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1 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGOW) TTerrons In Soutnefi OrefOB Resds The Mail Intrmi" Published Daily Except BaturcUjr tor MEDFORD PRCiTlUO CO 87-28 North FIT St. PhOM 3-S141 HOBT RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdTertuwi Manaccr GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AlXFJj JR. Managing Editor EARL H A Sams City Editor HARRY CHIPMAfl Telegraph Editor RICHAB JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STAR': HER Society Editor DALE ERIOESON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Xnteq aa aecond class matter at Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall la Ad trance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One rear $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Thrtfc moa. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier n Advance Medford Aahland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers loe per copy All Tenr Cssh In Advance "'JJf.1.1. f V" tb Clt MedforJ . , OtileUI Paper of Jaekion County t United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Lot Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Iff neon ver BC NATIONAL fOI TOIIAt SSOCDA :A'ie N to" NEWSPAPER PUBLISH! If J ASSOCIATION Flighf.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. 12, 1947, (Tuesday) The Jackson county tax levy for the 1947-48 year will be 8.3 mills. County Assessor C. A. Myers reports. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "President ial candidates, admitted or will ing and movie queens are due to show up in Oregon cities this month." 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1937 (Thursday) Punchboards here may come under the Oregon pinball law, district attorney says. A survey of Rogue river mud dy water to determine the ef fects on aquatic life nears com pletion. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1927 (Friday) Nine cars of pears will be shipped to the eastern markets from the Medford packing hous es this evening. Plans for comprehensive pub licity campaign to "tell the world" of Medford's prosperity jubilee are made. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1917 (Monday) Private car of Theodore N. Vail and Newcomb Carleton to leave valley; Vail is president of American Bell Telephone company and Carleton is presi dent of the Western Union Tele graph company. Two bootleggers are arrested in the Siskiyous with 24 quarts. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or etebt Is exceUent: live or six Is good 1. Are officers required to salute enlisted personnel who wear the Congressional Medal of Honor? 2. Prawn is a shrimplike sea food, Creole candy, or a name for a brilliant sunrise? 3. Bible. "Now there arose ud in Egypt a new king." Did this king come to know Moses, Joseph or Solomon? 4. "Rocky Mountain canar ies" is a slang term for birds, donkeys, or fish? 5. U. S. Marines well know what "D. I." signifies. To what does it refer? 6. A new clause added to a will after its execution is call ed a crocus, crocodile or codi cil? 7. Lothario was a famous in ventor, painter or lover? 8. Why does Sir Isaac New ton owe so much of his fame to an apple? 9. Which of these nouns are plural: falls; ways; woods? 10. "... I Whcse pitchy man tle overveiled the earth." This line, from Shakespeare's "Hen ry VI" refers to what? ' . Answers: 1. No. 2. Shrimplike seafood. 3. Joseph. 4. Donkeys. 5. Drill Instructor. 6. Codicil. 7. Lover. 8. Because he discov ered the law of gravitation after an apple fell on his head. 9. AH three are. 10. Night. Washington (W Nearly 200 Cubans, members of organi zations opposed to the regime of Cuban President Fulgencio Ba tista, picketed the White House for 90 minutes to protest Ba tista's action against foes of his government. The pickets, mostly from New York, carried pla cards demanding that the United State? refuse to send any more arms o satista regime which uses them to "kill the indefen- sive and peaceful citizens of Cuba." MAIL TRIBUNE Ambulance Service a "Must" X city the size of Medford now more than 23,000 people with several thousand more in the immediate .vicinity cannot afford to be without an ambulance service. If Medford Ambulance is forced out of business (and unless more people pay their bills it will prob ably have to cease operations by the end of the month) the city is faced with a dilemma. Where does the responsibility lie for maintaining such a vital service? If, as is the case elsewhere, it lies' with the city itself, how shall it be provided? And who is going to pay for it? A $10 flat fee for an ambulance call, plus 75 cents per mile, may seem high at first glance. But it must be considered that the ambulance service has a considerable initial investment, that people remain dependent on it for their living, day after day, and that it is one of the most uncertain of businesses. The ambulances may be busy as can be for a day or two ; then there may be a two or three week period when there are no calls at all. But maintenance and payroll costs keep on just the same, whether or not there is any income. , - The rates have to be high enough so that the annual income can be apportioned ver the jnonth to make the whole thing a sound operation. It's a cinch that no one's getting rich at it. Two funeral