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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Kvtryone In Southern Oregon n..rt. The Mil Tribune" Kbliihed Dally except Saturday by S3 North Fir St., Ph. SP 2-8141 1 HERB GREY. Advertltlnl Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. Bin. Msr. . JtRICW; ALLEN JR.. Ml. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telef. Editor C-avB STARCHER, Women'! Editor Independent Nawapaper " Bntefcd aa aecond clan matter at Medtora, ijreaon, unuw 4v v I March 3, 1897 ,, '. DmorDnmrnM RATT.R 1 By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c i Daily ana sunaay a y" Dally and Sunday moa. 8.00 i; Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.28 . Sunday Only One year 84.20 ' Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- -. er, Tajom ana m mwwi r. V . Dally and Sunday 1 year 818.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.88 Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All xoriiia vwu "" "Btfleial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jickion County United Preaa International run imww w" PJM. TelephoJoNewaplcturea "MEMBER 6t AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS - ' Advertlainr Heoreaentativet WEST HOLIDAY CO.,. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago, pe- iron, oan r raiinfl.-". - ....--, Seattle. PorUand, St. Loula, At lanta, Vancouver, p.. kUlll$HIS .-ASSOCIATION NATION Al C0ITORIAI Medford and Jaekton County Hlitory from the filet of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 ma yarn agu, . 19 YEARS AGO April , 1181 (Monday) , Propoged clgaret tax con sidered by state legislature. ; Expected upiwlng in sea sonal Jobs reported for March, despite heavy gnowi early in month. io yearsTocTT ApiU . U41 (Wednesday) Preliminary petition filed in Salem to refer clgaret tax to voters.' From Arthur Perry's "Ye r nudge Pot" column: ;"The 1 iiaourl draft director has j Ued that draftees who have tth pulled to avoid wearing r .mlf n henceforth will be ...ed, teeth or no teeth. This ilrma the flrsV World War ort; You're going to tight n-not bite em." u years aoo April t, 1991 (Thursday) Uantrtt mnnwm all TllAmnfld lake will delay opening two w tnree weeas. Mushroom picking season tegins in villey. V YEAF.I AOO l ,tU t. 1121 (Saturdar) Orchardltis In valley enjoy food night's sleep for first time in a week, there being an orchard heating last night. v Former cashier at Bank of Jacksonville sentenced to 10 years in state prison. . i U YEARS AGO April 9, 1911 (Sunday) Federal bureau of census reports for 1910 show Med ford population at 8,840; Ash land, 5,020; Jacksonville, 788; Central Point, 761; Gold Hill, sisters of Providence to submit plans this week for new $100,000 hospital - on "Nob Hill." Whil't Year I.Q.7 Nina ar ten cornet la luperlorl even er eliht h eieallanrj (iva ar pis l seed. - ' - - - 1 1. Where Is Fenway Park 2. When angry, a porcupine has the ability to throw his quills; true or falser S.Ocean passengers are called "polllwogs" if they have never crossed the equa tor; what are they called when thev have crossed It? 4, A g a i n s t whom did Charles Evans Hughes run tor the presidency in 18167 5. After his defeat at Water loo, ' to what Island was Na poleon Bonaparte exiled? 6. Osteology is the science which treats of what? 7. Is West Point's mascot a goat or a mule? . 8. Does sound travel faster at freezing temperatures or at room temperature? 9. Is a stereoscope some thing through which to hear, see or speak? 10. Name the large Island ' of the West Indies which has been called "Pearl of the An tilles." ; ' - Answers) 1. Boston. 2, False. 3. "Shellbacks." 4. Woedrow Wilson. S. St. Helena. 6. Bones. 7. Mule 8 Room temperature, t. See. 10. Cuba. CAT NOW, PLAY LATER ' t Phoenix, Arlz.-WPD-Arlzon Republicans have adopted the Installment plan. Sponsors of a fund-raising "Dinner with Barry Goldwater" said party members low on cash could pay the $100 tab at $10 down, $10 a month. For the .loyal party workers who find that too steep there is a "Brunch with Barry" at $10, for $1 down, $1 month. I SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1961 Land Use Debates The National Parks are the subject of increas ing debate these days. So are the National Forests. ' . ; The debate concerns the best way in which our great publicly-owned outdoor resources of forests, streams and mountains should be man aged for the maximum both now and m the long ' Take the parks, for the middle of a monumental squeeze. ", On one hand, increasing population, greater mobility of people, more leisure time, and a greater interest in outdoor recreation, has put the Parks under tremendous pressure from hordes of visitors. DUT the basic law governing the management of the parks says not only be made available for public use, but shall be preserved as natural state for the benefit of generations yet unDorn. - . ... The first pressure has opments which some feel of asphalt parking lots, the park reservations, what were originally designated as wilderness areas, and other evidences of people in the form of litter, dirt and carelessness, which do much to destroy the intrinsic value of the parks. There are