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J4 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1963 ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON Johnson Takes in Entire World as Arena for Political Operations EDITOR'S NOTE: This l (he first of three dispatches on the career of President Lyn don B. Johnson. By HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lyn don B. Johnson called politics '"the art of the possible" and he is a master of the art. There was a time when poli tics meant to him the care, feeding and cajoling of his Tex as constituents, but in recent years Johnson has taken the en tire world as his arena of oper ations. He proved that he can charm a camel driver in Paki stan with the same easy tech nique he uses on a farmer liv ing outside of Lubbock, Tex. President Kennedy used him The Medico By Emeritus consultant In Mdlctne Mayo clinic Emeritus Professor ol Medicine- Mayo Clinic (Reilster and Tribune Syndicate, Need for Growth Hormone I feel so sorry for the many people who write to say that a boy of theirs with a short sta ture seems to have stopped growing, and everyone is un happy about the situation. Oft en under the strain the boy be comes "ornery," and perhaps once decidedly bright, he may start failing in his school work. Once social, he may now be come surly and solitary. For a while- we physicians had great hopes when, many years ago, my dear friend Pro fessor Herbert Evans and his associates isolated a growth hormone from the pituitary gland (which it situated just be low the brain). This drug, when injected into small dachshunds, quickly caused them to grow into big hounds. The only trouble was that this growth hormone made most easily and cheaply from the large pi tuitary glands of cattle when Injected into boys, did not work well. Later, it was found that the growth hormone made from cattle is so different chemically from that made from men or from monkeys that it is of no use to boys. Cost Said Great The hormone that is obtained h-Am it man will heln a boy, but the cost ot securing pitui tary glands from men is so oront lhal nnlv a little of the human hormone has been ob tained ust enough : to snow Family Council Idllor's Note: The Family Conn ell consists ot judge, psychia trist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor, and two writers. Kacn article Is a summary of an actual ease history. The Council reports on proolonis inal nave been dealt with by respon sible aeenrlcs and counselors. (Copyright 1963 General Features Corp.) Theresa Y. His apartment looks like a junk-shop. Mr. F. Y. Sentiment is more Important than neatness. . Theresa Y. My dad has stayed on in the small apart ment he shared with my moth er. I go there once a week to check his food supply, bring his clothes to the cleaner, and tidy up. But it's a hopeless job he won't let me throw anything away. He can't bear to part with even a pin. The place is so clut tered 1 can't dust or sweep it. Mr. F. Y. I'm glad to have this out with Tessie. My home isn't so dirty that it needs her shaking it up every week, l wipe the floors and the kitchen myself almost every day. What bothers her is that I enjoy hav ing the old books and vases and statues around, not stuck up in a closet. Each piece of furni ture means something special to me. The Council: If wishes were houses, we'd build one for aged folks with three essentials (or preserving their dignity and equanimity: a room of one's own, a private bathroom, and a large closet with a good light. For, the unkindest, cut of all, dealt out by the average Home for the Aged, is stripping them of almost all personal posses sions. Of course "space re quirements" Is the reason giv en. But in Mr. Y's case, there is no reason unless fire and health hazards are present for separating him from beloved belongings. The more insecure one feels, the more one clings to tilings as links In safety Take a child who must hug his favorite toy before he can (all asleep, or a soldier who packs some familiar object into his duffle-bag. "People grow old with material possessions," says Dr. Wendell M. Swcnson of the Mayo Clinic. "To lake things away from them is to take away a part of their individuality"... ' Magpie collecting a la Langley Collier Is another matter, of course, indicative of personality disorder. Mr. Y's accumulation Is clean and makes sense. It's . the stuff of dreams. Let him feast, Theresa. with great effectiveness as a sood will ambassador and trou ble shooter at a dozen spots arm I nH Ihp world. ' .inhnsnn is a single-minded man. He talks politics, eaU pol itics and thinks politics through out one of the most strenuous working schedules maintained bv any man in the federal gov ernment. There are many areas nf Amsricsn life about which he has no curiosity and no knowl edge. He was on the West Coast several years ago and somebody suggested he might like to visit a movie studio ana meei uan Turner. "Whn's Lana Turner?" John son asked. He wasn't making a wisecrack. There is no time In his think Roundup that it