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and 50 years 0O.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1951 (Tuesday)
i A few more railroad switch-
jnen returned lo work in Ash-
Hand today, Bui in rauuiuiu,
railroad work was still at a
.virtual standstill as the result
,of a nationwide wildcat walk
out by switchmen.
- Twenty-lhree cases of scar
let fever have been reported
in. Jackson county during the
past week.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6. 1941 (Thursday)
V A scvere'windstorm in Ash
land last night ripped the roof
off of the armory, blocked the
Klamath Falls-Ashland high
way with trees and disrupted
electrical service
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Pig
sticking is the order of the day
in rural regions. Farmers re
port for every pig killed 40
ort lor everv pik kiiicu u
iv folks want the backbones,
and this is cmbarrassing as a
pig is equipped with but one
spinal column
30 YEARS AGO
Fob. 6. 1931 (Friday)
Medford stores are planning
a spring opening at which
time the new styles will be
shown. . ) . :
': Billie Hammctl has ' been
named queen of the junior
class carnival at Medford
High school.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1921 (Sunday)
Table Rock residents are
requesting a speed up in con
struction of a new road to
Central Point.
' A car smashed the lamp
post in front of Hubbard
Brothers last night.
80 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1911 (Monday)
' The city fire department Is
asking the .city council for a
$15,000 appropriation to pur
chase new fire fighting equip
ment, including a chemical
wagon, a hook and ladder
truck and alarm system.
-i The northwest theatrical
manager in Seattle has .said
Medford is .the best one-night
Stand in the U.S. for road
shows.
What's Your I Q.?
Nine or ten - correct is superior:
seven or eight il excellent; five ol
six is good.
U 1. Did Casey hit a home run
or did he strike out?
, 2. If you travel on the earth
until your watch registers two
hours fast, have you been
going eastward or westward?
,, 3. Did St. Paul visit Bilhy
nla and Egypt?
4. In which chain ot Islands
' 5. What national business
organization did Eric John
ston serve as president?
6. Name the character In
Greek mythology who fell in
love with his own reflection in
a pool.
i, 7. Quetzalcoatl was a god of
what people?
- 8. There are no mosquitoes
in Alaska: true or false?
f 9. What .did Little Jack
Horner eat?
10. By what nickname Is
Portland, Oregon known?
Answers! 1. He struck out.
2. Westward. 3. No. 4. The
Aleutians (Alaska). 5. U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. 6.
Narcissus. 7. Th Antecs. 8.
False. 9. Christmas P'.a. 10.
Rose City.
4
FEBRUARY 6. 1961
What Are They
The press never can relax in its efforts to
protect the public's right to know what govern
ment and people in government are doing.
The public takes it for granted that all public
records are open to the public and the press.
This is not true. And if it were not for the
relentless efforts of the press accessibility to some
public records would be even more difficult.
Some public officials would like to put a padlock
on some of their records if they dared.
It is a physical impossibility for taxpayers to
inspect all public records. But this does not con
cern them so long as they know those records are
available to the press and that those records
which are most important will be communicated
to them through the press.
.
IN THE state of Oregon the right of taxpayers
to know is protected in one area by a law which
requires the publication of county government
proceedings "a concise statement of the pro
ceedings of the governing body in the transaction
of county business entered of record during the
previous month." This law . . . makes it possible
for a taxpayer to read in his newspaper how tax
money is spent, who got it, and for what.
There is a bill before the Oregon Legislature
which would repeal this law which requires pub
lication of county proceedings. Who is sponsor
ing it? The Association of Oregon Counties.
TTHE AOC cites as a reason for its repealer that
"the cost to the county taxpayers of this pub
lication is an unnecessary burden." This is a
smoke screen. The cost to you of publication . . .
wouldn't buy a cup of coffee.
The Association 01 Oregon bounties has to
have another reason for wanting to discontinue
publication of county proceedings. We don't want
to think that the county officials who belong to
the organization want to
for the public to know what they are doing with
the public money. But we can't come to any other
conclusion. The argument
doesn't hold up.
We hope air members
will conclude that it is equally important that the
public know what the county government' is do
ing. renciieton wast uregonian.
Sound Suggestion
The plan outlined by
for establishment of a new area forest comprising
the lands of 'the Klamath Termination Act ap
pears reasonable and sound. While details ot the
proposal are still to come, we have every reason
to believe that the suggestion of the Forest Serv
ice, will receive favorable reaction when it is
presented to Washington
Certainly, there was
or ODDosition in the area
. j . . .
and Kiamath J.alJs when Kegional t ouester .J.
