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Friday, November 14, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MECFORBWTEIBUire "Everyone in Southern Oregon - Reads The Mail Tribune" 1 Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33North Fir .St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RCJHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager . GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. . ERIC W ALLEN JB Managing Editor ' EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor ' RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor ; OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor . DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr ; An Independent Newspaper , Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos- 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pdoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 . Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance OfHrlal 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. - 0V NEWS FA fit UILISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL JL lASSoc3T8N 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 Nov. 14, 1948 (Sunday) Community Chest workers continue intensive pre-cam-nalen activitv in anticipation of Red Feather Day on Thurs day, in which they hope to raise the entire quota. Five hundred guests have been invited to preview John Day's Table Rock Estates property today. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 14, 1938 (Monday) Winter sportsmen find the 6kiing good at Crater Lake. From Arthur Perry's "Ye won't be long now until house wives fixing the Thanksgiving turkey report they cleaned up a $37 nugget in the shovel ful sluiced from the craw of the feast day fowl." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 14. 1928 (Wednesday) "Wrtrlr rf rpna in f i n cy f h o ex terior of the federal building begins. The first carload of Rogue Valley turkeys departs tomor row for New York markets. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 14. 1918 (Thursday) The Rogue River Valley Canning company reports a tomato pack more than double the amount of any previous year. From "Local and Personal": "Winter has come! Henry Bates has taken the screen doors down at his barber shop." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ran correct is superior; (even or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. "Souped-up" racing cars, built from jalopies, are known as "hot r-"? 2. Black lead pencils usual ly are made of graphite; true or false? 3. Who wrote the poem, The Barefoot Boy"? 4. Does the male, or female, seahorse carry eggs of the young in a pouch until they hatch? 5. A common name for the disease tetanus is 1 j-? 6. Gibraltar, the British na val base, commands the west ern entrance to which sea?, 7. Is hickory wood classed as a hard wood, or a soft wood? 8. Which lower case letter of the English alphabet is used most frequently? 9. WThat are the alternate colors of the numbers on a roulette wheel? 10. In which branch of Congress does the mace sym bolize government authority in the United States? True. 3. John Greenleaf Whit lier. 4. Male. 5. Lockjaw. 6. Mediterranean. 7. A hard wood. 8. The letter "e." 9. Red and black. 10. House of Representatives. END FIRE SEARCH Montreal -(UPD- The search for the bodies of victims of an apartment house fire and explosion ended Thursday night with the recovery of the 15th body from the ruins. Firemen said there were no more . bodies in the rubble. "Black, Black Stuff" We have received a couple of letters from a friendly and intelligent gentleman who lives in the Eagle Point area, in which he voices his strong antipathy to what he calls the "BLACK, BLACK STUFF" that is, smoke in the air, in cluding "smudge" smoke at the orchard-heating time of year. He points out, for one thing, that the average human being, during the course of one day, in hales about 35 pounds of air. And, he indicates, too "much of this poundage of air contains "atmos pheric sewage" that the air is as surely polluted, contaminated, adulterated as is bad water or bad food. A NYONE with eyes and a nose, who has lived " in the valley over a period of years, is aware of the fact that this condition is getting worse, not better. And what is being done? Not much. Yes, some of the lumber mill owners have taken steps to make their burners more efficient; some of the orchardists have adopted the "smoke less" orchard heater burners. That's about all. And while these efforts are commendable, they aren't enough. Our pure, clean air, which still is evident after a cleansing rain accompanied by wind, is going the way that the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco have gone. (Los Angeles is situated in a "bowl" formed of mountains, which traps smog over the city, particularly when there is a weather "inversion" that holds it down and motionless. Medford is also in a "bowl," formed by mountains and hills. Smog conditions here could, without too much more of an outpouring of smoke and fumes, be far worse than in Los Angeles.) WE HAVE a feeling that the reason so little First, active anti-pollutant measures cost money, are not yet entirely effective, and because they are expensive, those responsible are loath to do anything on a voluntary basis. Secondly, agencies of government are reluc tant to mix into something which is new. to them, are inclined to sit around waiting for "GTeorge" to do it. As usual, "George" is busy elsewhere. So nothing or darn little eets done to clean up the air. WHAT is it going to For one thing, it is bined efforts of the people of the valley to let those in authority know that's what they