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Newspaper Page Text4 4 A IfeDFORDtWTEIBUNl " --Evei yone in Southern OreguD Reads Th Mall rribune" PublT'sli-'dDaiiy except Saturday b MLOKOKU PRINTING CO S3 North ft! St Ph SHa-6141 noBKRi W Rt'HL Editor Hi-'KB UKKV Advertising Manager GK..A1.D T LATHAM Bua Mer ElilC W ALLEN IR Unit Editor KAMI H Af.AMS. City Editor HAllRY CHII'MAN Teles Editor RICHAHD IEWETI Sports Ed.toi OLIVE SI ARCH KH Womena Edltol DALE ER IC KSONlrculation Ms r An" Independent Newspaper Entered af second clasi matter at Medfnrd. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall - In Advance. Copy lOc Ually and Sunday I year 1;J Daily and Sunday mot SOU Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14 .JO By Carrier In Advance -Mcdloro Ashland central Point Eagle Pninl Jacksonville Gold run Phoenix Shauy Cove HoBie Hiv rDuni mnii nn motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 vear Sill DC Dallv and Sundav 1 mo JO Carrie, and Dealers copv 10c All Terms .Cash lrtAdvance "offlrial Paper of City of Mfdford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Press InternationaJ Pull Leased Wire O.P ITeJephoto Newsplcturea "MEMnFR OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative- un Dnarnrq Ar ASSOCI ATES Offices In New York. Chl caao. Detroit. San Francisco. Los Alleles Seattle Portland. Denver EWSPAPER BLISHIRS SOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI AS)CTIN vrsJfj-s. Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the file ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 17, 1952 (Thuriday) Pipeline No. 1, running be tween Big Butte springs and Mcdford, will be shut down lor six hours next Tuesday for repairs, the Mcdford water department announced. Passage of the school re organization bill which will appear on the November bal lut "is a must," Dr. William Sampson, a Southern Oregon college instructor, told mem bers or the Mcdford Active club at a recent meeting. 20 YEARS AGO April 17, 1942 (Friday) Armv engineers advise landowners in Beagle area they must vacate properly by July 1 to allow construction ot army cantonment. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge, Pot" column: "Ra tioning of . sugar will start ScZ" "of amount Tn pears as rumored." 00 YEARS AGO April 17, 1932 (Sunday) Mcdford High school bas ketball coach Darwin K. Burgher awards basketball letters to George Harrington, Bill Knips, Tommy White, Al ton Lindley, Max Gilinsky, Wilton White and Oliver Hughes. 40 YEARS AGO April 17. 1922 (Monday! Federal ro.id bureau awards $75,000 contract for paving ot ti.4 miles of road from Pros pect to Mcdford. Boris Karloff appears as the romantic lead in "The Cave Girl," moving picture at Mod lord theater. SO YEARS AGO April 17, 1912 (Tuesday) (.Jcurgo M. Dunn, Ashland, dcieals F. E. Merrick, Mod lord, in bitterly contested campaign for Republican nomination as Jackson coun ty judge. White Star Steamship line officials stale 1,635 persons died following collision of liner Titanic and iceberg. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ton correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; fivt at tilt is good. 1. Are midshipmen studying at the U.S. Naval Academy permitted to marry? 2. Was Tex Hlckn 1 promi nent as a cattle rancher, movie star or sports promo ter" 3. H you desired to go to Northern Rhodesia would you travel to Asia, Africa, or Sot.lh America? 4. How ntnnv furlongs in a 5. What arc the ends of Ihci)01' guerrilla rarlh's axis called? ; HCS say Mai B In what country did the miinism and Mauclui dynasty once reign? 'q-((j 7. Which flower is said lo , he arrayed even better than Solomon in all his clorv? t 8 Is a pullet egg larger. smaller, or the a.nc average ize as a hen's egg? 0. What is a posthumous award'' 10. One U.S. President had 14 children; was it John Qtiin 'y Adums, John Tyler, or lames Buchanan'' Answers: 1. No. 2. Sports promoter, 3. Africa. 4. Eight. S. Poles. 6. Cntna, 7. The lily. D c-.ll... Q r - -...! ..... deeih. io.' Tyler (twice mar-1 tied). TUESDAY. APRIL 17. 19B2 Polio Paradoxes The paradoxes of polio continue to disturb and alternately delight public health workers in this seventh post-vaccine year. With the Sabin oral vaccine now available in large quantities, the miracle of mass immunity may come close to achievement this year. Realists say it won't. The poliomyelitis "disease year" tradition ally begins on April 1, but in recent years not much has been made of it. It was seven years ago that the Salk Vaccine, after a field trial, was pronounced "safe, effective, and potent." So far the reports for 1962 are encouraging. In the first 13 weeks of this year, only four para lytic cases have been reported out of a total of 54 cases. But it's still too early for great op timism. "THE disease spreads with warm weather, and that's why the first reports usually come from Southern states. For the nation as a whole, the highest incidence begins in late July