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o o o o 0 o Co o Cj J 9 o tovk MroroHS (Ohkso mail tribune o, Wednesday. December 26, 195S -0 o - ia The Soutliarn Orafon Mail Inbunt" n y .NrJrtr. rir St Phone HH J KOET W IUBL. tdltot pPR GfitY A'ivert;!!!. Manager .OKRii.D HTH4S iluainesa ManaKar ERIC ALLXN JH .Mir.enil Idttor .EARt. H ADAMS Cit Editor LHAHRY CHIP.M&N Te.eCTaoh Editor O O RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor j- OiiV STPCHER ietT Editor w IV.H ERliy.SOK Circulation Mgr. O ain independent Nawgpaper aViave1 aa strong clue matter at Jfaniaria Oregon under .Act M arcri S 1897 ; SvESCRIPTIO BATES Cltiii in Advance Per Copy U BTtlf ii in Advance Per Copy 10c na.T aid Sundae One year SIS 00 Dij and Sundae Six montha 8 00 O r , DaiTv an't Sunday Three moa 425 CJ Sundav Oole Or e.ar 14 20 B Carrier In Advance Medford O Asrtiand Centrel Point Iale Point Jac-ovine Oold Hill. Phoenix. J Sraiy Co P.oarua Elrar Talent w .-ayiri or motnr route. "-ilv and Bjtidae Oeie year Sll.no -J I-'? ed S'tndae One month 1.40 aur-r and Deaiera 10c oar copy Terira Cah in Advance ftflriji rs-ar af tie City of Medford tr!e,i apr of Jacaaoa Ceunty Jmiterr Pre.- Tull JLeased Wire O MtV O AUDIT BUREAU vj C CIRCULATION ieartlpre RprertantaMve: w ,- T-BOLirjAY COMPA.VY tuc cf''ai Totlt Chlcaeo. de- CJCj telt l.in francla-o. Loe Angelea : Portland l Louia AUanta a-oijver :B C Festival Plans Matter of Fact o On o o N1IOW l I D 1 1 O I A I ASSOCIATION y - J o NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION O 6 e Flight o' Time Medfordcrid Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, SO, 40 and 50 years ago.. 10 YEARS AGOo . . Dec. 28. 194 (Thursday) Cold, murkey weather dis courages most outside activity and most people of iftis area sprd quiet holiday at home. From Arthur Perry's Ye SmudgPot column: A lady eti quette expert comes out nd dis approveg of "many men not we.g neckties." Such male nudity should not be tolerated, as they gf9 trying to ape wom en avho wear no stockings, w 9 20 YgeVRS ASO 0 DIK. 28. 1936 (Saturday) 5veV 400 needy families of Jackson eunt had Christmas dinners throtieh distributions fronf the Salvation Army, Med ford ajlks and Sagles loeige. . Checkup shows that Lady Lions took part in giving a mar ry Christm; to 800 children; donating about 200 dolls and 1D0 toys ijSpy purchased, along with repaired toys. e 30 YEA 3 AGO Dee. 26. 1926 ISunday) The Mail Tribune - Virgin broadcasting station. KMED, goes on a yesterday afternoon in a test? e Pacific Air Transport plans Immediate expansion to meet the Increasing demand for both mail and?esenger tra,port over the olidays. We view with oddly mixed feelings the somewhat grandiose plans of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival association for what amounts to a new physical plant for the annual event. The feelings are compounded of pleasure, skepti cism and hope. The pleasure is for the design itself, which is tasteful, appropriate, decorative, attractive and emin ently suited to the purpose. The skepticism is about the possibilities of raising a half -million dollars to complete the construction. The hope is for the chance of accomplishing a con siderable portion of the job the association believes needs to be done. DILL Patton, the efficient young manager of the as sociation, declares there is a very real possibility that a substantial grant may come to the group from one of the big foundations, possibly on a "matching" basis. But this would leave a sizeable amount of funds to be raised elsewhere and presumably much of it here in the valley. The project probably would not have been -worked out in its present form except for the fact that the stage and stage house are deteriorating badly, and cannot much longer be used with safety. Not only is there a fire hazard, but the actual physical underpin nings of the structure are weak. Combining the need for a new structure with plans for present and future needs, the association has come up with a design for a fairly elaborate and compre hensive "campus," centered around the present am phitheater. "VVER the years, a number of sideline activities have grown up around the festival itself, although the latter of course remains the heart of the program. There is the Institute for Renaissance Studies, for example, which drawrs interested students from all parts of the nation during the summer months when the festival is m rehearsal and production. There is the scholarship program, which assists students of the theater, both in acting and production, during their summer sojourn in Ashland. This is large- y a product of the Tudor Guild, itself an organization auxiliary to the festival association. THESE activities, entirely