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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, ORE. 4 Sunday, Mjy 11, 1958 MEDFORD?SiTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern 'Brecon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6H1 ROBEBT W HUHL. Editor HE KB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Edito RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES. 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 By Mail la Advance: Copy 18c. Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday 8 raos.- 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only On year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Kill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c aii lerrr.s casn in Advance Official Paper of City ol Medford Official Paper af Jacks County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B. C . , NEWSPAPER k rUtllSHIRS "ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITOIIAl UASgo6TQH Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History frorn the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 11. 1948 (Tuesday) Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan, association opens branch office here. S Sams Valley school present ed its May Day program with open house and pageant. 20 YEARS AGO May 11. 1938 (Wednesday) Dr. Walter Bedford, 'presl , dent of Southern Oregon Nor mal school, reelected presi dent of the Oregon Shake spearean Festival association. From ..Arthur" Perry's - Ye Smudge Pot column: "The sun beamed warm and bright yesterday. A number of citi zens husked their coits." 30 YEARS AGO fMay 11. 1928 (Friday) . Two Portland pulp and pa per specialists in Medford to discuss plans to establish a pulp and paper mill here. From local and personal column: "In portions, of Jo sephine county, gold dust is till an accepted medium of exchange." - 40 YEARS AGO "May 11, 1918 (Saturday) Plans for a grand review of all home guard units in the .state will be held in Portland for Oregon s first war corner ence May 22 and 23. From local and personal column: "A chicken dinner will be served tomorrow aft ernoon in the North Griffin Creek school house." What's Your I.Q.? fci: - tmm iiwtt la atinariar! seven or eight ie excellent; five Of ere is seed. 1. YTha wrote "The Pil grim's Progress"? 2. Bible: What is the Eighth Commandment of God? v 3. Name the first . woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. 4. In which New. England State was Calvin Coolidge born? 5. In which city was the Declaration of Independence signed? 6. Eels are born in salt or fresh water? 7. What name isgiven to the study of the motions of heavenly bodies and their supposed influence on terres trial events and human af fairs? . .. 8. Beside the white rats and mice, what other rodent is commonly used in labora tory experiments? 9. Mosquitoes have a total of four, six, or eight legs? 10. How many Justices are there on the United States Supreme Court? . Answers:.!. John Sufiyan. 2. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh bor." 3. Amelia Earhart (Put nam). 4. Vermont. 5. Phila delphia, Pa. 6. Fresh water. 7. Astrology. 8. .Guinea pigs. 8. Six. 10. Nine. Nixom "Day Whoever coined the than rich was right. For to be rich and pursued by bad luck is no game at all. Not to be rich but lucky is as things go, a very good break. But the "pay-off" is, pursued by Lady Luck, also be rich. (At least nara to avoia ii.) A LL of which is a prelude to the fact Vice President Richard Milhouse Nixon, was stoned and spat-upon by college students in Lama, Peru on Ihursday. This is only the most fact Mr. Nixon was born, in his mouth another but with Lady Luck shoulder, where she has As Shakespeare observed in "Twelfth Night": .1 v "Some are. born great, Some achieve greatness And some have greatness thrust upon them." AS ANY objective survey of Vice President Nixon's life will "Lady Luck," he had him. But for his discovery Los Aneeles Times and the fmancial aid it brought, he would never have been elected to congress. But for Alger Hiss, promoted to the Senate. But for the Communist scare, and of course Mr. Nixon's skill in immediately capitalizing on it he would never have been chosen as Pres ident Eisenhower's running-mate. A ND now with this inexcusable outrage in Peru, " and as the VP observed, making it "no time for any defender of freedom m today s world to show cowardice, what Nixon from being the the Republican party m 1960? , As we see it, NOTHING! X7E WOULD not go so far as to place this de " plorable incident in the same category his torically as President Franklin Roosevelt's "day of infamy when the Harbor, but Richard Milhouse Nixon would so thats that! But this does not necessarily mean Mr. Nixon will be the 35th President of the United States. He probably will if "Lady Luck" doesn't de sert him. But in manv nuarters Miss "L.L." has a reputation of being a very, very fickle mistress ! K.W.K. Amen According to the Roseburg News-Review, thai excellent -newspaper is being flooded with letters of sympathy from all over the state, hoping for the quick recovery of its editor and manager Charles V. Stanton, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage 10 days ago, and is still confined to a hospital. . ' The Mail Tribune heartily joins in such sym pathy and hope, as do all newspapermen in the state. PHARLEY STANTON for 16 years, has not "onlv directed the policies of the News-Review but it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he has 1 r T-i -r-r , ii i t a n i oeen tne iNews-iteview. nis