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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone la Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Satur-tay tn MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-ffl41 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager XR1C ALLEN JR Man'-'"' Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN le.eKiapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER 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 Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Fti Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, ae- troU; San Francisco. Los Angeles Seafejte. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. O rfj&fi" XNEWSPAEI 5-'ASSOCIATIOM NATION A I I 0 1 T 0 1 1 A i A sWHiHHIg'H'I.HI 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 Dec. 15, 1947 (Monday) Attorney General George Neu- ner advises board of control that state emergency funds cannot be used for maintaining Camp White hospital before it is estab lished as a state institution. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Stockmen are busy throwing hay at their steers, and to hear some of them tell it, they need the hay worse than the cows." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1937 (Wednesday) Oregon's new 1938 license plates, aluminum colored back ground with black numerajs and letters, make first appearance in Medford. Union demands regarding marketing of Oregon turkeys in California rescinded with an nouncement of an agreement reached in a four-day conference. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1927 (Thursday) County court directs county clerk to issue a warrant for pur chase of $25,000 of Crater Lake highway road bonds. County law library consisting of some 3,000 volumes of Oregon laws, moved by truck from the Liberty building to new court house. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1917 (Saturday) Confiscated liauors will be saved and devoted to war pur poses, according to an order from Governor Withycombe. From local and personal col umn: "About 1,000 government horses passed through Medford Thursday from Washington and Idaho enroute to a southern can tonment." Uktft Y6r I.Q.? NlnsT r ten correct Is serlor; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is (004 1. Into how many Boroughs is New York City divided? 2. Bible: In only two places Gentiles stirred persecution against Paul, . without sugges tions by Jews, is told in which book? 3. To what family of climb ing vines does the sweet-potato belong? &3 In the nursery rhyme, what did "Little Miss Muffet" sit upon? 5. Jrtount Vernon, the home of George Washington, is located on which river? 6. Which planet has the same name as a famous statue of an armless woman? 7. In the list of annual holi days, does Christmas come aft er New Year's Day? 8. Are blueberry and huckle berry different names for the same berries? 9. Hebe, daughter of Jupiter and Juno, was assigned to what office in the service of the gods of classical mythology? 10. The U.N.Ol is now offi cially abbreviated how? Answers: 1. Five. 2. Acts. 3. The morning - glory family. 4. J)tuffet. 5. Potomac. 6. Venus. 7. Yes. 8. No. 9. Cupbearer lo the gods. 10. U.N. MAIL TRIBUNE ' Go After the Fog With the sudden boom in the stock of applied science why can't a few thousand dollars, out of the billions, be devoted to a solution of the distressing problem of fog? Rain isn't pleasant. Snow isn't much better, ex cept for those who ski. But both have their ultimate public benefits. Fog has none. 1V40RE0VER, in this gasoline and airplane age, fog is a serious menace. It is a constant threat to life, limb and health. Great Pete (Clark), you can't even play golf, or with any safety, walk in it! It is bad for health, it is bad for business, it is a threat to the "pursuit of happiness" even for some to survival. e WHEREUPON and to-wit: We herewith petition Uncle Sam to sick a few of his scientific and top-bracket weather experts on the task of eliminating fog, particularly here in the Rogue River valley. Compared to the successful launching and orbiting of a "Sputnik," we are quite sure this task would be technically simple, and financially "pea-nuts." As far as the long-suffering inhabitants of South ern Oregon and Northern California are concerned, we are certain the vote would be unanimous in favor of spending a few' thousands or millions less on getting to the moon and devoting more to getting rid of the f og. R.W.R. What Is "Prejudice"? . The text of this morning's second discourse will be "prejudice." What is prejudice? Well our dictionary defines it as follows: "An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed, before hand, without knowledge, thought or reason." That seems reasonably clear. MOW for several years this department has been A called "prejudiced" where the "friendly Southern Pacific" and Vice President Nixon are concerned. But unless the dictionary is wrong, we are not and never have been PREJUDICED. f JNTIL the Southern Pacific, in violation of the spirit and purpose of its franchise, deprived Southern Oregon, and