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o O O 0 o o o o o o o o FRIDAY. . MedfordJ!8&Tkibun -Everyone in Southern Oregon Heads The Mail JTribune Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO SS North Fir StPh. SP 3-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adveitlslni Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR Mna Edltol EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHlPMAfjTeleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'l Ed. tor DAJERJCJtSONrculatlon Msr An "Independent Newspaper tntered ai iecond class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Uy Mall - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 15 00 Dally and Sunday moi m Dally and Sunday 3 mot 4.23 Sunday Only One year 14 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point E alt Point. Jacksonville Gold gill Phoenlie Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv er Talent and on motor route. Dally and Sunday 1 vear tie no Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealer! - copy 10c All Terms Caah In Advance "Official Paper ol Cltv of Medford OfHelaPapof Jackson Conntv United Press International Full Leased Wire I) P 1 Telephoto Kewaplctures -J5EMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlsfiie" RwrwenJUitlv: WEST HOLIDAY CC INC Of. flees In New York Chlcafo. Da. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis At tanta Vancouver Bfl NATION At EDITORIAL aiAs?c8TitN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Tn 13. 1951 (Saturday) The president of the Ore gon Mining association told a group of foresters and lum bermen here rlday mar. mere lo nn "timber steal" in south ern Oregon, but there were many of his listeners wno ais aareed with him. . Dick Woodcock, director of the 1951 March of Dimes cam paign here, asked residents "to join the all-out drive for funds needed to stem the ris ing tide of polio." 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1941 (Monday) Five Medford men received their notification from the lo cal draft board yesterday to appear for induction Into the armed services. tr-nm Alhiif Pprrv's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In a basketball game at Roseburg 43 personal fouls were called, 28 on Medford, and 15 on the home team. This is a world's record for tooting, even by the owner of a new auto, with a special horn at tachment." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1931 (Tuesday) The local Chamber of Com merce has launched a drive to bring a new industry hcre any industry. The House has approved a road development in Crater Lake National park costing near $1 million. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1921 (Thursday) Four California bootleggers, arrested here Tuesday, posted S800 apiece bail yesterday and local authorities do not believe they will return. New spring coats have ar rived at Mann's Department store. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1911 (Friday) - A 15-year-old Klamath Falls youth admitted to police yes terday that he hit a man over the head with a rock in down town Medford two nights ago; the man is not expected to livo The official U. S. census gives Ashland a population of 5,020, and Medford 8.840. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nina of fen correct is superior: liven or oighl is ticsllenti five el is is good. 1. Was Singapore, while under British control, ever in vaded before its capture by the Japanese in W. W. 11? 2. Silas was a companion of Jesus, Peter, or Paul? 3. What fruit grew in the Garden of Hespcridcs? 4. Of which state is Boise the capital? 5. Which stale Is represent cd In the U. S. Senate by Sen 4 A V-ASSOCIATION ator Wayne Morse? 6. The herolno of the nov el, "Gone With the Wind", was ? 7. To which country does Prince Edward Island belong? 8. Correct the following sentence: "One of ninety nine persons were killed iti tk accident." 9. What Is guayuke? 10. Tha Stale University of New Jersey is Prlnco; true or false? Answer 1. t 1. 3. (M. etafsM 5. IV E. IN ft 7 fcMjkto Q "0H . . . waaJWl It . ( feber-beii?ing DtiafW (Rulfl.rs). - 0 : JANUARY 13. 1961 The PUD and the Rogue We are indebted to the Grants Pass Courier for a copy of a statement issued by the brand new Josephine County Public Power Association, giving details of its proposal for a gigantic dam and lake in the Copper canyon area of the lower Rogue. We are republishing the statement in full to day. It will be found on Paee 5 just opposite. We read it with a the same time, a growing relief disbenet tnat any organization could be so utterly naive as to make a proposal of this nature in this day and age; relief to see that the proposal hasnt any more chance of being snowball has you-know-where. WE commend the statement to our knowledge, able readers as entertaining reading. Meanwhile, we have First of all, the voters of the area would have to be willing to vote to form a People's Utility