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4 Mon&e. ti f, tt9 MAIL TRt0Ut AWfMI, Ml. MEDFORDSflllWI "Everyone in Southern tar( Keads The MaJ Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St. Ph. SP-2-6141 ROBzfQ W RTJHL, 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 DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, ISO'i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Conv 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. A 25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Pint, Eagle Point, .Jacksonville. - Gold Hill. Phoenix, ohady Coy Rou Riv (fiT Talert. and on motor routes: jW'Otif Sunday I ytr $18.00 KSOtiy 0-- Sunday 1 mo. 1.5f Bmr 0nd Delr copy 10c tfll Tnr) Ch in dvtnc OfficQI Hp9t f CK of Melfori ) OfficPp- ot4ckson County United PressFull Leased 'ire g MEME0n OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lant) Vancouver. B. C. S PAPER PUBLISHER ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocITatiQn Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The U& Tribune 10, 20. 30 nd 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 16. 1943 (VSndtf ) City councilmen last night determined the city's share in the construction of a new administration building at the arport will be $39,235. Vegetable gardens have been doing well with natural irrigation, according to Coim ty Horticultural Ajnt Clif ford B. Cordy. , 2A YEA9 &0 Jur 16, 13 (t Ruidaf) Editors an publisher start arriving here for th 51st an nual convention of Oregon Newspaper Publishers' asso ciation. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Farm ers areCrayir for rain. It's no use unless they et their auto washed, or buy a jiew hat." o 30 YARS AGO June 16.' 1928 (Saturday) The Fourth of July will not be observed by Medford youth firing off firecrackers, skyrockets and roman can dles, according to the fire and police departments. Ewenty-one teachers were 0 present for the state teachers examinations last Thursday and Friday at the junior high i 40 YEARS AGO June IS, 1918 (Monday) The outdoors performance of The Mikado in the fhoenix Grove will be given on Fri day evening. From local and personal column: "The ladies of the Red Cross are bending their energies to o raise money Qhrough a trinket shop." o What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superiar; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Just before gogtg on the beni each time, each Su preme Court Justice must shake hands with every other Justice; how many handshakes does this ceremony involve? 2. How many edges" has a cube? 3. "Remember Pearl Har bor," was a slogan of World War II; "Remember the ," was a slogan of the Spanish Americaft War. 4. Which arm of the fam ous statue, Venus de Milo, is wholly missing? 5. A myopic person is near sighted or farsighted? 6. How many furlongs in a ile? 7. Which noted ancient sol dier was born in Europe, died in Asia, and was buried in Africa? 8. Sunspots are cooler or hotter than the rest of the sun? 9. Eros is the Greek mytho logical god of ? 10. Are Peonies annuals, bi ennials, or perennials? Answers: 1. 36. 2. 12. 3. "Maine." 4. The left arm. 5. Nearsighted. 6. Eight. 7. Alex ander the Great. 8. Cooler. 9. Love. 10. Perennials. Monroe County, West Vir ginia, was the home of the Spanish-American War hero, Andrew S. Rowan, who car ried the message that later was immortalized in Elbert Hubbard's classic, "Message to GarcOa." Sad Sacks, and Gay Ones . 'Some harsh things ack dress. Some of them, we've Others were said by a young man named Jim Welch, who wrotes sprightly editorials for the Salem Capital-Journal. Now comes Jim (an that maybe it isn t as bad as he thought when he first saw the pictures. "Anybody can make a mistake, he says. f AST AUGUST, as the " come popular, he was scornful. In November, after he'd seen some on the streets of Salem, he hedged a bit, and allowed that maybe one type, carefully fitted where fully fitted," just might Now he's caved in completely. Says the whole movement is good. And he adds that he finally realizes that a sack dress is not a specific type, but a fashion movement which frees women from the neces sity to wear whatever happens to be in vogue at the moment. MOW we haven't reversed our field quite as 4 1 fully and abruptly as apologizes. We still think that some of the sacks are horrid particularly the ones that make the wearer look like Notre Dame s hunchback. But we have learned that the whole kit and kaboodle of sacks, chemises, et al, cannot be damned in one breath, for there are those which are not only acceptable, but, on the right people, downright glamorous. - We. sturdily ..maintain, however, that this is the exception to the rule. E.A. , ' Juvenile "Fire Departments " Elsewhere on this page- is the frst o two articles dealing with the problem of juvenile courts in Oregon. Written by Dorothy Ann West, a University of Oregon journalism graduate this year as part of her senior requirements, it is a thoughtiul re view of the need for uniform treatment of juye nile offenders throughout the state, and for in creased services, including specialized courts for young people, stronger staff s, and more adequate treatment facilities. j FOR instance, she points out that in some coun ties juvenile matters are handled by county courts (as they were in Jackson county until a few years ago), in others by regular circuit court judges (as is the case here now), and only in Multnomah county by a judge who handles noth ing