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Flight o' Time
Medloid and Jackson County
History from tha files of Th
Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 21. 1952 (Tuesday)
The 11)53 fund drive of Ihe
Greater Mcdford Community
Chest stood at just under 20
per cent of its goal this morn
. .1
Three more cases of polio
myelilis were reported today
by the Jackson county public
health department, bringing
the county total for the year
to 28.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1942 (Wednesday)
Little interest shown In No
vember 3 general election;
smallest, per capita turnout of
voters in history expected.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "A
prize hull calf was peppered
ail bv a duck hunter. Bull
calves should mill quacking
like ducks and fly to the other
end ot the pasture."
30 Years Ago
Oct. 21. 1932 (Friday)
Amos Alonzo Slagg forced
In retire as University of Chi
cago football coach after
reaching 70 -year -old age
limit.
Jackson county Republi
cans open election campaigns;
meetings slated throughout
county during final two
weeks before election.
40 YEAHS AGO
Oct. 21. 1922 (Saturday)
"Daring holdup" nets un
known amount in cash and
Jewelry when two masked
men hold up four cars re
turning from dance at Jack
son county fairgrounds.
Sixty-year-old German
woman fined S500 in Justice
court here alter pleading
guilty to charge of selling in
toxicaling liquor.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1912 (Monday)
Thomas R. Marshall, gov
ernor of Indiana and Demo
cratic candidate for vic e pres
ident, to speak at Mcdford
Natalorium building.
Mcdford High school "sec
ond leant'' plays first nnn
varsily football game in his
tory of school; defeats Ash
land, 111 to 0.
What's Your I.Q.7.
Nine or ten correct It superior;
even or eight il excellent; five or
lii Is good.
i
PUBLISHERS
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Hatfield for Governor
The two candidates for Governor of Oregon
at the coming election are Mark 0. Hatfield, the
Republican incumbant, and Robert Y. Thornton,
Democrat, the state's attorney general.
Both men are long-time and proven public
servants of high personal charactor. Thornton
has served in the state senate and in his present
post for many years. Hatfield has been state
senator, secretary of state, and Governor.
Both men are personable, likeable, and. in
varvinc decrees and ways, able.
Which one would
for the next four years?
IN OUR considered opinion, Mark Hattield
would.
We say this with full knowledge of the many
good qualities possessed by Bob Thornton a
dedicate sense of public service, a widespread
knowledge of the state, a legal background, a
concern for Oregon's natural resources.
It is simply that we think Mark Hatfield's
experience and executive and administrative
abilities are superior to Thornton's for this par
ticular position. We think so despite the fact
that we have differed with Governor Hatfield on
a number of occasions, and have said so.
BUT, TAKING his record of four years as Gov
ernor as a whole. Hatfield has been a good
Governor; perhaps not an
good one.
Too, his concern for education in Oregon,
while not as fervent and extensive as we could
wish, shows up better than Thornton's, and we
consider this to be the most important single is
sue facing Oregon today.
We disagree with the Governor's proposals
for a cabinet form of government for the state,
with his involvement in realigning the welfare
commission and moving it to Salem, with his
known tendency to influence the activities of the
independent boards and commissions which have
served the state so well.
But we also consider that these points of
view and these actions of his have been motivated
by a sincere desire for the best and most effec
tive government for Oregon
TTRUTHFULLY, Oregon is fortunate to have
two such able men as Mark Hatfield and Bob
Thornton vying for its highest office. We shall
be well served no matter who is the victor Nov. h.
Rut in balance, it seems to us that Mark Hat
field's qualifications suit him better for the job
than do Bob Thornton's.
Therefore, we recommend a vote for Hat
field for Governor of Oregon. E. A.
P. S. We did not mention Robert Wampler,
an independent candidate for Governor, in the
above, since we do not
a serious candidate, nor qualified for the post.
He is a disaffected former state police officer
who got into disciplinary trouble, and is now
deputy sheriff in Clackamas county. His cam
paign seems to us to he principally motivated oy
his grudge against State Police Superintendent
H. G. Maison (one of
servants) and his boss, Governor Hatfield.
