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iViedlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1951 (Tueaday)
Search operations are un-
derway today in southeastern
-- Arizona for two Medford men
missing since last night on a
flight from Tucson to El Paso.
Thick acrid clouas or. smone
-from several sawdust fires
which blew across Highway
09 Just noi.h of Gold Hill yes
terday were blamed by police
for several automobile col
lisions. '
20 YEARS AGO
Msrch 27, 1841 (Thursday)
Col. Frank L. TouVelle of
Jacksonville, former Jackson
county judge, today gave the
public assurance of permanent
access to the Rogue river by
the creation of a park lm-
rmnrtlntnlv holnw Rvhee bridle
on lie iviiawuy iu uwuu.
eight miles from Medford;
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudne Pot" column: "The
courthouse lawn Is again clut
tered up with robins, who act
as; if they owned the court
house."
' ;
30 YEARS AGO
. March 27, 1931 (Friday)
Southern Pacific has lower
ed freight rates for fruit prod
ucts leaving the valley.
A travel agent will visit
here soon in an attempt to sell
local citizens on a trip to the
Orient.
-40 YEARS AGO
? March 27, 1921 (Sunday)
3 A local man who holds the
.mull franchise to Butte Falls
::has asked permission to con-
; tlnue use of the old Pacific
!;and Eastern railway tracks
The Chamber of Commerce
;;heie has voted against a pro
posal to group charitable
'.drives Into a large Community
! Chest.
t
S0 YEARS AGO
' March 27, 1911 (Monday)
f Ashland voters Friday rc-
"pcnled a council-passed ordi
nance to close theaters on
Sundays.
Work is scheduled to start
SOun on a new cement plant at
Gold Hill.
JrVhal's Your I.Q.7
'Nine or ten correct li superior;
loven or eight It excellent! five or
i'k it qood.
; 1. In Greek mythology, who
was the husband of Penelope?
2, What two gases combine
to form a very common
llnuld?
3. "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" legally became our Na
tional Anthem under an act
by the Continental Congress;
rue or false?
" J. Which boxer held the
first heavyweight champion
ship under the Marquis of
Queensberry rules?
-.-,'B. Will an electric motor
oimrato in a vacuum?
8. Hiroshima was one of
the Japanese cities that was
atom bombed: name the other.
V. Name the three primary
plpmcnt colors.
8. "Sam Wcller" is a char
acter in one of Charles Dick
ens' novels; what Is the name
of the novel?
8. Are American Indians,
born In the U, S.p citizens of
the U. S.?
" 10. What cabinet position
did Jesse Jones once hold?
Aniwern 1, Ulysses. 2. Hy
drogen and oxygen form wa
ter? 3, False, 4. James J, Cor
bstt. 9. Yes. 6. Nagaiakl. 7.
Red, blue and yellow, 8. Pick
wick Papers. 9. Yes. '10. Sec
retary of Commerce.
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MONDAY. MARCH 27, 1981
Transcontinental Notes VI
La Guardia field, once New York's major
airport, is now largely confined to propeller-
driven planes, leaving Idlewild for the jets. As
a result it is not nearly as busy a place as it once
was thouerh still busy enough.
It is all torn up at present, as work progresses
on a huge new terminal building the utility of
which we couldn t quite determine, as the old
terminal was almost deserted, with most of the
activity occurring in the temporary quarters of
American Airlines.
After a wait occasioned by our over-cautious
earliness, we boarded a Convair, and, after a
bumpy flight through clouds and overcast, ar
rived at the Washington airport about 2 o'clock.
'''
TPHE contrast between New York and Washing-
ton is startling, and in many ways.
New York is a northeastern big city; Wash
ington is a southern city. One' is a bustling com
mercial center; the other is devoted, in' major
part, to politics, memorials to the nation's past,
and to the service of politicians and tourists.
The atmosphere is far, far friendlier, the sur
roundings more gracious, the hotel personnel
more hospitable, and the prices a lot lower. x
We felt, in fact, considerably bucked up
and the gracious welcome we were to receive
from friends and acquaintances confirmed that
feeling. '
.
THAT first evening in
urifVi nlrl -Pi-ionrla Mr
much of it in sentimental visitation to two of the
nation's outstanding shrines, the1 Lincoln and
Jefferson Memorials.
We had seen them before in daylight; by
night, with their artful lighting, they are even
more impressive, if that is possible.
