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History from th tiles ol Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dae. 10. 19S2
Gene R. Brantley, 28, de
fcatcd candidate for Jackson
county judge, was arrested
yesterday and charged with
"publishing a forged docu
ment.'1 Mcdford Kiwanian Dames
have reported gaining more
than $700 from their annual
doll project. The funds go for
Girl Scout use.
20 YEARS AGO
Doc. 10. 1942
Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce issued urgent
plea for listing of rooms avail
able for friends and relatives
nf men stationed at Camp
White.
From Arthur Perry' "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Auto
ists are observing the 35 mph
speed restriction to a man,
and most of the women. How
ever, the pedestrian is still
using his 60 mph Jump in get
ting out of the way."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10; 1932
Ten-foot neon sign, with
"Police" In 14-inch letters,
erected on side of Medford
police station at Fifth at. and
Central ave.
Extremely cold weather
brings epidemic of fires caus
ed by over-heated stoves in
Mcdford.
40 YEARS AGO
Dee. 10, 1922
University of Oregon foot
ball coach "Shy" Huntington
agrees to coach Mcdford High
school football during illness
nf Eddie Durno: Mcdford
High school authorities put
up guarantee of $1,300 for
game with Scott High school
of Toledo, Ohio.
State fire marshal urges
city of Mcdford In purchase
additional fire equipment;
snys city Is Inadequately pro
tected. 50 YEARSAGO
Dec. 10. 1912
Jackson county residents
own 378 automobiles, 63 mo
torcycles, five delivery wa
gons and two motor trucks,
according to state figure.
Williams Creek woman re
reives multiple Injuries when
team she was driving runs
away on Jacksonville rd.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten ceriact It superier;
seven er eight li eicellant; five et
ii Is food.
1. Locate the Andes moun
tains by continent and arn.
2. Which President of the
United States had the most
children?
3. To what colors are par
tially color blind persons
most frequently Insensitive?
4 Name the four qualities
of taste sensation.
5. About whom did Shake
speare say, "This was the no
blest Roman of them all"?
6. What docs gypsum be
come when heated and re
duced to a powder?
7. Where was Solomon s
temple?
8. What separates the out
er ear from the middle ear?
0. During what century did
Kublai Kahn reign in China?
10. What metal has a
higher melting point than any
other known metal?
Answerai 1. Western Soulh
America, 2, John Tyler 2
wives with 7 each. 3. Reds
and greens. 4. Sweet, sour,
ell and bitter. 3. Brutus. I.
Plaster of Paris. 7. Jerusalem.
I. Ear drum. 9. Thirteenth.
10. Tungsten.
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AO r-UlllSHItS
DECEMBER 10. 19G2
Not Angry-Disappointed
Her name is legion. She is graying, fifty-five-ish
and her shawl is pulled hard over her rain-wet
hair, but her eyes have the tired and worn look
of a person who has looked too long into the
darkness and seen no ray of light or hope.
She came into the Reporter office and told
this story:
Her nusband died recently of lingering can
cer, a disease which had kept her for years at his
constant bedside. Now she receives welfare as
sistance aid to dependent children to help her
care for a growing 14-year-old son.
.
DUT SHE'S not a "professional" welfare recip
" ient. She feels she is able and willing to work,
and earn her bread and butter and that of her
school-age son. She wants to work.
She went out to seek work the other day, and
went to the source, she thought, of a possible job
the state employment service.
They asked her what she could do, and she
told them. Anything honest housework, cook
ing, what-have-you. References?
"1 worked a year in 1945 for the Davidson Bak
ery Co., and later I helped my husband as an
extra cooking for a railroad section iranir." she
said. "In the years that
care 01 my sick nusoanci,
i couian i woi'K.
CHE WAS told that without recent references
u there was no possibility of her being sent as a
reierrai to an em mover
she became inditrnant and
woras w;ere excnangeci,
rrustrauon at a nureaucracv which hands nut a
pittance welfare check
'not enough to provide him with a warm over
coat" -and then throws cold water on her hopes
or getting work.
She came to The Rennrter nfficp in IpII Iipi
story, and then, thanking the newsman who had
listened, she said, "I'm really not angry, I'm just
disappointed, i don t enjoy being on welfare, but
I haven't a chance to tret nff. it. seems. I insr wish
there were someone who
insist on an immediate past work record. I don't
have any." Portland Reporter.
