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o o O o o O A Tuesday, June T, MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDPO, !. MEDFORD&,TlIIUtl Everyone in Southern V0 Reads The Mail inDune Published Daily except Saturday fcy MEDFORD PfUNTIN? CO S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 rjorjirrj-r m tjttot VAitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Nfgr ERIC A I.I .HQ. 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 Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at t Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION BATSS Frr Mail IrP Advance: Copy 10c, Daily and Sunday 1 yor $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. J 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only On yer $4.fJ0 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, aIe Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Covo Rogio fje er Talent. (Sid on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 ear 619 .00 Daily and Sanrifjv l mo. 1.50 Carrier (STd De:rs coy 18c All xenris .asn in avanc Official Paper of City of niiforl OnW'ai Paper of Jaetog City United Press Full Leased Wir MEMBER OF AUDIT BURJAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in NewoYork. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portlfhd. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C T NEWS PAP It . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASt?oc53ToN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History frono the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 10. 1948. (Thur.day) Yesterday afternoon's rain and hail storm which swept the valley caused severe dam age to the fruit crop, accord ing to C. B. Cordy, county extension agent. Preponderance of local sentiment is in favor of Plan "A" of the bureau of? recla mation proposals for develop ment of Rogue River basin," it was pointed out yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO June 10. 1938 (Friday) Organization . of a Town send political .party in Ore gon is progressing satisfactor ily. Dr. Francis E. Townsend told the Mail Tribune this morning. t From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Farm ers report a lack of rain, of which there was too much three months ago." SO YEARS AGO June 10, 1928. (Sunday) Snoboy Fruit distributors, shippers to foreign countries," will be represented here by JV. T. Dougherty with offices in the Holland hotel. From lScal and personal column: "A group of friends were entertained at a barn dance by Carl Niedermeyer Saturday night." . 40 YEARS AGO June 10, 1918 (Monday) Scores of girls and women in overalls left early this morning to work in the orch ards. 0 From local and personal column: "One of the most suc cessful Red Cross benefits held in this county was that given Saturday night by the ladies auxiliary." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the English poet who wrote, "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." 2. In which European coun try is the port of Trondheim? 3. The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant is in Washington, D.C., New York City or Erie, Pa.? 4. In which country is the port of Haifa? 5. Name the author of the book "Presidential Agent." 6. On which coast of France is the port of Toulon? 7. In what year was the first transcontinental air race eld in the United States? 8. Is the highest mountain peak in the Western hemis phere in North Americt or in SoutS America? 9. Is a fat&)m 6, 90, or 600 feet? 10. What leading insecti cide was developed during W.W. II? I. Thomas Gray. 2. Norway. 3. New York City. 4. Pales line. 5- Upton Sinclair. 6. The Mediterranean. 7. 1909. 8. South America (Mt. Acon cagua, Argentina). 9. Six feet. 10. DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-Jrichloroelhane.) How to The principle of "united giving," first given practice in the "community chests" of some years aero, which later laro-elv o-avp. wav to "united o funds," operating under been successiui up to a point. There was a time when everv rjublic-snirited . . X X and public-service agency operated in its own r i ? t 1 ' !L1- i- iuna-raismg curve, a Dusinessman wiin a reputa tion for penerositv could 'be solicited a score of C? - 4 times during a single vear. For a time, the community chest idea was suc cessful m eliminating much ol this sort or thing. DUT. as time went on, many agencies discovered thev could raise more monev on their own than they could expect anneal. Also, as time went sprang up, raising money lor causes which were good, usually with a strong emotional appeal (the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is an excellent example). When their appeal was strong enough, they tended to do oetter at iuna raising alone than in connection with a com rrmnitv chest or united fund. On the other hand, the long-established service organizations of a community, which felt respon sibility to the communities they served, usually tended to stay in the united appeal irameworK, because they usually met all or part of their needs this wav. because it eliminated the hard work in volved in a fund camnaism. and because they did noi want to cross the - - 1 m -m tormulated and carried organization. : . DUT, by and large, since World War II, the united appeal type of organization "all the begs in one askit," as the phrase had it has operated relatively wen, with tne exceptions no ted above. v It has been particularly successful in Med ford, both as to inclusiveness and as