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Newspaper Page Text4 Wednesday. Up. 24, 13 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. " Medfom&Tribune Everyone in Souther Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager iTtnni.u iAxnAivi, suiukh iur, IRIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. "SDOrta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Cony 10c ' Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. B.uu Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year Si 20. Bv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Ciold Hi", Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year sio.uo Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c opj 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford otliclal paper or Jaclcion county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentative: 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. NEWSPAPEI ESS k rUBHS'Hf IS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOChATlfdN j j JiwytJ JsUsUslUslsl 3S3 Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1948 Friday) A doctor from Portland has . written Medford Chief of Po 'lice Clatous McCredie, com plimenting him on tfte cour .' tesy of Medford drivers. ' Teamsters start picketing ; the American News company, 1211 Court st.f following a breakdown of negotiations. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1938 (Saturday) Crater Lake National park is scheduled to receive an al location of $35,500 for exten sion of its facilities. , From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The letter writing epidemic has passed. Several of the epistles were written with fountain pens the writer did not know were full of ink." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1928 (Monday) Medford's new veterinary hospital on North Central ave. is scheduled for completion within three weeks. Bee-tree hunting is becom ing a popular sport and indus try in the valley, and Charles Pruitt has "harvested" 10 trees so far. 40 YEARS AGO !Sept. 24, 1918 (Tuesday) 1 Three bootleggers arrested in the Siskiyous where they tried to hide 175 quarts of 'whiskey and three dozen bottles of beer on a mountain side after their car broke .down were sentenced to 60 'days and fined $250 each in Ashland. So far $60,000 in liberty ;ioan bonds has been sub scribed in the current drive. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; '. seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. Which is higher in rank, ;an embassy, or a legation? t ' 2. Which currently - made American automobile is named for an Indian chief? 3. Which department of the executive branch of the gov ernment has charge 'of the is suance of passports and visas? 4. Name the alcoholic mixed beverage which has a name identical with that for a mo torcycle attachment? 5. The handle of a sword or dagger is called the h ? 6. Is Costa Rica north, or south, of Panama? 7. How many red stripes are on the American Flag? 8' What is a nom de plume? 9. Live lobsters are not red; true or false? : 10. There are 90, 180, or 360 degrees in a circle? Answers: 1. An embassy (which is headed by an am bassador.) 2. Pentiac. 3. De partment of State. 4. Side car. 5. Hilt. 6. North. 7. Seven. 8. An name assumed by an au thor. 9. True. 10. 360 degrees. South Sea Vikings Thor Heyerdahl (the Norwegian anthropolo gist and archeologist of "Kon-Tiki" fame) has written entertainingly of his latest exploit an extended voyage into the South Seas for further checking on his theory that at least some of the natives of Oceania originally came from South America. Excerpts from his book have run in recent issues of the Saturday Evening Post under the title "Aku-Aku," and provide highly entertain ing reading stimulating to the imagination, in formative, and interesting. 'THE bulk of the articles were about his discov A eries on Easter Island, that isolated bit of land thousands of miles from nowhere, where great monolithic statues defied the best theories of earlier scientists as to how they were erected. Heyerdahl, with the help of the natives and their legends and family traditions, solved this problem, and a number of others which had baf fled investigators. (The giant heads, for instance, were pried up with logs, an inch or so at a time, and each time a few rocks were placed under them to prevent their return; then another few-inch pry, more rocks, and so on until the stones were erect.) - EVERYWHERE he went in the South Seas, Heyerdahl found what he took to be evidence supporting his imaginative theory that the early, massive works the monoliths, temples, forts and carvings were done by descendants of ad venturers from the mainland of South America. His Kon-Tiki raft voyage was made to prove it could have been done ; his later voyage was to find substantiating evidence. Among these were the legends (hardly ac ceptable as scientific evidence, but fascinating) which told of voyagers of the long ago who came from the east men with fair skins and beards, and some with red hair, who apparently were the ancestors of some, but not all, of the present residents of Oceania. D ED-HEADED, bearded seafarers of pre-his-AX tory!! It is enough to send one back to Edgar Rice Burroughs and his lost lands of Africa, or to the romances of the Vikings landing in Vinland and establishing colonies in the new