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Newspaper Page Text1958 ORE. jiftern Oregon "Everyone In sjj Tribune" Rel??Ih5--ieptSaturdl7b Published Daily SNTING CO. MEDFORD fPh. SP 2-gl4l 33 North fiCfiJHL,. Editor 1 ROBERT rertising Manager GERALD LAJR ERIC W. AJJr Managing JS. City Editor EARL H AW. Teleg. Editor uirbV CttETT. Smirt. Friitn.- RICHARD SER. Women's Editor OLIVE b ip"". -ircmaUon Mgr. CALEE;ndent Newspap. An Izfecond class matter at Enterea pregon unaer Act of Meciien 3. 18S7 RIPTIOrJ R4TTC Stjn Advance: Copy 10c. Bv Md Sunday 1 year $15.00 "DaiUid Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daiid Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Da umy one year $4.20. Suier In Advance Medford, By fad. Central Point. Eagle Mt, Jacksonville, Onirt Hill loix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv Talent. and on motor routes: j ana Sunday 1 year $13.00 iy and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 frier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance rial Paper of City of Medfor flcial Paper of iackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDTtTSuhEAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: , WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC Of. fices in New Tork. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. v NEWSPAPtl . KUBIISHCIS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c5'N ASSOCM Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1S48 (Friday) Dedication ceremonies to day mark the formal opening of the Wolf creek-Azalea sec tion of Highway 99. "Burlesque," a Broadway comedv success, is scheduled for two performances this month. here 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1938 (Saturday) A movie is to be filmed in Medford featuring an all-local cast. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Candi dates have started to shine up to the voters, and are as pleasant a lot as one would care t6 meet." 30 YEARS AGO Ocl. 1. 1928 (Monday) "the local airport commit tee meets tomorrow at the Chamber of Commerce. the Diamond Lake resort closed for the season last eve ning. 40 YEARS AGO - Oct. 1. 1918 (Tuesday) Mayor Gates raises $30,000 in half an hour for the liberty loan drive and thereby gains for Medford the credit of put ting Oregon over its quota. Evans creek fire wardens are building a log cabin atop Battle mountain. , What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight it excellent; five of six is good. 1. In baseball, which base Is called the "keystone sack." 2. Is a benedict a newly mar ried man or a confirmed bach elor? 3. Woodrow Wilson was president of which eastern uni versity? 4. A necropolis is an obitu ary column in a newspaper, a disease of the neck, or a cem etery? 5. Cranberry growers deter mine the quality of their crop by its color, or bounce? 6. In which western State is Zion National Park? 7. Which dog is naturally tailless? 8. To what religious denom ination did the late "Babe" Ruth adhere? 9. A person suffering from ochlophobia would have a morbid fear of yellow paint, crowds, or pianos? 10. Only one U.S. President was a Quaker; name him. Answers: 1. Second base. 2. A newly married man. 3. Princeton. 4. Cemetery. 5. By its bounce. 6. Utah. 7. Schip perke. 8. Roman Catholic. 9. Morbid fear ef Crowds. 10. Herbert Hocver. 4 Wednesday, Oetf ' MAIL TRIBUNE, tAZ To End The "Veto" The Oregon Statesman in Salem proposes that the "veto power" which fringe areas have over annexations be eliminated. This 13 a controversial proposal, but there is much, sense to it. At present, when an annexation of a fringe area to an adjacent city is proposed, the area proposed for annexation must give an amrmauve response or tne annexation is de feated. The city, too, must approve,4 either by a general vote or by council action. The Statesman's proposal would call for one election, including the city and the annexation area, with a sample majority vote of all those voting deciding the matter. yHE STATESMAN says: "This provides for city expansion but contains a check so areas could not be added indiscriminately. It would let city voters share in deciding the city's size. Fringe area residents could express their convictions at public hearings, and their votes would be a part of the total vote cast. When there is a lack of interest by city voters, or when city sentiment is equally divided, the vote in the area up for annexation would be de cisive. But the fringe areas would not be allowed a veto power over .city expansion as they are now." The paper points out that this would be no solution to the "fringe area problem," but states that it would make it easier for a city's political boundaries to conf orm to its natural boundaries. IT ALSO pointed out that such a proposal is not mnviuc, Liicxb lug icmuvai UX 0 1111 11 tax. vcuu power has been accomplished in the case of some types a taxing districts, absorb a smaller one. It may be argued that there is an element of unfairness in this forcing other. But the reply is that it is frequently for the I ultimate, overall good of A provision such as that suggested by tne Statesman would solve one of the problems. But the solution of many of It is our conviction that the county must begin to assume manv of the on a hit-or-miss, uncoordinated basis by a variety of taxing districts. But to do so, it will be neces sary to give counties a greater degree of legis lative authority, or "home A DroDOsal to do this vember general election ballot, and should be passed as a first step toward easing the plight of the fringes. E.A. Educated Guesses The board of census' estimates of the popula tion of Oregon, and of its cities and counties, are just that--estimates. An estimate is a guess, based on certain indices, but still a guess. .