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Newspaper Page TextMATT. TRIBUNE MU40C, KE. 4 WedrSsday, hly It. 198 O "Zveryone in South tdreaoa Published Daily except Saturday TrnFABn DPTfTTVf: CfY 33 North Fir f Ph. SP2-614X DnprnT tit T?TTT FHitnr HERB GREY Advertising Managei BRIC ALLEN. JRlanapna Editor v a fT T3 An a"i m Tfititv .A.Xlrf X .113, HARRY CHIPMAN, Tele? Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py Mall In Advance: Copy lOe. Ttailv and Sundav 1 Tear $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 455 Sundav Onlv One year $450 Hv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er TaJent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC., Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAMt PUBLISHEIS m ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I Usso r7 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago 10 YEARS AGO July 16, 1948(Friday) Fire department acquires new one-and-a-half ton truck. Residents vote on two bond issues for trunk flawers, one to the Camp White disposal plant and one for southwest Med ford. 20 YEARS AGO July 16, 1938Q(S&urdaf ) A crowd of 750 attend ve ter carnival at the natatorlum. Fron Arthur Peft-y's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Uncle John Griffin, now of Ashland, has been under the weather, but is once more feeling his oats, and will soon be refill ing bears." 30 YEARS AGO July 16, 1928 (tfonday) ' National Reliability Air Tour arrives; in Medford, an event .described as "the great est in southern Oregor avia tion history." Twenty - two boys h a v signed up r a junior drum and bugle corSJ 40 YEARS AGO July 16. 1918 (Tuesday) Two trainload of Jackson county rookie Qoldiers yasjefl through town today with much cheeringQand singing. The uniforms for the Med ford state militia dromjjany, expressed from Nev0Yok morim ago, aje sU0"oji tha way." . , . o Whai'sofci-Q.J Nine or ten covert is aaeeiiar; even or eight excellent; eate m aix is good. o U ,1i w 1. Which ofQths ij not a win Moselle Chabiis, Te quila, Sauterne, ChamBagne? 2. What is chevon? 3. "Old Faithful" is a fa mous volcano, geyser, hot spring, or canyon? o 4. Is the ceremony of bap tism a part of the ritual of the Society of Friends? 5. In which grogp of Pacific islands is Cebufc o 6. Name the Island in San Fijgncisco bay on which there is a Federal penal institution? 7. The portrait of which President is on one dollar bills? 8. What is M.G.M.? 9. The British crown jewels repose in a Bank of England vault, in the Tower of Lon don, or in a vault in Buck ingham palace? 10. It is a widespread no tion that oysters are good to eat only those months the names of which contain what letter? Answers: I. Tequila: 2. Goat meat; 3. G e y s e r;o4. No; 5. Philippines; 6. Alcalraz; 7. George Washington; 8.eMetro Goldwyn Mayer; 9. Tower of Wheat Destroyed in Fire Near Pendlgten Pendleton (UPI) A new wheat fire bigike outQ here Tuesday, and dtroyefl about 85 acres of standing wheat before g fire-fighting crew and volunteers conteoSed the blaze about 5 D.ffc. . The fire broke out on tka J. IO Oagen ranch about seven miles iSbrtnwest of here in a 250 ac Sielfl of; wheat. G Alaska and the Northwest In the wake of Alaska's welcome admission as the 49th state of the Union, Senator Dick Neu berger has proposed that the U.S. and Canada cooperate in improving the Alcan highway. The long, inland route which runs through Canada most of its length, is now graveled, and service stations and tourist facilities are few and far between. But, with Alaska a state within a year, and with the Alcan highway brought up to a standard where it is no longer a risky adventure to motor over it, tourists would, in increasing numbers, make the journey. CUCH a development would encourage and ex pand the already-existing westward-looking trend in this nation, and this in turn wrould benefit the west as a whole in addition to being bene ficial to Alaska itself, and to the long reaches of western Canada which are now virtually virgin territory. The admission of Alaska, the British Colum bia centennial this year, Oregon's centennial next year, the probable admission of Hawaii as the 50th state in the near future all these things are putting more emphasis on the west and its development. - The fantastic growth of California in the past few years may not be equalled in the Northwest. We hope that it isn't. But there is no question but that the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and near by states, are due for a surge of population com parable to that we watched during and right after World War II. THIS growth will continue to make problems for the 'governments of the Pacific Northwest states, and also for its cities and counties. We have had a sample of what population growth causes in the way of headaches. It will take efficient, forward - looking and progressive self-government, expecting and at tuned to change, to cope with the exciting growth to come. Heel-dragging fuddy-duddyism and a head-in-the-sand attitude on the part of city, county or state governments will be costly and damaging, if we permit them to enter or endure.: E.A. Comfort for the Men Yesterday we had the pleasure of informing our male readers that the sack dress is passe, a thing of the past, on the way out. Today, let it he noted that men's clothing, while not as volatile