MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON
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THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1881
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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
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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
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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.
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