parts of Northern California a'grpwing and prosperous area of approximately 30,000 square miles of all passenger service, we had no criticism to make of this billion dollar corporation. Instead of that unfavorable judgment having been formed without "knowledge, thought or reason," the exact reverse is true large quantities of all three have been utilized in forming our well publicized opinion. ' THE same is true of Vice aiiao univ xvivxv.. Until he delivered that pletely false, "Way Down East" "apologio" regard ing his acceptance of an "$18,000 retainer" from a group of well-heeled California oil-and-real estate tycoons, we had no particular complaint concerning the former congressman and one-time senator from Southern California. But that smooth, but completely phoney perform ance, combined with other speeches in that campaign, finished us politically, as far as President Eisenhow er's running mate was concerned. That verdict also was not formed "beforehand," nor without "knowledge, thought or reason," it was formed after the event, with all three attributes ap plied to the young man's public record, before and since. In short, the trouble with our critics, as far as the Southern Pacific and the reigning Vice President are concerned, is this : They persisted and still do in confusing opin ions they do not like, with prejudice. "1X7E would not deny there are perhaps worse rail- roads in the country than the Southern Pacific. We would merely deny it is a good railroad, a railroad with vision, enlightenment, or any conception of the dollar-and-cent value of public good will and proper public service. Because of that blindness its policies have greatly injured and retarded the material de velopment of this section of the state. That is why we have devoted so much time and space in trying, without, we admit, much success to date to correct them. IT IS the same with Vice President Nixon. We have no personal feeling regarding him. We have never met him and never expect to. We have listened to him over the air however, followed his record, ever since we heard him campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in California, and in five little words, we just don't "like or trust the man." XE particularly don't like to think of him or his type in the White House. For it seems to this department that the first vital consideration in a President, regardless of party, is INTEGRITY. We have no doubt never have had regarding Nixon's political "savvy," his shrewdness, his effect iveness as a two-fisted ruthless and double-jointed campaigner nor his tact and charm for that matter. But we have' from the first and particularly since that "dear little Checkers" and Plain GOP "Cloth coat" scenario, doubted the man's sincerity, good faith and intellectual honesty. This isn't judging "beforehand, without knowl edge, thought or reason," it is judging after the event, Sunday. December 15, 1957 President Richard Nixon ghost-written and com Ma I 010 WAS say THE TAIL. CAA15 0OT1' the conclusion based solidly upon the factual record of Nixon for nearly a decade. QNE of the "V.P.'s" defenders a friend of long- standing asked the other day why we were so hard on "Dick" when the only thing against him was "he is merely playing the political game a little smart er than his rivals.", "IIE grant there is something to that, but it merely ' " emphasized the point we were trying to make, namely : Let Nixon and the men of his type, be the choice for Congress from California or Senator, or even Vice President although the latter involves a serious calculated risk but may the "Angels and Ministers of Grace" defend us from ever having a man of that type for four or more years in the "White House !" That position one of the world's most important demands something more than "just another poli tician" something more than a skillful campaigner dealing in half-truths, anonymous phone calls, and unwarranted and insidious insinuations against his opponents. Prejudiced? All these charges can be substantiated by the Nixon record, not once or twice, but innumer able times. fXF course, the answer today is, we have a "New W Nixon." The Republican "Old Guard" is playing this trans formation tune up with all the publicity resources of the Chotiner Hollywood school and all the tremelo stops pulled out. This maneuver in itself suggests the "OLD Nixon," even to his friends, left something to be desired. But just how NEW is the "New Nixon?" We grant his manners have been much better of late, his demagoguery less apparent, the charge he is only a "Joe McCarthy" in a white collar less justified. But is that change any more fundamental or basic than the change in a three-tone paint job on a modern super-car? We don't think so. And we are quite content to leave it to Father Time for final determination. R.W.R. Today and By Walter CRUX OF THE NATO PROBLEM The crucial difference between the coming meeting of the North Atlantic Allies and the many meetings that have preceded it is that for the first time we are asking at least as much as we can give. When NATO was first organized nearly ten years