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Newspaper Page Text4 "Iveryunt in Southern Oregon Read The Mall Tribune" KSIuhed bU except Seturdajf by MEDFORD PRINTINQ CO n North Sir St. Pn f ROBERT W BUHL, Editor FURB GREY ArivM-tiilne lianaaar ff.r VlXIN 1R Mnf. Edltol r-(TSll rk T I I'M 4 HUl mi IARL B ADAMS. City Editor .MVrnilDUiri T Editor SS.'S;.triraiirt snorta Editor OUVE STARCHEB Weren't Editor CALX EBlCK80NClrcuUUon Met An Independent Newipeper ntrH -econd elan matter ai eSeotord Orefon under Act 01 1)j Mel) - In A-dvenoe. Copy 10c gllly -nd Sund.jr-1 jew SIB 00 Detly end Sunday- mot S.00 , Daily end Bunder a moe OS By carrier In Ad"M,f.'?I. TiJMmA Central Point Begtt Point Jacksonville Gold , HUl rJUl,Tnd fflJOT Ml 0 Dally end SuZl ""J,. 10? Bnii nek. we cope io- All Terms Cert Advance f T-Ul Paner'of Ctt af Medferd Otnel'l Paper ef Jaclwon CjJunW "fTnlterTPrew International Pull Leeied Wire q PlTeleohotoKewlcturM 7etn New Yore Chlc.eo pe trott Sen Heo AnMlej Seattle. Portland St luu le Vancouver Bit NEWSPAPER , PUIIISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION AW (DITORIAl cfgfl'16T1N, Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the o The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO V" SO9' : . 10 YEARS AGO April 7, (Saturday) V- All of Oregon to have am ple spring runoll waier, ceot Bear Creek valley, Tal ent Irrig atlori district ana : Applegate-Illlnois lialleys. Lumber industry reports iutficlent aupply ot boxcars t meet local demands. 19 YEARS AGO tll 7. 1MX (Monday) ' Medford area faces severe - ater shortage this year, ac ' a rnin us uvew aua,v,j ur Perry's "Ye . nt" column: "Gov- TC s bill providing for r t sack cigarette or. a ' ,-. ie law unless vote ot the peo- MJ TEAM AOO ' ?til 7. 1M1 (Tuetdar) . ' : Medford city council con. a Jara tentative contract to f irnlsh water to suburban ' ri. stride. County court, heads objec- tions to proposed west siae highway from Blackwell hill to Jacksonville. . 40 YEARS AQO April 7, Ml (Thunday) Local Page - theater pre sents Charles Chaplin and Jackie Coogan In "The Kid." City council decides to build . auto camp grounds with nice surroundings and comforts to .attract tourists. . , , . -" SO YEARS AQO April 7, 1111 (Friday) Prospective sites for- gar- . den and cannery Inspected by ' H. J. Heinz company repre ' sentatlve. ;- Bids called for new f 13,000 county jail at Jacksonville, " to be built wirn "auenKcn r. and beauty." Whsl't Your I.Q.? Nina ot fan carted h luaerleri even ar eight It exeelkeri five er ix ft feed. 1. Chimpanzees are mon keys; true or false? 2. Are the Cascade Moun tains east or west of the ; Rockies? 3. Name the author of the new novel "Hawaii." " " 4. Which two bodies of wa ter are connected by the Erie Canal? . B. Name the largest of these planets: Mercury, Ve nus, Mars, Earth. 6. Seattle is the capital of the State ot Washington; true or false? " 7. Is the Sues Canal a tea level or a lock canal? :; 8. Is the Tropic of Capri corn north or south of the Equator? ; t. Apple trees do, or do not, grow in Normandy, France? 10. During World War I, who was King of Italy? Answers! 1. Falie (anthro poid apes). 2. Wail. 3, James Mlchener. 4.. Lake Erie and the Hudson River. 8. Earth. 6.' Valse (Olympls). 7. Sea level. I. South. I. Do, 10 Victor Emmanuel III. IHTRODUCTIOH TO ART Barnet, England-IWD-Artlst Michael Osterwell is hanging his paintings in a launderette he operates nere. .'"People want to look at things when they wash,'' Ost erwell said, "so what better than to introduce them to art" FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1981 Trees by the Thousands They aren't too much in evidence yet, but there are thousands and thousands of tiny trees in the ground and beginning to grow in Jackson county, that weren't mere last year at this time. In a few years five or ten or fifteen they will begin to be a considerable factor in the community. They will add beauty and grace to this lovely valley, freshening the atmosphere and the hearts of. men. , Meanwhile those who and adults alike can for them and delighting-in their growth.' There is a special delight in watching something grow. THIS happy prospect is to the credit of. the Eagle Point Grange, tree project is one 01 me imesc community joob that anyone has done, anywhere. ; There are all sorts of projects which organ izations do, and most of them have merit, help ing people in one way or another, or improving the community. This tree-planting business, thouffh. is uniaue. for it combines the prosaic with the esthetic; practicality with idealism, and generosity with do-ifr-yourseli. This is the second consecutive year the Grange has distributed trees, but this year they concentrated on youngsters, and just about every elementary school student in Jackson county will have received one before they're through. - i. . e e e e A LOT of people