rate, kill ing and maiming thousands . Alcohol is a habit-forming drug . . . There is no harm less beverage, beer, wine, rum, gin, whiskey ... Your readers are welcome to a complimentary copy of the cartoon. Do send a stamp. If you don't have any, I'll mail a copy anyway. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. voices more easily Indoctri nated. We, the both of us here, had believed, or wanted to, when election day duties had been cared for, that would be just that, and time be allowed to heal small but vital voting difference 'tween family and friends. All this with pre-election happenings are so difficult to make sense with. Friends, peo ple we never have met stop by and ask questions impos sible to answer. The quickie huddle of Kennedy with the once stalwart Lyndon John son, who, losing his bid for presidency, agreed to play sec ond fiddle to his young op ponent. Kennedy's sudden trip to HST, who, despite his con demnation of the young con tender and that the Demo con vention was rigged, did an about face. Kennedy's quick trip to opposing Eleanor and her astounding reversal, and the quick swing of one-time fair reporting Alsop (Joe) and Lippmann to the side of the yet unproven Kennedy? What a life it was though, when a Medford business man stopped by and helped to bring my thinking into see able reality; that If man Closeness Electoral -' By LYLE C WILSON Washington - (WD -They are saying that the electoral college flunked its 1960 test, and - it - surely did;' . The--popular vote and tht, states were split al most down the middle be tween the president I a 1 nominees. The Lt rj iniioo electoral c o i- lege, however, scores the con test about like this: Foreign Desk: Kennedy Eyed By Britain, West Germany By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign1 editor's notebook: - ' ' Proof in the Pudding Despite the brave talk and the messages of congratula tions, Britain and ,.Weit Gerpiany still are not sure o f President elect John Kennedy's In ten tlons. De Gaulle of France is s t a n d I n e run NEwsoM aioot. However, Prime Minister aiA.,: vaai Harold Macmillan of Britain would like more assurances Wa shing ton Re po rt By WILLIAM RULE OF REASON Washington - A moderately liberal Democratic adminis tration not unlike the tone of the p a r t y't record in Con gress since 1954 will be gin in Janu ary. Nothing re m o t e 1 y ap proaching the wild and won- William I. "" vhita . .times , crack pot - "first hurtdred days" of the Roosevelt New" -peal of long .ago is- in the cards - or evep .was, 'fori' that' matter. - TKese,rgJKe;. 1960's; flot the 1930's. : v ; President-elect John P: Ken nedy is no doctrinaire "profes sional "liberal," and never was. He has hot the smallest Intention of going off on any vast spending spree. He won the election only with the decisive help of the copyright holder of the doc trine of "moderation," Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The wisest decision he ever took was the decision at the Los Angeles Democratic con vention last July to combine personal generosity with sound politics and so to ask his rival, Senator Johnson, to take second place on the tick et. NOW fully confirmed Is what some of us as observ ers believed likely even then: That moment in Los Angeles was the moment at which John F. Kennedy enabled himself to win the presidency of the United States. For Johnson did more than hold the bulk of his native South. He supplied to the ticket as a whole what Kennedy also ac tually ha.d but what millions nevertheless would not have thought he had because he had been compelled to deal closely with the left-wing of his partyJ ', This indispensable quality, which Johnson personified, was an aura of Reasoned sta bility and moderation. For 10 years at least this has been a country suspicious of loud ideological trumpeting and favorable toward quiet compe-, tence and reasonableness in its public men. Again, this mood, too, has been con firmed. . . , In the new Kennedy admin istration there will be, of course, no place for ultra- conservatism. But a moderate conservatism, looking ahead does lose in a fair, good fight, there should be quotes in the word "defeat." Which surely did firm up my thinking that "defeat" is often but a stepping-stone to greatness. Luckily, the vituperative editorials. Herblock cartoons, etc., did not as yet result in the death of Nixon, as the more savage ones did in the martyred Lincoln, whose great "sin" was saving the Union, that all men shall be free-men, free to vote, free to meet in assembly, free to speak out, free of voices in the night, to worship in their own faith ;or not to worship at all save. in loyalty to coun try and home and all that we hold dear. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. i of Election Revives Talk of i College Reform; 1948 Recalled John F. Kennedy, 338 votes, Richard M. Nixon, 188 votes. The U.S. Senate was poised four years ago to propose amendment of the Constitu tion to reform the electoral college. Fifty - one senators Joined in sponsoring a reform resolution. Their number was close to the two-thirds majori ty required to Initiate a con stitutional amendment. Sen ate adoption seemed assured. The resolution did not even come to a vote. Panic hit the than he -has received so far that the U.S.