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4 Tuesday, August 19, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ; MEDFORDtWTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ! ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. iKlL W. ALL. JR., Managing Editor . EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor ' HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor - RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor ' OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper , Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Cony 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year S 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. a.ou ' Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville, uoia Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year S 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 : Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford - Official Paper of jacKson county United Press International 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION 2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL :5'8N ASSOCM 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 Aug. 19, 1948 (Thursday) . Restoration of the Antioch and Sadie Frink cemeteries located in the Camp White gunnery range is now under way. The Medford Prop Nuts Gas Model Airplane club plans its second annual freeflight con test for Sunday. , 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 19, 1938 (Friday) The city council has called a special election on a pro posed bond issue to repair paved streets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ah, Banwell of the Cof C. has been named an 'Admiral in the Astoria regatta. Hereafter, tourists seeking the water fountain, will be ordered to quarter off the port bow.". 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 19, 1928 (Sunday) The attorney for the Christy Brothers circus here yester day denies the animals are abused. The Junior Drum and Bugle corps will initiate 22 new members this week. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 19, 1918 (Monday) The chief of police is busy these days enforcing the "work or fight" ordinance rec ently passed by the city coun cil. "Tarzan of the Apes" comes to the Page theater tomorrow. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er ix is good. 1. Ten million is what part of one billion? 2. Name the author of the book, "Mein Kampf." 3. G. L. are the initials of which popular orchestra lead er who races speed boats for relaxation? 4. What are the odds on guessing the three numbers in proper sequence in the pol icy or numbers game? 5. A passage in the Bible quotes' a King as saying "all men are liars;" true or false? 6. Is a abridged dictionary larger or smaller than an un abridged dictionary? 7. The tangelo is a cross be tween which two citrus fruits? H Wnm mnnv c i n aprc mm. price a septet? 9. Which character in the Bible is said to have lived 969 years? 10. What is the plural of larynx? Answers: 7. One hundreih. 2. Adolph Hitler. 3. Guy Lorn bardo. 4. 999 to 1. 5. True. (Psalm 116:11). 6. Smaller. 7. Tangerine orange and grape fruit. 8. Seven. 9. Methuse lah. 10. Larynges or larynxes. New Dormifory at EOC Ready for Use La Grande (UPD Officials of Eastern Oregon college re ported Monday that the new $710,000 women's dormitory will be ready for use for the fall term of school. The dorm, to be known as Dorian Hall, will be dedicated in a combined ceremony on the campus Monday, Sept 8. j Air Age Requirements The problem of controlling the airspace over America is one which has become increasingly serious and difficult in recent years. Pilots have known about it, and warned about it, for a decade. They have seen the danger com ing, with many more planes in the air, with planes of greatly increased performance and speed, and with the fact that the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tion has moved slowly to meet the threat. DUT it was not until the horrible crash of two airliners over the Grand Canyon in June, 1956, that the awful facts were brought home forcibly to the public at large, and to the Congress. Congress finally has taken a long-recommended steap to counter the hazards, the consolidation into a single agency of all the functions pertain ing to air traffic control and safety. These have been scattered through the mili tary, the department of commerce, and various independent agencies. Some of 'these actually have been working at cross-purposes. But the new Federal Aviation Agency, cre ated by Congress at this session, will soon become the new "traffic cop" of the air. TTODAY, incidentally, is National Aviation Day, and it is thus appropriate to review some of the factors pertaining to the present crisis. The problems of air traffic control are vastly complicated, and are becoming more so. But ac cording to information from a number of ex perienced pilots, plus repeated reports in aviation publications, known techniques have not been put into 'effect as rapidly as they should for two reason lack of money to purchase the highly complex and expensive equipment, on one hand, and a certain amount of foot-dragging on the part of CAA executives echelons who are high say in policy execution, ultimate responsibility If these reports are lons resisted the initial use of radar for "ground controlled approach" instrumentation, for exam ple, as well as other means of increasing man's ability to detect and guide aircraft under all conditions. THE fact that Congress