and changeable as that worn by the fair sex, also has become subject to change. The day was not long ago when, if a man had a change of shirts and a conservative, re spectable dark suit, he was equipped for virtually any sartorial necessity. loday, man has blossomed out. He glows (sometimes even in the dark), he shimmers, he is gay and gaudy and most important comfortable. NOW this phenomenon is usually associated with, "cnnrfo" rlntTiinnr : tViof mn rvf-P'rliit it But more and more, particularly in the Western United States, and more specifically in the warm er sections thereof, such freedom is increasingly encroaching on the office, the store and the fac tory. - . ' Southern California, and habits, has had a great influence toward this end. So has Hawaii, , with its gaudy sports shirts which permit the flow of air over most of the. upper body. 3. he necktie is not yet occasions, and in some obsolescent. COMFORT is the watchword. JL-'tsXXllU.U.C tO J.AC4- XIX XClXgC jJCli.V9 UVCi" come by their sheer ease and wearability the handicap posed by knobby knees and hairy legs. Vests are lntrequently seen (although the comfortable, handy and ured vest is fancied by of fall, winter and spring) . ' ; . . Shoes tend toward comfort, too. They include the slip-on "loafers," an increasing number of Wellingtons (low boots of soft, pliable leather first made popular by Britain's "Iron Duke"), and, for patio or beach wear, rubber slippers modeled on a Japanese original, which are called "Go-Aheads," presumably because, due to the between-the-toes thong wrhich alone holds them on, one cannot walk backward in them. HEAD covering, when wj uc tuc epulis veieiuii ui me uascuaii cap, with a minimum of cap and a maximum of eye shading peak. Suspenders (presumably due to the near demise of the vest) are seldom used, and even more seldom seen. Socks are usually short, and the stretchable variety, needing no garters, are the thing. And, for those who still cling to the jacket or suit, there-are lisrhtweisrht. comfortable, and even washable products. The other day, in downtown Medford, we saw two young men strolling along the streets clad only in shorts and sandals. While we do not expect that garb, or lack thereof, to become uni versal overnight, we could not restrain a slight start at the contrast with the sensation it would have caused only a few This week, though, the 90s, no one seemed unusual. E.A. with its easy-going mores obsolete, but on some areas, it verges on the utilitarian plaid or fig some m the chill days seen at all, is most apt short years ago. with the temperature in even to notice anything Dennis the Menace 'You're okay. Harold, "nwr wasn't tif. the kid hej2 just BROKE A V1IQI&Z RMSTNS STICK! N uclear Destruction Eyed as Grim Option In Darwinian World By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI) It is a grisly thought that Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, the arch- bishop of Can terbury, may have added to a final and awful footnote to Charles Darwin's theo ry of e v o 1 u tion. Likely noth ing was fur- XI e a.1 Lyle C. Wilson lIler lro1" lne archbishop's mind than the Darwinian theory when, over the week end, the primate of England was revealed to have said that it may be God's will that mankind be destroyed by nuclear weapons. "For all I know," the arch bishop had written in a sym posium on nuclear policy, "it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner." . The archbishop's widely printed speculation must have reminded some readers of the July 1 dispatch written for United Press International by Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the famous natural, scient ist. Darwin's theory of evolu tion became public 100 year ago. His great book "The Ori gin of the Species" was pub lished the following year. Competition Loss r- The central point of Dar win's theory - the mechanism by which it functioned - was natural selection which, loose ly, means the survival of the Doctors Warn Man Not To Sneeze London (UPI) Henry Kingsland has been warned by his doctors if he sneezes within the next two weeks his left eye will balloon out like a tennis ball again. Kingsland's troubles began when he fell off his bicycle and bumped his nose. Doctors found he had cracked a tiny bone at the top of the nose, which blocked the nostril and deflected air into his eye. When he blew his nose or sneezed, the eye baUooried. Kingsland, 51, showed Tues day that he was on the road to recovery by gently blowing his nose for an audience of doctors. He smiled broadly and said, "It's a bit painful but not so bad." "Now for heaven's sake don't sneeze," he was warned hastily by one of the doctors. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ; AN ENGLISH HOSTESS planned a dinner for several mem bers of the House of Lords, not to mention the Aga JChan and a Texas tycoon, and was worried about her seating arrange ment, bne consulted the so ciety expert -of a staid Lon don periodical and received this helpful reply: "The Aga Khan is held by his follow ers to be the direct descend ant of God. An English, Duke takes precedence." New ending to a rather old story: One merchant asked an other, "Did you hear about Arthur Schmaltz selling Macy's a big bill and making 510,000 clear profit oa it?" To which the other replied, "It wasn't Arthur Schmaltz; it was Joe Gesicht. Jt wasn't Macy's;' it was Marshall Field's. He didn't make $10,000; he lost $10,000. 