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Newspaper Page Text4 A MidfordvWtbibuni "Everyone Id Southern Oregon Read! fir Mali lribun Published Daily except Saturday bj MEDKOKD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP2-6UI ROBERT W RUHL Editor HF.Rfl GKEV Advertisins Managei rvi.ll T T I A TLI A KA Diia Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR Mni Bdllt EAK1. H A CAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN TeJef Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Edltai OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Edi'oi DALE ER1CKS0N Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai tecond class matter at Medford. Oregon under Act ot March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Copy .Or Daily and Sunday year A 00 Daily and Sunday o mot 6 uu Daily and Sunday 3 moi 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14 20 By Carrier In Advance Mfdioro Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jarksonviue uoid hui Phoenix. Shacjy Cove Rogue H v er Talent and on motor mules Dally and Sunday 1 vear tlBOr Daily and Sunday 1 mo AO Carrie' and Dealers copy lOr All Termi Cash in Advance "OfftcUl Paper of City of Medforo Official Paper of Jackstiti County United P-ess International Pull Leased Wire U.P.l. Telepnoto NeWHplctures MEMRKR OK AUDIT BUREAU OFCIHCULATIONS Advertising Rfpreentat1ve NFLSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices in New York Chi cago. Detroit, San Francisco Loi Anseles Seattle, Portland. Denver NEWS PAH PUBLISH!! ASSOCIATION N ATI O N A I EDIT RIAL TI?N C Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 7, 1952 (Wednesday) The spring "boom" In sea a o n a 1 employment arrived during April, the Medford Employment Service reported today. The future correct time of day in Medford was still in some doubt today following the city council's unanimous vote yesterday to start day light saving time May 10; Mayor Flynn has temporarily withheld his signature on the measure. 20 YEARS AGO May 7. 1942 (Thursday) Medford Mayor H. S. Deuel proclaims Army and Navy Relief Campaign week here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Older Girls are riding bicy cles to save tires ind gas and to reduce. In heavy traffic they even saw a nine-year-old boy riding a hike with his seven-year-old sister on the handlebars." 30 YEARS AGO May 7. 1932 (Saturday) More than 300 guests at tend fifth annual Oregon Products banquet here; im portance ot development of tomato industry In Rogue val ley stressed. Installation of "accoustical plaster" In courtroom of new county courthouse will en able every spectator to "hear a pine drop or a lawyer shout from the furthest corner." 40 YEARS AGO May 7. 1922 (Sunday) J. C. Ottlnger, Medford, leases Jackson hot springs near Ashland; plans to build swimming pool; pavilion and auto camp ground. Large amount of new ma chinery installed in Rogue valley mines; one company reports having a dump con taining 9,000 tons ot ore assaying $7.50 a ton. 50 YEARS AGO May 7. 1912 (Monday) Rogue valley rancher ships 45 boxes of bosc pears or dered for the personal use of King George V of England. What's Ytur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live oi sis is good. 1. Cristobal Colon is known to us by what other name? 2. In which state is Presque Island? 3. Accounts of the resurrec tion of Jesus appear In which four books of the Bible? 4. In which U.S. city is a large Cherry Blossom festival held each year? 5. Which species of bird lays the smallest eggs'.' B. Three states have a coast line on the Pacilic ocean; name them. 7. Is a pinnance a kind of lace bodice. Hie high spire of a cathedral, or a boat? 8. An object on the rim of a rotating wheel travels faster through space than an object resting near the hub; true or false? 9 Which is the more buoy ant salt or fresh water? 10. What Is the chlrf fend of spiders? Answers: 1. Christopher Co lumbus. 2. Maine. 3. Mathew. Mark, Luke and John. 4. Washington, D.C. 5. Humming bird. 6. Washington, Oregon and California. 7. Boat. 8. True 9. Salt water. 10. Insects, TT MONDAY, MAY 7, 1962 They Have Lost Faith New Orleans, La. Even those newspaper men who do not agree with him consistently have a high regard for James Reston of the New York Times. They recognize in him a reporter of in tegrity1 who works very hard to dig out the facts. Mr. Reston has been granted exclusive inter views with President Kennedy. All newspaper men know that this was not for the purpose of "using" Mr. Reston to expound any part of the President's program. Mr. Reston could not be used by anybody. Mr. Kennedy called him in be cause Mr. Reston's thinking on public affairs de- verves the attention of president ot the United States. JR. RESTON, who is kown by his intimates as 1T1 Scotty, spoke to members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors the other day at luncheon. He told them something that all need ed to hear and we hope many of them will say something to the people on their editorial staffs about it when they get home. He pointed out that almost everything that theboviet Communists