Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 24, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textrofe-AfcreRD (Oregon) UNI ETerrots in Southern Oregon Keaai rrj Mali TrtPune Pubiltiei DaiiT Except Saturday by KZDFOftD FftiTING CO 27-28 North fir Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTH-L. Editor HTRB GREY AdTertuuif Manairr CERAU) LATHAM BuAineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managm Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN lecrph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDOrta Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa Mcond clan matter at Mediord Oregon uner Act of March 3. lyre SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advancer Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday On year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sundav Three mom 4-25 Sundav Only Ona rear M-20 By Carrier In Advanc Med ford Aihiand Central Point Eac)e Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shad? Cove Rojrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sundav One year $18 00 Dally and Sundav One month 10 Carrier and Dealers 10c Der cony Ail Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of tba City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, da troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C H A T I 0 NA I t 0 IT 0 I i xA I lAjibcrA'i'eN - Wmiifiiw.H.'.ura xiqcr' Xn I W $ PA m ASIOCIATIOM 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 24. 1947 (Thurid-r) Miss Beverlee Mooney, 19, winner of the "Miss Medford" contest recently sponsored by the Medford Jaycees leaves by plane for Seaside. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There has been no summer weather worth cussing to date. 20 YEARS AGO July 27. 1937 (Sunday) Shortage of white guinea fowl in the Rogue River valley reported. Chamber of Commerce places promotional parking tags on tourist cars parked on city streets. 90 YEARS AGO July 24. 1927 (Sunday) California Oregon Power company removes woodpecker colony pole. Mail-Tribune completes instal lation of two new Linotypes. 40 YEARS AGO July 24. 1917 (Tuesday) Medford's Seventh company, Oregon coast artillery, National Guard, will be mustered Into federal service. The most disastrous fire in the Crater National Forest is still burning after a week. What's Your I.Q.? Nine r ttn correct 1 superior; seven or etcht u excellent: flvs or six Is good. 1. Orthodox Moslems shave the scalp but leave a tuft of hair. Why the tuft? 2. Does sound travel faster in water than in air? 3. Bible. What was Pilate's first name? 4. What Is the opposite of climax? 5. What is the name of the sacred Scriptures of the Mo hammedans? 6. What is the Latin phrase which means "a reason for war"? 7. In what village in France . was Joan of Arc born in 1412? 8. What do New Zealand soldiers call Marines? 9. Large beads on a Rosary represent the Paternosters and Glorias. What do the small beads represent? 10. "But all his mind is holi ness. To number Ave-Maries on his" what? Shakespeare. Answers: 1. For the "angel" to grasp, to carry a body heaven ward. 2. Yes. 3. Pontius. 4. Anti climax. S. Koran. 6 Casus belli. 7. . Domremy. . 8. "Cobblers", meaning buddy or pal. 9. Arcs. 10. "beads". Alaska Pioneer To Wed Top Lawyer London W Jack McCord, a 74-year-old Alaska pioneer, will marry America's leading woman lawyer here hursday aft er a 42-year courtship that stretched from the Yukon to Cleveland and London. The bride is Miss Grace Doer ing. 66, of Cleveland, who met McCord at the San Francisco World Fair of 1915 when he left his Yukon gold strikes to see the sights of the big city. McCord. already a legendary figure of the Great Northwest, smiled a gentle Churchillian smile Tuesday night as he watch ed Miss Ooering installed as president of the National associ ation of Women Lawyers. mail tribune How Are "We know that underpinned highways dump too many cars into overcongested areas; that bus lines and commuter trains are broke and that outmoded equipment provided poor service; that overcrowded schools are everywhere on double shifts; that water resources are dangerously inade quate; that many suburban sewage disposal systems lag under overloads; that billboards despoil much of our land and are the heralds of advancing blight: that shifting pur chasing power from central city. to suburb has meant down town decay; that deficient city environments produce racial strife and crime; that there is a fight in every older suburb to retain its space and its standards; that there are every where immense parking problems, zoning struggles, in adequate tax bases, rigid and unreal city boundaries, in adequate airports, excessive operating costs for antiquated municipal services, shortsighted realty interests, great legal problems in respect to advance aquisition of land, economic and social problems created by new controlled-acess free ways, insufficient park and recreational facilities, air pollu tion." The above description of "the nation's No. 1 do mestic problem : the growing metropolitan crisis," ap pears in the current issue of the Architectural Forum, It is one of the best concise descriptions we have read of the changes the bigger cities of the nation are going