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o o : 4 Wednesday, June 25, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtJSTRIBUKE "Everyone in Southern '-Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" ublished Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1801 SUBSCRIPTION RATES P7 Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In- Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy luc All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CICy of Medford Official Paper of Jacksyi County . United Press Ful 1 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 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocITatiQn U KJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The $rtail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 25, 1948 (Friday) All arrangements have been completed for the Miss Med ford Ball tonight at the Rogue Valley ballroom. ' Arrangements have been completed for the radio street carnival on NrJrth Central ave. between Main and Sixth sts. tomorrow. 20 YBARS AGO June 25. 1938 (Sunday) " Local Union 2067, United Brotherhood of Carpenters "and Joiners of Medford, go on record as opposed to declaring all producers of the Rogue "River valley unfair unless they market their products under the union label. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Potcolumn: "Lady grapplers will scratch and scream at the Armory Mon day." 30 YEARS AGO . - June 25, 1928 (Monday) Occupying a special coach on the Shasta, 40 boy and girl club members of Jackson and Josephine counties arrived here from two weeks at Ore gon State college. From local and personal column: "The biggest fish story collected today was of a catch of 90 brook trout and four rattlesnakes yesterday on Butte creek." - 40 YEARS AGO June 25. 1918 (Tuesday) 2 Final arrangements for two big patriotic mass meetings Friday to celebrate successful . completion of the War Sav- ings stamp campaign. From local and personal .Jolumn: "Swimming in the : Rogue river is now the popu- lar sport and scores of people are enjoying it." Whsl'o Ttir LQ.T Nir Or tt carreer is superior; sevoft or tfajht xceJUnt; five or six jSj good. 1. "La Societe des Quarante '. Hommes et Huit Chevaux," is the official name of a fun- making auxiliary of which 1 veterans' organization? What i does it mean? - 2. A tail-like plait of hair 9vorn behind and a file of per il sons are both called a q ? ,i 3. The noted leaning tower - is located in which Italian 4 city? t 4. Which State is ni;k- i nmed "Magnolia State"? .5. An individual suffering i from pyrophobia is afraid of $ what? Q . . "j 6. In the song Yankee Doodle "macaroni refers to ' a kind of food; true or false? 7. The famous Mayo clinic . 1? located at "Rochester, N.Y. cjr Minnesota? Z ! 8. What is the given name 2 of the first offspring of the Dick Tracy" comic . strip S characters B. O. Plenty and J Gravel Gertie? 3 9. Who was the German 5 iJazi who in May, 1941 made i J a; spectacular flight from Ger ' Z roany to Scotland and sur I Z rendered? 1 ;10. Is Montreal or Quebec 1 ;3e largest city in Canada? ' -jjf Answers: 1. American Leg- 38n 40 and 8; 2. Queue; 3. -isa; 4. Mississippi; 5. Fire; Z e False (gayly uniformed Lfcjaryland soldiers of Heolu llonary War); 7. Minnesota; 8. Sparkle; 9. Rudolph Hess; 10. Montreal. sitr pollution Air pollution used to be something nobody had to worry 'about. Why should they? There wasn't any, to speak of . . It is one of the things which civilization has brought. one of the less appreciated results of industrialization. And, in some communities, it is doggone serious Los Angeles, for ex ample. Sad to say, it is increasingly a problem in Ore gon, which once could boast of its clear skies and fresh air. Nor is the Rogue valley free of it not by a long shot. If you disbelieve this, drive up on the Green springs highway, or the Dead Indian road, or Highway 99 toward the Siskiyou summit, some warm summer's day, and then look back down over the valley. A constant pall of smoke and haze hangs over the valley. TT is nothing we can't live with yet. But it does pose a threat to the valley as clear and present as water pollution, or -the haphazard growth , of "fringe" areas other results of growing population and industrialization. The bulk of the problem hereabouts comes from mill burners, which are used to dispose of the "waste" products of lumber mills, the saw dust and bark and mill-ends for which no process ,of economical salvage area. ' In some months of the year, the burning of slash, the bark and limbs and needles of har vested trees which is left in the woods, contrib utes to the problem, but permanent. The burners are the chief problem. COME of the mills have made partial solutions, and are still looking for ways to cut down on the outpouring smoke, and the cinder ash which in the summertime can coat a parked car in a few hours. These efforts are encouraging, but, for the industry, as a whole, they are not yet sufficiently widespread, nor sufficiently effective, to offer much hope of substantial improvement. The state sanitary authority, which has a di vision of air pollution, is interested in the prob lem, and has conducted surveys in Medford which show that the level of air pollution is high, but not yet requiring drastic action. At Oregon state college, attention is also be ing given the problem. x - f A SURVEY team including members of the en- gineering faculty at OSC recently completed