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G O OUR HfDrOBD (OlEGOV) "Xveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" CfobiUhea Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHU. Editor ERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manages ERIC Al J, FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 on Daily and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One vear $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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O4" NEWSPAMt PUBMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fDITOIIAt ASSO gimifiip-ioiu FlightV Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1947 (Friday) Tourist committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce requests that Crater Lake .National Park company serve Medford with its buses. - From Arthur Perry's Ye 'Smudge Pot column: "The corn ;crop of the valley is' being har vested and husked and stored -In granaries, with none of it in vinegar jugs, as in "noble ex periment days." 20 YEARS AGO Not. -13. 1937 (Friday) A noticeable improvement of lumber market prospects for 1938 forecast by the West Coast Lumbermen's association. E. D. Rice, Dallas, Tex., trav elling jewelry salesman, and complaining witness in assault and robbery charges filed against three Oregon Normal school football squad members from Monmouth and an Ashland drug clerk, appears before grand jury this morning. . 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1927 (Sunday) ; Grading, surfacing and pre liminary preparations complet '. ed. First of this year's city pav . Ing program will begin soon. A lineup of street stunts and outdoor entertainment in Med " ford was among best in city during Armistice day program. 40 YEARS AGO . Nov. 13. 1917 (Tuesday) A number of well-known - young Medford men enlist in ' the aviation section of the Army i at the local recruiting office on Monday. Five team captains with a full crew of workers are busy In ; the business district getting sub- (Briptions to the YMCA war ' work fund. What's Your I.Q.? iWne or ten correct Is superior; atven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. A shallow body of water (aekr a sea is called a I n? (f When Christopher Colum bus discovered America in 1492, 4id he land in the spring or fall cDthat year? 'Z. Bible: Sarai is commonly referred to as what? (J, "The Dance of the Nymphs" is a painting by Titian, Corot, Reynolds or Murillo? 5. Who were known as "pris oners of the Vatican"? 'f; In which country are the Caucasus oil fields? 7. In which of Charles Dick ens novels is there a character named Fagin? 8. Are the Palau Islands in the Pacific or Indian Ocean? 9. "It is seldom or never used. . It is seldom or ever used." Is the latter sentence wrong? If so, how? 10. "The more the merrier, : the fewer the better fare." (15 '. 61). Could it have been intro duced by James I, to whom it is ascribed? Answers: 1. Lagoon. 2. Fall, October 12. 3. Sarah (wife of Abraham). 4. Corot. 5. The Popes (from 1870-1929). 6. Soviet Rus- sia. 7. "Oliver Twist." 8. Pacific q Ocean. 9. Yes. "If" should re place "or." 10. No. He was born after 1601. when it first appear- ' ed in English. MAIL TRIBUNE The Governor Is Right Traditionally the Republicans pride themselves on their conservatism and And roughly speaking, Humphrey often demonstrated, that party ranks high er in the realm of High than its opposition. DUT at the special session are massed solidly on with one or two Democrats joining them. They are in the position corporation urging the declaration of a dividend far in excess of what the cash condition of the company, or future business prospects justify, and doing this be cause he wishes to please the stockholders and be as sured of his reelection, at the forthcoming stockhold ers meeting. AND what do the G.O.P. representatives at Salem call this? They call it "playing politics" NOT on their part mercy no! but on the part of the Democrats. Of course they would but this is really the Soviet ing their enemies of doing done. Russia is all the time claiming the war-mongering and imperialistic United States is threatening to bring on World War 111, when single danger to world peace, is the rocket-rattling and imperialistic Communists. TT SEEMS to this department quite clear that in his program of. a material tax-refund and increased aid to education in Oregon, Governor Holmes has taken a sound, conservative business-like stand. He wants the tax surplus reduced for the benefit of the tax payers but he doesn't want to go to such an extreme at this time as to endanger the state finances, in the future, particularly in view of the lumber de pression and the general uncertainty of the nation's economic status as a whole. THERE is no doubt, in pur mind, that if