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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) IUNE "Zvyryon la Southern Oregon Publum Dally Exccot Saturday bj MZDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager CERA1.D LATHAM Business ManaKe ERIC AIJ.F..N JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS CityEditOT gARV CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor R CHARD JEWETT Soon. Editor ?,VJ-fCHSn Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent NnmnM Entered as second daaa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Sis months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers lOe per copy a-u lerms cash in Advance Offlcl Official Paper ot Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NAT ONAI. EDIT0IIA-, ASS0CATlN NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . April 18. 1947 (Friday) Robert Hammersley retained by chambers of commerce of Medford, Grants Pass and Ash land to head committee to study industrial stabilization of the valley. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Now that August in April no longer pre vails, some April in April can be expected. 20 YEARS AGO April 18, 1937 (Sunday) Construction of a modern two story building will be started soon at Bear Creek orchards, ac cording to Harry and David Rosenberg, operators. Rogue River valley's first an nual "Pear Blossom Week" sponsored by the Crater club opens. 30 YEARS AGO April 18. 1927 (Monday) Elian Rae Williams, high school senior, wins second in the annual essay contest con ducted by American Chemical society. Medford High school band, under direction of F. Wilson Waite, wins grand prize at an nual OAC band contest at Cor- vallis. 40 Sears ago prd 18. 1917 (Wednesday) barren Butler, Marion Mitch l Stewart Torney, George Sioimes and Ray Corey, Medford Yjrwa enlisted in the aviation Ocrfstt are training at Ft. Omaha, Slew Local and Personal col ursi: Mrs. Anna Vinson of Med- tov4 leaves for Klamath Falls on a business trip. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en K? eight Is excellent: five or six Is apod. 1. Van the discovery that sul phurs ether when inhaled pro duced insensibility to pain, made kt 1826, 1846, or 1866? 2. Crie President of the U. S. was born in Pennsylvania; name him. 3. Bible: Against whom did David seek safety when he sought advice from Jonathan? 4. Name the former Secretary of State who was awarded the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize. 5. Who was the Spanish American war hero of Manila Bay? 6. Tass is a news agency of what country? 7. What animal secretes a waxy substance known as am bergris? 8- Ward McAllister once coin ed a numeric phrase to describe the elite of New York society; Ijhat was the phrase? t. Should the word "type" al ways be followed by "of" when useti with a noun? 10. "A flash of harmless light ning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished beams of bright ening ' From flower to flower he flies." J. B. Tabb. The title of this poem is a bird; name it Answers: 1. 184S. 2. James Buchanan. 3. Saul. Jonathan's father. 4. Cordell Hull. S. Com modore George Dewey. 6. So viet Russia. 7. The sperm whale. 8. "The Four Hundred." 9. Yes. 10. "Humming Bird." 1 I -T MAIL TRIBUNB Principle Not Principal The Medford Mail-Tribune, a newspaper of Demo cratic editorial persuasion, has recently castigated its Republican contempories because they still belabor Sen. Wayne Morse. The M-T again commends Morse, as Demo crats have dpne consistently and fervently since his party switch, for putting "principle above party." This reminds us rather forcibly of another office holder, state Sen. Dan Thiel of Astoria, who put "principal above party." What happened to him? A resolution of formal condemnation by the Clatsop County Central Labor council, no less one of the organizations which has exulted over the - Morse switch. Putting principle above party can be as much a vice as a virtue, it appears, depending on which principle and which party. Astorian Budget. Not knowing the politics or the fate of State Sen ator Dan Thiel we can't be sure of why our Clatsop contemporary is "reminded." But our guess is Thiel must be a former Democrat who switched to' the Republican party, and was con demned by the County Central Labor Council and opposed for election or reelection. Assuming this to be approximately correct, then who is maintaining that in this instance placing "principle above party" constituted a "vice"? pERTAINLY not the Mail Tribune. Some of our best friends here in Jackson County were formerly registered Democrats and are now reg istered zealous and ardent Republicans. We never complained of their "switch." We did not agree with them and don't now but we granted them the same right we granted ourselves, that when they no longer believed in the policies and principles of their party they not only had a perfect right to "switch" but a certain moral obligation. What