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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. JUNE 21. 1962 Publicity Dies Down, But John Birchers Continue To Thrive (Editor's Note: A littlt rot than yar hat pasied linca in John Birch So liaty cama into national irominance. Th following litpatch reports how the so ciety and its members have ared in that time.) Bf FREDRICK H. TREESH Jnited Press International In California's recent pri rrary election, Dr. Max Raf fcrty, an educator with con servative views and heavy sipport Irom the John Birch Society, polled more than 600,000 votes to force a run of for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In Texas, resigned Gen. Ed win A. Walker, a Birch So ciety member and outspoken foe ot an alleged Communist "apparatus" in the federal government, ran sixth and last in the Democratic Guberna torial race. But he polled more than 138,000 votes. Two California Republican Congressmen, members of the Birch group, won renomina tion bj heavy margins and a third society member won the nomination in a new, recently reapportioned congressional district. Monday night, in a colonial-spired, broad-lawned hotel in Garden City, N. Y., a crowd of 1.500 heard a speech by Robert Welch, founder and leader of the Birch movement. The meeting, arranged by a representa tive from the Birch Society's! Belmont, Mass.. Headquarters, j was "a sellout." Much Debated In the months since the Birch Society became publicly ' known, it has been much do- bated-in the press, in Con gress and by persons of all political attitudes across the land. No small amount of the discussion has been within the ranks of the conservative movement itself. j This section of the debate probably has been centered! more around the society's founder and leader-Welch-than about its principles. The National Review, edited by William F. Bulkley Jr., a leading spokesman of the con servative movement, devoted a recent editorial to "the! question of Robert Welch." The National Review edi-j torial concluded: "Mr. Welch, for all his good intentions, threatens to divert militant conservative action to irrelevance and ineffectuality. There are, as we suy, great things that need doing, the winning of a national election, the re-educating of governing classes. Can Do Much "The John Birch Society chapters can do much to for ward those aims but only as they dissipate the fog of con fusion that issues from Mr. Welch's smoking typewriter. Mr. Welch has revived it nny men the spirit of pa triotism, and the same spirit now calls 'for the rejecting, out of love of truth and coun try, his false counsels." The editorial drew lauda tory letters from two of the most highly placed conserva tives in government, Sens. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz and John G. Tower, R-Tex. Gold water implored Welch to re sign as Birch Society leader. "We cannot allow the em blem of irresponsibility to be attached to the conservative banner," Goldwater said in his letter to the National Re view. In California, where the Birch Society is the strongest. Democratic Attorney General Stanley Mosk drafted a 15 page report accuses the Birch movement, especially Welch, of employing the tactics of the Communist conspiracy it is dedicated to oppose. Perhaps the most spectacu lar event involving, at least indirectly the Birch Society was Gen. Walker's relief from command of the Army's 24th Infantry division in Germany for exceeding his authority in politically indoctrinating his troops. The Army's report on the Walker case, made avail able to a Congressional Com mittee last September, said the General was a Birch So ciety member and his orienta tion program and the Birch programs were "remarkably identical." Gen. Walker, appearing be fore a Senate Preparedness in vestigating Subcommittee last April, charged that high rank- I if f - f f - i y i wmii ii 'mm Immti "' itt TESTIFIES - Felix E. Worm ser, an assistant secretary of Interior in the Eisenhower ad ministration, is shown as he fore the Senate Armed Serv ices subcommittee on stock testified in Washington be piling. He acknowledged that government stockpiling of lead and zinc was tailored at least in part to support the domestic price. (UPI) ing government officials are members of a "hidden control apparatus" that was bending the Army and organs of the U. S. government to the will of the Communist conspiracy. Plans To Run After his resignation from the Army was accepted last Nov. 4, Walker announced plans to run for the Democrat ic nomination for governor in Texas. The ex-General pitched his campaign on the imminent danger of Commu nism and the national drift ! toward Socialism. Polling! 