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4 UenitTr DumW S, If St MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medfo: .USE "Everyone la Southern OrcguA Reads xn ftiaii in Dune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEOFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 3-S14I ROBERT W. RUHLs Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business llgr. IRIC W. ALLEN JH, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Edito 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 BATES By Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Centra Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. X.50 earner and Dealers e o p y lue All Terms Cash In Advance Offtrlal Paper of City of Medford omcial raper of jacmon county United Press International Full! Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Reeresentative 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. O" NEWSPAPER S83 'UllllHllt " 7 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 27 w 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 Dec. 8, 1948 (Wednesday) Medford's city council takes up 54 items in a three-hour regular meeting. A retirement party is held for Robert B. Hammond, who 11 to relinquish his post as Medford manager for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. 20 YEARS AGO Sec. 8, 1938 (Thursday) Two Medford couples who couldn't wait for those new forms to reach the county clerk's office go ahead and get married in Yreka, Calif. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A lady lecturer compares and de clares there is no difference between Adolph Hitler, and a burglar. This comes under the head of libel, and bur glars should see their law yers." 30 YEARS AGO Sec. 8, 1928 (Saturday) A community council is be ing formed as an advisory group to local girl scouts. Industrial commission rules require Medford stores to close at 8:30 p.m on Satur day nights, since a special permit permitting later open ing during the fruit harvest season has now expired. 40 YEARS AGO Dec 8, 1918 (Sunday) The finance committee re ports Medford has reduced its bonded indebtedness $67,- 000. The Red Cross rooms are being kept open for the mak ing of flu masks." Yhafs Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; even or eight is excellent; five 01 six is good. 1. What part of speech is "someone"? 2. Complete the following saving: "If wishes were horses, then ..." 3. The boundaries of which state touches only one other state? 4. A oraline is" a' mathe matical formula, a confection of nut kernels, or a prairie schooner? 5. The ukelele originated in Hawaii, Japan, or Portugal? 6. In which European coun try is the Apennine mountain range? 7. "Black Jack" was the nickname borne by which now deceased General of the Armies? 8. What office is held by a college prexy? 9. A long ton consists of how many more pounds than does a short ton? 10. Genuine Roquefort cheese is made from cow's, ewe's, or goat's milk? Answers: 1. Pronoun. 2. "beggars would ride." 3. Maine. 4. Confection of nut kernels. 5. Portugal. 6. Italy. 7. John J. Pershing. 8. Presi dent. 9. 240 lbs. more. 10. Ewe's milk. COMPANY OFFICER DIES New York rtTPD John San derson, 67, executive vice president of the Sperry Rand Corp., died Sunday after an illness of several months. I Repeal Anniversary It took a proclamation by the acting secretary of state 25 years ago to end Prohibition official ly, but the revelers had begun celebrating long before. When Utah became the 36th and last-needed state to ratify the 21st amendment, 19 states had already removed constitutional or statutory bans on the sale of liquor. As paper put it, "hundreds i i mg inougn ior some oi tnem, at least, re peal was the end of the line. By now "speak" an abbreviated form of "speakeasy" has become almost archaic, along with booze, rum (except m specific application), blind pig, saloon, home brew (but not moon shine), hijacking, bathtub gin, and scores of other terms in use when the nation was dry. Now only two states remain nominally "dry" Mississippi and Oklahoma. And it is no secret that drinking liquor can be had. MEARLY 60 million Americans, or about 55 " per cent of the adult population, drink some form of alcoholic beverage today, according to a Yale University study. In 1956, elections were held in 1,454 areas of 25 of the 39 states which provided for local option, in which nearly 7.5 million persons voted. Added to the "wet" popu lation were nearly 170,000, according to the Dis tilled Spirits Institute, raising to 83.8 per cent the total population living in areas where liquor is legally sold. Returns from Nov. 4 local option votes have not been thoroughly analyzed, but no definite trend appears either way. The DSI was admitting, Nov. 7r a net loss for this year to the Drys of 16 governing units, with a population of almost 79,000. But the Wets were rieeful to count in their number the estimated 212,000 population of .Prohibiting-free Alaska. yOTING for ratification of the Prohibition v amendment in 1919 were 84.6 per cent of the members of the Senate of the various states; 78.5 per cent of the members of the lower houses. By lyU, when Prohibition went into effect, 32 states were legally diy. v. In 1933, in the election of delegates to the state conventions that acted on repeal of the 18th Amendment, the popular vote in the nation was 70 per cent wet, 30 per cent dry. The Repeal amendment was the only one to be ratified by state conventions called for that purpose. To pro tect states wishing to retain Prohibition, Sec. 2 of the amendment provided that "the transpor tation or importation into any state . . : f or deliv ery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby pro hibited." Whether Repeal has brought on greater drinking is a question on which the iury is still out. A Columbia University study puts boozing in the Dry Era at 1.94 gallons per capita per year. Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc., reports per capita consumption in 1957 of 1.24 gallons. Economics may have it. In 1933 you could get a tilth. In 1933 the federal tax on a gallon was $1.10; today it's a walloping, sobering $10.50. E. R. R. Priests 'To And From Russia Soon a Roman Catholic priest from the United States will again be ministering to Roman Cath olics in the U.S. embassy, and probably other em bassies, in Moscow. At the same time Archbishop Boris of the Orthodox church will again be in this country as Exarch administering: the few North American parishes under jurisdiction of the Patriarch at Moscow. The archbishop technically is here only on a three-months' visa. But if this isn't renewed, the U.S. priest in Moscow, Father L. A. Dion of Worchester, Mass., can expect to find himself ousted. At least that's the sort of eye-for-an-eye and tooth-for-a-tooth contretemps that occurred W2 years ago. IN MARCH. 1955 the. United States refused to 1 renew the- two-months' visa of Archbishop Boris, then in this country. Whereupon the Soviet Union expelled from Soviet territory Father Georges Bissonette, the U.S. priest in Moscow. In the following November an agreement seemed to have been reached for a visa for Arch bishop Boris and one for Father Dion as Father Bissonette's successor. But the mutual, visa ex change fell through because the Archbishop wanted to minister to U.S. as well as to Russian nationals here. The Soviet Union wouldn't let Father Dion serve Russians in Moscow. Now the two governments stipulate that the Soviet visa for our priest and our visa for theirs have been handled separately, are in no sense interdependent Perish the thought that two such proud and powerful states as the United States and the Soviet Union should engage in tit f or-tat stuff ! E. R. R. Communications Once again, it needs to, be pointed out that while the Mail Tribune welcomes, and prints, a large number of communications, it reserves the right to edit them for good taste, clarity and con densation, and it requires that they all be signed. Occasionally a "Name on file" signature will be permitted, but not ordinarily on letters "pertain ing to matters' of controversy. Also, in selecting letters for publication pref erence goes to those which are short and to the point, which are not repetitious, and which are from writers who have not been heard from be fore on any subject under discussion. E.A. one New York City news of 'speaks kept grind- mil j. i . j T-i somethinsr to do with a fair Scotch for $2.20 Dennis the Menace bw CAN I GBT ft HEAVEN IF I OONT GST MV MHGS'Ttl I GETTUBKB'? Washington Report By William Washington-Of the Senate's forthcoming debate on the filibuster rule it could be said that rarely have so many been so pro foundly affect ed by so grave an issue un derstood by so few. The de cision will come at a time when the pow- wiiiiam swmte er of persuad ing the country by bland and happy oversimplifications, by stirring the fear of being "out of line," by the comforting appeal of simply being in the majority, is incomparably the greatest in our history. Everywhere more and more gaunt television towers beam out endless messages making it all too clear who are the good guys and who the bad guys in everything-including the good guys who denounce and the bad guys who support a dusty thing called the fili buster. This is the term for endless talking in the Senate to prevent a vote. And the decision will come also in a supercharged politi cal political atmosphere that will affect and possibly even decide the 1960 Presidential contest. BUT at stake are things in finitely more important than all these. For the background: It is not now possible to shut off a major filibuster-short of simply wearing it out by letting the filibusters exhaust themselves-without the votes of two-thirds of the entire Senate. The advanced liberals in both parties wish to pro vide that a bare majority- 50 of the 98 Senators-could halt all debate after a speci fied time. s The old guard Southerners will resist any kind of change. The moderate , Southerners, some of the Western liberal Democrats and a good many Republicans are for a moder ate alteration. This would per mit two-thirds of those voting (instead of two-thirds of the whole membership) to clamp down on debate. The advanced liberals would fundamentally alter the Senate, as an institution. This they bitterly deny; but it is historically and demon strably the truth. For the Sen ate was deliberately designed, and for nearly two centuries has so operated, as a frank check on unqualified majority rule.. The notion has been that even majorities may some times be angrily wrong-as they were wrong in trying to draft strikers Into the Army and to pack the Su preme court and thus to de stroy its integrity as an insti tution. . THE advanced liberals are earnest