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United Press International r un Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At- Vancouver, is.c NATIONAL EDITORIAL ELUJUMlKIV.Mfr 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 The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce has an nounced it will spearhead a drive to induce the state high way commission to improve Highway 99 in the Canyon- ville area. - More than 75 persons at tended the recent 4-H home economics canning show. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1938 (Wednesday) The Medford News official ly moves today to 39 South Grape st., , formerly occupied by the Mattress shop. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The I. Coleman boy, John, 5, had lunch with a girl friend last week. John got mad about something, and showed his spunk. He crawled under the table and stayed there, until the young lady went home.' SO YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1928 (Friday) At least 200 Boy Scouts are expected at the jamboree to night in the Medford armory, H. W. Conger opens his new mortuary tomorrow. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1918 (Saturday) - The state militia company paraded nd drilled on Main st. early this afternoon, wear ing their recently-arrived uni forms. The local Red Cross unit needs funds for the purchase of surgical dressings and oth er necessities. What's Yoar I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight it excellent; five of six is good. ;1. The whorls and ridges on human fingers do, or do not, change with age? 2. In liquid measure, how many gills are in a pint? 3. Seven letters in the al phabet' are used in Roman numerals; how many can you name? 4. ' "What datev in January, 1961, commences the next term of office for the TJ. S. Presidency? ' 5. Name the Federal agency whicl) prints U. S. currency. 6. Which Jewish organiza tion has the intials Y.M.H.A.? 7. If you suffered from chrematophobia, would you fear, or crave wealth? 8. How many children con stitute a pair of twins? , 9. At a wedding, are the bride's reltives seated on the left or right side of the rhnrch? 10. Usually, in Homer and In later writers, ambrosia is the food of the gods; what is the drink of the gods? Answers: 1. Do not change. 2. 4 gills. 3. C,D,I,L.M,V,X. 4. January 20. 5. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 6. Young Men's Hebrew Asso ciation. 7. Fear wealth. 8. Two. 9. Left. 10. Nectar. Albany-Camp Adair Bus Service Approved Salem - (CPD - Public Utility Commissioner Howard Mor gan Friday approved the ap plication of Roy J. Sinnott and Louie C. Meierhenry, op erators of the Radio Cab Com pany and Albany Transit Lines in Albany, to conduct bus service to Camp Adair starting Sept. 2. 4 ASSOCIATION Handwriting on the Wall Charlie Stanton sees some handwriting on the wall. He doesn't like what it says, but believes it is inevitable. Now Charlie, in addition to being the able edi tor of the Roseburg News-Review, is one of the state's most ardent outdoorsmen, fishermen and conservationists. Many a battle has he waged on the side of those who believe the outdoors repre sent an irreplaceable natural resource that must be wisely used so that generations of the future will be served as our present generation is being served. A ND, too, Charlie delights in "fast water fish ing," the exciting sport of going after a sal mon or trout in a rushing stream. But he fears that the era of the fast-water fisherman is coming to doesn t like it, he feels even grudgingly admits Water-users is a legitimate thing although he sees the day when he and be hard-pressed to find favorite sport. He says: "Industry Is taking more and more water for in dustrial purposes. That water is needed. We want more industry. The only way we can get more water, and thereby more industry, I believe, is through upstream storage, whereby runoff waters are held back for re lease when needed. "And let's turn to the anglers. Are we getting more fishermen on fast water or impoundments? I'll say that impoundments are drawing more fishermen, con sidering the distance and difficulty of travel, than fast water. A few of us still like to fish for ocean-run trout, salmon, etc., but I'm very much afraid that the great majority of fishermen want more lakes and more lake fishing." ND he concludes: ."Are we old-timers about done? Must we give up our favorite" type of recreation, fast water fishing, for something else? I'm very much afraid we will. People who know more about our sports fishery than do I are also of the opinion that the days of fast water 'angling are about through. Perhaps a few places in Oregon may be saved, but they probably will be few." There are many definitions of nrosress. One or tnem includes more and more uses of our precious water. btanton's plaint is not really new. but in the past few years it has become increasingly obvious tnat tne last-water