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4 Monday, Nortmlxr 17, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedforbWTbibunb "I very one in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-614.1 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor CARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. 1 An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Br Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. : Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday s mos. uu Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 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 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or 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. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iasso ,c5T8N 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 Not. 17, 1948 (Wednesday) Berrydale residents incor porate by a 121-8 vote as the Berrydale sanitary district, first step toward getting a sewer put in. Established Medford photo graphers ask for an ordinance to protect citizens from "fleecing" by itinerant lens- menaces. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 17. 1938 (Thursday) The San Francisco Opera ballet performs "brilliantly" here, in an evening of dance brought by the Southern Ore gon Concert association. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" celumn: "Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, boasts he only sleeps five hours per day. This causes him to get out of bed on the wrong side, filled with a sad istic desire to behead all who acquire the required eight hours of rest." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 17. 1928 (Saturday) Olin Arnspiger, manager of the Talent irrigation district, is re-elected president of the Oregon Reclamation congress. An intoxicated tramp takes siesta on the Southern Pa cific tracks, delaying Train 13 several minutes while he Is removed to greener pas tures - the city jail. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 17. 1918 (Sunday) City Engineer Arnspiger advises residents to keep the . leaves swept off their side walks as wet weather makes them dangerous and residents are liable for accidents caus ed by people slipping and falling. rirf Wall cures a rheuma tic leg, temporarily at least, by accidentally pulling it m the course of a difficult draw shot at the billiard taDie. Vhal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is gooi- 1. Reno Is the capital of Nevada, true or false? 2. Is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the Mediterranean sea, Arabian sea, or Red sea? 3. What is numismatics? 4. Five Presidents of the United States have borne the name of James; can you name three of them? 5. What arabic number is reriresented by the Roman numeral "M"? 6. Who discovered the law of gravitation? 7. What is a cayman? 8. Who was the first Vice Trpsident of the United States? n. In the Bible story, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage? in Who was the Carthagin ian general who led an army across the Alps into itaiyr Answers: 1. False. (Carson ritvi. 2. Red sea. 3. Science of coins. 4. Madison, Monroe, PnlV. Buchanan, and Garfield 5. 1.000. 6. Sir Isaac Newton. 7. Tropical American alhga tor. 8. John Adams. 9. Esau. 10. Hannibal. jgHEWSf-A.Et WA PUBIISHEIS k'ASSOCIATION 71 Norfolk School Referendum Norfolk, Va., voters go to the polls tomorrow to express their feelings on reopening public schools on a racially integrated basis. f The referendum is advisory only. But the re sult will be awaited all over the South, for the poll appears to be no such cut-and-dried affair as was the Sept. 27 election in Little Rock, Ark. In that one, racial integration in public schools was voted down by a 19,470 to 7,561 margin. . Among the important differences are these : The people of Little Rock were still smarting un der the experience of armed federal intervention in the school-race crisis. The vote came only 12 days after the schools were to have opened. DUT in Norfolk, six white high schools and jun . ior high schools, slated to open Sept. 2, will have been closed for 2Y2 months, with 10,000 white pupils out of regular classes. Ironically, a Negro high school opened on Sept. 29. Moreover, Norfolk, a city of more than 250,000, is highly in dustrialized, and hence probably more receptive to eventual integration than less urban areas. The mere fact that a referendum is being held in Norfolk is indicative of dissatisfaction with closed schools. Under Virginia law, if both the school board and the local government request it, the governor in his discretion may return a closed school to the community to be operated on an integrated basis though without state school aid. The Norfolk school board had asked the city council to make such a request of Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, despite the prospect of losing some $850,000 in state funds. The council decided to ask the voters' advice. TTHE specific question on the ballot is: "Shall the council of the city of Norfolk, pursuant to state law, petition the governor to return to the City control of the schools, now closed, to be operated on an integrated basis as required by the federal court?" The ballot also carries a paragraph "for in formation only" that explains that the automatic cut-off of state school aid would mean that a substantial tuition" would be required for each pupil. Gov. Almond has called Sen. Harry F. Byrd's re-election Nov. 4 a mandate to continue massive