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History from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1952 (Friday)
Chamber of commerce pe
titions Civil Aeronautics
board for permission to inter
vene in the application of
three airlines for service be
tween Medford and Klamath
Falls.
John Day, Medford rancher,
was recently elected to mem
bership in The Explorers club
of New York, N.Y., an organ
ization of world-wide explor
ers whose major aim is to
encourage scientific restarcn.
20 YEARS-AGO
Aug. 8. 1942 (Saturday)
LI. Col. William E. Cald
well, the son-in-law of Mr.
and Mis. H. E. Conger, is an
nounced as the inventor of a
gas emergency breathing tube
for use when gas masks are
unavailable.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In
formed London military cir
cles are again busy with their
predictions and deductions.
One of the main troubles with
informed London military cir
cles is a tendency to be for
from it."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1932 (Monday)
Holly theater offers five
cent matinee for children un
der 12.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8. 1922 (Tuesday)
A strike breaker working
for Southern Pacific railroad
brings charges of carrying
concealed weapons against
three striking workmen who
be said threatened him with
pistols.
The county court and state
Iiighway officials Inspect the
Ml. Ashland road to deter
mine if it needs repair work.
so yearsTgo
Aug. 8. 1912 (Thursday)
Madame Gadski, famed op
eratic soprano, schedules an
October concert In Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina Of ten correct is superior;
seven or eight il excellent; live or
lis li good.
1. Was the Him settlement
in Oregon, a trading post, es
tablished by the Missouri Fur
Co., or John Jacob Astor?
2. Which of the following is
rot a chemical element: arsen
ic, bismuth, strychnine?
3 Was the prophet Jere
miah, Daniel, or Amos lower
ed In the miry pit?
4. President F. D. Roose
velt had three cluse unofficial
advisers, two ol them were
Judge nosoman, and Harry
Hopkins; name the third.
5. What is the name of Hit
accurate lime keeping device
carried on ships for use in
navigation?
B. Name the slates lhal
border on Lake Erie.
7. What sentence was pass
ed upon Japanese General
Yamashila by the military
court that tried him?
8. In which city is the
'Treaty Elm" under which
William Penn negotiated
treaty with the Indians?
9 Whose is the possessive
of who. Is It correct to use
who's in the same sense''
10. Who was the first Presi
dent to be inaugurated in
Washington, D C?
Answers:
1. A it or. 2. Strychnine.
3, Jeremiah. 4. Bernard
Baruch. 5. Chronometer. 6.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York. Michigan. 7. Death by
hanging. 8. Philadelphia 9.
No. Il l s contraction for who
It. 10. Jefferson.
VTASSO
Twelve Hours to Life
Up in Coos Bay the other day a man beat
his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
He was arrested about midnight. The girl
died about 1 :30 a.m. At 11 :30 a.m. he was taken
before a justice of the peace and formally
charged with first degree murder. He waived a
preliminary hearing, waived the right to a grand
jury hearing, and was held for circuit court.
T-In m.'qc tolrnn tn tho pnnnHr cpat in fnnllillp.
AAV , I I J L J 1 , V. VUU1IVJ ... .J J
onrl tnlrl nffipprs hp wnntprl tn nlpad CTliltV. But
Oregon law prohibits a
gree murder, so tne district attorney reaucea trie
cnarge to second degree.
THE CIRCUIT judge appointed an attorney to
represent the man, but he refused to talk with
him. He entered a plea of guilty, and at 1:30
p.m. he was sentenced to life in the penitentiary
aoout 13 'a nours alter ne was urst arrested,
and 12 hours after an assault became a murder.
The case went through all the prescribed legal
steps, and the rights not accorded to him were
rights he declined.
The Capital Journal in Salem wonders:
". . . We wonder whether 12 hours between crime
and sentencing is not carrying the principles of swift
Justice to too great an extreme. In Oregon you aren't
even allowed to get married in such a short time."
yHERE appears little
the girl, and that she died.
, But questions remain unresolved. Was it first
degree murder? Or was it second degree? Or,
perhaps, even manslaughter? Or is there a possi
bility that he actually was innocent of any of
these, by reason 01 insanity or some otner iactor
of which we do not know, and now cannot know?
None of these possibilities were explored.
The Capital Journal adds:
"We wonder if maybe the obligations of the courts
do not extend beyond the basic defenses provided by
law.
