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10 YEARS AGO
Juris 11, 19 (Thursday)
Charges that "There hasn t
been year In the last 30 that
narcotics haven't been sold lo
high school children in Med
ford," rose out of the Jack.on
county budget hearing here
this morning.
Gerald T. Macoraber, serv
ing S life sentence in the Ore
gon stste prison from Jack
son county, has petitioned for
a writ of habeas corpus to
free him from prison.
10 YEARS AGO
Jun 11, U4i (Friday) .
. Victory housing project In
northwest Medford to be
ready for occupancy within
wank
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smiirfiie Pot" column: "The
first week of school vacation
found none of the kids going
to school last Monday irom
force of habit."
SO YEARS AGO
June 11, 1133 (Sunder)
; State highway commission
considering strslghtening Pa
cific highway over Siskiyou
mountains.
Guilty verdict returned In
first Jackson county ballot
theft case. Trial of second
defendant starts.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 11, 1123 (Monday)
District Attorney Rswles
Moore confined to his horns
with a slight attack of rheumatism.
50 YEARS AGO
Jun 11, 1113 (Wsdnssda)
. Seventeenth annual reunion
of Oregon state normal school
alumni held In Ashland.
Local men's clothing rtnre
advertises suits (or IT. 80,
shoes tor $2.08, straw huts
for 98 cents, underwear for
19 cents, neckties (or 19 cents,
stocks for 3 cents, suspenders
for 9 cents and three collars
for 23 cents.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ran carted h sweatier;
ere w tight ts etcelleati ! or
sis Is lead.
1. What was (he value of
goods trsded to the indisni
for Msnhsttan Island?
2. It one had a plank ten
feet in length, and sawed oil
a foot at a time, how many
cuts would it take to complete
the Job?
3. Since W W. II has the
U.S. spent more foreign aid
money on economic or mill
tary assistance?
4. What Is the name (or the
great vein in the neck?
S. In what year did the
Spanish-American War occur?
S. In which southwestern
State is the painted desert?
. 7. Red China is a member
of the Unit' J Nations; true or
false?
8. Correct the following:
"He talks like he acts."
9. Stlll-lile paintings depict
animate, or inanimate ob
jects? 10. About whst percentage
of nitrogen does ordinary air
contain?
Answersi I. 124. , Nina.
I. Economic. 4. Jugular train.
S. Illl. I. Arisona. T. raise.
I. Ha talks as h acts. I. In
animate. 10. 10 per cant.
EVERYONE MAKES IT
Block Island. R.I.-ftirt-The
Block Islsnd Hljh ,?hool sen
ior prom Saturday night was
a success. AH three seniors
showed up.
New Care With Pesticides
A pleasant-spoken woman, with real concern
in her voice, called us recently.
She lives, she told us. adjacent to an orchard
It had recently been- sprayed with chemicals by
an airplane, and the chemicals had blown over
her house and yard. She was concerned, she said,
with what the effects might be on the health of
her family. And, she asked, is there anything she
could do about it
We weren't very helpful, and about all we
could suggest was that she write the btate bam
tary Authority to ask their advice and counsel
SHE if not alone in her alarm. Throughout the
nation concern over the use of chemicals as
Desticides is hiirher now than ever before due
largely to Rachel Carson's startling book, "Silent
Spring."
This concern has been mounting in recent
months in both the Congress and in the executive
department.
A recent report of the President's Science
Advisory Committee asked for a thorough over
haul of machinery dealing with pesticides.
The Agriculture, Interior ana Health, Educa
tion and Welfare Departments are working on
added safeguards and added research.
And in the Senate, legislation is being pre
pared to effect similar ends.
COME 350 million pounds of chemical poisons
are dumped, sprayed and scattered through
the nation every year. And no one really knows
exactly what their overall effect is.
It s high time we found out.
Pesticides, together with fertilizers, machin
ery, and better methods, have raised farm produc
tion in this country to an unbelievably high rate.
This is a triumph for science. No one, certainly,
wants to go back to the days when an entire crop
could be wiped out by a single infestation of pests.
Still, while acknowledging the importance of
chemicals to the well-being or the nation, we can
salute Miss Carson for her warning, and for the
effect it is having at all levels.
IT WASN'T too long ago that "Silent Spring"
was being attacked and pooh-poohed.
