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Newspaper Page Text4 Tuejday, April 15, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEI?ORD, ORE. MedfordIwribuse "Everyone in Southern 'recoa Reads The Mail Tribune Published Dailvexcept 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. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Copy It)e Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only 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 I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford oiriciai paper or Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices tn New YorK. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPH PUBUSHEtS 'ASSOCIATION ESS NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCfjTigN puiiinijzimn 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 April 15. 1948 (Thursday) The board of directors of the newly organized Upper Rogue Valley Chamber, of Commerce announced yester day that two mass meetings will consider discussion of Rogue basin reclamation pro posals. The first 100 years in Ore gon's lumber industry were easy and "the next 100 years will be our problem," accord ing to Paul M. Dunn, dean of Oregon State college school of forestry. 20 YEARS AGO April 15, 1933 (Friday) A 515,000 building pro gram to improve and enlarge the California Oregon Power company building here was announced today by Hance H, Cleland, president. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Every thing is growing like a weed including the weeds." 30 YEARS AGO April 15. 1928 (Sunday)' The county crushers and trucks are being taken from the shops at Jacksonville to different parts of the county where road work is being done. Tomatoes grown in Medford will probably be ready for the market in less than three weeks, according to Otto Bohnert who has 4,000 ma tured tomato plants. 40 YEARS AGO April 15, 1918 (Monday) Medford's patriotic vigilante organization has started out to clean up the area of persons suspected of disloyalty. From local and personal column: '"Beginning today hotels and restaurants in Med ford are serving only 2'z ounces of bread." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fan correct is superior; even or eight it excellent; five or fix it good. 1. What product does the hevea tree yield? 2. Is "The Wisdoms of Sol omon" also referred to as the book of "The Proverbs"? 3. Which of the following is not a monetary unit: rupee, ruble, rondo? 4. The work , of what Vienese writer has served to popularize such terms as lib ido, Oedipus complex-fixation, and repression? 5. Are the Constitutional qualifications for Vice Presi dent the same as those of President? 6. What is heavier, copper or steel? T. Did the colonial settle ment of Plymouth, Mass., pre cede or follow that at James town, Va.? 8. "Hand" is the unit of measurement of what animal? 9. Which of the major league baseball clubs has won five world championships in succession? 10. Who was the second President of the U.S.? Answers: 1. Rubber. 2. No. 3. Rondo. 4. Sigmund Freud. 5. Yes. 6. Copper. 7. Followed. 8. The horse. 9. N.Y. Yankess. 10. John Adams. Berlin OP! West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt has in vited U. S. Vice - President Richard M. Nixon to come to Berlin on his forthcoming trip to Europe. Brandt met Nixon during his February trip to the United States. Neuberger versus Morse In the accumulation on "Ye Editor's" desk following a six weeks absence we find a practi cally unanimous hymn of praise for our junior senator, Richard Neuberger, coming almost en tirely from the Republican newspapers that op posed him, as a candidate and have criticized him, many times, since. In a majority of the cases, comparisons are made with our senior Senator Wayne Morse, very much of course to the latter's discredit. Well, we gladly join in praise for Senator Neuberger. As before noted in this column he has grown in statesmanlike stature steadily, he is extremely intelligent and perceptive, and there is no question of the steady increase in his popu larity throughout the state, regardless of party. He has been of great certainly hope as we that he will run again. BUT there is a certain in this sudden "switch" bv Oregon's G.O.P. nress. which we find x 7 amusing. For exactly what IS praised for: In a word, he is being praised for doing ex actly what Senator Morse was so scathingly con demned for doing a short time ago, only in reverse. v That is Senator Neuberger, in recent months, has veered more and more away from the strictly partisan Democratic line, and toward the Repub lican. Wayne Morse. was called everything from a deserter, to a turn-coat and