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4 A "veryona in Southern Oreion V n.H. The Mail Tribune" Published DUy except Saturday by . MEDrORD PMtTTINO COY . Si Worth nr St., PW. Bf -om ."' ' iknusRT w RUHL. Editor HHB GREY, Advertising Manner Ci AIJ T. tATKAM. Bin, MCT. IK1C W. ALLEN JR.. Mn. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'! Editor DALE BHltKBUH, urcuiawm Sntered aa second class matter at Mediora, oreion, unaer no. w. . March 3, 1S87 i RTlRSrnlPTTON SATES . . By Mall In Advance, Copy too uany ana miiwiy j". T"r Dally and Sunday mos. B OO Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point E a 1 It 1 Point. Jacksonville, Gold Bill, v Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv ''! er, Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Dally and Sunday l mo. i,ou Carrier and Dealtrs .copy 10c .,. All Terms Cash In Advanee "dTflclal Paper of City ot Medford Official Paotr ot Jtclison County "United Press International Fun Leased wire CH. Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBF.R OF AUDIT BtmEAU OF CIRCULATIONS ; 'I Ll.l.. B.M,n)lHvf' "ST HOLIDAY COT. INC. Of fices In New York, Chicago, De trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles, buttle. Portland. St. Louis, At- lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUUISHER ASOCIATION NATIONAL EOITOIIAI Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flle of Tht Mali Trlbun, 10, 20, 30, 40 nd SO years .go. i'O YEARS AGO ' April 10. MM (Tuesday) Camp White's reactivation ..hrgh on liat" of military planners according .to !en. Wayne Morse. Measles epidemic repUcw flu as 818 cases art reported SO YEAR AOO . . ' April 10. 1MI (ThuntUT),. ,Tw.vMKo.d barber , f-9iy for membtrimp .i union, i -. v rnr Perry'i Ye t c olumn: "A nunv tmnu have civ- . .1 tor May tint of the -..,. . - tion raising whiskers, to ihow Uieir municipal m MYEAMAOO .iii io, 3i rMr , California Oregon Power cenany make preliminary a tucatlon to federal power c iilnaion for nyrotuww i iitt on Klamath rlyer. v atw tupplUi for Talent lr-r'-ation district said about oue-thtrd normal thlg year. iOYTMWAOO ."; J t .J II. 1121 (Sunday) ' Former ,. president of tbe Bank of Jacksonville sentenc .4 in in veers in prison after pleading guilty of manlpula Uoni leading to bank's fall- Pacific and Eastern railway grants mailman permlMlon to us road was recently rsvuu 0 YEARS AGO April 10, 1011 (Monday) Pacific and Eastern run first excursion train to Butte Falls over new road. Rumors from Grants Pass tn tho of foot that Southern Pacific railroad service is to be Improved With extra train to aid motor service, What's Your I.Q.? Nine or Hn cornet Is luptrlot; uvtn er tlM Is enctlltnH llvt er ti It good. " ' ' - 1. The well-known 'stadium in Pasedena, California is known as what? 3. A ilalom Is performed In what outdoor sport. 3, Name the mountain range extending from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea that sep arates Europe from Asia. 4, In the Biblical story what woman accompanied Barak? s. Is an atom made up of molecules? 6 , In . the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen's soldiers were nicknamed what? 7. A scalpel is the covering of the skull: .true of false? 8. How many lines are in a limerick? .'. , 9. Which former U. S. Presi dent owned "The Hermitage," In Tennessee? 10. "Snow" Is the under ; world name for which nar cotic? - " " 1. The Rose Bowl. a. Skiing. I, The Caucasus. 4. Deborah. S. No. (Molecules made up of atoms.) I, The Green Moun tain Boys. 7. rait. I. rive lines, t. Andrew Jackson, 10. Cocaine. .'.:''!:!! " OREGON TO BE HOST Salem - COTD - Oregon will play host to western Demo erotic leaders at the Western States Democratic conference at Timberllne Lodge June to ll, National Committeeman C.. Girard Davidson has an HONDA V, APRIL 10. 1981 Reston on i. On April Fool Day, James (Scotty) Res ton gat . him down at his typewriter and wrote his column or: following day's Issue of the New York Times, for ' which he is Washington bureau chief, It was a masterpiece, of sorts, and we hope the ' Times won't be too irate if we steal It for the benefit of our readers. . .-, :. . I The piece was entitled "A Bill to Amend tht ' Human Race." It follows: .'. By JAMES Washington. ApriM April One, a celebrated Congress takes its ease as they please: . ; . Whereas the winter is a bore (to which we all say "nevermore") and wintry men and wintry things give way at last to flowering springs; Whereas the scene in Rock Creek Park now boasts a soaring meadowlark, and daffodils on every ridge, and herring by the Q Street bridge ; ' Whereas the kids along The Mall are flying kites and playing ball,- and lovers wander quite unheeded through misty glens marked "Newly Seeded ; - ' ThAn surelv this is of course in rhyme-as us to (and stealing here SECTION I. Be it enacted by The House, . and hv The Sflnftte. Its loftv spouse, that every single tiresome bijl ever committed on The Hill be stricken from the Federal stacks, beginning with the income tax.f;.v;;..f :''-; u'"- 