Fair Apportionment
Measure No. 9 on the
is worded as follows:
"LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT CON
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Purpose:
Changes legislative apportionment formula. Cre
ates AO permanent representative districts. Per
mits enlargement of Senate to H.i. Enlarges House
to (i,r) or more. Provides for enforcement."
This proposal has
times in these columns before. e support its
adoption because we believe it to be a fair com
promise between the "federal plan," whereby
areas have representation without regard to pop
ulation, and trie "pure population" plan, whereby
population has representation without regard to
area.
X7IIAT this proposal would do would be to in
" sure that no major area of the state would
be wholly deprived of
ione representative. All
- ; t , 1 1 ,i i v mi 1 1 1 it v ct 1 1 1 1
districts used in apportioning representation.
The only way that "one man, one vote" could
be achieved in Orej-on would be for the entire
legislature to be elected from the state at larjie--and
what a mess that would be!
Measure No. 9, in our view, is the fairest that
can be devised fairest to all parts of the state.
W'c recommend H "j'es"
I
I
make the best Governor
outstanding one, but a
consider him to be either
Oregon's ablest public
Nov
(i election ballot
been discussed several
representation, whieh
other legislative seats,
Vote Oil No. 9, K. A. I
"How Did We Happen
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
A MATTER OF
PRIORITIES
Washington There Is
something almost lunatic,
something too strange to be
quite rational,
in the con
tract between
the simultan
e o u s discus
sions of for
eign policy
here in Wash
ington and out
in the coun
t r y , in the
political cam
Almp
paign. In more than a quar
ter of a century as a political
reporter in this city, this cor
respondent has encountered
nothing quite like the mood
that has grown up in Wash
ington in the past two months.
The long, stirring, impassion
ed debate that ended at Pearl
Harbor, the swift decision that
met the challenge in Korea,
were dramalic and easy to de
pict. Tiie new mood has nei
ther of these qualities.
The source of this mood is
simple enough. The leading
American policy-makers, from
the President on down, are
now convinced il is a much
heller than even bet thai Ni
kila S. Khrushchev will push
Ihe unending Berlin crisis lo
a hair-raisingly risky climax
at some lime within the nexl
six months.
rMIE calculations leading In
this conviclion may be al
tered next month, if and when
Khrushchev comes to this
country, for the ostensible
purpose of appearing at the
UN General Assembly, but 'or
the real purpose of discussing
Berlin with the President.
Khrushchev, it must bo :e
niemhered. has already issued
two time-limited ultimatums
on Berlin, Ihe first in Novem
ber, l!15:t, and the second at
Vienna in liltill. Both these ul
timatums finally proved to ho
bluffs. The obvious Soviet
preparations to push the Ber
lin crisis to a climax can cer-1
lainly end Ihe way the ulli-i
malum ended.
But the fad remains that.'
as of now, the President and :
j"is policy-makers seriously
expect an early and final ili
max at Berlin. Very few peo
ple in Ihe count ry at large
seem to realize this, or to un
derstand the kind of climax
that is expected. In brief,
what is expecleri is Ihe kind of
Soviet or East Gorman attack
on Western rights in Berlin
that can only he met by the
use of armed force to defend
Berlin's freedom.
'IMIK (iieslinn Ihe president
1 and hi
have been debating is nut
whether lo use force in Ihese
circumstances, bul how best
lo use force. The decision has
already been reached to act
wilhout Rrilish and French
"'i'Pn. 'f tis proves ne.-cs
saiy, fur a prompt, decisive n
,,.,. , n'v ,.bHege to n
posle lo any challenge to our
basic Herlin righls.
Only Chancellor Adenauer
can mlerpose a vein, by speci
fically asking Ihe U.S. not In
defend Merlin, and by reiu--ing
In aid in llerlin's defense.
The Untied Stales cannot, af
ter all, lighl a war in Ger
many with out West German
i-onsenl. Put a West Gennjn
vein is unlhink.thlc.
