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M Thursday, October 14. 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDtJvTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune'" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 " ROBERT W. RLTHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Alee ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. . 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c 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 C1RCJLATION 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. HEWSFAMt rUBLISHEIS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSoc5T8N 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 October 16, 1948, (Saturday) Vice Presidential Aspirant Gov. Earl Warren and family appeared before a trackside crowd yesterday as his train paused 'briefly. The Teamsters' month-long strike against the American News company has been set tled with the assistance of the United States Conciliation service. , 20 YEARS AGO October 16, 1938 (Sunday) Medford's movie stars in the local film "Runnin' Wild" are preparing for the pomp and circumstance, of a Hollywood-style premiere. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The campaign is nice and quiet so far. If any of the candidates plan to exhibit their aboriginal cussedness, they will have to do so between now and Nov. 8." 30 YEARS AGO October 16, 1928 (Tuesday) Roosevelt school students have won the "best posture" cup for the third time. The Salem Drum corps and Portland Drum corps, en route from winning honors in a national contest in San An tonio, stepped off their special train 'here to go through their paces. 40 YEARS AGO October 16. 1918 (Wednesday) While Jacksonville and Orants Pass followed Med ford's example in banning pub lic meetings because of a po tential influenza epidemic, the local health officer said he knew of only one possibly genuine case of the disease here. . Medford's liberty loan band drive nears the top. Vhal's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. Was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow an American, or an Englishman? 2. Caracas is the name of the capital of the northern most country in South Ameri ca: name it. 3. What is the national an them of Great Britain? 4. The Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives has no vote except in the case of a tie; true or false? 5. In what sort of work do longshoremen engage? 6. What is craniometry? 7! What sort of device is a snorkel? 8. For what substance does the symbol Al stand? 9. Was George M. Cohan of Irish, Jewish, or Scottish an cestry? 10 An alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river is called a d ? . , Answers: 1. American. 2. Venezuela. 3. "God Save the Queen." 4. False. (He may vote on any question if he desires to do so.) 5. Loading and unload ing vessels at docks. 6. Mea surement of skulls. 7. To allow submarines to run its engines Uile submerged. 8. Alum num. 9. Irish ancestry. 10. Delia, Support Home Rule It was interesting to note, in last Sunday's Mail Tribune, the replies given by candidates for local office to the question of what their position is on the County Home Rule amendment to the Constitution. The proposal will be on the ballot at the Nov. 4 election. A majority of the candidates said they favor the amendment. One of them (Earl Miller, Re publican candidate for county judge) opposes the amendment, though he qualifies this by say ing he is in favor of the home rule principle while opposing the current proposal. ZITHERS give qualified support. Tor instance, Scott Hamilton, Democratic candidate for county commissioner, favors the amendment, but opposes any form of county manager govern ment; Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Republican county clerk seeking reelection, favors the amendment but would oppose any change in the existing set up of elected county offices ; her opponent, Demo crat Marvin Madden, ducks the question "since this is not an issue in my campaign," but adds it would be no "panacea," and he would want to study any new county charter very closely. Frank Christian, Democratic candidate for county judge, disclaims it as an Issue," but says he is for county reorganization, and Lany Sheehan, Democratic sheriff candidate, says he wpuld have to give it further study, but on the basis of present inf ormation would favor it. . THE remaining candidates gave the proposal support, either without qualification, or with only minor reservations. As readers of this column well know, the Mail Tribune is a strong supporter of the amend ment, and our thinking on the candidates cannot but be colored somewhat by their positions on the Home Rule proposal. It IS an issue an im portant one in the campaign. Our view is this: County government today is anachronistic, inefficient and unresponsive. It suffers from an unrealistic separation of powers not into the executive, legislative and judicial, but into a whole passel of little executive offices, with no one boss, no one person or unit which can be held responsible. . . . . . . - , This separation of authority and responsi bility into an assortment of offices frustrates progress, delays