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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone tn Southern Oarzoo Reads The Mail Tribune' Published Duly Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North fir St Phone 2-ll HflRVDT IS DITtTl FJii EZRa GRZK Advertiainf Manager GERALD LATHAM Buaineaa Manager ERIC A1XE! JR. Managing Editor EARL H AEAMS City Editor HARRY cm?MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JKWETT S porta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor BAIJ ERICKSON Circulatton Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of Liarcn 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday On year f IS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mas 25 Sunday Only On year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy icrma uasn in Advance 0'Sii,". ?.per ' the C1,T Medford Official Paper of Jackson County K"! Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU l-irtl-ULJVHU WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY ISC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION Al tOITOIIAt a . r t CIA'ISN "-J ) imiHii'.n.'.nn NEWS PA P E PUBLISHEtS - 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 Aug. 11, 1947 Harvesting of crawfords and other varieties of early peaches la now neanng its peak here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Los An geles is suffering from smog, an atmospheric condition produced by noxious gas, smoke and fool and freak political theories." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1937 An association of county peach growers may be formed due to the Increasing importance of the county crop. Over 150 employees and their families of Medford Mail Trib une and Klamath Falls News Herald are expected to - attend the typographical union picnic next Sunday. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh may land on Medford .field during prosperity celebration. Sixth street is opened to through traffic here. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1917 Library privileges extended to company C, Third Oregon Infan try stationed here. . Auto tourist travel to and through Medford breaks all rec ords. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good . The first American vessel was launched (1797) near which of the Great Lakes? 2. A coat of paint applied to iron that has begun to rust, will or will not prevent it from rust ing further? 3. Bible: What had Moses In mind when he took a " second census? 4. How many shillings have the monetary value of a British pound sterling? 5 Did the Spanish-American war occur in 1890, 1892, 1896 or 1898? 6. What crop is grown in paddy-fields? 7. In which field of science are the names Herschel, Coper nicus and Halley famous? 8. What is hemoglobin? 9. Should "onery", a dialec tal variety of "ordinary", be avoided? 10. "A fool and his money are soon" what? Answers: 1. Lake Erie. 2. Will not. 3. The building of an Army. 4. Twenty. 5. 1898. 6. Rice. 7. As tronomy. 8. The red coloring matter in blood. 9. Yes. 10. "parted." Senator Husband Named Committee Chairman Salem TO State Sen. Donald R. Husband, Eugene Republican, was elected chairman of the leg islative interim education com mittee at its first meeting here Friday. Rep. Shirley Fielb, Portland Republican, was elected vice chairman, and Sen. Ward H. Cook, Portland Democrat, sec retary. A general discussion of edu cation problems followed the election. The committee will meet again here Sept. 7 at 9:30 aJn. Your best shortcut to informa tion in print is the telephone service of your Medford Public Library. MAIL TRIBUNE Good Old John Englishmen may not always speak properly but we like the way they usually behave. It was both improper and surprising for Lord Altrincham to declare in his magazine that Queen Elizabeth's speeches gave him "a pain in the neck" and reminded him of some prissy school m'am, talk ing down condescendingly, to the members of the primary class. IN THE first place the Queen doesn't write her speeches, they.are written by her ministers. And in the second place her manner of address, which is per haps somewhat primly saccharine, is a direct inherit ance from her mother, for which of course, she can not be blamed. So his Lordship was plainly out of order, and mem bers of the "League of Empire Loyalists" were un doubtedly justified in declaring Altrincham guilty of what in high social circles is a capital offense namely doing something which by tradition and common consent just "ISN'T done." , MOR was it surprising that members of the nobility like the Earl of Strathmore should publicly state, quote : "Young Altrincham is a bounder who should be shot." Or his colleague the Duke of Argyll should put it somewhat more forcibly again quote : "I would like to see the man drawn and quartered." X LL of which including the comments of the young guilty Lord, demonstrate the high respect the British people have for the sacred and traditional right exemplified every week-end year after year in Hyde Park of free speech, and also free press, and free assembly. FOR in spite of all this Huaitciing un c.t abiuii w ao idricii uiii uiic citizen of the realm, a certain Philip Kinghorn Bur bidge, 64, active member of the "League of Empire Loyalists." He overtook the offending Lord at some public gathering and to the latter's complete amazement, slapped his face, which follows: , "I felt it up to a decent Briton to show resentment to the scurrilous attack on the Queen. I fear foreign repercussions particularly in America at a time when our fortunes