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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. 1963 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's Big Question: Will Governor Nelson Rockefeller's marriage on Sat urday to a Philadelphia Main Liner divorcee spike his hopes for the Presidency of the United States? At the moment, It seems to i . moot question. A New York dispatch this morning says: "Republican leaders reas sessed Sunday Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's political future in the wake of his marriage Saturday, and many now be lieve it will not harm him. A sample of political thinking just prior to the marriage had shown many Republican com mitteemen and committee women fearful that the mar riage would hurt the gover nor's chances for the Presi dency. But since the marriage the trend seems to be swing ing the other way." CJO there you have it J It all A GOP state chairman in Michigan thinks the mar riage won't change his chances at all. A New York GOP chairman says he re gards the marriage as a per sonal matter. A Wisconsin GOP national committeeman thinks it will create some thing of a furor for a few days, but won't have any long range effect. A lady GOP chairman in Colorado puts it this way: "If he's going to be President, he needs a first lady. I don't see any political harm in it. I say that if he's the nominee Colorado will go for him. THE Democrats put in some what more succintly. One of them sizes it up like this: "As far as I'm concerned if he is a candidate against John F. Kennedy any of these problems such as the marriage are going to be academic any way, because Kennedy will COLOSSALLY defeat him. TO VISIT ALGERIA Algiers -IUPII- Algerian La bor Minister Bachir Boumaza said Tuesday that Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro will visit Algeria "very soon." Castro is currently visiting the Soviet Union. The government has been expecting him to visit Algeria but no date has been announced. depends on the point of view. BUT This much we must admit: As a romantic character. Rockefeller will have to take second place to Edward Al bert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor. He GAVE UP A KINGDOM "for the woman I love." At the most, Governor Nelson Rockefeller will give up only something he might not have got, anyway. HERE'S what Edward VIII gave up: On the death of his father, George V, he became "by the Grace of God, of Great Bri tain, Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." His father died on January 20, 1936, and Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Pat rick David Windsor in the meantime had fallen in love with Wallis Warfield Simp son, an American divorcee married to an Englishman, Since his government was op posed to accepting her as queen (because she was a di vorcee) Edward ABDICATED HIS THRONE on the 11th of the following December, less than a year after he had be come King. ON June 3, 1937, a few days less than six months after his abdication, he and Mrs. Simpson were married. When he abdicated, he became Duke of Windsor, When they were married, Wallis became Duchess (Duke being a title reserved for sons and brothers of kings.) Mrs. What's-Hcr- Name doesn't get any title now - because of the unwil lingness of our Founding Fa thers to tolerate any such fool CJO, as romantic characters, k-? the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will have it over the Rockefellers like a tent. But, assuming that Rocky MIGHT win iz fresidency of the United States, the situ ation will be reversed. The Rockefellers will then have it over the Duke and Duchess like a tent. Mrs. R will then be the wife of the most power ful ruler in the world. May 20 Deadline For Appealing Land Assessments Salem - Oregon properly taxpayers have until May 20 to appeal this year's assess ments to their county boards of equalization. Each county board will convene Monday, May 13, for its annual review of assess ments and, under Oregon law, property owner may appear in person or be represented by an attorney before the board when it considers pe titions for reduction of assess ments. Taxpayers cannot wait un til receiving their tax state ments in the fall to appeal their assessments. If they do not know the assessed value of their property at this time, they can learn it at the coun ty assessor's office. By multi plying the assessed value by four (except in Multnomah county), they can determine the true cash (market) value. Multnomah county will use 33Vs ratio this year and property owners there can de termine the market value by multiplying assessed value by three. If a taxpayer feels the as sessor's market value is out of line with comparable prop erties in the district, he may appeal by petition to the coun ty board of equalization. Forms for this purpose arc available in most assessor's offices or at the county clerk's office. From the board the taxpay er may appeal to the State Tax Commission (or, in the case of real property, direct ly to the Oregon Tax Court's Small Claims division if the market value as determined by the board is not more than $25,000). Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprltes inc. FAST DEFROSTING Frankfurt, Germany - OJPD A Frankfurt housewife placed a burning candle inside her re frigerator Tuesday to speed up its defrosting. The plastic inside cover of the refrigera tor caught fire. The blaze spread, wrecked the woman's apartment and sent her to the hospital with smoke poisoning. INTER ACTION Whenever the press is blamed for "blowing up news" beyond its intrinsic import ance, I am re minded of the problem of the scientist in the laboratory trying to do dispassionate research. O n the surf a ce there could be no greater Hm contr a s t be tween the reporter involved in the emotional hurly-burly of daily events and the scien tist probing objectively into the essential construction and basic behavior of microscopic elements. Yet one of the most baffling problems of the scientist-es-pecially in the fundamental field of physics-is this: his very observance of certain phenomena changes the char acteristics of these phenom ena. In the act of focusing his microscope, or even more sensitive instrument, upon the object of his attention, he is inevitably affecting the object itself. The inves tigation is a factor in the results. Now, on a macrocosmic scale, this is precisely what is happening more and more in the field of news events. The fsct that reporters and television cameras are ex pected to be present-or the very fact of their unantici pated presence-changes the character, and often the di rection, of the event. It is wrong to suggest-as some naive critics have done - that the news media 'create" the event; but there can be no doubt that (just as the subatomic instrument changes either the velocity or the position of the parti cle) the knowledge that an event is to be televised or extensively reported acts as an inflationary force on the people involved in the event. This is not to excuse or to justify those news media which do thrive on exaggera tion and distortion; but I think they are fewer than they seem to be. What actually hap pens in such cases ia that the participants begin to act big ger than life (notice a poli tician the moment he senses a TV camera in range) and the presence of reporters and cameramen exercises an ex panding influence on the event. It is a problem with no easy solution, and it grows harder our technology becomes more proficient and enables us to cover events more swift ly and more fully. For exam ple, the extensive coverage given to the proceedings of the united Nations has simply transformed it irom a deliber ative body to a debating-society whose contestants are con tinually trying to score points in front of its immense world audience. The press had a duty to cover the incidents at Oxford, Miss., a few months ago; but who can doubt that this very coverage contributed in some measure, to the violent turn of events? Let us not be so quick with our "solutions" until we are sure we understand, the problem. . . Dirksen To Seek Travel Abuse Curb Washington - 0IPD - Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirk sen (111.) said today he would push for approval of House passed legislation to curb con gressional travel abuses - per haps with some additions of his own. Dirksen said he would ask for time to appear before the Senate Rules Committee con sidering the bill tightening re strictions and reporting re quirements on lawmakers' travel expenses. Chairman B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) of the rules commit tee promised prompt action. There seemed little doubt that Senate Democratic leaders would join in support of the junket-control effort. The bill, as passed by the House, would limit foreign travel by lawmakers to mem bers of committees authorized to go abroad, and would place spending of counterpart funds under the same rules applied to U. S. dollars- More detailed public accounting for money spent would be required. TO OPEN BIDS Salem - UIPD - The Oregon Highway Commission will open bids May 21 on a rock production project on the Mt. Ashland forest road about 10 miles southeast of Ashland. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- BO JOHNSON was not only the best hunter but the most resourceful alibi artist in Minnesota. One day Bo and his bosom companion, Don Cooper, set out on a deer hunt. They separated in the woods, and soon there after Cooper heard a shot "Bo's got him a deer al ready," he marveled, and rejoined his friend. Bo was reloading but there was no deer in sight. He did, however, observe that an obviously fright ened calf was departing the scene. "Holy mackerel,' chortled Cooper. "Y o u didn't shoot at that calf did you?" "Yep," ad mitted Johnson, "I took it for a deer." "And you missed it, at that," exulted Cooper. "Some hunter: mistaking a calf for a deer then missing it!" "Don't be silly," snapped Johnsen, the alibi king. "I shot at it so as to hit it if it was a deer, and miss it if it was a calf!" A few of Benjamin Franklin's maxims: Kings and bears often worry their keepciu. He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. The heart of a fool la in his mouth, but the mouth of a wis man Is in his heart. O IMS. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Festurea Syndicate American Killed by Viet Cong Snipers Saigon, Viet Nam - OJPD - Communist Viet Cong sniper killed an American Army ser geant accompanying a Viet namese army patrol about 23 miles west of Da Nang, Mon day night, a U.S. military spokesman announced today. The sergeant, an adviser to the Vietnamese army, was not identified immediately. There were no other details of the shooting. Da Nang is about 325 miles northeast of Saigon, on the East Coast- The sergeant became the 35th American combat victim in South Viet Nam and tha 84th American soldier to die) here, including non combat deaths. NEBRASKA ADMIRAL Lincoln, Neb. -IUPD- John, Paul Jones is now an admiral in the Nebraska navy. Not the American naval commander during the Revolutionary War, but the chief of the Fed eral Aviation Agency's en gineering and manufacturing; branch in Oklahoma City. Gov- Frank B. 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