hoped would develop to their advantage in the years following World War II had not occurred, with one exception. The exception: iney have ening many Americans. MR. RESTON thinks this has been possible in large ' part because too many newspapers have emphasized all the areas of the world in which the United States is having trouble and have not told the story of the repeated failures or tne communists. Nor have the newspapers of this country ; pointed out how very well in many places .things I have been going for the United States since this country committed itself to leadership of the free ! nations of the world. Mr. Reston drew a bol. John (jlenn. He said that the message he got from Glenn's achievement was the recogni tion that John Glenn was "the high school coach the kid down the street," and that there were thousands in this country like him. Because this is so, Mr. Reston has no fear as he considers the years after he is gone. Neither do we. WE WISH all the members of the John Birch snoinlo VQ,1 linon Vini.n tnrl.iii I Uoi. Mi. uui.n.ij mni uii.ii iii.it: i-ui-icitv lu iiircli in I Reston. We do not dispute the right of the John Birchers to believe anything they want to believe. That is their right in a But we do think the in the souls of all of them gained control of this uu 10 n is someining we cio not want to contem plate. They have lost faith in this nation because they mistrust all with whom they disagree. J. W. Forrester Jr., in uoman Peashooter That staunch old foe of human rights, Sen ator James O. Eastland of Mississippi, has been practicing With hlS peashooter again. His target was Chief Justice Earl Warren, whom he accused ! f c... r1. eciding for Communists" in Supreme Court; i ii cases lllVOlVlllir United Communists," in Senator Eastland's view is any - thing that would give Negroes their constitutional 1 i . 1'lglUS. I he Senator, lone; a Civil rights in the South, brought U) in Senate1 Ils objectives are supported j expansion ag the greatest bar 11,1,1 ii i ..I , , a , ,-, i bv the cadershin of the Re- ncr to Communism, not be- debate what he called a "box score" of each Sll- j XXd Americans ! cause it is directed against the pi'Cine Court Justices Votes. jfor Democratic A.tion. Soviet Union, but because it Senator Eastland said the SCOre showed that I U "s the indorsement of a lis directed at the slrcngthcn- Chief Justice Warren voted pro-Communist (!2lw,de ec,m h leldin8,i,,'a,i , , . r, i newspapers from the conserv-i capable ot creaung a pcrni- tlllies aild ailtl-tomimmist three times. Only tW0!aliv0 L(1S Angeles Times andlanent preponderance of econ othei'S 011 the high bench topped that "prO-Cotll-' Boston Herald-Traveler tojomic, political, and military nninist" score, in the Senator's view: Justice i,nr libcr"' New York Posl nd tower wnich wi" bc irrpsls" Hugo L. Black, 120 to 0, Douglas, !)7 to I!. A ND WHO decided whether a decision in a court case was pro-Communist? Why, Senator Eastland, of course. Nor could there be any question about how he would classify such court actions as that in ' 111-1 ! l i . .i lilij'l ending school segregation; or those of l0,j ending racial discrimination in transportation and in restaurants serving muting the Justice Department to help Negroes gain voting rights; or that forbidding gerryman dering of city boundaries to deprive Negroes of the vote. We suggest that a box score of Eastland's own opinions would give him a perfect 100-to-0 anti-people rating. San Francisco Chronicle. Gloomy Chancellor Roy I.ieuallcn of the state system of higher education paints rather a gloomy pic ture for higher education. The cost-squeeze re sulting from the bulge in enrollment, this year causes deterioration in teaching standards. And for the next biennium an additional !-0 million must be provided to keep the institutions func tioning at satisfactory levels. The predicted postwar flood, which reached elementary schools a dozen years ago, and then secondary schools, is i caching colleges and uni versities. Unlike the flood fl( a river it will not recede. So it isn't a matter of repairing dikes but of adding permanent instaljuions and accom panying staff. How to provide for this and other state needs will tax the Legislature, and is sure puonc. uregon Maiesmen, ;aiem, all citizens, including the been successful in fright moral from the flight of democratic society. fear that is deep rooted is friirhteninrr. If thev nation what they voulil i the Pendleton East Ore- I I at Work .i . :.. vj.. r.. i States security. TOrivisivo national debate has u nas me approval 01 ine s Clanlber of Commerce leading battler against and Justice William O.j travelers; or that per- Picture intelligence of the next to tax' the purses of the Dennis the Menace I 1 I 'Weu.WE WTHAVTA SQUEEZE j ; Drummond (Walter Lippman fi in Europe. Wsihington rn his absence. ) (c) SUPPORT FOR LOWER TARIFFS Washington To the sur prise of nearly everybody in Washington, vote; generally business and labor, con. servatives and liberals are showing themselves over whelmingly low-tariff mind ed. Purpose; to enable the U.S. to compete in the Euro pean Common