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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
end SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Or.i. 26, 1952 (Sunday)
The county grand jury
which has been studying nom
inating petitions for Gene R.
Brantley for county judge has
reported that at least 103
names tin 13 of the petitions
were definitely forged.
Gov. Douglas McKay has
told members of the Oregon
Reclamation1 Congress meet
ing here that Oregon must
cut out all unnecessary ex
penses and must step up its
program to meet new require
ments brought about by in
creases in population.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28, 1942 (Monday)
Representatives at southern
Oregon rationing boards gath
er in Medford to study forth
coming gasoline rationing
regulations.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Aulo
isls are still plentiful here
abouts, all driving 75 MPH."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26, 1932 (Wednesday)
Local orchardists announce
Rogue valley fruit harvest
will be completed next week.
Klamath Falls school offi
cials report some 1,000 fans
plan to come to Medford to
attend Medford - Klamath
High school football game.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 26, 1922 (Thursday)
Walter Pierce. Democratic
parly candidate for governor,
opens southern Oregon cam
paign with speech In Ashland.
Ashland officials bar all po
litical discussions in Commu
nity house.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 26, 1912 (Saturday)
Chemical company Indicates
interest in constructing plant
in Medford area for manu
facture of Insecticides and
fungicides.
Orchardists here report
shortage of boxcars for ship
ment of fruit to east.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan correct It superior;
seven or eight It eacellent; five or
sis ts good.
1. Dors the term "senior
senator'' apply to age or ser
vice? 2 Is the term 'vulnerable'
used in playing poker, con
tract bridge, or five hundred?
3. In which rlly In Mary
land is Fort Mcllenry. the
birthplace of the National An
them? 4 Did the Germans occupy
Denmark during World War
11'
5. At low altitudes, the boil
ing point of waler is 212 de
grees F.; would it require a
higher or a lower tempera
ture to boil water on Pike's
Peak?
Does the U.S. Constitu
lion prohibit the election of a
President and Vice-President
from the same state?
7. Persons born between
March 21, and April 23 are
born under which lodiacal
sign'
8. For what deed Is Andrew
Summers Rowan remember
ed' 9 What is the plural of
axis?
10. Legislation was recently
passed authorizing the award
of a gold medal to whom'
Answers: 1. Service in Sen
ate. 2. Contract bridge. 3. Bal
timore. 4. Yes. 5. Lower. 6.
No. 7. Arias the Ram. t. Met.
sag In Garcia. 9. Axes. 10.
General Douglas MacArthur.
4 A-
iSi-ASSOCIATION
OCTOBLR 26. 1962
Overhead Utilities Hazardous
The great storm of Columbus Day, 1962, will
be long rememberer! by residents of those por
tions of Oregon which took the brunt of the
destructive blow.
No one will ever be able to tally the full dol
lar cost of the storm, but it probably will exceed
considerably the preliminary estimate of $170,
000,000, if all direct and indirect costs and ex
penses are included.
One of the major costs, of course, is borne
by the utility companies which have spent two
1 - 1 ... Mil A 1 11 1 .
weens ana millions oi
ana leiepnone lines.
THIS has led to a revival of the long-standing
suggestion that such
ground, as are water and
most frequently-heard argument in favor of un
derground lines has been based on esthetic con
siderations, but in the
others have been mentioned frequently the
factor of safety, that of communications, and the
lactor ot invulnerability
Both the Orecronian
Press have taken up the
underground utility lines, the Oregonian with
restraint, the Labor Press with vehemence.
The Labor Press said, in part:
"As Oregon digs out, slowly and heroically, from the
most disastrous storm in her history, no one has pointed
to the most obvious lesson of the big blow:
"It is not only stupid to hang all those wires over
our heads, it is almost criminal to do so.
"The overhead jungle of poles and crossarms and
wires and cables and transformers and guy lines and
Insulators long ago transformed our lovely city Into an
eyesore of ugliness . . .
"We did not realize, until now, that the overhead
Jungle is worse than ugly, It is also extremely vulner
able and dangerous.
"Putting wires underground, they told us, would be
ruinously expensive on our light and telephone bills.
"They did not explain why it is perfectly practical to
bring waler and gas into our houses in rigid pipes,
hut impossible to bring us electricity and telephone serv
ice In flexible underground cables.
