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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. 4 Wednesday, August 27, 19S8 Medford?5KTribune "Everyone to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North FirJt. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager , otKALU lai ham, Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H- ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Indeijendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420. 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 118.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms lasn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacfcson 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 trancisco. los Angeies, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. 01 NEWSPAPH ESS k PUBllSMf RS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL r AsocnTrjojN 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. 27. 1948 (Friday). From 100 to 150 people are needed as spectators and jury members ior xne court room scene in "The Last of thP Wild Horses," which will be filmed tomorrow morning in Jacksonville. The Jackson County Young Republican club meets to night. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1938 (Saturday) An estimated 2,500 people linoH F.ast Main st. sidewalks Friday evening to watch the Mail Tribune-Scout Cub miag ot enpprier. derby. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Dew ey Hill, the Prospect hired man suffered Tuesday from a corn, which turned out to be , a collar button he lost Sunday." 30 YEARS AGO , Aug. 27, 1928 (Monday) Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh arrived here yesterday, unheralded, to fish on the Rogue river with Harry H. Scott, who has a cabin up stream. There have been 87,142 vis itors to Crater Lake so far this year. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1918 (Tuesday) Forty-eight sailors from the USS Vicksburg passed through town this morning by train, and during a stop down town they picked roses and ate pears gathered from near by packing houses. County draftees here in town pending departure in a few days are wearing USNA (United States National army) on their sleeves. What's Yonr I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; teven or eight i excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is the C.A.P.? 2. What, according to the proverb, is the "mother of Invention"? 3. Name the General who was George Washington's rival for command of the Con tinental Army during the Revolutionary War. 4. Who was Sigmund Freud? 5. What is the origin of the name "The Netherlands?" 6. From what is agar de rived? 7. Flatbush is a section of one of New York City's Boroughs; which one? . 8. The name of which day of the week has the most let ters? 9. Shintoism is the principal native religion of which coun try? 10. The message, "What hath God wrought?", was the first to be sent by telephone, telegraph, or radio transmis sion? Answers: 1. Civil Air Pa trol; 2. "Necessity"; 3. Horatio Gates; 4. Austrian psycholo gist; 5. Much of it is below the sea level; S. Seaweed; 7. Brooklyn; 8. Wednesday; 9. Japan; 10. Telegraph. Correctional Institution The Oregon State Correctional Institution will soon be completed, to join the Oregon State Penitentiary in the state's program for handling convicted felons. The difference in approach between the two is implicit in their names. The penitentiary is primarily for punishment, the new institution is primarily for correction in effect, that is, for there are and will be other elements in the programs of each. IN PENOLOGY, there are three functions of im- prisonment. One is punishment for an offense against soc iety. The second is the protection of society against further anti-social activities of the convicted man. The third is rehabilitation, or "correction," of the individual, to make him a constructive and useful member of society in the future. DUNISHMENT is an age-old concept, dating . from' the first attempts to organize society. Time was when punishment was the only thing considered when an offender was apprehended. The usual punishment was death, although later refinements included mutilation and similar bar barous revenges. Later, imprisonment was added to the roster of punishments. More recently, however, penological think ing has more and more relegated punishment as such to a less important role in a prison program. And while imprisonment of men who are threats to the safety of society is and always will be an important element in penology, the third objec tive, rehabilitation, has' come to be the most im portant. CREATION of the Correctional Institution, which was authorized by the Oregon legisla ture in 1955, is a recognition of this fact. Its approach to the job tion that there are different" degrees of crimin ality, and that some men are more easily rehabil itated than others. The new institution to first offenders of 26 have been convicted of are for less than 10 years. The sentencing judge will be the one who makes ther a man should be sentenced to the correctional institution or to the penitentiary. TTHIS is not to say that be ignored at the penitentiary. It is a major and growing factor in the But it will receive even greater emphasis at the new institution ; will, aim. 5 " To begin with, it will lem, how to separate first - ed criminals. Such associations in too many cases have resulted in the first-offender becoming, him self, hardened and habituated in the ways of crime. Secondly, and equally important, is the fact that the most advance methods of