but juveniles. (In Marion county one of the departments of the circuit court is the court of domestic rela tions, which handles juvenile matters in connec tion with its other work:) And only three counties Multnomah, Lane and Jackson have adequate juvenile detention facilities. THE article's author argues that the lack of uni- formity among counties makes for confusion, and the fact that each handles the problem as it sees fit makes for wastefulness. This is undoubtedly true, to a certain extent. The legislature at its last regular session appoint ed an interim committee to study court procedure, part of the work being devoted to the juvenile code and the administration of justice to young people. The problem is being more fully recognized than it has been for many years since the years between 1905; when the first juvenile court meas ure was passedf and 1919, when it was last amended to any important degree. AND there are other signs that the public is wakening to the seriousness of the juvenile delinquency problem. It certainly is in Jackson county, where the people overwhelmingly voted for the new detention home, and where one of the two circuit judges devotes a considerable part of his time to juvenile matters. The recommendation for separate juvenile courts, bolstered by strong counselling staffs, is a good one, and to a large degree has been met in Jackson county, although those involved in the work would be among the first to tell you that a long way to go remains before we can, say our system is fully effective. NE of the signs of awareness is the active Juvenile Advisory Council in Jackson county, and the. fact that a statewide organization, pat terned after it, is in process of formation. Pre liminary discussions to this end have been under way for some months. . But the hard fact remains that, no system of juvenile courts, no matter how good; no correc tional institutions, no matter how well financed or planned or supported; no uniformity of 'state law, however thoroughly studied, can ever solve the problem of juvenile delinquency. At best these are like the fire department they are called to put out the blaze after the fire has started. - - DELINQUENCY will be with us until our "fire prevention" processes which in the' case of juvenile delinquency reside in the home and the church and the school and the neighborhood and the community are improved. " ' And this won't happen until that minority of families from which the majority of delinquents come, realize the responsibilities they have for their own offspring, and to the society in which they must make their way. E.A. ' have been said about the said ourself. honest man) to admit sack first started to be dresses should be care be alright. , Jim Welch, who abjectly Dennis the Menace fij 'I ONW OPENED THE UTTIE COOK 7WSWXU. SEE ? Jusr jjxisawch. see Juvenile Offenders: What Is Best Means To Handle Problem? Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles dealing with the problem of handling and treatment of juvenile cases in the courts of Oregon It was written by a- gradual ing senior at the University of Oregon's school of journalism as part of her senior require ments. . By DOROTHY ANN WEST Five out of every ten delin quents that appear before the courts in any single year go on to become next year's adult criminals. This startling statistic' is from Children's Bureau rec ords. And the delinquency rate is increasing daily. J. Ed gar Hoover recently declared that crime by youthful offen ders increased by almost 10 per cent in 1957. In Portland delinquency records for one month in 1956 showed 256 boys arrested for crimes ranging from car theft to homicide. Half of this num ber were second offenders These repeaters are doubly dangerous because they do not return alone. They bring new recruits to court with them. Interest Lags Public interest in juvenile courts was high early in the century when, as compared with today, -the problem was less serious. Oregon's first ju venile court bill was passed m 1905. During the next few years the act was amended several times; but after the fifth amendment in 1919, pub lic interest began a steady de cline. Today, with the juve nile problem more serious than ever, popular interest in the juvenile courts in Oregon apparently is at an all-time low. Since the idea behind the establishment of a juvenile court in Oregon was to pro tect the child and prevent fu ture offenses, the court is sup posedly not so much con cerned with the punishment fur specific of'enses as wih finding out the cause of each child's misbeavior and th; best way to correct the situa tion. The objective, then, is to help the offender become a happy, useful citizen of his society through material, so cial, and emotional devices. Oregon courts have not al ways drawn a sharp line be tween the delinquent and the criminal. In fact, most coun ties do not have separate ju venile courts, but provide ju venile jurisdiction through the county or circuit courts. It is hard to believe that a judge who deals with adult criminal law, wills, and con tract agreements, or one in volved with purely adminis trative matters, can miracu lously become the ideal, help ful, understanding juvenile court judge on the fifth day. Laws Confused The laws governing the courts in Oregon which handle children's cases are confused. They are unstandardized, and the courts are insufficiently staffed with officials trained in dealing with juvenile cases. According to