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Doreen Bonnert of Central Point is one of six 4-H club members in the nation to re ceive a $300 college scholarship for the meat animal project. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1943 (Monday) Seth Bullis officially opens camDaien week for Jackson rvtuntv Citric Music Association Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "There will be plenty of Christmas trees in metropolitan centers. A spin dly fir will only cost more than a load or wooa, 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1933 (Wednesday) John Barneburg, former Jack son County commissioner and member of pioneer southern Oregon family, dies after one month illness. Moore Hamilton, president of Jackson County Young Demo cratic Club, purchases Med ford News after serving as edi tor of the paper for several months. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1923 (Thursday) Gov. Walter Pierce relieves Jackson County special prose cutor of all duties and places responsibility for law enforce ment in hands of District Attor ney Newton W. Borden. County Agent Cate reports that government has sent large amount of dynamite to be sold at low price to Jackson County residents. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1913 (Saturday) Mrs. E. E. Gore and Porter J. Ncff among top prize winners at Medford hospital fair. Dan Robinson, Medford, suf fers only minor injury when struck in head by spent bullet while driving a hayrack near the cemetery. What's Your I.Q.? Ntft or tan correct it auparlor; rati or tight it excellent) llvt or six it good. 1. Are all four feet of a gallop ing horse ever off the ground at tne same time 2. Is a coot a bird, an insect, or a nsnr 3. What is the name for a solid object having twelve plane laces .' 4. What is the origin ot the name f rlday? 5. Who won the (irst Tunney. Dempsey heavyweight cham pionship fight? 6. Correct' (ha following: "There are two reasons, neither of which are mentioned. 7. Into what body of water does the Ganges Kiver empty? 8. Name the writ commanding a person to appear before a court to testify as a witness. 9. What university founded in 1663 has been continuously oner ated longer than any other In- stltution of higher learning in the U. S.? 10. How many Keys are on a standard piano keyboard? Answera: 1. Yet. 2. Bird. 3 Dodecahedron. .4. From the Norse goddess. Frigga. S. Tun ney. R. ". . . neither of which is . ." T. Bay of Bengal, t. Sub poena. 8. Harvard. 10. U. 4 A Km NOVEMBER 21. 1963 Watch Howell Appling . When Gov. Mark Hatfield appointed Howell Appling Jr. as secretary of state in January, 1959, there were two immediate public reactions. Many asked, "Who is Howell Appling Jr?" As many expressed the opinion that Howell Appling Jr. must be somebody who would follow Gov. Hat field's bidding. It took the citizens awhile to get acquainted with Howell Appling Jr., but they learned rather early that he was not going to be an errand boy for Mark Hatfield. Soon after Appling was elect ed in 1960 to a four-year term he began to show his independence. That independence has grown into outright defiance of and strong disagreement with the governor on legislation and philosophy of gov ernment It is becoming one of the major news stories in Oregon politics. THE SPLIT between Hatfield and Appling de veloped gradually and it was not until the 1961 session of the legislature that it became clearly evident to others than those close to the executive branch of state government. It showed clearly then when Appling openly opposed Hat field's plan for state government reorganization. The split continued to widen and it became apparent during the regular session of the legis lature this year that it was taking on tne propor tions of a chasm. Appling's alliance with those legislators who dislike the governor and his pro' m-ams was apparent throughout the session. Meanwhile evidence the legislature that Appling was getting very cozy with elements in the Republican Party who do not approve of Hatfield's liberal approach to manv facets of government. Reports of the exist ence of a private fund that had been established by anti-Hatfield Republicans for the discretion ary use of Appling shocked some people who had not recognized the full measure of the split be tween the governor and secretary of state. AT THIS point Howell Appling can play a ma jor role in determining the future course of the Republican Party in Oregon. If he decides to run for reelection next year he will, in effect, be serving notice that he intends to be a candidate in 1966 to succeed Hatfield as governor. Mark Hatfield is the 1 man in Oregon today reelected as secretary of going to see him more actively challenging Hat field's position. That would be quite something in itself. But it would be more than a personal dispute. The followers apart in their philosophy iunscaie iignt witnin ine pany wouia De in evitable. Watch Howell Appling in the months imme diately ahead. If he decides to stay in politics you can prepare yourself to see some bloodletting within the Republican Party. Pendleton East Oregonian. Like a Family... "Why can't the state cut its expenses the way my family has to?" Many, pressed that feeling both tax election. All right, let's put the your family : t irst, you have not had (That's when the last tax increase was passed, and it was reduced in 1957.) Second, prices of all buy have gone up in the third, you have more children. One has just reached college age, and you must provide his facilities and pay his professor. One is in high school and one in grade school, and you must pay about one-third