"The courts have a moral obligation, we believe,
to cause a man charged with a crime to give It a good,
long thought before throwing away the rest of his life,
whether he has it coming or not."
Twelve hours is too short a time to come to
a rlpr'isinn ahntif. a man's mil If.. PVPn if. in t.hfi
confusion and rush, he
get it over with. L.A.
Unknown World of Ra
For thousands of years men have talked
about, and feared, the "unknown worlds." They
propitiated their gods, feared the fairies and de
mons and trolls, and whispered about things that
go bump in the night.
There are still unknown worlds unknown,
that is, unless one is equipped with sensitive and
sophisticated instruments.
Minute particles (or energy) go shooting
through our bodies every moment of the day
and night. Radio waves carry messages. Radia
tion bombards the world.
None of this can be seen or heard or felt or
tasted or smelled. Man's senses are too limited.
DUT THESE phenomena do exist. A delightful
paragraph describing one such appears in
the current issue of the Bee-Hive, publication of
United Aircraft. First it describes a pleasant
spring day, then adds:
"Yet unseen, a severe storm crackled across the
United States, and the world. Its lightning shafts were
a silent rush of magnetism, which played huge tricks
on man's electrical paraphernalia. Power lines surged
with wild currents set up by the strange tempest, and
thousands of fuses blew. Teletypwriters left off In the
middle of important messages and began typing un
intelligible phrases. Short-wave radio transmissions
blanked out. Compass needles, blown by the magnetic
gusts, swung from their true bearings. And where dark
ness fell on the high latitudes, the skies were intense
ly bright with long, luminous streamers of green and
pink that pulsed and shifted like wind swept curtains.
These were the auroras, or polar lights, the effect of
the storm's thick flurry of high-speed cosmic
particles smashing into atoms
The source of this storm invisible to the eye
except through some secondary manifestations
such as the auroras borealis or australis was the
sun.
IN ADDITION to these invisible and silent bolts
of energy, the sun sends us two forms of en
ergy which'are tangible light and heat.
'Without these and in just the right meas
ure the world as we know it would cease to
exist. They not only provide an environment in
which mankind caii live; they also are the ulti
mate source of virtually all the usable energy
with which we operate our civilization.
It is hardly any wonder that, back in the
days when superstitious mankind whispered
about the "unknown worlds," he also had great
reverence for the groat sun, source of light and
heat and energy" and also, oddly enough, the
source of most of today's "unseen worlds" of
radiation and magnetism.
We no longer worship Ra, the sun god. but
he still merits our respectful attention. E.A.
Too Quickly
Television Commentator Terrence O'Flaherty
writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about two
famous suicides who received television billing
this week Vincent Van C.ogh ami Marilyn
Monroe.
Van Gogh was quoted as writing his brother:
"They will (ell you that I have painted too fast. You
may reply that they have looked too quickly . , ,"
O'Flaherty adds:
"They may tell you lhal she lived loo fast; you may
, reply that perhaps Ihev have looked loo quickly . .''
E.A.
guilty plea to first de
doubt that the man beat
admits it and wants "to
in the upper atmosphere."
"Ya Gotta' Expect A Losing Season
Once In Awhile"
COMMUNICATIONS
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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 the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Public Be Damned
To the Editor: While the
drug thalidomide is still in
the news, I would like to
quote what Dr. William Brady
has to say about our food and
drug act:
"The betrayal of the. public
by the federal government
was shamefully manifest in
the food and drugs act of
1906, which our congress
comique fixed up exactly as
the big nostrum interests or
dered. The present version of
the law is in effect a greater
betrayal of public welfare.
"The commission enforcing
the regulations, with tongue
in cheek, squanders many
thousands of govern ment
money in prosecuting, prac
tically persecuting, some ob
scure person or firm for a
trivial or technical offense in
labelling, secures a nominal
'conviction' and a fine of $50
or a perfunctory admonish
ment from the court, and
everything goes on as before.
But the food and drug di
vision just doesn I see the
glaring defiance of Ihe letter
and spirit of the law and its
own specific regulations in
the naming, labeling and the
vicious claims made by the
sense dulling drugs which are
so freely sold to the unwary
public under names shrewdly
calculated to deceive and mis
lead. I refer particularly to
coaltar derivatives, a n 1 1 1 n
derivatives, drugs of the acc-tanilide-phcnacetive-antipyrin
class. These drugs, incorpor
ated In scores of nostrums
sold without even decent re
strictions by the government,
are destructive to health and
frequently a contributing or
even the direct cause of death.
yet the federal foods and
drugs bureau finds no fault
with this big business.
