Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 13, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextroBH vrnrosD (ohicok) USE "Everyone ! SouttierTi Oregon F.iri Tha Mali Tribune" Except Saturday by T-2S North rir St. Phone 2141 SOBERT W RL-KL. Editor ETRW GREY Advertising Manager eKRALD LATHAM Buaineu Manairer Talc ALLEN JR. AUnairinjt Editor nJiL H ADAMS City Editor VRRV CHIPMAN Telegraph Edlter RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aj second class matter at - Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10? Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year 2Q J(y Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold H1U. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rofrue River. Talent and on motor routes: , Dally and Sunday On year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1-50 urn-r and Dealers 10c per cony Ail Terms Cash in Advance BflSclai Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chtcaeo. de troti San Francisco Lot Angeles Seattle Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOtlAi I assocTa-i ON V n -J I Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 18, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 13. 1947 (Friday) Curtain rises tonight on three day 1947 Rogue River Roundup at Jackson county fairgrounds. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Today is Friday the 13th. Folks can stand more bad luck, but not rain. 20 YEARS AGO Juno 13. 1S37 (Sunday) An air circus will be held at Medford airport July 2, ac cording to Max Pierce, president of Medford chapter of National Aeronautic association. Names of Maurice Edward Scheel, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Scheel, Medford, appears in latest edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges," pub lished by the University of Ala bama. 30 YEARS AGO June 13. 1927 (Monday) Medford residents urged by Fire Chief Roy Elliott to cut down weeds which are growing close to buildings. Medford Red Cross chapter sponsors watr carnival at Mer rick's auditorium. 40 YEARS AGO June 13. 1917 (Wednesday) T. E. Daniels, manager of the county Red Cross campaign plans tour of entire county to solicit money for the chapter's "war fund." From Llocal and Personal column: Captain Todd, acting assistant paymaster to the mili tiamen, leaves on trip to Rose burg. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is fnperlor: even or elht 15 excellent: five or Ix ie rood. 1. Plato, in "Timaius" wrote "the great continent at the edge of the ocean" (Atlantic): Did he then know of the Western Hemisphere? 2. Who invented the incandes cent lamp? 3. Bible: When Herod "gath ered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together" what did he want to know? . Which type of U.S. naval vessels bears the names of fish? 5. Character study by means of handwriting is known as r -v? . I Burma bounded on the -s,,th hv th. Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or the Bay of gengal? 7. In which U.S. city is the National Gallery of Art. found ed bv a bequest made by An drew W. Mellon? The nickname "Old Line State" is applied to Massachu setts. Maryland, Missouri, or Rhode Island? 9. "Bookkeeper" is a com pound word. Should it. proper ly, be spelled with or without a hyphen? 10. "They have fitted him to t ; .Tnhnson: was he re ferring to likeness, clothes, or a part in a play? Answers: 1. No. 2. Thomas lk Edison. 3. Where the in- fanl Jesui was. 4. Submarines. 5. Graphology. 6. Bay of Bengal. 7 Washinqlon. D.C. Maryland. p Without a hvohen. 10. Like ness, lie., as "two peas in a gNNfW$(.APEt t ASSOCIATION pod"). mail tribune Fortunate It appears obvious, from support of the Medford school district budget, that pa trons of the district approve school district is being operated. It was a vote of confidence, and one which we be lieve to have been fully merited and deserved. Being a school board member is a hard and frequ ently thankless job one without pay, with long hours, and with demands on time and energy that not everyone can afford to give. Medford has been fortu nate in the caliber of individuals who have offered their services, for free, to the school district. e IT FOLLOWS from this that school district voters are once again fortunate to have two fine candi dates to chose between in next Monday's election for a member on the board of education. The candidates are Otto Ewaldsen, who is just completing his first five-year term on the board, and is currently its chairman, and Francis Cheney, w-ho served as both member and chairman of the board of the West Side school before its recent consolidation with the Medford district. Either man, we are convinced, would make a cap able, conscientious, hard-working and thoughtful member of the board. We don't see how the voters could go far wrong with either. a IN CHOOSING between the two, as voters must do, one should give consideration as to which is, by tem perament and experience, sent all the people or the big district, and to worK smoothly and harmoniously with the present highly effective board. On this basis, we believe the choice between two good men should go