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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone In Southern Orefon Keada lae Man xnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HXRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager IRIC A i.l .FN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor BICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clas matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot Marcn 3. 189 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily nd Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eae'e Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogxie River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper or tbe City of Medford uTiiciai faper or jacuson muntj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. tSC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOIlAi I ASSOClNk'ieN 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. 28, 1947 (Tuesday) Colors which provide a link with history and tradition of famed combat units will be pre sented to organized reserve units here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The deer hunting season passed without any mighty hunters telling white lies about not having the heart to shoot a pure white deer on a hillside." 20 YEARS AGO Oci. 28. 1937 (Thursday) The 1937 pear crop totals 1, 615,298 boxes, according to fig ures of the Rogue River Traffic association. On every Rogue River nation al forest Christmas tree going into a home this Yule season will be attached a card telling its source, forestry officials said. 30 YEARS AGO Oct- 23. 1927 (Friday) Allotment of space in the new city hall to county offices has been made tentatively. Installation of drainage pipe to eliminate pools of water on the Medford airport field starts. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 28. 1917 (Monday) Medford raises more than $85, 000 over the minimum allotment of 5260,000 for Liberty bonds. Alvin Dufiford, 27, is the first Jackson county man wounded in the war. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eisbt Is excellent: five or six Is good. 1. What is the name given to a dining hall in a convent or monastery? 2. Bible: In which book is the first reference to man praying to God? 3. In which country did the writ of ' habeas corpus" origin ate? 4. What do the initials B.O. stand for in theatrical parlance? 5. Who wrote the song "A Perfect Day"? 6. May a pair of blankets be in one piece? 7. In measuring, is a teaspoon ful equivalent to one-half of a tablespoon? 8. Are bees raised in an apiary, aviary, or commissary? 9. How many cubic feet in a cord of wood? 10. Correct the following: If he would have come earlier he would have been in time.',' Answers: 1. Refectory; 2. Genesis; 3. England; 4. Box-office; 5. Carrie Jacobs Bond; 6. Yes; 7. No; 8. Apiary; 9. 128; 10. "If he had come earlier." etc. Holmes To Address Special Legislature Salem ilP Gov. Robert D. Holmes has the following items on his agenda for the week star ting Oct. 27: Monday: Opening of the spec ial session of the 49th Legisla ture assembly. The Governor is scheduled to address the joint session at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday: Board of Control meeting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday: Speech before the Rural electricifation association at Eugene at 10 a.m. He will also attend the Oregon State college-Washington State college football game, at Corvallis, fVBt,SHE" MAIL TRIBUNE Policies in City Affairs - (The following editorial is the second of three adapted from a talk made by the writer to Oregon mayors and councilmen at the recent convention of the League of Oregon Cities in Portland.) What is the logical, thoughtful way to develop cities' policies which will prove to be helpful and successful? Any successful policy must find its basis in phil osophy, and in what are known as certain presup positions. Four of these (and there can be others) are suggested: 1. That a city government's sole excuse for ex istence is to do for its people what they cannot do, or cannot do as well, for themselves. 2. That a city is a fluid, ever-changing entity, and that what was effective and helpful in the past is not necessarily the best solution for problems of today. 3. That nothing in the full range of human ac tivity is, of and by itself and without qualification, outside the scope of a government which has the duty of ministering to the welfare of the people it serves. 