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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1851 (Tuesday)
City officials, firemen and
a large crowd of curious citi-
. .nvlnii.lv thlfi
WtllLllCU OMrtiuwj .......
morning as $30,000 worth of
new fire truck was gently
cased out of a railroad box
car onto a platform here.
Approximately $210 was
stolen In a burglary of the
Jackson County Housing au
thority offices at 820 Prlddy
St., last night.
20 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1941 (Thursday)
The Lithia hotel at Ashland,
one of the most modern struc
tures of its type In southern
Oregon, will be subject to tax
foreclosure sale on Thursday,
April 3.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
legislature la expected to
wind-up this week, maybe.
The leading question, how
ever ls,-who wound them up
In the first place."
30 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1931 (Friday)
Mild weather here is help
ing to find work for many
poverty-stricken transients.
A deficit of $3 million In
stnte expenditures is expected
this year.
40 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1921
A young doe, who ventured
Into the city yesterday, died
after becoming frightened in
heavy traffic and ran into a
fence.
Total rainfall since Scptenv
bcr here Is 17.08 inches.
50 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1911 (Monday)
A committee of Jackson
county Socialists have wired
President Tnft protesting his
general mobilization orders in
support of the Mexican gov
eminent.
The Rogue valley Is said
to be in the forefront of the
nation In scientific aids to
frultmen In combatting frost
damage to fruit.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina oi ten correct It superior;
seven or eijhl Is ocolltnt; live or
six Is good.
1. Is the short, full skirt
worn by Greek men called a
pantanclla, f u s t a n clla or
full skirrct?
2. Docs the zebra have a
black background with white
stripes or vice versa?
3. A combination of mist
and fumes, which reduces
visibility to a few hundred
yards is called s ?
4. Name the largest library
In the world.
5. Which great dam Is lo
cated on the Colorado River?
6. In the duel between
Alexander Hamilton and Aar
on Burr, who was wounded?
7. What is the name given
'to the food of the larvae of
queen bees?
8. Which of theso Is NOT a
variety of cheese: Edam,
Cheltenham, Cheddar, Ca
membort? 9. What sort of creature
was Cerberus, the guardian
of the entrance to Hades?
10. What country has the
oldest parliamentary assem
bly In the world?
Answers: 1. Fusianella. 2.
Vlce-varsa. 3. Smog. 4. Libra
ry of Congrats. 5. Hooter
Dam. 8. Hamilton. 7. Royal
Jelly. 8. Cheltenham. 9. Three
headed dog. 10. Iceland.
MONDAY. MARCH 13, 1961
Jockeying on Judgeships
"My optimism is always high, and I hope we
might be remembered in this distribution, be
cause judgeships are really choice patronage pro
ducts." Thus commented the shrewd, ironic Sen
ate minority leader, Everett M. Dirksen, March 3,
on the subject of new federal judgeships.
The GOP spokesman really meant that he
would be surprised indeed at every choice of a
Republican judge by Democratic Attorney Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy. And for that matter, as Dirk
sen would privately admit, if the political situa
tion were reversed, the Democrats would be just
as certain to go hurting for judgeships.
Chairman Emanuel E. Celler (D-N.Y.) of the
House Judiciary Committee, on Feb. 28 put it
as candidly as possible. "The leadership gambled
and won. He was referring to the fact that the
Democrats, in control of both houses of Congress
last year, sat on a judgeship bill even though the
Eisenhower administration had promised that
about half of the 35 new judicial seats then pro
posed would go to Democrats. What the leader
ship was gambling on was a Kennedy victory; in
this kind of politicking, winner takes just about
all.
rIRKSEN had suggested that the Senate await
new recommendations from the Judicial Con
ference of the United States, convening in Wash
ington today and tomorrow. The conference is
composed of the Chief Justice of the United
States, the chief judge of each of the 10 judicial
circuits, the chief judge of the Court of Claims,
and a district judge from each judicial circuit.
It makes comprehensive surveys of the federal
courts and submits recommendations aimed to
expedite their work and to bring about uniformity
of procedure.
The conference most recently in September,
I960 recommended the creation of 59 new
judgeships, which was
President Kennedy and his Attorney General
brother on Feb. 10. However, more than a month
earlier, on Jan. 9, Celler
hopper a bill to create 63
And the senate Judiciary Committee on b eb.