was startled at the high cost of some of the instruments and systems, and was not sufficiently impressed with the urg ency, also is part .of the picture. Bult ultimately, we believe, the CAA must shoulder a major portion of the blame for the fact that America's airlanes are perhaps as much as 10 years behind where they should be. The new agency will assume the safety and traffic control functions of the CAA and of the Civil Aeronautics Board (which will now be con fined to exerting economic authority over air lines), as well as those of other agencies including the military. And whether or not it can do the job remains to be seen. But it has a better chance, perhaps, than did the previous set-up, with divid ed authority and interests. HTHE new agency will have a civilian adminis- trator, and a military deputy administrator. It is hoped they can take over the "crash pro gram" of improvement and modernization, al ready started under the CAA, and on which mil lions of dollars are being spent, bring it to the necessary level, and at the same time satisfy all the diverse interests which now have a stake in how the airlanes are operated. These interests include the military (whose fast jet planes need lots of airspace and, in emergencies, need priority over other aircraft); the private fliers (including the Sunday pilots, executive planes now being flown in vastly great er numbers than ever before, and others); the airlines, whose problems are going to be com plicated soon with the advent of jet airliners which gobble up airspace at an unprecedented rate; and ultimately the public at large, which includes all these; as well as the ordinary non flier who nonetheless has a stake in air safety. -THE Grand Canyon crash, of course, was a big f stimulus to action ; and there have been other fearful crashes recently, including those involving both military and civilian craft. We are hopeful that the speed-up will be effective; that the new agency can shake loose from some of its dead .wood, and that the prob lems of our shrinking airspace can be solved. We are not, frankly, too hopeful that this can be accomplished soon, for it is a tremendous job and one that will need the best talents. But it must be done if the government is to fulfill its obligation to the public E.A. Hats News stories have their limitations. We have in mind the story about Mrs. Max Hawks, who was found unharmed after a day and a half in the woods, after she became lost. Tenny Moore of the U.S." forest service called us Monday, to say that the search that was in situted for her wTas one of the finest examples of generous, whole-hearted response and coopera tion, on the part of everyone concerned, that he'd ever seen. And he's seen plenty. ; THE stoiy said, in part, "Some 150 persons, in: A eluding state police, volunteers, forest service personnel and sheriff's deputies took part . . ." If the whole story, of the sacrifices and effort put out by each of those 150, were to be told, there would be room for nothing else in the paper. But our hat is off to them. E.A. those' in the "middle enough to have a decisive but low enough to escape for the CAA's actions. correct, the middle eche Off Dennis the Menace rue Mififflis should m GAVE MB THE ULC&2 1 Matter of Fact A VERY BIG ISSUE Washington Fundamental questions about the inner workings, of our kind of hu- rj man society are not often argued in the American Congress. But last week, the Senate actual ly got around to arguing rather heated ly about what Joseph Alsop may weu ae n t the biggest single question confronting the democracies in the H-bomb age. This is, the question wheth er the people have a right to know the hard facts of the national situation, or whether these facts should be sedul ously concealed from all but the enemy. The macabre debate about this question followed the im portant speech by Sen. John F, Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy had gravely warned of the danger of present American defense policies, which will concede to the So viets overwhelming superior ity in nuclear striking power during the years of "gap" or "missile lag" the years 196q through 1964. He had earnest ly and stirringly called for a great national effort to avert "the mortal peril" of these years ahead. ' THE nature of the peril was most concisely summed up in the figures on the predict ed balance of inter-continental ballistic missiles, which Senator Kennedy quoted from a "report in this space. Since that report was published, it has been learned that the American government's offi cial forecasts of Soviet output of inter-continental ballistic missiles have been adjusted downward by one year. Here, then, are the corrected fig ures, accepted as realistic on the highest American govern mental level. They give ' the long range missile balance which our defense policies will tolerate. 1960: U. S. '30 ICBMs very sus U. S. S. R. 100 ICBMs. 1961: U. S. 70 ICBMs ver sus U. S. S. R. 500 ICBMs. 1962: U. S. 130 ICBM's ver sus U. S. S. R. J, 000 ICBMs. 1963: U. S. 130 ICBMs ver sus U. S. S. R. 1,500 ICBMs. 