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FOUR MEDFORD OREGON) "Xveryono in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Satur'iay by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa 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 rear $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 f 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER 07 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 EDITORIAL o r- ASSOCt-A tin 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 ' Oct. 6. 1947 (Monday) Oregon voters go to polls to vote on two measures in a spe cial tax election; a one-third turn-out of registered voters pre dicted despite interest in pro posed sales tax. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The sauer kraut (1947 crop) season formal ly opened yes, in town and coun try, accompanied by dumplings. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 1937 (Wednesday) Citizens budget committee ap proves Medford's 1938 general budget of $136,671.42. Jackson county's quota of 20 men will be enrolled in the civil ian conservation corps here soon. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 1927 (Thursday) Stewart Fruit company re ceives message stating a car of extra fancy Bartlett pears sells on the New. York market for $5.60 per box. Indians from Klamath reser vation, in Medford attending the United States court, attract at tention from tourists and strang ers. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 6. 1917 (Saturday) Medford mayor presents $20 to Company Seven for a bass drum. Medford dairymen raise price of milk to 10 cents a quart; raise necessitated by high cost of feed and scarcity of milk cows. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good 1. The capital of Alaska is Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome, or Seward? 2. Are apples cultivated in vineyards, orchards, apiaries, plantations, or aviaries? 3. Bible:". . . take the young child and his mother, and flee into" take, whom, and where? 4. Senator George, Democrat, represented which State in the U. S. Senate? 5. Name the most northerly country of South America. 6. In later Christian art, how are cherubs represented? 7. Marian Anderson is a fa mous Negro painter, composer, singer, or radio announcer? 8. What is Hagana? 9. 'Abstract;" which syllable is accented in the noun, and which in the verb? 10. "I like men which have a future, and women who have a" what? Answers: 1. Juneau. 2. Orch ards. 3. Jesus, Mary, to Egypt. 4. Georgia. 5. Venezuela. 6. As children with wings of angels. 7. Singer. 8. The Jewish militia in Israel. 9. "Ab" (noun); "stract" (verb). 10. "past." Oscar Wilde. Little Rock Pupils Praised By Actress Little Rock, Ark. OP! Mov ie actress Julie Adams paused here briefly at troubled Central High school, complimenting the majority of students for "re straint and good conduct," dur ing the integration controversy. The pretty starlet, a Little Rock girl, graduated from Cen tral. She told the students that "the eyes of the world are on you." Miss Adams lunched with the students in the school cafeteria Friday. She was en route to New Orleans for a movie premiere. MAIL TRIBUNE How About I960? In the weekly magazine "U.S. News and World Report," David Lawrence, editor, and often known as "Mr. Republican" which he considers a compli ment maintains the sending of U.S. troops to Little Rock by President Eisenhower, the greatest blow the G.O.P. has suffered since the battle of Bull Run. As usual, we can't agree with Editor Lawrence. In fact, if we have ever agreed with him on any IM PORTANT national issue, since he started the "USNWR," we can't, at the moment, recall it. At one time there was apparently so much dis agreement on the editorial staff that Mr. Lawrence explained in a foreword, that the views expressed were his alone, and did not represent those of anyone else, including his co-workers. Nevertheless, we would hazard the guess that he usually pretty well voices the views of the extreme right wing of the Republican party including those who would like to quit all foreign aid and eliminate the federal income tax. LJOWEVER, on this issue, we not only believe the A Lawrence interpretation of the administrations action to put down mob-rule in Arkansas, from a political standpoint, to be incorrect, but the exact opposite is true. "VVe claim the possession of no crystal ball po litical or otherwise and readily acknowledge that everything is not only fair in love, war AND politics, but practically anything in these areas can happen. However, as things stand today, we fail to see any result but an inevitable split in the Democratic party over states rights and the school-integration issue and almost certainly the formation of another "States Rights or Dixiecrat party confined largely of course to the South. " ' ' ... ' "THERE was such a party formed in 1948 led by A Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina which polled over a million popular votes, and stacked up approximately 40 electoral votes. It is not hard to picture what such a party on a states-rights-school-integration platform wTould do, as conditions are in the south today. Doubtless of course, it could not win the election, but it could render a Democratic victory impossible, and the best the latter could expect