28 proceeded to report a bill that would have
provided 69 riew judicial seats. Just for good
measure, four more judgeships were slipped into
the measure as it sailed
March 3:
The Senate committee
aim in the House is to get
end of the month ; the House Judiciary Commit
tee began hearings' on the Celler bill March 2.
By the time the bill comes up in the House the
new recommendations of the conference could
be made available, should Chairman Celler be in
a mood to listen.
DOBBY Kennedy has said frankly; "If there
are a good number of Democrats more quali
fied than Republicans, the Democrats will be
selected." This is the iron law of politics on judge
ships and it is enforced with equal severity by
both parties.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
crats and eight Republicans to the federal bench.
Harry S. Truman's choices split only slightly less
one-sidedly: 118 (D) to 12 (R). And Dwight D.
Eisenhower was tougher on the opposition than
Truman; he appointed 175 Republicans and 11
Democrats.
At the moment, the political make-up of the
federal bench is, by the sheerest chance, just
about in balance. It most certainly won't be if
this administration gets the opportunity to re
ward with judgeships 70 to 100 deserving Demo
crats during its term of office. E.R.R.
Hen Brandt's Visit
The Governing Mayor of West Berlin, Willy
Brandt, arrived in the United States for. a nine-
day visit Saturday. He will confer today and
tomorrow with "official representatives" in
Washington.
Brandt, who will be Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer's antagonist in the election in West
Germany this autumn,
guest even it he were not tne cmer magistrate ot
the city which acts, in his words, as "the clamp
which holds these divided (German) peoples
together." A German native, he fled Hitler's
Gestapo in 1953, changing his name from Her
bert Karl Frahm in the process, and became a
newspaperman in Norway.
AS A soldier he was captured when the Nazis
"invaded Norway in 19-10, but was released,
fortunately, before the Gestapo recognized him.
Then he sat out the war in Sweden, maintaining
contact with the underground in both his native
and adopted countries.
After the war, he returned to Germany as a
Norwegian diplomat and two years later renewed
German citizenship. Still an admirer of the i'lexi
ible progressivism he observed in his long exile,
he now calls himself even as the candidate of
the West German Social Democratic Party
(S.P.D.) for Chancellor a "Scandinavian Social
Democrat." E.R.R.
Morse Urges U. 5. To
Atlanta - UTO - Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) said Sunday
night It is up to the U. S. to
"be in the lead'' In proposing
changes in the United Nations.
Morse, in a dinner address
to a local post of the Jewish
War Veterans, said these
changes have been made nec
essary through the breakdown
of relations between the five
major allies of World War II
the number requested by
had dropped into the
new judgeships.
through the benate on
held no hearing. The
action on a bill by the
appointed 217 Demo
would be an engaging
Take UN Lead
and the entrance Into the or
ganization of iminy new na
tions since the UN was found
ed. "I think the United States
should be in the lend in trying
lo re-establish the essential
checks and balances which
were provided in the UN char
ter but which have largely
disappeared through their
abuse and misapplication," the
Oregon Democrat said.
Dennis the
'What are you gonna Buy with
Communications
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contrary is often the case.
Echo Sentiments
To the Editor: Regarding
Virginia Card's entry of
March 9.
With all . sincerity, I echo
and re-echo her intelligent
and constructive sentiments.
Truer words were never
spoken. While I pondered and
wondered how to speak them,
the lady took the words right
out of my mouth and rear
ranged them far more expres
sively. It is reassuring to know that
there are those among us who
hold religion as a thing whose
first duty is to uphold human
dignity and so strengthen the
bonds of mankind.
Many of us would like to
worship with others-but we
lack sufficient respect for the
anthromorphic God that man
has created in his own image.
Well done, Miss Card.
Thclma Carson
Star Route Box 60,
Prospect, Ore.
Kept Before People
To the Editor: The issue of
segregation or desegregation
should be kept constantly be
fore the American people. Ne
groes constitute JO per cent of
the population, too large a mi
nority group to be repressed
with safety.
The writer recalls vividly
his first experiences in the
deep South, where he saw and
heard at fitst hand. And yet
the while families entrusted
the cooking, gardening, in fact
all housework, including the
care of children to these same
people.
All human beings have it
within themselves to rise
above poverty and degrada
tion. But they need a chance
and encouragement. The fine
manners, consideration, and
other qualities of an educated
people can be attained by
Negroes too, to the well-being
of the entire country.