As recently as last November, a magazine en
titled County Agent and Vo-Ag Teacher had an
aricle entitled, "How To Answer Rachel Carson."
It started with this sub-headline : "In her book,
'Silent Spring,' the widespread use of insecticides
is condemned. Here are some facts and figures
to help you in preparing talks or articles in de
fense of their use.
This attiude has changed sharply, and today
it is generally admitted that many answers re
main to be discovered about the use of chemicals.
PROM violent attacks, charging ignorance and
incompetence, Miss Cai-son has gone on to
receive meat praise from a variety of sources for
her courage in pointing out that less is Known
about pesticides than should be known in view
of their widespread use.
One high Interior Department official said :
"It's ironic that one of our employees had to
quit and write a book to expose the danger."
The upshot of it all was expressed in a recent
news story from Washington, which concluded :
"At any rate, it looks as If the pesticide binge is
over. Congress is thoroughly aroused; the President's
endorsement of the science report will embolden those
alresdy worried about indiscriminate bug spraying.
"Soon three other congressional committees will
Investigate aspects of the pesticide dilemma. Reforms
undoubtedly will emerge and at the very least the
Agriculture Department hopes to subsltute a public,
hearing procedure (or the curious law that allows a
manufacturer to sell alongside registered pesticides,
unregistered agents being marketed 'under protest'."
WE HOPE and trust that local horticulturalists
and fai-mara will tnlro rtntn nf thnsA snrimw
and disturbing doubts and go easy on the use of
questionable sprays, at least until more adequate
research can assure their safety.
It will make our friendly but worried tele
phone caller feel better.
And if someone's health, or someone's life,
is spared by strict care and prudent caution in
dealing w ith potentially dangerous chemicals, it
would be worth whatever the cost in self-restraint
and responsible action. E.A.
Sensible Light Proposal
The adoption by automobile manufacturers
of the amber-colored turn signal blinker was a
minor triumph of horse sense. The amber blinker
is far less confusing than white or red ones.
Now comes another suggestion and it sounds
to us like a good one for the improvement of
automobile light signals, and thus traffic safety.
It is simply that, instead of rear lights of red,
they be green when the car is in forward motion.
When braking, when stopped or when backing,
they would change to red. In case of an emergen
cy, the red lights would be set to flashing by use
of a special switch on the dashboard. Rear fights
would be used day as well as night
THIS makes sense.
On many cars, it is difficult to distinguish the
ordinary rear red light from the slightly more
intense red light signifying that a brake is on,
particularly if one's attention is divered at the
moment the brakes are applied.
Green running lights would signify forward
motion; a red light would automatically mean
"watch it!"
It would be a simple mechanical change to
put into effect, but it would require considerable
revisions in laws and in manufacture.
But the advantages! would seem to make the
trouble worth while. E.A. I
"Ain't It A Beaut?"
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paper. In fact tha contrary Is often the case.
Hidden Hands
To the Editor: By now our
national Senate may have
passed legislation ending sil
ver backing of $1 and $2
bills. To me this is the last
straw. This was the only pa
per money we had left with
hard money behind it. Out
side of the "Lincoln green
backs it was the only debt
free. Constitutionally created
paper currency there was in
the nation. Look on your $5,
$10, and $20 bills. Do they
tell you you can have silver
or gold "payable to bearer on
demand?" You BET they
don't. You can ask (or silver,
in small amounts, but you
can't demand It. You can't
even ask for gold. Only a
foreigner can demand gold
for American paper money,
and get it.
Who is it behind the scenes
who Is tampering with our
nation's (inanclal structures?
Who made It illegal (or Amer
icans to own their own gold?
Who took our gold backed
currency away (rom us back
in the 1930s and stole nearly
half o( every dollar we had
by raising the price of gold?
(And I don't mean President
Roosevelt.) What hidden
hands have manipulated inter
national finances until the
gold that was taken out of
the pockets of the American
people in 1034 is now owned
lock, stock and barrel by for
eign bankers? Who manipu
lates the unfavorable dhI-
ance of trade" that has drain
ed our gold away?
Who was the hidden pow
er behind sending two sets of
U.S. Treasury money plates
and several plane loads of our
Ink and currency paper to
Russia during World War II
to hurry up the "draining"
process? (Documented in de
tail in Chapter 12 of "From
Major Jordan's Diaries.")
