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: 3T0UR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Z "Everyone In Southern Ore tan tubllshed Daily except Saturday by ilia .'inn awuuaic MEDFORD PRINTLNli tU . 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBEP.T W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager UtKALU LAlHAil, OUIlMn lug. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper ' Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday 1 year 113 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sundav Onlv One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, ban rrancisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B. C, O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCfATfojN 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 : Jan. 10, 1948 (Sunday) Because city water cannot Lr-TaS I be put up in containers as a : jesult of the recent floods, ; Southern Pacific hauls tank ; cars from Steinman station. I From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The flu Is still rampant, but on the : ebb. Everybody seems to have : conquered it with a different I rure." ; 20 YEARS AGO : Jan. 10, 1938 (Monday) ; Plans for exhibits at the Z Golden Gate International Ex - position in 1930 discussed at meeting of Shasta-Cascade ex ; position in Redding, Calif., ; according to A. H. Banwell, : Jackson County Chamber of I Commerce manager. : The third of a series of ' training meetings for parent education study club leaders scheduled at the courthouse 80 YEARS AGO Jan. 10. 1928 (Thuifday) ; About $95 in cash taken from the Eagle Point post of- 1 f ice when safe is blown open. Reid, Murdoc and company plan to erect two canneries and a coffee roasting and I packing plant in the state dur ; Ing 1928, according to the dis- trict representative here. - 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 10. 1918 (Thursday) First annual meeting of the -. stockholders of National Farm Loan associations held for ' Medford and Rogue River as- " sociation. From local and personal - column: "Fred L. Strang has " Just received a telegram from Washington confirming his ap- - pointment as assistant in mar keting fruits and vegetables ' with the federal bureau of markets, and intends to leave for Chicago next Saturday, Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct it superior; even or eight it excellent; five or six it good. 1. Was the sandwich orig- r mated by an Englishman, American, or Frenchman? 2. Bible: The books of the N.T. are held to have come ; Into existence during which ; "Age"? : 3. Did President Coolidge I lerve one or two full terms? 4. Did the French fight against the Indians in the - French and Indian War? 5. The $3,000,000 mrfrble j hrine to Thomas Jefferson completed in 1946 is in which ; eastern city? :. 6. What is .the smallest v breed of dog? ; 7. Do all liquids have the same boiling point? 8. Male whales are called - bucks, bulls, or whelps? - 9. The Aubudon society is primarily interested in birds, ; books, or art? 10. The Bohemian word ; "thaler" is the origin of which i English word? ; Answercl. Englishman i (Earl of Sandwich). 2. Apos Z folic Age. 3. One. 4. No (the British did). 5. Washington, D.C. 6. Mexican Chihuahua. 9. No. 8. Bulls. 9. Birds. 10. - Dollar. : Oregon City Business eader Taken by Death : Z Oregon City (IB John '. Telford, 66, local business "leader, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack. Boon or Poison Some families have achieved an uneasy com promise with that compelling little box, TV (or, as one writer we know persists in calling it, teevee). Others reject it, many of them violently. Still others have utterly succumbed to it. It is possible to understand each of these atti tudes, for TV (or teevee) carries many things which are superb things which could never be presented with the same drama, the same immedi acy, the same impact, before its advent as well as the good, the mediocre, the bad, and truth must be faced the simply awful. rR. PAUL Witty of Northwestern University, a psychologist, recently reported on an eight year study of several thousand children and their reactions to television. Among other things, he concluded that tele vision had little effect on the work of students the good ones remained good, with or without it, the bad ones bad and that emotional distur bances have their sources This may be true, contrary to the conclusions at which many thoughtful parents have months or years. fNE is tempted to suspect that Dr. Witty's observations should have been qualified to assess the amount of youngsters were exposed. A carefully selected harm no one, and may zons, his understanding and certainly his oppor tunities for entertainment. On the other hand, the bad with the good, uplifting can hardly voung, impressionable minds, even though it may in a few more intelligent youngsters, lead to a greater sense of discrimination. 