to success in raising the quotas and meeting the needs of the participating agencies. Success has been less marked in some other cities, and good or better in a few. One of. the big advantages of a united appeal and one not readily recognized by the public as a whole, is the fact that ticipating agencies are given a scanning by a budget committee. .. WHILE this scanning has, understandably, given rise to considerable irritation on the part of some agencies which have been denied, or whose requests have been scaled down, it does serve as a protection to the donor. - And the screening often has eliminated some national solicitations which are either question able as to method, or too specialized to appeal to a general charitable approach. The united fund appeal in the case of Medford entitled the United Medford Crusade, which is the successor to the old Community Chest and to the "Medford Plan" of some years ago has not fully solved the problem. FEW of the health agencies have joined, and some which have are planning to "disaffili ate," including the American Cancer Society. Most of them make general and frequently successful appeals, on the model of the Polio Foundation. Still other agencies, both health and other wise, use the stamp appeal "pioneered by the Tuberculosis association, and later adopted by the Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Father Flanagan's Boys Town, and others. There are the tag sales (such as that spon sored by the Disabled American Veterans which sell auto license tags to use on key rings), ad dress stickers, and other gadgets' and gimmicks. "IITE admire the spirit and intent of almost all of them. But for the ordinary individual it is impos sible to make any substantial contribution to them all, and he finds himself right back , where he was several years ago, when he had to pick and choose among many supplicants to decide to which to give. The best advice we can give is simply this: Give to the extent which you can afford, and to the appeals which, on logical examination, seem to give the best chance of your money do ing the most good. The United Medford Crusade is almost en tirely devoted to the welfare of young people, with a few other functions also included. HAPJTY in the old fashioned sense of giv- ing to relieve human hunger and suffering has been taken over by goverment, to a large extent, but still lives through the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, both of them United Appeal members. As to the health agencies, one can find an appeal for almost any type of crippling or killing disease, and one must follow one's own con science as to which is the most deserving. It does seem a pity, though, that the indi vidual who is interested in the conquest of all diseases has no one agency to which to make a single donation. E. A. - Damp and Mild Normal precipitation for the entire month of June totals just under one inch. So far this month, we have had nearly two inches of rain. The time has come to cry Hold ! Enough ! But the weather bureau's most recent 30-day forecast calls for more, of the same a "damp, mild month," it says. E.A. Give? - Q - . the same theory, has as a share ot a united on, new organizations community leaders who i 1 I 1 .1 out the united appeal the budgets 01 the par Dennis the Menace 6-w GO TBLL DENNIS UkE JUST FIXING YOUSZ SPfWKLlNS. HgUOUSHDOU WRE SETTING A 0006 TRAP fOP HIM 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Plugs Power Initiative To the Editor: Here we are in the midst of a depression, and by my means of reckon ing nearly five million people out of work is a depression. What's being done? Pre cious little, that's what. The Administration is static and actionless; the forces in Con gress that would rectify this situation are overwhelmed by inert Republicans and South ern Democrats. This leaves the recession problem up to the states, many of which have uncon vened legislatures and are un able to act (like Oregon); yet we can do something to spark the economy for now and many a year to come. It's the initiative petition for an Oregon Power Devel opment Commission, endorsed by the Oregon branches of the Grange, the Farmers' Union, and the AFL-CIO. This power commission would lure new industries and new jobs into the state with cheap, plentiful, hydro-electricity primarily by purchasing federally-generated power as a preference customer and re selling it to new industries, presently the lowest preferred customers for Bonneville pow er, thanks to a . McKay- arranged contract : : between the federal government and the private power companies. Also this way Oregon will be able to get'" its fair share of federally - generated power from the Columbia River as Washington now does with its many public utilities, aU pref erence customers. Let's have an Oregon Pow er Development Commission for new industries and vitally needed new jobs through cheap, plentiful electricity. James E. Harris, 726 N. Beach st., Portland 12, Ore. Strontium-Fluorine To the Editor: This is a continuation of Mark A. Chamberlain's argument in the Tribune June 5th. Strontium 90 is soluble and can therefore be eliminated from the body. The amount retained by the bones of the body depends upon the degree of calcium' deficiency. It is true that the majority of -us do suffer from calcium de ficiency as is evidenced not only by the prevalence of den tal caries, but also by our emo tional and nervous instabil ity shown by our use of tran quilizers, sleeping pills, alco