Who has robbed the Ameri
can people of their gold and
left them nothing In Its pluce
but paper l.O.U.'s which are
now all but worthless on the
world market? Who is it that
has -Impoverished our nation
to their own enrichment?
Perhaps you've read that
our $1 and $2 bills, formerly
backed by 100 per cent sil
ver, will now be backed by
23 per cent gold. What gold,
may I ask? Foreigners own
approximately $24 billion of
our $18 billion gold pile, hold
ing short term bonds against
it. We are from $6 to $8 bil
lion In the red. Fellow Amer
icans, somebody has been giv
ing us the "business." We
have been (ixed up real good
by some one too greedy to
even allow us the luxury of
debt (ree $1 bills. And Pres
ident Kennedy had the nerve
to tell us that there was no
"enemy within."
Frank Koch
412 South First st.,
Central Poirt, Ore.
His low passes at the Presi
dent and Attorney-General do
not merit, nor need, a reply;
nor does his ignorant com
ment on the distinguished
Christian minister. Dr. King.
His assertion that the Negro's
quest (or equality is but a
trick to "gain entry to daugh
ters of white parents" would
be ludicrous if it weren't such
a libel and complete untruth.
Hasn't it ever occurred to Mr.
Clifford that what miscegena
tion we have had in this
country, largely in the South,
has come generally upon
white men's initiative; not the
Negro's, (or whom it would
have been quite impossible
in most instances. As for mar
riage, the vast majority of
Negroes prefer to confine it
to their own race.
Mrs. Morrow related a
young man's tale of Negroes
where he worked back east
who "goofed-off and if . . .
reprimanded, . , . cry 'dis
crimination'." Of three young
Negro women there, "only
one carries her share of the
work lo'ad." In .the context
of her letter, this "evidence"
presumably also was meant
to point up some inferiority
on the part of Negroes. All
it really proves is that Ne
groes, like white folk, have
their failings.
For a number of years I
was supervisor of both white
and Negro workers, all of
about equal ability, but the
Negroes averaging somewhat
better than the whites in per
formance. Industriousness and
laziness, like all other human
traits, are well distributed
among all races of mankind.
It's quite silly to generalize
from any particulars in a giv
en situation. To characterize
any ethnic group as inherent
ly Inferior not only goes in
the face of established an
thropological evidence but is
a violation of the Christian
ethic.
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Khrushchev-Castro Accord, Quarrel With
Red Chinese, Figure in Latin Subversion
Br PHIL NEW80M
UPI Foreign News Analyst
No one on the outside can
yet be completely sure of the
exact price Nlkita Khrushchev
paid for Fidel
Castro's con
tinued loyalty
in the current
j I bitter squab-
Die between
the Soviet Un-
i -v I ion and Red
i. n n . nor
can it yet be
foretold how
far Khru
shchev is willing to go to
compromise that quarrel
But unless Khrushchev is
willing to break totally with
his one-time Chinese friends.
then a compromise must be
made.
And that compromise, plus
his deal with Castro, is certain
to have an effect on Commu
nist tactics in Latin America,
a prime Communist target.
Hence, all the more import
ance should be attached to the
findings of a special inter-
American committee which in
vestigated Red subversion in
Latin America.
In the Day's News
I FRANK JINKINS
Over the years, this writer
has learned that when he
needs to know who said some
thing, or did something, or
when something Important
happened, and the available
reference books are silent on
the subject, he can always
find out what he needs to
know by asking the readers
of this newspaper about it.
For example:
Quite some time ago, at a
casual luncheon gathering,
the subject of extravagant
public spending came up and
someone at the table asked:
Who was it that said
something like this: 'Demo
cracy in America can survive
only until the politicians dis
cover that by promising pie
in the sky in unlimited quan
tities, to be paid for out of
the federal treasury, they can
keep themselves In office
indefinitely'?"
White Man's Problem
To the Editor: Your editori
al of 87 was a magnificent
exposition of the basic Issues
o( our race problem: really,
primarily a problem of the
white man, due to his Ignor
ance or prejudice or, know
ing the facts and aware of
his bias, to his unwillingness
or slowness to face up to the
moral Imperative which re
quires removal of all Impedi
ments to the full equality of
our Negro (cllow citizens
guaranteed by the Constitu
tion. F. J. Clifford s slurs on Dr.