Good Time
Some people around
the ancient minnesinger
11 days of Christmas had in mind. People like
Nicman-Marcus, Sulka's,
Cartier, Van Cleef and
What they have in store for you this year!
Nieman-Marcus is even taking some of the
load off Santa's aching back. The Texas depart
ment store is offering
sprvirp for "nisrnmprs whn find i hnmcolvec in tha
position of sending gifts
kings, shahs, maharajahs, prime ministers and
other dignitaries." Billing will be bv telephone
only and the nature of such gifts will be divulged
only on a court subpoena.
As usual, most of the
for milady. Hattie Carnegie, for example, is of
fering a "Carole Lombard dinner paiama" at a
swift $275. But N.&M.
outfit for a cheap date
(girl) chaps at $1,875. They come with match
ing white silk satin blouse ($90), satin pants
(.!)()), white kidskin belt ($3U), and cowboy hat
($250). Honest to Pete, that's what the catalogue
says.
THAT French perfume
nhoololir no ihn
viiuoitij no VHC iiik,i til tile wuilll. vclllltl
has for madame an "Indian Chief with emerald
headband, sapphire eyes,
sins at a conservative
cluded, natch. For something far out, a mail
order jeweler will send you solid gold gai ters at
$15 each or $ou for a set
Not that old dad is
A. Sulka & Company
of immodest gift suggestions" featuring hand
some leopard skin gloves priced at $125. And
Sulka always is ready to do up his-and-her loung
ing robes at $1,200 the set.
remember").
For the outdoor type,
at $3,200 not including
N.&M.'s real Chinese
Houston?
The International Silk Association has con
ned some necktie people
in-hands named for heroes of the arts. Sulka's
Shakespeare comes at $-t.9.", but for Chopin,
Countess Mara wants $;!().
AH, HOW sweet it is! For the whole family
Steuben Glass has an engraved glass bowl
Mother and Child for a mere $3,300. Most
aquariums are prepared to sell you a pair of fancy
gold fish for $50. And today's canary cages come
with 14-carat gold trim.
When Santa cranks up Rudolph the old
Reindeer this year, he shouldn't forget a turnpike
toll gun, this designed to shoot quarters and
nickels with "heart-wanning accuracy" into ex
act change toll baskets. An outfit which calls it
self The Nineteenth Century can furnish him for
$149.95 a pair of coach lamps "like those which
graced the carriages of French nobility."
And one last-minute gift. A New York store
has come up for $25 with a Nothing Box.
This is a device which has eight eyes which "wink
in no recognizable pattern." It doesn't do any
thing else, but it's guaranteed to run for a whole
year. You can't turn it off.
"Christmas is coming, the geese are getting at.
Please to put t penny In the old man's hat "
V- E.R.R.
followed, I was taking
ana caring lor my boy
tor a mh. Af. that, nnm..
ainrrv. and snmp sham
as sne tried to express her
for her ornwino- son
had work and didn't
Santa Claus
here seem to know what
who caroled about the
Abercrombie & Fitch,
Arpels that bunch.
a confidential shopping
to those in high position
Yule loot is fashioned
makes that look like an
with its white cowboy
is still advertising itself
In U ,.,,,,.1.1 " I'. ,,.(,, .
and diamond mocca
$5w. Federal tax is in
of four.
being exactly shrubbed.
has issued its usual "list
1 he material is vicuna
Abercrombie has a gun
tax. Or how about
junk at $11,500, f.o.b.
into whinninc up four-
"It Wi Right Here Ju.t A Little While Af o"
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Communications . .
Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under
certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication is permissible
The Mail Tribune reserves lh right to edit all letters with view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not ncsjirUy represent the views of th paperi in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Feeble Attempt
To the Editor: Mr. Thomas
J. Reeder's letter to the Edi
tor (M-T 12-7-62) feebly at
tempts to Justify his outspo
ken position at a meeting
Tuesday night, Dec. 4, and is
most amusing. Recdcr states,
and I quote, "By any valid
criteria Mr. Madden had the
outstanding qualifications for
the appointment.
A most interesting question
arises from this abortive state'
ment, and that is.; Was Mr,
Recder appointed as a mem
ber of the screening commit
tee to evaluate the applicants?
Since it is a matter of record
and fact that he was not,
what super-human sense qual
ifies him to Insist and state
that Madden possesses out
standing qualifications over
all other applicants?
