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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. VedfoiuJ&&Thibuni ""Everyone in' Southern Oreion" ReadLTheMeUTrlbune1) Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North rirt.. Ph. 772-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Idltor HERB GREY AdverUiinf Manner GERALD T. LATHAM. Bua. Mfr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnf. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKHUN.jtircuiauon Mgr AnIndeDendent Newspaper Entered aa aecond data matter at Mcdfora. ureeon, unoer Act oi March I. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 rjallv and Sunday 0 moa. 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 8.00 Sunday Only On year 13.00 Single Copy (Mailed) auc By Carrier And Motor Rout. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.78 finndav Onlv 1 mo. 80c Carrier and Vendor! .opy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jaeluon County United Presa International Full Leased Wire II. P. I. Telephoto Newaplctures "MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU" OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising; Representative: NELSON ROBERTS it ASSOCI. ATES. Offices In New York, Chi eago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angelea, Seattle, Portland, Denver. NIWSFAMft SlIlHf IS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL vJv I I AccrfGTin)M Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tht files of Th Mall Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 yean tgo. 10 YEARS AGO Spt. 14. 1952 (Tuesday) General assembly of Ro tarians, scheduled to be held here Sept. 13, disrupted by Injury of governor of district of Rotary International in plane crash. Herd of elephants on Main street causes stares and double-takes by viewing popula tion; elephants are part of cir cus. 20 YEARS AGO Eept. 14. 1942 (Wednesday) City Councilman Harold Frye calls public's attention to new stop signs at railroad tracks on Mala St.; all cars must come to complete halt before crossing tracks. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There is a nip in the morning air, re moving the southern drawl (like from the natives and the new arrivals from Texas." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 1932 (Friday) Several thousand feet of motion picture film showing Crater lake completed and ready for national distribu tion. Local meat markets adver tise choice beef steak at 13 cents a pound and fresh churn' ed creamery butter at 22 cents a pound. 40 YEARS AGO Sepl. 14. 1922 (Saturday) Ashland man purchases 75 per cent of stock In Granite City hospital there following lengthy negotiations. Record breaking crowd at tends Medford day at Jackson county fair. SO YEARS AGO Spl. 14, 1912 (Monday) Carload of gold ore shipped from Medford Mining and Milling company's mine near Jacksonville. "Uncle Bob Cook, post master at Draper, on Foots creek, since 1884, notifies post office department of his resig nation; has been a resident of southern Oregon since moving here from Utah in 1830, What's Your I.Q.7 Nina r ,en correct It tursrir seven at eight li ncallent; fir r Is It good. 1. In what months of the yoar do the equinoxes occur? 2. What President's portrait Is on the face of the fifty dol lar roacrai Reserve Note? 3. One who studies popula tion trends is known as a d ? 4. For what purpose were the pyramids of Egypt origin ally built? J. Correct the following: "In Galsworthy's play he deals with an cxpioslve theme." 8. Which Old Testament Book is sometimes called Can ticles? 7. What was the color of the Owl's and Pussy-cat's boat? 8. Who was our first Secre tary of Defense? 9. Which of the twelve Apostles was reputedly a phy. liclan? 10. Is the Audubon Society primarily Interested In birds, books, or coins? Anawtrst 1. March Ind Sep timbir, 2, Cram's. 3, Dime graphtr. 4, Tombs. S. "In his play, Galsworthy deals . . ." . Sony of Solomon. 7. Pta Grtn. I, Jamtt V. Forreslal. t. Luke. 10. Birds. SEPTEMBER 14. 1962 Is "Balloon " Bread Wrong? With all due respect to Judge James T. Brand, who made his decision according to law and regulation, we think that the "balloon bread" decision was wrong. Which means, in turn, that we believe an overly-assiduous state department of agriculture in what was probably a well-meant effort to "pro tect" consumers from their own ignorance, went too far. Balloon bread is nothing but a 1-pound loaf baked in a 1-pound size pan. It's bigger. It's fluffier. Some people prefer it to the smaller loaf. DUT UNDER authority of a state law, the de " partment of agriculture decided that the bal loon loaf is deceptive and illegal. It decreed that 1-pound loaves must be baked in the old, smaller pan. The ruling was challenged as an unconstitu tional delegation of power in Multnomah circuit court, which agreed with the challenge. But the supreme court ruled otherwise. And as a result of Judge Brand's findings announced this week, the department is seeking to prosecute a number of bakeries. No matter what the department are, we eye the ruling as unwarrant ed, unjust, and an exercise of thoughtless govern mental paternalism unjustified by the circum stances. 