want. For anothernt is going to take action by those authorities. , - . . .. The state has taken lem, and has set up an the state sanitary authority which in turn is part of the state department of health. This organization has and has laid out methods of procedure to be fol lowed. They are far more valuable when the situation is not too bad, than when it has gotten out of nana. Here is another case prevention is worth a pound of cure." . , TO BE a bit more specific, the air pollution ouuiuny ic.cniijr luua. tcoiS ui mcoiuiu s ail, and a report on the results is due any day now. We don't know what the results will be, but this we do know: If something isn't done, and soon, to combat this growing menace to our health and pleasure and well-being, it is going to be a millstone around the neck of this area. We first commented on this problem more than two years ago. There was little or no re sponse. But we have reason to believe that more and more people are becoming aware of the problem, and more and more are determined to do something about it; people like our Eagle Point friend who finds the "BLACK, BLACK STUFF" more revolting each month that passes. THE report of the state sanitary authority will be given news coverage when it is issued, so that the people of the valley can see just what are the proportions of the problem. But even if it has not reached the "serious" stage, as far as a health problem is concerned, now is the time to lay plans for the future, and to prepare for the day when city and county officials will have responsibility for the cleanli ness of the air, just as they now have for the purity of the water we drink and the food we eat. The first responsibility lies with the city, which will need an anti-air-pollution ordinance. When that is passed, the state will be in a position to lend a helping hand in guidance and enforce ment, even beyond the boundaries of the city. Let's get at it E.A. And an Exception Notwithstanding the above, th only one) kind of air pollution we like. That is the smoke of hnrnincr Imvp f fly leaves are best) floating ine smeii, me iragrant aiming haze, are as evocative of fall as is a foothall h rnnrlfnsr nr the thump of an acorn on .1 " - i arummmg oi iresn ram bedroom window. Yes, let's ban most kinds of air pollution, but as a sentimental eesture. we'd like t.n see an exception made for burning oak leaves. E.A. take to get going on an going to take the com cognizance of the prob air pollution division of done much research. where "an ounce of lazily in the autumn air. the roof, or the constant . i . - - on trie lawn outside the Dennis the Menace 'Bo. vvaitU 5XysE5 wis '.' Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann This is the last of four ar ticles written after a recent visit to Moscow. A SUMMING UP In yesterday's article I ar gued that to make ah effective reply to the expansion of Com munism in Asia, it would be necessary to make a demon stration in a large country preferably in India that there is an other way to tfe -SSY I overcome X mass poverty VI' -"Tiss Am and national weakness. Un Walter ' Lippmann less this dem onstration can be made, there is every pros pect that the masses of Asia will rally to Communism, either of the Soviet , or of the Chinese type. The old industrial countries of Western Europe and of North America do not pro vide an. example which the great, crowded, submerged masses could imitate. They might like to be as rich as we are but they know that this is impossible . within any, near future, within their own life time. Only in Russia and in China do they find a model of how in backward countries CM great masses of people can raise themselves quickly by their own bootstraps. BUT we must not exagger ate. We must not jump to the conclusion that the Com munist movement is destined to expand until it has con quered the whole world. There are, of course, many on both sides of the Iron Curtain who think that this wiU hap pen. I .talked to some Com munists in Moscow Mr. K. was not one of them who said, in effect, that this is one world and that Communism is bound to rule it. And there are, as we know, people on our side of the Iron Curtain who are filled with the deep est anxiety that Western Eu rope will be strangled and will perish if it can no longer command, not merely buy, the oil and other natural products of the old colonial territories. Both of these views are ex treme and each is, I believe, derived from the same very human and common fallacy. It is the fallacy of assuming that this is one world and that the social order to which one belongs must either perish or become the universal order of mankind. But looking at the history of the globe, the truth, as I see it, is that there has never been one world, that there has never been a univer sal state or a universal re ligion. 'FHE failure to recognize this -1 truth that there are many worlds, not merely one, is, I believe, the deepest source of confusion between us, and the most stubborn obstacle to that mutual toleration, which is the very best that is conceivable between our two societies. The orthodox Leninist, whether he is a true believer or merely a conformist, thinks that he knows the scheme of history. According to this scheme the capitalistic world is bound to fight the Commu nist revolution unless the Communist parties capture the Western governments. His opposite number on our side is one who thinks also that he knows the true scheme of his tory. In his philosophy, - the line of all human progress is the line that we havt taken in the West. The Communist rev olution is, therefore, a relapse and a diversion from that true line of progress. It follows that the Russians and