we have complained about and still com plain about are those who condemn such action, and on purely partisan grounds never forget or forgive it, but keep on during: campaigns and between them with their same old vicious drum-fire. We maintain and have always maintained that a Democrat on the basis of principle NOT princiPAL please has the same right to change his party as a Republican, and vice-versa. The "vice" if any is not in leaving a party in which one no longer believes, but in failing to do so. For that is striking a blow not for, but against a basic principle of free democracy. Democracy fails when it doesn't accurately reflect the majority will of its people. R.W.R. A Political Forecast Naturally the Republican press is going to con vince the American people, if it can, that a vote for any Democratic candidate at the next election will be a vote for Dave Beck, and the type of labor she nanigans he represents. Yet as of today it seems pretty generally agreed that the basic trouble is not with the labor movement as a whole, or even with the teamsters membership but with, the latter's LEADERSHIP. In other words there is every reason to believe that American labor as a whole condemns the Beck-Hoffa-Brewster- type of malpractice as strongly as the mem bers of the McClellarr committee (or the Arlington club) be they Democrats or Republicans, and are just as anxious to see an all-out. house-cleaning and moral clean-up.' Well why then should they have to suffer for the misdeeds of a few" of the higher-ups in a single mi nority union, and have their political support inter preted as something unworthy and vile? "IIELL, they shouldn't. And if there is a house- cleaning within the teamsters and a clean sweep of its present leadership, it is probable they won't. But if this effort fails, and the Beck-Hoff a Brewster sort of thing is endorsed by union inaction and allowed to continue unchallenged then we fear the dire prediction of Senator Ives of New York that the recent unsavory revelations will put back the American labor movement for a generation will come close to fulfillment. Such a retribution would be undeserved and un just, as far as labor as a whole is concerned. But that, we fear, is the way political reactions work. They are not inclined to be discriminating or judicial, but subjective and emotional, the results not based upon how the rank and file THINK things out, but how they FEEL. R.W.R. It'll Take Some Doing Incidently the attempt to burn the "Beck" brand into the hide of the Democratic donkey is going to take some doing. For while the Beck record is bad, and his ethical standards practically invisible, it 'just happens that he is not a Democrat but a stalwart Republican. He is also a close pal of another "stalwart" Republican, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and in the recent presidential campaign Boss Beck not only de voted his inexhaustible energies, but according to re port, a generous portion of his almost inexhaustible financial resources to bring about the defeat of the Democratic presidential candidate and the victory of the candidate of the G.O.P. , CO in the realm of "guilt by association" which has been such a favorite political weapon in the Re publican arsenal under the aegis of Joe McCarthy, the heels of the stubborn old donkey promise to be more than an adequate defense against any smear trumpeting that the rampaging and rambunctious pachyderm may consider it advantageous to indulge in for the sake of votes. R.W.R. Thursday, April 18. 1937 'Pss6T( IF m FIND A Y0 Matter of Fact DR. VAN VALKENBURG'S PELLETS Washington A bitter and significant row is now going on in the Pentagon about the role WSKwi of basic sci- entific re- search iri t h e defense of the United States. To t lie casual observer, the fight might seem j u s t an other teapot tempest s t i r- Stewa.it Alsop red up Tjy t h e vain and temperamental scien tists. In fact, the issue in dispute has a real bearing on the whole national future, as the story of Dr. Mac Van Valkenburg and his plastic pellets may serve to suggest. Dr. Van Valkenburg is a young scientist, until recently with the rather obscure University of Utah. Last year, he got a De fense Department grant of a few thousand dollars for an odd little experiment which might appear to have precious little to do with defense. Dr. Van Valkenburg used a shaped charge technique-to fire plastic pellets at constantly in creasing speeds into wax targets. As the velocity increased, the pel lets, as might be expected, simp ly penetrated deeper and deeper into the wax. Then, when Dr. Van Valkenburg fired a pellet into the wax at the remarkable speed of 8,500 miles an hour, a queer thing happened. INSTEAD of penetrating deeply into the wax, the peilet ex ploded, making a large crater on the surface of the wax. He tried it again, and always, at speeds over 8,500 miles an hour, the same thing happened, for rea sons which must