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r FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Ivri-rone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daiiv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor flXRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord 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 4.23 Sunday Only One year 14.20 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 Sundav One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month U0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United l-Tess Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPACT INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAt assocTa'icn !JJIH'H.'.IHJ 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 Oct. 9. 1947 (Thursday) Insurance adjuster estimating damage done by blaze which swept one-story Porter Lumber company plant on South Fir st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: " A rural resident reports he slipped out the other night, when his dog barked and caught a Caucasian In his woodpile." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1937 (Sunday) The secretary of agriculture tentatively approves marketing agreement under subsidy plan for the 1937-38 season. Shepherd dog belonging to the A. R. Mansfield family, dies from burns after saving a 2V4-year-old daughter from death in the recent house fire. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1927 (Sunday) Medford music house reports record sales of "Two Black Crows" record. Involuntary m a n s 1 a ughter charge filed against federal pro hibition offier for slaying Trail rancher. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1917 (Tuesday) Manager Nibley of the Utah Idaho Sugar company urges beet growers to double crops for the coming year because of the world shortage of sugar. Tobacco dealers charge six cents for five-cent cigars due to new war tax measure. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is gond 1. Name the largest of present day land animals. 2. How many hams may be obtained from a single hog? 3. Bible: Which high priest succeeded Eleazar? 4. An aperitif is a laxative, drink, or a relish taken before a meal? 5. In which citv in Italv is the most famous leaning tower? 6. In World War I, what was the AEF? 7. Who served as President of the Confederate Sates of Amer ica during the War Between the States? 8. In wht field of sport is Lloyd Mangrum a well-known player? 9. "Older" or "oldest" may be used of either persons or things. Which related term should be used only of persons, usually of the same family? 10. What was Henry Mayhew's "Advice to persons about to marry"? Answers: 1. The elephant. 2. Two. 3. Phinehas. 4.Drink. 5. Pisa. 6. American Expedition ary Force. 7. Jefferson Davis. 8. Golf. 9. Elder; eldest. 10. "Don't." Pear Bureau Officials To A1eef in Washington Portland The annual meet ing of the Merchandising Clinic of merchandising representatives of the Oregon-Washington-California Pear bureau is scheduled Oct 10 to 12 in Washington D.C. Richard A. Patterson, secretary-manager of the bureau, will be chairman of the three-day session. Patterson will go direct ly to Cologne, Germany, from Washington, D. C. where he will assist in preparing an exhibit at a food fair. MAIL TRIBUNE Healthy Reminder There is a peculiar fascination in contemplating the earth satellite now circling the earth on a north south orbit. In common with many other Americans, we had looked forward with anticipation to this first jump into space but in common with others had fully expected our much-vaunted "American know-how" to lead the way. It was a disappointment to learn that the Russians were first. As a result the steady "beep, beep, beep" is a warning tone, certainly not a triumphant one. THIS isn't a mere matter of wounded pride, either. We have heard and read so much in recent years about the horrors of nuclear warfare, of guided mis siles, and the Soviets' aim of world-wide domination, that this proof of their superiority in one field of technology and possibly in others, while it poses no immediate threat, is certainly something to be taken seriously. It bears out the repeated warnings of Joseph and Stewart Alsop, who for years have warned that America was falling behind in the missile race. And it makes one wonder about the repeated pro nouncements from our government to the effect that we have the most, the best, the fastest, the biggest of everything. QN THE face of it, of course, the Russian satellite isa victory for science and for all mankind; the first big step leading to space. And it was done as part of a vast, cooperative, international endeavor to probe the still-unsolved secrets of the world and solar system. If that were all there was to it, we could rejoice at a scientific victory and a major break-through for science. But the rockets which launch earth satellites, and the rockets which carry warheads are dissimilar only in purpose, not in design or operation. OOWEVER, viewed in a different light, the fact that Russia did the job first may, in the long run, be the best thing which could have happened. m It