on to a traitor, for doinp: exactly the same things only instead of veer ing from the Democratic he veered from the Republican to the Demo cratic. True to character Wayne Morse was more vigorous in his opposition and went to greater extremes, but the principle in both instances was EXACTLY the same. VET we have Senator Morse, long ago, con- signed by the Oregon G.O.P. press to a small unaDDetizine- stoud of political "untoucha bles," while the junior Senator from the state, is showered with praise and acclaim ana tne im plication at least of future support for taking identical action, the sole difference between them being that one leaned toward the Democratic party ON THE BASIS OF PKIMUIP, ana tne other toward the Republican. As so often remarked in this department: in politics it depends so much in this instance ENTIRELY upon WHOSE ox is gored! R.W.R. Libel Laws Need Change The Coos Bav World f formerly the Times) was found not guilty of libel by a jury in Coquille, Saturday. The verdict could hardly have been otherwise. In fact the libel action should never have been taken. For if in rjrintinsr the columnist Drew Pearson Commissioner Stanley Earl, tne worm was guilty, as charged, of injuring tne prominent council man to the extent of $250,000, then all the other papers using the Pearson column would be liable and the commissioner, theoretically at least, could have made a bigger haul in a few- weeks than Dave Beck in his prime made in. ten years. ,IIE DON'T mean to imply there was anything morally wrong in filing this libel action. Mr. Earl,' in doing so, was entirely within his rights legally. But morally, as we see it, the libel law which holds a paper responsible for statements made in its columns by others, who are not members of its staff, and whose statements can NOT be ade quately checked, is wrong. '117'E DON'T deny there should be SOME re- sponsibility. But it should not be a primary one. In other words, there should be various de grees of libel as there are of murder, and in this particular case libel action should have been brought against Drew Pearson, who made the charges, not the Coos Bay paper that merely printed them. Or if brought against the paper, it should have been libel in the second or third degree, not in the first. The person responsible for making the charges should be primarily responsible f or any injuiy those charges may have caused, as well as for their authenticity. AS WITH columnists whose statements can't be checked day by day as to truth or accu racy, so w7ith contributors to the "letter-box" who are invited to express their honest opinions so long as they stand by them by signing their names and addresses. Of course anything that remotely suggests libel should be and generally is carefully checked, and if any suspicion is justified, rejected. But with the libel laws as loosely drawn and complicated as they are, a newspaper can't con duct a Communication column worthy of the name, without running a risk of serious conse quences, which in a countiy properly boasting of a "FREE press," should not be involved. value to Oregon and we have often written him element of inconsistency both instructive and our junior Senator being line to the Republican, charges bv its regular against Portland's City Dennis the Menace AttO VJHSH GOMeSQP & 'WAY 'way off, you turn THE SNOZZLB LIKE THIS AND IT SHOOTS FARWER.SEE? Matter of Fact "ONLY 11 WEEKS TO GO" Detroit, Michigan Here in this great capital of the limp ing motor industry, the Eisen hower Admin istration's I wait-and - see a p p r oach to the depression does not look very sensible. If you want to be co n vinced, just drop in at U Joseph Alsop A. W. Local No. 3, across from the big, dingy old Dodge motor nlant in Hamtramck. Then spend a day or so ringing the door bells of the endless rows of little one-and-two family houses inhabited - by Dodge and other Chrysler comDanv employees in Hamtramck and i-ast Detroit. What you see in them is the cruel let-lown of a vast army of industrial workers by tle system they have been taught to trust im plicity. The morning I went there, Pat Quinn, the president of the Dodge local, was leading protest march of jobless auto workers to the state capi tal in Lansing. So all activity temporarily centered in the small office of "Big Pete" Telisky, the local's tall, sallow-faced, hot-tempered vice president. T HAD hardly introduced my- self when Richard, a still young man who had been working for Dodge for ten years as a crane and elevator hoist operator, rather hesitant ly entered to ask Big Pete if he knew "anywhere1 where they were hirin'." Big Pete said bitterly: "Boy, you can't buy a job in