Martin Luther King and Pres
ident Kennedy confirmed his
prejudice. His talk of "low
learning capacity" of the Ne
gro Li pure nonsense, invnip
ported by scientific evidence,
unproved even by the NEA
Report he cited but badly mis
interpreted. Quite obviously.
he Is not an educator and
never had any experience in
teaching Negroes, whether
children or adults.
t
Needless To Say , . .
To the Editor: Some ex
pressions I am getting tired
of hearing: -
It remains to be seen.
More than appears on the
surface.
It only goes to show.
You will be pleased to
know.
The moment of decision has
arrived.
It goes without saying.
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White, City, Ore.
Cut Proposed in
Budget for Space
Washington - dirt - A con'
gressional subcommittee has
recommended cutting the
manned space (light budget
by about $230 million, It was
learned today.
A House space subcommlt
tee voted unanimously to trim
by about 7 per cent the $3.7
billion the administration re
quested (or manned space
(light activities (or the fiscal
year starting July 1.
The subcommittee's recom
mendations now go to the (ull
House Space committee,
which is exptcted to endorse
the panel's action.
Most of the reduction! took
place in the Apollo program
to put a man on the moon
by 1970
SETTLEMENT URGED
Portland - (IT - An appeal
to civic and political leaders
across the country to use their
influence (or a peaceful set
tlement of the civil rights
problem was contained in a
resolution passed by the ex
ecutive board of the Young
Republican Federation of Ore
gon Sunday.
IT stumped us all.
So we went to the ref
erence books. The available
volumes were silent on the
subject. So I asked our read
ers about it. Time passed,
with no response. Then, one
day, Ken McLeod came in
with the answer.
"That quotation you were
asking about a while back"
he said, "is from Alexis de
Tocqueville's Democracy in
America. What he said was
this:
"Democracy in the United
States will last until those in
power learn that they
can perpetuate themselves
through taxation."
The committee reported
that subversive activities is
suing from Cuba have in
creased considerably in the
last year.
From the communique is
sued at the close of Castro's
visit to Moscow it has been
concluded that Moscow's aid
to Cuba, currently running
about $300 million a year, not
only will be continued but
will be stepped up.
This is the kind of lid which
has enabled Castro to make
Cuba a headquarters for tht
training of hundreds of sub
versive agents, who then are
sent back to their own coun
tries equipped with money,
weapons and forged docu
ments. A Sino-Soviet compromise
at their meeting scheduled for
next month in Moscow almost
certainly would see switch
to the Chinese line of direct
revolutionary action now,
rather than the slower ap
proach through popular polit
ical fronts as heretofore advo
cated by Khrushchev.
Counter measures may be
considered from two angles.
One is the probable effective
ness of the Organization of
American States and group ac
tion to quarantine Cuba and
cut off the flow of men, weap
ons and subversive propaganda.
The other Is to attempt to
gauge the strength of individ
ual Latin American nations to
resist such attacks by them
selves. Despite earnest attempts,
group action under the OAS
so far has been ineffective
primarily because of the re
luctance of such states as Mex
ico, Brazil and Chile to inter
fere in Cuban affairs.
Among the individual na
tions, Venezuela is a No. 1
Communist target. But there,
determined action by Presi
dent Romulo Betancourt's gov
ernment has forced the Com
munists into retreat even
though they remain capable of
acts of terrorism in Caracas.
In Peru, Argentina and Bra.
zil, military forces either in
actual control or on the side
lines block a Communist take
over.
In such cases, the U. S. finds
itself on the horns of a dilem.
ma. The U. S.-sponsored Alii
ance for Progress is dedicated
to the aid of governments
elected by democratic proc
esses. But in more than one Latin
American nation, quick mili.
tary action might prove de
mocracy's defense against a
Red take-over by infiltration,
subversion and terror.
Matter ot Fact By Jfteph Ale
(e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc- Field Enterprise!, Inc.
WHO is de Tocqucville?
