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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles ot Tha
Mail Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vaan ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1952 (Tuesday)
Medford Fire Chief Gordon
Barker has announced an new
program for inspection of city
residences for fire hazards;
the program Is voluntary. .
The president of the Jack
son County Fruit Growers
League has denied charges
that anti-hail cloud-seeding
has had an effect on rainfall
In the area.
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 10, 1942 (Wednesday)
Scrap rubber drive starts
here; 150 pounds collected to
noon of the first day.
Prom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "There
was a lull Sunday, on the kid
hatilpfronts all over town as
the combatants went to Sun'
day School and learned about
the Golden Rule."
30 YEARS AGO
Juna 10, 1932 (Friday)
Glenn S. (Pop) Warner,
famed Stanford university
football coach, visiU here
briefly en route to Crater
Lake; predicts success for
"Prink" Callison, ex-Medford
High grid coach, as Univer
sity of Oregon mentor.
Thirty-three Army planes
pay tribute to Medford com
rade killed In a plane crash,
by flying low over the home
of his widow here. ,
40 YEARS AGO
Juna 10, 1922 (Saturday)
"Great Influx of visitors"
expected to attend opening
of Oregon Caves June 2fi.
Roy Hewitt member of win
ning boys relay team in
aquatic mod held at Mediord
Nalatonum building.
SO YEARS AGO
Juna 10. 1912 (Sunday)
Simultaneous raids by shcr
iff's deputies in Central Point,
Gold Hill and Ashland uncov
er "considerable quantity" of
opium In "Chinese dens."
Medford Socialist party city
councilman cleared of neglect
of duty charges by 20 to 2
vote of Socialist local.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten carraci it superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five of
sii Is good.
1. Is Morocco located In
the northern or southern part
of Africa.
2. What Is the only bird
whose eyes look straight
ahead''
,1. What Is a samovar?
4. A blanket of snow keeps
the soil warm; true or false
5. What relationship are
the children of first cousins
6. Does saccharin have any
food value?
7. Is the Tropic of Cancer
In the northern or southern
hemisphere?
8 Is cerebellum the name
of angels, a part of the brain,
or a period of peace after a
war?
9. Which Amendment to the
Constitution excuses a person x IS a fact, alas, that the motor car has made
&7n5 ' if'Sne I the pedestrian (one. that is. who walks further
him1 ! than two blocks) almost extinct. And the dangers
in. insert the miming 1 0f walking amid fast-moving traffic on highways
name; '.... the Moodier " , .
Answ.r.; i. North., a. are manifest. . , ,
Th owl. 3. watar ha.ting, Rut some consideration for those sturdy souls
vassal used to m.k. i.e. 4.jwho prefer shanks mare is definitely in order.
No"''7. NoMh.. rjfrj .' Un,iI changes are made, "nobody walks"
brain. . Fif.h. io. Minnia. 'will hs more fact than fancy. E.A.
SUNDAY. JUNE 10. 1962
Press and
President Kennedy,
ference, was queried about his attitude toward
the press in general.
His now-famous reply was:
"Well, I am reading more and enjoying it
less . . ."
His remark has more significance than that
of a mere quip, for it is indicative that the
"honeymoon'' with the press, which Kennedy has
enjoyed (with certain exceptions) since his inau
guration, is wearing a bit thin.
More and more sharply critical comments
have been coming his way via editorial pages,
and the "news" columns of such magazines as
Time, which have no compunction about stating
(or hinting) their opinions in news stories.
THERE is an element of the press, of course,
which has been critical from the start. But
many newspapers held off, giving the new Presi
dent the benefit of the doubt until it had further
observed his performance in office.
Even during the Cuban fiasco, press comment
on Kennedy was strangely gentle and uncritical,
perhaps out of the realization that it was a situa
tion he inherited.
But in recent weeks, criticism has been both
sharper and more voluminous.
THE turning point came, if we read the signs
aright, at the time of Kennedy's crack-down
on the steel companies over their price increase.
This was associated in many minds in the
big business community (and, in too many in
stances, the nation's editorial pages faithfully
reflect the views of the big business community)
with the subsequent wild fluctuations of the stock
market, for which a number of the (j.U.r.-lean-
ing papers blamed Kennedy.
This was followed by his proposal for an
across-the-board tax cut next year. This too
brought predictable howls from the financially
conservative papers of the nation," which yelled
"fiscal irresponsibility" about a proposed tax cut
coinciding with a mounting deficit and increasing
national debt, . j
THERE was the silly related side-issue of the
New York Herald Tribune, which Kennedy
cancelled out of the White House list of subscrip
tions, for whatever reason he alone knows.
