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MONDAY, Medfordv&Tribune ""E verybneinSou itheriTbregon"" R,lThcMailjrribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Flrt.. Ph. 772-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWF.TT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor DALEE RICK SON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered as kecond class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 3.00 Sunday Only One year 15.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 20c By Carnei And Motor Route. Daily ana sunasy i jet i.u' Dally ana aunaay i mu. Kunrfav Onlv 1 mo. 50C Carrier nd Vendorg Copy 10c Official Paper of City of" Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I Telephoto Newspicturen "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or tiHtULAiiuns a.,, Stlnv nmrrntattve NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC.. atvm rtffirM in New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, oeauie. r w r n u u Denver. NATIONAL E0ITORIAI ASfsbCfrATIQ'N C6T' NEWSPAFf PUBLISHEDS j ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medtcrd and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. S, 1952 (Wednesday) Jackson eountv voters will have tn await completion of the official election canvass tn team whether or not weath er control and cloud modifi cation In the county will re main legal. It may take two or three weeks. A record number of voters -75.2 per cent of the 36,067 who were registered - went to the polls in Jackson county's general election. 20 YEARS AGO Not. S. 1942 (Thursday) Assistant Fire Chief Ed Ca noose summons fire depart ment when blaze breaks out in his home. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "Many people were Just too busy to vote. Just like when Jury service looms, there is always hay to pilch and it looks like rain. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 5, 1932 (Saturday) Unknown thief takes 132 pairs of ladies' stockings from local department store. Hat with bullet hole, pair of overalls and other articles found in Little Applegate area; owner feared victim of foul play. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 5. 1922 (Sunday) Two men fatally lnurcd in explosion in road crew camp near Prospect. Jacksonville man shoots wife, commits suicide; wife said near death in local hos pital. SO YEARS AGO Not. S. 1912 (Tuesday) Woodrow Wilson elected president with 399 electornl votes; Theodore Roosevelt gets 121 and William Howard Taft receives 20; in local elections Frank TnuVellc elec ted county judge and E. E. Kelly elected prosecuting at torney. Local rancher receives "very good price" of $7.65 per hundred pounds fur 7B hogs marketed in Medford. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five Of six is good. 1. In tennis, what is score of zero called? 2. Where are Nobel Prizes awarded? 3. Who was the first Rom an to lead an cxpcdilion to Britain? 4. WliHt is the translation of 'habcous corpus'? 5. tlow many arms dues an octopus have? 6. What were thr first two major political parlies called In the U.S.? 7. How high is the Wash ington Monument? 8. Who was the Prophet of the Mormons? 9. What is a Presidential salute. In terms of gi ns? 10. What did Litlle Jack Horner eat? Answers; 1, Lore. 2. Swe den. 3. Julius Caesar. Pro duct the body. 5. Eight. S. Federalists and Republicans. 7. S4S feet and a Inch. 9. Joseph Smith. 9. Twenty. one guns tired in succession. 10. Christmas Pie. I NOVEMBER 5. 1962 Apathy and Election Apathy 1. Want of feeling; lack of passion, emo tion, or excitement. 2. Indifference to what appeals to feelings or interest. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. This has been a moderately interesting cam paign year, but it certainly hasn't generated any thing like the heat and passion of some earlier election seasons. There has been "apathy" yes. We've been able to work up a rather substantial amount of personal apathy on some of the races, in line with the often-heard slogan in the California election, "Vote NO for governor." On other matters on the ballot, we have had and still have considerable concern. Probably everyone is that way; there are some races about which they feel strongly, others about which they could hardly care 'ess. A PATHY, as such, is neither a sin nor a virtue " except as it relates to its subject matter. We would, indeed, encourage apathy in any voter who has not taken the timp and trouble to inform himself about what he's going to vote on. In our view, an uninformed or ignorant vote is far worse than no vote at all. Democracy is a fine ideal, but to all who hold it dear, it also implies an informed and literate electorate. All of which is by way of saying that if you don't know, don't vote; if you don't care, don't vote. Leave it up to those who do know and do care. See you at the polls? E.A. Candidate Recommendations FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR 101 Wayne L. Morse FOR CONGRESS, FOURTH DISTRICT 103 Robert B. Duncan FOR GOVERNOR, STATE OF OREGON 105 Mark Hatfield FOR LABOR COMMISSIONER 109 Norman 0. Nilsen FOR STATE SENATOR FROM JACK SON COUNTY 110 L. W. (Lynn) Ncwbry FOR SATE REPRESENTATIVE, JACKSON COUNTY (Vote for three) 112 Alva N. (Al) Bradford 113 Edward Branchfield 117 James A. Redden FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR 118 Thad W. Hatten FOR COUNTY CLERK 120 Bereth P. Hopkins FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER 122 Donald E. "Don" Faber FOR COUNTY JUDGE 125 Earl M. Miller FOR COUNTY SHERIFF 126 "De" A. Leigh NON-PARTISAN BALLOT FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, NO. 1 201 William M. McAllister FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, NO. (5 202 Arno II. Denecke FOR JUDGE OF THE OREGON TAX COURT 203 Peter Gunnar FOR JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT, JACKSON COUNTY 20-1 L. L. Sawyer CITY OF MEDFORD FOR MAYOR 155 Jimniv Diiiilevy FOR COUNCILMAN First Ward 15S Robert J. Cunningham FOR COUNCILMAN Second Ward Kil Donald Hansen FOR COUNCILMAN Third Ward Ki l Robert L. Barais FOR COUNCILMAN Fourth Ward 1()7 Richard H. Travis E.A. Measures Recommendations 1. REORGANIZE STATE MILITIA Yes. 2. FOREST REHABILITATION DEBT LIMIT AMENDMENT Yes. 3. PERMANENT ROAD DEBT LIMIT AMENDMENT Yes. 1. POWER DEVELOPMENT DEBT LI M 1 T A M EN DM ENT Yes. 5. STATE COURTS: CREATION AND JURISDICTION Yes. . DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Yes. 7. CONSTITUTIONAL SIX PER CENT LIMITATION A M EN DM EN T Y es. 8. Ruled off ballot; if it appears on yours, no need to vote. !. LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT -Yes. 10. REPEALS SCHOOL DISTRICT RE O R G A N I Z AT 1 0 N 1 . A W No. 52 FLUORIDATION OF MEDFORD CITY WATER SUPPLY Yes. E.A. MEDFOBD "Let Get A Lock r sirs .-.' - v!xL.m.itL.xr!t.-ri ... Communications ... Letters lo the Editor must certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views oi the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. How Can He Lose To the Editor: One last word about the election. With St. Peter on the side of Sen ator Morse, how can he lose? David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Concerning Qualifications To the Editor: I would like to register a large protest against the posters and ads of sheriff candidate De Leigh. The term "Best Qualified" which he uses is simply a claim. It's nature is such that it should not be used in a campaign. He is simply say ing, "I am the best." What he could have honestly claim ed is something like this: "I have had more experience in the law enforcement field and this experience was gained more than a decade ago." I have seen cases where a man had 15 years of experi ence or more in a certain field and was so inept in his work that the big problem was how to get rid of him. Practice does NOT make per fect. If you have no talent for the violin you could not achieve quality if you prac ticed for 60 years. So, ex perience does not necessarily mean "best qualified." There are other factors to be con sidered, like real ability, as tute judgment, concept of the complete job as sheriff, abil ity to inspire confidence, co operation and loyalty in his own and other departments. Things like good character, disposition, temperament, at titude toward the public of fice, toward the people of the county, are very important. Some of these pre-requisites for the vi of sheriff may be dormai faintly manifested in Mr. h, but in my opin ion the, qualities are firm ly evident in Berle Stephens. Therefore, Berle Stephens is the "Better Qualified" candi date. Dorris Chinn 101 Lozier Lane Medford. G.O.P. Incident To the Editor: I would like to let the local people know of the unfortunate incident that took place at our Vet eran's Hospital in White City. This omirrance happened last Saturday afternoon when some members of the Republi- j can party, mostly candidates' by the way. used the bad judgment to come on the hos pital grounds honking horns and yelling to attract atten-j tion. j 1 would like lo point out! that they created such a dis turbance that we were com pelled lo ask them to leave the area. I want lo let the people know that we resent this unwarranted attack upon our privacy that most people have the good sense to re spect . If the initials G.O.P. stand for Grand Old Party then there must be something rad ically wrong with the local representatives because there whs certainly nothing grand about this party. 1 can assure you that if this was an attempt to influence thr voters out here it cerlainlv has Ralph Nelson VA Domiciliary Camp White, Ore Important Day To the Editor: Tomorrow is a very important day tu our lives. Those of you who will be going to the polls realize, I am sure, that the way you vote enn change the way your government operates on local, state, and national levels for the next two years. Rut 1 wonder how many voters know what a tremendous change is w rought m the lives I MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, For Thi. Thing" bear the name and address of of candidates and their fam ilies, from the day a man files for office through that crucial day of decision by the voters- and beyond. We have shared this ex perience four times now. When Bob first filed for State Representative six years ago, we had no idea how far we would all go down this new road or how much would be expected of us as a family. We have all campaigned the younger children think a pic nic is a place where lots of people gather together to hear speeches and they think nothing of climbing into an airplane (piloted by their fa ther) or car and going a hun dred miles or more to hear their Dad make one! My teen agers, Nancy