to Otto Ewaldsen. He is economy minded, but not at the cost of an effective program ; he has proven he can work well and cooperatively with the board and administration ; he has had experi ence in a wide range of civic endeavors and is widely known throughout the community, and at the end of five years he is just reaching his peak of effectiveness and competence as a member of the board. b.A. Block Teaching "What, for heaven's sake, is a 'block teaching' ex periment?" we asked ourself ern Oregon college had received a $lo,000 grant to do, or make, or permit the We had momentary visions of college students playing with blocks, but this didn't make sense, so we pursued it further. It appears that "block teaching" is a method of in struction whereby a group of students is led through an integrated course of study covering a wide field. The alternative is the traditional system, -where stu dents take a series of separate courses from different instructors and without their being related to each other, despite overlapping and duplication of mate rials offered. MOW why should the Department of Health, Educa L tion and Welfare think that it is worth S15,000 of the taxpayers' money to experiment with "block teaching?" To those who have watched the approaching crisis, in enrollment and personnel, in higher education the answer to this one is not difficult to find. If 100 students can be led through an area of hu man knowledge in a shorter period of time, learn more, be able to digest it better, assimilate more fully the relationships of the varying aspects of the field, and all at lesser expense in time, money and teaching talent, then the experiment would be a success. It would result in a better education for the stu dent, a richer reward for the instructor, and saving in time and tax costs. rR. ARTHUR KREISMAN, who initiated the proj ect and who is in charge, cites the example of a student taking world history but not world literature, a procedure, he says, "inherently inefficient and wasteful." He added: "Even though the students were taking both subjects, they would still be taught separately and inefficiently. This plan unites the entire subject area so that, when the Renaissance is studied, it will be studied in history, litera ture, art. and music simultaneously. Such a plan would allow the intelligenfutilization of faculty members when and where they were needed. "By employing this integrated and correlated block method, we hope to demonstrate that we can teach the re quired subject matter as efficiently in 12 sections as we do now under the traditional system in 17 sections. This is a saving to the school and taxpayer of five sections or the work of one full-time faculty member. If successful, one faculty member's time for every hundred students will be saved." CRITICS of our schools ing that "better and teaching be developed to save on costs. This is an at tempt to do precisely that. The secret of good teaching will forever remain the abilitv, the dedication, the inspiration of the in structor, at all levels of school. But if his time can be put to better use, he will benefit, the student will bene fit, the taxpayer will benefit, and society will benefit. We wish Dr. Kreisman well in this experimental plan. It is a small thing when viewed in the perspec tive of all the problems of higher education through out the nation, but it is proof that scholars are willing to try something-new, if it holds promise. E.A. Thursday, June 13. 1957 Choice last -week's 9 to 1 vote in oi tne way in wnicn uie the best-qualified to repre when we saw that South whatever - it - is. and colleges have kept ask- more efficient" methods of 'Know what i mn doin' for you while you eeeH sick. Air?. Wilson? i been kbbpiH' wuz car greased . Mayflower Reception Different From That Received by Pilgrims (Editor'! note: Mayflower II has arrived at Plymouth. Mass., where the Pilgrims landed from the original Mayflower 337 years aEO. Mayflower II received a warm welcome, with tens of thousands on hand to greet her. The former counselor-general of the Society of Mayflower Descend ants tells of the far different reception the Pilgrims received.) By DR. GLEASON L. ARCHER Written for United Press On Sept. 16, 1620 the tiny Mayflower, 90 feet from stem to stern, containing 102 Pilgrims and 40 seamen, left the shores of England, hopefully heading for the fertile valley of the Hud son river. After 10 weeks of extreme hazard, buffeted by ocean storms, the disabled craft reached the tip of Cape Cod peninsula in w i n t e r-gripped New England. SnoW and ice lay upon the sand dunes, the scrub oak and dwarf pines of Cape Cod. Bitter winds chilled them to the marrow when the Pil grims set out on foot to explore the narrow 50-mile moraine of sand that putted out from the mainland. Hostile Indians watched them from ambush. Governor Bradford, in his "Plymouth Plantation," de scribed the coast as "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men and what multitude there might be of them they knew not." . "The whole country full of woods and thickets." . . . "If they looked behind them