the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Delinquency, an ef fective juvenile court should define the duties and respon sibilities of the court in rela tion to statutes which permit control of delinquency. It is hard to define the duties and responsibilities of the Oregon juvenile court, though, since only a few counties in the state have such courts. In some jurisdictions certain of fenses are excepted from the operation of the juvenile court law altogether, and the cases may Be tried in criminal courts. Only one county, Mult nomah, has a court of exclu sive jurisdiction for children under 18. Each county, there fore, deals .with its juvenile cases differently and not ac cording to one uniform state law. Only a comparatively small number of jurisdictions select their judges on the. basis of the judge's ability to handle juvenile cases, although the National Conference believes that besides legal training, a judge must have a. thorough knowledge of social problems and an ability to deal effec tively with children. Trained juvenile court staffs, which should have as wide a background in their field as the judge in his, are lacking in all the courts in Oregon and even untrained staff members are few. Only three counties require written qualifications and only one a civil service examination for probation officers. . Detention quarters which are separate from those of the adult criminals and which are clean, properly lighted, and well ventilated are an im portant factor in effective handling of juvenile cases. Three counties in Oregon, Multnomah, Lane, and Jack son, have institutions for de tention. The other counties rely on sections of the county jail or private homes for de tention purposes. A wide range of discretion exists for adapting treatment to varying needs and situa tions in the -Oregon courts, particularly in the matter of probation. The child may be placed in custody of a private or public institution or agen- ommunications 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 th'e contrary is often the case. "Unique" Letter To the Editor: I have just read Mr. Brakel's letter "To The Editor" regarding Charles Porter, our. Representative in Washington. It is a very unique type of letter. It intimates that Por ter has done many , things. It speaks of the Talent project. Authorization and the origi nal appropriation for the Tal ent project were secured by Senator Guy Cordon and Representative Harris Els worth. The access roads for overripe timber areas, the or iginal authorization and ap propriations were secured by Senator Guy Cordon and Rep resentative Harris Ellsworth. The letter intimates that people interested in mining would welcome a friend in Mr. Porter. All that Mr. Por ter has ever done for mining is to take a picture of a clear cut timber area, send this pic ture to a Nationwide Televi sion program. He labeled the picture, "A Mine in Southern Oregon." So all Mr. Porter has done is try to discredit any mining in the State of Oregon, or if we give him the benefit of the doubt, the best we could say is that he can not tell a clear cut timber area from a mine. Fay I. Bristol. Bristol Silica Company, P. O. Box 427, Rogue River. Forestation's Start To the Editor: When enjoy ing rising sun's light effects on the green of upper fronds, the brown of decumbent ones, of native California palms, one recalls the remarkable place palms hold in history, even in prehistory. When the writer was at Matter of Fact By Rowland Evans, Jr. While Joseph Alsop re ports from Algieria, Row land Evans Jr. covers the Washington base. BACKFIRE ON THE WHITE HOUSE Washington The White Housenot the Labor Depart ment or Sen Knowland or the Republican National Commit tee, must wear the dunce's cap for the incredible blun der committed in the name of Secretary of Labor Mitchell this week. No1 matter .what the parade of official statements may say, this has been a White House operation from start to fin ish. Of course Mr. Mitchell ap proved the inept statement at tacking the Kennedy bill. The fact is, however, that he scarcely had any choice. The strategy that led to this ex traordinary piece of bungling was laid down in the White House. In the candid words of one honest participant, that strat egy was designed "to make the issue by the strongest kind of shock treatment, and then to lose it." The state ment itself, with its implic- cation that the Kennedy-Ives bill was a fraud, was the shock treatment. The plan, in other words, was nothing less than a. deliberate effort to "shock" the Senate into the kind of divisive debate that would end in no; bill at all. The Republicans could then campaign this fall waving the McClellan labor-racket hear ings in one hand and in the other the refusal of the Demo cratic Congress to pass any reform. rpHIS strategy was faintly -- remininscent of the Ad ministration s conduct one year ago. Then, as every one remembers, the Senate had done the impossible and pass ed out a civil rights bill, the first since Civil War recon- structon. Mere passage of the bill killed what had promised to be the hottest political issue for the Republicans since the numbers game. The Republi cans and almost everyone else had counted on a glorious Southern filibuster to break the Democrats in two. It fail ed to materialize. When the resourceful Sen. Johnson then went on to win the votes of 12 Republicans for the dis puted jury trial amendment, cy, an authorized Individual, or a private home. This is in