1IHEN TV is new in a household, it is natura! v to' watch its wonders for hours on end. This soon palls, however, with switch is used more frequently. With others, however, television becomes a soporific, almost hypnotic, influence. We have watched youngsters stare at it for hours, from the time they got home from night, with time out only play outdoors, no social activity, no reading of books or magazines or newspapers only sitting crap - mouthed and inert m a darkened room, sopping up what flickers on the screen, their ini tiative and energy and creativity lost in lethargy, IF THE psychologist is right in that this does no harm, by the same token it can by no stretch of the imagination do any good. And it is such a horrifying waste of time time when the boy or girl could be learning by reading. Tel p. vision is like so . - can be a wonderful boon, ping poison. It depends Impressive One of the criteria used in judging the use fulness and ability of college and university teachers is the number and quality of articles and reports which they publish. It is a measurement not only of the original research which they do in their pursuit of knowl edge, but how active they are in making their dis- covenes available to otners, tnus increasing tne sum total of available knowledge. The value of this criterion is variable, of course. Some of the greatest teachers publish very little; some sub-standard teachers publish a great deal. But if no undue emphasis is placed on it, it does provide at least one indication of a pro fessor's creativity and desire to share his con clusions with others. THE December issue of the Bulletin of the Ore- gon state system of higher education is de voted to listing publications of the faculties of the schools in the system for two years. It makes an impressive document, for Ore gon's college and university teachers are a high quality lot of men and women, and their studies have been productive of a. large volume of material. Not all of the articles cance. But neither are they insignificant. In his introduction, Chancellor John K. Kich- ards said : "Some of these publications represent years of study and research and are their authors' contributions in man's search for truth. Some . . . share the authors' understanding of a special area of knowledge. Some . . . are creative works of inspiration or solace. We are pleased to record these achievements of our facul ties. They are but one indication of their devoted serv ice to the cause of higher education." THIRTY-SEVEN of the ed came from faculty Oregon college a creitable showing inasmuch as it has a relatively small faculty at work in fields which are not as readily "publishable" as some others in the system. All m all, the Bulletin sive record of the abilities and energies of the faculty members to whom education of the young people of Oregon. E.A. Friday, January 10, 1958 in other things than TV. but if it is, it is directly arrived over a period of TV viewing to which his diet of television can indeed broaden his hori indiscriminate viewing the degrading with the be of great benefit to many, and the shut-off school until far into the to gulp a sandwich. No doing, and acting, and manv other thingrs it or it can be a soul-sap upon the use made of it. Hi. A. Record are of major signifi 2,239 publications list members at boutnern constitutes an impres we entrust the higher Ah' I'm hot gonma call ya 'mother' no EITHER I OlO YA HEAR AllCg ? Demos See Nixon As 'Man to Beat' Before '60 By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The Dem ocratic high command is hon oring Vice President Richard M. Nixon as the Republi can they are anxious to cut down. Demo c r atic politi cal strategy is m obvious ac- knowledg ment of a be lief that Nix- Lyie c. Wilson on is the man most likely to be nominated by the Republican party for president in 1960. As the Democrats see him, Nixon is the man to beat. If they can beat him before 1960, so much the better for the Democrats. He probably would be the strongest man the Republicans could put up to succeed President Eisen hower. The Democratic estimate of Nixon's political potential is indicated by the sustained at tack on his public record un derway in the pages of the Democratic Digest. The Di gest is a monthly publication of the Democratic National committee. Claimed Shrinkage Back in November, the Di gest observed that Nixon ap parently had decided to aban don the "Eisenhower person ality" because, it said, the President's popularity had been shrinking since last spring. Nixon has been acting,' the Digest reported, "like a man who has decided to aban don a slowly sinking ship but in such a way as to suggest that he merely is going for a swim. Until last spring, according to the Digest, Nixon had iden tified himself with the "El senhower personality" to build up his own chances for