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Wednesday, No. J. If 38 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Tvery one in Southern Oregon Read? The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W ROHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business ilgr. 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 Met ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c opt 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NNEW$PAPlt ESS . PUBLISHERS --ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c3T8N ASSO 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. 26, 1948 (Friday) New construction work at Gold Hill includes an addi tion to the Community church and extensive repairs to the Southern Pacific depot. Campaign leaders hope the Community Chest drive will go over the top this week end. 20 YEARS AGO Mot. 26, 1938 (Saturday) . A throng of some 500 cou ples attends the annual fire men's charity ball at Oriental Gardens. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "For these things, and many more, thanks can be given today! For nobody abbreviating Thanksgiving Xgiving." 10 YEARS AGO Mot. 26, 1928 (Monday) A permanent restraining or der is issued to prevent build ing a dam across the Rogue river at Gold Hill by that city and the Beaver Portland Ce ment company. Boy Scouts of the Crater Lake council undertake pub lishing a newspaper, entitled "Crater Sparks." 40 YEARS AGO Not. 26, 1918 (Tuesday) A white Thanksgiving-the first since 1910-appears a cer tainty as snow falls starting at noon today. An all - day Thanksgiving dinner basket picnic is sched uled at the Agate school house with the entire community in vited to participate. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ran' correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five Of six is good. 1. The praying mantis in sect is harmless to man; true or false? 2. Identify the Supreme Court Justice who recently re tired. 3. The noted Blarney Stone Is in a castle in Scotland, Ire land, or Wales? 4. Is it true, or false, that the only metals used to coin money have been gold and silver? 5. Frederic Chopin, noted composer, was of polish, Rus sian, or Czech birth? 6. The parliament of the new West German Republic meets in which German city? 7. When a soldier lines up to receive "chow" is he seek ing food, medical attention, or a uniform? - 8. Does the Danube river Cow into the Mediterranean, the Aegean, or the Black Sea? 9. The North Pole is in the Arctic; where is the South Pole? 10. Is the planet .Jupiter larger, or smaller, than the earth? Answers: 1. True. 2. Harold H. Burton. 3. Ireland. 4. False. 5. Polish. 6. Bonn. F. Food. 8 Black set. 9. Antarc tic. 10. Larger. ROUND TABLE TOPS New York-OTC-Round Ta ble, who launched his 1958 campaign early in January and still was winning nine months later, today was chos en "Horse of the Year" by the Morning Telegraph and Dailing Racing Form. The D'Autremont Parole Whether or not one agrees with the Oregon board of parole and probation, in ordering a parole for Hueh D'Autremont. one cannot denv their courage in doing so. Ever since we first became interested in this case, more than a decade ao-o. those involved have told us that never nave pressures been so great to see that Hugh is kept in prison the rest of his life. At the slightest hint in the past that he might be paroled, officials from the railroad and from the postal and treasury services have shown up and camped on the doorstep of the parole offic ials, and of other public officers. That this pres sure has eased off in the last couple of years only made the decision somewhat easier. ""PHE board members have resisted these pres- sures, and done what they believed was the right and just thing. It is a credit to them and the job they are doing. For repeatedly we have been told that, if ever a prisoner has become fully rehabilitated, it is Hugh D'Autremont. He was a youth of 18 when the crime a particularly vicious crime, it is true was committed. One of the factors in his receiv ing a life sentence, rather than a death sentence, was the fact that he was under the influence of his older brothers, Ray and Roy. In the 31 years since he entered the prison, he has been a "model" prisoner. He learned a trade, printing, and became proficient in it. He has read widely, and his self-education is said to be broad. ASA printer he has handled publication of "Shadows," the' prison magazine, which has received widespread acclaim for its excellence. Some of its articles and editorials he has written. And prison and parole authorities say he is fully aware of the gravity of his crime, is truly repentant, and fully determined to make a fresh new start on the outside, to be as much a "model" citizen as he was a ."model" prisoner. The action of the parole board is fully in ac cord with Article 1, Section 15, of the Oregon Constitution, which says: "Laws for the punishment of crime shall be founded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice." HERE are those who will claim that, even with these things in mind, Hugh D'Autre mont should spend the rest of his days in prison. We say that it would practically. It would not serve justice for him to remain in prison, nor would it protect society. If D'Autre mont, alter 31 years of himself to get m a position where he has to re turn, we will be sadly surprised. And we are will ing to accept the decision of the parole board that he should be given his chance. It will not be easy. Thirty