rehabilitation will be used. These involve a wide range of tech niques. P"0R instance, thorough physical examinations will be provided new inmates. Education, guidance, vocational training, work assignments, psychiatric help, suitable recreation opportunities all these will be available to inmates as needed. A brochure explaining the program of the new institution concludes: "The inmate(upon being released from the institu tion will have been afforded the best possible rehabili tation program utilizing a trained scientific staff and the most modern correctional design available, so that he can become a useful and productive member of soc iety." It will, of course, be a place of confinement a prison. There are no ifs or maybes abput that, and escape would be difficult. But it is a step along the road toward enlight ened penology, which deems an habitual crimin al,.who spends most of his life in prison, as a det riment to society, and a man who is rehabilitated, and who takes a productive place in the world, as an asset. We don't see how anyone .can seriously quar rel with that objective. E.A. Money Money, they say, won't buy everything. But they also say, money makes the mare go. It is a sad fact that some things cannot be ac complished without the long green. One of those things is putting on a state-wide, or even com munity-wide, celebration. And those who have to part with it. With these things m note that the lumber industry of Oregon is going all-out to provide itself with a good show during the forthcoming Oregon Centennial celebration. AN INDUSTRY committee, headed by A. A. (Tony) Lausmann of Medford is raising a quarter-million dollars f or the industry display under the theory that, to quote them : Here is a ready-made audience of buyers. It seems like good, smart business for the forest industry to dis play all the products of the forests lumber, plywood, hardboards, and pulp and paper in such a dramatic way that these visitors will want to buy them." More power to the lumbermen. Let us hope that others will be as far-sisrhted when the time comes to collect the money to put Medford and Jackson county on the map during the Centennial year. E.A. ' is based on the assump generally will be limited years of age or less, who a felony and whose terms the decision as to whe rehabilitation is or will prison s regime. m fact, be its principal solve a long-felt prob offenders from harden Helps money often are loath mind, it is refreshing to Dennis the Menace 'Lucky wg camb,vao look Republicans Eye Winning Congress Against Big Odds By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Chicago - (UPD - The high command of the Republican party is meeting here to per suade itself that the GOP, can win back control of Congress this year and then to figure out how to do the job. ' To pull it off, the Republi cans must buck what has ap peared to be a Democratic trend in the two years since President Eisenhower won re election by a landslide with out bringing in a GOP Con gress with him. They must also buck history, which has shown that the party in con trol of the White House nor mally loses congressional seats in mid-term elections when the presidency is not at stake. To reverse this trend the GOP is trying to develop is sues on a local and national basis, rally support for Presi dent Eisenhower and stress the importance of nominating "attractive" candidates. How ever successful these ap proaches might be, many GOP leaders would count it a moral victory if they could hold their own. Seals at Stake All 435 House seats and 34 of the Senate seats are at stake this fall. Ratification of Alaskan statehood would mean one more House mem ber and two more senators. While the GOP needs to show a net gain of 21 House seats and only one Senate seat to its present member ship, the Senate job looks the toughest. ' In the 34 Senate seats out side Alaska, 21 are now held by Republicans and 13 by Democrats. Six are "safe" Democratic seats in the South. Of the remaining seven, all except Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) managed to win in 1952 when President Eisen hower was carrying their states in the presidential vote. The President will not be on the ballot this year. Of the 21 Republican seats, about a dozen are counted in the tossup class. If the Demo crats win half of these, even if Proxmire loses, they still would show a net gain of five. Democratic Claims The Democrats claim the seat of Sen. Charles E. Potter fR-Mich.) already is theirs, and the Republicans admit it has them worried. Elsewhere, the Democrats believe their chances are betteV than even to displace Republican sena tors in Connecticut, Pennsyl vania, California, Maryland and at least one of the two Senate races in West Virginia, Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ONLY ONE THING stood in the way of the marriage of Daphne and Osbert, but that was the very forceful and formidable mother of Daphne. "She's so difficult, Osbert," wailed Daphne. Tm afraid she thinks you're effemi nate." Osbert compressed his lips angrily and admit ted, "Next to her, I really am." The wedding party was at its height, and everybody in the happiest of moods every body, that is, but two brides maids who shook their heads dubiously in a corner. "I wouldn't give two cents for their chances," said one. "Susie's now been married so often, that the only way she'll get a thrill out of Niagara Falls is to go over them in a barrel 1" .' The census taker was having a little difficulty persuading Mrs. Quackenbusch to disclose her age. Finally she said, "Did you get that stuck-up Mrs. Umbtjago next door to tell you how old she was?" "I did," he declared. "Very well," snapped Mrs. Q. "Just put me down as four years younger." O 1968, ky Bennett Cert, Distributed by King Features Syndicate.'