- We'll have to wait another year and a half to get an accurate nose-count of the number of peo ple in Oregon, but in the meantime, the state census estimate will be the governing factor in distribution of state funds, and for other pur poses. .... ... .. A NUMBER of different M riipVi an psHmatp Among them are school enrollment figures and the '"normal" increment of births over deaths. The census board itself admits that its data are not sufficient for an absolutely accurate esti mate, and that it is handicapped by "lack of rele vant and reliable information on population mi gration." In some wrays it appears that the methods used by some cities in arriving at their initial estimates are sounder than the census board's for they also include sewer and water connections, and other data. THERE are other factors which, in our opinion, could well be taken into consideration such things as the number of vacant houses in the city, electrical and telephone starts and stops, and a cross-checking of these. This would be more difficult, of course, and probably not worth the extra effort and. expense. For all practical purposes, the state census board's figures are adequate. But it will be inter esting to see how they stack up against the actual count in I960. E.A. Losangelism The San Francisco Chronicle takes a dim view of the mouthings of "Losangelism" as applied to the current difficulties of the Pacific Coast Conference. The vims started out innocuously enough, it reports, but finally culminated in the break-up of the PCC, and the self-righteous back-patting of the big schools of the southland. The Chronicle says it was glad when the Uni versity of California in Berkeley rejected the lure of professionalism in football and wras greatly distressed when, more recently, it succumbed. Its parting shot must have grayed a few hairs in Berkeley. It said. "Good Luck, East Bay Pack ers E.A. . Still Danger State and federal forest officers have issued a timely warning the danger of forest fire in the woods is not over, despite the autumnal wea ther and cool nights. Warm alternoons and bined to dry out "the woods again, after the mild rams oi a iew weeKs ago. if you venture into the woods, be careful. Don't spoil the generally good fire record of southwestern Oregon this where a larger one can of one area to join an the entire community. the others lies elsewhere functions now peiTormecl rule. will appear on the No factors go into making lack of rain have com season, E. A. Dennis the Menace 'WOULOM'r OU JUST TO SOMEOtiB OF VSpy ONH Medford Woman Writes of Her Impressions of Harry Truman (Editor's note: Harry S. Truman, former President of the United Slates, spoke in Portland last Saturday. Among those attending was Mrs. Edith Rode of Med ford. who jotted down het impressions of the former President. They follow.) ' By EDITH RODE It seems to me that Harry Truman, addressing a Demo cratic banquet in Portland last week, demonstrates the bid British thesis that a man is a politician until he is 70, and then he becomes a statesr man. Mr. Truman, in his. speech, disclaims this theory in favor of his own, that the only statesman is a dead pol itician. Mr. Truman is fit, rosy and poised, with a tremendous zest for partisan battle. He still uses his American colo- quialisms charmingly. He is still very much a man of the people and his audience re sponds to him just as deeply as he responds to them. Homespun Although Harry Truman makes fierce and sometimes scathing comments on the po litical scene, he manages to. In the Day's News By FRANK Let's take a look at France today. Something VERY interest ing has happened there. "COR A long time, France has struggled along under the handicap of government that never seemed sure of where it was going. There was wide spread belief that the French wouldn't Stand for STRONG government. The reasoning was that so far as strong government was concerned the French had had it. They had it under the Bourbon kings, whose exces ses of power led up to the bloody French Revolution. They had it under Na poleon, who whitened the soil of Europe with the bones of France's sons. The thinking was that they had said to themselves: NEVER AGAIN! WELL The French have just backed up General De Gaulle -almost universally described as a STRONG MAN with an astonishing vote oi con fidence. In France itself meaning European France the vote for his new ' consti tution, which emphasizes STRENGTH, was almost four to one. In Algeria, which lies across the Mediterranean in Africa, the vote for the De Gaulle constitution was even more decisive. With the Moslems, who are supposed to be anti French, voting