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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Friday. May 30, 1958 MzdfordTeibuke "Everyone in Southern wieean Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St- Ph. SP.2-S141 ROBF.BT W BTTTTT. VHnr HERB GREY Advertising Maoafei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr IRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Tnrinnrfm K'm.n n .. Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of marcn a. laui SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Copy . 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 435 Sunday Only One year $420 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 Ttos Cash In Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official ?aper of Jackson County United ?ress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ad vertising 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 NEWSPAFEt PUBllSHEtS 'ASSOCIATION Si NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCjTrgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 1 0, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO May go, 1948 (Sunday) Organizational plans for the coming building fund ap peal by the Salvation Army advisory board completed at a luncheon. Medford's new. lending li brary, to be maintained in Mann's department store by the: Junior Service league, will open June 1. 20 YEARS AGO May 30, 1938 (Monday) While hundreds watched and listened in the shade of the city park, tribute was paid today to the departed patriots. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Horti culturists Insist there will be no hot weather. Nature loves to contradict amateur weath ermen." 30 YEARS AGO May 30, 1928 (Wednesday) ' Although work on the raz ing of the Brooks building on South Central ave. only W gan two days ago, the two story building is already a memory. From local and personal column: "After having been "stationed for over 10 years in Central Point as depot agent for Southern Pacific railroad, C. A. Boles was notified this week he has been transferred to Oswego." 40 YEARS AGO May 30, 1918 (Thursday) Coker Butte Coal Mining company, Medford, -has filed articles of incorporation. From local and personal column: "Dr. R. J. Conroy has closed his office and disposed of its furniture and fittings. He will enlist in the Army re serve medical corps." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five o sis is good. 1. What city in Italy is known as the Eternal City? 2. In what novel is Hester Prynne the heroine? 3. Which country of the world has the greatest rail way mileage? 4. What do the colors of the American flag symbolize? 5. Who is the King of Italy? ' 6. In which country is the port of Dieppe? 7. Do citizens of the U. S. vote directly for President and Vice President? 8. Whose birth marks the division between the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible? 9. Aurora Australis, or Au rora Borealis, is the proper name for the Southern Lights? 10. In a bullfight, does the picador or the matador kill the bull? Answers: I. Rome. 2. "The Scarlet Letter." by Haw thorne. 3. United States. 4. Red courage, white purity, and blue devotion. 5. Italy is now a republic and has no king. 6. France. 7. No. (They vote for electors who select these officers.) 8. Birth of Christ. 9. Aurora Australia. 10. jrfaladoi. . - . . Another School Budget Vote Next Tuesday, voters of the Medford school district will go to the polls (or, judging by past experience, a FEW of them will) to vote on the budget for the coming year. Details of the budget have been explained (and will be again) elsewhere in the Mail Trib une, including the reasons for the increase (two new schools, additional teachers, a modest salary increase for teachers, increased costs of mate rials, and so on) which are familiar to those who have watched the progress of the schools in and around Medford in recent years. We have examined the budget and believe that, as usual, the school administration and citi zens budget committee have prepared a sound, conservative budget, which still meets the essen tial needs of the city's schools and the children they serve. HTODAY, however, we are less interested in ana- lyzing this particular budget than in comment ing on two related matters, first, the loyal support which Medford voters have given to the schools over the years, and second, what happens when a school budget is turned down. As far as we can determine, a Medford school budget has never been turned down which is a compliment both to the voters, and to the administration for presenting good ones. The schools are on a stable basis, neither so conservative as to deprive our youngsters of a good education, nor so liberal as to waste tax money on frills and fripperies which add little to the overall educational experience. AS TO what happens when a school budget is defeated, let us turn for a moment to Klam ath Falls, where that happened a few weeks ago. After the budget was defeated there, R. T. Lindley, a memberof the school district's budget committee, which had worked long and hard attempting to prepare a realistic budget which satisfied the demands made on the schools, on one hand, and the need for economy, on the other, wrote a letter to the Klamath Falls news paper. He said : "It seems that there were a number of 'civic . minded' citizens of Klamath FaUs who campaigned to defeat the school budget this year. For their information, they brought upon the city of Klamath ' Falls one of the most demoralizing things that can happen to a community. "It simply means that no supplies