District. If they do, it will go strongly against the historic trend in Oregon, and particularly in this part of the state. We doubt that they would do so when they realize that a PUD is a govern mental agency with tax-levying power, and that such a dam would become a tax liability on their property. Second, the statement in fact that the objective of the dam isn't power at all it s water; water marily. IT IS not water that can 4 flow, as evidenced by stations. And, while it is for industrial and agricultural use, it s a mighty expensive way of doincr They also kindly offer to send all the water we need to Jackson county. Nice ol em., we can see those big pumps and siphons and canals carrying water uphill way below Grants Pass clearly, and especially culty we ve had getting the lalent, Agate and Upper Rogue projects approved to obtain irri gation water in our own ical uasiH. Third, they're going to feet of water, produce some 300,000 kilowatts of electricity and 1,600,000 horsepower, and yet not draw down the reservoir to impair recreation, while calling upon Bonneville Power Administra tion for pumping power in the "off" season. .' FLOOD control is fifth. . Mi-.tr nntfi iQ-f nil r Tim rlam la irr far downstream to control So they propose to PUMP above the town of Rogue River, and at bvans Creek, into handy reservoirs. Has anyone seen the Rogue in flood? Shall we simply pump it all away? Boy! "Now we face the fish problem," the state ment goes on, for point No. 6. The fish problem is neatly solved by eliminating it entirely. Seal off the Rogue; end those silly salmon and steel head runs, and hire a biologist to rearrange na ture to the liking of the dam-builders. WELL, that's plain enough. If the patient is ill, cut his head off. That'll cure him. Now all this is going to attract 500,000 tour ists each year. And on top of all on to admit, quite casually, that the power gen erated will be in excess After reading this modest document, we have only one comment: While we're at it, let's pave the floor of the valley, cut down all those messy trees on the hills, and pump ocean water into Crater Lake to fill it to the top. It's uneconomic half empty. E. A. Bank Closings and Crime A week from tomorrow, Oregon's banks will be closed. On that day, a Saturday, they will put into effect a voluntary closing agreement, worked out when legislation designed to force closing failed in the last legislature. There has been some criticism of the banks for this action, and undoubtedly some people will be inconvenienced, although one bank is stepping up its "bank-by-mail" services. But there will be one effect of the closing which didn't even occur to us until the other day when we were talking to a police official. i THE Saturday bank closing, he reported, is apt to turn into a headache for law enforce ment officials. Why? Because it will mean two days, rather than one, during which businesses will not be able to deposit their cash. This especially applies to taverns and groceries, which do business over the week end, and often accumulate substantial sums of money. The result, police fear, will be an added num ber of crimes burglaries and hold-ups because of the added temptation offered to crooks. "THE use of night and off -horn's depositories 1 will increase, and that will help some. But also the action means that law enforce ment personnel, and the proprietors of the busi ness establishments in question, will have to be on their toes more than ever. It's another example of how complex and in terdependent our society ha;tbecome. Today the action of one group often has effects on others only remotely involved, effects which are com pletely unintended and often not even suspected until too late.-cE. A. ft growing disbelief and, at put into enect than a a few comments thereon: reveals frankly states, lor industrial use, pit be utilized by gravity the plans for pumping possible to pump water things. to Jackson county irom we can see it very, very so in light of the diffi county, on an econom dam up 6,000,000 acre- flooding in Grants Pass. OFF excess Hood water this, the statement goes ol our own needs. Dennis the Menace 'Therms two things to 'member an' d0nt set nervous when your ...Communications ... Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. The Lambs To the Editor: Not as one who sees "a communist behind every light pole and under every bed," but as one of many Mail Tribune readers who can perceive the serious threat to American liberties and institutions posed by the recent spread of communism to Latin America, the under signed would like to comment on E.A. s recent editorial en titled "Harsh (But True) In dictment." The writer is neither un familiar with Washington, D.C., newspapers nor unac quainted with the present edi torial and management lean ings of the Washington Post the fountainhead of those scurrilous and almost psycho pathically vicious cartoons of Herblock. Hence, he is not surprised to learn that the Post has readily opened its columns to a petition to "eliminate" (by firing squad perchance?) that "blot on American de mocracy and Constitutional theory, the House Un-Ameri can Activities Committee"; a petition which, we are told, bears the names of an "im pressive list of notables" all of whom, save one, remain unnamed in the editorial. Nor is it surprising to dis cover that the petition's sign ers include "members . . . of college faculties," scientists, editors and authors - profes sions liberally sprinkled with "ivory tower devotees. Wrapped in the impenetrable mantle of their self-convinced erudition, the soaring intel lects of such devotees scale the heights of idealism with out once becoming aware of the chasm of hard reality at their feet. Without their de luded assistance, even the man in the street knows that communistic influence in this country would long since have waned to the vanishing point. In the light of the present world situation, all anti-anti- communists might do well to ponder these line of Pope: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today. Had he the reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." C. L. Williams, 595 Monroe St., Ashland, Ore. Editor's note: The list of names totaled nearly 350, from 23 states and the Dis trict of Columbia. Here are a few selected names of those signed to the advertisement: Bishop Clarence R. Hndcn Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bish op; Robert W. Kenny, former attorney general for Cali fornia; Rabbi Albert M. Lewis; Daniel G. Marshall, lawyer and Catholic layman; Culbert L. Olson, former gov ernor of California; Edwin A. Sanders, executive. American Friends Service Committee; the Rev. Henry B. Scholetield Unitarian; Dr. Harold C. Urey scientist, Nobel Laureate; Bishop Sumner F. Walters, Protestant Episcopal Bishop; Dr. James C. Whitney, psy chiatrist; Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor-author; Dr. C. Herbert Marshall II, M.D., past president, National Medi cal Assn.; Bishop John Wesley Lord, Methodist; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rov. Harold E. Fey, editor, "The Christian Century"; Mrs. Donald S. Frey, chairman, 11 linois United Church Women: Bishop J. Claude Allen, Chris tlan Methodist Episcopal Bishop fcdgar Love, Mi9.i odisl; Dr. John Mackny, president, International Alli ance of o r 1 d Christian Church fnfv,.- president 'bout cumbin': don't look cow, mom $cffam$ at ya ' nary; Victor Bovee, editor, "The Unitarian R e g i s t e r"; Prof. Henry Steele Commager, historian; Dr. Paul Tillich, theologian - author; Hon. Ira W. Jayne, former circuit court justice (Michigan); the Rev. Benjamin J. Anderson, Pres byterian; Hon. John O. Bige low, former state superior court justice (New Jersey); James Imbrie, retired Wall Street banker; Dr. Harry Em erson Fosdick, church leader and author; Dr. Reinhold Nie buhr, theologian; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; Gen. Hugh B. Hes ter (U.S.A., Ret.); Mrs. Roy L. Winters, president, United Lutheran Churchwomen; the Rev. Alfred D. Heininger, Congregational, and many oth ers. Liquor and Humans To the Editor: The Jan. 10 Mail Tribune contained a com munication that needs sweet ening. My foster father gave this orphan toys, told me delight ful stories, and gave fatherly love that I had never known. I loved him dearly even when he drank. He didn't sell liquor but he treated every alcoholic who would drink with him. Our home smolled of the stuff and finally went down Whiskey River, after which my darling new parents were divorced. Because of intoxicating bev erages I still hate all liquor. Then, nice women passed a saloon on the opposite side of the street. Later came prohibition. Many men said "No law is going to tell me what I must not do," so they concocted their own slush - and their neighbors'. Their wives and daughters tasted, drank and guzzled. West Eyes Proposed FDR Memorial; Big Fight Seen By DICK WEST Washington (UPP I am what you might call the cau tious type. I would'nt even travel the road to ruin without stop ping to ask di rections. This ex plains why I have no stom ach for artis t i c warfare. Whenever the forces of cul ture get to battling amongst themselves, I try to give them a wide berth. I figure there is no sense running the risk that some hot-tempered will attack me with a switchblade palette knife. There are times, however, when curiosity gets the better of my better judgment. So, girding my loins and throw ing caution to the winds (which ties the record for the most cliches in one sentence) I went down to the Corcoran Art Gallery to see the designs for the proposed Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. Probably you have heard about tlie rumble now going on over this project. It Is get ting to be even more con troversial than FDR himself. Selection Touches Fireworks The. fireworks started when a jury of architects