Still, the President
newspaper reader, and his news conference crack
also included the statement, "but I have not com
plained nor do I plan to
plaints . . : They are doing their task, as a
critical branch, the fourth estate . . ."
It was probably inevitable that the "honey
moon" would end, and Kennedy undoubtedly has
known this all along. In recent years, only Presi
dent Eisenhower has largely escaped the fangs
of the nation's editorial pages, which are over
whelmingly 'Republican in coloration, and the
surprising tfting is not that they are now swing-
... i ,1.. n iti jt i ...:it.-ij
injr at me jrresiaenu dui
for as Jong as they have.
THIS newspaper supported Kennedy in the
election, and has no cause to regret it.
We have criticized him when we felt it was
justified (as in the Cuban matter, when we said
ne was "dead wrong), and supported his causes
when we felt he was right (as in medical care
under Social Security and others). We shall con
tinue to do both.
But for some reason, we find it a source of
mild, wry amusement to see the pillars of Ameri
can journalism, most of whom fought Kennedy
tooth and toe-nail during the election campaign,
reverting to type.
It shouldn't bother Kennedy too m u c h,
though.. All he has to do is recall that the bulk
of the nation's press opposed Franklin D. Roose
velt and Harry S Truman, too. Rut the voters
paid no attention. E.A.
"Nobody
A peripatetic and elderly male relative of ours
is an occasional visitor to Medford. For health
and pleasure, he walks several miles a day, and
has none so for years, in many parts of the world.
When he is in Medford he is constantly on
the lookout for new pedestrian routes, and is
constantly disappointed in his quest after the
obvious downtown sidewalks have been covered.
It. is a standing joke that "nobody walks" in
America any more. The pedestrian is the for
gotten man.
THIS is a fact. In Washington state Friday,
two men were arrested for walking.
Roth were participants in the well-publicized
four-man walk from San Francisco to Seattle as
a publicity gimmick for a well-known brand of
beer. One of them passed through Medford a
week or so ago. The other, a kilted Scotsman,
took another route, but they were near each other
in southern Washington when the minions of the
law swooped down and arrested them for walk
ing on public highways.
We hope our uncle never hears of this, for it
will only convince him of the barbarism of the
West, where "nobody walks," and where this
proscription is backed bv the might of the law.
. .
President
at a recent press con
remains an omnivorous
make any general com
mat, iiity nave wiuieiu
Walks
. .
"If You Think Wall Street Ha Been
Acting Funny "
Matter of Fact sy ai.oP
(e New York Herald Tribune Syndlcata
NIXON'S OUASI VICTORY
Washington - For the stu
dent of politics, the California
primary won by former Vice
r resioeni
R i c h a rd M.
Nixon has one
very special
feature. Pub
lic opinion
polls have
never b e f ore
had so much
influence up
on the course,
and even on
the reporting, of any political
fight.
To begin with a most re
cent example, the reports
from the West Coast credit
Nixon with a "triumph" be
cause he won the Republican
gubernatorial nomination
from a rich but previously
obscure John Birchite, Joseph
Shell, a two to one margin.
This is puzzling. If you think
about it in cold blood, it is
not exactly a triumph for the
titular leader of the Republi
can party to get this kind of
a majority in his own state
against a novice politician.
The answer to the puzzle
is simple, however. Nixon, a
great poll-user, discovered
from his pollers that Shell
was likely to get lust about
the vote he did. With consid
erate prescience, the Nixon
camp therefore put the word
out, even in Washington, that
Nixon would be doing very
well if he held the Shell vote
below 35 per cent of the Re
publican total.
SHELL was duly held to be
low 35 per cent. Hence
Nixon is now credited with
doing very well. But has he in
fact done so well?
In the impartial and usually
dependable California based
Field poll. Shell began the
primary fight with only about
7 per cent of the Republican
votes, lie rose to 14 per cent
only a month ago. He has now
got over twice that percent
age. Shell clearly has done
well. Hut It is not at all clear
how Nixon is now going to
deal with the one-Republican-in-evcry-three
this primary
has revealed as Birch-intoxicated
or Birch-leaning.
This problem Nixon now
has to face is also, in some
measure, a poll-created prob
lem. Originally, the former
Vice President hoped to avoid
an open row with the extreme
right of his own parly. But
President Kennedy's poller,
Louis Harris, intervened with
soundings showing that the
great majority of California
voters both disapproved of
the Birchite approach to the
Communist problem, and
very sharply disapproved of
the whole extreme right-wing
movement.
