Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1958)
FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ; MedfordTribune Tveryone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU 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: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 118.00 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 of Jackson County TTnited PFess Full Leased Wire JIEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: AVEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC., Of 3icei in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. -Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At Janta, Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASgQC5T8' r' mjjuyug.'.u.'.i Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10 20. 30 and 40 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1948 (Monday) Reports by state fire mar shal and the Oregon insur ance rating bureau consid ered by city council; the re ports are on the alleged wa ter failure Dec. 11 when Dr. Edwin R. Durno's residence burned down. " Arthur Perry, reporter and columnist for the Medford Mall Tribune for many years, died Saturday in a local hos pital. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1938 (Wednesday) : For the first time in sever al years a man was arrested here yesterday for selling liq uor to Indians. : City police warn pedes trians and motorists they must obey new traffic signal at Main st. and Central ave. iO YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1928 (Thursday) ; Plans completed for the opening of a dollar store by David and Harry Rosenberg, owners of the Bear Creek or chards. ; The state decides on appli cations for power permits on the Rogue river, according to a letter received by George Fox, Grants Pass mayor, from the federal power commis sion. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1918 (Saturday) I Jackson county has been named as one of the banner communities of the United States were draft auotas were filled up by voluntary enlist ments. A series of five minute talks given at the teachers in stitute in Gold Hill. : What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or fix is good. . 1. "Was Ferenc Nagy a for mer prime minister of Hun gary, Poland or -Latvia? 2. Bible: Was Jair a judge in the kingdom of Judah or Israel? , S. A scuppernong is a spe cies of fish, grape or a swing? 4. Complete the proverb "Eat, drink and be merry, tor . . ." 5. Was Frank D. Roosevelt the tallest of all the U.S. pres idents? 6. What is the correct pro nunciation of the word corps 7. What relation are the sons of first cousins to each other? 8. Name the composer of "My Old Kentucky Home." 9. Moles do, or do not, have eyes? : 10. Did ancient Egyptians embalm, cremate, or bisect fheir dead? - Answers: 1. Hungary. 2. No. (In the commonwealth of Israel). 3. Species of grape, 4. "Tomorrow we die." 5. No, (Abraham Lincoln was the tallest). 6. Kor. 7. Second cou sins. 8. Stephen C. Foster. 9. They -do. 10. Embalm, - MAIL TRIBUNE "The M. T. A couple of weeks ago we boasted about the power of the "M.T." over the fog. For proof, we called attention to the fact that a few minutes after the paper, damning the fog, came off the press on a Sunday morning the fog lifted and the sun shone in a clear blue sky. Of course it was all "good, clean fun" it was CLEAN at any rate. "IlELL, as this is written the fog is here again " and a bad one but instead of again risk ing our reputation for our omnipotence as a fog dispenser, in something the same spirit we are going to boast about our influence in the railroad field. Over two years ago in this column, we urged a congressional investigation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. That august body had again answered the plea of the US railroad combine to increase rates, by as usual increasing them. Not the full increase requested, of course they seldom do that but presumably for the sake of appearances they dropped off a .few cents per mile. Then, and again about a year later, we sug gested the time had come to determine whether the "I.C.C." represented the interests of the people or the interests of the railroads particu larly the big and powerful ones. But as usual, in this paper's effort to secure railroad service to which the American public is entitled, nothing came of it. Not then at least. But what have we today? QUR own Governor not the SP "Bob" Holmes, has taken the bit in his teeth and reared on his hind legs to demand precisely what this paper demanded some 24 months ago. That could hardly be called a PROMPT reaction but as our record in this field goes, it surely indicates once more, that the power of the press is some thing to conjure with as represented by the per sistent, if not always successful, "M.T." 4 DUT seriously, brethern, this is an issue ex- tremely important to the state. Whether the "I.C.C." is SOLELY to blame or not, the plain fact remains, that the eastern freight rates (which the Commission controls), today more than ever before, discriminate against the shippers of the coast, and particularly the lumber shippers of Oregon, and work a severe and unjust hardship upon them. As lumber is today, our major revenue-producer, this means dealing a hard blow to business man, in the or west. IT IS to be hoped the Oregon delegation in "Xfo oT-iiv nrfrv folrQC rirnrrinf sfinn on rl n c enrm as possible such a probe The sooner the question is decided whether the Interstate Commerce the interests of people or the interests of the rail roads, the better for Oregon and the better for the country at large. R.W.R. If Germany Can Do It Why Can 't the