This being the approach lo
Ihe first question, a second
question is also bring unavMid
.iblv discussed. This is the
question of whether a battle
over the land or air acivs
routes to Pcrlin will nr will
not expand into a big. 11 bomb
ar.
0
balance. Ihe pi'lu niak-
ci s incline to hrhevr that.
if there is a Rerhn climax, it
w ill go no furllirr than a final
test of the Amt-nrnn will to
fmht. whitii the Soviets nmv
doubt
Rut Ihe possibility that a
To Get Into Thi Rig?"
By Joseph Alsop
Trlhune Syndicate
battle over the land or air
access routes will lead on lo
something far more terrible is
never ruled out, because il
cannot be. Instead, this possi
bility is squarely faced, with
somber, rather taciturn reso
lution. In truth, except for a brief
instant after the Chinese in
tervention in Korea, this is
the only time since the bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki thai nuclear war
has been considered as a dis
tinct, current possibility by
the U.S. government. Merci
fully, the possibility is still
considered to be fairly slen
der. Even so, this should be
enough to suggest the lunacy
of the contrast remarked on
above.
While the policy-makers ac
cept the actual likelihood that
we shall have to use armed
force to defend Berlins' free
dom, and also face the possi
bility so grimly inherent in
such a use of force, the orators
of the campaign are bellow
ing about Cuba.
(GIVING Cuba priority over
Berlin, at a time when a
Berlin crisis appears to be
rapidly approaching, is like
going all out lo treat bursitis
while totaling neglecting can
cer. Cuba lr rather like bursi
tis, in truth, being painful,
very irritating, and potentially
very inconvenient. Like bur
sitis, it may need treatment,
and perhaps drastic treat
ment, in the end.
But complicating the dread
fully dangerous Berlin prob
lem by a hairbrained, immedi
ate aliack on the Cuban prob
lem would he an action so ir
responsible lhat it deserves to
be called criminal. Irresponsi
bility seems to be spreading,
lo be sure. The general Irene!
is shown by Ihe many self-
' righteous denunciations of the
i altempt to free the Cuban
prisoners, for whose plight
every American has a share of
responsibility.
The President, it must he
added, has s o m e blame for
litis more and more wide
spread irresponsibility. If he
lold the country at large what
he and his policy-makers see
in tlte future, we should be
hearing fewer campaign-lime
imitations of the geese of the
Roman capital.
A Ho-Hum Election
By ERIC SEVAREID I look, feel or smell like in:t4him in these arras with a sc
This is an unsolicited form j to anybody, anywhere. In j ries of fraction-issues, and no
letter to the President, Kv and 1 terms of general party! amount ot fraction-issues add
r i
chairmen, all
state and con-
gressional
e a n d i dates,
their ghost
writers and
.vs.
my comrades
in Ihe column -
ing and com-:
ni e n t a t ing
trades. Let's
give it up. fcl-
Sf vrf lit
lows. The lfll2 off-year elec
tions are neither "hislone"
nor "crucial." They aren't
ev en exciting, and no amount ,
of saying will make them so.
Dramatically, thev arc a bust,
and were il not for tlte ordin
ance forcing the box office to
stay open until the first Tues
day after Ihe first Monday in
November. Ihe show would
have closed i.isl Saturday
nichl
...
In terms of national policy,
nothing whatsoever is going
lo be mrasuranly changed by
the Nov. ti result The next
Congress will be like the last
Congress. Il is almot incon
ceivable that the President
can gel an even heavier ma
turity of. nut only Democrats,
but Ihe kind of Democrats hr
wanls tn ' uct the cotintrv
niovme atain " He is out
Roosevelt and 1HH2 doesn't
t 'AST
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(ci New York Herald Ttbun Syndicate
Towards A Germany Policy
The American decision to
act in Berlin without unani
mouse agreement by all the
Allies, provid
ed West Ger
many cooper
ates, could be
highly im
portant. There
is some doubt
about it be
cause of the
interview giv
en on Tues-
Llppmann day lo a Ger
man newspaper by the de
fense minister, Franz Joseph
Strauss. The full test is not
available as I write, but Hcrr
Strauss appears to say that
Germany will hold back un
less ail the occupying powers
plus NATO have first commit
ted themselves in a conflict.
