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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE 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. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 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 $18 00 Daily 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 Hress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAN7 INC ' Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C O" NEWS PA P E K PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL nITOIAi vA I lAsTbcSVieN 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 Sept. 30, 1947 (Wednesday) Name of the Professional En gineers club of Southern Oregon is changed to the Professional Engineers and Architects club of Southern Oregon during Mon day night's meeting. From Arthur, Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Foolish ness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod shall drive it from him." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1937 (Friday) Value of building permits is sued by the city for the first nine months of the year total an increase of 32.2 per cent. Up to Sept. 25, a total of 1,- 242, 306 boxes of pears, all va rieties exclusive of winter nelis had been packed in the upper and central Rogue River valley. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1927 (Friday) Owing to new families mov ing into the Provolt district, the school was closed as precaution against infantile paralysis. Friday and Saturday are clean-up days in Talent. Refuse is being collected so the mar shal can haul it away. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1917 (Saturday) The Southern Pacific has found it necessary to keep a special policeman on No. 13, southbound passenger train, to keep order among drunks. First of many thousand dol lars will be expended for live stock for the Klamath reserva tion. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good 1. Name the Nobel Prize win ner who wrote "Main Street" and "Babbitt." 2. When is Pan American Day celebrated? 3. Bible: Did the Jews hate, respect, or highly regard Herod? 4. Are the Philippine Islands a possession or a territory of the U.S.? 5. A diplomate is a member of the foreign service, one who holds a diploma from an institu tion of learning, or a pickpock et? 6. Admiral Kichisaburo No mura was the Japanese, or the Chinese, ambassador to Wash ington at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack (Dec. 7, 1941)? 7. Which is the leading cotton growing 'State? 8. When the flag is furled, is it opened to the breeze or is it wrapped around its .staff ? 9. What word should be omit ted: "He was outside of this group?'' 10. "It's goin't f be fun f watch an' see how long th' meek kin keep th earth after they in herit it." Ken Hubbard. Which Biblical proverb is in question? Answers: 1. Sinclair Lewis. 2. April 14. 3. Hate. 4. Neither, (they acquired independence July 4, 1946). 5. One who holds a diploma fropn an institution of learning. , 6. Japanese Ambas sador. 7. Texas. 8. Wrapped around its. staff. 9. "of." 10. "Blessed be the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." River Falls, Wis. (IP) Cki events at the annual winter'car nival of River Falls State Col lege was called off in favor of a swimming party in the college pool. The reason no snow. MAIL TRIBUNE On the Right Track After what looked remarkably like a false start, we believe the county court is now on the right track in the matter of the proposed subdivision ordinance. The growth of the county during the past two dec ades (the population has doubled in 17 years) made city planning commissions in the larger communities necessary and accepted things. Continued growth (and there is no reason to believe the western tide of population will by-pass Jackson county) will make similar regulations just as necessary or even more so in semi-rural and rural areas. IN THE first place, the court recognized this fact when it appointed a planning commission of high caliber and sincere men. It requested them to begin working on the problems which increasing rural popu lations will bring. These include moderate and reason able regulations of subdivision development, build ing codes, zoning, and so on. The planning commission, serving without pay and purely through a 'desire to be of service to their community, got to work. With the assistance and advice of a planning consultant, they came up with a "first step" in this progress, a subdivision ordinance. Perhaps the commission, which has had ' little prior experince in such matters, should have checked further into other laws of a similar nature ; perhaps it should have called for more counsel and guidance from a wider representation in the county; perhaps it should not have relied quite so heavily on the advice of an expert not necessarily familiar with problems in Jackson county. TIT'HATEVER the reason, the commission came up with an ordinance which the court found unac ceptable and unduly restrictive. Under pressure from all angles, the court made a mistake not an irretrievable one, but nonetheless a mistake. They curfly returned the ordinance to the commission for "further study and revision." They gave no hint as to how it should be revised, or even what portions, if any,' they found objectionable. Members of the commission, understandably, were irritated. Their long work on the ordinance was shoved back into their faces without a thank-you or a word of explanation. Some members reportedly were on the verge of resigning, and one could hardly blame them. ' THE court retrieved itself, belatedly, when it wrote a conciliatory letter, thanked the commission for its work, and outlined a few suggestions as to what lines it would like the commission to follow in further study of the subdivision problem. It has suggested that other ordinances be inspected and the experiences of other localities which have them should be considered. It also suggested that spe cific objections to the proposed ordinance be invited, and that those with an interest m it be consulted. This, we venture to suggest, is what the court should have done in the first place. CO, FOR the time being, the