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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, I960 "Everyoat in Southern Oncol ' Reada Tha Uail Tribune3 Published Dally except Saturday by 13 North Fir Bl Ph 8P 2-8141 ROBERT W "RUHC editor ITEKB GREY AdvevUsIng Manafar . ubiuuju u lia iiuin oui mgr. . ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn : EARL H ADAMS, City E II Editol HARRY CHIPMAN. Te'iea Editor dltor Tall RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor pale ehiuksun, circuiauon mjtt An Indanendent Newioiper Bntered ai tecond class matter at Medford. Oregon. Ond. Act ! March 8, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year tin 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moi ... 8.00 , Dally and Sunday 3 mot. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Ealla Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rome Rlv 1 p Talpnt anil An motor routei Dally and Sunday 1 rear ! 00 uaiiy ana sunaay i mo i.ou Carrier and Dealers copy lOo All Termi Cah In Advanc Official Paper of City ef'Medfori Official Paper of Jsckion County . United Prei International Full Leaied Wire TJ.P.I Telephoto Newtplcturee TftEMBER 6r AUDIT BUREAU- or CIRCULATIONS ; t AdverrUlns: Representee:" WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of flee. In New York Chlcafo De . trolt. San Francisco. Loi Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Loull At. lanta. Vancouver. B.C. Nf WSfAPI FUfUISHIlS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI Flight 6' Tie Mtdford and Jackson County Hlitory from the file of The Mall Trlb-jnt 10. 20, 30., 40 and 50 vr (),,. 10 YEARS AGO i All member, of tht Jackson County Chamber of Com t merce received their instruc i tions In the mail today for j an intensive program to In- crease the membership of the i group. ! Seven Southern Oregon ; Conservative Baptist churches ' have been forced to suspend i work on their Union creek i recreational area because the ' lite is located on mining claim property. . j 20 YEARS AGO ' i Medford high'. Black Tor ' nado will play Astoria or The ' Dalles Nov. 21, Thanksgiving ; Day, in an elimination game to help determine the state ' football championship, It was ; announced today. ' S ; From Arthur Perry's "Ye , i Smudge Pot" column: "A new invention gives new model aulos 'disappearing h e a d- lights' in the daytime. They i should be an improvement ' over the current type, that : have disappeared for all ; time." , 10 YEARS AGO ; A scries of revival meet : ings started this week at Wll ' liams creek. ' A recount is being demand ' ed by the unsuccessful candi date in the city's mayoralty race. 40 YEARS AGO Work has resumed on the Ruch highway after being de Mayed temporarily by rain and , ilormy weather. A proposal has been made .to the local school board to ', erect bleachers al tht high school football field i SO YEARS AGO " Bank deposits in the four Medford banks have increased 22 per cent during the past 10 monins. The Southern Pacific rale hearings progressed In Med ford today with railroad of ficials apparently unable to Justify why freight costs more to ship from Medford than Portland. What's Your 1.0.7 Nina at fen correct It superior: even or eight It excellent) Five ei IB geoa. 1. What was the name the woman who was called Princess Alice?" 2. Name the American wom an who was known as "Angel oi tne Battlefield. 3. Who recently wrote of an episode in her life in a book entitled "I II Cry Tomorrow?' 4. Name the famous woman . saloon wrecker of pre-prohl- owon aays. o. It is a quarter to 10 o'clock; if the minute and hour hand . were reversed, wnai time would It be accord , ing to the clock? 6. Whal relation Is a dauih ter of my mothcr'i niece to me? 7. How many Slates begin wun ine letler "E ? 8. In whal continent are the ten highest mountains of the world? 9. What is the source of the Mississippi river? ' 10. Unscramble these pieces or common furniture TAPNODREV and NIDSROW 1RACH. Answersi 1, Alice Long worth Roosevelt. 2. Clara Bar ton. 3. Lillian Roth. 4. Carrie Nation. S. Eight-fifty. 6. Sec ond cousin. 7, None. t. Asia. (. Lake Itasca in Minnesota. 10. Davenport, and Windsor chair. ' Electoral College When will the United States elect its new President? Silly, (do you say?) ago. No. He'll be elected in January, and not until then. For authority,' let's go to the Constitution (which a lot of people talk about, but few take the trouble to read). ' It says : ". , . Each stat shall appoint, In such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of elec tors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the stale may be entitled 'i In the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector. "The electors shall meet In their respective states, and vote by ballot for President, and Vice President . . .; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and In distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make