tnougntim ana vig orous editorals. his devotion to his communitv. as well as his capable business direction, will, even for a brief period, be greatly missed. However this is, of course no time to compose an obituary, for we share the News-Review's be lief that: "Although Charley's pen may gather dust for a. while you can be certain that with recuperation start ing in, as soon as he is able his influence will be felt again on the editorial page and elsewhere." To which the Mail Tribune adds a solemn "amen." R.W.R. Supererogation We note among the many, tributes and best wishes above there are the usual number of mes sages phrased this this: - "I may not agree with him all the time but," etc., etc., etc. That is a familiar and frequent refrain in the newspaper editorial business, and we wish' it were less familiar and less frequent. v . . For it is what President Woodrow Wilson liked to call "sunereroeration" that is "unneces sary and superfious." T LEAST we don't know an editor and we 1 Icnmv several wlin evnepts. nr pvon wante 100 agreement from anyone as far as his edi torial opinions are concerned. There was a time around the middle of the 19th centurv when most of the American neonle were too busy clearing out and up the wilderness, or 'Irvine tn o-efc snmet.hincr mnre than a mere 5 - 0 . ------ grub-stake to pay much attention to political mat ters local or national. There was also far less edu cation, communication and a much lower level of intelligence than is the case today. " . 'J'HAT was the era of outstanding personal jour Greeley, and later, Charles A. Dana, held sway and they exerted such an amazing editorial in- 99 phrase "better be lucky if you are consistently the chances are you will you will have to work , recent example of the not with a silver-sDoon bit of luck politically hovering over his right hovered ever since. demonstrate, thanks to "greatness-thrust" upon of a "want-ad" in the he would never have been can possibly prevent Mr. presidential candidate of Japanese attacked Pearl of Infamy Dennis the Menace 'IfS QCO0 ttUfeg SO Matter of Fact by AisoP THE WORD ON LABOR Washington - Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon B. John son and most of the members of the Labor Commit tee, .both Demo cratic and Re publican, are now working hard to re port a labor reform bill within 10 days. ... Jm.nh Alinn . ' Ane K, O m- mittee will be hard ; put to draft a measure of such "con sequence in quite such a short space of time. But it is virtu ally certain that a bill will reach the Senate floor very soon. It is also cetrain that the bill will be taken up as soon as it is ready. And the Senate, at least, is likely p vote the bill by a large majority. It is not at all certain, on the other hand, whether the labor reform bill that the Senate approves wttl be ex treme and punitive, or mod erate : and ' constructive. The betting is in favor of modera tion and cpnstructiveness. Yet this is the issue on which the old conservative Republican Southern Democratic coali tion can most easily , spring into life again;!'?"' " ' V : :-.- THIS remarkable develop ment, until recently quite unforeseen, must be largely credited to Senate Republi can Leader William F. Know land. Senate taction on labor union reform was possible be fore Knowland made his sur prise attempt to transform the bill regulating labor prac tices. But Knowland's sur prise made action certain. It forced a commitment to re port a bill later,; as the only way :. to insure defeat of f luence throughout New New England that a great majority, of the nus bandry not only got their news from these papers but their opinions as well. When a settler was asked how he was going to vote he answered, "Don't know, ain't got "Them days has gone" forever and it is good for the country, as well as American jour nalism, that they have. Today the people don't go to the press for their opinions but for the facts upon which they can intelligently base their own opinions. A much more enlightened, wholesome and desirable situ ation in a democracy. tins DON'T expect these few words of mild disapproval to change overnight the time- honored reader reaction however. It seems to have very deep roots, based upon the false assumption that to express ap proval, of one editorial somehow binds one to express approval of all. This is about "as sensible as to assume that to praise the cook for necessitate hosannas for and onions for which the customer, might , have a violent allergy and distaste. A LL editors appreciate expressions of approval they wouldn't be human if they didn't but as indicated, we know of none who feel such approval needs to be modified always by denying that this "Uk" endorsement of editorials in the future, in the past, or as a whole. ' . .. IN SHORT, sufficient unto the day is the edi- Finally, if what has never happened SHOULD happen, and some subscriber, apparently in pos session of his faculties should run up the stairs, burst into the sanctum and inform the under signed the opus presented yesterday was a mas terpiece, as were all of his eff orts, the aforesaid "undersigned" (speaking ndw not for the pro fession but for himself alone) MIGHT say, "Thank you stranger," but he would think as follows: - "You are a cheerful want?" V WSC4N 6TILL 6 FRfcSNDS. Knowland's formidable series of amendments. This fact, in turn, indicates the state of Senate sentiment on the subject of labor union reform.' The key vote that defeated the first Knowland amendment to the pension and welfare fund bill was 53 to 37, with 10 Republicans and 43 Democrats