can be pur chased after July 1, and more important, no teacher contracts can be offered for at least two more months. It should be easily seen where this leaves the city of Klamath Falls in trying to compete with other communities in the hiring of teachers. Most teachers will have already signed their contracts by July, so they will know where they are going to live. "The board and budget members of the Klamath Falls schools devoted close to 100 hours, studying, planning and revising these budgets. These men and women are a representative1 group of citizens tax payers, parents, housewives, business and professional people. They tried to be fair to aU persons concerned. "Every member had first in mind to keep the taxes to a minimum while still keeping the educa- . tional system to a maximum. This is no easy iob. Quite naturally the budget was increased since the enrollment of our schools is increasing yearly. "After these lengthy sessions, it was decided to further inform the public about the budget by having an open question and answer meeting so that any questions or complaints could be aired. The . board and budget committee held the meeting, and three people appeared. Consequently, it was a useless gesture. ' "The odd thing about this situation is that the same people who were so vociferous in their views about 'defeat the budget' would be the same people to criticize the educational system should the standards fall and also would be the hardest ones to be per . suaded to serve on a board or budget committee. "I am sure if the people opposing the budgets would take the time to ask for an explanation of any of the items, they would have had a different outlook on the matter. As a member of the high school budget committee, I would welcome any calls concerning the budget, and I am sure all the other members feel ' the same. "We feel an uninformed vote is a dangerous vote." MR. LINDLEY was, t,,4- : .... iniiiocij.. 4juu in a wcty, ne was aisu speaKing for everyone, who has ever struggled to prepare a school budget, and who knows just how diffi cult it is to keep it in balance. In the Medford district, with ten schools, 216 teachers, and 5,600 students, with the new need for transportation in an enlarged district, with two new schools due to open in the fall, and with the prospect of continued growth forced by inr creased numbers of children, it is simnlv imnnsl sible "to keep costs from The truly remarkable thing, in our view, is that the school administration has been able to do as well as it has without letting costs climb way out of reason. But it has. DROBABLY it is a good thing that the school district has to eo to the neonlp. each venr fnr approval of .its budget. uuugets cunseivauve ana aeiensiDie, ana it serves to keep the voters and taxpayers aware of the schools and their needs and costs. The voters could, if they wished, approve a new tax base, but there would hardly be any point in doing" so. With costs increasing at an average rate of 12 per it resulting irom tile mllux of children into the schools) it would be only a matter of time before the tax base would be exceeded, and vnter approval of budgets would be necessary again. inerefore, to keen the school svstem onerat- ing on a sound and progressive basis, we reonm- mend-a "yes" vote at Tuesday's election. E.A. of course, speaking for 1 1 1 ... rising. This serves to keep the cent per year (much of Dennis the Menace flBARO OF My 040, He wws a SAJLORT Washington Report By William S. White GREAT DEBATE CENTENNIAL Washington This is the centennial of the Great Debate of a kind that will come' no Imore. The ; country per haps is too bored and so phist i c a t e d and too full of juvenile politi cal rock 'n' roll to listen to such organ thunder from Willam S. White the past. Just a hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas faced in Illinois the stump "discussions" on slavery, on states' rights, on the future expansion of this nation that made a fork in the road for history. Douglas won the battle but lost the war. He retained his seat in the Senate. But the de feated challenger, Lincoln, rose from these dialogues in the dusty and sweaty halls of Illinois to the Presidency of the United States. Douglas was already fa mous. Lincoln became vastly the more famous from this contest in the West. What these men said formed the backdrop to what neither wanted " a civil war. But what they said will live for ever as classic major engage ments in political warfare. rpHE library of Congress is publishing a book called "The Illinois Political Cam paign of 1858." It is based upon the Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincoln papers." It is a book made up of re productions of newspaper texts of the Lincoln -Douglas debates. Lincoln himself edit ed these texts. And so far as can be seen, he took out noth ing except for parenthetical references to "applause" and the like. The action of the Congres sional library is the nearest thing to an anniversary me morial to a time long gone and a controversy long since settled. The scene evoked is strange to a political writer of the present strange but far from unattractive. For in that earlier day of presumed wide spread illiteracy, before every body knew so much about so little, the speeches of both Douglas and Lincoln had something that has gone out of fashion now. , They had an unashamedly literary and even a learned quality that would repel and horrify the political ghost writers of today. Both speak ers plainly believed that those Try and -By BENNETT CERF- PUNCH, the English weekly, ran an amusing cartoon of