David Frlsch
P.O. Box 282
White City, Ore.
About Lobbyists
To the Editor: After read
ing that article from Capitol
Hill the other night, 1 feel
like stating my own views
concerning lobbyists. In my
opinion they represent one
thing: "Temptation to our
elected representatives in the
legislature."
Reason: Suppose they are
there to represent a certain
business or Industry. Wo, the
consumers, foot the bill by
paying more for the com
modity produced or manufac
tured by such business or in
dustry. On the other hand, if they
are there lo represent any of
our educational programs, the
taxpayer digs just a little
deeper to support them. An
education should be the goal
ot every American, but why
add the cost of a lobbyist?
This correspondent also
staled that even though thou
sands of dollars arc spent by
lobbyist groups during a ses
sion of our legislature, none
of our legislators could be
swayed by any of the numer
ous special favors.
This may be true (we have
little proof to doubt ill, but
as long as the lobbyist is there
he presents a temptation to
any and all of our legislators.
We voters selected the most
eligible men to send lo Salem,
and therefore I think they
should be able lo make llieir
own decisions as to how to
vote on bills pertaining to or
regulating our personal and
public welfare without any
help or hindrance from the
lobbyist.
1 wholeheartedly agree with
former Governor Holmes, to
the effect that a reference li
brary be made available lo
all members of our legisla
ture. In conclusion, I'm sure
Menace
aw dap's quarter V
most any legislator would find
time to dig up a little infor
mation before voting on cer
tain measures that might catch
up with him on next election
day.
Nolan R. Clark
P.O. Box 27
Eagle Point, Ore.
Favors Hunting
To the Editor: This is in re
sponse to the editorial written
by the women condemning
the rabbit hunting picture on
the Outdoor Sportsman pro
gram. In talking with other pesple
about it, the largest percent
age of them really enjoy this
program and especially the
hunting stories. We hope that
Mr. Conway will overlook the
thinking of a few, and put
the deer hunting and other
hunting stories back on the
program.
On the front of my televis
ion set is a knob which will
turn my set off. If they don't
like these programs they must
have a knob like mine.
I would 10. times rather
have my son out hunting and
fishing than getting into trou
ble while running in the
streets. We used to live two
houses from some neighbors
who had two sons who spent
all their spare moments par
taking of these pleasures and
they have never gotten into
any trouble. This is a cheer in
response to the ladies who
stood up and endorsed the pro
gram for their youngsters. .
We sincerely wish that Mr.
Conway will return the ani
mal hunting pictures to his
program.
Glenn M. Wilkins,
1503 Kings Highway,
Medford.
Answers Letter
i
To the Editor: Answering
Mildred Engman's letter, Old
Malcmutc Slim wants to admit
he was wrong. However, did
Mildred Engman happen to
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
MOVE TO CHALLENGE
Washington - The Republi
cans are now moving from a
phase of mere scattered and
u n d erground
resistance to a
direct and
g e n e r a 1 -
though care-
ful - challenge
to the present
high popular
ity of the Ken
nedy adminis
tration.
wmte r or tne nrsi
time since last November, the
GOP Is genuinely astir with
plans of its own. The central
objective now of its leaders
from left, right and center is
to develop an opposition of a
kind which will show that the
GOP can stand its present ad
versity. The central single problem
within this objective is to
bring every Republican fac
tion within agreement on a
few fundamentals. The watch
word is to accentuate the past
tive and eliminate the nega
tive. rMlE parly leaders don't want
1 to oppose the Kennedy ad
ministration just for the sake
of opposition. Particularly,
they don't want to leave any
impression, this early in the
tenure of a new president,
that they are simply sniping
automatically at him and "not
giving him a chance."
Thus, even the most scarred
veterans of all-out partisan
ship, like Senators Styles
Bridges of New Hampshire
and Barry Goliiwa'.cr of Ari
zona, are now acting with un
accustomed reserve. Bridges,
the dean of Senate Republi
MDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDr'OHD, ORE
Quotations from Kennedy Are
Discussion
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (UPD - Every
body is talking about Presi
dent Kennedy's firm stand
against his
own church
and on feder
al aid to
schools.
There is al
so talk about
the firm stand
of House ma
jority leader
John W. Mc
Cormack (D-
Mass.j against Kennedy on
the same subject.