aside from the festival it- ity. they add to the festival, and have had a major role in bringing the annual event international recog nition. The Oregon festival is unique among Shakespear ean repertory theaters in this country in that it has always been self-supporting financially, whereas oth- 'ers have had a greater or lesser amount of assistance from a variety of sources. This has been possible because local people have bejen willing to give their time, talent and interest to provide the things which other festivals have had to purchase. As a result, gate receipts have been suffic ient to keep the festival in the black. THE SEVEN-ROAD CROSSROAD Washington Sir Winston Churchill once privately re marked that the whole Western World would be "as defenseless as a girls' boarding school," if the United Sstates ever lost the capacity to retaliate overwhelm ingly against Soviet attack. Whether the West is to find it self in that unhappy situation some years from now wiU de- r . it-- .--i ; L Jea and Stewart Alsop wrong effort or too small an ef fort, we shall ultimately be left as defenseless as a girls' school." Thus the decision which are now being' taken, and which will be further examined in this space, concern nothing less than na tional survival. (C) 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. 40 YERS,AG5 Dec. 26. 116 (Tuesday) Election to determiiae whrth er or not proposed irrigation listrict shall be formed will be iild Wednesiay. Central powers. Germany. Au- etria-Hnncarv. Bulgaria and Turkey replv favorably to Prs- ident Wilsvs note requesting pe;e conference. Wha! Yoar I.Q.? Nirva or ten correct J superior: ie. en -Or iht ts excellest; five 01 w I iod. . 1. In Stevenson's "Treasure Is land" what was the surname of (Long JohrC 2. Hnw i$any States of the U.S bi.n with the letter A7- S? The Biblical rebellion ain Caldea rsulted in the downfall of vhich king? fe, Wi was President pf the U. 5. Jafl. 20, 1933? 5. Who was the German Chan- celloi laicinamed "The Iron ChanuaVior?" ss6. Does the Hatch Act pro- nibiP political activities Of Fed- eralemployeas? 7. Is ne of the shells of the pvster flatter than th other?" q8. It either Princeton or Har vard university in -New riaven Ccf.n.? t. ine is.urne isisna extena north f the 'main Japanese is- iJ0. "Age catiaot wither her nor cvaftom stale her infinite variety." Shalfespeare. Is "her' Juht? wt5: 1. Silver. 2. Three, 3. Jchoaikim. 4. Herbert C. Hoo- n Ter.5. Bismartk. 6. -Yes. 7. Y 8. o. Yale is. 9. True. 10. No. BIGJBl3DS A BARGAIN i ".'ashington (U.R) The De- partment of Sericulture said the big t'jrkey is the Jbargain in the marks this holidav season. The big bda 15 pounds and .over s neav' supply. In, price per S9ouftd, ajaji in proportion of meat m to bone, they have tWe advantage over the smaller turicys, he de- JukeDh Alsop Stewart Alxop pend squarely on decisions taken by the American Government to day. The problem of maintaining the capacity to retaliate is not a matter of bombs we have nu clear bombs "coming out of our ears" in the words of one in a position to know. It is a matter of getting the bombs to target. The Air Force now has four ways of getting the bombs to target. But, because the ways will surely become obsolete, it is working on no less than seven alternative ways. The means of delivery now available are: THE B-36. This huge plane is alreadv ohsolete it is to the existing Soviet air defense as a fat sparrow to .a hawk. Yet all but two of the Strategic Air Command's heavy bomber wings are equipped with B-36s. The B-47. This medium bomb er is a fine plane, but its limited range makes it dangerously de pendent on air refueling in for eign bases. The B-52. This is an even finer plane, and its range is greater. But it too can only be operated effifiently from foreign bases. Moreover, although B-52s are beginning to come into SAC in quantity (there are two B-52 wings and soon there will be more) the time is already coming when the B-52 will be obsolete in its turn. Already, existing So viet fighter aircraft can fly a lot faster and a lot higher than the B-52. The Snark. This long-range missile has frequently been tested one recently got loose and disappeared somewhere in Brazil. It will soon be operation al. But the Snark is sub-sonic and very vulnerable to intercep tion. Some experts therefore consider it militarily valueless. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all betters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. the of DUT if it is to continue and expand,- the time has come when a new approach is necessaiy, the fest ival board believes. The immediate need is for a new stage, but administrative space, dressing rooms, re hearsal areas, and storage vaults are also necessaiy to the functions of the festival. These alone will require a large investment, far beyond the unaided resources of the association as it is today. Funds will be sought from interested indi viduals and corporations, as well as from foundations. The project is so designed that it can be stretch ed over a period of years, with the most important phases coming first, the desirable but secondaiy por tions later as funds permit. AS the festival has grown and developed over 1 last 20 years, it has become an important part the summertime picture in the Rogue valley not only as a tourist attraction (which it is, and a major one), but also as an event looked forward to by many of the valley's permanent residents. Along with the "Footlighters," it furnishes an out let for those who are theater-minded, and a source of pleasure for those who like Shakespeare as a play wright and those who enjoy the Elizabethan pageant ry which is part of the attraction of the festival. We wish the festival association well in its pro ject. With the moral support of this area, it stands a good chance, we believe, of accomplishing much of its ambition to make the festival's Tudor campus a show place of southern Oregon. E. A. Skilled Hungarian Refugees Fortunately for the United States, a considerable number of the Hungarian refugees being brought here seem to be skilled or at least semi-skilled workers. Many of our older immigrants fell in this category, but relatively few of them after World War I. The McCarran-Walter immigration act does pre scribe that half of each nation's quota be reserved for those whose :'high education, technical training, spec ialized experience, or exceptional ability" would par ticularly benefit this country. However, this prescrip tion has had little practical effect, says the National Manpower council, as the quota system has operated. The scientific planner can be stymied without a skilled work force to put his plans into effect. His talents are used to best advantage if he is freed from routine tasks that could be perf ormed by well trained craftsmen. And all the evidence indicates that the Soviet Union is expanding its supply of craftsmen as well as of top-flight scientists. E.R.R. AMONG the seven alternative ways of getting the bombs on target, the Air Force is working on four missiles: Atlas I and Atlas II, two dif ferent designs for the terrible in tercontinental ballistic missile which cannot be intercepted by any known means. An I.C.B.M. will probably be tested in pro totype form within 18 months or so. But it is a very long way from a prototype to an opera tional weapons system. Navaho, an intercontinental ramjet designed to fly about three times the speed of sound, which may have its first test in a year. The central problem here is guidance, which may not be solved for years. The intermediate missile with a range of 1,500 miles or so, it is wholly dependent on i foreign bases. e a THEN there are three manned aircraft: The B-58, recently tested in prototype. This is a marvelous aircraft, flying well over the speed of sound, and capable of thumbing its nose at any known Soviet interceptor. But alas, its range is comparable to that of the B-47, and it is thus equally dependent on air-refueling and foreign bases. The "Follow -On Chemical Bomber." This is a dream plane, with all the characteristics of the B-58 and more, plus range it would be fueled by such "exotic fuels" as boron hydride and hy drogen derivatives. But the Follow-On Chemical Bomber is still very much a dream. The atomic -fueled bomber. This would have literally unlim ited range, and a concentrated i effort might get one into the air in a year or so. The trouble is that it would be a big, slow, lumbering thing, completely vulnerable to the Soviet air de fense, and in the present state of the art the technicians see no way of making it anything else. CONSIDER this long list, and it becomes obvious that the planners are confronted with hideously difficult decisions. We are not at the simple, traditional cross-roads. We are at a place where seven different roads (and more, if one adds the Navy's ac tual and potential means for de livering bombs) lead away over the horizon. No one can discern just where all these roads may lead. No one can predict, for example, when Atlas will become an operational weapon, or whether Navaho can. be made operational before At las. Again, no one can predict whether the foreign bases above all the British bases which the B-58, like the B-47 and the B-52, must have to oper ate effectively, will always or for long be available. Only one thing is sure. If we guess wrong now, if we take the wrong roads, if we make the Slow Progress Seen In Desegregation