'r','J-'V'':,5f'lt (a Th Confiress shall forthwith repeal all excise laws that make that's warm and nice must bear a tax , UKe com mon ("This Act applies to wine and booze and everything that makes men snooze'.) - ; (b) The Conm-ess mav. bv ioint decree, re ward a man in Schedule rebates for asking ugly wise relieving ine 01 pamiui, sneni, numan sime. V (c) Penalties shall be hard on him who does not follow every whim to scrutinize the cherry trees or bumble with the bumble bees, but talks incessantly of Laos, of Castro, Krushchev, Congo Chaos. ( SECTION 2. It shall be lawful after this for TSomnei'nfs in ervo a. kins t.n anv nrettv little Vixen, or even Richard as every day at dusk, the . -(a) erom now until President shall provde a communism, and all the pecially drearv cries of tight of doom). He may cut down or; climb the trees, say "yes or "no" and take his ease; dress as he likes, however fancy; do what he wills, however chancy; Provided that, in this conec tion, the Congress raises no objection. (b) For members who remain in town the President shall provide a morning glories (White for Dems and pink for Tories). And all shall dance, by Speaker's rule, each noonday, round Reflecting P6ol. i (c) "There shall be ranged about the Speaker's, Chair"; (subsection i 01 section 4 or weroert j yvct, see neretoiore; "and roses white and roses red shall hang above the Speaker's head; like dowbox, the galleries be gay with pmox. ' , (d) Meanwhile from now until July, new rules of -conduct shall apply : (Id) Bills to improve our education shall shun religion and integration. (2d) Liberal Senators argue "spend and tax." ; (3d) Congress shall reward the man "who modestly does all he can," bearing in mind, when it is able, totry to keep the dollar stable. CECTION 3 If any student feels he must get u out of classes now or bust, but hasn't finished all his themes because his head is full of dreams, it shall be proper for the same to give the Reg istrar his name, and say VI want to be excused because I'm feeling quite confused," and there shall not be any fuss, concerning students acting thus. (His grade, by law, must be B-plus.) (a) The order of the day declares that any body selling wares shall cut the price at least in two,' especially in the case cf M-ewj and barbers, under Section 3, shall cut boys' hair, as well, for free. )'--:.:::; 'v'-oVv',':-,? -a-: (b) It shall be lawful every place, for citizens to slow their pace, to walk on red" and smoke in bed, or, even read all night instead. And it shall not be indiscreet to park cars anywhere in the street : :,! , ' ;.'. r ;.- ' (c) "All citizens who choose'to ride on taxi tops and not inside, and those who do not use their votes because they're busv painting boats. and any miscreant who hums, instead of doing dismal sums ; whoever does a silly thing need only answer 4 'Tis the Spring,' and this shall.be a good defense in any court wth any sense: (d), "Provided that, in late July, this act, of course, does not apply." A. P, Herbert: The Spring (Arrangements), Bill, 1036 uouDieaay-uoran St company, Pre-School Clinic Set Central Point - Physical examinations (or children who will enter the first grade next fall will be given at Jewett Elementary school on April 18 and April 31 It Is asked that each child entering school present evi dence of having had a physi cal examination. At an aid to parents in obtaining the examination the J a oka on April I RESTON Whereas this date is day for fun, when even and fools may gambol , vv . iust the time to legislate A. P. Herbert taught a verse or two) : men feel that everything C. with extra special tax girls for dates, pt other- Milhous Nixon, so long G. 0. P. backs Mr. Rusk. tne First' 01 June, tne crown of multi-colored walls of Journalism ( es Kioom and pessimistic crown of multi-colored banks of maidenhair ar some tremendous win- shall relax while Tories Inc. in Central Point County Health department conducts pre-school clinics hi county . schools . during the spring preceding (all enroll ment. The youngster! are exam ined without charge by Dr. Erin Market, county health officer. Parent of Central Point children may call the school, NOrmandy 4-1114 for an ap Dennis tho 5 1 - Foreign News: NATO Support; Problems Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst . Notes from the foreign news cables: - r . HATO. ':": .-. 