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NATIONAL tO'TOIAl
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MerJIord and Jackson County
History from tht, files ol Tha
Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 18, 1952 (Monday)
A Gold Hill woman was
killed by a hit-and-run driver
last night as a thick layer of
Jon shrouded city streets.
No shortage of electric
power is expected this winter
In the service area of the
California Oregon Power
company, according to Cnpeo
President A. S. Cummins.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 18, 1942 (Tuaiday)
Forty - seven Oregon slale
hospital inmates die from
food poisoning; frozen eggs
blamed.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
First Lady, home from Eng
land, urges women to shorten
Die war by working hard in
the home and factory. They
waste a lot of time reading
about where the gracious First
Lady has been or Is going.
HO YEARS AGO
Nov. 18, 1932 (Thursday)
Cargo of B0 gallons of high
grade Scotch whiskey seized
from car by federal prohibi
tion officer between Rogue
River and Grants Pass.
Mrdford High school fool
hall team rated as "underdog"
In contest with Jefferson of
Portland for mythical stale
championship.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 18, 1922 (Friday)
Confessed automobile thirt
breaks out of county jail in
Jacksonville after stealing $25
In cash and the sheriff's pants.
Western Union officials
(date it will sonn be possible
to send a cablegram from
Medford to London In five
minutes.
0 YEARS AGO
Nov. 18, (Sunday)
Newly elected county court,
headed by County .ludge
Frank TnuVelle. derided to
request construction of stale
highway through Jackson
county.
Posse searches southern
Ore con and northern Californ
ia Rder bandits lake $1.(100 in
rash and a $l.,Vn diamond
from Yrcka saloon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nint or tin eorrtct II tupirlor;
laven er eight it ictllent; flv of
lit it good.
jjJrllrA
iWlSHIRI
V-aIsociatiom
Flight o' Time
i
l. Three dois and dash in'Keves National Park have been authorized with -
ihe Morse code indicate what jn ,.(H.t,,u months, and there is reason to hope that
iriinr m nr amiianri .
v oir,., tm mi y im " '-
recorded on Ihe same or op
posite sides of an Issue?
8. Who wrote (he "nine
Danube" waltz?
6. Baldwin, Jonalhon, and
Mcintosh are commercial var
irlirs of which fruit?
7. Mothers Day Is rele
hraled the first, second, or
third Sunday in May?
R Is baseball popular
game in Japan?
0 What word means the op
posite of windward"
in. Belmont Park race
2. Jerry Cruncher is a char . 1 atli'e Island in I exas, and perhaps t tic Lake
acier in which nf Dickens M ichii;an llunes in Indiana, as well as the Ore
novels? iron Dunes, may achieve National status before
3 When does he 24lh hour , , , ,, ,
of the day begin? l0 '""H- ' '1,l'1' ;1 number of other less promi-
4. when two members nf a ; nent candidates for National Park status, too,
legislative body "pair" their which have considerable support.
An.w., iTv. i. a T.i.ian early agreement can be fulfilled, and that,
of Two Cities. 3. u p.m. 4. j with a positive and cooperative approach among'
oppoiinj tides, s. johann ip ; Oregon delegation and the stale government,
"'yT L.:PJ:;d'- i"T: ' n' nunc "ill bprnnir a reality, and not
iiu, Uno long from now. K. A. I
nuvbi'iobii 10 ii0i
Politics and the Post Office
It has been an open .secret in Democratic party
circles in Jackson county that Marvin Madden,
county cleark who was reelected Nov. 6, is an
active candidate for the Medford postmastership,
although he has made no formal application.
He was listed as one at the meeting of the
Democratic Central Committee Thursday night,
and being present, did not deny it. He did not
deny it when we asked him, point blank, on Fri
day. Another prominent Democrat has been ac
tively promoting him for the joh.
We consider it a breach of political ethics for
anyone to seek an elective office, and then, if
successful, refuse to accept it.