homes here, both of which once operated ambulances, got out of it because of its high costs and headaches. e a "llHAT, then, can be done? In Astoria, the city council has taken the service over itself, and will operate it within the city, and outside 'the city in emergency cases. In Bend, the city first-aid car doubles as an ambulance. In other cities, an ambulance is made a part of the fire department, or the police department In some, they are operated by the hospitals, in others by the taxi company. None of these alternatives is wholly satisfactory, and all are expensive more so than a private opera tion where it is largely a "family" type of business, with the principals on duty 24 hours per day, and with assistants "on call." It might even be worth while and more economical for the city to make an outright subsidy to such an organization, guaranteeing it a certain minimum in come each month, simply to ensure that it can remain in business. A NOTHER alternative might be for the ambulance " firm to enter into a contractual relationship with the city, performing the services at a guaranteed rate, and the city then serving as the agency through which bills are sent and collections made. It is possible that this might be the soundest and most feasible as well as the most economical of the solutions. City Manager Bob Duff is at the moment collect ing information as to how other cities have solved the problem. Meanwhile,. if Medford Ambulance Service is to remain in business, the short-range answer is simply for people to consider its bills just as important as those sent by the doctor, the grocer or the TV repair man. Whatever the answer, one must be found, for this area cannot allow itself to be without this vital, life saving service. E.A. And Mercy Flights, Too Speaking of ambulance service, the time has come once again to call attention to another of the benefits which come of living in Jackson county. We refer to "Mercy Flights, Inc." Anyone who has lived here for any length of time is familiar with the operation. But for the benefit of newcomers, here is the story, in brief. "Mercy Flights, Inc.," is a non-profit organiza tion, formed in the winter of 1949, the sole aim of which is to provide air-ambulance service to residents of the area as economically as possible. It is the only one of its kind in the world, ( e e IT started out as a community endeavor (we still remember with a warm glow how school-kids do nated nickels and dimes, and adults and organizations larger amounts, to get it started), and it has remained one. It has continued in operation for 7y2 years be cause it'has had the confidence and support of people in Jackson county who have paid an annual "sub scription fee" (now $4 per family or $2 per person, mailed to P.O. Box 550) which guarantees them of free air ambulance service in an emergency, and a reduced rate in non-emergency situations. This steady income, plus the flight charges made to non-subscribers, has enabled the service to con tinue. It operates on a close margin, sometimes going into the hole for brief periods, sometimes building up a modest backlog for the purchase of needed parts, equipment and repairs to the planes it operates. 1MANY of the subscribers have gotten great and needed service for their small annual fees. Many others have never needed the service, but have re ceived double satisfaction, in knowing the service is there if they ever need it, and in knowing that their annual check has enabled the organisation to con tinue its service to others. This support has been continuous a little better one year, a little less another year. This year, so far, has been one of the "less good" years, and it is to be hoped that subscription payments will pick up. If anyone wants to know whether or not the service is worth while, let him ask one of the patients who has been flown by Mercy Flights' orange and white planes. In iy2 years there have been more than 700 of them. E.A. Monday, August 12, 1 357 twP XJT TM W All rifihti reserved 1 tiMT 1MB WOULD YA ASK THE GUy . TO PLAY A FEW COWSOy SONGS? Matter of Fact CIVIL RIGHTS AND 1960 Washington Among the milling throngs of would-be Presidents on Capitol Hill, there are at least six serious potential candidates. If you examine the effects of the great civil rights battle on the political fortunes of each of these men, you are likely to reach a surprising con clusion. Every one of them, with one notable exception, has benefited i n terms of 1960. The excep tion is Major ity leader ity leader Lyndon John son. Johnson says flatly steva.it Aisop inai ne does not want the nomination. This is, of course, standard oper ating procedure for all would-be candidates. But Johnson's closest associates believe him with one proviso. x Johnson, they say, would agree to run if the only alterna tive was a candidate who would "tear the party apart." They name no names, but they ob viouly have in mind a man total ly unacceptable to the South, like Gov. G. Menen Williams of Michigan, or possibly Gov. Averell Harriman of New York. Even then, his friends say, Johnson would agree to run only if he felt confident about his health. His friends are more worried about his health" than they care to admit. Since the civil rights battle began, John son has worked a frenetic 16-hour-day hardly a regimen a cautious