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10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1962 (Thursday)
The county measure to pro
hibit weather control was de
feated by 34 votes, an oiucioi
canvass of Tuesday's election
returns revealed today.
A 160-acre fire in virgin
timber in the Applegate area
is being fought by a crew of
30 to 35 men today.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1942 (Friday)
Medford Attorney William
M. McAllister assured of elec
tion as speaker of the 1943
Oregon house of rcprescnta
toves. ,
From Arthur Perry s Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
election is over, and politics
is adjourned. The voters ad
journed a number of politici
ans, some of long standings,
who can now sit down."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1932 (Sunday)
Grain soaked in itrychnlne
and arsenic solutions said re
sponsible for death of several
hundred birds in Medford.
Nineteen-year-old Medford
youth arrested by state police
on charge of turkey stealing;
police promise campaign to
make rural areas "safe for
turkeys."
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1922 (Monday)
Election day foggy and
cloudy in Medford; numbers
of early voters said "not
above average.'1
"Peon pants," national high
school fad, make appearance
as "white corduroy trousers
slit up the sides and gaudily
trimmed with red velvet,
black lacings, black tassels
and black buttons with a
black sash as an important
item."
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 1912 (Wednesday!
State women's suffrage
amendment carries in Jack
son county by margin of 400
votes; city gives presidential
plurality to Wcodrow Wilson;
Frank TouVelle elected coun
ty judge by margin of 31 J
votes over George W. Dunn.
George McGowan, PortlHiiri,
said to be (he founder of the
central Oregon city of Burns,
arrives in Medford seeking a
place to live here.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine er nil correct It superiei;
even er tight It aictlltnti flu
tit il l eoe
1. Who was Van Gogh
2. Which of these numbers
Is the largest - .092, .0083,
.014. .12?
3. By what other name do
we know the first ten amend
ments to the Constitution?
4. What la the principal riv
principal nv-
John Drown"!
cr of Alaska?
5. Where did
raid occur?
6. What Is a Missiur) meer
schaum? 7. Do native burn and nat
uralized citizens have com
pletely equal rights?
8. What planet Is nearest
the inn?
9. Which stale flag has a
replica of the Union Jack in
It?
10. Which two countries
arc connected by the Brenner
Pass?
Answtm 1. Dutch punier.
2. .12. 3. Bill of Rights. 4. Yu
kon. 5. Harpers Ferry. 6. Corn
cob pip. ? On txctption -only
a natlv born person may
b president. 8. Mercury. 9.
Hawaiian. 10. Italy and Austria.
NOVtMbtM b, Ibbi
Moment of Truth
The campaign is over. The moment of truth
for all the candidates has arrived, as each voter
enters the polling place, and is alone with his
ballot, his pencil and his conscience.
On another occasion, when Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee came to an end, Rudyard Kip
ling put into words the feelings that usually assail
us when comes the quietude after a campaign.
He said :
"The tumult and the shouting dies,
"The Captains and the Kings depart,
"Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
"An humble and a contrite heart."
What Causes "Accidents"
We have always felt that the word "accident"
is a misnomer when applied to a traffic wreck
in which people die or are injured, or in which
property is demolished or damaged.
An "accident" is defined as "an event that
takes place without one's foresight or expecta
tion, especially of an afflictive or unfortunate
character," or a "chance, contingency."
No one, of course, expects to have an automo
bile "accident," but inasmuch as most or tnem
are preventable, they do not meet the "chance"
nr "nnnrinrrpnfv" rlpfinitinn.
definition.
WE HAVE discovered some authoritative sup
port for this point of view, in the person of
Alfred L. Mosely, a researcher at Harvard medi
cal school, who believes that each accident can
be put in one of seven classifications. I nese are :
1. Environmental failure (weather, rocks on
the road, etc.)
2. Vehicle failure.
3. Human failure
4. Human failure
5. Suicide.
6. Tampering.
7. Hypothesis, or unknown.
With the sole exceptions of 1 and 7, all auto
accidents could be prevented or avoided, and
many of those under No. 1 could also be.
e
1VIR. MOSELY thinks that auto crashes are not
adequately investigated.