This uncertainty will have to
be cleared up if the commit
ment on Beriin is to be fully
activated.
Probably il will be cleared
up. But, as important as this
would be, it would not be
enough. Standing firm in a
showdown will not solve the
Berlin problem, which is how
to guarantee a good life of
democratic freedom to half
a city over a hundred miles
deep inside the Communist
world. Either before a show
down or after it, it will b2
necessary to resume the nego
tiations with the Soviet Union
which have been stalled since
last spring.
The negotiations, of course,
have no chance to succeed
without the consent and col
laboration of the West Ger
man government. For this, we
must never forget, not only a
Soviet and an an Allied prob
lem. It is primarily a German
problem.
Yet there is not now a true
political understanding about
the future of Berlin and of
Germany between Bonn and
Washington. We must hope
the basis of such an under
standing can be laid down
during Chancellor Adenauer's
coming visit to Washington
and that the understanding
can be worked out while he
is still the German Chancel
lor. rtHE paramount practical is---
use upon which significant
negotiations depend and
around which they will re
volve is the degree of recog
nition which the Western al
lies will accord to the East
German slate. Weslern with-'
drawal from Berlin is not, as
we have all said again and
again, a negotiable question.
But the degree of recognition
of and the kind of relationship
with East Germany arc emin
ently negotiable questions.
Thus, commercial surface
traffic with West Berlin has
for years been regu'atcd by
a Bonn-Pankow trade agree
ment and has been adminis
tered by East German offi
cials. It is sheer nonsense,
therefore, to talk as if there
has been or could be such a
thing as absolute non-recognition.
The practical question is
how much more recognition
and of what kind there is to
be.
It is fashionable to treat
any further recognition of
East Germany as a concession
made at the expense of West
Germany. 1 believe this to be
a fallacy, and I submit that
it is oniy by increasing eco
nomic, scientific, social, and
political contact lhat Ihe two
Gcrmaiiys can eventually be
reunited peaceably.
rpHE official view is thai
-- East Germany must have
no recognition which implies
lhat it is in fact a stale, and
i.Lii minm
ft J, ' '
the start of a Democratic re-! It denied him the Urban Af-
surgence; it was the highwa-: fairs department, but the case
u-r mark of a resurgence that i for it was never proved. It
began in 1954. Just as 1952 denied him the school aid he
was Mt the start of the Re-' wanted, medicare, and the ac-
publican conic-back, but its'tions on housing, and unrm-
apex. These things run in cy-
! cios. and. barring some apoc
alyptic event, the Demncratic
parly curve is now bending
downward.
The president's cross-country
exhortations exude an air
of unreality, as do Ihe hv pet
bolic assaults upon him." and
for the same reason
that the
whole situation is a "grey"
one, with no blacks and
whites about it. His record of
leadership was good bul nut
that guod. the Congress was
obstructive, but nut that ob
structive Like vice presidents
and lieutenant colonels, both
dwell in ti.e reaini of the nut
quite but not-qtuto-not.
Ther siniplv is no over
arching national issue fur ei
ther orators or voters tu bite
on. Congress removed the im
mensely mipurtant qoc.stiun
of America's future in the
world economy as an isf-uo by
rismg lu it.s huty and pa-m
a whole-cluMi trade bill It
Cave hint half a farm act. half
a tax act, and thrrr-quartrr
of a foreign aid act. leav ing
that no country anywhere in
the world (except the Soviet
Union itself) may have an
ambassador in Bonn if it also
sends an ambassador to Pan
kow. The official view of re
unification is that East Ger
many is to be given the
chance to vote itself out of
the Communist orbit and out
of the Soviet alliance in order
to joint West Germany and
the Western Alliance.