world. Heyerdahl never comes right out and de scribes what mav be locked in the hack nf his head the idea that his Viking forebears may indeed, by some1 ancient voyage, have come to South America and founded the great civiliza-i tion of the Incas, and then crossed the Pacific to create a magnificent but lonpwanished culture in the islands of the warm seas. DUT the elements of such a fantasy are given - in Heyerdahl's articles implicitly, if not ex plicitly. . And who knows? it may have been the case. It probably can't be proven or disproven. But the Vikings DID establish settlements in North America, Marco Polo DID travel to Cathay, the European kings DID Who is to say that it could not have happened a ship of Vikings blown off-course, landing in Central America, and, vigorous and aggressive men as they were, establishing over the genera tions a whole new culture imposed upon the ex isting Indian civilization of the era. We rather like the idea. E.A. Tax Committees A' proposal recently announced by the legis lative interim committee on taxation, recom mending formation of tax supervision and con servation committees in counties of 50,000 or more population, has had a mixed reception from Oregon's editorial writers. They range from cautious and conditional ap proval to the belief that "nibble at budgets, with taxpayers resulting. THE idea for extension originated in Jackson county four years ago. It was bom in discussions by members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce's governmental operations the legislative committee), and was adopted as one part of a five-point tax program. bubsequently it received the approval of the chamber's board, and was presented to the cur rent legislative committee which preceded it. A TAX supervising and conservation commit tee, under the proposal, would exercise gen eral supervision over the budgets of the various taxing units in the county cities, school districts, water and sanitation and fire districts, soil con servation and irrigation districts, and so on. While it might not be any great extent overall budgets, it would serve as a force for uniformity of procedure, and cer tainly could be of great assistance in catching errors and pointing out deficiencies, many of which showjip in budgeting, particularly by the smaller taxing districts. And it would have haps even more important, function of providing a disinterested, citizens' grout) which is aware of budgetary problems, and position to interpret them the county. They might not be but they could provide a it, ana now and wny it grows. E.A. go on their Crusades. such bodies only could no great savings to the of the committee plan committee (at that time as well as the one effective m cutting by the additional, and Per would be in an ideal to the other citizens of able to cut the tax load. greater understanding of Dennis the Menace ' 1 CAME OVa?TO Big Turnover Seen For Congress This Year; 52 Minimum HELP WANTED Guides for new Members of Congress. Applicants must be fa miliar with layout of Capitol, help Senators and Representa tives find way around. . That advertisement may ap pear in the Washington papers any day now, as political head quarters here prepare for the biggest crop of freshman legis lators in recent history. Already, it is certain there will be' 52 new Senators and Representatives coming to work in January. That repre sents a 10 per cent turnover in the membership of Congress. And voters in 48 states haven't even cast ballots yet. At least 6 new Senators and 41 new Representatives will be elected Nov. 4. They will replace the 10 members of the 85th Congress who are candi dates for other office, the 6 who died and were not re placed during the past session, the 3 who were defeated in primaries, and the 28 who re tire. In addition to those 47 new comers there are the two Sen ators and a Representative to Successor Will Lack By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - There may never be another 'Sher man Adams at the side of the President Eisenhower. According to more than one political authority, Adams' position as "the assistant to the President" which he gave up this week was unique-not in title but in personal rela tionship. Therefore, these authorities reasoned, any successor to Adams may succeed to his title but not to the encompass ing authority Eisenhower vest ed in the man he called his "chief of staff." No On Man The effort in the White House to spare the President all possible administrative de tail will continue. But a single individual was not expected to succeed to the "yes or no" powers of Adams or to the finality of his influence over appointive federal jobs. Eisenhower was fresh from the regulated chain-of-com-mand life at Supreme Head quarters Allied Powers in Eu rope when he - first got to know Adams in the 1952 cam paign. He liked the crispness and clarity with which. Adams helped to forge the successful Eisenhower "crusade" against Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE MISSUS was excused by platter over her husband's what her provocation was. "I've Henry," she had said. "Do you like codfish balls?" The husband's answer (immedi ately preceding the platter breaking) was, "I don't know. I never -attended any" : An elderly gentleman insist ed on seeing the president of a publishing house in person. When he gained admittance through the sacred portals, it developed that he wanted a copy of a certain book on the art of letter writing. "We let that go out of print long ago," laughed the publisher. "We have a new one ready on the same sub ject. Want a copy? It's got that dreary old stinker skinned a mile." "I do not need your dubious assistance in composing letters,"- the caller remarked coldly. "I happen to be the author of the dreary old , stinker." O 18M. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. PLAY WITH YA, be chosen Nov. 25 by the new state of Alaska, and the new Senator and Representative elected Sept. 8 in Maine. The two hew men are both Democrats, and Democratic of ficials here claim a high pro portion of the other new mem bers will belong to their par ty. All but 10 of the vacancies to be filled were held by Re publicans in the last Congress, The New York delegation appears to be slated for the biggest turnover. New York will choose one new Senator and at least seven new Repre sentatives. California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania each will choose a new Senator and at least three new Representa tives. At least three new Rep resentatives will also be elect ed in Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio. The minimum of 52 new Senators and Representatives in the 86th Congress compares to 55 new members actually elected in 1956 and 68 actually elected in 1954. (Copyright 1958, Congression al Quarterly Inc.) to Adams His Power the Democrats. He relied in creasingly on Adams' knowl edge of politics and govern ment. Hence it was quite in the Eisenhower pattern after the election to establish Adams as the foreman of his admin istration. Eisenhower set the policies with the advice of his Cabinet and expert advisers. Adams gave the orders. Adams' power in the field of political patronage was virtually unsurpassed in mod ern times. If he didn't ap prove, the prospect didn't get the job. Snow, Freezing Temperatures Noted By United Press International A cold air. mass invaded the West today, dropping tem peratures into the 30s as far south as Nevada and touching off a swirling snowstorm at Ely, Nev. Overnight readings in the 30s prevailed from Nevada north into Idaho, eastern Ore gon and western Montana. Butte, Mont., reported an early morning temperature of 31 degrees and light snow. The- snow flurry at Ely re stricted visibility for one-half mile for a time Tuesday night. Stop Me the judge for breaking a china head when the court learned got to plan dinner for tonight, Defectors to East Given Obscure Jobs; Hungarian Unrest Reported By RUSSELL JONES UPI Correspondent Vienna - (UPD - Communist publicity drums sound off with an exultant beat when a Westerner defects to the East. But despite the flourish of welcome at the start, most of these souls are relegated to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Editorial Misquotation To the Editor: I was very much interested in your Sept. 23 editorial entitled "The Pill," primarily because of the discrepancy between your editorial and a. previous article. I would like to say that' you have possibly mis quoted Dr. John Rock. Your editorial says: "He said, because of the na ture of the chemical reactions involved, it does not come under the church's ban on contraceptives, and that the church has no objection to its use for that purpose." Aside from the fact that Dr; Rock is a layman and un doubtedly not qualified to give the church's ruling on the moral aspects of this new chemical, your previous article on Page 11, Sept. 18, 1958, says: "Rock, a Roman Catholic, said his church had no objec tion to the use of the drug for regularizing a woman's periods. 'The church does ob ject to its use as a contracep tive,' he added." I think your editorial might be misleading to some since there has been no official rul ing handed down by the Ro man Catholic church. Victor D. Kraft 1014 South Grape st. Medford Editor's note: Our corres pondent is correct. Dr. Rock was misquoted, through a careless inadvertence, which is regretted. We shall await with interest to see what of ficial reaction there is from officials of the church regard ing the uses of the new drug. Political Questions To the Editor: As a commit teewoman I have many ques tions asked-me in the course of a day on political matters. The most complete answers that can be found are in a Readers Digest article on page 157 of the October issue. Everyone should read this regardless of party affiliation, If you do not take the mag azine and cannot borrow one from a friend, you will find the article well worth the price of a copy. Leila A. Morrow, 531 N. Bartlett st., Medford. More Politics (Editor's note: The follow ing is another in an exchange of letters between the Jackson county chairmen of the two political parties, published for their general interest.) Mr. James A. Redden Chairman Jackson County Democratic Central Comm. Dear Mr. Redden: Thank you for your public letter to me in last Thursday's Com munications in the Mail Trib une. Knowing that you are a respectable young attorney, I imagine it must have both ered your conscience some what for you to sign your name to a letter containing an outright falsification and then make that letter public. . The letter to. the editor, in last Thursday's Communica tions which bears your signa ture states "he (Governor Holmes) has, with