The maernificent figures, surrounded by
gleaming marble columns and quotations expressing-
their great ideals, which have become so much
a cherished part of our heritage, oespeaic a rever
ence for this nation's past glories, and a confi
dence that its days of glory are not yet over.
'. ' '.j
OUR favorite is the ringing declaration which
oiifr-nnnrla nlmnsr. aa a rricp.nr.ip Vinln. the
bronze head of the huge, standing bronze figure
of Jefferson. Inscribed within the temple in big
letters, it says : j '
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OP
GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY AGAINST
EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE
MIND OF MAN."
We confess to great emotion at seeing these
temples to men who helped found, and save, the
Upited States of America. And if, looking up at
their likenesses, there was an excess of mistiness
in our eyes, it is nobody else's business.
Both members of the party slept soundly that
night, for the first time
,
WITH only slight provocation, we could write
pages about the fascinations of Washington.
But these chronicles are
In the morning we walked downtown, took a
slight detour to gaze in daylight at the White
House, glimpsed in its lighted grace the night be
fore, and so to the National Press Building, where
we had a good visit with A. Robert Smith, the
Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent,, much
of it shop-talk, but also touching on a book he has
just completed about Oregon s senior senator,
Wayne L. Morse. Publication is due this fall.
Bob was kind enough to devote all of his
morning to the visiting fireman, taking us to the
splendid (and controversial) New Senate Office
building, first. ' .
There we sat in on a subcommittee hearing,
at which Senator Morse was presiding, concern
ing federal aid to education, and another, at
which the Senate Foreign Relations committee
was questioning Edward R. Murrow as to his
nomination to be director of the United States
Information Agency.
1MURROW fielded some loaded questions fr
Aiken of Vermont. Hickenlooper of Io
and Capehart of Indiana, plus some friendly
questions from Symington of Missouri, Fulbright
of Arkansas (the chairman), Humphrey of Min
nesota and Mansfield of Montana,. Senate ma
jority leader.
Despite the grilling, some of it deliberately
difficult, Murrow handled himself with poise,
dignity and intelligence, and later won unani
mous approval from the committee.
But we must say he looked somewhat hag
gard, tired and strained when the hearing finally
adjourned as who wouldn't?
.
XE TOOK the famous new subway (on
' walls of which one Senator wants mural
be painted, for heaven's sake) to the Capitol, and
Bob showed us around.
Capitol press gallery members are treated
royally. Not quite as royally as Senators, of
course, but they do all right for themselves, with
their own comfortable quarters, couches, tele
phones, typewriters, paper, all of them provided
at taxpayers' expense. Press releases, from gov
ernment agencies, Senators' offices, and the
White House itself, are all available here.
And a passageway leads directly to the gallery
itself, where members of the press sit above the
podium where the Vice President of the United
States presides (at least some of the time) over
the Senate.
For more than an hour we sat in the trallerv
in fascination, listening
(Later we checked the Congressional Record for
that day, and found the entire debate took uo 89
small-nnnt pages and
following day.) E.A.
Washington was spent
anrl Mrs flharles Pnrf-or
since leaving home.
too long already.
om
Iowa
the
s to
to a Senatorial debate.
it continued into the
Dennis the Menace
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pacer; in tact trie contrary is otten
Heaven Crowded?
To the Editor: A person will
speculate about thing that
are beyond his comprehen
sion. Take me for example.
My imagination is stagger
ed when I contemplate the
possibility of 100,000,000,000
(get in all those naughts) peo
ple dwelling in Paradise. This
figure takes into account all
human beings born since the
beginning of time and up to
the end of time, whenever
that will be.
Inasmuch as man was cre
ated in the image of God, it
is safe to assume that we will
look like human beings, only
much improved. Would not
heaven be a little crowded,
or am I too optimistic?
David Frisch i
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Sleep Tight
To the Editor: Ken Johnson
of Salem, Ore., seems to think
we should go on sleeping
dreaming and saying it can't
happen here, it won t. Well
someone was asleep ' In the
Congo. Also in Laos, and ac
cording to President Kennedy
the Communists took over a
large part of a neutral coun
try and the Russian tanks be
ing paraded in the streets of
Havana could be a dream, but
in my estimation It could turn
into a nightmare.
I also read an article by
Billy Graham saying that
Communism should be taught
in our schools as a "religion.1
I have no complaints about
any religion or anyone's
dreams or hopes, however I
have always had the idea that
Mr. K. has no religion. He
does have big plans and big
ger hopes of carrying them
out.
I think his biggest hope is
that we all sleep, or at least
be a little drowsy, until he is
ready to set off the alarm.
