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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
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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
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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. If parents
don't assume this responsibility
voluntarily they should be
forced to do so.
I believe the parents of the
boy driving the car involved in
the accident mentioned above
are as responsible for the
deaths of these people, as if
they had been at the wheel of
the car, instead of their son.
This is a terrible tragedy and
they have my sympathy. But
they had a warning. Their son
was involved in an accident a
short time ago in which he
wrecked his own car. The one
he was driving Friday night
belonged to his parents. The five
people innocently and happily
on their way to a reunion with
their family had no warning.
They did not even have time to
apply brakes. And they were
driving along a highway with
no reason to fear that the stop
signs on roads leading into it
would not be observed.
This accident should never
have occurred. It did. And it
could have happened to your
family or mine. What can we
do to keep similar accidents
from occuring in the future? As
parents, we can evaluate our
relationship with out children,
if we care enough. Mrs. George
W. Marshall.
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