"They did not tell us why It is easy to remove sewage
from our houses in pipes that are not only rigid but de
pendent upon gravity - yet terribly expensive to bring
us our electric and telephone utilities in underground
cables that are non-rigid and not dependent upon the
slope of the ground . . .
"Now would be a good time for the electric and tele
phone companies to answer one simple question:
"Why don't you put the wires underground, out of
harm's way, where they belong?"
a a
AN ARTICLE in the Portland Reporter also
"went into the subject of underground utilities.
It pointed out that utility firms are willing to put
tnem underground if the customers are willing to
pay the extra cost involved.
But the companies also point out that main
tenance of underground lines is both more dif
ficult and expensive than overhead lines; that
while overhead lines are susceptible to storms,
branches, falling trees, birds, and so on. under
ground lines are more susceptible to floods,
washouts, careless excavation and shifting earth.
The time is coming, we believe, when con
siderations of safety, attractiveness and damage
will move more and more lines underground. We
hope so. E. A.
Restudy Civil Defense
Still another aftermath of the storm has been
a widespread demand for a reappraisal of civil
defense.
In some areas the CD office functioned as a
liaison and coordinating agency; in others it
didn't function at all, let alone as an effective
force in preventing damage, providing emergen
cy information and instruction, or aiding in com
munications. The storm tended to prove that existing, full
time, professional agencies such as city anil state
police, sheriffs departments, fire departments,!
and city and state roads and highway crews,
flini'tmnnrl uoll IV.
v ' " w u'llJIPIIl. l I II. M lltl Lr III VIII CI I HI
how to do it, and if one key man was unavailable,
another was already trained to step into his
duties.
a a a
JACKSON county was spared the worst effects
uof the storm, but in the Willamette valley and
along the coast, whole areas were completely cut
off, with both communications and transporta
tion unavailable.
If a storm can create such havoc and human
misery, what would be the result of nuclear war
fare? And whose responsibility would it be to
coordinate the services designed to save lives
and property, and direct rescue and evacuation
work?
If civil defense proved to be so ineffective in
a storm disaster, what could it do in the far more
disastrous event of warfare?
THESE are the questions that arc being asked,
and they deserve some real consideration.
The National Guard functioned fairly effec
tively in some situations, because it was organ
ized and trained. Perhaps civil defense should
be organized so that a corps of trained men
would lie available on call, if National Guards
men are unavailable.
Civil defense now is mostly a paper organi
zation, one that would take some time to flesh
out and become effective in case of a major
emergency or disaster. The storm has shown that
it didn't - couldn't perform the role for
which it is designed on Short notice.
A detailed review of civil defense organi
zation certainly seems in order now. E.A. I
aoiiai'8 repairing electric
utility lines be run under
sewer connections. The
wake of the storm three
to storm damage.
and the Oretron Labor
cudgels on behalf of
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Confusion Cornars
To the Editor: Over a cen
tury ago, the people of Ko
nigsburg created a formidable
problem when they built sev
en bridges in their city, in
such a way that no one could
cross all of them without
backtracking over at least
one.
Folks have puzzled over
this dilemma for many years;
but, at last, someone has con
ceived a poser, laid out at the
intersection of Agate Road
and Crater Lake Highway,
that would leave the good Ko-
nigsburg Burghers gasping for
breath. Here, an already com
plicated interchange has been
made more difficult through
the addition of a spur road,
without removing the one it
was meant to replace. Token
barriers and signs were put
up, of course, to indicate the
new route, but what are such
puny deterrents as wood and
tin to the resourcefulness of
determined motorists?
The signs were ignored
from the outset, and the bar
riers were soon ground to the
pavement, with the result
that, now, one needs eyes for
every conceivable direction,
except up, if one would cross
this labyrinlh in relative safe
ty. The construction, obvious
ly, was intended to lessen
danger. However, the only ac
complishment has been to
firm a conviction in the mind
of the user, threading this
Cretan Maze, that he has been
lured into a potential booby
trap. If this deference to exped
iency now stands in its final
form, I believe the only fair
thing would be for the High
way Commission to provide
Seeing Eye dogs for bemused
commuters. Better yet, the in
tersection could be excavated
and filled with waler. thus
giving the county additional
revenue from the ferry boat
concession.
I was never able to work
out Hie Konigsburg Bridge
puzzle, but I did think of a
dandy name for the place 1
have been trying to describe.