He calls for an examination of the site of
each by a qualified traffic engineer; mechanical
and engineering inspection of every vehicle ; com
plete autopsy of the dead ; physical and psychia
tric examination of each surviving driver, and a
personal and social history of each driver and
pedestrian involved.
He said that such investigations carried out
in 124 traffic death cases, conducted during his
research project done for the U.S. public health
service, turned up some surprising results, inciuu
ing attempted or suspected murders.
The suicide and tampering classifications cer
tainly could not be classified as "accidents" un
der any definition.
WHATEVER the final results of his researches
mnu I'pvnnl thpv shniilrl bp. interesting
With Americans killing each other off at a
tremendous rate on the highways, knowledge of
the underlying causes could and should go far
toward an intelligent attack on the problem,
which up to now has been largely confined to
better engineering in the form of freeways, and
cautionary admonitions to "drive safely" with
unknown results.
The privilege of driving a potentially lethal
weapon on our hiirhways carries with it the re
sponsibility to do so with
others. The clay may come
stringent in our drivers
Who knows, the day may come when we 11 nave
to have personality stability certificates before
we can drive. E.A.
Poor General Walkerski
John Fischer, the editor of Harper's maga
zine, is a literate, brilliant and sometimes contro
versial man.
In the current issue, he brings off a tour de
force of writing under the title, "The No-Win
Policy in the Kremlin." Me takes a hypothetical
Russian general named Walkerski, ana has him
testify before the Committee on Un-Russian Ac
tivities of the Supreme Soviet.
General Walkerski is appalled at the inroads
that the capitalist conspiracy has made in Com-nuinist-iaiul.
He acknowledges the threat from
abroad, but is convinced that the greatest danger
is from within, with innocent dupes and Can
symps undermining the moral fiber of the people
and betraying the sacred doctrine of Marxism-Leninism.
y ms testimony proceeds, he recounts the
the list of losses the Comrades have suffered
over the years the Longo, where a perfect
opportunity was frustrated bv what could only
have been treachery in high nlaces; Cuba, where
Castro's incptness leads to the suspicion he is a
tool of the Capitalists: the expulsion from Iran;
the defeat in Greece; the end of the Red guerillas
in Malaya: the loss of the government in Guata
mala; the defection of Yugoslavia ami Albania;
the disloyalty of the Chinese allies; the cosily
rebellions in Hungary and East Germany; the
steady shrinkage in the size of the Communist
parties in France and Italy; the treachery of Nas
ser, Kassim, Sekou Toure, Nehru, U Nu, Nkru
mah, who accept Communist money but won't
stay bought.
One weeps for the Ivan Birchski apparatchik.
E.A.
-E.A.
personality.
illness.
regard to the rights of
when we are far more
license examinations.
MhUrOHD
"Uh Huh Li.ten Yeah, Too Bad Listen Let
Me Tell You What Happened To Me, Krishna "
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Coach Praised
Editor's note: Recently St.
Mary's High school of Med
ford forfeited four of its foot
ball games played so far, be
cause of the ineligibility of
one of the players, a fact dis
covered by Coach Bill Mc
Kibbin and honestly investi
gated. Some reaction from
colleagues to his decision is
contained in the following
four letters:
0-
Could we all have done
what St. Mary's coach, Bill
McKibbin, has done?
One has to be loyal and
truthful in many ways: to his
team, to his opponents, and,
certainly, to himself. McKib
bin's action only proves that
winning isn't the only thing
that is important in athletics.
Helping to develop young men
Washington Report
By William
(ei United Featura Syndicate
ON KEEPING INFORMED
Washington The greatest
problem before the United
States, excepting only the im-
y'lJjJl mense and sin-
isicr uux in
world affairs
themselves, is
how to keep
a balanced
and informed
concern in the
public mind.
The pro
found anxiety
white of that recent
crisis week in wnicn it ap
peared nuclear war might be
hours away seems to have
been succeeded by complacen
cy. It is based upon a popular
assumption that the limited
backdown of international
communism in Cuba is the
end of our most pressing dan
gers.
