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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. B 5 Kennedy Planning Gut in Number of Ranking White House Officials Palm Beach, Fla.-OIPD-Presl-dcnt-elcct John F. Kennedy plans a marked reduction in the number of ranking White House officials when his ad ministration takes office next Jan. 30, his adviser on gov ernmental transition problems reported Monday. Clark M. Clifford, a Wash ington attorney who has rep resented the President-elect in dealing with the Eisen hower government on orderly transition of control, also said after a long conference here Monday that Kennedy intend ed to abandon the White House job of the assistant to the President. No Powerful Official The post of the assistant to President Eisenhower is now occupied by Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons who has been Clifford's counterpart in transition discussions. Before Persons, the post was held by Sherman Adams. Clifford told reporters Ken nedy wanted no powerful of ficial between him and his staff. By abolishing-the post, Clifford said Kennedy felt this also would bring him into closer contact with his cabinet officers. Clifford arrived late Sun day from a series of Washing ton conferences with repre sentatives of President Eisen hower on the orderly transi tion of government. This is a problem that involves not only getting new people into key jobs, but getting the cur rent job-holders out. Before Clifford had been in town more than a few minutes, he handled an im portant chore for Kennedy receiving from the Louisiana . Legislature a hot political po tato involving civil rights. Ask Kennedy Views With much of the South watching, a delegation of Louisiana lawmakers flew to Palm Beach in a state Na tional Guard plane with a resolution asking Kennedy's views on the action of a fed eral judge in restraining the state legislature in connection with the integration of the New Orleans schools. Clifford met the delegation at their notel, listened to tneir explanation of the resolution and urbanely promised to pre sent the matter to the president-elect. Then he drove to Kennedy's seaside winter es tablishment where he was an overnight guest. Kennedy, according to his aides, held long and inten sive conference with Clifford about his transition discus sions with Maj. Gen. Persons. Reporters were curious about the selection of Clif ford to represent Kennedy iri the face-to-face dealings with the' Louisiana delegation in stead of the president-elect turning the job over to one ' of several close (aides already named to the new White House staff, such as Kenneth C. O'Donnell or Theodore Sorenscn. Acting Press Secretary Don ald M. Wilson said only that Clifford was "one of Senator Kennedy's leading advisers.' AckpH if Pliffnrrt was in a rjnsition to sDeak for Ken nedy on a matter of basic federal policy pertaining to the judiciary, Wilson said he was not. Clifford, who will be 54 vears old on Christmas Day, is an old hand at Democratic nolitics. and the White House where he served as special counsel to President Truman until 1950 when he set up a lucrative private law practice in Washington. Election Margin Cut to 197,609 Wochtnotnn - iUPD - Votes cast for the two major candi dates in this year's presiden tial election appeared Mon day to have been more evenly rlitfiriori than ovpr heforc. As the unofficial tabulation nf tho Nov. 8 balloting near or) rnmnlpiinn. the Dercentage hv which Sen. John' F. Ken- nnnV iH Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon in popular votes stood Monday at 197,609, a fraction below the record low set in the 1884 election. Nnt until all the votes are nffiHallv tnhulated next month will it be known whe ther Kennedy's percentage margin actually was the .mnIlAc( in hictnrV. ainnut.i ... ........ but 120 of the nation's 166.- qej npnninMc inri nnlV 8 small number of late-counted absentee ballots still to be tabulated, the United Press . International s count monaay gave: Kcnnedy-34.026.623. Nixon-33.829.614. Others-448,388. CONFERENCE HELD-Presidenl-elect John F. Kennedy, left, confers at Palm Beach, Fla., his vacation headquarters, with Clark Clifford, his liaison man with the present administration. (UPI Tclephoto) They'll Do It Every Time iMH. By Jimmy Hatlo BuLLGRAW.THE NEW CHAIRMAN OP THE HOUSE COMMrrTEE.CERTAlNLV SEEMS TO BE THE MAN FOR THE JOB- H'MMCLEAN THE DRAPES" BACKS OF CMAlRS SOILED- I REMIND ME. TO HAVE. THE FLOORS SCRAPED? CHECK THE HEATING- BuT HIS FRAU WOULDN'T SECOND THE MOTION-ASK HER HOW FUSSV HE IS ABOUT HIS OWN HOUSE"" r WILL YOU x I V PUL-LEEZE DO ) KEEPVOUR VH 150M&THIN&ABOUTL BUSTLE ON,KIDDO.iai )yyi THE ROOF? DO I J I EXPECT TO RUN tj JJ ' vSw-alWWfc 'U lp"-Vr' H INTO A nJJMbcK il eMlPT u&5 3"ilH-- THIS ROOM-LOOK) j DAV NOW-WHASSA I Ml I A riST'f,,-Fsft V AT IT ZrV MATTER WITH THIS Clark Clifford Says Aide Job ill Be Dropped Washington Ball Club Has More Attention Than Kennedy Public Official in South Seen Greatest Danger To Peace By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - The country is waiting for the state of the Union message President Ken nedy will de liver and to see what the first hundred days of - his new Adminis tration will mean to the nation. But this city is more anx- a Riot smiu lously waiting for Kennedy's delivery of the first pitch at Griffith stadium to see what the baseball sea son will bring from the brand new team the nation s capital will have. If Dr. Gallup were to poll the local citizens, chances are more would admit to being interested in the lineup of players who will take their positions in the local ball park this spring that the names of the politicians who will sit around the cabinet with John F. Kennedy. The reason for this odd im balance of proper values is that the country has had much better