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Newspaper Page Text4 Wednesday. December 3, 1 958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medforjm "Everyone in Southern Oregon kmoi ine Mail TriDune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUKL. Editor HKRB GREY, Advertising Manager utitALu laiham, Business igr. Managing Editor IARL rl ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women"! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clasa matter at Mettford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES Br Mall In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily ana :unaay 8 mos. b.uu Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $420. By CarrierIn Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Paoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford omciai paper or jacmon conniy United Press international Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine Reoresentative: 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. r NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCUltCXN U KJ 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 Dae. 3. 1948 (Friday) A community Christmas tree is to be placed on the Southern Pacific lot on Main ets. .Medfordites slog to work in freezing slush this morning... 20 YEARS AGO Dae. 3. 1938 (Saturday) A Christmas star construct ed of 84 red and green lights hangs over the Main st.-Cen- tral ave. intersection today. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Yule decorations were draped on the light posts last week. They are too high to be of any use as a place to hide an empty rum bottle." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 3 1928 (Monday) Santa Claus is to give away 5,000 toys at Medford's Christ mas opening tonight. Copco installs a 110-foot flagpole at the American Le gion playground, on East Main St. 40 YEARS AGO Dc. 3. 1918 (Tuesday) An Army aviator flying be tween Sacramento and Seattle passes over Eagle Point, plain ly visible and audible to a large crowd there assembled. The Liberty theater's man ager is looking for the un identified boys who put bricks anrl boards over the theater stove's chimney and all but smoked out the audience. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Malaga. Tokay, and Thompson are varieties of what tvue of fruit? 2. Vincent van uogn was noted for his skill in stone carving, oil painting, or wood carving? 3 Tn the November. 1960. elections; will one-third, two thirds, or the entire member- shin, of the U.S. House of Renresentatives be elected? 4. Identify the clergyman who founded Boys Town, TMehraska. 5. In the card game Ca nasta, four jokers are wild; how many deuces also are wild? 6. What Irish name is asso ciated with a type of folding bed? 7. Before the Panama Canal, ships going from the Atlantic to the Pacific went around iv j j 1 1 1 1 i n i nr. : 8. "The Nazarene," "The Anostle." and "Mary" are novels written by which author? 9. What is the birthstone for December? 10. What type of book is a "whodunit"? Answers: 1. Grapes. 2. Oil painting. 3. Entire member ship. 4.- Father Flanagan. 5. Eight. 6. Murphy. 7. Cape Horn. 8. Sholem Ascta. 9. Tur quoise. 10. A murder mystery. SCHOLARLY APPROACH New York-(UPD-A publisher whose specialty is textbooks has a truck with the word "Pass" printed on the left of its rear bumper and the word "Flunk" on the right. , Vote "Yes " One week from today, Medford voters will have another opportunity to vote on a city oil street Darkiner proposal. The measure is somewhat similar to one which was defeated at the time two vears aero. Some changed, however, and be more acceptable than the 19ob measure. The election next Wednesday is the culmina tion of more than five years of studying, discuss ing; and planning, and represents the best think ing- of downtown merchants, city officials, and parking experts it has gether. CHIEF opposition to around the fact that ance of general obligation bonds. Under certain M 111 1? 1 . 1 circumstances, tms woum De a vancr oDjecuon, but under the proposals outlined, we feel that this criticism will not hold up. Oregon law permits revenue bonds to be issued for parking purposes, but up to this point no citv has successfully of the fact that revenue salable. General obligation bonds are. In ef feet, r then, what the voters are being asked is to approve the credit. It could not mean any in the event of some sort' of major national dis aster, such as a war or depression, and probably not even then. . . Thus new parking facilities would be paid for by those using them (both the new off-street spaces, and the on-street parking areas wnicn would be easier to find), ness people who also would beneiit. , HOW would. the program be financed? Of the estimated $60,000 annual cost for the plan now most favored, some $18,000 would come from present parking meter revenues (or a maximum of 25 per cent from this source) : some from revenue earned by the new parking facili ties themselves, and the balance, some, $19,000, would come from assessments on business prop erty m the downtown area. The city has some tentative plans for opera tion of the parking program, including the as sessment district, location ties (the so-called Keeney plan, with an ele vated parking ramp over the .P. tracks, is now favored) , but all the details have not been worked out, pending a go-ahead Generally, the assessment district will include only downtown; property which would benefit from the off-street parking, and which would pay on a 50-35-15 ratio, depending on the degree of benefit. This would be done only after adequate public hearings. 