The first of these public
attitudes was in fact more
soundly eased lhan the succes
sor attitude that everything
is more or less bound to come
out right. Mere gloom and
doom stuff is no good, for fear
alone is a poor basis fur any
sort of enterprise, including
national survival. But a calm
and stout awareness of the
unexampled dangers and
possible opportunities fac
ing this country is an absolute
requisite to adult participa
tion in public affairs.
'PlIE actual position is now
- about as follows:
As to Cuba The United
Stales won a genuine but qual
ified victory in President Ken
nedy's confrontation with the
Soviet Union over the Soviet
missile bases there. That Ni
kita Khrushchev agreed to
dismantle them is a great and
hopeful circumstance, not
withstanding all the obstruc
tions that have been and may
be offered by Fidel Castro.
Nevertheless, the fart remains
that even assuming a total
stripping of Cuba of every of
fensive missile, it will at mini
mum he necessary for t h e
United States to maintain al
ways a massive alert against
the introduction there of new
weapons.
Moreover, whatever form of
United Nations supervision
may be arranged in tins mat
ter, it must and will remain
essentially an American re
sponsibility We cannot and
will nut entrust our national
m
security solely to any inter- j by keeping so informed can
national agency, no matter all the gravity and delicacy
how many fair words may he , of the present position be ap
aid -- and even meant predated.
MAIL 'IHiBUnt. MtWOnU,
into fine citizens, to develop
good morals, and to show true
signs of good sportsmanship
when the test is put before us
are other important consider
ations. Certainly McKibbin's
stand, difficult as it was, will
be remembered by each mem
ber of the team. St. Mary's
coach and team are champions
off the field as well as on
the field.
Congratulations on a job
well done. Every citizen of
Medford should be on the
band-wagon, cheering them
on-this year, and those to fol
low. One can't always agree with
the rulings of the O.S.A.A.
regarding an incident such as
this; but if an exception to
the rule were made here,
much hard-feeling could be
S. Whit
about It.
IN SHORT, our highest im
mediate hope is to cause
the removal of weapons that
never should have been put
there in the first place. Thus,
it could well be said that we
have only broken even but
for the cardinal point that in
the process we have at last
convinced the Soviet Union
that we will fight if we must.
In the long slope of time, this
single factor may emerge as
a far greater gain than any
and ali others.
As to the cold war generally
though it is usually self
deluding to speculate upon
weaknesses and divisions
within the world Communistic
bloc the evidence is strong
that this time there really is
something to such specula
tions. The Soviet Union has
been caught off balance alike
by our unexpectedly tough re
sponse in Cuba and by Com
munist China's unwanted in
vasion of India.
It is possible, however, that
it Khrushchev is in deep trou
ble at home, those who might
succeed him might be even
more reckless lhan he has
been. American policy there
fore must walk a thin line,
never to surrender our vital
interests but also never to
take up foolishly "hard" posi
tions which might drive him
into the ultimate madness of
nuclear war simply to save
his own position from his mil
itarists. '1M1E more the thing is coolly
examined the more obvi
ous it is that, if we can be
biought through this perilous
maze at all, the only man w-ho
can possibly do it is the only
man in possession all the time
of all the facts the Presi
dent. Everybody is entitled to his
own ideas and to offer all the
criticisms he wants to up to
whatever point the President
may finally commit this coun
try to this course or that,
At that point, however, one
thing alone is left to rational j
men: to hope and pray that the I
President ha, chosen the right j
course If he has we sha 1
come through. If he has not. I
nine is mHiiiiiK uptiiii v,c
could do about it
anvhow.
Thus the only possible adult
stance is to keep as well in-
formed as possible. For only
OMtUON
Istanbul-Izmir-Athens Triangle Forms
Basis of Mid-East Free World Defenses
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Nwt Analyst
In Izmir, some 300 miles
down the Turkish coast from
Istanbul, it still Is summer-
time, the
grapes are
ripe and palm
trees rustle in
the off-shore
breeze from
the Aegean
Sea. Across
the Aegean,
some 200
miles away.
Newsom lies Athens.
