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4 Tuesday, December 9, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtSjWTBIBUNB "Everyone to Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiineaa Mgr. EBIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Zntered as second class matter at Meet ford Oregon tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mo. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 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. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson comity 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. iV NEWSPAPEt 2 'PUBLISH! IS 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 Dec 9. 1948 (Thursday) J. J. Newberry company opens its new downtown store tomorrow. The League of Women Vot ers is scheduled to study phases of the country's fiscal policy at its next meeting. 20 YEARS AGO Dec 9. 1938 (Friday) The Southern Oregon Movie club elects new officers here From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The bracing weather is being widely enjoyed by citizens braced against the stove." 30 YEARS AGO Dec 9, 1928 (Sunday) Finley Henderson, dare devil aviator, will deliberate ly crash his airplane into a wooden building at the fair grounds today. Some 50 Jackson county teachers meet at the local teachers' institute . at Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO Dee. 9, 1918 (Monday) Arrangements are practi cally completed for the South ern Oregon Poultry show here. A large crowd watches Jack Williams, "The Human Fly," scale the wall of the Medford hotel. : What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five of six is good. : 1. In the British peerage system, which ranks the high erand earl or a baron? ' 2. How many inches in a fathom? ' 3. James Fenimore Cooper is noted for his series of "Silk stocking Tales," "Cottonstock ing Tales," or "Leatherstock ing Tales"? . 4. What is the correct pro nunciation of "viscount"? 5. Did limburger cheese originate in The Netherlands, Germany, or Beligum? . 6. The standard length of an unsmoked (regular) cig arette is 2V, 2?i, or 3 inches. 7. Identify the rich fin ancier, now deceased, who . was noted for distributing thousands of dimes one at a time. . 8. During World War I, what was the highest military rank attained by Adolph Hit ler? 9. Does the word octapodic refer to six, eight, or ten feet? 10. Which has more teeth per inch a rip saw, or a cross-cut saw? Answers: 1. Earl. 2. 72 In. 3. "Leatherstocking Tales." 4. VIE-kouni. 5. Belgium. 6. 2Vt inches. 7. John D. Rockefeller Sr. 8. Corporal. 9. Eight feet. lO.-Cross-cui. NAMED GRAND MARSHAL Pasadena, Calif .- (UPD -Governor-elect William A. Egan of Alaska has been named grand marshal of the 70th an nual Tournament of Roses parade on New Year's day. Egan and his wife will arrive here Dec. 28 to attend the coronation and ball for this year's rose queen, Pamala Partner.' "Go-Ahead" Needed We wouldn't be a city councilman for love nor money. Members of the council don't do it for money, so they must do it for love. We suspect some of them on occasion must think they should have had their heads examined. For it seems to be the nature of some citizens to question the integrity, the motives and the intelligence of members of the council, who they themselves elect, when a substantial matter of public policy is involved. Disagreement is understandable. But charges which boil down to misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance are not. A CASE in point is the proposal, to be decided at the polls tomorrow, which -wTould permit the council and city administration to proceed with an orderly development of off-street park ing in the city. There are a few debatable arguments against the way in which the matter has been presented. But some of the opposition has not been satisfied to use these legitimate arguments. Instead it has resorted to "scare" tactics, misrepresentation, and more or less personal attacks against the integrity of city officials and members of the council. We've seen this done is that we still find men willing to make real and considerable sacrifices necessary to -serve on the council. PARENTHETICALLY, right here, we'd like to point out that this is the first time we recall that the mayor and the council have come right out m .favor of a city measure. In the past they have recognized the need, passed the necessary ordinances, called an elec tion, and let the people decide without any word, pro or con, from the council as such. This time, they believe the matter is of suffi cient importance that they have all come out un equivocally in support of the proposal some thing which takes a certain amount of courage in a controversial situation. . This is the kind of leadership we need. a AS TO the parking proposal itself, the Mail Tribune is on record as supporting it. It will raise no taxes. It will cost no more money than anyone is paying the city now except for the downtown merchants who will pay the assessments levied against the parking dis trict. And even in the case of these merchants, the costs will not be prohibitive. It will be a major and progressive step forward. To defeat the proposal would just postpone a solution. And this at a time when costs are rising, when the problem is growing more pressing, and when Medford is attempting to attract industrial payrolls to bolster its economy. . IT HAS been argued: 1 1. Procedures in state law should be follow ed, and an assessment district be set up, before vote is taken. 