the Chinese are bound to return to our line in the course of time. All of this is, I feel sure, a misreading of the reality of things. The Communist revo lution which began in Russia and has spread to China is not a repetition of the English and the French revolutions. It is a new historical phenomenon which comes out of a convul sive awakening of the sub merged masses demanding a better life for themselves. The dictators who lead this mas sive uprising rule the people despotically. But he would be a rash man, I think, who would say that such great masses of backward people could be persuaded by demo cratic methods to accept the discipline and to make the sac rifices which are necessary to the rapid formation of capital m a primitive economy. TKD A Westerner the charac- ter of this revolution of the submerged masses is a terri ble thing to contemplate. But the more he sees of it, the more he must feel, so it seemed to me, that while the Communist system is accept able in the backward coun tries, it is not likely to spread to the more advanced coun tries except insofar as it is im posed by force. The Soviet system does not work, and there is no reason to think that it will work, in Eastern Europe. I feel sure that the Soviet domination of Eastern Germany, of Poland, Czecho slovakia, and Hungary is pre carious and impermanent. Moreover, I think that the rulers of Russia know this and that, if they could think, which they have not, of any safe way to disengage, they would eventually accept some such settlement. They are drawn towards Asia and away from Europe and the general posture of Moscow, as distinct perhaps from Leningrad, is to be turned towards Asia. Mos cow is full of delegations of Asian peoples many from the outlying parts of the So viet Union itself, a great many from mainland China, many from South Asia and from the Moslem world. This gives to Moscow the air of being the capital of a new order of things among the emerging peoples of Asia, T CONCLUDE with the feel - ing that, barring a great ca tastrophe resulting from a war, the Communist system has no serious attraction for the highly developed Western countries, and that as an ex perience and an example, it is, in fact, irrelevant to them. Provided we maintain the bal ance of deterrent power, I feel confident that there is no military threat to the United States nor, unless something very stupid or desperate or reckless is done, to our prin cipal allies in Europe. The Communist revolution will, I think, expand in Asia unless we make an heroic ef fort of statesmanship to dem onstrate that there is an al ternative to it. But what we may describe as the Commu nist conquest of Eastern Eu rope as distinguished from Communist expansion in Asia is not stabilized and is not likely to be conclusive. If I am right in this summing-up, what the doctor would order for our people is that they relax their fears in order to fortify and clarify their purposes. We have to live "on the same globe with the Communist powers. But we do not live and we cannot live in the same intellectual and political world. Not now. Not in the foreseeable future. But formidable as the Com munists are, they are not ten feet tall, and the less we plunge ourselves into hyster ics, the more likely we are to take good care of our affairs, (c) 1958 New York .Herald Tribune Inc. New 'Stop-Nixon' Movement Launched by Stassen; Taft Defeat in 1952 Recalled By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington - (CPD - A new stoo-Nixon movement was launched this week from-asJ usual the White House executive of fice. That is the way it was, . also, in 1956 when Harold E. Stassen, a member of the White House Lyie c. Wilson staff, proposed that Vice President Richard M. Nixon be dropped from second place on the Republi can presidential ticket. Stassen suffered public hu miliation' on that one. He wound up his 1956 stop-Nrxon campaign with a speech be fore the Republican National convention in which he seconded Nixon's nomination for vice president. Stassen's next political ad venture was in Pennsylvania where he sought this year's Republican nomination for governor. The Pennsylvania Republican organization op posed and licked him. The Pennsylvania Republi cans, in turn, were unable to elect their man to the govern orship this month so, obvious ly, they could have done no worse and might have done better with Stassen heading the state ticket. It is reason able to believe, therefore, that Stassen plans another cam paign for Pennsylvania's Re publican gubernatorial nom ination. That would be in 1962. Stassen's first maneuver to ward resumption of his po litical career came this week after a 60-minute political huddle wpi President Eisen Communications Letter to the Editor must bear althouah 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 in often the ease. Study Needed To the Editor: I note re- cenUy that most attempts to enact legislation that would tend to curb labor's growing power, are invariably met by comments from labor spokes men as being attempts to "wreck the labor unions," or are an "attack on labor," are "anti-labor," etc. It seems as though Mr Pickens, . office manager at Medford Corporation, has left himself open to the same kind of comments by suggesting in a speech before the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce that there are probably some inequities in Oregon's Unemployment Compensation law: as now administered Any suggestion, even the most unimpassioned and objective, that certain laborers may be receiving more or better bene fits than they deserve, is sure to draw immediate and sharp criticism. With the Information I have at hand, I happen to agree with