In the triangle formed by
the result. The best way is to
follow the straight and nar
row line with no exceptions
Bill Essclstyn,
315 Perrydale,
Medford.
-O-
We are sorry that this came
up. As far as we are con
cerned, St. Mary's won the
League and we are in second
place. However, due to an un
fortunate situation we are
called upon to represent our
League in the playoffs instead
of St. Mary's.
We are most reluctant to
enter the playoffs as a second
place team. This incident has
placed us in a most unfavor
able role as we are in the play
offs where St. Mary's should
be.
We didn't have anything to
do with this case. We've never
felt this season that we had
the team to go far in the play
offs. Now that this is dumped
in our laps, we are probably
just in for a lot of trouble.
When teams start playing Dis
trict champions they are in
for some rough football.
Our players are aware of
how we feel on this matter.
They know that we will have
to improve tremendously if
we are going to do anything in
these playoffs.
Jack Woodward,
Phoenix Schools,
Phoenix, Ore.
-O-
Dcar Coach McKibbin: Con
gratulations to you and your
team for your moral victory in
your athletic league The lead
ership qualities you have
shown will long be an inspir
ation to the team members.
Best wishes for a successful
future.
Robert L. Baccus,
Principal,
Wilson School,
Medford.
This is to express, on behalf
of the coaching staff and the
administration of this school,
our sincere compliments to
Mr. Bill McKibbin for his
sportsmanship and fair play
toward a recent OSAA ruling
in regards to eligibility of one
of his football players.
Bill's straightforwardness
and leadership in this matter
exemplify the honor and
sportsmanship desirable in the
coaching and teaching of the
citizens of tomorrow.
We deem it a pleasure hav
ing the association with him
in the Rogue League.
Administration and
Coaching Staff of Eagle
Point High School,
Eagle Point, Ore.
What Halloween Means To Me
To the Editor:
Halloween is a night of nights,
There's witches and goblins to
give you frights,
They run through the streets
Orange, black and red, and
even some grey.
They knock on the doors with
their cartons in nana
For the UNICEF child can
you help them mam?
Halloween to me. is nice as
can be
For I think of children smil
ing far across t lie sea.
For a penny or a nickel or
even one thin dime
Will bring the smiles of many
a child
And make their voices chime.
Don't just wait for Halloween,
It comes just once a year.
And we'd like tosend some pay
To each child that sheds a tear.
But 1 am just one person
And we need so many more.
To bring those little orphans
Some joy instead of woe.
Well Halloween is over and
I've done the best 1 can
T6 make you sec the sorrow in
some distant for off land.
So please don't think me for
ward, And please don't think me
bold.
And always keep in mind
This story 1 have told
Rotanne Davis,
(ate 16)
827 Cherry St.,
Central Point, Ore.
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for federal Posts
examinations
announced by the
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, Positions to be filled in
: chide management agrono
i mist, supervisory operations
assistant, quality control rep
resentative, and deckhand.
For further information
contact L. B. Nelson, exam
iner. U S. civil service in the
Medford post office. 1
Istanbul, Izmir and Athens
are the Turkish Straits and
the gateway to the eastern
Mediterranean traditionally
sought by Russia.
To the east, Turkey's moun
tainous border blocks Soviet
expansionist aims toward the
Middle East oil fields.
Nerve center of this defense
complex is Izmir where U.S.
Lt. Gen. Frederic J. Brown
commands Allied Forces
Southeast Europe and where
the 6th Allied Tactical Air
Force also has its h e a d
quarters. Izmir and Incirlik, in the
south, are the two most im
portant NATO bases in Tur
key, whose defense is based
at least in part on the instant
retaliatory abilities of mis
siles equipped with U.S. nu
clear warheads.
These are the bases which
Nikita Khrushchev had in
mind when he offered to
trade removal of his rockets
from Cuba in exchange for
similar U.S. action in Turkey.
President Kennedy's prompt
reply that the Turkish bases
were not negotiable squelched
any hope the Soviet leader
might have had on that score
and heartened the Turkish
people who have been among
the United States' staunchest
Allies.
Gone is the one-time rag
tag Turkish army of ill
trained men and antiquated
weapons. Its new U.S.
equipped army of approxi
mately half a million men is
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprise! Inc.