If you are out driving some
Sunday and come to a spot
designated "Confusion Cor
ners," you will know the
Highway people have agreed
with me. Or. perhaps you
would prefer the name, "Ana
cronistic Alley "?
Harvey Robinson,
KM North Central ave.,
Medford.
Questions for Thornton
To the Editor: Candidate
Thornton's recent reference lo
timber tax measures passed
by the 1961 Democratic - con
trolled Legislature further re
veals his ignorance of stale
government.
Thornton is quoted as hav
ing said "three timber tax
bills passed by the 1961 Leg
islature permitted large blocks
of timber land to be taken off
the tax rolls."
All three bills are forest,
conservation measures, for
they provide fur long-range
taxation of standing timber
and encourage su.slainod-yicld
harvest of the forest products.
Contrary to Thorntons
charges, they apply to small
as well as large timber own
ers, including those who op
erate farm wood-lots.
Prior to passage of those
bills, the timber tax laws
were such that a "cut out and
get out" method of timber
harvest was encouraged. Now
all timberland owners can .if
ford to engage in orderly har
vest practices, and trees m.iy
be allowed lo grow lo maturi
ty Thornton is either unin
formed or is deliberately mis
leading the public, (or under i
the pi ovisions nf these three
bills no timhivl land is re
moved from Ihe t.i rolls, .s
anyone ran learn lv consult-j
ing with Ihe Stale Tax Com-
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
mission or local assessors. The
taxes on standing timber are
merely spread over a period
of years to permit orderly
management of the vital re
source. In the year of harvest,
heavy taxes are collected.
Rep. W. O. (Bun) Kelsay
(D-Roseburg) has recently
stated his pride at having au
thored or co-authored each of
these bills pointing out
that they were supported and
passed by the Legislature in
a bi-partisan manner.
Thus, it may be seen that
Thornton's charges are total
ly false.
Several questions remain,
however.
Is candidate Thornton, de
spite his position as the state's
chief legal officer, ignorant
of the law?
Is he now criticizing the
actions nf his own party mem
bers? If so, where was he
during the legislative session?
Is he advocating a return
to the "cut out and get out"
days and fast depletion of our
timber resource? Is he op
posed to conservation? Is lie
opposed to Oregon's No, 1 in
dustry? These are questions which
arise because Thornton has
played fast and loose with the
facts. They are questions on
which the public deserves an
answer from one who would
aspire to high office.
Lawyers Look at the Record
Committee
1885 S. W. Sixth ave.,
Portland 1, Ore.
Lester W. Humphreys
Co-Chairman
Has To Ba Mors!
To the Editor:Uf rim, hi r.
mains in any Oregonian's
mind as to who should be
elected Senator from this
State, surely the current na
tional crisis has removed it.
We cannot afford to be rep
resented by an inexDoriemcH
man in Ihe critical month.
which lie ahead.
Wayne Morse's IK
experience in the ,i,
the United States and h';
service on the Foreign Rela
tions lomnutlee must be util
ized. His wisdom anrf ,.,,ra
are needed in the Senate and
mo nation.
It has to be Wayne Morse!
Marjory E. Madden
LI17 Springbrook rd.
Medford.
Asks Explanation
To the Editor: As a regis
tered volcr in Jackson countv
for many years, I have grow n
accustomed to the usual ex
aggerations and campaign
promises of candidates for
political office. While we, as
voters, become reasonably
tolerant of such things, we
do expect candidates who
seek public office to tell the
truth when making state
ments of fact about their own
qualifications.
1 was therefore surprised
when I heard "Dc" Leigh,
who aspires to be Sheriff of
this county, represent to those
attending a political meeting
that he had been Chief Dep
uty in the Jackson County
Sheriff's office for a period
of eight years. Since I knew
that this could not be true. I
firs! thought that I had mis
understood t h e candidate,
until I examined his cam
paign literature and found
the same claim was made in
cards that were being distri
buted to the public. The pros,
pective voter has a right to
expect such representation to
be reasonably accurate Since
my recollection was inconsist
ent with the statements made
by the candidate, the public
records at the court house
were checked and it was
found that he had not even
been connected with the Shei
ifl s office, as any kind of
employee, for the last eight
years It was further found
that his services in the Slier-
OREGON
Theories
In Cuban
By PHIL, NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Since Nikita Khrushchev U
a realist ana a good tactician,
he must have foreseen at least
the possibility
that the Unit
ed States
event ually
would call a
halt to his
buildup of Cu
ba as a Carib
bean Commu
nist arsenal.