Mr. Pickens that the administration of our un employment c'ompen satlon needs a thorough and object ive reappraisal. Many people are aware of this need. Re cently Oregon's unemploy ment compensation fund ran so low that employers were required to contribute to the fund to the maximum allowed by law. In fact money was al most borrowed from the Fed eral government to save the fund. Men thrown out of work during recessions deserve to be compensated. But would the fund have been so low had it not been drained by people that really didn't de serve compensation? One example of what can happen is the not unusual case of certain seasonal work ers receiving relatively high earnings every year and re ceiving unemployment com pensation during the off sea son to augment their already high earnings. Meanwhile many other workers are work ing all year round, never draw unemployment compensation, wind up with much lower earnings and don't necessar ily have any easier jobs than the seasonal workers. Should seasonal workers with predictable periods of unemployment and a history of high yearly earnings be al lowed to tap the unemploy ment compensation fund? The foregoing example and the ones that Mr. Pickens has mentioned need study and possibly readjustment in order to return to the original prin ciple of unemployment com pensation; that is, to provide the worker with protection from unexpected unemploy ment. Edgar A. Kupillas, 1317 Winchester aye., Medford. , A Near-Tragedy To the Editor: We know hower. Stassen had a 30-min- ute appointment with the boss but spent an hour which sug gests that he and the Presi dent found a wide and con- genial field of political dis cussion. Emerging from the Presi dent's office, Stassen suggest ed that the Republicans had at least four men available who could win the presidency for them in 1960. They were: Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rocke feller, New York; U. N. Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Massachusetts; Secretary of Treasurer Robert B. An derson, Texas, and Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton, Nebraska. He pointedly left Nixon off of the list. Stassen said returns from this month's election warranted ignoring Nixon as well as proving that he was right in 1956 In trying to get Nixon off the party ticket. More will be heard of the stop-Nixon movement. It is likely to be in the pattern of the stop-Taft operation which led the Republican Party in 1952 to reject Mr. Republican, himself, in behalf of an illus trious, non-political general of the U. S. Army. , The Republicans elected and reelected their general with triumphant majorities and now, six years after Mr. Republican walked the plank, the party is a shambles, an or ganizational wreck. The man euver which stopped Taft in 1952 was mostly powered by a gradually spreading convic tion that he could not to, That was the political word and it proved to be deadly. Public opinion polls sup ported that belief. Taft derid ed them, but there they were in the papers from time to the name and address of the writer. there is room for improve ment on the Dark HoUow rd. Last winter we had an ac- cident just off the Old Stage rd. about a quarter of a mile on the Dark Hollow rd. where a driveway ; comes onto the Dark Hollow rd. . It forms a big bump onto the road. The other car was going at a high speed'when it hit this bump, throwing it across the road. In trvins to control its balance it seemed to be. ail over the road. My husband Just stopped our car as we could do noth ing else. The other car ended up the whole front part wedged into the opposite bank. The back of the car hit the front of our car. Our car was just 10 inches from-the edge of a drop of some, eight feet into the irri gation ditch. The road was completely blocked tiU help came and cleared it. That spot is really only wide enough for one car. The cars were damaged but thank the good Lord no per sons were hurt. Mrs. B. G. Curtis, P. O. Box 423, Medford. Heart Warming Memories To the Editor: I will leave Medford with a happier heart and some heart - warming memories to go with the back ache I received here Oct. 31, 1958, when my car was side swiped by another car, injur ing me. My 4-year-old son and my nephew were with me. I had a few dollars in my pocket and my distination was Salem and a good job. After the ac cident a wrecker was called to pick up my car. The driver, Mr. Robert Brown of 1498 Dixie Lane, Medford, seeing we were in need of shelter and medical care, took us to his home. His wife Helen fixed our supper and gave us shelter. She drove us to the hospital for medical care. All the time I have been here, the Browns have taken care of my nephew, run er rands, visited me every day, bringing flowers and gifts. They have comforted me with "you can stay with us until things are worked out so you can go back home." They do things without my asking. I would like to add that both Dr. Rutter and Dr. Bol ton have given me the same generous consideration and the hospital, staff and nurs ing care are wonderful, the finest I've ever" seen. This includes Oregon state "motor vehicle accident fund," and the fine officer from the police department at the scene of the accident. I did not get his name. The people of Medford should be proud of their town and its people. I know I am! Mrs. Mildred Farrell, Room 266, Rogue Valley Hospital, Medford. time, Nov. 10, 1951: Eisen hower 28 per cent, Truman 13 per cent, MacArthur 13 per cent, Taft 12 per cent. March 4, 1952: Independent Voters, Taft 17 per cent, Eisenhower 37 per cent. March 6, 1952: Eisenhower beat Democratic Sen. Estes Kefauver 57 to 32 per 'cent; Kefauver beat Taft 47 to 41 