It is also a matter of record
and fact that Super-Human
Evaluator Reedcr has never
met all applicants for the
postmater vacancy, let alone
interviewed them.
Why not Junk all that's left
of the nonsense of the "Spoils
System," and rely upon the
Merit System as Bob Duncan
suggested to fill such vacan
cies? I am convinced that Mr.
Recdcr, or. for that matter
any other person In business,
hires and recruits on the ba
sis of ability, rather than
verbal garbage. Ridiculous
situation for our precious
democratic form of govern
ment, Isn't it?
W. Hanson
355 Garfield
Ashland, Ore.
Interesting Reactions
To the Editor: There
should be some interesting re
actions to recent events
among those "Republicans"
who were moved lo support
Mr, Madden for the office of
county clerk.
The argument presented by
Mr. Madden which seemed to
have Influenced their voting
judgment is said to have been
somewhat as follows:
"Mr. Madden was young;
he was a breadwinner; he was
a husband and father: he was
against home rule and he
needed the job."
This then was proof that:
"lie would certainly be more
interested in doing an effi
cient job and would be for
more apt lo remain on the
job for the lull four year
term than would a 'white
haired,' 'wealthy,' 'retired'
woman who did not need the
job."
Mr. Madden, it seems ap
parent, has forgotten his new
found supporters. Also, Mr.
Madden would appear to teel
no moral obligation to fulfill
(lie promise clearly implied
In the statement required of
every candidate under ORS
249 221; Ic. "(hat the candi
date Is willing to accept the
election" and "will qualify
if elected. "
One wonders, would Mr.
Madden if appointed pojimas
ter (rcl any more binding the eight nightly deaths of Eng
moral obligation to fulfill a ' land's London up into the
pledge or oath required by
the federal government than
he would sccin about to dis
play toward the statement
signed by him in his declara
tion as a candidate (or the
office of county clerk, to
which he has been elected by
the Republicans and Demo
crats of Jackson county?
Rerelh P. Hopkins
377S Old Military rd.
Mcdford
Same Spectrum
To the Editor: Have you
ever wondered, as I have, why
so many habitual "aginners"
reflect the same curious spec
trum of phobias: nudism,
rhlnrinalion or fluoridation
lolten confusing the two.
smoking, integration. Cath
olics, the UN or It raited
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
, ,a-S3Z?
'tl 17 Ml 1J1 law II n
agencies
etc.?
such as UNICEF,
Some art obscurantists who
cavil at. our churches and
schools and would limit their
freedom of inquiry or right
to teach the truth as they find
it. Then there are the "Bible
thumping" writers (as one
correspondent recently char
acterized them) who would
"prove" the Tightness of their
own theories by citing Bible
references taken out of con
text or badly misinterpreted.
Does this phenomenon sug
gest any correlation of fac
tors? Perhaps some psycholo
gist or social scientist has fig
ured it out. It would be inter
esting to know.
I hold no brief for nudism
as applied to so-called "col
onies" of "sun-worshipers."
Over-exposure to the sun may
result in severe burns or more
serious skin disorders. From
an esthetic point of view,
adults who have lost their
shapely youthful figures do
not present a particularly
lovely spectacle not even in
their abbreviated, if colorful,
bathing togs. However, most
tirades against nudism strike
me as just plain prudish .or
censoriously moralistic
neither stance likely to prove
very persuasive.
The important and indis
pensable work of the UN or
UNESCO needs no defense.
As for chlorination or fluor
idation, each has its beneficial
use for a different purpose,
advocated by most public
health authorities.
Jf That smoking is harmful
has been established by med
ical researchers beyond any
reasonable doubt. Most ad
dicts, while claiming to "en
Joy" the weed, would admit
that the habit is expensive
and rather nasty; at times al
so anti-social, when it causes
others discomfort or even ill
ness. But smoking in private
let It be their solace, or
"funeral."
Anti-Catholics would be on
better ground if they con
fined themselves to objective
discussion of honest differ
ences on subjects like birth
control, church-state relations.
tncological doctrines, or per
secution of Protestants in of
ficially Catholic countries.
Unbrotherly attacks upon fellow-Christians
is unseemly
and a denial of the gospel of
love.
By the same token, segre
gationists should look into
their own hearts, for God
"made from one every nation
of men" (Acts 17:26 RSV) and
Jesus' command (Matt. 22:39
RSV) Is to "love vour neigh
bor as yourself." That Includes
all men, regardless of race or
color. If God is our Father,
all men are brothers.