there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world." In the five weeks that the Pilgrims desperately explored the Cape before the disabled shallop had been repaired they discovered that the wild men were intent upon massacre. At udyuieaii ut tne very murmug prior to their leaving the peni sula to cross the bay to the mainland, the savages launched a full-scale attack upon the Pilgrim explorers. Blood-chilling warwhoops filled the woods, a shower of arrows assailed them and only the magic of gun powder and English bullets saved them from massacre. Not until Dec. 21 did they set foot upon their future home and discover farm lands and little running brooks. The Mayflower then crossed the bay and anch ored in Plymouth harbor where for three months death reigned in the plague-ridden ship while a few men struggled to build houses on shore and to defend themselves against hostile In dians. Half of the Pilgrim band died before spring and were buried on Coles Hill. In March, 1621, the Pilgrims made peace with the Indians. The survivors came ashore and the Mayflower sailed for England. Twenty-one men, four women and 25 children were left to face Governor Inspects John Day Damsife Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes spent Wednesday after noon with members of the Co lumbia Basin Interagency Com mittee inspecting the John Day damsite and discussing naviga tion problems. Some 40 members of the com mittee plus representatives of the governors of Washington, Montana and Idaho made the trip aboard the Inland Naviga tion Company yacht "Frances". The governor boarded the yacht at The Dalles and went down the scenic Columbia river gorge as far as Bonneville where he disembarked for the trip back to Salem. MAYOR FALLS OFF Creston, Iowa (IPi M a y o Fred Urbach lost a milking con test to the mayor of Lenox be cause he fell off an old-fashioned, one-legged milking stool when the Holstein kicked. life in the New World. Face it they did, in danger and famine and hardship undescribable. They established a government the New England town meet ing and a system of free enter prise that eventually ripened into the great republic the United States of America. Matter of Fact by stewa ais0P WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT WOULD NIXON MAKE Washington When this is printed, President Eisenhower will no doubt be in fine form ipsa again, as every- D o a y nopes. Yet hii most recent illness has served to recall what everyone for gets between illnesses that the President is, after alL mortal. And as Stewait Alsop in the case of his other illnesses, an unanswerable question is on many lips: "What kind of Presi dent . would Nixon make?" No one, of course, can predict how any human being might meet the enormous challenge of the Presidency. Yet, far more than a few years ago, there are now some rather rolid bases for judging the kind of attitudes Vice President Nixon would take to the Presidency. All men change. But Nixon has changed more than most since the days when he went into politics by answering a newspaper advertisement all those who know him well agree on that. He became a politician just as another young war vet eran might have become an ad vertising man or an automobile salesman Politics was for him, as business or a profession for others, a means of getting ahead. As a professional politician, Nixon quickly developed a real talent for selling his product in this case himself. He also developed a fine instinct for lunging for the political jugular of his opponents. And he got ahead very fast indeed. "VXON is still a professional politician to the marrow of his bones. Politics is far and away his favorite subject of pri vate conversation. But his pro longed exposure to the terrible responsibilities of the White House has taught him that poli tics is a great deal more than just a means of getting ahead. His experience on the rarefied political heights nas also taught him other things. When he en tered politics, he was very much a man of the Right his ability to recite, with great earnestness, the current shibboleths of Right wing Republicanism was one of the things that endeared him to the group of rich California Re publicans who gave him his start. Nixon is anything but a radi cal today. But his experience has taught him that the strictly orthodox form of Republicanism is, at least in a national sense, bad politics. The Nixon who warned last Sunday against .us ing the abuses of the Beck tye of union leader as an excuse for punitive labor legislation is not the Nixon of ten years ago. All in all, it would be surpris ing, if there were a sharp turn to the Right in domestic affairs in a Nixon Presidency. Indeed any shift in domestic policy might well be in the opposite di rection. HIS of exposure to the realities the world situation, of which he knew next to nothing when he became Vice President has also left its mark on Nixon. In the debates within the Ad ministration on defense and for eign aid spending Nixon has al most always been on the side ot security first, economy second. He has also been consistenUy on Western Allies Disagreeing With Each Other Rather