"The coaltar derivatives
mentioned are present in
countless nostrums purport
ing to be remedies for head
ache, neuralgia, neuritis,
'colds', grip, that tired feel
ing, worry, sleeplessness,
strain, or what have you."
And he says more if there
was space for il. This is the
way our government functions
in all branches, just for the
vested interests. The public
be damned.
Ray Prichard
414 South First st.
Central Point, Ore.
Incredible
To the Editor: The incredi
ble, new, "soft - on Commu
nism" blue print for Ameri
can foreign policy drawn up
by Ihe Slate department of
ficial, Walt w. Rostow, and
now in the hands of President
Kennedy, has thrown our al
lies around the world into an
almost frantic cold sweat of
fear, according to reports of
our foreign diplomats.
Newspapers in Japan are
deeply concerned over the
document which, it seems,
calls for appeasement of the
Soviet Union and Red China,
because Prof. Rostow and his
planning committee believe
these two sets of internationil
gangsters are mellowing in
their aggressiveness; or will
mellow In time.
The West Germans and the
French are also frightened:
and are particularly upset :ind
angry over the news leak that
the Rostow plan calls for U. S.
recognition of East Germany,
which of course would mean
Ihe sell-out of West Germany.
Yet the American people
slumber on.
Even the responsible, loyal
men in our Senate, headed by
Senators Dirksen and Syming
ton are frightened and angry
at the arrogance of Ihe Ken
nedy administration in with
holding the details of this
master plan from the Senate
Foreign Relations committee,
which Is supposed to mold our
foreign policy. For when they
recently pinned Prof. Rostow
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
down in a closed session he-
fore the committee as to the
details of the plan's contents,
he claimed executive privi
lege," even as our smaller fry
of internal enemies hide be
hind the 5th Amendment. Yet
the American people sleep on.
When cornered by news
men, President Kennedy -just
as he defended William
Wieland, State department
employee who helped bring
Castro to power - defended
Prof. Rostow, saying that he
is only "acting under instruc
tions, and "acting very re
sponsibly." Acting under WHOSE in-
slructions? And just where
does our President fit into the
picture? This clear danger sig
nal coming right out of the
White House should have rung
like a bell across our land
bringing the heads of the
American people up out of
the fog of brain wash and
treacherous propaganda now
inundating them. But it didn't.
They slumber on. It is now an
open secret that our State de
partment is helping the Krem
lin take over the rest of the
world. But the American peo
ple just slumber on.
L. C. Powell
316 S. E. Eighth st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
O -
Encouragement
To the Editor: The attached
encouraging letter tells its
own story.
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Dear Mr. Frisch: This will
acknowledge your recent let
ter in which you point to the
increase in the population of
the City of Medford and the
consequent increase in the
number of veterans which
might be able to support the
establishment of medical fa
cilities at While City.
The case for such facilities
is made stronger, as you
point out, since emergency
and serious cases must be
rushed to the Portland-Vancouver
area where (here is
already a waiting list which
may mean delays in admit
tance or hasly discharges
from the hospitals.
Since you know of my ef
forts lo obtain establishment
of such medical facilities at
White City since 1 954, I do
not have to recite the history
of my efforts. My most re
cent inquiry to the Veterans
Administration on this sub
ject resulted in the enclosed
ropy of report from Chief
Medical Director William S.
Middleton. Dr. Middlelon in
dicates that t h e combined
waiting list of the Portland
Vancouver hospitals is 137.
which he states is not out-of-line
with the overall waiting
list throughout the VA sys
tem. He also points to the dif
ficulty he believes would be
encountered in securing and
retaining qualified medical
personnel at White City. A
close examination of this re
port will disclose that the
combined waiting list is more
than double what it was dur
ing 1953.
In view of this sharp in
crease and the experiences
related in letters such bs
yours. I intend to pursue this
matter further with the Vet-
erans Administration in order
S to determine whether this
j increased backlog with its
' proportionate attendant con-
ditions provides a somewhat
different basis for considera
iatinn of medical facilities at
j White City.
i As soon as I have further
news of importance on this
i mailer, I shall get in touch
! with you again.
