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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD. "RIBUJiE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 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. 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: 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 $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Jshland. 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 TDaily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 -Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Z AH Terms Cash in Advance Oft I rial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County '"United Press Full Leased Wire "3IEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU - OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: -WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De--troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. TBeattle. Portland. St. Louis, At--lanta. Vancouver. B. C. EWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIrATI0N Z7 J ar-3i;rsfjf.'.TJ7.iua 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. 22. 1948 (Thursday) : Contract for construction of addition to Medford junior high school was let to Klamath Falls firm for $182,- 239. First meeting of the south era division of the Oregon as iociation for Health, Physical Education and Recreation will be held at Medford High school Saturday afternoon, President E. M. Kirtley, of Medford, announces. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1938 (Sunday) Z Problem arises by Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle's ruling that fines imposed in justice of the peace courts may not be collected on the installment plan. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Year ling meadow larks are tuning up to welcome spring, and in the higher and final notes a trace of a cold can be de tected." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1928 (Sunday) p Following a chase of seven miles from Seven Oaks to Central Point, Prank Koter and Frank Howler of Taco ma, Wash., are arrested by deputy sheriffs charged with holdup of Fred's Auto camp on the Pacific highway near Grants Pass. A total of $250 is needed to" complete the children's playground, according to the American Legion committee chairman. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1918 The annual operetta for Phoenix public schools will be given Friday. Prof. F. C. Reimer of the Southern Oregon Experiment station returns from a trip to the Orient where he made a study of oriental pears. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The Trappist order was founded (more than 800 years ago) in what country? 2. Bible: Why was a mark put on the murderer Cain? 3. Are Mennonites consci entious objectors to any form of military training or serv ice? 4. Constitutionally, what elected official shall be Presi dent of the U. S. Senate? 5. In World War II, Bra zilian expeditionary forces fought in which country? 6. Complete the famous command, 'Don't fire until you see - - - - -." 7. A mill is what part of one cent? 8. For what kind of fever is psittacosis the scientific name? 9. Which of these words stationary or stationery means not moving? 10. Is the body of George Washington buried in Arling ton National Cemetery? Answers: 1. France. 2. So that no one would kill him. 3. Yes. 4. The Vice-President of the United Stales. 5. Italy. 6. "the whites of their eyes." 7. One-tenth. 8. Parrot fever, 9. Stationary. 10. No. (Mt. Vernon. Va.) 4 Teen Age We don't know what started it, but a recent trend throughout the nation is for the drawing up of "Codes of Conduct" for teen agers. This is all to the good. For it tends to focus attention on the problems which our young people run into in the difficult process of growing up, and provide a basis for thinking about them rationally. NCE upon a time, when the phrase "teen ager" was still unknown, the thought of a "code of conduct" for young people would have appeared slightly silly. Those were the days when parents and teachers laid down the rules, and woe unto the youngster who didn't follow them. He got clobbered. But today's society is a far, far different thing than it was in the days when parents' authoritari an discipline was unquestioned. Young people have more freedom today; they have (or have the use of) automobiles; they have a wide variety of organized extra curricular activities, both in and away from school. And often perhaps too often parents have only a hazy idea of where their children are, or what they are doing. THUS the old relationships have changed, to the considerable discomfort, in many cases, of both the child and the parent. And in too many cases there has been a vacuum in the place of what once was a fully-understood, if not always easy, relationship. It seems to us that it is this vacuum which the codes of conduct are designed to fill. It is in the nature of adolescents to press for every avantage in the way of bedtime, car and telephone privileges, dating,, and in other phases of their conduct. And in case after case, the parents, distant as they are from their youngster's activities, have not known exactly what is reasonable and prop er. "All the other kids are doing it" can be a diffi cult argument to answer sometimes. One does not, after all, want to be thought an old fuddy-duddy by one's offspring. CO A code of conduct, mutually discussed and understood