tempest-in-a-teapot over the ordinance is stilled ; the measure is "on the table" until the commission has a chance to probe its implications further. And, we hope, the court and its commission are on better terms. Opponents to the ordinance as at first presented may have valid points in their objections. But no one who has the future well-being of the county at heart should back himself into a comer by saying he is against such things as subdivision regula tion, county zoning or county building codes, flatly and without further thought. - For, unless we are badly mistaken, the realities of population growth are going to make him look pretty silly, and before too many years. Rural "slums", and all that goes with them, are too high a price to pay for a lack of foresight. E.A; Breeding If through cross-breeding and selective breeding man can develop superior varieties of com, or chickens, or beef-cattle (as he has done), why can he not develop a superior variety of tree? Some foresters are convinced he can. And if he does so, it would make quite a difference in this lumber-growing region, which is now rapidly running out of virgin stands of timber, and increas ingly will be dependent on second growth and, in the future, whole new plots of man-sown forests. . Active experiments are being conducted by a number of companies and research agencies in attempts to develop trees of better lumber-producing characteristics fewer limbs, less taper, straight leaders, lighter branches and faster growth. IT HAS long been standard practice in Oregon to leave "seed sources" when harvesting lumber. But in the future this may, in itself, not be good enough: If seed from a superior type tree produces more superior trees, the reverse likely is also true. And the seed sources, in too many instances, are chosen just because they are not superior trees. The good ones have gone to the mill. Careful selection of seed from the best trees, grafting, and other-methods may eventually develop nursery stocks almost guaranteed to produce high quality timber in almost any given kind of tree producing territory. E.A. Monday. September 30, 1957 Trees 'YES.SIR. IF THAT OC GIANT WAS THAT TAIL, H ......... . niMPr iii -nk-r ufrilrVMH I I CWULU UUK KWH1 IN JHM Matter of Fact MATTER OF FACT The Polish Gamble Warsaw The new Poland of Vladyslaw Gomulka is intensely exciting and even inspiring, be cause the people are brave and newly free, be cause there is a new ferment of ideas and cre ation, because a wholly new thing is being boldly attempt ed. Joseph Aisnp But it must also be realized that this new thing this previously unheard of combination of a Communist government and a free people is necessarily an enormous gam ble. The first factor in the gamble is simply the uneasy relationship between the people and their government. Almost all Poles still regard Gomulka as their lib erator. The Poznan workers whom I polled also declared that they were "content for now" with the government's general record since the great change in October. In my judgment, the Poznan workers spoke for a con siderable majority of their fel lows in other cities. BUT there is danger in the con trast between the workers who are only "content for now" and the peasants who are uncon ditionally contented to have their land back. There is danger, too, in certain depressed areas like the ancient textile center of Lodz, where the recent strikes occurred. Above all, there is .danger because life, though somewhat better, still remains very hard, for Polish workers ev erywhere.' The danger-is all the greater because the Polish intellectuals and young people are not "con tent for now." They think that the government should go much further and faster towards lib eralization, instead of regressing slightly as it has been doing. All the same, I think the Pol ish masses will continue gener ally to support their govern ment, if the next year brings the kind of modest improvement in .their lives that will give a sense of progress. That is a min imum requirement, however. Unless the people, feel a sense of progress, there will be bitter disappointment. And since the people are now freed of police constraints, any such disappoint ment will be openly expressed, as happened locally at Lodz. POLAND'S economic position is precarious. There is an alarming shortage of trained, ex perienced industrial executives and technicians who can make fruitful use of the new autonomy granted to Poland's producing enterprises. Thus even modest economic progress will not be easy. But any failure in this re spect will be doubly riskv. Dre- cisely because the Polish gov ernment is a Communist govern ment. The Polish Communist nartv has changed in an extraordinary manner since the pseudo-religi- U.P. Correspondents Eye Future Headlines United Press correspondents throughout the world look ahead at the news that will make ihe headlines. Rackets Look for the Senate Rackets Committee to dig into the affairs of labor consultant Nathan Hef ferman, close friend of Teamster President David Beck,' in mid October. Hefferman first bobbed up in the Beck hearing. He testi fied he used $85,000 in union funds to buy personal items for Beck and his family. The com mitee is expected to go into other activities of the gray-haired, 70-year-old Chicagoan, who has more than 300 management clients, principally department stores. Zhukov Western European experts aren't "buying" the official line minwvvn. By Joseph Alsop ous rituals of Communism have ceased to be compulsory. It has been like the end of compulsory chapel in a university. There are almost no active party mem bers left, except the orthodox true believers who man the party apparatus and control the public administration, plus the heretical young intellectuals who consider themselves Com munists, but wish to give the word "Communist" a wholly new meaning. For the immediate future, the orthodox true believers are the only group that counts. Almost none of them would like to abandon Poland's newly-won in dependence of the Kremlin. But a very great many of them are what they call locally "conserva tive" Communists. This means that they are extremely nervous in the presence of freedom. They