In the meantime, I send
kindest regards.
Wayne Morse
United States Srnaior
Washington, D C.
Debate Over Economy Produces
Prescriptions, But Tax Cut Need Seen
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press International
Washington-lUPli - The eco
nomic debate asked by Presi
dent Kennedy in his Yale
speech two months ago is go
ing on but it is not easily
heard.
Congress read the speech
and showed no incliation to
take a new look at govern
ment budget-making despite
the President's complaint that
there was too much mythol
ogy in federal bookkeeping.
Former president Eisenhower
led Republican critics who
offered scornful replies.
The real debate is being
carried on by economists but
usually in unpublicized
speeches or articles which
may turn up later in the fine
print in the appendix of the
Congressional Record.
Arthur F. Burns and Ray
mond J. Saulnier, who both
served as chairman of the
President's Council of Eco
nomic Advisers during the Ei
senhower administration, are
the authors of speeches al
ready in the Congressional
Record. Leon H. Keyserling,
who held the same job in
the Truman administration,
put his thoughts in print in
the New York Times maga
zine last Sunday. Kennedy's
own council gets a hearing be
fore the House-Senate Eco
nomic Committee this week.
Prescriptions Far Apart
As could be expected, the
Burns-Saulnicr and Keyser
ling prescriptions are far
apart. The doctors are treat-
Josephine Utility
District Feasible
Salem -IUPD- The state engi
neer has ruled that a proposed
people's utility district in Jo
sephine county would be fea
sible under certain conditions.
His action opens the possi
bility for a vote on the PUD
this fall if sponsors of the
measure are able to get 5 per
cent of the voters in the area
to sign petitions before Aug.
28.
Preliminary petitions for
the district were sponsored by
the Josephine County Public
Power association' which is
headed by William I. David
son, of Applegate.
The proposed district would
take in all of Josephine coun
ty except the sparsely popu
lated western fringe,
The report of the state en
gineer said that if the district
is able to acquire the present
distribution system at not
more than 5'j times the an
nual revenue, assuming the
annual revenue is equal to
that of 1961, and if it is able
to obtain service bonds with
an effective rate of 5 per cent
or less the project would be
economically feasible.
The area is presently being
served by the Copco division
of Pacific Power and Light
Co.
Scientists Plan
Meeting at OSU
Corvallis - HOT - More than
4,000 biological scientists are
expected at Oregon State uni
versity Aug. 26-31 for joint
meetings of the American In
stitute of Biological Sciences
and the Pacific division of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Thirty-seven scientific
groups will meet concurrent
ly during the week. More
than 2.100 research papers
will be presented during the
meetings.
Kevnote speaker is to be
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Mel
vin Calvin of California. He
will speak on possibilities of
life on other planets.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Has Virus Attack
New York - lUPH Mrs. Elea
nor Roosevelt, 77. was report
ed recovering from a virus at
tack and will attend the dedi
cation of the Franklin D. Roo
sevelt Memorial Bridge be-
Uween Lcuocc, Maine ana
I Campobello Island next Mon
'day. A spokesman for the former
i first lady said Tuesday that
"she had a virus and she let il
ro. It meant that her recovery
.-as a little slower. But her
(ever has gone down and she
is feeling much better."
No Action Taken on
Satellite Measure
Seattle
The three-day
Western
Democratic Confer-
enee saw no action on a rcso -
lution asking "delay'' on en.
actment of President Ken
nedy's satellite communica
tions bill, opposed by Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Orc.) and
others
Morse had criticized the bill
at a Sunday speech. Atty.
Gen Robert Kennedy spoke
in favor of it Thursday.
Ing the same patient but one
set orders him to stay in bed
and the other prescribes brisk
exercises.
All advocate tax reforms
but" ... I wculd think that
to those pragmatists who re
gard budgetary deficits as a
more or less guaranteed for
mula for producing a brisk
recovery, the present cycle
must be a nightmare," says
Saulnier.
Keyserling wants "a large
and immediate tax reduction"
mostly in low and middle in
come brackets and "a large
and immediate increase in fed
eral spending." He says his
formula would mean a federal
deficit of $6.5 to $7 billion
but would put the economy at
the $600 billion a year level.
Uneasy Peace in Laos, While
Casualties
' By NEIL SHEEHAN .