by both parents and their chil dren, serves as a point where both generations can find a standard. The "code" will not serve as an iron-clad list of rules and regulations, even if it is formally "adopted" by any group of parents and young people. But it is a tool whereby parents can gain an understanding of some of the things which have troubled youngsters in recent years, and whereby young people can, perhaps, begin to get a glimmering of the problems which their parents face in trying to provide them with a good and wholesome start in life. If such a code will do as a minimum, it will be serving a useful purpose. ' THE codes we have seen (and they have been Pacific coast and elsewhere) talk about such things as parties, telephone use, dating, family chores and responsibilities, bedtime for differ ent age groups, use of the family car, going steady and its implications, allowances and how earned, and so on. These are problems which crop up in every home where there is a teen ager. In some homes the problems amount to nothing at all ; in others they can be a severe stumbling block to family unity, understanding and happiness. If such codes of conduct can offer a basis for mutual understanding of mutual problems, they will be worth a great deal. THEY will not serve this purpose, however, un L less they are discussed and understood and within certain limits agreed upon by both parents and youngsters. It is for this reason that we are glad to note that the McLaughlin Junior High school Parent Teacher association the other day took up the study of a proposed code in some detail, with thoughts offered by both students, parents and the faculty. A similar proposed code has been sub mitted to the high school here for study. It was adopted at a "youth conference" sponsored by the governor last November. Perhaps it would be too much to expect for it to be adopted and followed by parents and their children universally. As one Salem student said about it, "The kids to whom the code most applies will pay the least attention to it." But another student said what is probably just as important: "Its value is that it tells par ents that all teen agers aren't juvenile delin quents, and that they are concerned with proper behavior and the problems of society." E.A. New Word for "Accident"? The traffic safety division of the state depart ment of motor vehicles wants a new name for what has been called a "traffic accident." "The word 'accident' provides a neat escape hatch for drivers and pedestrians already eager to shift the blame for their traffic misdeeds to someone or something else," the department says, adding, "Anyone care to offer a new word that really describes what happens when a driver fails to live up to the responsibility driving gives him?" Suggestions will be f orwarded to the division. E.A. Wednesday, January 22. 1 958 "Codes this for some families, 1R HKSI ' AWN SAVS n GOHHA Citizens For Ike Group Set Leader, Activity By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The Re publican high command has been informed that the Citi zens- f or-Eisen-hower (CFE) Drganiz a t i o n will have a new chairman for the 1958 con gressional campaign and, maybe, a some what more realistic Lyie c. Wilson role in nation al politics. The new chairman will be Lloyd MacMahon, a 45-year-old New York lawyer and for mer assistant U.S. attorney. He was CFE chairman in New York state for the 1956 presidential campaign MacMahon will succeed John Reed Kilpatrick who also is chairman of the board of Madison Square Garden in New York City. Gen. Lucius D. Clay has been and prob ably will continue to be a big wheel in CFE and Thomas E. Stephens, an unofficial but in fluential White House consult ant, is expected to continue to help shape the organization's policies. Has Raised Money CFE has had a spotty rec ord. It has done a profession ally successful job of money raising $5,000,000 in the last three campaigns despite an amateurish approach to poli tics which was the despair of realistic Republican politicos. The CFE set-up was ideal for obtaining funds from individ uals who for one reason or another preferred not to con tribute directly to Republican Party campaign organizations. The political pros were sad dened by the use to which CFE put its campaign funds, comparatively little of which went to candidates in the form in which it w a s most welcome and. needed. That form," of course, would be in cash or by check of substan tial proportions. CFE appar ently did not realize the haz ards of thumbing into Repub lican primaries. The maneuver, however, which most offended many Republican organiza tion workers, right down to the grass roots, was the 1956 ef fort to prevent the renomina tion of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. General Clay generally was accounted the head man in that operation, his stop-Nixon enthusiasm evidently having been fired by a poll which mistakenly came up with the opinion that Nixon would be a liability to President Eisenhower in the 1956 campaign. This same poll produced the names of Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ABUSY BEAVER bank clerk, keenly aware of old Mrs. Gottplenty's million-dollar balance, began giving her the red-carpet treatment He even took her six nasty-tempered, untrained dogs out for their constitutional every morn ing and evening. As he had hoped, Mrs. Gottplenty re membered the bank clerk in her will She left him the dogs. A persuasive insurance brok er thought a neighbors mas sive ferocious looking dog wa a good reason for the neighbor to take out a fat policy. His powers of persuasion carried the day and not a moment too soon for the neighbor, snvhnw. The policy had bare ly been signed when the dog made a leap for the insurance broker and bit him. " ' - I .- Jerry Lewis explains the curse of liquor thusly: just one glass of whiskey makes you feel like a new man but then the new man wants & drink, too! O 1858. by Bemutt Cert, putnfruud by jjanjjMjyttjjtttej. Stf0flA6AM J for New some alternates, among them Harold E. Stassen. That may account for the confidence with which Stas sen in 1956 assumed public leadership of the stop-Nixon movement, a role he surren dered at the 1956 San Fran cisco convention just in time to speak in favor of Nixon's renomination. Needs Funds Many of the so-called prac tical Republicans, the veteran party men, acquired a dim view of the Citizens-for-Eisen- hower operation except for its money-raising potential. It probably is fair to say that they merely tolerate CFE to day and hope for the best. A realistic view of the situation is that the Republican pros want and need only one thing from CFE-campaign funds. They are accustomed to working with CFE personnel Peter H. Clayton, a lawyer and CFE veteran, gained the confidence of the practical politicians over the years. That was peculiarly because he in 1956 was the first and for a long period the only cuHi omcial to endorse Nix on's renomination. The organization has some rt " " y i . - $suu,yuu DanKea rignt now with more to come. The party politicos hope MacMahon knows what to do with it. High Hells Canyon Dam Said Feasible Portland (IP) The Ore gon Water Resources Board was told Monday that a high Hells Canyon dam would be economical even with flood ing out Brownlee dam now under construction by Idaho Power Company. James T. Marr, president of the National Hells Canyon As sociation, told the Board that the federal government could buy out Brownlee dam for $76 million when it is com pie ted, operate it for 10 years while Hells Canyon dam was being built and show-a $10 million profit. Marr said that when Hells Canyon dam was completed a channel could be cut through Brownlee dam and its gener ators and 'transformers salv aged before the deluge. DIGNIFIED DELIVERY Tokyo OP) Dignified de livery of telegrams contain ing either congratulations or condolences is promised oy the Postal Service Ministry starting July 1. Messengers carrying such telegrams, offi cials announced, will switch from ordinary uniforms to formal cutaways. Stop Me Turning Point in Middle East rganization Seen Next Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Middle Eastern Treaty Organization the so-called Baghdad Pact may reach a turning point next week. Delegates of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the Unit ed States will attend a four d a y meeting of "METO" starting Mon day. Mccanr The first five countries are full members of the alliance, which was formed in 1955 to oppose Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE PROPAGANDA CONTEST We are engaged, so we are telling ourselves, in a pro paganda contest with the Rus sians:. We K&matL!& must prove to liiaiin.iuu mat we rather than they are the true cham pions of peace A 1 1 h o ugh the progress ji. x kVsJA W oi inis coniesx Walter Lippmann cannot be scored exact ly, we know on no less an au thority than Mr. Dulles him self that at this stage in the game the Russians are lead ing. The best evidence of this is that there is mounting popu larity pressure in the Western world in favor of accepting their proposal to hold another meeting at the summit. The idea of a meeting at the summit has become the rallying point of the opposi tion parties in Western Eu rope, and there are important signs that the idea is making deep inroads among the parties which support the gov ernments. In Germany, the furious success of Mr. Ken- nan's lectures has been a clear sign of the strength of the op position to Dr. Adenauer's government. On the question of a parley at the summit, Mr. Macmillan is on the political defensive at home, and even here the President and Mr Dulles have felt that they must in some measure bend with the pressure. V YET there are the strongest no good and mucn narm would be done if under pres ent conditions there were s meeting at the summit. Mr. Dulles has surely been right in wishing to avoid such a meeting and no one has argu ed his case more cogently than Mr. Kennan himself. The question we must ask ourselves is why this wrong- headed idea is winning such popular support in the West ern world. It has been said that the democracies are easily de luded, and will grasp at any straw which seems to offer relief from the threat of war and the heavy burdens of the race of armaments. That may well be true. But it begs the underlying question which is why the democracies are grasping at this straw. The answer to that question is, I believe, that the leaders of the democracies are not giving them anything else to grasp. Mr. Dulles, Dr. Aden auer, and Mr. Macmillan have given the impression not only that they do not want to nego tiate at the summit but that they do not want to negotiate at all. They have created this impression because on the crucial issues of the cold war in Germany, in the Middle East and in Eastern Asia they have been standing in flexibly for terms which they and all the world know are not negotiable. THE effective answer to the Russian 4 proposal, which is undoubtedly propagandist, would be a concrete effort to negotiate some specific issue through normal diplomatic channels. It might be the limi tation of arms shipments to the Middle East. It might be the thinning out of the garri sons in Central Europe. It might be the Polish plan for central zone without nu clear weapons. It must be something def inite and substantial. As long as the Western governments' East Main St. DAIRY - We Have Maple Nut Ice Cream Again Communist aggression, pene tration and subversion in the Middle East. The United States, which sponsored the alliance, never has joined it. But it has joined METO's economic, anti-subversion and finally its mili tary committee. Thus the United States has edged gradually toward full membership. It has held off taking the final step largely because it does not want to antagonize Egypt and Syria, which bitterly oppose it. First Dulles' Attendance However, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will at tend next week's meeting the first he ever has attended. say no to a parley at the sum mit, say no to concrete and limited proposals, they are surrendering the diplomatic and the propagandist initia tive to the Soviet Union. And they cannot hope to gain the initiative by elaborate pro posals about disarmament, which nobody understands, or by suggesting that in the vast reaches of outer space we might in the end do by a metaphysical n e g o t i ations what we cannot do by diplo macy on earth. T HAVE been talking about the propaganda contest in which we are engaged, and I do not mean to suggest that there is any near prospect that the Russians will negotiate a limited settlement. There is on the contrary, good reason to think that both sides prefer the existing division of Ger many and of Europe to any settlement that has thus far been proposed. The Western governments are afraid that a reunited Ger many, with the British and American and Russian troops withdrawn, would hold the balance of power and use it to make Germany dominant in Europe. The Soviet govern ment is afraid that if ever it withdrew from Eastern Ger many, the whole satellite em pire would blow up and be replaced not by neutralist gov ernments but by implacably anti-Russian governments. These reciprocal fears make for the maintenance of the status quo. They are the stand ing obstacles to any general settlement, be it at the sum mit or through normal diplo macy. ' . THE chances are that this deadlock will not be re solved by the initiative of 'the great powers, but rather oy political developments in both halves of Europe. In tne east ern half there is always some prospect of a revolt of the Hungarian type. In the. West ern half there is the likelihood that within a few years, with in the term of this Administra tion, there will be new gov ernments in Western Europe, and that in these governments the existing opposition parties will play a leading part. If and when that happens, it will be very important that we should not have alienated them and thus find ourselves on the outside looking in. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Simple Life Due On Satellite Trip Washington (IP) The United States will put a sim ple form of life in one of its baby moons to be launched between now and March, it was learned today. Dr. Hiden T. Cox, executive director of the American In stitute of Biological Sciences, told the United Press Navy scientists are now altering satellite designs to accommo date a culture of yeast cells. Cox, said this simple form of life will yield "infinetely more significant data than putting a mammal, such as a dog," in space at the present time. He conceded that Russia got a lot of propaganda mileage out of putting a dog in Sput nik II. He said there are in dications that Russia will put simple life in future satellites. The Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration says automatic computer control of most air plane flights is expected by 1961. L SMITH at Genessee This is sufficient indication of the importance attached to the meeting. Among the items on the program are means of com bating Soviet Russia's in creasing penetration in the Arab countries and Commu nist - inspired subversion in Jordan and Iraq. As part of this objective, it is certain that the United States wjll be asked to in crease the amount of its eco nomic aid to METO countries, and especially to Turkey and Iran. Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey is expected also to urge that METO be tied in more closely with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose aim is to combat Com munist aggression in Europe. Turkey and Britain are both members of NATO as well as METO. Russia's successful penetra tion of Egypt and Syria and its attempt to penetrate other Arab countries also will be an important topic for discus sion. Russian propaganda throughout the Middle East is both extensive and successful. Dulles is to arrive in Iran Friday on his way to the METO meeting. He will con fer all day Saturday with Shah Mohammed Reza Pah levi, Premier Mancuchehr Eghbal and Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardelan. Iran To Appeal Dispatches from Tehran say that the Iranians will make an urgent appeal to Dulles for more economic and military aid. Turkey is certain to ask for more aid too. Turks are inclined to resent the United States giving much more aid to "neutralist" India, for in stance, than it is to Turkey, which is a defense bastion on Russia's direct path to the Arab countries. The overalL objective of the conference, however, will be to strengthen the METO alli ance. Important as it obvi ously is, METO has proved to be largely a paper pact. One reason is that the United States has not joined it. 'Tur key is expected to urge that the United States join now. But Washington dispatches say Dulles believes that the time for that has not yet come. One thing seems pretty cer tain. Either the METO alli ance will be strengthened by next week'gmeeting or it will be weakened. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion 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. A Dim View of Youth To the Editor: Our local TV station urges us to write friends and relatives to visit and locate in our valley. We do have some things here of which we may be proud all God given. The climate, trees and natural vegetation scenery and water make many beautiful places in our area. However, think on this, more boys from our county are in the state reformatory than from any other county in the state. We recently ded icated a detention home, at a great cost to taxpayers, for teen-age law breakers. Ev ery day we read of these crimes, from tying up a cat and shooting it full of arrows, to destroying and robbing school property, general theft, assault ancf rape. We have a retinue of juvenile officers. But just what is done, to the offenders and to their par ents? Would these things at tract newcomers? How many parents, know ing this, would want to bring up a family in such a com munity even with beautiful scenery? Medford is now engaging in a new school building pro gram costing many thousands. But shouldn't we be a little W''r - ;: t C M. Lirwiller CONFIDENCE For over 22 years we have endeavored to merit your confidence, and your continued approval of our efforts is most gratifying! With all our interests 100 are exceptionally moderate, we confidently assume the next decade of service to and for the Rogue River valley I ITWII I FR ' irtltr - Funeral ppfrf- Home Mountain View Chape! Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close ,4 than to In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In his annual report to the congress on the state of the nation's economy, President Eisenhower paints a reason-' ably hopeful picture of the business future. He says: "As we look ahead in 1958, there are grounds for expect ing that the decline in busi ness activity need not be pro longed and that economic growth can be resumed with out extended interruption. "There are good grounds for confidence not only that economic growth can be RE SUMED WITHOUT A PRO LONGED DELAY but also that a vigorous EXPANSION of our economy can be sus-: tained OVER THE YEARS." BUT ro lie auus STABLE PRICES ARE ES SENTIAL TO A SOUND,: PROSPEROUS, EXPANDING ECONOMY. If our economic future is to be kept bright and hopeful, two things must be done: 1. Business leaders must hold price increases to amounts warranted bv in creased production costs. 2. Labor must limit its de mands for higher wages to gains in productivity per man power. Otherwise, the wage-price spiral will WRECK us. WHY? " Let's take a look at one straw in the business winds with which more or less everyone is familiar the fact that foreign-built cars are not only outselling us in the markets of the world but are biting increasingly into the DOMESTIC market for American-built automobiles. Foreigners the Germans, the British, the French and the Italians, notably have learned how to make small cars that people LIKE and tney can Duiia tnese cars CHEAPER THAN WE CAN BUILD THEM. That, basical ly, is why they are able to outsell us in the small-car market. mTTTC ic 4Vio tfrim mnral If we permit the wage price spiral to GO ON forc ing our costs higher and ever UirvViAl fVlA 4lWIA TXrill StniYlA when we will not only -lose-our EXPORT markets to for eign competitors who can pro duce cheaper than we can but we will find these foreign competitors biting deeper and deeper into our own domestic markets. If that is permitted to hap pen, we will face a depression that will curl everybody's hair. IN HIS message on the eco nomic state of the nation, our President, makes two statements that most of us, will find reassuring and IN SPIRING: 1. "I'm sure the Russian challenge can be met without distorting our economy or de stroying the freedoms that we cherish." 2. "Whatever our national security requires, our econ omy can provide and we can afford to pay." In all the doubt and un certainty that have been fill ing the air since the Russians shot Sputnik into outer space, those statements stand out like the comforting and reas suring beam of a sturdy light house on a storm-swept ocean shore. concerned with what will be taught? Many parents are al ready wondering about the "benefits" of progressive and semi- progressive education. . Doesn't the fact that we have so much delinquency here prove that there are definite flaws both in home and school training? When we have fewer boys and girls in state institutions and no need for a detention home, then we can truly be proud of our valley. Louise B. Pollard, South Stage Rd., Medford. Mrs. Lirwiller local, and with charges that j. ' -: j , '-1 "It is better to know us and not need us. need us and not know us.