1MUCH of the opposition so far appeal's to be based solely on suspicion suspicion that the city has some ulterior motive in the project; suspicion of the objectives of retail merchants; suspicion that the plan is not thoroughly thought out, or that it really isn't needed after all. Having followed these plans since their in ception, and having participated in many of the discussions and planning sessions leading up to next week's vote, we are positive that such sus picions are entirely, unfounded. What has happened is that the city adminis tration, members of the council, leaders of the retail merchants, and other civic leaders whose only interest is in Medford's progress, have taken a realistic look at the parking situation .down town, have accepted the best possible forecasts, which indicate that it is going to get worse, and haVe come up with a feasible plan to make the first steps toward solving it. CUMMINGup: . The off-street parking plan will cost the general Medford taxpayer little or nothing more than he is already paying. It will provide added parking facilities, which will ease current and future congestion in the downtown area, making it easier to do busi ness downtown. It will be paid for by those who benefit those who park, and those who receive their busi ness. The charter amendment to be voted on is a "go-ahead" to the city administration to com plete working out tentative plans for the program. This will be done in an orderly manner, according to law, and with due regard to the rights of all concerned. It will be "good business" for Medford, and for all its residents. It is a progressive step. The Mail Tribune recommends a "yes" vote. E.A. . 9 The Flying Year Christmas decorations are up. The streets are getting more and more crowded. Parking is hard er to find. Christmas carols can be heard. We see reminders that there are only 18 shopping days before Christmas. The old year is drawing to a close. The clincher came yesterday when the 1959 desk pad calendar fillers arrived from our effi cient purchasing department. This is the year which started out such, a seemingly short time ago. Christmas-to-Christmas used to be the way we measured years, and it still is, sort of. But the wait for Christmas used to be unendurably long. Now it is breath-takingly swift E. A. on Parking of the general election of the provisions are the new proposal should been possible to bring to the plan has centered it would permit the issu used this method because bonds are not readily use of the city s faith and general tax levy, except and the downtown busi of the annual income $23,000 would come of the parking facili from the voters. Dennis the Menace ' DfcWIS. WRWlHG ASOfJTMSl I'M MWW TWH! AHD W ttV2 0E HUSKY LIKE COMBO 6031 Khrushchev Found Well-informed by Senator Humphrey Bv COLETTE BLACKMOORE Moscow (OPD Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) who had an eight-hour talk with Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev Mon day, said today the Soviet leader is. a "very - well-informed man" who "undoubt edly looks upon himself as a policy-maker and not an ad ministrator." Humphrey, who was sum moned to Khrushchev's office on a few minutes' notice, said he found the Soviet premier to be "abreast of just about everything, including the sit uation in Geneva." When he was asked how Khruschev is able to run his country and at the same time keep up with a wide variety of foreign matters, including re latively minor U. S. domestic happenings, the senator said: Khrushchev has about five buttons in his desk, which he Nixon's Visit Said 'Too Good' London - (DPD The liberal Manchester Guardian, in an editorial generaUy devoted to praise of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon, commented to day that his visit last week may have been a bit too much of a good thing. "On his visit, the vice presi dent never put a foot wrong," the Guardian said. "The ques tion is whether he did not put it right a little too often." The newspaper referred spe cifically to Nixon's lavish praise of things British, not ing that it was "lapped up" by Britons but that was not necessarily to their credit. "Equal partners do not so thirst for reassurance," the newspaper said. "Still, the visit has done good. Most of us may still be some way from seeing Mr. Nixon as a human being - as a fascinating politician rather than as an ex-Hyde suddenly removed to Jekylldom - but we are learning. "Since Mr. Nixon may yet be president of the United States, it is important that we should." FAST FINISHER Ashford, Conn. . (UPD-Jack Barry of Merchantville, N.J., won the annual nine-mile road race around Lake Chaffee, but he had to outdistance a dog named Popo to get to the finish line safely. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A LITTLE OLD LADY was crying hysterically in the aisle of a Pullman car., There was a. mouse in her drawing room, it seemed. The porter and conductor finally calmed her. Fur thermore, she was absolute ly right. There was a mouse in her drawing room. She had brought it aboard her self in a shoe box and re leased it when she deemed the moment ripe. The railroad police main tain a protective section to round up just such petty chisellers as the frail little lady. She had collected "nuisance fees" from a" dozen railroads for this same "mouse" dodge before they got wise to her, little act. . . . . Tide reports a Wisconsin furniture emporium that inserted this plaintive ad in a. local gazette: "Will the mother whose little boy laid his half -sucked lollipop on a mahogany end tahle please come in again?' She can have the end table for exactly one dollar, with the lollipop etiU intact" - - - v- . -. . . O 1358. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Eradicate. probably uses often. He un doubtedly looks upon himself as a policy-maker and not an administrator." During their talk, the. two men sat at the end of a 25 foot desk in Khrushchev's rocmy office. Decorations in cluded a portrait of Lenin, a model plane and a large plas tic container holding several ears of hybrid Iowa corn. Humphrey said they were served a sumptuous meal at about 7:30 p.m., without vod ka or wine. ' Through an interpreter, the two men discussed the Berlin situation foreign trade, re ligion, communist philosophy and other topics. Humphrey said Tuesday that Khrushchev expressed "enthusiastic ap proval" of a plan for expand ed U. S.-Russian cooperation in medical research. The senator declined com ment on other matters dis cussed at the meeting, saying he prefers to "begin with areas of agreement rather than discord." He appeared pleased, how ever, when he emerged from the talks. Bomb To Carve Harbor Described Houston, Tex.- (UPD -Famed scientist Dr. Edward Teller said Tuesday night among possible peaceful uses of atomic explosions could be the creation of a giant harbor in Alaska. The possibility was men tioned in a talk by the "father of the H-bomb" before some 500 of the world's foremost scientists at the second an nual conference of the Robert A. Welch Foundation. He said four or five 100 kiloton nuclear bombs and a few megaton bombs could carve out a harbor at a point 20 miles below Cape Thomp son on Alaska's now harbor less northwest coast. "In the neighborhood there are some of the richest and best coal deposits," Dr. Teller, head of the Radiation labora tory at the University of Cali fornia, said. "A few hundred miles away there are good oil fields and there is a possibil ity of constructing a pipeline to the harbor." The cost of such a harbor, he said, would be one or two cents per cubic yard of earth moved, compared to the nor mal cost of $1 to $2 per cubic yard. Stop Me Future Power of Negro Voters Forecast By Senator Javits; Officeholders Seen By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-(DPD--The imme diate goal of the National As sociation for the Advance- V r,OBL Pr" eopie Iff i - V0 (N A A C P) is I -J stated to be I ' tJ the election in 3 1960 of: XT J Three Ne- I gro congress VlsiSJtL I gressmen from Mississippi , One each .yle C. Wilson trom North Carolina and South Carolina, - Authority for that political projection is Sen. Jacob K. Ja vits (R.-N.Y.) who wrote for the Christmas gift issue of the magazine "Esquire" an article on racial integration in its broadest phase. , Javits speculated on what he regards as the likely possi bility that a Negro will be ap pointed to a top cabinet posi tion or be elected president or vice president of the United States by the year 2000 42 years hence. The senator hopes and be lieves these events will tran spire, explaining that he ap plies very practical considera tions to the matter of Negroes and U.S. politics, as follows: "Once the civil rights fight has won for Negroes in the South their constitutional right to vote," Javits wrote, "and once they learn tq take the full responsibility of vot ing, this country may well witness a ballot box revolu tion in many Southern states." Into the Future . Another NACP immediate objective is to increase sev eral times over the registra tion of Southern Negroes. The second session of the- 106th U.S. Congress will convene in January, 2000. Javits believes between 30 and 40 negroes will be elected to the House in that year. Negro leaders 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. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Likes Keeney Plan To the Editor: The "Keeney plan" for parking over the S.P. track seems to be a very logical solution to Medford's downtown parking problem. The operation will be self parking and you can lock your car if you desire, a rath er new idea. This method is far superior to the old me thod of having an attendant park your car for you and maybe denting your fenders. The self park plan where now operating is preferred by parkers 5 to 1 over the old system and is, needless to say, very much . more profitable and of course less expensive for the individual parker. We feel that this Keeney Self Park Plan is right for Medford for the following three reasons: 1. It is very economical, cost to build $1,250 per car compared to over $5,000 per car in San Francisco for simi lar parking. 2. The location is as near the center of Medford as pos sible; so it will benefit all merchants and be a conveni ence to all Medford shoppers. 