1964: U. S. 130 ICBMs ver sus U. S. S. R. 2,000 ICBMs. . nrvmrRir 1c nnthinff in nros- -- pect that will alter this balance in the years of gap, except a few score of the Na w's submarine-borne Polaris missiles. The Pentagon's hucksters have lately hur ried into print a glowing fea ture about, the sblid-fueUed Minuteman missile which is counted on to close the "gap" in the end. A major national magazine presented the .fig ure in a way that suggested Minuteman was already en Try and S" -By BENNETT CERF- JUST A BRIEF chapter from the annals of Hollywood: A zealous policewoman bagged three frowsy gypsy fortune tellers, herded them into a squad car, and laughed merrily while they predicted disas ter for her. The sun shrine fiercely through the evi dence, a sizable crystal ball and set fire to both the upholstery and her crisp new uniform. (Our legal expert believes she has grounds for a sibyl suit.) Overheard at a Hollywood party: "Plying me with liquor is going to get you nowhere, big boy: I'm your wife!" Sign on the outside door at the same elite, gathering: "Please wear some identification be fore you join the festivities so we'll , Complete-description-in-one-sentence department: Adolph Green's, ' "He was the kind of student who would read Greek and chuckle softly to himself." . . 1938, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. - our Mine eja. Their kid By Joseph Alsep tering our armory. But on present schedules, there is no likelihood of a single Minute man becoming operational before the "gap's" last year. Such was the situation that drove Kenrtedy to speak out, and to urge drastic remedies. The sequel got almost no no tice because the debate oc curred late at night. It began when good, bumbling Sen. Homer Capehart of Illinois rose to speak in a condition of really frothing excitement. Senator Capehart announced his intention of invoking Sen ate Rule XXXV the rule that clears the galleries when secret matters are under dis cussion if any senator ever again publicly told such un pleasant truths . as Kennedy had told. "How is it going to sound to the Russian people,", cried Capehart, "when they read that a senator of the United States . . . said that the United States is inferior to Russia? Perhaps I am wrong. Senators can say what they please or do what they please, but I say that . . . could give com fort to our enemies. pAPEHART did not lence deny the accuracy of Ken nedy's facts. He said he hoped they were not accurate, but had no means of knowing. On the Senate floor were many members of the Senate Arm ed Services . Committee and Joint Atomic Energy Commit tee, having the access to the classified information that Kennedy does not have. Not one of these men rose to dis pute the accuracy of Ken nedy's facts. Instead, a whole series of them, led by Sena tors Symington of Missouri and Jackson of Washington, rose to praise Kennedy. They affirmed that he had spoken no more than the truth, with no whit of exaggeration. Again, poor Capehart did not suggest that Kennedy had given any new information to the masters of the Kremlin. He could not do so. Even he was well aware that the American missile program is ,a . matter" of public record. Even he could hardly claim that the ' Kremlin does not know about its own missile program.. Informing the American people, not the Kremlin, was what he really objected to. But once he cried out: "If what the senator from Massachusetts said is true, . . . Congress should not adjourn. If what he says is true, Con gress should appropriate an other twenty Billion." . It reminded one of the tag line in Evelyn Waugh's "Put Out More Flags." At the end of the book, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, the man-of-Munich, the Chamberlain-and-Baldwinite who is a central comic figure, commits his soli tary blunder into sense. The tag-line is: "And, poor booby, he was bang right." Stop Me know who you were.' NATO Commander Thinks Progress Being Made in By KINGSBURY SMITH United Press International Paris (UPD General Lauris Norstad, supreme Allied com mander for Europe, said to day "satisfactory progress" is now being made in discus cions with the NATO coun tries concerning the estab lishment in Europe of inter mediate, range ballistic mis siles. In an exclusive interview with this correspondent, the youthful looking war-time Air Force commander also said he was "confident that Britain Talking of General Election; Torries Out Front By JOSEPH W. QUIGG UPI Correspondent London (UPD General elec tion talk is in the air in Britain. The Labor opposition is be coming more and more con vinced Prime Minister Har old Macmillan will pull a "snap" election in the fall probably in early October. Macmillan is riding high on a crest of popularity. His per sonal prestige is at its peak. The Laborites -believe he will try to cash in by sending the nation to the polls. The re sult, they fear, would be an other victory for Macmillan's ruling Conservatives. - The Prime Minister has done nothing to back the gen eral election scuttlebut. On the contrary, he has said re peatedly he is not even think ing of elections at the mo ment. Aides say he would not consider them before October of 1959 or May of 1959 at the very earliest. Preparing for Something But Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips refuses to take the government's denials at their face value. Labor Party Headquarters has been warned the Con servatives are reserving pub lic halls and billboards throughout the country for mid-September. Labor lead ers claim Macmillan already ihas recorded "a roll call for victory, 1958" message for dis tribution throughout the na In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, the U.S. congress is in the midst of a wild rush for adjournment The basic purpose in Wash ington in these days seems to be to set the political situa tion up in such a way that everybody who is running for reelection will be able to say to every voter he canvasses "LOOK