ON the basis of the Harris
soundings, President Ken
nedy himself pressed Nixon's
Democratic opponent, Califor
nia Gov. Pat Brown, to chal
lenge Nixon briskly to dis
avow the Birch Society. Gov.
Brown, though not normally
given to briskness, thereupon
I proceeded to say Nixon would
wear the Birch label unless
I he disavowed Birch.
i The soundings by Harris
were confirmed by Nixon's
I own pollers - which meant to
the former Vice President
, that he must either get rid
of the Birch label or go into
! the fight against Brown with
a heavy haudkap. Therefore
! Nixon reluctantly took on the
Blrchites at the California
; Republican convention. This
convention fight, which Nixon
won by a, far from impressive
majority, in turn put a lot of
steam into the Shell candid
. acy against Nixon,
i In addition, the polls have
done much to deprive the Nix
I on candidacy of the aura of
I confidence and coming uc
j cess that a rsndidate like Nix
'en rnysds particularly badly.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD. OREGON
It even seems a reasonable
guess that the polls have af
fected Nixon's own confi
dence and nerve, leading him
into such mis-steps as his at
tack on the President of the
United States as a carpetbag
ger - a doubly foolish move,
because of Kennedy's great
current popularity, and be
cause of the unhappy choice
of language.
Nixon had the bad luck, In
the Field poll, the Harris pri
vate polls, and in all the other
soundings, to start out enor
mously far ahead of Brown,
and then to slip slowly but
inexorably until the last Field
poll actually gave Brown a
slight edge. The trouble here
was where Nixon began -much
too far ahead -and not
where he ended, with per
centages sensibly suggesting
a close race.
A CLOSE race was always
the kind nf rnrp tn r-v.
pect in California. Despite
his national stature, Nixon
has innate weaknesses in this
contest for the governorship,
and Brown has certain solid
advantages.
Brown has made his mistakes,-
but by all accounts he
has given California a much
better than average state ad
ministration. He is also the
sort of politician, moderate
in views and tone, almost ag
gressively amiable, with a
personality totally lacking
sharp angles, that California
voters seem to like best.
Nixon, complex and moody,
has also been absent from the
state during most of his po
litical life. He lacks any very
good issue to use against
Brown. He has never been
at home, anyway, with the
kind of issues that are impor
tant in state politics. Add tn
these difficulties the fact that
Nixon must now get all the
Republican votes and a lot
of Democratic voles as well,
yet may have a lot of trouble
persuading the Shell-Birch
enthusiasts to transfer their
support to him.
It can be seen why a close
race is natural. But the first
post-primary opinion poll is
just as likely as not to show
Nixon leading Brown again;
for such is the nature of
politics.
Foreign Aid Reexamination Is
By ERIC SEVAREID
The massive American "for
eign aid" program is moving
through t h e Congressional
labyrinth, but
it is h i g h I y
likely that
this is the last
year the pro
gram will
emerge In
roughly t h e
shape and size
outlined by
the President.
Something has
I happened. Responsible mem
; bers of Congress, including
J some of the most liberal and
enlightened members, are
simply losing their illusions
as to what money. fo,Kt, arms,
and exported expertise can
i and cannot do in and to "un-
derdevelopcd nations." The
I privately growing suspicion
that every President from
Truman through Kennedy has
i wildly oversold the prospec
! live economic and political re
sults from America's generous
' interventions is now becom
ing a conviction.
Sooner or later, we are go
ing tn witness a public re
i appraisal nf the foreign aid
concept, fundamental in na
ture, and on the highest lev
els, as we hcg.in tn witness
! this winter in regard to the
United Nations, when Senator
j Jackson first sliced deeply
iintn that forbidden fruit. A
lone Home Democrat, quoted
I Severe Id
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(el New York Herald Tribune Syndlcat
MR. BLOUGH AND
THE APRIL TEMPEST
Mr. Roger Blough, chair
man of the U.S. Steel corpora
tion and one of the heroes
of what he de
icribes as
'"that tempest
of last April,"
has joined
those who
wish to avoid
a feud be
tween b u s i
nessmen and
the Kennedy
a d m I n i s-
I.lppmann
tration. He has gone about it
the right way. Looking back
to the April tempest, he is
asking that lines be drawn
to show where in the field
of prices and wages the gov
ernment's responsibility be
gins and ends.