I7'HliN a candidate files his declaration of can
' " didacy, he is required by state law to declare
that he is willing to accept the nomination or elec
tion, and that he will qualify if elected.
Madden filed such a declaration when he
sought the Democratic nomination for county
clerk last spring. The recent death of Moore
Hamilton, the widely respected and liked post
master, left a vacancy in that office. It is filled
by appointment, which is usually based on politi
cal considerations.
If Madden were to receive the appointment
as postmaster, and thus renege on his obligation
to the voters of the county who put him in of
fice, he would be guilty of violating his self-de-clarcd
responsibilities, and also his moral obliga
tion to the voters.
He should, at a minimum, clear the air with
a forthright statement that he is not seeking the
job, and would not accept if it were offered.
A17E AGREE with Bob Duncan in his belief
' that postmasterships should be taken out of
the patronage pot.
The postal service is a technical one, in which
training and ability are necessary, and political
preferment is not. All too many postmasters (un
like Moore Hamilton, who worked at the job) do
little but keep their chairs warm, letting the
career men actually run the post offices.
Most of the postal service is now under civil
service. We see no reason why the ancient spoils
system should be permitted to remain the princi
pal factor in naming postmasters. E. A.
Oregon Dunes Prospects
We are hopeful that, with the election of Bob
Duncan to Congress from this district, the
chances for the creation of an Oregon Dunes Na
tional Seashore will be improved.
Bob has never been terribly enthusiastic
about the Dunes proposal, hut his view of it as
a possibly worthwhile thing is in stark contrast to
the opposition voiced by Congressman Edwin
Durno, who Duncan will succeed in January.
Duncan has stated that he thinks he and
Senator Neuberger can reach agreement on a
Seashore bill. Senator Morse docs not oppose the
Dunes proposal on principle, and if adequate
protection for property owners in the area can be
incorporated in a bill, he presumably would add
his support to it.
"THE STATE also has a responsibility. Governor
Hatfield is not against the Dunes, but he and
his natural resources chief, Dan Allen, have drag
ged their feet, and have insisted on some qualifi
cations that might endanger the passage of any
really effective Seashore
This sort of thing has been going on for a
long time.
We recently finished reading a book entitled,
"Our National Park Policy A Critical His
tory," by Prof. John Ise, an internationally known
authority on park, forest and land management
matters.
Ever since Yellowstone became the first Na
tional Talk in 1S72, there have been both strong
supporters and strong opponents to National Park
creation. Generally they have been opposed vari
ously by lumber, mining, grazing, power and ir
rigation interests, and supported by recreation
enthusiasts, lovers of natural beautv. and those
who believe that we should retain some of ourllx
11
outdoor heritage for tutiire generations.
IX AUDITION', however, the
have often been foes
park in their own boundaries.
Hut parks have been
! it appears we are now in a period 01 naiKibren detected in Cuba, tm;
! formations. Tane Cod National Seashore and Pt. says, for publication:
.......
N KYKKY case, surveys have revealed, where
a National Park has been established, property;
values in nearby areas has roup up, as have
tourist revenues.
('rater Lake National Park is worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars per year to Medford and
Klamath Falls. An Oregon Dunes National Sea
shore, with a status and fame whieh only Nation
al designation can brine, would be a major at
traction, and the entire state would benefit.
Let us hope that the favorable prospects for
measure.
slates themselves
of tlie establishment of a
of I
established., ,
. ., - .
-And Now A Few More Lale Return In
Thoie Disputed Racei "
..-t. .. 5??e5f K
Drummond Reports
(Wjltar Lippminn It In Europe. Roseot Drummond reporti from
Washington in hil turno.) U) 1962 Nrw York Hgmld Trihun Inc.
CUBA: CRISIS FAR
FROM OVER
Washington - The out look
for any clean, satisfactory set
tlement becomes more elusive,
more uncertain, more disturb
ing every day.