a study of the Eugene-Springfield area in the Willamette valley, and concluded that the emis sion of cinders and unburned material from the "wigwam" type wood burners is a "menace" and a "hazard to the community" in that area. Ihe survey showed, ing the day-to-day operation of 19 burners, that a single one, faulty m operation, was putting out about 2,700 pounds of air each day. Another putting out only about A survey spokesman bermen, health officials that the most efficient were "tight," which had were operated with doors closed. LIE said too much air circulating in the burner tended to cool the fire, causing incomplete combustion and excessive smoking. One burner was tested one day with the door open and the second day with it closed. The type of fuel burned the two days was similar. On the day the burner open, blib pounds ot cinders was emitted; tne second day, with the door closed but all other operating methods the same, the discharge drop ped to 390 pounds. The study is continuing, and it may be that methods can be found that will make substan tial inroads on the problem. ESSENTIALLY, the long-range solution lies vvii.il iiiuic auciuatc wuuu waote uniiidiiuii, so that there won't be much of anything left to bum. This, of course, will change broading the base of the economy, ex tending payrolls, and enriching the entire area. And the secondary the mill burner menace is no small thing in itself. We look forward to the day. But, at the present stage of development, this is apt to be a long time yet. And what of the meantime? . IN AN industrial society, perhaps air. pollution 1 can never be entirely eliminated. There will be automobiles, spewing forth their vapors; orchard heating smudge smoke in the, early spring, slash smoke, and other air pollutants. In Los Angeles, it is well known, even trash burning has been prohibited on certain days when the pollution index rises to a certain point, and we are informed that since last October, it has been prohibited, period. But, like water pollution, the contamination of the air can be licked by a variety of means,, and we hope this will be done in Jackson county while the problem is still of manageable pro portions. The first step, we have long maintained, is for the city to enact air pollution control ordin ances, which will then permit the state sanitary authority to take the necessary preliminary steps in and around the city. So far, the city has failed to act. E. A. has yet been found in this this is neither crucial nor for instance, after study unburned wastes into the one, highly efficient, was 15 pounds daily. told a gathering of lum and city representatives burners were those that no air leaks, and that was used with the door in itself be a major advantage of eliminating Dennis the Menace no. He just SPfWNBD his arm! Who told you V& rriN FOUR PlACBS? New East Suffering CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign Analyst Three neighboring east Asian countries, free for 10 years, are still suffering from acute growing pains. In In d o ne sia, full-scale r e b e llions at the w e s t e rn and eastern ends of the long island chain are de t e r i o r a ting Charles M. MeCann into guerrilla warfare which threatens to last for months if not years. . . In Ceylon, it is reported that up to 400 or 500 persons have been killed in riots between the island's 7 million Sinha lese and its 2 million Tamils over the adoption of an of ficial language. In the Day's News By FRANK This modern world: A submerged atomic cap sule which threatened to CONTAMINATE THE COLO RADO RIVER CLEAR TO THE CALIFORNIA BORDER has been recovered in Colo rado. An atomic energy com mission spokesman says this morning no radiation had leaked through the capsule's lead shield. QUESTION: How did the stuff get in the river? The "capsule" (with its heavy lead sheathing, it prob ably weighed a ton) was load ed in a truck. The truck went out of control on a mountain road and plunged into the Colorado. Such is life in the atomic age. INCIDENTALLY, that "such is life" phrase dredges up a wisecrack out of the distant past. It went like this: "Such is life in the Far West where one lives and two starve to death." It was , accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders, and in its day was quite the last word in American slang. WELL The West has changed. Nobody starves to death out here any more. Our BIG prob lem ' is to get the food sur pluses in the warehouses eaten up so they will no longer hang over the agricultural markets like a dark thundercloud. B UT let's get on with this atomic radiation business. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF JAY GOULD, one of the shrewdest and most ruthless stock manipulators Wall Street ever has known, was summoned one day by the rector of his church. "I've saved $30,000 in my lifetime," said the rector, "and I'd like you' to tell me what stock I should buy with it." Gould made a sug gestion, the rector acted on it and six months later he was wiped out. "You gave me terrible advice," he. told Gould, "and my whole $30,000 has gone down the drain." "I'll restore your faith," said the financier. "Here's a check for $40,000." "I have one more con fession to make," said the flabbergasted rector. "I'm afraid I passed on your market tip to several members of the congregation." . "Of course you did," said Gould cheerfully. "They're the ones I was after." ; - Ed Wynn was unlucky at a recent flower