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Newspaper Page Texto O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Xveryoneu, southern Oregon Read! The Mali Trlbcng" Puoijsnea uaii, txctm Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO fiorta Fir St Phone 2-141 Monday, August 19, 1957 r?Sf .rR.E?,dv,:rtlm Manager DTHAM Business Manager KbS t1-1 JR- Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. Cits Editor fit?ZHXi&. Editor JEWETT Soorta Editor 7ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICK-iO.N CircuiaUon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper . . JT1 " econd clan matter at Median! Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES BMall In Advance- Per Copy 10c. pally and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One rear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year $18 CO pally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance t''1r)l Paper of the City M Medford onictal Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C n NATIONAL EOlTOIIAs I ASSOCfAlN NEWS PA P E PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o'Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. "The Proper Bostonians 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 19, 1947 (Tueshday) Three members of the Jack son County Model Railroad society have returned following their attendance at the conven tion of the National Model Rail road association in Oakland. From Arthur Perry's Y,e Smudge Pot column: It is that time of year again in the alley when the iair gets up when you do. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 19.. 1937 (Thursday) Medford Boy Scouts reach world jamboree in Vogelenzang, Holland. Urban bus service will be started here not later than Sept. 5, a firm representative said. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 19, 1917 (Monday) Forest firebugs are active in Jackson county today, according to Fire Warden Lowd. Medford's newst department store, the J. C. Penny company, opens its ooors in Medford today. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1317 (Monday) The Talcsjt Irrigation district will hold an election tomorrow to vote oni bond issue of $600, 000. Company Seven of eMedford moves to Fort Columbia, Wash., from Fort Stevens. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or elRht ts excellent: five or sis ts (ood 1. Is Goucher College in Balti more, Md., a school for men or women? 2. A Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court was nicknamed "Silver Hels." Who was he? 3. Bible: Were the "pharisees" a priestly clan among the an cient or modern Hebrews? 4. On the stage, what is a "tag line"? 5. Easter is a movable feast; true or false? 6. What would one study in A NOTHER VESTIGE of a more genteel past be comes little more than a souvenir as the New Eng land Watch and Ward Society, Boston's stem protect or of the innocent, changes its name and enlarges its activities. Henceforth, the group will be known as the New England Citizens Crime Commission. The executive secretary, Dwight S. Strong, says the commission will assist in the formation of citizens committees against crime in any community request ing aid. He cited a report by a special legislative com mission which estimated illegal gambling alone was a $2 billion annual business in Massachusetts. Illegal gambling" always has, of course, come within the purlieu of the Watch and Ward Society, as have state fairs, horse and dog tracks, night clubs, beano games, stag parties, and the like. The social critic Cleveland Amory has pointed out in "The Prop er Bostonians" that "the Society has never been solely interested in books, but has always maintained a mili tant inhospitality to sex stimuli of all sorts." Never theless, it is for the suppression and censorship of books that the Watch and Ward is best known. THE SOCIETY was founded by a group of Boston clergymen and educators in 1878, inspired by An thony Comstock's Society for the Suppression of Vice (now the Society to Maintain Public Decency) in New York City. It got off to a flying start by immediately proscribing Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." Amory notes that "Phillips Brooks, beloved First Family preacher, was one of its guiding lights and (that) one of his assistants founded it . . . But Godfrey Lowell "Cabot was long its treasurer and is still its honorary president." Cabot, 96 and a very proper Bos tonian chemical engineer, educator, and philanthro- i pist is worth a stoiy in his own right. For example, Cabot got so excited in World War I that he learned to fly at the age of 56 and had himself appointed a lieu tenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Operating in a Beacon Hill office with an endow ment of over a quarter of a million dollars, the Society through the years has banned the works of Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Theo dore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Eugene O'Neill, H. G. Wells and Thome Smith and Kathleen Winsor. The Society describes itself as "a quasi-govern mental law enforcement agency . . . dedicated to the protection of the family life in New England." The German scholar, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, in his ex haustive study, "The Book in America," observes: "Usually ... a notification from the New England Watch and Ward Society to an informal Boston Book sellers' Committee was a sufficient means of suppres sion." MASSACHUSETTS IS the only state, thanks to the Watch and. Ward, where a book