of all of their expenses. Another child is retarded and requires a special tutor. Fourth, your married serted by her husband and you're supporting her children. Your aged parents have come to live with you, and often require medical treatment. FIFTH, a member of your family is mentally ill 1 and requires frequent psychiatric treatment ami constant, nursing supervision. Sixth, your spouse's brother is criminally in clined and you must keep him locked up, pay a guard for him, and pay All together, 88 per committed to the above Seventh, there aren't in your house for all of these people. iMghth, you have just savings. Ninth, you are prohibited from going into debt. Tenth, your boss has request for a pay raise, and suggested that you economize at home. Do you have an urge to stran gle him? Capital Press, Salem. Preserve Small Motions There is a definite attempt under way to dis pense with the little automatic motions which people perform in a subconscious, routine man ner. We weren't even aware they were trouble some until someone came along with a motorized gadget and told us we could eliminate all the trouble these movements had been causing us. This is the year of the electric manicure set. Before long there won't be anything left to do except twiddle one's fingers. And if that becomes popular, someone will come out with an electric finger twiddler. Oregon Statesman, Salem. was appearing outside Republican Party s No. but if Howell Appling is state next year we are of the two men are far of government and a many pesons have ex before and since the state on the basis of a pay raise since 1955. goods and services you meantime. daughter has been de for rehabilitating him. cent of your income is items. enough rooms and beds used up the last ot your just turned down your SPORTSMEN! KIDS! MANIACS! A whole line of pistols axuL other weapons. ready to use. includirvg- W skipip bisect to vgy ALMOST ArJVWHERS M THE U.S. ...Communications... Ltttari to the Editor mutt baar the mm) and address of tha "rilrr, arrnouoh undtr certain circumstance tko uh of j ocn name or litial tor publication ia oarmhiiblo. The Mail Tribune reaervei the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the papery In fact the contrary is often the case. Who Is Hurt? i To the Editor: During the special legislative session the legislators failed to pass the cigarette tax, they did not re duce their own salaries, which jumped from $600 to $3,000 in one jump, they made no provi sion to employ the Attorney General, who is paid a large salary by taxpayers, to attend to all legal business of the state from the Governor down to lesser dignitaries, which would save legal fees up to $60,000. They made no provision to cut out junkets out of state borders, at the taxpayers' expense. James Rhodes, governor of Ohio, has been acclaimed throughout the country for straightening out the tangled fiscal affairs in Ohio since last January. He is well on the way to erase an $83 million deficit. He fired 5,000 state employes and trimmed department budg ets to available revenue. He aided in obtaining a 5 cent per pack cigarette tax, which should exist in every state, not only to raise revenue but to save many lives. Perhaps the Oregon Leuisla- ture thought it more economical to cut the meager pensions of tne lame and the b nd. many of whom have contributed to legislative salaries for manv years, than to trim their own pay checks for salaries and ex orbitant expenses. The voters learned the hard way the folly of permittine elect ed officials to raise their own salaries. The main reasons for exorbi tant taxes are unreasonable leg islative expenses, lack of con trol of the purse strings by the In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, President Lyndon B. Johnson has just de livered to the Congress his in augural addres.-i. In this restrict ed space, it is impossible to touch upon more than the high lights of it. He himself names these high lights. In his address to the congress, he said: "FIRST, no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquent ly honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest pos sible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought. Wc have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for 100 years or more. It is time NOW to write the second chapter and to write it in books of law. "I urge you again, as I did in 1957, and again in 1!0, to enact a Civil Rights law so that wc can move forward to elimi nate from this nation every trace of discrimination and op pression based upon race or color. There could be no greater source of strength to this nation both at home and abroad." fpilE thing to remember is Athis: That statement, which con tains no weasel words, is made by a SOUTHERNER. If a civil rights law is to be made to work as we want It to work it must have the volun tary backing of the South. 11 can't be made to work by bayonets alone. HE WENT on to say: "AND SECOND, no act of ours could more fittingly con tinue the work of President Ken nedy than the EARLIEST pas sage of the tax bill for which he (ought a bill designed to Increase our national income, our federal revenues, and our Insurance against recession. That bill, if passed without de lay, means more security for those now working and more jobs for those now without them." 