U.S.A.? Speaking of railroads One of the marvels of the post-war period has been the phenomenal business recovery of Western Germany. In no other section of the World War II area has the return of industrial growth and pros perity been more sensational. And in this recovery, strange -as it may seem, railroad transportation, freight AND passenger, has been a stand-out. IN GERMANY, as in this country, railroad freight business, of course, has been the big money-maker. In recent years annual gross freight revenues have totalled a billion dollars; in passenger traffic approximately' $500,000,000 about half as much. But unlike some of the American railroads (especially the Southern Pacific and its imitators) instead of discouraging passenger traffic, by dis continuing some lines, reducing service on others, and impairing the quality of passenger service on the system generally, have not only constantly improved passenger service, but today are crease m 1958. TI7E ARE indebted to ' city, for sending us American Trade News," (Suite 6900 Lmpire State Building, New York), which contains the above, and much more railroad and general land transportation infor mation. Here is a country (or rather HALF of one) only slightly larger in New York, now operating a railroad system that is the pride of all Europe. Only a few years ago it was a mass of war-tom rubble and ruins (not an important railroad bridge standing). Today on Sunday, January 19, 19S8 Wins Again! 99 every business, and every state, north, south, east is held. Commission represents the German railroads gearing it for a 25 in A. A. Lausmann of this a copy of the "German- interesting and pertinent, area than the state of WZZ NOT ?OSD TO READ Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann NOT GOOD ENOUGH The President's progfam, as set forth in his message and in his budget, is not likely it would appear, to win for him the kind of popular support which he. will need in this Con gress. For while his de livery of the Walter Lippmann m e S sage did much to quiet the apprehension about his health, the substance of his proposals will almost certain ly produce a sense of disap pointment and frustration. The country was expecting and was ready for a large ex panding national effort. What the President has proposed is a narrow concentration on specialized strategic weapons accompanied by a contraction in almost every other field of national activity. The pro gram says, in effect, that if only we can catch up with the Russians in missiles, all will be well and we can re treat almost everywhere else along the line. If experience is any guide, the President will find that the country cannot be rallied successfully to a program of this character. It expected a program of national revival. It is offered a program for contraction. The country will prove once more that a de mocracy can be rallied more successfully by a big and bold program like, for example, the Marshall Plan than by a small and timid program like, for example, one which regards the United States as being too poor to build school houses or to develop new wa ter resources in the arid lands of the West. A SMALL and timid pro gram nrovokes all the various interests that are hurt by it without interesting and rallying the great mass who will respond to a national call. There is every prospect, therefore, that in this Con gress leadership will come not from the White House but from the senior Democrats, organized around Rayburn and Johnson. For the Repub licans who must run this fall t t : its "42,000 miles of rails it carries an average of 3,600,000 passengers DAILY." A ND how has war-ruined Germany been able to do this? We quote "By keeping up with current and ahead of future transportation requirements." THAT may sound simple but it is precisely what the Southern Pacific and the "fat-cat" rail roads who follow its defeatist policy, have never tried to do. They have tried and are still try ing to price the passenger traffic out of business. Germany has done this by inaugurating great er speeds, more luxurious accomodations, im proved modern service, even using freight trucks, both on rails and off, as an aid in increasing patronage, not as a ruthless competitor and de terrent of it. IT IS true that most of the railroads in Ger " many are government-owned, but not all of them are. And those that are not, are reported to be just as far ahead of the S.P. type of railroading, as the German "main-liners". CO WE can think of certain "top-brass" rail- road executives in this part of the country (and elsewhere) who might, with great profit to themselves AND their companies, take a few weeks off for a bit of careful researching on how Germany staged such a transportation in both traffic, and according to prise, courage and skills WHEN YA HAVE OOrVIRW !' the program is an invitation to disaster, and the President will have very little, if any, ardent Republican support. For the Democrats, the pro gram is a political bonanza, enabling them to seize the initiative not only in the wel fare measures, which are their old standbys, but also in the field of national de fense. This need not have hap pened if the President and his advisers had grasped the nature of the challenge, and had risen up to respond to it. Once it was certain, as it was, that there would be no opposition to getting more money for missiles, the cru cial point was what this na tion was going to do about education and research. For that is where we are most deeply challenged, and it is there primarily and funda mentally that we must dem onstrate to ourselves, and to the world, our capacity to respond to the challenge. In this perspective, the edu cational proposals are a pitia bly inadequate response, and the abandonment of the school construction bill an inex cusable retreat from respon sibility. TTOW the program was put together becomes clearer as we see it as a whole. The Sputnik has been treated as a challenge to our missile program which has to be met. The new money for missiles and the like has been covered by the President's accepting, as he never has before, the views of those in his inner councils who want to cut back and, in principle, would like to dismantle, the wel fare measures which have come down from the New Deal. No doubt, there is room for cutting back on some of the subsidies and grants in aid. But the basic conception of the program is, considering the time we live in, a curious one that this nation, chal lenged as never before in its history, is to reduce and con tract its national responsi bility for the internal devel opment and welfare of the nation. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. from this Trade Journal : "come-back" in railroad passenger and freight all reports has the enter to maintain it. K.W .K. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.'The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Gratefully Received! To the Editor: Once again, I couldn't resist writing to tell you how whole-heartedly I agree with one of your edi torials, after I saw a letter from a Central Point reader disagreeing with it. The edi torial I refer to is the "Man From Mars" one, which I read with a great deal of in terest and approval, and felt it was one of the most re markably calm and sensible pieces of writing I had seen ever since the hysteria over Russia's satellites started. In fact, I thought your ed itorial was so excellent that I sent a copy of it to my uncle in New York City who is a patent attorney there, since I happened to be writing that day, and I was really quite proud to be able to show him what a Medford paper had produced! What you said Is so simple that people are afraid to be lieve it could be true, but that is usually the way it is. The true facts often do elude us by their mere obviousness. I firmly believe with you that the Russians want peace just as much as we do, leaving religion out of it entirely as you did, it is so obviously to everyone's self interest to have peace that I can't be lieve the Russians could be that blind to their own self interest. But when you have ap proached it from purely the viewpoint of self interest, you find that you have ended up with what I sincerely believe is also the Christian view point. That is what is so up setting about letters like the one from the Central Point reader. When people try to justify killing and modern warfare on the grounds of what Christ would want us to do, it must add greatly to the heartbreak God already has to bear. . I also wanted to congrau late you on printing the state ment of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. They surely do seem to have the right idea and the more pub licity those kind of ideas can get, the better. Mrs. Harold Ottosen, Route 1, Box 101M, Eagle Point, Ore. Condemn Injustice To the Editor: In Novem ber the Ashland Council of Church Women appointed a Committee on Social Rela tions whose purpose is to establish better understand ing of human rights and to take action which will pro mote good will in inter-racial relationships in our commu nity. - We are among those who deplore the offense and in justice that people of color have suffered in our town. We heartily endorse the laws of the State of Oregon which make mandatory fair employ ment practices, equal acces sibility of Vocational School ing, and equal accommodation of al' people in place of pub Matter of Fact By . aip CONFLICT OF LOYALTIES Washington The appoint ment of still another commit tee to consider yet again the reorganization of the Defense 'yj Department is, ot course, a way of sweep ing the whole 4 problem tem- the rug. It cer tainly is not the "decisive A. 1 J Z Stewart Alsoo central direc tion" in order to "end inter service disputes" which the President promised in his state of the union message. Even so, it may prove im possible to keep the problem under the rug. Sen. Stuart Symington, for example, is determined to make defense reorganization a major issue in this session. Events them selves, including the mount ing evidence that the present system just is not working, may aid him. The issue is one, moreover, which involves not only billions of dollars, but possible victory or defeat in war. Yet it is not the sort of issue most people understand, or care very much about. It thus seems worth trying to examine the issue in simple, human terms for it is essen tially a human issue. Con sider, then, the unhappy posi tion in which the Chief of Staff of one of the services finds himself. In the nature of things, a Chief of Staff is subject to an insoluble con flict of loyalties. AS A member- of the joint chiefs of staff, he attends the weekly JCS meeting as one of the three voting mem bers. The Joint Chiefs are collectively assigned to "ad vise the President" on the lic entertainment, lodging, and eating. We address this letter to our city government as well as to all citizens' in the be lief that there are people of good will in Ashland who condemn illegal and unjust acts against anyone because of color, and urge that they help promote racial justice. Dorothy Plocher, Secretary, Committee on Social Relations, Ashland Council of Church Women, 167 Harrison st., Ashland, Ore. Capitalism On Way Out? To the Editor: Life is an ever existent form and that form is a circle without be ginning or end, and confined within that circle are all the natural elements which, through their relativity and collectivity, have created this ever expanding Universe we live in. A circle is the form of all forms of life as shown bv the circle, zero and the cell wnicn are materialistic con ceptions constituting the whole of life whose activation is inherent in its curative na ture, its cycles of adjustment and change, its zero which is the basis of mathematics and the cell a constituent in the chemistry of nature. To Drove that life is nurelv Mechanical, Mathematical and Materialistic is best illustrated by the four dimensions of the circle form, namelv Leneth. Width, Breadth and Time with its numerical formula outlin ing mathematics as a factor in measurement, an instrument of balance and a directive in the process of growth and ad vancement. The most anDar ent motive in the works of nature is its industrial con tent, its nutritional require ments and its economic deter minism now involved in this troubled world. The necessity for a Deaceful solution is in the realization that like the Tribal and Feu dal economic systems, the Capitalist system, having fin ished its cycle, is now on its way out, and all expenditures are required for economic universal survival. Nature is a process of elimination and absorbtion of all political sub divisions that stand in the way of its collectivised whole, and every move to the con trary only leads to defeat. This is a causative factor with collectivised effect and ident ity of interests, a common ground necessitating peaceful pursuits made possible by the collectivised mandates of the future. Capitalism, having accepted collectivised mass machine production as the most effic ient method, leaves inviolate its natural industrial produc tive foundation and leaves to posterity the problem of bal ance obtainable only by uni versal collectivised consump tion. Tom Caldwell, . 408 Laurel st., Medford, Ore. whole range of American stra tegic planning. The JCS is thus an immensely powerful body, charged with a nation al responsibility wholly tran scending service interests. But except for the few hours he spends weekly at the JCS meetings, a Chief of Staff spends the rest of his time as operational com mander and top dog of one of the services. As such, his natural instinct, and the in stinct of all his subordinates, is to do everything possible to get a bigger share of every thing more men, more mon ey, more missions for his own service. His subordinates "In dians," they call them in the Pentagon devote their earn est efforts to preparing the Chief to do battle to this end in the JCS meetings, buttress ing his own arguments for more of everything, getting him ready to beat down the arguments of the other serv ices. Both as a professional soldier revoted to his service, and as a human being aware that his name in his own serv ice would otherwise be mud, a Chief of Staff inevitably en ters most JCS meetings in the mood of a knight entering the lists against two formidable opponents. - THUS the JCS has never really functioned as the national strategic planning board it was supposed to be. It has functioned instead depending on the amount of money available as a sort of polite bear pit, or as a nat ural backscratching society. The problem is infinitely complicated hy the new weap ons, which simply cannot be made to fit into the old air, ground, and sea categories. Nowadays, the Chiefs enter the lists prepared to do battle, not only for more men, mon (By M-T Staff and Contributors) "Why." we overheard a man remark plaintively the other day, "why is it that the fog's so white, but rubs off the car so black?" The other day when tele phoning, a friend who also works in an office witn a switchboard, we were told by his switchboard operator that he was talking on another line, and would we wait? We would, and we did. Anrjarentlv it was a rather long telephone call our friend was making for we waited auite a while, and as we did so we go to wondering if he had placed a call to us about the time we called him, was told we were busy on the rjhone. and would he wait? The horrid picture arose of two men each waiting for the other to get through with a conversation. That wasn't what happen ed, fortunately, but we'll bet it HAS happened. Some philosopher or an other once remarked that the way to get rid of a problem is to take it to the woodpile with you and split some kindling. A friend of ours tried it the other day, he says, and it worked. He not only lost his problem, but almost a finger at the same time. Girls in the Pep club at Medford High school really get wrapped ui in their work when leading cheers during basketball games, one of our photographers reports. " Recently he attended a game to get some action shots, and, with this assign ment completed, decided to try to get some shots of the girl cheer leaders at work. He squeezed in to the girls rooting section and sat down, camera at the ready, and snapped a few pictures of the girls in front. Thej didn't even see him, he said. A gift of towels It al ways a safe and handy ey and missiles, but for such things as anti-missile missiles, reconnaissance satellites, and manned space platforms. Under the present insane system, moreover, there sim ply is no way to achieve real, national - minded strategic planning. The chairman of the Chiefs has no vote, and is thus hardly - more than a referee of the endless service hassles. The service secre taries inevitably tend to be come more royalist than the king. The Secretary of De fense has severely limited powers, and he cannot know where all the bodies are buried. Congress cannot pos sibly perform the function of strategic planning. And the President has other things on his mind. The results of the system are plain for all to see. The JCS has failed to do its stra tegic planning job in any ra tional way incredibly, there does not even exist today a firmly agreed national war plan. Those best able to judge are convinced that, if a major war broke out tomorrow, the result would be chaos, with each service fighting its own private war. MOREOVER, the country simply is not receiving a fair return on its invest ment in either military man power or money, and it can not possibly receive a fair return under the present sys tem. Almost everybody who has examined the problem ob jectively from former Armyi Chief of Staff D. D. Eisen hower on has agreed that something must be done, and all sorts of solutions have been offered. But the basic elements of a solution are obvious. The Joint Chiefs must be abso lutely divorced from their services, and there can be no question of any Chief re turning to his service. The chairman of the Chiefs must be given real power, subject to the review of the President and the Secretary of Defense, and the Defense Secretary's power must also be increased and clearly defined. In short, the power of deci sion belongs, not in a polite bear pit or mutual back scratching society, but in a chain command totally di vorced from selfish service interests, and exclusively de voted instead to national de fense interests. This would seem so obvious as to be hard ly worth arguing about. Yet the vested interests in the present system are enormous ly powerful, which is of course why the whole prob lem has once again been shov ed under the rug. Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. thing to give newlywedt. Maybe even too handy, ac cording to a recent bride groom we know, who tells ui ha and his bride re ceived about a half -dozen towel set for wedding gifts and a couple more at Christmas. About a weic ago they received another belied gift. Yep, towels. Medford has several traffic lights which are mostly auto matic, but which also are equipped with buttons so that pedestrians wishing to cross the street can push them, ob tain a red light, and walk safely. At one such the other day at the 5 p.m. rush hour we observed a small boy. He sauntered down the street, stood watching traffic for a while, waited until there were a number of oncoming cars, pushed the button, watched as they all came to a halt, grinned, and continued his stroll down the street. In one county office there is a collection of shoes, other items of clothing, some cooking, utensils, and a sharp-pronged pitchfork, all leftovers from the "lost and found"' booth at last fall's county fair. Most of them just lie there, but we're told that workers in the office have threatened to use the pitchfork for ..ejecting unwanted visitors. A man we know, manager of an irrigation district, takes periodic trips to the moun tain lakes to check on the snow and its water content. Occasionally, when the trip is rough, he'll spend the night at a cabin maintained by the disrtict, coming home the next day. Not long ago he took his son and a couple of his son's friends along for the trip, and when the work was done the boys wanted to do some ski ing, and were allowed an hour. When they were through they were sopping wet, so our man decided it would be be best to stay overnight. They had a fine evening, a good fire, plenty to eat, and bedded down, warm and comfortable, like sensible males. But they reckoned without the wife and mother of the family, who, back in civiliza tion, got to worrying about the boys, and called another official of the district to go up and see if everything was all right. So, at about midnight, the slumbering boys and man were routed out of bed and brought back to town, arriv ing about 3:30 a.m. We are informed the moth er slept soundly the rest of the night. One of life's minor Irrita tions in the newsroom comet at the time the paper comes off the press, and everyone is scanning it to read the news in other departments, and make sure there are no really bad boners. Almost inevitably, at this point, some one wanders in and comments, "What a life! I wish all I had to do all day was sit around and read newspapers." The Oregonian recently concluded thatowboys don't roll their own cigarettes any more, that they buy "tailor mades" instead. Up in Moro, the editor of the Sherman County Journal remarks that, if this is so, it's odd that one can still buy Bull Durham at practically any cigarette counter. "And," he adds, "it isn't used to sea son fried potatoes." After commenting on how handy the little sack of "BuU" is, he adds: "If there be readers con cerned with the economics of the matter, it may be said that a five cent sack of Bull Durham will make about 30 cigarettes, equal in size and potency to 40 cents worth of ready-mades. Maybe this is an old-fashioned consideration." However that may be, one of the most dedicated Bull Durham smokers we know hardly classifies as a cowboy. He's Don McNeil, manager of the chamber of commerce, who started rolling his own mofi than six months ago and has stuck faithfully to it. He's gotten to be something of an expert at cigarette man ufacture, and he even claims he likes the darn things. A woman dropped into Woolworth's the other day to buy a couple of odds and ends, and wound up pur chasing a cosmetic prepara tion and some thumb-tacks. She went over to the check out clerk and handed her the cosmetic. The clerk said, "That will we 98 cents, plus the tax." "Oh yes." said the woman, "here they are." And handed the clerk the tacks. -J,