4. That the test of "the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run," which also im plies the protection of the rights of the minority, is the most important test which can be applied to actions of government. If these presupositions are granted and they will be granted by those who serve without an ax to grind or an empire to build then we can come to the area of policy-making. Municipal policies can and very possibly should cover any eventuality which the mind of man can dream up. For almost anything can happen, and experienced city officials know it usually does. So what are some areas where policy may legi timately be employed? Here is a partial list, which any city official could add to and which all will recognize. The list is in no particular order: Off-street parking . . . arterial streets . . . traffic con trol, including truck routes and freeway acces . . . sewers, including mains, laterals, installation, assessment and re pair . . . police and fire administration and the relative advantages of consolidation . . . annexation . . . water supply, and should it be offered outside the city. Parks . . . recreation programs, including pools, story hours, supervised play, sports and overnight or summer camps . . . juvenile delinquency . . . judicial administra tion . . . building inspection, including subdivision regula tion, billboard control and overhanging sign regulation . . . zoning . . . setback rules . . . sidewalk and street con struction and repair, the assessments . . . parking meters . . . fluoridation . . . police money escorts. Railroad crossings, including speed and safety con siderations ... air pollution . . . convention and tourist hospitality- . . ambulance service . . . franchises for electric, telephone and gas utilities . . . bus service and the city's responsibility in seeing it is maintained . . . tree trimming over streets . . . street sweeping (including the momentous question of whose responsibility it is to sweep up glass after an accident) . . . after-hours employment for police officers and firemen . . . pensions and retirement . . . safety education and programs . . . crime reporting . . . utility pole control or elimination . . . tree planting plans . . . parade permits and policing. And so on and so on. ""That may serve to give a general idea as to the " areas in which people expect advance planning and a settled policy. If it is lacking, they are apt to feel cheated. Some areas of policy are outlined for cities in the city charter. These limit the freedom of action of the administration in some regards, and gener ally speaking are "hard" policies, difficult to change. Frequently, of course, no change is either necessary or desirable, although changing conditions may from time to time make the charter obsolete in some re gards. Other policies of the city have "hardened" into ordinances, most of them in the long, long ago. Dut there is a large area in which the administra tion operates which is governed largely, perhaps even solely, by policies adopted by the current office-holders. And if they are not aware of operating under policies, that simply means they are unaware not that they have no policies. They may be nega tive, they may be amorphous, they may be unwritten or even unspoken, but they are there even if they are nothing but policies of doing as little as possible. It is for this reason that the conscious, intelli gent formulation of general, overall policies to supplement, or even change those in the charter and in the ordinances and the understanding of poli cies in specific areas of government, not Only are of assistance to the responsible officials, but are no less than what their constituents should have a right to expect. "This is not to say that policies should never be changed or even violated. They should be changed the very moment they no longer serve the purpose for which they are intended. And they may be violated for good and sufficient reason. But intelligent consistency is of great value, pro vided it is not slavish. For one thing, it will insure an equality of treatment to those citizens who ap pear before the council seeking, say, a sidewalk, or a curb and gutter job, or a sewer extension or repair of a street. If they are denied, and can then point to a sim ilar or identical situation where some other indivi dual was successful in his plea then we all know what the office-holders' names.will be : MUD. E. A. Monday, October 28, 1957 'Mo SAYStfs my BEDTIME?' Turkey, Berlin Eyed as Possible Spots for Headlines of Future By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. . ' On To Berlin If Soviet Russia starts to take its propaganda heat off Turkey this week, as expected watch Berlin. Russia's vicious charges that Turkey was plotting to at tack Syria were aimed partly at em barrassing Pre mier A d n a n Menderes i n his election campaign. The election was Charles M. McCann held Sundav. Allied intelligence agents pre dict that the anti-Turkish cam paign will dwindle and that pres sure will be increased against Berlin. For 10 days, the Communists have been harassing highway and rail traffic along the life lines that connect Berlin with Matter of Fact CATS OUT OF THE BAG Washington Certain very large and ugly cats have been let out of the bag in recent days. These revela tions cast a new light on the Eisenhow er administra tion's policies in the race with the So viet Union for superiority in the ballistic stewait ajsop missiles. And in the now inevitable full dress investigation of those policies, the cats that have been let out of the bag are going to be very hard indeed to explain away. Cat number one