this damn town." Richard nodded disconsolate ly, as though this were the answer he expected. It was a rough answer for him, all the same. His father, who worked for Dodge for a quarter century, had bought a house on time just before he died five years ago. In those days, . both father and son were working, so the pay ments of $75 a month had been easy to carry. Richard had managed pretty, well alone, too, when he was bring ing home $80 a week. The car, the furniture, the washer and dryer and television were all paid for, and he had kept his mother and younger brother fairly comfortable. But now the little family's v. Ml- Z IF THE precedent in this Coos Bay World case should be generally followed then the profes sional and amateur smear-artists would have a Roman Holiday. For they could send in anything to a paper they wished for any purpose they might desire, and rest content, that if there should be trouble they would not suffer for the paper would have to pay the bill. This would be somewhat like holding a taxi driver guilty for driving a bandit to a bank, and letting the bandit go free. R.W.R. Try and ay BENNETT CERF- A GAUNT MOUNTAINEER in West Virginia courteously per mitted two New York tourists to hunt on his land. "Only one thing I ask in return," he said. "It's possible you'll stumble on a stui near tne top oi yonder hill. If you do, I'll ask you to bring me back a jugful or two." The hunters found the still, but had barely picked up the jugs before bullets started whistling over their heads. They fled down the hill and panted, "Your still's being raided!" The mountaineer calmly bit off a chew of fresh tobacco. "I guess I neglected to tell you," he admitted, "that that still ain't mine." Until you're about 55, sur- mises Arthur Godfrey, you'd do well to avoid temptations. After 55, alas, there's nothing more to guard against: temptation avoids you! - 1SSS. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate." . S f By Joseph Alsop whole income was down to $42 a week of unemployment benefits. The house payments took nearly half. Richard had 'tried everything, even jani tor." So had his 17-year-old brother, "but they ain't even hirin' boys in stories." And worst of all, "we only get another 11 weeks of benefits to go, and after that there'll be nothing but the welfare." RICHARD was followed by sturdy old Charles, 15 years a torch welder, who "done all the show jobs for the company except one year." After Charles came Her man, the slow-spoken south erner, who was threatened with repossession of his car. The procession went on all morning, and all the men who came had the same essential problem. All suddenly had their in come cut in half, after nine or ten or eleven years of steady work on the same job. Like most of Detroit's other tens of thousands of jobless auto workers, all were now be tween nine and thirteen weeks away from the end of their unemployment benefits, when there would be no in come at all. All had time pay ments to make, which they could hardly carry even now. Richard, indeed, was the luck iest, for no other man I saw had paid for everything ex cept his house. The Detroit Welfare Department will at least try to help Richard keep his house, by offering the mortgage-holder the money allowed for relief recipients' rent. Ringing doorbells along the gray streets, the story was again the same. Only here, it was grimmer and more poignant, for one actually saw the furniture and the washers and the cars and the homes that were in danger. One saw the children "who drink wa ter now," and the harassed wives who "didn't know how they could manage much longer," and the men who seemed unable to overcome their surprise at being at home on a working day. AS TIME went on, one be r a m f nhspssprJ hv trip thought of "the end of the 26 weeks" (of benefits), which all these people spoke of with a sort of defeated dread. Maybe Congress will pass the bill adding another 13 weeks to the 26. Maybe auto- Stop Me Communications Letters 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. The letters printed in this column do not necessarilv repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. More on 12-Month School To the Editor: This is a re ply to Dorothy Woods in re gard to the 12-month school term in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1919, 1920 and 1921. I came into the district aft er the 12-month plan had been in operation six months so I cannot say what the ar guments for it had been. The schools were in session 12 weeks. Every 13th week was a vacation week. Every objection listed by Eric Allen in his recent survey both pro and con, of the 12-month plan operated to