and Angus, are far more knowledgeable about politics and government at 17 and 16 than 1 was at 25. And the baby, Bonnie Dee, who incidentally arrived in the middle of a legislative session in Salem, has nnauy become adjusted to waving goodbye to Mom and Dad without a flood of tears. What I am trying to ex press is that it has been a wonderful and enriching ex perience getting to know people all over Oregon and particularly here in our dis trict, moving the family to Salem for the legislative ses sion, my working alongside Bob during those sessions, our sense ot involvement in tne terribly important business of government. The friends we have made and the helping hands all along the way were rewards in themselves. I have great faith that Bob will be elected to Congress tomorrow but whatever hap pens, we are all better ana stronger and more aware than we were six years ago; and for this we will be for ever grateful. Mrs. Bob Duncan 1500 Terrace dr. Medford. Exceptional Representation To the Editor: It is easy to tell just before an election who the strongest and best candidates are. They are the ones who are continually be ing attacked in the letters to the editor. I guess this is one of the things people in poli tics gel used to. but it must be pretty hard when the at tacks are as prejudiced and unfair as the ones against Bob Duncan have been. 1 must admit that 1 have been shocked that this could happen right here In Bob's home county. It's hard for me lo understand how people whom he's served and served well for six years in the Ore gon Legislature could be so vicious in their opposition I have nothing personal j against Bob's opponent, but these people are building him ; up out of all proportion. After 1 all. he whs only a member of the House during the two j terms when Bob Duncan, as ! Speaker, was running it. I can'l imagine how he came j to know so much so fast. It , looks like a big promotion I backed by plenty of money j of a rather ordinary young j man. Well. I started out to write about Bob Dun. an. But I rcal ! ly shouldn't need to. The peo- 1 pie in this county who have i depended on his good Judg i nient and sound thinking for six years know that they have had not just good, but excep tional, representation in the j Legislature, And that Is lust ! what thry will have in Con ! Ki ess when thry elect Bob Duncan on Nov. 6. Mrs. Max Wimmcr 1115 West Second st. Medford Board Criticised To the Editor: In answer to the protest statements on Oct OREGON Foreign News: Some Cuban Comments; Soviets Beef Up Fleet " ........ e l 1 41. By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: KhrushcheT Caution There is no concrete sign from Moscow that Soviet Pre mier N 1 k 1 1 a Khrushchev's leadership in any danger because ot his dec! sion to withdraw Russian m 1 s s i 1 e s from Cuba. But cau tion is one of the first laws of sell-preser- Ne .iom vation in t h e Communist world. And Ital ian Communist boss Palmiro Togliatti, one of the smartest men in the international Com munist movement, is exercis ing that faculty rather well. Togliatti does not seem to be so sure that Khrushchev will remain in power for long after the Cuban setback, and has the writer, although under 29 from Mrs. R. A. Pfiefer of Shady Cove, and also the statements of C. W. Abbott as a member of Jackson coun ty board of equalization on Oct. 31. I fully can sympathize with Mrs. Pfiefer because I also have appeared before the board to explain the situa tion we have from the Cheney Stud Mill in Central Point. This mill has caused enormous devaluation of all the adjoin ing properties. We get saw dust fallout, soot, and have to put up with their terribly stinking pond, which any in telligent person knows that this condition would cause devaluation of the properties nearby. But we cannot get the board to understand this. Most anywhere else in the county the value has gone up while ours has decreased, year by year. Three years ago a petition with 27 property owners pro tested our valuation, but to no avail. Before elections politicians promise to be public servants, but just wait until after elec tion, they become dictators instead of public servants. t just wish that the asses sor's office would show to the people their assessed valua tion of their appraisials, of the rich farm land part of which are used for building sites and the pear orchards, the land owned by the power company, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. This will eventually lead to the situation we had in 1949, when almost 900 people went to the Jackson county court house, to the assessor's office, they also did protesting, and the people maintained that they were being dealt an un fair deal, but you guessed it, the assessors office were right, El Strictly Personal By Sydney to Field Enterprises. Inc. WHAT'S A HE-MAN? A reader in Texas has writ ten me a note asking: "Why do women belittle (at least, my wife does! a man's at tempt to take the deep -ii woods and be j the he man 7 il s noi as sim- , . : pie a question as it sounds, nor is the an swer a simple one. Women belittle men Harris for different reasons, good and bad: and men want to take to the woods for different reasons, good and bad What interests me. how ever, is my correspondent's Implicit assumption that the one who takes to the deep woods is necessarily a "he man." He may or may not be - but it Is in his daily life, not in his forest flights, that he reveals his manhood or his boyhood. ... In a book on "Courage" that he wrote shortly after the war. General Slim, who commanded the Allied forces in Burma, said that his experience with soldiers and civilians and refugees had taught him that "moral courage is much higher and rarer than physical courage, and that women and civil ians often exhibit more courage of this kind than the bravest combatants." What it takes to be a real "he-man" in modern socie ty is no longer the physical intrepidity of the soldier or frontiersman in the past. What modern man is rjrr9mr to fS if' kept remarkably silent on the Issue. The day after Khrushchev agreed to the withdrawal, Togliatti actually refused to comment. The Italian Commu nist party directorate praised the whole Russian-Cuban deal. But all Togliatti indulged himself In then was to say: "We are satisfied with the solution of the Cuban crisis." Togliatti finally commented on Cuba by week's end in an article in the party magazine Rinascita. His words still were guarded and his praise was for the "Soviet Union" rather than Khrushchev. His guarded attitude is in contrast to his belligerent stand at the peak of the crisis when he bombarded the Rome government with personal statements and parliamentary interrogations. Those who know Togliatti believe h i s current cautiousness does not necessarily indicate disapprov al of the way things have gone on Cuba. B u t rather they consider it reflects his feeling that Khrushchev's po sition is weakened and that it may be unwise to say "bravo" to a man who might lose his job. Russian Submarines Military sources in Tokyo say the Russians have added as many as a dozen subma rines and a number of surface vessels to their Far Eastern fleet in recent weeks. The reason: The Russians must monitor their own rocket tests in the Pacific and take on the additional chore of spying on the U. S. nuclear tests at Johnston Island and the U. S. antimissile missile develop ment program at Eniwetok Island. French Elections First unofficial predictions of results of the Nov. 18 and 25 French parliamentary elec tions are that the Communists will be among the biggest winners and President Charles de Gaulle's Union for a New Republic party will be the big gest single loser. The guesses are that the Communists will gain in strength from their present 10 to 70 seats, with the radicals going from 37 to about 65, the Popular Repub licans from 57 to about 75, and the socialists and inde pendents making slight gains. The UNR is expected to suffer disastrous losses up to one half of its present strength of 178 seats. There is extremely heavy pressure being put on De Gaulle to get him to help avert this disaster. Betting is that he will do so but in and the people were wrong. I don't blame Mrs. Pfiefer for making the remarks that she did. I ask anyone, just try and go before the board of equalization and you will have an enemy in front, an enemy In back, on the right and left, and they are all ready to attack, yet they all promise to be servants of the people. Can anyone tell me, is this justice? Frank Koch 412 South First si. Central Point, Ore. J. Harris called upon lo be and do requires moral courage of a higher order, tenacity, pa tience, a deep sense of re sponsibility, and the will ingness to endure boredom, fatigue and tensions that can be only occasionally re lieved. The real he-man. it seems lo me, is not the one who takes to the woods (except, perhaps, as a relaxing week end off once in a while), but the one who feels a quiet and deep pride in tak ing care of his family as a man ought to. ... Sitting home at night, read ing a book, while the chil dren are tucked in their beds, it can be immensely gratify ing to reflect that the whole structure of their safety and welfare depends upon one man. his work, his reliability, his responsibility, his refusal to funk his obligations. Being a man has little to do with stalking deer In a woods or shooting ducks In a blind: these are pleasant vestiges of boyhood, not tokens of man hood But continuing to work when you are tired, assuming duties when you would rath er loll, making sure that the nest is safe and warm and that the future holds promise of continuity and growth - these are the unrelenting demands modern society makes upon its grown men. How well and how willing ly we measure up to these demands - unheroic in a dra matic sense, but more d'"i cult in many ways - is a more accurate criterion for separat ing the he-men from the he-boys. Reds Hedging On a discreet manner that will not compromise his tradition - Ultra-Rightists On California Ballots Sacramento - The Califor nia election Tuesday, Nov. 6, offers-in addition to the main Nixon-Brown bout - a crucial test of the political strength of the far right. Item: Extreme anti-Communists are backing the so-called Francis Amendment to the California Constitution. Its most controversial feature is a provision that a Communist, Communist front, or subver sive organization is one so judged "by an apnellate or superior court, or by a grand jury of any county in this state, or by the Attorney Gen eral of California, or by any court, officer, board, commis sion, agency or other body of the Government of the United States making such a finding pursuant to the law." Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Richard M. Nixon both have expressed vigorous oppo sition to the proposed amend ment. Opponents say it is really a weapon to destroy liberal, non-conformist organ izations by threatening them with the Communist brand. Nixon even says that the John Birch Society feels that "be cause I do not support the amendment I apparently am soft on communism." Washington Report By William (e United feature Syndicate BY-PRODUCT Washington An unex pected but heartening by-product of President Kennedy's single - hand e d action against the So v i e t missile base in Cuba has been little noted but should be long remembered. This is the fact that our White allies, wno were given little consultation before Mr. Kennedy went it alone in this desperately need ed step, have responded with generous understanding. Indeed, the Western alli ance is actually more nearly together than it was before his unilateral ultimatum to inter national communism. And for this, one allied power, Britain, deserves special thanks. BEFOREHAND, most of the allies, led by the British, had been infuriatingly calm, and even a trifle superior, about the problem of Castro Cuba. They had all but invit ed they had all but de manded the isolation of the United States in this somber business. They had been un willing even to give token support to the earlier efforts to cut off Cuban trade. For this there were several reasons, if no necessarily good reasons. One was a persistent inability in England to under stand that Soviet missiles in Cuba were part of a Soviet design to blackmail the West, all the way from the Carib bean to Berlin, and so formed a real and terrible threat to all the West. Another reason was that the United States had spent a good many years in loftily lecturing Britain and other European nations about their own acute problems in areas of more vital interest to them than to us ex-colonial areas in Africa and Asia. ... TET another went back six years, when Nasser's Egypt, backed by the Soviet Union Just as Castro Cuba was later backed, cut Britain's lifeline by theft of the Suez canal. On that sad occasion, we gave the British the cold I t 'I eJ w v-i -r ".-i 7s "I know it's traditional , tor candidate to be photographed eoling for him- al stana or Deing eoove ui 1 political strife. Item: The far right hopes 1 elect three members of the) John Birch Society to Con. gress from its major strong, hold in Los Angeles County. Two are Republican incum. bents seeking re-election: Rep. John H. Rousselot of the 25th Congressional District and Rep. Edgar W. Hiestand, of the 27th. The third Birch mem ber, H. L. Richardson, is run ning on the G.O.P. ticket in the newly created 29th Dis trict. None is favored to win, but of the three, Rousselot is said to have the best chance. The California election really offers the first large-scale test for the Birchers at the polls inasmuch as the semi-secret society's existence didn't come to public knowledge until 1961. One darling of the far right, Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, an avowed Bircher, finished sixth and last in May when ha ran for the Democratic guber natorial nomination in Texas. With that handwriting un thai wall, most California observ ers are forecasting a day of disaster for the far right on Nov. 6.-Editorial Research Re ports. S. White est of comfort. And when the. British, the French and the Israelis in desperation invad ed Egypt, to get Nasser's hands off their throats, wet refused to our allies any back ing whatsoever. Instead, we) actually joined the Russians in condemning them in the United Nations. Against all this background, British opinion was inclined to let "the Yanks" stew in their own pot of Cuban con cern. There was also a general feeling in England that, any how, the United States was "too excited about Cuba." All this has now been swept away, in the disclosure to all the world that the Soviet Un ion was in Cuba for far more sinister purposes than merely to threaten the southern Unit ed States coast. But even be fore this full disclosure the British government in the pinch came through, even amid their annoyance at not having been fully consulted in this American enterprise which, after all, involved the risk of war to them, too. qiHE fact is that Lord Home, - the British foreign minis ter, called in the Soviet am bassador to London and told him in words of chill plain ness that Britain was stand ing with the United States, come what might. Later, Prime Minister Macmillan waved away all complaints that Britain had not been briefed at the take-off. This, remembering that Macmillan's government is constantly yammered at any how by left-wing neutralist and anti-American critics, was pretty decent. And it was even more decent remember ing that when the British for their part set off on a uni lateral action the Egyptian invasion we gave them no equivalent forgiveness. We only gave them stones in the UN. What the British tried to prove in 1956 was that no nation should leave its very life to the mercies solely of "world opinion." But their biggest ally, the United States, would not come forward. We have now proved it, as to Cuba, because we had the iron and incomparable power of the American military es tablishment. -1 iil r i 'jv-ii-. r. ssv but it is kind of immodest
