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MAIL TRIIUNC. MIDFORD, ORL 4 Tuesday, UpHmhtr 2. 195S "Everyone in Southern Oregon RadaThe Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mct. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor PLERICKSONClrculation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CItv of Medford Official Paper of Jackon County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WTST-Hnriniv -r twp m. fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, k PUBLISH! SS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.: . 10 Y5AJH? AGO Sept. 2. 1948 (Thursday) ' A local plumbers' strike has slowed work on the new ad dition to the,, junior high school. "Bud" Kimball of Jackson ville is training a turtle named "Radar" for the Gold Rush Jubilee turtle derby. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 2. 1938 (Friday) The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce met at Pros (pect yesterday to discuss how to increase tourist traffic on the Crater Lake highway. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Kids are running around equipped on both ends for the opening of school next .Tuesday, with new shoes and haircuts." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1928 (Sunday) The State Game commis sion has planted 132,000 East ern Brook trout in local streams. A fashionable dress salon will replace the usuaL enter tainment in the Craterian theater Tuesday night. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1918 (Monday) The bean growers of south ern Oregon, will meet Wednes day at the city hall in Rogue -River. More than 85 per cent of the county's schools are hav ing a change of teachers this year. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct it tweerier; even er eight if excellent; five e fx it seed. 1. Name Fulton's steam ship which made - its first trial trip on the Hudson riv er from New York to Al bany. 2. Which country is called tha Black Republic? 3. How many sides has a hexagon? 4. It is possible for a Pres idential candidate to receive a majority of the popular vote and yet not be elected; true or false? 5. If it requires three min utes to boil one egg, how long will it require to boil two eggs? 6. Britishers refer to which part of the automobile as the "Bonnet"?.. 7. A palfrey Is a close fit ting blouse, a small saddle horse for ladies, or a bell tower? 8. What is the literal trans lation of the French phrase, "baton rouge?" . 9. Does any part of Vir ginia extend further west than any point of West Vir ginia? 10. In only one nation in - the Western Hemisphere is Portuguese the prevailing language: name it. Answers: 1. Clermont. 2. Haiti. 3. Six sides. 4. True, v 5 Three minutes. 6. Hood. 7. Small saddle horse. 8. "Red Stick." 9- Yes. (Southwestern lip). 10. Braxil. -, No Accidents Visible Not one accident did iana over tne iaoor Day week end. a There were half-a-dozen or so care pulled over to tne side 01 the road, with one corner hoisted into the air with a bumper jack, and the driver, hot and dirty, putting on a new tire. And there were a few more where the drivers were peering helplessly under the hood at the mass of complicated machineiy which is the pow er-plant of the modern car. DUT in all the distance, no accidents. And all the way only one or two drivers that went zipping in and out of traffic with a fine disregard for their own safety and that of others. Most af the time the traffic moved steadily and courteously. The .new highways which Oregon has been building at a great rate a considerable part of lane highways, well-constructed, are far, far safer than two-laners a fact brought home to us forcibly Friday evening when, from Eugene to Salem, we fought an endless string of cars, both going and coming, as the Labor Day pilgrimages started, and then from Salem to Portland sailed along the Baldock Freeway as easily and safely as anything. "THE programs of driver education, too, have taken some effect, it appears evident. With the exception of the few cars which scooted ahead obliviously, passing a long string, of cars without being able to see far ahead, and then clawing desperately for a coming car bears down on ers were being cautious. along a mam highway at edbas dangerous to us as ing in aad out at 70 or There probably were something like a million cars out on Oregon highways last week end, and we were prepared to see an accident every few 1 i- i mnes. tsut we saw none. -, The wonder of it, to us, is less that so many people are killed and injured in traffic, than the fact that there are really so few considering the thousands upon thousands of high-powered veh icles crowded together on narrow roads. When the highways are all four lanes, with median dividers, there won't be any excuse for an "accident" at all. Anyone who cracks up will be justblamed foolish as is the case with most "accidents" even today. E.A. . Teen Age. Idol For the information aged 30 years or more, Jimmie Rodgers is a young man who has made a fortune singing. His is the voice one hears belting out the rhythmic strains of a song about how unfortunate it is that he has to meet "Secretly" fections, and so on. On other