some degree in Bisbee. Parents who did not want their children to attend school the 12 months could keep them out any full quar ter they wished. But children so kept out re-entered school into a new group. To this the children objected, resulting in friction in the home. It was finally the rebellion of par ents which caused the experi ment to be discontinued. . No doubt further informa tion can be had by writing to the present superintendent of the Bisbee schools. Anna M. Streed, 36 North Peach st. Medford. Bible a Fraud? To the Editor: What is the true meaning of Easter? If one accepts the Bible as the inspired word of God, I be lieve the following to be a good statement. First, Jesus Christ walked out of a tomb physically, in his own body. Not his ghost or a spirit. If this is not true, the whole Christian faith is merely a nice dream. Paul, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says this in I Corin thians 15:13-19. If Jesus nev er rose bodily, the Bible is a fraud and He is the greatest imposter who ever lived since He claimed to be God (John 8:55). The Resurrection is proof. Since He is God, He also was tne Messian ox Israel Matthew 21:28-46, esp.v.42). He spoke with authority, When He said the night be fore His crucifixion that He would come again (John 14:3), He knew. His descrip tion of the End Times (Mat thew 24, Luke 21) may not be questioned. He prophesied the destruction and return of Israel, and said He would come sometime in the gener ation in which Israel was re stored (Matthew 24:32, 33; Luke 21:28-30). He also said it was nobody's business to know the exact time (Mat thew 24:36), and promised His children escape (Luke 21:36). Ezekiel 37 shows the re storation of Israel in the End Times. In 1947 Israel was recognized as a nation. Eze- motive employment will pick up again, when the time for the new models comes in September. But even so, half the things these people have gained will be lost in the in terval, because "we just can't meet the payments and feed the kids." Then, if there are no jobs to be had when the benefit period ends, the whole pat tern of life of all these peo ple will simply fall into squalid ruin. And they stand, remember, for many hundreds of thousands of jobless in dustrial workers in scores of other cities besides Detroit. Copyright, 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Counsel With . . . . Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Missile Bases, Atomic Arms For Germany, NATO By CHARLES M. MCCANN United Press Correspondent Two big issues confront the defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allies in Paris this week. One is the q u e s tion of est ablishing U. S. missile bases in the NATO coun tries of West ern Europe. Thp nthor McCann which is like ly to play a steadily increas ing part in Allied defense loo M " planning, is the arming of West Germany with tactical atomic weapons. Allied military men agree that the missile bases are necessary to the defense of Television At Emmy Hollywood (IP) The tele vision industry honors its best tonight in the nationally tele vised 10th annual Emmy awards originating on both coasts. Twenty-four golden Emmys the industry's highest award will be presented on a 90 minute show opened with re marks by Ed Sullivan, presi dent of theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sci ences. Phil Silvers, TV's Sergeant Bilko, will emcee the award ceremonies originating from Studio City in New York. Danny Thomas will handle the West Coast awards. Top Names Scheduled Four technicals, eight local West Coast and six local New York awards will be present ed off the televised program expected to be seen by 70 mil lion viewers across the na tion. Top names appearing on the program include Steve Allen, Ida Lupino, Dave Garroway, Jack Benny, Arlene Francis, George Gobel, Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Loretta Young, Jerry Lester, Morey Amsterdam, Cliff Norton, Arnold Stang, Eve Arden, Red Buttons, Gary Moore, Ralph Edwards, Gertrude Berg, Ed die Cantor, Art Carney, Ed Wynn and Milton Berle. The award for the "best single program of the year climaxes the evening. Nomi nated were: "The Comedian,1 with Mickey Rooney on Play house 90; the Edsel Show; General Motors 50th anniver sary show: "The Helen Mor gan Story," starring Polly kiel 38,39 describes the final battle in Israel: A combined Russian and Arab attack erupting into world war, Since no Christian need fear that war because he won't be here, look at the April 4, 1958 U.S. News and World Report. The lead article de scribes the build-up: On page 35 reference is made to fear of a "holy war" against Israel. Khrushchev