Not everyone knows what
he is talking about, however,
so some quotations are in or
der. This, for example, from
the President's March 1 news
conference:
"The situation clearly pro
hibits federal aid to the paro
chial school. There is no doubt
about that. The Everson Su
preme Court case, probably
the most celebrated case, pro
vided only by a 5 to 4 deci-
see the picture in all of the
papers, where about 100 moth
ers of little children stormed
the police lines in N. Y. City,
clamoring just to get their
hands on the rapist murderer
of that innocent four-year-old
girl? ("Give him to us!" "Let
us have him!")
"Yes! I was wrong Mildred.
The police should have turned
him over to them." (Darn it,
why couldn't I have thought
of that first.)
I don't quite get your re
mark "a chain reaction," but
then, I always (was) dumb.
Dodging the psychiatrists, I
am.
Malemute Slim
White City, Ore.
Altitude Warranted
To the Editor: I hope Dorian
Woods will be charitable with
me for questioning the evi
dence submitted in the recent
communications "Red Dope
Traffic." World-wide preju
dice seems to warrant such
an attitude.
Maybe I should not have
used Mr. Snow as a witness.
I know he made extensive in
vestigations of conditions in
that country, accounts of
which appear in his book "Red
Star Over China." In the light
of much other evidence, I con
cluded him to be an honest
and intelligent reporter. Since
his integrity was acceptable
to Look magazine, I supposed
that he could be expected to
be a reliable witness by those
assuming the negative side of
the question.
I am writing the persons
and sources referred to for
more evidence to combat the
serious charges made against
a noble race of people who are
trying to rise above the ter
rible wrongs that have been
perpetrated against them for
so long.
Bert Harr
Copper rd., Box 77
Jacksonville, Ore.
S. WHITE
cans, has got the Senate Re
publican policy committee
speaking in low key when it
attacks the Democrats.
He is, moreover, deliberate
ly introducing humor and Re
publican sclf-kidding. Once a
week, under his general lead
ership, the top Republicans of
Senate and House meet to
gether, mainly in order to
have a small megaphone
through which to retort,
though in good feeling, to
what comes from the great
White House megaphone in
the hands of President Ken
nedy. SENATOR Bridges refers to
this gathering as the mod
ern equivalent of what the
late Senator Arthur H. Van-
dcrberg of Michigan in the
thirties called "the Buckwheat
club." This was a breakfast
meeting of Republicans dur
ing a period when their num
bers In the Senate had fallen
to a rock-bottom 15 out of
what was then a total Senate
rosier of 96 men.
"Van" liked to tell his col
leagues to cheer up. For after
all. he would say, their party
could go nowhere but up.
Bridges does not put the thing
quite that way now. but that
is much the spirit of the new
buckwheat club.
Goldwatcr, for his part, as
a right-wing Republican presi
dential possibility for 1964,
continually tries to imnrove
the human climate between
himself and the left-wing Re
publicans whose choice for '64
is Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York. Former Vice Presi
dent Nixon's people stand in
the middle, offering all assis
tance In this major push to
if
on Federal Aid to Education
sion that it was possible for
a local community to provide
bus rides for non-public school
children.
Clear Prohibition
"All through the majority
and minority statements opin
ions on that particular ques
tion there was a very clear
prohibition against aid to the
school direct. The Supreme
Court made its decision in the
Everson case by determining
that the aid was to the child,
not to the school. Aid to the
school is . . . prohibited by the
Constitution, and the Supreme
Court has made that very
clear.
"The aid 'we have recom
mended to colleges is in a
very different form. We are
aiding the student in the same
way the GI Bill of Rights aid
ed the student. It is aid to the
student, not to the school or
college and, therefore, not to
a particular religious group."
That is the President's in
Foreign News: New
Brewing in
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cable:
New Headaches for De Gaulle
President Charles de Gaulle
seems to be have some success
in his efforts
to settle the
A 1 gerian re
volt, but new
troubles may
be brew i n g
In A 1 geria,
the Moslem
Ramadan fes
tival ends
March 16 with
Newsom tne traditional
Moslem Feast of the Sheep.
French officials believe this
may be marked by big pro
rebel demonstrations in Al
giers, Oran and other cities
and touch off counter-attacks
by European extremists.
The French are stepping up
security precautions to deal
with possible major trouble.
At home, there is a fear that
with the advent of good
IP i
West Considers Two
For Service Awards
For Association
" By DICK WEST i
Washington - (UPD - I re
cently received a billet-doux
frorh the American Political
Science asso.
ciation invit-
i n g me to
nominate can-
d i d a t e s for
"c o ngression
al distinguish-
ed service
awards."