hol, cigarettes, tea, coffee, colas and chewing gum. This deficiency results from our increasing use of pasteurized milk. The greater the calcium deficiency, the more stronti um 90 is retained in the bones. However, as strontium 90 it is slowly eliminated from the body. If, however, our environ ment also contains free fluor ine the strontium 90 unites with the fluorine to form the highly insoluble Sr 90F2. Be ing insoluble, it can not De eliminated from the body the individual then will con tinue to be exposed to the dan gers of strontium 90. The great danger of stron tium 90 is its radio activity. This activity of even a minute particle of strontium 90 will continue over a period of 50 years before it is completely exhausted. The danger of this activity is its ability to cause mutations in living body cells. It will especially cause muta tions within the genes -of the reproductive cells which de termine our inheritance as proper human beings. A mu tation is a sudden change in the growth of a cell. A crude example of genetic mutation would be an infant born with I out thumbs. But mutations can occur also in other cells. Hence in bones it becomes bone cancer, etc. We have all been exposed to strontium 90. We will con tinue to be exposed to it if atomic tests are continued, or if , waste products from the atomic plants should escape. It is now in our environment. But we do not need to have fluorine in our environment when it is present it greatly increases the danger from atomic fallout. Miss Anna M. Freed, 36 No. Peach st. Medford. Lauds Christie Home To the Editor: I read the article with interest in the June 1 Mail Tribune con cerning the Portland agencies supported by the United Med ford Crusade. A few weeks ago I made a trip with other Medford peo ple to Portland and visited a number of these agencies. I was particularly impressed by the work being carried on at Christie Home for Girls near Marlyhurst. The Christie Home is oper ated by the Sisters of the Holy Names for the care of young girls five years of age and older. , All of these chil dren are emotionally disturb ed. They are the result of broken homes, improper par ental care and other circum stances. All suffer mostly from lack of love. I appreciated the oppor tunity to learn about this and the other agencies. My work and contribution to the Unit ed Medford Crusade shall be given cheerfully because I know that 33 children from Jackson county have been given care at Christie Home for Girls during the past three years. Jay J. Elliott, 116 South Modoc ave., Medford Alone and Lonely To the Editor: Dear Rogue Valley friends, if she were your mother, without relatives or friends, bedfast, drawn with arthritis, all alone and so lonely, not able to read, write or communicate with the outside world, needing a hearing aid badly, would you be grateful to anyone who would visit her, take flowers or refreshments or cards? ; Let's visit Laura Bell Jack son, 150 North Main st., Ash land, Ore. (Name on file) Medford. Decoration Program To the Editor: I am sexton at Jacksonville cemetery, and Father McLeod and the sis ters, and the singing they had at the cemetery on Decoration day, was one of the nicest that they have had in Jacksonville cemetery. Also the sermon Father McLeod had was very good, and I hope they will have it next year again. Soren Nelson Box 664 Jacksonville Act of Mercy To the Editor: The other evening a pretty little spaniel was struck by a hit and run driver near Ashland. Several persons gathered at the scene. We tried to interest the police and to contact a local veteri narian. The latter being out of town and the former having nothing to offer, the Medford Humane Society was called. An ambulance arrived and the dog was taken to a veterinar ian near Medford, The reason I am writing this is that the couple who drove the ambulance and acted so efficiently and humanely, de serve some recognition for In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The U.S. Air Force dis closed the other day that by 1961 some three short years hence it expects to develop an electronic brain that will be capable of TRANSLATING RUSSIAN BOOKS by the push of a button. Special tape on which the Russian text has been typed will be fed in at one end of the robot, and a tape bearing the ENGLISH translation will come out at the other end. Just like that! A LL this prompts a thought. Why bother any more to learn foreign languages? Why not let the machine do it all? WELL, there would be prob blems. For example: The jigger is described as "about the size of several tall filing cabinets" that is to say, somewhat bigger than a kitchen range. And Presumably You'd have to have a separ ate machine for each langu age. Suppose you were tour ing Western Europe and felt that you'd like to talk to peo ple in Norway, Sweden, Den mark, Holland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy not to mention Russia. If you wanted to accomplish it pain lessly (merely by the punch of a button you'd have to car ry some eight or nine of the robots around with you. Toting eight or nine ma chines the size of a kitchen stove around with you all over Western Europe would get tiresome". Not only that, but it would cost a whale of a lot in the way of tips. s I think If you want to know what other peoples are thinking if, to use a modern term, you want to communicate you'd better go ahead in the old fashioned way and learn their languages. ISUPPPOSE the next step along these modern lines of communication