have accepted the new Poland's freedom of the individual, free dom of religion, freedom of ag riculture; but even this much freedom gives them goose-flesh all the same. Predictably, the whole government will react very sharply if the existing mea sure of freedom later on leads to widespread movements of pub lic protests, like the Lodz strike but on a larger scale. QUITE visibly, the Communist "conservatives" are also at tempting to limit or at least to slowdown the further extension of freedom in new "socialist" forms to the industrial and trad ing parts of the economy. Some of them, as I have already sug gested, would probably like to bring back through the econom ic door the same secret police that were thrown out the po litical window, "in order to con trol speculation." Poland's tough, intelligent Prime Minister Cryankiewicz insisted to me that the existing difference between the Party's "conservatives" and the original supporters of Gomulka was "only a difference about tim ing." Economic aims and prin ciples, he declared were now fully agreed upon. But reshap ing the whole Polish economy was bound to be a long, trouble some, difficult business; and "naturally some want to go very fast and some want to go rather slow." Like many other foreign ob servers in Warsaw, I think Pre mier Cyrankiewicz was giving a generally accurate summary of the inner governmental situa tion. But any differences about economic policy, even those des cribed by Premier Cyrankiewicz must add to the uncertainty of the situation. Hence one cannot be sure of the kind of future economic progress that will allow this free people and this Communist gov ernment to work easily in har ness, together. This seldom-optimistic correspondent happens to be decidely optimistic in the present case. But this optimism is wholly conditional, and its con ditions must be discussed in a further report. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. that the visit of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, Soviet Russian de fense minister, to Yugoslavia Oct. 8 will be merely one of courtesy. The official version is TWO STICKS TOLD IT Geo. N. Taylor One day it was told the boy that God had a Son who had died for his sins He had been prayed for; was under conviction and knew that he was lost. Right there on one telling the boy knew. So he accepted Christ as dying for him. Now he must tell God. God knew all the time but that was a small boy's reasoning. So he fastened two sticks together like the cross on which Christ died and this cross he stuck into the ground there by the house. Now years later he can see how from that time he resisted sin and lived to make God rich. Thi message by God's people who want you to know. Nehru Hopes To Get Rid of One Difficulty; By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru seems to have hope of getting rid of one of his many political aches and pains. He has offer ed home rule, under the cen tral Indian government, to the N a g a tribesmen who have been in rebellion for Charles McCanD years. Nehru made his offer to a de putation of nine Naga leaders who visited him in New Delhi. These leaders have the sup port of a large proportion of the tribesmen. The question is, however, whether Nehru's offer will be acceptable to the rebel leader, a one-time school teacher who has fought the Indian army for two years and swears to fight on until he wins complete in dependence. The nine leaders will try to get him to accept. Concession - It was quite a concession for Nehru to make. As Southeast Asia's No. 1 neutralist leader, Nehru has been notably generous in his views on the disposition of the territory of other coun tries, especially those which he criticizes as "colonialist." He is not so generous in his views about the territory he claims, including the state of Kashmir, which is in dispute be tween India and Pakistan. He has defied the attempts of the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the rleht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Walk Those Steps Again To the Editor: You Negro boys and girls in the South are under severe testmg these days, a trail that will not stop with measures enforcing federal law The full impacet of prejudice, hate, and violence hits you early in life. Millions of white and colored people admire you as you are walking the steps of the palatial school buildings the like of which no other country in the world can afford. White guardsmen and your white con temporaries are turning you away, often with insults and threats. In Rome one can see the 'scala santa' which Jesus is sup posed to have climbed to face Pontius Pilate, and there are imitations of these steps all over the world. Whether in Little Rock, Arkansas or in Johannes burg, South Africa, the steps of many a school building are now assuming some of the character of these same steps where two thousand years ago dignity, love, friendship, and trust were mo mentarily defeated by injustice and hate. You hear it dinned into your ears, "Go back to Africa!" But even if you could, you must stay with us. Africa, Asia, Europe the whole world is watching you. History itself is your wit ness. You are under the watch ful eyes of love as well as of hate. And, most of all, the that Zhukov is returning a visit which Gen. Ivan Gosnjak, Presi dent Tito's state secretary for de fense, recently paid to Moscow. The experts believe Russia is trying to bolster up the south ern end of its Communist bloc defense line. They expect Zhu kov to snoop into the arms sup ply Tito is getting from the United States and possibly to offer him some Russian weapons. Syria Intelligence agents report that the Turkish-Syrian frontier is the real hot spot in the Middle East now. Turkey is increasingr ly alarmed over Russia's attempt to neutralize it as a North At lantic Treaty Organization out post by arming its southern neighbor, Syria. Syria is talking tough. Turkey wants no trouble. But it has the toughest fighting men in the entire Middle East. Unity, Maybe On the surface, the visit of King Saud to Damascus patched up the Arab world split over Russian military aid to Syria. But the patch is thin. Saud doesn't like the idea