This is a
heavy respon-
clhi llv to
have placed on one's shoul
ders, and I have been giving
the matter a lot of careful
thought.
The fact that the same re
sponsibility has been placed
on the shoulders of about five
thousand other newspapermen
docs not, as I see it, lighten
my own load one bit.
In outlining our duties as
nominators, the association ob-
conciliate all factions - for the
time being, anyhow.
TNDEED, the Congressional
A Republicans have now reach
ed wide agreement that the
first necessity is to draw the
party together, to forget what
divides Republicans and to
concentrate on what unites
them. The next necessity is to
keep the party in the public
eye. And a third and unadver
tised necessity is to keep the
real leadership of the party
in Congressional Republican
hands, just as the Congression
al Democrats kept that party's
real leadership in their hands
all during the eight years of
President Eisenhower.
In sum, the Congressional
Republicans know they have
got to deliver - that is, to run
an opposition neither too
"tough" nor too softly ineffec
tual - lest non-Congressional
Republicans move in and
seize the leadership of the
party.
It is they who in any event
must bear the sole real re
sponsibility for the first Re
publican comeback campaign
effort, the 1962 Congressional
election. Thus the last thing
they want is to be saddled
with some Republican equiva
lent of the free -wheeling
Democratic advisory council
w h I c h unelected politicians
sought In the Eisenhower
years to press upon the Demo
cratic Congressional leaders.
The D.A.C. was a wonder
ous thing at talking: but a
great nuisance to those who
held responsible and elected
positions in the party and so
had to act as well as talk.
(Copyright. 1961, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
terpretation of the Supreme
Court's interpretation of the
Constitution. Majority leader
McCormack, like Kennedy, is
a Catholic. He disagreed with
the President in the following
quotation:
No Question Involved
"There is certainly no con
stitutional question involved
in the federal government
making long term loans at
reasonable rates of Interest
for the construction or the
renovation or the repair of
private schools."
Prelates of the Roman Cath
olic church oppose the Ken
nedy school aid program be
cause it excludes private
schools. That opposition could
become a powerful factor in
defeat of the school aid pro
gram. Leaders of the Negro politi
cal pressure group support the
President. They fear federal
aid to private schools would
leak to private institutions set
France's
weather, labor may step up
its demands for pay raises to
match the rising cost of living
School teachers already have
been staging a "rolling strike
in different regions of France.
This week there is to be a
24-hour strike of state em
ployees. Later in the month,
the 300,000 workers of the
state-run railways and the
bank employees are planning
to join the campaign.
New Soviet Drive
In Hamburg, Germany,
army offices are predicting a
new Soviet effort to drive a
wprlee between the Germans
and their Western allies. The
Eichmann trial is expected to
use it as a springboard for
new charges that Germans
cannot be trusted as allies.
Asia Airlift
From Phnom Penh, Cam
bodia, it Is said the reports
that former Laotian Premier
Souvanna Phouma, currently
in self-imposed exile in Cam
bodia, may make a tour of
served that the House and
Senate "have many hard
working and distinguished
members, whose services to
their country often are not
reflected in the daily press.
"The award program will
seek to call attention to dis
tinguished service, whether or
not it is of the kind likely to
come to the public's atten
tion," it said.
Difficult To Measure
I have tried to keep this
point in mind in weighing the
qualifications of prospective
nominees, and I find that it
rather adds to the burden, I
mean, distinguished obscurity
is a hard thing to measure.
It's true that some of the
things our congressmen do
are not called to the public s
attention. But on the whole,
this probably is a good thing
for both the congressmen and
the public.
Nevertheless, by dint of ex
haustive research 1 have been
able to find two relatively un-
publicized actions that I re
gard as worthy of the associ
ation s consideration.
One of my nominees, there
fore, will be Rep. W. R. Poage,
a Texas Democrat who last
month took a firm stand
against chanting by livestock
auctioneers.
Poage said he attended an
auction and found he could
not tell what cattle were sold,
who bought them, or what the
price was. Furthermore, he
said, "One of the largest cow
men tn Texas confided to me
that he did not know when
he was raising his own bid."