17E CAN'T see what T T size of pan bread is If the department thought there was danger of defrauding a helpless consumer, a simple order mat the Dread De more prominently laDeled would be far more effective, far more sensible, and far more equitable, than to try to throw some DaKers into the pokey. ; Intent to defraud is sioie. oovernmentai action is such a case may well be called for. But to try to abolish emptor," and to say that a consumer purchase ferent size, is carrying "protection" into the realm of the ridiculous. E. A. Rule Making Authority .The balloon bread ruling is an example of what is called the "rule making authority" of various departments of government. Such author ity is an absolute necessity if an administrative office is to f unctioni It does so under a grant of authority irom the legislature (or congress, in the federal government), and its rulings have the force of law. This power, while necessary, is a touchy and potentially dangerous one. It leaves the door open to arbitrary, even ca pricious, exercises of power, without the prior f i. I ilA'. J ruBM-awi, oi legislative aepaie. a puts non-eiectea office holders in the position of passing their own laws. "THE RULE making authority should be must be exercised with great forethought, cau tion and restraint. Legislative grants of rule makintr power should be confined to limits sufficiently narrow to minimize the possibility of abuses. Adequate appeal procedures should always be available. If not, the integrity and wisdom of the agency itself will be called into question; injustices will ensue; respect for government itself will suffer. In our form of government, where there are checks and balances, and political as well as ju dicial remedies, arbitrary and unwise of rule making power eventually will result in a loss of confidence, and an overthrow of those responsi ble. It may take time, but it is bound to happen. E.A. Parks Bargain The state highway department is a bit proud of Oregon's state parks. It is even bragging a bit. And it has every justification for so doing. A press release from the department this week reported that Oregon spent less than any other of 10 reporting states on its parks, and that its per capita cost per visitor was the lowest of the 10. It had a far higher visitation rate, on a per capita basis, than other states. AN AVERAGE of 11 persons visited Oregon Sparks for every dollar spent on maintenance and operation. The national average is four visi tors per dollar. Oregon's per-visitor cost was nine cents, while the national average was 22 cents. Oregon parks had a total of 52,500 visitors per employee. The national average was 16.S00. In other words, a combination of good ad ministration and high visitation gave Oregon more for its park dollar than any other of the 10 states. At the same time, a high level of cleanliness and service was maintained in the parks, as any visitor to them can attest. 'THESE figures were for the year 1961. It will be interesting to see compaVable figures for 1962, when the tourist flow was increased so sharply, in part due to the Seattle Worlds Fair and in part due to the excellent and effective advertising program the tourist information di vision carries out. We are not among those who believe the highway department can do no wrong, and have been critical on some occasions in the past. But in state parks, Oregon is tops, and the depart ment can take a bow. E. A. motives of the arrriculture difference it makes what baked in. one thing, and repreherv the old warning, "caveat no baker can bake nor a 1-pound loaf of a dif 1 1 . Tl . . 1 1 . . "Another Historic First!" ... Communications ... tetters to tht Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under eorlBin circumstances the use of a pen na ,.e or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right So edit all letters with a vie " elariHwHon .id condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words The lejijl, wnfraryl, of.MC h.mea.de? "present the view, of the paper, in fact the Square Dancing To the Editor: With the be ginning of the many local fall square dance classes, we find that many people feel that the dancing on TV's "Country Show" is typical of square dancing. Anyone who square dances, not just in the valley but all over the nation, knows that it certainly is not. When asked if they would like to learn to square dance, many people immediately think of the said television dancing. Naturally they feel that they couldn't keep up the pace. We agree. If the dancing one sees on TV's program were typical of square dancing only a few of the many active square dance clubs would exist. We urge the public to come out to one of the local clubs, see the type of dancing and fun we have, take square dance lessons, and join us in a