. " STEAK KNIVE$" the only state with two Sen ate contests this year. Democratic managers point next to the other. seat in West Virginia, plus Maine, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona and Nevada, as states where their candidates should be even bets to replace in cumbent Republicans. GOP leaders falter once they have pointed to Prox mire as a Democrat whom they can unseat. A party split in Wisconsin and a farm revolt against the administration both contributed to.'Prox mire's victory in a special election last year. Republi cans hope that both of these problems are behind them this year. . De Gaulle Jeered By Senegalese Dakar, French West Africa -(UPD-French Premier Charles de Gaulle left it up to defiant Senegalese today to choose be tween ind ependence and French economic aid. Thousands of Senegalese roared "De Gaulle, go home" and "we "want independence" when the premier arrived here Tuesday on his African tour to marshal support for his new constitution. It was the roughest reception exper ienced so far by De Gaulle on his current tour. - Tuesday night a crowd roar ed defiance at De Gaulle when he proposed that Sene gal join a "community" with France under the proposed constitution. De Gaulle spoke in Dakar's Main Square. He turned red and, grabbing the microphone, shouted: " "Independence! If you want it, well take it" But De Gaulle warned in dependence would mean the end of French aid. . Political experts have warn ed it would be disastrous for such areas as Senegal to go without1 French financial and economic assistance. Nearly 400 Named For OSC Scholarships Corvallis-IUPD-Oregon State college personnel coordinator Dallas Norton said Tuesday that nearly 400 students had been named winners of schol arships for the coming year. He said this was the largest number in OSC history. Scholarships range in value to $2500. Stop Me Editorial Comment TIMBER POLICY It isn't often that I com ment on a letter written to some other newspaper. However, Thornton T. Mun ger recently said something in The Oregonian that I've been trying to get into this column for years. I've said it in different ways. Munger lays it on the line and minces no words. In my opinion, the facts need repeating, particu larly now that the U.S. Forest Service is under such extreme pressure from some mill oper ators and their representa tives. The Forest Service, accord ing to news reports, is being charged with failure to sell up to the allowable cut, fail ure to sell certain timber, failure to sell in small lots, etc. ine iorest Service gave figures to show it is selling up to allowable cut and de nied many charges. Personally, I fail to see where we are getting by any argument to sell more logs, Our recession was caused by the fact that we overproduced lumber. The more logs of fered for sale, the quicker we will again be overproducing and be back in depression There is no industry I know of that has been up and down as often as has the lumber in dustry. Reasons Evident We might as well face the facts. What the small mill wants is a log at as low a price as possible, so a profit is available. Consequently, the mill operators and his representatives want more loss. More loss mean less-l competition and lower price. I don't blame the small mill for wanting. The small mill also wants smaller sales. The Forest Service has had to hold big enough sales to cover the cost of road building. The opera tor has had to build the road In some cases the sales have been at considerable distance from one another, so that the road would be built in front of tracts to be offered later Only big operators have the monev with which to build roads. Congress has not given the Forest Service money with which to build, condemn nor maintain access roads. A news item "recently said the Forest Service would use its power of condemnation, but that power definitely is lim ited. Munger recites in his letter that Oregon's lumber capaci ty is far ahead of growth ca pacity and that some mills must fold. That's a hard thing so say, but it is true, much as we hate to admit it. He said that condemnation of the For est Service comes largely from "cut out" and get out" operators who have exhaust ed their own timber. Con versely, says he, a few years ago lumbermen were begging the Forest Service not to sell timber because federal tim ber' would compete with pri vate timber on a saturated market. The Forest Service, says Munger, has increased its stumpage sales from 129 mil lion board feet in 1930 to more than 214 billion feet in 1958. To charges that disease, blowdown and other factors are "wasting" timber, he raises the' argument that price increases offset all losses. He also points out that while critics claim Forest Service stumpage prices are threaten ing financial disaster, all sales are made on competitive bid. If somone couldn't make a profit, there wouldn't be a bid that high. Munger closes his letter with a statement that we al ready are cutting our virgin timber too rapidly and that the Forest Service is acting wisely in refusing to up its rate of cut. Limit Is Needed Munger, I believe, has a lot of truth in what he writes. Maybe he goes to extremes, in some cases, but for the most part, I agree with what he has written. - There is no question that we are ' overproducing. That is reflected in demand and price. We are overproducing because we have too much in stalled