Governor Holmes were a Republican his stand would be loudly acclaimed and supported, by the members of that party, just as they supported a similar program when it was first broached by one of their party lead ers. But no, there will be an election next year, and nothing is more popular as of today, than something unexpected from Santa Claus and nothing less popu lar than taxes especially at tax-paying time. The Republicans were quick to realize their po litical opportunity and just as quick to try to capitalize on it. A. If they are not "playing politics" what are they playing tiddle-de-winks ? XE HOPE Governor Holmes will stick to his guns. For he is right. He is. refusing to "play politics" and taking a course which he realizes may not be the most popular one, but which he is convinced will be for the best interests of the state, and all the people in it. R.W.R. "The Life of Trade " We have received a communication (unsigned) post-marked "Portland" which takes exception to a recent statement in this column that the "Friendly SP" enjoys a monopoly in Southern Oregon. "How looney can you get?" the missive inquires, and continues: "It is competition from airplanes and trucks that is ruining the SP and most of the other railroads in the United States. If you don't know that you ought to stop writing about railroads." If wre didn't know that is the stock railroads "ali bi"' for raising the white flag in the field of passenger traffic we probably would. But we do know what the SP claims, and we also know we did not say the "SP" enjoyed a monopoly in transportation but a monopoly in its FIELD which of course is railroad transportation. IE DOUBT if there is a railroad man in the coun- try, and we don't except the S.P. who wouldn't admit that if the Southern Pacific had railroad com petition in southwestern Oregon, the entire picture would change over night. Just imagine if the Great Northern should build a line from eastern Oregon to the Pacific coast, giving through passenger and freight service to the Atlantic seaboard what a panic there would be in the higher echelons of this billion dollar corporation? Not a panic to abandon passener service even as a few months ago it tried to abandon the Portland San Francisco "Daylight" but a panic to get the best passenger service available, at the earliest possible moment, so it would not lose out on its freight monopoly, particularly in the field of fruit and timber. There would be no "double talk" then about losing $200,000 a year in a one car passenger service be tween Eugene and Dunsmuir, California, nor the "we surrender" refrain that passenger service is doomed and there won t be a pullman car in the country in another decade or two. No, over night the entire public relations pattern of the S.P. would be transformed, and instead of doing everything possible to discourage passenger travel, it would be burning ways and means to get it. And why? Just one reason. It would have rail road competition instead of a complete comer on the market. R.W.R. Wednesday, November 13, 1957 sound business sense. as ex-Sec'y of the Treasury Finance and Big Business in Salem the Republicans the other side of the fence of the President of a large all be very much insulted Russian technique accus what they themselves have as everyone knows the one the midnight oil to devise 'IT SURE IOOKBD LIKE AH EASY TfflCK OM TBL5(SON.' Editorial Comment THE AIR LINES DON'T QUIT West Coast isn't planning to surrender its Southern Oregon territory and business without a fight. It has placed orders for millions of dollars worth of new equipment more and better planes. It plans to put on direct schedules Roseburg to Portland with perhaps only one stop. It will give more and fast er schedules to keep ahead of other methods of trasportation. West Coast and United Air lines are prepared to meet com petition. They" do their best to serve the area, even though obstacles arise. But what did the "Friendly" Southern Pacific do to meet competition? The answer is obvious nothing! The rail road company not only surrend ered to competition, it invited the competition to take over, while deliberately killing off its own service by making that service as unsatisfactory in ev ery respect as possible, then cry ing that people wouldn't use the trains. The railroad could, if it would enjoy a considerable passenger business from Southern Oregon, I am convinced. Whether a profitable service could be main tained I wouldn't know. I would guess that the losses, if any, would not be large. The railroad, however, would have to furnish service com parable with that given by bus ses and airlines and on frequent, fast schedules and with modern, comfortable equipment. Southern Oregon is growing at a pace that should produce enough passenger business to support