necessaiy action, encourages buck-passing, and results in mis-management, higher-than-necessary costs, and needless confu sion. D ASSAGE of the Home Rule amendment would not cure this. " , But it would be a step in the right direction. The amendment is permissive. It would allow the people' of a county to adopt a charter and to institute a plan of self-government much as incorporated cities do today. (We happen to favor the county manager form of government but that is another issue, one which could be decided if and when the con stitutional home rule amendment is approved. The argument in this election is not a FORM of government; it is about the authority to do some realistic thinking and planning about a form of government, and the possibility of adopting one if agreement can be reached locally.) CANDIDATES can talk about efficiency in of- fice as much as they want. But much of it is idle talk unless and until the people give them a govermental structure which suits today's needs. And the need for flexibility, progressiveness, and responsiveness in county government is grow ing, not decreasing, and will continue to grow. Except in veiy limited ways, the county s hands are tied in acting to relieve many pressing situations resulting from such things as providing sewer and water serv ices, roads and other needed improvements in areas outside of incorporated cities, areas which cannot serve themselves as well as should be through the multiplicity of "special" districts which have grown up. County government today is big business. And it should have a structure which will attract top-flight men to it both in the professional service fields where they are so badly needed, and in the administrative-executive positions. a THE League of Women Voters, which usually performs exceedingly useful informative func tions at election time without "taking sides," this year has taken one of its rare stands on a measure this time on the Home Rule amend ment. It supports it strongly, after exhaustive study. As was noted, a majority of the candidates for office support the proposal. None of them flatly opposes it without qualification. All of them are favorable to the general proposition that county government needs some "working over." . This is a chance to make the first step The measure will NOT change our county government, but it WILL clear the way so that, at some future date, the voters of the county CAN if they so desire, institute some different form of county government. (It should be noted, too, that the specifics of enabling legislation, other than the permissive amendment, wouid be worked out by the legisla ture. But the legislature can do nothing without uie passage ot the amendment.) The proposal, No. 11 trie yes vote of every state. E. A. ... population growth on the ballot, deserves responsible voter m the ... . v5 'Then how'soitta pehnv? lUrouirraRAPENNy! OKAY? JUSTAPENW! WJ...-" Matter of Fact MORE FOLKSY THAN REPUBLICAN New York - A simple fact suggests the Republican plight in the present election. Nelson Rocke feller, the Re publican par ty's soli t a r y novice candi date with real promise in any of the 48 states, is run ning for the New York n l.: Jos!pb Alsop Vjuveriiursmp as, a Rockefeller buz nardly as a Republican. Maybe it sounds odd to say that he is running as a Rocke feller, but it is true none the less. His own and his family's good works are conspicuous among his vote-getting assets. At the working level, his po litical organization even com prises a surprising number of persons who have previously worked for various Rocke feller family interests. . Above all, his untiring efforts in the hand - shaking, baby - bussing, blintz - eating line have only made such a big impression because he is who he is. Nobody would be much excited if a Nelson Jones or a Wellington . Smith were so overwhelmingly folksy. But there is real ex citement when the extended hand and the warm grin be long to NelsonRockefeller. THE other side of the medal is Rockpfpllpr's nhvions rp- luctance to identify himself with his party's national lead ership. Of course he has to make the correct ceremonial appearances, like his appear ance with the President at the Columbus Day celebrations. But unless present plans are changed, Rockefeller speeches will be conspicuously absent from the program on the two occasions when Vice Presi dent Nixon is to speak here. And if the President makes his tentatively scheduled tele vision broadcast from New York, he will share the micro phone with Republican Senate candidate Kenneth Keating but not with Rockefeller. "I want to keep the cam paign to state issues," is the Rockefeller explanation. It is not convincing. Even when there were bags-full of state issues of the most burning sig nificance, no Governorship candidate in history has ever failed to reach for a Presi dent's coat-tails if he thought them worth reaching for. In this campaign, Rockefeller's own staff complain about the difficulty of stirring the elec torate's interest in state issues. Yet the Eisenhower coat-tails are not being reached for, either. IjWERYONE involved in the campaign on oth sides will be offended by the state ment, but