Mr. Blough did not say who
should draw these lines. But
it is fair to suppose he means
that after investigation and
debate, lines should be drawn
by consent of the interests
concerned. This would re
quire on the part of the lead
ers of all the interests con
cerned a desire to solve the
problem rather than to pur
sue a quarrel.
When and how, we may
then ask ourselves, can such
a rational enterprise be
launched?
BY A COMMON recognition
that there is a problem to
be solved. Judging by what is
written jn various places these
days, there are all too many
who do not know that there
is a problem to be solved.
The solution to the problem
Is not now known.
The tempest that blew up
In April came not because
steel prices had been set by
supply and demand in a free
market and were then pushed
'down by the President's de
sire to seize power to fix
prices and wages.
The April tempest blew up
because the higher steel prices
that Mr. Blough proposed
were not fixed by supply and
demand in a free market. The
essential fact about the steel
affair was that the companies
had a virtual monopoly
which fixes their prices and
they were dealing with un
ions which have a virtual mo
nopoly of steel labor. If these
two semi-monopolies had been
left to their own devices, as
was the case in other years,
the two monoDolics would
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF
CHARLES BROWER, of Batten, Barton, etc, warns eager
young account executives that if they had courted their
wives the way they court prospects, their patter would have
sounded something like
this: "I can see you are
a smart girl: the kind
that can't be fooled on
value. So you'll notice
that I am wearing a $300
suit That suit, Girlie, is
only an outward indica
tion of the super-hydraulic,
synchro-mesh, pat"
enled double-action heart
that beats beneath it
Now listen carefully to
something I tell only a
chosen few. I am in lim
ited supply. There are a
lot of women after me.
So for one day only, I'm offering to marry you. But you'll
have to hurry hurry hurry before I'm all gone."
a
When a raucous customer proponed his seventh conaecutiv.
toast to Honolulu, Bartender Clancy pained to Inquire, "Say,
Buddy, you come from Hawaii?"
"No," said the customer, "but my wife's flying there tomor
row." O 1961. by Bennett Cart Distributed by Kins Paatnna Syndicate
on foreign aid in The Reporter
magazine has warned, "Next
year, unless we see some re
sults, it will be pure charity
if we keep going."
This may come as a shock
ing sentiment to many high
minded American citizens. If
it does, it can only be because
they lack first hand experi
ence of Africa, Asia and Latin
America, or because they are
unaware of the hard re-thinking
about the "backward" so
cieties that is going on In
universities and private study
groups hy men who cannot
he thought of as reactionaries,
isolationists or tightwads.
The pendulum is making
its inevitable backward swing,
and our best minds are begin
ning to ask themselves what
the purposes of foreign eco
nomic and military aid really
are. after all. It is a fact, that
in Washington's recurrent ag
onies with spot crises around
the world, in Its acrimonious
involvement with the person
nel, budgets and methods of
the foreign aid agencies. Wash
i ingtnn has not in years asked
itself this first and fundamen
tal question.
It has merely assumed. It
has assumed that chanty is
. materially good for the receiv
er and morally good for the
giver - - the most defensible
of all arguments for foreisn
aid. But it has assumed, more
importantly, that foreisn aid
, produces economic growth in
have made a deal which raised
wages and then raised prices
at the expense of the con
sumers and of the public.
IF THERE is to be the kind
of mutual understanding
that Mr. Blough would like
to have, the inquiry will have
to start with a recognition
that the problem is how to
prevent the implicit collusion
of the two giant monopolies.
For this kind of collusion pro
duces the cost - push infla
tion which plagued us In the
late 'fifties. It erodes the in
ternational position of the
dollar by weakening the com
petitive capacity of American
industry.
How to solve the problem
of the giant monopolies is by
no means clear. But that
there is a problem of the gi
ant monopolies is indisputa
ble. This problem cannot be
made to disappear by recit
ing odes to the free market.
For the giant monopolies
the free market does not pre
vail. And in this country the
problem cannot be solved by
the government's fixing of
prices and wages. That would
produce a chaos that no man
in his senses would contem
plate. WE SHALL have to feel our
way to a solution. In all
likelihood the most promis
ing way to begin is by affirm
ing the principle that in the
wages and prices set by the
giant monopolies, there Is a
public interest which must
be taken Into account. That
public Interest will have to
be represented by the federal
government acting, not as the
regulator and controller of
wages and prices, but as the
spokesmen for reasonable be
havior and sound economic
action.