Well, Mr. Johnson, sleep tight,
but for me I like to sleep with
one eye open. I am sure that
142,000 casualties In Korea
should keep us awake for
some time to come.
However, one thing we do
enjoy is a right to express
our opinions and an editor
that helps us do so.
But I still firmly believe
that what we say and do
should be for the good of our
country, not against it,
Helen B. Townsend,
Route 1, Box 620,
Eagle Pont, Ore.
Eye-Opener
To the Editor: I read Mr.
Floyd R. McCabe's letter ex
pressing his doubt as to the
constitutionality of Jackson
ville's ordinance on firearms.
If Mr. McCabe really wants
to get "shook up," let him
take a look at the way elec
tions are handled in Jackson
ville. That would be a real
eyc-openerl
Tim J. Horn
Box 148
White City, Ore.
One By One
To the Editor: Hey, parents
and farmers! 1 1 Do you want
your children and livestock
killed one by one??
If Medco converts to their
proposed truck road through
this agricultural and residen
tial area, this may well be
the case!!
How about getting behind
the Home Owners Protective
association and letting Medco
know how concerned we are?
Interested party
(Name on file)
Medford.
Why Not Ceter
To the Editor: Why does
the phrase "stray cat" make
ears go deaf?
I have become increasingly
interested In tills problem and
It seems to me that there Is
a great deal of confvistion in
what should be a very simple
procedure.
Other cities In which I have
lived consider t cat In the
WM-UZA8e7H!'
the name and address of the writer
the case.
animal category, why are
Medford cats denied this dis
tinction?
Stray cats, because of their
affectionate nature, are much
more of a menace to our
children than dogs. Despite
this there are no provisions
to remedy this situation.
Would someone be kind
enough to tell me why?
Mrs. B. J. Splcer
718 West 14th st,.
Medford.
The Difference
To the Editor: Mrs. Spack-
man asks: "Why in the world
would anyone want to sit on
top of a cash register full of
$5 gold pieces?" WELLI It's
better than sitting on top of
a cash register full of 5 dollar
paper bills worth $2.40.
There's a difference of $2.80.
Everett Acklln i
Ashland, Ore.
Church and State
To the Editor: I would like
to comment on the editorial
"Church and President," tak
en from the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, which you pub
lished March 20.
I quote from this editorial
"The President was right
when he pointed out that 'the
Constituion clearly prohibits
aid to parochial schools .
Would someone tell me just
exactly where in the Consti
tution this can be found? I
wish President Kennedy
the writer of the editorial had
been more specific and quot
ed chapter and verse on this
for I spent about two hours
today reading the Constitu
tion without being able to
find any clear prohibition.
There is Article VI, Section
declaring that "no religious
test shall ever be required as
qualification do any office
or public trust under the
United States."
And there is the First
Amendment, to which the
above mentioned editorial re
fers, but this states: "Con
gress shall make no law re
specting an establishment of
religion or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof."
These are the only men
Hons of religion in the Consti
tution,
President Kennedy has also
implied that the Constitution
allows federal funds for col
leges and universities under
religious auspices, but it is
the religious grade and high
schools that are excluded by
the Constitution.
There is not a word in the
Constitution that distinguishes
religious colleges from reli
gious high schools and gram
mar schools - specifying that
one is all right and the other
all wrong-when it comes to
dividing up the public's
money.
This editorial is typical of
the emotional and irrational
approach to the subject. This
not a religious conflict-it
Is a problem of citizen's
rights. What about the Con
stitutional provision that
guarantees equality for all
citizens before the law and
prohibits discrimination on re
ligious ground? Isn't it an act
of discrimination forbidden
by the Constitution to exclude
8.800,000 pupils from federal
aid because they do not at
tend a public school? The
welfare of this 14 per cent
attending non-public schools
is no less important than that
of those attending public
schools.
I contend that such help Is
not an aid to religion as such,
but an aid to students and
their parents (who are also
paying taxes to foot the bill)
and who should not be treat
ed on a less equitable basis
than any others.
To quote Russell Shaw, "By
denying education benefits to
Catholic parents and children
who patronize parochial
schools, the state is putting a
price tag on the exercise of
religious liberty. It Is as if
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE
Foreign News: Commonwealth
Strains; German Labor Short
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Aanlyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Commonwealth Strains
The Union of South Africa's
walkout from the British
Commonwealth has not re
lieved pres
sure on many
of the other
members for
economic or
other sanc
tions against
the Capetown
gov ernment.