another truth about this New York election is that, thus far, neither side has de veloped an isgue worth men tioning. It -is not easy to see how any serious issue is going to be developed, either, for the rather simple reason that the biggest single difference between the rivals is Averell Harriman's possession of the New York Governorship and Nelson Rockefeller's desire for it. Harriman, to be sure, is a convinced arid fervent - New Deal Democrat. But in the first place, this matters less at Albany than it would in Washington. And, in the sec ond place, Rockefeller's social and economic views are im measurably more flexible than the official views of his party. The Rockefeller high command was frankly horri fied by, the announcement of the recent Republican leaders' rally at the White House that the big issue this year was the Democrats' sinister tendency towards "socialism." On for eign and defense policy, too, Rockefeller is actually far closer to . Harriman than to Eisenhower, whose adminis By .Joseph Alsop tration he left in fairly open dissent. THE things that chiefly mat ter in this New York elec tion, therefore, are the per sonalities of the two leading contenders, and the extent to which they are helped or hurt by their affiliations. Harri man keeps warning that Rockefeller is a mere facade for "Republican r e a c t i o n." Rockefeller keeps warning that Harriman is a mere front man for "Tammany bossism" Rockefeller wants no part of the Eisenhower coattails. After Tammany's Carmine de Sapio forced the Senate nomination of New York District Attor ney Frank Hogan, Harriman was careful to underline his indeDendenceof Tammany by announcing that Hogan's suc cessor would be an unim peachable independent and 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 aaper; in fact the contrary Is oftsn the case. Decrepit Signs . . . , To the Editor: In your cur rent "Make Medford Beauti ful" camDaien. would you please mention the decrepit, worn out, signboards whicn mark the roads to the airport, especially the one at the junc tion' of Table Rock road and Airport road. They certainly don't re flect the semi-modern termin al building and surroundings at all. F. J. Ruch 418 Barnes Medford Conservative Bretons To the Editor: We 1870s kiddies in the McGuffy Read er days learned geography by outlining in countries with color-crayons. Cuba was an alligator, Haiti a leaping frog, Italy a bootleg kicking Sicily, a football. France was a teapot, Brit tany its spout. That Brittany is one of the world's citadels of conservatism. Now also of Conservation. Many there speak not French, but Breton. Women wear charming coifs headgear. Biscay fishing fleet sardiniers dress in the ancient red. Writer coming on his first one in Concarneau thought' he had the devil. This citadel of conservatism can also adopt conservation concepts from our New World. This is evident from data received from an over seas scientific society of which undersigned is a member. The land of Anne de Bretagne avec les sabots de bois moves to protect from extinction its wild life. This, in France, is more extensive than a Calif ornian might expect." Writer came across a wild bear in the Pyrenees, also a wild boar in Corsica. Brittany, like the Britons whose name originat ed in that teapot-spout, now are concerned about trends toward extinction of its seals. : Among the birds they also hope to save is mentioned "Breton penguins." This must be a mistranslation. Penguins are mostly Antarctic. Any how, Brittany has some birds tending toward the fate of U.S.A.'s only native parrot, the Carolina parakeet. . Writer collaborated with a remarkable Frenchman on his plans for a Mont Blanc Na tional Park. As a young man thrilled with Westerns, he had bought a ticket to U.g.A. He expected to tomahawk peau rouges on New York's Broadway. Disappointed, he went West, grew wealthy, de cided to invest his fortune in what was to be France's first National Park. He was a world war casualty. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J. sts., Sacramento, 14, Calif. Russ Diplomatic Initiative Strangely Inactive Recently; Reasons Pondered By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London (UPI) -Something has been happening in the Kremlin that has deprived So viet diplomacy of its custom ary initiative in recent weeks. Diplomatic sources have reached this conclusion after an appraisal o.- recent Soviet strategy on the international scene. i The Soviet propaganda of fensive which has been ever present since Nikita Khrush chev took power has come to a virtual standstill. Soviet diplomacy, ever ac tive and ever inventive, has produced no new element lately and has often been re sorting to the stale methods of ousted V. M. Molotov's out dated techniques. Both diplomats and Soviet affairs experts have been seeking for an explanation of crime suppressor, Frank Adams. Both men, in fact, are as anxious to be loved for them selves alone , as they are anxious to shake every vot er's hand in sight. There ' are certain lesser factors that do not balance out, however. There is Harri man's record as Governor, ad mitted to be good even by many Republicans (at least until the campaign started). There . is the absence of an Italian from the Republican ticket, although the people of Italian descent are the biggest voting group in the state. (This was the reason for the Eisenhower Columbus Day visit - it was at least thought to be useful to have the Presi dent miss his week end to make a big pro-Italian ges ture.) , - But on the basis of the al leged issues, you can pay your money and take your choice, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Really, Rsallv Inconvenient To the Editor: This summer I was naintine a house in Med ford, when two ladies arrived to insDect the house. I heard one of them say: "My good ness! What an inconvenient bathroom." Now that's what I'm an exDert at. Inconveni ent bathrooms. I was born in Julesburg. Colo., and the first thing I remember anything about, was inconvenient bath rooms. We had two of 'em. One was a tin tub, back of the wood stove, in the sod house, in the sandhills. The other one was out in the barnyard of northeastern Colorado. When it gets' 30 degrees below zero, you remember those things. When I was 8 years old, we moved to a small mining town, Placerville, Colo. That's when I started running into some really inconvenient bathrooms. Placerville. was a small town, one store, one hotel and one saloon. We lived over the grocery store. We had to walk down two flights of stairs, cross Leopard creek, walk a mile up the San Mi guel River on a bridge, walk to a miner's cabin, light some candles, walk another 200 feet through a tunnel of solid rock, to get to the bathroom. That was just half the bathroom, the other half of the bathroom was harder to get to. One morning, I caught a freight train to the bathroom. Now I'm the only person in the world who ever rode to their bathroom in a caboose. I've seen other bathrooms in my life, which were more inconvenient, but they ain't in Oregon. In France I've been in towns which ain't got a bathroom and they ain't never heard of one. When you ain't got a bathroom, it's getting really, really, inconvenient and. these two ladies were squawking about having to open two doors, to get from the kitchen into the bathroom. Everett Acklin yBox 233 Ashland GRANTS ANNOUNCED Washington (UPD The U.S. Public Health Service an nounced today approval of 98 grants, - totaling $13,168,307, to help .institutions in 33 states build and equip addi tional health research facili ties. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring" 3-7335 this unusual phenomenon in Soviet behavior. Might Realise Failures ' Experts believe that Khrushchev has realized his propaganda drive has not paid off in any major field of in ternational relationship. But he may also be "preoccupied" with serious inner-Soviet bloc problems. ' , ..' In Sochi on the Black Sea, where he spent the recent weeks he may have been lay ing the groundwork for a new strategy which th"e West may soon have to face. Presently, the military chiefs ' of the " Warsaw Pact alignment that includes Rus sia and the East European sat- Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE POSITION OF STRENGTH Most probably, Red China has extended the cease-fire for another two weeks in or der t o pro mote Ameri can negotia tion s with Chiang for a d i s e n g a ge ment at Que rn o y. T h e statement by J. 1 Walter . .V "mmunisi Linnmaoa ' . hews aeencv does not say this. In fact, it calls for a direct talk between the two Chinese governments the United States excluded and ignored as an interloper. But Peiping knows perfectly wen tnat the concrete ques tion is whether Chiang will withdraw his troops from Quemoy, and that it is Wash ington, not Peiping, which alone can persuade him to do this. The American policy is to persuade him to bring his troops back to Formosa when there is a cease-fire. The Red Chinese have for the second time ordered, "a cease-fire, manifestly because they now. expect us to make some moves to carry out our part of the bargain. Moreover, the Red Chinese have accompan ied the cease-fire with strong intimations that their mili tary objective is Quemoy and the off-shore islands," not For host, and that they do not have military plans against Formosa itself. These intima tions, which come from many quarters, are meant to relieve the President of any commit ment to preserve , Quemoy, since it is only in relation to the defense of Formosa that he has any right or duty to in tervene at Quemoy. rpHE crucial question for us Ms whether we should take as the basis of our policy the proposition that Formosa is separate from the off-shore islands. In . saying that : we should deal with them sep arately, we do not need to reply on what Peiping has been saying to neutral gov ernments and perhaps in veil ed language to us. The con clusive reason for believing that the Chinese Communists will not attack Formosa is that they lack any . military capacity to attack Formosa. The Strait of Formosa is a hundred miles wide, and in it is the 7th Fleet, the most formidable instrument of sea-and-air power in the world. Peiping has no navy. It has no comparable air force. There is not the slightest indi cation that they are mount ing a force to conquer For mosa. As a military problem, the allied landing in ' Nor mandy, in the second World War was easy as' compared MEET YOUR CANDIDATE! - Hedrick Junior-High Gym FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17th , ! at8,P.M. League of Women Voters -CANDIDATES' FAIR Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS r, DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 ellites are meeting in Warsaw with Marshal Ivan Koniev, the military chief of the al liance, nothing so far has been disclosed of their decisions. If these moves are the pre liminaries to a new diplomatic offensive of the Communist camp, its first sparks prob ably will be flying at the forthcoming East-West Gene va conference which is to dis cuss the issue of suspending nuclear tests. - ' J.