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and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1953 (Tuesday) -over
week end dumps 3.89 inch
es of rain on Medford; Crater
Lake reports S.07 inches of rain
in 24 hour period.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1943 (Wednesday)
District OPA examiner says
no relief in tire shortage can
be expected in Medford area
until late 1944.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Older
girls who optimistically report
ed two weeks ago they had
awaited the last fly of the sum
mer are still at it. The last fly
sure lasts. ,
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24. 1933 (Friday)
Judge Earl Day returns from
Salem where he. attended ses
sion of state legislature.
Mrs. A. P. Weiss, who came
fo Southern Oregon in 1864, dies
at her home in Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 24, 1923 (Saturday)
Medford School District cen
sus expected to total more than
2,200 compared with 1922 figure
of 2,169.
Albert Hoppen, Medford,
speaks in Minneapolis at 50th
anniversary.
50 YEARS AGO '
Nov. 24, 1913 (Monday)
Local men's clothing store ad
vertises semi - bosom shirts,
wilh cuffs which are guaranteed
not to crack.
Medford City budget reveals
monthly salaries for city offi
cials Include chief of police, $85;
fire chief, $90; city engineer
$150; and street sprinkler with
team, $125.
What's Your I.Q.?
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iia la gooo.
1. According to the scriptures,
Cain was the brother of whom?
2. In boxing, a short choDoins
blow to the back of the neck or
base of the skull is known as
what sort of punch?
3. Who In the film world has
won the most "Oscars"?
4. The lute Knute Rockne
achieved fame as a what?
5. Which steamship was sunk
first, the SS Titanic or the SS
Lusitama?
A. Must a citizen be older to
qualify as a U. S. Senator or a
U. S. Representative?
7. Docs a person suffering
from nyctophobia have a morbid
(car of nils, nuts, or night?
8. Adult moths do not eat fab
rics; true or false?
n. Joe Yule Jr. is the real
name of which movie star?
10. Name the author of the
novel, "Robinson Crusoe."
Answers: 1. Abel. Z. Rabbit
punch. 3. Walt Disney. 4. Foot
ball coach. 5. SS Titanic. 8. Sen,
alnr. ?. Night. 8. True. t. Mickey
Rooney. 10. Daniel Defoe.
Ordinance Prohibits
Handbill Distribtuion
A Medford City ordinance pro
hibits the distribution of hand'
bill advertising within or on mo
tor vehicles, City Manager Rob
ert Duff reminded residents to
day.
The city has received com
plaints that such advertising has
been distributed recently. It is
in violation of city coda, Duff
said.
VjJAMOCIATION
NOVEMBER U. 1W
Shock, Grief, Outrage
This editorial is being written shortly after
the news of President John F. Kennedy's as
sassination was Hashed
The sense of shock,
unoenei, is numoing.
t-i- ,
Life of course, will
President Johnson will take over, and after the
ceremonies and speeches are over, gradually
people will start to iorget.
But the implications,
tions, the change in the
continue, like ever-wiaening ripples in a pond
QNLY TIME will rleyeal what the conse-
auences will be noliticallv. intemation-
A -
It is too early even
But is not too early
ghastly blow at order
pen.
Is it a reflection of
tainties of the time?
What sort of mad
killing the leader of the
any problems.
What sort of warped
ally, economically, socially.
lieve any gooa couia come oi such an act ;
THROUGHOUT the nation and the world
the reaction is uniform shock, grief,
outrage.
The grief is intensely
Americans look upon their President with a
close and personal attitude. More, in the per
son of the young and vigorous John Kennedy,
the nation had a highly attractive personality,
one with whom most people could actively as
sociate themselves.
Too, the thought of
sters now left fatherless and uprooted from the
only world they have known, the young wife
so recently bereaved by the loss of her baby -
these heart-wrenching considerations make the
sense of loss even more
VIE YOUNG serviceman, home on leave and
in civilian clothes, was asked by a TV re
porter for his reaction. . In effect, he said that,
for the first time in his
to be an American.
This is a feeling of
What is to be said
permit the development
hate so much that he could, in cold blood and
with deliberation, murder
tion and the free world.
Let us hold to the
sheer insanity of the act may shock the hate
mongers and lie-spreaders, if not into decency,
at least into silence. E. A.
The New
Lyndon Johnson is the
can history to take over the Presidency upon
the violent death of a predecessor.
The first also was a Johnson Andrew
who became president after President Lincoln's
assassination.
What kind of a President will he be? We
can only wait and see and speculate. The only
sure thing is that he will different from John
t . Kennedy.