may be sup pressed not because it is obscene but because it may contain obscene passages or words. In 1944, Abraham Iseristadt as seller and the late Bernard de Voto as purchaser were arrested for the "sale 'of "Strange Fruit," a novel of inter-racial love. A lower court found the book obscene and fined the bookseller, and in 1945 the state Supreme Court upheld the ruling. This gave rise to protest that achieved a change that year in the state law. Neither the concept of ob scenity nor the criteria of evaluation were changed, but power to initiate formal action was transferred from the police to the District Attorney. The book it self became indictable, not the bookseller. Under the new law, "Forever Amber" in 1947 became the first book in the twentieth centmy to be cleared by a Mas sachusetts higher court. E.R.R. , 3 ' - ' - TM (J Alt rights reserved - 8-19 t THEY CAME OFF IN THE WATER AND DROWNED' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Congressional Session Hearing Close Without Election Reform Raymond Lahr In the Day's Naws By FRANK JENKINS cate ft. State officials say, however, that landowners will be consult ed before any eradication opera tions are begun on their prop erty. WHY this declaration order to become a herpetologist? Jweed or to take steps to eradi- 7.Who was the hero of Manila Bay rising the Spanish-American War? ' 8. A disciple of Izaak Walton would be a billiard expert, mis sionary, or a fishing enthusiast? 9. Should the word "federal" be capitalized if it is part of a title? 10. "He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone." C. Church ill. Is that a . reference to an orator, student, or gangster? Answers: 1. Women; 2. John Marshall; 3. No. Religious and political sect; 4. The concluding line of an Act or Scene; 5. True; 6. Reptiles; 7. Commodore (later Admiral) George Dewey; 8. Fish ing enthusiast; 9. Yes; 10. Orator. The dispatches tells us that the Oregon state agriculture de partment and the Marion county court have started a battle to the death against ragweed which has been showing a dis turbing tendency to SPREAD in the Salem area in recent years The state of Oregon will spray all privately owned land at no cost to the owners. Newly enacted laws give the state right of gntry, either to look for rag- Ed Seabloom, Logging Figure, Dies Sunday Reedsport. Ore. W Ed Seabloom, 63. a colorful figure in Pacific Northwest logging, died Sunday at Reiser Memorial hospital at North Bend, after suffering a stroke a week ago. Seabloom, born in Finland of Swedish parents, gained nation wide fame several years ago when a columnist listed his work in reforestation of logging off areas. He is survived by his widow, Emma, and three children. ... of all- out war? Well, the ragweed is a dis reputable character. Its pollen causes hay fever. And it sheds a lot of pollen. Buffalo may have as much as 556 pounds of ragweed pollen per square mile. St. Louis may have about 519 pounds. And As little as 25 GRAINS of rag weed pollen per square yard are enough to start the hay fever snuffles and sniffles. "CWEN ragweed, however, has its uses. Consider, for example, the little town of Kane, in Pennsyl vania. It is located "high up" in what back East they call the Allegheny mountains." Its ele vation is 2200 feet above sea level. It is surrounded by for ests. Ragweed finds life diffi cult at this "high" altitude. Whereas other sections of the East may report pollen counts in the hundreds, Kane reports proudly that its pollen count runs from zero to a top of nine. The residents of the town don't' rely upon nature alone. There is a city ordinance out lawing the offending weed. Each year the chamber of com merce, the Garden ,club, the Boy Scouts and all the service organizations get together and comb the town ir search of any ragweed that might dare to show its head. If they find one, they give it the works. A Plea from Ashland To the Editor: We would liie to makea suggestion hoping it will help the citizens of Med ford. For a long time your paper has criticized and made scathing remarks about the Southern Pacific not running the passen ger train to Portland well, so what no one rode on it. Now, Mr. Editor, would you publish your paper for a few subscribers at a great loss of revenue? Much has been said about the few trees torn out along Fir street where the First National bank now stands. Now you should use this energy to save your city park Hawthorne park, a beautiful place. But all the trees and shrubs will be pulled out for several blocks along Bear creek just where it is most lush and ideal for picnic parties. When the highway cuts through the park and the traffic with the noise and obnoxious gas fumes drifts across who then can enjoy your beautiful park? . . This affects thousands of peo ple and especially children. Where else can a place so acces sible and so much needed be found? Even New York City with its growth and commercial ism, never destroyed Central Park but realized the import ance, even necessity of it. So, now why don't you do some thing about this and generations yet unborn will rise up and call you blessed. Lorna Anderson 929 Bush st. Ashland, Ore. WHY bia? this anti-ragweed pho- Th'e answer is simple and un derstandable. The town of Kane MAKES ITS LIVING (in re verse, of course) out of rag weed. It works like this: wnen tne nay fever season begins, hay fever sufferers from surrounding states begin to roll m by plane, by., train and by automobile. They are met by the chamber of commerce and taken in tow. Some of them are placed in the