many, and ing, who feel this is not assigned to the National WE WERE delighted to note the other day that the new Secretary of the Interior, Stew art ; Udall, is apparently iully aware ot this problem. yTZ was quoted as saying: , ; . f ' "The easing of the visitor flood at the national park ' gates is absolutely essential in solving the problem of : v passing on the national park system unimpaired to V future generations. . .. . ' "Personally, I am a strong believer in wilderness " ' preservation, and you can depend on me to scrutinize , 1 all programs and activities of the National Park Serv- ; ice with this viewpoint clearly in mind. . ; "On the other hand, I feel very strongly that the people do have a right to visit their parks." ; WHAT is the way out ' There are several. struction of visitor facilities just outside of parks not inside. " In most parks, the lodges and other facilities were constructed back in a day's journey just to modern cars and roads, for putting housing facilities in the parks them selves. . - If adequate accommodations can be provided (by private enterprise, be it noted near but not in the parks, part of the solution is at hand. .- . . e . A NOTHER is a more adequate degree of devel fr oped recreational facilities in National For est 'areas. Mahv of the people who visit parks do so for the inspirational scenic did areas. They should have no impediments put in their way. . . But a great many more visit the parks simply because they are available, as outdoor recreation areas. There is a good question as to whether the parks were or are designed to accommodate these people, who . would, in all truth, be just as happy, if riot more so, to take their outdoor enjoyment at other spots, , perhaps not quite as grand scenically, but certainly better adapted to Handle the outdoor recreationalists in their boat ing, hiking and camping activities. TTHE Forest Service has long operated under the philosophy of "multiple purpose use" of the areas under its jurisdiction, giving weight to recreational values as well as to consumptive use, watershed management and so on. The Bureau of Land Management has been coming closer and closer to this concept in recent years, and now, with Secretary Udall in office, it is adopting a similar concept for land manage ment.1 .. . ' ', In western Oregon particularly this is impor tant, since so much of the area is in O & C lands. administered by the BLM. TIED in with this whole discussion is the sub- ject of wilderness lands. Few people, if any) will dispute the "wilder ness principle," for even lumbermen, avid for supplies for their mills, say it is valid, and that they support the principle. . The dispute is largely how much land shall be preserved in its untouched-by-human-hand character, and how strontr shall be the safe guards set up for its preservation. mere is only a comparlVto' small amount of wilderness area left in this country, and pres sures are strong to chop it down to an even smaller percentage of our land area. 1I7E FEEL strongly that a maximum of wilder " ness should now be set aside, and that the strongest possible safeguards to prevent its de spoilment should be enacted. If it is found that "too been set aside, action can always ba taken to surrender it to economic use. But once it is p-one. decision is irrevokable. ' God knows mankind ly his environment. We as it was created for the daughters, forever. E.A. : . , benefit of the people, years ahead. instance. They are in distinctly that they shal. much as possible in their resulted in some devel- are deplorable acres motels burgeoning inside more roads cut through their number is grow in line with the mission rark Service. ,:., v vvyw of this dilemma? " x One of them is con the days when it was get there. Today with there is less justification grandeur of these splen much" wilderness has it is pone forever. The has done enough to sul should leave some of it benefit of our sons and Dennis the Menace lGOftA QUestlW,MRMU30t4: IS IT 'STAR LISHT, STAR BRIGHT' OR STAR BRIGHT, STAR LIGHT'? ,,. , Matter of Fact DAY AT VANG VIEMQ - Vang Vieng, Laos-The vet eran French pilot stops talk ing about his garden, stubs out his strong smelling clg a rette, and concentra t e s on t his job. S w erving sharply, the little .plane enters a pass between two needle -like crags. The Aliop . pass is narrow and one can see birds flashing in the roof tops of the nearer slope. "You need to know this country to fly here," says the pilot. - i' " . ' After the pass; there is an other shelf of' hills, and then the plane swiftly descends in to the tiny bowl-like valley of Vang Vieng. One reflects, not for the last time, that countrysides resembling the more wildly romantic Chinese landscape paintings,' moun tains, mist, and all, are pleas anter to look at than to fly overBut the plane is grind ing to a halt, and there on the dusty airstrip is the stocky figure of Gen. Kouprasith Abhay, the only Laotian army commander currently on the offensive against the Commu nists. ' ' - AT 11:1B a.m. - General Knurjr&sltk'tt riearlniinrtArn is the best house In a little bamboo village on a river bank. The General,.' who started fighting 16 years ago against the Japanese, is