Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 08, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextO FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally ExceDt SaturdaT br 27-28 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertisins Manager - GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor ZAHL H ADAMS Citj Editor HARRY CH1PMA.V Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Spbrt Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year S15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Cold HiU Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes Dsily and Sundav One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County I united Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: V'EST-UOUDAY COMPA1T7 INC fHces Hi New York Chicago, de Jrelt. Sisn Francisco Los Angeles tns-tele Portland St Louis Atlanta Viwrtaiiver B C MATIQN A . E 0 I T 0 1 1 A a ASSOC-IA'ieN 1" NEWS PA PER PUBIISHEIS 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 July 8. 1947 (Tuesday) Formal request to war assets administration for acquisition by city of Camp White sewage dis posal plant may be made this week, according to Vern Thorpe, city superintendent. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Democrats In congress hold the Republican tax shaving plan Is sham. Sham poo. 20 YEARS AGO July 8. 1937 (Thursday) Increased sale of northwest pears in eastern markets this year predicted by Ted Pooley of Hood River, president of Oregon Washington pear bureau. Mrs. Bert Anderson, 1501 West Main St., donates colection of Indian curios to Southern Ore gon Cem and Mineral society. 30 YEARS AGO July 8, 1927 (Friday) Federal Mining company on the Little App.legate river re sumes operation after three months of inactivity caused by flood damage. E. L. Jewett, fruit exporter, claims that wealth of the Rogue valley fruit industry lay in the cultivation of D Anjous and Boscs. 40 YEARS AGO July 8. 1917 (Sunday) Forest Supervisor Erickson an nounces enlisting of woodsmen and mill workers for the 10th reserve forest engineers has be gun. From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. O. E. Osborn, presi dent of the state nurses board, arrives home in Medford today after inspection trip of hospitals in northern and eastern parts of state. What's Yir I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or mli Is good 1. Was the first Masonic lodge in America opened (1733) in Boston, Philadelphia, or New York? 2. Is a pachyderm a gem, a rare tropical plant, an elephant or a skin lotion? 3. Bible: What is the first year of Jesus' ministry termed? 4. Do Eskimos eat penguins? 5. Which President was some times called the "Canal Boy?" 6. The capital of Maine is Lew- iston. Augusta. Portland or Bangor? 7. What does "E. Pluribus Un- um" mean? 8. Spiders have how many wings? 9. Is "wages"' singular in sig nification and plural in termin ation? 10. "The wages of sin in death 10. "The wages of sin is death." Has "wages" as in this sentence, ever been construed as the singular form of wage? Answers: 1. losto. 2. Ele phant. 3. The "Year of Obscur ity." 4. No. (temias are native (jiMy in the Antarctic). 5. James A. Garfield, (frsaaa kis early em ployment on a eaaal boat). 6. Augusta. 7. One out of many. 8. None. They cannot fly. 9. Yes. 13. Yes. "The wages of synne is r-t'.h.-'G- Wycliffe. Heriective street name signs. lich can be seen about a block ;zy at night, are one of the !';?;t developments designed to i i.ic automobile anct traffic jrms. according to traffic auth or! Lies. MAIL TRIBUNE Increase Licensing Age? One of the state's most widely re-printed and discussed "letters to the editor" was published in the Bend Bulletin recently. (It appears slightly con densed elsewhere on this page.) The woman who wrote it was motivated by a particularly horrible automobile accident near Bend, in which five members of a family were killed, when another car, driven by a 16-year-old at high speed through a stop sign, crashed into it. Mrs. Marshall calls for parents to assume full responsibilij- moral as well as legal for the actions of their children; to resist, if necessaiy, the social pressures on the kids for a car or the use of one be cause "all the other kids" have that privilege. fF this we approve, wholeheartedly. But, unfortunately, her solution, while admir able as far as it goes, doesn't go far enough. For there are parents who will never heed this sound advice. Meanwhile, we are all at the mercy of youthful squirrels who can, and not infrequently do, push two tons of high-powered machinery around without thought of anyone else's safety nor, in fact, of their own. We are sure that teen-age drivers are capable drivers. They have fast and sure reflexes, and possibly a better understanding of many older drivers. But any police officer, and any insurance statis tician, will confirm the fact that, overall, young driv ers are not safe drivers. (Drivers under 25 comprise 10 per cent of all drivel's but are involved in more than 40 per cent of all accidents, and 27 per cent of fatal accidents.) ""THE Eugene Register-Guard, commenting on the problem, seriously proposes that consideration be given to raising the age at which licenses to drive can be issued. It says : "At the risk of seeming to be a stuffed shirt, we believe the lawmakers in Oregon would be doing the right thing by raising to 18 the age at which a driver's license could be ob tained. It would immediately remove cars from the high school age group, and at the same time prevent a lot of the problems that are connected with the automobile. High school-age youngsters would be a lot less mobile. But would that be bad? We believe not ..." Not only traffic problems, but a lot of other of fenses loosely categorized as "juvenile delinquency," are directly attributable to the almost universal avail ability of automobiles. An automobile, as a fast, comfortable, private con veyance, puts an awful lot of temptation in the hands of young people who haven't had much experience in resisting temptation. rRIVING the streets and highways of the state is a privilege not a right. A driver assumes re sponsibilities for the lives and property of others when he slides behind a wheel. With the increasing number of cars these days, with higher average highway speeds, and with the vast killing potential of all cars, it would seem that society might well demand a certain level of re sponsibility before extending that privilege. E.A. Accident "Rate" Down While we're on the general subject of traffic ac cidents, we'd like to point out another fact which has often occurred to us, and which Frank Jenkins outlined on this page yesterday. -That is : While we are always shocked at the ter rifying number of traffic accidents these days, we are continually surprised that the total is not greater. This impression is even stronger after taking a high way trip of some distance. We recently drove from Medford to Portland to Astoria, down the coast to burg, and back down Highway 99. Not one accident did we see, although tratfic was heavy all the way. Txcept on the few stretches of divided highway, the route was on two-lane roads, with cars whizzing in opposite directions at combined speeds often ex ceeding 100 miles per hour. And yet, in all but a few isolated instances, the cars were under control and being operated re sponsibly. When it is considered that a fraction of a second's error in judgment, a moment's glance away from the road, or a minor distraction, could send two vehicles hurtling into each other, it is a wondrous thing that it is not more frequent. DUT it is a fact that, while accident totals grow bigger each year, the rate at which accidents occur is declining. The increase, is created by the larger number of cars on the highway. Improved roads and traffic controls are part of the reason for the decline. Constant cautioning of drivers, and an apparently better realization of a driver's responsibilities, also plays a part. So, we assume, do the better visibility and brakes on newer model cars. Whatever the reason or reasons, your chances of getting killed in traffic are slightly less today than they were a few years ago. (In Oregon, 1950 was the worst year.) It is up to all of us to see that this trend continues. We can do so by supporting better highways, better traffic controls, improved licensing and reexamin ation procedures, better safety devices. But the most important thing of all is to be careful and responsible, ourselves, when on the highways. E.A. Monday. July 8. 1957 their cars capabilities than Reedsport, inland to Rose . We KENTED A 8ACff COTTAGB, AN' WB'RB MOT GONMA SHAVE FOR A MOLE ' Matter of Fact sy stewon ais0P SOVIET ICBM The American government now has convincing evidence that the Soviets have successfully tested their first experi mental version of a very long- range, multi stage ballistic missile. The Soviet proto type was test ed only a few weeks before Stewait Aisop "Atlas," the first American version of an in tercontinental ballistic missile was blown up off the Florida coast, on June 11th. inis iirst soviet test of an ICBM prototype is, of couse, an event of grave international significance. It is comparable. as a technical achievement, to the first Soviet test of an atomic bomb, in 1949, and to the first Soviet hydrogen bomb test, in 19o3. Eventually, it may be expected to have the same pro found effect on the world balance of power as those two Soviet technical triumphs. The ICBM has been called "the ultimate weapon" because there is no known defense against it. A fully operational ICBM is de signed to fly half way round the world at several hundred miles altitude, in a matter of minutes, armed with a thermonuclear warhead, characteristics which suggests why any defense against it is for the present wholly theorical. THE Soviet test version was a millti-ctacro fnb-ot iirliti an operational configuration." In other words, it was a first test version of a weapon designed for ultimate military use, rather than a mere research vehicle. This does not mean, of course, that the Soviets will have operational ICBMs in strategically decisive quamties in the very near future. There is a long, difficult road to travel between the first test fir ing of a prototype multi-stage long range missile and the achievement of an operational weapons system. An ICBM consists essentially of three parts the enormous first stage rocket which powers the initial flight, the second stage rocket which carries the war head over the target area, and the warhead itself. The first stage must be tested again and again to eliminate bugs." Then the accurate "divorce" of the second stage from the first must also be repeatedly tested it is no easy task to launch one rocket from the back of another, travel ling at many times the speed of sound, so accurately that the second rocket remains on course. Finally, a thermonuclear war head must also be designed cap able of withstanding the terribly high temperatures caused by the friction of the re-entry of the rocket into the earth's atmos phere. And, once all these prob lems have been solved, it is then necessary to build decisive num bers of these enormously com plicated and expensive weapons, construct launching sites for them, and train personnel in the complex business of maintaining and operating them. t'OR such reasons it is probably A one cannot say surely safe to assume that several years will elapse before the Soviets have achieved an ICBM system capable of a decisive surprise attack on the United States. But the first Soviet test of a proto type ICBM is clear warning that this time will come. Much will depend on whether the United States has the capacity to re spond in kind. ICBM bases