will be a dictating machine that will transcribe what you say into written words. You'll just talk into one end of it and your winged thoughts will j. - ai x :n come oui, neauy typewritten, at the other end. (The telephone company's engineers are reported to be working on a jigger of that sort, and what the telephone company's engineers tackle has a habit of showing up ssooner or later as realty.) THAT brings up something else. I reckon maybe the next step will be a machine that WILL DO OUR THINKING FOR US! DAV Not Sponsoring Painting Curb Numbers Representatives of the lo cal chapter of the Disabled American Veterans said today the organization is not spon soring painting house num bers on curbs. The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce reported to. the locaf DAV chapter that it had inquiries about men paint ing house numbers on curbs asking for donations under the sponsorship of the DAV. Pat Graham, secretary of the local chapter, said the organization is not sponsoring them. this Christian act. I learned later they will not be paid as they are no longer in the em ploy of the Humane Society and were under no obligation to drive to a neighboring town to perform this act of mercy. It is heartening to find such kindness. "Goodness is its own reward," but an expression of appreciation from a bystander is surely not amiss. Mrs. L. J. Curtis, Highway 99 South, Ashland. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- AGENT WHO had had many, many drinks too many was weaving down the street when a pair of identical twins approached from the opposite direction. They separated at the last moment, one twin pass ing him on the right, the other on the left The befuddled gent took several more steps, then stopped in his tracks, and clapped a Jiand to his fore head. "Now how in blazes," he wondered audibly, "did that fellow do that?" A TV qulzmajter who wu protesting rather too vehem ently that his program waa "completely and utterly spon taneoua and unrehearsed" re minded critic Harriet Van ' Home of Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." ' . Sign over the door of a new delicatessen In Long Beach: "What foods these morsels be!" C 1958. by Bennett Cut Distributed by Kiof Features 8yodicte. Tension Grows on Cyprus; Civil War, Diplomatic Break, Seen BY CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The Cyprus situation is building up toward an ex plosion. A civil war between Greek Turkish elements in the is land, a diplo matic break between the Greek and Turkish gov ernments and a serious weakening of "the North At lantic Treaty flrtfan 1 w r 5 m McCann are among the possibilities. British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan is preparing, soon after his return from his present visit to the United States, to announce a stop gap plan to settle Cyprus's status until a permanent solu tion can be worked out. It is known in advance that the plan will be unacceptable to Greece, which claims the island, and the Greek Cypriot Islanders who demand a pleb iscite in which they would vote for "union" with Greece. Have Stated Demands Nor is the Macmillan plan likely to please Turkey, which says that Greece must not have Cyprus and that if there is any change in its status it must be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish people. A one-year truce which the Greek Cypriot underground organization declared in hope that Britain would give up the island was ended in March with an outburst of bombings. Since then the murder of two British policemen by ter rorists has resulted in the re imposition of the death penal ty which Britain suspended in recognition of the truce. There have been attacks on Greek islanders by the underground organization. Rioting broke out between Greeks and Turks after a bomb damaged the Turkish government consulate in Ni cosia, the capital, Saturday night. Four Killed Turks attacked Greeks. Four Greeks were killed in riots in Nicosia and the port city of Larnaca Saturday night and Sunday. Greece announced Sunday that it had demanded an emer gency meeting of the council of NATO in Paris to take up the riot situation. Philip Crosby Seen Altar Bound Las Vegas, Nev: (UPI) Philip Crosby, son of crooner Bing Crosby, squired a Trop icana showgirl around the glittering Las Vegas "strip" Monday amid reports that an other of the Crosby clan might be altar bound. Gossips were having a field day, but Philip, whose twin, Dennis, found his wife, Pat Sheehan in the Tropicana show, was having none of the publicity game. Neither was pretty, 20-year-old Sandra Drummond, who had been young Crosby's date of late. "There are definitely no marriage plans," Miss Drum mond said. "We've been hav ing dinner and seeing shows but we're just friends." Philip, in turn, shrugged and smiled when asked if there was a chance he might wed the showgirl, a contestant in the Miss California contest a year ago. Observers of other persons business along the glamorous string of resort hotel which line the highway coming ; into this gambling resort reported Philip had been Sandra's al most constant companion since his arrival from college. Stop Me 1 wx j oeorger-esmauzogiou.oreeK ambassador to Turkey who is on home leave, was instructed not to return to his post. ' Two hundred thousand per sons attended an anti-Greek demonstration In Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday. Greek Orth odox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot Islanders, was burned in ef