deserve credit for this. Mrs. Edith Eden, who has been the moving force behind the Medford street tree planting (which, incidentally, is nition as an example of how street tree planting should be done) has .been ah enthusiastic worker. Ladies of the Grange, who spent many an hour seeing that each tiny seedling tree was prop erly wrapped and fertilized before it was given to a student, deserve our commendation, t . ; But the largest share to C C. (Pop) Hoover. He's just about worn himself out. rushing spent hours and days logistics of the project, to see "that it was done 1I7HEN Pop Hoover gets a bee in his bonnet, V it really buzzes, and he has a way of con veying his enthusiasm and his drive to others. Their reward, as likely as not, is to see Char lie's face wreathed in a great big happy grin. "Only God can make a tree." But sometimes He needs an assist in getting them spread around where they'll do the most good. And for this the and Pop Hoover, should done." a. A. The ! Home Rule Study Despite all the publicity attending its doings, there still are misunderstandings about the in tent and even the functions of the Jackson county home rule study committee. It is a group of citizens who, for. the past six months, have been meeting almost every week to discuss with each other, with various present and former county officials, and with others in terested, county government whether it can or should be improved, and, if so, how. This is a group of sincere people, spending hours and hours in an attempt to do a job for their community. " e e e IF ALL goes well, the result of their labors about a year from now will be a distillation of the advice and counsel they have received, of their own informed discussions; and of expert assist ance, in the form of a county home rule charter. Just what shape it will take not even the com mittee knows as yet. They don't even know if they can qome up with a document which will satisfy all of them let alone the voters and tax payers of the county. - , But, as a result of the first few months of work, they have come to the conclusion that county government needs some strengthening, gome improvement, ana, brought closer to the people and more responsive to their needs and desires. e e e e a . ? SO, despite some premature conclusions to the contrary, it cannot be said that they are work ing with any preconceived ideas of what should be done, or will try to j, "railroad" anything. They still are in the deliberation and gathering their facts. Their recommendations will come later. v But with their initial government isn't doing the job for the people that it Bhould do, and that some changes are in order we can agree whole-heartedly. And, among those who have watched county government "at work" in recent years, this opin ion is fairly widespread. DUT the details of 'the proposal whether it " will suggest minor modifications or a more sweeping change; whether there should be a large or small commission or council: whether there should be a single county administrator; whether offices should be non-partisan or on a partv basis these have yet to be determined. The committee has a tough job before it, de ciding which of the many proposals they have heard would be for the best interests of the peo ple, of the county. This is their first and most important consideration. 1 We believe the job will be done, though. And then, not now, will be the time for analysis. Meanwhile, all their meetings are open to the public. And the committee will welcome con structive suggestions at ' 1 ' planted them students watch over them, caring and for our money, their eainwe national recog of the kudos should go - ' ; and weeks planning the and working like a dog and done right. Eagle fomt grangers, receive a hearty "Well . most 01 an, to oe process ot discussion and conclusion that county any time. E. A. Dennis the . Menace Communications ' ' . - ' - 5 . ' ' ............ Letten to the Editor mutt bear the name and addreu of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Inlltl for publication It permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensate. Lattart submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 wordt .The letter! printed In hit column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact me contrary it otten Amended 23rd : To the Editor: My Mother sent me this clipping from a paper from southern Cali fornia.' I , thought it . worth passing on: ' Psecurlty PsSlm ; The Government is - my shepherd, I shall not want. It allowth me to lie down on my job; It leadeth me beside still factories. It destroyeth my initiative. : It . leadeth . me in the path of political paradise. Yea, though I walk through the valley of laziness; and deficit spending, I ..will fear ho evil, for the Government is with me. It prepareth an economic Utopia for me by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren. It