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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, November 16, 1960 We Said It'd Be Close" EDSON IN WASHINGTON Johnson Selection Benefited Kennedy . : . It Is rather significant that Klamath County showed more Republican votes for Vice President Nixon than were. showed for President-elect John Kennedy in the recent elections. The margin was small 9,094 to 8,928 in the unofficial tabulations to be sure, but it was there, nevertheless. This, in the face of an overwhelming Democratic registration plurality. . We call it significant because It reflects the basic conservatism of the people who com prise the Klamath area. Thdy are not taken in by the pie-in-the-sky philosophy of so many national leaders, including Sen. Kennedy. The record vote in Klamath County is another good sign.' Workers in both the Demo cratic and Republican headquarters per formed yeoman task in urging people to vote. It is an example that could well be emu lated by every precinct and county. On the national level, one thing the elec tion showed is that political education backed by conservative business and other groups is not yet organized to compete successfully with labor union-backed political action. It is regrettable that even in Klamath Falls there are businessmen who frown on taking an active part in politics. This is not true for all businessmen. Some are active, and they should be. They have just as much right to defend and fight for their philosophy as any other individual or group. Walter Petravich, in charge of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Political Participation Program PPP says the business commun ity's first course in practical politics has ac complished a lot in its first year. But it is still not as effective as the more experienced AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education COPE and other union political action pro grams. : Until the more conservatively minded people of the country can match this labor union political activity, they're simply not going to make any headway in the congres ; Politicians never wait to think about the future. The Republicans already are debat ing what they must do to win in 1964. ;The first question concerns the future of Vice President Nixon. His remarkably strong showing in the popular vote leaves him still a figure of prominence in his party. After all, he is only the third man in history ever to get more than 30 million votes the others being President Eisenhower (twice) and president-elect Kennedy. Whether he would get another try at the presidency would depend to some extent on what he could do in the next four years to keep himself in the public eye and in a posi tion of influence. :: More than that, it would hinge on the mood of his party. The GOP leaders today are in some disagreement as to the strategic effectiveness of Nixon's campaign. We might find that they will prefer a new face in 1964. : What new face they might accept is the other great question. : Two names leap instantly to mind: New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwatcr. Rockefeller currently has the bigger i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Which was the only battle of the American Revolution fought on Delaware soil? A Cooch's Bridge. Many histor ians maintain that the Stars and Stripes was first exposed to enemy fire during this battle. Q What is the geographic loca tion of Mount Everest? A Western maps generally show the north slope of Everest in Tibet, the south in Nepal and the summit on the boundary between the two countries. Q Is a knot a unit of distance or of speed? A A knot Is a unit of speed equiv alent to one nautical mile an hour. Q Is any part of King Solomon's Temple still standing? A All that is left of the temple is the Wailing Wall. Conservatives Lack sional elections of 1962 or the presidential election in 1964. The Conservatives' political deficiency is not money. It's legwork. There are 3,500 chambers of commerce and trade associa tions in the United States. They, have over 2,750,000 individual members. There are also four and one-half million business firms. ; In their daily contacts with customers, they meet everybody. Their political potential is tremendous. Many business leaders make contributions to political funds. But ask them to go out and ring door bells, make 200 telephone calls, canvass their precinct, haul voters to the polls or baby sit for them while they go to the polls they're too busy. Contrast this with instructions COPE is sued on "How to Get Out the Vote on Elec tion Day." It was a complete plan for selling up a headquarters, enlisting volunteers, as signing workers, making the final ca'nvasses and phone calls, assisting voters, passing out last minute literature:, manning the polls with watchers and telling them exactly what to do. . This is the thorough way COPE and other union political action committees ran their $500,000 registration drive which signed up over five million new voters. There was admittedly something less than 100 per cent compliance with all election day instructions. But this effort spotty though it may have been is credited by Wal ter Petravich with doing more to determine the election result than all the TV debates and campaigning in the key industrial states. It's'gctting out the vote on election day that counts most, particularly when there