ago, the Walter Lippmann United States was not only in vulnerable itself but it was able to guarantee effectively, aU the NATO Allies. In the beginning, the Atlantic Alliance, though in form it was a collective security pact, was in substance an Ameri can guarantee to protect Western Europe. Beginning in 1949, when the Soviet Union first mastered the atomic bomb, the original and basic principle of NATO became increasingly uncertain. For as the Soviet Union acquired nu clear weapons and the means of their delivery, the American guar antee became less and less inclu sive. Before that, we had been able to insure our Allies not only against invasion but against serious bombardment. By the early fifties particularly in the months immediately preceding the famous summit conference in Geneva in 1955, there was no longer any certainty, indeed not much likelihood, that our Allies would escape devastation in case of a great war. It was this that produced a rising tide of what we call, for short, neutralism. At bottom, neutralism Is the im pulse to reduce the liability of becoming involved in a world war. , HOWEVER, during this period and indeed until this autumn, it was still an article of faith among our Allies that the con tinental territory of the United .il 'WHOA!' W Tomorrow Lippmann States was invulnerable whereas the territory of the Soviet Union was open to destructive attack. Upon this faith there rested the confidence that the territory of our Allies was defended by the American power to deter attack by the threat of massive retalia tion. This article of faith has been, if not destroyed, then at least gravely impaired by the proof that the Soviet Union is ahead of the United States in the mili tary art of rockets and the mis siles they can project. As regards the newer weapons of war, it has been shown that only by a seri ous effort over a good many years is this country likely to come abreast of the Russians. This has been interpreted abroad as meaning that during a dangerous interval of years both Western Europe and North America have to be defended from missile " sites in Western Europe and in North Africa. We are now as dependent for our own defense on Europe's willing ness to provide the missile sites as Europe is dependent upon us to provide missiles for the sites. This is a wholly new situation, radically different from that which existed when NATO was founded, and it is in this altered situation that the present crisis has developed. WE are no longer the donors in NATO. We are, it might be said, a power needing to negoti ate understandings jointly and severally with many countries all of them asking themselves whether what they are likely to receive is equal to what they are being asked to give. I think that the. extraordinar ily personal hostility to Mr. John Foster Dulles in Europe is in the last analysis a reflection of this underlying change in the NATO situation. TTr. Dulles has his faults. But he is no monster of wickedness. He was, I believe, the focal point because he has been so visible In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Paris: The French cabinet has been called into session to decide under what conditions the Unit ed States MIGHT BE PERMIT TED to build missile bases on French soil. American missile bases in Europe will be a big item at the NATO talks in Paris next week. TTMMMMM. H Let's take a sharp look at this American foreign base busi ness. It is true that as of now WE NEED these foreign bases FOR uuh uwim DEFENSE. We need them because AS YET we can't send bombers carrying nuclear Domos clear to Russia and back without refueling them on the way. Our foreign bases provide reiueimg stations from which flying tanker planes can rise to gas up our bombers on the way to tneir targets in Russia. Also At these bases we keen bomb ers that can make the round trip to Russian targets and hark to the American base from which they tqok off. Thus they are important to us for OUR OWN defense. TUT Keep this clearly in mind: While we are defending our selves from these foreign bases WiS AKE ALSO DEFENDING OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES IN EUROPE AGAINST AT TACK BY THE KREMLIN COM MUNISTS. That includes the French, who are talking about whether or not they will PERMIT us to build bases on French soil. VUE PRESENTLY need foreign " bases from which to launch bombers at Russian targets. The time is near when we will need foreign bases from which to launch intermediate range missiles at Russian targets. The time is not far off when we will have INTERCONTINEN TAL RANGE missiles that can be launched at Russian targets from our own soil thus elimi nating our need for American bases on foreign soil. SPEED the day! can citizen, I m getting tired of MAYING FOR THE PRIVILEGE of defending everybody in the world against Russian commu nism. 1 Editorial Comment' HOW ABOUT OREGON WATER? What can be done to assure the continued development of the vast hydroelectric potential of this region? Sen. Richard Neuberger says it is the responsibility of the federal government and he re fuses to accept the administra tion's premise