In Britain, the
pressure is in
Newiom the other di
rection, a search for ways to
maintain traditional trade and
financial links with South Af
rica, even though the consti
tutional connection has been
broken. Some Commonwealth
countries, particularly the Afro-Asians,
may interpret this
as an attempt to nullify the
break, a development which
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A big question:
What will happen in Laos?
THE only answer apparent
as this is written is that
much will depend on what
RUSSIA does. President Ken
nedy defines the situation
thus:
1. The U.S. SUPPORTS
WITHOUT RESERVATION
the goal of a "neutral and in
dependent Laos, tied to no
outside power or group of
powers, threatening no one
and free from any domina
tion." 2. If there is to be a peace
ful solution of the crisis,
there must be a cessation of
the present armed attacks by
EXTERNALLY SUPPORTED
COMMUNISTS (meaning com
munist meddlers in Laso, who
are SUPPORTED BY RUS
SIA). If these attacks do not
stop, those who support a
truly neutral Laos will have
to consider their response.
He warned at his news con
ference that the U.S. has ob
ligations under the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization to
deal with aggression in Laos
"and no one should doubt our
resolution on this point."
0
UR President warns that
our country has obliga
tions under the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO) to deal with aggres
sion in Laos. Who are the
members of SEATO? They
are: The United States, Brit
ain, Franch, Australia, New
Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand
and the Philippines..
SEATO's military advisers,
meeting in Bangkok, in Thai
land, issued a communique
charging that communist sup
port of the communist rebels
in Laos has created a DAN
GEROUS situation. A dis
patch from Bangkok says:
All indications are that
the other SEATO members
will wait', for the United
States to lead, and will EX
PECT THE UNITED STATES
TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF
ANY INTERVENTION IN
LAOS."
As was the case in Korea,
17IACING this situation, Pres-
dent Kennedy acts im
mediately. He puts the bee on
Russia. He issues an appeal
to Mr. Kroosh for a peaceful
solution of the crisis. In ef.
feet, he draws a line in the
dust and dares Russia to cross
it.
Why put the bee on Rus
sia? James Reston, of the New
York Times, suggests that our
government may regard Rus
sia as LESS RECKLESS than
Communist China.
As to that, time will tell.
LET'S leave it this way:
The last thing in the
world President Kennedy
wants is a war such as we
would be into up to our ears
if this Laos crisis should end
in a war that would be certain
to make Korea look like a
skirmish participated in by a
couple of infantry battalions.
It is to be presumed that
he is acting on the principle
that the way to handle a net
tle is seize it boldly.
the slate were to say to Catho
lics, 'Certainly, you have re
ligious liberty, but you'll
have to pay double for your
children's education If you
choose to exercise it.' "
Roxanne Hallquist
202S Suzanna st.
Medford.
O
Editor's note: This letter is
an excellent statement of one
side of the argument. The oth
er side, boiled down to its
briefest essentials, is this:
Church schools are estab
lished so that their students
can receive religious instruc
tion as a part of their educa
tion. Otherwise, there would
be no reason for them. There
fore, taking tax money paid
by members of other
churches, or of none, to sup
port these religiously-oriented
schools is an injustice, and. in
effect, a violation of the con
stitutional ban on "establish-lng"-in
this case asslsting-
rcliglous Instruction.
1$
could threaten Common
wealth unity. So the British
must move carefully.
South Africa itself is ex
pected to drift further into a
siege economy. Since the
Sharpevllle shootings a year
ago, the world has been less
ready to Invest in South Afri
can goods.
Big business in South Afri
ca is controlled almost entire
ly by the English speaking
community. Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd holds pow
er from the Afrikaans-speaking
farmers. If they suffer
from the breakaway, they
could team up with big busi
ness and push Verwoerd from
power.
Manpower Shortage
While the United States
struggles to reduce unemploy
ment to somewhere around
the 5 per cent level, West
Germany is searching desper
ately for manpower to ease
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A MORTIFIED LADY motorist was hauled before a vil
lage justice of the peace by a motorcycle cop who an
nounced, "Judging by the way this here woman handles a
car in traffic, I don't
think she can see very
well"
The justice didn't look
too surprised. "We'll just
give her the little old eye
test," he said. "Lady,
please read the third line
of that chart on the
.wall."
Without hesitation, the
lady spelled out "Y-M-P-J-C."
"Perfect," approved the
justice. "Now let's hear
the line at the very
bottom."