7-j- A message from' President Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's person- al v 1 s 1 1 to NATO' he ad quarters out side Paris, ef fectively re duced Europ ean fears that the United States ,' was preparing : to cut down its sC Nswsom .direct military aid. Moreover, most of the members were relieved at in dications . the United States would not press an earlier proposal that NATO become nuclear power - in its own right. Reasons for their relief were both Russian reaction and expense. Future U.S. pol icy is expected to be aimed at strengthening NATO's con- In the Day's News By PRANK Picture of the Congo: In a quite interesting dis patch from Leopoldvllle 'Wil bur Landrey, a UPI man, re- sports that, Western diplomats expect a wild scramble among Congolese politicians soon to CARVE OP the. Congo Into many separate states. Most of the top politicians, he says, have decided the Congo should be a federation. If that la what happens, he adds, the hardest part of the Job will be to draw the boun daries, for every politician in the Congo wants to be a prem ier - or at least a minister. HE goes on: " ( v..' "When Belgium granted in dependence to the Congo last summer, .tne nation ,was di vided into six provinces, Since then, so many new states have been proposed, claimed or pro claimed-many of them by tri bal leaders - that no one any longer has a complete count "As one diplomat remark ed the other day: It would cost a quarter of a million dollars just to buy them all new ministerial automobiles" - Cadillacs or Rolls-Royces, of course. What seems to be happen ing in the Congo is a pity. But I reckon that's what has to happen when people get Independence before they are READY for It. IT looks like a mess. ' Let's get oloser home.. Up in Salem the other day Representative Ed Benedict Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF A PUBLISHER was remonstrating with an author who signed contracts with anybody who offered him a large enough advance, "You cheapen your product by appearing Under to many different .imprinti,', insisted the ; publisher. . "I don't see why you object," said the author. , "Publishers have many , authors; why shouldn't an author have many publishers?" "Put it this way," ans wered the wise old pub lisher. "It is perfectly In order for a father to have tnany children but it doesn't look too well for a child to have more than one father." ; Walttr Palmer figured out a tax. "I simply write In on the think t can afford to send the I work back from there," BHD, wr sisnnw ,M, . u m . Vtf4thatil K Was, nahlraa Bvnillfiatst r MEDFORD MAIL Menace of Germany s Reds ventional armament. Less pal atable will be U.S. demands for a greater financial contri bution from its European al lies, particularly West Ger many The Better Liiei Communist East German leaders are running into In creasing difficulties in deliver ing the "abundant life"; they have been promising the East Germans for years. Two hun dred thousand persons fled from the Communist zone last year. In addition, Communist authorities admit that the la bor force will have decreased by 650,000 by 1965, Forecast ed: A decline in the number of'.' young' people leaving school and ready to take jobs and a rise in the number of old age, pensioners. ' -.;.. U.S. vs. Red China There is speculation that the projected multi-nation Laos peace conference might also offer the possibility or new contacts between Red China JINKINS predicted that a LOCAL OP TION daylight saving bill will receive increased backing in the Oregon legislature be cause of Washington's plan to go on fast time on April 30. He says" the house planning and development committee, of which he is chairman, will consider the bill next Tues day. 1 ' ' Representative Richard Ey- offer an amendment to the bill that Would allow counties mann, of Eugene, says he may contiguous to states having daylight time to adopt it for inemseives. It he manages it, and if the bill becomes a law, down here on the southern border we'll give Representative Eymann the Grand Salaam. Doing busi ness in an area that has two kindt of time is a mess. f ORE from Salem: House of Representatives yesterday, by a vote of 33-26, passed a bill to require a hus band, and wife, when of the same polittlcal party,' to SHARE a copy of the voter's pamphlet, Under existing law each gets a copy. The bill was requested by Secretary of State Howell Ap pling, who said It would re duce the cost of printing and mailing the pamphlet by about 28 per cent. - TT sounds reasonable. If a husgan and wife can share a house and lot (and maybe an automobile) they ought to be able to share a two-ounce booklet. new way to compute his income last line of the form tht sums I government," Be explains. "Then - ' m r.u. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Wilson Recalls Taft's Belief That Many Conservative Voters By LYLE C. WItSON Washington- (OPD-If Kobert A. Taf t were still alive he would have some advice for the top lead ers of the Re publican par ty. It would be to concentrate their thinking on the vast army of ab sentees, the voters who Wilson piayeu noimey on last presidential election day. One-third of the persons eligible to vote last Novem ber did not vote. The 63.6 per cent of eligl bles who did vote were divid ed equally between John F. Kennedy, Democrat, and Richard M. Nixon, Republl can. Taft never surrendered to the registration figures and the arguments in support of the statement that the Demo cratic party had . become the and the. United States. Both will be represented. The 1854 Far Eastern peace conference In Geneva was attended by Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai; Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, also