are, compared with bases for long range air craft, mobile and easily con cealed. If both sides have an operational ICBM base system, neither side can knock out the other's delivery system. But if the Soviets are the first to create an operational ICBM system. they could then, in a surprise attack, destroy the Strategic Air Force bases, and thus the Ameri can capacity to retaliate decisive ly. No one can judge whether they might actually do so. But' the opportunities for blackmail ing the United States into accept ing a super-Munich are obvious, and past history suggests that the Soviets would certainly take ad vantage of these opportunities. TTOS is enough to suggest why the Soviets, in the midst of the talk of disarmament and "peaceful coexistence," have made an enormous effort to win the ICBM race. The fact that the Soviets tested their prototype shortly before the first American ICBM test (whose testing this year was first predicted in this space) does not mean that they have won the race. Nor is it too significant that it was necessary to explode the first American ICBM prototype in the air short ly after take-off. In the missile business, accidents happen, and they can even be usefully in structive.' Yet though we have not yet lost the ICBM race, we have re ceived clear warning that we may lose the race. And the Soviet ICBM test is only the latest item m an accumulating wealth of evidence, which will be described in a forthcoming report, that the Soviets have made giant strides in missile development. These Soviet tri umphs have been achieved at a time when the American missile effort is being sharply cut back in the name of economy and in deference to the budget ceiling. Because this is so, the decision has apparently been taken to play down the danger, and to hush up the evidence of the first Soviet prototype test. Yet the test occurred, and it has gravely shaken the highest official circles as well it might. (c) 19S7 New York Hearld Tribune Inc. In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As everyone who reads the papers knows, President Eisen hower thinks the White House staff needs more office space. More office space for the White House staff means a new execu tive office building for the White House itself can't be ex panded to provide all the space needed without spoiling the beautiful and historic old struc ture that means so much to every American. That brings us face to face with this question: Is more space needed? TTERE are some interesting " figures dug up by the White House correspondent of one of the big news services: When Teddy Roosevelt was President (about a half century ago) the White House staff num bered 40 people and that in cluded White House cooks, but lers and maids, plus Teddy's staff of secretaries, clerks and aids. Today the White House staff totals more than 500 people. TN THE days of William Mc Kinley, who preceded Theo dore Roosevelt, White House mail sometimes reached what was then considered the staggering total of 100 letters a day. This was handled by one mail clerk. The White House mail today averages several thousand letters daily and sometimes reaches peaks of 100,000 letters m a day. It is now handled by 25 fulltime mail clerks. PRESIDENT Lincoln had one personal secretary who han dled all correspondence, appoint- One of Christ's Parables A man had a fig tree in his garden and at the season, he came looking for figs and found none. So he told the gardener to cut the tree down. But the gardener would first dig around the tree and add fertilizer. Then if no figs, he would cut down the tree. Luke 13:6-9. In this parable, the non-bearing tree stands for the Christian who is a mere make-believe. He acts like a Chris tian, but he does not believe in Christ as his Lord and Saviour. Now the saved they believe that Christ's blood washed away their every last sins and that God gives them eternal life. Which kind are you? Geo. N. Taylor, 2385 87th Ave. S-W. Portland 1, Ore. Soviet Experts Still Believe Khrushchev Not Sole Dictator By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent One big question in the Krem-lin-shakeup is whether Soviet Russia is heading again toward a one-man dic tatorship. It may be several weeks before the full significance of the s h a k e u p becomes ap parent. For the mo ment it is clear Charles McCano that Commu nist chieftain Nikita S. Khrush chev has emerged the victor in a long and serious dispute on policy with Vyacheslav M. Molo tov, Georgi M. Malenkov and Lazar M. Kaganovich. But there is reason to doubt that Khrushchev either aspires to be dictator or could be if he wanted to. Molotov, Malenkov and Kaga novich are accused of opposing Khrushchev and Premier Niko lai A. Bulganin in pretty nearly everything that came up in the Kremlin. This included agricultural and industrial reforms and reorgani zations and a somewhat more liberal government set-up. It included relations with leaders of other Communist countries, notably President Tito of Yugoslavia who led the movement toward independent Communism. Khrushchev and Bulganin realized that the day when Rus sia could exert complete domi nation of the affairs of other Communist countries had ended. In foreign policy, the Khrush chev - Bulganin program of "peaceful co-existence" with the Western countries and the de velopment of personal contacts with the leaders of those coun tries was involved. It is indicated strongly that domestic policy and relations with leaders of other Commu nist countries overshadowed for eign relations in importance. . Actually, Khrushchev and Bulganin had pursued their pol icy of "co-existence" despite Molotov. When he opposed the personal contact technique. Khrushchev and Bulganin sim ply left him home while they made personal contact visits abroad. A year ago, they threw him out of his post of foreign minister. But Molotov, who once