one of those mighty business tycoons, with nine telephones on his desk, barking testily to his secretary, "Something will have to be done about those. phones, Miss Sym. I've been speaking to myself for nearly five minutes!" Caskie Skinnett seems de termined to open a restau rant called "The Steak Pit" which will feature on its menu such delicacies as filet -of lost sole, depressed duck, welsh rabid, freud potatoes, and schizo farina or, in other words, soup to nuts. Special invitations for the opening night are to be sent to Maudlin Carroll, T. S. Idiot and Trauma Moses. What is the recipe for a successful horror story the kind that people talk about for years? Novelist Edith Wharton believed "the perfect horror story must be about something that cannot happen, must not happen but DOES happen." a use. br Beonatt Ctrl, puuibulcd by, gin rcjjurw 8ya4jct j who heard them were grown up, or should be. THERE were nc trick over simplifications, and there was no sloganeering. What ever slogans were attached to the great addresses in Otta wa, in Freeport, in Charles ton, in Galesburg, in Quincy and in Alton arose natural ly from them. They were not prepared to serve as ready made jingles. Present - generation politi cians with major speeches in mind usually must: 1. Have them written, in all or in part, by others. 2. Mimeograph them well ahead of time and send them out to other "advisers" and then to the press. 3. Cut down on what they have .to say and labor at "socko" ways to say it. 4. Finally, read these speeches in the tired and wretched, monotone, with one hand on the manuscript, one eye on the clock and both eyes on the unwinking red light which signals that the television camera is doing its proper work. Lincoln and Douglas, though well prepared for what they were going to say, ob viously were of the rear-back-and-fire-when - ready school that lives in public affairs now only in memory. ' . LINCOLN had great trouble even in assembling the newspaper clippings that alone could tell the story of what had been said in Illinois. Nobody had any press agent, or battalion of press agents. Nobody had any manager. No body had any citizens commit tee for this or even any Young Republican or Young Demo cratic Committee for that. And neither candidate seemed to have had campaign contributors powerful enough to make "suggestions" in any very firm tone of voice. All these candidates had were great learning in what they were doing Douglas in the formal aristocratic way and Lincoln in the deceptive ly simple and awkward prairie way and grert tolerance toward each other. This was the far - distant yesterday of politics. It was a day redolent of hot, un-air-conditioned assembly halls, of torchlight parades instead of television spectaculars, of red eye whisky for the audiences instead of Martinis for the smooth national committees. What price "progress" and whose progress has it been across this political century? (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me Communications Letters to the Editor 'must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary is often the rase Hits "Smear" Tactics To the Editor: If one may judge from the sentiments expressed in Don Stathos' re cent communication regard ing Rep. Charles O. Porter, Joe McCarthy's body may lie mouldering in the grave, but his soul, goes marching, on. Certainly no better example of the old McCarthy strategy: "if you can't beat your oppo nent fairly, then smear him" has ever been afforded Mail Tribune readers from a local source. . To assert Representative Porter is a Communist be cause he advocates a cessa tion of testing nuclear wea pons is patently absurd, for by the same token, Pope Pius, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, nu clear scientists too numerous to count, outstanding religi ous and political leaders at home and abroad; as well as hosts of common folk in every land on earth must also be labelled Communists, since they are united with Representative Porter in de manding that tests be halted now before mankmd destroys itself. To allege that Representa tive Porter is a Communist because he has chosen to stand fearlessly for freedom South of the Border against dictators as ruthless as any that have ever been a blot on history's pages, is equally as absurd and outrageous as Mr. Stathos' prior assertion. We are prone to forget that our neighbors to the south ward are Americans, too, with a love of liberty and freedom as deeply rooted and as pas sionate as our own. That Com munist leaders are able to find a following among them is due to the desperation which arises out of genera tions of fascistic oppression, poverty and want conditions which we have fostered by our short-sighted economic, political, and military poli cies. It is these policies tnai Representative Porter strives to change for the mutual ben efit of our Latin-American neighbors and ourselves. In so doing, he has in no wise been negligent of his duties as a representative of the state of Oregon, Mr. Stathos' implications to the contrary notwithstanding. For my money, Mr. Porter has done an outstanding job both for Oregon and for better international under standing and goodwill, and I shall continue to worn lor him and vote for him as often as the opportunity arises. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville. The Plywood Dispute To the Editor: Hundreds of unemployed sawmill workers and barely employed sawmill workers in Oregon are suf fering because of the influx of cheap Japanese plywood. Workers in plywood plants are especially hard hit, along with workers in the entire logging and lumbering indus try. This is at a time when private home construction is over 1,000,000 living units a year and considerably in creased over 1957. What does our Congress man from the fourth Con gressional district, Charles O. Porter, say about this prob lem? I would like to quote word for word from his own Report from Washington signed by him: "The facts are that softwood plywood which is virtually all our mills make and hardwood plywood which is all Japan exports to us don't compete either in use or price so as to have any effect on our ply wood mills." The real facts are that the import of Japanese plywood is affecting the jobs of Ore gon workers, and I would be very happy to supply our present Congressman, Charles O. Porter, with these facts at any time. What our Congress man is trying to tell the lum bering and logging workers in his district is that if Cadil lacs sold for-the same price as Buicks it wouldn't affect the sale of Buicks.. If our Congressman, who has become the self-appointed ambassadorlfrom SouthlAmer ica, spent a little less time trying to help the down-trodden masses in South America and gave a little attention to the problems of the people in whose district he was elected, maybe some of the down trodden in this district would be helped. Donald L. Stathos, 220 South Central ave., Medford. Plywood Prices To the Editor: The Douglas fir plywood people have been asking for a quota on import ed hardwood plywood, but, since the Douglas fir plywood production has been increas ing spectacularly and the prices of imported Lauan ply wood are at least 50 per cent higher than Douglas fir ply wood, it is hard to see how Douglas fir plywo'od has been damaged by any imports. W. G. Hellar, Heidner & Company, Imports and Exports, P. O. Box 1628, Tacoma 1, Wash. Memorial Day Reminder To the Editor: On this Me morial Day, I would like to ask a question. How do you intend to observe the day? It is certainly not my intention to make you feel guilty about the way you "spend your lei sure on this national holiday, hut I would like to suggest that we all might' give some thought to the basic meaning of Memorial Day, so that in addition to sleeDine late, or visiting friends or relatives, or getting out Into the coun try for a nicnic. we devote at least a part of our holiday to some honest observance. As Americans we deeply cherish our right to do as we please, especially when it comes to how we spend our time, and the last thing on earth we'd . put up with, is having a government or a dic tator say, in effect, "May 30 is henceforth a national holi day. All shops and offices must close on that day. In the morning all citizens must at tend a Memorial Day meet ing. In the afternoon every one will visit a cemetery and place flowers on the graves of one or more of our soldier dead. Anyone found spending the day in a leisurely or frivi lous manner will be liable to arrest as a traitor to the ideals of our great nation." Heaven forbid that such a thing should ever happen in this country. Yet the interesting thing is, that the real meaning of Memorial Day is , to honor those who died that we might have the kind of country where that sort of dictator ship over our personal free dom could never occur. Perhaps those who least need reminding of the spirit of Memorial Day are parents or other close kin of those who gave their lives in war time. If you are lucky enough not to have a son, husband or brother whose life was snuffed out by war, then may I suggest that someone else's loved one has, in a measure taken his place, and merits your respect and honor oh Memorial Day. If someone near and dear to you came home unscathed from the bat tle, then some other young man suffered injury, or ill ness instead, and-his future welfare is your responsibility, too. Pat Graham, Adjutant and Service Officer, Jackson County Chapter Disabled American Veterans, .175 Jeanette st., Medford. From Judgt Kelly To the Editor: I wish to ex press my sincere appreciation to all those who assisted in my campaign for election in the recent primary. Edward C. Kelly, . Circuit Judge. Conservation Week To the Editor: The observa tion of Conservation Week 1958 proclaimed by Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes has been com pleted for another year. This, of course, does not mean that each individual's observance of the ideals of the conserva tion, utilization and manage ment of our natural resources should come to an end, but only that "a splendid week of cooperation of persons, groups, organizations and businesses whose efforts have focused the state's attention on the wise use of our natur al resources, has been achiev ed. ' I would like to take this op portunity . to thank you, for the State Central committee, the county chairman of your area and his committee, and for myself, for the wonderful help and support you have given us in our efforts to pro m o t e Conservation Week 1958. Richard A. Bain, Chairman Conservation Week State Central Committee, Salem Keep Oregon Green To the Editor: Nine out of ten forest fires in Oregon are Asthmatics! We give $5 trade-in allowance for your old neb (even if broken) on a new Breatheasy set precision pyrex nebulizer; bottle of inhalant; zipper carry ing case. Money-back guarantee. At Your Druggist Civil Service Probe Checks 'Loyalty' Of Congressmen BY FRANK ELEAZER UPI Correspondent Washington The lighter side of congress: Most of our lawmakers would have sworn they stop ped all such foolishness 11 years ago, when wrong-thinkers in the Civil Service com mission made the mistake of compiling a list of suspect