one years is a long time to be shut off from the world. And it may be that he will find it difficult to escape the pub lic notice that follows so widely-known and pub licized a figure. But he is entitled to a chance. E.A. Maturing America? Is America dignified? Is it cultured? Is the emphasis on beauty and These are conclusions recently visited (of all places) Chicago, for the first time in 13 years. Writing in the London Times, he saw less vulgarity . . . more privacy. Life looked to him "smoother . . . faster . . . less raw and boisterous . . . more lush . . . less adoles cent." This is interesting particularly from a Brit on. We have become used to much more looking-down-the-nose types of reports about America in the British press. IT IS difficult for an American to assess America. It needs someone like De Toqueville, or Ali stair Cooke someone who is familiar with the American picture but who is not a part of it, some one with intelligence and' perception, yet who is not intimately involved. Occasionally such a person can draw a pic ture of America which is true. When he does so, it often hurts; for America this America we love so well has its faults, its rough spots, its injust ices and its deficiencies. And any impartial ap praisal of America must record these as well as the strengths and virtues. DERHAPS our British friend (his name is Gra- ham Hutton) is right in saying that "the old, brash, strident, self-assurance the certitude of a slick solution to any problem," is gone. He adds: "It .is only natural that Uncle Sam's new, unfa miliar, unwanted, worldwide risks and responsibilities unwanted burdens for an unwanted family of na tions should have worked great and wondrous changes ..." But, with all the changes, he thinks something has been lost, some of the tough, raw, cre ative genius that responded nobly whenever the lamp was rubbed." Americans are too close to America to know whether Hutton is right or wrong, and it prob ablv doesn't matter anyway. But no matter what could show him plenty assurance and occasionally a spot of creative genius, too. If, indeed, sun nas a way to go. And we re sort ot glad. in all their experience be wrong morally and prison life, ever permits seriousness? of a British writer who he saw in Chicago, we of brash, strident, self America is maturing, it E.A. Dennis the TUANKSGfVAT MEANS SOU SHOULD SWCT ACTtH' POIRE SO yOU LI GET LOTS OF CHwSTAWS PRESENTS Matter of Fact THE WALLS OF JERICHO Jericho, Jordan At the summit of the dusty hill, a great pit has been dug. At the bottom of the pit lies a wide ledge cut into the living rock. A mas sive wall, well built of heavy boulders, rises behind the ditch; and be hind the wall 4o-ph Alsop i n e r c is a great round tower, also boulder-built. And this, surely, is the most extraordinary sight in the world. Since the future can only be awaited with patience, hope and misgiving, the best holiday from the present is the past. Any sensible man wants an occasional holiday from the present in the trou bled Middle East. But if you take your holiday at old Jer icho, as I have just done, you are likely to find the trip in the time-machine almost too violent. The mud and wall and round tower of old Jericho are not extraordinary because they are beautiful. They are extraordinary, rather, because the mere discovery of their existence has pushed back the history of what we like to call civilization by something like 3,000 years. Not much more time has passed since the mo ment when the trumpets blew and old Jericho's long .story ended, and Joshua grimly pro claimed: 'Blessed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this blessed city, Jer icho." BUT this small and humble town evisted in the hill millenia before Joshua and millenia before Abraham. The men who maae it naa oniy stone tools, and fire and wa ter to crack the rock for the ditch. From the summit of the tower the people .of the city may even have fired their flint-tipped arrows at the last man of the Neanderthal race. For the Neanderthalers seemed to have outlived the Ice Age here in Palestine; these fortifications date from somewhere rather close to 8,000 B. C, not so very long after the last big retreat of the earth-ribbing ice. Until the great British ar cheologist, Dr. Kathleen Ken yon, Unearthed the tower and wall and moat, civilization's known history began in the Iraqi village of Jarmo about 5,000 B. C. at least if civiliz ation is to be defined as the adoption of a settled, food-producing way of life in place of the hunter and the good-gatherer. "But what was Jarmo?" cried Dr. Awni Dajani, the Jordanian Director of Anti quities, who kindly showed me old Jericho. Then, answer ing his own scornful question, Dr. Dajani added: "Jarmo was nothing but a miserable, unwalled village! Here, perhaps three millenia earlier, we have a walled, water-moated, fortif ed town of several thousand, built long before man had even invented pottery." THE proof that man invent ed war before he invented almost anything else except improved stone weapons and techniques of agriculture was indeed there, staring one sternly in the eye. The carefully-cut sides of the great pit seemed, in truth, to be one continuous record of man's in veterate inhumanity to man. The people who made the tower and walls and moat at the bottom of the pit lived in round, mud - floored houses. They had a cult of skulls of their ancestors or their ene mies. They were the first to till the field watered by Jeri cho's spring of Elias, which makes