dis tinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the Presi dent of the Senate; The President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representa tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then by counted; The person having the greater num ber of votes shall be the President, if such number , be a majority of the whole number of electors ap pointed . . ." THERE'S more, spelling out in detail what hap- pens if no individual receives a majority of the votes of the college But in essence, that's . In Oregon, electors election. (Did you know you were voting for electors and not for either Kennedy or Nixon? You were. Their names tne ballot just under the they were supporting.) ', In other states, electors are named by various different systems. In Oregon, at one time, electors were named in the primary election. THUS the electoral college actually names the new president under 1 rrorv I 1 ' l i.oa, ana moauiea somewnai in ibvi. Oyer the years, many attempts have been made to change it, so that the electoral college will either be eliminated, or will reflect more ac curately the popular vote. A president can, in fact, receive a majority of the popular vote and still lose the election. It has happened. And it came close to happening in I960, too. How can this be? H it is because the electoral college, like the Congress itself, in effect represents states, not people. ' POR instance, a candidate could be " elected president by carrying only 12 states New York, Pennsylvania, Illnois, Texas, California, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, with a total of 272 electoral votes. Say he carried each of them by only 51 per cent of their popular votes. And say the other candidate carried all the 38 other states, and say, further, that he carried them by tremendous majorities. He would have a big majority of the popular vote of the entire nation, but he would lose, because the minority candidate had the majority of electoral votes, In I960, it appears that Kennedv will receive a bare majority or the popular vote, cut his elec toral vote victory is overwhelming. WO FEDERAL law says that electors have to A" vote for the winning candidate of their party. As a matter of fact, several southern states this year ran slates of "unpledged" electors, who if elected would be free to tney wanted. . In Alabama, six unpledged electors were elected; m Mississippi, pledged. , But ironclad tradition, and in some cases state law (as in Oregon), pledges most electors to vote for their party candidates. OREGON'S Republican electors will meet in Snlmn T"lor 1Q tn nnat than liullnfa fni- Rinluwl M. Nixon for President. Of course, it will be nothing but a formality, in conformity with the constitution and with state law. And when Congress votes will be opened and John F. Kennedy will be majority oi tne nation s Then, and not until then, will, he be formally T ? 1 i1 il Y. lr. . riesiaent-eiect or me united states. IT IS a bit ironic that the Constitution directs 1 the President of the Senate to open and canvass the electoral vote. - For,, on Jan. 6, 1961, the President of the benate will be the Vice President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, whose term runs until dan. zu, iyiu. Mr. Nixon thus is in open the electoral votes opponent, John F. Kennedy, has been elected nesuieni. IIP TO now attempts to abolish, or change, the electoral college have failed probably, as Lyle ,Wilson pointed out on this pace vesterdav. at least in part due to hhu nun me svHium tu men auvantage. But the closeness of the I960 election mav once again stimulate action along these lines. It would take a Constitutional amendment to change the system, and it takes several veai-s. usually, to get such an we elected him a week of electors. it. are named at the general were in small print on names of the candidates a system dating back to 1. a A rtn A .vote for any candidate all eight electors are un reconvenes, thi electoral counted and ( surprise n found to have gained a electoral votes. the position of havimr to and proclaim that his the opposition of voting amendment approved. Dennis the Menace "ra Ruff's buryin' his bone .... an" I'm eURVWMy PEANUT BUTTER SAMWICHl In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, Ken nedy's POPULAR vote is some 350,000 in excess 'of Nixon's popular vote-a . lead Communications Letteri to the Editor must bear tha name and address of the writer although undei cer tain circumstances the use of a fen name oi Initial (or publlca. Ion Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submlttea for publics. Uon must not exceed 400 words Townsend Plan To the Editor: The analysis of the Townsend plan needs no introduction to the elderly citizen. Its precepts are based on factual evidence of need. Here are a few of the reali ties in "a nut-shell": The Townsend plan bill is the only