138,386 votes, Walker finish ed last in a field of six. John B. Connally, formerly Presi dent Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy, outpolled Walkt-r nearly 4 to 1 in the first pri- Construction Costs Less Than Accident's New York-IUPIV-The nation spent a total of $6.7 billion on highway construction dur ing 1961, but the cost of traf fic accidents was even higher. The economic loss from mo tor vehicle accidents amount ed to $6.8 billion, according to a survey by C.I.T. Corp., a major industrial and highway financing firm. The survey defined accident costs as loss of wages for those killed and injured, reduced earning pow er because of disabilities, medical and hospital expens es, property damage and insurance. Now Campbell Quality comes to soup mixes! iff K ,. K ' H, M : j from me l"v- . Ill .... .. - - Zn&Xt-'m H u W : "we'll pay for Your first 2 -can carton ...we're so sure you'll want more" mwMeamm 8 Soup Mixes There have never been any soup mixes like these before. We could go to great lengths about the new Freeze-Drying method that keeps more natural flavor in our chicken, beef and mushrooms . . . about the flavor-blending skills of the Campbell Soup Chefs ... the way we make our chicken soups with real chicken stock ... and about the special new con tainer that keeps all our soups fresh and full of flavor. But we'd rather let them speak for themselves. That's why we say, buy a 2-can carton of any one kind, mail the entire carton-along with your name and address and the price you paid for it-to: New Soup Mix, Box lfi-C, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. We'll mail the purchase price right back. One refund to a customer-offer expires August 15, 1962. Try New Red' Kettle Soup Mixes Exclusive new can created especially to protect mup mix flavor bent It's hermetically scaled. LiRht but tough reaiaU the teara and puncturca that let flavor leak out. Comes 2 to the carton each can makea 3-4 scrvinga. No other aoup mil haa it. Chlokon Noodla with diced ohloKen meet Noodle with r..l ohlok.n .too Onion Beef Noodle Cream ot Mushroom -taste the difference Campbell Quality makes! mary and won the nomination in a subsequent run-off against Don Yarborough. The only other Birch So ciety member running in the Texas election, David Valkus. an automotive company clerk, lost in a bid for the Dallas schoolboard. Political in-fighting directly involving the John Birch So ciety was the most pro nounced in California's Re publican Slate Convention meeting in Berkeley March 4. The assembly endorsed Richard M. Nixon for tne' Gubernatorial nomin a t i o n and Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel for re-election. Both are rela tively middle of the road Re publicans. But before making its en dorsements, the Assembly passed, aflcr a bitter fight, a resolution condemning t h e Birch Society's founder, Welch. The resolution, intro duced by Nixon himself, de scribed the society as "dicta torial and totalitarian." Nix on's strong position on the society alienated some con servative elements in the party. It made certain a bit ter primary on June 5 pitting Nixon against little known State Sen. Joseph Shell, who was backed strongly by the i Birch members and other con servative forces. I Nixon Won Nixon won handily-Shcll ! got about 35 per cent of the vote-but the Republican party in California was a house di vided on conservative-liberal lines. The split gave rise to serious questions whether the party would be unified suf- ficently to give Nixon much hope of defeating Democrat Brown in November, Brown has a built-in advantage to be gin with a 3 to 2 edge in voter registration. Republican voters renomin ated Reps. John Roussclot and Edgar Hiestand in the 25th and 27th congressional, dis tricts and gave the 29th dis trict nomination to adverti sing man, H. L. (Bill) Richard son, a Birch member making his first bid for public offiee. Richardson's district is newly created, but Roussclot and Hiestand's districts were re apportioned, making them more heavily Democratic than I previously; hence, their real test will be in the November general election. j Dr. Rafferty, the candidate with Birch support for Cali-! fornia Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, trailed Dr. Ralph Richardson by fewer than 100,000 votes. The two leading candidates, each- oft whom polled more than 600,-! 000 votes, will meet in a de-j ciding, two-way race in; November. j Did Not Wilt i The Birch Society certainly' did not wilt in the glare of publicity it has received in! the past year. There is no way to assess its gains or loss-1 es in the broad areas of the nation where it organizes quietly except to note that Welch speeches usually are well attended The Society I does not report its member-! ship figures nor the subscrip-' lion list to ils magazine, American Opinion. Rep. Rousselot, who be lieves he won in California because of his conservative voting record, said this on the state of the society: "T h e publicity generally has improved in the last six months in the sense that there is more a search for the facts, although in some areas it isa more unfair than before. Growth has continued to ac celerate. "Spokesmen for the John Birch Society are becoming more articulate, more con- isidernte, more careful in their public approach. The organi- ' zalion Is maturing in its abil- j ity to act as an effective group of spokesmen for conserva- I tism." I Rep. Hiestand perhaps was even more optimistic about j the society. 1 "It is growing to beat the I band." he said. "It's not mono , lithic as sometimes charged. ; It's the greatest bunch of rug ged individualists I ever knew. The society comprises I a group of patriotic study i groups. It is no where near ' right-wing extremism." 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