man even he who likes to whip a dry fly on the smaller streams seeking the pan-sized trout is a member of a minority. lhe water-skier and swimmer and the boater, New Building Technique "A quiet revolution has concrete industry, little those who keep up with metnods. The revolutionary technique is called "Dre stressing" of concrete. recently as one of tne great advances in construe ion of the 20th century, providing builders with i material "of superb strength, flexibility and economy," according to Scientific American. The article describes the process: "The idea is simplicity itself. We take a long block of concrete, put a bar of steel through it lengthways, and tighten nuts at the ends of the bar so that the steel is stretched and its tension compresses the con crete. Concrete, which is strong In compression, also loses its tendency to crack when thus compressed. Maximum advantage is taken simultaneously of the steel's high tensile strength. The stressed concrete span will now bear a considerable load. It . is no longer brittle, but actually resilient. Jndeed, with prestressed concrete, we can make a whippy fishpole or a bouncy ,. diving board." .. i MARRS Gibbons, head of one othe local firms dealing in concrete products, recently re turned from a tour of Europe and Africa where he inspected some of the products thus described. He is enthusiastic about it, but states that be cause of lack of information, and lack of appro priate facilities, the advantages of the new ma- enais are not Deing used on the west coast. But abroad, and in parts of the United States, it has become big business. THE magazine article Vi ritT nva a4-irttfcrt The new race course has a grandstand roof made of it, only three inch es thick, but which projects 90 feet from its sup porting pillars, with no posts obstructing the view. The edge of the roof is tipped up slightly by the. pull of the wires. out, but never will droop evered roofs commonly And m Los Angeles has a three-inch slab of pre-stressed concrete as a roof, covering 100,000 square feet. It is covered with two inches of water MR GIBBONS says For bridge spans it clares, and its versatility vistas of possible use in the construction industry long spans without support and huge roofs. And all this at a cost ional reinforced concrete altogether different. This, incidentally, is search going on in all types of building materials wrhich, increasingly, are competing with lumber. And it is another argument for an expanded re search program in the uses of, wood to keep our m a . i Mi i m r-i a orests ana miiis Dusy ior an end. And, though he it is inevitable. And he that the pressure of other others of like mind wil a place to pursue their people, more payrolls the lake fisherman, the are taking over. E.A. been under way in the - known to any excent new techniques and new . It has been recognized a recent issue of the . as mucn as they might describes examples of nr - ry?vri - Any, V s i-r at Caracas, Venezuela, Eventually it will flatten as conventionally canti- will do. there is a factory which to cool the building. the future of the new can't be beaten, he de will open up whole new little more than conven- which is something another example of re years to come. u.a. Dennis the Menace' 'HOT MAW HUMMINGBIRDS SET 74TtilC A FUNERAL J Matter of Fact (Joseph Alsop is on va cation. While he is away his column will be written by Rowland Evans jr.) NO DOUBLE HEADER Sanford, Me. - The Demo crats are hoping to win double-header in the weather- vane election here a week from Monday. As it looks to day, however, they may have to settle for a seat in the U.S Senate, their first since 1912 when the Bull Moose move ment split the Republican party and gave the Demo crats a momentary advantage Chiropractor Clinton Clau- son, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by all the signs is trailing Republican Horace Hildreth. It will take a Demo cratic landslide, or a major Republican blooper, to save Clauson. No one rules out the latter, particularly in view of reports that President Eisen hower has not yet decided whether to , sign or veto the depressed areas bill. Former Gov. Hildreth was talked into running for Gov ernor as a Republican unity candidate. Since 1952, the Republicans have been beset by a rising Democratic tide fed by an influx of French Canadians, chronic unemploy ment in the old river towns and the astonishing populari ty of the two-term Democrat ic Governor, Edmund Muskie, who is running for the Sen ate. One. result has been a sharp decline in the political power of the old Yankee Re publicans who ruled the state for generations. ; TO PREPARE for the elec tion next week, the Re publicans revamped their en tire state political organiza tion and' bound up their 1952 Senatorial primary wounds, when the present Sen. Fred erick Payne challenged form er Sen. Owen Brewster. Brewster was a strong Taft man while Payne went all out for Eisenhower