attended, although he did not sign the accord splitting up forme French Indo-Chlna. Past and recent contacts be tween Red China and the United States through ambas sadors In Warsaw have been of little avail. Nationalist China: New Delhi hears that the Chinese - Nationalists have stopped ' supplying guerillas many guerrilla remnants left in Burma. Many of the guer rillas have fled to neighbor ing. Thailand and Laos but some still remain. '. The reason the Nationalists abruptly stopped their, aid to the . Irregulars: - "The stiffest sort of protest bythe United States to the Chiang Kai-Shek government, These sources say it was one of the tough est rebukes ever given to a friendly nation by the United States. - , 1 Communications ' Lattera to tha Editor must beax the name and address of the writer although undei cer. tain circumstances the use of a Sen name 01 Initial tor publlca on Is . pormisalble. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publlca. Uop must not exceed 400 words A Right to Complain ' To the Editor: The article In the Mail Tribune on Thurs day, April 6, concerning the bpundary dispute between the Phoenix school board and res idents of the city of Medford and others in the autskirts, has prompted us to writs this let ter.- : . ' Although the ways of gov. ernment are often obscure and the effect on the people is usu-1 ally separated by miles of red tape from, the decision-makers, the situation Involved here appears to be one' where we taxpayers are directly af fected by an administrative board which seems bent on having control over a piece of geography, regardless of cost or efficiency.' Does it not seem patently ridiculous that we should pay taxes on our homes and prop erty to pay for school buses from Phoenix to come into the very city limits of Med ford to take children out to the Phoenix school in the op posite direction from the closest available school? Then, even though there is a school in the area sufficient to han dle the children involved, and even though an attempt has been made by most of the per- sons Involved to have the area included in the Medford school district, the. Phoenix school district has sought to budget large sums of the tax payers' money to acquire property for a school which Is not now needed by the people who do not desire to come un der the jurisdiction of that school board. Here, it seems, Is an excel lent opportunity for the demo cratic process to operate, Here is an administrative board which may take action which has a direct and forceful bear lna on the welfare of our chil dren and on the taxes we pay for property. The -administra tive board is of local origin and its budget is usually sub ject to the vote of the people concerned. We believe that all those in the Phoenix school district are affected as a re sult of the board's actions, and we all should take advan tage of our political rights to have a say in what decisions are made. If we keep quiet now we will have lost our right to complain of high property taxes and of ineffi cient management of the school system, i v Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Don. ahoo and. eight other couples, Edgemont and Morrison tts., Medford. , i. majority party of the United States. .- ; Taft believed there was a conservative-minded majority of eligible voters. He believed that this majority could be re corded at the polls in favor of Republican candidates- if the Republican party had the courage .to challenge Demo cratic policies honestly in stead of half-heartedly copy ing those policies. GOP Should Act . On such basic Issues as gov ernment spending and defi cits, taxes, foreign relations, centralization of government, agriculture, and, . especially, Big Labor, Taft believed that Republicans should not act, talk or think like Democrats. The senator insisted that a majority of the voters were with him on that. He had one chance to prove It. That was in the 1950 Ohio senatorial election. Taft's opponent was a man of slight political sta ture but with a great state wide record as a vote-getter in Ohio. Organized ' labor ganged up on Taft and in be half of his opponent. Taft was happy to take them on. ' He carried all but four counties In , the state. All of the great industrial counties went to Taft. It had been ar- fued that organized labor de feated its own purpose in that campaign by too obvious a display of. its muscle and money. Could be, But Big La bor is plenty obvious with its muscle and money elsewhere, as in Michigan, for example: Big Labor has elected, not de feated, its Democratic candi dates in Michigan. On the Shelf Taft's personality and Taft's Washington Report By WILLIAM BARRY MOVING UP V wasningion -sen. carry Goldwater of Arizona is be-, ginning to crowd Richard M. Nixon just e little in the still very pre liminar.y jockeying for a still ' very distant prize, the 1964 Re publican president ia 1 nomination. white . As recently .as two months ago any real istic estimate - would ' have been about this: the nomina tion' clearly seemed to