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4 WtJnetday, October 8, 195S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTRIBUNE "Everyone to Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ' 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 " ROBERT W. ErJHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports 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 BATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday -8 mos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y lOe All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. 07 NEWSPAPEt , PUBLISHEtS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSOCHTrjdN Zf J KJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 1.0. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. -. . 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1948 (Friday) Members of - the Rogue River Ramblers' motorcycle club travel to Klamath Falls this week end to attend a hill climb. ' " ' Bert Lahr, famous come dian, appears on the Crater ian stage tomorrow in the Broadway hit, "Burlesque." 20 YEARS AGO ... Oct. 8, 1938 (Saturday) The Mail Tribune is film ing a Medford newsreel in connection with the first all sound local movie, "Runnin Wild." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Local candidates have started to be stir themselves. Things are tame in political circles, and no office holder or seeker, is alleged, so far, to be a rescal, and power company tooL 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 8. 1928 (Monday) Four clerks in the county court house have writer's cramp today from registeer ing last-minute crowds of vot ers. The Dixie Jubilee quartet is scheduled to perform at the senior high school, and is billed as a "guaranteed grouch remover." 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 8. 1918 (Tuesday) "Admiral" Arthur Perry of "Smudge Pot" fame has re turned on furlough from the U. S. Navy, complaining that pay days are too infrequent. Ashland is planning an en largement of its . municipal water system. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. The sodium fluoride treatment is used as a method of preventing what? 2. What was the name of the first white child born in America in colonial days? 3. Who was Booker T. Washington? 4. Is the city of Stanlingrad in Soviet Russia located on the Dneiper, Don, or Volga river? 5. Was John James Audu bon famous as an inventor of hearing devices, painter of birds, or designer of furni ture? 6. In what city is the Uni versity of Michigan? 7. What is the A.A.U.W.? 8. What was the first name of President Woodrow Wil son? 9. What is the oldest known mechanical device for mea suring time? . 10. Are members . of. the President s cabinet elected or appointed? Answers: 1. Tooth decay. 2. Virginia Dare. 3. Famous Ne gro educator. 4. Volga. 5. Painter of Birds. 6. Ann Ar bor. 7. American Association of University Women. 8. Thomas. 9. Sundial. 10. Ap pointed. - C3SJI I Autumn on the Rogue We don't know whether or not the weather we've been having can accurately be classed as "Indian summer," for the dictionary says an In dian summer is a period of warm weather late in the fall or early winter. And this is still early fall. But we have had the first rain of autumn (it was nearly a month ago, remember?), the trees are turning, the crab grass is dying, and there is a decided nip in the air morning and evening, even when the temperature gets up into the high 80s or low 90s. WHATEVER it is called, it is terrific. Fortune smiled on us, for it was in just such weather that we took a steelhead-fishing boat trip down part of the Rogue the other day. Even if we hadn't caught a single fish (and our party came up with a near-limit, including a 24-inch eight-pounder) the day would have been well spent. The sights, the sounds, the smells, the physi cal feel of gliding over cing over riffles must be preciated. AIE HOPE we never f ' The hushed quiet by tnendly conversation, or the splash of a fish 20 yards away. The pelting heat of the mid-day sun, glanc ing off the water and beating down from a river side cliff, with a tall, down incuriously irom the top ot a tree. - The thrill when a "big one" grabs the lure and tears off across the river, with the reel whir ring madly as the line is taken. The breath of coolness which always seems to hover over the waves when the stream plunges downward, sliding from one quiet pool into an other. The expert thrust of an oar, and the sidling of the boat at precisely the right angle, as the guide takes it over or between jutting rocks. THERE are occasional signs of inhabitation a house on the bluff, a fishing pier, a shack of boards for use as a shelter, an irrigation pump, a bankside fisherman, an old hydraulic mine, a tent, a bridge. But most of the time one sees the Rogue country