voting against Knowland. But in that total of 43 Democrats, there were at least 12 and probably as many as 16 Southerners who would have liked to vote with Knowland, They did the opposite only because Lyndon Johnson solemnly promised them a later opportunity, to vote on the same issue in a more orderly and well-considered manner. nrrmi'. truth i that, -the revela- - tions of ' the investigating committee headed by Sen John L. McClellan have filled the whole Congress, and es pecially, the Senate, with a deep impatience.: The' doings of the more outrageous labor unions, like Jimmy Hoffa's teamsters, have immensely harmed the entire labor move ment. There is the same de sire to do something about it that existed in the old days, at .the end of the great de- eression. when-the doings of the more outrageous blue .sky operators had discredited whole sectors of the business community. The result, then, was the passage of such laws as the Securities and Exchange Act. Unlike the brokers, invest ment bankers, utilities ty coons and the rest in the early '30's, most labor leaders now realize that corrective legislation is inevitable. The more f arsiehted leaders, head? ed : by Walter Reuther and York state-r-in fact all my Tnbune yet." ; to the editorial column the soup course would the meat course of liver involves any blanket liar, wonder what YOU R.W.R. In the Day's News By FRANK This modern world note: The two spacemen who went up eight miles in a bal loon the other day to see what they could see ran into a NEW space mystery. They report they heard unexplained voices. One of the mysterious voices SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GOING IN FOR HOT COFFEE. TtlORE about modern life: ifx fen uninvited guests are spending the night in the Atomic Energy commission headquarters at German town, Md. The 10 are mem bers of the National Commit tee for Non - Violent Action against Nuclear Testing. They have vowed to camp in the building until the com missioners hear their plea. VyHAT to say about it? Well, one could go into a long - winded discussion about the unwisdom of fail ing to keep our powder dry at a time when a powerful and unscrupulous enemy might attack us at any mo ment. But let's put it this way: Suppose, instead of camp ing in the Atomic Energy commission building and in terrupting the undoubtedly important work that is going on there these admirable al though somewhat over-idealistic) people had spent their time working industriously on their probably neglected lawns, thus making two blades of grass grow where but one blade had grown be fore. In which way would they have benefited their country most? VOU answer it. I'm afraid I'm prejudiced against OVER-idealism. TIME Out while we go liter ary for a moment. Who tirst used this famous line about making two blades of grass grow where but one had grown before? rpHERE'S some doubt about it. In a letter to M. Moreau, written in 1765, Voltaire Vol taire was his pen name; his baptismal name was Francois Marie Arouet) said: "He who makes two blades of grass grow in place of one renders a service to the State." In his Voyage to Brobding- nag Jonathan Swift, who is regarded as one of the most brilliant minds in English lit- terature, puts the same thought in a slightly different way. He makes one of his characters say: "Whoever could make two ears of corn, or . two blades of grass, to grow' upon a spot of ground where only one had grown before, would deserve better of mankind and do more es sential service to his country than the whole race of poli ticians put together." Swift, who was born in the Jim Carey of the Electrical Workers, even admit it may be desirable. The A. F. of L. group, headed by George Meany and Al Hayes of the Machinists, were ready to fight to the death against any legislation, until Knowland sprang his surprise. But they were then called to Lyndon Johnson's office and confronted with the alternatives "Know land's amendments now or a bill later." Faced with this choice, they glumly agreed to cooperate on a bill. THE betting is in favor of a morlprat.A anr? rmctrimtiva bill because it now seems likely. that two key Republi cans, Ives of New York and Cooper of Kentucky, and two key Democrats, McClellan and Jack Kennedy of Massa chusetts, will be able to agree about what needs to be done. If such an agreement is achieved, the bill will insure honest management of union funds. It will include certain provisions desired by the vast majority of labor, such as a condemnation of "sweet heart contracts" between business men and corrupt labor union' leaders.And it will also include highly con troversial "union democracy" provisions at least requiring all labor unions to hold elec tions of officers at reasonable intervals and with a secret ballot. ' Sen. McCleellan's own pro posals go much further than this and he is the bellwether for other Southerners. If he joins the others in backing a moderate bill, tne line-up that defeated Knowland can prob ably be re-formed.' In that case, the more Violent amend ments of the labor-haters will be defeated on the flo6r. As it happens, McClellan is a wise man. He knows that the kind of bill Kennedy, Ives and Cooper can and will accept is also the most likely kind to pass the House and become law. That is the grand incen tive to compromise. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS middle 1600's, didn't think much more of politicians and their works than a lot of us do today. NOW, fcack to the news. President Eisenhower has appointed Dr. Arthur Flem rrfing to take over the federal post" of - secretary of health, education and welfare. The job was vacated by Marion Folsom, who has just resigned. . A QUESTION: . If; when Folsom re signed, the job had just quiet ly i been allowed to die, how much- would AYOU have missed it? - , At the moment, I don't know how much it costs to run the job. ButJL expect you could have used "your, share of the cost in ways that would have been more pleasing to you than what you have got out of the. department of health, education and welfare. That isnH '. just a cynical crack. I think-government is too complicated and that, we would all benefit greatly , by simplifying it and cutting down the cost.' Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann EISENHOWER AND THE PENTAGON v Washington The layman and outsider, who has never commanded great . forces in war, or even worked inside the Pentagon, must ask him self how he is to decide what to think about the Eisenhow er - MjcElroy Plan to reor- w siter Lippmitnn ganize the De fense Depart ment. He canj of course, wait to be told by those who know more than he does about such affairs. Or he can, if he is a little bolder, ask questions which he would like to hear discussed. ' ;- ,: - - - I am emboldened to do this because the question which seems to me important is not one which only military men are qualified to answer. It is a question of how- great and complicated human institu tions ' are governed by more or less ordinary ' men!" The question is a real one, so it appears to me, in a piece of legislation whose "meaning,' as the President has put it, a that ? 'strategy ''.' ; . must be under unified control."; ' - The crux of the question is who is to direct, and how is he to determine how to direct, the strategy which is under his unified control? Ac coming to tne new Dili, a Presidential appointee, the Secretary of Defense, is to make the great strategical decisions and to direct the control of their application. - NOW there is no question, it seems to me, that once a decision has been taken it should .. be carried but with out vetoes or obstructions. Under the present law, and even more perhaps under present practice, the Secre tary of Defense does not have full authority to enforce a de cision upon the separate serv ices. There cannot be serious objection to giving him that authority. . But .then we arrive at the real question. How are. these great . decisions to be made? It is all very well to say that they should be made by the Secretary of Defense. But Secretaries come and go. They are chosen' form lists of po litically available men. They come from banking, from law, f r om . professional - nolitics. from the automobile business and the soap business. How Lumber Prices Show Leveling Off Signs Lumber prices last week showed, signs of leveling off or remaining steady, accord ing to new releases - f r o m lumber market services. Crow's L umber market, Portland, reported that green Fir dimension market leveled off after rising steadily since mid-April. - Prices on -all gardes of green dimension and studs still are strong, it said, and demand has been moderately active on both the rail and cargo markets. ' ' " Random Lengths, Eugene lumber market report, said that much of the market strength at the mill is based on well-filled order files and continued low production. The service said the transit selling market has hit a pla teau which . is considerably above the mid-winter low but below its mid-April peak. , IP 1 hVL (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The pony has departed from lhe car lot across the street. May his meadows be green, and may he never be used for "promotion" again. Hit departure, coin cidentally enough, cam during - "Be Kind to Ani mals Week." ... We are sympathetic with the print shop which made a typographical error on most of the Republican - ballots to be used in the county next Friday, because "typos" are awf uUy easy to make. Pre sumably the members of the counting board are sympa thetic, too. u . - But, since they'll have - to paste on the corrections with gummed stickers, they'll prob ably lose their sympathy be fore the day is over and the taste of stickum has left their mouths. There's been a big hassle over water rights to the Colorado river down south, with arguments ' pro and eon as to how much water does a man who has spent the first fifty years of his life far away from strategic prob lems go into' the Pentagon, hang up his hat, sit down at the Secretary's desk, and make the decisions which he is supposed to make? j ' THIS is the question of how great establishments, which are administered by career officials, ' can be di rected and controlled by lay men. The answer, is that the layman at the top, be he Sec retary of Defense : or Presi-; dent of the United States, can make the difficult decisions only by hearing the - issues argued by qualified ' experts. How are Mr. McEIroy and his successors to decide whether Missile A or Missile B should get the available 'funds? Only by having the issues argued by the contending experts, much as a judge in court de cides highly 'technical patent cases. It is fair to'-sayy-1 think, that if the layman' at the top does not hear the issues ar gued, he does not really de cide them. He merely en dorses the decision of some subordinate who has his ear. THIS brings us to the ques tion which I should like to hear thoroughly discussed. Does the proposed reform of the Pentagon make it more or make it less probable that the Secretary of Defense "and the President will hear the' great issues of strategy