burst ing with news. Yesterday, he explains, four Soviet Ilyu shins made four sorties each over his northwest flank, and on each sortie each Ilyushin dropped a group of 13 para chutists and some supplies. Total men dropped: about 300. During the night, there fore, the General brought back two 105 mm. guns from his point battalion to guard against the new threat on the flank. He gestures toward the guns, well dug in and cam ouflaged. "All the same," he says, "those llyushins flying over us - they make me angry." The American liaison officer from the aid group displays skepticism about 1 the llyu shins. The General shrugs and remarks with some bitterness: "I suppose this poor little Laos will be the Ethiopia of the next world war." But he still grants permission to go up the line. AT 1:00 p.m. - The jeep-trip down the tank rolled track through a long cleft in the hills is not easy, but it Is marvellously lovely. The needle-peaks soar upwards on either side. "The Jungle walls In the road, opening only for an occasional village clearing where naked biscuit-colored babies play in the bright sun. And there Is a swift running Jade green stream, always full of people briskly washing themselves and their clothes, which we cross and cross again. The American driving the jeep gestures toward the hills. "The General has got all his men off the road and put them up there," he says. "This outfit was In poorish shape before he took over, after they got thrown out of the road junction up ahead. But it's better now." As though to justify his es timate, the commander of the point battalion, Major Koka Pomsopa, turns out to be a very tough-looking customer who seems in complete com mand of his situation. Like Kouprasith, this little, wiry, bronzed' man with a thin straggle of beard began his fighting against the Japanese when he was a beardless boy. a TUT IN FRONT of him, he " says, there are three en emy companies,, one Pathet Lao, the other two halt Lao and half North Vietnam ese. There was a sharp fight yesterday, but "today there is nothing and the road forward is mined. Come back tomor row and I think it wiU be worth your while goinsj fur pi MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE By Joseph Alsop ther forward." So he ends with a grin, and begins barking orders which animate the hut-sheltered command post. Sure enough, the return to Vang Vieng is difficult because troops and armored cars are moving up. At 2:30 p.m.-Gen. Koupra- sith's headquarters, is more animated. The Captain of the flank company who reported the parachute drop yesterday has been called in and sternly cross-q uestioned. He has brought eye-witnesses - the aged village headman speaks for them all. Their stories are consistent. The American working with Gen. Kouprasith is still dubious, but there is no time for argument. A plane from Vientiane has come and gone, evidently bringing maj or news. At any rate, a plan ning session begins behind closed doors in the General's makeshift office; and from time to time battalion and company officers come in for orders. -. i a,-'. AT 4:00 p.m. - The after nnnn's snmnnlpnt Kilpnnp is broken by the hum of an other aircraft, bringing a liai son group from Vientiane. One of them, an American, is a sad-faced man who para chuted into France behind the lines with this reporter's brother before the Normandy landing - and has been doing the same sort of thing ever since. He has spotted troops moving In the next little val ley-bowl, just over the hills to the northwest where the parachute drop was reported. Unflurrled, Gen. Koupra sith tells his flank company to move forward. The confer ence behind closed doors Is resumed. Then the command radio starts chattering. The flank company has run into a sharp fire. The office doors open. The General emerges grinning. Another order is quickly given. The 105's shat ter the afternoon's peace, fir. ing furiously beyond the near. est hill to the area indicated by the flank company com mander. -At 4:30 p.m. - The closed conference ends. The General and his visitors walk down to the liaison plane. The Amer ican who had doubted the par achutists' existence remarks wrily,.. "I guess the intelli gence was right after all, for once." Kouprasith asks to be flown over the area where the parachutists have been lo cated, "so that I can see for myself." - There follows a surrealist half-hour. This neighboring valley-bowl is smaller than Vang Vieng and the surround. ing needle peaks are even higher. Gen. Kouprasith bounces about at the rear of the plane, wildly pointing and shouting, "Fly there. 1)UT "THERE" is always an other soaring crag, so it Is often needful to remember the highly practical rule that it is better to look at a book than a mountain when you seem to be flying straight into the mountain. Between glimpses of swiftly looming crags and snatches of Middle Eastern history (which are somehow not very gripping) there are also passes over the valley-bowl. These are made with the plane heeled clean over on its side and Gen. Kouprasith braced over the open door to get a better look. At length the aerial moun tain-dodging ends. Descending from the plane, the General says rather peevishly, "Didn't see a thing-it's always like that in this miserable war." Then he adds more cheer fully, "But I found out they have no anti-aircraft guns, which was what I really wanted." . So he goes off to push Tils men forward as rapidly as he can. At dawn the next morn ing, a very big and novel op eration is to be attempted, and the General s outfit is to par ticipate. A lot depends on it. How it may turn out, no one can predict as these words are written. But one wishes all the participants all imagin able luck as dusk suddenly en velopes Vang Vien. (Copyright. 