Herbert Stone so ably
.service. As he sain in the meetings, valid ques
tions have been raised as to procedures after the
Forest Service takes over the lands management,
but he saw no question that would pose a dilem
ma or impose undue hardship on anyone . . .
THE MECHANICS of
long-range prospects
give every indication, ot
Certainly, Klamath 1
area cannot quarrel with the proposition, and we
can see little valid reason for any complaint from
the Medford or Lakeview areas. For Klamath
Falls, it means additional
increased revenues from
Additionally, it means
transact forest business in
We are hopeful that there will be speedy ap
proval of the Forest Service proposal. Klamath
Falls Herald and News. ;
Expensive Litterbugs
What is the annual cost to the general public
each year from activities by hoodlums, vandals,
litterbugs, firebugs and others of such classifica
tion? It would indeed be interesting to have a
lump sum calculation of the financial losses in
curred just because some people refuse to be
decent members of society.
For example, the biennial report recently com
piled by the Oregon Highway Commission tells
us that destruction of road signs is costing around
$50,000 per year. That's .$100,000 for the bien
nium. Because some people find pleasure in
shooting highway signs full of holes, mangling
them in other ways, or defacing them, the life
of such signs is from five to eight years, the re
port states ...
Then, the report relates, the Highway Com
mission spent more than
bieillliuni
on primary and secondary highways
cleaning up refuse . . .
Xf E HAVE vandals who poach on posted land,
wrecking fences, damaging property, killing
livestock. Some run over open but privately own
ed property, particularly logging tracts, shooting
up buildings and equipment, stealing tools, dam
aging roads and other installations. Firebugs
start forest fires and thereby destroy assets that
mean jobs and payrolls.
They're thieves, all of them. Thev steal from
the public purse. They should be treated as thieves
by the general public. Law enforcement officers
should be given all possible help in identifying
them and bringing them to justice. The court's
should see that penalties are ample to provide
discouragement. Roseburg News-Review.
Trying To 'Hide?
make it more difficult
that it is too costly just
of. the Legislature . . ,
the U.S. Forest Service
officials . . .
no indication of protest
meeting's at Lakevievv
."..
outlined the plans' of the
the proposal and' the
of future management
a desirable situation.
alls and the Klamath
families, payrolls, and
sales of forest units.
that we will be able to
our own area . . . '"
$300,000 durinir the
Dennis the Menace
''0A.D IS SURE GONNA BE SURPRISgD TO SE YOU
He xolomom m didn't know w mAUVS,'".
... Communications ...
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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 otten tne case.
Gooey Start
To the Editor: Representa
tive D u r n o got off to a
"gooey" start b.V his vote on
enlargement of the Rules
committee.
He attempts to explain his
vote by stating he thought it
wrong to enlarge the commit
tee. 1 assume he will not at
tempt lo deny that such action
will make the committee
more responsive to the lead
ership of the House. I hope
he' realizes this action will
open the door for full debate
and free discussion by all
members of the House of Rep
resentatives.
He then contradicts himself
by stating he agrees with free
debate and full 1 discussion,
while voting against a method
to insure it.
He joins with Representa
tive Norblad in stating that
no pressure had been applied
by party leaders and lobby
ists. -
The facts are: 1. Republi
can leaders had made it
known they intended to work
with Representative Smith, lo
forestall enlargement of the
Rules committee. 2. Repre
sentative Durno is a member
of the American Medical as
sociation, which is fearful of
a vole on a medical plan con
nected with Social Security
payments.
. Representative Durno re--minds
me of the man who re
fused to look at the. "new
moon," out of respect for that
"ancient institution," the old
one,
; Robert A, Freeman
4(125 N.E. 118th ave.
I Portland, Ore.
1
Profit, Not Welfare
To the Editor: In regard to
the polio drive I will go along
with Miss Streed.
Anything for profit, the
welfare of the public is not
considered.
There is poison in most of
our pols and pans we use to
day, and most ot our food is
not fit for human consump
tion. It. is full of poison also,
along with the air we breathe
and I will quote Dr. William
Brady on the betrayal of the
public by the federal govern
ment in the food and drugs
act of 1906, which our con
gress comique fixed up exact
ly as the big nostrum interests
ordered:
"The present version of the
law is in effect a greater be
trayal of public welfare. The
food and drugs division- just
doesn't see the glaring defi
ance of the letler and spirit
of the taw and its own speci
fic regulations in the naming,
labeling and the vicious
claims made by the sense dull
ing drugs which are so freely
sold lo the unwary public un
der names shrewdly calculat
ed to deceive and mislead. I
refer particularly lo coal tar
derivatives, a n i 1 i n deriva
tives, drugs of the acetanilide,
phcnaeetini1, antlpyrin clasa.