that year. Ever since the two factions have been at arm's length. After walloping Brewster in the primary, Payne went on to win election to the Senate where he has performed his duties with diligence and the precision of an expert account ant. It was Payne who spon sored the depressed areas bUl, one of the last bills of the session to pass Congress. The bill promises $275,000, 000 in Federal aid for areas of chronic unemployment. One such area is this town of Sanfordwhere the sprawling textile plants that once, hum med with business are now wasteful remnants of a van ished era. PAYNE sponsored the bill and he naturally is mak ing much of it. At a Republi can rally in . the Elks Hall here,' Payne recited his own record and attacked JviusKie for not doing more to solve the problem of industrial mi gration south and west, ine Democratic Governor, he said, "has failed the state ot Maine and failed it badly." This kind of attack on Mus kie does not seem to be hurt ing the 4 Democratic governor and if a suspicion now held within the Payne camp is wen founded, it could boom erang with a vengeance. The suspicion is that President Eisenhower may veto the de pressed areas bill. A veto of Payne s bill wouia seem m be an unthinKaDie Diooper, it were not for the recol lection of other occasions oi administration rug pulling. The biu went to tne presi dent's desk on Tuesday, fie has ten days, excluding Sun rlavs. to act. putting the dead line just two days before the election. As this report is written, Payne and the entire Repub lican team are agonizing over the prospect of such a veto." On the other hand the By Rowland Evans Jr. President's signature on the bill would give his party decided lift. It would not, however, change Sen. Payne's status as underdog, a status that is partly due to Bernard Gold- fine s characteristic kindness to politicians. One of the most astute Re publicans in the state sums it up this way: "We were comfortable right down the whole length of the ticket when this cam paign started. We thought we were getting Muskie's number and destroying his image, nut then along came Goldfine and there's been nothing but trouble." ' TT WAS Payne .himself who disclosed the loan of $3,- 500 from Goldfine to help finance the purchase 'of his modest $22,500 house in Washington. He volunteered the whole story; Nevertheless casual conversations with run-of-the-mill Maine voters convinced this . reporter that the unpaid loan is costing Payne important support. It is undoubtedly a more signif icant silent issue than Mus kie's Catholicism, despite pri vate estimates by some Re publicans that the two cancel each other out. But even if Payne goes down, recapturing the Gover nor's mansion after four years of Muskie would be more than a consolation prize for the Republicans. It would put them back in charge of the apparatus of state con trol and of the Civil Service lists. Muskie knows this. He is annoyed that Rep. Frank Coffin, the second - ranking Democrat here, rejected Mus kie's appeal to run for gover nor and decided instead to run tor reelection to tne House. With Coffin as Muskie's running mate, a doublehead er a week from Monday would have been an excel lent Democratic prospect. With Clauson, the odds favor a split. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Porter Family Heads Homeward Washington Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) and his family left Washington, D. C, last Sunday en route to Ore gon, following the 4 a.m. ad journment of the 85th Con gress the same day. Porter, his wife and four children are driving across country. They plan to camp out each night in their col lapsible "camper" trailer. The Porters will travel through the northern part of the United States. They plan to stop briefly in Glacier Na tional Park. .. The Fourth District repre sentative hopes to arrive m Eugene shortly after Labor Day. He will leave by plane the evening of September 3 for an international peace conference in France. He will return Sept. 13 in time for the Lane County Fair. The Porters will be living at their home, 2680 Baker st., Eugene. Mrs. Porter said the family will hold an "open house" after her husband re turns from Paris. Porter's secretary, Miss Barbara Burke, wUl be in the representative's district con gressional office, room . 200, 858 Pearl st., following Labor Day. Until that time, inquir ies should be directed to tne congressman's administrative assistant, Jack L. Billings, 324 House Office building, Washington, 25, D. C. EX-NEWSMAN DIES Tokushima, Japan-(UPD-Wil- liam A. Finnin, 65, a for mer Australian newspaper man known for his aphorisms, died Thursday after a heart attack. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann Defaulting Politicians Whatever the Supreme Court does about the Little Rock case, it is most unlikely, indeed it seems impossible, that the court can resolve the fundamental issue. For while it can declare what the law is, it cannot teU the Presi dent h o w to induce or com pel the state state of Ar- k a n s a s and the state of Virginia and Walter Lippmann others to ob- serve and enforce that law The states of the deep Smith do not accept that law. They nave enacted their own laws which contradict the Federal law, and it is their own laws that they are determined to oDserve and enforce. There is a deadlock betwpon the Federal government and these states, and as it cannot be broken by the Federal power, the choice before the country is, ,on the one hand, to acquiesce in the nullifica tion of the 1954, decision by the Supreme Court and, on the other hand, to negotiate for an understanding with the Southern states. Such an understanding would mean that the principle is preserved but that the application is adapted to local conditions and to local sentiment. r T IS. however, one of th facts of our current Doli- tical life that there are no in- fluental politicians in either party who are willing to take the lead in trying to work out such an understanding. AU the politicians, insofar as they do not take refuge in a storm cellar, are boldly in fa vor of what the majority in their constituencies want. And so, outside-the South. there are no political leaders who are willing to admit pub licly that in the deep South integration plus, co-education, especially for teen-agers, is impossible within the fore seeable future. And in the South, where there is much moderate sentiment, " there are no- influential elected politicians who are prepared to work publicly for a nego tiated program to modify, re duce, restrict and eventuaUy to dissolve the principle of segregation. The President, whose duty it is to lead the country to wards an understanding re- Washington Report By William S. Whit MIND DIVIDED Washington The Eisen- hower Administration is like a mind divided as it confronts the issue of in tegration and the whole question of how far to push the South to comply, inis is per haps the worst of all the harsh and dan- wiiiiam s." white gerous nation al problems involved. On one day the President himself concedes that a slower" approach would suit him better. On the same day the President's chief legal of ficer, Attorney General Wil liam Rogers, reminds the country that in outlawing seg regation in the first place the Supreme Court itself laid down no "inflexible rules about when or how this was to be done." But on the next day, Mr. Rogers' Department of Justice files a court brief insisting that Little Rock is to be given no more time whatever before integrating. This brief adopts precisely the line of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. FIS now scarcely arguable that the President either is not fully controlling his own Administration or has made no truly firm decision of his own policy views. The ques tion then arises: Why is this, so; what has happened? These are among the answers: 1. The President, whatever his other qualities, is a thor oughly amateur and soft-hand ed politician. Long ago he al lowed a Republican party, which he nominally leads, to get far out beyond him on the whole racial issue. It has been clear for years to any reasonably perceptive, onlooker that Mr. Eisenhower in his heart is much less cen sorious of the South than is his partyl Indeed, he is far more sympathetic to Southern problems than his associates in his own Adniinistration. The fact that he carried four Southern states in 1952 was due in part to an instinctive understanding of that early among Southerners of his real attitude. fuses-in his view on righteous grounds-to take the lead. This really means that the Presi dent is leaving himself only two extreme choices. One is to acquiesce in nullification, however much .the fact may be disguised by litigation. The other is to intervene with po litical force to compel observ ance of the Federal law at some particular , school. The President has left himself no means of inducing the resist ing state governments to enter into a negotiated pact. AS things stand now, it is not unlikely, that the problem of a negotiated pact, which the President and the Congress will not touch, will become the central problem of the Democratic party as the 1960 national conventions approach. For of the two par ties, only the Democrats are an operating party in all sec tions of the country. In the coming election this autumn, the Democrats will be segre gationists in the South and integrationists in the North. But in 1960, if the party is not to split, they must find some common ground on which Northerners and Southerners can stand. It may be if one does a bit of wishful think-ing-that necessity will be the mother of invention. The need of the Democratic party for unity may cause the Democrats to work out a sec tional compromise. This might well engage the fixing abilities of Sen. Lyn don Johnson and the broad nationalism of Gov. Steven son. The Republicans, since they are a Northern party, have nothing to gain in the South and much to lose in the North by. trying to negotiate a compromise. ... ; ; ' ALL of this offers a father drab prospect. It promises years in which the principle is proclaimed, In which nulli fication is the fact, nullifica tion decorated by law suits and punctured by little force ful ventures. Given the cur rent level of virtue in our political life, this is the best we can hope for. There is a conceivable al ternative. It is that voices will be heard in the land caU ing the people to rise out of their inertia and their apathy, which are so unworthy of them, to; the effort . and energy of which in their best days they have been capable. (Copyright. 