This is and always has been,
a pipe dream, and nobody
who has ever been lo Ger
many or has studied the Ger
man question, believes that
there is anything in it. The
world is rent by a momentous
power struggle between the
Soviet Union and the West,
and it is inconceivable that
the Soviet Union will, while
it has the power to prevent it,
agree lo a united Germany of
70 million people within the
NATO alliance.
Indeed, the official view of
reunification is so patently
impossible thai, when il is put
forward by responsible states
men, it arouses suspicions. T'o
propose reunification on what
are known to be impossible
terms is in fact not lo pro
pose reunification at all.
AND in truth, Dr. Aden
auer's great friend. Gen.
de Gaulle, is not in favor of
German reunification and
avoided the discussion of it
during his recent tour of
Germany. The British govern
ment is, to put il mildly, re
luctant to see Germany re
united. The Low Countries do
not want reunification, and it
would be difficult lo say with
much certainty that Dr. Aden
auer, who is an anti-Prussian
from the Rhineland, has any
burning desire to be reunited
with the Prussians and the
Saxons.
It can surely be said that
the official formula of reuni
fication by plebiscite is an
obstacle to the reunification
of Germany, not a method of
achieving it. That may be one
of the reasons why so many
people who do not want a big
Germany pay lip service to
it.
Yet, despite the unavowed
but very general objections to
German reunification, I for
one believe that the two Ger
manys must be and should be
reunited.
How'.' Once we fix if in our
minds lhat the two Germanys
freer: n wS
"Let's se, hav w got everything for deer hunting?
Pickup truck, motorcycle, snow tires, walkie-talkie,
portable radar, electronic sound detector, binoculars,
high-powered rifles, baiooka, hand grenades, flame
thrower ... I"
Lacks Excitement
ploymeni no wanten. out cam
i of these is a real issue only
I in scattered fractions of our
geography and our social
I structure, and il seems im
; possible to fuse them into
national election theme or im
age for bus party. No conscn-
sus has yet formed, among the
people or in the Congress lor
even within his administra
tion) as to precisely how we
"get Ihe economy moving."
Nor. with all its emotional
overtones, has Cuba - the
chief foreign policy problem
1 yet produced
a rcanv s.iarp
division 01
,,,,, ti
country.
Even the stock market fall
wasn't dizzy enough and far
enough to produce political
trauma.
Tiie President draws crowds
because he is John F Ken
nedy, a popular and glamor
ous personality, not because
ho seems to the pcopie cither
politu-allv victorious hern
or a political marlyr. He is.
sin this rampaicn. an acrobat
on a political tightrope, forced
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
THE MANAGER of a Connecticut brokerage office relates
how he stepped outside during a blizzard to see an eld
erly gentleman poking with his cane into a piled-up snow-
hanlr at tha mh A, .,,,-
........ Hb , . . l. , u , nHuni MTM
ing that the old fellow Fj?
was blind, the manager
suggested, "Can I help
you across the street?"
"Now why should I want
to cross the street?"
countered the oldster ir-
ritably. "I'm looking for
my sports car."
In Racine, a ig, fat ex
ecutive who hadn't gone
hopping with his wife for
twenty years, suddenly
wanted to know where all
lO
the grocery money was go
ing to. She marched him over to a full-length mirror and stood
him sideways in front of it.
How honest are jacket blurbs? Bear in mind that many of
them are written by hard-pressed publicists who haven't read a
line of the book they are attempting to describe. Sometimes the.
author hasn't even turned in his manuscript yet but the book
Jacket, blurb and all, must be ready for the salesmen's fall trips
through the hinterlands.
Lord Leverhulme in England was so exercised about a mi3
leading blurb he had read on a newly published book that he
clashed off this verse:
The Jacket wakened memories, like
some sweet-scented herb,
The publisher intrigued me with
the phrasing of his blurb,
The title was enticing so I parted
with my cash,
And spent a winter evening reading
undiluted trash.
C by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The news?
Well, here's a sample:
Space engineers, confident
that man will reach the moon
within the next ten years, face
another difficult problem:
How will the spacemen
cannot be reunited by Soviet
surrender, the only conceiv
able way, I submit, is to start
from the situation as it is.