direct contrast to the National Conference ideal of supervi sion and aid for all proba tioners. Confusion and lack of uni formity in "state juvenile court laws are two important fac tors impeding the progress Oregon must make in develop ing a court system to meet the challenge of delinquency control. University of .Washington, he noted the fossil Puget Sound palms. This, however, is not palms' northermost station. Fossil palm leaves, as well as fossil breadfruits, have been found in Greenland. Since the palm especially is a warmth lover, we thus estimate cli mate shifts. When Oldtimer grumbles about changing climate he is not accurate. Some early Cal ifornia Missions record even farther back of annual tree rings such as rafters of old Arizona pueblos, yes, even Mariposa Big Trees indicate abbreviated cycles. Is not, however, a great swing of cli mate, permitting palms in Greenland or Switzerland, something quite different? Preference for palms or dis like for palms sometimes can be utilized in public relations. Writer returned from Ger many, at the century's turn, bubbling with enthusiasm about what he had learned in roadside forestry at the Ger man Forestry School. He de termined to try to substitute same for the then often dreary treelessness of roads of Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley. It soon was evident taxpay ers objected. We thereupon held a meeting at our home. To this we invited 15 palm enthusiasts, 15' loving New England's elms, that we knew could be depended on to start a debate. Before long citi zens were not thinking of whether they could afford tree-lined roads. It was "elms or palms!" Thus was born Sacramento County's Forestry Board, one of the beginnings of the present State Highway Roadside Forestation. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J Sts. Sacramento 14, Calif.1 Long U.S. - On Cold War Issues By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst A months-long deadlock on the negotiation of cold war issues between the Western allies and Sov iet Russia is about to be broken. It appears to be settled that experts rep resenting East and West will meet in Geneva, Swit zerland. on Charles M. McCano July 1 to start technical talks on the possibility of an agree ment to stop the testing of nu clear .weapons- These talks could lead to a new start toward a disarma ment treaty after a lapse which started when Russia walked out of United Nations disarmament talks last fall. At the same time, the possi bility that a summit confer ence of heads of government on a wide ranee of cold war issues will be held this year seems to be fading rapidly. A month or two ago, it seemed to be almost certain that a summit conference would be held this fall. New Book Of. Party Campaign Finances By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI) Jack Redding has written a good book called "Inside the Dem ocratic Party" which also could be titled a p propriately something like this: "Through the Jungle of P r e s idential C a mpaigning Without Food Lyie c. Wilson or Water!" Food and water, ' in this and passed the bill, the Re publicans resorted to a man euver of delay that looked suspiciously like an effort to kill the bill by having the House delete the jury trial amendment. . The inevitable result was a conviction still held by lead ing Negro organizations that the Republicans had simply meant from the start to agi tate and exploit the civil right issue, not resolve it. THE same result, unhappily for the Republicans is a likely legacy of the White House labor bill intrigue. Even though Mr. Mitchell's denunciation of the Kennedy bill has put more teeth into it, the White House strategy is likely to boomerang in sev eral obvious ways. Item: It has put Mr. Mitch ell "entirely out of character" in the words of one of his staunchest Republican ad mirers on Capitol Hill. Mitch ell's bright future as a Re publican who merited the full respect of labor has been dam aged, perhaps irreparably. A political figure caught "out of character" is not unlike a temperance leader caught with a keg of beer. Item: The Eisenhower ad ministration has now appear ed to place itself cozily in be tween Sen. Knowland. and Sen. Goldwater, although the brightest future of the Re publican party must lie else where and although Mitchell has personally moved his party toward a liberal labor position ,over the past four years. ' . TTEM:: The implication that Kennedy and Ives naa de liberately contrived to write a bill that would weaken, not strengthen, the controls over unscrupulous labor leaders has greatly enhanced the chance for final passage of a reform bill. In the House, Speaker Ray- burn will use all his consid erable powers to have the Sen ate Bill approved. Should the House actually pass the bill and send it to the White House, the big winner now would more likely be Ken nedy, not Mitchell. For the Republicans, the most unfortunate aspect of the whole affair is that they, not the Democrats, have kept the heat on the labor-reform is sue. They may now wind up with no credit and with no is sue. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth havp suffered real embarrassment because their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at Just the wrong time. Do not live in fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTETH. the ailtanne (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Russian Deadlock Fellow allied governments were putting strong pressure on the United States to agree to the conference, for which Russia had been calling since Jast December when former Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin sent the first of a series of let ters to various heads of gov ernment. But this pressure has now almost stopped. One big reason is that Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles seems to have con vinced other Allied leaders that it would be a serious mis take to agree to a summit con ference until Russia has given assurance that it is ready to negotiate big issues in good faith. Another has now arisen in the accession of Gen. Charles de Gaulle as Premier of France in one of the big po litical upheavals of recent years. It will be necessary for President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to try to coordinate policy with De Gaulle before there can be any agreement to hold the summit meeting. First in prospect at present is a series of talks which Describes sense, would be money, which was the Democrats' greatest lack 10 years ago when they reluctantly put up slight Har ry S. Truman to run against the Goliath shadow of Thomas E. . Dewey, the Republican candidate, of New, York. Redding was publicity di rector of the Democratic Na tional Committee during that story book campaign, and by his own account he did a su perbly professional job. The book is published today at $4.50 by. Bobbs Merrill. If Dewey doesn't have one by sundown, he is unaccountably disinterested in knowing more about what hit him back there in 1948 and why. Money and Lack of It Money and the lack of it is the recurrent theme of Red- ding's book. The theme be gins with a half-told account of how Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath was able at all to persuade anyone to become finance chairman for the campaign. It looked like an impossible job from which even Truman cabinet officers flinched. . Louis A. Johnson of West Virginia was in . the huddle McGrath summoned to talk finance. Johnson was a for mer assistant secretary of war under F.D.R. His greatest ambition had been to be chief of that department. "McGrath asked each man present at the meeting if he Rock Imbedded in Road Found To Be Quartz Albany, Ore. (UPI) Tests at the Bureau of Mines Electrodevelopment lab indi cated today that rock found imbedded in a logging road near Foster last week was not a meteorite. The laboratory reported that the rock was quartz. The black crust was described as magnesium oxide. It was first believed the crust had been caused by heat created by a meteorite entering the atmosphere. Reasonable Funerals (PRICED FOR EVERYONE) mi- v. : a, . fe., Yi FRIENDLY, Ending Dulles, Macmillan and Chan cellor Konrad AdenaSfer will hold in the next fv weeks with De Gaulle. Talks Continue Presumably the talks of the United States, British and French ambassadors in Mos cow with Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei A. Gromyko on the issues to be discussed at a summit meeting will con tinue. But even if they make prog ress, the next step after the De Gaulle talks would be a meeting of Allied foreign min isters on detailed arrange ments ' for a heads-of-govern-ment conference. There is no sign that it will be feasible to hold the foreign ministers conference for many weeks. That conference de pends on the progress made in the talks between Gromyko and the Allied envoys. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev made a new bid to speed up preparations for the summit conference last week end. Khrushchev sent volumi nous letters 18 pages long, with 20 pages of annexes to Eisenhower, Macmillan and De Gaulle. . Jungle would take on a job of run ning the financial campaign," Redding wrote. "There were no takers. Finally he (John son) asked for the meeting to recess for half an hour while he went to the White House to see the President. . . ' ; "When he returned, John son announced that he would accept the (financial) appoint ment from McGrath." How He Made It .-; ; .. So that seems to be how Louis A. Johnson of West Vir ginia realized his greatest am bition by becoming not merer ly Secretary of War but Sec retary of Defense. - L Johnson took over:Sn March, 1949, succeeding Sec retary James Forrestal, - a Roosevelt administration hold over who had been conspicu ously chill toward Truman's re-election effort. . Forrestal later committed suicide by leaping from a hos pital window. Johnson lasted until September, 1950, as De fense Secretary. He was forced out by clamorous re sentment against the adminis tration policies held to have been responsible for bringing . oh the Korean war and for the unfavorable U.S. military position at that time. . Impressive Job Johnson's campaign fund raising, however, was impres sive. Redding pinpoints how and why money spent for ad vertisements, TV-radio time, literature and poll watchers can and does win elections. He does not much illuminate the abrupt and urgent methods by which money must be raised when the money bags are con vinced the candidates will bo a loser. Could be that those methods are not pretty. The campaign money jun gle probably is about the same in similar circumstances for either major party. Most public minded citizens who know anything about cam paign funds abhor the whole business but nothing much comes of that. Something - might come, however, if some time a party financial chair man would write a book. PERL Funeral Home 'phone SP 2-6675 ' LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