Market When President Kennedy overruled some of his prin cipal aides and decided that a radical revision of trade policy should not be postpon ed until after the elections, he was told that he would be pressing a right idea at the wrong time under the worst passible circumstances. The President was warned by those who wanted to be cautious that he would stir a lacerating controversy in Congress, alienate many Re publicans and Southern Dem ocrats whose support h e would need, and generate massive business and labor protectionist opposition par- licularly at "me when was sli11 high uncmploy- And what has happened? That which his aides most feared for the President has not come upon him. Mr. Ken nedy was either politically wiser than his advisors or po- iitically more courageous in deciding not to delay asking Congress to bring U.S. trade policy in line with the Euro pean Common Market. AS the Trade Expansion Act ol 1962 moves through ils final stages at the hands of the House Ways and Means Committee and onto the floor "hi 'uc , d"!and hopeless and assorted at 01 ingress lor iciion. i;i derive national annval- , , , ,, and the AKLCIO. sM. I.,(H1I.S rUSl-JLISIJillUM. Strictly Personal Bv Sydney (el Field Enterprises, inc. , , n. nr,MINr FI owfr SLOW-BLOOMING FLOWLH u vou thlnk v..u know a lot about mher peoples lives k,-,u,,k new aiimeni win ouickly disa- s"! buse you ot AMW.ttW (hut fnlse no- j ' i lion. Like my Ifc, , 7 sinus infee- ; s tion the oilier A day. For the first t i m e. 1 woke up with ; an infe c t e d sinus. I nien- lur.is tinned it to i couple ol people at the office and it turns mil that half the population is similarly alMiet ed. Until 1 got it myself. I had never 'known" anyone with Ihe complaint. Doubtless if I woke up with some rare tropical blood dis ease, the lirst half-doren per- sons 1 mentioned it to would have relatives who suffered from the same ailment, at one time or another. The s.nne is line of almost everv human infirmity in siinily oi retardation, alcohol ism or Parkinson's disease, drug addiction or muscular dystrophy. It is impossible to renll.-e the extent of these problems until we heeonie a ""-inher s",pr of the suffering O arc we commonly ' aware of the great mass of MEDFORD THAT oC TC0THRWTE Ml NOAW Reports Roicoe Drummond reports from 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. It is supported by the Na tional Grange and the Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation. WHAT of the business com munity? Do U.S. industri alists want lower tariffs on imports in order to take what ever risks are necessary to compete on even terms in the Common Market? Dun's Re view, a business management magazine, asked this question of the chief executives of nearly 300 companies, large and small, covering a broad range of industry. The re sult: Three out of four supported tariff : form. The editors of Dun's Re view made this comment on Uk outcome of their poll: "For all the supposed tra dition that American busi nessmen support high tariff walls, and for the cries to thai effect by various Wash ington pundits, the feelings of the great majority of these leaders of American business are exactly to the contrary. They stand solidly behind the tariff reduction program. IT IS significant that I h c bitter attack upon the Eu ropean Common Market, upon Britain's decision to join, and upon our decision to pursue parallel trade policies, comes from the Soviet Union. Speaking in behalf of Pre mier Khrushchev at the 92nd anniversary of Lenin's birth a few days ago, Leonid Ily chev, a leading Soviet ideolo gist, as. ailed the Common Market and other "fashion able plans of so-called Euro pean integration." He called ill ilwtun Hi.t.plnnmpnk foolish least his oral commence tnat wouube u r,,,,.,,,,.,. r The Kremlin rightly sees ,the Common Market and its liuif. J. Harris miserable marriages, of the bleak failures in parent-child relationships, until we our selves voluntarily admit to such troubles - and then, sud denly, a wall swings open and we are admitted to the legions of fellow-suflerers. And, until that wall swincs open, we see only the care tully prepared faces, the tail ored stories, the polished sur laces, the decor of personali ties This is life as children view it, in the crudely clear and falsely simple outlines of a coloring-book. This is why children ollen seeni so cruel and heartless lo us: they do not yet belong to any secret society of the afflicted or the burdened. They are indifferent toward ! the unfortunate, taunt -the 1 handicapped, mock the mcn- tally disturbed. Compassion flower that takes a lone tune to grow : and it can flour ish onlv in Ihe soil e one's own sufferini: For a long time. 1 was pu.'led about a young couple 1 knew slightly. 