Lauds Poage's Action
If cattle buyers have been
raising bids without knowing
it, that probably accounts for
the current price of beef
steaks. Therefore, 1 credit
Poage with a truly distin
guished service in demanding
that auctioneers "go back to
the use of the English lan
guage." My other nominee will be
Rep. Seymour Halpern (R-N.
Y.), who called last week for
an embargo on imports from
Cuba. Buying Cuban tobacco,
he said, puts money in Cas
tro's pocket and "dangerously
increases the menace of this
Communist satellite."
Halpern contended that ci
gar smokers in the United
States could switch from Ha
vanas to Jamaican cigars with
out undue hardship. He point
ed out that Sir Winston
Churchill has been sn-.oking
Jamaicas for years.
As a cigar smoker myself,
I appreciate Halpern's pro
posal. It pains me to think that
I might be aiding Communism
every time 1 light up a cheroot.
Used in
up in the South to avoid the
co-mingling of white and Ne
gro school children. Negroes
comprise a political power
house. Constitutional Reference
The constitutional reference
to religion is in the first 16
words of the first sentence of
first article of the Bill of
Rights;
"Congress shall make no
law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibit
ing the free exercise thereof;"
That article continues to
guarantee freedom of speech,
of the press, of assembly and
of petition. In the Everson
case, to which the President
referred, the Supreme Court
said this:
"No tax in any amount,
large or small, can be levied
to support any religious activ
ities or institutions, whatever
they may be called, or what
ever form they may adopt to
teach or practice religion."
Be your own judge!
Troubles
Algeria
other nations after his visit
to the rebel stronghold in
Laos. Sources said the strong
ly neutralist Cambodian gov
ernment was embarassed that
the former premier to whom
they gave asylum apparently
picked sides in the dispute,
thus com promising Cam
bodia's neutral stand.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a telegram to the Radio
and Television Executives So
ciety, which is holding its an
nual meeting in New York,
Ex-Vice-President Nixon says:
"Television is powerful
and as yet it is only an infant
factor in politics. Its full forco
is yet to be seen and employ
ed. "But it will never supplant
the printed word."
IT IS generally agreed that
TV was the factor that up
set Mr. Nixon and elected Mr.
Kennedy. Wide use of tele
vision in a political campaign
tends undoubtedly to put a
premium on personality. Skil
ful use ot it gives an advant
age to the finished actor
just as skilful use of radio a
couple of decades ago enabled
Franklin D. Roosevelt lo
capitalize his exceptional abil
ity as a persuasive and appeal
ing public speaker.
But
The printed word has this
in its favor: YOU CAN GO
BACK AND READ IT AGAIN
IF YOU GET TO WONDER
ING JUST WHAT THE MAN
DID SAY.
rpHAT is important.
Among other things, the
RECORD of the printed word
tends to make orators who are
seeking votes more careful in
what they say. Without the
record of the printed word,
they would feel freer to soar
off into the wild blue yonders
of political showmanship.
We have enough of that al
ready. May heaven save us
from MORE of it.
jROM Washington:
"President Kennedy yes
terday sent to congress a S3.25
billion save-lhe-cities hous
ing program, to be run by a
proposed new cabinet-rank de
partment of housing and ur
ban affairs.
"In a special 10-point mes
sage, Kennedy called for
prompt housing legislation to
spur the economy and rein
force the cities in their DES
PERATE STRUGGLE
AGAINST BLIGHT AND DE
CAY." rjNE can't help wondering
" how Portland and San
Francisco, to mention just a
copule of our cities, feel about
this sweeping inclusion of
them in the ranks of the
blighted and the decayed.
Portland, for example, is
growing and burgeoning, as
it hasn't grown and burgeoned
in half a century. The big,
new, modern Lloyd Center, is
expanding the business dis
trict of Portland, as the Wil
shire Boulevard shopping dis
trict years ago expanded the
business distict of Los An
geles. The glittering new
Sheraton hotel is already built
and functioning. The big new
downtown Hilton hotel is be
ing pushed along as fast as
men and money can push it.
New shopping centers are all
over town.
And San Francisco has Us
new and fabulous Jack Tar
hotel up on Van Ness avenue,
already completed and func
tioning. The new multi-story
Fairmont Tower, long discus
sed and often delayed, is now
in the finishing stages. The
big new plans for city trans
portation, including SUB
WAYS will put the City on
the Golden Gate on a par with
New York and London. And
so on.
CITY "blight and decay?"
Where?
Certainly not out here in
the Far West.
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