a rich oasis here in the M I I 111 Menace By Joseph Alsop desolate Jordan valley. But the time of these first people came, and their city was des- stroyea ana its rums maae a little hill And another people came to build on the hill. These new people still had no pottery. They also made a cult of skulls, even molding plaster faces on the dead bones. But they were certain ly men of another race, be cause they, made another sort of brick, they built large square houses, and they neat ly plastered their house floors. You can see the line of one of their house floors in the pitside just above the level of the old round tower's top. In the end, their time also came and their city was also destroyed; and they were fol lowed by other peoples, who had pottery but still used stone weapons. One of these peoples to the east was a rude race, on the still-growing hill of old Jericho, almost as the Bedouin camp today. Finally, they too were driven out by the men of the early Bronze Age, who first discovered that square bricks were more con venient than rounded bricks, as you can see from a bit of their brick construction that is embedded in the site of the pit. , . THESE first metal-users of old Jericho were the con temporaries of Egypt's earli est pharoahs. They too had a flourishing city, whose history lasted many centuries longer than the histories of most modern nations. But, at last, they grew complacent and neglected their defenses, for there were Charles Erwin Wil sons even in those days. The resulting drama is all there, to to read and hear the final desperate effort, never finish ed, to rebuild the fallen de fenses, the remorseless on slaught of the invaders, and the fire that was all-consuming. The Invaders were another rude race, fit only to fight and conquer the city-builders; and their time came when other, more advanced bronze-users seized Jericho and its well watered fields. These were the men of Jericho when Abraham passed this way. Their story was also written in this fair city, as their graves show. But they, too, were killed or driven out in the end, by those who built the last of all the old Jerichos the Jericho that fell to Joshua, where the harlot lived. "But, really," said Dr. Da jani, "we have almost nothing from Joshua's Jericho except one poor little jug. it was too early in the story, and erosion of the hilltop had washed away whatever Joshua left behind. There is some hope, how ever, that souvenirs of this last Jericho that Joshua razed will be discovered beneath Try and By BENNETT CERF- ALLAN KING had a neighbor who couldn't stand his dog. He tried hard, but couldn't lose the critter. In desperation, he finally lit out for Africa with the dog, and threw it out of a helicopter in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Then he had to land at an oasis, be cause he was out of gas. Two months later the dog trotted happily into his home in Long Island. But to this day, nobody's found hide nor hair of the poor master. Another "old party" who ia enjoying life to the full is Carl Sandburg, past 80 and seem ingly indestructible. It's a cau tion to watch this distin guished poet tune up his gee tar, announce to visitors, "Here's a very short song you might say is the outline for a very long novel," and then launch into the dulcet strains of "Papa Loved Mama, Mama Loved Men, Mama's in the Grave, Papa's in the Pen." Unhappy little shoe! His ma was a sneaker; his pa, a .oafer. O 198, BcaatU Ctrl. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann THE BERLIN MANEUVERS The most likely explana tion of what the Soviet gov ernment is up to in Berlin is, it seems to me, to make the West Germans more willing to deal with the East Ger mans. The fact of the matter is, of course, that the two sets of Ger mans are al- Walter Lippmann ready negotiating at what is called the technical level, as the trade agreement an nounced on Friday reminds us. The Soviet government's policy calls for a broadening of these negotiations with a view, eventually, to a politi cal agreement for a limited reunification of the two Ger man states. When I was in Moscow in October I had a talk with the Foreign Minister, Mr. Gro myko, and when we got to the German question, I asked him what was the Soviet view of how the Germans could be reunited. Without hesitation he replied that this could be done only by a "confedera tion" he was speaking Eng lish in which each of the two German states could re tain its own social institutions. Like Mr. Khrushchev, whom I had seen the day before, Mr. Gromyko maintained that German reunification by con federation would have to be brought about by negotiation between the two Germanys. r""PHK advocacy in Moscow of a German confederation seemed to me very significant in view of the fact that last March, when I was in Bonn, I had heard the same thing in so many and in such high quarters. The State Depart ment, to be sure, continues to repeat the old official form ula that Germany should be reunited by free elections in which, of course, the Com munist regime would be de molished and East Germany would be absorbed into the West German state. But I doubt whether there are many responsible men in West Germany who would want Germany to be reunited in this way, even supposing that the Russians would permit it. For the two Germanys have developed very different ly and the attempt to integrate them would now be enormous ly difficult. It would be a heavy burden for the West Germans and very probably there would be considerable