President Kennedy and his
lop advisers are understand
ably hesitant to use blunt
words in the middle of deli
cate negotiations which might
have a faint chance of success.
But only a faint chance. At
this point it seems to me ur
gent to cut through the polite
words of officialdom and to
look at what is happeninii-nnd
what isn't happening- in Cuba
since Premier Khrushchev
agreed to remove all offensive
Soviet weapons under UN in
spection.
'PIIE blunt facts are these:
Soviet missiles were not
dismantled under UN inspec
tion. (They were hurriedly dis
mantled before inspection of
any kind.)
Soviet missiles were nol re
moved from Cuba under UN
inspeclion or under any olher
kind of inspection. (We have
born allowed to see that
packed crates allegedly con
taining the missiles were on
the decks of Soviet ships.)
Some Soviet misisles have
been removed. All may have
been removed. But we don t
KNOW because no trust
worthy verification has been
allowed.
All offensive Soviet weap
ons have not, as promised,
been removed. Soviet bomb
ers capable of carrying nucle
ar warheads remain in Cuba.
The Russians claim they are
not "offensive." Caslro claims
they don't belong to Russia,
that he bought. them and is
going to keep them.
Three weeks afler Mr.
Khrushchev's clear and con
crele commitment, there is
still no international inspec
tion of incoming ships In guar
antee that other offensive So
viet weapons will not he re
turned. Thai's where things sland
today and they don't stand
very well. Negotiations are
In the Day's News
By FKANK
The news''
li s a mish mash.
.
Washingtnn a .slale de -
parlnirnt snokrsman dress
Officer Lincoln White) pub-( force into the Western 11. inis
licly warns Russia and Cuba phere they'll have us lo fight.
against any buildup of OK-
1." 1.' V S I V K" nnviil f:ic-i I i I ins in I
Cuba that would present a
threat to this hemisphere...!
IZm.Zv Z
1 "Sl yrTaV""ch
1 ""n 'facilities' do not P,v- j
sent a military threat to Ihe
Stilted Stales or In THISj
11KM1SPIIK.RE, we will cou
Innie In follow wilh greal iu
Irivst any port-building in I
C'ultii "
While's .statement c.im ' in
rospnnc In questions nhnui '
reports that V S, aerial ivi-on- i
naissance has spotted NAVAI. '
f:,. .,1, line hmll at thr
fishing harbor at Ram--, m
northeast Cuba ,
on may ,a , if nr at r
a bit fvuy-minHcd. VK hmc
a naval basr in tV.ia .o uhv
' hmi Id wp .Mir up a !ns if
Russia builn. onr '
Trur rno'icli But
Htissia dull, t and ri.vxi t
har a Mnnrnr Divtnnr
VK PIP AMI IV
pKHTlNKNT thmmhl:
it va promulR.itrd by Titm
n nt Mnnrnr. wf'vr If Mir
Mnntoc Pucti mr ct a bit
rii.i'y and fttiff in it. br: iiir.
piLutuiiJ miiu
being dragged out until veri
fication will be impossible
without an inch-by-inch under
ground inspection nf the
whole of Cuba - which has
caves as big as New York's
Grand Central station. It's ev
ident that the Russians are
beginning to act like Russians.
This is why the Cuban crisis
is far from over.
IN HIS letter to President
Kennedy on Oct. 27 Mr.
Khrushchev made his commit
ment explicit. He said "Per
sons entrusted by the UN Se
curity Council may check on
the spot the fulfillment of the
pledges made."
The President spelled out
this pledge in his reply. He
said: "Offensive weapons must
be rendered inoperable . . .
all under effective interna
tional inspection."
Mr. Khrushchev agreed. In
reply he said: "As 1 told you
in my letter of 27th October
. . .representatives of the UN
may verify the dismantling
of these means."
Are the Soviets lo escape
carrying nut their side of the
agreement because Castro is
reluctant?
