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-
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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!
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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."
CHRYSTA
The House of Personal Service
4th and Fir Phone 772-7315
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