per cent. The pollsters will be run- Washington Report1 By William ADLAI'S CHANCES Washington Of all the leading Democratic politi cians, none has a brighter prospect than Adlai E. Ste venson of Illi nois. Interest among party leaders in Mr. Stevenson even . among some hereto fore less than William s White enchanted with him is higher in the wake of the Congressional elections than since 1952. (In 1956 the nomination was never thought to be much more than an op portunity for some Democrat to lose gracefully to President Eisenhower). "Stevenson talk" is now so solid as to indicate that among a large handful of 1960 "possi bilities" he is the most "pos sible" of all his two defeats notwithstanding. This is re ported after consderable in quiry in various party wmgs. Thus armed, it is now possible to predict that if 1960 is to be a "Democratic year Steven son can hardly finish worse than very high in the new ad ministration. In any foreseeable Demo cratic administration, should he himself not be the Chief Executive, he likely would be no less than Secretary of State, a post long of interest to him. No other Democrat is so relatively certain of, hav ing a high place. MR STEVENSON'S new eminence results from two major circumstances: 1. The Congressional elec tions gave the moderate lib erals a new influence in Con gress relative to the past. But vhe returns have hit very bard af the advanced non-Congressional liberals fron among whom would have come the most powerful challenge to Stevonsnn in IflfiO. . Gov. Averell Harriman lost in New York. Gov. G. Men- nen Williams of ..Michigan, thought easily re-elected, was overshadowed on his own ticket Gov. George Leader of Pennsylvania let down the general Democratic offensive by losing for the Senate. There is, in short, no longer any real probability of a mas sive urban New York-Pennsyl vania Michigan coalition at the convention to stop Steven son in his tracks. 2. The Southerners all but the most unreconstructed Tire increasingly aware that the hands of the clock are moving toward midnight for tnem in the national party. To retain their existing power Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR In front of a class of 50 seniors. On this s..eet he painted a small red circle, then asxea me one answered, A small rea circle." With a faint smile the professor said, "I'm sur prised that not one of you seems to have noticed the sheet" e At a banquet celebrating his fifty-eighth birthday in London, Lord Macaulay, called upon for a few words, began sadly, "Gentlemen, I understand that man has in herited three basic vices. I must report to you that I quit one, one quit me but I still smoke." . Sid Caesar visited a college for bopsters and rock 'a' rollers and noticed that their mascot was a mouse. "I guess," says Caesar, "that's what those cats demanded." C 135!. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate, Dr. Orval Eaton, O.D. announces the opening of his NEW OFFICE in the Oakdale Professional Bldg. for the practice of OPTOMETRY 408 S. Oakdale Phone SP 2-2060 ning Nixon soon against Rockefeller and perhaps against others. That" s where the stop-Nixon men expect to get their muscle. That's how they expect to weaken Nixon's hold on the party's political pros, the local politicians, state chairmen and such the people who comprise Nixon's great political strength as of today. S. Whit tney must avoid walking out- or being driven out by a nomi nee so advanced on civil rights that they could not support him and survive at home. STEVENSON is authentical ly moderate more lib eral than Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas but far less so than is the urban Eastern section of his party. All but the irreconcilable Southern ers, it is now reckoned, could take Adlai." From the view point of the Northerners, he is at least acceptable to all save those who wish to pun ish the South beyond the call of duty. It is, moreover, extremely mlikely that the South can have anything remotely re sembling a free convention choice. It must make the most tolerable bargain it can. Thus, Stevenson looks better and better to all those Southerners who realize that they must somehow accommodate them selves to school integration. They know he would en force integration; but they think he would do so with compassion and understand ing In issues so passionate, how a man does a thing is al most as important as what he does. Stevenson, in this way, is still close to the moderate Southerners, who are in genu ine agony between Old South pressures and the weight of present realities. rIE estimate of some able and reasonably disinterest ed Democratic professionals is this: Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts will go into the convention the front-runner, but is likely to fade fast if he does not make it -on the first ballot. Senator Johnson will hold a great power, though probably not the pow er to obtain the nomination for himself, even if he seeks it. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri will be formid able. If Kennedy fails and the pendulum then swings be tween Johnson and Syming ton it is likely finally to point clearly to neither, but rather to Stevenson. But if the ticket were Johnson for President and Kennedy for Vice President, Stevenson would be tapped ahead of time for Secretary of State, along with Symington for Secretary of Defense. And Stevenson probably would be in the same position even though the convention result ed in the selection of an ad vanced liberal ticket. Thus, he is unlikely in any case really to lose. (Copyright 19 58. by United Feature Sydicale, Inc.) Stop Me hung a bed sheet on the wall siuaems wnai wey saw. -vci n-i4 r i