SERIOUS VS. FRIVOLOUS
One of the chief reasons
that people don't get the
right answers is that they
don't ask the
right ques'
tions. They
think they are
& "J being serious
wni-ii iney dre
merely being
solemn. The
other evening,
at a little
g a thering, a
mrri! man turned to
me and asked what I.
thought about the Congres
sional election trends. I mur
mured some polite evasion. He
then asked me about the Cu
ban situation. I shrugged non-
committally.
He became exasperated and
charged me with a refusal to
be "serious." I said I would
rather play bridge than en
gage in the kind of futile dis
cussion he was proposing. And
I told him why.
Like most people, he
thinks lh Big Questions of
the day are the important
ones. But h never stops to
ask the Little Questions that
are forever at the bottom of
all fruitful discussions.
How can we have an ef
fective dialog about lh
election or the Cuban situ
ation, or any other large
subject, until we agree on
some common aim? Unless
we both understand what is
meant by "lh good life,"
we will bi arguing at cross
purposes all night - which
is why most political de
bales end ixactly where
lhey begin.
The serious man is the
one who keeps trying to
interpret news tvents, or
analyz trends, or influence
voting patterns. The ser
ious man is the one who
examines 1 h underlying
foundations of his beliefs
and convictions. And, in
this respect, not one person
out of a thousand it truly
serious.
What is the nature of the
human animal, his limita
tions and his potentialities?
Is it possible to have peace
without justice, or justic
without virtue? And what
do these words actually
mean, if anything?
Until we can besin to an
swer some of these fundamen
tal questions, we can't decide
what the purpose of society
ought to be. And until we
can decide what the purpose
of society ought to be, we
can't know what we are
voting for, or fighting for, or
arguing about.
The man who thought I was
frivolous because 1 preferred
bridge to an election analysis
couldn't realize that I pre
ferred bridge because I was
serious and he was frivolous,
and I refused to pretend that
he was asking important ques
tions w hen he was only mas
sacing his cto.
It is better to play a game
and know you are playing
than to play and think you
are in earnest - because in the
latter case you are never
really earnest, but only using
phrases in their pompous and
shallow news commentator
sense. When I double two
spades, everyonr at the lable
knows exactly what I mean.
among the largest and best
trained and equipped in
Europe.
Its air force flies modern
U.S. planes and has been
promised others even more
modern.
Together with a Greek
army of around 200,000 men,
these are the forces upon
which the United Stales and
its allies depend to maintain
communications lines to the
Matter of Fact
(cl New York Herald
THE SOVIET
DECEPTION PLAN
Washington - In one of the
most revealing episodes of the
Cuban crisis, the hero (or vie-
t i m? or vil
lain? who
can say?) was
a junior of
ficial of the
Soviet Embas
sy in Wash
ington. This
man, who had
better be
nameless, is
very much
natural, and
Alsnp
more genial,
forthcoming than the dot'-,
lumpish average run of So
viet diplomat. Largely by ac
cident, he came to know two
or three New Frontiersmen
without foreign policy respon
sibilities in the early days of
the Kennedy administration.
He had even been taken up,
in a limited way, but Attorney-General
Robert Kennedy.
Behind their informal con
tacts, there was a practical
motive. II was hoped to con
vey to the Kremlin an espe
cially accurate and convincing
picture of the President's
viewpoint and purposes, as de
scribed by the President's own
brother.
Last summer, this man went
home to Russia for a vaca
tion. When he returned to
Washington in early October,
he at once sought out Attorney-General
Kennedy, with
the urgency befitting the bear
er of a private message from
one chief of state to another.
0Nb
Oct. 1, he said, he had
been summoned for a long
private talk with Nikita S.
Khrushchev and Anastas Mik-oyan-an
extraordinary honor
for an official in his fairly
humble position. Khrushchev
and Mikoyan had asked him
many quesions about the Pres
ident; and they had also dis
cussed Cuba.