can work, especially for what is known as pituitary dwarfism. Because the mole cule is so big and so compli cated, there is not much hope of Its ever being synthesized. Ahnut the nnlv hone is that a small fraction of it, split off, may have the faculty ot pro moting growth in boys and girls. There is some reason to hope that someday such a frac tion can be obtained. Work is going forward on the problem. People ask why one of their children Is so short, and it may be that he Is a "throw-back" to some ancestor who was small and short. Often a very short man is perfectly healthy, and ran live into his 70s. Rarely, a man is short because when he was a boy he did not eat enough food. One study made a while ago suggested that some small, short boys are so finicky that they just don't eat enough. Perhaps if they would eat nor mally, they would grow taller. Bone f irmly rasienca Fortunately, in many cases, a boy who at 14 or 15 is much too short, in his 16th year will shoot up some three Inches or more. Some physicians try giv ing a little thyroid substance, or a little male hormore, or some gonadotropin (which sti mulatcs the cells that make male hormone), but I cannot find out If this helps or if it Is safe. Many parents should know that about the age of 16 the two epiphyses (growing ends of the long leg bones) Decome (Irmly fastened to the shaft of the bone, and after that no more growth is possible. An X-rav man can tell when this firm fastening together of the three pieces of each bone has taken place. After that there is no use trying any treatment for short stature. Some parents ask me how to hold down the height of a girl who is growing too tall, and I' am sorrv to sav I haven't yet heard of any good method. UPI Film Shows Assassination NEW YORK (UPI)-United Press International Newsfilm early today was first on the air with exclusive film showing the assassination of President Ken nedy. The dim is lfimm enlarged from 8mm. It was shown on a New York City television sta tion. The sequence, shot by an am ateur photographer in Dallas Friday, begins with motorcycle police coming around the corner followed by the Kennedy motor cade. The President is then seen leaning over when the bullets strike. Mrs. Kennedy puts her right arm around the President and he slumps out of vciw. The film (hen shows a Secret Serv ice agent running toward the car. The film was shown in slow motion and also slopped at key points in the assassination. The scene was shown four times at different speeds and under dif fcrent magnifications. Copies have been rushed In United Press Newsfilm clients all over the world. Funeral Held for Salem Councilman SALEM (UPI) - Funeral was held today for Henry G. Hon wicsner, 70, Salem City Council member, who died Friday night al his home here. Hohwiesner was president and general manager of Starr Foods, Inc., Salem. He was appointed to the City Council in 1959 and elected to a four-year term in 1960. "Oil To Burn" SaH Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. Phone 772. Jill ing and his activity to inform himself about Hollywood and its personalities. A close friend said Johnson occasionally at tends football games in Texas. "But 1 doubt," he added, "whether Lyndon ever saw a touchdown scored or knew at any given moment which team was ahead. He usually was leaning over to talk with some body in the row ahead or turn ing to engage in earnest con versation with somebody behind mm. When Johnson says politics Is "the art of the possible" he speaks from a reservoir of knowledge going back to 1932 when he first came to Washing ton as secretary to Hep. Rich ard Kleberg, owner of the King Ranch in Texas. What he means is that there is no point in knock ing your head against a stout stone wall. You try to figure out some way to find a gate or climb over the wall. Don't waste your time on the impossible. Concentrate on the possible. No Faith in Oratory President Johnson puts small faith in high-blown oratory as a means of influencing people and getting results. The nation is unlikely to hear from his lips such phrases as "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and "ask not what your coun try can do for you, but what can you do for your country." He puts great store in private talks as opposed to public pro nouncements. Last Saturday he gave an indication of how things will be run in the White House from now on when he sat down for an immediate chat with De- Swift Plans Packing Plant at Portland PORTLAND (UPI) - Swift it Co. Monday announced plans to build a new meat packing plant in North Portland. The new plant, a one-story building, will replace its pres ent plant,- a seven-story struc ture which will be razed. The firm said that one of its major operations, cattle dress ing, will not be included in the new plant. las Vegas Gambling Center Draws Crowd LAS VEGAS, New (UPI) - This gambling city's downtown "Casino Center," darkened for 17 hours Monday in honor of the late President was more crowd ed than ever despite the lack of gambling. Many of the city's 120,000 went to the center where gambling normally goes on 24 hours a day in brightly lighted casinos to see what it looked like without the lights on. Casinos, showrooms and bars in all the major hotels both downtown and on the "strip" were closed from 7 a.m. until midnight. Try and By BENNETT CERF ATAMOUS PRODUCER bought a ranch that he-pro. posed to Use as a haven to get away from it all. His wife, however, bad different ideas and invited everybody ducer walked in on one typical brouhaha and heard his wife bemoan ing the fact that she bad not yet come up with an appropriate name for the ranch. He looked over the assemblage of guests with cxmsidernble dis taste and announced, "I've got it. 