2. Revenue bonds, not bonds backed bv the city's credit, should be used. The answers, which are these : 1. That the state law in the charter amendment itself ; that it would be getting ahead of oneself to set up an assessment district beiore the authority to do so were ex pressly given by the voters. 2. Revenue bonds for are not salable. Backing by the credit of the city is necessary to make them so. The city is being asked to back the bonds it," which is about as risky as an individual co signing a note with Nelson Rockefeller. e IF THERE is any risk involved (and we doubt strongly that there is any), it is being bora entirely by property-owners in the downtown as sessment district. It is they who have encouraged this develop ment, who will pay a substantial part of the bill, and whose properties will be standing behind the bonds in the unlikely event there is any default in payment. , People have said: "Let the merchants pay for it; they're. the ones who benefit." That is true in part; it is also true that they ARE the ones paying a major share of the bill. It is also true that everyone in the city (to say nothing of out-of-town shoppers) will benefit from easier parking in the downtown area. And it seems entirely equitable that the pay off should be divided roughly into thirds: from the merchants and property-owners downtown, from the off-street parkers, and from the on street parkers all of whom benefit to a demon strable degree. A SOMEWHAT similar proposal, was defeated by Medford voters just over two years ago. The margin of loss was 393 votes. It seems to us that most of the undesirable features of that proposal have been removed, and that anyone can vote for this plan with a clear conscience, knowing that it is a progressive step for the city, and will result in benefits, both tangible and intangible, to residents, merchants and shoppers. We hope the voters agree, and give the city the go-ahead to w-ork out the further orderly de velopment of the project: p. A. - - - before. The wonder of it seem entirely logical, is adopted by reference parking, at the present, with its faith and cred Dennis the Menace to, thatS we wavtub Matter of Fact A MOST CURIOUS CONVERSATION Cairo, Egypt - One of the most curious conversations in this reporter's sadly long ex- PS neri e n c e is doubly worth recording, just because it was so revealing. The circum stances them selves were curious, to be gin with; Ak ram Hourani, Joseph Aisop co-iounaer 01 the United Arab Republic and one of the cleverest men in the Arab world, has changed a good deal lately. When he was the most powerful man in Syria, Hourani received one in a squalid office and talked with great fire and frankness. Now that he is Vice Presi dent of the new Syrian-Egyp tian Republic he helped to found, Hourani has an office that verges on the pompous, but the fire of the man has been somehow extinguished. Possibly this lack of fire is traceable to the fact that he now has "planning functions only" without executive pow er. At first, he even seemed to wish to limit his talk with an old acquaintance . to subjects of tested conventionality, such as the inequities of Israel. TUT of all Arab leaders, " Hourani is the one who best understands the rule of the late Charles " McNary: "Never demagogue when the doors are closed." He was ask ed about the new situation in Baghdad, where the Commu nists have roundly defeated Hourani's own former party, the Baath, and have thus blocked the drive for union now with Egypt. At first he grandly proclaimed that "all Arabs must rejoice" because the Iraquis' have thrown off the "yoke" of the hated Nuri Pasha. But then another ques tion was put to him: "But what if Nuri, whom you say belonged to Britain, is merely replaced by another Nuri belonging to the Krem lin?" "The East and West are get ting together on problems of the Arab lands," he answered with apparent irrelevance but with a flash of the old fire. "The Communist party and the western powers now seem to have an understanding. Both work to block our move ment of Arab union." TTE WAS reminded of an " earlier conversation, in the old Syrian days. Then Hourani was cooperating with the Communists himself, and he then explained that this was safe to do, because the Communists were also "good Arab nationalists." "Oh, he replied, "that was entirely temporary." But, "now the Communists and the West agree on certain points, which are against the Arabs. They join in fighting the movement of Arab unity." Two facts were pointed out in reply: First, that the west ern powers certainly do not wish to see a Communist vic tory in Baghdad or anywhere else; and second, that, western influence in Baghdad has been rather less than western influ ence on the moon since the coup de etat in Irak. But this only evoked an incredulous smile, plus the reply that "the pressure of the Baghdad Pact on the people of Iraq was in the interests of the Commu nist Party." So the strength of the Iraqi Communists was all the fault of the West from the very beginning, "I do not think the Commu nists . will win in the end," A k r a m Hourani continued. "Or at least I hope they won't because I believe the Iraqi people like aU Arabs want in dependence and union. We are against all foreign interfer ence of whatever sort. Inter ferences may differ in