and peaks in August and early September. Only about 260 deaths occurred from polio in 1960, as against 454 in 1959, a bad post-vaccine year. Reports are not completed for 1961, but the toll appears to have been small.' MOW comes the shocker. The Salk vaccine has been available for seven years. Despite some federal maladministration in the very beginning of the program, mainly a curious lack of foresight and planning, large amounts of the vaccine have been generally available, usually free or at low cost. A few communities have adopted compulsory I vaccination. North Carolina and Ohio and many (local school districts require vaccination as a condition of entry into the public schools. But as ot late last year only Az per cent or the population under 60 years or age had re ceived the, full course of Salk injections. The recent availability of the Sabin oral vaccine would do little to change that national percent age. So far it has been used largely in field trials and for emergencies. MOW the Sabin vaccine has been given full clearance by the Public Health Service. Sur geon Gen. Luther L. Terry on March 27 approved the Sabin type III vaccine, the only one which had been suspected of being unstable. But there are as yet great city or state activity ization. I his is true despite the tact that 1 mil lion doses of each Sabin type are available and 6 to 9 million doses await government approval. "yilE answer to apathy may eventually be to require innoculation of all youngsters before they are allowed to attend school. Smallpox has been virtually wiped out strict requirement. The irony of these the immunity endowed "catching." Thus if 80 receives the vaccine, the whole community may be immunized. One further irony. In Russia, where if the government says, "Eat you eat strawberries and more than 60 million persons have taken the Sa bin vaccine. E.R.R. India and Nepal The deterioration of relations between India and Nepal is a matter for alarm in the free world and for rejoicing in Peking. Situated between India and Tibet, Nepal is the buffer state which shields India's heartland, the Ganges Valley, from Communist China. Any weakening of Ne pal's ability or willingness to fulfill its buffer rmn wmilil i-.i wo ilono-ove It ,V. b...,.l iU.. ,l!CiV it, tn uui tut. iiiiii - lieigllDOlS can DC paiCllCII ora of Nepal arrives in New Delhi, Wednesday, for a five-day state visit. Indian l'riine Minister Jawaharlal Nehru extended the invitation for what he called "an exchange of views on mat ters of mutual interest." INDIA is alarmed over 1 liness to Red China. pal and Red China over claims to Mt. Everest, which straddles the Nepalese - Tibetan border, was settled by boundary treaty last October. Some observers contend, although King Ma hendra denies it, that Red China got some ter ritorial rights it didn't deserve. India is espe cially apprehensive about a recent agreement between Nepal ami Red China for construction of a highway between Katmandu, the Nepalese capital, and Tibet. Chinese experts and techni cians will be admitted to Nepal to help. Mahendra in turn is , ,. . . ing letuge to dissident teneis. nu'v nave been lhev have been IN AN Indian-Nepalese im-uo.i tli-it ;..;, i ...;i: agreed that taken by the two eolllltries to meet anv "foiviirn agression threaU'iiinir the seem itv of either. Ofi'ietal Indian souivcs pointedly referred to the treaty in February when it appeared that Communist China miiu "iul troop's into north ern Nepal to stem a reported anti-Chinese mili tary buildup anions icfuuees from Tibet. A Nepalese spokesman was reported to have said at that time that if the Chinese Communists de- mainU-cl entry for llieir troops, Nepal lniyju fee 'forced to yield. -- K. K. K. no indications of any toward mass immun in this country by this polio paradoxes is that by the Sabin vaccine .is per cent of a community strawberries and cream" cream and like them, f,i .ill nl Viuith A.m,i , K(,..,... tl 4 ii'iii.i - rt ut im ni uii-rH; iw u Up WllOU King Mallei!- Nepal's increasing friend-1 A brief spat between Ne-I angry with India for giv v, ' , . . i Nepalese politicians and usimr India as a ha- usimr nulla as a oae and propaganda activities. The ex endra is taking Nepal toward com-! has instituted a "reign of terror and ! treaty of 1!."0, it was t i r 1. . , joint military action should he ! Dennis the Liu li I sr-&$u LETS NOT OPEN THE DOOR'mMUlll'ltSONS COtUR COOtS Off.' Matter of Fact IC) New York Herald THE DESCENDING SPIRAL Hong Kong - According to one expert estimate, the in dustrial plant of Communist China is now operating at only 30 per cent of capaci ty. The esti mate is hard to credit, par ticularly be cause China's ind u s t i r a 1 plant has been Aisop constructed at such heavy human cost. Yet there is a great mass of evi dence that the 30 per cent figure, though it is only an estimate, is at least pretty close to the existing harsh reality. A recent on-the-spot survev by an embassy of a neutral