resistance. Actually, Byrd's .winning percentage was less than in 1952, and his principal opponent this year was a woman, a political novice run ning as an independendent. And in Norfolk the Byrd margin fell off sharply from '52. E.R.R. Parkers Revolt Garage and parking lot operators may ac complish what U. S. senators, mayors, governors, traffic experts, and just haven't been able to swing so far a reverse in the trend of U. S. automobiles to leviathan lengths. Throughout the county garage operators are applying economic pressure in what may be the first stage of an open revolt. For some months garages here and there had been offering to park small foreign cars at cut rates. In early October the City Auto Parks Co., of St. Louis, ran news paper ads announcing that the 1959 Cadillacs, nine inches longer than the 1958's, were just too long, too low, and covered with too many expen sive gadgets for any of the firm s six lots to risk trying to park them. THE IDEA quickly gained sympathy from gar n ret oii A Irtf Annvnf aw in XTwit VtTr C fir dc- anu iut uiatvio ah iitv auia But instead of barring the newer and wider 1959's, the Metropolitan Garage Board of Trade, representing 400 Manhattan and Bronx operators, voted to boost charges on these by 15 to 35 per cent. The association pointed out that many medium-priced and luxury '59's were up to Zy2 inches wider and 10 inches longer than last year's mod els. On Nov. 6, a Washington operator, L. B. Dog eet, Jr., president of the capital's Parking Associ ation and past president Association, announced trend. Instead of raising from Detroit, Dogget is of a downtown lot one of 17 he operates for small cars at a lower rate. DY small, he means any Vehicle measuring 612 by 14 feet. The rate reduction is about one third. Forty of the cars can be packed in spaces which wouW hold 28 "normal" cars by 1959 standards of normality. Parking lot masterminds of the U. S. State Department probably kicked off the revolt un knowingly back in March, when they found they could park 20 small foreign cars in the space re quired for 13 standard-size models.. The public ity given this triumph of bureaucracy set others thinking. E.R.R. Oregon Cities Convention Opens Eugene-dTD-Mayor Edward C. Harms' Jr., of Springfield opened the 33rd annual League of Oregon Cities con vention here Sunday with an admonishment to his col leagues. Harms said too many may ors and city councilmen con sider their jobs "honorary" instead of "working posi tions." Some 300 mayors, city councilmen and technical of ficials were on hand for the opening meeting. The conven tion will cover subjects of fi plain automobile-buyers of the National Parking a switch on the growing rates on the 1959 giants reserving one big section nance, urban renewal, plan ning and civic matters. Gov. Robert D. Holmes was to address the convention to day. Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield will speak to the luncheon meeting Tuesday and George Christopher, mayor of San Francisco, will address the banquet Tuesday night. A New York State law re quires that the right of way be giyen to a pedestrian with a guide dog, regardless , of traffic signals. Dennis the Menace AND TELL MRS.TAYLDR 0OSS, JUST 'CAUSE SHE'S Washington Report By William THE UNSINKABLE Washington - Harold E. Stassen has been in national politics for two decades - and he is the man nobody really knows. He is a .large, still-faced to tal mystery a character who when re peatedly run over not on ly refuses to William S White lie down but even denies that the truck ev er passed his way at all. It is far easier to assess the significance of Stassen's lat est "dump Nixon" movement -which he proclaimed after visiting President Eisenhow-er-than to understand in a human way the author of this movement. The question as to what Stassen has accomplished poses no great riddle. He has dropped a very noisy brick on the steps of the White House-and on the large and sensitive toes of the Republi can National committee. At least a majority of that com mittee's members are neutral -neutral, that is, in favor of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon's nomination for Pres ident in 1960. THE harm done to Mr. Nix on, however, is certainly far less severe than that done to the nervous systems of the Republican pros. These are now in a recurring state of astonished e x a s p e ration. They can't figure out Stassen any more than anybody else can, and this annoys them no end. If Mr. Nixon's ambitions have been little damaged, it is possibe that a tiny jar has been suffered by Governor elect Nelson Rockefeller of New York. For Stassen's fam ous list of the four possibil ities" who could win the Presidency for the Republic ans was resplendently headed by. the name Rockefeller and thunderously silent about the name Nixon. Mr. Stassen-to Mrs. Rocke feller's pained embarrass ment, this correspondent is informed - has climbed upon a Rockefeller bandwagon be fore there is either a wagon or a band. Thus, while every body understands what Mr. Stassen is trying to do, it is hard to find anybody who un derstands how he expects to do it. The problem is this: so far as eye and ear can discern, Mr. Stassen's present active supporters could caucus in any telephone booth. HIS most recent sortie be fore this had left him wounded on the fields of Pennsylvania some would have thought mortally wounded considering that he lost by 2 to 1 in his try at the gubernatorial nomination. Moreover, even before this disaster - or, rather, what would have been a disaster to anybody but Stassen - he had been allowed to end by resig nation his services to the Eis enhower administration. He had been, somewhat inappro priately, the Presidents' chief adviser on disarmament. And before this - er - set back, Stassen had, of course, challenged Mr. Nixon s re- nomination as Vice-President in 1956 and had been left daz ed and bleeding by the road side at the San Francisco con vention. All this, however, has not for a moment dashed the spir ite of this indestructible, this unsinkable, man For the most interesting thing about Stas sen is more than politically interesting - it is humanly interesting. SHE SHOULDN'T HATE GOT A CAT. S. White TTE HAS repealed some of " the natural laws govern ing the human personality. Defeated, he simply and total ly denies the fact of defeat. Embarrassed, he simply and totally denies the fact of em barrassment. His .inner re sources against the slings and arrows are incredible. When President Eisenhower pulled a very small rug from under his feet at San Francisco, Stassen, without moving a facial muscle, went out to the convention hall and almost prayerfully intoned a bless ing upon Nixon's renomina tion. Those who saw him at the time close up tried in vain to discover how Stassen felt at what had happened to him. It was impossible; it was as though nothing whatever had happened. In his broad, absolutely opaque face there is not a chemical trace of any emo tion no sadness, no anger, no resentment, no discomfort. He is armed, surely, as. few men are armed by an unshak able sense of inner lightness - overlaying the most pro found absence of a sense of humor in American politics. At a cocktail party the wife of one of the correspon dents present remarked in a routinely social way: "Gover nor, you must come to dinner some time." "I should be willing," Stas sen replied solemnly, "so long as it is clearly under stood, in advance, that it will all be off the record." (Copyright. 1958. by (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letten to tbe Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer- tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor 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. Affects Others To the Editor: Your recent interesting editorial on alco hol referred to the relaxing benefits to be obtained from its limited use. That is true, just as its extended use causes suffering and crime. But I wish to add two points. The Metropolitan Life In surance company published some statistics covering the lives of policy holders who started at least in good health, or they could not have become insured. Their figures must be accurate, or . the insurance company will become bank rupt. Obviously they can not predict the individuals who will die next year, but they know very closely just how many. These figures showed that even a small consumption of alcohol decreased life ex pectancy 6 per cent. So if one is much happier to drink a little, it would seem that he should have the legal right to do so, provided his life did not affect anyone else adversely-say as with Robin son Crusoe before he met Man Friday. It would truly be "his own funeral." , But even a little does affect others. A little just before driving is a sample, and that combined with heavy drinking by others makes the whole picture pretty dark. So I think it a fair question to ask a Christian if he is justified to drink at all. Saint Paul would not even eat such food as meat, if he thought his example would affect weaker men. To summarize: 1. Moderate drinking does shorten life. 2. It sets dubious example. Horace W. Thompson, r 3642 Hilsinger rd., Medford ... Veteran UPI Men See Tougher More Willing to Push to Brink (Editors- note: Twenty five years ago Sunday, Nov. 16, 1933, United States es tablished diplomatic rela tions with Commifnitt Rus sia. More than one-half of that time has been a per iod of cold war between the U. S. and her allies on the one and the Soviets on the other. (Two United Press Inter national correspondents Joseph W. Grigg, chief European correspond ent, and K. C. Thaler, chief diplomatic correspondent in london have covered all important East-West de velopments during those turbulent cold war years. They are at present cover ing the two western Sov iet conferences in Geneva. (In the following joint dispatch they review the prospects for relations be tween Russia and the West in the coming critical months and years. By JOSEPH W. GRIGG And K. C. THALER UPI Correspondents Geneva -UPD- The United States and her Western al lies facea long period of So viet "brinkmanship." Russia's leaders today ap pear tougher, more confident readier to. take risks, less will ing to compromise with the West. They will be as hard if not harder to do business with in the future than they were in the past. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE HIDDEN ARGUMENT Beirut, Lebanon In this sunny city, where surface tranquility has been precari ously restored, it is not easy to continue a discussion of the nuclear deterrent. But some thing about the Pent agon's hidden argu ment is abso- .losipb Aisop luieiy neces sary, in order to complete the previous report on this pre cedented, all-important sub ject. . The theory outlined in this earlier report is not disputed by anyone in the Defense De partment. The retaliatory power of the American Stra tegic Air Command will un questionably be gravely weak ened, when Soviet nuclear striking power includes a pan oply of guided missiles of all ranges. There is no argument about that. There cannot be any argument, because no one who pretends to know the score can deny the damaging effects of such developments as the neutralization of SAC's overseas air bases. There is much argument at the Pentagon, however, about another, very closely related question. Will this prospect of weakening the American nu clear deterrent be so serious that the deterrent will cease to deter? IN the face of attacks, the deterrent may well cease to deter. After all, the existing retaliatory power of the Stra tegic Air Command has been represented as an irreducible minimum for safety for the last five years. Not only that, either; SAC's existing power has been accepted as an ir reducible ' minimum by an economy-minded Administra tion and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff representing other, bit terly hostile branches of the armed services. Therefore it seems logical to suppose that our retaliatory power will be far below the safe minimum, when SAC's strength has been depleted by three-quarters or more 'by the competing growth of Soviet missile strength. The Defense Department leaders who reject this logic have to make certain highly controversial a s s u m p t ions, which are also the subject of much argument. For example, it has always been the an nounced policy of the Amer ican government not to ask the SAC pilots or any other American pilots to undertake one-way missions. It is on the record, and the record has never been corrected, that all war paths involve only two way missions, from an Amer ican air base to the target and back to an American air base. BUT the prospect of neutral ization of the overseas air bases will prevent the use of a high proportion of SAC's compartively shortrange B-47 bombers. They will be literal ly unusable if the two-way mission rule is adhered to. This is a deeply serious mat ter, since the B-47's comprise, and will long continue to com prise, about three-quarters ct SAC's entire force. Therefore tbe solution is now being made that the twoway mis Fion rule be abandoned or at least modified. It will be all right, it is 4 -j ft But they are not likely to promote a nuclear world war unless the West threatens one of their vital interests. That is the rather grim out look for the near future in Soviet-Western relations as seen by Western diplomats with long experience of deal ing with Soviet the men who are having to deal with them is two Geneva conference tables right now. These diplomats believe the Kremlin's foreign policy is going through one of its per iodical major shifts. It is per haps the most significant change of wind since Nikita Khrushchev threw "Stalin ism" overboard and gave the world the gleaming but, as it turned out, only temporary hope of a thaw in the East West cold war. Today the pendulum ap pears to have swing right back again. The world is wit nessing a return to "Stalin ism," at least in Russia's for eign policy. Reds Start New Offensive The swing-back is marked by a new soviet cold war of fensive. It hit the West first in the Middle East last summer, then in the Far East in September and now has struck again in Europe-the most critical and most potentially explosive point in East-West relations. So far it has been marked by: -Russia's threat against the West in Berlin. -Stepped up Soviet propa- said, if planning is based on B-47 missions which will give the crews a chance to hit their targets and then bail out in a neutral country, without re turning to an American air base. If this chance is made, far more B-47's can be used for a one-shot retaliatory strike. But this is a technical change of such importance that it has decided strategic significance.' More important still, anoth er argument is also going on about the proper targets of our retaliatory strikes. Once again, it is on the public rec ord, and the record has never been corrected, that SAC's first priority target-system is the structure of the enemy's nuclear striking power. But this structure is an im mensely complex and far spreading traget-system, re quiring many bombing mis sions to destroy. Numerous aircraft, all laying down their bombs with considerade pre cision, are needed to wipe out the air bases, the missile launching sites and the other elements of Soviet nuclear striking power. Far fewer aircraft, bombing almost at random, can pretty well wipe out the Soviet people and the Soviet land, by using big, dirty H-bombs. It is . one of the paradoxes of the H-bomb age, in fact, that it is much easirer to destroy another na tion than to destroy that na tion s means of destroying you. rpHIS proposal for changing the target-priorities is now beginning to be heard. Let the military targets be for gotten. Let the land and the people be made the first pri ority targets. Then the Soviets will know that even if .their first blow takes out almost all of SAC, the retaliatory strikes by whatever is left over will still be very terrible. And so, according to this argument, the deterrent will contine to deter, and the first blow will not be struck. These are in fact the argu ments that have been used by the highest American officials, in answer to this reporter's inquiries about prospective weakening of SAC's power during the missile gap. In themselves, they constitute the best measure of the way our nuclear deterrent is due to be weakened. In them selves, they also reveal the nightmarish character of the period we are soon to enter. But surely it will be better to make a great and urgent effort to modify the night mare by strengthening the de terrent. And if this effort can not be paid for without a na tional sales tax, then surely it is better to impose a a na tidnal sales tax. Almost 'any thing is better than wander ing further down the road that the Administration has seemingly chosen and chosen, too, without telling the country where the road leads. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. New Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline (non-acid) powder, holds falsa teeth more firmly. To eat and talk In mora comfort, just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH on your plates. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug oounter. ganda attacks against the West, particularly against the United States, all along the cold war battlefronts. -Russia's successful move to swing once-recalcitrant Po land right back into the Com munist line by renewed sup port for the Oder-Neisse fron tier during this week's Mos cow visit of Polish Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka. -Revived Russian demands for a new East-West summit meeting. -The tough, unbending So viet line in both Geneva con ferences. Diplomats Probe Motives , What is behind this new Soviet cold war drive.' Seasoned western diplomats believe that as far as Europe is concerned it is a full dress campaign to consolidate the whole Communist position to solidify the "cold war fron tier" in Europe for years to come. Experienced diplomats be lieve the Middle-Eastern and Far Eastern drives probably were diversionary moves de signed to shake up the West before the main offensive in Europe. Khrushchev, they believe, has concluded that German reunification on Russia's term is out as far as the immediate future is concerned. Hence, in order to solidify Russia's Eastern European po sition, he has launched an other major attempt to win International recognition and respect for his East German Communist satellite. One step towards this was his proposal to pull Soviet troops out of East Germany. But free West Berlin, the big- Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A MILWAUKEE journalist relays the sad story of a young mother, exhausted from her daily chores, who lay down on her couch to steal forty winks. Half asleep, she felt one of her youngsters patting her face, and was drowsily pleased by this unexpected display of affection. Then the door bell rang. She jumped up with a start to admit a delivery man from her husband's favorite liquor shop. He looked at her so queerly that when he had gone, she rushed over to. a rnirror to inspect herself. , Her face was completely plastered with green trad ing stamps! : . t John Wingate happened to be home when the delegate from church came to make her annual rummage sale collection. Wingate's wife cheerfully gave her three of his 10-year-old suits and four of her 10-week-old dresses! "A wedding ring," surmises Galen Drake, "is a matrimonial tourni quet designed to put a stop to circulation." 5 1958. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Carbon Monoxide Fatal to Baker Man Baker-flJPB-Carbon monox ide fumes from a propane gas heater took the life of Dale Nicely, 24, Friday morning and left his wife, Rose Nicely, 2.5, in critical condition in a Baker hospital. Mrs. Bertha Murray of Ba ker, mother of Mrs. Nicely, found-the young couple in their trailer home early Fri day morning. Mrs. Nicely, who is six months pregnant, was rushed to the hospital and was re portedly recovering slowly but "still not out of danger." Sheriff Delmar Dixon, who Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) i ' X -n M I I tbv Frank -tL " ISV peri ry .TV Russia; of War gest remaining window and "escape hatch" towards the West behind the Iron Curtain, must be eliminated before this can be achieved. For this reason many West ern diplomats believe Russia will step up'the West Ber lin squeeze to the very limit short of war. They see signs that, despite repeated West ern pledges, Khrushchev still may not be fully convinced that the West would in fact go to war to save West Berlin. Geneva Talks Important The two Geneva confer ences on suspension of nu clear testing and prevention of surprise attacks appear to be just minor fronts in Rus sia's present cold war drive. But they are important be cause they are the first major East-West diplomatic get-to gethers since Russia's swing back to "Stalinism." The renewed Dressure on Berlin, 'the repeated, polite but relentless Russian "nyet" at the Geneva conference table, Moscow's moves to iso late and insulate "heretic" Ti toist Yugoslavia politically and economically from the rest of the Communist world, Poland's restoration to the fold all add up to the ines capable conclusions that: "Stalinism" is back to stay. -Russia is in a tougher, more determined mood than ever. -Russia will be harder to deal with than ever in the past. -Although Khrushchev pro bably would not deliberately provoke a war, he is ready to push the West to the very brink. li-17 investigated the accident, said that the sleeve connect ing the heater to the chimney pipe was loose and the dead ly gas could not escape prop erly. WRITER DIES Beaufort, S. C-DPD-Samuel Hopkins Adams, 87, a prolific novelist, newspaperman, biog rapher and historian, died Saturday at his winter home after a long illness. Adams was a native of Dunkirk, N.Y. There are 55 resort towns along New Jersey's 120-mile ocean front. PERL Funeral Horn Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT FRIENDLY, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