doctor wpuld recom mend for a rather recent heart attack victim. But if Johnson's role in the civil rights fight has been bad for his health, it has been worse for his Presidential chances. If he had not taken command of the forces fighting for a bill "the South could live with," the jury trial amendment would have been defeated. But just because this is so, the Northern liberals, never friend ly to the Texan in any case, have been further alienated. And the liberals traditionally exercise a veto power at Demo cratic conventions. When the civil rights fight started, Johnson stayed in the wings and kept his mouth shut. That was the smart way to play the game, for a man who wanted to be President. Johnson is a very smart man indeed, and the fact that he moved front and center in the fight suggests that his friends may be right, and that he really does not want the grand prize. The other serious potential Democratic candidates are. Sen ators Stuart Symington and Hu bert Humphrey, who voted against the jury trial amend ment, and Jack Kennedy, who voted for it. e a Symington stayed carefully out of the limelight throughout the battle, but his vote wiU on balance help him, since his greatest drawback has been, that the Northern liberals have tend ed to regard him as a Johnson man and a border state semi conservative. Kennedy's vote, cast after much agonized soul searching, will hurt , him in the North, but it will attract South ern delegate support, on which his straegy is clearly based. H u m p h r e y's position i s curious. He has not hurt himself badly with the Southerners (who generally like him personally) with his fight against the jury trial amendment. Since 1948, he has been the Senate's "Mr. Civil Rights," and his stand was dis counted in advance. "Hubert had to do it," the Southerners say. Humphrey, moreover, is per sonally close to Johnson, and he is definitely not on Johnson's list of those who would "tear the party apart." Humphrey, who is really more a vice-presidential than a presidential candidate anyway, is therefore in a good position to become a ticket-balancer with a civil rights moderate conveivably, Johnso himself. As for Minority Leader Wil itT-i-in "aisMMIi By Stewart Alsop. liam Knowland, there has been a lot of talk that his prestige has suffered. Actually, his dogged earnest fight, even though unsuccessful, gave his candidacy precisely the liberal coloration it has badly needed. - m Tut the man who' may profit most of all is one who took no overt part in, the civil rights debate Vice President Rich ard Nixon. For Nixon's role in persuading the President to take a strong stand against the jury trial amendment was no secret to anyone. On the contrary, the South erners and their allies regard Nixon, rather than Knowland, as -the real villian of the piece. Johnson's recent blast at Nixon is expected to be the prelude of a concerted Democratic attack, whose theme will be that the Eisenhower administration is playing low politics with civil rights, with Nixon as the behind-the-scenes Western demagogue. Such an attack . could rather easily make Nixon, especially in the eyes of Negro voters, the real hero of the civil rights battle. And just because (as Nixon has consistenly preached in the Administration's inner circles) the Negro vote is the swing vote in the industrial North, Nixon could well emerge from the battle with more politi cal profit than anyone else. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under' certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 worda A Socialist Point of View To the Editor: An incident oc curred about 185 miles southeast of New York in the Atlantic oc ean a few weeks ago that focus ed attention momentarily on what many scientists regard as one of the really important prob lems of the atomic age the dis posal of radio-active waste. An improperly constructed 3,000 gallon steel drum containing ra dioactive sodium waste failed to sink and floated loose in the shipping lanes for several hours. The problem of radioactive waste disposal is not an incon siderable one even now, and scientists, anticipating the time when huge quantities of waste must be disposed of, have given the matter considerable study. Although, at present, tha oc ean is the only place on earth where disposal can be consider ed practical, it should be noted that A. E. Gorman, chief of the sanitary engineering branch of the AEC's division of reactor development, says of the dump-ing-in-the-sea method: "We've only buying time." He pointed out that Jhe radioactivity of the hottest waste was certain to outlast the steel tanks. In their discussions of the radioactive waste problem the scientists have overlooked a fac tor that compounds the danger, to wit, the greed engendered by the capitalist system. Today, the government handles the hot atomic waste, but the time is not far off when private capital wiU take , over the atomic energy business, and with the business, the job of radioactive waste disposal. The . record of capital ism leaves little ground for hope that the job will be done in a way that will safeguard hu- RICH MAN CLIMBS TREE GEO..N. TAYLOR Zaccheus, tax-gatherer and wealthy, ran ahead and climbed into a mulberry tree, so as to get a glimpse of Jesus. At the tree, Jesus calls out "Zaccheus, come down, for I must abide at your house