wonderful recreation. The Medford Y Knot Twirlers By Patricia Lull 3497 Military rd. Central Point, Ore. Retain Farm Lands To the Editor: The follow ing letter has been sent to members of the county court: During a meeting on Aug. 26, a vote was cast by the Jackson County Farm Bureau to protest the sale of county farm lands including the ag ronomy station and the old horticulture station acreages. The Jackson County Farm Bureau joins those who be lieve that these lands should be used to produce food for three county institutions with much of the work done by prisoners jailed on minor charges. It teems reasonable to be lieve it is better for these minor offense prisoners to be working than to be sitting in jail. It also is important that these lands be used for agri culture when the produce can furnish food for county insti tutions plus work for the re habilitation of prisoners. It is a rare agricultural op eration, including livestock, which pays off the first year of operation. This farm organization rec ommends that these county lands be retained for agricul tural use under the honor farm system. Mrs. Grover T. Mulkcy Secretary Jackson County Farm Bureau Route 1, Box 262 Gold Hill, Ore. Senator Morse To the Editor: I have sent this letter to Mr. Waller Gabriel, of Newark, N.J.: 1 have read with great in terest your letter to the Med ford (Ore.) Mail Tribune of Sept. 9. and wish to thank you for it, because gratuitous advice as to how the Oregon electorate should cast its votes, always has an opposite effect. With one clause I am in complete agreement: "that the Oregon voters should flock to the polls." They will, all right, but it is to be hoped that a preponderance will vote for Mr. Sig Unandcr. Republican, who can restore dignity and integrity to that high office. Sorry to disillusion you about "his sacred duty pre venting our Senator from campaigning." Just as your letter arrived, he was making, of course, a non-political visit to our State Fair, where his prlre cows and bulls were on exhibition. Looks like the old double cross again, but, sir, think nothing of it. You now belong to an illustrious club which includes the Oregon Republican party. We elected him but he flopped. In all his years on the Hill, not one piece of major legislation bears his name. He has wind- MEDFORD MAIL ily used up an undue amount of legislative time. Insertions by him in the Congressional Record have cost fabulous money, taxpayer's money, that is. There would seem to be some gaps in your informa tion about our Senator. So I am mailing you a little book let which sets forth his record. He and his apologists scream that It is a "smear." That is revealing. Sources are the Congressional Record, and the story as recorded in the press of Oregon. It looks as if you had spilled some political beans, in announcing that Mr. Morse is committed to the 35 hour week. We had not learned that yet. As to Telstar, doesn't it sort of tax credulity to believe that a special revelation of wisdom was imparted to that small handful of Senators, which was denied to the ma jority of Congress? You would enjoy the cli mate of Medford, especially the political climate. Here the old line Democrats have abdi cated and become the tall to the kite of AFL-CIO. The Cen tral Committee of the Demo crats holds meetings in the Labor Temple. Quite cozy, that. Mr. Morse was defeated In his bid for delegate to the last Democrat convention. You remember, that was the one, prior to which Mr. Tru man, Mrs. Roosevelt and others were so prophetic about mr. iennedys qualifications for the Presidency. John Q. Stewart, 933 NE 12th st.. Grants Pars, Ore. U. N. Bonds To the Editor: Today, Sept. 14, the House of Representa tives is to vote on the United States purchase of United Na tion Bonds. Prompt approval of legislation similar to the Senate-approved bill of last April is in our best interests and provides the United States' share of funds needed to keep the United Nations solvent. Some 32 countries have already agreed to pur chase U.N. Bonds, but the U.S. cannot buy any bonds until the Senate -passed authoriza tion bill is enacted by the House and a separate appro priations bill is approved by the Congress. By voting for the bond is sue, the President, Senate and House vote to strengthen the U. N- and take this opportun ity to create confidence in the U.N.'s impartiality and com petence to deal with emergen cies which threaten the peace of the world. It also puts us with the nations safeguarding the U.N. from U.S.S.R. at tacks. It is regrettable that the United Nations must borrow, but it is not unusual for gov ernments to borrow when they are naro pressed or bankrupt. If the United Nations helps maintain world peace, the economy of the member states will so improve that redeem ing the bonds will not be dif ficult. Two hundred million dollars in bonds were author ized by the General Assembly during last session for a per iod of 25 years, and bearing 2 per cent interest. The United Nations