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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON r THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1881 . : n j4 1 . . , - f MEW CHAIRMAN Gene M., Williams, (right) Medford, was elected chairman of the Rogue Valley Council on Aging at a recent council meeting in the Senior Activities center. He succeeds Frank Glonning of the year term as director, replacing Mrs. C. A; Thatcher, nominating chairman. Other di rectors are Russ Jamison and Mrs. Clayton Walker. Williams is agency manager for Standard Insurance company and is a grad- Veterans Administration domiciliary staff, uate of Oregon State, college. He is a lieu. Omar Bacon ;was re-elected vice chairman tenant colonel In the Marine Corps and and John Grlbble was re-elected secretary- commanding officer of the local volunteer treasurer, uionmng was elected to a three- training unit. I n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For the past four days tit Washington (where . this is written) the editors of our nation's daily newspapers and the members of our new na tional administration have been hobnobbing as cordially as if some two-thirds of the newspapers whose editors are here had not supported the Republican ticket in the late election. The theme of these confer ences has been the restora tion of prosperity after our admittedly brief recession , and the expansion of the abundant life under the ban ner of the New Frontiers. This pleasant activity has been car ried on in the midst of a round of breakfasts, lunch eons, dinners and evening parties. ; , But in all this harmony there have been some sour notes,,- ,.,., ,';, i: FOR example: W. ' Out in front of the Stat ler Hilton hotel, where this convention . is being held, .there was a DEMONSTRA TION the other day. The demonstrators carried plac ards proclaiming "Cuba si, Russia NO," ''Down with Castro," "Communists Get out of Cuba," etc. The dem onstrators were Cuban refugees-people who had been driven out of their Cuban homes and were lucky to get out with their lives. WHY in front of this con vention . hotel? . ' , Well the Russian embassy Is only a couple of blocks up the street, and it so happens that this street is being re paved, and is full of workmen and heavy equipment. This provided a good excuse to shut the demonstrators away from the Soviet's diplomatic headquarters. ' . Thus balked in their demon stration at the Soviet embassy, the ; demonstrators moved back a few blocks and demon strated in. front of the White House. . : , THIS morning, they changed their strategy. The street In front of the grim-looking Russian embassy is still closed to automobile traffic and po lice in parked prowl cars and on fodt are seeing to it that pedestrians don't gang up. .Just before noon, a casual group strolled past. When squarely in front of the em bassy doors, they pulled from their pockets objects looking like eggs, and cut loose at the doors with a good aim. They weren't bombs." They con tained red paint. The paint splashed all over the frames of the doors and some of it splashed onto a couple of re splendent Cadillacs standing under the portecochere. When they walked past some minutes later, embassy Newport Attorney Indicted by Jury Newport - (UPD - Harry W. Matthews, 49, Newport attor ney, was arrested Wednesday on five secret indictments re turned by the Lincoln county grand jury Tuesday. The indictments included three charges of larceny by embezzlement, one of drawing a bank check without' suffi cient funds and one of know ingly uttering and publishing a bank check containing ' a forged endorsement, accord ing to Dist. Atty. A. R. Mc Mullen. Matthews posted $5,000 bail. employes were busily scrub bing away the paint. ; . NOTHING very startling about that? No. It might have been a prank. But it WASN'T. View ed against the dark back ground of this morning's news, it dramatizes the fact that for the first time since Emperor Maximilian's mad adventure just aoout a cen tury ago the United States faces a challenge to its basic doctrine that no Old World power shall be permitted to gain a foothold in the West ern Hemisphere. This morning's grave news leaves little doubt that an Old World DESPOTISM has actually obtained a BEACH HEAD in the Western Hemis phere and that" its purpose is to EXTEND that beachhead. WHAT are we going to do about 4t? . ... ;. : ,; '' That is a rugged question. ..' The news makes it pretty plain that what we have done so far isn't enough. TO ATTEND Robert G. Davis, Grants Pass lawyer recently elected chairman of the Republican State-Central committee, will , Ije among state party officials attending the Republican banquet May 6 at Hedrick Junior High school. The public is: invited to the event-and tickets may be obtained at Swem's, Lawr ence's Jewelers and - Jean Hart's, or by calling ;SPring 2-6633. ' . f r; ' : .1 f Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann It In lurapt, Rcm DnimiMr)4 rtivrh ffam Washington in hla abaanca.) : PICKING UP THE PIECES Washington -The question now is not who's to blame for the, fiasco in . Cuba-but what next? How will .the U. S. repsond to this Initial failure? The temptation' is to look for a s'crapegoat. Some within the Administration, are al ready trying to blame the Eisenhower administr a t i o n for the amateurish and inade quate invasion. - Fortunately President Ken nedy himself is having no part of this "Operation Pol itics." - He knows, he could have vetoed the invasion which was being prepared un der Mr.: Eisenhower during the past year and that it was his responsibility to : deter mine the time and the circum stances under which it was undertaken. Neither he nor Secretary Rusk are shifting the responsibility