Generally, Johnson is
as a pragmatic politician, as a skilled leader
of men. For a time, at least, he can be expect
ed to carry on the policies established during
tne first three years of
e
BUT, DESPITE the semi-obscurity of the Vice
a ivoiuviivyi uuituoirii jo mo uvii man
it is inevitable that he will start making his own
decisions, his own appointments, and setting
his own "style" in office.
Johnson has never made any bones of the
fact that he would like
what a shattering way
And what an array
him. They range from
to economic to social to military. And decisions
cannot be put off because of shock or grief.
The business of the government must go for
ward. AS PRESIDENT Johnson stands today at the
pinnacle of power and responsibility, we
all must needs wish him well wish him strength
and health and knowledge and courage.
We are indeed fortunate in this country that
the powers of office can be transferred, swiftly
and in an orderly manner, not only in emer
gencies such as this, but perhaps even more im
portant, through the elective process.
It is tragic that this happened. But it is well
that the founding fathers foresaw such eventu
alities, and provided that the government would
continue without more than a momentary pause.
E. A.
over the wires.
of erief. of outrage, of
no on. It alwavs does,
the resultinp; disloca
course of history, will
f t
to speculate.
to wonder how such a
and decency could hap
;
the tensions and uncer
mind could believe that
free world could solve
personality could be
personal. Not only do
the high-spirited young
poignant.
life, he was not proud
shame we can all share.
of a land which could
of someone who could
the leader of the na
profound hope that the
President
fourth man in Ameri
regarded as a liberal,
the administration..
to be President. But
of achieving that goal!
of problems now face
political to international
"Look Out The Sky It Falling Down
Whew I Saved You Again!"
THE TWO EUROPES-IV .
Turning now to European in
ternational affairs, the main
fact is that General De Gaulle
got the jump on all his partners
and allies because he was the
first to realize and act upon the
fact that the postwar era is end
ing. Early in the day, he saw that,
because nuclear war had ceased
to be an instrument of Soviet
expansionary policy, it had be
come safe to turn away from
the postwar arrangements. In
the Gaullist view, this is not due
to any change of heart in Mos
cow, but to the decisive Ameri
can superiority in nuclear wea
pons. This estimate, they say,
was confirmed in the Cuban af
fair.
If we are to understand the
real calculation behind the gen
eral's insistence on creating a
French nuclear striking force,
we must begin with the Gaullist
conviction that, because of
American power, the Soviet
Union cannot launch a success
ful aggressive surprise attack.
No Frenchman pretends to be
lieve that France can afford to
match Soviet or American nu
clear power. The candid Gaul
lists with whom I have talked
regard their small striking force
as "independent" in a special
and peculiar sense. Shocking
though it may sound to Ameri
cans, they expect this small
force to give France the ability,
on its own initiative, to press
the trigger that would compel
the United States to go into an
all-out war.
e
STRICTLY speaking, what
France is seeking to create
is not an independent French
nuclear force, but an indepen
dent detonator of the American
nuclear force.
In these matters of the life
and death of nations and of
civilization itself, we can allow
no such dangerous illusion to
persist. However, I am not sure
how seriously the whole business
is to be taken. Thus, when I
pressed the matter, pointing out
that the United States would not
surrender its independence to
Paris and that we have many
ways of asserting our Indepen
dence, a Gaullist official with
whom I was talking admitted
quickly enough that France had
no intention of pressing its trig
ger. The French are just as much
afraid of a nuclear holocaust as
are the rest of us. The purpose
of creating the trigger, he as
sured me, is not to pull it ever
but to negotiate with the United
States and the Soviet Union on
the basis that France possesses
such a trigger and has a finger
on it.
I don't think this is going to
deceive anybody very much,
and there is no need, I conclude,
to be too much excited in
Washington over the French nu
clear deterrent, or over the
British. They are not military
instruments. Thev are political
instruments. Their main pur
pose is to give weight to French
and British diplomacy in all the
steps that will lead up to an
eventual accommoda tion.
Though the accommodation is
not yet in sight, it is believed
to be not too far below the hori-
IN the meantime, the security
which results from the exist
ing balance of nuclear power is
so great that General De Gaulle
feels quite free to dismantle the
postwar structure. He does be
lieve in the alliance between
Western Europe and the United
States in the commitment to
go to war together if war breaks
out and he insists that he
proved it in the Cuban crisis.