buses, trains and planes. The effort of the airlines to serve the traveling public has been mentioned. It might also be pointed out that bus lines are constantly striving to improve service and facilities, grey hound has added many new bus es and has improved schedules. Trailways recently was exhibit ing an attractive European-made car it expects to put in service soon. The attitude of these trans- nortation systems, in contrast with the defeatist position of the railroad, does, indeed, supply a startling study in contrasts. Roseburg News Review. r.TTV SHOULD RE-EXAMINE ITS RESPONSIBILITY As we've said before. Salem s parking situation isn't as bad as that faced by most cities. This makes the work of the Salem Downtown Merchants Associa tion all the more farsighted. Association members now are investigating the construction ofJ 10-level pigeonhole parking tower in the downtown area. But the costs of parking each car in a citv like Salem using surfaced lots as the standard are about doubled by underground or above-suriace ramp structures and tripled by mechanical de vices such as the pigeonnoler. The city also has an obligation although it may be a poor prac tice to subsidize parking in any one area since merchants in other areas have taken care of their own problems. But the city like so many Oregon communities, has slipped into the bad habit of using its parking meter funds for the general budget. Originally these were earmark ed for off-street parking, among other things. Because of this, we'd say the merchants have a right to ask that the city set up a policy which would encourage this parking project and any others which would come along later in other areas. This en couragement might be in the form of policing private metered lots or supplying engineering services or attendants. In fact, parking meters over the years supply enough beyond their maintenance and policing costs to pay for unimproved land suitable for parking develop ment in all congested areas. Use of the money for this purpose would mean that Salem taxpay ers would have to make up the difference one way or another, which is the reason the city coun cil has been reluctant to ex amine the matter. A city which is not already in the profitable parking meter business, we'd say, has no press ing obligation to solve a merch ant's congestion problem But in Salem the meters have been sup plementing the general fund for a decade, easing the property tax burden by a few hundred thou sand dollars already. A city with extensive metered areas has no excuse for a park ing problem of any kind. And although Salem's problem is re latively small, it is as real as the merchants think it is. It also will grow "worse if barriers are put in the way of solution or if a city is apathetic. A small problem now, if left unsolved, can be a gigantic puz zler in five or ten years as the auto population zooms and curb parking gives way to more traf fic lanes. Salem Capital Journal. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on. Veterans Day. . Veterans Day grew out of Armistice Day. Armistice Day meaning the FIRST Armistice Day was unique in human history because it was inspired by the worldwide belief that it MARKED THE END OF WAR. We weren't just celebrating a military victory on that first Armistice Day. We thought we were celebrating the beginning of a world at peace. Back in 1918 our victory over the Kaiser's Germany seemed to us so decisive that there never could be another world war. That is why it was celebrated so fervently. We were mistaken then. T ET'S look now at some other x-' mistakes. We made an epochal one when Hitler invaded Stalinist Russia Common sense should have told us to stand aside and let the two dictators destroy each other. We didn't. We stepped in and saved Stalin. II'E MADE another mistake at ' Yalta, when we placed the boundary between Communism and the free world on the Elbe river. As a result of that mistake, we had to turn back from Berlin and give half of Germany and all of Czechoslovakia to Stalin and Communism. WHY ALL this talk of mis ' takes? MISTAKES ARE IMPORT ANT. They are important because they are identifiable in the clear light of hindsight. We should STUDY mistakes and seek to avoid making more of them. AT THE moment, it looks like we're getting ready to make another epochal mistake. The printed pages and the air waves are full of talk of a CRASH program, which will cost BILLIONS, to put an American satellite into outer space months ahead of the time we had planned to do so. , WHY? That race is LOST. That horse is DEAD. Why spend BILLIONS to rein carnate a dead horse? MORE powerful rockets YES! Rockets are missiles. Mis siles carry warheads. More pow erful ones will hit the enemy farther away. An anti-missile missle to IN TERCEPT enemy