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 2. The President's first Attorney General, Herbert Brownell Jr., was plainly for "tough" integration policies. AU this time the President himself was plainly for far softer policies but he never repudiated Brownell. 3. ,Brownell left a wide spread impression here of a highly political interest fn civil rights in general. So ar as can be discovered, for -example, he made no serious ef fort last year to quell-Little Rock disturbances through the use of civilian deputy mar shals. The result was Jo leave the President no alternative to sending Federal troops which have been hated sym bols in the South since the re construction that followed the Civil War; . TN POLITICAL terms, this is the situation: the Republi can party is fully committed and became unalterably com mitted once the troops went to Little Rock in its determina tion to press integration to the bitter end. The President is far from so committed on the contrary. He has no convic tion that integration should be pushed all the way at the per il of great national division. In all these circumstances the man to watch is the pres ent Attorney General, William Rogers. He has inherited the conse quences Jtthe "tough" Brow neU poliTs and could not, if he wishew now, merely toss them aside. He must grapple, too, with the realities of the political determination of his party. He must, on the other hand, try somehow to find a means to uphold Federal law and order at the least possible harm to national unity and to local and states rights and re sponsibilities. TIE IS working with intense care at this profoundly difficult, this seemingly im possible, task. His hope is to combine conciliation in man ner with firmness in action. Thus when he pointed out last Wednesday that the Supreme Court had never said every Southern community must in tegrate on a deadline he did not stop there. He attempted at the same time to put the central issue beyond all racial I IJWLUCCC I (By M-T Staff and Contributors) During a fairly routine week, when the news was of war and threat of war strikes, murders, airplane crashes and integration trou bles, and while the communi cations column discussed such matters as county roads, pear picking problems, rodeos and feminine dress, we were de; lighted to find one calm, clear note sounded - news of the formation of the Society for the Propagation of the Lark No complaints: no recrim inations; no bitterness - just the straightforward statement that some people like larks; and are a bit worried about the larks' ability , to. survive civilization, coupled with muted request that people let them know how the lark sit uation is in this part of the world. The lark situation, as far as we are informed, is fine, here-abouts. We heard one meadowlark early the other morning. (Is it the sea son for larks? we asked our- self. Or is this an unseasonal lark, bringing a tone of spring and joy into late summer?) This same bit of intelli gence struck a responsive chord in another member of the staff, who reacted with poesy. (He may some day be named poet laure ate of the north end of the newsroom.) Anyway, we liked his re pose, and hope you do too. Here it is: I think that I shall never hark ; ' To any bird quite . like the lark. The lark, who, threatened with extinction,-, - Sings with such dis- . traught distinction, . -Winging over marsh and . meadow : Making up Us. own lib retto. " Shelley, happening to. hear it. Stammered. "Hail to thee, blithe spirit." Now we read with great elation Of plans to aid its propa : gation. Some save their own - 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 (or 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. 