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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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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?.
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thank you for all the help
that your staff gave me. The
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