men, but in some cases they are impassioned men. Some are like the vio lent abolitionists of long ago who much troubled a reason ably liberal President named Lincoln. These are inflamed by their long frustrations in seeking full civil rights for Negroes. And, of course, they are influenced, too, by the thoroughly legitimate power of racial minorities at the polls. . . The extremists among them are profoundly . illiberal to ward any dissent on this ques tion. Intellectually, some have blood in some nostrils. They overlook that many fairly de cent men-even many liberals -are . also for civil rights . but reject" the extreme view on how far . and how soon the country can go. The extrem ists treat respect for consti tutional tradition as hostility to civil Tights. '' : They forget that not long ago other extremists' these were on the right wing-treat S. White ed opposition to Senator Jo seph R. McCarthy's attacks on other constitutional tra ditions as the equivalent of pro-communism. . TOO, they do not face up to the fact that any filibuster can be broken, rule or no rule, by a substantial and truly determined majority. The operative words are "tru ly determined." What the civil rights forces have needed far more than a new rule is more genuinely devoted-as distin guished from lip-service-backers. Perhaps they have those backers now. Perhaps there could'be a real effort to break a civil rights filibuster flat out and head-on; this corre spondent has never yet seen one in 12 years of watching the Senate. The advanced liberals can fairly argue that the Senate ought to be a place of straight majority rule. But they can not fairly argue that the Con stitution has made it such. They intend to change the meaning of the constitutional structure; surely, they ought to say so. And they cannot deny that there have been times when a simple majority anti-fili buster rule could have im perilled all civil rights. In the twenties, for illustration, dis interested scholars estimated 26 states to be politically in the grip of the Ku Klux Klan. This could have meant not 50 but 52 votes to halt Sen ate debate-a majority, no less. The ultimate victims of halting Senate debate by sim ple majority would be any or every minority and any or every minority interest or is sue, given a favorable atmos phere for the majority. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature) Syndicate, Inc.) 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. Transportation , To the Editor: I have been reading the articles in the Mail Tribune, especially , the communication column, about the off street parking. It is up to the people who reside in Medford to decide which is the best and most profitable for the city and the taxpay ers. ', ' . ' My viewpoint of the situa tion is any type of improve ment which has employment connected to it would be the most profitable as a whole. However, there are many businessmen who prefer parv enu employees, which does not always work out to be the most profitable for the busi ness. Every craft requires training, some more than oth ers, and every job looks easy. I have been in the trans portation business for the past 25 years and many business men overlook the importance of this business. We aU know transportation is the back bone of any business whether it be delivering the actual merchandise or the customers or both. It not only takes know-how in the transporta tion business, it takes cooper ation. Without each the busi ness will be a failure. '.. I would be very happy to donate my time to any of the businessmen in the city of Medford who is interested in improving the downtown business section.' It is a fact with an adequate transporta- GOP Chairman, Wilson, Give Differing Views of What Caused Democratic Win By LYLE C. WILSON Washington- (UPD -If anyone is entitled to the floor for a brief statement on what licked the Re publican party in this year's election, it is the National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Alcorn, there fore, is recog nized to have .yie c. wuson his say which, substantially, is this: -The right - to - work issue raised in six states backfired fatally against Republicans in tion system more people would be able to visit the downtown business establish ments, and this is taking in those who do not drive auto mobiles, too young to drive, too old to drive, and the han dicapped who do not drive. The people of all the cities had better get together and decide for themselves which is the most profitable as a whole. With much less than a half million dollars an ade quate transportation system could be established in the city of Medford. We have an excellent newspaper here in Medford, and with industry and transportation added, the city of Medford would really grow fast. Glen D. Oppie 110 South Grape st., Medford. For Parking Plan To the Editor: There are several facts which should be understood about the charter amendment measure which is to be voted upon Wednesday, Dec. 10. First, and most important I think, is- that we should all understand that this is not a general tax levy. Only prop erty owners within a narrow, well-defined downtown area will be assessed to support off-street parking. Second, the city council and administration have thor oughly investigated and have acted carefully in following out the legal requirements for bringing such a measure to a vote. It is . their informed