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley Manor,
Medford
By-Pan
To the Editor: The deadly
sulphur-monoxide laden smog
that is now lifting the six to
hundreds, should make
stop, look and listen to edi
torial warnings in our Mail
Tribune, that we must ever
be careful of Job-carrying In
dustries to be located here.
though so necessary they need
be For ringed as our valley !
is by now snow-capped moun
tains, it provides a perfect
setup for the air-.atilled in-
erslons of autumnal days.
For we have had some
warning of air pollution,
when exhausts from car and
truck, with that from the
many city chimneys induct
ing saw-mills, takes away the '
Joy of breathing our usually !
clean mountain-born air. !
As remembered, there were 1
some edrtorta! comments not
loo long ago, how the car
manufacturers had com jMit
Foreign News: Japanese Military Snap;
French Nuclear Power; Easier Relations
Bf PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Note from the Foreign
News Cables:
Stars in the crown
Tokyo reports that Kenjiro
Shiga, director of the Japa
nese Defense Agency, was im
pressed mightily during his
recent United States visit by
the U.S. defense establish-
ment. Informed sources say
he has no intention of em
lating its size - a quarter-bil-
lion dollar Polaris submarine
would cost half of Japan's an
nual defense budget. But he
has insisted since his return
on more snap and polish by
Jarjan's still de - emphasized
military, starting with the
hand salute. He also was De-
hind the new regulation per
mitting Japan's top three-star
lieutenant generals to wear
four stars so they can meet
four - star officers of other
countries on more nearly
equal terms.
with a simple by-pass that
took some of the poison from
the car - truck exhausts
Shucks, that's old-hat to this
writer. For when we first lo.
cated in this entrancing val
ley along the white-watered
Rogue River, in 1926. we
were already using that
simple device on our Max
well, one of the very last of
that facetiously song and-
storied vintage. Its bad breath
had become more and more
unwanted. Noting that stinky,
lazily-rising vapor from the
breather-pipe, it was so simple
and easy to cap it with an in
verted funnel, with a piece of
garden hose, terminating in
the carburetor air-Intake. It
not only cured the old Max
well's bad breath, and I was
not aware of this at the time,
it finished burning the poi
sonous raw gases. S'fact, for
there are witnesses of that
here In the valley.
More than that, this last
spring when our old Chewy
became clutchlcss and nigh
brakelcss and our years too
many to fix it, it was willed,
as is, to my good cajun friend
down on Gregory road who
had become earless by a dis
astrous housefire. Being re
sourceful like that enduring
breed inherently is, he soon
had it going good as ever,
and the bad-breath by pass
still working. If in doubt, go
take a look. He will be mighty
glad to show and explain it,
for it's free to all, as there
was no attempt to patent it.
Might have been a million
aire, in money, but a pauper
in happiness. So thankful for
that much at least.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Hurray For The Stockmen
To the Editor: Would you
please let me express my
views on an article which
appeared in the paper?
"Hurrah for the Stock
men!" I am not a stockman but a
farmer's wife, but I thorough
ly agree with the Applegate
stockmen.
It is about time that the
Forest Service and some oth
er government offices give
the farmers and stockmen a
chance.
Just because we ask for
range rights or put a dam in
one of the lakes on Forest
Service land you would think
we were trying to destroy the
whole forest. I believe thai
they should give us just as
much consideration as they do
for recreation centers.
I just can't believe anyone
would want to destroy the
forest which we are so for
tunate to have In our state.
The stockmen and farmers
do far more for the forest
lands than all of the tourists
put together.
B. B. Johnston
Box 26
Applegate, Ore.
Merry Christmas
To the Editor: I have been
reading with interest of the
community Christmas tree in
Medford. Such a fine location
and it will bring pleasure to
so many.
As a committee of one, t
extend you an invitation to
come to Prospect and share
our tree with yon.
It has been about 12 years
since the Lady Lions con
ceived the idea of a commu
nity tree in our little town
and with the financial and
manual aid of our Lions Club
we have had the pleasure
each year of lighting our tree.
We have one disadvantage,
however, as ours is living
tree at the corner of the
school, and it grows faster'
than our finance do
A very Merry Christmas to j
the tow n of Medford from the
tow n of Prospect.
Mrs. C. A. Larson
Prospect, Ore.