3. As property owners and tax payers in Medford we welcome an assessment on our property for the purpose of financing parking. We feel that this project, covering the S.P. tracks and making for all of Medford a profitable use of now wasted space over the tracks and also an improve ment in appearance for the city, is a real opportunity for the business and professional men as well as the shoppers in Medford. We are happy that the cost and operation of the Keeney plan' can be accomplished without taxing Medford home owners. We are also pleased that this project seems to be the favored one for Medford be cause it is so economical in all respects and so flexible. Second, third and fourth lev els, if needed, can in the fu ture be added at very nomi nal costs. This project will be a great aid to Medford park ing for some time to come. Robert J. Crossman, Realtor 1141 Market st. San Francisco, Calif. Don't Negltct Slipping FALSE TEETH Do falsa teeth drop, slip er wobble when you talk, est, laugh er sneoa? Don t be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicaps. FASTKETH. aa alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives eonfldent feel, tag of security and added cnmforv o tummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel- iLffigil war it m have told him that it will be possible to nominate a Negro to the Supreme court in, about 10 years and that there may be a Negro U.S. senator by then-1968. In fewer than 50 years, Javits expects a Negro to be elected mayor in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia or Los Angeles. By 1965, Javits ex pects school integration to be completed throughout the South. The senator's pratical poli tical considerations likely are based on expectation of a great and steady increase in the Negro vote for local and Mysterious Sputnik-Like Radi Signals Heard by Scientists Sunnyvale, Calif.-flJPD-Lock- heed space scientists admitted today they were puzzled at the origin of a Sputnik-like signal picked up last week by their satellite tracking instru ments. Disclosure of the signal co incided with a claim by a space writer in Pittsburgh that the Russians have fired a missile which "passed the moon and went out beyond Mars." Lockheed scientists said the mysterious signal was "defi nitely a telemetered signal similar to that transmitted by the first Soviet satellite in its earlier stages." Their instruments picked In the Day's News By FRANK The French have been hold ing a series of elections. They have been in the nature of RUN-OFF elections - the pur pose of the run-offs being to INSURE that the men chosen to run France's up - coming FIFTH Republic will have back of them a mandate from the people that will be so decisive that no one will dare to trifle with it. . At Sunday's election (the third in the series of four) the French voters, by massive ma jorities, did these things: 1. They blitzed and routed the once - powerful, Moscow controlled French - communist party, turning it into a tiny, impotent group that can no longer sway French ; parlia mentary politics. ; 2. They OUSTED in a mass wave of national contempt the men of the Fourth Republic whom they blamed for drag ging France to the brink of anarchy and civil war. Form er premiers and cabinet min isters were dumped in whole sale lots. 3. They elected a parlia ment in which General De Gaulle is ensured of a crash ing majority backed by the rightwing and military ele ments that raised him to emi nence in a near - revolution last May. rPHE fourth, and final, elec- -- tion will be held on Dec. 21, when 100,000 "grand elec tors" will meet to name a president with greater powers than modern France has ever known. De Gaulle is expected to be the oven helming choice of these electors. THREE questions: 1. Why did the French turn thumbs down on the com mies? - , 2..Why did they toss out the French politicians? 1 3. Why did theyback De Gaulle with a crushing par liamentary majority? THESE appear to be the answers: IT After ; a dozen years' of disastrous experience with the Communist party, the French have HAD IT. They want no more truck with communism. 2. After long (and bitter) experience with self-seeking politicians, the French have had it again: They're fed to the chin with politicians. They want statesmen. 3. They're looking for a STRONG MAN to run their affairs. r - w ILL the French get what they seek? I wouldn't know. In their Why "Good-Time .Charlie" Suffers Uneasy Bladder Unwise eating or drinking may be a source of mild, but annoying bladder irri tationsmaking you feel restless, tense, and uncomfortable. And if restless nights, with nagging backache, headache or mus cular aches and pains due to over-exertion, strain or emotional upset, are adding to your misery don't wait try Doan's Pills. Doan'i Pills act S ways for speedy re lief. 1 They have a soothing effect on bladder irritations. 2 A fast pain-relieving action on nagging backache, head aches, muscular aches and pains. 