'Bar None.'" It was reported that one very superior British novelist.visited the ranch another time nnd was asked to write something in the guest book. She scrawled, "Quoth the raven," signed her name and departed. Variety tells about a cocky young singer who has an opinion on everything, and doem't mind expressing It. "Which kind of music, do you really prefer? Bach or bebop7' lie was asked on a TV show. Holliday answered promtly, "It's all the same thing, friend: It's ail music.1 One of our. moat popnTar advico-to-the-troublcd columnist was stumped when she opened. thla letter recently: "Dear Lady: I joined the Navy to see the world. ITvo seen, it. Now, how do I get out!" IMS. br Burnett Cert. EttttUjatdl try Xing Failures Syndicate $ $$$$$$ fense Secretary Robert McNa- mara on the pressing problems of the moment. Johnson has a passion for in formation and is an excellent listener. When he was a sena tor, he had on his office wall a saying of his father: "When you're talkin', you ain't learn- ft' 1 LbjJr & LITTLE SOLDIER SALUTES - Like a little soldier, John F. Ken nedy Jr., who celebrated his third birthday Monday, salutes as the casket of his father, the late President Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington. (UPI) Republicans Take Renewed Look at Johnson's Policies By RAYMOND M. LA1IR WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re publican leaders began taking a wary look at President John son today to see how his policies might affect their campaign and presidential choice in 1964. Sen. Barry Goldwater of Ari zona, who is not an announced candidate, is still judged the man in front in terms of po tential delegate strength at the Republican National Conven tion. He has said he would make a decision in January whether to become a candidate (or the now may delay that decision presidential nomination. He Stop Me THANKSGIVING BEGINS THE HOLIDAY SEASON If extra CA$H will help you and your family to more thoroughly enjoy them $top in or phone us today. Stark Finance Co. 2739 North Pacific Highway Phone 773-1817 MEDFORD'S ONLY HOME-OWNED FINANCE COMPANY $$$$$ in' nothing," His mind soaks up information like a sponge and he constantly is demanding more. He wants everything checked and rechecked. A story about him possibly exaggerat edis that he once asked his assistant to find out the date of the Army-Navy football game. because of reappraisals coming up inside the GOP. The Republicans must begin to function under a new set of rules because they must pre pare to campaign against John son instead of the late Presi dent Kennedy. Political Truce While the Johnson administra tion was being launched, how ever, some Republican leaders were willing to declare a do it cal truce to extend beyond the i-nnsimas Holidays. If the Goldwater drive should fizzle, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Gov. William W. Scranton of Penn sylvania will get much atten tion as possibilities and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York can expect more. There is feeling evident in Republican circles here that an other man spoken of as a pos sibility, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, was badly hurt when his Republican dominated state legislature junked his tax program. In any case, the GOP will watch the Johnson program un told, -Beginning with his speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, and carry on a continuing re-examination of their own campaign prepara tions. South Is Power A typical appraisal recognizes that the South is at least one of the Goldwater bases of power both for national convention delegates and for electoral votes in the 1964 presidential election. ti (joidwater should appear weaker in the South against the Texas-born Johnson than he did against Kennedy, many Repub licans will look for a candidate with more appeal in the heavily popuinicd industrial states. They would look first at Nixon and. Scranton unless Rockefeller supplies - evidence that he is much stronger than most GOP professionals now believe. $$$$$$$$$$$ "The Navy says the game is on Dec. 3, the assistant re ported. "What does the Army sav?" Johnson asked. Search for Information This restless search for Infor mation frequently goes on 18 hours a day. He never is far from a telephone. He has one Lyndon Johnson Tends To Be Westerner in Learnings