Just as Presi-
Nawiom dent Kennedy
foresaw a possible Soviet re
taliatory move against Berlin
and took steps to forestall it.
so Khrushchev must also
have considered his next step.
To believe otherwise would
be to believe the Soviet leader
totally incapable of logic and
so to increase the danger of
world nuclear disaster
iff's office were terminated
in November of 1953. Th first
record of employment of any
kind, on the part of the can
didate, commenced on March
15, 1946, which was several
years before there was even
any designated position as
Chief Deputy Sheriff.
Since his entire service
with the Sheriff's office was
less than eight years, and he
commenced employment as a
rookie in 1946, how can it be
honestly stated that he has
been Chief Deputy for the
Jackson County Sheriff for
a period of eight years?
At the Shady Cove Candi
dates Fair this man stated
that he was Chief Deputy for
a period of five years. But
thereafter he continued to
distribute literature claiming
eight years as Chief Deputy,
and in later meetings had
gone back to the eight year
claim.
Since this candidate has
continuously engaged in the
business of selling automo
biles since 1954 and has had
no employment in law en
forcement for the past years,
it is difficult to understand
how he considers himself
qualified to assume the duties
of Sheriff.
I believe Mr. Leigh owes
the voters of Jackson county
an explanation of his mislead
ing campaign literature.
Mrs. David D. Legg
(Republican)
502 South Peach at.
Medford
Thanks to Mono
To the Editor: At a meeting
of District 7, Veterans of
World War One, which con
sists of the following named
barracks: Camp White 14,
Grants Pass 27, Cave June' ion
146, Roseburg 176, Medford
540, South Umpqua 575, Ash
land 1268 and Rogue River
1835, the record of the several
members of the U. S. Senate
as tc their actions on veterans'
legislation was studied.
The actions of the senior
senator from Oregon, the Hon
Wayne Morse, were cited at
this meeting, whose attend
ance was in excess of 200 his
record showing that, on veter
ans' legislation, he has con
sistently, throughout his en
lire 18 years in the Senat",
been on the side of the veter
ans. This includes his presen
tation of one resolution call
ing for establishment of a Sen
ate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs, similar to the preset
and functioning House com
mittee headed by Rep. Teague
Also his co-sponsorship of an
other for the same Senate ac
tion. This is only a small part of
the total of Senator Morse's
championing of veterans' ben
efit bills, including his bil! for
additional allowance for con
stant care and attendance fo
invalid veterans not hospitpl
ized. The assembled group went
on record: Resolved; That on
Oct. 21. 1962. in Ashlrtiid.
Ore., District 7, Veterans of
World War One, place itself
on record as expressing thanks
to Senator Wayne Morse for
his efforts, by amendment to
tiie Appropriations Bill for
State. Justice and Commerce
Departments, to obtain pass
age of his bill. S 298.), calling
for reasonable, adequate pen
sions for veterans of World
War One. also expressing
gratitude to the Senator for
his excellent talks on beha'f
of Ihe veterans on this occa
sion, as well as on many pre
vious occasions
Patrick Graham
Mcdiord Barracks
Veterans of WW
Medford
White Buck Deer
To the Editor: We learned
quite recently from a visi'or
fiom Smith River, Del Norf j
county. Calif., that a white s
buck albino deer had nftee !
been observed by the citien
adjacent to Smith River, ili-t
prior to the 1962 hunting sea
son ,
I'm'ortunately, the nlhipo
buck deer was never seen
again by anyone since the
closing of the California deer
hunting season.
Rcrt Kissinger
.t2 South Riverside a1 e I
Medford I
Vary as to
Build-Up;
through simple miscalcula
tion.
If initial Soviet reaction to
the Cuban weapons blockade
seemed uncertain, it could
well have been less a matter
of surprise than from the need
to survey the Soviets' own
timetable.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
ic Field Enterprises Inc.
HEALTH AND ILLNESS
f was re-reading the Jour
nals of Andre Gide the other
evening, and in the third vol
ume I came
across a brief
but provoca
tive entry:
"It is my
belief that ill
nesses are the
keys that can
open certain
doors for us.
There is a
Harris slale of- health
that does not allow us to un
derstand everything, and per
haps illness shuts us off from
certain truths; but health
shuts us off just as effectively
from others, or turns us away
from them so that we are not
concerned with them."