4x4 besides, it teas I Kho told you the story yesterday." "Wise parents," recalls Dodd Buckner, "used to teach their chil dren the value of a dollar. Nowadays it's just as well not to tell them." , O 195S, by Bennett Cerf. retributed by King features Sy&dictta, fittest. Sir Charles' dispatch explained natural selection this way: "The intense competition of all living things in the strug gle for life which was con tinually wiping out the less efficient members of any spe cies and leaving the stage for those better equipped to sur vive." . In this same dispatch, Sir Charles wrote that there is question now of the extent to which Darwin's theory ac tually and directly affects the human race. He wrote that some areas have attained so high a degree of prosperity as to ease the struggle to survive or, practically, to abolish it, permitting the less fit to mul tiply. ' "Natural selection," he wrote, "has been eliminated for the time being." This is leading, according to Sir Charles and some others learned in the subject, to a condition of world overpopu lation which would be catas trophic in volume and in ef fect. Says Answer Unknown "Can our statesmen realize," Sir Charles continued, "that this is by far the most im portant political problem of the near future? Nobody knows any satisfactiory an swer, but if one is not found soon, our over - populated world is almost certain to re lapse into hard conditions of life like those that used to prevail only a few centuries ago, when it was the ruthless processes of natural selection that controlled the number of mankind." The archbishop's idea would fit in about there - the idea that it may be God's will that nuclear weapons shall accom plish what mere war, pesti lence and i famine formerly were sufficient to achieve in preventing a population ex plosion in the world. Sir Charles left out of ac count what effect, if any, the welfare state concept may have on the survival of the less efficient and the coming over - population of the world. Neither did he dispose of the fact that the population bulge is not especially among the highstandard of living wel fare - state nations but among others such as India, China and Japan. However that may be, the concept that a Higher Power may have directed men's minds to the nuclear break -through to blast the world against suicidal over - popu lation is, perhaps, the grim mest peek at the future in this year of grim forebodings. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary Is often the case. Abou Ben Adams To the Editor: Sherman Adams (may his tribe retreat!), awoke one night in a hotel suite, and saw, within the glamor of his room, making it bright and like a lily in bloom, Bernie Goldfine, writing in a dook of gold. Immense suc cess had made Sherm Adams bold, and to his good friend in the room he said, "What writest thou?" Goldfine raised his head. With a look as sweet as sugared tea, he answered, "Good names that love the GOP." "And is mine one?" asked Adams. "Nay, not so," replied Goldfine. Adams spoke more low, but cheerilly still, and said, "I pray it be write me as one that dearly loveth thee." Goldfine wrote and vanished. The next night he came with a rug, plush and bright, and showed the names of those he'd blest and lo! Sherm Adam's name led aU the rest. Franklin Girard, 1070 Emma st. Ashland. Tamarisks To the Editor: Where Holy Land's River Jordan empties into Dead Sea, writer saw banks lined with tamarisks. They take the place of willows on our watercourses, borne botanists claim tamarisk and willow are descended from the same generalized ances tor. Their theory seems sub stantiated by both flowering in catkins. A Texas scientist once as serted . Tamarisk, Mediterranean-native, was introduced in to our Southwest. It soon spread throughout stream beds, irrigation ditches from West Texas to California. It is a problem due to amount of potential irrigation water it transpires. It was pointed out that tamarisks waste an nually over 100,000 acre-feet of water in New Mexico's up per Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers. This is enough water for a half dozen cities like Albuquerque. It was recommended tamar isk be investigated for possi ble commercial value: fuel, fence posts, wood pulp, furni ture to help defray its control. We at last are learning to be alert as to disturbing the balance of Nature by such importation as, also the Eng lish sparrow. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts. ' Sacramento 14, jCalif. Remarks Clarified To the Editor: As a mem ber of the board of trustees of the Jackson County Labor council, I had the privilege of discussing legislation as it affects labor before the Re publican Women of Jackson County on Monday, June 16. At that time I emphasized the need for strong Republi can representation in the state legislature. In making this plea, I had in mind the urgent need for quality of represen tation rather than quantity; for the highest caliber men and women to fill the import ant legislative jobs in these critical times. It is quite understandable why my comment was mis understood by my associates in labor, whose opinions I Value highly. That is why I would like to clarify my state ment before the -Republican Women of Jackson County. The Jackson County