missiles and destroy them before they get here YES! Making better missiles and making them faster than the Russians can make them, mean while perfecting our techniques of bomber retaliation so that the Russians will hesitate to start something they may not be able to finish YES! All that makes sense. BUT spending BILLIONS to toss another satellite out into space months ahead of the time we had planned to do it just because the Russians have al ready done it. . . That would be confusion worse confounded. In that way lies madness. Smaller NATO Nations Demon. Revision of Defense Policies By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The smaller countries of West ern Europe are demanding a radical revision of North Atlan tic Treaty Or tic T r e a t y Organizat ion policies. They feel that the Unit ed States and Great Britain are concen trating too much on the Charles M McCann DOSsibil i t i P s of nuclear warfare. They want the larger allies Opponents of Holmes' Tax Reduction Plan Have Inning on TV Portland (ID Opponents of Gov. Robert D. Holmes' tax re duction plans got their innings over television here Tuesday night. In the 15-minute program, Sen. Harry Boivin, Klamath Falls and Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles, both democrats and Sen. Phil Lowry, Medford, Reps. John Goss, Portland, and Wayne Giesy, Monroe, all Republicans, gave their reasons for favoring a 30 per cent tax reduction over the 15 per cent cut now backed by the governor. Result of Protest The TV program was the re sult of a protest by the Repub lican State Central Committee that the governor's TV account of the tax reduction battle last Sunday was "biased" and an at tempt to bring pressure to bear on legislators who opposed him. Musa, a member of the con ference committee seeking solu tion to the tax reduction dead lock, said he and the Republi cans with whom he joined want to correct the high tax rates levied unintentionally by the 1957 Legislature. "Since these high published rates are taking more from the taxpayers than necessary, we feel the rates should be reduced to the lowest level possible to secure necessary revenue. The high published rates are a detri ment to Oregon's economy," Musa said. Giesy said that the 1957 Leg islature, aided by the governor's tax experts, passed a $272 mil lion budget that left $9,800,000 in surplus. Surplus Will Build "Now only five months later these same tax experts supply the Legislature with revenue estimates which will leave a $74 l10 surPlus, by .Jn J5?: 1Q?Q TViat cui-nliic! will Vni1 If 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 Juvenile Cruelly Deplored To the Editor: In recent weeks there have been several accounts of cat torture by boys whose only excuse was that they wanted a thrill. It is tragic, however, to consider how these boys and countless other boys throughout the nation, are contributing to juvenile crime. It is tragic to con sider how their actions relate to the future of their families and indeed, to the whole nation. There is all too much thought less cruelty and neglect of ani mals, but it is, in the main, nei ther premeditated nor vicious and can easily be corrected under proper guidance. But who has failed to shoulder the responsi bility for these boys? The con viction deepens that such crimes can only be laid at the feet of parents and teachers in failing to inculcate moral values from early childhood and develop proper attitudes in children who may so easily take the wrong turn of the road. We must never forget that such delinquency occurs in good and bad neighborhoods, alike. There is too much complacent tolerance based on materialistic thinking. If parents do not recog nize the importance of whole some attitudes which make for good character and citizenship, then the teachers must accept the responsibility. Every good educator knows that children respond naturally to animals. If this inherent in terest is utilized, kindness can be substituted for cruelty. In the following years, the child will learn and understand the inter dependence of man and nature. He will, with proper guidance become a better adjusted person mentally and emotionally. We do not presume to say that such humane teaching is the only solution for juvenile crime. We do say it can do much to produce desirable attitudes toward ani mals, toward classmates, toward teachers and toward society at large. Ida G. Keith, (A Retired Teacher) South' Pacific Hwy., Medford, Ore. to remember that in the event of war with Soviet Russia, the smaller countries would be over run by Red army ground forces unless Allied ground forces can stop them. The stand of the smaller al lies has been expressed force fully in a report made to a meet ing, now being held in Paris, of delegates from the parliaments of the 15 NATO