the 1960 nomination. The January issue of the Digest accuses Nixon of joining the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and others in destroying the morale of the United States scientific community. Debates Blamed Hence, the Communist tri umphs with sputnik? That's the way it looks to the Demo crats who contend the Nation is paying today, in terms of a lag in defense science, for Nixon's actions during the na tional debate relating to Com munists and internal secu rity. If such charges against Nixon can be made to stick, his availability for the Re publican presidential nomina tion will decrease and, per haps, disappear. That seems to be what the Democrats have in mind. Nixon unquestionably is front-runner as of today in the race for the 1960 nomi nation. The disadvantage of that position is that it invites, even demands, attack not only by the Democrats but by any Republican who may, also, covet his party's presi dential nod. Can't Use Advantage The next 18 months prom ise to be rough ones for the vice president. The nominat ing conventions will take place after that period. Mean time, the going will be espe East Main St. DAIRY - Husband-tested pies . . . That's why there's a slice missing. Election cially rough for Nixon be cause he probably cannot cash in on the greatest ad vantage which normally can be claimed by a Republican politician who has good early lead toward his party's presi dential nomination. That advantage is the wind fall support of-the Republi can organizations in the Southern states. These largely are ghost organizations of lit tle substance but they send substantial and often control ling delegations to nominat ing conventions. More than anything else, the Southern Republicans want to line up with the probable winner. Nixon will not get much or any of that windfall support at the 1960 Republican Na tional convention. His bold stand for Negro civil rights and his association with NAACP forbid it. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a Sen name or initial for publica on is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Pastor's Message Praised To the Editor: I just wanted to remind the Talent reader who berated the Mail Tribune for not printing a Christmas editorial, and for not "com memorating the birth of our Saviour in a dignified and ap propriate fashion," that he should turn to the women's section of the Mail Tribune for Sunday, Dec. 22, and note where the editor permitted publication of the true pur pose of Christmas. Such an evaluation of the physical and spiritual, which was written by the Rev. Ken neth Korby, pastor of St. Pet er's Evangelical Lutheran church of Medford, is so sel dom seen in any except Chris tian publications that I would like to see it in print again for the benefit of all: "The most surprising thing about Christmas is that it is true. What's true? The making of much money? The fury of going about here and there? The fatigue and seeking for relief from too much activity? The covering over of a selfish life by a few acts of charity? No; these are some of the debris by which Christ gets buried in the Christmas cele bration. These things are tem porary and full of deception. But He who is born for us is true. His birth is no illusion. He is every good promise of God s love, fulfilled and come true. For centuries God had promised deliverance to man kind. He uttered his mighty and gracious Word through the mouths of men. But in Christmas the Eternal Word becomes man; He takes on flesh. In the person of His own dear Son, God keeps his prom ise. This one in the manger is the true and eternal Son of God; very real and true God with His Father. And just as truly, He is man, our Brother. He is made like us in every respect except He did no sin. 'God has said that He would come back to us. Here in the manger is the bridge SMITH at Genestee In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Anti-jitters news: Vice President Nixon says in Philadelphia the United States iSyMILIT ARIL Y STRONGER TODAY THAN ANY POTENTIAL AGGRES SOR. He brands as "unmitigated nonsense any pessimistic talk to the contrary. TlfR. NTXON is in politics. He holds the second most important office in the world. At any moment such being the vicissitudes of life on this planet he might step up to the MOST important office in the world. He MIGHT be trying to calm our fears so that as a people we won't become panic-stricken and start running off wildly in all directions at once. So let's turn to a distin guished civilian Dr. James Killian, Jr., president of Mas sachusetts Institute of Tech nology, who was chosen re cently to be President Eisen hower's scientific adviser. In his first major speech since he was appointed, he DENIES that the U.S. has lost its over all scientific and technologi cal superiority. He tells a Washington audi ence that Russia is a very se rious competitor in the tech nological field BUT SHE HAS NOT PASSED US YET. LET'S keep our shirts on. T.Pt'e Tint CTof Ours is a GREAT country. Let's not lose faith in it or in ourselves. TR. KILLIAN has proposed L' a program to retain U.S. world leadership in science and technology against sen ous Soviet competition. His program includes. 1. Raising college entrance requirements so that INCOM PETENT students are not ad mitted. 2. Educating the average American to the IMPORT ANCE OF SCIENCE. 3. Emphasizing the value of INTELLECTUAL DISCI PLINE "M"OTE, please, that Dr. Kil lian thinks farther into the situation than just SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY. It's going to take money, of course, but it's going to take MORE than money. T ET'S go back for a moment to his third point em phasizing intellectual disci pline. The Wall Street Journal has been interviewing a lot of educators all over the coun try, and it published its find ings the other day. Among the opinions of teachers, this one stood out rather promi nently: Too many of our young sters in these days tend to shy away from science and math ematics (which require intel lectual discipline) and PICK THE PIPE COURSES. over the gap between God and us. Our Lord Jesus Christ is our Peace, our Reconciler. God is True." I would like to add that the crucified Lord is the "gap be tween God and us" only as the individual knows he is in sin in God's sight and accepts his personal salvation, according to Scripture. A Jacksonville reader. (Name on File) AT AN ECONOMY PRICE V ONLY license, local taxes extra THIS IS THE CAR ... a family car at an economy price made possible only by Ford sales leadership: Custom 300 6-passenger Tudor sedan with Mileage-Maker Six. At no extra cost, two-tone paint, de luxe interior trim. LOWEST PRICE PFMIfEn PDITFt 68 Ford prices are reduced below 57 price IEVUIE1S milfcJ on popular Custom 300 and Fairlane HIGHEST TRADES !Zf,. po"We GAS ECONOMY Nobody Coordination of Replies To By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The foreign offices of the 15 North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization countries spent this week try ing to coordi nate replies to a Soviet Rus sian bid for high level talks on re ducing inter national ten sion. Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bui ganin Charles M. McCann had proposed the talks in separate ' letters to the heads of government of the NATO allies last month. Agreement on replies which would refuse a meeting now but would leave the way open for some kind of nego tiations proved difficult. The United States was con vinced that any talks would be futile unless Russia gave firm evidence that it was pre pared to negotiate in good faith. Some other Allied govern ments wanted a conference on almost any terms in hope that the threat of a catastro phic nuclear war might be dissipated. Proposed drafts of the sep arate Allied replies were sub mitted to NATO headquarters in Paris. But because of the disagreement on the proper response to Bulganin, coordi nation proved difficult. Dispatches indicated that when the replies were sent, probably late next week, they would emphasize that the first step should be for Rus sia to agree to resume dis armament negotiations. It was expected that the Allied course would be: 1. Se cret diplomatic exchanges with Russia to find out whether a basis for negotia tion was possible. 2. A meet ing of foreign ministers to discuss any agreement reach ed for East-West negotiations. 3. Finally, several months from now at least, a "sum mit" meeting if there was real prospect for success. Russia, in what seemed to be a paper gesture made for propaganda purposes, an nounced a cut of 300,000 .men this year in the strength of its armed forces. The Kremlin called the cut a "new, serious contribution to the cause of easing ten sions and creating an atmos phere of confidence in the re lations between states." But the cut if actually carried out would leave Russia still with the most powerful armed forces in the world. Chancellor of the Ex chequer Peter Thorneycroft, No. 2 man in the British cabi net, resigned because the gov ernment refused to make a slash of $140 million in its cradle-to-grave social security spending. Two of Thorney- Ormond Bean Plans To Seek Reelection Portland (IPI Ormond R. Bean, a veteran of 16 years in city hall, said today that he would seek reelection. ooT(o Ford still has the lowest priced low priced three node generous deals up to 10 gas saving on Mileage-Maker Six engine, up to 15 on Interceptor V-8 teamed with Cnuse-O-Matic out-trades a Ford dealer Nobody Can! n Talk Bid Difficult croft's key aides quit with him. It looked, for a time, as if Prime Minister Harold Mac millan might face a crisis in his cabinet. But the three men then said they were not rebels and that they would continue their suppor.t of the govern ment. A rumor that Russia had launched a rocket 300 kilome ters (186 miles) into the air caused a flurry of excitement over the world. Babson Gives View On 'Real Strength1 By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I shall begin the New Year by discussing something far more imp o r t a n t than stocks, bonds, real es tate, or' mort gages. My text will be the slogan which President Eisenh o w e r brought back from Paris Roger W. Babson namely, "Strength with Peace." What is strength? We all know that it consists of some thing far more than and very different from guns, navies, airplanes, or missiles. Yet, these are the things that we read about chiefly in the newspapers and magazines. This is the "strength" which physicists, engineers, and met allurgists are called to Wash ington to discuss. This situation must be changed. Yet, my able friend President Killian of my Alma Mater the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology has been brought to Washington amid much applause to aid in producing such material strength, not the real strength. This whole trend seems cock eyed to me. Neither America nor Russia will win with this kind of strength. I am very serious about this. Strength From What? Real strength comes from courage, faith, hardiness, and rejoicing in sacrifice. Have we got this strength? Are any civil men being called to Washington to ' instill this strength in our people? Our unbalanced' setup is foolish and dangerous. More scien tists will not save us. Our missiles, costing millions of dollars each, may be no more effective than the Great Wall of China or the Maginot Line of France. Instead of training our youth for courage, the train ing of our homes, schools, and even churches is for softness. Our manufacturers and .mer chants advertise "easy living"; our schools provide "plush" accommodations; our automo biles must have power steer ing, automatic braices, ana push-button windows. We are the world's worst example of "training for softness" rather than for strength. (Exceptions are our marines and certain others of our armed services but these fine men make up only about 1 per cent of our population. Fur thermore, o car of the The United Press Moscow bureau chief, asked about it, emphasized that it was nothing more than a rumor and that no basis for it could be found. But the rumor mushroomed. It took two dayi to pin down its source. Mos cow Radio had broadcast, as purely fiction, an account of a trip into space and back by parachute of a Russian missileman. For those who took the rumor seriously, ' it was a good one while it lasted. these men know nothing of udrasnip until they enter the service after their habits have been formed.) Examples of Foolishness In recent issues of a greal magazine I find these signifi cant advertisements: A "baby nipple which will keep the baby from dirtying its bib or dress." My comment is that when I spilled my food, my hands got a good slap; Anoth er advertisement treats of food which is so ground and mixed that the child does not need to chew! Over 350,000 copies of juvenile books were published in 1957, breaking $80,000,000. About one in every three books now pub lished are to amuse children and take them away from TV. We send our children to school in busses and keep them awake with gymnastics. Children are practically born in automobiles; walking is be coming a lost art. As a result, the retail trade of our cities may be ruined by the parking problem. Finally, youth is no longer getting its social life in such outdoor games as were formerly common, but rather in cocktail parties that leave them a "hangover" which is undermining health, charac ter, and industry. Accompany ing this curse, labor leaders state that their motto for 1958 is "Less work, higher wages, and more comforts." Study History All the progress this nation has ever made has been through work, struggle, and sacrifice. Muscles became strong through exercise; learn ing came by use of midnight oil; morals developed through religion and self - control. Growing strong permitted no furlough from struggle and .sacrifice. It was not money or ease which made America. Our great growth came from strength of muscle, mind, and spirit. Softness and luxury ar our greatest enemies today. Why is this not being recog nized in Washington? It is true that our President is setting a good example by attending church on Sundays. It is true that the clergy are publishing optimistic statistics and creeds. But what is being done by government, schools, or churches to make people tougher, hardier, more in dustrious and anxious to sac rifice? The best in each of us thrives on difficulties. These can be overcome only by courage and sacrifice. It may be too bad that this is so, but it is true. Let us not learn it too late! Before you buy any car please call SP 3-4547 for a Ford test ride CRATER LAKE MOTORS Main & Fir Medford -r s