costs are cheap insurance against war. All expenses of peace keeping and specialized agen cies cost the United States only $1 06 per c.ipita per year, as opposed to $300 per capita per year for other military ex penditures. Mrs. Marie M. Rosworth. Route 1, Box 62, Jacksonville. Ore. Psychic Phenomena To the Editor: In the issue of last Sunday I noticed "name on file" White City, taking someone named Henry to task for apparently not TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Cambodian-Yiet Namese Border Areas Are Trouble Spots for Both Nations By PHIL NEWSOM UPI For.ign News Analyst Scarcely 100 miles from Sai gon, the Cambodian border suddenly juts southward into South Viet Nam like a pointing fin ger. It is a flat, water land of glisten ing paddies, rub ber plants tions and jun gle, and to the people living Newsom there borders are unknown or oi little moment. On the South Vietnamese side is a zone called "Maquis Since 1945, before the French finally lost their war in Indochina, it has been un der the heavy influence of the Communist Viet Cong. On the Cambodian side lies Prey Veng province. believing that the dead com munciate with the living. The Bible position In this regard is very clear. Eccl. 9:5,6, and Ps. 146:4 plainly state that the dead cannot return to com municate with the living. It plainly teaches the source of such a pretense that of a "lying spirit" (1 Kings 22:22) and we are told in John 8:44 that the devil Is the father of lies. He told his first one to Eve in the garden of Eden while persuading her to par take of the forbidden fruit. He said "Thou shalt not surely die . . . ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." (Gen. 3:4,5.) This lie is forming the basis for the modern masquerade of the psychic which is bom barding the homes of today by way of the newspaper, radio, TV and best seller. Countless thousands are in terested today, some in the spirit of scientific investiga tion, others out of curiosity or for entertainment, others be cause of loneliness, turning to this shameless frawd perpet uated in the name of life's tenderest memories. Isa 8:19, 20: (Dr. Moffatt's translation) "When they tell you to consult mediums and ghosts that cheep and gibber in low murmurs, ask them if a nation should not rather consult Its God. Say, 'why consult the dead on behalf of the living? Rather consult the message and counsel of God." Jesus said our beloved dead rest peacefully until the resur rection day, and that He will call them forth. "Marvel not at this: for the hour is com ing, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that' have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they thni have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." (John 5:28, 29.) Some years ago a small boy came into Sunday school from a non-Christian home. His mother had a morbid fear of death. One day after listen ing to the story of the resur rection of Christ, the child bounded home with shining face and exclaimed, "Oh mother! you need not be afraid to die anymore, for Jesus went through the grave and left a light behind Him!" So man's hope is not in psychic phenomena; not in the dead at all, but in the living Christ. Harold J. Reith 113 Briggs Bldg. Shady Cove, Ore. Blasphemy To the Editor: I was grieved and disappointed as I read the article in Tuesday's Mall Tribune (91162) about Dr. von Braun's vow that an American would land on the moon within 10 years. Why did you print his blasphemous reference to God? I should think a news paper should have a higher standard of rightness for its publications. (Miss) Wanda V, Day 10 East Clark st Medford. Privale Electric Energy Sales Up Salem -'UT- Unseasonably cold midsummer weather 3ent private electric energy sales in Oregon during July to an all-time high of nearly 308 million kilowatts This is 111 ner r.nl than in July. 1961, Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C Hill said. ihere were 463,962 custom ers in July, up two per cent from a year ago. For a 12 month period end Ins July, total energy sales were up seven per cent over the previous year, with 4.6 billion kilowatts consumed. CTsasssaeassssasa Relations between Cambo dia and South Viet Nam are cool at best. Prey Veng prov ince is one of the reasons. South Viet Nam charges it is one of the areas providing rest and training for Viet Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Hanit c Field Enterprises Inc. FORGETTING One of the obvious tricks that our unconscious mind plays on us frequently is mak ing us forget things we don't like to remember and m i s place ob jects we don't want to be re nt i n d e d of. f J wnat we orai- . uJ nariIy. cal,! Harris has been shown by the depth-psychologists to be usually a deliberate (if unconscious) act. I am forever misplacing my lecture notes, for instance also losing the addresses and forgetting the dates of my en gagements because I have an aversion to public speak ing. And it is probably true of all of us that we "misplace" bills