IT SEEMS to me the answer
to that question is that
since Khrushchev made the
agreement without consulta
tinn with Castro, he is obli
gated to fulfill it despite Cas
tro.
The Soviets have the lever
age to force Castro to acqui
esce. They can cut back eco
nomic aid to the point where
Castro has no alternative. The
fact that they are not doing
so suggests thev are seeking a
device tn get out of their
agreement.
It is not a pleasant prospect
uncertainty that offensive
Soviet weapons have been re
moved and uncertain protec
tion against their return.
Since Mr. Kennedy's com
mitment against invasion was
conditional upon adequate in
ternational inspection, that
commitment will have tn be
come inoperalive.
JENKINS
We'd better overhaul it and
J bring it up to dale in such a
! way as to make it unniist.ih-
; ably plain lhat if Ihe com-
tmes undertake lo nni; by
Wc waul nn communist
military conquests in the
Western Hemisphere.
IHOM Salrm, Oregon's cap
ital: Vacations and business '
trips out of Oregon by state ',
officials gave Oregon four i
different governors within
the space of about a week.
Governor Hatfield has been
on vacation in California.
While he was away, Speaker
o ft he House Robert R. Dun- j
can was acting governor. The j
responsibility fell on Dun- !
can s shoulders because Sen- I
iiie President Harry Roivin - ;
fust in line of succession
was also in California.
Governor Hatfield left the .
state again lo attend the Ohio j
State-Oiccon football game, j
Mr. Hoivin is still out of the
Ma'e and Mr. Duncan was in (
California on a law case. Sec- j
retary of State Howell Ap- ,
phng, next in succession, will
also be aw ay
That means that Stale
TrraMircr Howard Rcllon was
acting governor. Bomn was
expected back Friday, and re
lieved Briton of the acting
governor's post.
1 1 MMMMMMM
1 ,!ut what is tbi grr-
n'M'Mup lb in OTgmi'
A garre of musiral chairs
ituauist.. incirunUi unouuit
Matter of Fact b, j0..Ph ai..p
fc) Niw York Htrald Trlbunt Syndicate
NO MORE RUSSIAN
ROULETTE
Washington The effects
of the Cuban affair on
Khrushchev, on Fidel Castro,
on this coun
try's world
posture, have
all been lav
I s h I y a n a
lyzed. But no
1 attention has
y e i n e e n
i J g i v e n lo
another effect
of high im
portance. Alsnp
The American government
has received a Jolt from this
affair, which has already
quite perceptibly altered the
viewpoint of the higher
policy-makers, and may also
alter certain quite significant
policy-making procedures.
The jolt was administered
by those first U-2 pictures
proving that Soviet missile
bases were being clandestine
ly constructed in Cuba. It
was a severe jolt, for the
quite simple reason that
nothing of this sort was ex
pected to happen.
yhen they had their warn
" ing, the American policy
makers acted with conspicu
ous good judgment, not to
mention speed &nd courage.
But before the warning was
provided by that U-2 flight on
Oct. 14, the policy-makers
had judged the problem quite
wrongly. While maintaining
surveillance as a needed
check, the U. S. government
was in fact operating on the
assumption that the Soviets
would emplace no offensive
missiles in Cuba.
This misjudgment, it must
be added, was identical in all
but one respect with the
Eisenhower administration's
judgment of the problem of
the missile gap.
The same parts of the gov
ernment machine worked in
the same manner. In large
measure, the same individuals
contributed to the underlying
papers. In both cases, the
judgment was reached that
the Soviets would NOT do
something that might be very
damaging to the U. S.
rpHIS reporter pointed out
during the missile gap de
bate that it was simply play
ing Russian roulette with the
national future, to base na
tional policy on a mere judg
ment that the Soviets would
not do something well with
in their capabilities, which
could be hideously damaging.
In that case, for reasons
which are still mysterious,
the Soviets did not order
early mass production of their
long range missiles, and they
therefore failed lo achieve the
overwhelming nuclear-strategic
advantage that was clear
ly within their grasp. In the
Cuban case, the Kremlin
tried to remedy this past ter
ror by a desperate trick.