'imported rifle. with. requ.la-r sharpshooter telescopic sight JVeaseirynoi to encos II 41 Zoos clix-nop. a auaA W danger tV oss. J people, the ownership of 51 per cent of the land area of tne State of Oregon by the federal government, lack of accounting and publication of all receipts and expenditures of all public money. A potent remedy is for the people to take more interest in legislative matters and to turn out and vote at all elections. Ed Black 2573 Camp Joy Road Grants Pass, Ore. Misleading Advertising To the Editor: Has it occured to anyone else to do a bit of mental figuring about the cur rent Ford Motor Company pro motion for their Comet automo bile on the result of its adver tised accomplishments at the Daytona Speedway? These advertisements are calculated to give the impres sion that one Comet ran a con tinuous 100,000 miles at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour in two months time. This is im possible and anyone can figure how fast the car would have to be going. This deliberate misrepresen tation, if it is not mistruth, is the latest example of the low esteem that we consumers are held. Advertising knows we do not think and will buy anything, even items we do not need, if they are made attractive enough and repeated enough. While there seems to be little to do about the quantity of ad vertising, it would seem that it is our responsibility to raise the standard of it by intelligent buying. We rebel against gov ernment telling us what to do but happily rush out to follow what advertising tells us to do. JENKINS UE THEN added: J"1 "In this new spirit of ac tion, the Congress can expect the full cooperation and support of the executive branch. And, in particular, I pledge that the expenditures of the government will be administered WITH THE UTMOST THRIFT AND FRU GALITY. I will INSIST that the government get a dollar's value for a dollar spent. "The government will set an example of prudence and ECON OMY." CO MUCH for our new Presi- President. Let's take a look now at the new President's wife. 1VHAT of her name Ladybird? " How did she get it? It isn't an affectation. It is what in her part of the country is called a "pet" name. She is called that because at the age of two a nursemaid said of her: "She is as purty as a lady bird." The name has clung to her. 1VHAT sort of person is she? ' Well, Ihey wore married in 1934. Three years later, Lyndon ran for Congress, and was elect ed. It took some money to make the campaign. They didn't have any or, at least, they didn't have anywhere near enough. So - She borrowed $10,000 from her father with which to finance the campaign. The loan was repaid at the rate of $500 a month from his $800 per month salary of a congressman (congressmen got less then ) That left them $300 a month to live on during the first 20 months of his term. 'IMIAT'S the kind of woman our 1 new President has for a wife. One can't help feeling that spending recklessly and putting the resulting deficits on the cuff aren't going to be popular dur ing the new administration. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Europe Has Given President Johnson Thumbs Up Vote in . By PAUL R. AU.ERUr I'nllH Press; Inlomllonl LONDON (UPI)-In its first stock-taking of President Lyn don B. Johnson, Europe has given him a thumbs up vote. After the first shook over the assassination of President Ken nedy, and even some panic, a mood of confidence that lead ership of the Western alliance remains In strong hands ap pears to have taken hold. Only events and the manner in which Johnson deals with them can prove the final ver dict of America's allies, but a survey of European capitals hy United Press International re porters shows that at the outset Johnson has made a good im pression. Many of Europe's leading statesmen were able to make their first assessment of the new President when they went to Washington for the Kennedy funeral rites. Others iase their hope in Johnson on vhat they have seen of him on his trips as vice president, and on his It is time we began to reject false and misleading claims by refusal to buy those products. (Name on file) Medford Birch View To the Editor: Now that the shock and unbelief are gone and only stark reality remains, all my sympathy goes out to the Kennedy family, particularly to Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her two little kiddies. Although the late President and I were at the opposite ends of the political spectrum, that makes no differ ence now. This well planned, brutal, cold blooded assassina tion violates every decent in stinct in every Christian Amer ican. No one with the least bit of human warmth and tender ness in him can tolerate a sub human act like this. With our editor's permission I would like very much to quote the official stand of the John Birch Society on this tragedy. The following announcement was made by Robert Welch, founder of the society, over CBS radio, quote, "The Council (of JBS) sends its condolences to the Kennedy family. The John Birch Society condemns all violent ac tion of this type to solve political disagreements. The John Birch Society believes in the use of the ballot box to change direc tion of our government. The John Birch Society has pointed out that the Communist and left wing elements have made in creasing use of assassinations of heads of state to create the desired chaos and disruption to further their ends." The passage in the Blue Book mentions four Communist-inspired assassinations in South America. Please note that this is a communist technique. And remember that the man who will undoubtedly go down in his tory as President Kennedy's as sassin is an admitted Commu nist. There is no act too illegal, or immoral no crime too great for them to commit to gain their objective. The Federal Bureau of Inves tigation has announced, accord ing to the "American (now "Na tional") Eagle" of March 1962, that there are 300,000 known Communist agents in America. These are hard core