United Press International
Saigon - IUPD - While an un
easy peace has settled over
Laos, a war that claims a
thousand lives a week rages
on in South Viet Nam.
People here are now asking
themselves whether the settle
ment in Laos-however uncertain-will
make the struggle
against the Communists in
South Viet Nam any easier.
Many are sure it will be
harder. . They are convinced
that the Communists can now
turn their full attention from
Laos to South Viet Nam.
As one American military
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
BORES
"I have the only solution,"
said a colleague at lunch,
"let's lock the two office bores
together in a room for 24
hours, and have them talk
each other to death."
Certain aspects of the con
versational bore hold a mor
bid fascination for me. In
common with most people, I
have a pervasive fear of bor
ing others, and a secret sus
picion that I Go so far more
often than I know.
But the conversational bore
is utterly devoid of this nat
ural trepidation. He is su
premely convinced that what
ever he says is of surpassing
Interest to his captive audi
ence no matted how slowly,
how redundantly, and how
repetitiously he says it.
Another feature about the
bore that fascinates me is
his sublime unawareness of
the emotional radiations in
the room. I fancy that I can
tell in a moment if someone .
is busy, wants to work, it
preoccupied, or is simply
uninterested in what I have
to say and I immediately
fold my verbal tent and si
lently steal away.
The bore, however, is
cursed with nervous sys
tem that cannot receive im
pulses from others. He just
hat no idea that the victim
it praying lo be left alone
or palpitating to get away.
His emotional vliion is
opaque.
He it alio, tadly enough,
curied with the lingular dis
ease known at "non-terminal
facilities." He doet not
know when to stop. He gett
wound up and keept going,
long after he hat told you
more than you care to know
on any tubject. He it like
the compoter who gett into
a melody and cannot get
out again, or the novelist
who begins a book and can
not write himself out of the
plot.
The art of the period is the
first and greatest art in writ
ing, and it should be so also
in talking. Say it and stop. It
sounds so simple but the
bore is somehow afraid to
stop, so he adds another move
ment, another chapter . . .
and then trails off unhappily
. . . for he doesn't know how
to say goodby either.
It is sheer optimism to be
lieve that the two office bores
would "talk themselves to
death." For a bore never lis
tens; he is only marking time,
with a blank mind, until you
stop and he can begin again.
Conversation, to the bore, is
not a tennis game where the
ball is popped from one player
to another, but rather a bowl
ing match played on separate
alleys.
We can be rude to the ob
noxious bore, but mankind has
1 found no way to handle the !
sweet bore, the harmless, pa
thetic, lonesome bore. H i s
worst offense is that after
awhile he stirs thoughts of
homicide in one's heart, and
then makes one feel guilty for
these thoughts. For Ihe most
distresing bo.e of all is the
one we cannot bring ourselves
to dislike.
far enough below capacity to
avoid inflation.
With industry operating at
less than capacity, Keyserling
sees no need for further busi
ness tax concessions on top
of the new depreciation sched
ules and the administration
tax bill now in Congress.
See More Problems
To Saulnier and Burns,
Keyserling represents a school
of thought with a program
which would mean inflation
ary pressure and more trouble
in dealing with the balance
of payments problem. Keyser
ling denies both counts.
Burns says personal income
taxes in middle and upper
brackets are too high to en
courage incentive and that
corporate tax rates are too
Mount in Viet Nam
man put it, "The whole north
ern part of South Viet Nam is
now outflanked along a 170
mile border flanked along a
170-mile border of jungle and
mountains. The Viet Cong can
run back and forth across that
border any time they want to.
And we won't be able to do
anything about it."
With the end of the fighting
in Laos, officials fear that
North Viet Nam will gradual
ly shift its estimated 10 bat
talions there-10,000 men-into
fighting in South Viet Nam.
The shift, in fact, has al
ready begun. U.S. observers
say 2,500 to 3,000 already
have crossed over.
These officials confirm, de
spite denials from Washing
ton, that there has been a
marked increase in the infil
In the Day's News
By FRANK
What was Monday's news?
For once, there's no doubt
about it.
It's the sleeping pills death
of Marilyn Monroe.
ryHAT morning's San Fran--1-
cisco Chronicle devotes
62 '2 per cent of its front
page to the story. In addition,
it carries two full pages of
pictures and text on the in
side. Even more impressive
everything considered - is the
fact that the somewhat more
staid Portland Oregonian ap
portions 52 per cent of its
front page to it and tops one
inside page with what is left
over. '
ANOTHER comparison:
The Chronicle uses TWO
lines of 120 point type (about
an inch and a half high) to
headline its front page han
dling of this big news event.