In the first case, the
American policy-makers were
quite correct, thank God,
about what the Soviets would
not do. In the second case,
the American policy-makers
were quite incorrect, but were
warned, thank God. in good
lime. In both cases, however,
it is now recognized that an
error nf principle was com
mitted. ...
II EREAFTER. national pol
H icy will not be based on
the happy assumption the
Soviets will NOT do some
thing damaging, if doing It is
clearly within Soviet capa
Will Creeping Poison
By ERIC SEVAREID
I Chestertow n, Md. We spend
our fretting lives, most of us,
feeling east or west of Eden.
1 but never in
cm:
it. Its identity
depends upon
Tjcr our particular
. i nhnf.cinn anrl
r - r; 1 .
S;' iJ.J concern, and
MCfttS-fM mine, increas-
years-, is for
I. Sfl the land and
waters of
sevarfid America.
They are wasted and soiled
by crowding and greed and
heedless habits until one de
spairs of his children's in
heritance. Bui here, (or the
moment, along the shores nf
Chesapeake Bay, 1 am In
Kdrn's blessed center, worth
a notice before the creeping
poison penetrate this far.
The Eastern Shore nf Ihe
Bay has been off ihe beaten,
ravaged path of the autonio-
hile hordes and the gaseous
factories. In summer these
lowlands of field and wood
and marsh are stilled, bees
drone in the hot sunlight and
the odor of honeysuckle hangs
in the air. Life and men move
as slowly a they must have
done before the Civil War.
Right now the maples and
the red oak provide the color
s inp linns I vi i il kk ; "u
brown. The air is sharp The
small boats and the nets are
busy and refrigerators are
filling up with Chinrnteague
' pvs'rr and soft shell erahs
bilities. Russian roulette, in
fact, will no longer be played.
If this good resolution is
adhered to, it will amount to
a considerable change In the'
established procedures of
American policy-making. Be
hind the procedural change,
there lies the change of view
point above-referred to.
Perhaps the best way to de
fine the change in the policy
makers' viewpoint is to have
a look at the sources of their
original incorrect judgment.
There were two main sources.
First of all, the Soviets were
not expected to emplace of
fensive missiles in Cuba, be
cause they had never before
sent weapons of this type be
yond their own borders.
Second, this negative prece
dent was given undue weight
for a more subtle reason. In
brief, the craft, or science, of
Soviet demonology originated
in the period before the Sec
ond World War, when the So
viet armed forces were rather
weak militarily and quite im
potent politically because of
Stalin's terror. The ideas
formed In that period still
color much demonological
thinking today.
I TNTIL very recently, for
example, it was a favorite
tenet of almost all profession
al demonologists that the So
viet armed forces played no
role in Kremlin infighting
and policy . debate. Contrary
evidence has been accumulat
ing for a long time. But even
today the important internal
influence of the Soviet mar
shals and colonel-generals is
only admitted with some re
luctance by a minority of the
experts.
Again, il used to be held
that Soviet communism was
a "political and not a mili
tary movement." Political
rather than military-strategic
considerations were therefore
supposed to predominate in
the Kremlin. This demono
logical theory, of course, tend
ed to rule out what the So
viets did in Cuba which was
to take a gigantic political
risk in the hope of making a
major military-strategic gain.
The American policy-makers'
viewpoint has altered, be
cause the military bias of the
Kremlin and its susceptibility
tn military influence are now
clearly understood.
'111 Si
9 i if i -r
"I'm against leaching about communism In
our schools. There art soma college
atudenti who haven't even learned absul
Americanism yet ... I"
I lie Et cal autumn run nf the almost terrifying sight, a nalu- more refuges, while other gov
striped bass from Nantucket, ral phenomenon of biblical i eminent agencies pay pubh.
and Ihev have laken winter
. .....
quarters here in Ihis bay nf
thousand creeks and inlets.