countries. Report Important There seems no doubt that this report will play an import ant part in the big meeting of the heads of government of NATO countries, including Pres ident Eisenhower, which is to we allow the present surtax rates to cut into 1957 and 1958 incomes," Giesy added Before the telecast, House Speaker Pat Dooley, Portland Democrat, accused the Republi cans of "stalling the Legislature for two more days at least, at the expense of the taxpayers, just so their so-called spokesmen can make a grandstand play on television." Integration Problems Plague New York City In Field of Housing By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington Ml Southern objectors to the integration of their public school systems prob ably will be as tonished to learn that the place of Ne groes in the community also is caus ing some diffi culty in New York City. New York is the capital city I,yle C Wilson of civil rights, the minority ra cial groups there being large, numerous and possessed of max imum political wallop. It is now 25 weeks, however, that the Gen eral Welfare Committee of the Municipal Council of the City of New York has been considering a proposal to relieve Negroes from discrimination in better class housing. Introduced on May 21 was a nronosal to malcp it unlawful in discriminate for reasons of race, . ... .. ... ' color, religion, national origin or ancestry in the rental or sale of dwelling space. There were pub lic hearings in mid-June where after the proposal was sent back to committee. Real Estate Boards Oppose Individuals who urgently championed civil rights legisla tion which was before Congress last summer were somewhat less enthusiastic about the anti-discrimination project pending be fore their own governing agen cy. The real estate boards in all five boroughs of New York City opposed the ordinance. The mail count at City Hall was 3-to-l against. Some council men said their mail was 4-to-l against enabling Negroes to buy or rent whatever they could af ford. The proposal was sub stantially amended to eliminate a $500 penalty for the discrim ination described. The commit tee also exempted cooperative apartments from the anti-discrimination stipulation. The implication of the ordi nance's most recent history is that it was set aside to cool pending last week's mayoralty election in New York. An advo cate of the ordinance had this to say this week in a letter to the New York Times: Further delay or defeat of this bill would be an admission that New York City, despite its moral horror at what happened at Little Rock, does not itself believe in the civil rights that it professes to uphold. For all rec ognize that this is more than a matter of housing; we know es pecially that the schools we say C. M. 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Seeks More Troops The report demanded thit NATO maintain a minimum of 30 divisions, equipped with tac tical atomic weapons and cov ered by adequate air forces. There was a note of some bit terness in the reference to the protection that the Atlantic Ocean gives to the United States, and the English Channel gives to Britain. A reference to the strategy of "massive retaliation" against Russia by the atomic powers in NATO seemed some what sarcastic. Massive retalia tion would hurt Russia, prob ably cripple it. But what the smaller countries need to pro tect them is infantry, tanks, ar tillery, tactical air forces. we wish to integrate can never truly achieve this goal unless we desegregate our housing pat terns." Few Non-Negro Areas This reference to missing the goal of school integration in New York City is part of the city's racial problem from another angle. It relates to the fact that there are public school districts in New York City in which there are no Negro families or very few. It is dificult, therefore, to en able white and Negro children to attend those schools together for lack of Negro children. The pro posed ordinance against discrim ination in the sale or rental of dwelling units presumably would enable Negro families with chil dren to move into the all-white school districts and the ele ments of school integration would be at hand. All of this may sound like coded Greek to southern readers, but it is the pattern of the inte gration problem as it has devel oped in New York. Bend Girl To Tell of Experiences Abroad Washington (m Violet K. Klobas of Bend, Ore., will tell officials here today of her experiences abroad while or a trip to Austria, as a "good -will ambassador" under the Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange Program. Miss Klobas, along with 57 other young people, arrived home on the Queen Mary Tues day. They had been in Europe on a five-month "work-and-learn" trip. 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