WHAT WE GOT YOU OUT OF UNCLE SAM'S TREASURY!" AS politics, it's good argu ment. As ECONOMICS, it's differ ent. Where does the money come from to fill Uncle Sam's treasure house? Why IT COMES OUT OF YOUR POCKET AND THE POCKETS OF' 170-ODD MIL LION OTHER PEOPLE. That's the long and short of it. BUT Let's quit panning the congress. It has its foibles. In campaign years, its mem bers are stricken by a strange summer madness that we call election fever. In the grip of this malady, they do absurd things. But our congress isn't', all bad. There is the Klamath reservation bill that passed .both houses in these final days of the biennial dervish dance. It is a good piece of legislation. Considered na tionally, it didn't have much vote-getting appeal. What hap pened was . that the members of the congress were brought to realization of the fact that is was SOUND and should be enacted. So, after hearing the arguments pro and con, they went ahead and enacted it. We musn't get too cynical about our government. It has its faults. But we wouldn't trade it for any other form of government on earth. WHY is the Klamath reser vation bill a good bill? ' Well, it lays down rules that if followed undeviatingly will result in keeping trees growing perpetually over a large area in this region. Trees produce FIBER. They produce it economically. Fi ber is a tremendously import ant raw material. Out of the countless products can be made. If, here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California, there is to be large develop ment of industries based on fiber (with their resulting ing when the new weapons are available, satisfactory sites will be ready for their recep tion." "Furthermore," he added, "in the case of IRBM's, be cause of their range, great latitude is available to us in their siting. " "I am convinced that, as the heads of government, at their December meeting, de cided on the establishment of IRBM sites in NATO terri tory, because they are neces sary for the defense of NATO, each country in the last analysis will do what is tion's constituencies. Conservative spokesmen do not deny the preparations. They claim they are being made for a big party member ship drive scheduled to get underway Sept. 18. But the Laborites believe Macmillan is convinced, the political dice all are loaded in Macmillan's favor, if he does appeal to the country in the near future. ' When Macmillan took over from ailing Sir Anthony Eden early in 1957 after the Suez debacle, the Conservative Party's fortunes had plummet ed to rock bottom. Macmillan was regarded as only a stop gap premier at- best. An economic crisis in the fall of 1957 brought Britain to the verge of bankruptcy and resulted in a series of by election disasters for the Con servatives. But in recent months the situation has changed abruptly. Recession fears are fading. The nation's finances are back on the rails again. The bank rate upped to a near-record 7 per cent during the crisis is back to Wi per cent and may be slashed still further, Macmillan's personal popu larity was booted sky-high by his efforts to bring about a summit meeting with the Rus sians and by Britain's mili tary intervention in Jordan. Recent straw polls have put the Conservatives comfortably in the lead. JENKINS large payrolls) we must pro vide assurance that the sup ply of fiber here will be per petual.. Industry isn t going to invest tens of millions (per haps hundreds of millions) of dollars in a region in which there is doubt of the PER MANENCE of the raw ma terial supply. IIE put up a hard and sue ' cessful battle to KEEP OUR WATER. We. must now make equally sure that we will KEEP OUR TREES GROWING. IN the development of our area, we must follow the sound principle of first things first. Our first job is to establish here a LARGE pulp and pa per products industry. Our next job must be to follow the pulp and paper products industry with a WOOD CHEMISTRY indus try. The wood chemistry indus try will utilize what we now call the WASTE PRODUCTS of the pulp and paper indus try. Thus one hand will wash the other. CAN it be done? The head of the wood in dustry division of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madi son, Wis., says that within a generation the wood chemis try industry will equal the petroleum chemistry indus try. Petroleum chemistry is now one of the nation's leading in dustries. TJERE is an interesting 11 thought: When petroleum is all pumped out of the ground IT'S ALL PUMPED OUT. There isn't any more. Wood grows from the ground. It is a CROP. There will ALWAYS be more wood if we are wise and provident enough to KEEP ENOUGH TREES GROWING. Husbands! Wives! Get Pep.Vim; Feel Younger Thousands of couples are weaK, worn out, exhausted just because body lacks iron. For new younger feeling after 40, try ustrex ionic xaoieuh Contain iron for pep; therapeutic dose Vitamin Bi. to increase vigor, vitality. 