capacity. We also are cutting more logs into timber, boards and plywood than the market can absorb forever.. I believe the Forest Service should make available all the logs a sustained ' yield pro gram will permit. I believe the sustained yield and allow able cut, should be matched to modern usage, prevalence of disease, amount of sal vage, age, rate of growth, and other such factors. Look at the trucks coming in and you'll see logs that shouldn't have been cut for the next 50 years! The small mills are hurt ing. It is a cruel thing to say but the big mill, normally, makes better : use of a log and, so, can afford to pay more. It has been industry history that many small mills have been forced out of busi ness. More and more the in dustry is passing into the hands of a few operators and big corporations. It isn't nice to contemplate, but it's a fact. The Forest Service, in my opinion, should not be stam peded into something that is contrary to the public good over the years. It was said in this column many years ago that the time would come when heavy pres sure would be put on the For est Service to sell federal tim ber faster than it should be sold. We're already feeling that pressure. It will get stronger. Whether the federal agen cies will have the strength to resist remains to be seen. -Roseburg News-Review THE LONG ARM . OF PORTLAND ' Way back when the Ore gon Centennial was all talk and little promotion the ex perts explained that all of Oregon was to be the festi val ground, with something cooking centennially from Cloverdale to Cornucopia and from Grants Pass to Goble. Since then most of the fuss ing and fixing has been cen tered in Portland. And from the way things have been go ing we're just as happy. ' But a few days ago the Portland Oregonian suggest ed that it would be a chum; my idea, and handy for the millions of Easterners com ing out for Oregon's hun dreth birthday, if Ashland's famous Shakespeare Festival were transferred to Portland. The screams from the Rogue River Valley can be heard all the way to Rural Ave. on a calm day. But is this all bad? Shouldn't we be honest with these rubbernecking Eastern ers and show them what Ore gon really was like a century ago-a fightin' and a bickerin' and a roarin' in the name of local pride? We hear that the Chamb ers of Commerce down along the Rogue are getting up a kitty to finance Southern Oregon's own contribution to the Centennial year. It would be a full color pamphlet with plenty of. text and footnotes, as well as a lengthy biblio graphy, called "One Hundred Years of Portland Thievery." Should they want to ac cept help from a northerner, we'd be happy to write a couple chapters on how Port land does it where the reach ing is even easier. -Capital Journal. Salem. FTC Accuses Portland Firms Portland-(UPD-Two Portland firms today were ordered by the Federal Trade Commis sion to answer charges of ille gal discrimination in pricing and misrepresentation in ad vertising. The FTC accused Northwest Schools of misrepresenting benefits of its" aviation train ing course. The FTC said the advertisement leads prospec tive students to believe that graduation qualifies them for work with major commercial airlines. The FTC was also critical of the school's prac tice of referring to its sales men as "registrars." Gray & Co., a wholly own ed subsidiary of Hudson House, Inc., was accused by the FTC of charging some buyers from 2 to 18 per cent more than favored competi tors. The complaint listed two San Francisco firms, two in Los Angeles and one in Spo kane and one in Butte, Mont., as benefiting from the prac tice. The Gray company sells bakery and fountain supplies. Poland To Celebrate New World Arrival Washington -flJPD Commu nist Poland is planning a cele bration at Jamestown and Williamsburg, Va., Sept. 19 20 "commemorating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Polish settlers in the New World." Poles arrived at Jamestown on Oct. 1, 1608, aboard the Mary and Margaret and "shortly after established the first industries on the Ameri can continent," the Polish Embassy said. San Francisco Tooth Filling More Expensive Washington- (UPD -The Cen sus Bureau reports it costs more to have a tooth filled in San Francisco than in New York. The bureau said the cost per filling in New York was $5.17 compared with the na tionwide high of $7.14 in San Francisco. GASSY? 3 Times Faster Relief Certified laboratory tub row BEU-MS tablets neutral in 3 timet ai much stomack acidity ia one minute many leaOint diiesfite tablett. Set BELL-ANS today far ;h.!...,l,,Mt klrew" 35 FREE SAMPLE, lend postal to Oraafoburf, . J, Ike's Legislative Record During '58 Up From Last Year Washington -(CQ)- Presi dent Eisenhower found the Debomcratic-controlled Con gress more receptive to his legislative program this year than ever before. Congress approved 110 of the President's 234 legislative requests for 1958, a Congres sional Quarterly analysis shows. That's 47 per cent, the best showing for Mr , Eisen hower since he began work ing with a Democratic-controlled Congress in 1955. The first two years-when he had a Republican majority in Con-' gress- were .Ike's best: 72.7 per cent of his program was approved in 1953 and 64.7 per cent in 1954. , Even so, the less-than-half showing for 1958 looks pretty good compared with the pack age the 85th Congress gave Mr. Eisenhower last year when it approved of only 36.9 per cent of the President's re quests, an all-time low. Relations Better The tense international sit uation and the recession stim ulated the improved relations between the President and the