charac ter but they are the same in purpose." " '" " " ' " cookies cxum5ub. . By Joseph Alsop THE suggestion was put for ward that nothing was more surprising than the si lence in the Arab world about this new Communist interfer ence in Iraq, which was so much more seriously menac ing to Arab independence than the old, weak British in fluence of the past. The first reply was a repetition of the argument that it was all the fault of the West anyway, be cause of the Baghdad Pact. "As a result, there is a Com munist . tendency in Iraq," Hourani continued. "But there is also a strong Arab tenden cy, and the Iraqi people will decide." "But if the Arabs so bitter ly attacked the old interfer ence by the Communists, which is really an interfer ence by the Soviets?" he was asked. "Do you want us to attack Russia?" was the visibly sur prised reply. "There is a dif ference between Russia and the Communist party. Al though we are friends with Russia, we fight the Commu nists. Meanwhile, does not the American Embassy in Bagh dad cooperate with , the Com munist party there?" THIS last question was not asked rhetorically but with meaning and almost with a prosecutor's air. It did little good to reply that no Ameri can Embassy had ever coop erated with Communists any where. But once again the an swering smile expressed un belief; and so ended this most curious conversation. It was a revealing conver sation for two reasons. The idea that the western powers are now promoting a Communist's triumph in the Arab court, for the sole pur pose of frustrating "legitimate Arab aspirations," is genuine ly held here by serious per sons on the highest level of government. And besides this interesting idea, the conversa tion also revealed a good deal about the probable local reac tion to ths Kremlin's new in tervention in the Middle East. (Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Editorial Comment IN BEHALF OF NEW SHAKESPEAREAN THEATER In this season of giving, an appeal for donations in being made by a most meritorious group. The Oregon Shakes pearean Festival building fund committee, 216 Leverette building, Medford, is seeking the sum of $275,000 to build a replica of an Elizabethan theater. The structure is to rise in Ashland, replacing a building condemned three years ago as a firetrap, now in process of demolition. The appeal for aid is going far beyond the boundaries of Ashland or Med ford, or even of Oregon, for the annual Shakespearean Festival in Ashland is famous internationally, and it is be lieved that its friends wher ever dispersed will answer the call. The Shakespearean Festival originated in 1935, presenting works of the Bard to small audiences from the stage of a former Chautauque shell. So well were the dramas and comedies presented that each year saw an increase in at tendance until the audiences were counted in the thousands and actors and actresses of national reputation sought roles in the productions. The season of 1958 had a total attendance of 29,585. It enjoyed its greatest box of fice. But with progress came the problem: Expand or per ish. The fire marshal had per mitted the stage to be used three years after finding it a menace to the safety of the actors. In 1958 he decided it was hazardous for an audi ence to sit near the flimsy TV Columnist Faces Appeal For Refusing New York -(UPD-Television columnist Marie Torre today faces 10 days in jail unless the federal judge who sen tenced her on a criminal con Liberal Democrats Seek New Rules to Aid Broad Program Washington (UPD , Liberal Democrats in the House, push ing for passage of broad wel fare legislation proposed by the Democratic Advisory Council, said today a change in House rules must come first. They called a strategy ses Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary i often the case. Pig in a Poke? To the Editor: We are asked to vote for something that we know very little about in the off-street parking issue. The whole plan is so vague and tentative. Why don't they pre sent a concrete plan with de tail as to who will pay and how duch. They claim it will pay for itself but they plan to take up to 25 per cent or $125,000 from parking reve nues. which actually amounts to the same thing as taking that amount from the general fund which is desperately needed elsewhere. Except for possibly the month of December, there doesn't appear to be as" great a need for off-street parking as is claimed. The other 11 months I have seldom had to park more than two blocks from anyplace downtown. This city needs other things a lot more than parking facilH ties, for instance, adequate street lighting. Except for a small downtown area, the street lighting is very poor. The $125,000 would go a long way toward filling this need, and everyone would benefit from it and not only a chosen few. Merchants who have at great expense provided then own parking have had no help from anyone. Would it be fair to them? And to top it off soma of them are in the proposed assessable area which would have to help pay for this extravagance. It seems that the voice of the people was ignored when the city council appropriated the $50,000 for the off-street parking program not long after the people had defeated this issue on the ballot. If it is such a sound busi ness venture why doesn't some of the businessmen grab it for an investment? The same reason the bond buyers won't touch it too much in vestment for the