thoroughly argued out? Reading the new plan, and the official state ments which are being made about it, I do not know whether or not -it promotes or it decreases the effective analysis of the -issues to be decided. v - There is reason for wonder ing about this in view of President Eisenhower's theo ries and practice as to how the head of a great establish ment - should run his office, It is fair to say, I think, that by and large his idea of a good organization is one in which the chief does not have to listen to arguments but can approve agreements when his subordinates have argued them out. . ? . , It is hard not to wonder whether in this plan for the Pentagon he has not gone a long way towards compelling the professional military men to reach agreed conclusions before the issues have been adequately argued put before their civilian superiors. ' . . . f rpHESE doubts are not al- -layed by what the. Presi dent said at his. press, con ference a week '.ago. about running his own office. No one, he said, "can do the best job by just sitting at a desk and putting his face in a bunch of papers. Actually, the job. when you come down to it, when you think of the interlocking staffs and asso ciates that have to take and analyze all the 'details of every question that comes to the Presidency, he ought to be trying to keep his mind free of inconsequential detail and doine his own thinking on the basic principles and factors that he believes are important." " , This description of a top executive, which omits en tirely the necessity of decid ing issues by hearing them argued, is ground lor wonder ing whether at the center of the nroposed reform there has been adequate and dear dis cussion of how decisions are to be made. (c) 1858 New York Herald Tribune Inc. should go to who, and what it's worth, and so on, so it -comes as no particular sur prise to note that govern- ' men! attorneys testified their claims on the water include enough for 785 skunks,. 463 coyotes, 57 cougars, 261 bobcats and. 112 gila monsters. Up north, one political can didate claims that he refuses to deliver a "sack dresa speech" the kind that "cov er - everything but touchea nothing." Discussing the "You Auto Buy Now" Campaign, on . farmer 'remarked, "Maybe you outa buy it. but with the parking situation the way it is in Medford, where do you put it when you come to town?" The same .sales campaign reminded a man we know of an eager automobile buyer in The Dalles. There was a car lot acrosa from the police station, which had a two-toned red and white car for sale. A resident who had business in the police de partment drove up in his own red and white car, parked it in front of the car lot, and ran. across the street. Coming out a few : moments later he saw his car was missing. Investigation showed that a prospective buyer had spotted the parked car, liked it, and offered to buy it. An overenthusiastic salesman, thinking it belonged to his company, told him to take it for a ride to try it out. It all ended happily a few minutes later when the would be buyer returned the car to the - distressed owner, ;- and calmed down the worried salesman. - On of our young men Is developing schixoph ttnia i these, days, as the seasonal , duel develops between fish ing - rod and . rug - beater, lawnmower and golf dubs. He is a man lorn asunder. The j'Blitz-Wemhard com pany, Oregon's only brewery, has had a phenomenal -response to its offer to send an "Oregon Do - It - Yourself Kit" to anyone in the free world. Orders poured in from all Vover,, and ; for aU over, until the 60,000 little Douglas fir trees, the feature of the kit, were all sent out, and the planting season was too far advanced. . But Blitz, which was rather overwhelmed by the response, is still accepting applications to be filled next fall when the trees can be safely plant ed again, and reportedly has about 20,000 of them already. - At a meeting of the Sis kiyou Pioneer Sites Foun dation a visitor was over heard to remark, "These people cant be pioneers. They aren't eld enough!" j , . The office philosopher has a suggestion for those who turn a cold shoulder to the current plans for extensive recreational development in the county. . Bear in mind, he says, that recreational possibilities are a factor considered extreme ly important by any industry when it decides to look for a new location. Our farm editor thought fully remarked that all the ' barefoot lads and lassies aren't down en the farm, because he's seen quite a few of them along the city streets recently. . That young minister who's been quoted here several times, recently not long ago remarked that his business is a little like the old saying about the barefoot shoemak er's children. He's so busy spending time with other people's families to help them gain a happy. Christian life that he doesn't have time enough to spend with his own. . An old-timer in this area recently dedared that after you've stayed in the Rogue valley long enough to wear out one pair of shoes you never can forget it, and are bound to return. . .,' .. During a recent convention in - Meoiora, ucKet-iaxers at the door during the evening's dance were - using rubber stamps to mark the hands of those who entered. This would enable them to come and go without buying a ticket each time. The stamp being used had been borrowed from a grocery store, and it said 65c. One cute, rather chubby. young thing sidled up to one of the ticket-takers and said coyly "But you must know that I'm worth more than 65 cents." Quickly he replied, "That's per pound, honey per pound,"