These drugs, Incorporated In
scores of nostrums sold with
out even decent restrictions
by the government, are de
structive to health and fre
quently a contributing el
even the direct cause of
death, yet the federal foods
and drugs bureau finds no
fault with this big business,
being loo busy ferreting out
trivial errors or technical vio
lations of regulations by small
fry firms that have no slush
fund to play with and clearly
no intention to misrepresent
or defraud or harm any one."
Dr. Brady says thai and
more too. He says the favor
ite dope, so commonly dis
pensed at the soda fountain
is a large factor In the "ner
vous weakness" of millions of ! shall select, establish, locate,
gullible Americans. As 1 said , construct, improve, maintain,
before anything for profit and operate, develop and adminls
as for gelling congress to do j ter state highways. This
anything, that is about out of ; means thai the Governor
the question, when the Presi-; through his appointed Direc-
denl himself has a hard time j
getting anything done for the
masses. Congress is controlled
by big business, like it or not.
Ray Prichard
414 South First st.
Central Point, Ore.
Can't Happen Here
To the Editor: It can't hap
pen here? Don't kid yourself,
folks it is happening right
here, in Medford, now.
One hears constantly that
communism or any type of
dictatorship cannot happen
and will not be tolerated in
these free United Stales. Yet
we have this infectious, can
cerous growth spawning in
our midst today.
For example:, an auto
wrecking yard and parts com
pany which has been in busi
ness in Medford continuously
since 1927 has been given no
tice by our so-called city fa
thers, that they have a year of
life left, that they do not plan
on renewing ineir license
next year. Just like that we
don't like your looks, so
scram.
-A business that once sup
plied a living for more than
17 families has gradually
through political harassment
been driven down to only
5 employees, with these five
subject to be jobless in one
year. Yet another wrecking
yard within the city was giv
en no such death notice yet!
Or take the case of another
business man forced to move
his business because of the
new highway is being de
nied the right to build on his
own properly because the dic
tatorial planning commission
MAY decide to build a park
there some day. Also the trail
er hassle even on your own
property forget it the city
council doesn't like trailers.
Our self-righteous Chamber
of Commerce claims to be
working their head,s to the
bone to. bring more business
and industry to the valley. Do
they claim that it is progress
to force more than 17 bread
winners to go jobless just be
cause some of their members
don'l like the looks of an
auto wrecking yard? Not all
of us can dress in a suit, and
sell cars for a living. In fact
many of us have been mighty
glad there was a used parts
company in town especial
ly if we were sold a lemon!
Many of us fought and
many died m World War II
lo protect our conslituliona!
rights and freedoms against
any form of dictatorship
whatsoever. R e m e m b e r it
could be you next who is de
prived of one or more free
doms. If you value your citi
zenship at all call or write
your councilman now and
voice your objections to this
insidious stealing of your con
stitutional rights as an Amer
ican. Apathy on your part
only encourages more en
croachment of your liberties.
M. ,1. Olson
Route 4, Box 325
Medford
Highway Reorganization
To the Editor: 1 have been
wondering why there has been
no comment on one of the
main issues in the Governor's
reorganization plan.
Some reorganization is cer
lainly needed for the public
good, but the proposal goes
too far --unintentionally per
haps. The proposed law rele
gates the Highway Commis
sion to an "advisory" role
only - (SB 3-Scc. 15 (2) -and
gives their real authority to
one man the Director of
Transportation and Utilities.
The proposed law says "The
Department of Transportation
and Utilities under the direc
tion of the Governor . . .
tor has complete control of
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Foreign News: Acheson for NATO; Japan
Trade With China;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
From the foreign news
cables:
NATO Secretary General
Observers say a possible
long shot choice tpr. NATO
secretary gen
eral to succeed
Belgium's r e
tiring Paul
Henri Spaak is
former U. S
Sec retary of
jState Dean
U..USUI.. limy
point 'out that
the Soviet
Union s eco
nomic and political oiiensives
have gotten up such a head of
steam that the United States
may throw its weight around
lo get an American at the
head of the NATO council as
well as having an American
general in command of its
military forces in Europe.