But he does not believe in the
NATO establishment which Gen
eral Eisenhower once command-
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Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(C) 1963 The Washington Pelf
ed. He regards it as obsolete
and as an undesirable prolonga
tion of American hegemony in
Western Europe.
He does not believe in the
ideology of the Common Market
and in the political aspirations
toward European union which
accompanied its birth. And so
he may break up the Common
Market if Chancellor Erhard
does not sacrifice the German
farm bloc to the French farm
bloc.
He does not believe in the
United Nations as a peace-keeping
organization, and he has lit
tle respect for it as a debating
forum, because it contains so
many new and weak govern
ments. He does not believe in nego
tiating with the Soviet Union
now, because he does not think
anything wilr be lost if we do
not negotiate.
a e
MOREOVER, there is a pro
found difference between his
views of West Germany and the
current American view. We tend
to think of Germany as purged
and recovered and as the lead
ing power of Western Europe.
The real Gaullist view, so I have
come to realize, is that West
Germany, after the criminal
orgy of Nazism, after the shock
of defeat and with the open
wounds of partition, is a big,
deeply - perturbed invalid who
must be nursed, guarded and
tranquilized lest he relapse into
his old illusion..
That is why the generafthinks
that our attitude toward West
Germany is simple - minded and
dangerous.
So one may say that he dis
likes practically everything that
Truman and Acheson, Eisen
hower and Dulles constructed
when Western Europe was poor,
prostrate and defenseless. And
now that Western Europe is
prosperous and feels itself se
cure, the general rejects entire'
ly President Kennedy's assump
tion that he is the leader and
protector of the Western society
General De Gaulle is not very
kind about it all, and he does
nothing to make it easier to
come to an understanding to
agree, let us say, on the idea
that the postwar structure was
the salvation of Europe, but that
it has served its purpose and
must be radically transformed
before we shall begin to see the
permanent shape of European
American relations.
But however lacerated our
feelings, the evidence is, I think,
unmistakable that 'the Euro
peans have turned a corner and
that the postwar era is over.
Seen from Europe, our own ef
forts to revive the Western al
liance as it was in the 1950s
"It's a major crisis a shortage of alcohol In Russia
means ill the hooters will be defecting to the West!"
OREGON '
In the Day's News
By FRANK
President John F. Kennedy
has been shot and killed by an
assassin in Dallas, Texas. He
had just arrived in the city, and
was on his way from the airport
to the downtown area to deliver
a luncheon speech sponsored by
Dallas trade organization.
He was riding in the famous
Bubble Top car, which had been
sent from Washington. It was
designed to deflect bullets. But
the top was DOWN. There was
a sudden burst of gunfire, and
the President slumped over in
the back of the car. He was
rushed to an emergency hos
pital, but never recovered con
sciousness.
T'HE killing of President Ken
nedy raises to four the num
ber of American Presidents
who have died at the hands of
assassins.
The first was President Lin
coln, in 1865. By way of relaxa
tion after a grinding day, he
had gone to Ford's Theater, in
Washington. He was shot by
John Wilkes Booth. He was car
ried unconscious to a lodging
house across the street from
the theater and died early the
next morning. At almost the
same moment. Secretary Sew
ard was attacked and severely
wounded at his home.
ON HARDWARE AND
PHOSPHATES
WASHINGTON The Soviet
anti-missile-missile, so ostenta
tiously displayed in Moscow on
the recent anniversary of the
Russian Revolution, is a re
markably interesting piece of
hardware, for a whole series of
reasons.
Simply as hardware, to be
sure, this new weapon is not in
timidating. Its characteris tics
have now been analyzed, with
minute care, by the American
experts; and there is little re
maining doubt that it is at least
marginally inferior to its Amer
ican equivalent, the Nike-Zeus.
The shape of its fins proves
(only the experts know how!)
that the Soviet anti-missile-missile
is designed for last minute
interception, after an enemy
ICBM has already entered the
atmosphere and is therefore
very close to its target. Its con
figuration also proves that its
acceleration from take-off is
poorer than that of the Nike
Zeus. a
AS MAY be recalled, Secre
tary of Defense Robert Mc
Namara some time ago decided
that Nike -Zeus was not good
enough to be put into large-scale
production. He therefore ordered
the research-and-developers to
go to work on Nike-X. This more
advanced missile will be much
more foolproof than Nike-Zeus;
it will intercept outside the
atmosphere; and it will have
other advantages as well.
There is no reason whatever
to suppose, however, that Mar
shal Rodion Malinovsky has the
the same views about his new
anti - missile - missile as McNa
mara has about the Nike-X.