practical solution in principle and recommended by some United States sena tors and congressmen alike The plan would be supported by collecting a gross income tax of 2 per cent of all indi vidual Incomes' of more than $250 each month. The esti mated amount, of tax collect ed each and every month has been computed by economic consultants to pay every citi zen 60 years of age and over a modest pension of from $140 every calendar month. "It is Just as simple as that". At present on social secur ity minimum benefit we per sonally nave knowledge of a few recipients who subsist on meager sum of onlv S3 a week. Already in the slates of Indiana - and Hawaii the gross, Income tax is a proven benefactor financially. Are the rest of the statesmen in each slate wtihout such a tax too stupid to adopt the same principle? It makes a Townscnite wonder? .(Name on File) Medford Chimps and Vets To the Editor: News items: Washington OIPIl - Tjnem ployment in October reached 3.6 million, an increase of 200,000 over (he previous month, the Labor Department announced. Houston, Texas IUPH - Three Chimpanzees will report to work at Superior Furniture Manufacturing Co. to replace two humans, who are to be fired. Comment: I am sure that if Mr. Ben Friedman, owner of the firm, would look carefully around any Veteran's Domiciliary, he'd find a few partially dis abled war veterans, who are about as smart as a chimpan zee and willing to work. Of course the chimps did not get drafted, but that does not prove them to be of superior intelligence. It may be that some of that 3.6 million unemployed could handle Mr. Friedman's jobs. Have a banana? Malemute Slim White City, Ore. Taxes To the Editor: Let's let well enough alone. We now have an income tax. While I do not exactly agree with the management of it, 1 do believe as long as we have the Income tax that we should not be hogs, and try to have both the income tax and the sales tax. 1 represent the elderly peo ple, and there are many of us who have so little income, (hat a sales tax would be a heavy load for us to carry. If we could get the Town- send bill enacted into law, we might be able to afford such luxuries as a sales tax. Arthur C. Lewis Ass't State Director The Townsend Plan 244 South Central ave Medford JENKINS of about 1 per cent. His lead in the ELECTORAL COL LEGE vote is overwhelming -about 62 per cent. That suggests the challeng ing thought that a candidate for President could get majority of the popular vote and still lose out to his op ponent in the electoral col lege. AS a matter of fact, THAT f HAPPENED ONCE. It was in 1876. In that elec tion, Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden of New York received 4,300,590 popu lar votes. His opponent, Re publican Candidate Ruther ford B. Hayes of Ohio, re ceived only 4,036,298 votes- a POPULAR majority of 264,292 for Tilden.. But In the electoral college After a bitter battle, full of shenannigans and lasting more than three months HAYES WON BY ONE VOTE IN THE ELECTORAL COL LEGE, and became President. TT'S a long story. . Oregon entered Into it in quite a big way.' In the 1876 Presidential election, Oregon WENT FOR HAYES in the popular vote When its electors came up for certification, it developed that one of the REPUBLICAN electors (a man named Watts) was employed as a fourth class postmaster at an annual salary of $268. This office was held to be one of "trust and profit," and as such pro hibited to Presidential elec tors by Article II, Section 1 of the constitution. So Oregon's Democratic gover nor, L. F. Grover, with the enthusiastic encouragement of his fellow partisans, state and national, ruled that Watts was ineligible and replaced him with a DEMOCRATIC elector. Tis action resulted in a row that rattled the rafters not only in Oregon but all over the country and had immense connotations in the final out come of the Tilden-Hayes contest. AREGON then had four elec- " toral votes-two for its two senators and two for its two representatives in the con gress. On the- day the Oregon electoral college was sched uled to meet, the four electors met in a room in the state capltol set aside for their use. When they were assembled, the secretary of state arrived with the electoral certicifates and HANDED THEM TO CRONIN, the Democrat ap pointed by Governor Grover. The three Republican electors asked for their certificates. Cronin refused to surrender them. Thereupon the three Repub lican electors proceeded to organize THEIR OWN elec toral college. The Democrat, Cronin, retired to a remote corner of the room and turned himself into a ONE-MAN elec toral college. His first act was to declare that TWO vacancies existed. He filled the "vacancies" at once, nam ing TWO DEMOCRATS who just happened to be waiting outside the door. AS THE national situation then stood, after a bloody battle In the South, especially in South Carolina. Florida and Louisiana, Tilden