judgment that the procedure embodied in Measure 51 is the most practical method of arriving at a good off-street parking program. There is no reasonable question of any de sire on their part to acquire powers which might be mis used in any way. Third, passage of this mea sure is vital to the progress of Medford. It is extremely important that additional parking be provided. This has been the opinion of every ex pert who has surveyed the parking situation in Medford in recent years, and there have been many such surveys Medford is far behind other Oregon cities of its size in de veloping such a program. A vote for Measure 51 is a vote of confidence in Medford's future. I am particularly pleased to have the opportunity to vote for Measure 51. John P. Moffat, 34 N. Berkeley Way Medford Now Is The Time To the Editor: The years I served on the city planning commission proved one fact to me, "Do not underestimate the future growth of Med ford." The Oregon state water re sources board estimates Med ford's population will double in the next 20 years. Other estimates by equally reliable agencies indicate the same trend. Our parking ; problem is acute now both for . shoppers and businessmen the in creased population, which will surely develop in the fu ture will make the parking situation chaos. Now is the time to solve this problem, not "manana." We are pre sented with a proposition that is well thought out, of no cost to the homeowners, and with adequate safeguards for all concerned. My recommenda tion whether you are housewife, homeowner, businessman or business property owner, is to vote YES on the charter amendment next Wednesday. Don Root P.O. Box 129 Medford From Ex-Mayor Collins To the Editor: The great problem of off-street parking seems to be the problem of paying the cost of the new facility without increasing the taxes of anyone except the property owners affected. Truly a communistic idea and by some considered commend able. To make the tax more equitable, I suggest-that the city put parking meters in Hawthorne. Park' (over 100 cars are parked there all day daily , at the tax payers ex pense); increase the tax on all personal property in the five of . those states and in many places elsewhere. -Conservative business and professional men and women, who long had helped the par ty financially and with their time and effort, reduced or abandoned their aid. Matter of Focf "THE ARMY AND THE STREET" Beirut, Lebanon This sunny city between the moun tains and the sea is a pleasant place to catch your breath between grim bouts of po litical inquiry. You get a bet ter perspec tive, too, after a short pause for lotus eat ing. T-1..X J ... 4 Joseph Alsop " J u B this improved perspective suggests to this reporter that something needs to be said about the peculiar grammar of Middle Eastern politics The grammar is so specializ ed, in fact, that the vast ma jority of Americans must con tinuously misread the vital story of this troubled region. For example, it is perfect ly true that the dominant themes are the longing of the Arabs to free themselves of foreign influence, and the im pulse of the Arabs to join in a broad national union. This longing and this impulse have destroyed almost aU of the neo-colonial structure of Brit ish power in this area.. They have given this great strength to Gamal Abdel Nasser. They have made the Syrian-Egyptian union and they have brought down the Monarchy of Iraq. But the picture of the Arabs as a "nation struggling to be free" is altogether too simple. It does not convey any of the practical and some times ugly . realities of the process. For the active parti cipants in the struggle are not all the inhabitants, or even a modest majority of the in habitants of any Arab coun try. The active participants are only "the army and the street" - a phrase always in the mouths of all practical Arab politicians. TN . OTHER WORDS, the A peasants of ' the country side, the people of the villages and small towns and lesser cities even, are relatively pas sive spectators of the struggle The desert tribes, too, have ceased to count except in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and even in Jordan,- the tribes men only count because they dominate the army. In gen eral, governments are made and unmade, kept in power or destroyed, by an interplay between the soldiers in uni form and the teeming popular tions of the capital cities - "the street." Furthermore, even in the army and even in the street, the officers count for almost everything and the troops for almost nothing. The officers cannot run absolutely count er to the sentiment of the troops. That was the lesson of the 1957 plot in Jordan, when Gen. All Abu Neuwar and his military co-conspira tors were defeated by the Be douin loyalty to King Hussein of the Arab Legion rank and file. But without the officers to give the orders, the troops will not move, even in a di rection that commands their enthusiasm. It may seem strange to speak of the street having of ficers and troops, in the man ner of an army Yet it is not inaccurate to do so, since the crowds in the Middle Eastern capital cities must also be organized before they move. Gamal Abdel Nasser, with his Cairo radio, his new slogans, and his wide net of adherents in aU the Arab lands, was the first and most successful or ganizer of the street. Therein, in fact, lay his first great strength. But