show, he sadly confesses. He entered a dahlia, but it turned out to be a fahUa. .; O 1955, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Fetturei Syndicate. Asian Countries Still From Growing Pains In Burma, the dominant Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League Party has split wide open in a dispute over Pre mier U Nu's policies. A meeting of the party's Su preme Council has voted to throw Nu out of its member ship. The situation is so serious that government officials ex press fear it may explode in a civil war, The troubles in Indonesia and Ceylon stem from jeal ousies and rivalries between sections of the people over the preferential treatment which, dissidents say, the govern ments give parts of the coun try. Rebellions Chronic The Indonesian and Bur mese governments have been harassed by chronic or recur rent rebellions, little publi cized but serious, which have persisted ever since the coun- JENKINS Here's the other side pf it: The army corps of engineers will drop a barrel of IRRADI ATED gold and mud to the bottom of San Francisco bay this week. Colonel John S. Harnett, district engineer, says the radioactive gold par ticles will be traced to find out where and how far silt drifts. i He adds that about six mil lion cubic yards of silt pour into the bay every year from the Sacramento and San Joa quin rivers and the army spends about a million dollars a year dredging and dumping silt. He says the engineers hope to find out where sedi ment piles up so that even tually they can use it economi cally to reclaim land for fu ture use. TTOW wiU the irradiated gold particles help? They will be traced with Geiger .counters, which will click when they pass over places where the irradiated silt has been deposited. That will provide information as to where the silt deposits are ac cumulating. HMMMMM. Up here in the north, we think that if more dams were built to store up the water that falls in the winter less silt would be carried down to San Francisco bay to create siltation problems. At the same time, there would be more water avail able for use in the dry sum mer season. GQP Loses Issues Which Helped Them To Power in 1952 By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI) The unabated clamor of this year's Republican candidates for the retirement of presidential as sistant Sherman Adams can b e explained in texms of practical poli tics like this: The Adams case has dam aged and per il alp s wholly destroyed one of the big is sues .w'hich Lyle C. Wilson wenieuHiiigijr delivered the White House into Republican controu in 1952 and 1956. That issue was the charge of corruption and low ethical standards made against the White House inti mates of former President Truman. tries attained independence From the time when Indo nesia won its freedom from the Netherlands on Dec. 28, 1949, the people of Sumatra and Celebes have accused the government of showing ' ex treme partiality toward Javar the main island and seat of the government at Jakarta. Sumatra, rich in oil and other products, accuses the government of siphoning off the profits from its experts and using them for the benefit of Java alone. , It is also a source of bitter complaint that the federal sys tem adopted after indepen dence, by which the main islands were to be given a con siderable measure of self-rule, has been abolished in favor of a "unified" central govern ment, it is complained, is actu ally a dictatorship. Rioting broke out in Ceylon last month between the Tamils and the Sinhalese over the language issue. The Tamils want their language formally recognized as on a par with Sinhalese, the official lan guage. The dominant Sinhalese want the Tamil language sup pressed. Stat of Emergency Declared Mobs surged through cities all over the island, looting, burning and rioting. A nation al state of emergency was pro claimed. Troops fired on riot ers. The rioting has subsided, but the state of emergency re mains, along with a curfew, and the language dispute is no nearer a solution than it was when Ceylon won its in dependence Feb. 4, 1948. Burma has been plagued ever since it became indepen dence Feb. 4. 1948 Burma has been plagued ever since it became indepen dent Jan. 4, 1948, by a Com munist guerrilla army which holds part of the provinces. Political dissension in the dominant AFPL party erupted early this month. Former Dep uty Premiers U .Ba Swe and U Kyam Kyein, both members of the party accused Premier Nu of various crimes and mis demeanors, including coopera tion with the Communist party in parliament. Nu won out against a vote of misconfidence in parlia ment on June 9. The vote was 127 to 119 for Nu. But he won only because the 28 Commun ist members supported him, and this embittered the oppo sition. Classes Scheduled For Blind in Area Mrs. Vera Thompson, Port land, representative of the nrpffon state commission for the blind, is now in Medford to conduct classes and give in dividual instruction in braille,' typing, crafts and homemak ing for the blind. She will be here through July 3. Mrs. Thompson, who visits the vallev several times each year may be contacted at 208 West Jackson st., or by calling SPring 2-8034. Mrs. Thompson remmded residents that the commission for the blind has a restitution program for persons who have low vision trouble ana are in the need of surgery. L East Main St. DAIRY - We now have s Unsalted Butter Other major issues which made 1952 Republican