needed only ONE more electoral col lege vote to win. So, to make things look good, this rump electoral college in Oregon gave one vote to Tilden and TWO to Hayes. That was a fatal error. In the general all-over re- shift in the national electoral college make-up that follow ed the ruckuses in the South, it turned out that Tilden need ed . TWO electoral votes from Mounting Noted In By PHIL NEWSOM ' UPI Foreign Editor One of the many sugges tions fired in the direction of President-elect Kennedy Is that he under take a pre-in-a u g u r atlon, get acquaint ed tour of Latin Amer ica. If he does, there will be plenty to oc cupy his at- Piin Ntws'o.M tention, from Salvadore, smallest of the Latin Republics, to Brazil, the largest. Excluding Cuba, which must remain the No. 1 hemis pheric i headache, the new Matter of Fcrcf ly Joseph Alsop KENNEDY AND THE LIBERALS Washington - The main de cision Senator Kennedy made as the immediate aftermath of his victory, was to make no further decisions at all until he had had a rest. His staff be gan to press for answers to a th o u s and questions, as staffs will. He told them, re portedly, that he was dizzy with the fa tigue of the campaign, and would therefore give no an swers until he returns from Florida. Thus he went off for his va cation with every basic issue unresolved, except for his an nouncement that he was ask ing Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover to continue at their posts. This he had wisely de cided upon many weeks ago. when he first began to think about what shape a Kennedy administration ought to take. Meanwhile, the biggest of the unresolved issues centers in the Secretaryship of State, It is an inflamed issue, be cause the liberal wing of the Democratic party is campaign ing hard to secure the first place in the Cabinet for Adlai Stevenson, and if Stevenson does not succeed, to insure the alternative appointment of Chester Bowles. ' e T ONG ago, Kennedy laid down his personal specifi cations for a Secretary of Gospel Mission Cited For Work Representatives from sev eral valley organizations spoke at the semi-annual meeting of the Medford Gos pel Mission held earlier tms month. Principal speaker for the evening was the Rev. Clif ford Phillips, Fresno, Calif., who spoke of the role Mis sions play in the community. I cannot say too much about the good the Medford Gospel Mission does," Mrs. Frank Fairwcather of the American Red Cross said "We are limited by policies, rules and regulations in giv ing assistance to service men and we appreciate being able to refer them to the Mis sion." "I'm taking my hat off to those who really do social service work," Robert E, Kelly, Social Service direc tor of the Veterans Adminis tration domiciliary, White City, added. "Never have I known the 'Medford Gospel Mission to turn down anyone we have sent to them." James Pullman, adminis trator of the-Jackson County Welfare stated that his of fice is happy and thankful the Medford Gospel Mission exists. "It Is a place where we can send men, whom we cannot assist, to get a place to sleep and something to eat temporarily." he said. "On behalf of the staff particu larly I want to extend my ap preciation to the Mission." Oregon, instead of only one So He lost by ONE vote-184 to Hayes' 185. npiUS recital is Included here a. in some aciau merely as historical data to point out the basic absurdity of the elec toral college system. It leaves unanswered a lot of questions. These, for example: 1. Just what IS the electoral college system? 2. How docs it work? 3. Most important of all, perhaps: Why did the Found ing Fathers - wise, patriotic, dedicated men come to in clude in our constitution this institution that now, after the lapse of nearly two centuries, seems to us such a patent ab surdity? There isn't room here to go into all that. An attempt will be made in this space later to provide some answers to the questions hero raised. , J08KPH ALSUP Unrest, Civil Disturbances, Many Latin American States president will find U.S.-Latin American relations embrace just about every problem in the book. Here are a few for in stances: A mixed civilian-military junta has just taken over Salvador, nestled between Guatemala and Honduras on the Pacific, after a coup which toppled President Jose Maria Lemus. The United States has been slow to recognize the new regime, apparently sus pecting of pro-Castro, leftist leanings. Resentment Mounts The new government says it has been convicted without a trial and resentment against the United States is mount ing. State. The ideal Secretary, he is remembered to have said, should be judicious enoueh to use the very best men avail able to represent the United States abroad. He should be intelligent and self-confident enough to solve minor prob lems satisfactorily on his own responsibility. And above all, he should be wise enough to identify the major problems and take them to the