Khrushchev had gone out
of his way to declare thai
President Kennedy might rest
assured that the Soviet Union
would never send to Cuba any
weapon "capable of reaching
American targets." Whereup
on Mikoyan had intervened,
saying pointedly, "Be sure
that this message reaches the
President himself." Such,
then, was the message that
the Russian brought to Wash
ington. On Oct. 1, of course, medi
um and intermediate range
ballistic missiles had already
been clandestinely landed in
Cuba; and construction had
just begun at the missile
launching sites. But what
makes the episode so signifi
cant is not the revelation of
Soviet duplicity. That was
proven long since by the false
protestations of Soviet Am
bassador Anatoly Dobrynin
and Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko.
'piiE episode of the message
- is so significant only be
cause of the direct participa
tion of Khrustichev himself
and his Armenian deputy. For
a chief of state to take such
great pains to cause a grossly
and demonstrably false per
sonal message to be transmit
ted to another chief of state is
something altogether novel in
post-war political history.
Khrushchev's role in this
amazing episode in turn
makes it quite clear that an
elaborate deception-and-cover
,epaMM--ulk sum
4 it I
AM
ELECTION RETURNS 1 J, i -ZTTw-. ULp7;
Sir
"I know they're disappointed bul that's no way to
concede an election to your opponent ... I"
Middle East and North
Africa.
In the Black Sea the So
viets are known to maintain
a sizeable fleet, including
modern missile-firing vessels
which could support amphib
ious operations against the
Turkish coast. To the north,
substantial Soviet land forces
face the Turkish border.
Back of them is the Soviet
nuclear capability..
Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
plan, of strictly military char
acter, was an integral part of
the larger scheme to upset the
nuclear balance with Soviet
missiles In Cuba. Nor was the
main part of the scheme by
any means as hare-brained as
many people now seem to
suppose.
The dangers of air recon
naissance were perhaps under
rated by the Soviet planners.
The Soviet Defense Ministry,
after all, is completely con
trolled by a collegium of ag
ing marshals and colonel-generals,
none of whom have real
experience of the capabilities
of air reconnaissance. And
generals always underrate
techniques they have not used
themselves, even if they ought
to know better.
TN REALITY, however, tho
risk of air reconnaissance
boiled down to the sole risk
of observation by American
U-2s. Contrary to what many
believe, the Cuban missile
sites were hidden, by conven
tions of terrain, from the side
viewing cameras of the other
American aircraft regularly
patrolling the Cuban coasts.
And the missile sites were also
placed in areas heavily de
fended by anti-aircraft mis
siles of the SA-II type, which
are useless against low-altitude
attack but can kill U-2s,
as was first discovered by
Francis Gary Powers.
The original plan, one may
be pretty sure, called for us
ing the SA-II anti-aircraft mis
siles to shoot down any U-2s
which might intrude after in
stallation of the offensive mis
siles began. It is interesting,
not to say chilling, to specu
late on what would have hap
pened if the crucial, eye-opening
U-2 flight on Oct. 14 had
merely resulted in a "Cuban
U-2 incident," with attendant
world tumult.
In fact, however, the anti
aircraft missiles were not
ready. Some merciful techni
cal mistake or logistical fail
ure had left the SA-lIs with
out a workable command and
control system until the final,
climactic Saturday of the Cu
ban crisis, when an American
U-2 was indeed shot down.
QNE must conclude that the
" Soviet commander in Cuba
dared not confess this grave
failure to his superiors, or
that the pre-set timetable was
too tight and compelling, or
that the danger of a breach of
security resulting from delay
was considered to be greater
lhan the danger of U-2 obser
vation. In any case, the timetable
was so swift, clandestine in
stallation of the offensive
missiles was adhered to, evert
thought the anti-aircraft mis
siles were not ready to keep'
off the U-2s.
Add these facts to the stark
fact of Khrushchev's role in
the first incident recounted.
The sum is a grave and ter
rible warning that Soviet
methods of waging the cold
war are coming very close to
hot-war methods.
Newest Hospital in
Portland Opens Today
Portland - lUPfi - Portland's
newest hospital is scheduled
to receive its first patients
today.
The $750,000 Wood and
Park hospital, which has 48
beds, was open to the public
for inspection Sunday.