'I hey are at tractive, charming, decent people They have humor, in telligence, good manners, nnd are superior m almost all re spects Hut they unconsciously annexed me. I didn't rehsn their company for eiy long. Suddenly the reason came MAIL TRIBUNE. MEgFOHD, Foreign News: Japaifese-Korean Red Broadcasts; German Food By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: No Hurry Japanese political sources say privately that Japan Is in no hurry to normalize re lations with the Republic of Korea or to l-egin invest ing on 'i large scale in the Korean econ omy. These sources say h e govern ment feeling is that it Newsom might be better to wait until next year when Korean strongman Gen. Park Chung Hee has promised to return power to civilian control. Jap anese businessmen also want V2l Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with s 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 the oaper; in fact the contrary is often th case. Who Gets Things Done? To the Editor: State Rep. Robert Duncan, a congression al candidate, proclaims in his campaign literature "He gets things done." My question is, "What things?" In 1959 one of the great is sues was the passage of the bill assuring an Oregon power agency to protect our use of public power. Duncan had the power to appoint committees and handle the Democratic majority in the House so this bill would pass. It did not pass. Is this how he gets things done? In 1959 Duncan overrode his own Ways and Means Committee denying an in crease in salaries for slate employes which amounted to only .0007 per cent of the budget. Is this an example of his farsightedness? In 1961 the Oregon legisla ture, under Duncan's "leader ship" brought forth no new tax proposal and spent every dime of surplus in the State Treasury, leaving the 1963 session with a terrible prob lem of meeting increased needs. Is this "leadership"? In 1961 the Oregon legisla ture (remember, Duncan says he is a "leader") voted against adequate funds for higher education, with the result that standards have fallen as never before. After the '61 session, the Board of Higher Education asked the Emer gency Board for funds to meet its needs arising from the in adequate appropriations of the session. Duncan made the motion which denied these funds. Are these the things he gets done'.' Duncan, who now views with alarm the confusion of Oregon's clocks, could have avoided it all simply by kill ing the DST bill through the device, often used by house ! speakers and senate presi i dents who oppose specific bills, of sending it to a hostile house committee. Could it be he was then contemplating statewide office and, seeking to avoid alienating Multno mah county voters, failed to take that step? In any event, he has no business complain ing now. In 1959 the Correction In stitution, designed to rehabili tate young criminals by teach ing them a trade, commenced operation. The high hopes for this institution were shattered by the failure of the legisla ture to appropriate enough money for the training pro grams to start. Who got this done? You guessed it! Duncan shows no under- standing of government or the j appropriation function. Time I and again he has exhibited a! penurious approach to the fi- iiiincial problems of our peo- ple. Todav he still is not ore- pared: campaigning for fed - oral office, he talks nostalgi - cany aooul slate issues. Ills trail is littered, not by what he has done, but bv what he hasn't. Kenneth A. Poole 3475 Alder st. Eugene, Ore. Park Access To the Kditor: I am writing to y ou in behalf of the people of our are regard to the to me: They were unbruised by life. Nothing bad had ever happened to them: they were Ihe golden couple. And this invulnerable good fortune made them, in some way, un real ami inhuman. They were like enamel figurines, whom pain or reality had never touched Life will change for them, of coul 4 pain will touch them, sooner than they think. And only then will they pass from childhood to adulthood: only then will they j.nn some segment of the human race as full-fledged members of the Refugees from tricn. OREGON ironclad guarantees that the United States will continue to support the ROK overn meni. The alt rnati- e, they fear, is a take-over by the Communists. The Japanese viewpoint is especially inter esting since a key point is to seek Japanese Korean friend ship. War of Ihe Air Waves ' The Red Chinese have step ped up their radio broadcasts in the Russian language. The new emphasis began in Feb ruary, not too long after the Communist Party " ngress in Moscow exposed new evi dence of the split between the Soviet and Red Chinese lead ership. After an experimental period, the number of daily broadcasts stepped up from live to nine. The Chinese had tried such broadcasts before, in 1952 and 1957, but aban- new state park at Rogue Riv er. It is our opinion that the exit-entrance is inadequate. I am sure that you will agree that the park should be used to its capacity if it is to pay for the investment. We see no reason why the exit-entrance cannot be direct ly off of the freeway at the south end of the park near the twin bridges. This would not be an expensive project nor a traffic hazard as the grade of the highway and the terrain are almost the same. 1 see by an article in the Mail Tribune that the State Highway Department and the State Park and Recreation Advisory Committee will be here in this area this month. It seems to me that all of us in Jackson county should get behind