power revealed that in Pe king, which is now an im portant mixed industrial city, only one factory in six was in current operation. In the great Wuhan iron and steel complex, only one of the three furnaces is in use at present. NOT1IER on port from a the - spot re small manu- facturing city in Fuklen show ed an even smaller percent age of the local plants in op eration than the Peking sur vey. A good many of the plants in a city of this sort would have been small semi handicraft producers, of course; yet the seeming con firmation of the Peking pat tern is still noteworthy. In the same fashion, the Wuhan story has an echo in the curious fact that the even greater Anshan iron and steel complex, which used to be the favorite snow place of Com munist Chinese industry, has been closed to all expert for- eign eyes for a long time. I The Chinese Communists' own claims ot annual steel production show a staggering drop, from 18 million tons to under 11 million. Reports of coal-famine and severe result ing power shortages come from all over China. In short. the evidence is clear that "" ! v.iuid is now sill- lering from an acute, general izcd industrial breakdown Even considered in isola tion, this industrial break down is a fact of tar-reaching meaning. But it cannot be considered in isolation. It must be weighed against the background of the aims and 1!' methods of Mao Tse-tune's t leap forward." IN ESSENCE, the great leap was an attempt to indus trialize China by the same methods which Josef Stalin used in Russia during the first and second five - year - plan periods Regarded cold-bloodedly. Stalin's forced industri alization of Russia was a vast hut particularly successful crime against humanity. In order to gain funds for industrial investment, t h e standard of life was ruthless- ""ira oown. aomeining hke n.ono.ooo Russians lost i.. i , j .. . '"fir lives, as a direct or in direct conseiucnce of this en forced dron in the living standard Hut although the price paid was so terrible, the Soviet Union was indeed in dustrialized, as the world well knows. l:in'c H, .,-,.,., ... ........ I ize mma bv tin- staiimsi method germinated in IS'AT and hcuan to be aii( he.l in Ul.'K. The division w is taken despite a Chinese si iin.ard ot life far lower than tile Soviet standard had been at the be ginning ol the Inst five-war plan in inj'i There wcr many oilier tuiiavot aide lac tors, too. swell as a tar poor or Chinese pioporlmn of tin exploited land and law ma tenal icsourets per inad nl population. MEDFORD MAIL Menace By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate VfO DOUBT to compensate 11 for these unfavorable fac tors, Mao placed special em phasis on the one Chinese ad vantage, the ancient Chinese skill in the use of mass man power. The result was the great leap forward. Within a few months after the establishment of the farm commues - instruments for taking the countryside in an iron grip, like Stalin's collec tives - the standard of life of China's peasant masses had duly dropped to the point of creeping starvation. Mean while, however, China's forc ed industrialization duly went forward at a breakneck pace for a considerable period. Why, then, has Mao's great trial catastrophe? The com plete answer would have to take account of many ele ments. The withdrawal of the Soviet technicians was a severe blow, for instance. The fantastic megalo mania of Chinese planning and programming in the first stage of the great leap cannot have helped much ei ther. The lunatic waste of the "backyard Bessemer" cam paign was only one of several kinds ot damage done by this temporary magiilomama. 1 V VET it is hard to resist the A conclusion that the root- cause of China's present in dustrial breakdown was sim ply the feedback of the mis ery of the peasantry into ev ery part of tile Chinese body politic. The feedback cannot be documented. But its strength is proven by the Pe kin leadership's decision to reduce new industrial invest ment almost lo zero; to accept an immense drop in current industrial out put; and to pro claim "all aid to agriculture" as the new line. "All aid to agriculture" has been the line for nearly a year. The results thus far may be judged from the fact that the Chinese masses are now living on near-famine ra tions averaging from 1,300 to 1,600 calories per day, ; cording to labor category. Add to this central and terrible iaet the further fact of the industrial breakdown Once auain, as in the previous report in this spaco, the ques tion has to be asked whether Communist China is not caught in a remorselessly de scending spiral. TO PAY LOSSES The Hague-lUPD-The Dutch government agreed Monday to pay KLM Royal Dutch Air lines nearly S100 million for losses it sustained during the pasi year, according lo in formed sources here. f it uliai "aijry Try and Stop ' By BENNETT CERF t CHAMPION HEAVYWEIGHT wrestler went with a pal - to a lively fair in a country town. After a dozen rounds of exhilarating liquids they started for home, forgetting that in one field on their route a vicious bull was loo?!?. The bull snorted and charged. The wrestler, undaunted, grabbed its horns and twisted them till the bull bellowed for help and fled across the field. "Too b.id I took those last six drinks." sighed the wrestler to his friend when they got home, "or I sure would have gotten th.it frcfh p.ilcv'Ki off his bicycle " "I piMr-f." 9 a i i-t the OULthom i booiHf r. if vt e h ild our r.i't im I'lition in lVm(ul!sliiii '' ' Ni:li:r.; tlomc " doi'ivf-l the i i: tit iiuiii. ' T;..e. v. n is fu't of riool-.t. Why tho l.i.