a good deal easier than checks; we don't want to pay the bills, but are eager to cash the checks. Darwin, who understood this trick of the mind long before the Freudians, wrote in his autobiography: "I have made it a habit over the years always to make notes of any facts or ob servations that disagreed with my general theories; for I found by experience that such facts and observa tions were much more like ly to escape from the mem ory than favorable ones." Ellen Terry related that one of the few occasions on which she forgot her lines was during the early per formance of an Ibsen play. When she came lo a certain speech, she simply "blew up." This happened several nights in a row, until she sat down to analyse the trouble, and then recalled that the speech echoed a dis turbing episode from h e i youth so her unconscious mind rejected it. Stephen Leacock invari ably "misplaced" invita tions to social functions he didn't want to attend. Dick ens often forgot the names of his literary colleagues, which was his private way of obliterating his competi tors. Dwight Morrow, who hated to travel, would em bark on a train trip and in the middle of the journey completely forget where he was going. His wife, even tually, pinned a tag to his coat lapel, the way lhey used lo do with small chil dren. . The most classical case of absent - mindedness, however, is that of Painleve, who was three times premier of France. This brilliant man would take a taxi home when his own car was waiting for him, 'and would often give the cab-driver his telephone number in stead of his address. Once, expecting a friend, he stuck a note on his own door: "Painleve will return in 15 minutes.'" Upon returning, he sat down on the steps to wait for himself. I'd give a purty to know what the psychia trists would say about that fellow! Sonar Stations New Tracking Equipment North Hollywood, Cal.-dTD-An underwater network of sonar stations is one of the latest developments out of Hollywood these days. The equipment is not the product of the movie indus try, however. To provide p o s I tionlng information to ships involved in tracking missile and space vehicles, the equipment is being de signed and built by the Pa cific division of the Bendix corporation for use in the Mo bile Atlantic Range system. The stations will be on or near the ocean floor and transmit sound waves more than three miles through the """" l l"e SmP DECIDES TO COLLECT Milwaukee. Wis. -IT- City Engineer Irving Goldfien has decided to collect "savings" he made more than 20 years ago. Goldfien asked Thursday for 664 hours off, accumulated by working overtime on a sewer project in 1938-40. so he can retire in N'ovemher in. stead of next May. Cong guerillas behind a neu tral border. This week, Cambodian Pre mier Prince Norodom Siha nouk angrily charged that South Vietnamese tanks, am phibious vehicles and aircraft attacked a Cambodian village 900 yards inside the border of Prey Veng. He threatened to break re lations with South Viet Nam, as he already has with neigh boring and also pro-Western Thailand. He has accused both of plot ting against his neutral state and has demanded a 14-nation conference to guarantee Cam bodian neutrality. Because of jungle cover and the ill-defined border, the truth of charge and counter charge is difficult to come by. Despite Sihanouk's heated denials, an American adviser in South Viet Nam this week informed visiting U. S. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor that Washington Report By William (Cl United Feature Syndicate THE GOVERNORS Washington The campaign for Congress draws more na tional headlines, but the pay off lies in the qu 1 c k e ning struggles for the governor ship in four critical states. Rarely has s t a t e h o use politics been so truly the substance and a national contest for Congress so actu ally the shadow as in '.his political year. For the fact is this: the capacity of the Republican party to offer a real challenge to President Kennedy's re election in 1964 will be de termined more by what hap pens this fall to these four G.O.P. gubernatorial candi dates than by whatever meas ure of success or failure may attend the general Republican effort. THE FIELD of genuine Re publican possibilities for Kennedy's job will either be enriched and widened to a rarely exampled degree, or dangerously impoverished and narrowed, by what befalls these men: Richard Nixon, who has now opened the climactic phase of a "border-to-border" and "person-to-person" effort to unseat Democratic Gov. Pat Brown in California. Nixon, still the titular leader of the national Republican party as its presidential nominee of 1960, is the first of the four to go full throttle. , Nelson Rockefeller, who is now beginning frank cam paigning to seek re-election as governor of New York by a majority so large as to over come possible losses of pop ularity resulting from his di vorce. A big Rockefeller vic tory few even among the Democrats really expect his defeat would put