are at a low ebb." LJOWEVER, in the court room where this justifica- tion .for face-slapping was placed on the high plane of loyalty to country and the Queen, there were no cries of "Hear, Hear!" There was no applause. In the silence that followed, London's Chief Magistrate Sir Laurence Dunn brushed this "alibi" aside, and fined the defendant $2.80 for assault. - Nor was this all he received. He was given notice to quit his rooming house no better than, quote : "A gutter brawlert" - - THERE you have it. They don't give merely cratic principles of personal liberty, free press and free speech, and then, when some emotional wave sweeps their country forget all about it, and join in some subversive witch-hunt, . . Whatever the emotional of war old John Bull keeps his boots firmly on the ground, never loses his head, and hews strictly in fair weather and m foul,-to the spirit of HIS "constitution" even though it has never been written, as has the constitution, of the United States. R.W.R. Jumbo as a Switch Hitter It's an old story but time really DOES fugit. It seems only yesterday that former Secretary of the Interior McKay and the Republican "Old Guard" were celebrating their miracle-making solution of the public vs. private power issue. It was all so simple. There would be a "partner ship" between the taxpayers of the country that is the government and the private power combine. Instead of the government paying all the expenses and eventually getting it ALL back the govern ment would only pay for the non-profit features such as irrigation, transportation and recreation. Private Power would pay for all the features that would bring them the usual assured and gratifying return. TT LISTENED well, particularly when an economy drive was in the air. DUT the people were not as dumb, as the "fast-buck D boys" assumed. It didn't take the "F.B.I." to divulge the fact that this was "a heads we win tails you lose" proposal the taxpayers would pay out mil lions and not get a dime in return, wrhile the private power companies, would invest millions and make a killing. It was just as simple as that. DUT what do we find today? u Even the "Oregonian" admits that in this part of the country, this phony deal is as moribund as Rameses the Second. Not only that, but in spite of its strong endorsement of former Secretary McKay and his anti-public power policies, it welcomes a million dollar appropriation for John Day and wishes it in creased and condemns the Federal Power Commission for licensing a "low dam in Hells Canyon." Finally it admits that congressional hopes for a "partnership" plan are DEAD. As indicated above, so much i3 happening these days it seems it happened only a few days ago. ' R.W.R. Sunday, August 11, 1957 talk about "shooting" and action he later justified as and proclaimed publicly as - - j lip-service to the demo strain and stress even I HAD A NIGHTMARE ' 7UERB WASNT AMY" PSANUT BUTTER IN TUB WHOLE iY0&D! Today and By Walter A STRONG BILL It is not, it seems to me, a true reading of what has hap pened about civil rights to sup pose that the Senate has tak- en a good and a strong bill and has made it into a poor and a weak weak one. Th Senate version is, on the con trary, a far bet: Walter Lippmann ter bill than the one brought forward by Mr. Brownell and accepted in the House. The radical vice of the orig inal bill is that it promises more than the President and the At torney General can in fact per form. It invests the Federal Executive with nominal power and an enormous mandate, that of compeUing the Southern states to cease and desist .from all violation of civil rights, in cluding segregation in the pub lic schools. Because the bill promises so much more than the Federal Executive can possibly do, it is -fair to say that it was drafted not by statesmen seri ously concerned with the civil rights of Southern Negroes but by Northern politicians concern ed with the vote ' of Northern Negroes. FOR if the President were to do what innocent supporters of the BrowneU bill have been led to expect him to do, tie would find himself embroiled aU over, the deep South in fierce legal battles and popular com motions. Such a massive Federal intervention, as the House, bill calls for, would surely provoke a sectional resistance which would divide the country and would embitter the human con dition of the South. And if the President hesitated and was cautious, he would be charged with violating his oath of office. He would be subject to all manner of ' demagogic pressure and to popular repris als If President Eisenhower had understood the - problem,, he would now be congratulating himself on the" defeat of the House biU. For he has escaped the stresses and the strains, the turmoil and the ilrouble, which passage of that bill would have brought upon him,. He would have found himself obligated to do quickly by widespread legal coercion what can in fact be done, as he well knows, only gradually by the evolution of opinion. ' THE great virtue of the Sen ate's bill is t. that it reduces Matter of Fact NIXON AND KNOWLAND Washington Vice President Richard Nixon, it can be pre dicted with confidence, will m iu!n strongly and publicly sup port Sen. Wil liam Knowland in Knowland's forth coming bid to wrest the California G o vernorship from Gov. Goodwin Stewaif Alsop rvnigni. For Nixon, this is a crucial decision, which may deeply af fect his political future. For Knowland is, of course, Nixon's most dangerous rival for the 1960 Presidential nomination. Given Nixon's all-out support, Knowland will be virtually