As I read this paragraph, I
recalled a week end I spent
in Nice many years ago, when
I fell quite ill and was con
vinced that I had been
stricken with a mortal ail
ment. It turned out to be noth
ing more than a case of sun
stroke, but I didn't know this
at the time.
Sine my French is fairly
rudimentary, and the hotel
doctor knew no English, he
was unable to assuage my
fears, and I lay there for 48
hours convinced that my
next column would be an
obituary notice, I can smile
about it now. but it was
hardly a subject for merri
ment then.
Lying flat on my back,
all alone in a strange city,
staring at the ceiling, while
the sounds of revelry by
night floated up from the
cafes on the "Promenade
des Anglaise". I was sud
denly affected with deep
feelings of remorse, guilt
and inadequacy.
I felt acutely that I had
failed to make the most of
myself, both personally and
professionally, and I grimly
resolved to do belter if I
were granted a reprieve
from death.
Part of this feeling, of
course, was neurotic anxiety
about my illness and alone
ness in a foreign land; but an
other part was quite realistic.
It was an honest and painful
self-appraisal which few of
us are willing to make when
we are in good health it is
one of "the doors thai only
illness can open," in Gide's
phrase.
Health, in this respect, is
much like money: its poses
sion gives us a false sense of
security, so that we cannot he
bothered to take a good look
at ourselves and examine the
roots of our conduct. Only
when we are stripped of these
physical supports do we
(sometimes) find the desper
ate courage to stare our faulls
in the face.
The fear of dvine the
open and acknowledged fear. I
not the morbid apprehension :
of some can give us a j
deeper insight into the rlif-!
ficult art of living; but on the
morning 1 recovered. I was
again frolicking on the beach,
my resolutions forgotten
along with my fears. This is
the sad biography of man
kind. Algerians Oppose
Cuban Blockade
Algiers -H'Pli- About 4.000
Algerians demonstrated noisi
ly in downtown Algiers 1 hurs
day nicht against the L'. S.
blockade of Cuba. But no
violence was reported.
The mob turned out at the
call nf the General Union of
Alcenan Workers and union
leaders harangued the meet
ing The crowd brandished plac
ards hearing slogans such as
"Yankees Go Home," "Cuba
Yes. Yankees No." and "The
Algerian and Cuben Revolu
tions Will Triumph,"
A resolution calling on Al
gerian stevedores to "take
steps to see that ships bound
for Cuba are rapidly loaded"
was approved by acclamation.
Building Trades Group
Endorses Bowers in CP
The Medford Building
Trades council this week en-.
dorsee. C'.il Rowers for Cen
tral Point tn.tvor. according;
to Jerry Christcin. council 1
secretary. j
Bowers is the seend m.y
nr CHiHluia:e endorsed by the
council this fall Last month i
f'e council cn--i.ir';rrt Jimmy
Dunlevv as candidate f-'t
Medford.
Russia's Motives
Reds Have Worries
A number of reasons, all
speculative, have been ad
vanced for the Soviet course
of action in Cuba. The island
now is estimated to have at
least $200 million worth of
Soviet arms, including nuclear
carrying missiles.
The simplest theory is that
the weapons would make eas
ier the export of Castro's rev
olution to other Latin Amer
ican nations by violent means.
Another is that Khrushchev
intended to use Cuba to in
crease his bargaining position
on Berlin.
A third is that a Soviet
base in Cuba might make the
United States more agreeable
to Soviet demands that for
eign bases all over the world
be eliminated.
In all three there may be
some validity.
Washington Report
By William
(ei United reatur Syndicate
CLEAN AIR BLOWING
Washington- The cold but
clean air of danger stoutly
recognized and coolly met
rTCrfBSL'n bl0WS tnrou
Wash ington
j now that this
government at
last confronts
the moment of
truth with
honesty and
honor.
The procla
mation of the
Kennedy doc-
trine means
that the United
States of America will retreat
no more. It may mean war
with the Soviet Union - if the
Soviet Union refuses to draw
back from the preparation of
nuclear aggression in this
hemisphere. It means that,
come what may, we will tol
erate no broadening of the
offensive Soviet lodgement in
Castro Cuba.
It means that the years of
bowing our heads and our
vital interests to "world opin
ion," informed or uninformed,
held in good faith or bad
failh, have come at last to a
close.