Parade display of a new wea
pon in the Soviet Union has gen
erally been the prelude to quan
tity production. And it is just
about certain that the Soviet De
fense Ministry is now pushing
hard for quantity production of
the new anti-missile-missile just
as the U.S. Army pushed for
mass production of Nilte-Zeus.
tend to sound like the old soldier
fighting all over again the bat
tles of the wars he went to stop.
And our speeches often sound
like those of the old actor who
is playing a return engagement
in a hole which once made him
famous.
JENKINS
'THE next President to die by
an assassin's bullet was Gar
field. He was shot at the Wash
ington railroad station by
Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally
unstable and disappointed office
seeker who boasted that be
wanted Arthur for President.
PRESIDENT William McKin
ley was shot while attending
a reception at the Pan Ameri
can Exposition in Buffalo. He
was shot on September 6, 1901,
and lingered on until September
14, when he died. Vice-President
Theodore Roosevelt imme
diately took the oath of office
as our 25th President.
NOW comes the fourth assas
sination of an American
President.
It is a terrible indictment of
a nation that claims to be the
most enlightened nation on
earth.
Why this record?
PERHAPS there is a clue in
the derivation of the word.
It comes from ASSASSINS or
HASHISHIN (hemp-eaters), the
name of a twelfth-century band
of Moslems in Persia and Asia
Minor who smoked a drug call
ed hashish, and under its influ
ence murdered their enemies.
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
le) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE estimated price -tag on
mass deployment of the new
anti-missile-missile is a cool 10
to 12 billion dollars. Further
more, since the missile inter
cepts only at relatively low alti
tudes, mass deployment would
not make sense without another
three billion dollars or so, to be
spent on shelters giving protec
tion from the fallout of the inter
cepted enemy missiles.
If the Soviets decide to pay
the staggering price for mass
deployment of their new wea
pon, the U.S. will merely have
to invest a bit more in fooling
devices, to help our Minuteman
confuse the defense, and on
more Minutemen to saturate the
defense. But the record shows,
as noted above, that this kind of
argument has little weight with
the Soviet Defense Ministry,
even if it impresses the civilian
leaders of Russia.
Hence, it is also just about
certain that the Soviet anti-mis
sile-missile is not just a new
weapon, but also a gigantic bone
of contention. It has to be a
bone of contention since Soviet
resources are gravely over
strained. A decision to go ahead
with mass output of this new
weapon will in fact increase the
strain to the point of producing
dramatic political effects.
THE need to make this de
cision coincides, moreover,
with the need to make another
even more grave decision. In
order to solve the increasingly
acute Soviet agricultural prob
lem, Nikita S. Khrushchev has
been talking about a crash pro
gram to increase Soviet arti
ficial production to 35 million
tons per year, at a cost, accord
ing to Khrushchev, of $20 billion.
Thus the Soviet leaders are
now confronted by a clear
choice between an immensely
costly investment which is des
perately needed to correct the
growing imbalances in the So
viet economy. It is a case of do
ing one thing or the other, for
it is certainly impossible for the
Soviets to do both.
The final Soviet choice will
become known soon after the
agricultural plenum of the Cen
tral Committee convenes in
Moscow on Dec. 9. Meanwhile,
it is already clear that the
choice is proving difficult and
even agonizing.
e a
rpHE Chinese Communists even
appear to hope that the
agony may spur the Soviet mili
tary leaders to overthrow or
overrule Khrushchev and his al
lies in the Politburo. In truth,
the latest Peking attack on Mos
cow, which has been widely mis
interpreted, is an almost open
incitement to the Soviet mar
shals. Khrushchev is viciously
denounced for wanting to "dis
integrate" the Soviet armed
forces. The intention is obvious.
On the other side of the bal
ance sheet, there are reports
that Marshal Malinovsky may
shortly be replaced as Defense
Minister by Marshal S. S. Bir
yuzov or another Soviet leader
more pliable to Khrushchev's
will.
Whether or not this extreme
expedient is adopted, Khrush
chev is on the whole expected
to get his way by the American
demonologists. But no one can
be sure, as yet, about the out
come of this Kremlin debate
which really affects the whole
world.
GREAT IDEAS...
HOW TO SPEND
TIME INTELLIGENTLY
Dear Dr. Adler: The Ameri
can worker of today has more
hours of leisure and more
money to spend for pleasures
of travel, play, or relaxation
than ever before. Yet we all
know Individuals who feel so
guilty about having this "free
time" that they will engage in
any activity no matter how
foolish or dangerous in order
to be "busy." Did the great
philosophers have anything to
say about leisure time and its
use?