But it w as the secse and
the ducks lhat brousht . .e j where lay the sanctuary main
hcre in the company of taci-1 tained by the Remington
turn Lee Wulff, the master i Arms Company for the prcser
sportsman, and Joe Linduska, valion nf this marvelous
scientist and lover of all ; species. There ihey wheeled
thinR.1 wild. To them I am j in, occasional shafts of sun
indebted for sparing me a life light reflected from the white
bereft of one, unmatchablc j bodies of the few snowgecse
vision, a sight of magical I among them. From there they
beauty and power mat win
remain forever on the relina
of ,he mind's recollection.
' ' " i tne guns faintly popped in the
The hunting season was to . distance. At sunset the .shoot
start precisely at noon. I washing ceased - and the geese
vaguely aware that hundreds j knew they were entirely safe,
of men in canvas clothing i for now each phalanex drum
were crouched in blinds, ly-1 med straight ahead without
ing in rows nf cornstalks, ; flaring, almost wilhin touch
floating in camouflaged boats
for miles about. They knew
what was about to happen.
j What astonished me w as that
ihe geese knew - everything
but the day and the hour. I ran
1 out of my quarters as a
j clamor began to fill the air.
1 It was high noon. Evcrv-
! where, north, south, east and
west. dark clusters of Canada
geese w ere rising aBove the
i tree lines. In minutes the en -
1 tire sky was
, mottled with
streaked
and
and
patches
skciiis 'i Ktr.-c, wiirruin nr.
gathering, signaling lo o..e
another in a tremendous dm
of honking
Tens nf thousands nf gree
, a-nund and aHove one is an
Washington Report
By William
(ei United rcalura Syndicate
NEW FACES
Washinglon-From the hith-
erto all but deserted Capitol
there now issue the faint,
f?HHi V rustling
'if, Jk -a sounds of new
I :, 21"ly elected
I Sps i me m ber ar
riving ana oiri
mem bers re-
gV turning for
the 88th Con
gress opening
in January.
miM ii win De a
whlta new Congress
with some new faces. But the
overwhelming probability in
mis columnists opinion, after
some searching around into
the matter, is that in no impor
tant particular will it be much
different in attitude from the
old Congress. If anything, it
is likely to be a touch more
modcrate-to-conscrvative.
It is a safe prediction, not
withstanding much excited
comment about the great
things that would be produced
by the recent election, that
the position will be expressed
in an old saying: the more
things change, the more they
are the same.
rPHE House, with 258 Demo
crats, 176 Republicans and
one present vacancy, will be
a shade more nearly Republi
can than before. The Senate,
with 68 Democrats and 32 Re
publicans, will be a shade
more Democratic. There is.
however, a good deal less in
these labels than meets the
eye. For the sole issue in the
new Congress, as in the old,
is not so much how many
members are Democrats and
Republicans as what kind of
Democrats and Republicans
they arc.
Will there be many more
Democrats ready to approve
such of President Kennedy's
domestic welfare program as
compulsory medical care to
the aged and urban renewal?
The answer, almost certainly,
is no. Will there be fewer Re
publicans prepared to follow
the President's essential lead
dership in world affairs? The
answer, again, is almost cer
tainly no.
All through the last Con
gress the real story was Ihis:
practically all Ihe Democrats,
NATIONAL CONClttt
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tPCCIM RESOLUTION
CALLING ON SCHOOLS
Tfl TEACH AMUT
COMMUNISM
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Despoil America?
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mv mnsi f,,...,.!
Receptions. They gathered,
arniades', flotillas and squad
I rons in one general direction
i traded back and forth all day
keeping altitude now. and it
I was , rarity to see one fal, as
ing distance as we stood in the
cornfield.