Presi dent for joint solution. The specifications are im pressive. But Senator Ken nedy, who can keep his own counsel as well as one of his Cape Cod clams, has let no one have an inkling of which individual he thinks will best meet his specifications. On the face of the record, the most important indicator that this individual will not turn out to be Stevenson or Bowles, is simply the inten sity of the liberal campaign to get the job for one of these two men. ALL the forces that opposed Lvndon R. Johnson's nnm. ination to the vice-presidency are again being mobilized to plead for Bowles, or, better still, for Stevenson. Even the chieftain of the C. I. O., the redoubtable Walter Reuther, is reputed to be ready to plunge into tho fray. The cam paign's clarion call has al ready been publicity sounded. with an extremely able lead ing editorial in "The New Re public." The parallel with the row about the Johnson nomination is instructive, because the Johnson nomination row re vealed the persistent flaw in American political liberal ism. This flaw is an incurable tendency to put shibboleths ahead of practical facts. Lyn don Johnson, for no logical reason at all, was a black shibboleth of evil to liberal eyes. Kennedy's choice of Johnson was therefore de cried as a "betrayal," which was pure folly as the event proved. In the same manner, though with better ' reasons, Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles are the liberals' shining shib boleths of virtue. Hence there will be renewed cries of "be trayal," if Kennedy does not name either Stevenson or Bowles to the Secretaryship of State. .There would indeed be grounds for complaint, if Kennedy failed to offer im portant places to both of these men. Obviously, how ever, he will not fail to do so. But he may well fail to offer either of them the one job their friends want for them. The reasons for suspecting this outcome are apparent. They all He on the surface of the situation. . THE first reason is the one already noted - the appre hensive tone of the campaign in favor of Stevenson andor Bowles. The Stevenson Bowles backers would hardly be so insistant if they did not have some cause, apparently of a private character, to fear a different choice. The second reason is the character of Kennedy's speci fications for Secretary of State; already listed above. It points toward the kind of man who will be temperamen tally sympathetic to Kennedy, who will be primarily a first rate technician, and who will give his entire energy to ex ecuting a Kennedy policy in stead of pressing for an al ternative policy. Despite all the admirable qualities of Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles, it is at least doubtful whether either Stevenson or Bowles is quite the kind of man the Kennedy specifications point toward. In addition, there is the ur gent need to unite the coun try, after a narrow electoral victory with very rough go ing ahead. The truth is. there Is more need to unite the country now. than there was need to unite the Demo cratic Party at Los Angeles, when the disputed choice of Johnson produced the neces sary result. That, surely, is the point that has to be most carefully weighed. (c) 1960. New York Herald Tribune Inc. i Nicaragua and Guatemala are in trouble. Armed attacks by rebels have occurred in each. Officials charge the rebels wear Fidel Castro uni forms and are aupplicd by Cuba. Slates of siege have been imposed in Nicaragua and Guatemala. In Costa Rica, rebels killed the national guard command er in a border skirmish. Cos,ta Rican troops have been fight ing for some time against forces planning an attack on Nicaragua, long a particular target of the Castro regime. In Venezuela, President Romulo Betancourt's three party coalition seems on the verge of falling apart, partly because of economic difficul ties and partly because of divergent y i e w s toward Castro. Betancourt himself is markedly cool to the Cuban revolutionary regime. Mounting unrest plagues the governments of Chile, Brazil and Argentina. ' A strike called to enforce demands for wage parity with Washington Report By WIUIAM NIXON Washinglon-Though it lost the presidency only by the most desperately thin popu lar margin in three-quarters of a century, the Republican parly is in a bad way na tionally. It is in so bad a way, in deed, that the outlook is ex tremely good for iis defeat ed champion, n i h a M William t . ehi'i Nixon, to gain a second presidential nomin ation in 1964. Paradox is the word for the present position of the G.O.P. If it is short on followers, it is, in a curious way, long on leadership - that of Nixon. For he picks himself up from the dust as still not only the strongest man in his party but also as the one man likely to become absolutely indis pensable to it for the big race four years from now;- In losing in so narrow a way, as the candidate of a party which went into battle