Giving up '
Indications are that the
United States will make no
further attempt at the forth
coming NATO council session
in Paris to talk the French
out of their nuclear striking
force. Diplomats say the
United States has concluded
the French will go through
with it regardless, and that
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
ACCELERATION
We are concerned, as we
be, about the delin
problem. It is grow
ing every
year, and its
p r e v alence
and intensity
threaten the
whole fabric
of society. But
it is also wise
to keep in
mind the
words of Dr.
- Harn'i Lauretta Ben
der of New York university.
Dr. Bender said in a speech
some years ago:
"Far more children should
be delinquent than actually
are. They have an amazing
capacity to tolerate bar pa
rents, poor teachers, dread
ful homes and communities."
.
As we look around at
our disrupted social order,
with its corruption, its
fierce competitiveness, its
nervous instability, its trem
ulous existence under the
cloud of atomic catastrophe
ii can then be seen, more
coolly and clearly, that
young people do have an
astonishing tolerance .for
growing up under adverse
conditions.
For how can we com
pare the world today with
the world in which we ex
perienced our childhood?
Whithin one generation, the
world has moved a thou
sand times faster than in
all the previous generations
since Adam. Most of the
familiar landmarks have
disappeared not only the
physical ones, but the psy
chological, social and moral
landmarks as well.
It is hard to believe that
when I was a little boy.
40 years ago, there were
virtually no automobiles,
few telephones, the radio
had barely been born, and
th child's world was ut
terly divorced from the
adult's world,
My playmates and I moved
In a separate sphere; indeed,
until the Great Depression of
1929. we were not aware cf
the adult world. Our diver
sions were dltterent, t n e
things we heard and saw
were sharply marked off.
There was no such thing as
a "teen-ager" in my day.
Now of course, children are
exposed to the adult world
from the earliest age. The
auto, the telephone, the tele
vision, impinge upon their
senses from the time they can
walk and talk. Crime, war,
calamities of all sorts are now
part of their natural environ
ment. There is no longer a
"world of children:" the ages
have blurred together into
one long continuum.
This fearful acceleration in
the physical world has made
for an equal acceleration in
the emotional world: children
become sophisticated before
they become wise, cynical be
fore they become knowing,
jaded before they become sat
isfied, ambitious before they
become able, and sometimes
decadent before they become
civilized. The real wonder
and delight is that so many
of them survive and flourish
as decent human beings in the
setting we have provided
them. '
n le
KHITCMU!!,
TV'" v juf.r-,s
"I'll make a deal with you,
kiddies you saw Sent here,
Mommy her . . . I" j
should
quency
"this is simply something we
shall have to live with."
Burying the hatchet
Diplomatic relations be
tween Indonesia and the Neth
erlands are expected to be
resumed within the next few
months. Mail and tele-communications
already have
been restored. It is easier for
Hollanders to get visas to
visit their former colony.
KLM, the Dutch government
supported airline, is negotiat
ing for landing rights at the
Indonesian capital of Jakarta
and economic relations are
growing. Meanwhile, other
reports say private enterprise
will receive more encourage
ment from the Indonesian
government. Also in the
works is supposed to be a
Washington Report
By William
(e United (aature Syndicate
CRITICAL WEEK
Washington - This may
turn out to be a critical week
in the life of the North At-
Treaty Organization,
that ereat but
chronically in
e o m p 1 e t e
shield of the
West. In
meeting of the
NATO Min
isterial Coun
cil in Paris,
American
r e p r e senta-
..,111
While ii
make one more in a long se
ries of efforts to persuade 'tis
other major members to make
those proper contributions to
its military and political
strength which they have so
long refused.
There tis, unhappily, little
confidence here that this at
tempt will be any more fruit
ful than have been so many
others. If this forecast turns
out to be the, melancholy
truth, there will be no public
gnashing of teeth in Wash
ington. But such an outcome
will move forward the day
when the United States gov
ernment is at last required
to re-examine its whole poli
cy toward an organization
which has done much for the
West but which so very easi
ly could do so very much
more.
a
11HE words "agonizing reap-
praisal" used by the late
Republican secretary of state,
John Foster Dulles, with their
implied threat of a United
States military withdrawal
from Europe, are not precise
ly applicable here. The Ken
nedy administration does not
wish to speak, or even yet to
think, in quite such sharp
and somber terms.
All the same, our European
allies can ignore only at their
peril the existing realities
within the American govern
ment. Washington is more
than a little tired of the chron
ic refusal of others to supply
their fair share in troops to
a supposedly allied military
force designed primarily for
their own security.
The plain and unpretly
truth is that' among the prin
cipal members of NATO only
two, the United States and
Turkey, have delivered on
their promises. French contri
butions arc, to all practical
purposes, absent, even though
French troops have long
since been brought home
from the witches' caldron
which was North Africa be
fore France at last submitted
to "independence" for Alger
ia. 1IEST German contributions
' ' are ungenerous; and there
is strong suspicion here that
they are ungenerous mainly
because the Germans are re
luctant to find and spend the
necessary money for this com
mon and urgently necessary
enterprise. The explanation
about financial embarrass
ment Is not deeply moving
here. What country really en
joys the drain?
lady . you dsn'l tell the
and t won't tell 'em 1 taw
lantic
new currency to be known as
the "Indonesian dollar" and
a reshuffle of President Su
karno's cabinet.
Concern
Reports that the United
States intends to drop de
velopment of the 1,000-mile-per-hour,
nuclear tipped Sky
bolt missile has aroused con
cern in Britain. The missile
was to be launched from
bombers against land targets
and the British had counted
upon it for their own air
force, abandoning their own
Blue Streak missile for the
Skybolt. But the Skybolt haa
failed repeatedly in tests and
the U.S. feels the land-based
Minuteman intercontinental
missile can do the same job
better.
S. Whit
British contributions in
troops are negligible - and
Britain, moreover, is develop
ing extreme sensitivity to any
criticism. Former Secretary- of!
State Dean Acheson was not
speaking for the American
government in a recent ad
dress urging Western Europa
to Tmll up its socks and da
right by NATO - and thus by
itself.
The British got into an ex
traordinary pet at this plain
speaking. There was even
talk that this notably pro
British, pro-West statesman
was somehow now "anti- Bri
tish." BUT if Acheson was not an
official spokesman, three
vital points should be under
stood by the British and oth
ers; This man is one of the
principal architects of NATO.
This man's views are heavily
influential in Washington, in
the administration and in Con
gress alike. And this man's
offense is only that of trying
to save an irreplaceable de
fense instrumentality from
its friends, including the Bri
tish. What Western Europe must
grasp is that Western Europe
must not continue to crowd
the United States government
into a corner from which
there might be only one exit:
A decision to pull out and
leave Europe to the Euro
peans. In the Day's News
, By FRANK JENKINS
"Forty-two IL28 Soviet
bombers aboard three Rus-
ships headed eastward from
Cuba were counted yesterday
by U. S. Navy planes on pa
trol vigil, the Pentagon an
nounces. Informed sources
(meaning people who are will
ing to talk if their identity
isn't revealed) at both the
state department and the Pen
tagon said the Russians had
told U.S. diplomats this is
ALL of the 750-mile range
Jets the Soviets sent lo Prim
Minister Castro.
'Perhaps by coincidence.
the 42 bomber total matches
the total of missiles which the
Russians previously w i t h-
drew from Cuba . . . The fig
ure 42 is the highest total yet
provided for the number of
IL28s sent into Cuba by Rus
sia. They are being taken out
at U.S. Insistence that they
are OFFENSIVE weapons
with nuclear capability that
peril the United States and
other nations of the Ameri
cas." rI1HERE has been a lot in the
-1 papers lately about a Sat
urday Evening Post article
containing charges that Adlai
Stevenson went soft on the
Cuban situation . . . that,
among other things, he pro
posed swapping our bases in
Turkey. Italy and Britain for
the Russian bases in Cuba. It
was even intimated that Pres
ident Kennedy would like to
get rid of Adlai if a good
way could be found to do it.
An so on.
Much more interesting,
however, is another Post arti
cle on Secretary McNamara,
and why. in McNamara's opin
ion, the Russians rushed in
the Cuban bases, with their
bombers and their missiles
T"HE general drift of it was
that by getting bases es
tablished in Cuba Russia
could get around our Distant
Early Warning system up in
the far north, and so could
have dropped nuclear missiles
on us WITH NO WARNING
THAT THEY WERE COM
ING. IT WAS a cagey scheme.
At any rate, according in
this second Post article, the
scheme was so good that we
had to move INSTANTLY to
counter it. We moved by tell
ing Kroosh that we knew
what he was up to and If he
didn't get his bombers and his
missiles out INSTANTLY we
would move against him with
everything we have-not only
In Cuba but in Russia alto.
! " eems to have worked. ,