to any shoulders other . than their own. That's good. - , There should be a post-mortem . on what went wrong. But the purpose should be primarily to .find out what we now need to do to bring about the success of the anti Castro revolution, not pri marily to throw up some scapegoat at whom to shuttle: the blame. FAILURE is tqlerable if President Kennedy makes it clear that he is preparing to succeed. : 1 1 One danger is that Mr. Ken nedy may conclude that this first- failure in Cuba will create such political division and partisan controversy in the United States that he will not be free to take a bold and. riskful : course of action in the next few months. I am convinced that the exact opposite is the truth that timidity toward the Cas tro regime will divide' the county and that full-steam-ahead preparation to prevent further up-building of the Soviet-supported Castro regime will unite U.S. political lead ership and will unite the American peopled Timidity alone will divide the country. If I am correctly informed, former. President Elsenhower and former' Vice President Richard Nixon have assured Mr, Kennedy that he will have' their backing in any measures to carry out the commitment he made to the American Society of News paper Editors last week. Referring to the tragic end of ;the ' Hungarian, freedom fighters, he flatly, stated that LOCKER BEEF Cut, Wrapped and Quick Frozen . . Spareribs i. 49 Side Pork 39c Bacon Squares Hickory smod 25c lb. lb. lb. Fillet of Snapper 35c Prawns .- 98c . Beef Stew Cubes: 69c .. Cube StealCS Beef.4-o.each 5 for$l00 Big FREEZER SPECIAL 25 KEF Cut, Wrapped and Quick Frozen ONLY $1 2 98 CHRYSTAL MEATS 4th and Fir SP 2-7315 the U.S. , will "not accept the same outcome which - this mall band of gallant Cuban refugeet. -must have known they were chancing." ' IT PRESIDENT KENNEDY refuses "to accept the tame outcome" for the Cuban freedom-fighters at befell the Hungarian freedom-fighters, then h is saying that the U.S. it determined to insure the success of the anti-Castro Cuban revolution. This Is what the American people want to hear. This is what the ' American people want to see. It is well that Gen. Max well D. Taylor, former Chief of Staff for the Army, la tak ing a new look at our capa bilities and shortcomings in unconventional w a, r f a r e and Intelligence. General Tay lor is the right man to do it because he has lone been dis satisfied with pur limited war operations. ' But what will count will be the follow-up. Inadequate intelligence may well have contributed somewhat to the failure of the invasion.' But this Is not the heart of the problem. The need it to In crease radically the whole range of our means to com bat Communist techniques of take-over by infiltration and subversion. As an essential first step we must, I think, get a single, unified com mand of all U.S. resources to be used to counter Commu nist conquest short-of-war. WHAT the': President may " well have in mind is that General ' Taylor , wllj, reach this conclusion and will be so convinced of its necessity that he will be willing to take the job himself. .. . Economic aid to other Lat in American countries Is not going to bring down Castro. That's wishful thinking. Now fully warned of his danger Castro will be getting more Soviet arms. In another six or eight months he may be nearly impregnable. Just to wait and hope for the best is the way of bringing about the worst.' M 1111 New York Herald ... Tribune Ine.: Sierra Leone Gets Independence Freetown, Sierra Leone-OIFD -Sierra Leone ended 153 years of British colonial rule, today and became the world's new est independent nation. Dignitaries from- ail over Africa and; outside the con tinent were present at the flag-raising ceremonies that climaxed pre - independence celebrations here. . , i : Sierra Leone has a popu lation of 1,858,275 and has a coastline on the Atlantic ocean 210 miles long. It is located on the west coast of Africa and it bounded on the north by French Guinea and on the southeast by Liberia. Truck Tax Bill Sent To Governor Salem -(UTS- Despite a clear cut veto threat, the House lata Wednesday approved and sent to Gov. Mark Hatfield SB32, - the measure giving heavy truckers a two-year tax break of $1 million per year. The vote was 41-18 after an attempt by Rep. Clarence Bar ton to re-refer it to committee failed. Both houses passed the bill before and sent It to Hatfield who warned they take it back because he would, veto it in its original form. The Senate put the two year relief limit on but Hat field indicated he would still veto it. Hatfield said the bill would be better if a clause was at tached referring it to the vot ers in 1962. But neither house attached this clause on re-passage.. Sherwood Woman President of PTA Astoria -(UTO- Mrs. James King, Sherwood, was Installed Wednesday night as president of the Oregon Congress of Parent! and Teachers. She will serve for a two year term. Other officials elected were Mrs. Stephen A. Turel, Port land, first vice president, and Mrs. Art Moore, Klamath Falls, secretary. PrncM Grace, Children In States A 5 New York JTO Princess Grace of Monaco arrived Wednesday with her two chil dren, Prince Albert, 3, ' and Princess Caroline, 4. The former Hollywood star (Grace Kelly) said she plans to stay in the United States a month and will be Joined in a few days by her hus band, Prince Rainier. She said she will stay in New York one or two daya before going to Philadelphia. Hurryl Hurry! Hubbard Bros. BIG SALE Ends Saturday, April 29 MAY 5,67 ' . ' 1 ''k ,.' .'.'. . : ' , : i ':.' .' - 'V' ' ,.".'.! i' '"': ' '' ", . , i f the best way to start feeding your dog tots reoo c aa UIU.A, Please return tht cart to your iroeir ,..thre expensive you knout.