remain myster ious to the layman. The import ance of Dr. Van Valkenburb's little . experiment may seem equally mysterious. And yet it might it just might change the history of the human race. The world is about to enter the age of the ballistic missile. The Soviets are testing medium range ballistic missies at the re markable rate of five a month. It is hoped that this country win fire a test version of the very long range intercontinental mis sile, known as "Atlas," this year. The ballistic missile has been known as the "ultimate weapon" because, until Dr. Van Valken burg came along, there seemed no conceivable defense against it. Atlas, for example, will travel half round the world with its nuclear warhead at a speed of 16,000 miles an hour, or there abouts, Trying to bring it down with another missile would be about as futile as shooting at a very high ' flying goose with a 22 rifle. rpHE way to bring down a - a goose, of course, is to shoot it, in range, with a shotgun. Dr. Van Valkenburg's e x p e riment suggests that a ballistic missile could be brought down in rather the same way. Another missile or a satellite vehicle could be ex ploded electronically in the' path of an oncoming ballistic missile. A fragment of the exploded mis sile or satellite, coming in con tact with the oncoming missile at speeds far greater than the magic 8,500 miles an hour, would have the mysterious explosive effect. It might thus be expected to explode or cripple the bal listic missile. The Air Research and Develop ment Command Js proceeding with experiments along this line, which are of course highly sec ret. But Dr. Van Valkenburg's original experiment was not secret at all, simply because it was an experiment in pure scie ntific research, with no forese eable military application at all. . "TVR. VAN. Valkenburg's little " experiment, which may have such far-reaching consequences, thus illustrates the real meanine of the row in the Pentagon. Sec retary of Defense Charles Wil son prides himself on being a practical man. and. as ht has said, he sees no reason why the JJeiense Departmnt should fool around with finding out "why the grass is ereen." or such non sense. Defense should concern it - Y lNTHEf?, YzMA!' By Stewart Alsop self only with research leading to practical military applications. rpo THIS end, Wilson has ap - pointed Frank D. Newbury, a septuagenarian engineer who shares his views, as overlord of all Defense Department re search and development. The appointment has already led to a major clash between Newbury and the Defense Science Board, and the resignation of one dis tinguished scientist. Other scien tists working for the Defense Department are unhappy to the point of despair. Their despair is understand able if one ponders the tale of Dr. Van Valkenburk's pellets. For virtually all the great ad vances in the terrible new wea pons, from the atomic bomb on up, have derived directly from basic scientific research. Modern weaponry is not, alas, as simple as tooling up a new General Motors model. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose everyone has been horrified by the tragic stories startlingly numerous in recent years of children trapped in re frigerators. In an effort to elim inate, or at least reduce, these catastrophies that tug at every body's heartstrings, the national bureau of standards has been carrying' on a research program in the hope of developing doors that can be opened from the inside. IT HAS just announced that there is no foolproof device for solving the problem. The two best safety devices so far devel oped by the bureau with the co operation of refrigerator manu facturers, it says, are a knob to open the door from the inside and a latch that releases the door when presure is applied from the interior of the refrigerator box. But, a spokesman for the bu reau adds, tests of 201 children have indicated that only about half of them" are able to utilize the devices and escape. Even that, of course, will be immense ly helpful and the bureau, pre dicts that these new develop ments will be accepted by the in dustry within a short time. TN OUR modern civilization, we must certainly make our nu merous gadgets as safe as it is humanly possible to make them, but I can't help wondering if we can afford to rely wholly on automatic devices for making our children safe. . Won't it be far better if along with all the automatic safety we can build into our machines and our appliances we teach our youngsters to AVOID these dan gers? WE HAVE to remember that life NEVER was wholly safe. In the early days of the Ameri can frontier, children had to be taught to stay close to the cabin. There were savages and wild an imals that must be avoided. There were creeks and rivers where they might get drowned. It was never safe for a child to play around a mule's heels, for there are times when a mule just WILL KICK. And so on. WE MUST keep dangers away from our children wherever we