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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
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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?