as sured of the Republican guber natorial nomination. He will also have an excellent chance of election, and as Governor of the second biggest state, he will be in a strong position to challenge Nixon for the Presidential nomi nation. Thus Nixon's decision to sup port Knowland might seem, at first glance, either an act of re markable political stupidity, or Nrrr I. 8-c UfTUlt AST Tomorrow Lippmann I the responsibility of the Execu tive Branch of the government to a manageable size. The re sponsibilities are manageable be cause the Senate bill registers an historic event namely, an agreement with the big political fleaders of the South that the time has arrived to secure and protect by Federal intervention the civil rights of qualified Ne groes to vote. The reason the Senate bill is really "stronger" than the House bill is that underneath the. powers granted to enforce the critical civil right to vote theje is the agreement to ac quiesce and to comply in the acknowledgment of that right. The Senate bill can be enacted without a filibuster. What this signifies is that it can be used effectively without provoking the resistance of a more or less united South. VIHETHER the Senate bill will be used effectively depends not on Congress but on the Ad ministrationon whether it is disinterested, on. whether it is lucid, and on whether it has the imagination to make the most of .what the Senate leaders have conceded. Led by Sen. Russell of Georgia and Sen. Lyn don Johnson of Texas, they have acknowledged the constitution al right of qualified Negroes to vote and they have accepted the principle that the Federal gov ernment has the right and the duty to intervene to protect this right. To reject this concession, to treat it as uninteresting and unimportant, would be stupid and foolish. The Senate bill, precisely because it is based on such wide consent in the South, differs not in degree but in kind from the Brownell draft and the House bill. rplIE bill has certain defects, -- which are quite incidental; most importantly, the jury trial amendment should be limited to the field covered by the biU itself namely the protection and the securing of the right to vote. Without sacrificing any thing of principle or of sub stance, the Senate should agree to correct this mistake. If that is done, there will be no ground on which the House can reasonably reject the Senate bill. There will be none on which the President can veto it. For the bill is not only a great advance in the civil rights of the Southern Negroes. It is a very great advance in the con currence on a dangerous issue of the nation as a whole. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. By Stewart Alsop the result of a secret deal. In fact, it is neither. rpHERE have already been ru--1 mors of a Knowland-Nixon deal according to one version, for example, Knowland would be oifered the Secretaryship of State in a Nixon Cabinet, in ex change for a promise to back Nixon for 'the 1960 nomination. Such rumors will burgeon lux uriantly when Nixon supports Knowland's bid for the Gover norshiprActually there has been no deal of any sort, and there will be none. Nor is there anything stupid about Nixon's intention of sup porting Knowland. On the con trary, it is a tribute to Nixon's intelligence, and his ability to grasp the simple logic of his political situation. ' ' Theoretically, Nixon has two alternatives to supporting Knowland. One, of course, is to support Knight, either openly or by indirection. Knight has re cently been making small pla cating gestures in Nixon's direc tion, in the hope that Nixon might do just that. But until very recently, Knight has never made any se cret at all of his attitude towards Nixon. He does not simply dis-j Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication: la permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ail letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Screw Loose Somewhere To the Editor: Some praise rightly put and some criticism rightly placed, we hope: I would like as a rather new citizen of this wonderful valley and the city of Medford, a healthy, growing city of many nice people, and some especially, to mention most important right now the postal employees, or those who so courteously serve you, each and everyone, daily in their respective duties. It has been most gratifying and appreciated by me. Well, I can hear you say, "They are paid for it, aren't they? Why shouldn't they?" To be sure, but they could do it with a grouch, like a lot of people try to do. They are to be commended, and such I want to do. They are rightly entitled to a raise in pay. Maybe they would feel some of that Republican prosperity. If the president would kindly take time off from that important foreign aid, and take up a few domestic prob lems, we would aU feel some of it. j The unemployment situation in Oregon, as well as many oth er places, does not look encour aging. And why don't taxes ease up? Large corporations, like automobile companies, spend 30 to 50 million dollars in adver tising. So it is thrown back, the burden on the grass root level. Labor everywhere makes pros perity when employed. Our gov ernor is realizing this and en deavoring to find a remedy. Let's all get behind this or we will lose the pennant. It will require good, teamwork everywhere. Casey Stengel would say send; up anotner pitcher, but the pres ent one won't give up his job, so we might lose one. First it's lumber industry, because of no housing, then high interest, then agriculture. Where there should be lots of work