Than Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The' Western Allies are d i s agreeing with each other In stead of with Soviet Russia on disarmament negotiations. Britain and France are complain ing that Har old S t a s s e n chief United State delegate at the disarm ament confer ence in Lon don, is taking Russia into his confidence on new American Charles McCann proposals and slighting them. Britain. France and Wesl Germany also seem to be afraid the United States, in its eager ness to take the first step to ward agreement, may involve them in unsatisfactory inspec tion clans. But the overall prospect for the necessary modest "first step" toward a disarmament agreement still seem to be good. If the Allied disagreements can be overcome and there is no reason to believe that they cannot the London negotia tions are likely to enter an im portant stage next week. Stassen returned to Washing ton last week end to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Called on Carpet It now appears that DuIIce called Stassen to Washington be cause of British and French complaints about his activities What happened is that Stas sen is ready to present a new series of proposals to the Lon don conference. the side of bold action abroad It is generally forgotten now that in 1954 Nixon publicly ad vocated sending American forces to Indochina if necessary to save the situation in South East Asia a position which could not have been politically motivated since it was politically danger ous in the extreme. All in all it is a fair guess that a Nixon foreign policy would be consid erably more adventurous than the Eisenhower foreign policy. In some ways Nixon has not changed. He has always been an essentially lonely man. With the possible exception of a Cali fornian called Jack Brown, he has no really close personal friends at all. His friendship with Deputy Attorney General William Rogers is more profes sional than personal, since Rog ers shares his political attitudes, and his almost obsessive interest in matters political. INDEED, in one way at least. Nixon is not a typical politic ian at all. He lacks the instinct ive gregariousness of most poli ticians the small talk which is the necessary small change of political life is a painful effort to him. He is, in fact, an oddly impersonal man, and a Nixon Cabinet would certainly be chosen, not on the basis of per sonal relationships, but with a cool eye to both ability and po litical advantage. Altogether, Nixon is un questionably a man with great drive and a first class intelli gence. The intense partisanship of his younger days is now much muted. Even among those who know him well and admire him, 4here is, nevertheless, still a kernel of doubt about the man, left over from the days when Nixon saw politics as a means of. getting ahead, and did not care very much about how he went about it. Yet it is not pos sible, after all, for a politician to get further ahead than the Presidency; and to a President the judgment of history tends suddenly to become a lot more interesting than partisan politi cal advantage. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Safety Rules May Be Causing Crashes Washington W An air line pilot complained today that overcomplicated emergency pro cedures may be causing crashes instead of preventing them. Veteran United Airlines Capt. Warrent Leroy said that when an airliner is in danger, its crew is required to follow confusing, long and sometimes contra dictory rules laid down by the government and airlines. Leroy tartly suggested that "we are letting the emergency procedures interfere with tha emergencies," he added: "There are 30 pages of emer gency procedures in the DC6 manual alone. There are 425 words for a cabin heater fire . . . yet some check pilots tend to give a better grade to the pilot who can recite every word on every page . . . encouraging this detailed memorization may be detrimental." Leroy's comments were con tained in a blunt article written for "Airbne Pilot," official pub lication of the Airline Pilots association. The conferees consist of the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Russia. These coun tries were chosen by the United Nations to conduct the disarm ament talks. Stassen. on taking the pro posals to London, did consider able confidential talking with Valerian A. Zorin, the chief Soviet delegate. It is evident that he outlined his proposals to Zorin. But he has not outlined them to the conference itself. This seems, really, to be just a temporary complication in the negotiations. Another Complication But there is another compli cation in the fear of some Allied countries that American lead ers, including President Eisen hower, are over-eager to get an agreement with Russia. Britain, for example, is re ported to oppose too much con centration on nuclear weapons because Russia still has such overwhelming superiority in conventional weapons. West Germany, whose approval of aerial inspection of nuclear weapons facilities in Western Europe is essential wants the issue of German uni fication linked with any agree ment. But there seems good reason Today and By Walter QUARANTINE OR NOT? At the