congressmen. That list containing derog atory material about maybe as many as 96 members of man-caused and could be pre vented. ' They continue, each year, to gnaw away at the general prosperity of our communities and state. They destroy future timber crops needed for more than 5,000 wood products Oregon uses every day, as well as the rest of the nation. They destroy the scenic values of the forest picnick ing, fishing, hunting, hiking and camping. Keep Oregon Green is ' a movement which brings for est fire prevention to the peo ple. If we are to reduce for est fire losses, everybody must help. Here are a few suggestions how you, as an individual, can help KEEP OREGON GREEN: A. Be careful with fire. B. Ask others to be careful. Keep matches out of reach of children. C. If you smoke crush out all your smokes before you discard them when there is an ash tray use it. If no ash tray is available then drop your cigarette and crush it out with the heel of your shoe. Don't be a flipper. D. Drown your campfire and warming fire. Then stir up the ashes and pour on some more water". Get that last spark. E. Remember: Before build ing a fire on lands of another, check to see if permission is needed. F. If you must use fire to clear old fields or to burn trash, ask about the law, get a permit if required. Then follow safe rules;, burn on calm days only. Have help and tools on hand to prevent your fire from spreading out of control. - - '- G. Report all fires promptly so fire crews can extinguish them while they are small. Lookouts on high mountain peaks cannot see the fire be fore it grows Jarge and gets above the tree tops. Your re port may be the first one the ranger or fire warden will receive. Albert Wiesendanger, Executive Secretary Keep Oregon Green Association, Salem. UPI Bureau Gets New Manager Dallas, Tex. (UPD The appointment of Harry Trim born as manager of the New Orleans bureau of United Press International was an nounced Thursday by Ward Colwell, southwest division news manager of UPI. Trimborn for the past two years was manager of the New Orleans bureau of Inter national News service, which last Saturday was merged with United Press associa tions. The 29-year-old newsman first joined the INS in Los Angeles in 1954, and served in the news agency's Atlanta, Ga., bureau before assuming the managership at New Or leans.' A graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon, Trimborn served for two years in the Marine Corps and began his journalistic career with the Associated Press in San Francisco. f OPEN TODAY ) l TILL MIDNIGHT J V To Serve You y house and senate and at least one senator's wife was has tily . destroyed and the com mission promised an irate house committee it never again would confuse con gressmen with people who ought to be investigated. But here, just the other day, were the commission's inves tigators, gumshoeing around the capitol corridors, asking questions about the loyalty and security of certain law makers who, it was obvious, were about to be dispatched on' a mission of utmost se crecy. Asked About Humphrey "What," one of the sleuths solemnly inquired of Herb Waters, administrative assist ant to Sen. Hubert H. Humph rey (D-Minn.), "is the sena tor's reputation for general reliability?" Waters, who gets out lyrical handouts to the press on just this subject, avowed that eve rything he reads about the senator is uniformly good. This apparently relieved any doubts Ihe government eye may have had about Hum phrey. Other loyalty investigators meantime were making quiet, earnest inquiries about Sen. Edward J. Thyde (R-Minn.), and Reps. Eugene J. McCar thy (D-Minn.), Walter H. Judd TR-Minn.), Joseph F. O'Hara (R-Minn.) and Roy W. Wier (D-Minn.). Neighbors Queried In some cases the members were asked about each other. In other cases the steelyyed types inquired of the law makers' neighbors. Charles Munn, secretary to Roy Wier, was asked if he knew any thing about Gene McCarthy and he professed not to. v . Nobody blew the whistle on anybody, apparently, and it came as a great relief to all concerned especially the Civil Service investigators that everybody got a clean bill of health. This cleared the way for the State Department to announce the'r mission : The Minnesota members, it developed were being made honorary delegates to the annual assembly of the World Health Organization, meeting in Minneapolis. Editorial Comment LIGHTNING Take this not as fact, but as opinion which is all it is. But it does seem to us that electric storms are more com mon than they used to be. This occurs to us, despite our understanding that one 1 is supposed to opine that weath er extremes are not nearly so fearsome as they, were in the . good old days. Even 10 years ago, if memory serves, thun der and lightning in these parts were quite unusual. now, it seems mai aunosi ev ery spring we get a dose of heavenly fireworks. Even last December, short ly before Christmas, thunder was heard not too far distant. And two years ago Memorial Day, for the first time, we ex perienced an electric storm, a mild one, at the Oregon coast right on the beach. We're still a long way from the really terrifying storms that plague the Midwest, the big cities of the east and even eastern Oregon, where light ning damage is almost taken for granted. But we're still getting quite a bit of it, espe cially this year. This year's series of electri cal displays may be blamed on the unseasonably warm weather this month. But such a thing cannot account for that thunder in December nor for the streaks of light ning in the sky over the Pa cific Ocean. Eugene Register-Guard.