votes already had been damaged badly. These were: Peace and Prosperity Peace: President Eisen hower made his 1952 cam paign against a background of war in Korea. He promised to stop that war and he did. That was nearly six years ago, how ever six years during which memory of the limited, shoot ing war in Korea had been almost forgotten in the pres ence of the immediate cold war underway on global fronts. The killing ended in Korea but Americans live with the threat and dread of some greater war to come. This is an anxious, costly, nerve-jangling peace, if it be peace at all. Prosperity: It may be just around the corner again, as some politicians and econo mists suggest. But prosperity just around the corner is use less as a campaign issue. There is some offset favorable to Republicans, perhaps in evidence here and there that the farm situation is bright ening. 1 Communism: The infil tration of Communists into the political, industrial, educa tional and social structure of the United States was a sharp issue, especially infiltration into the fabric of government. This issue was used effective ly by some Republicans; and considerably over-played by others. The over-play just about destroyed Communist .infiltration as a political is sue. Dangerous To Use ; The issue of corruption and questionable ethics may have been exhausted before Adams and his friend, Bernard Gold fjne, the New England indus trialist, got into the news papers. However that may be, it is a dead issue now. An issue may die a variety of deaths. It may die for lack of persuasive factual support, It may die for lack of attention-compelling substance. It may die because it would be dangerous to make any use of it. This latter is what has hap pened to the Republican issue of corruption and faulty eth ics as 1 used in previous cam paigns. The Democrats can and would answer up to any such campaign charges this year "with a devastating: "You're another." The four issues which served Republican candidates well in the past thus are chipped ' and broken. Even when they were whole, and shiny, these issues got no more than split decisions in which Democratic power in Con gress remained firm. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the iiltme and addreu of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is peanissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters subrnitted for publica tion must not: exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this xlumn do not necessarily repre sent the vievm of the paper, in fact tn contrary is often the case. Services Prafaed To the Edition Many of our citizens generously d e vlo t e their time and effort for the welfare of the community, but few receive 'Bess recognition and appreciation than the men and women wjho serve upon the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council to the Juvenile Court The child in a wheel chair or a hospital tssd makes his own eloquent appeal to the heart, but the cixild whose be havior advertises that he suf fers from neglect and lack of discipline is unpopular and has few champioras. Those who attempt to help hm are often falsely accused o being senti mental "do-gooders" or of coddling" young criminals. For the past two years, Jackson county htes received the dedicated service of a young attorney, JH. Dewey Wilson, who, as en airman of the Advisory Council, has not been deterred by unjustified criticism nor by lonjj hours of tedius work in helping, this community to face the grow ing problem of juvenile delin quency and to provide a re source for the community in the Juvenile Detention Home SMITH at Genes at Matter of Fact THE VOICES FROM AFAR Beirut, Lebanon There is a troubling central mystery in this desperately dangerous Lebanese situation, which rather urgent ly demands an explanation. There is this unhappy country, torn by a civil war that was started by the flagrant inter vention of Egypt's Gamel Here is the Jos'pn Alsop Abdel Nasser. American government, only a little more than 18 months after Suez, solidly committed to land troops in Lebanon if the government of President Camille Chamoun asks for the protection of an Anglo-American landing. No one at home seems to realize it as yet; but this cer tified check that the Ameri can and British governments have given to President Cha moun is not unlikely to be cashed in the end. TAG HAMMARSKJOLD I'and his U.N. team have not showed much promise, as yet, of solving the problem here. The Lebanese government has not shown much promi"- of solving the problem on its own, either. Yet President Chamoun is not ready to sur render to the Nasserites; and he is ready to ask for an Anglo-American military inter vention if he has no other al ternative. The American Marines and British paratroopers are now waiting in readiness in the Mediterranean. There is at least a strong possibility that they will have to land in Leb anon, unless President Eisen hower chooses to break his recently reiterated promise to President Chamoun. Re member the moral pratings of the White House at the time of Suez. Remember further that the chief beneficiary of those pratings was the same Gamel Abdel Nasser who is the chief author of. the trou ble here. That would seem to be mystery enough. UT it is not the whole mys- MJ tery. all the same. The ori gin of the commitment to President Chamoun is the other half of the mystery. The impulse to make this inestimably grave commit ment did not