The role of the government,
as I see it, is similar to that
which it performs when it
fixes honest weights and
measures. The public interest
in the price of steel, for ex
ample, is so great that it
must be represented in its
own right, and not be left
to depend on the ex parte
statements of labor and of
capital.
We must hope that such rep
resentation and publicity will
be sufficient to prevent an un
healthy collusion of the gi
ants. Of them one might say
that they are not in a free
market, but on top of it.
backward lands, that econom
ic growth produces trends to
ward democratic freedoms,
that democracy tends toward
peace and that peace in these
areas enhances America's na
tional security.
These concepts have been
articles of unquestioned faith
until now. Without adding
unqualified endorsement to
the arguments made, I do wish
that every interested citizen
and every Congressman could
study four essays on foreign
aid recently published by the
Public Affairs Conference cen
ter of the University of Chi
cago. They might pay partic
ular attention to the cold log
ic of Edward C. Banfield, who
goes so far as to suggest that
a policy of no foreign aid at
all would better serve t h e
hard core interests of our na
tional security, if not our mor
al sensibilities.
We are all obliged, it seems
to me, to take an unblinking
look at the estimate of P. jj.
Rosenstcin Rodan w ho as-1
sumes for purposes of forecast !
absolutely optimum conditions
and then concludes that if the
backward countries got all the
aid they could absorb, used
it well, and if their popula
tions increase by one-fourth
In the next 15 years, the
average personal income in
those countries would be in
creased by no more than $30.
a year.
We have lo ask ourselves i
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Pier 3,
San Francisco
Dear Potluck Editor:
Gosh, 1 hardly know what
to say. 1 know I've been ter
ribly remiss in not writing to
you more often, particularly
since you so kindly answered
some of my earlier letters.
But . . . well, I might just
as well come flat out with it.
The truth of the matter is -I've
met a girl, and I haven't
been able to do much of any
thing except think about her
ever since.
Now please don't laugh,
Mr. Editor, it isn't funny.
Really, it isn't. I haven't been
able to eat or sleep (can you
imagine?), and my work on
the Bountiful has deteriorated
to the point that Captain Blye
gets a sour, pained expression
on his face every time ne
sees me.
If it weren't that I know
you'll understand, I'd be re
luctant to mention the matter
a,t all, especially after what
happened one afternoon last
week.
All of us on the crew were
lounging around the living
quarters after lunch, talking
about this and that.
Well, actually, they were
talking about women. First
one would tell a story, and
then another one would tell
something that had happened
to him.
Finally, during a lull in the
conversation, I just had o tell
them. After all, they are all
my friends and I wanted to
share my good fortune with
them.
"I'm in love," I sort of
blurted out.
There was a stunned silence
for a minute, and they all
turned and stared transfixed
ly at me. Their mouths had
sagged open, and their eyes
had a dazed, incredulous ex
pression. After a bit, Bos'n Gruff
said somewhat hoarsely,
"What did you say, boy?"
I sat up, squared my shoul
ders, look a deep breath and
said it again, perhaps just a
shade too defiantly.
"I'm in love with a girl."
I think somebody started
to snicker, but Chuck Chump
lin quickly silenced him with
a motion of his hand. He turn
ed to me, his face wearing
an expression of sincere in
terest. "Well, boy, tell about the
lucky girl," he said pleas
antly, "What s her name?
Where does she work? How
did you meet her?"
"Yeah, tell us." several of
the others said, and they all
hunched forward in their
chairs expectantly.
You'd think, Mr. Editor,
that after all the skyhooks
and left handed monkey
wrenches I've been sent after
during these last few weeks,
I'd have known better, but
I thought they were sincere.
I really did.
"Well, her name Is Poppy
LaTour," I confided. "She's
an actress. But she's working
as a waitress right now while
she's waiting for the right
part."
"Gee, an actress!" Freddie
Robertson sighed, "Imagine
that."
"Go on, kid, go on," said
Bos'n Gruff. And he shushed
the other men. "How did you
two lovebirds meet?"
"Just by chance one night.
I happened to go into the
restaurant where she works
to have dinner. But I didn't
notice her at first, not until
she spilled a whole plate of
Mulligan stew on me.
"She what?" they chorused
On Way
why we assume that inlcrven
tion by foreigners in totally
alien cultures can produce
economic levels, political in
stitutions and social mores in
10 or 20 years of the kind
produced in western societies
only after many generations.
We have to ask ourselves
why we think we can produce
even a respectable fraction of
such results In lands where
we have no enforcement pow
ers, when we cannot elevate
life In the West Virginia min
ing areas or get on top of the
problems of poverty, illiter
acy, crime and crowding that
are swamping welfare plan
ners in our own urban
sprawls.