During Coming Year BY HODDING CARTER Publisher, The Greenville. Miss., Delta Democrat-Times Written For United Press The third anniversary of the Supreme Court's school integra tion decision is less than six months away, but any meaning ful implementation of the deci sion in the Deep South appears at least as distant today as it did in May, 1954. Most advocates of compulsory desegration, and some opponets, generally believed two and a half years ago that the decision meant virtually the end of a long ideological war. Victory, Not Triumph What most extremists on both sides, as well as more moderate observers, agree upon now is that the decision represented a major victory but no ultimate triumph. Ahead lies many a year of antiintegration legai camp aigns and extra-legal resistance on state and community levels. There is little likelihood that 1957 will witness any real in tegration in the states which would be most affected in terms of numerical ratios. Those states are Mississippi, Alabama, Virg inia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana and Flordia. Here and there a few Negro children may gain entry through court action. They will have had to make their way through a maze of legal obstructions, creat ed by legislative action, and such other and no less effective bar riers as economic pressures or intimidation by organized or spontanteous white groups. Votes Best Weapon Confronted with this resist ance, the Negro of Deep South will probably again concern themselves primarily with get ting Negro voters on the rolls as their best weapon in the quest for equal civil rights. And the White House can be expected to push ahead with school equalization programs which in the long run may be more effective than legal or il legal delaying tactics as a means of keeping white and Negro school children separated. Blinfolded Justice? To the Editor: I am pleased to note that this holiday season will be different, or so says the state patrol. It is the plan to imprison, fine and suspend driver's license for anyone caught driving drunk. This is as it should be. However, we must remind the state patrol that they are powerless to do these things without the help of the courts of the state. It is doubtful that the judges of this state will rise as a group to sen tence offenders. They never have and there is no reason to assume they will now. Until the day that the courts decide to follow to the letter and to the limit of the law the oaths and responsibility pf their office the law enforcement officers are powerless to do anything of a constructive nature. When the day comes, if it ever does, that the spirit of Christmas is something more than a word, we may expect a strange spirit over the land. It will be the true spirit of Christmas and it is a stranger. Merchants on the avenues of a thousand thieves peddle their shoddy merchandise as bargains and perfect gifts for dear old dad, mother, little brother or uncle Si. They wish you merry Christmas without even bother ing to find out what it means. Their idea of a merry Christmas is a bulging cash register. They try not to see the youngster with his face pressed against the glass outside, looking at something he cannot have. Small matter, his parents are nobody and won't be at Church anyway. They should remember that the youngster's God will be there! It is a strange thing that on the birthday of the Prince of Peace that people should grab a steering wheel and engage in a war of horsepower to see who can get a coffin for Christmas. If they didn't make it by Christ mas there is the new year, just a few days away. Rush to the liquor stores and get a gallon. The way to meet the new year is with a jug in your whisky soaked fist. Look at it through eyes that are bloodshot and glazed. That's the way to meet the happy new year. Maybe some idiot will suggest that the police give you coffee and drive you home to your pigsty. Verily it is time to rip the blindfold from the eyes of jus tice . . . that she may see her servants and subjects. Pete Logan Dark Hollow rd. Medford, Ore. 9 o o o More On Parking To the Editor: Will you pub lish the following letter, which I have mailed to Mr. Horace W. Thompson, in reply to his which you recenUy printed? Dear Mr. Thompson: As chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, I feel it is my. re sponsibility to answer your com munication of Dec. 4, . 