revenue!! We are asked to buy a pig in a poke and trust in them to work out the details later. I can't see it! Too vague. R. C. Moore 815 South Central ave. Medford. , Editor's note: In fairness, it should be pointed out that a definite plan has been pre sented, spelling out who will pay, and how much; that the plan now favored is designed to pay-off at 40 per cent of capacity; that it is designed to accommodate peak parking loads; that street lighting is an entirely different subject and one on which there are also dissenting opinions; that some of the merchants who have, at considerable expense, provided some of their own off-street parking are among the strongest supporters of the present plan, and finally, that the investment is of a size to make it difficult for mer chants, alone and unaided, to make the initial capital invest ment needed. structure. Demolition followed his ruling. Ashland's spectacle draws its audience from nearly all states and from some neigh boring countries. Such visitors add much to the economy of O r e g o n. We believe the Shakepearean Festival fund raisers have a worthy cause and we hope them success, for as the Bard himself said, "He t hat has a house to put's head in has a good head piece." Oregon Journal. -FOR SALE OR LEASE Adding Machines Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES "Standard-Portable-Electric" ' "Timemaster" Ask about our Rental VOIGHT'S 41 South Grape Phone SP tempt of court conviction suspends the sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to review the conviction. Miss Torre was sion for early next week to lay plans for a rules fight on Jan. 7, opening day of the 86th Congress. Their main ob jectivt is to curb the power of the conservative House Rules Committee. Other House sources said the liberals' chances of chang- Let's Vote Yes To the Editor: I would like to commend the mayor and the council of Medford for their orderly approach t o Medford's parking problem. As one who has worked on this problem for many years (having been on the original parking committee appointed by the late Mayor Flynn) I well appreciate the many and varied problems involved. The administration's and council's present request for the voters to approve the charter amendment at the polls Dec. 10 is the first step in the right direction. It is in no way a tax meas ure regardless of what some have said to the con trary. It amounts to enabling legislation which will make the eventual assessment dis trict bonds more marketable to potential bond buyers. This step was recommended as a "must" by one of the out standing bonding authorities in the state of Oregon. There have been a number of very comprehensive artic les in the Mail Tribune, both newswise and editoriaUy, that should by now have in formed the voters on the facts about the Dec. 10 ballot. The news articles have quoted various city officials and councilmen people who know what the problems are and who are trying to do what they feel is best for all the people. I for one, will support these, our elected officials, against any of the self-ap pointed parking and tax ex perts that have tried to con fuse the public relative to this election, and by the ob vious content of their state ments have not taken the time to study the true issue being requested. There are 37 towns in Ore gon with an off-street park ing program; Medford, the fourth largest, has none. The city request for voter approv al for the charter amendment is the first orderly step to fiU this gap. It is a step rec ommended by responsible peo ple who have studied the is sue. It is not a tax measure. Therefore, let us go to the polls on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and vote YES. YES, we ap prove the amendment; YES we have faith in our elected officials that they are trying to do their honest best for the present good and true growth of Medford. That spells PROGRESS. Otto A. Ewaldsen 20 Ross Court, Medford. Praises Officials To the Editor: Please print this letter in defense of the Mayor, the City Council, the Planning Commission and the citizens advisory committee who have been working so diligently for a number of years to find an equitable so lution to the parking problem in Medford. Every one o fthese men and women are, first of all, citi zens and taxpayers, and sec ondly interested, public spir ited citizens who have taken the time, God bless 'em, to do what you and I should have been doing a long time ago face up to the realization that something needs to be done and then giving thoughtful consideration to the methods of accomplishing it. This they have done in the presentation of the enabling legislation contained in the proposed C h a rt e r Amend Purchase Options - Medford Office Equipment Co. "Vaiaht will aive vau a better deal" 2-4100 EASY PARKING Jail Term After ' to Divulge Source sentenced Nov. 12, 1957, by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who found her guilty of contempt for refusing to divulge the source of a story ing the rules are slim. These so irees discounted the need for a change, asserting that the newly-strengthened Dem ocratic majority in the. House should be able to work its will. Set Own Course Congressional leaders made it plain that the new Congress will set its own course, al though advice from such groups as the Democratic Ad visory Council adways is welcome. Speaker Sam Rayburn hint ed strongly that Congress' fi nal