Our illusions about econom
ic growth and social justice
in backward countries date,
I suspect, from our successes
in Europe and Japan. But we
must ask ourselves if econom
ic development from scratch
is not fundamentally different
from economic rehabilitation.
And. as a teaser, we might
ask ourselves why the one big
country in Latin America that
seems to be progressing in
stability Mexico not
only receives none of Amer
ica's foreign aid but refuses
to accept it.
Whatever the Senate and
House may vote this year, the
true examination of foreign
aid has hardlv begun
(Diitributad 1962, by Tha Hall
Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights R.s.rv.d)
"She accidentally dumped
blue plate special all over
me. It was an extra big serv
ing, too, I said. "I was a
mess.
Roberto Von Snickle sort
of choked, like he was trying
to swallow something that
wouldn't go down.
"But you know what shs
did then?" I asked.
"No, what?" they all said.
"Well, she just stood thera
and looked at me for a min
ute, and then she said, 'You
want some catsup to go with
that, honey?'
"Honestly, wasn't that tha
wittiest, most sophisticated re
mark you've ever heard? I
knew right then she was tha
only girl in the world for
me," I said with a sigh.
Mr. Editor, I tell you, they
all just kind of fell apart
then. Really, I've never seen
anything like it, or been so
embarrassed.
Freddie Robertson and
Roberto Von Snickle let out
whoops, collapsed Into each
other's arms, fell to the floor
and just rolled around, laugh
ing like you never heard be
fore. Bos'n Gruff clutched his
sides, swayed back and forth
like a big bear on his hind
legs, roaring "Har, har, har,
har," over and over again.
I thought Chuck Chump
lin's face would crack. Ha
never smiles, Mr, Editor, but
the corners of his mouth were
turned up a notch, and ha
just sat there trembling, with
the tears streaming out of
his eyes.
I'm sure glad Captain Blya
wasn't there. No telling what
he would have done.
They laughed and laughed
and pounded the floor, and
beat each other on the back
like wild men. I thought they
would never stop.
I still don't know what they
thought was so funny. Gosh,
haven't they ever been in
love?
I've been very cool to them
ever since. The clods.
Sincerely.
Earnest M. Cantright.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In California, Nixon i.a
overwhelmingly the nominee
of the Republican party for
governor of what at any mo
ment now will become tha
biggest state in the Union.
Democrat Brown has a
lead of about seven to ona
over the three minor Demo
cratic Candidates.
TT IS obvious that if Nixon
is to win next fall, he must
get the bulk of the Shell
votes.
What will Shell do?
He hedges on planting his
banner in the Nixon camp. Ha
says: "We can win in Novem
ber only if we stand firm
without compromising our
principles."
Nixon says:
"The vote (in the primary
election) is a mandate from
California Republicans to
move ahead with a program
of PROGRESSIVE CONSER
VATISM." It looks like an interesting
campaign is in the making.
CPEAKING of interesting
J campaigns, it looks lika
one is shaping up in Idaho.
A dispatch from Boise says;
Vernon K. Smith, who pro
poses to LEGALIZE GAM
BLING in Idaho, appears to
have won the Democratia
nomination for governor.
Nearly complete but unoffi
cial returns give him about
42 per cent of the total vote.
Under Idaho law, he need
only 40 per cent to avoid a
run-off.
Smith is a Boise attorney
and the founder of an organ
ization called Tourists Un
limited. He barnstormed tha
state with a proposal for can-sino-type
gambling on a local
option basis. He said it would
bring thousands of tourists tit
Idaho and would help to cura
the state's financial problem.
TI IS apparent victory leaves
his party in a dilemma.
Virtually every Democratia
leader in the state shied away
from him, disavowed his gam
bling and said it would never
be a plank in the party plat
form. Opponents said lie
couldn't bring gambling to
Idaho. They pointed out that
it would require a constitu
tional amendment and action
by the legislature.
Smith will probably counter
that if has the votes, he will
be able to handle the rest.
rHILE all this was happen
" ing on the political front
in our country, former Presi
dent Eisenhower came quiet
ly to his tree-shaded office on
the Gettysburg college campus
and settled down to the rou
tine work of an ex-President.
June 6 was the 18th anni
versary of D-Day - probably
the trimmest exhibition of
COURAGE in the history of
the world.
Let's keep this in mind:
Our men had it then. They'd
have it now in a similar emergency.