He was a French histor
ian, known for his studies of
the nature and operation of
democracy with the view o(
advancing the rule of the peo
ple and at the same time con
trolling its undesirable ten
dencies. His Democracy in
America, published about
1833, is called the first im
partial and systematic study
of American institutions. He
served for some time on a
special French mission to the
United States and during that
period he gathered the mate
rial tnat resulted In his criti
cal study of American insti
tutions. His conclusion that "de
mocracy in the United States
will last only until those In
power learn that they can
perpetuate themselves in of
fice through taxation" is at
least Interesting In these days
ot fantastic government
spending.
VOW it's the Chronicles
Herb Caen who it in
trouble.
From a reader away up in
South Bend, Wash., a few
days ago, he got two post
cards, spaced a couple of
days apart. The first one
read:
"The industrial fire train
ing course (or our area will
be conducted on May 27 at
the Grange hull in Hump-tulips."
The second postcard read:
"The industrial (ire train
ing course scheduled (or
May 27 at Humptullpj is can
celled because the Grange
hall burned down.
THIS prompted Herb to
comment:
"You are now up to dale
on Humptulips, Washington
and I refuse even to conjec
ture on the derivation of that
name.
"The mind reels at the
thought of it."
J Readers of this column
Rally around! Let's help
Herb out.
Incidentally. I have often
wondered myself about the
origin of the name Hump
tulips and how It rame to be
conferred on a town.
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MOIST AND DRY
The warm, moist people al
ways feel cheated or let down
by the dry, cool people. And
the dry, cool
people always
feel e m b a r
rassed by the
warm, moist
people. I have
a friend in the
West who is a
fine person,
but warm and
moist. H e i s
arrla full of feel
ings, very big on Friendship,
on Letters, on Photos of the
family. He goes for "Real Hu
man Beings."
My own temperament tends
more toward trie dry ana
cool. I write no letters, carry
no photos, find any effusive
ness rather sticky. This has
nothing to do with my feel
ings, only with my way of
expressing them.
This bothers the warm,
moist people. They feel that
their friendship is not ada
q u a t e 1 y raturnad. They
want you to be as demon
strative as they are. Thair
ideal of true companionship
is sitting around a camp
fire, holding hands in a
circle, and singing old
songs.
It is hard la gat them to
understand that one can be
a trua friend without tar
ing so every half -hour,
without writing long, chatty
letters, without celebrating
the fraternal ritet. Thair
tentiiWltr it to acute that
every omission teams a
tnub, every underttatement
teems a rebuff. They inter
pret a difference of temper
ament as a pertentl affront
lo their own coda of living
relationships.
Soma of them, indeed, are
to axcettlva in their un
remitting detira to prove
their friendship that they
remind me of what Tally
rand taid about Mme. da
Staalt "She it tuch a good
friend that the would throw
all her acquaintancet into
the walar (or the pleasure
of fishing them out,"
And, no, doubt, we dry, cool
personalities are just as vex
ing and trying to them. We
must seem singularly unre
sponsive, changeable, uncom
municative, and frightfully
off - hand about the sacred
bond of friendship. They
must wonder if we have any
"real feelings at all.
Laissez (aire may or may
not be a good economic pin
losophy; it is certainly the
best emotional philosophy,
Live and let live, each in his
own way. working out his
own life-style - this is the
only sensible attitude to take
toward those around us, close
or not.
But it is devilishly hard (or
many people to do. Parents,
especially, become infuriated
if their children differ tem
per a m e ntally from them
selves; they look upon it al
most at a rejection or repudi
ation - which, indeed, in tome
cases It may be. A warm.
moist parent tends to breed a
cooler and drier child, as an
inevitable reaction to all that
steam.
There Is no right or wrong
in matters of this tort: per
sonalities are as different at
fingerprints. And if we ar
ever going to learn to love
our enemies, the best way to
start is by tolering our friends
a little better, and not trying
to change them.
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THE 'AMERICAN HOME'
ISSUE
Avon, Conn. - Connecticut
used to be, and still ought to
be, a strong center of support
for the presi
dential ambi
tions of Gov.
Nelson Rocke
feller of New
York. This is
h i s neighbor
state, and in
all the Repub
lican contests
since 1932, the
Alt Con necticut
delegation has always sup
ported the more progressive
presidential aspirant. Further,
more, the New York Gover
nor already had Connecticut
pretty well lined up - until
his recent remarriage.
in that earlier time, one
man who was virtually cer
tain to be a key Rockefeller
delegate to the Republican
Convention was former Sen.