heavily in the election, the vote was approx imately nine to one . for the De Gaulle constitution. In France's West African colonies, the people voted heavily in favor of keeping the colonies associated with France in a community of na tions similar to the British Commonwealth. D E GAULLE PROMISED indicating that he means to levy TAXES, which the French hate, at a rate high enough to bring solvency to France.. He told the people hard truths they didn't particularly want to hear. But when the chips were all down, they backed him with their votes. IN CONCLUSION, let's take a look at the Republican party in the United States of America. HAVg A LITTLE BfcDTHEK? TO PUSH AZOUHD ? make them sound a bit like home-spun philosophy. In stead of a sharply descriptive adjective, his soft "no-'count Republican" places him in his time and background on the American political scene. Because he presents himself as a simple man, with a typi cal American background, and still has the imprints of greatness upon him, his back ground takes on some of the sweep -of mid-Western Amer ican painting. When he talks to his audi ence directly and simply, with no trimmings or ornate ness in his language, you re alize that he is the first Pres ident since Abraham Lincoln who has had the direct earthy approach. You realize, too, that this direct earthy ap proach indicates that he un derstands very clearly what he is talking about. All of us, from experience, know that the easiest way to ob scure our own lack of under standing is to dress up the subject in a great many flights of fancy. We don't know what we're talking about and neither, does any one else. JENKINS In recent years, it hasn't seemed to know where it was goinl. In 1952, it promised a strong fiscal policy. It prom ised to cut spending and re duce taxes. For some time, it stayed headed in that direc tion. Then, for whatever reason, it WEAKENED. It ceased to practice the hard doctrine of economy. It quit telling the people the hard things they didn't want to hear, such as the necessity to spend less and reduce the debt, and began telling them the pleasant things such as how much the government was going to SPEND. Somewhere along the line, the economy program blew out of the window and got lost. A S OF now Nothing seems more certain than that the Repub lican party is marching up to an .epochal defeat come No vember. .Why? It just might be that the same thing is happening in America that happened in France. Maybe Americans WANT to be told the hard things they ought to know. '. TT MIGHT be worth a try. - At any rate, as the po litical situation looks now, the GOP wouldn't have much to lose by trying it. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A DETERMINED PROHIBITIONIST registered at a Missis sippi hostelry to keep tabs on an upcoming session of the legislature. "Be careful with that suitcase,", he warned a bell hop. "Senator," the bellhop assured him, "I been totin' these things for you legis lators 20 years, and I ain't broke one bottle yet." An Iowa weekly printed this note on its first page: "We were the first journal in. all Iowa to announce the destruction in Des Moines by fire of the block-long-paint factory. We are now first again to inform our readers that the report was utterly without foundation." Bill Feather, who dredges up the darndest bits of information, points out that it takes an oyster four years to reach maturity, whereas a horse can qualify for the Kentucky Derby in three. 1353, by Bennett Cert, Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate, r ' Nixon's West Coast Expected By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (DPI) Along about the end of this week interested voters should know whether the Republ ican party has any socko issues in this congres s i o n a 1 cam- ipaign or will I be shooting blanks. .The evidence should be obvi- Lyie c. Wilson ous one way or another in the series of speeches being delivered this week by Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon in Indiana, Cal ifornia and Oregon. He took off Monday for Indiana and is now in California. The Vice President will complete this swing Friday in Portland, Ore. This is largely a fund-raising journey although Nixon will have strategy huddles Typically American Harry Truman talks , of dams, water, electric power and all of the basic necessi ties of life to us here in the West. His presence is so typi cally American as to be al most symbolic of all of us. Uncle Sam, the Yankee trad er of the last century, who penetrated even into closed Japan with his trading clip per ships, no longer is a typi cal or even recognizable American type. Someone very much like Harry Truman would be very much more representative of a great number of us. He could be anyone's grandfather, just a little enlarged. You also know that Harry Truman has read a great deal of history. He not only knows history, but has read it long enough and carefully enough that he can apply century old situations to the present situ ation. He has synthesized all he has read into ever-ready examples, that he uses to il lustrate his arguments. When you listen to him, the contin uous sweep of history be comes a very picturesque re ality to you. Harry