can, but at the same time we must TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO KEEP AWAY FROM DAN GER. Instead of relying entirely on automatic devices that wiU cause a refrigerator door to come open if a child should happen to be trapped inside, it will be much, MUCH better, it seems to me, if from the time they are able to crawl we teach them never, NEVER under ANY cir cumstances to crawl inside a refrigerator. ON CALL Portland, Me. (U.R) Police officers here can leave their pa trol cars to investigate crimes and still remain "on call." Cruis er cars have been equipped with radio devices that enable dis patchers at headquarters to honk the horns or flash the lights of parked patrol cars to summon the officers back to their ve hicles for radio messages. Turkey's Hardening Attitude Complicates Cyprus Settlement By CHARLES M. McCANN . United Press Correspondent Turkey is becoming the key country in the dispute over the future of the eastern Mediter- ranian island of Cyprus. Brit ain is now making a new attempt to negotiate a settlement with the Greek - Cyp r i o t e island ers, the Greek g O V e r n ment Charles McCann ; and the Turkish government.. To that end, it has released from exile on an Indian Ocean island Greek Archbishop Maka rios, leader of the islanders who demand that Cyprus be handed over to Greece. Turkey's Altitude Hardens So far, Britain's negotiations have not gone very far. For one thing, no basis for a settlement acceptable to Maka rios and the Greek government or even a basis for negotia tions has been found. But there is another big ob stacle. The attitude of Turkey is hardening steadily. As the situa tion stands now, Turkey is most unlikely to accept any settle- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication ' is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words From "One Of The 500" To the Editor: A recent letter referring to the exorbitant mem bership fee which limits our local Country Club to the upper "500" prompts me to answer. My husband, (a bus driver) and I are part of the so-called "500," but it so happens that the ma jority of the "500" are work ing people like ourselves sales men, teachers, mail carriers and others working by the week or by the hour. The $12 monthly family golf membership that we pay amounts to less than the average couple spends on a Saturday night on the town. Of course, there is $2.40 a month federal tax, but even with that we pay less than it would cost our family to play on a public course. It was unfortunate that Mrs. Wright's husband did not know a member who would have sign ed for him as guest a privi lege enjoyed by other local res idents who are non-members. He would have found, as "the rest us working people have, that the doctors, lawyers and business men readily ask us to join their foursomes; '.for, as ' Mrs. Wright herself states: "golf is a good, clean, healthy sport in any man's class." I'm sure that if Mrs. Wright could see the large group of junior and senior high school students, many from non-member families, using borrowed clubs from the pro shop, to take six hours of FREE golf lessons a week she would realize the RVCC is doing its share to com bat juvenile delinquency. Then too, many young boys are gain fully employed as caddies so that they make good use of their summer vacation. As a bus driver's wife, I am happy and proud to be a member of an organization that contrib utes as much to the community life as does the Rogue Valley Country Club. Mrs. J. O. Oakes, Route 1, Box 435 Medford, Ore. ' "Back io the Indians!" To the Editor: Hoorah for the Albany Democrats. We need more newspapers turning to the right. Our tax structure must surely have reached an apex by now. John Eaton 712 Victory st, Medford, Ore. The Therapy of "EASTER" From the most primitive savage to the most highly cultural, man has always had an innate, instinctive belief in o "life hereafter," no matter what its form or its name. Since creation, nothing has brought more solace to the human heart than the inborn certainty that there is a part of our individualness that is im mortal. It is the one thing that makes the death of a loved one bearable. To those who have come in contact with the Christian faith, whether actively or passively, it is this season of the year that emphasizes the fact that we need not mourn as those having no hope! DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS ment which would be acceptable to Makarios, as the leader of the Greek Cypriotes, or to the Greek government. The Turkish government made no secret of its extreme dis pleasure over Britain's release of Makarios. Turkish newspapers, which directly reflect the government attitude, are denouncing Ma karios as "the instigator, in fact the very personification," of the terrorism to which the Greek Cypriote islanders resorted to in their campaign for "self-determination." Turkey's fear is that, in its eagerness for a setUement, Brit