had been regarded as Josef Stalin's heir, Malenkov, who succeeded Stalin as premier only to be de posed, and Kaganovich kept on fighting. How serious the situation be came is shown by the fact that in the big shakeup five of the eleven members of the Commu nist Presidium the men who really rule Russia were ousted. Naturally, the shakeup has strengthened Khrushchev as the ments and press relations. (Inci dentally, although it was war time, he had ONE part-time Dodyguard. xrresiaent Eisenhower has a top assistant, a deputy assistant, a half dozen secretaries including two who handle press relations, a special legal counsel, ten spec ial assistants for advice on every thing from atomic energy to air safety, an adviser on personnel management, a special consult ant, four administrative assist ants, one physician and three aides from the armed forces. A LL this pertains only to the White House which is only one department of our national government. All over the city of Washington the story is the same. More and more people to handle the mushrooming details of our fabulously expanding federal bureaucracy. More and more buildings to provide space for all these people to work. And to house the voluminous records resulting from all this , paper work. Our country, you see, is GROWING. The machinery of our national government has to grow to keep up with the country. T SUPPOSE it is all right. But there are times when one can't help wondering. One reason why our federal government is pro liferating all over the place is that Washington is becoming to an astonishing extent the county seat of all of America. We go to Washington now to transact all j kinds of business that used to be transacted in the courthouse. The same goes for our state houses. So, unavoidably, the federal bureaucracy grows. -if -? - No. 1 man in Russia's collective leadership. Whether, as some suggest, Khrushchev is on the way to becoming a Stalin-type dictator remains to be seen. If he is near ly all experts on Russia will Bend Woman Seeks Parent Responsibility For Youthful Drivers (Editor's note: The follow ing leiter. printed in silghtly condensed form, first appear ed in the Bend Bulletin, fol lowing an auto accident June 14 in which five persons were killed. It has since- aroused widespread interest through out the state. See editorial comment on this page). To the Editor: The massacre of a whole family June 14 by an uninhibited 16-year-old at the wheel of a high-powered murder weapon brings right to our front doors a situation that we have either evaded or have figured "couldn't happen here." For several years our little city, like other cities all over the country, has been plagued with hot-rodders at the wheels of cars belonging to their par ents or owners by them with parental consent and parental signatures. These young have to have parental consent or ac quiescence because they are not of legal, or so-called responsi ble, age. Even though not con sidered of responsible age, they are still allowed to drive cars at 16 with a permit issued le gally allowed to drive cars, which in the hands of irrespon sible people of any age, are po tential murder weapons. Parents who have any consid erations at all for other human beings would not think of giv ing their son or daughter, what ever age, a high-powered rifle and then turning the child loose to use the rifle as he wishes. And yet those same parents will turn the keys of a car over to a child without any proof that the son or daughter is respon sible enough to use the car with care. I know why parents do this We have had a teen-age daugh ter and I know what pressures are brought to bear on parents. Boys and girls want to have cars because "all the other kids' have the use of cars. .We fear our children won't be popular if they don't do the things "all the other kids" do, don't have all the advantages "all the other kids" have. So instead of teach ing our children control and de veloping in them a sense of re sponsibility to other individu als, as well as to themselves, we weakly give in to their demands because we want them to be ac ceptable to whatever group they have chosen. The consensus of a great num ber of students of the juvenile problem is that parents are re sponsible and I thoroughly agree. 1 believe that the family was established for a definite pur pose, one of which is to super vise the young until they have developed a sense of responsi bility that will enable them to strike out oa their own in given social and economic situations. It is to the eternal damnation of a good many parents today that they don t care enough or are too weak themselves to do what is best for the welfare of their own children. Can't they read? The papers day after day are filled with stories of what is happening to our boys and girls who are al lowed too much responsibility for their own welfare before they are old enough or mature enough to take it. The law of our land, than which there is none higher ex cept God's moral law, recog nizes the fact that responsibility rests on parents until the child FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 have been proved wrong. They have insisted that Russia really has a collective leadership. They say that nobody, including Khrushchev, wants a return to one-man rule. That sounds reasonable. is at least 18. If a son wants to join the service prior to that age, he is supposed to secure his parents' consent. If a child wants to be married before that age, he is supposed to secure the parents' consent. In other words, if a child desires to ac cept the responsibilities of adult hood, his parents are the ones who are supposed to know whether he is yet mature enough for such a step. According to the law, then. parents are liable for their chil dren until the children are at least of legal age. 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