was the re port in the authoritative tech nical magazine, "Aviation Week," that a radar tracking system in Turkey has been mon itoring tests of ballistic missiles in the Soviet Union for more than two years. The report has not been denied for the simple reason that it is true the ex istence of the radar system, which is of course known to the Soviets, has been common knowledge among those who in terest themselves in such mat ters for a long time. The meaning of this particular cat-out-of-the-bag is quite ob vious. The Administration has not had to guess about Soviet progress in the missile field, or to rely on doubtful secret intel ligence reports. It has known, without the slightest room for doubt, that the Soviets have tested hundreds of the shorter range strategic missiles, scores of the intermediate missiles, and this year, at least eight missiles of inter-continental range. 'PHE Administration has known, in short that the Soviets have been rapidly outdistancing this country in the ballistic mis sile race, whose outcome will predictably determine the fu ture balance of world power. And this is where cat-out-of-the-bag number two comes into play. For cat number two concerns the Administration's reaction to the hard intelligence of Soviet missile progress. This cat is emerging little by little, and is not entirely out of the bag yet. The "Washington Post and Times-Herald" for example, re cently reported an order bv for mer Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson which last summer cut research and development work largely on missiles, by some $170 million. The order, successfully con cealed for a long time, came right on the heels of the first detection by the radar monitor ing system of Soviet tests of in tercontinental - range missiles. Other parts of the cat are also out of the bag, like the order you, HUH? West Germany across 110 miles of the Soviet Occupation Zone. Now the pressure is expected to intensify. The big question is whether the Reds will resort to blockade-type measures. Warning President Eisenhower and Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Mac millan did a lot more talking and deciding about the Middle East last week than their joint communique indicates. They de voted just one paragraph to Tur key. That one paragraph point ed out that an attack on Turkey, as a member of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization, would be considered an attack on all 15 allies. It was a stern warn ing. Eisenhower and Macmillan decided that it would be more ef fective if they gave it without any frills. Big Show Reports about preparations for the celebration of the 40th anni versary of the Bolshevik regime on Nov. 7 center on the likeli hood that new nuclear weapons may be unveiled in the big pa rade. Diplomatic advices say there may be some headlinable news By. Stewart Alsop limiting work on the American ICBM to a five-day week, with no overtime, and the heavy cuts in Air . Force procurement, in cluding procurement for the Strategic Air Command. QJOME parts of the cat have yet to emerge fully, like the economy dictated slowdown in the schedule for "Titan," the Martin Company's vital ICBM project, by a full ten months. But the essential fact, which the forthcoming Congressional in vestigation is certain to estab lish, is simply this: The Admin istration reacted to hard intelli gence of Soviet technological progress especially in the missile field by sharply cutting back on our own efforts in that field. A further fact can also be established that the Pentagon powers that be knowing the facts sought to conceal them. An obvious attempt to conceal the $170 million research and development cut was made. An obvious attempt to hush up in formation on Soviet missile de velopment was also made. For example when early in July it was reported in this space that the Soviets had achieved a successful test of the ICBM an influential Senator who is also a member of the Armed Services Committee checked the story with the highest Pentagon au thorities. He was flatly assured that it was untrue this de spite the fact that the radar tracking system had by that time recorded a number of Soviet ICBM tests. LL in all, administration spokesmen called to 'testify before the investigating commit tee are going to have to do some tall explaining. The facts, of course, are not all on one side. The defenders of the Adminis tration can say with perfect jus tice, for example, that there was no serious missile program at all in the Truman years, which is a main reason why this coun try is so frighteningly far behind the Soviets in the missile race. And yet one thing is already clear. The Sputnik as a visible symbol of the Soviet technologi cal lead, has suddenly and sharp ly eroded President Eisenhower's reputation for all-knowing wis dom in defense matters. This reputation has heretofore pro tected the Administration's de fense policies from politically ef fective criticism as witness the bored yawns which greeted the sensational testimony before the Symington Air Power Com mittee last year. Now, thanks to Sputnik, defense is sure to be a major political issue, and the subject of a major national de bate. And that, in a democracy, is precisely as it should be. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Ike's Coattails Questioned as Effective on Basis of Record By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The rid ing qualities of President Eisen hower's coattails, now in ques tion by some Republican po liticians, soon will be sub stantially test ed. The test will come in New Jersey's Nov. election of a governor. The i.yie c Wilson administration is all-out to obtain the job for Republican Malcolm S. Forbes who opposed Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner. Chairman Richard M. Simp son (R-Pa.) of the Republican National Congressional Cam paign Committee is telling GOP candidates to beware of the pres idential coattails. There are other Republican politicos who simply cite the record in sup- On Russian dompstir affaire Sua. gestions: possible relaxation of laws restricting individual free dom. Concessions to farmers which would give them a bigger share of their crops. New moves to decentralize industry and loosen the hold of the Moscow bureaucracy on production. Target Word comes from Okinawa Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Local TV Is Defended To the Editor: I am writing this letter partly in reference to the letter published in your paper on Wednesday, Oct. 23, titled, "Disgusted With T. V." but main ly because I believe that more people should be thankful for what they have, instead of con tinually finding fault with every thing ahd anything. I recently returned from a town in the southwest compar able in size to Medford. This town has one non-affiliated T.V. station. They had the pick of the best shows of every network and though they had a fairly good lineup, they .also had an excessive amount of local pro grams that were quite poor. This station also had continual me chanical difficulties with both network and station. I have no ticed very little trouble with the Medford station. The announcers here seem ex cellent compared to those in the other town mentioned, where they seemed unable to even use proper English which is rather annoying to most people. The advertising is held down here in Medford. In the other town mentioned the viewer was subjected to from 4 to 6 ads be tween every show, in addition to several half-hour commercials put on by businesses around town. Wait until the manager of the Medford station spends an entire 30 minutes in your home some evening via T.V. informing you of all the good shows you'll get when and if he can acquire sponsors, and spicing the entire oration with some of his per sonal corny jokes. Then perhaps there will be need for dtegust. The Medford folks don't real ize how really fortunate they are in having a well operated tele vision' station. I think the people who run this station deserve a hearty pat on the back and a sincere "Thank You" for a job well done. M. E. Thompson, 226 West Jackson st., Medford, Ore. Mr. McCabe Is Answered To the Editor: As for the let ters of Mr. McCabe: People do not tell me what to write. I am quite sure that I have enough intelligence to write my own letters. What type of air is it that Mr. McCabe doesn't want registered? Hot or cold? (I bet it's hot). And as for me having socialist leanings, the only thing "red" about me is my hair. I have gone to Medford public schools all my life, and if I have been taught Communism, perhaps Mr. Mc Cabe should investigate. If Mr. McCabe thinks I am dumb, please inform him that I read from five to eight library books each week, plus my school work and more of the papers beside the comics. I always seem to be able to find time to eat, sleep, dance, watch T.V., go out, and have fun with my parents. I love this country, I like the way it is governed. There could be no other country as beautiful or as democratic as ours, and I dislike the way Mr. McCabe speaks against it. Virginia Eddy Walker, 16 Quince st., Medford, Ore. port of their doubts about their riding qualities. Forbes is not one of these. He was campaigning New Jersey last week in company of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, ap parently pleased and grateful for the opportunity to run as an Ike-man. The administration ef fort for Forbes in New Jersey is without precedent in that state. Morale Boost Nixon frankly told New Jer sey voters that Forbes' election would boost Republican morale nationwide. The implication was, of course, that the party needs a morale boost which, apparent ly, it does. The need became acute after Wisconsin's August election of Democratic William E. Prox mire to complete the U.S. Sen ate term of the late Republican Joseph R. McCarthy. Proxmire defeated former Gov. Walter J. Kohler Jr., who proudly ran as a 100 per cent Eisenhower Republican. Wiscon sin had not previously elected a Democratic senator since the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. Koh ler's defeat was another bit of evidence supporting the belief of many practical politicians that the President's personal popu larity is no great asset to Repub lican state and national candi dates, and that the administra tion is incapable of attracting voters in sufficient numbers. The Others" Kohler was not the first Ike man to go down. Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado was a big man in the Eisenhower cam paign of 1952 and in 1956 ran as an Ike-man for the Senate. Democrat John A. Carroll lick ed him. Sen. James H. Duff was the big man of Pennsylvania Re publican politics and in 1952 was a leader of the Eisenhower band. Democrat Joseph S. Clark defeated Duff's 1956 bid for re election. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), who bolted the Republican party in 1952 in protest against presi dential nominee Eisenhower, was the man the administration most wanted to defeat in last year's elections. The President sent then Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay to demolish that the mock nuclear weapon dropped from an A3D Skywar rior twin-jet plane during last week's big United States Pacific Fleet maneuvers missed the dead center of its target by only 1,500 feet. The Navy isn't bragging about it. Cmdr. Herbert Salyer of Coronado, Calif., who piloted the Skywarrior, and other Navy pilots have done better in pre vious, unpublicized tests. On the Spot This may or may not hit the headlines. But American earth satellite scientists are complain ing privately that President Ei senhower has put them on the spot as the result of Russia's "Sputnik" success. Eisenhower said at his press conference Oct. 9 that the United States would fire a small test sphere in De cember. Reporters who heard him got the impression that it would certainly get into an orbit, like Sputnik, and become a minor moon. He also said the U.S. would try to launch a true satellite in March. The scientists had reported that it was unlikely these spheres would get into an orbit. They had said that the first "earnest try" would be made some time in "early spring." The scientists feel that by pinpointing months and indi cating that the test sphere was expected to orbit, Eisenhower put them under pressure to make his statement good. The satellite project never had been a "crash" program. A lot of technical diffi culties still stand in the way. Peeve The Chinese Reds are getting frightfully annoyed at those big Super-G Constellation "weather" planes based on Okinawa. U.S. officials blush when they deny that the planes are charting the Red-held coast. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 Morse. But Morse licked McKay who had run as a 100 per cent Ike-man. So, too, with Republican Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washing ton whom Eisenhower persuaded to oppose the reelection of Demo cratic Sen. Warren G. Magnu son. Magnuson licked Langlie and another Ike-man was down. Democrats meantime were winning governorship in such states as Iowa, Kansas, Massa chusetts, and Oregon. It has been such as this that has put in ques tion the riding qualities of the Eisenhower coattails. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Morale lifter: The defense department an nounces that the U.S. Thor in termediate range ballistics mis sile fired from Cape Canaveral in Florida (its theoretical range is 1500 miles) "flew its prescrib ed course and landed in the pre selected impact area." HMMMMMMM. Let's translate this fanrv lanffuaee so we can get an idea of what this mis- sile of ours did. What it means is that the Thor that roared away from Cape Canaveral (on the U. S. mainland) traveled as far as it was intended to travel and hit the target is was INTENDED TO HIT. Just like that. Russian papers please copy. MORE of the same: Morton Alperin, a U.S. of ficial connected wifh "Opera tion Farside" tells reporters in Los Angeles that the six Amer ican rockets fired from Eniwe tok atoll out in the Pacific the other day transmitted more in formation than the Russians have obtained from Sputnik. Therefore, he added, they were more important scientific ally than Sputnik. STILL more morale stuff: U.S. Budget Director Per cival Brundage says in a speech in Boston the U.S. can MATCH OR SURPASS Russia in most technical skills. He says he believes Ameri can's scientists, engineers and technicians are superior to Rus sia's. Let's put it this way: If we Americans will brag less, work harder, cut out the fluff and the folderol and GET DOWN TO BUSINESS, we can sing with Mary Martin as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun: "Anything He can Do, I Can Do BETTER." THE point to remember is this: Anything Frank Butler could do, Annie Oakley COULD do better. She wasn't kidding. She wasn't bragging. When it came to shooting, sh HAD WHAT IT TOOK. What she' had, she got by HARD WORK and carefully perfected skill. Annie is an American tradi tion. Let's LIVE UP TO HER. Goblins . . . Ghosts . . . ' all sorts of spooks prowl on the new HALLOWEEN ,r CARDS HEW08&.0RE6MII AT 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! fef'ivv r J