1956, a copy of which appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune on Dec. 6. Your indignation in regard to a S2.50 fine for "feeding the meter" is understandable, and the writer and most other busi ness people consider the . en forcement of the ordinance re grettable without an educational program prior to its enforce ment. The ordinance, as passed, was intended to force downtown business people and employees to park their cars somewhere else than on the city streets, so as to leave the' street parking spaces available for patrons of business and professional estab lishments. I do not believe that the city fathers, or the city po lice department wishes .to purf ish people who for some goo'd and sufficient reason ha.ve park ed overtime, or who may simply have forgotten their cars for an overtime period. It is the chron ic violator who knows pf the shortage of parking spaces in Medford, but who, for purely selfish or thoughtless reasons, leaves his car on the streets all Editorial Cciftnesl FREIGHT HATES O The new freight rate increai q grauiea io raiiruaus u uie jinc-?-state commerce commission is goingf to hurt the economy of Oregon, for essentially we are a state which "exports" its ngjor products lumberoand wheat. o The rate increase corses at a particularly inoppoturie tiie for the lumber jnojustry, whicX now is suffering from a vdak Q market and the added freight costs will he a further tenj-u ency ta restrict o Duuaing ui homes and business structures. O O In some ca&s, the higher cL which the freight Jticrease wilr add to lumber may force build ers to use substitute maiiais u whereever possible. 0 o r With the high priiw of cstump- o agean3 now this additional cost) O in freight, the luraber oindustry q will be seeding, more tisan eer, fUrtber utilization f thelS.s. Some plants are now versatile j enough so that they process and ' use everything tout the whine ; of the save, but. smaldr mills i still are oie product plants Q lumber. Grata- stability and ' steadied profits could be achiev- i ed if mSre ofc the present pro- : duct were turned ointo usable lmatrial. o o Oq O Wfiile sflialler opcaraOjrs can not finance pulp ptants, a roup of theki might be able to gu-an- o tee sufficient chips that an area pulp plagt cnuld be success- fi.l SchlanI T.flinni o sponsored by tl Mayor, Pn e City Manager, the gity Council, after thorougS study and rec ommendation of the Council Financa Committee. If it had passed it would have benefited you asd every other citizen of Medford. with the nossihle ex- day, or for several hours, by feed-1 ception of operators, of present iip thA motor Trioco nortlol i: i i t-i P i ng the meter. These people should be fined, and heavily As to your suggestions for im- mediate application and com plete solution, believe me, they have all been considered! The Merchants committee has al ready requested, and the city police department has agreed, that enforcement of this ordi nance will not be made until a thorough education program has been carried out, so that people will not be unduly penalizad'for overparking. As to having em ployers instruct their employ ees to walk to work if they live within a mile of their work, it's a good idea, but a.i employer's authority covers only his place of business and cannot infringe upon an employee's rights out-0 side of his business. As to form ing a corporation and building a parking lot, this is just not practical. , And I would like to empha size the fact that the public was not asked to pay for any park ing facilities through taxation. The program presented to the voters of the City of Medford orr Nov. 6 was a elf-liquidating and self-supporting p r o g r,a m parking lots. Revenues pledged By the Councg from parking meter income and assessments against downtown property di- . reqtly affectpd would have made it a very remote possibility of ever appearing as a tax against property in general. The pro gram was defeated through mis representation by certain selfish interests and by a general mis understanding on the pirt of t4e voters. The City of Medford still needs additional (parking facilities, and he need will become greater. until the citizens of Medford do something constrU&ive about providing them. The writer will welcome a personal visit from you, or other interested persons, to acquaint you with the real facts in the problem. Retail Merchants' Committee t, O. Lovejy, Chairman Bozeman, Mont. (U.R) Offic ials at Montana SfiUe College make no secret of the fact they wish more women students would enroll. Registration for the fall quarter showed 2,198 men, to 861 women. ejaaaa)fliMa;iii. u ' JU!'I'?IV o I Warehouse Clearance We Do Hereby Certify that the discounts listed hereon are true and bonafide. The regular retail prices will be shown to you less the discounts. If you need quality carpet, thit is the time fo buy as we and our warehouse in Seattle must clear for inventory. But remember all orders must be placed this week. BILL and GAIL LAURINE cvyoff i 850 Sq. 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