filleth my head with false security; my inefficiency runneth over. Surely the Government should care for me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in a fool's paradise for ever. (Mrs.) Erma Fret, ., Route 1, Box 264, Eagle Point, Ore. : ' Not Welch Alone ' To the Editor: With some of the charges being made against the John Birch So ciety and its founder Robert Welch, it would be worth while to point out that most of the things that he advo vates have been urged by other responsible sources for many years. He . is credited with conceiving most of these himself, according to the ac counts In the Mall Tribune re lease from XIPI. The two issues most prominently men tioned were those of commu nism in the churches and the proposed impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. In .answering the John Birch Society's attack, Eugene Carson Blake told a church in Santa Barbara, Calif.,: that they would divide the church right down the middle; "be tween communists and fascists hating each other, labeling each - other, ' and distrusting each other." "Fascist" is a fa vorite term of Liberals and Left-Wingers, used to smear anyone with strong conserva tive views who would expose their methods and goals. Mr. Blake, . then, must be taciUy admitting that there were communists in the church and those who would expose them, it allowed to do so. Com munists are generally labeled and suspected when found Out. . , Mr. Welch attacked those who are advocating socialism from within the National Council ot Churches. I have a book written by Klrby Page that advocates state ownership Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF MOURNFUL ONE; This is the worst toothache I've had. Cheerful one: It's all In your mind. Yesterday I felt awful. Then I went home to my beautiful bride who hugged and kissed me and presto! I felt wonderful. ' Mournful one (perking . up)? What's your wife's phone number? -A husband wandered nr Youtly about a doc tor's waiting room while his wife underwent a complete checkup. After seme time the doctor stuck his head out of the door, summoned the husband, and said, "To be blunt, I don't like the looks of your wife." "Neither do V respond ed the husband, "but she's great with the children. "Men are always wondering what the future holds m store," Observes London Ttd-Mta, "whereaa women wonder what the store will hold la future." a 1SB. l Xtaaett Cert DtetrtbeHW r Kins; Teeroree Smdkete the ease. . of all natural resources, util ities,: Federal Reserve Bank and, 1 As experience is gained, common ownership may well be extended to huge strategic Industries; steel mills, oil re fineries, automotive plants." Mr. Page,, a former Disciples 6f Christ minister,: was an official of the NCC for many years. With many of the NCC leaders belonging to. as many as five; to twenty-odd commu nist fronts it would take a naive person to believe that there were no communists in the churches. . The NCC went on record against the House Committee on un-American Activities when it made the mistake of defending the Air Force Man ual, and one of the commit tee's members, the HonoVable Donald L. Jackson, made the further mistake of exposing a list of the books recommend ed by the Department of Racial and Cultural Relations of the NCC for the "develop ment of children through read ing." One of the books was so Indecent ' that the Post Of fice Department . "cautioned against depositing such matter in the mails." . A "book of poetry ' by Langston Hughes contained a selection entitled "Goodbye Christ" that was an atheistic Marxist masterpiece. Dorian F. Woods, , Star Route, Box 191, ! Prospect, Ore. . " . All The Way To the Editor: It is quite evident to me that you have read Mr. Robert Welch's "Blue Book," and I hope you intend to "look further into it" instead of just "standing pat" like some others seem to be doing. It may be that you already know all about the situation that America and the world confronts. . Therefore . I only wish to encourage you to continue all the way In your book review series about, the Blue Book. Don't be like the one that wrote the page-ful in the Ore gonlan of April 4 or 5, in which he admits that all he knows about the John Birch Society la what he reads In the paper! Then he proceeds to tear down the Society as It he knew "all about" the said John Birch Society and its so-called dirty tacticsl . . I sincerely hope that you, for one, will continue to go through this review and give the American people a chance to see the "other side" of the very Important situation we face today. In our Father's name and for America , . . exercise your rights and this opportunity. L. R. Wedeklnd 118 Granite Hill rd. Grants Pass, Ore. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE Richard M. Nixon To Begin 'Come Back' Trail Next Br X-YLE C. WILSON Washington ;- UPD - Tor Richard M. Nixon the come back trail begin next month in Chicago. . If the news paper report-; ing of Nixon't p r e s identia campaign was d a a - ii .charged the reporting of Nixon's prog ress on the come back! .M .1 . . . uauanuuiaoe wusos good. He will be discussing what everyone in and out of Washington is discussing these days. Jle .will be. discussing this: "How is JFK doing?" On May 5 in Chicago, Nixon will make the first of a series of speeches. Des Moines and Detroit are on the schedule. What Nixon has to say wUl come through loud and clear because the circumstances which aroused protests against reporting of his campaign speeches will not prevail this spring. Federal Spending If Nixon listens to some of the advice that Is available to him in Washington, he will challenge the Kennedy admin istration in the field of govern m e n t spending. President Elsenhower . established the pattern for that challenge in a campaign speech delivered last autumn in Philadelphia. .President Ike had some questions for candidate Ken nedy: Will you establish or main tain a balanced budget? Capitol Memo Hatfield Batting Zero in Plans for Reorganization By DOUGLAS GRIPP ; Salem - (DPI Oregon's gov ernment ; apparently Is not getting the face-lifting this year that Gov. Mark Hatfield says it needs. His batting average with the 1961 legis lation on gov ernment reor ganization af ter three months is Dourlas Grlpp zero, mere has been bi-partisan support but scattered and therefore in effective. The legislature is not buy ing a one-step move to a streamlined cabinet system. This has been apparent to Hat field for some time but he is demanding at least a toe-hold. This the legislature seems willing to give. . Twenty reorganization Dills are involved. If all were en acted, Oregon would have a cabinet system of seven de partments. This would abolish or consolidate, many of the 172 boards and commissions that now do the same work.. At this writing, only two of the 20 bills have had floor action, and this Senate ap proval only. They are .the ones creating the commerce and revenue departments. Several bills have been tabled and several others ap pear dead - including the one to abolish the policy - making State Welfare commission and replace it with : an advisory body. The House Education com mittee has dumped Hatfield's plan to have the governor ap point the superintendent of public instruction. A substi tute was approved, letting the board of education do it, but Hatfield seems satisfied. Senate GOP leader Anthony Yturrl said he expects "not quite half" of the program to survive both houses. This in cludes the education depart ment change, commerce, nat ural resources and revenue departments, and possibly a "watered - down" social serv ices department. : ' House Republican Leader F. F. Montgomery' predicts that 50 per cent, at the mini mum, will pass the House and at the maximum, 65 per cent. Sen. Robert Straub, Oregon Democratic chairman, said 20 per cent is about rignt. tie criticized Hatfield for "sabo taging" his own plan by "fail ing to exert leadership among GOP members of the legisla- UNION SHOW OPENS Detroit- WTD - The AFL-CIO Union Industries show, a $22 million exhibit displaying a variety of goods produced by union members, opens today at Cobo hall. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg and AFL CIO President George Meany were scheduled to take part in the opening .ceremonies. The show contains 330 dis plays featuring the crafts and skills of nearly all segments ot the trade union movement njJI Month; Spend ing Seen Issue Will you increase govern ment spending? If your spending program forbids a balanced budget, how will you pay the costs of your spending programs, by increasing taxes or by accept ing an Inflationary further in crease in the public debt? These questions are better now than when Eisenhower asked them last year. This is true despite the fact that the Kennedy accountants calcu late that Eisenhower's final budgets were not, themselves, in the black. There is partisan dispute about that. Dutch Have Complaints About U.S. Policies Regarding Them By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst T Dutch Foreig n Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns will vis It Washington next .Week to air at least one new and several , o 1 d c o m p 1 a lnta against the United States. An old com plaint Is that the United States takes the 'N e th e r- Newtern lanas, a was member of NATO, for gvant ed. t -''' The new one is that the United States snubbed an in vitation to attend ceremonies opening the first elected leg- ture, some of whom are help ing scuttle the program." , The -Lane county senator said he favors enactment of the entire program. ' Freeman Holmer, state fi nance director and chief push er of the program, said: "Re organization is a major and difficult undertaking. It re