The Oregonian is more con
servative, it uses only ONE
line of 72 point type (an inch
high) for its front page stream
er. WHAT was in the rest of
the front pages of these
two leading metropolitan
newspapers of ihe Pacific
coast?
Again there is agreement
in the news and its values.
Both use the Finkbines to
Sweden story. Both use the
Reds Resume Nuclear Testing
story. The Chronicle adds a
tale about the American Bar
association convention that is
meeting in San Francisco
which is obviously a big story
down on the Bay.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
MILLIONAIRE Inventor Philip K. Saunders has written
the story of his unusual Ufe in "Dr. Panto Fogo," a
nickname he acquired one day when his trousers caught
nre wniie ne was taking
a nap aboard a slow
train in Brazil. A few of
Mr. Saunders' passing
comments bear repeti
tion: (1) Laziness is the
mother of nine inventions
out of ten. (2) French
food is not really good
food. It is mediocre food
cunningly cooked and
disguised with sauces.
(3) Africans never talk
about sex because there
are no sex taboos of any
kind and therefore noth
ing about sex calls for any comment except the expression
of approval.
"You've got lo straighten out my husband," said a wife to a'
Tark Avenue psychiatrist. "He thinks he's a Jet plane." "Bring
him here Thursday at 2," suggested the psychiatrist. "That time
is impossible." said the wife. -Hes got to appear in court that
afternoon for flying low over Klatbush."
;
In Dallas, Lon Tinkle haa discovered a merchant who is par
ticularly optimistic about the current business picture. He is an
old scissors grinder, and he told Tinkle happily, I'm having my
biggest season. I never saw things so dull.''
In Worcester a bookseller received a letter for an aggrieved
customer which pointed out. ' Four weeks ago I sent vou a
check for a dictionary with no
is no maex. '
C 1963. by Btnmtt Cert. Dutr.bu'.jd. liy Kins 1'eaturet Syndicate
Varying
high to leave business firms
enough money to invest in
needed new equipment.
Saulnier says economic
growth depends on a higher
rate of investment and that
a squeeze on corporate profits
has curtailed Investment. He
says the administration's
guidelines aimed at keeping
wage raises in line with in
creases In productivity should
be revised to provide "a catch
up in profits."
The labor movement likes
the Keyserling approach. Bus
inessmen like to hear what
Burns and Saulnier are say
ing. The amateur in eco
nomics can only wonder who
has the best prescription for
a prosperous - and growing
economy.
tration of Viet Cong guerillas
across the border into South
Viet Nam's central highlands
since the truce.
Many observers here doubt
as does Thailand's Foreign
Minister Thanat Khoman
that the new Laotian govern
ment can keep its Geneva
pledge that foreign troops will
not be allowed on its soil.
As the Thai minister said,
the Communist troops in Laos '
"may change their uniforms,
but the men and the weapons
will remain."
The only difference be
tween the Viet Cong and reg.
ular North Vietnamese units,
officials say, is that the rank
and file of the guerrillas are
recruited in the south and
trained either there or in
Laos.
JENKINS
The Oregonian fills the rest
of its front page with a couple
of shorties in the news one
about a boy who finds a wal
let containing upwards of $500
and returns it to the owner,
and another about a Beaver
ton man who was drowned
in the Willamette river.
LET'S do some supposing.
Suppose JFK, at his next
news conference, should say
to the reporters:
"I'm OFF the New Fron
tier. I don't think it will work.
FROM HERE ON OUT, I'M
A CONSERVATIVE." That
would be big political and eco
nomic news. It might change
the whole future of our na
tion. Questions:
What would the Chronicle
have done with that story?
What would the Oregonian
have done?
How much space would
they have used? What kind
of headlines would they have
put on it?
IN CONCLUSION.
Just what IS news?
Webster defines it thus: "A
report of a recent event; tid
ings. MATTER OF INTEREST
TO NEWSPAPER READ
ERS." WELL . . .
On the evidence of two
of America's leading metro
politan newspapers, there can
be little doubt that at this
moment in history the untime
ly death of Marilyn Monroe
was NEWS ... big news.
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