lie in prospect between the former vice-president and Gov. Nel-, son Rockefeller of New York, with Goldwater a most-remote third possibility. I Today, there are accumulat ing signs that Senatotr Gold water is moving up. Tls nom ination is still highly unlike-ly-but not so unlikely as be fore. '. , ; 'V : I,' ,. Mr. Nixon " himself has sensed this shift in the scale of possibilities, however rel ative and slight a shift It may be. This is one of the reasons why his long silence on poli tics, unbroken since his nar row defeat last November by President Kennedy, will short ly be ended. ; ; v A i MAJOR Nixon .speaking swing has now been laid out to begin with a May S Low Farm Prices Keep Costs Down Washington - Thd Agricul ture Department said today that low farm prices in re cent years have helped keep the. nation's cost of living down. ; ,, A new pamphlet, entitled "Food Costs," showed that since 1947 retail prices have risen much less than most oth er items the consumer buys. It also showed that if the cost of marketing food had not increased sharply, retail food prices would have drop ped. 'I., Agriculture Secretary Orvil le L. Freeman has said the farmer has been subsidizing the consumer. The new pamphlet documents his state ment. Congress Resumes Following Recess Washington - (UPD - Congress went back to work briefly to day after its 10-day Easter re cess but it was unlikely that much would be done on Pres ident Kennedy's legislative program until midweek. - The Senate and the House scheduled sessions but they were expected to call a quick halt to allow members to at tend the American League baseball opener between the new Washington Senators and the Chicago White Sox. Congress has completed ac tion on six of the more than 30 major items of legislation thatKennedy has proposed. And progress has been made on a number of other meas ures. . Never Went To Polls policies must be accepted as having been decisive in 1950 in Ohio.' To ask the Republi can leadership to come up now with another Taft person ality would be, asking too much. But Taft's policies are handy-by on the political shelf, marked down In price because they have been slight ly used. Ever so slightly! p e r h a p s the Republican leadership will take them off the shelf. The opportunity awaits. Richard M. Nixon will embark on a series of political speeches on May 5. Former President Elsenhower shortly Drummond Reports y (Walter Llppmann Is In Europe. Rosea Drummond reports from Washington in nil absence.) Stevenson's Large Role . United' Nations, N. Y. - Viewed from both Washing ton and the U. N., Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is emerging as a powerful figure in the Kennedy administration. This does not mean that the President is not v making the final decisions on policy. This does not jnean that Secretary of State Dean" Ruck is being detoured ' as. Mr. Kennedy's principal, adviser on foreign affairs, t. -'iv ;''. ' ::' It does mean that, on the basis of hln experience, initia tive, and political prestige at home and abroad, Mr. Steven son is exerting unusually wide influence in the State Depart ment and the White House. Whatever coolness there may have been. In the past, Mr. Stevenson and Mr.- Ken nedy are now'establishlng a good - working relationship. As a consequence -the Presi- S. WHITE speech in the metropolis of mldwestern heartland Repub licanism, Chicago, . ' Mr. Nixon, moreover, has found himself under strong pressure to involve himself in the run-off campaign in Texas for, the senate seat held by Lyndon Johnson before his elevation to the vice-presidency..-' ; ..'? -.,-; . . Goldwater in the f jrst round of that campaign went into Texas with obvious -helpfulness to the Republican -con tender, John G. Tower. Tow er might just c onceivably win the run-off to become the first Republican senator from Tex as since the reconstruction era that followed the.Civll War.-v Indeed, influential ' Demo crats sadly concede him some chance if, 'as they, fear, the advanced Democratic Liberals in Texas, sulking at their pre destined failure to nominate one of their own kind, now go off to support Tower 1 in spitefulness toward his con servative Democratic oppon ent, William Blakely. UT, IN any event, Goldwa- " ter has already got good mileage out of his support of Tower in Texas. To him has come the most valuable form of credit that can, come to a national politician. He has shown that he has the capa city to influence many voters outside his own state. Too, it is observable here that Goldwater has been mak ing . gains generally, quite apart from his success In Tex as. He is In unmatched de mand as a college speaker. His offices are crowded with well-wishers. ' His autograph is more sought than that of any other senator, not exclud ing the party leaders. All this may not mean too much; but ;.i undeniably It means enough , to, -warn Nixon to become more active. For the public "image" of ooiawater - in the - poltlcally critical east - the image of a widely right-wing politician - is be'r softened