that the nation cannot afford to develop its re sources at the same time that it is catching up with the Rus sians in the missiles race. He points out that the Russians are well able to keep both programs going simultaneously and ar gues that the United States is quite capable of matching the Soviets. There is another approach to the subject. Its proponents do not take issue with Sen. Neu berger, but it has been their thinking for some time that the day might not be too far off when the Congress, no matter in which party's control, would refuse to annually spend large sums of money for the develop ment of the hydroelectric poten tial of the Northwest. They point out that it has been in creasingly difficult to get ade quate funds. The Oregonian has been a spokesman for this group. It is that newspaper's suggestion that a regional cor poration, composed of the fed eral government and the North west states, be formed to build hydroelectric projects in this region. The job would be fi nanced by borrowing funds on existing installations, thereby removing the federal govern ment from financing. We- think Sen. Neuberger is entirely right, that this nation is well, able to pay for the de velopment of its resources while it is spending for an adequate defense. But we would like to see the introduction of legisla tion that would establish a re gional corpcxation. Then, if the Congress refused to make any more appropriations for hydro electric projects in the North west the region would not be placed in a vacuum. A regional corporation would permit prog ress on the huge task of devel oping the region's hydroelectric potential. We do not see how industrial and business growth can be accomplished without full utilization of the water re sources of the region. Pendle ton East Oregonian. and so vocal first, of the resent ments that accumulated while he represented the great .donor power and, second, he is now the focal point of the fears that have been ' excited because he no longer represents the strongest power of the world, on which the Europeans have staked so much. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) The principal topic of conver sation in Medford last week was not Sputnik, nor Ike's illness, nor even Christmas. It was fog. The white, blurry, cold, damp stuff was as thick as we can re member it hereabouts. Many were the cars that strayed over the center lines on the streets (many of which need repainting, by the way, city hall), and many were the cars which bumped curbs, or lurched into ditches or other people's front lawns. The police, practical as al ways, asked householders to turn on porch lights to serve as guidance beacons for fog - con fused motorists. (This really helps, too. Wonder where the po lice first got the idea? We've not heard of it in other towns.) There were almost as many suggestions as to how to get rid of the fog as there were bright people- around. Some of them suggested setting up giant fans to blow the fog over the hills. One person suggested digging a tunnel, so it could flow out into the Klamath river. And the boys at the weather bureau, as unhappy as anyone else over the fog, offered, if it was thought it would do any good, to go outside, all of them, and blow and blow and blow . . . Seen on North Central ave. Monday morning: A car going down the street with a baby's bottle full of milk held on the dashboard by a flashlight clip. A man we know has a teen age son who delivers morning newspapers here in town. Last week, however, he was down with the flu. So dad has been getting up long before the first crack of dawn to deliver his papers. He had driven the lad over his route once or twice before, but didn't really know it, and the first day he took over he had a heck of a time finding all the houses of the subscribers correct ly. So for subsequent trips he made himself a little list. Some of the entries are names, where he knows the occupants. But the other entries include such items as these: "Little plants along driveway 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 White and Yellow Lines To the Editor: I'm just putting m a little gripe about the fog Oh, I know, no one can do any thing about the fog, but the state sure could put the white line down the highway like it should be. I have to drive back and forth twice a day, fog or rain and no .matter what kind of lights we have, you can't see the middle of the highway any place Where there is white left it's safe driving, but when you hit the yellow line it's just like driving blind. I think if it was put to a vote there would be lots more like me who would prefer the white. It shows up very good in fog, but not the yellow, and out where Black- well road turns off 99 highway the lines are so dim you can't tell which side of the highway you are on, and those big blue lights are so blinding, after you go out from under them you can't see. E.M.C., P.O. Box 642, Medford, Ore. Disgusting Music To the Editor: In driving to my work in various southern Ore gon towns I find myself to the point of disgust because of the type of music that is available to me on the radio