Marion Adams
1741 South Main St.
Hopklnsville, Ky.
Dear Miss Adams: Most ma
ture people, if they were asked
whether they would be happy
idle all the time, would reply in
the negative. Their answer
would be the same, though per
haps more hesitant, if they were
asked if they would be happy
playing and amusing themselves
all their lives long. Yet doing
nothing and playing represent
for most people the main as
pects of free time the wak
ing hours in which they are free
from work.
In an era when the amount of
free time has increased
greatly, the common attitude
that our "off" time should be
devoted chiefly to idleness and
amusement raises an alarming
prospect. One envisions millions
of people at their wits' end try
ing to think of something to fill
up their time, to "kill time," as
the saying goes.
The Greek philosopher Aris
totle would have considered such
an attitude ridiculous and irra
tional. As he saw it, free time
is the precious portion of our
lives in which we can engage in
tne intrinsically valuable activi
ties of thought, learning, and
public service. These are the
activities that make life worth
living and which fulfill us as
human beings.
These activities comprise what
Aristotle called "leisure. As he
uses the term, leisure is not
synonomous with free time, as it
IS for most of us today, but it
is one of the ways in which we
use free time. Play and idleness
are among the other ways in
which we use free time. Aris
totle considered play a good
tning, wnen pursued in moder
ation, because it provides recre
ation from the fatigues of work
and thought and affords pleasur
able enjoyment.
If we apply Aristotle's recipe
to our present situation, we
would divide our time in the fol
Editorial Comment
John F. Kennedy
The young President whom we lost yesterday
gave at all times his best to the Nation. In the
spirit of his Inaugural Address, he asked only
what he could do for his country, and did it.
It is the country he served which somehow
failed him. For in their shock and sorrow, the
American people must feel troubled and ashamed
that in this 17fitli
still have not learned to
oi meir nignesi servant.
No act can be more sordid and disgraceful
than a political assassination. Who are we Amer
icans, who claim the leadership of the Free
World, that we should have allowed this kind of
violent and insensate thing to happen to our na
tional leaders four times within a century? The
question is an accusation ; let us hope that others
will be too charitable to hurl it at us.
Often the young and vigorous are called upon
to die in the service of their country. Somehow,
in the distress and shock of the moment, it seems
that America's young leader has fallen in battle.
That is as useful and comforting an image as we
can find for this profoundly sad and unnecessary
incident.
People everywhere were deeply attached to
the forceful and vigorous personality of John F.
Kennedy. Many have said since his death, "He
seemed almost a member of the family." No
doubt television had much to do with this. The
voice heard so often in the family group, and the
accompanying grin, will remain long in memory.
The life and leadership of the Nation will go
on under President Lyndon Johnson, without
panic or interruption. But for the moment, the
Nation centers its grief on its fallen leader, and
extends its profoundest sympathy to Mrs. Ken
nedy, her children, and the President's family.
San Francisco Chronicle.
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adler
(c) 1963, Publisher! Newspaper Syndicate
lowing manner. First would
come the economic activities
which are necessary to provide
us with the material means of
existence. Then would come
play and physical relaxation to
provide us with recreation and
recuperation. Finally, and most
valuable, would come the leisure
activities which help us to grow
as individuals and as members
of the community.
In the latter category belong
our cultural activities, such as
serious study and artistic pro
duction for their own sake,
not to make a living. To the
works of leisure also belong our
social and political activities
again amateur, not professional
for the common good. Leisure
is the productive use of free
time, and its fruits are the de
velopment and perfection of the
mind and of the community.
This Aristotelian analysis of
the time of our lives, however,
does not imply that we must al
ways keep busy doing something
during our waking hours. On the
contrary, higher even than lei
sure is what I call "rest," and
what others have called "quiet,"
"silence, or similar terms. By
"rest," I mean the great, prec
ious, holy Sabbath - movement,
when we have ceased from use--ful
activity both the economic
and the leisure kind and are
simply open to the highest re
ality, to the basis and core of;
things. "Rest" is the time of
contemplation, prayer, or wor
ship those non-utilitarian ac
tivities which all of us must re
sort to in order to complete our
selves. I would divide the time of our
lives, then, into these five parts
or activities: (1) sleep, (2)
working for a living, (3) play,
(4) leisure, and (5) "rest" in
the Sabbath sense. It is the last
two that are the essentially hu
man activities, whereby we per
fect ourselves as human beings.
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care of this newspaper.
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