1961, New York I Herald Tribune, Inc.) A. Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann It In Europe. Rotcoe Drummond reports from Washington in hit abience.) PITFALLS IN LAOS Washington - It is danger ous to assume that a "peace" conference will bring peace to Laos.,; Of course negotiations are desirable. But in light of our experience in Korea and in Indo-Chlna, we face a long, tortuous road before we know whether the freedom of Laos can be secured at the con ference table. T h e r e is no evidence that either the Soviet' Communists or the Chinese Communists really want an independent, neutral Laos. We need to bear in mind that the Soviets use a conference as a tactical de vice to achieve their ends one way instead of another. The most revealing statement of Communist intentions is the recent Moscow manifesto and Premier Khrushchev's speech expounding the manifesto. ; TJERE is what they said: i-"Wars of national lib eration," as in Korea, Viet nam, Algeria, and Laos are "sacred wars, are justifiable, desirable, and never ended until there is a Communist government. . 2-The Communists see the anti-colonial movement as in separable f rom ' the "class struggle for Communism." 3-Any non-Communist re gime is per se illegitimate and therefore should be over thrown. This means that the Communists view the elected government of Laos as illegiti mate. ' Their aim is to over throw it with pro-Communist rebel forces supported by So viet arms. 4-The Khrushchev version of "Deaceful' co - existence" does not 'accept the "status quo" until a Communist re gime is part of the status quo. Therefore, the Soviet-backed effort to bring down the elect ed government of Laos is, to Moscow and Peiping, not a violation of "peaceful co existence" but an expression of it. ' The "differences" between Moscow and Peiping on these matters is that the Chinese Communists may be willing to take more risks. .',''' OFTEN you hear people comfortably say, "As long as you keep them (the Com munists) talking, they're not fighting." On this point Dean Acheson rightly warns in his article in the "Saturday Eve ning Post": r : "Nothing could be more un true. They are fighting. They are adopting a tactic specifi cally prescribed by Lenin to delay the crises while demor alizing and weakening the enemy. To our, minds inter national, negotiations are so completely a means for end ing conflict that we are blind to the fact that they mav be. and in the hands of experts are, equally adapted to con tinuing it." There is every danger that the conference on Laos will be used by the Communists exactly as Mr. Acheson warns. We will need to be extra- ordinarily alert and firm to prevent it. There was no reason to be surprised about the Soviet re sponse to the proposal for a cease-fire and negotiation. It was familiar; they wanted to turn it around - negotiate and then maybe a cease-fire. Even if the Soviets apnrove a cease-fire, there is no assur ance that the pro-Communist forces In northern Laos will cease firing. This Js what the Communists did in Korea on the eve of the Panmunjom negotiations. This is what the Communists did in Indo china on the eve of the. Gene- Mammoth By ERIC SEVAREID Trinidad, B.W.I. - Prime Minister Macmillan has moved gracefully from Trinidad through the other islands of the British West Indies, congratulating .'the descend ants of import ed slaves on their Intelli gent progress towards feder ation and self they ; should Savarald government - have independent, Dominion status in another year - and their leaders have replied in tones of graceful gratitude. But there is a giant joker in the deck for this carefully supervised political new deal. This transaction, inevitable and right, bears a not too far fetched resemblance to the Inevitable and right emanci pation of the American slaves a century ago, who were set free to breed in squalor, beg for work and migrate to dis tant regions in desperate search for a livelihood.. Macmillan promised that Britain would continue econ omic assistance, but a slight chill ran through many in his Trinidadian audience when he added the comment that the United Kingdom's ability to help is not unlimit ed. How they can help them i-va negotiations. ' - THERE are other pitfalls. The Soviets may agree to a cease-fire which the Red Chinese take over the fight ing. This may look like a con flict of interest between Red China and the Soviet Union, but it will more likely be a pattern of concerted conquest. The Soviet airlift of arms to the pro-Communist rebels must halt as part of any mean ingful cease-fire. Otherwise, the negotiations will be a cover for a military build-up. . It is to be