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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.
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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 '
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"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.
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