would be a dead lock which would send the decision into the congress presumably controlled, as it is today, by their party. ,. t AT any rate as we see it, the days of the Democratic party as it has been composed of a firm north south coalition, ever since the Civil War, is over. Again admitting that conditions may change, and three years, politically, is a long time in which changes can occur, it is hard to see how -this political war against the G.O.P. in the South, can fail to strengthen it materially in the North, particularly with the Negro vote thanks largely to Governor Faubus of Arkansas going over probably 99 to the Grand Old Party. IT is true that in 1948, when the Democrats lost over 1 a million votes to the Dixiecrat "Thirty Party," President Truman, completely confounding all the experts and poll-takers, defeated Governor Dewey in the electoral college 393 to 189. It has always been a pet theoiy of this depart ment, however, that it was not so much "Light Horse Harry's" strength, as it was the "bridegroom on the wedding cakes" weakness, that caused that complete overturning of the dope-bucket. And perhaps there is the one hope for the Demo crats. Namely that the Republicans, without the services of the "unbeatable Ike," will nominate a candidate, the rank and file, when they go to the polls, will simply refuse to take. R.W.R. An Editorial Postscript A few days ago we expressed the opinion in this column that there is a great difference between the number of people who read newspaper editorials and the number of people who are influenced, by them. The first total may be considerable and the second may be inconsiderable and often is. At the recent "Timber-Line" editorial conference, the latter item was emphasized by noting the record on water fluoridation most of the papers in the state, where the issue was raised, supporting it, most of communities voting against it. "llELL, there are scores of similar examples that might be cited in this state and all the others. There is the record on a sales-tax in Oregon for example. Most of the papers in the state have supported it, when on the ballot, yet such a tax has never been passed. We remember many years ago, when every news paper in New York City, but one, opposed a candidate for Mayor, but he won hands down and as we recall it proved to be a very good one. HTHEN, there is, of course, the outstanding example " in last year's election. Only two papers in the state favored the re election of Senator Morse. Yet, our senior Senator not only won hands down, but his majority was only exceeded by the irresistible "Ike." GO it has gone and so it promises to go. But what does it prove ? Well, it doesn't prove that, people no longer read editorials. Nor does it prove editorials that are read have no influence. It does prove that the golden days of Horace Sunday, October 6. 1957 PAD.' THAT DARN OL' M&1ER In the Day's News By FRANK In Denver this week, an inter state commerce commission ex aminer is hearing PROTESTS AGAINST REDUCED RAIL ROAD RATES from the Midwest to the West Coast on fresh meat and other packing house prod ucts. The hearing is expected to last at least two weeks. That sounds like one for the book, because protests are nor mally lodged against HIGHER transportation rates. But when the facts of the case are under stood, it sounds less weird. These lower rates are ONE WAY rates. That is to say, they apply on fresh meat and other packing house products FROM the East TO the West but NOT on these products when shipped from the West to the East. Their effect is to open the growing Far West market to producers and proces sors of these products without offering any corresponding ad vantages to Far Western pro ducers and processors in the markets of the Middle West and the East. They are discriminatory, and unfair, and ought to be repealed. BUT- -In their poisonously dis criminatory way These new rates dramatize a fact that isn't generally under stood. The Far West is growing fabulously. By 1975 only a scant 18 years away"" the 11 Western states are expected to have a : population in excess of 40 million people. That is a real market. It is a BIG market. This swiftly growing Far West market is responsible for the bulk of the new industrial de velopment that is coming to the Pacific Coast. The new factories that are arising here expect to Editorial Comment A CITY LEARNS 'THE AWFUL TRUTH' The Bulletin of the Portland City Club reports that one In diana community, concerned be cause an expected new industry had passed it by, learned why. City dads, after their commun ity had been rejected in favor of another, wrote to the direct ors of the manufacturing plant and asked the simple question, "Why?" The plant directors told them these unpleasant facts about their city: Too many houses showed a lack of upkeep. There was. poor traffic control. The business district looked as if it had not been changed since 1900. The city's water came from one river. Raw sewage was dumped into another near the junction of the two rivers. Hotel and restaurant accom modations were inadequate and poor. The bridges had a decrepit ap pearance, and the company took this as evidencing a lack of com munity pride. Schools and hospitals were in adequate. There was lack of zoning and planning. The , manufacturer did note, however, that the