through, and of people aa a result of the changes. JVIEDF0RD, thank the good Lord, is still a relatively small city. But it has grown rapidly doubling in population in the past 17 years it will continue to grow, and a number of the points brought out above have an application here, despite the fact that the chief reference is to really large cities. How well are we doing in coping with all these problems? Amazingly well. FIRST of all it should be pointed out that the city F has a flexible, efficient and clean administration, which is dedicated to doing the best possible job for the people of the city. We do not always agree with their conclusions or methods, but have never had any reason to believe their decisions were made in anything less than com plete honesty and sincerity. Secondly, the city has employed men who have made it their business to look as far into the future as is humanly possible, and to plan ahead, to foresee what the problems will be, and to prepare to meet them. "THIRD, and perhaps most important, the city has people with a high degree of intelligence and un derstanding people who are willing to acknowledge that foresight, planning and a reasonable level of spending of public funds are necessary for progress. The approval of the capital improvement program at last November's election is an example of this ; so was the approval a few years ago of a new water pipe line, and, later, of a new airport building, and of two new fire stations. The schools of Medford have always had excellent support from the people something for which we and our children can be thankful. ASA result of this cooperative attitude, Medford ranks high among cities of any size regarding po lice and fire protection, water supply, airport faci lities, school plant and equipment, sewage disposal, street and road construction and maintenance, build ing: inspection, and other facets of city responsibility. Now in the planning and consideration stages are more adequate traffic control, a modest start on off street parking, a system of arterial streets, more wide spread and more efficient sewers, both storm and sanitary, development of more park and recreational facilities, future expansion of the airport, and an ar ray of other projects for the near or distant future. All this, mind you, has been accomplished on a tax schedule which compares favorably with any other city in Oregon. Medford, as a municipality, is solvent without being affluent; its public servants are fairly paid, its taxes are reasonable ; its services are many and the rates are low. The magnitude of this accomplishment can only be seen when contrasted with the difficulties found in other communities. HAVE had, to be sure, our zoning fights and " right-of-way fights; our citizens and officials with lack of foresight; our problems of land acquisi tion; our annexation battles. We will undoubtedly have more, and it is healthy that these matters of pub lic policy be threshed out in public for all to see and understand. Based on the experience of other cities, we believe that public transportation, billboard despoilation, downtown and neighborhood renovation and improve ment, air pollution, and most important of all, the "economic and social problems created by new con-trolled-access freeways," (to quote again the preamble to this discussion,) are going to require increased attention. IN BLANCE, however, we are thoroughly convinced that Medford doesn't need to hang its head in shame in any company. In some areas it has looked far into the future, and prepared for it. In other areas it has managed to keep abreast of the problems as they arose. In a few, it has fallen somewhat behind, and now faces a straggle to catch up. But it isn't until one stops to think of all the many facets of public service that it is realized just how well our city, as a city, measures up to what we all want it to be. E.A. j Wednesday. Julr 24, 19S7 We Doing? the problems facing their Here's voir milk. Today and By Walter IDEALISM AND THE TWO GENERALS Of the "many long discussions about our respective doctrines," which he had with Marshal Zhukov some 12 years ao, one point in partic ular seems to stand out in the President's mind. The So viet command er had asserted that Commu nism is "ideal istic" whereas our doctrine is Walter Uppmaiui "materialistic.1 The President remembers that he "was very hard put to it" to reply. Judging by his remarks at the press conference last week he still feels that he did not win the argument by a knockout. The two soldiers were agreed, we learn, that a system is ideal istic if its ideal is that people should "believe that their great- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlKht to edit all letters witb an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Project Suggested To the Editor: There are a number of young men and boys seeking summer employment lo cally; there are also a number of local organizations looking for money-raising projects. On many Medford streets house numbers are difficult to read, if not lacking entirely. May I suggest a project that might benefit summer visitors seeking the residence of their hosts and also give employment to individuals or organizations? I believe if some enterprising