Truman seems to be a living example of that mys tic Jeffersonian belief. If enough well-fed, Well-educated and sanely balanced peo ple vote on any given subject, the decision of such a people will be the nearest approach to objective truth that gov ernment can attain. Communications Letters to the Editcr must bear the name and address of tht 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. From Mrs. Otiosen To the Editor: It is impos sible to find the words to ex press our deepest feelings. Harold -and I have been com pletely overwhelmed and humbled with gratitude by the tremendous outpouring of help of all kinds from our friends and neighbors and many people whom we had thought were hardly more than acquaintances, but who, in this time of our extreme sorrow and need, have proven to be true friends. How we wish we could thank each and every one in dividually, and in time we can thank a great; many of you. In the meantime, due to being handicapped without a right arm temporarily, we wish to thank you all through this newspaper column for the wonderful way in which each and every one of you have responded to our time of trial, for all your help, both to Clarity with party leaders as oppor tunity offers. Nixon is un usual among the top men around President Eisenhower in that he understands and likes politics. If there is a Re publican campaigner any where competent to define and to arouse popular inter est in campaign issues which might help the Republicans in this year of their great need, Nixon could be that man. Two Conditions . He is a good enough politi cian to know that successful fund raising most likely can be achieved in the presence of two conditions, preferably of both. One condition is that of enthusiasm, the wild, ram paging kind of enthusiasm in which party members identify themselves with their party leaders and with the aims of the party leadership. When no such enthusiasm is present, the successful political fund raiser must try to bring it about. The second condition is that of the anticipation of victory in which the generosity of the contributor, large or small, is warned by the human instinct to get his money down on a winner. This second condition is not likely to be working for Nixon on this fund rais ing venture. As a political realist, the Vice President will recognize that unpleasant fact and, so, turn his best ef forts toward bringing about condition No. 1. That is why Nixon's speech es on this swing must have special significance as a pre view of the best Republicans are likely to come up with this year toward arousing en thusiasm for the party's can didates. There will be much inter est in what Nixon says in California on the labor issue, not merely on the right-to-work issue, which has split California Republicans, but on the issue, also, of Big La bor and the influence of its very large wealth on Ameri can politics. " Anxiety Shown There is some evidence of grass roots Republican anx iety that there is no longer an adequate balance in the na tion against Big- Labor's poli tical power. If this anxiety ex tends to the high command of the Eisenhower administra tion it is not reflected much, if any, in what the party leadership does or. says. Editorial Comment THE AGE OF HEROISM There are several organiza tions around the- country which annually honor people for civilian heroism. We ' suggest they look into the feat of Flo McKinley who this past Week saved the life of another woman over on the coast. Mrs. McKinley saw a small foreign car plunge into the Trask river and dived in after it. She tried one door which apparently was locked. Then she dove down twice - again financial and the gifts of food, Of loving labor, and help with my baby when I couldn't be with her, and with all our little ones,, and last but not least for all of your prayers Which have given us the strength to accept and learn to live without pur dear little girl. Eoth Harold and I say thank you from our very full hearts. I only hope that some day you can each understand just how much it has meant to us to know that so many people do care and have expressed your loving concern in ways that mean so much. We truly never could have believed that we had so many friends, but knowing it has helped so very very much. I want to say a special thank you to the Lady Lions who took care of the most heartbreaking task of all, that of buying the clothes for our little one, a job I just couldn't face at all in the condition I was in. But they took the whole respon sibility off my shoulders and performed it in such a beau tiful way that they will have our everlasting gratitude." Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these little ones, ye have done it for me. Marie Ottosen Eagle Point Why "Good-Time Charlie" Suffers Uneasy Bladder Unwise eating or drinking may be a source of mild, but annoying bladder irri tations making you feel restless, tense, and uncomfortable. And if resUess nights, with nagging backache, headache or mus cular aches and pains due to overexertion, strain or emotional unset, are addintr to your misery don't wait try Doan's Pills. Doan s Fills act 8 ways for speedy re lief. 1 They have a soothing effect on bladder irritations. 