could and most certainly should stimulate this nation to much greater endeavors in the scien tific field, particularly in It might teach us the value of humility and shake us loose from some of our complacent feeling of super iority ana our unconscious assumption that, without half trying, we can equal or better the efforts of any one else, anywhere. Certainly we can do things better but not with out harjl work, sacrifice, and national unity and de termination. And that "beep, beep, beep" is a healthy reminder of this fact. E.A. Tremendous Accomplishment Launching this satellite is a tremendous accomp lishment. The Russians got the same sort of head start on it that the Americans did by capturing and putting to work German rocket experts, who were far ahead in rocketry during: "World War II. Initially, it is be- hlieved, the American research program was far ahead, but as the years passed, the Russians forged ahead. And they told us so, too, but we marked it down to Soviet propaganda. IF ONE has ever observed July 4th sky rockets, one can get some sort of idea of the problems involved. First a propellant must be devised that is both powerful and relatively stable. A container must be designed which has the aero-dynamic features neces sary both for speed and stability. Unbelievably compli cated controls systems must be designed and perfect ed. And these three elements must be made to work together to minutely-exact tolerances. A single-stage rocket is basically simple in design, but in execution each component must be tested, precise and exact. A ROCKET capable of launching a satellite is a far, far more complicated mechanism. With to day's propellants, a single-stage rocket simply can't do the job. So multi-stage rockets have been designed. These are rockets on top of rockets. The lowest stage gets the device off the ground, then drops away .when its fuel is exhausted. The second stage adds speed, then its drops away. The third and final stage gives the final impetus, and also the last fine degrees of direc tion and control. The adjustments and mechanisms in all three stages must operate in a manner as complicated as an aircraft, with the precision of a watch, and with the ruggedness necessary to take pressures many times that of gravity. TO PUT a satellite into an orbit, the rockets must not only overcome gravity, but also the effects of atmospheric turbulence, the spin of the earth, and a dozen-and-one other forces, any one of which could throw the whole thing out of kilter. America is getting ready to launch its own satel lite, and there is reason to believe, in the obscure an nouncements we are permitted to have, that in some ways it will be a more advanced vehicle than that of the Russians. But this does not dim the fact that Russia was the first into space, and that it has taken skilled ad vantage of its talented technicians. Its accomplishment is nothing to -pass off lightly, even though, at this stage, it is no cause for panic or undue alarm. E.A. - - - Wednesday, October 9, 1957 missile research. 0-9 ommunieations Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances trie use of 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. South Boycott Urged To the Editor: I'd like to "sec ond the motion" in regard to the letter from Mrs. Herb Sampert of 158 Renault Avenue, Medford quoting the article in "Friends Journal" Quaker Weekly dated Sept. 21, '57, a sort of letter to colored people. I should like to suggest that those of us who are in favor of integration boycott products of states opposing same. An econ omic weapon would work wond ers. Personally I care not what color a person's skin may be so long as his character is accept able. I know a considerable number of people both colored and white, and I can Jruthfully say I have never had trouble of any kind not even a mild argu ment, with a colored person. I cannot say the same for some white people I have met. Some 100 years ago the Irish, who had found it necessary to leave their native land, arrived in America and experienced some of the same things the colored people have had to live with for the past 200 years. In news paper ads of the day, I have seen such things as "No Irish need apply." It was not at all unusual. I must say I do not know, but suppose similiar re strictions have been placed on nearly every race in existance at some time. I repeat my suggestion that persons in favor of integration refuse to buy from states and or firms or individuals favor ing segregation. Then see who wins. Floyd R. McCabe Butte Falls, Ore. National Prayer Advocated To the Editor: Isn't it time for men of good will in every state in our country to join in seek ing a positive, creative solution to the national crisis that con fronts us all in the issue of in tegration and the sovereignty of states? Let us unite with the people of Little Rock next Saturday, Oct. 12, in a day of prayer in homes, in churches, in places of business or wherever we may be, petition ing almighty God to grant wis dom and patience to our leaders, and to give His guidance in re solving factional bitterness and misunderstanding, that we may become, in