the help of a Democratic house, -and in spite of certain Republican senators, lowered taxes an av erage 20 per cent from the 1955 (Republican) level." Mr. Redden, you know, and any Democrat legislator as well as any Republican legis lator will tell you, that Gov ernor Holmes fought against lowering income taxes 20 per cent. A phone call to the Gov ernor's office in Salem will verify this. You also know, Mr. Redden, that the 20 per cent tax reduction was not from the 1955 (Republican) high as you stated in the letter. The 20 per cent tax re duction was from the 51 per cent tax increase Governor Holmes substituted after he kept his promise to the voters that he would repeal the 45 per cent surtax. "High Tax Holmes" has earned his title. Now in regard to registra tions I will let the registrars speak for themselves as I don't believe they desire any one to dictate to them or to dictate for them. Donald L. Stathos Chairman Jackson County Republican Central Comm., obscure, pedestrian jobs once their propaganda value with ers. Noel Field was a senior U.S. State Department and League of Nations official before be ing jailed by the Hungarians. Now he's an editor of tourist guiOes "and other literature put out by the government. George Wheeler left a mili tary government job for life in Communist Czechoslovakia. He is an ordinary statistician and his wife a translator. Their older sons, now in their 20s, "volunteered" for factory ! work as examples of "social ist endeavor." But all of them still caim U. S. citizenship. Defectors Keep Passports "Love that passport" is a keystone phrase in the be havior of this curious coterie. Athough dozens, perhaps hun dreds, of Westerners have "sought asylum" in the Com munist countries, most of them cling tenaciously to their passports. Few of them are willing to cut themselves off complete ly from home base. This was never more clearly illustrated than when Romania recently told foreign residents to take Romanian citizenship or get out of the country in 48 hours. ... Jonathan Morris had desert ed the U. S. Army after World War II to live in Timisoara, Romania. But, faced with the Romanian order, he voluntar- Editorial Comment GOOD BUSINESS FOR STATE Sale of $20,000,000 worth of farm and home loan bonds last week by the Oregon De partment of Veterans Affairs affords a good argument in favor of Measure No. 2 on the Nov. 4 election ballot. The ex tremely low interest rate of 2.998 per cent was bid. The ballot measure is a con stitutional amendment which would increase the state's debt capacity from 4 to 6 per cent of assessed valuation. Need for the increase is claimed due to inability of the Veteran's Af fairs department to accommo date all veterans who have ap plied for loans. Last week's bond sale was made possible because the state's total as sessed valuation has increased. It will take care of the 1,800 applications now on hand but when it is exhausted a wait ing list will develop unless the department is empowered to sell more bonds. Since the state loans this money at 4 per cent it - is a paying proposition. Veterans' loans, as long as bonds bear less than 4 per cent interest as they always have, make mon ey for the state instead of adding to the tax burden. The state lost nothing on World War I veterans. Un doubtedly World War II vet erans will do as well by their state. Albany Democrat-Herald. Goldfine 'Sorry' Regarding Adams Boston-UPD-Textile tycoon Bernard, Goldfine broke, si lence Tuesday night to say he was "sorry" that Sherman Adams resigned as presiden tial assistant. . . Goldfine, whose gifts and hospitality to Adams sparked a political furor that climax ed with the Monday night res ignation, issued the statement through his Boston office. The statemept read: "I am sorry 'that Gov Sher man Adams has resigned. My feelings and friendship of many long years toward Gov. Adams remain unchanged. "I believe that his resigna tion was given out of regard for President Eisenhower, whom he so loyally and ably served. The very forthright statement of Gov. Sherman Adams speaks for itself." Goldfine had been silent on the Adams case since return ing from Washington where he gave testimony to a con gressional investigating com mittee. DIPLOMAT LEAVES POST Madrid, Spain-ttJPD-U.S. Am bassador John Davis Lodge flies to Nice today to serve a week of Naval Reserve active duty with the U.S. 6th Fleet. He holds the rank of com mander. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. ily turned himself over to the American military for court martial rather than give up his U. S. citizenship. Ironically, after ( several Western governments protest ed to the Romanians, the pres sure on the foreigners was lifted. Diplomatic reports on the satellite scene now confirm that armed Romanian peas ants have resisted attempts to force them into collective farms. There were rumors early this year of widespread fighting in the Constanta area between the peasants and police. Unrest In Romania These rumors remain un substantiated. But the diplo matic reports state flatly that at - least three persons were killed near Flaticeni in Su ceava province last spring. The fighting was said to have continued for three days and to have ended with police con trols so stringent that the area In the Day's News By FRANK This niece is a brief ac count of a meeting in Portr land and the return there from. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the size of the appropriation for tourist advertising of the state of Oregon for the year 1959. The decision was to un the appropriation approximately a third to a total of $400,000. The reason for the increase is that next year is Oregon's centennial year. Because o that fact, it was felt that the 'crosrject for bringing more tourists to Oregon is good. Hence the increase in the ad vertising appropriation. Will it be possible to bring more tourists to Oregon next year? It should be. For one thing, expositions give people an excuse to go somewhere. Everybody in this modern day WANTS to travel. Given a good excuse, more people WILL travel. TOURIST travel in Oregon this year is up over last year. One reason is that more and better facilities for camp ing have been provided. Camping in Oregon has been nnnii lar The state parks where camping facilities have been provided have been weu patronized. In earlier years, it was felt that camping facilities in state narlts amounted to unjusti- nptition Viv the state with privately ownea noteis and motels, n nasni wuiku nut that. wav. ExDerience has proved that after people have camped out for a week or two they like to . get into hotels and motels to get cleaned up. Once they get there, they tend to stay longer than was form- ftT-Kr trip rasp Oregon's outdoor appeal is one of its strongest attrac tions. ( ' OREGON'S tourist advertis J ing money comes out of the gasoline tax. rernaps, as a taxpayer, you may resent that. You shouldn't. Every year since the advertising was Kon,,n thp tourists have paid FAR more in gasoline tax than the advertising nas cost. " It has been a profitable Besides, people who come to Oregon as tour ists tend to return as perman ent residents. THE return from Portland was by a roundabout route -over the Coast range to Tilla mook and thence down the Coast highway. That route leads through the great Tilla mook burn. The Tillamook burn provides a lot of lessons for all of us. Lesson No. 1 is a cruel one. Here, in a few tragic days, a resource that should have gone on creating wealth in nprnetuitv for the Tillamook area was DESTROYED. It was destroyed because a fire got loose in the timber. By the time the fire was put out, damage that can never be ac curately computed had been done. YOU MAY BE ASSURED ' T asp I C. M. Litwiller . . . That each individual requirement and need is met when . your loved ones are entrusted to our care. The "Better" Service since 1935 LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close was described as "one big prison." Both the Romanian and Hungarian regimes have in creased pressure on persons visiting or working for West ern diplomatic missions. Al though there doesn't seem to be any particular reason for the Romanian action-except as part of a general tighting up of controls-the Hungarians are believed getting ready for the United Nations debate on the "Hungarian question." In addition to beefing up police controls of legations, the Hungarians have protested American "espionage" and ac cused an employee of the British of smuggling out of the country documents writ ten by Imre Nagy, executed leader of the 1956 revolution. But all is not deathly grim behind the Iron Curtain. Jokes circulate. A current Polish one: "The workers pre tend to work and the govern ment pretends to pay them." JENKINS WHY can't it be computed? Well, for one thing, there were BENEFITS, The benefits were temporary, of course. They arose out of the necessity to SALVAGE the trees that had been killed. Out of these salvage opera tions there grew a BOOM in the production of lumber.. This boom produced WAGES. It produced a TEMPORARY rise in the economy of the areas where the lumber was cut. But this forced cutting of too much lumber in too short a period of time ROBBED the area of FUTURE develop ment. You can see the results of this robbery in the Tilla mook valley - where lumber operations are now relatively few and far between. As a result, the economy of the Tillamook valley has been thrown OUT OF BALANCE. Because of the timber that was destroyed in that fright ful holocaust, the rich and beautiful Tillamook valley is compelled to depend almost entirely on its agriculture, whereas if the timber had been kept green and growing there would now be a better BALANCE between industry and agriculture. That's something to think about every time you leave a campfire burning or toss away a match or a cigarette butt. THE Tillamook valley, of course, is still rich. It is still prosperous. Its dairy in dustry is a wonderful indus try. But it would have been RICHER, it would have been MORE PROSPEROUS, if the great fire hadn't got loose. HERE in Southern Oregon, there is a thought for us in this Tillamook burn. The thought is this: We're LUCKY because the great pine forests of the Klam ath Indian reservation have been kept under sustained yield. If they had been sold at auction to the highest bid der, WITHOUT sustained yield restrictions, they might have been cut off without pro vision for systematic growth and reproduction. In that event, our future would have been LESS BRIGHT. We too might then have suffered from a LACK OF BALANCE in our econ. omy. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ -$ . . $ (jet money at .... 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