of any Com munist penetration in the Mid dle East. Many Others Remain United Nations to hold a plebi scite of Kashmir, whose people are mostly Moslems, because he knows he would lose it. The rebel tribesmen live in the wild Naga hills of northeast ern India adjoining Burma. They number, in all, about 1,2000,000, spread over about 3,000 square miles of territory. Are Christians Strangely, many if not most of them are Christians all Bap tists. The process of conversion was begun by an American mis sionary, the Rev. Miles Bronson, who went to the Naga country long ago. Under British rule, until India attained its independence in 1947, the Naga tribesmen en joyed a considerable measure of freedom,. But Nehru put most of them under the rule of the state gov ernment of Assam. The remain der of those on Indian territory were put under control of ihe central government. The rebel leader is A. Zapu Fhizo, a well-educated , former Southern Political Stability Said Gone; Negro Vote Bv LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Long before racial integration has been im posed in the schools of such states is Vir ginia and South Caro lina by force or otherwise, the mirage of a white man's Repu b 1 i c a n party in the South will have faded for xi . I.yle C Wilson anouier long span of years. Presidential elections will be coming up on schedule, how ever, compelling white south erners to consider where to hang their political hats. It was only last June that Chairman Meade Alcorn of the Republican National Committee brought to President Eisenhow er's office I. Lee Porter of Vir ginia. Negroes Can Vole Porter was then the newly appointed organizational direc- mantle of divine love covers you everywhere. The story is told of two well dressed little Negro girls who approached the guard at the Lin coln Memorial in Washington with the timid question, "Are colored people allowed in here?" Tney asked this question at the most beautiful altar our nation has ever erected to the memory of a martyred President. You are asking the same question in various places of the South and in Africa itself, asking it in front of the most cherished buildings any community can erect for its young citizens. Our schools are our pride. They are our hope because here you are getting ready to build the United States of tomorrow, "one nation indivisible." We must not fail you. You must not fail us. May God give you the strength to walk those steps again and again, whether in Arkansas or in South Africa. The doors will open some day; they must. They will open be cause the minds and hearts of the people will open first. And the portals of your schools will become like "the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter through it" (Psalm 118:20). The foregoing, from the FRIENDS JOURNAL, a Quaker Weekly, of Sept. 21, 1957, seems appropriately helpful at this this time. Mrs. Herb Sampert 158 Renault ave. Medford, Ore. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 school teacher. Phizo organized a rebel Naga National Council and a fighting force of some thousands of tough fighting men. The rebels attacked police posts in the wild hill country, assassinated officials and raided villages. Provincial authorities could do nothing with them. Finally, Nehru moved in a for midable army. But the rebellion has continued. Many Troubles Some of Nehru's other trou bles are the election of a Com munist government in the state of Kerala, clashes between mem bers of the Thevar caste and Cut-caste "untouchables" in the state of Madras, in which 40 persons have been killed, and a strike by thousands of bank em ployees . in West Bengal state. These have been riotous demon strations, led by leftists, in West Bengal in protest against food shortages. In addition to this, India is in serious financial difficulties. Nehru is seeking $1 billion in" foreign loans. is Crucial tor for the Republican party in the south. He and Alcorn told the President about a "dead earnest drive" to build the Re publican party in southern states. The drive now is dead enough, except for such opportunity as may be offered by the improved opportunity to vote now guar anteed southern Negroes. If southern Negroes choose to enter the Democratic party, southern whites may be expect ed to leave it. But for where? If southern whites are not jost led out of t.t2 Democratic party by invading Negroes, they are likely to leave anyway in pro test against the presidential can didate and platform adopted in 1960 by a Democratic National Convention in which they will have no more than a small voice. The political instability of the so-called solid South in (presi dential elections has been dem onstrated repeatedly in recent years. Herbert Hoover modest ly cracked the South in 1928 when his opponent was New York's Alfred E. Smith, a Cath olic who opposed national pro hibition of alcoholic beverages. Voted For Eisenhower J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina headed a state's rights protest ticket in 1948. He got 39 electoral votes among Ala bama, Louisiana, , Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee." Thurmond's objective was to win sufficient electoral votes to prevent either major party from obtaining a majority of the elec toral college. That would have placed the election of a presi dent in the House of Represen tatives, each state casting one vote. Eisenhower carried Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in 1952, repeating in 1956 with Louisiana added. These break throughs encouraged Republi cans to hope for a two-party sys tem in the South. Southern strategy got southerners noth ing more than the satisfaction of recording a protest statistic in the final returns. The time when white south ern conservatives will have any substantial influence in making national political policy or in choosing a president probably is far off. They have lacked such influence now for 20 years. Their bid for power lies in the long service of their senators and congressmen and the com mittee chairmanships which un interrupted service earns. Southern Negro voters might break that up, maybe beginning next year. A.1 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!