both in Baghdad and district, such as merchandise and office equipment. Tax all churches in the area, as it is claimed by some that there is parking problem with them. In other words, those who are benefited by the improvement should bear their share of the tax. If the financing of the proj ect is handled in this manner I am sure the bond election will carry. J. C. Collins 104 West Main st. Medford Mere Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Hera Is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH, an Improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that the; feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour. Checks "plat odor" (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today at any drug counter. -Political labor's contribu tions of .' money, manpower and propaganda almost exclu sively were in behalf of Dem ocratic candidates. -Pockets of unemployment scared voters away from the GOP. By Joseph Alsop in Nasser's own northern capi tal of Damascus, the pro-Nasser street organizations are now in open competition with the street organizations of the Communists. In Baghdad, something very like a gang war went on until recently between the faction favoring union now with Egypt and the faction of the Communists who hope to dominate and in depednent Iraq. In the out come, the Communist gang sters triumphed, and the Nasser-enthusiasts have given up the struggle for the time being. . YET THIS Communist vic torv in th war frr nnntrnl of the street in Baghdad by no means ensures a final Communist .victory in Iraq. ! For the two rules of Arab poltics are, first, that the army and the street cannot be resisted when they are to gether. But, second, the street is always defeated by the army when the two are in conflict. The second rule explains King Hussein's persistent sur vival in Jordan, where tne street is against the Mon archy. The second rule also explains why Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem may yet be master in his own house, in stead of being transformed into the Kremlin's new ver sion of the late Nuri Pasha. For Kassem has the army and the police at his disposal, and if he chooses to use these as sets, and if he acts in time, the street-victory of the Communists will not keep them in power. The 'two rules above-cited also explain why modern Arab political processes are so violent and so devious. Conspiracies among army of ficers, and the organized movements of inflamed mobs, are in fact the two devices by which great new decisions are reached. , But there is only one worse mistake than refusing to face this repelent reality. This is the mistake of forgetting that the pattern of Arab politics is quite largely determined by the prevailing level of life, and ignoring the genuine im pulse to be free and united that inspires so many of the conspirators and so many in the mobs. (c) 1958 Nw York Herald Tribuna Inc. Call at PERL'S-flOV . . . 1 It' I M FREE Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) te. . A- mmm& FRIENDLY, I t i " c w 1LAJ I -n- Perl ' S -J Alcorn worked this up as a speech for delivery last week before the National Associa tion of Manufacturers assem bled in New York. Demo cratic national chairman Paul M. Butler spoke ahead of Al corn. Butler so needled him in discussing the Republican election reverses that Alcorn diverted the emphasis of his own remarks to a sharp reply to his Democratic opposite number. . Alcorn's discussion of what hit the Republican party add ed up to an expression of baf flement Like President Eisen hower, Alcorn seemed to won der what it. was that voters wanted that the administra tion had not done. . - Citing decreasing unem ployment and a rising busi ness activity, Alcorn ' could not understand why voter ma jorities in so many areas be lieved that the Democratic party was a better bulwark than the Republican party ag a i n s t unemployment. Al corn's puzzlement arose from his finding that an average of 13 per cent of the total U.S. labor force was unemployed during the peacetime years of the Roosevelt and Truman ad ministrations in comparison with 4.5 per cent of unem ployment in the Eisenhower years. Effect of Labor Alcorn indicated the im pact of political labor on the election with a preliminary calculation that of candidates aided by labor only three of 191 for the House and two of 30 for the Senate were Repub licans. The chairman left out of account however, some elec tion factors which have im pressed others. These includ ed the costly fact that the Re publicans had to battle the 1958 campaign without the help of major issues which won votes for them in previ ous years. These issues were: -Government economy. -Peace; that feeling of safe ty- -Matchlessly high stand ards of official conduct -The Communist infiltra tion. , These issues were gone, and the high-cost-of-living issue of inflation came along to plague the GOP. For the lost issues, the Republicans had no mar ketable substitute. ROCKET SCIENTIST DIES San Diego, Calif. -(UPD-. Dr. Hans R. Friedrich, 47, Ger manborn rocket scientist who worked with Dr. Wernher von Braun on V2 rockets dur ing World War II before com ing to this country, died on Saturday. He had helped de velop the U. S. Atlas and Red stone ballistic missiles. for your Christmas ART Calendar for IC59 PERL' Funeral Home Phone SP 2-667S LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