representation from any Administration you can name than Washington nas had from its baseball teams over the years. When Calvin Griffith mov ed his tattered second division warriors out to Minneapolis month ago, there was no wave of indignation over the sudden departure of the Wash in eton Senators ball club. There was a sigh of relief, for with this move came the promise of a new club, Possibility of Chang No one knew who would organize the new club, much less who would play on it or how well it would do in the American league standings The point is no one- cared half so much about these things as they did about tne possibilities of a cnange lor the better. It was time for a change The local ball club, despite such hefty homerun hitters as Harmon Klllebrew, the strong hnv from Idaho, was flounder ing well out of the pennant ran a SVmBOl 01 lorai snaine and discontent. Not since the deep depression days has tne city had a winner. Not since Walter Johnson has it had a red hot player that hasn't fallen into anonymity before his press clippings were yel low with age. Where People Stay It is sometimes said that this is bum baseball town, just because of its peculiar makeup of people. There is something to this. Washing ton is the place where people stay when they "never go back to Pocatello," as the late Dick Neuberger once wrote. The new Kennedy Admin istration and the congres sional offices may draw new citizen workers from as far as Nome or Honolulu; but the chances are better than 100 to 1 that these citizens will re main in Washington for many years, long after their service for the government has end ed. They will always talk of home" in terms of where they came from,' but they won't go back. The capital strange black magic has cast its spell over them. This makes for a great mass of citizen residents of this city who don't think of this as home. They are transient minded, if not actually tran sients. They may even vote back home and pay taxes there. But they live here. Somebody Else's Burden To many of these persons, the Washington ball team is Cloud-Seeding at Nyssa Planned Nyssa, Ore. -fflPIl- The Owy hee Irrigation District is plan ning to do something about the weather next month. Manager Paul House of the district's north board of con trol, said cloud-seeding oper ations would begin Dec. 1 in an attempt to extract the max imum moisture from winter storms. He said 25 silver-iodide gen erators will be located in the Owyhee watershed area in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada. The generator operators will be notified by meteorol ogists at Salt Lake City and Winncmucca, Nev., when storms are moving across the area so the crystals may be injected into the air about 30 minutes to an hour before the BRILL METAL WORKS Commorcisl Induitiiil Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless. Galvanised and Coppir Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 . somebody else's burden. They still root for the home team. which has probably done bet ter than the Washington team anyway. Others think a winning baseball team would turn this into a good baseball town. This place is swarming with politicians always looking for winner. Politicians avoid losers like the black plague. There will be added inter est to the new team, headed by the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, Gen. Elwood Quesada, a popular as a member of the Eisenhower Administration. If he flops, maybe the Kennedy family will keep us diverted with touch football games on the White House lawn. Atlanta-fflPl)-Thc Southern Regional council said today the creatcst dancer to law and order In the south is a public official, caugm oitguara Dy trouble, trying to meet the new problems with old, un assessed ideas. The warning came in an analysis of police handling of racial violence in Chattanoo ga, Tenn., Montgomery, Ala., and Little Rock, Ark., by George McMillan, a well known South Carolina writer. Mcmillan made the report entitled "Racial Violence and Enforcement," at the re quest of the council, an or ganization of white and Negro southerners formed in 1944 to advance "equal opportunity for the south's people." The report describes the basic need of good police work as "the support of elected of ficials and community leader ship, expressing a clear cut community respect for law and .order." Arm of Whit Race "For too many years, in the south," It continues, "the po- ice were assumed to be an arm of the white race to keep the Negroes In their place. Where this attitude lingers, there is scant chance for the orderly resolution of racial controversy." The reports lists three main points: i 1. "Negroes In the south are prepared to take overt steps to change their status, even at the risk of personal safety. 2. Negroes may demon strate in any southern town. None can now count on im munity." 3. "Traditional southern po lice attitudes are not likely to be adequate for dealing im partially with the young gen eration of Negroes committed to the methods of non-violence. They have forced a re versal of roles on the south ern police officer; now, to maintain law and order, he must protect the non-violent Negroes from the whites. And he must do, it quickly." The report describes three actual episodes, each with a different type of violence which can occur in the south. Chattanooga s riot at tne time of the student sit-in dem onstrations, although not in dangerous proportions, was for the police primarily a task of clearing the streets and al lowing tempers to cool and good sense to prevail. Acted as Guardians Montgomery's riol-"Whcre the police, in the name of pre venting 'trouble' acting in their traditional role of guar dians of a segregated society, crushed a Negro demonstra tion, in effect doing their job. 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