resistance to it in East Ger many. There are other reasons why few responsible West Germans wish to have inte gration in a unified state. For integration would change radically the balance of re ligious forces and of the po litical parties. Seen realistically, and not .through the fumes of the of ficial formula, the alterna tives are, on the one hand, the formation of some kind of dual state and, on the other hand, the continuing partition of the German nation. I READ the news of the Berlin maneuvers against this background. Mr. Khrush chev, who is nobody's fool, is certainly aware that there is a strong and growing senti- the mud huts of the vast neighboring camp where many thousands of Arab re fugees -from Israeli Palestine now enjoy their death-life ex istence. The camp area is a huge ancient cemetery, and the refugees are glad to dig for hidden tombs beneath their mud floors because tomb dis coverers are paid a few shil lings which briefly relieve the long, dull misery of their lives. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me LJKIIJ ment in West Germany in favor of expanding negotia tions with East Germany. There is already a lot more talk among the two sets of Germans than the official policy of non-recognition con templates, and there is no doubt at all that there would be still more talking, were it not for the respect and the fear in which Dr. Adenauer is held. So, the Soviet idea of ne gotiations leading to confed eration is one to which the West Germans are by no means unreceptive. When Dr. Adenauer leaves the scene, the idea has an excellent chance to become a live issue. Mr. Khrushchev is one who likes to ride the waves of the future. THERE is, of course, no way of telling what will be the immediate course of the man euver irfBerlin. But it would be surprising indeed if the Soviet government, though it withdrew its own forces, did not keep the East German government under strict con trol. For it is committed to defend the East German gov ernment if it is attacked, and that makes it reasonably cer tain that Moscow will restrain the East Germans from doing things which might provoke an attack. There is no reason at all to suppose that Moscow thinks that on the German question the United States is a "paper tiger." I do not think, therefore, that the Soviet objective is to blockade us and force us out of West Berlin. They know that would mean war. Then objective, I believe, is to dem onstrate to the West Germans in particular that the Soviet government has, and that the Western allies do not have, a realistic and reasonable solu tion of the German question. You cannot, the old saying goes, beat a horse with no horse. The Soviet idea of con federation is a horse, perhaps a poor horse, 'but unmistak ably a horse on which a grow ing number in both Germanys would be willing to place their bets. "OUT our idea of fre'e elec- tions to be followed by the integration of East Germany into the West German state is no horse at all. For one thing, the Russians will not agree to free elections. For another, the West Germans do not want integration. And very probably, moreover, a very large number of East Germans, who are Socialists though not Communists, also do not want integration and would fight against it. Lacking a policy of our own for the unification of Ger many, we have become hys- terically attached to the status quo. It often looks as if we were not quite sure of the distinction between harden ing of the will and hardening of the arteries. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment ASHLAND'S PRIDE OURS, TOO It is of vastly more than local interest that a drive has been started at Ashland to raise $275,000 to finance -construction of a theater for the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val association ... - Ashland has set for itself a minimum goal of $50,000, no small sum for a town of less than 9,000 population to raise, but behind the cam paign is an inspiration fired by realization that the Shake spearean festival has become one of the nation's major sym bols of culture. It has im bued the community with just pride of leadership. This augurs well for ac complishment of an objective toward which Grants Pass, Medford, and in fact, all of southwestern Oregon, have of fered aid. Not only that, but help is coming from Portland, where a bank official pro cured 18 donati&ns from among only 20 persons inter viewed in one day, even be fore the drive had been launched. Along with this have come scores of encouraging mes sages from theatrical, radio and literary lumina ries throughout the country, por tending contributions from far beyond Oregon's bounda ries . . . Why do we concern our selves so with Ashland's prob lem? Because Ashland's pride in its threatrical prestige is shared by all of Oregon, and failure of Ashland's campaign would reflect discredit to all Oregonians. That is why we, though some 230 miles from Lithia park, add our expres sion of hope that the new theater is built. Albany Democrat-Herald. Turkey Overrated as Food, Columnist's Father Once Wrote By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - Turkey day goes back to the 17th cen tury and. over the years, it has won fed eral and state r e c o gnition. AU of this has been over the protests of a m i n o r ity of citizens who have no ob jections to the sentiment of Lyie c. wiison Thanks giv ing but who hold that turkey Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Cart Before the Horse? To the Editor: Why haven't the