two ends of the Com munist world, in Poland and in China, the same question has now been pos ed. Is it right or is it wrong is it wise or is it unwise, to open up i n t e r c ourse thro ugh the Iron Curtain? With Poland we have decid ed to open it Walter Lippmann up, and have gone so far as to ne gotiate an agreement to furnish economic aid. In China, our policy is still one of non-inter course, and for our part to main tain an embargo and a boycott. But in this we are now alone among the leading powers of the world, and there is mounting opposition to the policy in this country. In fact, last week the President said that personally, though not yet as President, he was in favor of at least some freedom of trade with China. ' There are in all this two main schools of thought. The one holds that rather than open up we should close down, that the best way to deal with Communist states is, as nearly as it is pos sible to do so, to put them in quarantine. The less contact with Communist regimes, the better. Insofar as there is trade, it is the Communists who benefit. In sofar as there is diplomatic and cultural intercourse, it is the Communists who will seduce and subvert the non-Commu-niits. The Iron Curtain which was set up by the Communists to seal themselves off from the capital istic and democratic world is in fact essential to se curity of the democratic and capitalistic world. Those who favor the quarantine policy would like to see the world di vided into two closed systems. Then from behind the Iron Cur tain each would bombard the other with propaganda. THE other school holds that Russia and China, instead of being weakened, grow stronger in the long run insofar as they are quarantined. The real effect of the trade restrictions and the embargoes has been equivalent to erecting around them an enor mously high tariff wall which compels them to develop their Frank Morgan T -."8-..ll ft M. ' A A CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE SP 2-8030 jHl 1 KING STREET MEDFORD to hope that when Stasia frr mally unveils his new proposals in tne London conference, the first real approach t dixarov ament agreement may get un derway. The latest word is that Stas sen will present them early next week. Communications Letter to the Editor mam tear the name and address of the wnna although under cm mm eirauM stances tha use ot a traa anme or initial for publieafcoa hi 99rmU sible. The Mail Tribaae rwervea the rlsht to edit all Nava-s with an eye to clarification tmi conden sation Letters subvatted fcr uk licaUon must not exceed t worgB Blue Star Mothers Credi$ To the Editor: A Communica tion in the June 7 Medford Mail Tribune, gave credit to the Navy Mothers in stopping the sale of their flowers, that the "Council for the Blind" might make good sale of the "White Canes." The credit should be given to "Blue Star Mothers," who are very worthy for their kindness, and may they be blessed for this deed of help. Thank you for printing this. Mrs. Myrtle Coggins, Navy Mothers Club No. 46 Medford, Ore. Tomorrow Lippmann own industries and to make themselves self-sufficient. This is costly. It may compel them to move more slowly. But once the price has been paid, the quarantined country is in a very strong position. This applies to big countries like Russia and China. Smaller countries, like Poland, cannot hope to become self-sufficient. On them the effect of the quar antine policy is to make them wholly dependent upon the So viet Union. For that reason, those of us who oppose the quar-o antine policy contend that the wise thing to do is to give a country like Poland an alterna tive, to break the Soviet mo nopoly as a supplier of Poland's essential needs. We contend also that while an embargo on the China trada does slow up somewhat the in dustrialization of China, it does not slow it up very much. On the other hand, whatever good that slowing up does, it Is more than offset by leaving China with no alternative except to lean wholly upon the Soviet Union. Would It not be better, we say, to let China have inter course with the outer world, and thus to encourage China to play the role of a more independent power? a a IT IS Important to say, I think, that neither policy, that of re striction , or of openness, will have- quick or dramatic results. Restrictions and embargoes may have troubled the Russians and the Chinese. But the Communist power in the world continues to grow. It has not declined. On the other hand, we must not expect that opening up trade and cultural exchanges will have the kind of spectacular results which the Vice-president, in his otherwise excellent speech on Fclish aid. seemed to mean when he spoke of "the explosive power of freedom." What we might hope for is not an explosion which, like that in Hungary, would be for us a humiyation and for all the world a tragedy. What we might hope for rather is an attrition through exposure to freedom, a gradual wearing down of the totalitarian character of the Po lish regime, and the healing ef fects of more light and more air. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Trbiune Inc. Harold Snodgst - Mi' 1 V' ;');' it?