deed as well as in word, "one nation under God in divisible, with liberty and justice for all." As we make our petitions, let us not forget the prayer of the Publican recorded in the scrip tures: "God, be merciful to me, a sinner," for few among us are wholly guiltless of the spirit of intolerance and prejudice which has brought Little Rock such un happy notoriety at home and abroad. Grace N. Pearson Route 2, Box 50 Jacksonville, Ore. Thanks Hospital To the Ed'itor: May I take this method to thank the many kind people I came in contact with as a result of being a very recent patient in the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. The Medford Ladies Hospital auxiliary, for kindness in taking care of pa tients' flowers and mail daily, and distributing free coffee and reading materials to all patients. The merchants who generously distribute writing fhaterials in evety ward, and a service I par ticularly enjoyed, the Medford Mail Tribune served every eve ning with our dinner tray, through the generosity of Court esy Chevrolet. To these fine organizations and kind people who donate their time and money to make hospital visits a great deal more cheerful, I offer my most sin cere "Thank You." Thelma Schrecengost, 508 West Sixth," Medford, Ore. Best Bargain To the Editor: As the house wives of Jackson county scan the advertisements of the Mail Tri bune this evening in search of bargains for their budgets, I should like to insert a word or two concerning the very best bargain I know. I know where one ton of food, valued at $300, can be purchased for only $10 and delivered to persons who need it. A $10 bill, sent to the American Friends Service Committee, at 1108 S.E. Grand ave., Portland, Ore., will pay the costs of sending one whole ton of surplus foods over seas to hungry people. You can be sure that every pound of that food will reach individuals whose lives depend upon it. This is the best bargain I know, and I thought you'd like to know about it too. Helen E. Webster, 940 Whitman ave., Medford, Ore. ditorial Comment UNITED ACTION The following letter appeared in the "Public Forum" column of the World of Coos Bay: The papers of the entire coun try are today filled with the hap penings in the state of Arkansas re: the integration of public schools. Millions of words are written by reporters, editors, col umnists and even letters to pub lic forums, such as this one. Yet no one seems to name the basic reason for the viciousness shown by the Southern state gov ernments against integration and civil rights the real reason not the side issues. - Governor Faubus' action brought into the open the real force behind the viciousness. Not the people as such, the majority; but the few in power, with their unconstitutional "black code" laws, made after the days of re construction. Laws still on the books, still unconstitutional. What can be the reason a man, or men, in high position will foment mob violence and even use state militia against national laws? Because of a few Negroes going to school? Sounds rather absurd! What will they lose by integration and civil rights? By giving the vote to all. The vote! Common sense tells us that if all people voted in the Southern states men like Faubus would never be governors. McClelland (Ark.), Eastland (Miss.), John ston (S.C.), in fact only a few of those in power in the South would ever have a chance at re election if all men and women could vote in Dixieland. What better reason (from their point of view) does one need to "go the limit." They see the end of their regime and, like cornered rats, will do any evil to keep on top. The sad part of the story is that through control of all com munications and educational fa cilities they make it appear that a majority are with them. True, some workers do fall for the propaganda. The big majority never have a chance to be heard. Few have the courage to speak out when the KKK mobsters may pay them a "visit." The FBI is too busy chasing "reds" to give any protection against would-be "fascists." One may also ask "Why doesn't the U.S. Senate and Con gress act?" But who, except these same Southern leaders, control the committees in these legislative bodies? Their count erparts from the North connive with them to keep their lush jobs the workers separated by ignorance. Only through united action by labor unions and other organi zations of enlightened workers, men and women, can the demo cracy these demagogues prate of. be made a living thing. Labor's treatment is not unlike that of the Negro people in the south and Washington, D.C. Marshal Grob, North Bend. First Army - West Germany Ends in By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The first clash between civil and military authority over the West German armed forces has resulted in a distinct defeat for the army. A brigadier general who refused to ap prove the pro motion of a staff officer in the defense ministry has Charles M. McCann been summar ily dismissed. To make it worse from the army viewpoint, the man who dismissed him. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, is a butch er's son. On the surface the incident was a minor one. But it points up the fact that Germany, like Japan, is a historically militar istic country in which army men always have sought to run their show by themselves. Rearmament Risky It points up also the fact that in rearming West Germany and Japan' the Western Allies are taking a calculated risk. At the present stage of world history, the threat of Communist aggres sion is much worse than the threat of the possible revival of German and Japanese militar ism. The incident of the general's dismissal was something new in German military history. In the old days, the Prussian generals of the German armed forces re garded themsleves as above civil authority, and they really were. Hitler succeeded in making himself the supreme authority during the days of Nazism. But the army never accepted him in fact and members of the general staff took the leading part in the attempt to assassinate him in July 20, 1944. Strauss Is Boss Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his colleagues made every effort, in the ending of rearma ment, to insure firm civil con trol of the armed forces. There NEWSPAPER BATTLE We wish the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal would quit bickering. It sounds like mama and papa quarreling and scares the kids. And besides if they don't stop pretty soon the people will begin to believe both. It seems agreed that the Ore gonian has proven its major con tention which was that there was collusion or at least an un derstanding between some labor leaders without responsibility to either the public or union members and certain county and city officials. This resulted in no good and was against public in terest being selfishly engend ered. Whether all details about who hired the prostitute are true or not isn't important. But the Oregonian's phycho logy was very worng. It wanted to be clapped on the back and hailed as a public benefactor and when some folks back east gave it a button the swelling in its chest became very noticeable. It forgot the humility that makes success forgivable. It was too much for the Ore gon Journal which gave most of the indications of being a dis appointed swain. The Journal did not cheer its brother in news over his victory. It constantly intimated that there was some thing untold about the whole af fair that would cloud the glory of the Oregonian. Well, let's have it. What if it does stink; our smellers are numb anyway. The whole dispute shows a lack of the philosophical calm( readers like to think prevades editorial offices. Much of it is intemperate and little of ' it is dignified or becoming. May we suggest that editorial staffs of the two newspapers buckle their typewriters on their left arms as a shield, arm them selves with fountain pens and meet in inky battle around the bronze deer between Third and Fourth streets and finish the conflict. First man with a dirty face or a tired left arm to be retired to a first aid station. (Sherman County Observer, Giles French, editor). America's Attitude Blamed by Pinkley Portland OP) Virgil Pinkley, editor and publisher of the Los An seles Mirror-News, Tuesday blamed America's lackadaisical attitude toward the basic ele ments of education for this coun try's lagging satellite and missile program. Pinkley, also a news commen tator for the Mutual radio net work, said the Russians are mov ing ahead in the technological field because they educate then people with more intensity than in the United States. He said the United States should foster a- return to the ele ments of reading, spelling and basic mathematics if it is to im prove its supply of trained personnel. Civilian Clash in IS no commanaer-iii-tiiiei, iiui are there individual command ers in chief for the army, navy and air force. In a statement on the incident Strauss said that all employees of the armed forces including soldiers are subordinate to po litical authority. He said also that no inference should be t . - u : r .. Trust Busting' For Labor Movement Eyed By Sen. Knowland By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Out there in California unsmiling Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland is talking about maybe using trust buster methods Sli'l monopoly in organized labor. That's news because Know land may be heading for the White House. I.yle C. Wilson There have been complaints that big organized labor can be a monopoly just like big busi ness. Knowland is campaigning toward next year's GOP nomi nation for governor of Califor nia. He is opposed by Republi can Gov. Goodwin J. Knight who was elected in 1954 with la bor's endorsement. Knowland is regarded as the spokesman of the Taft wing or Taft point of view in the Repub lican Party, the Taft being the late Sen. Robert A., of Ohio. In Taft Tradition Knowland's approach to the problem posed by the great power, prestige, influence and wealth of organized labor Is in the Taft tradition. It was Taft in the 80th Congress who sDurned chairmanship of the choice Senate Finance Commit tee, preferring to preside over the Senate Labor Committee Out of that decision came the Taft-Hartley Act. Taft proved that it need not be