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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.
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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
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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
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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.