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o O 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Iveryona In Soutnern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" kublihea Daily Except Saturiaj by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager CERAiD LATHAM Business Manager KRIC Al l FN jr. Manasnne Editor KARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.V Telegrapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE 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 Bt Mail In Advance: Par Codt 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 $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. . Shady Cove. Rojrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 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 Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANT. INC Offices In New York Chicago, ae- trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. EWSPAFEft PUtllSHEIt ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAt AssocSVie WijjiH'u.'.im 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 Dec. 19, 1947 (Friday) Gold Hill residents will vote Monday on whether school dis trict 57 should purchase 7V4 acres of land on the west side of the city for a high school build ing. Fro Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: 'Sixty years ago yesterday the fist Espee train pulled into town and nearly ran into a horse and buggy at the main stem crossing." 20 YEARS AGO DflC. 19. 1937 (Monday) One of southern Oregon's most famous orchards the Sis kiyou mountain orchard at Kla math junction south of Ashland Q will soon pass from existence. Jtom local and personal col umn: "Upper grade pupils of the Ablegate school will mount a !ttuc and sing Christmas carols." (31 $ EsVRS AGO (fifp. If, 1927 (Monday) Whether buffalo meat will ia the place of Christmas tur iiy in their homes this year will decided by local citizens who av placed orders for the first (Bifre in a local meat market. Sie mentioning period has ar irVi in Jackson county politics 8ough the spring primary is six (Tlionths away. . di Sears ago 19 (Wednesday) 3ikson county ranks as one (off the counties lagging in the (R$ Cross drive for membership. O Jin agricultural council will be O (farmed at a meeting in the Jack (epn county extension agent's of- Bfet's Your I.Q.? rfe'Ae or ten correct Is superior; "favpn or eight Is excellent; five or sTk is good. 1. Was Genoa, Italy, bombed by the Allies during World War I or II? O 2. Bible: what? 'Give us this day" 3. What proverb is directly contrary h meaning to "You can't teach an old dog new tricks?" 4. In the 1860's in the U.S., which of these was the most pop ular outdoor game: Hockey, Golf, Croquet, Tennis? 5. Name the capital of Man churia. 6. What was the name of the half-wit character in the book "Of Mice and Men"? 7. Are camel hair brushes made from the hair of camels or q goats? 8. Correct the following sen tence: "Each of the soldiers paid their share." 9. Which city in the U.S. is nicknamed "Windy City"? 10. How is the first syllable in 'archaeology" pronounced? Answers: 1. World War II. 2. ... "our daily bread." 3. "Never too old to learn." 4. Croquet. 5. Changchun. 6. Lennie. 7. No (Si berian squirrels). 8. "Each of the soldiers paid his share." 9. Chi cago, 111. 10. As 'ark". MAIL TRIBUNE A Message to Lowell T. Lowell Thomas, who is shooting TV Adventure films in Timbuctoo and environs better come home and have a talk with his boy Lowell Junior. Junior is ok an authentic chip off the old block but naturally he lacks the maturity and sophistica tion of his papa, and he needs both in the business of news broadcasting in these precarious times. OWELL SR., is proclaimed by his sponsor, as news -1 Commentator No. 1 in the country. We wouldn't say that. He is good, particularly in his "travelogues." But he is really more a news announcer than a com mentator or interpreter. He almost never expresses an opinion. However, we are quite sure, had he been in the USA, he would not have fallen for a "sputnik" bally hoo and build-up for the SECOND time. The first was bad enough, but twice in the same month, must have given sponsors, Generals Motors and Charley Wilson the shivers. TJOWEVER, that is what Junior did on Tuesday " night. He blithly dove off the deep-end for this "Atlas" launching, claiming in substance it trans formed the atmosphere at the Paris conference from scepticism to enthusiasm for the U.S.A. ; compensated largely for the "Vanguard" fizzle, even restored the Pentagon to its old place of honor, abreast, if not ahead of, the Kremlin, in interstellar dynamics. "IXE GRANT the press-agencies played up the event unduly. And there seems little doubt the launch ing was timed to have the maximum psychological impact at the "Palais de Chaillot." But if the latter effort were SERIOUSLY made, then another "blooper" will have to be recorded. For the latest press reports indicated the enthus iasm, if any in Paris, was confined entirely to the members of the U.S. delegation. The statesmen of Europe gathered there, know too much about the world and the "guided missile'' situation internation ally to fall for any such transparent "press agency" guff. fF course in this field, as in all others, values are relative. Until Tuesday's launching, all the "Atlas" tests had been fizzles like the "Vanguard" the durned things did a lot of "huffing, chuffing and puffing" but refused This time there was a siderable smoke and flame got going, gained momentum, soared gracefully into the Empyrean and disappeared. The project spokesman "had covered several hundred miles and landed in the target area." 