It means that the United
States, having so long be
sought a peace that would not
come, now rises in power and
purpose in resolve to die on
its feet if it cannot win a life
of dignity and justice on its
knees. Through three adminis
trations - Truman's, Eisen
hower's, Kennedy's - we have
gone the last mile in patience,
in hope endlessly denied. We
are not yet done with talking
and appealing, and rightly not
done. But we are done with
only talking and appealing.
Now, we shall, if necessary,
act and act yet agin.
rpO DISCOUNT the perils
would be the bravado of
the child; but not to have
taken our stand would have
been an unmanly betrayal of
this nation.
All these words discribe the
large sense of the partial
blockade of Cuba. And the
blockade, for all ils somber
meaning, is far less significant
than President Kennedy's ac
companying warning that any
nuclear attack from Cuba any
where in the Western Hemis
phere will be met with a retal
itory American strike on the
one true seat of the world's ;
infection, the Soviet Union.
But other things remain to;
be said. Happily. Kennedy has
now abandoned the small- j
bore partisan politics of a
Congressional election c a m
paign which, for Ihe sake of
something called "Medical
Care." had threatened to com
promise national unity in anj
hour of unexampled gravity.!
The people are now drawn to
gether in that concert which
alone can see us through, ifi
anything can. Only the small
est of partisans, Democrats or j
Republicans, are talking "poli
tics" any more. I
B
UT THE President also
needs now to dismiss from
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you would do about Cuba
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If Cuba can be obtained
cheaply, then so much th
better. But it seems highly un
likely that Khrushchev delib
erately would seek a war
over Cuba, far from Soviet
supply lines and at a cost the
Russian people inevitably
would have to pay.
Khrushchev's world strategy
requires a high degree of ma
neuverability, which already
has been reduced by his own
quarrel with Red China,
China's attack on India and
his own internal difficulties.
It seems highly unlikely
that he would reduce this ma
neuverability further by en
trusting the decision over use
of nuclear weapons to the un
predictable Fidel Castro any
more than he would to East
Germany's Walter Ulbrecht.
S. White
his administration those who
pressed upon him, then new
and untried in the White
House, the refusal and ade
quate American military sup
port to the patriots' invasion
of Castro Cuba in April of
1961. Rightly backed, it might
have ended this nightmare
long ago.
Dismiss them he should, not
to seek devils for the past but
as a necessary reassurance to
the nation that he is really
done with listening lo the
decent but timid men who
have helped bring us to the
edge of catastrophe. It is not
their motives but rather their
minds - and the minds of all
those unofficial experts who
grandly ridiculed the fear nf
Communism in Cuba and as
sured the country even later1
that Cuba was only a "peri
pheral" problem - which are
now shown so mortally wrong.
We need now a government
of national unity free of the
symbols of past weaknesses,
free of those whose one poli
cy, however elegantly expres
sed, has always come to tha
same: Don't act; don't act any
where. rAN ADLAI Stevenson, not
questioning his patriotism
and devotion, really continue)
to speak for all this nation at
the United Nations? Can Ches
ter Bowles, not questioning
his patriotism and devotion,
continue usefully to "advise"
the president on foreign af
fairs? Can such men effective
ly present to the world, with
all the hard candor now re
quired, the terrible and ma
jestic truth that the United
States is at last resolved to do
its duty. U.N. or no U.N.,
"world opinion" or no "world
opinion?"
A good, lough-minded au
thentic Republican should re
place Stevenson at the U. N.,
replace him all the way. Ken
nedy has now freed his policy
from those who would always
talk but never do. He need
now to free himself - lo be
come the real John F. Ken
nedy - from the sugar-candy
pscudo "liberalism" of associ
ates who have brought his ad
ministration and this country
to within rocket shot of an
enemy base 90 miles away.
To the country - all the
country - he owes this much;
just as the country - all tha
country - now owes him ils
total support.
Grants Pass Woman
Safe in Bay Area
Grants Pass - Local rela
tives have been notified that
Mrs. Mary S. Slikanen. 18. of
1031 Southwest I si., and her
son are safe in San Francisco.
She had been reported miss
ing by relatives after friends
in San Francisco said that
she had not appeared there.
In a telephone call lo her
parents this week. Mrs. Slik
anen said that she had stayed
with other friends, after tha
family she had originally
gone to visit was not home.
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