much as it was a hundred or a thousand years ago. Even the "old-timers," who have spent long lives in southern Oregon, continue to find, new beauty, new peace, new thrills here. To those not born and raised in the Rogue valley, it offers the continuing excitement of ex ploration of discoveries which make it a veri table wonderland for those who will open their eyes tp see it. E.A. Where to Put 'Erin? Perhaps preparations for Oregon's Centen nial celebration are suffering from apathy, and perhaps they aren't. We do know that-a lot of people are working hard on it. We also know that many more are needed, if as it potentially can be. But, success or not, it thousands of visitors throughout the coming year, with the bulk of them concentrated in the "tourist months" of June, July and August. Nationwide publicity tennial, and by the advertising of the state high way department, will bring visitors totaling some 10,000,000 by some estimates. TPHIS is fine, up to a point. But there is a problem which is causing con cern to many who are working to attract these visitors, and that is: Where are they going to stay when they get here? Up and down Highway 99 during the recent summer, one could see one "No Vacancy" sign after another each evening. The better motels were full virtually eveiy night, and many of the second-string ones had no difficulty filling up most of the summer. I F THIS is true during an ordinary, non-Centen- m'nl war. what, is poinp to haDrjen next vear if even-a fraction of the "extra" visitors predicted arrive? Where are they going to stay? And if they can't find accommodations, what are they going to think of Oregon's boasted hospi tality? The Centennial upsurge in "tourism" will not be a one-year thing, either. Oregon's attractions are such that it will draw back its new visitors year after year. t . If we were in the motel business, we'd be giv ing some serious thought to expanding to get our share of this tourist bonanza. E.A. Adult It 'may have escaped your attention, but a whole series of night school classes for adults are starting next week, under the sponsorship of the Medford public schools. There's still time to join. . If you're interested in clothing, tailoring, mil linery, lampshade making, knitting, cake decor ation, sculpturing, sketching, public speaking, creative writing, Spanish, show card writing, painting, mathematics, slide rule operation, par liamentary procedure, blueprint reading, mechan ical drawing, art appreciation, upholstering, nurses' aid training, or preparation and butcher ing of game, you're in luck. For details, call the Medford High school, SPring 3-5341. E.A. smooth water or boun experienced to be ap forget : of morning, broken only ungajnly heron staring it is to be as successful is going to attract many engendered by the Cen Courses Dennis the Menace A LITTLE SURPRISE HAPPENED IHMFOOM Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the japer; in fact the contrary is often the case. Issues Cited To the Editor: Your editor ial, "The Silly Season," was reprinted in the Salem States man, evidently because it hit a responsive chord in Editor Charles A. Sprague, but I am sure both of you must now agree that your critcism of the lack of "real issues" in Oregon's gubernatorial cam paign no longer applies. Please give me this oppor tunity to point out some that are, as you put it, "worth while to argue about:" .1. Compulsory automobile liability insurance. Governor Holmes is for; Mr. Hatfield is against. This is a clear-cut, controversial, and worthwhile issue in which every citizen has a stake. 2. Protection of our natural resources. Governor Holmes focused the state's outraged attention to careless and cal lous violations of regulations by Idaho Power Co. at Oxbow Dam, resulting in costly dam age to a record salmon run. Mr. Hatfield has been strange ly silent on this issue. 3. State gas tax increase. Governor Holmes is opposed. Mr. Hatfield has not made his stand known, so far as I know. 4. Tax cuts in Oregon. Gov ernor Holmes frankly says there can be none if educa tion, welfare and institutions are to be maintained even at present levels. Hatfield prom ises tax cuts and speaks vag uely of simultaneously in creasing government services. It can't be done. 5. Honesty in government. Hatfield repeatedly makes statements that prove he has either little regard for simple truth or that he is sadly un informed about Oregon's own government, laws and vital statistics. He bemoaned the state's retirement laws in a speech in Medford; said they forced workers to retire at 65. Fact: retirement age is 70, and 438 persons over- 65 are now on state payroll. He charged Governor Holmes with recruiting a host of state employees to work on the Democratic campaign and decried the great turnover in state employees. Fact: Gov ernors