persons procured a set of nu merical stencils and some black paint that could be used on curb stones and went from door to door offering to paint house numbers on the curb where they could be plainly read, household ers would be pleased to pay a small fee for the service. Perhaps for a larger fee the householder's name could be added with the use of a set of alphabetical stencils. I suggest that city officials be queried prior to offering such services as to whether this proj ect is permissible. A similar project has been conducted in prior years. Helen Webster 940 Whitman ave. Medford, Ore. Potpourri Praised To the Editor: One is always ready to write into your column when they have something to criticize, but I think one should also send in praise where praise is due. I am writing abdut our own society lady, Olive Starcher. Readers of the Medford Mail Tri bune are indeed very fortunate to have had such a "blow by blow" report of her recent visit to the N. E. A. and other inter esting points in the east. I have saved each story in Potpourri as it was educational as well as in teresting, and the way Potpourri gave us the "call a spade a spade" language of the "Red Caps," taxi drivers and other public servants she met up with, gave us a chuckle and we de cided people are the same the world over and a sense of hu mor makes all persons "kin." The crashing of the gate to get to the President's press confer ence, watching our baseball heroes, visit to U.N., and all the numerous other places that Pot pourri visited and then wrote home to our Medford Mail Tri bune, gave us all an insight to her travels, and meeting Med ford people in New York, ride in the subway and so on, just showed Olive is our gal and we are very happy to have "Our Little Nell" back home with us safe and sound. Caroline L. Harding Trail, Ore. . IS Ate. Wilson ' Tomorrow Lippmann est satisfaction in life Is in sac rificing for the state, giving to the state." Theirs, it would seem, "not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." With this military definition of the ideal society, Gen. Eisen hower was bound to be in trou ble about the comparative ideal ism of Communism and liberal democracy. This was especially the case when, in describing our own society, he accepted the view of Marshal Zhukov that "a man can earn what he pleases, save what he pleases, buy what he pleases." No wonder the ar gument of the two soldiers was, as the President said on Wednes day, "very tough." Both of them were hazy not only as to what were their "respective doctrines but as to what was in fact the character of their two societies, AS WE see him through the President's recollections. Mar shal Zhukov was then a veteran professional soldier but a new, raw, and very naive amateur in the Communist, Party. He had found it easy and convenient to believe that the Communist ideal is the ideal of the soldier, sworn to live and die obeying the orders of the rulers of the state. Bravely, he assured the American general that Stalin did not "force" the contribution of the people to the state. Stalin was "teaching a people to sup port that contribution." This, argued the Marshal, was very idealistic. It was more idealistic than any other social system. Is it not idealistic to give, like a soldier, everything to the state? And is it not very idealistic of Stalin to teach peo ple to enjoy being so idealistic? HAD someone, who was versed in Leninism, been present at these discussions, he would have pointed out that the word "teaching" covered the whole vast apparatus of the so-called dictatorship of the proletriat. The earlier Marxists, those be fore Lenin, had believed that there would' be a brief and re grettable, but necessary, period of dictatorship for the purpose of socializing the means of pro duction. But then human nature would become re-educated to sel fishness by the new institution of socialist property. After that there would be no more need of coercion, and the state would wither away. But years before he seized power, Lenin had shed the ideal istic illusions of the earlier Marxists, he did not pretend to believe that human nature could soon be changed. Communism, he taught, could not be carried on without what was virutually a permanent dictatorship. Lenin, who was quite truly the founder of Soviet Communuism, was a harsh and implacable realist. He would have had only scorn for the two tender-minded generals in search of idealism. And so, no doubt sincerely but most naively. Marshal Zhukov was telling Gen. Eisenhower an old fairy tale. It was the tale of an ideal condition of selflessness, of a community of the 'regener ate, which for thousands of years has been the dream of many religious communities, among them, the early Chris tians. The dream is entirely un related to the realities of the Soviet state, or to the teachings of Lenin, who is its prophet. IN THE liberal democratic or der the ideal is not that the highest good is to sacrifice for the state. The state exists tor the good of man. The highest po litical good is that the sacrifice must be justified to the people of the community, that it must be explained, debated, assented to, and that there shall be an audit and a reckoning after the sacrifice has