this project to make this park a successful recreation area for our tour ists. We are hoping that you arc interested enough in this proj ect to make it a reality. Rogue River Cham ber of Commerce R. S. Niquette, President Rogue River, Ore. --O- Editor's note: We thorough ly agree something needs to be done on this matter. So does the Highway Commis sion, and the only thing now standing in the way is the Bureau of Public Roads. Ne gotiations are under way seek ing approval for direct access to the park from the Freeway, and Commission members are hopeful of success. Responsible Voters To the Editor: After listen ing to candidates for political office and others say "I have been a life long Republican" or "I have been a life long Democrat," 1 have wondered if when each such person ar rived in this world a note was pinned to his crib "welcome to the new party member." Should our political parties' strength bc based on the pop ulation explosion of that party? It would seem prudent to stop some times and consider what is going on around us. It is usually the party in pow er that has the opportunity to be corrupt, the other party probably lacks the chance for the time being. So one should consider where the governing party is headed. What it is do ing to stay in power and whether its aims and accom plishment are for the ulti mate best good for the coun try. We had under Teddy Roos- cvell, a Republican, a crack down on big business, but should this procedure be a continuing policy for our gov. i eminent or should it also look i about for other abuses of ! power ,, ! bhould arithmetic be taught 111 ucn i"i '.- mum understand the interest being Paid on a loan and on the value of government bonds? j The bonds paid for to be used for a child's education or a home on retirement. I Shouldn't all these things be discussed so that future cit izens who aren't already too old to change will have a chance to become responsible voters ' Mrs. G. B Dean, 265 Janncy lane, Medford. Food for Peace To the Editor: Whether mankind survives or is oblit erated in a nuclear holocaust may well depend upon how the Congress of the United States meets the gravest of all its responsibilities This is it csponsility to work withyour9.iilorial Thursday, Mav the Presdent in finding new avenues to pcacc0 The problen in this area are so complex and deep - root - cd that there arc no quick or easy answers, hut it is my conviction that our foreign doned them. The need became ureent now because the Rus sians have been getting their side of the dispute over to Chinese listeners with a bar rage of Chinese Mmdarin dia lect broadcasts. Foot Dragging East Germany's reluctant collective farmers still are givingtCommunist planners trouble. Potatoes are a staple of the German diet but in the districts which are the prin cipal source of supply, Mag deburg and Brandenburg, spring planting has been par ticularly slow. Footdragging by the farmers was compound ed by a shortage of seed po tatoes, diverted during the Washington Report By William (ci United Feature Syndicate TRADE BATTLE Washington-Vice President Lyndon Johnson is taking an increasingly important and rvTsaii ! pen Par in .the adminis tration s one truly historic battle of this congress - the battle for a freer policy of world trade. P r e s ident Kennedy him self is also putting on his combat jacket to go-personally-all the way for his bill for enlarged au thority to cut tariffs and so to associate this country usefully with the powerful new. low tariff, world trade bloc now rising in the European com mon market. The President docs not of ten take personal command of the troops in the field. Nor is the vice president usually call ed out to be his publicly iden tified senior operations offi cer on the firing line. On ordinary issues, both usually stay back at diviison head quarters and, publicly at least, leave the operating details to lesser figures. rpHE fact that on this rare A occasion the administration is putting its top officers right into the forward command posts signals one certainty and one probability. The certainty is that the President has stamped an unalterable No. 1 priority on the Irade bill. The probability is that both the President and vice president are moving swiftly lo avoid harm to the bill from the ad ministration's recent dustup with big steel through its veto of big steel's proposed price increase. For Ihe President has recog nized from the start that the support of business-and ese cially of big business-is an ab solute necessity if he is to be able to gain from congress the flexible tariff authority which policy should be guided by moral principle. It is not enough to decide that a par ticular course of action is expedient; we must also ask ourselves whether it is right or wrong. Is it. for example, right for us to slore up moun tains of surplus food when millions of people throughout the world are starving? To this qestion the Kennedy Ad ministration answered a re sounding "no." The Food for Peace Agency has been dis tributing tons of commodities lo the hungry peoples of un derdeveloped nations. In jul one of these