can appoint only a handful of unclassified work ers; civil service commission records show there has been steadily decreasing turnover under Holmes administration. Meanwhile, I venture to suggest that you may be un derestimating the importance of campaign tactics. Remem ber Nixon's campaign tactics against Helen Gahagan Doug las? Hatfield is using the same Try and -By BENNETT CERF- AMONG THE MORE CURIOUS of the new products put on the market in the past year is a liquid that smells like a lion or, if sprayed in sufficient volume, like a whole pride of lions. A Berlin Zoo keeper perfected it. There's a ready . i r i j marker, ior it, too. rarmers in Zululand purchase it avidly. They pour it into their streams and ponds. Roaming bands of hippo potami, looting the fields and stockyards, get one whiff of the potent Essence of Lion and get far away from there as fast as their legs will carry them. "Whoopee:" gloated a young Broadway actor. "My girl's got her name in the lead paragraph of two gossip columns today." "What do they say about her?" asked a friend. "They say," replied the excited thespian, "that if she could act as well as she can drink and gold-dig, she'd have Sarah Bernhardt and Helen Hayes skinned." O 1358. by Bennett Cert Dutributei by King Features Syndicate, political textbook. Campaign tactics ARE worthwhile to argue about; they give the measure of a man. If tactics alone were the issue, Govern or Holmes' honesty and can dor alone deserve a vote of confidence from every Ore gonian. . Marguerite W. Wright, Secretary, R-elect Gov. . Holmes Committee, 3035 Hulsey ave., Salem, Ore. God Will Provide To the Editor: I, too, read in the paper where a church is going to build a radio sta tion. And a lot of people along with God know it is a wonderful thing. The one that wrote about a good youth center, why not start in and do something about it. That is the way to get anything done. I am sure he or she will find ethers that do agree and will help. The question "was asked, what will this new station use to support itself? Heaven knows that is right. The God of heaven and of earth and that gives us this wonderful air we breathe and every thing good will see to it that His work is supported. That saying children raised in Sunday school are seldom raised in jail. We know that is right for most of the chil dren. So if mothers and dads don't take their children to Sunday school and church, it seems to me that Rev. Wine is trying to take it to them. Though the elders may not let the radio be turned on that station for the children to hear, it may be some kind neighbor may have it on where they can, once in a while. The Bible says to raise a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. I thank God my children were raised that way. My grandchildren may need a helping hand from some Christian. If they do, thank God, He "will see that they get it. And for cost, I have heard anything worth having is worth its cost, though we can not count God's power by dol lars and cents. You can't tell someone else how the shoe fits till you have put it on and worn it. And Rev. Wine andj all who are back of him wore the shoe of a sinner and then of a Christian and know that we are wearing the best now, and know just what we have got to offer anyone and each one. (Name on file), Central Point. Stop Me ffi' ' r io-q .' Strife-Torn Lebanon Faces New Revolt And Threat of Religious Civil Warfare By LARRY COLLINS UPI Correspondent Beirut (DPD Tiny Lebanon, already deeply scarred by five months of revolt, now faces the growing prospect of a Christian counter revolt and, much worse, a civil war that would pit the nation's two religious factions against each other. The ten days that have fol lowed the installation of Fouad Chehab as president, instead of bringing the nation a hoped for respite, have if anything sharpened its divi sions and for the first time divided the nation along basi cally Christian-Moslem lines. The new split is an out growth of a violent Christian reaction to Chehab's choice of Tripoli rebel leader Rashid Karami as prime minister. Has Changed Picture It has suddenly reversed the roles in revolt torn Leba non, sending the Christians behind barricades and into into the streets waving sticks and clubs to back up with force their own call for a city wide general strike. More thn 50 people already have been killed in this new phase of the fighting here. Thus far, the Christian counteraction has been quieter and less spectacular than the better organized and better armed revolt began by the largely Moslem a n t i Chamoun faction last May. But it is potentially more dangerous because it contains the seeds . of religious war fare. And it is much more tragic because it could be solved quickly and easily with a lit In the Day's News By FRANK Politics: Reports to