8-day "get-acquainted" size costs little. Ur get Economy size and save $1.67. At all druggists. European necessary in its own defense, and to contribute to Nato de fense. . "This confidence is based on my recognition that these new weapons " will make a significant contribution to the deterrent, and therefore to our first task, the preserva tion of peace, and also will make - a contribution to our second task, the defense of the peoples ard territories of NATO if we are attacked." Countries Object Establishment in Europe of missiles with nuclear war heads is considered by SHAPE planners necessary to the modern evolution of the war deterrent power of the NATO "shield." x Some of the European coun tries, including France, Den mark and Norway, objected to the establishment of IRBM sites on their territories when the proposal to strengthen SHAPE'S defensive power with these weapons was made at the Atlantic Council meet ing last December. The French did not want the bases established in France unless they had some measure of control over use of the "missiles. This would involve congressional modi fication of the law restricting to the President alone the right to determine when American nuclear weapons would b used. ., Denmark and Norway have laws which prohibit the sta tioning of foreign military forces,, on their territory. Lit tle hope is held at SHAPE that those laws will be changed 1 in the near future, ,but there is confylence- that France will agree to the es tablishment of some sites on its territory. Still Not Satisfied Since French Premier Charles de Gaulle is deter mined to have greater recog nition given France as a ma jor power, and since he wants a more effective voice for the French in the formulation of Allied global strategy, it is believed at SHAPE that he will wish his country to be equipped with the weapons that, diplomatically as well as militarily, speak loudly. While General Norstad told the writer he. feels the bal ance of military power still remains with the West, he is far from satisfied with the strength of his own deterrent "shield" in Western Europe He now has available ap proximately 21 divisions. He expects eventually to get about 28, which approximates the 30 divisions he regards as the minimum forces required to enable him to fulfill the mission of SHAPE forces in the central area of Europe The mission has changed since NATO was established nine years ago. Originally, it was hoped that the SHAPE forces could establish a de fensive line in Germany strong enough to hold up a Russian attack until powerful American and British armies could be brought to France. Mission Outlined . Today SHAPE'S mission is, in effect, to make Russia re alize that any attempt to ex tend Soviet domination in Europe by a limited war would precipitate an all-out nuclear conflict with the United States and its NATO allies. This mission requires Al lied combat-ready forces suf ficiently strong to prevent the Soviet or satellite armies from suddenly overrunning a small country or grabbing some territory and. then pre senting NATO with a fait accompli. SHAPE planners are well aware that if Russia, by di rect or indirect military ag gression, suddenly occupied Norway or the northern part Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Bases of Greece, there might be strong sentiment in some, of the NATO countries to con-' fine the conflict to a "limited war." The NATO governments cannot afford, or at least feel that they cannot afford, . to supply General Norstad with the strong standing army that would be necessary . to enable him to fight success fully a limited war against Russia in Europe. Poses Constant Threat Therefore, his only hope of discouraging the Soviets from attempting to nibble away at Western Europe by limited wars is to maintain in con stant combat readiness suffi cient forces to make the Rus sian rulers realize that any attack on Allied forces in Eu rope would precipitate full scale nuclear war. This is what is known in SHAPE circles as keeping the ball of decision "bouncing" on the Soviet side of the court. If, despite this deterrent ef-, fort, war should come, then the objective of the SHAPE shield forces would be to try to hold the Red armies in check long enough to give the American and British strate gic air forces time to seek a quick decision through mass sive nuclear retaliation at tacks on the Soviet Union. Thus, it would be hoped to prevent the Russian ' armies from- overrunning Western Europe before the nuclear decision-had been effected. It is believed at SHAPE that this nuclear decision would probably come within a week or two of the outbreak of all-out .war. That belief not only indicates the terri bly swift destructive nature of nuclear warfare, but it im plies that the SHAPE forces would not be expected to hold off the Russian armies for more than a few weeks. , Editorial Comment THIS IS FREE ENTERPRISE Under pressure from some congressmen, the Federal Communications Commission has decided to stall another ryear on pay TV. The House Commerce Com mittee was supposed to come up with a study of the subject at this session of Congress. The FCC said it was waiting for that. But the Commerce Committee chairman, Oren Harris, has been busy with other things Mr. Goldfine in particular. So the promised trial runs of pay television have been postponed until after Mr. Har ris makes his "study" some time next year. That means the months of hearings and the stacks of testimony already taken by the FCC practically have gone for naught, Business men with capital they are willing to risk on a new venture are put off again. The public, which may or may not like pay TV, gets no chance to decide for itself. This is S country where in itiative and free enterprise are supposed to be our stock in-' trade! Tha Cincinnati Post. MILK Delivered in Medford 75 Gal. MY HIDEAWAY DAIRY EAGLE POINT Licensed and Inspected HI 6-3602 WANT TO GET LIFE? Insurance that is! "Mr. Insurance" has opened i new department to assist you in providing for the future of your loved ones. Let us assist you in evaluating your present coverage without obligation. Bill Fish CP- J. -"CSS- '