2 A fast rain-reliev ing: action on nagging backache, head- acnes, muscular acnes ana pains. 3 A wonderfully mild diuretic action thru the kidneys, tending to increase the output of the 15 miles of kidney tubes. So, get the same happy relief millions have enjoyed for over 60 years. New, large, economy lias saves money. Get Doan's fills today Campaign GOP Issues The administration's ap proach to the problem might be described in paraphrase of a well known remark as to "speak softly and carry an olive branch." This approach demonstrates a respectful ad ministration attitude toward Big Labor's political wallop. Typical was the address de livered a fortnight ago by La bor Secretary James P. Soviet Reluctance To Suggest Summit Talks Significant By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London - (UPD - One of the startling features in the cur rent Far East crisis has been the total absence of Soviet suggestions for a high-level conference. It has been the Kremlin's strategy since 1954 to call for a conference, preferably a for eign ministers' meeting, at the slightest provocation. Since the advent to power of Nikita Khrushchev it was the demand for a "summit" conference which had been raised at almost any oppor tunity. The last time it happened was a little over six weeks ago when the Soviet premier and party boss demanded a sum mit parley to debate the Mid dle East crisis. Russia Clams Up Nothing has been heard since. The Soviet has recoiled and does not even react . to any Western prodding for a high-level, East-West meeting Diplomats with a long rec ord of East-West negotiations recall it was Russia which prompted tne conference in Geneva in 1954 at the height of the Indochina crisis. Then the Soviets urged a summit conference which fin ally came to pass in Geneva in 1955. Since then the summit theme was almost constantly on Khrushchev's lips, until they were sealed after his secret meeting with Red Chi nese leader Mao Tse-tung at Peipmg last month. The U. S. and Britain, re versing the roles, recently have prodded Russia formal- before she was able to open the other door and pull the lone, female occupant to safety. . The rescuer's age: 65. -Capital Journal, Salem, DISTINCT RETROGRESSION Just what, we wonder, would persons opposed to United Nations put in its place? Jungle warfare? Shall we quit talking, as some would? And just start shoot ing? Shall we toss into the garbage can the only sane hope which nations yet have in the settlement of their grievances and aspiration ? Apparently that's what is sought by those Who pres sured 'United Air Lines into erasing the United Nations insignia from a half-dozen UAL airlines. We had thought UAL took a fine forward step last spring in launching a plan to put the emblem on its planes. - But now the plan is to be abandoned. "Individuals as well as organized groups" protested to UAL and the company "did not desire to enter into any controversy on international policy or phil osophy." Apparently tome "individ uals and Organized groups" believe world amity is for ever impossible of achieve ment and would rather be blown to smithereens than make a try for it. We are sorry UAL is abandoning its project. It had worthy sig nificance that is, unless one would prefer shooting to talk ing. Oregon Statesman, Salem. ' - ' ? I C. M. Litwiller FUNERAL and AMBULANCE SERVICE O . " Beautiful Wedding Chapel . Specialists in our profession, we aim to please you no matter what your need. Day or- night we are as close as the nearest telephone. 100 locally owned and operated. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close .. thervto Tour Mitchell before the Steel- workers convention. Mitchell was friendly, conciliatory and, obviously, hopeful of r iing friends for the ad ministration. He got some ap plause, too, but not many votes. The AFL-CIO news headline this week over the convention story read "Steel workers Convention Cheers Truman, Blasts Ike." ly for a resumption of pre- summit negotiations in Mos cow which were, adjourned in July, but no reply has been, received. Khrushchev prom ised one, but has remained silent. The "normal" practice x wofW have been for Khrush chev to ask for a high-level or preferably a summit meeting on the current Far East crisis. However, the indications from the Soviets were they are any thing but keen on such a course now. This emerged clearly dur ing a meeting last week in New York between British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. This development has given rise to considerable specula tion in diplomatic quarters and among Soviet affairs ex perts. What's Cookin'? fay ' . MEL LATTIE Republican "School Districts in Oregon are budgeting for , Regional Trade Schools." The way I ses it- 1 strongly believe adequate schools to train our young peo ple to meet the grow ing demand for skill ed craftsmen. I also feel that these schools should be located throughout the state and not concentrated in metropolitan areas. PUT f.lEL LATTIE in the State Legislature Nov. 4 Ballot No. Ill Paid Adv. Lattie for Represent ative Committee, Dick Gray, Chmn., Cherry lane, Medford. Mrs. Litwiller !1 I; : - 4i It IC KlfA. n L .. J miu us ana not need us, need us and not know us."