been made. It is not true, as Marshal-Zhukov said, that the liberal demo cratic order permits everyone to "do anything." Gen. Eisenhower should have had no difficulty re plying to that. For all our eco nomic activities take place with in an environment of laws and customs which regulates them. Tunisia on Republic; Monarchy End Seen By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Premier Habib Bourguiba is getting ready to set himself up as the "strong man" of Tunisia in Northwest Africa. It looks as if he intends to throw Bey Sidi Mohammed Al Amin off the throne Thurs day and pro- plaim a rAnuh. i J&J 1,c- Apparently Charles McCanp the only way Mohammed can avoid being ousted forcibly is to beat Bour guiba to it by abdicating. Bourguiba became the head man in Tunisia after his coun- Secrecy Provision Hidden in Article Of Civil Rights Bill By LYLE WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IB It may come as a surprise to the news paper editors of the United S t a te s, but here a r e th e facts:' They or their report ers could be fined or im prisoned for an all-out re porting job on the Civil I.Tle C Wilson Rights Commission to be estab lish by the administration bill now pending in the Senate. It is a fact that the proposed legislation has some built-in sec recy provisions to be invoked by commission whim. It also is fact that the bill would provide a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than a year on individuals who either leaked or used certain commission material marked secret. The Eisenhower administra tion cannot be charged with re sponsibility for this secrecy gim mick which would permit any or all evidence or testimony in a commission hearing to be with held from the public. This bur eaucratic rosebush was planted in the-bill bv Chairman Eman uel Celler's House Judiciary Committee. Gives Explanation The explanation given the United Press was that these and other procedural provisions were written into the bill after it reached the House to make the whole thing "less unpalatable to the South'." Southerners had protested that, as received from the Justice Department, the pro posed legislation confided to the Customs Aqenfs Grab Heroin in Miami Raid Miami 1" Customs agents believe they have smash ed one of the biggest interna tional narcotics smuggling rings operating in the United States with their seizure of $500,000 worth of heroin from a French freighter. Thirty-five agents, some pos ing as dock workers, swoopea down on the freighter Marseille Monday night and arrested four men carrying nine and one-half pounds of pure heroin strapped to their bodies. The raid climaxed a six month watch of the ship as it nlied between ports in the south eastern United States and Eur ope. Agents continued a stem to stern search of the big freighter today. Nazi Sympathizer Dies in Paris Home Paris nn Sacha Guitry, controversial actor and author who was imprisoned for a short time after World War II for be ing friendly with the Nazis, died early today at his home here. He was 72. Guitry, sometimes called the Twentieth Century Moliere," was a leading actor, producer and director before World War II. He continued to produce plays after the fall of France in 1940 and was arrested after the liberation. He was charged with "sympathy with the enemy during the occupation." Men, women and children work within the laws of property and within the labor laws. They can build only within the zoning laws. They can save and they can spend only within the tax laws. We live within a system of laws and not in a state of an archy. The ideal of our system, which we approximate but never wholly achieve, is that this sys tem of laws shall never be ar bitrary, and that because it is debatable, it will, within the limits of human frailty, be rea sonable and aim at justice. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribue Inc. 2M. Verge of Becoming try, long a French protectorate, attained its independence on March 20, 1955. Ever since he became premier, he has been building up his per sonal authority. Bey Virtually Prisoner For a long time the 75-year-old Bey, nominally Tunisia's ruler, has been virtually a pris oner in his palace near Tunis, fiddling with his self-made clocks and his do - it - yourself cabinet-making tools. Bourguiba decided last week that the time had come to make his supreme leadership official. He announced in his weekly radio broadcast that the govern ment was going to "take meas ures" against members of the royal family who had used their commission authority both too vague and too broad. In repairing that mistake, if any, the judiciary committee men authorized the commission to proceed at will in secret. On what grounds this was done is not evident. It scarcely could be, however, on grounds of na tional security which is the de fense of most bureaucrats in Washington when they want to keep from the public the manner in which they are transacting the public's business. Paragraph E of the bill's TiUe I, which sets up the commission, provides that: "If the commission determines that evidence or testimony at any hearing may tend to defame degrade, or incriminate any per son. It shall receive such evi dence or testimony in executive session . . ." Executive session means sec ret session from which reporters and all other representatives of the public are excluded. Para graph G is the enforcer, as fol lows: Need Commission Consent "No evidence or testimony In the Day's News By FRANK Farm prices note: Hogs are selling in Chicago at up to the highest prices in three years, while initial prices are steady to higher on grain fed cattle and slaughter lambs. TTow come? H-Well, the market report this morning goes on to say: "Trading on the SMALLEST MONDAY SUPPLY IN THREE YEARS is active. Hog prices are strong to 75 cents higher. Re ceipts of some 60,000 hogs at 12 markets are about 6,000 smaller than last Monday. "Fed steer and heifer prices are steady to strong, and some sold 50 cents higher at Chicago. Receipts at 12 markets included some 102,000 cattle and 21,000 sheep and lambs. "That is about 2,000 less cat tle and 3,000 less sheep and lambs than a week ago." ut of thousands of years of " experience , this general rule has been deduced: When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to FALL. When there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to RISE. That has come to be known as the law of supply and de mand. irom time to time down through the ages politicians of one breed and another have sought to REPEAL this law of supply and demand. OC CASIONALLY, for short per iods, these political efforts have But over the LONG "ULLt, the natural law of supply and demand has resisted all poltical efforts to repeal it. The clear lesson of all market history is that when sellers are more nu merous than buyers prices will fall in spite of all efforts on the part of government to keep them rising. And In Scenic Surroundings The setting and decor of Lit willer's beautiful Mountain View funeral and wedding chapel, attracts the attention of tbt passerby and the ad miration of an interior inspection. M. Lltwiller LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close c positions to enrich themselves. This was followed by a direct attack on the Bey in semi-official newspapers and other or gans of propaganda. Bourguiba called a meeting of the national assembly, the Par liament, for Thursday. Dispatches say the assembly probably will vote to abolish the monarchy. New Republic Seen The formal proclamation of a repuh'.ic is expected to follow, with Bourguiba as president with strong executive powers. Neither Morocco, the western most of the three units of French North Africa, nor Egypt wel comes this prospect. Morocco, now independent like Tunisia, is a monarchy. Sul tan Siki Mohammed Ben-Yous-sef is afraid that his own people might get ideas if Tunisia be came a republic. President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of Egypt is a strong man himself. He would like to be the big man in all of North Africa and the Arab world in general. He does not want any rivals for the strong man role. taken in executive session may be released or used in public sessions without the consent of the commission. Whoever re leases or uses in public without the consent of the commission evidence or testimony taken in , executive session shall be fined not more than $1,000, or im prisoned for not more than one year." The commission, thus set up with authority to conduct its business in secrecy, will have trouble enough without settling itself in the middle of the con troversy now roaring in the United States about bureau cratic abuses of the secrecy priv ilege. Whatever the commission may say or do, one side or the other in the civil rights contro versy is likely to complain. The temptation of the commission to conceal what it may of its con troversial hearings will be al most impossible to resist. The secrecy provision prob ably will prove to be a time bomb set in the commission's innards. JENKINS When buyers, over any rea sonable period of time, remain more numerous than sellers prices will rise and will keep on rising as long as buyers re main more numerous than sell ers. In these highly political days, that is a good rule to keep in mind. H ere's a note on taxes: The Tax Foundation, Inc., a private research organization with headquarters In New York, reports in a study made public today that the average Ameri can making as much as $85 a week WORKS A DAY AND A HALF OUT OF EACH WEEK TO SUPPORT GOVERNMENT. It adds: "Shortly after lunch on Tues day, after he has put in his stint for federal, state and local tax collectors, this average $85-a-week worker is free to start earning a living for himself and his family." rphat is to say: This average worker, who works on the average a five-day week, works all of Monday and half of Tuesday for GOVERN MENT. He has only half of Tues day and all of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to work for himself. Out of his earnings on these three and a half days, he has to pay all of his private and person al! bills. Jnother clear lesson of history: When the time comes when ' government reaches into the pockets of the people and takes out TOO MUCH of the people s earnings to pay the cost of gov ernment, trouble follows sooner or later. Nearly always, history tells us, it is BAD trouble. Mrs. Utwltler rtt -in." "It Is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."