choice will be moderate and considerably less costly than the state of the union" rroposals issued by the coun cil Sunday night. The counci 1 made up mostly of top non-congres sional leaders i s s u e d the proposals after a meeting at tended by Adlai Stevenson, former President Truman and National Chaiman Paul M. Butler. Keep Spending Tight We'll spend money for whatever we think is neces sary for defense and for the welfare of the country," Ray burn said. "We'll keep it pretr ty tight, but we are not going to cut off the beneficial things we have done in the past or find necessary in the future." At the same time, Republi cans assailed the councils proposals. They said the coun cil s program could boost gov ernment , spending by 20 bil lion dollars a year. Chairman Styles Bridges of the Senate GOP Policy Com mittee said the proposals would result in "new and DacKDreaKing taxes and a breakdown in our economy." ment. This is the first logical step, enabling legislation made possible only by the state legislative action taken during the 1957 legislature which provides the means for cities to solve their own park ing problems. ' We can go further than that and back our elected officials and volunteer citizens with an affirmative vote on the Char ter Amendment, Dec. 10. Vote Yes. Mrs. William J. (Mary) Williams, 116 Black Oak dr., Medford. Simple Issue " To the Editor: Vote Yes on Parking. Your vote tomorrow, Dec 10, is vital. Does Medford Progress or Stop? The issue is simple, parking is needed, your yes vote gives the City Administration the go-ahead to do the job. The facts have all been clearly explained and anyone interested in more details, can easily avail themselves of such. It is now up to us to sup port this proposed charter amendment with a YES vote. J. J. Materie, 213 Girard dr., Medford. King, Not Babe To the Editor: Nearly two thousand years have passed since the birth of our Christ but we still celebrate His birthday as though He were babe. Why. this unusual treatment? It never occurs to us to celebrate George Wash ington's or Lincoln's birthday in such a manner. Instead we proclaim their great deeds and leadership. Their ideals Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. y i ' '-J-' I ' i ! ' , ' n she wrote about Judy Gar land. Miss Torre, whose column appears in the New York Her-. aid Tribune, had no comment on the high court's action. Ogden R. Reid, editor of the newspaper, indicated he would have no comment un til he had discussed the case, with counsel. The Herald Tribune sup ported Miss Torre's appeal of the lower court ruling, in which she said the Supreme Court decision would have "an immediate effect on the willingness of news sources to transmit news in confi-1 dence to reporters and news media." i May Suspend Sentence Miss Torre has been free in her own custody. It war understood that a date will' be set for her surrender with in three weeks, when official word of Monday's decision is received in the U.S. Court House in New York. Ryan has the prerogative of ordering Miss Torre to serve the full sentence or part of it, and if he wishes, he may suspend sentence. Months ago Miss Garland was feuding with the Colum--bia Broadcasting System about contractual obligations to appear on CBS television. In a Herald-Tribune article of Jan. 10, 1957, Miss Torre ; quoted an unidentified CBS employee as saying, in part, that Miss Garland had a "highly 'developed inferiority complex." Something is bother ing her," the story quote con-" tinued. "I wouldn't be sur prised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." Judy Filet Suit Miss Garland filed a $1,393,- 333 breach of contract and libel suit against CBS, in which she charged that CBS had authorized publication of false and defamatory matter about her. In the pre-trial examina tion, Miss Torre was asked She refused, contending that sucn revelation oi sources would dry up a newspaper man's source of information. Ryan ordered Miss Torre to name the source. She refused and Ryan sentenced her to 10 days for criminal contempt of court. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling. ; and devotion are studied and exemplified. AU the great leaders of the world are hailed as the men they were when they were at the top; all but Josus, that is. We forget that they were even babes at alL So why do we keep Jesus a babe in our worship, when He is truly King of the World, and King of Kings? Why don't we adore that King on His Birthday according to His Majesty and Power? A man courageous and gracious - pi ugh to be crucified for our sakes. A man kind and loving, pati nt and understanding. A man ready to forgive and ready to help. A man who reached greater maturity and divinity than anyone has ever achieved and through our God healed many who suffered from disease and affliction. He is on His throne in Hea ven, it is to in is tnrone we should approach to worship Him at Christmas time, in awe at His great Majesty and Love. The birthday of our King! We need to think of Him as a King, not a babe. We need to raise our voices in His praise and thangskiving that God has given us this wondrous gift. And when we have raised Him up, He will return unto us to remove the evils from the earth. Frances Ray Ralston, Wash. Fred Brennan GREAT FOR GROCERIES, BUT . . . Self service insurance does not always supply the answers you need . . . 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