A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribuns Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON President Lyndon B. Johnson is more a westerner than he is a south erner. This was the burden of his personal appeal to western Democrats when he was seeking the presidential nomination in 1960. Texas, he noted over and over, is west of the Mississippi, not just south of the Mason and Dixon line. While this was a futile appeal, there is no doubt that Lyndon B. Johnson today is more oriented toward the new west than to the old south. That orientation goes much deeper than the symbols of his western mindedness the 10-gallon hat, the big cattle ranch and the LBJ brand he stamps upon everything that is his, including the initials of his three daugh ters. Guided Rights Bill Johnson's dissociation from the old south began when in 1957. as Senate majority leader, he guided the first civil rights bill through the maze of filibust er oratory the tirst sucn ac complishment since the recon struction era. That bin created the Civil Rights Commission, which has since pointed to evi dence of racial discrimination in the varied strata of American life. His disassociation from segre gationist sympathies was made clear during his three years as vice president when Johnson took command of the Kennedy administration's efforts to get business and industrial firms to employ Negro workers without bias in hiring. He devoted con siderable time and energy, even some passion, to this cause as he identified with the protest of citizens of both races who op posed segregation. For what diehard segregation ists regard as apostasy, John son is anathama; and yet iron ically he has never gained true acceptance by northern liberals as a civil libertarian of the true faith. While western liberals find Johnson easier to take than do eastern liberals to whom Texas is virtually a foreign land, most members of Oregon's predomi nantly liberal Democratic con gressional delegation have viewed Johnson in the past with mixed feelings. They have seen him as a masterful legislative tactician, when he was running the Senate, but not one in whom they could place full confidence as a representative of their lib eral views. They have trouble, for one thing, accepting any one who defends the 27V4 per cent oil depletion allowance, a favorite target of northern lib erals, but a "must" for Texans to defend. More Conservative Johnson, by their standard, is more conservative than was Kennedy. While neither man ever fit the requirements of the party's left-wing, both Kennedy and Johnson had legitimate claims to liberalism. Kennedy was more of an ur ban liberal, favoring the bread- and-butter federal policies that appealed to his early constitu ency in Boston immigration liberalism, slum clearance school aid, unemployment in $ -to $ attached to a tree in the back yard of his home in Austin, Tex. and pace's as he talks, carrying a long extension cord with him. He once booked simultaneous long distance calls in three ad jacent phone booths in an air port. When he was in a hospi tal some years ago, a nurse was asked how he was getting along. surance, etc. Johnson tends to be a wide open spaces liberal, favoring the bread-and-butter federal policies traditionally supported by his Texas constituents government dams, irrigatjon and electric power works, highways, rural electrification, farm price sup ports, etc. as well as the fed eral emphasis on outer space research and development. In this respect Johnson tends to be like many southern mem bers of Congress who came to Washington as he did during the New Deal and continue to' be rural New Dealers, but who re v e a I conservative tendencies when it comes to urban prob lems. They would, in a word, oppose an Urban Affairs Depart ment of government wnile de fending every project or expan sionist tendency of the Depart ment of Agriculture. Defense Spending Johnson also is a firm believer in abundant spending for na tional defense, and the thrust of his congressional record was in this area rather than in the realm of social concerns Which attract most northern liberals. But now he must pick up the threads of Kennedy's program, shaping them to suit his own beliefs but never abandoning outright what Kennedy advo cated, at least until such time as he may be elected to the presidency in his own right. In this he will need the legis lative assistance of Rep. Edith Green, probably the most influ ential Democrat on the House Education and Labor Commit tee, and Sen. Wayne Morse, chairman of the Senate educa tion subcommittee and the Sen ate's most knowledgeable mem ber on labor issues. Both are deeply involved in efforts to put through federal aid for colleges, as well as other education meas ures. Politically, neither Mrs. Green nor Morse has been close to Johnson. Last year, however, as vice president and a tireless campaigner for incumbent con gressional Democrats, Johnson came to Oregon in Morse's re election behalf. In a speech at Medford, Johnson praised Wayne Morse as the voice of 