'Compulsory Dancing To the Editor: Here's a post script regarding "compulsory dancing" in our schools. Here's what I've found out, after visiting the school auth ority of District 6C: ,, If enough children are ex cused from all forms of danc ing this school year to war rant school- action, a special class will be set up for them. , If the people hi our district want it, we can change the dancing set-up in our school. We can have all forms of dancing taken out of the P.E. and Music classes, and placed on a sign-up basis-just for those who want special in struction on this certain sub ject. , Our school . system is big and it will take an organized effort to. accomplish this. How ever, the school is run, for our children and by our tax dol lars and we can do it, if enough of us want it. Mr. Jewett, School Super intendent of District 6C, has said he would talk ,wit& any one about 'this, by telephone, letter, or in person. I hope every person who would like to see this accomplished in our district, would contact Mr. Jewett and tell him what they would like done. If anyone would like to talk with me about this, call me at TA $-4875. Barbara E. Scrivner 6295 Ponderosa st. Central Point passion. It was not "particular rules of law" that were fundamen tally at stake, he said, but rather "whether the law of the land is supreme or whether it may be evaded and defied." This approach obviously is unpromising. Nevertheless, it seems the Only possible ap proach between the Presi dent's troubled . hesitation on the one hand, the general Re publican and Northern Democratic-resolve on the other hand to force the South to sub mit, whatever the cost.' (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) .. skins, like the shark. But only man can save the lark. - Newspapers in Salem and in Bend have pulled a sneaky trick on some of their con stituents. - . - They sent reporters forth to inquire of actual passers by, "What do you think- of Bryan's chances in the elec tion for governor?" This innocent - seeming' question is, of course, loaded. For therfe is no Bryan run ning for governor; the race is limited to Bob Holmes for the Democrats' and Mark Hatfield for the Republicans. But, - predictably, each newspaper found a certain percentage of individuals who answered, "Pretty good,"" or "Fine." A few said they weren't sufficiently familiar with Bryan's record. While a few came out flat-footedly and claimed that no such man is in the race. All of which merely goes to prove what a lot of people know already, that not every one is interested in politics. - At the east end of Eighth street there is a store. Soon it will be lorn . down to . make way for the Eighth new bridge across Bear creek. The store is having a sale, and the sign adver tising lhe sale, intentional ly or otherwise, says "IRE SALE." Some 'musically - inclined young people still form bands, or play "in organized musical groups, to make a little money on the side. One prominent and highly - respected citizen reports that he did so too, as a youth". ' One of his engagements was playing in the band which performed at the race track at the county fair. From his perch in the bandbox, he kept a knowledgeable eye on the horses, and their perform ances. c Later, he also had a musical job at the Jackson county fair, and noticed" that the same horses were running in the local event. He said his bets reaUy paid off that year. ' Speaking of instrumen talists,' we are told that one of the local political candi dates will literally be loot ing his own horn in the near future, and that anoth er man, a public official, will be beating - his own drum. The. explanation is that one of lhe fraternal organizations is forming its own' band. ; ? .- - - - As has been remarked with increasing frequency in.' re cent weeks, it's been a hot summer. And some oi tne warmest days of all came during the 4-H, FFA, Kiwanis club fair events at the fair- giuuuua mob .Yrv. One of the county fair offi- cials succumbed to the heat and to the modern trend in dress, and appeared in a pair Bermuda shorts. Our- in formants tell us it' caused cort--siderable comment among the other not-so-rugged individ ualists, but there is some hope it may be standard uniform next summer. , - And, in lhe same sum- 'mery vein, we know about an office where one of the girls has threatened to wear a bathing suit to work if a better air conditioning unit isn't installed soon. If she follows out her threat, Jhe resulting inefficiency -among the men in lhe office might be worse than that generated by the heat. Our readers may have no ticed the column after column of results from the 4-H, FFA anrl pountv fairs. There were results .in home economics, in livestock, and a whole range of other divisions. The results were printed in very small type, to save room, and the chore jor the proof reader was a staggering one. But he found his efforts re- - warded, as he was going through a long list of live stock sale results, monoton ously reading about . Angus, Hereford,-. Hereford, Angus, and so on, and suddenly came across an Antelope, which was recorded as having been sold to Safeway. ' s This column started out with a poem, so il might as well end up with a "pome," this one contribut ed by the backshop phil osopher: - . . '? - ODE AT THE FIRST OF THE MQNTH ' .Nor rain nor sleet! nor kindred ills f Prevents the postman bringing bills. Were we alone, 'twould be a shame, ' ' But shucks, he treats him self the same. ? '