-it convention 1 atti'tiiie.t m o.p.p.i,'--hu! . I w.is . hiving iknvrt tho m.un .stnvt. mimt you, uhen I pi;t p.v hi-,.1 out lo nu'.ic & Irf t tinn, and some son-of .t-cun scV,' the o'.ue right out of my martini," C 1WJ. Hrnnfit O'lf li;lut,itej by k;e reatuirs SndKate TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Hard Reason Says Two Germanys, East, West, Are Accomplished Fact By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newi Analyst In the warm sun of early fall in the ancient city of Han over, Erhard Herzig, an offi cial of the government of Lower Saxony, sipped strong black coffee and discussed the possibility of the day when the two Germanys could be reunited. In Lower Saxony, the "Iron Curtain" is not just a colorful but abstract phrase. It is a physical thing of barbed and electrified wire and grim watehtowers man. I ned by armed sentries of I eithcr side. Of Lower Saxony's popula tion of six million, three mil lion are 'expellees" from the East. Herzig himself is an expellee. Washington Report By William (ct United Feature Syndicate FACING HARD CHOICE Washington - A hard choice now faces John F. Kennedy. It is between his ordinary I "llrfWfS. partisan obli . 1 gations as : I head of the J t v t D e m o c ratio " h" lu party and his , o xtraordinary it;' uipartisan OD- ligat ions as President o f all the United S t a t e s - in cluding its Re- White publican part. The precise scene of this dilemma of competing duties is Illinois; but its significance is great and wholly national. The principals involved are Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and Representative Sidney Yates. As the Demo cratic nominee, Yates seeks to take away Dirkscn's senate seat in the November elec tions. What the President must shortly decide is this: Shall he follow the ordinary political course and put all the power of the White House behind a fellow Democrat, Yates? Or shall he reject this routine ap proach, for this occasion, and pass the word lo the admin istration not to break its back for Yates? 0F RD1NARILY, of course, there would be no ques tion of the decision. The ad ministration is Democratic. Yates is a Democrat - and an able one, too. Ergo, the sim ple cry would be: "Yates all the way!" But these are not ordinary times and the realities in volved here also are far from ordinary. For Dirksen is not just another Republican sen ator. He is also the Republican leader of the Senate .and thus the most powerful member of his party presently holding national office. As such, he has given Presi dent Kennedy vital assistance on the only issues on which any President really expects hcip from responsible leaders of his opposition - the grand issues of foreign and military policy, of national survival, which arc bound up in the cold war. (On more domestic questions the President owes Dirksen little, and vice versa.) a TN THE desperately critical larca of world affairs. Sena tor Dirksen has been a rock of support. He has backed Mr. Kennedy faithfully in the long Berlin crisis. He notably re strained Republican criticism over the lost patriots' invasion of Castro-Communist Cuba, rightly seeing this as not a Democratic disaster but rather a disaster for all the United States. With the slightest encour agement, the Republicans in Congress might have torn the administration apart on for eign policy on half a dozen "Naturally," he said, "we hope for reunification, but we know that it will not come for a long time, possibly not in my lifetime." .Vould he be willing to fight to regain East Germany from the Communists? No, he didn't think so. "No one wants another war," he said. Southward i n Bavaria, through rolling countryside reminiscent of the hills and mountains of Pennsylvania, lies the little town of Selb, on the East German-Czech border. There, Inspector Wil- helm Kolb heads border po lice covering roughly eight miles of the Dorder. Kolb also hopes for reuni fication, but he also doesn't believe it's worth a war. S. White occasions - and the country along with the administration. But, far from encouraging partisan sniping, Dirksen put all his influence in precisely the opposite direction. He in sisted upon Republican back ing for. rather than Republi can assault upon, a Demo cratic President. He helped Mr. Kennedy enormously re- j cently on the U N. loan issue. All this was not because