men, fully trained in subversion and espi onagemore than a quarter of a million of highly dangerous, conscienceless, potential mur derers. An incredible, deadly danger to this nation when you remember that our President has allegedly just been killed by a self confessed member of this atheistic tribe of international criminals. This is one of the ap palling situations the John Birch Society is trying to correct, in a morally right, legal, and Con stitutional procedure. Thank you for your kind attention. L. C. Powell 316 SE Eighth St., Grants Pass, Ore. Starlight To the Editor: The nights are no longer dismal, For as wc gaze up high, The frantic shadows are dispelled, By a new star in the sky. George Distcll, 33 N. Fir St., Medford Can Curse Neither To the Editor: The assassina tion of Kennedy, the murder of his killer, the cheers (on the part ot some) which followed, all testify In the forces of hate and revenge. We have not yet learned in our nation the mean ing of freedom, and that it is based on law and order. We find it difficult to disagree politically without hatefully calling some one a "commie" or "pinko" on the one hand, and a "nazl" or "reactionary bigot" on the oth er. How is it we do not recognize our kinship with one another: that each is a citizen: that each may profess his viewpoint, but I statements and speeches of the past week. British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home stated his own opinion of the suddenly burdened Texan immediately on his return fom Washington. The new President "greatly impressed all the visitors and observers in Washington," Douglas -Home said. He ex pressed confidence the "finely held" checks and balances of international relations would riot be distubed by the change in American leadership. West German Chancellor Lud wig Erhard, another visitor to Washington, was reported by his closest aides to have been greatly encouraged by his in itial reactions to Johnson whom he found looking to the future and acutely aware of the prob lems of Germany and West Berlin. In Communist surrounded West Berlin itself, which John son visited on a morale-boosting mission shortly after erec tion of the Communist wall in 1961, Mayor Willy Brandt said hs knows the new President is as determined as his predeces sor to stand by all commit ments to the city. "Berliners can have the same confidence in Johnson they had in Ken nedy," Brandt said. Proved To Be Thorn French President Charles de Gaulle, whose go-it-alone tac tics in East-West relations and nuclear policies were a thorn in the side of the Kennedy ad ministration, is not likely to be less a thorn for Johnson's ad ministration. But persons close to the French leader report that in his first contact with the new President in Washing ton De Gaulle liked the measure of the man. Austria's Chancellor Alfons Strictly Personal 8y Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. CHILDREN "If we survive this crisis of war," said the man across the dinner table, "if we do not anni hilate ourselves, and the world becomes more or less stable then what do you think is the primary, and most important, problem the human race should concern itself with?" I assumed he expected me to answer in some grand socio-politico-cconomico - philosophi cal fashion, but I did not. "Chil dren," I said. "The problem of children." He seemed astonished. "How can children constitute the pri mary problem? Are you sug gesting we must start with their education in order to make the world a better place to live in?" "Nothing so banal as that," I replied. "I am suggesting that we devote more of our efforts to study babies from the mo ment they are born, to learn exactly the nature of the pro ces of maturation, to know which stimuli and which in fluences are beneficial and which are harmful." "Don't we know enough of that yet?" he asked. 'Union Shop' May Be Campaign Issue WASHINGTON (UPI) The long-fought battle over "right-to-work" laws may erupt again in the 1964 election campaign If Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., becomes the Republican chal lenger. Based on support of the 1960 party platform, President John son or any other possible Demo cratic nominee in 1964 may be expected to clash sharply on the issue of whether unions and employers should be allowed to negotiate contracts providing that a worker must join a union to keep his job. Goldwater has been one of the major opponents of such con tract provisions known as the "union shop" to its friends and "compulsory unionism" to its enemies. Johnson's record does not in dicate whether he will support President Kennedy's desire to pass a federal law H at would have the effect of repealing "right-to-work" laws in 20 states, however. not force it; that each may criticize a person's stand, but need not smear the person stat ing it. Let us recognize that rightists and leftists are com plementary opposites, and both belong to the body-general. I can curse neither hand, hence, without cursing myself; I can curse neither group with out cursing my country. D. G. Alexander 1190 Prospect Ashland, Ore. First Stock-Taking I - i U nti Tnltncnn tnr enn nn a W a chin (ft in uleit Gorbach who saw Johnson for 15 minutes alter the Kennedy funeral said "peace and f r e e dom" wcro in good hands. Switzerland's Foreign Minister F. T. Wahlen saw U.S. Secre tary of Slate Dean Rusk, not the President. But his impres sion was said to be that contin ued strong leadership could be expected. Another who returned encour aged from Washington was Nor way's Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen who said he found more insecurity in Europe over the change in American leader ship than he did in the United States. Denmark's Prime Min ister Jens Otto Krag spent a half hour with Johnson at the White House Wednesday. He had voiced his confidence in John son within hours of Kennedy's murder. Rates Johnson Highly Finland's President Urho Kek konen saw a good deal of John Callousness In Washington By Arthur Hoppe Washington is quick to turn from those who leave its scene. How brutally fast it sweeps away its traces. How callously it swivels to focus on the next. Not 24 hours after the asssas sination of John F. Kennedy, workmen were in his office, crating up his treasures. And who will forget the sight of his ricking chair, lashed upside down to a dolly like some broken toy, being trundled off "Hardly anything. We have barely scatched the surface. We are spending billions to in vestigate outer space, and pen nies to look into the essential structure of the human being from birth to maturity." He thought I was being captious or perverse, hut I was not. To me, there is abso lutely no hope for future de velopment of the human spe cies unless wc unwrap the mysteries of infancy and childhood. For it is in the earliest years that we go wrong, through ignorance, through wilfulness, through impatience and arrogance and love that Is not only blind but deaf, dumb and lame as well. Which forces, which treat ment, which emotional and so cial climate would best pro duce the kind of human beings we would like to sec human beings generous and flexible, responsive and alert, poised easily and delicately between strength and tenderness? As yet, we can only make some shrewd guesses. Our samples are too small, our ex periments too brief, our expen ditures too scanty. The amount of superstition is enormous com pared with the amount of fact. Our children are still riddles to us; as infants, they are even more enigmatic. We do the most damage without knowing we are doing any at all. Yet, since man is a creature continually making himself (and sometimes unmaking himself), it sems evident to me that the conscious "making process" must begin much earlier than it does if we are to turn out peo ple in the future who are capable of sustaining and ennobling human life. Perhaps we cannot; but, it so, then the s o c i o-politico-economico-philosophical problems will re main where they have always been. "Great Irlra. We lt past Jse-ae.Tl Jy iff government officials' briefcases'." son on a Washington visit In Of. tober, 1961, and again when tha then vice president visited Fin land less than three months ago. He gives Johnson a high rating in statesmanship. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul Henri-Spaak is another who is sure Johnson will meas ure up to the job. "I had tha chance of talking with the new President barely two weeks' ago," Spaak noted. "Thesa talks gave me confidence in him. He appeared to share Kennedy's political ideas entire ly. One must therefore work to gether with him in the same de sire to cooperate as we showed toward President Kennedy." Holland's Foreign Minister J. M. H. Luns, saw Johnson early this month and found him well informed on "the broad outlines" of foreign affairs. Luns is confident Johnson will continue Kennedy's program in the western alliance. into the past? While his body still lay in state in the East Room a hundred yards away. An hour earlier, in an offica on Capitol Hill, a Congressman was saying privately: "It's no time to talk about it, of course, but this is bound to hurt Gold water's chances. I'd say it was a boost for Nixon, if anyone. He's got the experience. Ha came close last time. He . . ." At noon, over lunch, a young staff aide was saying: "I don't suppose we should be talking about it right now, but I don't see Johnson making any radical staff changes. At the White House, sure, but not in the agencies. Not right away, any way. George Ball's probably safe and Yarmolinsky and , . ." e 4 No one felt he should talk about it. It was too brutal, too callous a subject at such a time. Yet all over Washington they talked about it. That day and the next, while the body lay in state. They talked about it in offices and corridors and res turants and bars. At first hesi tantly, tentatively, guiltily and then, once their listener had sig nified acceptance of the sub ject, with a rush of excitement. "Bobby Kennedy's in trouble. The Johnson people hate his guts. They think he's behind the Bobby Baker investigation. But he and Johnson wil probably hang together in public be cause ..." "A Stevenson boom? You're out of your mind. Johnson's got the nomination sewed up next year and Adlai's getting too old . . ." "No, I think Johnson will make a better President than Kennedy did. He's not as bril liant or as subtle, but he under stands power better. And he . . ." It was not that Washington did not feel grief. It felt it, I think, more deeply and more personally than the rest of the country. For the President is not only President. He is also, in effect, the mayor of Washing ton, more close to those who live here. But in addition, ha is the source of power in a city of people driven by the search for power. And now there is a new source. Nor, I suppose, is the seeming callousness of the political talk any different than a widow wondering if she was left in surance. Or a newspaperman struggling to write about a disaster. And as I listened to them talk and as I watched the rocking chair move off down the walk way, I was oddly reassured by the brutal quicknes of it all. How easily we make the transi tion from one leader to the) next. How transitory each is. And yet how our system en dures. a bill requiring it on all