quires careful study. We're changing a government that has taken decades to develop." He said the changes were for the better and should be adopted. Was hington Report By WllllAM KENNEDY AND DE GAULLE Washington-President Ken nedy has decided to'meet with special courtesy and tact his most delicate problem in personal rela tionships, that , with General C h a r 1 e s de Gaulle of France. In this Instance, politeness has become a for eign policy. White Mr. Kennedy's agreement to go to Paris in May to see the French president, rather than have him here to. the White House, is by no means a mat ter of form, though protocol does enter. President de Gaulle is the only one ot the Western Big Four," apart from Mr. Kennedy himself, who is officially a head-of-state. Of the - others, Prime Minister Harold Mac millan Of Britain is a chief (but not a head) of state. So is Konrad Adenauer, as chancel lor of Free Germany. In International protocol these seemingly dusty and fusty distinctions of etiquette are Important - and particu larly so in dealing with De Gaulle, Mr. Kennedy, as not only a head of state but also head of the most powerful state of the Western Alliance, could well have insisted that De Gaulle come here. Never theless, it is to be quite the other Way round. . ' e ' ALL Gaul was once divided into three parts, as it used to be said, again and yet again, in high-school Latin. And the problem Charles de Gaulle presents to his Western col leagues is divided into at least three part - all of them tough. In the first place the old general's insistence upon France's "grandeur"- and thus on his Own grandeur - is one of the big facts of Western life. He has no great interest in going out to see the other leaders; he likes them to come to him. Remote, haughty, In corrutible, he believes in the rights and privileges of the patriarch - and Mr. Kennedy has learned before this how to be deferential to his elders. In the second place, De jdT BstatkT'TO There is no dispute, how ever, about the 1961 and 1962 budgets as they are to be ad ministered by President Ken nedy. They will be deficit budgets. There is some dispute about hdw much in the red. The programs of the Kennedy administration as revealed so far are substantially spending programs. There is acute dan ger, If not the proven fact, of currency inflation in those programs'."- ' -There Is a legitimate differ ence of partisan opinion on the subject of spending, bud gets and deficits. ' . islative council in the Neth erlands New Guinea. : , . To the Dutch the . new council marks the first step toward self-determination for the Papuan population of New Guinea. U.S. refusal to attend the April S ceremonies In Hollandia is interpreted as appeasement of Indonesian President Sukarno who has designs of his own on the Dutch-held half, of the huge isUnd. :; ;. ..k cv Bowed to Pressure -t - The Dutch, feel that it Was with comparative good grace that they bowed to United States pressure in 1949 and granted independence, to the East . Indies Islands Which they' had ruled for .nearly 350 years and which today forms the Republic ' of In donesia. ' They question how the United States could 'vote in the United Nations for inves tigation ' of Portuguese rule in Angola and ignore Dutch efforts to set New Guinea upon .the very path which U.S. policy advocates. ; At the moment,' New Guinea scarcely seems a can didate for self-determination. Controlled by the Dutch on the west arid the Australians on the east, it is the world's, second largest island, second only, to Greenland. .!. : Stone Age Land u It is a land of jagged, j u n g 1 e-covered mountains, marsny valleys and narrow, palm-fringed coastal plains. Many of its inhabitants still live in the Stone Age, wear no clothing and have never seen a white man. Vast areas remain unex plored and. are so ; impenetra ble that only this year was discovered the wreckage ot an American bomber lost in S. WHITE Gaulle for years has been shaking up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with re curring complaints and de mands. It is absolutely vital for Mr. Kennedy to do all he can to get better French co operation in this top instru. mentality of Western secUrlty. . e e A ND in the third place, the distinct ' unwillingness ' of the French to risk anything at all to halt Communist ag gression in Laos has put the American presideht in a less-than-happy position in Asia. The May meeting in Paris, therefore, between the young former Naval lieutenant and the old former generalissimo of wartime Free France, will be Mr. Kennedy's most critical test in personal diplomacy. There was some evidence dur ing our last administration that De Gaulle regarded even President Eisenhower , as a rather Junior soldiering type, n o t w 1 1 h standing the five Eisenhower stars.