occasions, he can be heard singing something called "Honeycomb," and on still oth ers, he sings about "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." ( Well, m the company of a teen ager of our acquaintance, and two others who are not teen agers, we saw this young man in action Satur day evening, at the yariety4show which is part of the Oregon State Fair. TTHE teen ager mentioned above, informed that there might be a piece written about young Rodgers, said "If you say anything bad, I'll never forgive you." No need to worry. The singer has a pleasant enough, if untrained, voice. He has a good feel ing for rhythm. Most of his songs are melodic, and some of. them actually have a certain feeling and verve to them particularly the ones which are lineal descendants of the folk song. Asa matter of fact, we enjoyed his show. And, as one of the non-teen agers remarked, "I'd rath er have the kids going nuts over him than over Elvis." Amen. TTHE view of Jimmie Rodgers, and the memoiy of other entertainers who have appealed pow erfully to the young music (?) lovers of the na tion, set us to wondering just what it is that makes a teen age idol. There must be some sort of chemistry involv ed, somewhere, for none of them that we can recall, during their hey-days, was much to write home about. Jimmie Rodgers has a nice voice, a good sense of timing, and a flair for showmanship. But in all these he is far inferior (to our mind) to a dozen other performers who have created nothing like the sensation has has among the teen set. Frank Sinatra, in the days when he was set ting a-screaming and a-squealing youngsters who are now matrons and mothers, wasn't so much of a much, either, and we are not alone in our opinion that he's a far more accomplished enter tainer today than he was then. But, to the teen agers today, he's passe. (Is "square" still the right word?) LJOWEVER, all this may be, we- wish Jimmie Rodgers well, thank him for an entertaining hour, and suggest that with more practice and proper coaching he may well turn into a really accomplished singer, rather than the middling good one he is today. The ones who have grown and adapted have hung around for a long time people like Sin atra, Crosby, Eddy and a few others. But who can remember the names of those "idols" who just plain vanished when they no longer were a '.'f ad"? E.A. we see on a trip to Port- in recent years must take the credit for this. Four place in line as an on them, most of the driv And one 'driver, poking zo miles per hour, seem the ones who went dodg 75. : of our readers who are with the object of Tiis af Dennis the Menace 'OH I USE HIM NEXT? Matter of Fact (Joseph AIsop is on vaca tion. While he is away bit column Will be written by Rowland Evans Jr.) THE DAUNTLESS UNDERDOG Boston Up to a third-floor walk-up, the narrow wooden steps deeply grooved by age, a visitor climbs and knocks f at the apart h ment door of Vincent J. Ce leste, surely the most fear less politician ot iaaa. Of all can didates run ning for any n-f-f IPD 9T1V. Rowland Evans , . , ,, Jr.. , where this.f all Republican Vincent Celeste probably has the least chance of winning. Nevertheless, he radiates self-assurance. Kennedy's invincibility is nothing but myth," he says of Sen. John F. Kennedy. "I'm not naive enough to think he's going to be easy to beat, but I see no avalanche for him." Experts at assessing this state politically emphatically disagree. The . private polls also disagree. These polls show Sen. Kennedyso far ahead that one suspects they were taken at a Democratic picnic. Even the Republicans would not be surprised if Kennedy, running for his second term in the Senate, piled up a plural ity of more than 700,000 over Celeste, dwarfing the previous record of 561.668 taken bv Sen. Saltonstall in 1944. In! J J J A , , I auuuion, me uemocrais nave a unique chance to capture the State Senate for the first time in history. BUT Celeste is unmoved by thpsp statistics. Ti-ii son of Sicilians immigrants, he an nounced his decision to run for the Republican Senatorial nomination last February.. When the full measure of Ken nedy's popularity was recog nized by other potential can didates against Kennedy, Ce leste had the field to himself. Now he is spoiling for the fight. My biggest asset is that I know what it is to be de feated," he says, with the air of a man who, having just had one tooth pulled, is on his way back to the dentist for another extraction. Kennedy beat him better than 3-tc-l in his elec tion to the House in 1950. Far from disheartening Celeste, the experience seems to have emboldened him. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Sign that fall is coming: Authorities -say summer residents along the eastern shore of Long Island are -re turning to New York City in the wake of hurricane alerts. It's that time of year back in that part of the country. ITfHY the scare? " Hurricane Daisy (for some strange reason of their own the weather people name hurricanes for women) is re ported as this is written to be centered 160 miles south of Rhode Island. It is mov ing northeastward at 25 miles per hour, which means that in six or seven hours, unless something happens to divert its course, it will arrive in all its fury in the neighbor hood of Long Island. No wonder " people are getting out. Hurricanes are rough customers. A THOUGHT: The people in Hurricane Daisy's path are WARNED. They can do something to pro tect themselves. A generation or so ago, the first warning would have been the prelim inary blasts of the hurricane itself. Modern progress has its advantages. By Rowland Evans Jr. Celeste is 34 years old, compactly, built with dark hair neatly combed; Sitting in his smlI,Ytidy kitchen in the centeWf the tough East Bos ton waterfront district, he sketched the outline of his giant-killing campaign against the most popular Democrat in the country today. Its central feature is a charge that Ken nedy is backed by a "financial steamroller," that up to now has somehow been able to buy off all the Republican voters. "You'll notice," Celeste says to make his point, "that we haven't put out any Celeste stickers in this campaign. Kennedy's got stickers aU over, but not me. If I put out stickers, that shows where my strength is. Then Kennedy's financial steamroller could move in with the wagon-load of money and buy out my sup porters." . TTNHAPPILY -lor Celeste, U who is practically without funds himself, a number of prominent Republicans are making it easier for Kennedy to fill (Ejus campaign coffers. Somo'f these Republicans have'paid up to $1,000 a plate for the privilege of eating a fund-raising breakfast with Kennedy. Celeste, nevertheless, is pre paring to sound the money bafs alarm from one end of the state to the other. For his part, Kennedy is not going to put up a single billboard ad vertising his candidacy. Nor does he plan more than three or four television speeches, in cluding a half-hour . profes sional job on "a day in the life of Sen. Kennedy." Unless the indicators are all wrong, he does not need to. Other issues that Celeste will try. to exploint are Ken nedy's support of the St. Law rence Seaway, his civil rights record," his recent criticism of the Administration's foreign and military policies and his labor record. Although none of this is frightening Kennedy, there is a good deal more at stake for him than just Ins own victory. Kennedy also wants to nail down the reelection of Foster Fiircolo as Governor. Fucolo's opponent, Attorney General George Fingold, is taken ser iously by the Democrats, de spite the. national trend that seems to be running in their favcr and despite Kennedy's drawing power. Fingold is well, financed by those same Republicans who are perfectly content to have Kennedy stay in the Senate and who aren't giving a nickel to Celeste. As a matter of prestige that could harm his prospect for the Pres idential nomination in 1960, Kennedy's friends are con vinced he cannot afford to let the other half of his ticket go down. . .-. CELESTE, of course, is unr shaken in his optimism that he will beat Kennedy, the flashiest of all the Demo cratic glamour boys. He fore sees a heavy vote among the Italian, Irish, Jewish and Ne gro minorities. He hints at se cret issues to be brought up against Kennedy at the prop er time. "I'm counting on the ; anti - Kennedy feeling more than the pro-Celeste feeling," he says. ' Vice President Nixon and ayn other Republicans inter ested in running for President in 1960 will undoubtedly fol low the Celeste campaign to see if there really is an "anti Kennedy feeling" and how it can be exploited. . -; (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ' Salem (DPD Secretary of State Mark Hatfield was rest ing in bed today, recovering from a mild attack of flu. Hatfield returned here Sun day from Salt Lake City where he attended the na tional convention of secre taries of state. Washington Report By WiUiam S. White THE NEED FOR "PROS" Washington Every polit ical body develops within its membership men who find themselves exactily suited to its work and usually at home in its at mosphere. Two instru mentalities of which this is markedly true are the United States Senate and the Unit- William S. White ea iauuiia. There long has been a def inite "Senate type"-the sort of Senator instinctively com fortable in that forum, easily able to judge what can and cannot be done there, and thus always effective in it. There is now a "United Na tions Jype." And one of these, Sir Leslie Munro, is coming toward the end of a long tour of duty in the institution whose towers rise so high along the East River in New York. Sir Leslie is a big, bearlike man with American grand children and a fondness for the United States that is al most, but of course not quite, the fondness he has for New Zealand itself. He is first and foremost New Zealand's Am bassador to the United States. BUT he is also head of New Zealand's delegation to the United Nations and has been president of its General As sembly. For six years a man of two missions and two hats, he has commuted between his Washington Embassy and his New York U.N. office. This month ho is retiring from both posts and hanging up both hats. This he is doing calmly, mellowly, with undoubted re gret but with full respect for the rules of the game. He is a "political" rather than a ca reer