'incorruptible intellectual in tegrity." Claim on Loyalty During Kennedy's years in of fice, Mrs. Green had a special claim upon his loyalty which he always honored because she led his successful Oregon campaign in 1960. None of Oregon's top Democrats has any such claim upon Johnson's loyalty. When Johnson was seeking western delegates in his 1960 bid for the presidential nomina tion, he got little encourage ment in Oregon. Mrs. Green came out early tor Kennedy. Sen. Maurine Neuberger favored When Buick builds a LcSabre Buick builds a high-priced 1 .v -"-v"1 Lots of cars are in LrSabrc's price class, but that's where the resemblance ends. For inslancc: Docs anybody else in LcSabrc's class treat you lo thai gentle Huick ride or impressive Buick performance and new gas economy? No. And who else gives you 15 inch wheels, (inned aluminum front brakes, extra cushioning for middle-scat travelers, and separate heat ducts and controls for the rear scat'.' Right again: Nobody in LeSabre's field but LcSabre. If all this makes you think a LcSabre would look awfully nice in your parage, you should sec how nicely it fits a budget. You know who lo Kt about it, of course: your Buick dealer. Who else? ,bove all, it's 8 Bllick see rou locAi immmno buick SKINNER BUICK-CADILLAC "He would be getting along much better if we could take the telephone out of his room," she said. "He has been here three days and already has called Austria twice." As Senate leader probably the most effective one in this century he knew the strength and weakness of every other Adlai Stevenson, but due to the death of her senator husband early that year and her own personal bid for his Senate seat was not involved tn any great degree in the presidential rival ry. . Sen. Morse sought the presi dential nomination himself. When he lost the Oregon pri mary to Kennedy he turned his back upon the presidential nom ination fight and stayed, away from the national convention in which the Kenned y Johnson ticket was selected. Morse's preference among the major contenders was Stevenson. Two Favored Johnson At that convention in Los An geles, although the Oregon dele gation was pledged to support Kenendy as long as he was in the running, two delegates were reported to favor Johnson. Lew Wallace and Jack Bain of Port land were named by Mrs. Beulah Hand as possible de fectors for Johnson. Both de nied this during the delegation's first caucus presided over by Mrs. Green. Mrs. Hand identi fied herself as a possible de fector for Stevenson, but Ken nedy's nomination on the first ballot ended all chance ot sucn a split. . Guests at Kennedy , Funeral Get Memento WASHINGTON (UPD-Guests at the funeral of John F. Ken nedy each received a reverent memento of the occasion a Mass card distributed as they left St. Matthew's Cathedral. On one side, the card bore a 3-by-5-inch picture of the dead President. On the reverse side was a prayer inscribed with his name and the-date. Worth Mors Safer Cleaner Chespar. Ws Sell and Take Trade-ins MEDFORD FUEL CO. Court and McAndresw Phone 772-2111 duier. authorized buick dealers in this 9 senator, and he used his knowl edge to get results. He knew when to turn on the heat and when to use gentle persuasion. It was said that there was hard ly a man in the U.S. Senate who didn't owe Johnson at least one small political debt, and he knew exactly how and when to demand payment. Johnson doesn't panic and hs doesn't scare easily. President Eisenhower once tore into John son and the Democrats for not cooperating enough in his legis lative program. Johnson made a short and typical speech: "W are not going to carry out in structions like a bunch of sec ond lieutenants." Next: A big day: FDR and the Manhattan cocktails. : Six Presidents In Capitol Rotunda WASHINGTON (UPD-Presl-dent Kennedy was the sixth President of the United States to lie in state in the capital ro tunda on the black-draped catal falque which was built for Abra ham Lincoln. In addition to Lincoln, in April 1865, the tribute was paid to Presidents James A. Garfield (September, 1881), William Mc Kinley (September, 1901); War ren G. Harding (August, 1923) and William Howard Taft (March, 1930). Taft was no long er President but was Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court at the time of his death. Like Kennedy, the first three Presidents so honored Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had been assassinated. 1 Other distinguished Ameri cans, including the Unknown Sol diers of three wars, Adm. George Dewey and Gen. John J. Pershing and Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant planner of ths city of Washington have also been so honored. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, son of the former President-Chief Justice, lay in state in the rotunda in August, 1953. k Heater & Furnace Repair -ar Sales & Service JACK HALL 772-6181 482-3950 "Mlheat" The Oil to Burn America's Largest Selling Heating Oil AUTOMATIC OIL FLOOR FURNACES QUAKER OIL STOVES car, and puts a low price on it. area:. 143 South Riverside