- The expert analysis of the lull, or freeze, in Russia's dip lomatic initiative has pointed- out that all major points of Moscow's past diplomatic of fensive have misfired. Khrushchev's plans for a with'what it would take to knock but the 7th Fleet and land on-'Formosa. - THISi as'ifused to be fash ionable to say, a position of strength upon ..which Ameri can policy should be based. What is the objective of our policy? In the last analysis it is " to preserve Formosa's independence from the main land, to preserve it as an in dependent center of non-Communist Chinese culture and to keep it militarily neutralized. Now, the fact is that both Chinas, Mao's China and Chiang's China, are in princi ple opposed to such a two- China settlement. Neither will now agree to it. But that does not mean that it is not the best solution and that it will not in the course of time be accepted. Even if it is not formally agreed to, the Unit- led States, has the power to maintain a two-t-nma policy de facto. For Mao cannot in vade Formosa and Chiang cannot invade the mainland, In terms of the power politics which underlie the -whole problem, a separate Formosa, iinentangled on the mainland and its offshore islands, is for the time being as feasible as it is desirable. ' WHAT is far from clear is whether Formosa, which cannot be conquered from the mainland, will by an in ternal revolution decide to join the mainland. This is what the Red Chinese are proposing, and all their hopes of absorbing Formosa rest on this idea. There are some wheb,aye been in Formosa and believe the after a bad start the Chiang regime is doing rather well, and that it " may sur vive Chiang himself.' They may be right. For myself, I do not know though I have always supposed that pur en tanglement with Chiang and his' excessively entusiastic friends here at home would end in. disaster. In this dis aster, brought on by some kind of foolishness like that at Quemoy, there would be a deal, . by Chinese politicians who have more to gain from Peiping than from Washing ton. -' If this is not to happen, it can best be "avoided by in sisting that Chiang concen trate on the development of Formosa, renouncing his illu sions about the mainland, ceasing to waste his resources in places like Quemoy, and then reducing his army to a size 'suitable for the internal security of Formosa itself. If that were to happen, there might be a fair chance that Formosa will maintain inde pendence, (c) 1958 New York. Herald Tribune Inc. deal" with the United Statei the backbone of his policy after his takeover has failed. So has his plan for a summit conference Khrushchev - style as a platform for Moscow's propaganda. His call for an East-West non-aggression pact has been ignored and mistrust in the West of Russian policy aims has grown. At the same time, the Sino Russian relationship has un dergone its greatest change over, with Red China emerg ing fast as a giant power at Russia's backdoor where the Soviet empty spaces are high ly vulnerable to the pressures of the fast growing Chinese population.-- j Peiping has put an end to Moscow's patronage over Red China and is calling the tur.e in the Far East to which Rus sia has had to bow. Some experts believe the happenings in the Sino-Soviet axis have more than any other single event in effect caused the present paralysis in Mos cow s diplomacy. , There also is one other pos sible element: Internal prob lems in Russia involving a new phase in the struggle for power and preparations in the economic field for the new party conference in January. But past experience has shown that economists hav'e rarely mwrierred with Moscow s diplomatic dynamism. Editorial Comment LITTERBUG MENACE Do those students who throw lunch sacks and other litter along Oakdale and "J" streets realize they are costing the student body money and bringing restrictions down on everyone? Boys have to be hired to pick up the trash thrown on the lawns and are paid with the money we put out for our student body cards. .j Soon restrictions prevent ing off-campus eating may be passed unless we can prova ourselves responsible' enough to care for other people's property. - Hi-Times, Medford High school, ' v' '.' . . ELECT GORDON HUDSON , DEMOCRAT for State Senator A young businessman deter mined to further economic " . development in Jackson County Vote for Your Future VOTE FOR HUDSON Paid Pol, Adv. Hudson for Sena tor Committee. Joan 1. Redden, 2246 Aloha sr., Secretary. :' . I M