'HAT'S just fine! Compared with past perform- ances, it ranks as a considerable achievement. But it is hardly world-shattering. Landing on a target a few hundred miles away has been done before many times and will be done many- times again.- In fact in his first "chin 7th. President Eisenhower missile had been perfected, which "recently travelled over a guided course for 5000 miles and was accurate ly placed on target. The President exhibited a missile cone which he explained had made such a trip, returned through the earth's atmosphere intact, thus demonstrating the problem of such a return without friction-destruction, had been solved. AS WE recall it there was no "extree, extree !" dem- onstration at that time no torch-light proces sions, or even press-flashes and banner-lines. Yet that accomplishment was far more important, constructive and sensational than the few hundred mile "work-out" on Tuesday. So what is all the "hulabaloo" about? That is what we wish Lowell Thomas Sr., would ask his very nice and very promising but not too sea soned off-spring. FINALLY as far as this missile business ballistic, satellite and otherwise is concerned, the time has come, we believe, to quit our boosting and blowing and boasting, until we have something to really "boost-blow-and-boast about." That will not be when we get a guided missile that will hit the target "several hundred miles away", but several thousand sufficiently powerful and ac curate to for example hit ANY target, we wish, in Soviet Russia. At least it is hard to imagine, at this stage of the game, wishing to pulverize any country EXCEPT Rus sia. . S FAR as that goes it is ING" to do that, to ANY country. R.W.R. "Idiot's So as usual in all arguments in this department of preparation for World War III which WE can't be live will ever come about we reach an impasse of both futility and unreality. Yet sS long as the Communist menace exists or we THINK it exists which adds up to the same thing we must, as far as wre CAN, match Russia, on land, sea and in the air. We can't, with the world as it IS, take a chance. ' ' And so long as Russia regards the democratic world, particularly the "U.S.A." as a similar menace, Russia must and,of course, WILL do the same. CO THERE is the unending vicious circle. The late Robert Sherwood had a name for it. He called it "Idiot's Delight". Thursday. December 19, 1957 to get off the ground. moment of hesitation, con but finally the "old boy" later announced the missile - urr speech on November J. A said a new kind of guided hard to imagine "WISH Delight 99 A LOT OF 'EM ARE Matter of Fact EISENHOWER AT NATO Paris There was something stirring and, also, there was something tragic too in the Presi dent's effort to breathe his own simple faith into the pompous NATO confer ence of chiefs of state. His very presence at the c o n f e r e nee table was an Joseph Alsop act of courage. No one in the huge, ugly, garishly lighted room could forget that this man has just suffered a mild stroke, after two other terrible illnesses in the past two years. Not a few at the round conference table also knew that he had all but defied his doctors to come to Paris, in effect decreeing that he would come unless the doc tors held him incapable of all his heavy duties, and leaving them to issue what statement they chose. The day before, there had been the arrival in the bitter cold, the graceful airport speech that warmed French hearts, and the long ride into the city with the President standing up in the open car, turning on his full glow for the waiting crowds. And now here they were, all the chiefs of the NATO states save only Salazar of Portugal mustached, amiable old Josef Bech of Luxembourg who looks and is a survivor from the for gotten era of Aristide Briand; France's improbably youthful Felix Gaillard; the German Chancellor with his air of a durable snapping turtle and all the rest. DHYSICALLY, the assembled statesmen were more man a little diminished by their setting. a graceless chamber like a large lecture hall m which everything naa been sacrificed to the re quirements of television. Thev were there, in the most literal sense, for the look of the thing, using time badly needed for grave decisions to make a pub lic parade of their reunion. Yet even on so essentially formal an occasion, one could not help re flecting on the immense burden oi numan hones and fears car ried by these men. Above all, one could not help reflecting on the President's burden. This first meeting of NATO chiefs of state was his own project, after all, sponsored by him much against the will of his cold, canny Secretary of State. Only the night before Secretary Dulles had riallidlv warned the American press to expect-no great achievements at this extraordinary gathering which must achieve great things or be remembered as a sorrv failure. Could the President then somehow recreate Western unity and strength out of disunity and weakness, against all exDecta- tions? Was he, to put it bluntly, really up to the task? "EOR one seeing him for the first time in a long and cruel year, his appearance was a little shocking. Under the bright lights his ruddy complexion saved him from looking as ghost ly as the pale Prime Minister Macmillan. Yet the flesh of the cheeks and neck have fallen away, giving a new, strange em That is what it is. If we were not "idiots", if we were as civilized and wise