proponents of the offstreet parking plan made use of ex isting laws and means first, before asking the taxpayers of Medford to give them an open check by voting a gen eral bond issue? Law allows for an assess ment district to be formed, with the bonding of the dis trict benefited for . offstreet parking (OH.S. 223-857; 223- 859). No bonded district has been approved by petition or vote for the creation of an assess ment district. If an assess ment district is to be created, it would appear logical that this district be formed and the provisions of law be ex hausted first. Then, if no buy ers are available for bonds for this type of district, if the owners of property within this district have used all available means of financing, and these owners have signi fied by petition or other action that they are willing to 'carry the tax load to provide the off street parking, then the city government should ask the voters for a general bond issue to warrant payment of these district bonds. In asking the taxpayers to vote a general bond issue be fore such district has been created, will create suspicion of the motives behind this. Why should voters vote a potential tax without first knowing the following facts: 1. What are the boundaries of this district. 2. Have the property own ers approved this district. 3. What assessment will be used valuation, front foot, gross sales or other. 4. What is the overall plan and estimated costs of this parking district 5. What funds presently used for city government will be diverted to help pay off this obligation. When this plan was defeat ed before by the voters, city government by budget pro vided $50,000 in 1957-58 for offstreet parking. In 1958-59 $7,000 was again budgeted. This suggests that the voters and taxpayers have no voice in the matter. If we don't vote it, it will be budgeted any way. Taxpayers are faced with. Increasing taxes, due to the growth of the city, inflation in costs, and demand for more and better services. Now is the time to scrutin ize all tax measures.' Be sure to know what you are voting for, and remember if you want services, or improve ments you will have to pay for them. There is no Santa Claus to pay your taxes. Ray J. Schumacher, County Assessor. B a ssy 3 Timot Fader Relief Certifies liborittry tssts frnt E1"'" tablets seetralizt 3 timet at Bscs teme acidity in sue inttt at mtnt Kaeii Egestiw tablet.. Set MU-aK tedee far ml fntert toiewe relief. JS J'."i"i5, Seed vestal te BELl-aHS, Oraepaers. -far liberal free saaiale. THE MEMORIAL SERVICE C. M. Litwiller Will long be remembered as one of dignity, reverence and beauty when conducted by us in Mountain View Chapel. To merit your confidence is our sincere desire. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Norma? Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close than is overrated as an entree. This anti-turkey minority is supported by two smaller groups of citizens: -Those who are unable to carve the bird. -Columnists who like a top ical column when it is come by easily." My father was writing a pretty good column for the Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital back there at the turn of the century and, one day, ho wrote this: "Under ordinary circum stances I would feel very thanksful today. I have a steady job,, a happy home, good appetite and excellent digestive works; but I am feeling a "little out of har mony with the condition that should prevail today, because I know when I go home to dinner there will be a big brown turkey on the table. Force of Habit "I despise turkey, and so does my wife.M do not believe that one-half of the people who buy turkeys on Thanks giving do so because they like to eat turkey meat. "Yesterday, as I came down to work, I queried 17 people to get their views regarding turkey meat. Fifteen agreed that turkey makes mighty poor eating. Twelve of the 15 agreed that a good piece of beef, well roasted, would out class turkey every time. 1 was glad to find that so many favored beef, for I am a beef eater myself. I would feel a great deal better if I knew I was going home to a roast beef dinner today, instead of a turkey dinner. Just Because "But the turkey goes, just because it is Thanksgiving, not because it is particularly good. My wife has invited some friends in to eat with us. I asked her yesterday what she was going to get for dinner, and she said she al ready had bought a turkey. "I didn't make any roar, but remarked that I wished she had bought a big beef roast. She said she preferred roast beef herself, but that she knew , that her guests would not feel as though they had been to a -Thanksgiving dinner unless there was tur key on the board. "So, the turkey will be on deck, the ace-high card of the feast, although no one really wants him; for I am sure that our guests feel just as my wife and I do about the matter. But I am not going to let the presence of a turkey beat me out of enjoying my dinner, for there will be a great lot of other stuff on the 'table which I can eat and enjoy in spite of the- fact that the Thanksgiving turkey-the na tional fraud-takes the leading role." The Alaska highway from, Fairbanks to Dawson Creek, British Columbia, was opened to tourist travel during the summer of 1948." ANDY'S BEST BUY! 17-jewel water & shock resistant ,19 Reg. $49.95 I S&H Green Stamps ANDY'S Sour Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 North Central v I Mrs. Urwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us. to need us and not know us."