Labor council desires to remain un biased in politics and recog nizes the urgent need for high est type of representation in public office from BOTH par ties. It was this broad view which I intended to voice. If I had given the same address before a Democratic party group I would certainly have offered the same advice. Myrle M. Merriman Medford American Bank Loan For Venezuela Seen Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Finance Minister Jose Anto nio Mayobre said today docu ments formalizing a $250-mil-lion American bank loan wiU be signed before the end of the month. Progress of the loan nego tiations was. confirmed re cently in New York banking circles. . . L TteVlLeoqe DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. Nowhere in this whole wide wonderful world will you find as delightfully different an orange juice drink, not even in Montego, Jamaica. Anti-Imperialism Wave Seers Result of U.S. Troop By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign Analyst The Middle 'Eastern crisis seems sure to start a serious wave of "anti - imperialist" feeling in the newly freed countries of Asia and Af rica. In "neutral ist" India and Indonesia, in Tunisia and Morocco, and in many other countries de the American Charles M. McCann nunciation of troop landings in Lebanon is likely to be bitter. Correspondingly, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic is like ly to be hailed as a hero who Few Supreme Court Overrule Bills Seen Due to Pass Washington (CQ) Bills to overrule a dozen contro versial Supreme Court de cisions are up for decision this month in Congress, but chances are not more than three of them will go through. Rarely, if ever, has Con gress had more "anti-Court" legislation cleared by commit tees and awaiting final action. But strong resistance to some of the measures, combined with the usual session-end log jam, will keep most of them from becoming law. A late starter a bill to grant the State Department passport control powers the Sunreme Court June 16 de clared it lacked is given a pretty good chance of pass age. The President sent up an urgent request for authority to limit the travel of Commu nists and disloyal citizens, and most Congressmen seem in clined to grant it. Others May Stand But that is just about the only Court decision in the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS - The drouth, that has held the BIG NEWS in its grip for weeks is broken. It is broken in a big way. x In a lightening-swif t, bloody revolt the government of Iraq, which was the keystone of the arch of pro-Western policy in the explosive Middle East, is overthrown and the victorious rebel group that en gineered the revolution pro claims its friendship with Nas ser's United Arab Republic. From the diplomatic view point, that upsets both the Baghdad Pact and the Eisen hower Doctrine and leaves the West with no tools with which to implement a pro-Western policy in the Middle East. llfHAT does it mean? That is hard to say. The only thing that seems certain is that Gamal Abdul Nasser has been thrown into the center of the spotlight as the man of the hour. IlfHAT will Nasser do? That is obscure at this hour. FOR weeks, Nasser has given thA imnression nf a man in a quandary. He got himself all tied up with Russia so badly tied up that he appeared to be nothing more than a tool of the Kremlin. Then After Tito had got himself apparently on purpose back into the Kremlin dog house, Nasser VISITED TITO and conferred with him and hobnobbed with him in Yugo slavia for a week or more. That led to the suspicion that maybe Nasser was be ginning to realize that he had got himself into the position of the smiling young lady of Niger who went for a ride with a tiger and didn't want to come back on the in side with the smile on the face of the tiger. At any rate, Nasser is at the moment the man to watch. What he does and how he con ducts himself in the next few critical days should give us some clues as to what may be in the wind. al Genessee is a leader in the great surge of nationalism in one-time colonial countries. Soviet Russia, which is loud in support of nationalist move ments except, of course, in the Soviet Union is likely to profit considerably. And ironically, the United States, which for years has supported the nationalist movement even against its own allies, will be the chief target for criticism. Impact Is Great President Eisenhower acted in an emergency at the specific and urgent request of the gov ernment of Lebanon, the most loyally pro-Western of the Arab countries. But this fact is most unlikely to be taken into account by critics. Nationalist spirit has be- subversive activities field that this Congress is likely to dis turb. The House July 10 passed a bill which would overrule the 1957 Cole case, in which the Court said that only Federal employees in ."sensitive" jobs could be dismissed as secur ity risks. But the Senate pre viously gave partial affirma tion to the Court decision, and it probably will not accept the House bill. Similarly, the House is ex pected to pass a bill to restore the 42 state anti-subversive laws that were knocked out by the 1956 Supreme Court decision in. the Nelson case. But no Senate action is likely. Jenner-Buller Bill The Senate has before it the much-discussed Jenner Butler bill, which would knock out four Supreme