hoped that a real cease-fire can be brought about. But the cease-fire will have to be thoroughly . policed by mutual agreement and we should be prepared to break off negotiations if the cease fire is violated. ' , v (Copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) In the Day's News , . .. By FRANK JENKINS From Salem: A proposed amendment to the Oregon constitution that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years has been rejected by a 25-34 vote in the house of representatives. Representative Katherine Musa, of The Dalits, sponsor of the 18-year-old voting res olution, told the members of the house that youngsters of today are better qualified to vote than were persons much older 30 years ago. , This was contradicted , by Representative Ken Maher, of Portland, who argued that youths under 21 are not suf ficiently mature to compre hend the 1 issues they would be called on to decide in these modern days." WHO is right? Who is wrone? There is considerable truth on both sides. But the Musa Maher debate raises an inter esting question: At what age ARE people qualified , to vote in these days? IT IS true that the average level of education is high er now than three decades ago. 'But, in voting, educa tion isn't EVERYTHING. Ex perience has a lot to do with it. 1ITHAT is experience? ? ' ' Let's take a look at the die t i onary. definition. Mr. Webster says: Experience . is "the actual LIVING through an event or events; actual enjoyment or suffering; hence the effect upon the JUDGMENT or feel ings produced - by personal and direct impressions, as to know by experience. State, extent or DURATION of be ing engaged in a particular study, or work, or in affairs; the sum total of the consci ous events which compose an individual life." , LET'S put it this way: Voting consists in study ing proposals, evaluating the evidence on both sides and then MAKING A DECISION. Experience helps in making decisions. Experience, as Web ster says, is the actual living through events. The longer you live, the more experience you accumulate. So, presumably, the older you are, the better equipped you are to make WISE deci sions. Representative Maher presented a rather sound argument. The debate in -the legisla ture was merely academic. But it does raise some inter esting questions. Questions that deserve a lot of thought. Vise Closing on Latin America selves, how they could meet the terms of a British equiva lent of the new Kennedy Latin-American aid program, with a quid from the receiver for each quo from the giver, is very hard to see. Nothing very far short, of the bold, driving industrializat!-:i thrust of the United States in Puerto Rico is likely to save these islanders from the final ravages of a blight already well advanced. , On Trinidad itself sugar cane workers have been strik ing for a living wage. A near riot occurred when three thousand Trinidadians lined up to apply for a handful of jobs as migratory farm work ers in the United States. Three hundred women jammed a street In front of the office where three dozen were to be selected for jobs as domes tic servants in Canada. From my window nearby I could see each evening the weary plantation workers trudging home through the dust, past the clusters of the unemployed idle squatting be fore their shacks;. The farm workers had earned approxi mately a dollar and seventy five cents apiece that day, and prices for the important things they must buy are by no means low. (When a new ly established American plant er provided free shoes and medical care for his work POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We're very high on Dick Moody this week. Dick, as you undoubtedly know, is the personable fel low who handles local news for KMED. : We don't know whether he ever was a Boy Scout or not, but he can take credit for a good deed. Last week Dick and. our own man, Greg Nokes, were at the country club to cover a meeting at which doctors were being given the latest dope on a variety of heart massage a life-saving meas ure used in emergency cases. Dick and Greg sat together, and as the evening progres sed, Greg became ill. He ask ed Dick to come outside with him for a breath of fresh air. As the two got outdoors, Dick saw Greg was pale and leaning against a post. He turned around to get a chair, but before he could, Greg collapsed. e He was, frankly, quite a mess. But, since Greg is up and around and fit again. we can record that he . mashed his glasses, cut his face open in several places, and badly bruised his chest. -.. There's one advantage to covering a meetine of this kind. ' Dick hurried inside ' and called, "Is there a doctor in the house?" : ' , . As one man, the audience stood up. '. , Pretty soon, however, it narrowed down to a couple -of MDs. The first one io get io Greg - leaned over him, and popped out a con tact lense. (There's more than one happy ending; the lense was found again, on Greg's jacket.) . Well, Dick took our boy to the hospital, where he spent the night, and later in the week he underwent a series of tests to see what made him pass out.