-British alliance will continue a keystone of U.S. foreign policy,' and Ad enauer wants to know more about Kennedy's intentions toward West Berlin. Both will seek meetings with the new president as quickly as possible. Now that a Catholic has been elected president of the United ; States, Romans are asking whether the new am bassador to Italy will be a Catholic - particularly since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The last Catholic ambassador to Italy was Mrs. Clare Bobthe Luce, a convert. T h e present ambassador, $. WHITE and not -backward, will by no means be outlawed. Nothing real will be turned over to the howling extremists on the Democratic party left - Amer icans for Democratic Action; the more aggressive of the big labor leaders; the politicians who wish to foment and so trade: upon the happily abat ing racial and sectional dif ferences in this nation. ........ -- IT MUST be realized, for an example, that the hew Con gress on the basis of the slight gaina made by the Republi? cans.-imay "be a bit more conservative-minded, if anything, than the old. " ' . , The nature of Kennedy's victory forecasts what he will do. He will proceed with full respect for the views - par ticularly. the economic views of those' who' voted against him. He is fully aware that substantially half of the peo ple preferred Richard M. Nix on; that his mandate, though genuine, is also thin mathe matically. Calm reason, not emoting, will' be the keynote of the Kennedy administration. Per haps the most striking human fact about the President-elect is his instinctive awareness that sensible government is built on persuasion and con sent. And already reason has won triumphs of far more than mere partisan significance. Our people are proved fair minded - and notably In the old .Democratic heartland, the South. During the campaign it was said endlessly, by violent northern "liberals" of a certain kind, that the South was. ever so "anti-Catholic" and so would turn upon Ken nedy. . a THIS correspondent suggest ed at the time that what ever "ahti-Catholicism" really existed would turn out to be more prevalent In other re gions, notably the rural mid west. The returns have so indicated. Our peoples have shown they respect reason; they re- Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CIRF- TWO ALABAMA STALWARTS cleaned up a fortune in a big real estate deal and were able for the first time to indulge in a lifelong ambition; they went on a lion-hunting expedition in the jungles of Africa. By the time they discovered that the field manager in charge) of native beaters, guides, and all their supplies, had been born in New England, it was too late to do anything: about it. They had to suffer his presence in sulky silence. One evening, however, the New Englander burst into their tent, shouting frantically,' "Run for your lives! A herd of wild. murderous elephants is bearing down on us! They'll be here in five minutes! Run! Run!" One Alabamian calmly picked up his gun and and shot the New Englander. "Now what did, yo'-all go and do that fo'?" asked his friend. "If they's one thing I cain't stand," explained the shocitr. "its a loud-mouthed Yankee!" C MO, Saoaau Cart SljtrumM fey JUsf Jaatura Irallcatf- .1 i sponsors, and too many of them withdrew their names. What panicked the sen ators? They were panicked, probably, by . protests from some or all of the well or ganized pressure groups in U.S. politics. Two of the best organized of these are com posed of Negroes and Big Labor. The electoral college reform then proposed would have shrunk the influence of racial and other large minori ty groups in presidential elec tions, perhaps put them out of business altogether. It is a fact that under the w h o resigns automatically with the new administration, is James D. Zellerbach who is Jewish. Kennedy has said he does not contemplate U. S. diplomaUc relations with the Vatican. But by merit or de sign a Catholic could be ap pointed to the Rome ambassa dorial post, which Is being watched with more than usual interest. Look for Britain to clip its bank rate again, probably next Thursday, to help lift pressure on- the dollar. The cut would help demagnetize Europe's pull on money flow ing across the Atlantic to cash in on interest rates often double those ruling stateside. Germany chopped its discount rate one per cent last week. Germany's Volks w a g e n firm definitely has decided against building an assembly or manufacturing plant in the United States. The recent de cision resulted to a great ex tent from the increase in the sales of American compact cars. . Company directors says they estimate Volkswagen sales in the United States would have to quadruple to break even on an. American