They note that Britain's Lord
Ismay successfully built up the
NATO military machine to
face the Russian threat. But
the location of all highway
construction. The U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads money
is spent on highway projects
but it does not tell the state
where the construction is to
be done.
Placing in one man's hands
the total power as to where
approximately $75,000,000 per
year is to be spent amounts
to the biggest political plum
the state has ever seen. Even
though we have a well-meaning
Governor now, think what
could happen if this power
was used for political pur
poses. Sections of the state
would get highway construc
tion when political favor was
desired.
In its 43 years of existence
the Highway Department un
der the three man commission
has never had a breath of
scandal attached to it. High
ways have been built where
they should be under a for
mula which assured that all
divisions of the state received
their fair share of new- con
struction. Some areas have
been unhappy because they
Celt their roads should be im
proved faster. The reason they
haven't, of course, is that
there is not -enough money to
make all needed improve
ments and some areas sim
ply have to wait.
I have heard no evidence
that the Highway Department
is operating dishonestly, im
morally or inefficiently.
Being retired, I would much
prefer to just relax and not
mix in .politics, but I cannot
let this go by unchallenged.
May Heaven -help the public
If the legislature allows our
Highway Department to be
placed in politics.
It there is anything wrong
with the operations of the
Highway Department surely
the Legislative Interim Com
mittee would have run into il.
Their recently published re
port, however, was more com
mendalory than critical. The
Secretary of State's latest
audit revealed no irregulari
ties. - So lei's leave the Highway
Commission and Department
out of the reorganization plan
as. the-Governor's Commit
tee recommended last sum
mer. Mervin R. Smith
Route 5
Salem, Ore.
Donors and Friends
To the Editor: Let us praise
our Gold Hill community and
pay tribute to the people who
reside here. Also blood donors
in Medford and Ashland.
I recently returned to my
home in the city of Gold Hill,
where I have lived for nearly
35 years, from Portland. I had
been a patient at the Veter
ans Administration hospital
for 2'i months. During -this
lime I received many beauti
ful cards and letters of in
spiration from my fellow
workers of Ideal Cement Com
pany, and other individuals
and organizations in Gold
Hill. So many in fact, that I
have been unable to answer
them.
I would like lo dedicate
this letter lo the people of
Gold Hill for the kindness
that has been shown me and
my family during my illness.
I want to pay specific recog
nition to the men and women
who gave blood for me while
I was a patient at the Veter
ans hospital. Each gave one
pint of their blood in ny name
wher. the Bloodmobile was In
Medford during December.
This replaced blood thai was
used, for me. from the Port
land blood bank.
These people who realize
that blood is more life saving
than money were Mrs. Doris
Knapp, Medford, Harold
Head. Medford. Roy Rodgers.
Ashland, and Mrs. Winnifred
Mulvey. Medford.
Mrs. Knapp and the two
men arc "Six Galloners." They
Ncwsora
they also not that Spaak was
unable to gel agreement on
such innovations as aid to un
der developed countries, in
cluding NATO's own Greece,
Turkey, Iceland r.nd Portugal.
This arid other aspects of
the latter-day race against
Russia, some pundits claim,
may bring an American into
the top NATO job, particular
ly since Britain doesn't seem
interested. Acheson is con
sidered a likely choice, espec
ially by a Democratic administration.
Japan-China Trade
Japanese businessmen want
to resume trade with Red
China. But they first want
some sort of guarantees from
Peiping before taking the
plunge, since they feel the
Communist Chinese might
break off trade relations at
their own convenience, unless
they- were bound by some
guarantees.
Salazar Strengthened
All indications are that the
Wilson Hopeful Kennedy May
Keep Integrity of U.S. Dollar
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - IUPII - Demo
crats right up to the present
challenge the idea that when
a Democrat is in the White
House there
comes a war.
It is a fact,
of course, that
this sequence
of events has
prevailed in
the 20th cen
tury. What
that proves is
nothing. More
Wilson signiticant lor
the future would be "another
sequence which the Democrats
might also resent although
they could not well challenge
it.
This sequence would be:
When a Democrat is in the
White House, taxes go up and,
further, that when a Republi
can Is in the White House
taxes go down.
Perhaps that doesn't prove
anything, either, but it is a
fact. Tax increases in the Wil
son, Roosevelt and Truman
admin istralions, obviously,
were triggered by war. More
than the fact of war is involv
ed in these tax-increase, tax
decrease sequences. The Dem
ocratic party has identified it
self with big spending.