- Right now he , and his charming bride are taking it easy over at the coast, lucky people. It might almost be worth . No, never mind. And many thanks for your good help, Dick Moody. , . . v a - - . , .. As someone said once,, from the ridiculous io the sublime - the sublime in this case, being Mrs. John F. Kennedy, about whom much discussion is heard these days. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF ' : A COUPLE were driving their 5-year-old son home from a day at the beach -when suddenly the car ahead stopped short without warning; the father drove smack into it. No body was hurt, but the man in the car ahead was shaken up a bit. Ha turned out to be a mid get from a sideshow on the boardwalk. The 5 -year -old re mained discreetly silent during the. entire pro-, ceeding. It was only after he got home that he asked his father, "Hey, Pop, was that man we hit as tall as you before the accident?" - A venerable Australian Archbishop was interviewed on hit ninty-slxth birthday. "To what," he was. asked, "do you ascribe the fact that you have reached the age of 96?" "Primarily," mtled the Archbishop, "to the fact that I was born in 1865." . force, the latent anti-Ameri canism that seems to exist in every British territory boiled briefly on the surface.) If the problem, were moral ly and economically tidy -white exploitation of black -it would be far easier than it is to rectify. But the exploit ers themselves are in trouble, and that invariably means the exploitees are in double trouble. The foundation for these islan-s rested on cocoa, coconut and coffee, as Weill as sugar. Total world con sumption of cocoa is now 850, 000 tons each year while total production is 1,050,000 tons. Already prices are virtually even with production costs, while Ghana, Nigeria and New Guinea push strongly into this field. Much coconut rots on the ground and many cof fee growers this year, are not bothering to pick their crop. All over Trinidad itself the signs are up, advertising plan tations for sale. Hundreds of Jamaicans pour into London from the Southampton boat trains every month, creating a new Har lem in north London. Leaders of the West Indian Federation are organizing pressures to enlarge their immigration quota to the United States, now held to 1,000 a year, and they demand this as a matter of moral right, The story of the West Jn- Our story begins last week when E.A. and O.S. got into a debate about the First Lady. O.S. claims that Jac queline isn't really beautiful, although she concedes she's attractive, in an odd way, E.A., however, agrees with a colleague of his in Eugene who, maintains that Mrs. K is "absurdly beautiful." Who is right? Well, in the good tradition of Elmo Roper and George Gallup, we took a poll of the newsroom, and received sev eral responses although one grumpy chap refused to par ticipate. "Why should I waste my time?" he asked. And maybe he has something there. Anyway, we did get a representative sampling of newsroom opinion regard ing Mrs. Kennedy's exter ior appearance. Staff mem bers were given a choice of these adjeciiv es io check: Gorgeous, beautiful, . attractive, ugly, pretty, un impeccable, sloppy, taste less: They also were allow- . ed io add their own words, ; which two people did: In teresting, well-bred, fashionable. . Here's how the voting 1 went: Attractive-three votes (two male; one female). Well-bred-five votes, two male, three female). s Fashionable .. two votes (both female).. : Beautiful and impeccable- one vote each (both male-of course). . ' . , Interesting one vote (fe male of course). , ' I . :, All this seems pretty pale stuff when one con- Kennedy is having on fe male (and male) America. One flier we received in the office says "Already our now First Lady is fast on her way to becoming a liv ing legend. She has been written about, discussed, admired and imitated to an extent unprecedented in American history, even to the point the female pa tients of plastic surgeons are having their noses changed to make them look like her. . ; " ., ,- And what's that you say? What - is the opinion of the Potluck editor? Mrs. K, he thinks, is fine But his first choice is Caro line. dies is the faithful foreword to the whnlp Lntin Ampi-lnn book of modern horrors, in volving in its thickening plot virtually every country in the vast continent which begins across the narrow strait from Trinidad. The lesson is near ly everywhere the same: Most of the rich are getting richer and most of the poor are get ting poorer. The major threads Of causation nrp -tun the surplus of basic export crops and the surplus of hu man beings. Human nroeress does nnt move by logical, progression. Man has acquired the hydro gen bomb before he has ac quired the discipline to con trol nationalist fears and ag gressions. And widespread success in lenathpntnir Ufa has come to the southern hem isphere before any widespread experiments in oreventina new life through birth con- iroi. i The population of these West Indies will be doubled in 30 years. Commensurate education facilities, jobs and homes are not even in sight among the most vigorous and hopeful planners. For Latin America as a whole, today's 200 million people will be come 300 million, 14 years from now. Time is short. A mammoth vise Is closing. (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.)