- ' President Kennedy will surely need to hope that his own less than exalted war. time risk will not be held too much against him. And what is never mention ed here officially, but will be a great factor nevertheless, is Mr. Kennedy's religious back ground, plus the fact that his wife, who speaks perfect French, will accompany him to Paris. . . e e e . - -THE general is a type-figure of the traditional Roman Catholicism of France. For the first time he will be meeting in President Kennedy a leader from the Anglo-American side who is of his own faith and cultural tradition. It may seem a fanciful sug gestion but it is a fact all the same that this human circum stance is of high importance. . General de Gaulle is a far more personal head-of-state -far less concerned by party ties and far less accountable to cabinet and other associates - than are the executive heads of government as we and the British know them. Personal likes and dislikes have 10 times more meaning - and 10 umes me possible conse quences for good or ill - with mm. (Copyright 1961 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) One side holds that certain desirable social and welfare objectives must be realized, If the nation is to survive, re gardless of treasury deficits and further rotting of the U.S. dollar by inflation. The other side holds that the nation cannot survive at all the. destruction of ths Integrity- of the dollar, These two points of view represent the basic political difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Nixon is competent to speak for the Republicans. ' World War II. The skeletons of its crew rested undisturbed in the fuselage. Politically, New Guinea is a hot coal. - Although Dutch New Guinea's population is not Indonesian, nonetheless the territory is claimed by in donesia. Attempts to tiate a peaceful solution fail, ed and no wboth the Indone sians and the Dutch - havn built un military forces st their closest approaches. x In the Day's News ? : By FRANK JENKINS From Dallas, Texas: " Representative John 6 Tower, who CAMPAIGNED AGAINST President KnnnA. dy's New Frontiers, and Sen. ator William A. Blakeley, who ran as a CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT, aooear tn h. headed today for a run-off in Texas' special election to fill the vacancy created wh-:. Lyndon Johnson resigned as U. S. senator from Texas tn become vice president. With a lot of votes still fn be counted, Tower .led the list of 70 candidates with a vote of more than '320,000. Blakeley iitrxi wun a vote of some 190,000. In third place is Rep. resentative Jim Wright, who campaigned as a MODERATE (a moderate is generally de. lined as half-way - between a conservative and a liberal) Wright had about 170,000 votes. ; Under Texas law, a candli date must poll a majority to be elected. If there is no ma jority. the two toppers must fight it out in a run-off elec tion. ' ??????? ... There must be a lot of CONSERVATIVES in Texas. GETTING closer home: ;. W Oregon State Senator Ben Musa, of The Dalles, whose district includes Gilliam Hnnn. River, Morrow, Sherman, Was. co and Wheeler counties, came up with a statement the other day to the effect that in his opinion residents of Wheeler would like to abolish their county. He added by way of expla nation that - Wheeler is the second smallest of Oregon's 36 counties, with a population . of only 2,709, and offered the opinion that a lot of its people think.it is too small to support a county seat. T-fis- remark appears to have stirred up a hornet's nest.- .Anyway, he got into the news with an explanation. He was just kidding, he says, and adds that apparently his kid-! ding remarks were widely; misconstrued. . ' '' He explains that of the 2,-. 709 residents of Wheeler coun ty, he must have heard from 2,700 -. and they're all hop-: ping mad. He wants It under stood that he Isn't sponsoring any movements to do' away, with Wheeler county. ' WHAT about it? ' Personally, I can't help thinking that the people of Wheeler who are "hopping mad" over the mere sugges tion that their county is too small to support a govern ment of its own are in the right. To be sure,' a population of 2,709 isn't large. When the cost of government is broken down to a per capita basis, the individual's share of the total has to be comparatively large.- But We've been getting a taste in recent decades of BIG gov ernment. The taste Inclines to the bitter side. Big govern ment tends to take govern ment TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE. That isn't good -- in this country, anyway. The farther government gets from the peo ple, the more extravagant it tends to become. NOBEL WINNER DIES Brussels-fllPD-Professor Jules Bordet, discoverer of the whooping cough microbe and 1919 Nobel Prize winner for medicine, died Thursday. Bor det, 90, contributed to the dis covery of the Bordet-Wasser-mann syphilis reaction test and did research on the mech anism of blood coagulation. .