factory, and that with US., compacts moving into the market this clearly would be impossible. In the Day's News By FRANK . This' is being written 'on the inn aay of November. . Up on the ridge back of where I live (it goes by the unglamorous name of Hog back) some nostalgic veteran of the Old Man's War let off a series of ragged explosions at daybreak. It took me several minutes to recall the WHY of the shooting! How about you? BUT Ah!!! The wild joy of this day 42 years ago! The war was over. NEVER AGAIN would there be anoth er war. The world had learn ed Its lesson. Not just in the U.S.A. Not just in Britain and France. Not just in defeated Germany. NEVER AGAIN! Anywhere! ELL, the world is older now. And sadder. One wishes one could say WISER, but the circum stances of the present moment all over the world don t justi fy it. Kaiser Wilhelm is dead and forgotten. Hitler is dead and gone and almost forgot ten. ject the glandular approach to politics. They cooly weigh ed up two cool and able men. In the end they preferred the one; but they did not, there fore, think that the other should be treated as an enemy of the republic. (Copyright, I960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) present system a substantial ly united Negro vote,' labir vote or religious vote 'o name three - in any oir: ( more than a dozen state Jn determine the p r e s I dcnlkil winner in those states in any moderately close election. ' Such minorities, by ble voting, can exercise constant or occasional balance of pow er influence in presidential elections. The reform pro posed would cut them down to size. The present system allots each state's entire elec toral vote to the candidate who wins a mere plurality pt that state's popular vote,, no matter how close the vote may be. ; ; How Reform Works ' The proposed reform would have permitted each state to choose either of two methods of allotting electoral votes: 1. The state's electoral vote would be divided on a per centage basis among the threa candidates receiving the most votes. Or 2. Each congressional dis trict would elect one elector of its own and two at-larga for the entire state. That Is, electors would be chosen just as representatives and sena tors now are chosen. To the extent to which either method would encour age third or splinter group parties, the reform would ba bad. To the extent to which either method would better reflect the popular vote, the reform would be good. The 1948 popular vote was very close, as this year. The electoral vote was lop-sided: Harry S. Tr,uman 303; Thom as E. Dewey 189; J. Strom Thurman 39. Under the re form proposal, Truman would have had 258 (less than a ma jority), Dewey 221.4, the rest scattered. ' The 1958 reform proposal sought to distribute the elec toral vote more equitably among the major parties. The overall advantage definitely would be to the smaller of the two. ' JENKINS But ! - ' COMMUNISM now carries the red torch of world con quest. QTILL Poison gas was used in tha war that ended 42 years ago today. IT HASN'T BEEN USED IN WAR SINCE. Since 1945, no atom bomb has been dropped in anger. Maybe we ARE getting a little wiser. Anyway War AS IT USED TO BE would now seem almost like peace. OW . . . back to politics. ' A Washington d i s patch this morning tells us the po litical pundits are predicting a titantic struggle for power within the GOP during tha next four years, with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York leading the liberal fac tion and Sen. Barry Gold water of Arizona the con servative wing. The concensus of the pun dits seems to be that in tha ensuing intra-party struggle for power the GOP will ba torn limb from limb and as. a result will take another beat ing in 1964. They do, how ever, offer a possible way out. The Washington dispatch adds: "Mr. Nixon could profit po litically from this intra-party strife by remaining aloof from the factional warfare and keeping himself available as a COMPROMISE candidate, ac ceptable to BOTH sides." JjMIV MMMMMMMM. i sounds probable. Pro fessional politicians, whose objective is JOBS, tend to act that way. But it also sounds a good deal like putting a mustard plaster on a tumor to ease the pain instead of cutting the tumor out befora it becomes cancerous. ,' The truth is that BOTH par ties are split both horizontally and vertically, thus bringing about FOUR FACTIONS Republican conservatives. Re publican liberals, Democratic conservatives and Democratic liberals. The result is a mess. A vivid, able, SINCERE leader might be able to unite the conservatives on both sides into a party that would mean something to its rank and file adherents, and leav ing the liberals on both sides free to unite into a party that would mean something to them. F THAT could be accom plished, It might bring some sincerity back in our politics which is coming to mean little more than a STRUGGLE FOR POWER. Personally, I would like to BELIEVE IN MY PARTY AGAIN and feel confident that it stands for something worth fighting for. i