ain may(agree to give the Greek Cypriotes domination over those islanders who are of Turkish stock. Editorial Comment LET PEOPLE VOTE ON DEATH PENALTY Should the death penalty be abolished once more in Oregon? This controversial question now is at issue in Oregon, which abolished executions for murder in 1914, the reverted to them in 1920. It would be submitted to the people as a constitutional amendment under terms of house joint resolution 11 which has passed the house 49 to 7 and now is pending in the senate, where its fate is uncertain. Simultaneously the question is at issue in California, where the legislature is considering several bills which would either abolish outright or declare a 5 or 10 year moratorium on executions by the state. The question is being hotly debated in light of the recent last-minute failure of Gov. Knight's effort to stay the ex ecution of Burton W. Abbott, convicted murderer. The basic question being de bated in both states is whether capital punishment is justifiable in general and whether it acts as a deterrent to murder in particular. ' The evidence, as brought out in debates in both states and in a recent International roundup by the Associated Press, indicates that capital punishment does not deter murderers and is headed for extinction. If anything, the murder rate is slightly lower in "no-death- penalty" states (Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Maine, Minn esota and North Dakota) and in 38 foreign 1 countries than in death-penalty states. For example, in the five-year period before the death penalty was abolished in Oregon, 59 con victed murderers were received at the state penitntiary. In the five non-death penalty years only 36 were received. This (coupled with the pos sibility of a miscarriage of just ice) explains why most prison officials oppose the death pen alty. Opponents include Warden Clarence Gladden of Oregon; Richard A.: McGee, director of California's department of cor rections; Clinton T. Duffy, form er warden of San Quentin, and former Warden Lawes of Sing Sing. . . The question is vital enough that the people should have an other opportunity to pass judg ment upon it. For this reason, it is to be hoped that the senate 1 follows the example of the house by voting to submit it. Oregon Journal. $415 Contributed to Teaching Scholarships Cave Junction A total of $415 has been contributed this year by Illinois VaUey Parent Teacher associations and other organizations toward Oregon teaching scholarships. Four PTA groups have given amounts ranging from near $200 to $15. Two Civic Women's League recently voted $50 to ward a scholarship for a local high school girl. Diplomatic negotiations are proceeding between Britain and Turkey in Ankara, the Turkish capital, and in London. Ankara dispatches say that if Britain tries to make any con cession to the Greek-Cypriotes that Turkey does not approve, British-Turkish relations will be endangered. The entire situation seems headed for a deadlock. Turkey is most unlikely to recognize any Cyprus settlement in which Makarios takes part. Makarios has said that he wiU refuse to negotiate with representatives of the Turkish population of Cyprus. Makarios has said furth er that he will not negotiate un less he Is permitted to return to Cyprus, from which Britain still bars him. CITY DOUBLES PARKING AREA Albany's new parking com mission has a tough nut to crack ignorance. For example, we were ignorant of the size of the parking problem. But the com mission has pretty well estab lished that if all persons who use the downtown area were to be given a parking spot within 500 feet of their destination, at least a third and probably more buildings would have to be cleared off. That, of course, isn't going to be done. But it points up the looming size of the problem. Other places have problems, too, which may be a fore-taste of things to come in Albany if the commission's findings are ignored. For example, a department store in Memphis, Tenn., has been unable to buy adjacent land for parking. Realizing the strangling effect on its trade, it purchased the nearest lot sev eral blocks away. Attendants now wait outside the store en trance, help the customer out, drive the car to the lot and re turn it on request. It's costly, but the alternative was to move into the fringes. Planning, however, can do the job. In Bloomington, Illinois, population 35,000, offstreet park ing stalls were almost doubled in the past four years, from 725 to 1,356 spaces. There are no real mysteries in the field. The cost and diffi culty, of solving the problem are slight in a young growing city. They increase in direct proportion to city growth if left alone. Albany Democrat-Herald. Need Ready CASH? COUNT ON US WHEN YOU NEED MONEY! Borrow The American Way! LOANS S25 to S1.500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! American Finance Corp. Phone 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford
