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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE , MD)F0IUe4gSfcTRIBUKE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 5-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business hfgr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor Ani xx. nufrtmo, viiy Conor 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 Br Mail In Advance: Copy 10c, Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, bold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday l mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or Jacltson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine TteDresentative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl ASSOCfAT i7 U 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 Ftb. 25. 1948 (Wednesday) Medford Mayor Clarence A. Meeker, well-known civic and religious leader, dies of heart ailment. George C. Flanagan, Med ford lumberman, appointed to board of trustees at Wil lamette university, Salem. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1938 (Friday) Medford corporation and Timber Products companyJ employees return to work after layoff. From Arthur Perry's Ye Sbudge Pot column: "The February weather has been unusual. Rain fell on the just, the unjust, and Californians." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1928 (Saturday) Seventeen bids opened for new Ashland city water dam; bids range from $124,000 to $181,000. Judge O. M. Corkins, who has conducted circuit court In Medford, leaves for Lake view to take care of business matters. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1918 (Monday) Captain George von der Hellen, receives commenda tion for efficiency and order ed to Ft. Sill, Okla, for train ing with field artillery. From Local and Personal column: "Ernest Webb, who is a British subject, plans to close his ranch near Central Point, dispose of his fancy chickens, and enlist in the British army." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ttn correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; fiva ei six is good. 1. During World War II, what office in the Nazi gov ernment was held by Paul Joseph Goebels? 2 Bible: Which book deals with the slavery of the He brews in Egyt? 3. What was the middle name of the English poet, .Percy Shelley? 4. Which State of the U.S. has the longest Pacific ocean coastline? 5. Who or what is a toper? 6. Is shellac made from powdered seas hells? 7. In what country did Leon Trotsky meet his death by assassination? 8. What is the VFW? 9. Are there fir, spruce or cedar trees m Iceland? 10. Which is the second smallest state in the U.S.? Answers: 1. Propaganda Minister. 2. Exodus. 3. Bysshe. 4. California. 5. A drunkard. 6. No. 7. In Mexico. 8. Vet erans of Foreign Wars. 9. No (there are no trees). 10. Del aware. NAVAL MANEUVERS ON Manila (IP) The greatest concentration of naval might in 14 years moved toward the Philippines today for massive missile age amphibious ma neuvers against the island of Luzon. Some 100 American and Filipino warships, carry ing 80.000 men, moved south ward from Japan and Oki nawa, in "Operation Strong back," fighting off "enemy" submarine and air "attacks" as they advanced. I ecai I i Editorial Correspondence ... Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb. here before going on to Tucson, Arizona. This is the longest trip taken on the "Friendly time close to 800 miles. However, if anyone thinks cactus at the "S.P." they are The only suggestion we from Central Point replace S.P. president. That's all. This is an election year Holmes (now of Medford) take over for President Russell as Generalissimo of the richest, longest, and most unfriendly railroad in the world. . r"FHE former farm boy from tion for boutnern Oregon, parxicuiany me section from Eugene to Dunsmuir, California. So if he were running the S.P.. the "Daylights" wouldn't be running through Klamath Falls and the barren wastes of eastern Oregon at all but through the growing and prosperous as well as beautiful scenic section from the McKenzie river to the source of the Sacramento. o PRESIDENT RUSSELL of toward this part of the state. As a loyal son of Jackson ville he has never forgiven away from his home-town which was then the rip-roaring metropolis of Jackson county He vowed (presumably) would get back at those smarty humdingers and big city- slickers of that upstart tank valley chaparral. He was only an S.P. brakeman at the time. He never thought he would pull an Horatio Alger story and be one day "monarch of all he surveyed." But by hard work, brains and a stiff punch, he got there and when he did, it wasn't long before the boom town "whistle-stop" away from Jacksonville, was not only given the short sharp end of a sticky stick, but was deprived of passenger trains entirely. TOB H. would never have So delegates to the convention we name you that friendly, public-spirited, loyal of our good neighbor Central of the ahem! Southern Pacific. All those in favor say 'Aye. Members of the convention it is unanimous! I will now introduce PRESIDENT Holmes." TT POURED the familiar dogs Dunsmuir, such a deluge wiper had a hard time to clouds at times were only a few The Dunsmuir agent asked for and we reported (TRUTHFULLY) that the day before was perfect and Saturday morning was bright and warm The answer was that had been now look at it, and the sad-eyed station agent took out his briar pipe and swept a disgusted hand in the direction of the flooded window. npHE DAYLIGHT" was on . remarked, it's a grand old ule, there is only one dining-car, loquacious train agent to announce stops over the loud speaker, but although we had we had no complaint. For the the same, nd the club car filled. But for the intervention of the California PUC the Daylight would now have suffered the same fate as the magnificent "Shasta Limited," the train that served the valley in the "good old days," Versenkt." fID you know that the "S.P." it changed its main line between Portland and San Fran cisco from the salubrious and fertile Rogue River Valley to Well, it did. That was "ok" in the steam sense in this age of Diesels. Portland-San Francisco run could be made just as fast as via the Natron cut-off, and the trip would be a scenic booster instead of a flat-tire assuming the enterprise and imagination Don't take our word for it belief and WHO could know and transportation than veteran Pullman porter? VES, "that's the truth." The A brick "round-house" at Dunsmuir prove it. It proves the steam engme is out and the Diesel era is in. Grades and curves don't have the deterrent factor they did have when the Natron "cut-off" was built. (Speaking of the Natron cut off, the undersigned was a guest of the S.P. on the first Pullman trip over that cut-off many years ago and was assured by the then S.P. vice president (in the presence of the late Judge William Colvig of Medford) that the building of the "cut-off" would not change the S.P. passenger service to Medford and the valley in the slightest, either then or in the future. So times change and opinions of even the "Upper Brass" change with them.) VUE CAUGHT the "Owl" at Martinez for the night ride to " L.A. The Owl ain't quite the bird she used to be, but it was a comfortable trip with a very unexpected good night's rest. Something new for breakfast a serve-yourself cafeteria diner arrangement, with one waiter doubling as "cook" and the other as "bus boy." Probably a result of Bob Holmes' "red carpet treatment," the waiter at once spotted the stag gering couple from Medford as fugitives from the "Old People's Home." So he not only helped us to a table but took and served our orders. Again patronage was excellent and the food ditto. Now and then one had to dodge a splash of coffee from a passing customer as the train lurched up the "Ridge Route," but as far as learned no one was scalded and the general spirit of the car, including the conversation, was very amiable, happy and animated. QUR "vis a vis" from Sacramento deplored the fact she was " making the trip by train as she missed her plane. "It's so slow and tiresome," she wailed. How sad. Ok, ok, that is the popular refrain these days. In fact, we feel very much like old Mr. Pickwick who loved to travel in a stagecoach, and could see no greater sport as long as he lived. The steam engine had been in vented but he didn't give a whoop, and could see no future for it. We don't go quite that far. We can see a future for the airplane. But how long will even a jet plane stand up against the man-carrying rocket? When they come in (the experts say they are bound to) it won't be getting from Medford to New York in five or six hours, but in five or six minutes. (Ok make it 10 at 20,000 miles If speed and more speed is ail the genus homo wants, let him have it. Like Mr. Pickwick we will stick to terra firma yes, the firmer the better and stay on the ground with the trains and on the sea with the ships. Didn't Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote "Travels With a Donkey," say something about getting to your destination in fast time was not half as important as the FUN you might have getting there? Whether he did or not we second the motion! ! R.W.R. Tuesday. February 25. 1958 23 Taking a coffee-break Southern Pacific" for a long we are going to throw prickly mistaken. will make is this: that the boy the boy from Jacksonville as and we would like to have Bob Central Point has a deep affec- 1 the S.P. doesn't feel that way Medford for taking the "S.P. and the county seat. if he ever got the chance he town in the middle of the that took the expected S.P done that! and accommodating native son Point to be the next president and cats motoring down to that at times the windshield- overcome it, and the weeping feet above the car-top. how the weather was in Med- true in Dunsmuir also, but time as usual and as often train. Still on a winter sched instead of two, there is no to wait for seats in the diner, food was excellent, the service the entire train in fact well i.e. it would be "spurlos made a grave mistake when picturesque Siskiyous and the Klamath Falls? - engine - age but doesn't make For with a super-Diesel, the of course the S.P. heads had to see it. this is our Pullman porter's more about railroad trains rubble and ruins of the old an hour.) stick with Pir-kwirL- AND 'SOME PEOPLE CONT KNOW MWlO KEAOJ SOME PEOPLE Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althnunh 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. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tne views or tne uaper; in fact the contrary is often Salvation by Empathy Tn the Editor: Any reader sometimes can't help wonder- ins whv an author didnt ex press himself concisely, such as: "indulse in empathy, in stead of "thinking one's own thoughts into someone elses thoughts to get the other per son's viewpoint, or see from his angle. Then the eminent phiioso Dher claims it's the hardest thing ever to do, but also points out a world couia be lifted out of its chaotic predic ament, by that very thing, were it done universally. At any rate by putting his idea in simple form, he may have eiven it Denetrating power and punch, to reach the read er's innermost thoughts and bring forth the desire to give it a trial. To apply his method in evervdav life might well save a lot of heartaches, and start a chain reaction that would eventually involve all humanity. Seems like tolerance would take on a very necessary and important significance, arid compromise could well ma terialize. That author's plan to change the world to comply with the Golden Rule, if prop agated and rjracticed. might well be a panacea to revive, the world, and save civiliza tion from extinction. It would certainlv mean sacrificing one's viewpoints, at least ou per cent, and step ping on our own pride in do ing so. If simulation can bring re ality, when diligently prac ticed, all it would take is courage to take the first step, and then reiteration. The emi nent philosopher believes en couraging love and diminish ing hate is our only salvation. From a human aspect, and re liance on ourselves. ' it is bound to seem hard to do. But with the help of the super natural, nothing is impossible, we are told. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman St., Medford. Boy and Helmet To the Editor: Yesterday as I came out of a funeral home, a boy, about seven, carrying a red helmet was waiting to cross Sixth st., at Mam. As he stepped off the curb he leisurely put on the large hel met over his faoe as a base ball guard and very slowly crossed this busy street peek ing through the holes in the top of the helmet. I was where I couldn't get to him, but perhaps his moth er may see this and teach him how not to cross such a busy street at 3 p.m. E. K., (Name on file). Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A BANK ROBBER was reported driving like mad some where in Virginia and every sheriff in the state was alerted to watch for him. Taking no chances, one conscientious sheriff decided to stop every car on the road and cross examine its occupants. The dowager in a sleek limou sine took this amiss. "By what authority do you pre sume to stop this car?" she demanded angrily. The sheriff took his badge out of his pocket to show the lady and blushed vio lently. The badge was a tin affair marked "Space Ship Patrol." His 9-year-old son had switched badges. Collegiate quickie: "Where are you headed, dear wife, in the middle of the night?" "Downstairs to get some water." "In your night gown ?" "No, my love, in a pitcher." 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the case. Unen-mlovment ComDlaint To the Editor: Does it pay to be honest and tell the trutn in Oregon? I have been here for 26 years and have been paying in to the State unemployment and have never drawn 5 cents until now, and I did not know that you should not tell the board the truth when they ask vnn if vou were looking for work. I was honest and told them that I went out to the woods to see about getting some work, and I got wet and sick and was in bed for two days, and because I was hon est and told them the truth they cut off my check for a week and I only get $23 per week and I Dav for that. ' I would like to hear from others and get their opinion on such a deal as this and what encouragement there is for a man to go out and try to get work when it is wet and cold and you get sick and then have your unemploy ment check cut off for your pf forts when you need it- more when you are sick than when you are well. t winder if the people that are responsible for such rul ings are docked lor Deing sick, or do they get their full pay? Such deals as this do not encourage people to try to get work or to be honest. This ic not tood publicity for our state when tourists hear ahout deals that the working neonle get here in Oregon. I will be glad to answer any questions that anyone would like to ask. I read the com munications in the Mail Trib une every day and I think it is one of the best features any newsnaner can have. It gives the public a chance to hear the whole truth. Ray Garland, Box 81, Talent. Big Words To the Editor: In reference to Mr. James Redden's letter of Feb. 21 where he states that "a rising literacy rate al ways increases Democratic registrations," my I add that we are happy to lend the Democrats those who have just learned their ABCs. When they get to the big words like "responsibility, 'self - sufficiency" and all those non-catchy phrases, they're ready for the Repub lican party! Mary A. Ragland, 3182 Pacific Highway South, Medford. A RARE FLAT Saxmundham. England (IP) A garageman turned over to police the cause of a flat tire he renairpd Mondav an undamaged gold ring set with rubies and diamonds. Stop Me In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Demo cratic leaders are assembled in Washington for a two-day meeting of their party's na tional . committee. The meet ing will kick off the political campaign for control of the next congress. One of the first items of business was a resolution cen suring President Eisenhower for his handling of what the committee calls "the depres sion that is now gripping the country." The resolution says: "We condemn the Hoover-like approach to this problem. It is a disgrace to tell the unem ployed . . . that prosperity is just around the corner." IORMER President Truman is scheduled to make the big speech that will pull the cork and open the campaign, and four GOP senators promptly challenged him to renounce the "campaign of professional pessimism" . they say the Democrats are con ducting. They added: "Don't sell America short before the world." THE Republicans are also handing out advice to Ike. The anti-Benson group of the GOP (now grown to a membership of 25) is plan ning to tell the President his secretary of agriculture is a political liability that if Mr. Benson stays in office the penalty will probably be the loss of from 10 to 25 seats in the house in the November election. And so on. SOMETHING to remember: The big issue in this cam paign that is opening (as in other political campaigns) is WHO WILL SIT IN THE SEATS OF POWER? In this political Donny brook Fair that is getting un der way your job and mine is to sift out the wheat (if any) from the chaff (of which there is a plenitude). HERE'S a timely thought: Saturday was Washing ton's birthday. In his school boy copybook, George Wash ington wrote this sentence at the top of one of the pages: "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of ce lestial fire that is known as CONSCIENCE." He grew up to be the Fa ther of His Country. AT THIS point, I think I'd better write a note to myself: DON'T GET TOO CYNI CAL. It's true that at times these three-ring circuses we call po litical campaigns tend to be come a little tiresome and more than a little disgusting all J. Bib If Vi. American System of govern ment. The American System of government is the best sys tem in the world. It has built not only the greatest nation in the world but the best na tion to live in. No American in his right mind would swap it for any other system. T ET'S keep this in mind: When light-weights get elected to office in times that call for what Josiah Gilbert Holland described a century ago as "Tall men, sun-crown ed, who live above the fog in public duty and in private thinking," the fault lies not so much with the panty-waists themselves as WITH THOSE OF US WHO VOTE FOR THEM. Portland Council . Opposes ER Plans Portland (IP) The Cen tral Labor Council Monday night voted to oppose a bal lot measure to remove the lo cal Exposition - Recreation center to the Delta Park site from the Broadway-Steel Bridge site. The council also voted to oppose a city-manager form of government. A ballot measure seeking to change the site of the E-R center was filed Monday but the E-R Commission said it would not change its plans to go ahead with construction at the already-selected site. The Labor Council honor ed Gust Anderson, its secre tary for 35 years, for "out standing service to labor." Porter Tells Aid For Hills Creek Job Washington (IF) Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.), said today an "important hurdle" has been overcome in the campaign to get addition al work going on the Hills Creek Corps of Engineers pro ject in' Lane county, Oregon. Porter said Rep. Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House public works approp riations subcommittee, has made known his support of. a plan to transfer $2,230,000 from other delayed projects to Hills Creek. Reds Seeking Recognition for East Germany and North Korea By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Communists are con ducting parallel drives to win diplomatic recognition of East fT Ti Germany and North Korea. The North Ko rean Reds are using the hi jacking of a South Korean a i r 1 i ner by C o m m u nist agents as a means of try ing to make Charles M. McCann the South Korean government enter direct negotiations for the plane's return. This would mean recogni- Matter of Fact by Joseph aisoP LONDON: FACADE AND REALITY London In the pale March sunshine, 13 years after the great victory, London hardly seems the same wound ed hero of a city that it used to be for so long after the war. The outward sur face is more p r o s p erous than ever. Joseph Alsop . J-ne magical London combination of green open space and crowded ave nue, of intimacy and public splendor, of double polished glossiness and carefully pre served patina of age, is also more magical than ever, be cause it is so unchanging in a fact changing world. And London is more than ever the most agreeable of all the great world cities for a for eign visitor. These reflections on Lon don's surface may seem more appropriate for a postcard for the homefolks, showing some such familiar tourist sight as the changing of the guard. Yet they are necessary, in or der to put into perspective the fairly brutal thing that also needs to be said. In sum, this London with its rich and charming surface, whose shin ing courage so recently set an example to the world, is now a city that all but stinks of defeat. THE fact, if it is a fact, is of infinite importance to all the nations of the West. But judgments of atmospheres are unavoidably personal; and so I shall speak more personally in the present report than is customary in this space. In the postwar years, I have made at least one visit of in quiry to London each year. In all that period, whether un der Labor governments or Conservative gov ernments, the essential London drama has been the same. It has been the drama of the British people grimly struggling to maintain a Britain's historic role as one of the great world powers, after the fearful hu man and material and strate gic losses of the Second World War. It has been a pretty moving drama to watch, but now it seems to be coming to an end. There are just too many signs of the disarray that always, in every army, foretells the acceptance of defeat. FOR example, the feature of British political life that has always most amazed me was the fact that any given moment, almost everyone from the Prime Minister downwards, at every level and in every sphere, somehow struck the same note. It might be a belligerent note or a friendly note or any other kind of note. But it was al ways the same.' It used to make me feel like a geologist climbing about over an enormous rock, tapping with his hammer ev erywhere, and always getting exactly the same "ping" or "pong," wherever he tapped. But all this is over now. The most extraordinary and dis cordant variety of notes is now to be heard, from the different leaders of the two major parties, from the civil servants and the Ministers they are charged with advis ing, even among the higher permanent staffs of single Ministries. The cause of this wholly novel discord of ideas and at titudes is really simple enough. Britain today is squarely confronted with at least half a dozen major prob lems which Britain alone does not have the means to solve. rPHERE is Britain's economic - problem, which keeps Bri tain on a permanent brink of disaster. For example, ap proximately 22 per cent of Britain's lifeblood, the hard currency revenue of the Sterl ing area, comes from two highly unstable ex-colonial countries, Ghana and Malaya. Again, the loss of the Middle Eastern oil sources, which are now in ever-greater danger, will add a cruel billion dol lars a year to the debit side tion of the North Korean pup-, pet regime. At the same time, both the Chinese Communist and Norm Korean Keel govern ments have embarked on a new attempt to effect the withdrawal of United Nations forces from South Korea. In East Germany, Commu nist Leader Walter Ulbricht has revived a plan under which East and West Ger many would enter into a fed eration of separate states, en joying equal . status. Would Mean Recognition This, of course, would mean recognition of the East Ger man puppet state, with a pop ulation of 17 million, as- a of Britain's national balance sheet. A single individual, the Sheikh of Kuweit, contributes very nearly 10 per cent of the new capital annually availa ble in the Sterling area, which is desperately short of capital. And so the story goes. . ' There" is Britain's strategic problem, which is insoluble because, of the economic prob lem. For example, the so-called support costs which the Germans have been paying for the British divisions in NATO amount to less than $130,000,000. But because the Germans are refusing to pay these costs, the British gov ernment is thinking of cut ting its NATO contribution beyond the point of acute danger, in a way that will prejudice all Britain's rela tions with the new Europe, and for a sum really hardly larger than the British pig subsidy. fTlHERE is the Middle East- -- ern problem, which looks like it is growing desperate. For example, the old Iraqi strong man, Nuri Pasha, was recently in London to repeat his anguished warnings that the Kremlin would soon play the anti-Israeli ace, which will in turn take every trick in the Arab pack. The lead ing British experts are now reluctantly convinced that Nuri's warnings are probably well founded. But in all the British government, I could not discover any man with any positive idea about parry ing this prospective Soviet maneuver, which will be like a dagger thrust at Britain s very jugular. One could continue the re cital almost indefinitely, cov ering all the foreign policy problems involved in the ap proach to the summit confer ence, all the domestic politi cal problems revealed by the Conservative parties swing ing defeat in the Rochdale by- election and so on. But I have said enough to illustrate the tragic point I have been try ing to make. If it is a true point, it is tragic for America as well as for Britain; for Britain's de feat will almost surely mean the West's defeat. Worse still, we in America will have our own share of the blame for the tragedy. For vigorous, im aginative and courageous American leadership is now the most essential ingredient in the solution of almost all our allies problems and Brit ain's above all. And this es sential American ingredient has been utterly lacking for the last five years. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) GOT PRETTY COLD Mobile, Ala. (ff) How cold did it really get during the recent Southern cold wave? Evan B. Davis, an ama teur ornithologist, said Mon day it was so cold that he found in his yard a Richard son's owl, native of Alaska and northern Canada, nearly dead of hunger and exposure. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan V I Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY . 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. sovereign country equal to . free West Germany, with a" population of 51 million. The Russian occupation commander in East Germany announced last week the de tails of the announced Soviet plan to withdraw 41,000 of its troops, as part of a pre vious announcement in Moscow-that the Russian armed forces would be reduced by 300,000 men. . - This was a bit of propa ganda intended to convince West Germans that Russia would be willing' to. withdraw its forces from East Germany if ' the allied troops were withdrawn. There is good reason to be lieve that Russia would usr the Polish "Rapacki Plan,"' providing for the banning of nuclear weapons from Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Ger many and West Germany as an .argument for troop with drawal if by any chance it were accepted. Armed Superiority The West German govern ment has firmly rejected the Rapacki Plan. One reason is that the nuclear weapons-free zone would give Russia over whelming superiority because of the size of its armies. Another reason cited is that if such a zone were agreed upon, the United States might decide to pull out its troops. Communist China and North Korea said in a joint state ment last week that all Chi nese Red forces would be withdrawn from North Korea by the end of 1953. Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai followed this up by de manding that U.N. forces get out of South Korea. The North Koreans have now joined in this demand. In bpth the East German and Korean situations, the Communists are using as bait the suggestion that troop withdrawal would be a step, toward eventual reunification of those countries. Editorial Comment LIGHT IN GEORGIA Sometimes it seems that the racial bigot is beyond help, that despite the law, the courts,, common sense and the wisdom of the ages, persons reared in the tradition of white supremacy will never learn otherwise. But there are gains. They may te slow, but they exist. Just the other day the Georgia House of Representa tives killed a bill that would have required that whole blood transfusions be labeled as to race.. The representa tives did so, not necessarily because Georgia doctors told them the bill was nonsense, that blood has no essential re lationship to pigmentation of the skin, but because the doc tors said that racial typing would be an intolerable nui sance. So, it's obvious. They do learn. Georgia state senators, however, may still be in the dark on the subject. They passed the same bill a few days before, 35 to 0. Port land Oregonian. is an Essential Process in Modem Dry Cleaning We Retex All of Our Dry . Cleaning at No Extra Cost Medford Gleaners Hale & Kathryn Wheeler 34 No. Holly, SP 2-6500 F'ee Pickuo and Delivery We wonder If it's common sense. To ask the Lord to save us, And then from speed, We never need. Destroy the life He gave us. Bill Fuh