The Image of the leaders of
the Democratic party as free
wheeling spenders was mighti
ly Impressed on the minds of
the citizens by the perform
ances of the Roosevelt and
Truman administration. The
impression was so great as to
blur the spending image of the
Eisenhower administration.
Eisenhower spent record
breaking sums of public mon
ey, but that fact is scarcely
have been donating blood as
regular donors since the blood
mobile first visited Medford
several years ago.
Mrs. Knapp, a former resi
dent of Gold Hill, said she is
proud of the fact that she was
a resident of this community
for ten years prior to moving
to Medford.
Before closing I want to
say thanks to the service
clubs who support the good
that was derived by us vet
erans while patients at the
hospital during the recent
holidays. The generosity of so
many people is surely appre
ciated by this individual.
William R. Force
P.O. Box 45
Gold Hill, Ore.
Want Paul Harvey
Tq the Editor: We the un
dersigned would be in favor
of the Paul Harvey column
being added to the Medford
Mail Tribune.
Mrs. Woodrow McCormack,
Box 371,
Jacksonville, Ore.
(And eight other Jackson
ville residents.)
City "Dictation"
To the Editor: How can a
few men dictate to so many
people? According to a new
city ordinance passed by the
city council a number of fam
ilies living in Medford have
to move. I am referring to tile
new trailer ordinance. Some
of these families own the
property they are parked on
so that will be o.uile a loss.
These people pay taxes and
help support the city as much
as the home owners.
To my knowledge nothing
was published telling them
they had lo have a permit lo
park on a lot.
I wonder how the members
of the council would feel if
they were told to move their
homes out of the city? Ap
parently none of them live in
trailers.
If that is the way the city
of Medford operates I pray
they will never annex our
area. I don't want a few men
lo tell me how to manaae mv I
property and home.
Richard Hart
135 Clover Lane
Medford, Ore.
Salazar Strengthened
hijacking of the' liner Santa
Maria by a band of rebels will
strengthen the hand of Portu
gal's Premier, Antonio de
Oliveira- Salazar. Reports from
Portugal indicate there wasn't
the slightest sputtering of the
revolt which .insurgent Capt.
Henrique Galvao apparently
hoped to touch off by seizing
the ship off South America.
Any real sympathy on the part
of Portugal's man-in-the-street
faded out during Galvao's pro
longed haggling with Brazilian,
authorities before he let his
captive passengers ashore in
Recife.
Khrushchev Delay
Communist diplomats are
hinting that Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev may delay
his trip to the reconvened Uni
ted Nations General Assembly
in New York until , late in
March. The idea is to meet
both Kennedy and Britain's
Premier Harold Macmillan.
The Assembly resumes March
7, and Macmillan is to visit
Washington April 3. Instead
of showing
up at the begin
realized by the citizens. The
Eisenhower administration al
so managed to achieve one tax
reduction and that fact is
pretty well known. Moreover,
the big bulge in Eisenhower
administration spending was
not for national defense, as
most citizens assume it lo nave
been,
National defense was the
most costly of government
programs under Eisenhower
and will remain so under
President Kennedy. But the
big increase in spending by
Eisenhower after 1953 was in
non-defense areas. In general,
it can be said that it is a com
bination of war and the wel
fare state that hits the U.S.
taxpayer.
New Spending
Now comes the Kennedy ad
ministration with new spend
ing plans, the extent of which
is not known. These new costs
probably are not known as of
now even to the president and
to members of his administra
tion. Their policies have not
cooled and jelled from the
loose period of campaign
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
KENNEDY'S MODERATION
Washington - Pres i d e n t
Kennedy has now dropped
the other shoe, and in the
sound of its
falling there
is nothing
what ever to
a 1 a r rn the
great moder
a t e political
center of this
country.
Quite plain
ly, the mod
erates' view is
to be largely his view - so
long as he and they can keep
in check the extremists, both
the ultra-liberals and the
ultra-conservatives.
All who had feared we
might be entering an unwise
ly liberal era resounding with
professional theories and
marked by wild spending and
hot-eyed reformism can now
put an end to their anxieties.
They can genuinely feel re
assured - as already does the
moderate and usually con
trolling center in congress of
both parlies. So, too, do im
portant sections of business,
both big and little, as may be
seen in Wall Street and also
in the private remarks here
of business spokesmen.