Prescott Bush, whose stand
ing in the state has been in
no way diminished by his
voluntary retirement from ac
tive politics.
CONSIDER, therefore, what
has now happened. Sen
ator Bush has just made the
commencement speech at
Rosemary Hall, a girls' school
in Greenwich, Conn. Although
he is the very opposite of a
Goldwater Republican, the
Senator chose this occasion
for the plainest speaking about
Gov. Rockefeller that has yet
been heard from any quarter.
Have we," he inquired,
"come to the point in our
life as a great nation where
the Governor of a great state
- one who perhaps aspires
to the nomination for Presi
dent - can desert a good wife,
mother of his grown children.
divorce her, then persuade a
young mother of four young
sters to abandon her husband
and . . . children and marry
the Governor?
"Have we come to the point
where one of the two great
political parties will confer
upon such a one its highest
honor and greatest responsi
bility? . . . (Are Americans)
ready to say 'phooey' to the
sanctity of the American
home and the American fam
ily? ... I venture to hope
not."
a .
DOSSIBLY because this kind
of language is so startling,
at least when used by a poli
tician rather than a preacher,
almost no newspapers in Con
necticut or elsewhere save
the Bush speech a big play.
Yet Senator Bush was not
doing a mere moral turn for
a special occasion, such as a
girls' school graduation.
After the speech, he stated
for quotation that Governor
Rockefeller should now "pub
licly withdraw" from the
presidential race. In the same
breath, he added what was
already well known, that he
had previously favored tha
Governor's nomination.
Politics being politics, the
(act that the Bush speech did
not receive wide current pub
licity is of no great signifi
cance. One can all but hear
the supporters of Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona and oth
er Republican hopefuls gloat
ingly giving their printing;
orders for vast future mail
ings of the Senator's remarks
to every person who may con
ceivably influence a single
Republican delegate. When
something of this sort hat
been said, it can never be
un-said.
a a
ALL in all, without enter
ing Into the moral pro
and cons, the Bush speech is
a major political phenome
non. With a kind of dire final
ity, it indicates that Governor
Rockefeller's remarriage is an
even bigger political handi
cap than most people have
supposed, or at least hava
been willing to say. On this
point, there is additional sig
nificant evidence.
In brief, Republican leaders
here were among the first to
be telephoned by New York
National Committeeman
George Hinman when the ablo
Hinman passed the word that
the Governor was indeed go
ing to remarry, and begged
all Rockefeller friends to
stand fast nonetheless. Yet the
former Rockefeller support in
Connecticut is now all over
the lot, to put it very mildly
indeed.
The plain truth is that, as
a presidential aspirant, Gov
ernor Rockefeller now looks
nearly as dead as the proverb
ial smelt - unless some great,
unforeseen, reviving act
brings him back like Lazarus
from the tomb. Obviously, lie
will seek to try such an act.
Probably his speechwriters)
are already studying the class
ic utterance which was large
ly written by Winston Church
ill for the Duke of Windsor.
One can imagine making what
might be called a reverse
adaptation ot the Windsor ab
dication speech for Governor
Rockefeller's case.
AN
EFFORT of that sort
that would be effective
obviously cannot be ruled out.
Governor Rockefeller is a
man of immense ability and
energy. He has the only seri
ous political organization in
the field in the whole Repub
lican party. If anyone can
make a comeback, he ought to
be able to make a comeback.
Yet making a comeback
certainly will, not be easy.
The greatest single weakness
of the Governor's position
may be defined as the absence
of a Republican Hubert Hum
phrey. In 1980, President Ken
nedy's greatest piece of luck
(although he did not think so
at the time) was Senator Hum
phrey's eagerness to enter pri
maries, in which President
Kennedy then proved his own
vote-getting powers.
In the present instance,
none of the other Republican
presidential hopefuls, declar
ed or possible, has the small
est intention of entering a pri
mary. It will not do Governor
Rockefeller much good to run
In New Hampshire, for in
stance, against the empty air.
Hence it will be interesting
to see how the Governor han
dles his problem.
lMUl ill I I
"111 be around after tht period ef megrninj!"
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