him very high up for 1964. George Romney, the former auto maker, who is challeng ing the immense power of the Democratic-big labor party in Michigan against the sitting Democratic governor, John Swainson. William Scranton, who seeks the governorship of Pennyslvania over Richardson Dilworlh. Scranton thus dares, as Romney does in Michigan, a giant Democratic entrench ment built upon an urban- STB In the Day's News By FRANK From New York: Former President Herbert Hoover, 88, is expected to be able to leave Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center with in a week. He was operated on Aug. 28 for removal of a can cerous tumor in his Intestine. Doctors said this morniniz his condition has improved steadily since the operation. They added that it is not like ly that the malignancy will recur. THAT'S good news. Wf npprl men lite Mr. Hoover. Among other things, he's more interested in what's happening on this planet than in getting to other planets to see what's going on there. UROM London: Amazing S 1 r Winston Churchill (also 88) said good bye the other day to his walk ing aids, put on an American hat and sat out in the sun for several hours. A spokesman at his London home says: 'He's getting better and better every day. He's walk ing about the house and is hav ing quite a number of visitors." "there is fairly good evidence of support brought in across the Cambodian border." In Saigon, military intelli gence sources have estimated that as many as 6,000 Com. munist guerillas are using Cambodian bases as command headquarters for stepped-up operations against South Viet Nam. U. S. aid to Cambodia since 1955 has totaled in the neigh borhood of $300 million. Com munist China has allocated $40 million for four factories. The Soviet Union has con tributed a $12 million hos pital. France has given $35 million exclusive of military assistance. Sihanouk has attacked Americans as the "most un just people in the world" and has said he is prepared to fore go U. S. aid. He also has said he wants neither a Commu nist Laos nor a Communist South Viet Nam. S. White labor coalition which is one of the most formidable Demo cratic organizations in the country. BUT SUCCESS for all four Nixon, Rockefeller, Rom ney and Scranton is, of course, highly unlikely. Should it come, it would over night alter the whole nation al political climate far more than anything that could ra tionally be expected to occur in the congressional cam paign. For no realistic politic ian in either party actually expects any big change in party makeup in the new Congress. And even the best conceiv able result for the G.O.P., a seizure of control of the House, would have less real meaning than meets the eye. This might, indeed, be better for the President in purely partisan terms than some thin Democratic victory which would in any case not really ease his problem of bringing his more liberal domestic bills through the house. Unless the Kennedy-Democratic forces in the House are greatly streng thened a most unlikely pros pect outright Republican, control would at least permit him, to blame the Republicans for-'future troubles in the House. And while a Republican sweep of the governorships of these four states would be an immeasurable boon to the G.O.P., a victory in any one of them, apart from the in cumbent Rockefeller, would be a serious blow to Kennedy. Basic Democratic presidential election strategy is centered on holding just such urban states. rVHE DESTRUCTION of the long Democratic lodgment in either Pennsylvania or Michigan, for illustration, would strike a heavy blow, in terms of the 1964 presidential year, to the Democrats. California, though not the same kind of monolithic Dem ocratic powerhouse, would it self be a rich Republican prize. Nixon's victory there would restore not only his own in fluence but also the influence of the middle section of the party. Rockefeller is definite ly left of center. Romney looks measurably so, and Scranton slightly so. All this is why it is wise to keep the eye this year on the ball at what the bureaucrats like to call "the state level." JENKINS MOSTALGIC thought: If Sir Winston hadn't been out-voted at Yalta, we wouldn't be having all this trouble in Berlin. PROM Houston, Texas: 1 Some 200.000 persons turned out to cheer President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson when they arrived in SEPARATE JETLINERS for the Kennedy speech and a tour of the National Aeronau tics and Space Agency's man ned spacecraft center being built on Houston's outskirts. Two Texas Democrcats were unhappy about the trip. Rep resentatives Bob Casy of Houston said he was "upset" because he was not invited to go along on the Jaunt. Repre sentative Olin Teague, also a Democrat, sympathized with Casey. He too wis left off the invitation list. THE President? A When the reporters ask ed him about it, he said he was "rather amazed" at the furor, because the visit to Texas was "patently a NON POLITICAL trip." Ain't politics funny stuff?