Dirksen loves Democrats. It' was simply oecause he was aware that this country in any foreign crisis can have only one voice at a time, that of the President, whoever he may be and from whatever party. The alternative is to risk national catastrophe - the destruction of President au thority before the outer world at a time when there can be no other form of authority. a THUS, it is not simply that Mr. Kennedy owes Sen ator Dirksen much in human terms. Far more importantly, Ihe President has to face the fact that a determined drive to smash Dirksen might suc ceed all too well, and so smash that indispensable bi partisanship on high foreign matters which has thus far kept the national effectively rtnited. On the other hand, Yates is undeniably a good Demo crat, and one strictly backed by the liberals in the Presi dent's party. If he refuses to "go all the way for Sid" there will be much intraparty cast ing of decayed eggs and vege tables at the head of John F. Kennedy. But if he does "go all the way for Sid," he courts dangerous consequences ex tending far beyond the bord ers of Illinois and far beyond all parly labels. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc General Features Corp EDUCATION NEEDS EXAMINATION in last fall's issue of the "Harvard E d u cational Re view," a school district su per intendent in California stated with a d m i r able terseness one of the real handicaps to a better educa tional system in America. He wrote: 'Just think for a moment of the aca Harris demic classrooms we could build and the science and for eign language teachers we could employ, if we were sud denly to stop spending money on school transportation sys tems, cafeterias, health serv ices, recitation programs, driver training, arts and crafts, home economics, adult education classes in upholster ing and cake decorating, marching bands, traveling glee clubs . . . "Most educators would real ly like to educate, but we find ourselves so infernally occupied with lunch menus, bus routes. Little League schedules and preventive in oculations, that Euclid and Darwm are being compelled!13 ?cr ccr' 1,1 "s appropna - ,1c take positions somewnere in the third row hack nf , massed sousaphones. . than 1 .'0 of 1 per cent Yet. ... I education is the biggest "busi- ! "I did a little f.cunng thci"'" Amet'c.at. " larcr I ...i. . j ... . . j than autos or utilities or any .' ' ' ' . , ,, ' and armed at the discon- certmg conclusion that almost 1 l.i per cent of mv own dis- jlnct's expenditures this year are going (or stoif like that If I co.ild wave someboih 's :n..gic wand a:;d clim-ii; to the items listed above. 1 would bo ahio to give each of my re m:nnin.' teachers i $1.0) ra:.-e and build three- new classrooms every o.ir" , I quote the supennti ndoiu m esteuso. because lie has cut j to the heart of our education- This is the betwixt and be tween attitude so common as to be typical in Germany, and one that makes the reunifica tion question dynamite for any German politician. Hard reason says that the two Germanys. East and West, ar an accomplished fact, po litically, militarily and eco nomically. It also is a fact that Ger mans would regard any rec ognition of East Germany as a surrender to Communist pressure. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 -words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha paper: in fact the contrary is often the case. Teaching Needed To the Editor: I wish to add my plea to that of another person, whose letter appeared about a week ago, on behalf of the money being appro priated for teaching the chil dren detained at the juvenile home. The time was when this would not have moved me to write a letter. But through the chance of personal contact with the some, and later, of having become acquainted with a young person who had passed through it, I have be come acutely interested. I believe that the people in charge of the home do as much as anyone could expect with the facilities that are provided. There are other things needed and the recent establishment of a library is a good step forward. But my first question after viewing tne home was as to whether or not schooling could be kept up. As a first move in improv ing the social patterns of these children this seems absolutely essential. People of this county, con cern yourselves with seeing that teachers are provided for those young people. They are in need of every constructive and normal influence that can be brought to bear upon them, and it is only by God's grace, perhaps, that you and I have not or will not have a young ster detained there. (Name on file) Medford Not a Problem To the Editor: As set forth in the proposed Home Rule Charter, each commissioner other than the chairman shall be compensated $50 for each regular board meeting, but not to exceed $100 per month. Fear has been expressed re cently that this provision will discourage able people from al problem in modern Ameri can society. We really do not