"I would like to purchase," read the lady, "some tickets
for the Policemen's Pageant and Field Day."
"Better still," boomed the justice of the peace. "How
many?"
Overheard at the marriage license bureau: "My girl and I
would like to know when this license expires." -
O 1961, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
Matter of Fact
AIRPORT THOUGHTS
Idlewild Airport In an
hour or so, the big Jet will
engorge its passengers bound
for Tokyo, for
Bangkok and
and even, in
this reporter's
case, for Laos
In the charac
teristic atmos
phere of a
great airport.
half agonizing
boredom and
Aiiop half desperate
bustle, it is not easy to see
events with clarity.
Yet it seems quite clear,
all the same, that the Laos
crisis has been the first gen
uinely revealing, truly telling
episode of the Kennedy Ad
ministration.
Here was a mess inherited
by the new President from
his predecessors, and a mess,
too, which America's chief
allies were begging the new
President to wash his hands
of. His advisors told him that
if he washed his hands of
Laos, all of Southeast Asia
would go down the drain
thereafter. His own instincts
told him that if he risked war
for Laos, and war came, he
and his party might well go
down the drain In 1964. How
then did the new President
respond?
TTIS response, to begin with,
"was the opposite of im
pulsive. Events may prove, In
deed, that it was overly cau
tious and prudent.
Last Tuesday, the President
at length made his odd, char
acteristic gesture of final de
cision briefly tapping his
desk, as though to summon
luck from the wood and an
nounced his readiness to send
American troops to Laos if the
Soviets persisted in refusing
a negotiated settlement. Yet
this climatic Instant was not
reached before every other
imaginable alternative had
been exhaustively studied at
an interminable series of ear
lier White House meetings.
The meetings began, indeed,
the day before Inauguration,
when Kennedy went to the
White House for a final brief
ing by his predecessor. In the
presence of President Elsen
hower, former Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter then
warned President Kennedy
that the Laos crisis might
eventually require American
military intervention. Even
then, in fact, the outgoing
administration had reached
the view revealed by Presi
dent Elsenhower, when he ap
proved President Kennedy's
harsh Laos decision at a brief
press conference In Palm
Springs.
a a
TN THE long interval be
1 tween Jan. 19 and last Tues
day, a long sequence of other
expedients had first been test-l
a labor shortage. There are
340,000 foreigners working In
West Germany now and an
additional 360,000 will be
needed in 1961. Finding thsm
is hard enough. Housing them
Is an even greater problem.
West Germany has been in
building boom since the end
of the war, but adequate hous
ing even for the Germans
still is not available.
Test Ban
Chances for East- West
agreement on a nuclear weap
ons test ban seem as far
away as ever. But diplomats
at Geneva, where talks have
been resumed, say that even
without agreement, the con
ference has worked out well
for the Russians. It has pre
vented the United States and
Britain from testing nuclear
weapons for the last 29
months. For that reason, the
Soviets may wish to prolong
the talks as long as possible.
By Joseph Alsop
ed. "Neutralization" of Laos
had been indorsed. Through
the U.S. Ambassador to Mos
cow, Llewellyn Thompson Jr
Nikita S. Khrushchev had
been directly approached. Al
most at the moment when
Thompson was meeting with
Khrushchev, urgent measures
to 'strengthen the local anti
Communist forces in Laos had
been ordered and prepara
tions for American interven
tion had also been set on
foot.
Yet until the beginning of
last week, when the Com
munist Army in Laos won
further key points, the prep
arations to intervene were
merely precautionary. The
deterioration of the local sit
uation was what forced the
final decision; and even after
this decision had been taken,
Kennedy still moved with
prudence and caution.
There was caution in the
President's last-minute accept
ance of the British scheme to
negotiate a Laos settlement at
an enlarged conference, In
cluding the Chinese and North
Vietnamese Communists as
well as several neutrals. The
gesture had to be made to
secure British and French sup
port for the American deci
sion. The gesture also offered
the best hope of a positive
response from the Kremlin.
rpHERE was caution, too, in
the President's final, per
sonal revision of the draft of
his press conference statement
on Laos which had been pre
pared tor mm by Charles E.
Bohlen, and MacGeorse Bun-
dy. Their draft, he thought,
was almost too crisp and clear,
and might therefore sound
bellicose. It would suffice for
the Kremlin, he believed, to
send the ships and troops
quietly on their way, and to
make a quiet but earnest
statement of warning. And
thus he sounded his warning
in words so cool and colorless
that the occasion's drama all
but seeped away.