Republican na tional headquarters indicate that the GOP is the underdog in this year's elections. The reports suggest that the Grand Old Party hasn't come up with the fighting spirit an un derdog needs to offset the ad vantage of the favorite in the political race. raking note of these re ports, President Eisenhower held a political news confer ence in Washington the other morning. He gave the party leaders a pep talk. He urged them to shake off their cam paign apathy and wade into what remains of the campaign with all their might. Faint heart, he indicated, never won fair lady. rFAKING it by and large, - that is good advice. If you want something, FIGHT for it. Put everything you've got into the battle. That's about the only way to win. BUT Looking at the Republi can party as a whole and for getting local issues in the va rious states and the various regions of the nation, one can't help wondering if the GOP as a national political party knows just what it wants at the present moment in history. It's hard to win a battle if you don't know exactly what you're fighting for. TJOW'S this for advice to 11 the GOP?: Get a PROGRAM. Be something. Be something distinctive. Don't try to outspend the MARKET NEW JAGUAR Coventry, England-flJPD- Ja guar Cars, Ltd., today an nounced that a new car, the Mark IX Saloon, will make its first appearance at the 1959 motor show. The new model, to cost $5,576 tax excluded, will be similar in appearance to the Mark VIII, but will, have a larger engine, disc brakes and power steering. Automatic drive will cost about $500 more. About 1,130,000 Americans will have travelled to Europe during 1958. WEDDING CHAPEL C. M. Litwiller For that happy occasion, we offer you beautiful Mountain Chapel. Adequate for your fondest dreams. An ever growing clientele . . . and prices are very moderate. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close than tle good will and initiative on the part of the nation's leaders. It was certainly that reali zation that prompted United States Ambassador Robert McClintock to his unprece dented effort to directly stim ulate action towards ending the crisis by suggesting a four point program of his own. Received No Thanks For his pains, he has thus far harvested a shower of Labor's Political 0 Contributions Still Await Court Test By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (DPD The word is that the Justice Depart ment awaits a good cause be fore proceed ing again un der the, cor rupt practices act against the use of labor money in po litical cam paigns. The depart ment lost such Lyie c. wuson a case grow ing out of labor's part in the 1954 election of Sen. Patrick V. McNamara (D-Mich.). It has waited now for a better case much too long so far as this year's election is con cerned. This distribution of cam paign gifts by labor was cited JENKINS spenders. Don't try to out New Deal the New Dealers. Size up the future and decide what our country needs to make it great and prosperous and SECURE. Then fight for it. It will be better in the long run to lose on an issue you BELIEVE IN than to win on an issue you don't believe in. 117HAT is such a program? " It might be worth while to take a tip from France. In France a little while back, General De Gaulle en tered the political picture a a moment when the French were DRIFTING. - He didn't pussyfoot. He came clear out of the underbrush. He told the French a lot of hard truths. He won a surprising vic tory. Nasser Tightens Control of UAR . Cairo-(UPD-President Gamal Abdel Nasser tightened his control over the United Arab Republic today, ruling through a new 21-member central cabinet. The new cabinet was named Tuesday night to replace an unwieldy system of regional executive councils. It includes 15 Egyptians and 6 Syrians, nearly all of whom had been members of the former gov ernment. The only major figure drop ped in the reorganization was Syrian Vice President Sabri el Assali, who announced his "resignation" Sunday. Vice President Abd al Iatif al-Bagh-dadi and Ali Sabry both re mained in the cabinet despite rumors they would be ousted. Former Syrian strong man Abdel Hamid el Serraj was left out of the new cabinet. He remains as Syrian interior minister and presumably Nas ser's chief lieutenant there. In addition to the central cabinet, the new government will continue to rule through an Egyptian executive council headed by Dr. Noural-Din Tar raf, and a Syrian executive council headed by former Public Works Minister Dr. Noural-Din Kahala. Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us. to need us and not know us." abuse from all sides, and par ticularly from the nation's former rebels. The demand of the nation's Christian population, which now has as its spokesman the militant Phalange, is a bigger share in the government. The Phalange wants the Ka rami Cabinet either enlarged or shuffled to make room for three or four supporters of ex-President Chamoun. They contend that only a last summer by the staff of the Republican Senate Policy Committee in a detailed re port titled: "The Labor Bosses -America's Third Party." The policy committee staff evidently was attempting to get Republican candidates this year and Republican leaders, in general, on what staff mem bers regard as the beam with respect to Big Labor in Ameri can politics. Staff members realized they were treading explosive -ground so they opened their report with this statement: "Neither the members of the Republican Policy Com mittee nor other Republican Senators are responsible for the statements herein con tained, except such as they are willing to endorse and make their own." The report was quite well documented, being based on testimony before the McClel lan Senate Subcommittee, on reports by labor to the clerk of the House concerning po litical expenditures and on some legal proceedings in the federal courts including the Supreme Court. The report quotes from Sec. 610 of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act that: "It is un lawful for any National Bank . . . or for any corporation whatever to make a contribu tion or expenditure in con nection with any election to any political office ... or any labor organization to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any election for federal office." Labor Claims "The labor bosses claim, however," the report adds, "that these political auxil iaries which, make the con tributions do not fall within the corrupt practices act defi nition of a 'labor organiza tion.' And, furthermore, that their activities are financed by 'voluntary contributions." The policy committee staff, doubtless somewhat preju diced, regards this claim as nonsense. The staff report cites various legal proceed ings including the 1956 Han son Case in which the Su preme Court indicated, at least, that some justices felt that the use of union dues money for political purposes would render the union shop contract unconstitutional. A decision on that issue might solve a lot of Republi can problems, either by re ducing the flow of labor funds into politics or by settling the right-to-work issue in the courts instead of in ballots. The Justice Department seems disinclined to grasp the thistle firmly. COLD CONFINES LLOYD London -UPD- A heavy cold forced Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd to cancel his trip to Bonn today with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Lloyd was confined to his home here. Minister of state for Foreign Affairs Davis Ormsby-Gore took his place. MULTIPLY HIM BY 6,000 Wherever there's news to be got, there's a United Press International reporter on the job to get it and get it to you. Day and night, every minute of the 24 hours and in every quarter of the globe, U.PJ.'s 6,000 newsmen are busy finding out what's happening and speeding it to you as fast as wires and wireless and cables can do it . . . Read U.P.I.'s up-to-the-minute dispatches in MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE government representing all factions in the nation can re store order to Lebanon. Karami already has four Christians in his seven man cabinet. But they are unrep resentative of the present sen timents of the Christian com munity. Karami's point of view is that he does not want in his cabinet backers of the man against whom he fought a five month rebellion. uies unaenying raciors Giving urgency to the need for a rapid political solution to the crisis is the fact that underneath it lie sociological factors which will not be so easy to reconcile if they spring to the surface. For years the Christians of Lebanon have enjoyed a somewhat favored status in relation to their Moslem com patriots. The greater part of the nation's well-to-do are Christians; the greater part of her under-privileged are Mos lems. f.vu-.v stemmed first from the fav ored treatment accorded them by the French and then from the better qualifications they could muster for business and leadership as a result of French favor and education. What's Cookin'? by MEL LATTIE Republican "The completion of the road from Klam ath Falls to Lake of the Woods; and th improvement of the Forest Service Road via Fish Lake to Med ford has the approval of the Forest Service and the Highway Commission." , The way I see it- This is one of the ma jor steps toward the completion c f an East W e s t Highway con necting Southern Ore gon to the Coast. Such a highway would develop new indus- " tries, open recreation al areas and enable our own wealth to be harvested. PUT MEL LATTIE in the State Legislature Nov. 4 Ballot No. Ill Paid Adv. Lattie for Represent ative Committee. Dick Gray. Chmn., Cherry lane, Medford. rry