know what a school should leach, or how, by whom, to whom or in what order of im portance. As a result, what we call a "school program'' is an unholy melange of the trivial, the marginal, the ridiculous and the inept. The House of Representa tives Subcommittee on Educa tion is currently studying a bill, HR 10145, which would devote Federal funds and ef fort to "basic research in ed ucation." This is not "Federal aid'' to education, but a means of determining what the prop, er processes and goals of ed ucation ought to be. One reason I am against Federal aid is that most of the money would go simply to continue and expand present practices. Yet. we do not know if the present practices really turn out educated pu pils. What is needed, before we spend a penny of govern ment money on schools, is a thorough and compresensive examination and evaluation of the whole subject of edu cation. Industry spends from 10 to ll0,ls on search and devel- - opincnt: education spends let ; other. It is fruitless to give to the schools un - , , p h , .. , , I ougiit to be. CARRIERS SUFFER LOSSES Washington - 'LPt The Air, 1' r a n s p o r l Association an-1 nounced Monday that major I' -S trunk earners suffered i ,i net lo.-s of more than $8.6 million during February, bringing the red ink total for' the urst two months ot 1962 j to nearly $14 6 million. The foregoing obviously is an over-simplification but it lies at the core of the diffi culty of reaching any under standing between the Western powers and Moscow on the German problem. Any proposal giving the. East Germans a greater voice in control of access to Berlin and promising to respect ex isting bordert would be total ly distasteful to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and give him reason to sabotage it if he could. running. Is this fear justified? To me it is not. One has but to note tha qualified men who expressed willingness to serve, should the Charter pass and should they be asked to run by their neighbors. Their names ap pear on a list compiled at tha request of the County Citi zens for Home Rule Charter, and for the purpose of dis covering if lack of qualified candidates might become a problem. It is not a problem. Further, these men should ba congratulated for taking a stand for democratic county government. Mrs. Carol Barrett 1673 Parker st. Ashland, Ore. Stamps for Sacred Heart To the Editor: We were gratified by the suggestion in, a recent Editorial concerning the collection of redeemable stamps for the benefit of Sacred Heart Hospital build ing fund. True, this may be a piojcct of modest dimensions, yet it might well prove to become one of real value, and in this spirit we as an organization which has the future of the hospital much at heart, gladly sponsor this project. May all readers of the Mail Tribune be informed that stamps may be sent directly to Sacred Heart Hospital, '.n care of Providence Guild, ear marked for the building fund. Mrs. J. C. Boyle, President, Providence Guild, Medford. Slurs Resented To the Editor: I always know when the campaign is warming up: Some letter '.a the editor accuses me of Com munistic leanings. Your cor respondent, A 1 m u s Pruilt, writes (April 13) in your Com munications column that ha wonders how many citizens in Oregon's Fourth District know how I stand on Com munism, Then he says he doesn't "know fully" himself but that he "feels" that most of "us here in southern Oregon are permitted to see" only part of my position on Commu nism. This kind of Joe McCarthy slurring is a regular feature of the campaigns of my Re publican opponents. H o w, please tell me, Mr. Pruitl, could any part of my position on Communism be hidden from Fourth District voters considering that I have been in five contested elections in the last eight years? And my opponents have always had twice as much money to spend and almost all the newspapers on their side? I think it can be said that my record has been more in vestigated and publicized than that of any other person in the Fourth District. If Mr. Pruitt had any questions, he could have asked me. In fact he was invited to meet me Sunday in Medford but failed to show up to make his slurs to my face. Besides having a record that is an open book, I am a re serve officer with a "Q" (top secret) clearance, but perhaps that doesn't comfort Mr. Pru itt who is determined not to investiiale for himself but lo swallow what he reads in radical rightist publications. I 1 y-' '' quouuions j just as I never ''.ii ..m.-i nu he was fighting tyranny and promising freedom for Cu bans. Here's a quotation for Mr. Pruitt. It's from U.S. Neuj , and World Report .July 18. 19J8,. -wi.ilc in Venezuela. c.., ,ii,.j , . l. 1 out against dictatorships and he took tlie occasion to warn atamst tiie Comn.tiiiisl tyran ny, too. Communist strength, has been growing in Vene zuela, but Mr Por;er's words a a a i n s I the Reds drew cheers " Charles O Porter. Democratic Candidate For Consress, Eugene, Ore.