as we claim to be, we would SOMEhow, SOMEway, agree upon a course that civilization, wisdom and plain "self interest" dictates. We would gather around a table, talk things over and decide to call off this crazy rat-race to mutual destruction, which no one and we mean NO one wants, but no one seems able to stop. TN THIS week's "Life", for example, Mr. Dulles, our 1 worthy Secy, of State, says "it CAN'T be done." When it comes down to brass tacks that is what most of them say. What this country and the world needs, is a completely NEW kind of "leader" a lead er who will say: "OK it can't be done!" And then proceed to go out and DO it! R.W.R. J By Joseph Alsop phasis to the high dome of the skull. And the old erectness had gone, too until it was his turn to speak, Eisenhower sat as old men sit, asking no effort of the muscles to support the frame. Yet when Luxembourg's Bech and France's Gaillard had made their neat and graceful opening speeches, as conventionalized as the movements in a ritual, there was a sudden change in this Ei senhower whom both had singled out to welcome as the acknowledged leader of the West. He straightened. He seem ed to gather his forces. He gave his thanks for the welcome with an engaging, friendly ease. And he continued into his set speech with an impressive and determ ined vigor. There were those who thought they noticed signs of the Presi dent's recent illness in his ar ticulation, but to this reporter there seemed nothing abnormal in his manner of speaking, which has never been very clear. There was the same old extraordinary power, too, the power central to the power of the man himself, to make the great, basic, plati tudinous truths about freedom and decency and human dignity sound like truths newly discov ered of burning, immediate im port. 1UT this unhappily was not what was wanted and here was the occasion's innate trag edy. None present in the room needed to be instructed in the enduring value, the power and creative force of human dignity and freedom. They were meet ing anxiously together for the very reason that these incom parably precious things were now in danger. How to avoid the danger that was the question the leader of the West was ex pected to answer, and to an swer not only boldly but even in some detail. But there was no such an swer, beyond a passing refer ance to those now-troubled sub jects, atomic warheads and guid ed missiles, which only recalled the differences that these sub jects have evoked. So the speech ended, with the plea to "press on to that peace, in freedom, which is our rightful heritage Prime Minister Macmillan and NATO Secretary Spaak turned to the President in smiling con gratulation. But Western strength and Western unity had not been recreated. Nothing really had happened beyond an other television show with the most grandiose cast the Western Alliance could provide. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) McKenzie Pass To Be Closed To Traffic Eugene (IP) State .High way Department officials here said that McKenzie Pass would be closed at noon today because of continued heavy snow. It is expected to remain closed for the winter. YULE CARDS PITCHED Cleveland (IP) Joseph Larysz thought a paper bag his wife left on the kitchen sink was full of garbage and pitched it into the gargage pail. Then he learned the bag contained the Christmas cards he and his wife spent their evenings addressing last week and that his wife had left them out to mail. rii isuiies visit ro dpam uecfiarea Important for European Defense BY CHARLES M. McCANN I That is because of the seldom-1 with missiles is still to be n "i m T - 1 I wn4.:nn J . 4Uni J I i:.lnJ 1 XI TT li. 3 i. United Press Correspondent The visit of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to Spain may be a big development in the new plans for Eur opean defense. Dulles is to fly to Madrid Saturday, on his way home from the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization in Paris, to talk Charles McCann to GenerallS- simo Francisco Franco. It will be only a five-hour visit. But it could turn out to be secondary in importance only to the Paris meeting itself. Spain is not a member of the NATO alliance. But it is closely, if indirectly, tied in with NATO. In the Day's News By FRANK When you woke up Tuesday morning, did you have any feel ing that Dec. 17 is a moderately significant date in history? Probably Not. The chances are you just looked out of the win dow and muttered an uncompli mentary word about the weather which at that hour was a little on the dirty side. IirELL If you read the papers and listened to the newscasts, you learned that on Dec. 17, 1903 just four years more than half a century ago the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made the world's first flight in a power-driven airplane. That started a lot of new things. THE interesting part of it is that Wilbur and Orville Wright were just a couple of average American kids. They were the sons of a United Breth ren bishOD. In hish school, Wil bur was a bright student, "but Orville was a dreamer and took little interest in school. That made them a perfect team. Orville dreamed up the idea of a flight in a POWERED plane, and Wilbur worked out the mechanical details. (By that time, they had graduated from high school and had a bicycle shop, which turned their minds toward machinery.) Back in 1896, Orville read about Otto Lilienthal, the Ger man who was killed while ex perimenting with a motorless glider. That DID IT. It started them THINKING and out of their thinking came the first POWERED flight. Powered flight lifted man OFF THE GROUND and put him into the air for better or worse. THE idea of FLIGHT wasn't new. Back in the last half of the 15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the most versatile men the world has known, filled his notebooks with sketches of a fly ing machine based on the meth od of flight used by birds. One of his sketches showed a board on which the flier lay and op erated mechanical wings with his feet. The trouble with Da Vinci was that in his day nobody had yet PICKING THE WINNERS Barcenlona, Spain (IP) A five-man group which calls it self "Los Cinco" today cele brated its second big football pool win within a year. The group won this week's lottery for $861,000. A year ago the same group hauled in $36,000. The system in picking the win ners? "Give the underdog in any given game the benefit of the doubt." Yours Free, Without Obligation Tacts every interments" is a helpful unbiased bulletin published by the Association of Better Business Bureaus. If you would like a copy, just let us know. DAY OR NIGHT-PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS i r r mentioned tact tnat under an agreement with Fraanco, the United States is building a net work of air, naval and supply bases all over the country. Dulles. Franco "Consult" The official announcement of Dulles's visit, first issued in Ma drid, said that the visit was be ing made at Franco's invitation. Dulles will "consult" with Franco, Foreign Minister Fern ando Maria Castiella and other officials, it was said. Dulles naturally will give Franco a full report of the NATO meeting which ends to day, including the agreement in principle of Western European countries to the establishment of nuclear missile bases on their territory. It is an agreement in principle, rather tSan of fact, because the question of equipping the bases JENKINS invented the internal combustion engine. One reason for that is that in Da Vinci's day nobody had yet discovered gasoline. They did know about petrole um. It was generally known as "Greek fire" because in naval battles the Greeks sometimes poured pots of a flaming liquid down on the ships of their enemies often with devastating consequences to the enemy. "TEC. 17 marks another im-- portant anniversary. On that day back in 460 BC nearly 2500 years ago Hippocrates is generally supposed to have been born, although changing calen dars leave the exact date rather uncertain. Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine. Prior to his time, medicine had been in the hands of the priests, and con sisted largely of incantations de signed to drive evil spirits away after the manner of our own Indian medicine men. Hippocrates insisted that "Na ture heals; the physician is only Nature's assistant." He applied this rule by treating his patients with proper diet, fresh air, change of climate and proper attention to habits and living conditions. He applied logic and reason to medicine and made it workable. TN HIS Hippocratic oath, he sense of duty to mankind that it has never lost. The Hippocratic oath reads, in part: "I swear ... so far as power and discernment shall be mine, I will carry out regimen for the benefit of the sick and will keep them from harm and wrong. To none will I give a deadly drug even if solicited . . . Into whatso ever house I shall enter I will go for the benefit of the sick." Get Your (CBiiflisitimiias (Cairdls PAPER NAPKINS and TABLE COVEBS fit . . . OPEN 'TIL 9 p.m. family should know about funerals and i with missiles is still to be nego tiated between the United States and the individual countries concerned. As has been made plain in Paris, some of these countries do not want the mis siles. Dulles may sound out Franco on the possibility of setting up missile bases in Spain. If he does, it is not only possible but probable that Franco would agree to consider the suggestion favorably. Franco Called "Totalitarian Spain never has been invited to join NATO because some European allies, still mindful of the Spanish Civil War, ob ject to Franco's regime as "totali tarian." That may be. But Fran co also is a bitter enemy of Com munism. And his country, pro tected by the grim Pyrenees Mountains, would be the last bulwark of defense if Russia's Red army swept over Western Europe. Franco has intimated that he would join NATO if all of its present 15 members asked him to. The fear of Russian Com munist aggression is pretty near ly as serious now as it was when NATO was formed in 1949. Russia's successes with its Sputnik earth satellite and its inter-continental ballitic missile have radically changed the Eur opean defense picture. It seems quite possible that those Allied contries which have objected to Franco's regime and have called him a dictator miht have some second thoughts about him now. That Spain would strengthen NATO is unquestionable. It would not be surprising if Dul les's visit to Madrid proved to be the first step toward bringing Spain into it. Editorial Common! ENDORSEMENT REtBWKD After a year of study to review facts with respect to fluoridation of water as a preventative of dental caries the American Medi cal Association renews itsQun qualified endorsement of the treatment of public water sup plies. We doubt though, if this will cause any of those casting negative votes on fluoridation to change their minds. Persons like to cling to their prejudices. Oregon Statesman, Salem. DOH'l MISS OPGLl o SKINNER-BUICK-CADILIAC O