nations Peru 30,000 school children, last year, received hot lunchea be cause of the work of this agency. This is the kind of action in foreign relations that I be lieve we must continue and increase. If I serve the people of this District in Consrtss. I pledge my support to Presi dent Kennedy and his Admin istration as they search for new wave In nhim.A a fair and lasting peace. Our choice in this nuclear age is not that of being "red dead., for (hcsc nQl real alternatives. Our choice today is that which Patrick Henry proclaimed before the free and independent United States of America became a reality between liberty and death. I should like to work with Ihe present Administration in helping to develop far-sighted programs to bring renewed hope and increased opportu nities to all peolcs w-ho live under the banner of freedom. Robert W. Straub State Senator, Lane County Eugene. Ore. Charlie's Record To the Editor: As Charles O. Porters campaign chair man for Jackson county, 1 U O Id llt-e In r-nmrimnt 1 ;i j Vou are so right that the , -phoney Japmrsc plywood 1 import issue fooled ajany ! voters in I960. You wcre9ight j to say Charlie was more often right on foicign policy qucs- 7 fc if -34 Split; Shortage long winter to East German tables. Algeria CUanup Paris observers expect that bloodshed in Algeria soonwilI come to an end new that D$ Gaulle has .decided to turn Moslem police tloose against the underground OAS, which is anti-Moslem, anti-De Gaulle and is attempting to keep AN geria French. De Gaulle's de cision to hold the self-determination referendum at the earliest possible date in mid-July also is regarded as a "big-stick" gesture aim ed at the one nillion Euro peans of Algeria whose mor al support enable the OAS to continue its massacres. S. White he so urgently needs for the good of the American econ omy. Big business has up to now formed the vital center of backing for this program in principle. One of the chief spokesmen of business gener ally, the United States Cham ber of Commerce, has taken the lead in this position. In its recent meeting here, however, the C. of C. leaders had to beat down a revolt from among the rank-and-file against the bill. THE incident was perhaps not too Important in itself. It was, however, precisely the kind of thing that could spell coming trouble should any large part of business now per suade itself to cut off its own nose to spite its face . For business would make a tragic mistake should it repu diate the leadership of both the Democratic and Republi can parties and so begin to snipe at the trade program simply because of anger at President Kennedy over the episode in steel. No economic proposal of modern times has been so deeply in the Interest of Amer. ican business itself. No eco nomic plan of the postwar years has been so truly pro business, so truly conservative and so truly helpful to free enterprise. For, at bottom, this proposal is the last possible thing from a "giveaway." JT IS, instead, a strategy to keep American industry competitive with the vast trad ing empire rising in the com mon market. It is to avoid a giveaway of American mar kets to that empire. This is the whole factual, strictly unpartisan, meaning of the struggle. And this is the meaning that the top adminis tration leaders, Kennedy and Johnson, are preparing to try at every cost, with the contin uing help of Republicans like Eisenhower and Nixon and Rockefeller, to hammer in. tions. Today the Kennedy ad ministration has adopted as official policies that Charlia argued for, sometimes with out much help, in the field of South American affairs, and inspected disarmament. I was delighted and pleased to read your absolutely cor rect statement that Charlie is more responsible than any other single individual for the resurrection of the Rogue Basin Project." Jackson and Josephine counties need this most of all. Charlie with his four years in Congress, and his many friends there, and in the administration, can do more to bring construction money for this project, than any other candidate. We need the Rogue Basin Project, we need Charlie to get the mon ey. I personally will always ba most grateful to Charlie for the success of my campaign to label shoes. He carried the ball in Washington against heavy opposition. When those labels appear this fall on shoes you can now say an early thanks, by marking X by his name May 18. Charlie always told you where he stood, he had an office in downtown Medford where you could meet him in person. Have you seen an office here lately? Check the record, then I urge you Democrats to vote for the man who has PROV ED his ability to get things done. Charles O. Porter. Wilbur L. Gardner Jackson County Chairman, Rc-Elert Porter to Congress Medford. CAUTION CALLED FOR Flint, Mich. - (IT! - Author ities cleared an area in the Grand Trunk railroad yards, delayed trains and called Army demolition experts Sun day when a fluid - filled can equipped with a ticking de vice was found in a freight car. Hours later the can was identified as a mechanism used to measure evaporation in strawberries carried In re frigerator cjrs.