into an im pression more nearly accept- -;jie io ine east, , " ; " . fO BE sure, a Republican convention Which nomin- ated him in 1964 would have to reverse a long tide. Since Herbert Hoover in 1928 the party has always chosen a man less rather than more conservative than the party's common run. So much a switch remains greatly imDrobable It cannot be wholly discount ed, nowever, for the simple reason that Goldwater's per sonal appeal Is demonstrably rising. However "wrong" he may oe on issues - and this cor respondent for one believes him ImpractlcaUy and excess ively conservative - heis in creasingly and beyond doubt seen as a "right guy'" person ally. , He Is youngish (52); he Is personable; ne is honest: and he has, Inelegantly, plenty of guw. reopie tend to like him when they know him even when they disagree with mm. This is no triffling as set in all the maneuvering for position in e. (Copyright 1961 by United Feature Syndicate, Inci will return to his Gettysburg, Pa farm., i Republican c o n g ressional leaders then will confer wijth Ike. They and Nixon will be talking thereafter to the vot ers. What they say will be come party policy. The 34 mil lion' citizens who voted for Nixon last November surely will accept the leadership pol icy.", .. ;;-: .-, ; But what about those mil lions who did not vote? That is what Taft would want to know. And that is what the Republican leadership had better know, too. . ; dent's U.N. Ambassador is to day at the center of policy formulation. " pi VERY delegate, here is uri der Instructions from his government, JAr, Stevenson is, too. But to a notable extent his ' recommendations, shape his Instructions, And beyond that his views on the widesct range of foreign policy carry great weight in the top coun- ells pt tne Administration. it was at AmDassaaor stev. enson's Initiative that the U;S. for the first, time voted with the Afro-Asian nations in their anti-colonial resolution on An- gOla.?i'"r:'wJ : ';'!' V: if''- ' It . was Mr. Stevenson, in part because of his .long per sonal acquaintance with So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who was called up on to conduct the delicate and important negotiations for re suming the disarmament talks with the Russians. - When British Prime Minis ter Harold Mcmlllan was in Washington this past week to meet with President Kennedy, Mr, Stevenson too's part as well as Secretary Rusk, , MR. Kennedy needs, Steven son in bis administeration. The President Is aware of his close election, wants to keep the support of Adlal's follow ers. In addition, Mr. Steven son, through his wire travels, has gotten to know personal ly more : world leaders than anyone in the Administration including the President. This is invaluable for his job as Ambassador at the U, N. He also brings his gift of articu late speech to the U. N., per haps the best forum for Mr. Stevenson's talents. AH of these things give Mr, ( Stevenson a voice in Cabinet deliberations and a degree of access and influence1 with the President which is exception, al. :?-..- Everything hasn't always gone well. Mr. Kennedy was annoyed no little when Am-, bassador publicly "guessed" that the President would be "glad" to see Premier Khrush chev if he decided to come to the U. N. this when the President did not want to give Mr. Khrushchev, any encour agement to come. I am also told that Mr. Stevenson deliv ered two speeches, not before , the U. N., which had not been cleared by theState Depart ment. . But these things were In the early period of the Adminis tration's takeover and have not recurred, Rusk and Stev enson have worked together smoothly thus far. . , TN HIS job at the U. N: Mr. Stevenson is at many points tdong things diferently than did Ambnssador Henry Cabot Lodge. He is Initiating break fast, luncheon, and dinner ses sions with the heads of all the 99 delegations, sometimes in cluding wives. For the first time Stevenson as U. S. repre sentative let It be known that he would be" available to meet with the caucus of the Afro Asian nations on. a common matter, They Invited hi mat once. . , . .,. . There is one intriguing thread of sameness-plus-difference between the Governor and his predecessor. As U. N. Ambassador Mr. Lodge was, to to a degree, seeking to make his political reputation. It is premature to guess Mr. Stevenson's record will look like when it takes fuller shape. But at this point he is proving a powerful advocate of U. S. policy within the U. N. and an influential spokesman for his own views within the Kennedy adminis tration. ' , . . . -: (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Ine. Red China Reported Stalling Cease Fire London - (OPB -'Communist China was reported Saturday to have stalled, an Immediate cease fire In Laos by Insisting that the United States halt its aid before the warring fac tions lay down their arms., Another snag was reflected in a Soviet Tass news agency dispatch quoting Laotian rebel paratroops Capt. Kong Le as demanding a dominant role for neutralist Prince Souvan na Phouma. j