are many undecided voters. Conservatives may complain about this organized labor competition. But it can't be criticized legitimately. For in its essence it is democracy in action. What the conserva tives have to do is figure out how to do the same thing, better. Planning Ahead stage from which to operate, despile Gold water's presence on Capitol Hill. But the New Yorker must win reelection in 1962 to keep his stage. And some signs exist that his popu larity has declined since his 1958 upset vic tory. On top of this, whether fairly or not, some Republicans are blaming him for not de livering New York to Nixon. And his liberal ism, makes Rockefeller an unsuitable candi date in the eyes of many Republicans. The conservative Goldwatcr, perhaps draw ing on support from like-minded colleagues in Congress, may prove a powerful factor. The party's liberal forces are not as well equipped for combat as in the 1952 conservative-liberal struggle. Then there were 25 Re publican governors, now there are just 16. And governors tend to be more liberal, in the matter of choosing a nominee, than do members of Congress. If a Rockcfeller-Goldwatcr contest docs shape up, the battle could be bruising. Nix on was able successfully to appeal to bolh sides. Divisions would be much sharper with him out of the picture. The Tart-Eisenhower fight might seem pale by comparison. 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Army Engineers called atten tion to wasteful exploitation of re sources, including reckless tim ber cutting and other practices which added to erosion and caused costly flood damage. "Modification of existing laws is now far more important than it has been in the past," the engi Pi Miit3.,,;'..SS YOUR POCKETBOOK College Costs Dent The Family Budget By KAYE HENLE If you are an average parent you are hoping your youngster will go to college and you are pre paring for this by actually setting aside money for education. You are realistic in not depend ing to any considerable extent either upon the possiblity of schol arship aid or the earnings of your child. And the chances are that if she hasn't already done so, mom will go back to work to help. These arc the major findings of a survey of 2.700 parents conduct ed by the University of Michigan Research Center for the U.S. Of fice of Education. Titled "How People Pay for Col lege," the study estimates that the average annual expense of unmar ried students 1959-60 was about $1,550 against $1,385 in 1952-53. Of this expense, $950 on the average comes from parents, S;!60 from student earnings, $130 from schol arships and $110 from other sources. The most interesting aspect of this new study perhaps is not "how people are paying" but "how people intend to pay." Approximately halt o( the par ents with children under 15 are selling aside money. Says t h e study: "Of those who had children in college during the past five years, only 12 per cent had endowment policies. Among those who have a child between age 7 and 12 and in tend to send him to college. 32 per cent now have an endowment policy. Only one family in 10 ex pects help from inheritances, gilts or scholarships." Nearly half the families with children now in college help pay for expenses by living on a tight er budget. More frequently families expect to do additional work to help pay college costs. Right now half of the nation's college students are earning part of their expenses. About one family in five ex pects someone besides the student will take a Job or work more. neers' reiwrt said, "for the nation has passed into a new era in which it can no longer look for ward to the exploitation of what once seemed to be an unlimited reserve of natural resources. "Today our resources are, as It were, 'under our feet,' and the very existence of the nation may depend upon the. eflicient use of those resources." The engineers noted that many witnesses heard by the committee had testified the nation would be hard-pressed to supply enough water in the next century to satis fy demands for food, industrial and other use by a fast-growing population. i The engineers said flood control laws, under which they operate, should be changed "to make them responsive to emerging needs caused by rapid and radical changes. . . to carry the nation closer to an ultimate goal. . . of comprehensive and coordinated programs for the full develop ment, efficient utilization and Most frequently this is expected to be mother. The 'study points out thai "borrowing lo pay for college education is regarded by most eople as something to he done only when the need is acute." Among families with children in college during the past five years, 14 per cent report borrowing. About 21 per cent of the fami lies surveyed reported difficulty in providing for college educa tion and felt the help they were able to give their children was inadequate. , While approximately one-fourth of the college students covered by the study received some scholar ship aid. only nine per cenl re ceived $500 or more of this kind of assistance. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Nov.' 16, the 321st day of the year with 45 mote in 1960. The moon is approaching its new quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1864. General William Sher man and his Union army of 60.000 men started their famed march to the sea. In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state' in the Union. In 1914, 12 Federal Reserve banks were opened formally. In 1932, the most famous vaude ville theater in America, the Pal ace in New York, closed its doors. In 1953. former President Harry Truman made a nationwide radio broadcast to refute charges he ap pointed an alleged Communist spy to high government office. Thought (or today: French writ er Victor Hugo said. "Popularity? It is glory's small change." careful husbandry of the resour ces." ; The report said dams and res ervoirs should be planned to "reg ulate the rivers for all purposes." It added: "If a stream could be fully reg ulated there would be no floods. ... a reservoir system capable of providing a high degree of reg ulation is simply a means of con verting floods tn a etpnrtv flnur ca te r'afr supply (for irrigation and munici- pal use', pollution abatement,. navigation and other purposes." The report said the Army Engi neers, once dam builders, for flood control alone, now have joined Reclamation Bureau men in a broad program under which: "Power is generated and mar keted, major outlets are provided for municipal and industrial use as well as for the abatement of pollution and for navigation, im provements, recreational facilities are provided, measures for the enhancement of fish and wildlife are carried out. "In short," the reiwrt declared, "flood control law has become the legislative basis for the broadest and greatest programs of public works and resource development ever undertaken by the United Stales." Army Engineers build dams, levees and oilier facilities costing about $300 million a year. They have recommended that the pro gram be increased to $500 mil lion annually. THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Worthless Drug Battle Raging By HAROLD T. HYMAX, M.D. Written For Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Of present government concern Is a seven-year battle to protect the 11 million victims of arthritis and rheumatism from wasting their medical dollar on a trio of "ineffective and often totally worthless drugs." The first of this triple-threat combination is a solution of (our acids that could not conceivably accomplish anything in any medi cal condition. The second is a needlessly, complicated mixture of at least three laxatives, any one of which could produce the de sired effect on the bowels pro vided that the arthritic patient re quired such action. The third, higher in the alcoholic content than any form of hard liquor, contains vitamin Bl. For a two months' supply of the trio, the patient pays $10 al though it is doubtful thiti the cost of the contained medicinals ex ceeds a few pennies. Here's the play-by play of the government's battle to "provide prompt and adequate consumer protection": IP In 1953. seizure of the stock because of "false and misleading claims for the treatment of arthri tis and rheumatism." ili In 1954, request for an in junction "lo prevent further man ufacture and distribution of the misbranded medicines." t3 In 1957, the district court By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAj - It had been touch and go all during the campaign whether President-elect John F. Kennedy's choice of Tex as Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate would turn out to be a horrible mistake or the most brilliant poli tical move of the year. The elec tion result has given the latter answer, for the present at least. There has been much specula tion on how and -why Kennedy made this surprising choice. The night before Kennedy's own nom ination at Los Angeles, it was generally understood that Sen. Stuart Symington would be the vice presidential candidate. This was not denied at Kennedy headquarters. The Symington peo ple were happy about it. What happened to spoj) the pretty pic ture was simple "arithmetic. In convention balloting for the presidential nomination, Kennedy got 806 votes, Johnson 409, Sy mington 86 and Stevenson 79. Johnson, was obviously strongest of the three, Kennedy also realized he had an extremely liberal platform to run on. It was highly objectionable to Democratic conservatives, particu larly in the South. Kennedy's reli gion was also a handicap in the predominantly Protestant South. Only a southerner, backed by the southern governors and other conservative Democratic leaders, could overcome ..those handicaps. Johnson had that backing and so became the man for the job. There was one other factor not Immediately apparent. In the Aug ust special session of Congress, Johnson was Senate majority lead er and Rep. Sam Rayburn speak er of the House. If the two Texans had desired to sabotage the Democratic plat form and Kennedy the young up start who had defeated them in open convention battle they could Tally Shows Republicans Lost Ground In By CARL P. LELBSDORF NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -The 1960 election brought a Demo 'cratic resurgence in the South and little Republican success in ex tending recent gains, an Associat ed Press survey showed today. President-Elect John F. Ken nedy polled more votes in the 11 Southern stales than any previous candidate. Vice President Richard Nixon out-did all previous Republican efforts, but his percentage of the two-party vote dropped about three per cent from President Ei senhower's 1956 total. This com pared with an eight per cent drop nationally. A sampling of returns in sever al metropolitan areas showed that votes against the Democrats were often conservative rather than Republican. The implication is that a conservative third party might seriously erode the Repub licans' new strength. Unofficial, nearly complete re turns compiled by the Associated ' upholds the 1953 seizure but fails to rule on the request for an in junction. 