Court decisions affecting sub version laws and the rights of witnesses before Congres sional committees. The bill came out of the Judiciary Committee back in May, ut Senate Majority Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (D-Texas) hasn't called it up for debate and probably won't. A better chance Is given two bills already passed by the House affecting the rights of prisoners. Both bills are in a Senate Judiciary Subcom mittee and are due for hear ings soon. One would set aside the 1957 Mallory decision, which invalidated a confession ob tained from a prisoner who was held by police for 7V4 hours before attempts were made to charge him formally with a crime or to advise of his rights. The other would clarify a 1953 Supreme Court decision that has led to Federal dis trict courts being swamped by petitions for habeas corpus from persons convicted in the state courts. The chances of these two bills depend largely on the promptness with which the Senate Judiciary Committee clears them for floor consider ation. Antitrust Measures The other two bills await ing action would set aside Court decisions in the anti trust field. One would exempt most activities of professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey from the antitrust laws. The House has passed it and hearings have "been held in a Senate Judiciary sub-committee. Its chances of passage are considered fairly good. Dead for this session is a bill to close a 1951 Supreme Court "loophole" in the price discrimination law. The "cor rective" legislation came out of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee in such controversial form that final passage this year is considered impossible. (Copyright 1958 Congressional Quarterly Inc.) ANEW AMBULANCE . . . has recently been added to our auto fleet. It is fully equipped with first aid and oxygen, to render c. M. Lirwiller - an even better service than ever before. For over 23 years we have tried to serve you faithfully and promptly, 24 hours of every day. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ' ASHLAND We Never Close Landings come one of the great forces of the world. This crit has swept Asia and Africa and is spreading to British end Netherlands pos sessions inthe Western Hemi sphere, o Nationalism was strong in a few of the countries before World War II, in Korea, then a possession of Japan, and In India, for example. It was nationalist spirit that started the rebellions in Indo china and Indonesia and Al geria. ' Nationalist spirit compelled France to give up Syria and Lebanon. Nationalist spirit led to the overthrow of King Far- ouk of Egypt and to the emer gence of Nasser as the biggest Arab leader. It is nationalism that has caused the formation of the so-called Asian-African bloc of countries in which "neu tralism" and "anti-imperialism" are so often mentioned. Fears Nationalism It is interesting to note that whtle Russia loses no oppor tunity to promote nationalist spirit all over the world, it is the world's leading anti-nationalist country within its own confines. ' The nationalism of Presi dent Tito of Yugoslavia has made him a bitter enemy of the Kremlin. A good part of the present Russian trend back to the harsh rule of the Josef Stalin era is due to fear of national ism in the Communist satel lite countries and in the Soviet Union itself. It was because of national ist spirit in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that Russia has deported hundreds of thou sands of the people of those Baltic republics which it ab sorbed. It is because of nationalist spirit in some Soviet republics that vast numbers of their peoale have been deported to other areas. But the newly freed coun tries will not take things like this into account. To them the imperialists are the Western democracies, whose objective in the cold war is to keep Communism from enslaving the world. Editorial Comment LOST HIS WAY' A cruel and sudden crisis, charged with feeling, con fronted Cecil Poole, Assistant District Attorney, one morn ing last week; at its peak, PooTe fashioaed a few short vorojp into a simple declara tive ennce that for aptness nfl eloqustice no novelist, no professional , builder of phrases, coiAd far excel after long thought and much re vision. Q Poole is $ Neg. He lives in Iogleside Terrace, a "white" neighborhood. Thus shock id resentment and be wilderment ad regret and mixtures of a dozen other emotions must have surged through him when his 6-year-old daughter came running into the house to report: "There's a cross on our lawn, all burned." With the news, she brought a troubled ques tion: "Why is it there?" - Such a question under such conditions needed a meticu lous answer. Poole found it. "Some Christian," he said. "has lost his way." . . . "Some Christian has lost his way." Six short and simple words that bespeak charity instead of anger that well and truly explain the kind of bigotry that fashions and plants fiery crosses, that raise no fears and Inflict no hurts and leave no scars on the mind of a small child who first sees racial hatred and asks about it. We do not know where Poole found this answer. We think it is the perfect one. It invites thought and bears frequent repetition: "Some Christian has lost his way." San Francisco Chronicle. away? 3 Mrs. Litwiller TV" S . It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."