come from Bei rut. No doubt the Lebanese government was pleased bv the evidence of stout Anglo American support but it is an open secret that neither the British nor the American embassies have soueht to de lay a call for a landing. Other things being equal, both em bassies would prefer the Leb anese to settle their quarrel by a compromise. If the impulse to promise a troop landing did not come from Beirut then where did to keep minors out of the county jail. Mr. Wilson's interest in re form of the Oregon juvenile court law, community organ ization as support to the juve nile court, and professional standards for juvenile court workers, has received greater recognition elsewhere in the state, perhaps, than in Jackson county. But the people who worked with him will miss his determined leadership and re member him for his generous devotion of his time, and the youth detained in the Countv Juvenile Detention Home pending their court hearings, rather than being held in jail, will be benefited through Mr. Wilson's effort. Although Mr. Wilson will no longer be an active mem ber of Advisory Council, he has agreed to act in the capac ity of a consultant to the court in juvenile matters for the coming year. It is our hoDe that Mr. Wilson's interest in this field will serve as an in spiration for other citizens and that new recruits will! join us in our efforts to reha bilitate youth and make Jack son county a better commun ity for the citizens of tomor row. Edward C. Kelly, Judge Circuit Court of Jackson County. 1 St You Aay Be Assured . . that each individual requirement and need is satisfied when your loved ones are entrusted to our C. M. Litwiller care. We have faithfully served for over 23 years. To merit your continued confidence is our aim. Our charges are exceptionally moderate, too, and Remember We are 100 Locally Owned. I ITUI I I CD is&w; LI I T T I I I ! X FUNERAL HOME Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND "It is better to "know us and not need us, - We Never Close than to need us and not know in." - By Joseph Atsep it come from? The answer to this question is the solution of the entire mystery. IN BRIEF any government in this area that is friendly to the West has been bombard ing both Washington and Lon don with the most urgent pleas and warnings ever since the Lebanese trouble began. Nuri Pasha in Iraq has been the most insistent. But the messages have volleyed in from the Turks in Ankara, from the Shah of Iran, from the Western diplomats in the little Jordanian capital of Amman, and even from the government of Greece. The substance of all these warn ings and pleas has been the same, no matter what their place of origin. If Nasser and his allies suc ceed in subverting Lebanon's pro-Western government, the warnings have run, then no friend of the West will be safe any longer, anywhere in the whole Middle East. The other pro-Western Arab gov ernments will be the first to go, with Iraq probably in the lead. But after Nasser has tri umphed in all the Arab lands, tho nnsitinn rif Tnrkfv. anrl even the position of Greece, will become exceedingly pre carious if not altogether un tenable. Such has been the warn ings. The pleas have called for Anglo-American action, in cluding even the open use of military force, to prevent a Nasser victory here. Use force if you must, the pleas have run, but stop this threat ened chain reaction in the Middle East by any and all means. THIS is the kind of situation that American policy-makers ought to have foreseen long before Suez. They should surely have foreseen it, be fore they took their grandiose moral stand during the Suez crisis. Even more surely, they should have foreseen this sit uation in the rough course of the past 18 months. But they did not foresee what was coming. They took no adequate preventive ac tion. Now they are squarely confronted with the conse quences of their own improvi dence. . Already, the consequences are bad enough. Only a few months ago, Nasser drew a bead on another Western friend, King Saud of Saudi Arabia. In the upshot, King Saud was virtually forced to abdicate. A month ago, Nas ser drew a bead on President Chamoun. In ' t h e upshot. President Chamoun has al ready been forced to prom ise not to be a candidate to succeed himself, as he might otherwise have done. Politics in the Arab lands are highly personal. By showing his pow er to pick off individual friends of the West in this manner, Nasser has already achieved much. Let him go on to win a total victory in Lebanon. Then all the voices from afar, warning of a catas trophhic and final Western defeat in the Middle East, will surely be proven truly pro phetic. (c) 1958, New York Herald ' Tribune Inc. California Students Sentenced in Court Two California Humboldt State college students re ceived three-year suspended sentences to the state peniten tiary Monday in circuit court. Charles Lyle Hill, 23, Eure ka, Calif., waived right to grand jury and pleaded guil ty to grand larceny. He was placed under parole and pro bation terms. Amasa Morse Bowles, the third, 24, Eureka, Calif., waived right to grand jury, and pleaded guilty to the grand larceny charges. He was placed also under the terms of parole and proba tion. Alfred Smith Price Jr., 27, Portland, received a three year suspended sentence for uttering and publishing a false check. He pleaded guil ty and was ordered to make restitution on all outstanding checks. Mrs. Litwiller IWKBKM " 1