park and recre ation program of the community was good. But it just wasn't good enough to make up for the de Greeley and Charles Dana and Harvey Scott for that matter have gone and will never return. It proves also, that "voting the ticket straight," or as ANY newspaper dictates, is as dead as the "Dodo." Finally it proves that independent, non-partisan vot ing is steadily on the increase. This doesn't mean newspaper editorials are not read or have no influence. It merely means that in fluence is no longer decisive. It means the people, as a whole, don't go to the newspapers for their opin ions, but go to them and the radio for their facts. And on the basis of those facts, as THEY see them, they form their own opinions., All of which comes under the general heading of democratic and genuinely desirable human pro gress. R.W.R. VJlLSOU SQUIRTED MB BACK ' JENKINS find their markets among the 40 odd million consumers who will be living and working and play ing in the 11 Western states in less than two decades. THAT fact reverses all of our past thinking in the Far West on the subject of industrial de velopment. For nearly a century we were handicapped by re moteness from .big consuming markets. In those long years, we had to realize that if we tried to manufacture something in large enough volume to bring costs down to a competitive level we would have to find our markets for it in the East, where the bulk of the consumers were located. The growth of the West is changing all that. We are getting customers enough in our own area to make large scale indus trial production possible and profitable here in our own re gion. No longer do we have to send our products clear across the continent in order to find a mar ket for them.. TJUT If we're going to KEEP this market for our own Western producers, we'll have to FIGHT for it. This viciously discrimi nating ONE WAY rate on fresh meat and other packing house products, if it is permitted to stand, will be just an entering wedge. If the Midwest and the East can get away with low ONE WAY rates on meat and other packing house products, they will go after similar discrimina. tory rates on ALL OTHER PRODUCTS. That would throw a nasty road block in the way of future industrial development in the Far West. ficiencies in other community features. In answering the city's letter, the company showed that its directors had asked the ques tions "Why would anybody want to live here? Would we want to live here ourselves? Would we be likely to have a happy and stable corps of employees, if we located our new plant here? The answers to these questions had apparently been "No. No. No." The company's answers dem onstrate, that one of the greatest assets a community can have is the fact that it is regarded as "a nice place to live, a fine place to have a home and bring up kids." When a skilled work man selects the town where he wants to live and grow old he thinks of other things than just the job he'll work at 40 hours a week for 49 or 50 weeks of the year. He thinks also of the re mainder of his own time and of the time of his wife and chil dren. Here in Eugene, we think, we do indeed have "a nice place to live." We regard that as a great er community asset. It is much more important, we think, that we have good schools, that our homes look well kept, that we are two hours from an uncluttered ocean beach that belongs to everybody and the same travel-time from the Today and By Walter FAUBUS AND BEYOND As of Tuesday evening, the question was whether Gov. Fau bus had played a trick on the Committee of Southern Gover nors, who had come to the White House to negotiate for the withdrawal of the Federal power. The crux of it all lay in the phrase "law and order," and whether the Waiter Lippmann phrase meant the same thing to Faubus, to the four Governors, and to the President. Almost certainly it did not. I say almost certainly because Fau bus is not a plain-spoken man. It would seem to have meant to him that what he did on Sept. 3, when he used the Arkansas Na tional Guard to bar the Negro children, was to maintain "law and order." In fact, of course, he was maintaining order but nullifying the law. In his state ment on Tuesday after the White House conference, there was much evidence, given the slip periness of his character, that he was avoiding a plain and clear promise both to enforce the law and to maintain order. His state ment can be read as a promise not to use the National Guard to bar the Negro children. But it is not an unambiguous promise to suppress a mob which might bar the Negro children. It is clear that when the Com mittee of Governors informed the President that they were "authorized" by Faubus to say that he assumed full responsibil ity for "law and order," they thought in all good faith that his authorization was meant in good faith and that the words mean what in fact they mean. TECAUSE of his record, no assurances from Faubus could be accepted by the President in which every syllable and every comma had not been thoroughly scrutinized. The President was well advised to insist on a clear and precise promise. For there Matter of Fact DIVIDED FRANCE Paris In a technical sense, the vote on the Algerian ques tion that left France without a government is easy enough to explain. The French Assembly, like old Gaul, is divided into three parts The extreme Left, mainly C o m m u n ist, Joseph Alsop and the Pou jadists and other miscellaneous groups of the extreme Rieht. are more numerous when they unite than the third part, the parties of the Center. In this, the ex tremes united to defeat Prime Minister Bourges-Maunoury and his proposed basic law for tor tured Algeria. But this technical explanation by no means tells the story, as is proven by the bitterness this event has caused m France it self. You do not find the Right and Left rejoicing while the Center mourns On the contrary, this reporter has not been able to discover any Frenchmen or French wom an except a lone Communist Activist who was not angered, appalled and humiliated by the new demonstration of govern mental impotence to tackle the most agonizing problem con fronting France today. IF THESE really are the feel- of the French people, then the complexities of the Parliament and the peculiarities of the Constitution do not sufficiently explain what has happened. The answer mus lie deeper. In part, one suspects, the an swer lies in the peculiar wav the Algerian question has been and is being discussed m this coun try. Precisely because the ques tion is so deeply and naturallv charged with passion, it is not and never has been publicly dis- high alpine meadows of the Three Sisters area. Our stores compare favorably with those of much larger Pacific Coast cities. Zoning and plan ning have been carried out here for a long time and, as we saw last week, the county govern ment will back up the zoning laws. Oh, we have a long way to go. We need a Civic Center and we need even better parks and playgrounds and we need more in the way of highways'"-and arterial streets. 'We need a lot of things. But we have kept up pretty well with our growth. We must do more, however, if . we don't want people some day to ask, "Why would anybody want to live there?" Eugene Register Guard. An averap-p scrapped automo- hilp vields 1.500 nounds of iron I and steel, 20 pounds of aluminum and 60 pounds of brass, copper and other usable metals. Tomorrow Lippmann is a great principle at stake, and the only salvage the country can recover from the disaster at Lit tle Rock is to see that this prin ciple is defined and recognized. The principle is that the Na tional Guard may not obstruct the carrying out of the laws of the United States, and that it must be available, if needed, to enforce the laws. The Faubus af fair arose out of the problem of integration. But its crucial im portance has lain in the question of what are the rights and duties of the armed forces of the sev eral states. No matter how long it takes, the President cannot make a settlement in Arkansas which sets up as a precedent the action of Faubus. There must be no doubt left that the troops of every state are dedicated to the support of the law. THE President, we were told, would have liked to discuss with the Governors not merely the specific question of the with drawal of the Federal power but also the general problem of in tegration. If there was any such discussion, nothing has been re ported about it. But after Little Rock, there can be no doubt in the President's, mind that he must do more about the general problem than to hand it over wholly to the Department of Justice. He ought, it seems to me, to treat integration as primarily a problem, not in law enforcement, but in education. It is a problem not only for Mr. Brownell and the Department of Justice, but for Mr. Folsom and the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare. For the decision of the Su preme Court looks forward to what is in reality a revolutionary change in the educational system of a large section of the country, and also, in truth, of many com munities outside the South. The lawyers are necessary and are all very well. But the time has come to turn to the leaders of American education, and to in vite them to accept their responsibilities-. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. By Joseph Alsop , . ! cussed in a hard-headed, brutally down-to-earth manner. From their press and public men, the French people have heard endless debating about Algeria. But the debate always concerns what ought to be done, and rarely touches upon what can be done. It offers endless variations on the theme of what is "acceptable, but it hardly touches upon the uglier theme of what may have to be accepted TN THIS respect, the French people are no different from the American people, for ex ample, who have swallowed with apparent delight the poisonous soothing syrup officially ladled out on the crucial problem of na tional defense. Most Americans love the syrup because it is soothing. For the same reason, most French people are perfect ly happy not to be reminded of the only fact concerning the Al gerian problem of which this re porter is at all sure the fact that there is no way out, wheth er by peace or by war, that does not have its unavoidably repell ing and even horrible aspects. This being so, French opinion has not really crystallized, in the true sense of that much abused word. The objections to any new and positive course of action . in Algeria are always found to be greater than the promised advantages. This is the true mark- of uncrystallized pub lic opinion. A final crystallization of French opinion would have had to start before this, if the Alger ian rebel leadership were more united and coherent. In fact, however, both in their politicai committees and even in the re sistance groups in the field, the rebels appear to be deeply di vided by differences of view point and even by personal ri valries. rpHIS was dramatically illus- trated last year, when the Tunisian leader, Habib Bourgui- ba, urgently pressed his Algerian friends to accept the famous of fer of former Prime Minister Guy Mollet. Their national as pirations ; could be satisfied, Bourguiba argued, by agreeing to a ceasefire, followed by free elections and subsequent nego tiations about Algeria's future status within the French Com monwealth. Bouguiba was obviously right. But like the French,' the rebel leaders found it much easier to carry on as before than to achieve unanimity on a sharp change of course. " So the problem has dragged on. To date, the recent vote in dicates that it is doomed to con tinue" dragging on for awhile. Yet the defeat of the proposed basic law for Algeria, much as it has damaged France in the eyes of the rest of the world, may still mark a useful turning point in the direction of more practical French study of the possible alternatives. (Copyright. 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) One of our staff members dashed off into the rain the other day at noon to solve a "domestic crisis." His wife, a working gal, had left home that morning without a rain coat, so she couldn't go home through the downpour for lunch, and on inspection she found she had only a nickel in i . We have heard, in a rather roundabout manner, about a woman who has been driving for some time, but who never "got around" to obtaining a driver's license. The other day she started to back up in a parking lot outside a market, and bumped another car, causing minor damage. Police were summoned. But it worked out all right. The market had insurance which covered the damage to the other car. And police could not cite her for driving without a license, for she was not on a public highway when the inci dent happened. But, we are told, she went out the next day to obtain her dri ver's license. We read somewhere last week about a businessman in Seattle, who had been con cerned about the Little Rock business, and who then put a sign in his window reading: "We can be thankful OUR school problems , are only about money!" Timberline lodge on Mt. Hood has long been noted for its big St. Bernard dogs, who add a friendly note to the atmosphere at that most attractive mountain resort. There's still at least one in residence there, we discov ered on a visit to the mountain not long ago. His name is Mac. He's a big beautiful dog, too, but the bartender at the Blue Ox lounge is something less than enthusiastic about him. "The darn fool wandered a coupie or diocks away ana goi lost last week," he told us. "So a bunch of people had to go out and find him." He didn't reply when we asked him if the res cuers wore cans of dog food be- ucaui men viiiwo. In another conversation, the bartender was asked if the dog ever goes out to find stranded mountaineers. "Heck, no," he said. "In the first place he's too stupid, and in the second place we can't let him out with that An a- lt-n Jt Mysim kin otaaIv-. iie arinKS. The Poiluck editor found the following missive on his ' desk the other day: "October Ale "By the Pail. "Am in Jail; "Got no Bail." The plaintive, though anony mous, author entitled it "Old English Folk Song." ' A man we know had occasion to drive to KJamath Falls the other day, and all along the Green Springs highway he re ported seeing cars parked beside the road, as their owners were beating the brush for deer. He suggested they should stick closer to the highway, for he said' no fewer than three unmolested deer crossing the road during his drive over and back. City police report that an automobile dealer called them to say that one of his em ployees was using a 1957 model car without permission, and that when located by po lice he was scheduled to be come an ex-employee. (This, police added, happened.) Lt. Col. Frank M. Kehoer Army reserve advisor for . this area, has an office in the creak ing old Federal building at 33 started out life as an automobile dealership, and has had a varied history since. He claims he has the only such office in Oregon with a fire-, place. And he adds that he's afraid to try it out, for the last time it was used was when the USO occupied the building dur ing World War II. At that, Col onel Kehoe says, the custodian told him that even then, "the fireplace smoked up everything but the chimney." The good colonel plans to hang stockings on it come Christ mas. City Police Officer Elvln Renfro made a routine "pinch" the other night, when a driver failed to observe a . traffic light. The policeman -then found the driver was the safety manager of one of the better-known national busi ness firms; that it was his first -ticket in more than 17 years of driving and thai he was returning from a meetisg where he'd given a lecture on traffic safety. After a wild chase through city streets, a car fleeing from police, crashed into a tree in an alley. The tree happened to be just behind the house where Po lice Capt. Clyde Fichtner lives. Said Fichtner: "A man can hardly get any sleep these days."