today." Out of their ' hour together, Zaccheus declares, "The half of my goods I'give to the poor and if I have taken from any man by false ways, I restore to him four-fold." So Zac cheus turned and showed the new life al ready at work. This Message is sent by God's redeemed folks who want you to know. Republicans Outplayed for Votes In Civil Rights Bill Amendment - By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington flfi It was three months ago that President Eisenhower muted the uproar by two national radio - TV speeches. It was two months ago that he told a R e p u b 1 ican c o n f e rence that GOP leaders in Con gress and the party organi Raymond Lahr zation have a special responsibil ity to support legislation to carry out the party platform. He made clear his belief that his budget and other parts of his legislative program were based on the 1956 platform. The administration recently has suffered a series of defeats in Congress. The lingering budg et furor and occasional lapses of support from GOP leaders fig ured in some of these. man life, today or in the future. The atomic capitalists will look for a "cheap" solution to the waste disposal problem (just as the paper and pulp mill capital ists did) even though it means the possible exposure of future generations to radioactive poi sons a hundred years or so hence. Only Ssocialism, a society that puts an end to the profit mo tive and gives first considera tion to the welfare of its mem bers, can deal with this prob lem in a way that gives maxi mum security, not only for the present generation, but for all who follow. . Henry R. Korman. 2640 Garfield st., Longview, Wash. Answers Editor Hicks . To the Editor: In partial re ply to Mr. Hicks' editorial, re printed in your paper: Why are we asked to "get together" again, and particularly on a plan including a high dam at Lewis Creek in the main river? We did get together once. Re member? An agreement was reached, proposed by former high-dam proponents after we soundly defeated the high dam, that we all get together , and support the Talent and Illinois Valley irrigation projects and power development at the Tal ent Project and possibly at Cas cade Gorge. In consideration of this, those who sought the com promise agreed not to work for a high dam in the main Rogue River until or unless it was ap proved by all responsible groups in the basin. As a consequence, we all got together behind the Talent Proj ect and it was approved and is now building. Do our former opponents propose to "welsh" on this bargain after we have loyal ly carried out our part of it? Does . "getting together" mean unconditional surrender on the part of one side incidentally, the side which won the last bat tleor does it mean true getting together? Mr. HiCks says the disastrous flood of 1955 may have changed the minds of some. The second flood of that winter, in Febru ary, serious in. the lower valley, merely proved to many of us what we already knew. At that time, while Grants Pass was badly flooded, so little water passed the Lewis Creek damsite that the gravel bars there were not even covered. A dam there would have helped none. We could use flood control, too, but not the kind that completely drowns us out and protects you only from the floods that orig inate in certain places. Let's get together on Land Management and on smaller dams on the headwaters and tributaries, and protect all of us. - Let's get together on ,a plan that does not drown out .several hundred people, many farms and ranches, a post office, a seven-room school, at least seven motels, four groceries, five service stations, and several oth er thriving businesses, and still accomplishes much of what you want to accomplish. We can do it by insisting to our servants, our Congressman, Reclamation ' and Army Engineers, that we ! want the most that can be ac complished with upstream de velopment. We can get together if you want to; we can fight again if you don't; and no one will get anything if we have to fight about it. D. H. Barber, President, Preserve the Rogue Association, Inc., Trail, Ore. Neither factor was involved. however, in the administration defeats suffered when the., Sen ate amended the civil rights bill. The Republicans were simply out-played in a contest for votes. Makes Personal Plea The budget, coupled with a congressional feeling that there is public disenchantment with the foreign aid program, has fig ured in the progressive shrink age of the foreign aid bill. Despite a personal plea from Eisenhower the House voted last month to cut the foreign aid bill about half a billion dollars be low his request. Although a con ference committee representing the House and Senate has re stored part of that money, further cuts are in prospect when Congress acts later on the follow-up appropriation bill. Even before the House killed the bill to provide federal aid for school construction, Vice President Richard M. Nixon described the measure as a casu alty of the batUe of the budget. It also lacked support from some GOP leaders in Congress. The bill before the .House was not the administration's own but Eisenhower was willing to ac cept it. When the roll was called on the motion to kill it a shift of three votes would have kept it alive. Three of the House Re publican leadership group voted for the decapitation. Knowland Against Bill On the other side. of the Cap itol, Senate Republican Leader Eisenhower Visits Mamie at Hospital Washington OP) President Eisenhower drove to Walter Reed Army Medical center Sun day for a visit with Mrs. Eis enhower. The White House announced that the First Lady's recovery from1 her internal operation last Tuesday "continues to be very satisfactory." The Chief Executive attended services at National Presbyter ian church before going to see the First Lady, who is expected to be able to leave with the President on his vacation about two weeks. Eisenhower played host Sun day night to his brother, Mil ton, who returned from a one- week goodwill visit to Mexico. Milton and his daughter, Ruth, stayed overnight at the White House. 