political suicide to buck or ganized labor. The labor leaders ganged up on him with men and money when the senator sought re-election in 1950. He won every industrial county in the state. Knowland probably knows all about that. He has proposed now that California enact a right-to- work bill which would outlaw compulsory union membership. The recent California conven tion of the AFL resolved to raise a political fund big enough to beat the bill. Proposes "Rights " Bill The senator followed up with "a bill of rights for labor." He said he might expand that to in clude application of the Sher man Anti-Trust Act to unions on the same basis as it applies to corporations. The bill of labor rights would provide for election and recall of union officers; for strike calls by secret ballot; adminis tration of union welfare funds Minister of Ghana Denied Meal in U.S. New York (IP) The finance minister of Ghana said he will file today an official protest with the State Department to day over the refusal of a rest aurant in Dover, Del., to serve him. , K. A. Gbedeman, considered the second most powerful politi cal figure in the newly inde pendent Negro nation, said he was refused service in the How ard Johnson restaurant Monday night "because colored people were not allowed to dine there." The -finance minister said that Vice President Richard M.; Nix on had dined in his home in Ghana, and so had Adlai E. Stev enson. "I cannot understand why I received such treatment at a roadside restaurant in America when these two great men have diued at my home," Gbedeman said. Plan For Tomorrow An ever increasing number of the prudent and thoughtful are finding it well to plan to day for the inevitable needs of tomorrow C. M. Litwiller Today's thinking may be done clearly . . . unhurried by time or the overwhelming of grief! Pre-need arrangements fully explained without obligation. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Army Loss drawn from the incident on the relationship between "the mili tary and civilian parts of the armed forces." Nevertheless, that relationship is likely to arise again. It would be miraculous if, within a few years, the centuries-long militar istic tradition of Germany and Japan could be wiped out. would be made subject to state insurance laws; strict account ability for union dues and ini- .. tiation funds; protection of members against unfair and re taliatory action by union offi cers; prevention of self-perpetuation of union officers in their jobs. Knowland has his eye on the White House. He may put his labor policies in the Republi can presidential platform of 1960 or 1964. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS When the Russians announced the other day that they had BEArEN THE WORLD to the launching of an earth satellite into out space in this Internation al Geophysical Year we got the shock of our lives. At first, we refused to believe it. We put it down to just more Russian bragging. But when the beeps from the thing began to be heard and when they sound ed exactly like the Russians said they would sound and came in at exactly the intervals the Rus sians said they would come in we had to concede that the Rus sians had done it. Since then, our faces have been very, very red. WELL, we SHOULDN'T have rfpn talcpn hv surnriso Tt has long been known that the Russians have good scientific minds. Ivan Pavlov is an ex ample. He took the theoretical "principle of association" by which it was suspected that a baby starts with no mind at all and by the process of putting together scattered experiences and impressions eventually achieves an organized mind and by experiments with dogs made it seem real enough to be accepted widely by the scientists of the world. That fact alone should have tipped us off. IF PAVLOV weren't enough, we should have learned some thing from the speed with which the Russians developed an atom bomb of their own. It is true that' they stole the secret of it from us in the first place. It is true that they had captured Ger man scientists to work with. But we can't laugh off the fact that they developed a hydrogen bomb almost as quickly as we die and did it almost ENTIRELY on their own. But we chose to regard them as ignorant barbarians who just COULDN'T be in our class. THIS earth satellite business ought to teach us a lesson. The lesson is this: Russia is a REAL opponent. If we are to checkmate her designs, it will take the best we have to give. We'd better put that fact in our pipes and smoke it. IlfHAT is Russia's design? ' ' Let's not kid ourselves. It is to CONQUER THE WORLD for communism. T ET'S not get scared. We can checkmate that de sign. We can checkmate it because the communist way of life is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. But Meanwhile We'd better quit fooling with the idea that something can be had for nothing. We'd better quit boondoggling. We'd better quit toying with that notion that we can BUY friends who will do our fighting for us. We'd better GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. Mrs. Litwiller t- - . .sw i v, !- -J ' 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."