trailing by 4 to 6 in voter registration, he has at any rate won a bright party fu ture for himself. It is, in foot ball terms, far from a dis grace to lose by a single field goal when the odds had fav ored your opponent by a couple of 'touchdowns. TU'IXON is in defeat but by I' no means in discredit; in his case there is not the slight est reason even to contem plate unconditional sur render. For he has actually become more than ever necessary to the G.O.P. because of the after-effects of the very elec tion he lost: He is today the only man around who is re motely capable of keeping alive the whole vital center of the G.O.P, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, the favorite of the fragmentary liberal wing of tne party, is beyond doubt headed down and not up. The loss to the Republicans na tionally of his own state, by a majority so tremendous as to have few parallels in his tory, has marked Rockefeller as the man who could not or would not deliver for his own party when the bitter chips were most bitterly down. It is thus just short of in conceivable that he could have any wide influence at the 1964 Republican National convention. . ' Try end Stop Me By BENNETT CERF : p RUMBLED A VERY FAT MAN to his 8-year-old son on the sands of Miami Beach, "I brought you all the way from Indianapolis to swim in the salt water of the Atlantic oo wny aon t you be a brave boy and plunge into those waves?" , "I will, Daddy, I will," his son responded earn estly "Just the second you stop standing on one of my flippers." e The "dust unto dust" idea is developed along these lines by Prof. Richard Armour, of Scripps College: e e e The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is ferric oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear whose potent hug W feared by all, is now a nig. Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf And I don't feel so well myself! C UM, by Btustt Crt Distributed by King ruturM lynlkttt the armed services paralyzed Brazil's transport system last week. Other Strike Expensive strikes also hit Argentina and Chile whera government austerity pro grams are unpopular. Tha strikes were suspiciously coin cidental with Moscow's . ob servance of the 43rd anni versary of communism's "Oc tober revolution!" To these situations may ba added increasing U.S. con cern over the enormous flow of communist weapons to Cuba, rated far above any normal defense requirements. It is suspected that some of these arms are intended for other Latin American revolu tionary groups. Latin America hailed Ken nedy's election in the belief it heralded a new era of "good - neighborliness." But Latin Americans long have been both suspicious and re sentful of their big northern neighbor, and their attitur'a also will be one of wait and see. S. WHITE THE hero of the G.O.P. right wing, Sen. Barry Gold water of Arizona, has emerg ed personally unwounded from the late hostilities and, in a way, a bigger man than before. Here, too, however, no objective observer can find any serious rival to Nixon in '64. Goldwater, though far more liked now by practically all G.O.P. factions than is Rocke feller, carries all the same a fatal disability as a presiden tial contender. Honest, can did (and wrong-headed), he is simply too rigidly ultra-conservative for the world of reality in which we live, just as Rockefeller is 'too ineffec tually liberal for that world. If the moderate Nixon could not recruit in 1960 enough independent and dis satisfied Democratic votes to win the country, a right-wing Goldwater in 1964 would not be able to recruit one-tentli enough. The Republican prrs "like Barry," and with gocd reason, in the human sense. But they won't "take Barry" in 1964-because they will want to win. e A LL these circumstances -the pressure of Goldwat er on the right and the mere presence of Rockefeller on the left - are precisely what makes Nixon the all but irre placeable G.O.P. man for 1964. Somebody has got to keep the true heart and mus cle of the party, its core and center as represented by the moderate-to-conservative, st'll going. And that somebody is Richard Milhous Nixon. He will be in perfect posi tion to do the job: Out of the responsibilities of public of fice; but possessed of the vast advantages of his titular party leadership. No longer com pelled by loyalty to defend the weaknesses of a retiring administration. Rid at lasi. because of a' decent and fair campaign, of the old whisp ered suggestions that the. a was "something wrong" with Richard Nixon. Nixon himself is a-walking casualty sure to recover for more warfare. But a perman ent and buried casualty now will be that old Epithet which so long punished him: "Tricky Dick". . (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Chelsea, Mass. ll'Pil G e n. William J. Keville. 83, World War I commander of the Yan kee Division Ind former? Massachusetts adjutant gen eral, died Monday.