numerous hotels and mo tels that have been built for their accommodation. The re mainder there is reported to be always a surplus are parked in private homes and boarding houses. " They remain until the first re ports of frost from their home towns tell them it is safe to go back. Meanwhile they spend their money IN KANE whose residents find the hay fever refugees so lucrative that they can thumb their noses at adver sity and live the life of Riley throughout the rest of the year. THE politicians who head quarter in Salem have been peddling a lot of gloom and doom here of late about the state of Oregon and its future. Down here in Southern Oregon, we don't agree with them. We think our future is bright. But maybe there is method in their .seeming madness. They may feel that if everything else Not for F.P. or Nothing To the Editor: In view of some of the distorted attacks upon me as a so-called "Federal power or nothing" advocate, I believe you may be interested in the Congressional Record of August 9, when Senator Kuchel of California and I led success fully the fight in the Senate for passage of the bill which gives the approval of the Federal government to joint interstate use of the waters of the Klam ath river by Oregon and Cali . This action paves the way for hydroelectric projects on -the Klamath river by the California Oregon Power Company, a pri vate utility corporation. You will note that I have empha sized this fact to the Senate in my discussion of the bill. You will also note that I have an nounced my firm support of this private development of the waters of the Klamath. In addi tion, you .will observe that I backed the bill against the stric tures of Senator Dworshak of Idaho. I am calling this Senate de bate of August 9 to your atten tion, because there, have ben unfair political charges voiced against me in Oregon to" the ef fect that Senator Morse and I favor Federal power projects or none at all. This is another dem onstration of the untruth of that charge. It also has been demon strated as false by my backing of such private utility develop ments as those of Pacific Power & Light Company on the. Lewis river in the state of Washing ton and at Eden Ridge in Coos county on the Oregon coast, asv weU as of the Portland General Electric Company additional de velopments on the Clackamas river near Estacada. Please note that the Senate passed the Klamath compact au thorization bill, which was spon sored jointly by Senator Know land of California, Senator Ku chel of California, Senator Morse of Oregon and myself. Richard L. Neuberger, United States Senator, Washington, D.C. Responsibility, Not Fear To the Editor: The comment of Governor Robert Holmes re cently to the effect that safety education emphasis should be placed upon responsibility rather than fear is one which will cer tainly find plenty of agreement in the trucking industry. For many years, the industry has felt that far more can be accomplished in the way of de veloping safe driving attitudes by building up pride rather than by attempting to create fear of unpleasant consequences. Our "Good Joe" program, for example, is intended to accord recognition and respect to cour teous drivers. The many safety awards which are given to thousands of drivers by their companies, the OTA's "Driver of the Year" project and many other phases of the trucking in dustry's safety program all are based on appeals to pride, rea son, common sense and profes sional ability. loaays truck drivers, we think everyone will agree, are professionals in every sense of the word and this stress on the professional aspect of their job has been, we believe, respon sible for the splendid safe driv ing record achieved by the in dustry in Oregon. The same sort of approach might be suggested for motorists as well emphasis on the need for professional ability and ma ture conduct on the highways. Heaven knows, in today's traf fic, on today's roads, with to day's cars, there's no room for any more amateurs. i Robert R. Knipe, Manager Oregon Trucking i Associations, Inc. Portland, Ore. By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington OPI The ap proaching adjournment of Con gress means another year is pass- '1 mg without ac tion to over h a u 1 federal election laws. Next year is an elect ion year. Congress normally shows even less interest in tinkering with the laws that govern campaigning as the time for voting draws closer. It is a rare Congress that fails to receive a report from one or more of its committees recom mending a big rewrite of elec tion statutes. Yet little has been done since passage of the Hatch Act almost 20 years ago. A controversial bill came out of the Senate Elections Subcom mittee last year. Senate Repub lican and Democratic leaders later joined in sponsoring a bill, narrower in scope, in the hope of getting action. Even this soft er bill never came to a vote. Last winter the same sub committee brought forth a re port, as big as a metropolitan telephone directory, on the 1956 political campaign. Republicans disputed its conclusions and it provided no basis for the wide spread agreement essential if a bill is to be passed. Later other recommendations came from the special Senate committee created last year to investigate- improper lobbying and campaign activities. Its re port was 'referred to the elec tions subcommittee which ap proved another bill packed with controversy last month. Throughout the argument over updating -the election laws there has been little agreement except on this one point: ' Present ceilings on campaign spending are unrealistic and easily avoided. The three million dollar annual limit on expendi tures by national political com- High-Priced Depression" To the Editor: The following letter has been sent to Senator Richard Neuberger: ' Dear Die!;: I wonder if the administration actually realizes the desnerate nlieht nf thp lnm. I ber industry here in Oregon. For my part as a lumber brok er, I am finding that I have to go increasingly into British Co lumbia to secure stock, and frankly, am presently mending fences up there for the coming winter, due to the fact that so many mills are closing down, not only in Southern Oregon but all up the coast to Portland wnen taiKing with these pro ducers they tell me it is not just the low lumber market that is causing this, but primarily the fact that they cannot obtain money to cold deck log&.over the winter- months due to the tight money policy of the admin istration, plus their bank con nections telling them that with the new Federal Reserve dis count rate boosted to 3V4 money simply is- not available under 8 to 10 if the banks would take on log inventory loans for average producers. It does seem a tragedy to shut our mills down and throw the people who were employed on unemployment c o m p e nsation over this coming winter; wouldn't it be much cheaper to declare a disaster industry in lumber, just as disaster areas are entitled to 3 government money? The tax savings alone over this winter would be tre mendous, and I can personally assure you most of these mills would operate, even on this de- Senators Denounce Increase in Tarrifs Washington " (IP) Two Sen ate Democrats denounced a pro posed increase in lead and zinc tariffs today as a potential eco nomic blow to the country and a threat to U.S. foreign trade. The two were Sens. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) and Albert Gore (D-Tenn), the only - dissenters when the Senate Finance com mittee Voted Friday to raise the import tax on the two metals. The committee , approved a provision to impose a three-cent import duty on lead as long as the domestic price 'stays below 17 cents, and on zinc while the price is below 1414 cents. The present tariffs are 1 116 cent on, lead and 710 of a cent on zinc. In a minority report Douglas and Gore called the proposed ac tion "a serious blow to our eco nomy and an attempt to under mine our reciprocal trade pro gram which will worsen the trade relations of the U.S. and the Free World." ' . mittees is circumvented by mul tiplying the number of commit tees. The ceilings on personal ex penditures of congress ional candidates are ignored by the simple device of creating com mutes to do the spending. ' Election reform advocates agree something should be done to bring these provisions up to date to recognize, among other things, the cost of television cam paigning. But from there they scatter in all directions. Some Here, Some There Some want to apply the spend ing limits and reporting require ments to primary and pre-con-vention campaigns. The present law in effect exempts Demo cratic congressional candidates in the one-party South because it exempts primaries. The same applies to Republicans in a few one-party states. The law also puts no restraints on preconvention campaigning like the Taft-Eisenhower contest for the 1952 GOP presidential nomination or the Stevenson Kefauver competition before the 1956 Democratic convention. Another election reform pro-t posal calls for limiting the con tributions which can be made by one individual who now may contribute up to $5,000 to an un limited number of political com mittees. So can each member of his family. This reform idea is liked by many Democrats who think most wealthy persons mak ing such sizeable contributions are on the side of the GOP. Some Republican for tleir part are Insistent on tightening the law to restrict polftcal spending by labor organizations, most of which side with the Democrats. These Rep4blicans think the unions have found too many loopholes. Matter of Fact by stewo AiMP' Stewait A) sop North Carolina Girl Wants Education UGLY SITUATION It begins to look as though an old prophecy by President Ei senhower is belatedly coming true. In 1954, the President warned that the election of a Democratic Congress would re sult in "uncertainty, confusion, and divided responsibility." In fact, un til rather re cently, the President has lived rather more happily with the De mocratic 84th C o n g r e sses than he did with the Re publican 83rd Congress. But that is no longer so. As the President's desperate threat to call a special session to save his foreign aid program suggests, the present relation ship between Congress and the White House is indeed one of uncertainty, confusion, and d vided respsponsibility. There are a lot of reasons for this. But the most important reason is-the present mood of the Democrats in Congress. By and large, they are disgruntled, fed up, frustrated, and enraged. Three examples will serve to suggest why this is so. Take, as example number one, the case of Democratic Ma jority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Last year, Johnson almost single-handedly saved the Presi dents' foreign aid program. His own vote on the Approprations Committee provided a majority of one for the President's pro gram, and thereafter Johnson worked his special magic to swing nine votes, the President's way. Neuberger's record? Using the Congressional Quarterly statis tics, Oregon's Republican State Chairman, James Short, attacks Neuberger for his "appaling" record of "disregard for the de mands of the people for econ omy." Neuberge has sent an an guished protest to Republican National Chairman Meade Al cern, but the protest seems un likely to do him much good. At any rate.Neuberger's sad story is by no means unusual, and the moral is not lost on the Democrats: Support the Presi dent on issues like foreign aid, and get your teeth kicked by the Republicans back home. 0rtI New York (IP) A pretty 16-year-old North Carolina girl, who has become a celebrity al most overnight, said Sunday night she wants to finish her edu cation and become a secretary to help support her ' poverty stricken family. " Jim Dorothy Brown, who went from a backwoods shack to a fashionable New York hotel for a week end of luxury living, said on the Ed Sullivan TV show "My family ' has always been poor, and I always wanted to be somebody." An industrialist already has offered to pay for a high school and college education for Doro thy May, as "she prefers to be called. The $1,000 she received for the TV appearance will go into a trust fund at a Moores ville, N.C., bank. Johnson is exceedingly unlikely to do the same thing again. He is genuinely convinced that the civil rights bill, passed by the Senate largely as a result of his own herculean efforts, is a good and fair bill. He is Equally con vinced that the Administration has adopted the strategy of pro longing the civil rights battle in order to make political hay out of the issue in 1958. In the circumstances, as one of John son's frienoa put it, "Why in the devil should Lyndon stick his neck out for Ike." As an example number two, take the sad case of Sen. Rich ard Neuberger of Oregon. Neu berger is a left-wing Democrat from a normally Republican state, which makes his political position touchy to begin with. He is also an internationalist, and he has consistently support ed the President on such matters as foreign aid, reciprocal trade, the U.S. Information Agency, and defense appropriations. According to the Congression al Quarterly, Neuberger has sup ported the President on thirteen out of seventeen key issues on which the President has taken a stand. This is one of the.high est records of Presidential sup port in the Senate. Ajid what-is take, as example number three, the case of Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri. When the House heavily cut the Pres ident's defense budget, the Pres--ident went on the air to say that to fail to restore a substantial part of the cut would mean tak ing a "fearful gamble" with the national security. Symington led the fight in the Senate, on the Democratic side, to get the Pres ident what he wanted, and large ly succeeded. Then, when the Senate-House conference 'on the defense budg et met, Secretary of Defense Wil son and Budget Cheif Brundage blandly informed the confer ence that the amount Syming ton had fought to restore was rot really necessary after all. Symington, who has been much ciiticized back home as a heavy spender, thus had the rug neat ly pulled out from under him," As a result, he is seriously con sidering voting against foreign military aid, for the first time in his Senate reier. 4 These three examples and more could be cited should be enough to suggest why the Democratic majorities in Con gress now take a special delight in denying the President on such issues as foreign aid. The Pres ident's threat to call a special session has further disgruntled the Democrats. "If His Majesty wants to play it rough," one Democrat grimly remarked, "He'll find that His Majesty's loyal opposition can play pretty rough too." Altogether, an ugly situation is developing. When the White House and the Congress are con trolled by different parties there is always the danger of some thing worse than "uncertainty and confusion" a kind of angry paralysis of the processes of government. That danger is now real, and it is to be hoped that the President recognizes it, and is prepared to deaL with . . (c) 1957 New York . Herald Tribun Inc. INDUSTRY OBSERVES Rome, Italy HP) Seventy of ficials of small industries will' travel to the United States next week to learn how small indus tries operate in a large market. pressed lumber market, were they able to finance log inven tories for the coming winter months when the market can-' not do anything 'but get a bit better rather than worse. It seems to me that all we can look forward to in Oregon this winter is a high priced depression. Dana McBarron, Rogue River, Ore. goes to pot they can chivvy the ragweed out of the area around the state capitol and live happy ever afterward on the hay fever sufferers who will come there to get away from it all. Keep Still -Blind Man When told that Jesus was to pass that way, the blind beggar began to yell "Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me." The crowd tried to stop him but he kept yelling until Jesus arrived. The Lord asked . him a question, then said "Receive your sight." Luke 18:35-43. BIBLE. From then on he could see trees, sunshine, faces,, even as you and me. J And are you blind also? Do you see your name in the Book of Eternal Life? Are you set for new days and strength for here and now? New life now and eternal life are both God's free gift only so you re ceive Christ" into your heart, as having died for your every sin. Now by daily Bible and prayer, GROW UP. It 4 Seo. N. Taylor This Message by God's people who want you to know. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 Al 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? Certainly!