141 In 1958, the district court enters an injunction prohibiting the rcprescntation'that the prod ucts "are a cure or adequate treatment for any form of arthri tis or rheumatism." 151 The jnanufacturer largely nullifies the injunction decree by changing the claims to read that, when taken according to direc tion, the drugs "are beneficial in a substantial number of cases in the relief of some symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism and bursitis. . . ." 161 In I960 (Aug. 8', the circuit court rules for the government's 1958 injunction .but remands the case for further proceedings "not inconsistent with that opinion," presumably referring to validity of the' change in advertising claims. Despite the court's inconclusive decision. Commissioner George P. Larrick believes that its practical effect "will be to curb the sale of a worthless producf." Let's hope the commissioner is right. But what of the products that have been launched since this lengthy and expensive legal battle got under way? For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaf let "What About Hardening of the Arteries?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News, Box 489. Dept. B, Radio City Sta tion, New York 19, N.Y. have done It by sitting on their hands. , i. The special session was unpro ductive, but this wasn't Kennedy's or Johnson's and Rayburn's fault. It was the conservative Demo crats ganging up with the Repub licans to thwart them. Johnson had to make consider able personal readjustment to take second place on the ticket with Kennedy. Johnson had consistently insist ed he wouldn't take it. But ha made the switch in a hurry after the southern governors advised him to take it and after Kennedy assured Johnson he could have the vice presidency without a floor fight. Immediately after Johnson mada the decision that taking the vica presidency on a platter was bet ter than going back to Texas empty-handed, he told his top advisers and campaign managers that he wasn't going into this in any halfhearted way. He asked Kennedy to tell his people the same thing. Their heat ed exchanges of the primary were to be forgotten. They were to start fresh, working together. Johnson has lived up ' to this. He has campaigned harder than most vice presidents do,- hitting over 40 states and w orking closely with Kennedy. One reason given for the emer gence of Johnson as a Kennedy supporter is that he wants to ba a national leader, not just a Tex as leader or a regional southern leader. Before the election, Texas writ- crs reported that Johnson took the vice presidential nomination so that he would be in favored posi- tion as Democratic candidate for President in 1964, should Kennedy be defeated in 1960. Now, barring misfortune befall ing President-elect Kennedy, John son would have lo wait until 1968 to run for the presidency. Ha would then be 60, which isn't too old. South Press in the 11 states gave Ken nedy 5,041,905 votes, or 52.3 per cent of the two-party vote, to Nix on's 4,602.166, or 47.7 per cent. Independent Democratic electors polled 109,404 votes in Mississippi, and Louisiana's States Rights Par ty had 169.962. In 1956 Eisenhower led with 4, 214.155. or 50.5 per cent; in 1952 Adlai Stevenson polled 4,428,163, or 52.5 per cent. Kennedy's percentage' would probably have been higher than Stevenson's had it not been for the senator's Roman Catholic re ligion which hurt him in rural, Protestant areas. Kennedy 'had also to overcome the obstacles of his strong civil rights position, dramatized by his phone call to Mrs. Martin Luther King: and the Soulh's strong con servatism. Countering this, he gained by his selection of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, by the hard work of many stale Dem ocratic officials and by the fact that Nixon was nowhere as per-'' aonally popular as President Ei- senhower. Kennedy's total becomes mora impressive when compared with Al Smith's showing in 1928. Smith, the only other Roman Catholic major party presidential candi date, had only 52.4 per cent of the Southern vote at a time when there was virtually no Republican, party organization in several stales of the old Confederacy. . The Democrats clearly will not approach majorities such as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt achieved. In 1944. Roosevelt re ceived 73.5 per cent of the South ern vole. The Republicans held their five house seats in Florida. North Car olina, Texas and Virginia, (2. Rut they ran far behind in every other contested congressional election and in every gubernatorial race, except North Carolina where lha Democrats were handicapped by a party split. THEY SAY... All I can say Is that this fellow Kennedy never seems to run out of luck. He is very fortunate to have a man like 1 Teamsters boss James' Hoffa condemning him. George Meany of AFL-CIO. What's the use of all tha money I earn? I have a con vertible but I don't dare put . the lop down If I step into my garden or sit on the tor- . race at home, half the world leroes in on me with binocu- lars. Actress Brigilte Bardoi.