and good pay, now we have the largest number of unemployed for some time. Screw loose somewhere. Hope we find it before it is too late. A Subscriber (Name on file) " Medford, Ore. . Statement From Hatfield To the Editor: In reviewing the mail which comes into this office and noting the inquiries that are received in person or by telephone it is apparent that a great many citizens are un aware that their Secretary of State is no longer the adminis trative official responsible for the Motor Vehicle Department The Legislature transferred the ' Motor Vehicle operation to a separate department, the di rector of which is appointed by the Governor. It would speed service for the many applicants for automobile and drivers' li censes as well as those with other dealings: with the Depart ment of Motor; Vehicles if their curresponueuce auu contacts were directed to appropriate de partmental officials. It is, of course, my desire to be of service to any citizen either in connection with this office or in matters before the boards on which I serve. Mark O. Hatfield, Secretary of State, Salem, Ore. : k like Nixon, as an ambitious poli tician often dislikes a rival. He detests him, and he has never made any attempt to conceal this sentiment. . i - FOR Nixon to support a man who, as every Californian knows, hates ; him, in order to hurt the chances of a potential Presidential rival, would be an act of supreme political cyni cism. And by, the same token, it would be an act of supreme po litical folly, which might kill Nixon's chances for the Presi dency once and for all. Nixon's other obvious alterna tive is to remain ostensibly neu tral in the Knowland-Knight battle. But as a practical matter, this could not be one. The Re publican organization in south ern California is very largely a Nixon organization. The Nixon organization cannot remain aloof in the Knowland-Knight fight. For Nixon to pretend to remain above the battle while his people supported one candi date or the other would hurt him almost as much as support ing Knight would hurt him, since it would also cast him in the role of political opportunist. Thus Nixon's only political logical .course is to .support Knowland strongly and openly, which is what he will predict ably do. But it would also be a mistake to suppose that Nixon's course will be dictated simply by political logic or expediency. T IKE other men, politicians are affected by personal re-, lationships, and even despite the cynics, by loftier considerations. Nixon and Knowland are very different kinds of men, and they are not close personal friends. Yet they have a genuine respect for each other, and the - civil rights fight, in which they have worked intimately together, has brought them closer together than ever before. Thus one ; additional reason POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) An operative of ours, vis iting in Ashland recently, saw the following handwritten notice on the door of a busi ness establishment: "Laura, I'm home." Food is a consuming (no pun intended) interest among certain of our co-workers. We well remember the days when a staff member would come in each Saturday afternoon with arms laden with mountains of pigs .knuckles, liverwurst, French bread, sardines, cheese, pickles and salami, graciously topped off by a generous portion of ice cream and .fresh straw berries. She insisted that every one have some, too. Since those glorious days, the cuisine situation in the news room has deteriorated. True, oc casionally one of our efficient young women makes a cake. And rare is the day when some one doesn't rush to the nearest bakery for sacks of bearclaws, maple bars or doughnuts. These, it is rumored, go well with the exceedingly strong, black coffee which is usually brewed by one or another of our Navy veterans. Our society editor frequently brings her lunch. (She favors large hunks of natural cheese and whole wheat bread.) Others on the staff make for the near est restaurant. Still another can sometimes be seen feasting daintily on large slabs of melon. Once in a while, however, emergencies arise, or usual lines of communication and supply break down, and someone is dep utized to purchase a tailor-made sandwich for someone else. This happened recently, and, since the hungry one did not specify any particular variety, and the messenger has off-beat tastes in Sandwiches, he returned with a fried-egg sandwich, which was turned down in horror. It wound up on the desk of our society editor, who, we are convinced, is omnivorous. She ate it, too, with apparent gusto. The following card, quoted in full, recently was received fronv an 11-year-old attending Girl Scout camp: "Dear Fam ily, This is a letter-breakfast. You have to write a letter to gel breakfast. I'm late. Love and Kisses." - . In the mid-1930s, "Grapes of Wrath" was a book which raised the hackles on the necks of many who believed the itiner ant fruit-workers were not get ting an even break. Things seem to. have changed somewhat at least according to what one of our inquisitive re porters tells us about some of the fruit workers' camps here abouts this year. , Many of them have late-model cars, he said, and in one instance he saw a house-sized trailer with a TV antenna. - The occupants of the office of the county agent in the courthouse must be gluttons for punishment. A sign on the wafl there says "Be thrilled when the job is hard. Not everyone can do it!" A city couple ventured forth into the hinterlands of the Applegate valley recently. Tak ing a back road, they came upon a windfall