diplomat. The Labor par ty now in control in New Zealand is not his party. Thus, exit Sir Leslie Munro. The nature of its represen tation here is, of course, sole ly the business of New Zea land itself. From the view point of the U.N., however, it surely could be said to be un fortunate that Sir Leslie must leave just now. For the Assem bly, in which he is so leading and knowledgeable a figure and over which he presided in the recent compromise solu tion of the Middle East crisis is becoming for practical purposes the head as well as the torso of the U.N. itself. : -', AND it is also, by the way, hepnmintr snmpthino nf on 0 - """ U' operating agent for United States foreign policy: we tend to hand to the Assembly the problems we can't work out on our own. The Security Council is of ficially the center of U.N. power. But because of the fre quent use there of the Soviet veto a glum "nyet" often heard the Council has be come simply a great-power committee of built-in stale mate. The Assembly, where little nations sit alongside the big ones, is the only reasonably effective device left for reach ing any sort of settlement be tween West and East. The Security Council from the beginning has been, in fact, a small club of the giants, the home not of persuasion but simply of competing pow er. The Assembly from the beginning has, been far more nearly similar to the national parliaments and congresses with which the Western na tions conduct theid domestic political affairs. Because this is so, the As sembly requires the exper-v ienced skills of international politicians of men able, as Leslie Munro has been, to help Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Accomplishments of Subject of By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Washington-&TI-Republican headquarters has begun to counter attack against the ar gument that the Democratic led congress was just as friendly to President Eisen hower as a GOP congress would be and maybe more so. GOP National Chaiman Meade Alcorn asserted during a party meeting at Chicago last week that while congress was cooperative in some fields this year, it was defic ient in others. When it co operated with the Eisenhower Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE TACTIC OF INDECISION Last week, on the two big questions of integration and of the islands off the shore of China, the President fol lowed the same funda mental line of conduct. This is that he would not make clear in advance what he bel i e v e s and what he With the Red Walter Lippmann intends to do. Chinese threatening the island of Quemoy, where Chiang has most unwisely locked up a considerable part! of his army, the tactic of the Administra tion was to keep everyone guessing about what we would do in case of an invasion. And in regard to integration, the President not only re fused to say what he believes but he cast doubt upon whether he agrees with the line taken by the Department of Justice and liis own Attor ney General. This could be described as the use of mystification asa tactic as a deliberate deci sion in critical issues to keep everybody guessing. But in all probability the' President's tactics are not deliberate and are not the result of a deci sion. Thfev are. it would seem. a habit derived from his mili- build a series of bridges, how ever shaky, between West and East. There is a great need, in short, for U.N. pros much as there is need in the United States Congress for such pros. Sir Leslie is such a pro. ESSENTIAL, too, for the fu ture health of the U. N. is a sounder public awareness of what it is and is not. A propa ganda of truth is indicated. And this job can hardly be done except by men intimate ly acquainted with the institution-men fully aware of its weakness as well .as its strength. Such a man, again, is Munro. For the organization suffers from two opposite public con cepts. The extreme idealists persist in regarding it as a kind of infallible source and ultimate judge of all interna tional morality. They suppose that it can work miracles. And when it odes not as of course it cannot they are unduly disillusioned with it.. The professional realists, on the other hand, are deter mined to see nothing what ever 'that is good or sensible in it. , v. . . Neither side is anywhere near right but both sides ought to be reduced in num ber by education if the U. N. is not at length to collapse under the embrace of far too much and far too little love. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) f Fred Brennan ARE YOU ON THE GOLD STANDARD? Not unless you have ample re tirement insurance to augment your social 'security for the GOLDEN YEARS; You won't be' able to live on tarnished memories of the good old days. Provide now for those ' retire ment years. Bill Fish Partisan Dispute Administration, he said, it did so in response to a public de mand that could not be ig nored. The same line was taken in a memo from Republican headquarters this' week end to GOP leaders and candi dates in . the congressional elections this year. This quotes a privately published analysis reporting that the 85th congress enacted only 37 per cent of the Eisenhower program last year and 47 per cent this year compared with about 70 per cent for the last Republican congress of 1953 54. tary experience. For at the press-conference on Wednes day, the President was asked by Mr. Chalmers Roberts of the "Washington Post" wheth er the fact that Chiang has so many troops on Quemoy would affect his judgment about what he was committed to do in Formosa. To this the President replied that "You simply cannot make military decisions until after the event reaches you." ' THIS conception of the char acter of a military com mander goes a long way to ex plain why there is no United States policy about the off shore islands and why there is a dense fog over what the Administration will do in the integration cases. As Gen. Eisenhower sees it, you do not decide until "the event reaches you," and then you react you send the para troopers to Little Rock, you send the Marines to Lebanon, you send the 7th Fleet to Quemoy. The notion of waiting for events to reach you before taking a decision Is not, we may venture to say, an in spired conception of military leadership. In diplomacy and in politics it is a tactic which, except in rare circumstances and among very astute and sophisticated men, is almost always mischievous. None knows this better than Sec retary Dulles himself, who has put himself repeatedly on record in favor of not leaving our adversaries in any doubt about our intentions. This, in fact, has been the central principle of the security pacts of which Mr. Dulles has sign ed so many. They are meant, as he has often explained, to prevent miscalculation and misunderstanding in the other camp. BUT at Quemoy and the off shore islands we have been following exactly the op posite line. By doing this, we have put off having to decide, on the one hand, to advise Chiang to withdraw his troops from an untenable position, and, on the other, hand, to commit our own forces to the defense of these untenable positions. This has meant that we have gambled that uncer tainty about what we mean to do will deter the Red Chi nese from doing anything. Whatever the outcome, this kind of wager is an unsound practice, and it is beneath the , dignity of a great power like the United States, which must not bluff and must not play tricks. Carried over, as it has Reasonable. Funerals i (Priced for Everyone), FRIENDLY, Congress Almost everything that the 1958 session did get around to enacting was a Re publican proposal so good that it could not be turned down, Democratic politics not withstanding," the GOP mem orandum says. "Any Demo crat running on the record of the 85th congress will be running on a Republican pro gram . v "The Democrat Congress enacted not a single major bill that was not based in whole or in major part on a Republican proposal. If its wild spending inclinations are disregarded, the 85th congress should go down as the great-, est 'me too' congress in his-tory-as far as the 47 per cent is concerned." Democrats' Stand These statements would be challenged by Democrats who include among major bills those dealing with increased social security benefits, finan cial help for railroads, and the accelerated highway pro gram. These bills and repeal of the freight excise tax origi nated in congress. Democrats also might quar rel about a Republican label on foreign aid and foreign trade bills-two of the three legislative issues to which Ei senhower gave overriding pri ority. Both were carry-overs from previous Democatic ad ministrations. Since they have been em braced by the Eisenhower ad ministration, they have . mus tered increasing support from the Republican side of von gress and have 'run into "in creasing opposition from the Democrats. When Republican candi dates draw the issue this fall on the record of congress, they are more likely to con centrate on specifics than the overall record of Democrat treatment of President Eisen hower. They are already charging the Democratic con gress with doing too little to cope with labor racketeering and too much to inflate the federal budget. been, into the dark and dan gerous problem of integra tion, it is a very bad prac tice indeed. As evidence of this, there is the speech on Wednesday by Attorney Gen eral Rogers to the meeting of the Bar Association in Los Angeles. Mr. Rogers made a brave attempt to make clear much of what the President has fogged up. But on the crucial question Mr. Rogers, who has no Administration policy to rely upon, ' resorted to exhortation and to pious platitude. THE crucial question Is what the Federal government will do about the defiance of the Southern state govern ments, now that the issue is not lawless mobs but the re sistance of the state govern ments under state laws. Mr. Rogers exhorted and admon ished the state governments to accept the Federal law. He said there could be "no eauivocation." But he abstain ed from saying how the- Ad ministration proposes to begin to deal with the . Southern resistance. He could not say what is the poliey of the President, on this central and crucial issue. For there is no policy.-There is onlv the tactic of not mak ing decisions until after the event reaches you." ' Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE, f