8 A wonderfully mild diuretic action thru the kidneys, tending to increase the output of the 15 miles of kidney tubes. So, get the same happy relief millions have enjoyed for over CO yean. Mew. large, economy Vje hycs money. Get Doan's PilU ipdayj federal office. Political factor No. 1, of course, is the protec tion now provided for South ern Negroes who desire to vote in federal elections. This was provided by last year's compromise civil rights bill. Population Shift Another factor is the popu lation shift of Negroes to the great cities outside the South. The end result of such shift ing can be seen in New York City where the borough of Manhattan elected in 1953 and reelected last year a Ne gro to be borough president. His name is Hulan Jack. Jack, in effect, is mayor of Man up the signal for a 10-minute period beginning at 2:35 p.m. (p.s.t.) Nov. 26 on a frequency of 20.000 megacycles. Sput nik I, which burned up short ly after its launching late last year, transmitted on a fre quency of 20.005 megacycles. Definitely Man-Mad The mysterious signal was a three -step telemeter tone. Lockheed scientists said "it was definitely man-made." C. Roger Moe, head of the Lockheed Space Laboratory, was careful to say he and his colleagues had no idea where the signal came from. He pointed out it differed from Sputnik I not only in JENKINS leaning toward the Strong Man idea, they are playing with fire. They've had strong men before. The Bourbon kings, for example. They cut off the head of one of them and cluttered the streets of Paris with the heads of the nobles who backed him. . Then they turned to AN OTHER strong - man - Na poleon Bonaparte. They sick ened of him and sent him into exile. - -- - And- . They then turned back to ANOTHER Bourbon because they could think of ; nothing better to do .i,. -. . " What, will, happen when they again lay their lives and their fortunes in the hands of a Strong Man? . AGAIN I wouldn't know". But- . .-- - . Maybe the French will learn Jhis time that that only a constant,, unceasing interest in THEIR OWN GOVERN MENTAL AFFAIRS, accom panied by thoughtful, intelli gent VOTING by all the peo ple, can insure good govern ment. Strong Winds Along Coast Half Boats By United Press International Strong winds Tuesday halt ed shipping at the mouth of the Columbia river and dam aged small boats on the south ern Oregon coast The outbound ships Oregon Trader and Alaska Spruce were held inside the bar Tues day. Pilots said that the ships would be able to move nor mally today. Gusts of wmd up to 50 miles an" "hour were clocked by the Columbia lightship. The 42-foot fishing launch We" owned by Art McCuin of Crescent City, Calif., was reported sunk Monday night or early Tuesday near Brook-1 ings. Damage also was report ed to other small boats and docks at Brookings as a small tidal wave was reported. CITRUS SQUEEZE Lakeland, Fla.-OJPD - The Florida citrus industry, reel ing from last winter's freezes, is seeking to develop an orange tree that is cold re sistant. But there's a danger the citrus industry might then move north from Florida. PERSONAL CONDUCT C AA. Litwiller Rendering a service of reverence and dignity as though the departed were a loved one of our own . . . this is our calling. "Service measured not by gold, but by the Golden Rule." LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND "We Never Close -i a w. hattan island, the one the In dians sold. There is a great concentra tion of Negroes in New York City and on the record of per formance, so far, it will be come greater over the years. "It is perfectly possible," Javits wrote for Esquire, "that by the year 2000, one out of every four New York ers (city) will be Negro. In Chicago, the ratio could be one out of every three, and In Los Angeles half the voters might be Negroes." Javits has not overestimat ed the powerhouse possibili ties of the Negro vote. ' - frequency but in the absence of the doppler effect, a wayer ing tone caused as the signal approached and receded from the listener as it traveled around the earth. Moe said the lack of waver could be accounted for by the fact that the missile from which the signal came-if it was a missile was shooting straight away from the earth instead of circling it. Mind you, he said, "I do not say this is what we heard or this is the explanation. I only saiy it could be. Simply Don't Know Actually, we simply don't know where the signal came from. It could be right here on earth." He and his associates added it was highly unlikely that the signal could have come from any of the Russian or U.S. satellites now in space. In Pittsburgh Tuesday, Erick Bergaust, a Norwegian rocket expert and editor of Missile and Rockets maga zine, said the Russians fired last September a missile that passed the moon and went out beyond Mars. He said that U.S. receivers picked up the Soviet moon rocket signals for three days. Official Washington sources emphatically denied knowl edge of any such Russian mis sile. i Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard project in Washington, said "as far as we know, there is nothing" to indicate the Russians have a new rocket in space. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL $100 Jilt WiU Hold ' I Ulli Until Christmas , DECORATOR MODEL CONSOLE tJL QUALITY PINKING SHEARS Sewing Machine Rentals. $1.00 per Week Medford Morse Sewing Center 219 S. Centra! SP 2-2739 i . n a "17 ML . r9. I l i HthX , , nli, in , 0 fanPSrtf ffjsvri rWsVM VMdlM 0 literal IPBallft fllaajaajai ; hr el Mrs. Litwcller It is better to know us and not need us. than to need us and not know us." "