'Shasta' Explosion Delayed 14th Time Las Vegas, N. M. (IP) Ad verse wind conditions have forc ed the Atomic Energy commis sion to call the 14th postpone ment in its "Shasta test at the Nevada proving grounds. Firing of the below-nominal yield device from a 500-foot tower was rescheduled for 4 a.m. (PST) Tuesday. Scientists Sunday announced that the pres ent wind pattern would have carried fallout over nearby pop ulated areas. The postponement set a record for delays in the AEC's 1957 test schedule. The "Shasta" originally was ready to be fired July 29. Search Continued For Elderly Climber Colorado Springs, Colo. fW Authorities said today volun teers will continue to search for Mrs. Inestine Roberts despite the slim chances that the 88-year-old mountain climber was still alive after seven days on Pikes Peak. The Colorado Springs woman became lost last Monday while descending the famed 14,100 foot peak. She has climbed it annually for the past 15 years. Mrs. Roberts was last seen near the summit. FUNERAL SERVICES : - In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 William F. Knowland had al ready declared himself against the bill. He listed the budget situation as one of his reasons. ' Analyzing their defeats on the civil rights bill, administration supporters could offer no ex planation except that they lacked the votes. On the two key votes 18 Republicans deserted the ad ministration on the first and 12 on the second, the amendment attaching a jury trial proviso., Eisenhower was reported to have offered to do anything he could to defeat the jury trial amendment and to have made telephone calls to a few wav erers. His Senate supporters were already convinced, how ever, that the GOP senators they feared would go off the reserva tion were not susceptible to ap peals from the President Editorial Comment ALTERNATIONS DUE The congressional majority that tacked the jury trial amend ment on the civil rights bill has begun to get a view of the in side of the Pandora's box it opened. The amendment is not confined to civil rights cases; it applies as well to aU other actions for criminal contempt, this placing a sweeping restric tion on federal judiciary and regulatory powers. Acting Attorney General William Rogers was quoted this week as having said that the provision would disrupt enforce ment of orders of regulatory agencies and all federal courts including the Supreme Court. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Interstate Corn Commerce Commission ,the Na tional Labor Relations Board and " the Federal Communica tions Commission are among those whose teeth would be loosened, if not pulled, if the bill should be approved in its present form. In this connection, it should be noted that the AFL-CIO Ex ecutive Committee, contrary to the action of some individual labor leaders, opposed the amendment despite the sop it appeared to offer to labor's tra ditional position against the in junction. "The trial-by-jury issue is ex traneous to H. R. 6127 (the civil rights bill)," the committee said in a statement released before balloting on the amendment.: Jt was initally raised by opponents of the bill in order to attract supporters of civil rights liber ties . . . The (amendment) is aimed not only at civil rights but at the whole range of laws which permit the use of federal injunctions, including 1 a bo r legislation. The AFL-CIO cannot and will not permit itself toi judge the appropriateness orHt this proposed change in H. R. 6127 because of any possible advantages to organized labor . . . The AFL-CIO reaffirms its belief that there should be no crippling trial-by-jury amend ment to the civil rights bill." - Congress yet has the oppor tunity to limit the amendment, if it is retained at all, to civil rights voting cases. This could be done in conference commit tee. There is another task, too, for the Senate-House conferees. They should, by all means, eliminate that section of Part I which would impose, a fine of $1000 and a year in jail on "whoever releases or uses in public without the consent of the commission evidence or testimony taken in executive session" of the proposed "federal Civil Rights Commission.; Here is additional evidence of the growing tendency of bureau cracy to shield its operations from the people it serves. And there is not the slightest trace of security interest as justifica tion. Portland Oregoman. 4T PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection "of services for every price range Is of fered to satisfy Individual preferences and, to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainlyl
