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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W Rirm. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAL.D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mns 4-25 Sunday Only One vear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the 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 de troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAt I assocITa'iSn unam Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1947 (Thursday) A 300-foot section of highway near the Siskiyou summit slides into a canyon. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Control of weeds on a prominent corner lot has been started. Concrete will be smeared over - the surface thereof. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1937 (Sunday) Three Medford Boy Scouts who visited Holland during the World Jamboree are expected home this week. After several years, a public transportation system is again supplying Medford pedestrians with conveyance. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1927 (Sunday) Six-year-old girl wins Rotary club candidacy for queen of the "Jubilee of visions realized" here. Mysterious porcupine which wandered down Medford streets Thursday and battled with a rattler is still at large today. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1917 (Tuesday) All Medford women 16 years and older will be asked to regis ter as members of the woman's committee of the United States Council of National Defense as part of Oregon's war effort. From local and personal col umn: Up to today the Medford Fruit company has shipped six carloads of peaches and two of tomatoes from the city to vari ous destinations about the coun try. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is soperior; seven or debt Is excellent; five or six is good 1. Is it Iran, or Iraq, which formerly was called Persia? 2. Where is Harvard Univer sity located? 3. Bible. The cities of which nation were "great and walled up to Heaven?" 4. Prawn is a chessman, the tine of a fork, caramel candy, or a seafood delicacy? 5. Does a storage battery de liver direct or alternating cur rent? 6. Which State of the U.S. has a capital named for a mythical bird? 7. In which two months of the year do the equinoxes occur? 8. How many "Jungle Books" did Rudyard Kipling write? 9. Is it proper to use "would have" in expressing a wish? 10. E. Howard (1912): "I won der who's kissing" who "now?" Answers: 1. Iran. 2. Cambridge, Mass. 3. Canaan. 4. Seafood del icacy. 5. Direct. 6. Arizona (Phoenix). 7. March and Septem ber. 8. Two. 9. No "I wish he had (not "would have") left ear lier." 10. "her". 'Buddy' Plan Adopted In Nebraska City Lincoln. Neb. TP This city of 100. 000 has inaugurated a "buddy" plan designed to double the mileage obtained from Police and Fire department personnel. Under the arrangement, each police officer driving a cruiser car on a regular beat takes along a deputized fireman. The plan provides support for the one-man cruiser policeman and results in quicker reporting and handling of fires on the scene, officials report. MAIL TRIBUNE County Subdivision Ordinance We hold no brief for the so-called "subdivision ordinance" which has caused such a ruckus in some circles in the county recently. It is a long and detailed document, and some of its requirements would appear at first glance to be unduly restrictive. For people owning substantial acreages in semi-suburban areas, it is understandable for them to oppose it, for it would restrict them in the sale and development of their property for resi dential purposes. So restrictive is the ordinance as written, indeed, that we have been told there are only two or three real estate and development firms in the entire county which could afford to abide by its provisions. MONETHELESS, we feel that opposition to ANY kind of subdivision ordinance, or to ANY kind of county building code, or to ANY kind of zoning requirements, is extremely short-sighted. This country was not built on blind opposition to change of any kind far from it. It was built on adapt ing to change, to forming it and shaping it to provide the best attainable for as many people as possible. If ordinances of this kind were ALL bad, they certainly would not have become as universal as they are today throughout the nation. They were developed through trial and error, and in response to increasing demands as the population grew, for protection from unregulated exploitation. IT CAN be said, and with some truth, that "There 1 are too blankety-blank many laws," and "Why shouldn't I be able to do as I darn please with my property? I paid for it.". The answer, a moment's thought will reveal, is that laws are always passed at the demand of people, usually a majority of them, you darn please with your YOU DON'T HURT SOMEONE ELSE while doing it. It is simply a matter of putting into legislative form the old democratic adage of "The greatest good for the greatest number." AS LONG as the population was relatively small, and the towns and cities and suburban and urban areas were uncrowded, there was no need for this type of regulation and control. But as cities grew, it was found that building codes, zoning regulations, and so on, were necessary for the protection of the majority, from those who, innocently or deliberately, would do the things which would harm the property of others, and thus destroy property values. In cities, this type of thing is now accepted and approved. With the tremendous growth of the suburbs in recent years, it is becoming more and more appar ent that, sooner or later, similar controls will have to be extended. '"THE proposed subdivision ordinance is simply a 1 step in this direction, toward providing regulations which ultimately will work for the benefit of the majority of residents. As stated, we hold no brief for the particular ordi nance in question. Very likely it is too restrictive, and thus unfair, as its critics have charged. But we would like to point out that something like it is going to be necessary to prevent the growth of sub-standard and unattractive suburban communities. That's all it is intended to do. If it exceeds that, it goes too far. If it falls short, it is inadequate. We're going to need something in between, and the county will be failing in its responsibilities if it does not take steps to provide it, either by ordinance on its own motion, or by approval of the voters. E.A. Walking at Night A pleasant-appearing gentleman dropped in to the office last week to ask us to write something about how dangerous it is for pedestrians to walk on high ways particularly at night, and particularly in dark clothing. He had -the strongest possible motivation, for he told us he was the driver of a car which some weeks ago struck and killed a man in the 'Camp White area. He was still having nightmares about that event, which was to him a memoiy of horror. X7E TOLD our visitor that safety warnings in news- papers are never going to save any lives, at all, unless people read them and take them to heart. But if such a warning does nothing but add a little to public consciousness as to safety, it is worth it. His particular accident was almost a "classic" case in point to illustrate the dangers to pedestrians. The victim was walking on the highway itself, in the dark, and was in dark clothing. The driver never did see him until after he heard the "thump" of the car striking the body. A UTOMOBILE headlights, good as they are, still are no substitute for daylight. A, pedestrian, see ing them shining so brightly, is apt to believe the driver can see everything ahead. But the fact is that other approaching headlights can momentarily blind him. And a person in dark clothing is virtually in visible from a car, no matter how good the headlights. If you're going to walk near a highway, stay off the pavement, and if at night be sure to wear light colored clothing. It might save your life. E.A. Roses to Be Planted Along Chicago (W A strip between the two sides of Chicago's new Calumet Expressway will be planted with roses. According to the American Municipal Association, the rose bushes are designed to act as a Wednesday, September 11. 1957 and that you CAN do as property, AS LONG AS New Expressway net to catch cars hurtling off the road. They will reduce .'the glare of headlfghts, act as a snow fence, prevent U-turns and ab sorb traffic noises. They also will be beautiful, the association added. ...AN'SHEil MAKE USA LOT OF M0HBV, TOO1. 5HE LAVS A60UT A VOZSH BGG& A W.W GUY SAW. MQPB OR LESS. Matter of Fact by HOW IT ENDED Poznan, Poland It is some thing of an experience to intro duce the American technique of political p o 1 1 ing behind the famous iron curtain. At the o ut s e t, one even feels a certain trepi dation. But this reporter can now testi fy that the ex perience is Josepb Alsop both fruitful and heart-warming. I wanted to find out, very simply, how it had ended for the men who really started the great change in Poland. So I went out, poller's notebook in hand, to Poznan's Czechoslo wacka. Here there is the work ers' housing of the Cegielski steel plant, where the heroic Poznan strike began in June a year ago. By local standards, Czechoslo wacka is not a bad place. It com prises eight or nine huge blocks of one and two and three roomed flats. The rooms are tiny. The buildings are dingy. They stand in a dingy, treeless expanse. But at least the flats have their small kitchens and still smaller bathrooms. There is only one family in each flat. And the scores of tow-headed children playing on the scurfy grass have a bright-faced liveli ness that does not suggest real human misery. After the charming children, the huge red . brick church catches the eye. Even at the last mass on Sunday morning, every seat is taken. The aisles are packed with people. A dense crowd of young men stands at the back. And beyond the church doors, many scores of men and women kneel on the bare ground. THUS the pollers must write down Czechoslowacka as a district of devoutly Catholic skilled workers. This is the group to be opinion-tested here. But as one enters the first build ing and presses the first door bell, doubts creep in about the planned opinion test. After all, vagrant pollsters are too often greeted with profound suspi cion in free America and here in Poland, we are in a still Communist country which was also a brutal police state until less than a year ago. Promptly, the door is opened by a large, solid, elderly man with that air of quiet dignity one often notices in older hand workers confident of their own skill. Behind him, there is a workworn but neat middle-aged woman. After the strange visit is explained, both break into amiably hospitable smiles. They show the way to the little din ing room-living room-children's bedroom, with its religious pic tures, its poor ornaments, its tidy cribs, and its pile of onions from the garden allotment lying in the corner. As is only fitting, the master of the house leads the conversa tion with the housewife acting as chorus. He has worked in the Cegielski plant over 30 years. Before the war, he was a Social Democrat. He joined the strikers in June a year ago "For how could I stand aside when my comrades went into the streets?" . IT WAS a funny business, cer tainly, that strike, for they had no real hope when it began. It was a gesture of despair, you might say. But they were wrong to despair. "Since October" that phrase one hears a hundred times a day in the new Poland since.. Wladyslaw Gomulka came to power, everything has been different. "It isn't so much the money," says the master of the house, "although I am getting a bit more money now." "All the same," interjects the housewife briskly, "the extra money counts a lot., We were hard-driven this month, maybe, to get a sweater for our Kar lina and to find the cash for the winter potatoes. But remember that I can manage a little meat on the table every day but Fri- Joseph Alsop days nowadays." "True enough," says the mas ter of the house with the hus bandly grin. "But the best thing is still being free. Before Octo ber, you could not trust anyone among the neighbors, in the fac tory, no matter where. But all that's over now. We breathe again. We know our country has many difficulties. Our new gov ernment may make mistakes but we think it is doing its best for us. So we are content for now." SAYING farewell, it is hard to resist the inclination to pinch oneself; for this first interview has seemed almost too good to be true. But in the long day and a half of continuous, wholly ran dom doorbell ringing in Czecho slowacka, it turned out not to. be too good to be true. ' Some of those interviewed were much more suspicious. Some were also really bitterly poor, when the children were too many. Some were more gen erously hospitable. Indeed, at one point, this reporter found himself intextricably entangled in an enormously gay Polish wedding party, drinking innu merable toasts in a mixture of grain alcohol and currant juice which is locally known as "Dead - end Mammy," dancing with the pretty bride, dancing frenetically with the mother of the groom, and in general be having like an old family friend. But these were minor varia tions from the norm which was established by the opening inter view of the long series. The peo ple of Czechoslowacka are gen erally "content for now." That is how it has ended for them. So one left their dreary suburb with a full heart, having seen how the night of the soul was followed, at long last, by the decent dawn of freedom, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc In the Day's News By FRANK Ho! Hum! What shall 'we talk about in this column today? rpHERE is so much to talk about. And Unfortunately So many of the things we might talk about are on the grim and gloomy side having to do with man's inhumanity to man and man's insatiable thirst for POWER. Out of man's inhumanity to man and man's insatiable thirst for power spring most .of the evils that afflict the world. A THOUGHT: -t- Why not talk about TODAY ITSELF the 9th day of Sep tember? It's quite a day in history. ON THIS day September 9 California entered the Union in 1850. California MIGHT have re mained an independent republic. For a few pregnant days, you know, there was a California Republic. It had a v flag the Bear Flag that is now the Cali fornia state flag. The Bear flag wag designed by a relative of Abraham Lincoln. In February of 1846 he lay on his stomach in the sunshine down below Red Bluff and sketched it out on a white floursack. Suppose California had RE MAINED an independent repub lic. All history shouts of the trouble that might have ensued in such an event. Wars, among other things would have been more or less inevitable here on the Pacific Coast. .AND If ND California had remained an independent republic the more or less imaginary line that now separates the states of Ore gon and California would have been an INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY and tariffs would have shut Southern Oregon cff from the great and growing mar- India Backs Russia in Plan To Include Neutrals in Conference By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent India has given Soviet Rus sia its backing in the demand that the membership of the United Nations d i 6 a rmament conference be enlarged. In a memo randum to the U. N., India proposes that new members be added to both the 12- rnaries McCann m e m d e r dis armament commission and its five -member subcommittee, which conducted the recent ne gotiations in London. The idea is to get membership in the commission and the sub committee for "neutralist" and possibly Communist countries which support Russia's demand for unconditional suspension of nuclear weapons tests. It was Russia's stubborn in sistence on unconditional suspen sion that broke up the London talks. Some Countries Worried There is no doubt that a lot of countries are seriously worried over the effects of radio-active fallout from the tests. But what Russia wants is to get the United States and Great Britain, its rivals in the nuclear weapons race,' to stop their tests without getting a guarantee, through a system of inspection, that would prevent any cheat ing. An unconditional ban also would protect Russia against the possibility that France, if not other countries, might develop hydrogen bombs. In addition it would leave Russia with enor mous superiority over the West ern Allies in armed strength. India's memorandum to the U.N. said it must be admitted that the present disarmament subcommittee "does not appear to be able to achieve tangible progress or agreement in the field of disarmament." Says Danger To Life The memorandum said also that there was ever-increasing danger to all forms of life from the acumulation af radiation from weapons tests. It became clear, in the last weeks of the London disarma ment talks, that Russia was out to add India and other anti-test countries to the disarmament commission and especially to the subcommittee. Soviet Chief Delegate Valer ian A. Zorin complained, in a statement when the London talks broke up, that all of its mem bers except Russia are allied in the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The Western members of the subcommittee are the United States, Britain, France and Can ada. However, as Zorin well knew, the Western members were cho sen because they are the most important atomic powers, along with Russia. The United States and Britain were chosen because they actually have developed nu- JENKINS Jket that practically guarantees our industrial future. ON THIS day in 1943, Italy rfAnlarprl war rn nermanv On this day in 1919 the Boston police forces went on strike and made Calvin Cooidge a national figure when as governor of Mas sachusetts he declared that such things just couldn't be permit ted. On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress agreed on the term UNITED STATES instead of United Col onies. THIS Monday, September 9, is A the 252nd day of the year 1957, with 113 more days to fol low. The moon is in its full phase. The morning star is Mercury. The evening stars are Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. If you will take the time to read up on the origins of the names of all these stars, you will have quite a lot of interesting reading to do. So You see There is ALWAYS something to talk about. Righf-of-Wav Deeds Signed for Work Right-of-way deeds for im provement of Old Stage rd. near Jacksonville have been signed, according to Ralph James, coun ty commissioner. James said the contractor would be notified to proceed with construction estimated to total about $156,703.50. Work on the road from Jacksonville to Ross lane includes widening, straightening curves, levelling hilly stretches and providing a more adequate ballast for road foundation, it was explained. Construction already has start ed on a bridge across Jackson creek. Costs are shared propor tionally by federal, state and cojinty ..governments. clear weapons. France was cho sen partly because it is one of the Big Three Western Allies, partly because it is able to de velop nuclear weapons .if it chooses. Canada was included because of its uranium and other natural resources. Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko and Indian De fense Minister V. A. Krishna Menon are to represent their Today and By Walter NULLIFICATION IN ARKANSAS It is reasonably plain that Gov. Faubus put on his show at the Central High School in Little Rock, not in order to" pre vent disorder, but in order to nullify the de cision of the Supreme Court. He has h i m s elf ad mitted that he was persuaded Walter Lippmann to act during a visit to Arkansas on Aug. 22 by the Governor of Georgia. And although it has been denied from Georgia that the two Gov ernors reached an understand ing, Gov. Faubus has in" fact done precisely what he was told that Gov. Griffin was prepared to do in his state. The circumstances of the whole affair indicate, indeed proove, that the Governor's de cision to use the National Guard to keep the Negro children out of the school was taken some time before there could have been any manifestation of the mob. We know on the highest local authority in Little Rock, that the Mayor and of the School Board, that the mob disorder did not precede but has follow ed the intervention of the Na tional Guard troops. The Mayor is insisting that the local police were quite adequate to cope with any trouble that might have arisen if there had been no provocation by the Gov ernor's "unwarranted inter ference ... to create tension where none existed." If the Gov ernor had really been concern ed, as he pretends to be, with the danger of mob disorder' he would not have sent in the Na tional Guard until there was some evidence that the local po lice were inadequate. What, in fact, he did was to supersede the local police before there was any disorder at all. fTiHE Governor's conduct in the affair makes it seem very likely that the crisis has been engineered, and that Arkansas was picked for an experiment. and that Gov. Faubus was horn swoggled into providing a test case for an adventure in nulli fication. It was a smart idea to pick Gov. Faubus and Arkansas For the Governor has not in the past been known as an absolute segregationist. Nor has the state of Arkansas been, like the states of the Deep South, irreconcil able, and there has been some integration in some of the Ar kansas schools. If a precedent for outright nullification could be established in a state like Arkansas, there would be little to argue about if Georgia follow ed suit. There is very strong internal evidence for believing that the Little Rock crisis was engineer ed in order to establish a pat tern and a precedent for nullifi cation. The evidence is in the fact that the actual situation in Little Rock was, before the Gov ernor intervened, the very op posite of the situation on which rests the case of the South. Dur ing the summer in the debate in the Senate on the civil rights bill, there came to be a national understanding by all sections of the country that mtergration is not to be imposed on Southern communities where the white citizens are predominatly op posed. But in Little Rock the plan of integration was drawn up by the local school board, and it was explained for months to the civic organizations of Little Rock. It was, moreover, an ex tremely moderate plan to The Better Service For over 22 years, we have served this commu nity 24 hours out of every day. Our door has never been locked during this time (WE NEVER CLOSE!) ""cM. Litwiller This service has meant much to our many patrons. Our charges are consistently much lower lhan those charged elsewhere . . and we are 100 locally owned. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape' Hwy 66 at Normal Office 88 N Main ASHLAND We Never Close countries in the U.N. Assembly debate on disarmament, which is likely to start about Oct. 1. That means there will be a flood of propaganda speeches. Both Gromyko and Krishna Menon are tireless talkers. But the Allied countries, and those who back them, certainly are not going to agree to any un conditional ban on weapons testing. Tomorrow Lippmann admit nine Negro children among 1,900 white children, and to proceed gradually over a pe riod of six years to admit a few more handfuls. The Little Rock plan called in fact for a token integration, just enough to estab lish symbolically the principle, not remotely enough to have any appreciable effect on the social order of the city. Gov. Faubus, and those with whom he has thrown in his lot, are acting exactly as they would have acted if they intended to precipitate an irreconcilable conflict in the hope that the Federal government will accept defeat. They have acted in a manner which, if they intended it, could not have been calculat ed more shrewdly to spoil the progress towards an under standing and an accommodation which the country owes to Sen. Russell of Georgia, to Sen. Lyn don Johnson and to Speaker Rayburn. THE President cannot, it need hardly me said, retreat and surrender. Gov. Faubus has raised a critical issue which is whether the National Guard of a state may be used to prevent local communities within that state from obeying the law of the land. Is it the right of a state to employ military force to nullify the Constitution? The President is bound, so it seems to me, not to consider that this affair is settled until a clear precedent has been estab lished which rules out the use of the National Guard as an instru ment of nullification. Congress and the President have both ruled out the use of Federal troops to impose integra tion. The necessary corollary is to rule out the use of state troops to impose segregation. The prin ciple is clear and the President will have overwhelming support from the country in supporting it by all the legal powers at his command. A failure to support the prin ciple would not only be igno minious. It would be a betrayal of the liberal Southern leaders, leaving them at the mercy of the rabid segregationists with whom they have been contending so valiantly and so well. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. PASSENGER PENALTY Washington (in Scheduled airlines are preparing to take a new step in their campaign against "no-show" passengers who fail to cancel their reserva tions when their travel plans change. Effective Sunday, Sept. 15, "no-shows" will have to pay a $3 penalty. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worthwhile purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay In monthly Install ments. You may choose the terms most suitable to you up to 24 months. Leant may be paid in ad vance or in full at any time. 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