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. Morrison con
ferred the honorary rank
Tuesday for Jones' aid to the
state aeronautics department
in promoting safety programs.
FORMER SOLON DIES
Lebanon lUPIi Funeral was
held Tuesday for former Dem
ocratic State Rep. Roy Fit
water, 74, who died Friday.
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