has prom ised help in that war. He told Eleanor Roosevelt last fall in interviews carried in this pa per that he would help "drive Israel into the sea to preserve peace." Nasser is going to Moscow this month (see April 10, Mail Tribune). A war against Israel would force the Iraq Jordan federation and Saudi Arabia to join. Rus sian "technicians are m Syria and Yemen today. If you believe the Bible and the Resurrection to be true, the conclusion follows very clearly. If I am a fool to be lieve this, Easter means noth ing and the Bible is a fraud. Take your pick. Parker Bailey, 542V2 'A' st. Ashland, Ore. YOU WERE WARNED IN TIME! If you haven't settled your tax differences with Uncle Sam by tonite it's too bad you were warned. Chances are you won't be warned so far in advance if FIRE takes your home or an ACCIDENT wrecks your car. Better be SURE and INSURE with us. Bill Fish If Western Europe against the threat of Soviet aggression. Fear Old Militarism But there is strong opposi tion in some NATO countries to the establishment of bases on their territory because of the danger of devastating Rus sian H-bomb attacks on them if war does come. The West German parlia ment, after one of its angriest debates, voted on March 25 to accept a U.S. offer of tactical atomic weapons. There is bitter opposition among many West Germans to the decision. There is also strong opposi tion to the arming of West Germany with the tactical A weapons in Norway, Britain and some other NATO coun tries. This part of the opposition To Honor Awards Show Tonight Bergen on Playhouse 90 and "Green Pastures" on Hall mark Hall of Fam,e. 12 Westerns Nominated Westerns were ridin' high in the list of nominees with 12 nominations going to "Gun smoke," "Wagon T r a i n," "Maverick," and "Have Gun Will Travel." Awards also go to the best performance by an actor and actress, best direction, best teleplay, top comedy series and outstanding dramatic series. Television's birth and growth was to be presented in film clips with comments by Chet Huntley, Robert Trout, Elizabeth Taylor Returns To Pictures Hollywood (IPI Actress Elizabeth Taylor returned on Monaay to the motion pic ture world she planned to for sake before the death of her husband, Mike Todd, in a New Mexico plane crash Mar. 22. , Miss Taylor, eight pounds thinner than when she seclud ed herself in her home after Todd's death, resumed her role in Metro-Goldwyn-May-er's "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof." frank perl County Coronsr WHEN THERE IS NO FAMILY PREFERENCE would be ROTATED MONTHLY lo EACH of the FIVE MORTUARIES IN JACKSON COUNTY The ROTATION PLAN is 100 SUCCESSFUL in KLAMATH COUNTY After 16 Out of 18 Years of a One Firm Monopoly Locally IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE IN JACKSON COUNTY! I ask for your support in the primaries FRANK PERL Frank Perl For Coroner Committee C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrass Co-Chairmen Paid Political Adv. Frank Perl. Perl Questions is based primarily on the fear. which is in the minds of many people in NATO countries generally, that powerful Ger man rearmament might lead to a return of German mili tarism. It is accepted without ques tion that under Chancellor Adenauer, West Germany is solidly on the Allied side and that the West German people want no militaristic program. But the question is asked: If West Germany becomes a major military power, how long can it be controlled? Adenauer is 82. He cannot last forever. And West Eu ropeans remember under Ad olf Hitler, an Upstart born in Austria, Germany within a few years built up a military machine that swept irresist ibly over their countries. Its Best Frank Blair, Mel Allen, Walt er Cronkite, Don Goddard, Alex Drier, John Secondari and Douglas Edwards. State Police Plan Switch of Uniforms Oregon state police officers will change to summer uni forms Tuesday, it was report ed today. The uniform change will include a lightweight wool shirt with bow tie in stead of the cotton shirt and unifrom jacket that is worn during the wintermonths. Officers will also change from the high boots and trousers to slacks, it was re ported. , The Sam Brown belt, also worn during the winter months, is not worn during, the summer. CZECH PRIEST ON TRIAL Vienna (IB Father Al bert Hevera, a Roman Catho lic priest, is among 15 defend ants being tried in Communist Czechoslovakia for alleged war crimes in 1944, Prague Radio reported today. The priest was indicted on charges of inciting members of a Fas cist Slovak group to murder Allied prisoners of war. Do Not Be Misled! Only Such Cases Coming Under the Jurisdiction of the Funeral Home, Medford, Ore.