in the morn ings. I turn from one station to the other only to end up by snapping it off because of the wailing, sick sounding, vocals of some kid jazzed up by the tempo of a sad guitar." The amazing thing to me is that the responsible people at the stations don't realize that at this time in the morning all the kids are in school and they are playing it to the people that make it possible for them to be on the air. I don't mean to say that we are a lot or rii-.t5rows mat want a lot of classical music to put us back to sleep in the mornings, but would like to hear more happy, uplifting, gay mu sic that makes a person feel like doing good instead of committing murder. While I'm oh the subject don't you think it would be a nice thought if the radio stations felt more of an obligation to help teach our young people an ap preciation for good music? Our schools cannot do this job alone and maybe if the kids were ex posed to it more they would see the real beauty in it. Besides doing us old "Codg ers" over 30 a favor, look at the break you would be giving our kids. A Would-be Listener, (Name on File) Circle driveway Red house, then four in a row Each side of basketball hoop Just before lots of lawn Lots of lawn By fire plug Next to new lawn First six houses on right, skip 2, then next five." He's made out fine since then. We are told that automobile sales have been a bit slow this month. We're ready to believe it after watching a couple of salesmen whiling away the hours (when it's warmer on the parking lot; on cold days indoors) by pitching coins at a crack in the pavement. The mail must go through. Sometimes the post office workers can't make heads or tails of addresses, and sometimes the addresses are totally insuffi cient. But given a clue, they go to town. Recently Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Keyser received a letter from Germany addressed to them only at "Ox Farm, Medford, Ore." The Keysers raise prize bulls on property near Foothills rd. A German couple visited them last summer. A member of our staff re turned home late at night re cently, and found both front and back doors locked. By means he doesn't wish to ex plain fully (but which should have awakened the entire neighborhood), he finally got into the house. His wife slept through the entire incident, but, when the subject was mentioned the next morning, she reminded him that only a few days before she had placed the front door key in his cus tody. City water department em nlovees. who were at work filling up a hole dug for recent repairs on a water main, were delayed recently when one of the two water department dump trucks was stopped on Crater Lake highway by state police. Officers found the vehicle without mud flaps, a horn, and several other necessary items, and their report put the truck into the shop while the job was completed by the other truck. Water department men report that the second truck was driven with exceeding care du.'ig its travels to and fro over the high way. And, generously, the water men say they have no plans to cut off the water to the state po lice office as a way of getting even. When members of the Eagle Point Grange visited the Camp White domiciliary recently, our farm editor looked care fully to see if the dairy farm ers put cream in their coffee. Most of them, he reports, "didn't. One of the youthful and at tractive' local delegates to the national 4-H Congress in Chicago dropped into the office not long ago to tell about some of her ex periences in' the big city. Her mother accompanied her. She told how a police officer stopped the Oregon delegation from singing Christmas carols in the heart of downtown Chicago in the wee hours, of the morning. Her mother, an interested listen er stopped her in mid-sentence by remarking, "You never told me that!" . A local 4H'er was asked to define a steer. Hard put, he finally came up with, "A steer, is a bull going to market." Some neonle claim that, based on observation, the more educa tion a man has the more auncuii it is tn read hfs handwriting. There may be some truth in that, doctors are an example, ior their atrocious handwriting is notorious. Rut the worst handwriting we've ever seen, from a legibility standpoint, -is that of a news paperman we know. A teenage girl who recently attended an out-of-town meet ing of youngsters her age re ported enthusiastically, "The boys outnumbered the girls three to one, and we had ter rific opportunities." The Christmas season is upon us, and here is a Christmas story: A man and his daughter went into a grocery store to pick up a loaf of bread or quart of milk, or something, and the man made the purchase, then looked around for his daughter, aged 6 or 7. He saw her, marching toward him down the aisle, a large box of candy under her arm. "Here, here, what's all this," he said or something equally fatherish. "Well," she said, "you know I'm in the Christmas play, and I have to get myself fattened up to play the part, and that's why I need this box of candy." The part she has in the play is, of course, Santa Claus. Wheth er she got the candy or not we never heard. i