impaneled pick a design for the me morl recommended an ar rangement of towering con crete slabs imprinted with seleetions from the late presi dent's speeches. Almost before you could say rpihi'. critics woi c!;t radical. I .tea evceS. BI9 nounctng 1 1 10) 1 u ryffr ftflnMU M; MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Orbital H - Could Be By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-fllFD-A military friend of mine whose name was in headlines during rfff'J KXi World War 11 oui ioua me other evening. This is what he thought: "The great est danger our country faces today flows from the fol- Wllson lowing bilities: "Science and technol ogy now have reached a state which makes it possible to place in space weapons which can control the people of the earth. Such weapons can be developed for an expenditure of a few billions of dollars and be available by 1970 to 1973. "The Russians undoubtedly are aware of this possibility. "They or we may soon pro pose that space be reserved for peaceful purposes and that Our so-called "Barflies" came into being. I saw it happen. Our earth is grand, but it is populated by worldlings of variable tastes. Some are bound for the gutters, but our minds need not keep them company. Better that the government license liquor that is properly made, instead of allowing people to be blinded and poisoned by home - made drinks. None other than God can change alcoholism. It has gone too far. It causes deaths, broken homes, poverty and heartaches, but goes merrily on. I - who was reared among liquor fumes - am a Christian. Is it not possible that Mr. Kennedy, who also has touched elbows with our Nation's riffraff, may turn out to be a very desirable leader? Do you, who condemn him because of his father's business, know him person ally? If not, why criticize? Any man who aspires to head our Nation in this day and age, is a brave person. I have faith that he will fight to keep it clean and straight. If he runs into trouble, 1 am sure he will seek God's guidance and get it. Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. First Votes in Iran's Elections Are Cast Tehran, Iran-WPD-The first votes in Iran's general elec tions were cast Thursday, with minor clashes in the town of Yezd the only report ed violence. Communists and "other ex tremists," including followers of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, were barred from candidacy. Brewing looking like "a set of book ends just out of the deep freeze." It has drawn some of the harshest comments since Frank Lloyd Wright compared the Jefferson Memorial to a "public comfort station.' And this, mind you, is only the preliminary round. When you consider that the Memo rial Commission, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Fine Arts Commission, the National Parks Service and Congress must also pass judg ment on it, you can see what we are in for. I look for nothing less than a protracted gang fight over its esthetic values. And let me tell you that some of these arty types play rough. The Corcoran Gallery now has on exhibit models and drawings of the favored de sign as well as five runners up. 1 don't want to take sides, but to me they all looked a bit far-fetched. One reminded me of the flight deck of the aircraft car rier Saratoga. Another re sembled a salad bowl contain ing a poorly camouflaged can non. A third seemed to have been patterned after the ob servation platform at the local airport. I can appreciate the Me morial Commission's desire to get away from the traditional "tombstone" archi t e c t u r c. which has hirned aWsliington Into a well-tended graveyard. But 1 would advise it try to find something , little less extreme? m . 1 If the current pu($ ceyrDincly in search of the many; rep lies Congress, where e n j and why the many are so : Whistler's Mother iHrdc Mr MiWIf neffi " OREGON Bomb Seen Optimum Weapon; Usable Within 12 to 15 Years. no weapons be placed in orbit. If such an agreement were made, we would keep it and no funds would be appropri ated for space weapons. The Russians can be expected to go full out, despite any treaty or agreement, to develop such weapons. Forced To Surrender "Thus, in 1970 or there abouts people of the United States would be defenseless against Russian space weap ons. Under such conditions, the United States would be forced to surrender. "The antidote to such a ca tastrophe is to proceed with all speed, energy and effort to develop optimum weapons in space. Equal priority must be given to the earliest devel opment of defense systems against space weapons. French Vote Confirms People's Belief in By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Paris -TOPD- After more than two years, French voters still believe that President Charles de Gaulle is their miracle man. D e Gaulle, in effect, made last Sunday's referendum on the future of Algeria a vote of confidence in himself. More than 75 per cent of France's 27 mil lion