This means recognizing that
there are two German states,
and then providing ways and
means by which they can live
side by side and, as Germans
with Germans, work out in
detail and by concrete experi
ence their national unity. Ai
I see it, the two Germanys
are a cloth which has been
torn apart. The task of re
unification is to reweave into
one whole the two unsightly
parts.
to argue, in effect, that even
an overwhelming party ma- j
jority in both houses is not
enough and he must have a !
near monopoly.
The truth is thai
unlike
nearly all off year elections
this is a "personality" eler-
tion. It is true on the federal
level, where, if anything is
changed by the President, il
will be because of his person.
not his arguments. It is true
on the state level. In several
! races for gov ernnrshins will
i lie the only real excitement
, for election night, and even
there personalities are more
important than issues.
In both New York and
California the issues arc
fuzzy, the voters so far are
rather apathetic and the real
drama lies in the truly vital
: "
ue ft man uamco nucKeic icr
or a man namca .mxoii u
make only
faint bow in the
direction of Michigan and
Romncy) who will fight Ihe
1 f)i34 battle fur the White
Huuse aganvst Mr. Kennedy.
There lies the one and only
element 01 national drama for
Nov. 6, an admission nobody
could regret more thin this
devotee of the exclamation
point.
(Diilribultd 1962. by Tha Hall
Syndicala. Inc.)
(All Right! Reiarrad)
nwiwimeeiirenM.
- IO
JENKINS
GET ABOUT on the moon's
surface?
JT'S a tough one, isn't it?
But the space engineers
think perhaps they have it
licked. They envision a ve
hicle (maybe something simi
lar to these "campers" the
tourists use) lhat would em
ploy compressed gas as fuel.
The fuel, they say, would
be used INDEFINITELY, be
cause the exhaust would ba
stored and later REGENERA
TED by a nuclear reactor at
what might be called a lunar
service station.
rjiHAT is lo say:
The stuff, aller being
used in the engine, would ba
PUT BACK TOGETHER
AGAIN and used over and
over indefinitely.
JJANDY, n'est ce pas?
It would be kind of tiica
if before we all move to (ha
moon these avant garde en
gineers would concoct a
scheme to do the same thing
with gasoline. Just fill your
lank ONCE, and that would
be lhat.
And
They promise
The crew will ride in shirt
sleeve comfort in lunar tem
peratures ranging from 2U
degrees below zero to 250 de
grees above. The climate of
Ihe moon, you know, is even
worse than ours here on
earth.
AT this point, hold your hat.
You ain't heard nothin'
yet.
A staif writer for Ihe slaid
and responsible Portland Ore
gonian who has been prowling
around in the research labs
comes up with this:
"Man may someday need a
form of suspended animation
lo go to Venus. He already has
made a request of science for
a good system of STORING
HUMAN ORGANS prepara
lory to the day when they can
be more rcadilv TRANS
PLANTED than now! ! !"
TN OTHER words, man is al-
ready looking forward lo
the time when there will be
PARTS WARIHntlSF?
I where you can go and eel a
spare part when the old one
wears nut.
Won't that be something?
!
POING on from Iherc. the
researchers have been
! freezing rats down lo the
point of suspended animation.
Before freezing them, they
Pll the rats through a scries
of mazes to get their food
and keep track of how Ions
il takes them lo maslei Ihe
, maze. Then Ihey freeze them
down to a stale of suspended
animation, bring them back to
life and motion and put them
through the mazes again.
Now comes the interesting
part. They have discovered
that after the rats are cooled
, down to tlte noint of susnenri
. . 1
; ed animation and then
"" "no put tnrougn
uit- mazes tnev maKe lewer
mistakes in getting
they want lo go!
w here
THAT suggesis
fantastic
Why not freeze our politi
cians down to the suspended
animation point and bring
, them back to life and moimn
again. Maybe the politicians
would then make fewer mt-
takes.
Thai would be something.
o