tree, about 10 inches in diameter, which in falling had blocked the road ahead. The husband (who was a Boy Scout in earlier years) proudly hauled out an ax which was part of his camping gear, and got to work on the tree. Hap pily for him, it was a long-dead tree and partly rotted. So, after about five busy minutes he managed triumphantly to cut through the log, pull enough of it to one side to permit passage for the car,' and returned to the driver's seat, hot, sweaty, out of breath, but smug in the knowl edge he was equal to the occa sion. As he prepared to start the car, his wife sweetly inquired, "Why didn't you tie a rope to the tree, then to the car, and pull the log to one side?" In the icy silence which fol lowed this eminently practical suggestion, the husband's ego why Nixon will support Know- land is a very simple one he respects Knowland, and thinks he would make a better Gover nor than Knight. But Nixon is, of course, under no illusions that, in supporting Knowland, he will be strengthening his most dangerous rival. Knowland will be a most for midable rival. His bulk and earnestness lend him a sort of indefinable weightiness, a tre mendous asset in a Presidential condidate, which Nixon stiU partly lacks. Yet Nixon, with his great energy and intelligence, his demonstrated capacity for growth, and the spring-board to wards the Presidency which his office provides, remains the front-runner for the nomination. In any case, the developing con test between these two remark- able Californians promises to be I a fascinating one. (Copyright. 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) could be sensed crumbling slowly away to nothing. During a recent irnffic safety conference, Mayoi- John Snider was called upon to take his familiar seat at the center of the city council desks. "It felt so good to tit with the audience for change," he said. . . A man we know, whose acti vities include such diverse things as reading proof, raising sweet corn, and dabbling in esoteric subjects, finds the U.S. Postal Guide, fascinating read ing. Some of his researches have been reported in this column. Scattered throughout the 48 states, for instance, are towns named America, Argentine, China, Canada, Denmark, Eng land, Holland, Italy, Jerusalem, Ireland, Persia, Russia, Siam, Spain, Siberia, and Tunis. There are three Romeos, but only one Juliette, in the U.S. And, he adds, there are Faith and Hope, but no Charity. The same man also declares that if he gave a paper clip to the wire editor the iirst week of the year, and two the next week, and kept doubling the amount each week throughout the year, by Dec 31st he'd have to give 4,503,599.627.370.495 paper clips. YOU can check his fig ures if you want. We're tired. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the l'ghter side: " British commoners, bluebloods and newspapers have blasted a British nobleman for criticising the queen's English. Two peers said he should be "shot." The nobleman 32-year-old Lord Al tringham said last week that the queen's speech is "frankly a pain in the neck." Newspapers throughout Eu rope said Altringham just wasn't being polite. TTM-M-M-M. If Elizabeth speaks ' a language her people UN DERSTAND, she's doing all right as a ruler. There's too much gobbledy gook and double-talk in high places throughout the world for the good of all of us. rpHE states of Virginia and Maryland will send represen tatives to a conference in Wil liamsburg, Va., to try to settle a grudge dating back to the 18th century. The group will talk about the old oyster bed war between the states, and also will discuss a new battle over gambling boats on the Potomac river. The oys-' ter bed troubles stem from an ancierit Maryland charge- that Virginia oystermen steal Mary land oysters. Virginia counters that Mary land which controls the Poto mac allows river gambling boats to come too close to the Virginia shore. DAD? Well, .if it was happening In the Middle East, it would be VERY bad. The ruckus might end in minor shooting. The mi nor shooting might end in ma jor shooting. The major shoot ing might end in an ATOMIC WAR which might destroy the world. BUT here in America Shucks! Such things break the mono tony of everyday routine living and add spice to the news. We fuss and spat and call each other names and pretend to get all het up. But when the cards are all down or, when REAL DANGER threatens our country we forget all about it and stick together as Americans. That is why America is and WILL REMAIN the greatest nation on earth. . AT' "to T THIS point, let's flash back grudge that "dates back to the 18th century." .. When was the 18th century? The answer is that it was back in the 1700's. - ; . THAT suggests a question: Wriw rnrriA that tha 17nnil are called the 18th century . . . or the 1800's the 19th century or the 1900's the 20th cen tury? IT'S A bit puzzling. When peo ple start talking about such and - such a century, I get all snarled up like a kitten in a ball of yarn. But when one tracks things back to the beginning it becomes quite simple. For example: Up to the end of the 99th year A. D. is the first century. That is to say, it is the FIRST hun dred years. The second hundred years begins with the year 100. All through the second 100 years it remains the SECOND century, even if the years are numbered in the 100i. And so on. I know it's simple, but every time I try to untangle the cen- turies and find out just when something happened I get all I.vu.vHi Q -- I 1 snarled ud aeain and have to go back through the same old rigS I marole.