For those who studied Ken
nedy In action when he was
seeklnff the nrplrfnrv thlc
pattern is wholly familiar. Be
fore he made his crulcal de
cision to enter the Wisconsin
primary for Instance, there
was a period when he seemed
to be absolutely bogged in in
decision. But In this period
the seeming hesitation mere
ly concealed a cool, method
ical, painstaking canvass of
all the different risks of each
possible course.
The canvass revealed that
the risk in Wisconsin was the
most limited risk that gave
real hope of victory. Then
the decision was taken, in one
swift pounce. And after that,
no energies wasted for any
purpose execpt to minimize
the risk and win the figh.
(c) 1961, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Washington Report
By William S. White
THE ANGOLA VOTE
Washington-President Ken
nedy has no slightest intention
of following any automatic
pro-African"
line against
the vital inter
ests of our old
western Euro
pean allies in
Africa.
In any ulti
mate moment
of - truth, h e
considers the
western alli
White
ance under tne worm Atlar o
Treaty organization to be the
Irreplaceable heart of our own
security. He does not, how
ever, propose to have the
United States side, inevitably
and In advance, with each and
all the so-called western "co
lonial powers" on each and
every issue involving "colo
nialism" that may arise in the
United Nations.
IN SHORT,, his actual posi
tlon, it may be stated on the
highest possible authority, ts
a middling one. It stands
about midway between the old
Eisenhower policy of almost
never voting against a west
ern ally and the constant
thirst of the neutralist and
Communist nations to convict
the western powers In advance
In any argument with any
African independence move
ment - sound and responsible,
or fraudulent and pro-Communist.
The President is well aware,
of course, that our recent vote
In the United Nations, along
with the Soviet Union, for an
investigation of Portugal's co
lonial policies in Angola has
upset the Portuguese, and
other western allies.
He knows, of course, that
this reluctant association with
the Russians did not put him
in the company he would like.
For it put us against Britain,
France, Turkey and Free
China and cast us into a less-than-happy
light with other
old friends.
It is this correspondent's im
pression, however, that the
President is somewhat sur
prised at the depth of allied
feeling the incident seems to
have aroused. He does not see
it as having vast or final sig
nificance. AND it is this correspon
dent's firm impression that
the President has already
taken steps to give full reas
surance that Angola sets no
inevitable, rigid pattern for
the United Ctates. He will re
peat these reassurances later,
in a more direct and personal
way, in coming meetings with
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan, French President
Charles de Gaulle and others.
Mr. Kennedy considers that
the Angola resolution was
moderate and that the United
States had no alternative to
supporting it. He is quite de
termined to put this country
into friendly and continuing
sympathy with legitimate as
pirations of the Africans; of
this there can be no doubt.
This does not mean, how
ever, that because we voted
against Portugal this time we
are necessarily going to vote
next time against, say, France
or Belgium. The American
delegation to the United Na
tions will be under instruc
tions to consider each case -each
collision between Euro
pean powers and African na
tionalists - on its own indi
vidual merits,
INHERE is no intention of be-
- ... . .i 6 ausuiuieiy ana
emotionally "pro-African" -certainly
not in the sense that
the Russians and their associ
ates would like to see.
Thus the facts seem in avm
small support to those who
naa iaKen tne Angola vote as
evidence that th Ttnii.
States was seeking new
inenas in Atrica at the ex
pense of old ones in NATO.
Whether the President is
right or wrong in his policy
only time can tell. This com
mentator, who has nut hn-n
elected to run anything, fears)
mat. ii goes too tar in a world
where one Belgulm Is surely
worth 20 federated Congos.
tiut, at any rate, it is u.
sible already to be certain on
one point: right or wrong, the
President's attitude does not
retiect in the smallest way any
feeling that NATO is
able, to any degree whatever.
ror tne fres dent - notwlth.
standing such hopeful innova
tions as Peace Corns U il
bottom a pro-power man. And
that is what NATO is - pro
power. (Copyright 1961 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
96 Korean Orphans
Arrive at Portland
Portland - (UPD - A group ot
96 Korean orphans arrived at
Pnrtlnnrl't airnnt-f latK ci
day, bringing to 2,267 the
nunioer wno nave arrived 'n
this country via the "bahvllfi"
of Creswell farmer Harry
Holt. All have been adopted
by residence of this country.
KNOWS THE JOB
Bell, Callf.-m-Krls Krin
gel has been named chairman
of the Chamber of Commerce
Christmas street decorating
committee for 1961.
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