Slghl tn enthrall
It was
and lo humble and to make
one consider the future of
this American land and its
natural innaouanis. tne geese,
may endure, for the shooting
; is severly restricted and they
nest in the wet muskeg re- cci now our' grandchildren
j gions of northern Canada. Kor : u.jn r(,a a10ul sn America
! ducks the shooting is nIso'u.i,rr. ,hr un.ai
severly limited, but drought
; puiiu int-u nuiut-s - uruuglll
' and an insane contradiction in
government policies, lluntris'i
organizations and ronserva-
tinn-sts stri-geV and pav great
, sums, private and public, (nr
S. White
and a very considerable num-
bcr of the Republicans, wer
always willing to back tht
President abroad. They wer
willing to back him at home,
too, on about everything he
asked which did not involv
reformist innovations in a
dangerous world.
A LL through the new Con
" gross, assuming the Presi
dent makes no major errors in
world affairs and retains his
present rationally firm line in
the Cold War, it will be, as to
foreign policy, the same story.
And by every present sign
all through the new Congress
he will have frcat, and prob
ably insurmountable, diffi
culty in persuading Capitol
Hill to give him those items -urban
renewal, medical care,
and so on - which may or may
not be academically desirabl
but are patently not very
pressing in a world of foreign
pern.
The very first of the newly
elected Democratic Senator
to arrive here, Birch Bayh of
Indiana and Thomas Mclntyrs
of New Hampshire, struck
heavy blows to reformist
hopes. Both said in substanc
that they had not come her
to cast automatic votes for
any and all of the President's
bills. What they mean lo do
is what practically all the old
Democratic Senators havs
done - support the President
when they believe him right
and oppose him when they be
lieve him wrong.
rpHE expression of these nat
ural and entirely sensibl
sentiments was, of course,
wholly predictable except to
those who had convinced
themselves, against history
and reason, that because lh
election had returned morn
Democrats to the Senate it
necessarily had returned morn
who would necessarily favor
any and all of the President !
ideas.
What really happened In
the election merely confirmed
the long obvious fact that this
country is far more concerned
with its safely in the long
world crisis than in tinkering
wilh welfare schemes which
are not very relevant to th
era in which we live.
There is no evidence what
ever that such issues as "ur
ban renewal" and "medicare"
had much to do with it, on
way or another. The peopl
want national safely more
than slum clearance; they
want sustained care for this
nation's survival more than
guaranteed medical rare for
the old folks.
Two SOC Professors
Attend Conference
Ashland - Dr. Lloyd Pen
nington, professor of chemis
try, and Dr. J. Kenneth Bart
lett, as-sociate professor of sci
ence al Southern Oregon rol
lege, attended the Conference
on Curricular Problems ol
Small College Chemistry De
partments at Willamette uni
versity in Salem recently.
The conference consisted of
group discussions of small col
lege chemistry departments
and their problems including
specific handling of chemistry
courses, sequence, course con
lent, placement, laboratory
problems, research, and in
strumentation. . M,,mr' 'armeis oi ine norm
mntirv m larmrre nf the nnxi
central state-; In drain their
- ! marshcs and 'lUBhs order
lo grow more of the crona
already in embarrassing ur
plus. It is not hunting and fish,
ing - activities far bigger eco
nomically, than all the spec
tator sports, movies and con
cert halls put together - that
are threatening our natural
' , , " " .,
'it'tll
generation it has been th
hunters and their conserva
tionist allies who h a v
brought back such marvelous
creatures as Ihe antelope and
the wild turkey, and saved
the ducks and gee.se. It is the
spreading nf concrete over
the land, the growth nf
"clean" (arming, greedy com-
Imercialism of mountain val-
l-v, Ule nnisnninc nf r,,vr.
by city sewage and industrial
wastes that arc sickening and
scarring the American land.
if aM i, ,. , u.u.j
anri r,,,,,!-, ,,..ru.
hunim-i .h (..hi.. r,,,,
ihr ,k, ri,.....,i,. n.
as we read about the America
n jlp g.-fa( buffalo herds
put thev' will never see it!
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