Democratic Congress. As Sen ate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) said in the wee hours of Sunday mor ning just before adjournment: "It has been one of the most non-partisan Congresses in many years." At least, the President's Non-Partisanship For Judiciary Bar Association's Aim Los Angeles -UPD- A reso lution approved by the Am erican Bar Association today called for removal of appoint ment of federal judges from politics. The hotly debated issue was fought out and approved Tuesday by members of the House of Delegates at the ABA's 81st annual conven tion. ' As approved, the proposal called for appointment of federal judges by the Presi dent according to qualifica tions and not because of po litical alignment - - "Suggestions for nomina tions should originate in an independent commission es tablished as an agency of the President, to advise with the President on; appointments. and to receive from outside sources and from all seg ments of the organized bar suggestions of names of per sons deemed highly qualified for appointment as judges in their respective jurisdictions," the resolution stated. "To avoid any suggestion of partisanship and to make the courts truly nonpartisan or bipartisan, it is desirable that there would be some recog nition of a general principle that a substantial percentage of the members di any federal court should be . from the ranks of a party other than the President who is to make the particular appointment." Proponents of the resolu tion charged that U. S. At torney General Rogers was paying "lip service" to impar tiality. "We just don't have an in dependent judiciary," said Frank E. Holman, Seattle, Wash. Those who opposed the measure argued that relations with the attorney general's office had been improving steadily and now was not the time to become antagonistic. The ABA president was di rected to appoint, a commit tee to work toward develop ment of a system for recom mending candidates for judge ships to the President. Another resolution approv ed by the delegates called for formation of plans by legis latures; and federal and state courts for continuation of gov ernment and legal functions in the case of atomic attack. -The Better Service With reverence and dignity we render, service to all who call . . regardless of creed C. M. Litwiller or financial standing. To merit your confidence is our sincere desire. For a finer service, conducted in beautiful sur- rounding, ifs Litwiller's. locally owned. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88-N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close ' than to three "imperatives" - recir rocal trade, defense reorgani zation and foreign aid - got through Congress in a form acceptable to the President, although not exactly as re quested. Here's what Congressional Quarterly's point- by- point study of the President's pro gram since 1953 rings up for Ike: 1953: 72.7 per cent; 1954: 64.7 per cent; 1955: 46.3 per cent; 1956: 45.7 per cent; 1957: 36.9 per cent and 1958: 47.0 per cent. And here's what happened to the President's 234 re quests in 1958: ' 110 requests were ap proved by both houses and sent to the President. 9 requests were approved by one house, not both. 15 requests received some committee action but nothing more. 41 requests received no action at all. 59 requests were rejected with unffavorable action bv Congress. Copyright 1958. -Congressional Quarterly Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The congress finally ad journed. What did it do while it was in session? We aren't sure yet. There will have to be a lot of checking up on details before we can gei an accurate pic ture. , But of this we ARE sure: It spent a lot of money. The money it spent or commit ted will have to come out of our pockets in the form of taxes. TTERE are some figures: The census bureau tell us this morning that tax col lections at ALL levels of gov ernmhent in the 1957 fiscal year totaled nearly 99 BIL LION dollars. That amounts to an average of about $580 for every, American. It amounts to approximately $2,300 for every breadwinner for a family of four. THAT'S what government costs us. ' . It's quite a chunk of money. It leads us to wonder if gov ernment isn't perhaps costing us more than is really neces sary. WE HEAR a lot about the cost of living which is RISING. For a decade, it -has been rising at an average rate of about 2V6 per cent a year. Here are some more census bureau figures that you may find interesting: In 1957 federal tax collec-. tions were up SEVEN per cent over 1956. But the federal government isn't the only tax ing unit. In 1957, state tax collections were up 8.6 per cent over 1956. LOCAL tax collections were up 11.7 per cent. The cost of ALL govern ment not just the federal government alone is up. WHY' We keep demanding more and more SERVICES from the government. Serv ices cost money. They don't come free. They aren't pulled from hats. They cost money. The money has to come from somewhere. It comes from the pockets of the people. THE theory is that when gov ernment spends a lot of money it makes business bet ter. That may be tcue. But, at least, you should keep this fact in mind: -r The money that government spends comes from the pockets of the- people.: What govern ment spends it reaches into your pocket and takes out. - This is the point: WHAT GOVERNMENT REACHES INTO YOUR POCKET AND' TAKES OUT ISN'T LEFT IN YOUR POCK ET FOR YOU TO SPEND. ' Mrs. Litwiller J d Remember, too, we are 100 t mvt iijii .il j. 1 .1, Aagiu -pfqowePM r. l 'It is better to know us and not need us. need ut and not know us.