TOF Mr. Kennedy's state of
the union message to Con
gress, in which he laid down
his basic purposes, establishes
all these things:
1. A deep respect for -and
a good deal of savvy about
Ihe free enterprise system.
(This should not have been
too surprising: this young
President's private fortune is
unashamedly valued by him
and he knows what system
It came from.)
2. A prudent intention to
make hasle slowly - not to
try to howl a great deal of
legislation through Congress
at the double-quick, as was
done in the national emergen
cy of "the first hundred days"
of the New Deal of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
3. A determination to de
fend the integrity of the
American dollar in the world's
money markets at every cost.
4. A resolution - which
ironically may turn out to be
actually tougher than in the
more conservative Eisenhow
er administration - to require
far greater cost-participation
In aid programs by our for
eign friends.
5. An intention to reward
and back up good administra
tors in the federal service to a
degree not known in our lime.
6. A firm resolve to ne
cotiate at the summit with
the Soviet imperialists only
ning, it is being suggested that
Khrushchev may prefer to
wait until the Assembly gets
fully under way and the Uni
ted States plans for disarma
ment become clearer. With
Macmillan in the United
States at the time, Khrush
chev then would have an op
portunity lo discuss with the
two major Western leaders the
issue of a nuclear test ban in
person. Talks at a lower level
on a test ban are scheduled to
resume in Gevena by the end
of March.
Japanese Salmon
Japan's fish catch in the
North Pacific is expected to
be cut further this year as a
result of Soviet demands. Tho
Soviets claim that available
salmon resources in the area
are declining, and they want
them conserved. While the
Japanese government is ex
pected to counter Russia's de
mands in Soviet-Japanese fish
ery talks expected to begin
soon in Tokyo, observers say
it may be forced lo- accept the
Soviet demand.
speeches into the present pe
riod of administration respon
sibility. Kennedy has promised,
however to set out ways to
raise new revenue for all new
spending proposed to Con
gress. The man or woman with
money in the bank, an insur
ance policy or a pension
should thank Kennedy for
that. It is a hard road but a
road which will lead away
from, and not toward, more
currency inflation.
The rotting of the dollar by
the inflationary process is a
deadly thing, deadly especial
ly for the little fellow, the
common man. The big fellow
can hedge against inflation in
the stock market or by bor
rowing a great many 50 cent
dollars to be repaid later
when the dollar is worth, say,
30 cents. Nice profit there.
A determined President and
a determined Congress, how
ever, can and should protect
the common man who cannot
protect himself. Congress
won't do il but maybe Ken
nedy will.
S. WHITE
when and if some conceivable
good can come of it - and only
when and if the balance of
power, lies clearly on our
side and not theirs.
TPRUE, some who are not
-- necessarily ultra-conserva-lives
are nevertheless anxious
about some parts of the Ken
nedy program, notably an in
crease in the minimum wage,
permanent aid for areas of
chronic unemployment and
expansion of public -subsidy
housing.
These plans, however, will
unfold as less far-reaching
and less costly than might at
first be supposed.
Moreover, t h e reasonably
conservative in and out of
Congress should find great
comfort in one largely over
looked Kennedy project.
This was his pledge to give
lax relief to businessmen com
ing forward with sound plant
expansions. Already, the ul
tra - liberals are grumbling
that this point is altogether
loo "Republican" in tone. In
fact, of course, it is simply
soundly conservative - neither
Democratic nor Republican
in origin.
TT IS true, too, that some
Republican leaders are
thrusting at one or another
of the President's economic
plans. This, too. however, re
flects no wide or real Republi
can fear. It is only their way
of keeping their hand in.
So the sum of it as of now
is this:
Mr. Kennedy has demon
strated no slightest purpose
to become the hero of the
left-wing, to put class against
class, or even to become a
holly partisan president. He
just wants to run a calmly
-effective national shop. He is
not here lo make America
over; he is here to make some
repairs, but no revolution.
(Copyright, 1961, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
SCHEDULE ECONOMY RUM
Los Angeles -iliPli-'The an
nual Mobilgas economy run
will take place March" 11-16
between Los Angeles and Chi
cago, it was announced today.
A. C. Pillsbury, chief steward,
said 60 autos already have
been entered for the yearly
test of mileage thrifliness of
American-made cars.
CLASHINGaJLORS
Shippey, England -WPH- Lo
cal government officials Sun
day ordered Robert Morris to
remove 500 green tiles from
his house roof because they
do not blend with 13.500 red
tiles on his house.