voters turned out to reg- Washington Report By WIUIAM MAN HUNT Washington - A great hu man hunt and counter-hunt goes on in Washington. One man, President-elect Kennedy, is in earnest search of many. the manv are f"l in anxious e& I search of the favor of the one. This is the "story line" of the second pre - inaugural act of the in coming Ken nedy adminis White tration. The first involved the stars, the handful who would enter the new cabinet. The present drama involves the hundreds of supporting play ers required to form the hu man tiers of the second and third-rank officialdom. These men, who are to be less-than-cabinet but infinite ly more than clerks, are being selected with a care rarely ex ercised by a new president. For from his experience in congress-a highly Informed collective critic of the bureau cracy "downtown"-Mr. Ken nedy has this full awareness: The success of any public en terprise, White House or con gressional committee, will to a great extent depend on those professional second-men who are meant to serve it in relative anonymity. Their po litical unimportance must be compensated for by special skill and devotion. A LWAYS, these jobs of next- xi to-cabinet status are eagerly sought. But they are not always handed out with an equivalently high concern but the man at the very top, the new president himself. So it is that this time there is an extra element in the air. The aspirants do not simply seek jobs that are good themselves. They seek jobs in the knowledge that the presi dent-elect himself regards those jobs as of enduring im- portance-to him as well as to them. The president-elect, indeed, has upgraded the second and third lines even before filling up those lines. For, weeks ago he was telling friends such posts were of a significance even higher, in one sense, than the cabinet itself. His reasoning was that, based on all past form, he must at any rate expect some cabinet changes within a year or two. The cabinet turn over is historically fairly large. Men at thai point o( personal achievement and em inence inevitably will have attractive outside opportuni ties endlessly competing for them. BUT officials just below cab inet level tend to stay. And the point is that Mr. Ken nedy wants them to tend to stay even more than in the cist. He is building the per manent Kennedy administra - tion precisely on this Idea, and precisely in this hope. It is not hard, then, to see why thi one man is so genu cnulrBly in search .unlm"ii Dy mm it OSS O "No other problem facing the United States today is of equal Importance or fraught with such fateful conse quences." My military friend is an intelligent man of sound judg ment. When he uses such words as "the greatest danger our country faces today," he means exactly that. So, too, when he says that, under certain conditions, the people of the United States would be defenseless and would have to surrender, he means it in absolute terms and in the too-near future, say about 12 to 15 years hence. Expert on Atoms This, then, is something for the citizens of the United States to consider and about which they should inform DeGalle's Ability ister formally their belief that the man who had given France a stable government, who had halted disastrous in flation, and who was restor ing France's place in the sun, also could solve France's greatest problem of all. That problem was the war in Algeria. De Gaulle's rererendum vic tory was all the more impres sive because he has not been an easy taskmaster with the French people, who tradition ally resist restraints on indi vidual freedoms. With impartial severity he S. WHITE college campus in fraternity "rush week"-with the differ ence that here it is not a jew eled pin but an opportunity to serve in high and useful sta tion which is at stake. As on the campus, a candidate must draw a delicate line between being too eager and being so hard to get as to become lost in the shuffle. TIE MUST leave it to his 11 friends-and these in turn will be friends of Mr. Ken. nedy or of Vice-President. Elect Johnson-to "initiate the contact." But the candidate must then go it on his own. And, contrary to any public impression of a crude "job hunt" when one administra tion succeeds another, there is little in this process which is sordid. There is actually much which is touchingly honest -and even, sometimes, self denying. For more men than might be supposed are truly anxious-as well as truly qua-lified-to serve interests in comparably higher than their own. These, the sensitive ones and the best ones, do not find it easy either to wait at home for the telephone to ring or to ask others to make that well-known "contact." And yet it is just these who most of all the President Elect would really want. This is the true core of the drama. (Copyright, 1961. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I think everyone must agree that Washington (using Wash ington as a generic term for our federal government) is full of problems. There's Laos. (Even its name suggests problems. As ordinarily pro nounced, it sounds like LOUSE, which starts us worrying about how we can keep from getting any worse loused up in that part of the world.) There's Cuba, including Castro. There's Africa. There's the continuing problem of Mr. Kroosh and how to han dle the old rascal. Then there's GOLD, which we don't seem to have enough of to enable us to go on living in the open-handed way we've become accumstomcd to liv inv. The list seems endless. WELL " Wil ith Inauguration D a v only a week off, SOMETHING NEW in the way of Washing ton problems has been added:: WHAT TO WEAR ON IN AUGURATION DAY? A SIMPLE problem? Easily solved? That's what you and I. liv ing out here in the wide open spaces, think. i 1ACK in Washington, it's 1 9 different. What to wear on Inauguration Day is so im portant there that the GOP held a PARTY CONFERENCE on it yesterday. It was dis cussed pro and con. I The final decision, as has I , been tl ca:9 so often in our themselves. Joseph L. Myler is the very competent writer and reporter who experts for Unit ed Press International the news of the atom. "Joe," I said to him, "what's this optimum weapon my friend is talking about?" "Oh, you know," Joe re plied, "it's that orbital H-bomb. You put it in orbit and under electronic control it spins around the earth un til you decide where you want it to hit. Then, still under control, you bring it over the target, obtain its re-entry and let it go. Booom!" "This space weapon," I said, "sort of like the sword of Damocles, isn't it?" "Yeah," said Joe, "sort of, maybe. But this orbital H-bomb is no fable." has dealt with farmers resist- ing a cut in their government subsidies and with labor strik ing for higher wages. In the labor district of Paris, even many Communists de fied the dictates of Moscow and voted "yes" on Da Gaulle's plan for an Algerian Algeria. The French repudiated an other national hero, Marshal A 1 p h o n s e Juin, who was dropped from the supreme de fense council for his opposi tion to De Gaulle. Another who was repudiated was fiery Jacques Soustelle, hero of tho French resistance who broka with De Gaulle after 20 years of close association. There is a different feeling in Paris from three years ago. Then, amid falling govern ments and problems which seemed too great for any man to solve, to a visitor the French appeared discouraged and sullen. One of the first sights to catch the eye en route from Le Bourget air port to the city were scrawled anti-American signs on over passes and on stone walls. The French, in search for a scapegoat, were turning on tha United States. The feeling is gone today, for the French are a confi dent people and are living well. De Gaulle, standing lonely and aloof even from his own people, still must face some ot his greatest problems. was decided to leave it on tha basis of every man for him self. Senator Everett M. Dirk sen, of Illinois, the Republican leader in the senate, announc ing the momentous decision to the reporters, said: "We decided to let every man decide for himself on tha occasion. There may even be some who will wear formal or SEMI-formal attire - such as striped trousers and SHORT coats." THE H HE base cowards! Party to survive if its present stalwarts are as wishy-washy in their convictions as that decision seems to indicate? AT THE GOP conference, Senator George D. Aiken, of Vermont, took a dim view of formal attire WHEN THE VOTERS ARE LOOKING ON. He recalled that a reception in Canada for the then Kins and Queen of Britain he wore a top hat, striped pants and a cutaway coat. He told his fel low conferees: "There were about 400 Vermonters there. It almost nipped my political career in the bud." TIE ADDED to the reporters: "'"The Republicans at the conference held mostly to tho point of view that JFK's as sumption of the Presidency on January 20 will be an in auguration and not a corona tion, and we'll wear business suits." Meaning Hint no chanccj will be taken with the voter?. Communications Letter to the Editor mul Dear 'he n.imp and address ot (he rt'nter nithouch undci '-er tain clreumstnm-es the use ot pen purm- m initial (ot punhra tion is oermtssible The Mail Tribune reserves the rieht to edit .ill letters with an eve If elnrlltcMlot s.nct condensation Letters submitted for public uon must no' exceed mm worn- Lighting Contest To the Editor: As chairman of this year's Christmas Light ing Contest, I would like to thank you for all the help that your staff gave me. The contest was a huge success this year and I know fliat your assistance played a ma jor part in bringing about this success. Our organization certainly appreciates your cooperation in Both news coverage and ad vertising in this and other projects. Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Jim Ristau, Chairman I960 COri?iiias 0 LightiivaContest '(fount .) iTnWsTnrfmjl Semi- Q ' O 1 o o CD a V