figy. Greek Foreign Minister i Matter of fact "THE PARA" Algiers The uniform is made of camouflage cloth, de signed to lose itself in a jun gle in sunlight (for it was adapted in the time of the cruel war in I n d o China). The man the u n i f o rm en closes is in the kind of hard condition that, Jos-pb Alsop m xnese son er, later days, is almost an af front to the rest of mankind. He is not really "he", be cause this "he" is a composite of a dozen or so of these offi cers of the French parachute regiment with whom one has talked. But let us speak of "him" because "he" has had much the same experiences and has shown much the same reaction as all the rest of them. He is, then, rather lower in rank than an officer of com parable age in the American Army: for promotion in the French professional officer corps is a slow business at best. In experience, on the other hand, he is far lder than most members of the post-war generation in any other army. He has in fact been almost continuously at war during his entire adult life. THE plastron of medals on his chest, which he alwaje wears unless he prefers the single ribbon of the Legion of Honor, tells his whole life story. Six years in Indo China, then three years in Al geria if this is the story, it may be thought admirable but it is certainly not exceptional His experience has been not quite the same as the experi ence of other French profes sional officers who are not parachuted. This is chiefly because no French soldiers who were not volunteers were sent to Indo China; and the parachute regiments, entirely composed of volunteer sol diers, consequently fought the whole war there.. Hence there is this difference between him and other French officers of his age, that he has probably seen far more of war and that his profession is much more his whole life. ' e 1JUT this difference between him and his brother offi cers is -far less significant than the differences between him and his owp people. Here the gulf is wide and even rather terrible. For France, nowa days, is more and more a com fortable country, living the comfortable, materially pros perous but inglorious life that seems to be the western ideal and aim. He long since rejected this ideal and aim. He has perhaps done things that would shock most moralists of the West the parachutists did not drive terrorism from Algiers by or dinary police methods. But he has his own aim and his own ideal, which combined pro duce somewhat unexpected re sults. He has, for example, an un concealed admiration for the Communist soldiers of the Viet Minn and the Algerian Ml ' 1 lilt; Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 O MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Evangelos Averoff expressed fear in an interview in Athens Saturday that if serious dis orders broke out in Cyprus, Turkish rioters might attack the Greek minorities in Istan bul and Izmir, as they had done after the Cyprus terror ism started in 1955. If that happens, Averoff said, it will mark "the end of NATO in the eastern Medi terranean. Joseph Alsop J rebels, whom he has spent his whole life fighting. And he has the most perfect contempt, not only for the French poli ticians who have never had the courage to make either war or peace, but also for the prosperous bourgeois at home and the rich colons here in . Algeria. In truth, he is an uprooted man, in the sense that he has largely rejected both the values and the ideas of suc cess of his own society. Yet in another sense, a very deep sense, he is still captive of his society's values. A N average Soviet officer might have done all that our parachutists have done without ever asking for any justification beyond those reasons of State which ? are not the almighty State's sole business. In contrast, the par achutist may have largely re jected the material value of western society, but he has altogether rejected its human itarian values. So he seeks a justification, sometimes rather desperately. Herein, largely, lies the se cret of his pagsionate dedica tion to ie idea of "integrat ing Algeria" to the rest of France. Make of the wretched Moslem masses full citizens of a greated France. Give them the saShe education, the same opportunities, the same social benefits as the rest of the French people. Then there is a reason, higher than any rea son of State, to make war up on them and even to torture those who are suspected of terrorist artivitips O 11 1 IT is ironical but it is true that he feels this need. And who can blame him for seek ing justification for Qhis ex perience, which would have caised any other western army to abandon its govern ment at least five years earli er? 0 ... . :. i He was in truth one of those who did abandon the Fourth Republic, and so he prepared the way for the new France, just born and wholly unp dictdble, of Gen. de Gaulle. Having seen De Gaulle in pow er, he would surely follow his leader to the end of the earth, if it were not for one diffi culty. But how will he react if De Gaulle concludes that metropolitan France cannot or should not carry out the Al gerian integration in which he so passionately believes? To this question, he hardly knows the answer himself. Furthermore, f the difficulty is even deeper, if you look carefully into it. For has he not been formed into a lonely Spartan in the bosom of the most Athenian of modern so cieties? And how is the gulf between the man of Sparta and the men of Athens ever to be abridged? 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