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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordS2sTribuiie "Everyone In Southern Oregon x ne man inDune' Published Daily except Saturday by . 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. ROHL. Editor HERB GREYAdvertising Manager utnALU LATHAM. Business Mgr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE EKICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Meciford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1857 SUBSCRIPTION PATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Offi.-lal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of jacmon county United Press International Ful' 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOC!) AT EZHmQBETJLIIO 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. 10, 1943 (Friday) Santa's arrival is delayed until Monday by unfavorable weather conditions, but the community Christmas tree should be installed this week end. The Talent fire department receives a new 500 gallon pumper fire truck. 20 YEARS AGO . Dee. 10, 1933 (Saturday) A new brewery establish ment is planned pn North Fir St. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Owing to the participants being un able to get a license, there has been no grounds for a shivaree in . the county, for close to ten days." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 10, 1928 (Monday) Four refugee families from the Midwest, beset by floods and "other Middle West in conveniences," have come to Medford and are stranded here without funds or food. The first carload of Rogue valley turkeys departs for New York, and should arrive in ample time for yule feasts. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 10. 1918 (Tuesday) : Medford residents appear on the streets in flu masks. The farmers' bureau sys tem is to be inaugurated here along lines recommended by federal departments. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In which of his Epistles did St. Paul discuss women? 2. Which of these is lowest in intelligence a moron, an idiot, or an imbecile? 3. With which Italian city do you associate the song "Santa Luica"? 4. Appomattox is an Indian word meaning "Tobacco plant country." In which State is Appomattox? 5. Who wrote: "Man's in humanity to man makes count less thousands mourn?" 6. When atmospheric pres sure is increased, does it raise or lower the boiling point of water? 7. Is the city of Detroit sit uated on one of the Great Lakes? t 8. Wandering tribes are called n s? 9. If you count from 1 up to 100, how many times will you use the figure 5? 10. The Parliament of the Dominion of Canada meets in which city? Answers: 1. First Corinthi ans. 2. Idiot. 3. Naples. 4. Vir ginia. 5. Robert Burns. 6. Raise.. 7. No. 8. Nomads. 9. Twenty times. 10. Ottawa. PLANE SETS RECORD London-dTD-A Pan Ameri can Boeing 707 jet airliner crossed the Atlantic Tuesday night in 5 hours, 56 minutes. It was a record for passenger planes. The jet clipped 16 minutes off the previous West East time for the 3,350-mile flight established in October by a British Comet IV jet. Wake Up, Two entirely separate items in the news last week had a rather ironic significance. The first was the Southern Pacific's announce ment that its crack north-south train between Portland and San Francisco, the Shasta Daylight, would be decreased from once-a-day service to three times a week during the winter months. The other was a report from West Coast Air lines on the immediate and enthusiastic passen ger reception to the new F-27 Fairchild aircraft, which was placed in service this fall. m "THEREBY hangs a tale of aggressive, progres- sive, passenger-related modernization on one hand, and stogy, money-hungry, hang-back-and-collect-the-dough do-nothingism on the other hand. Let us grant that the railroads have handi caps. Let us grant that freight is easier to handle (and a heck of a lot more lucrative) than passen gers. Let us grant that us grant that railroad Let us even grant that per se, in running a profitable, as opposed to money-losing, operation. Let us grant all these looks like a moss-backed anachronism, little in terested in public relations, passenger comfort, or service to the people coast. yHE airline, on the other hand, is young, vigor- ' ous, and aware of the fact that its ultimate success lies, not in any monopoly situation, but in competition with rails, automobiles, busses and other airlines. It isn't afraid to expend huge sums in new and expensive equipment, like the F-27 turboprops. It isn't afraid to advertise, to let the whole world know what its service is, to brag-a little, politely, that it is out to give its passengers the best pos sible service, in the best and fastest and most convenient equipment. Wouldn't it.be interesting to see what would happen if, through some wildly - improbable stroke of fortune, the board of directors ot W est Coast Airlines (or almost any other airline, for that matter) suddenly, and for a period of one year', were suddenly placed in charge of the SP? DERHAPS all the retrenchments, the slashing . of service, the ill-tempered rejections of criti cism, the whining over the cost of equipment and service, the complaints over lack of patronage, the lack of aggressive promotion and courteous attention to patrons, the battles in the courts and before utilities commissioners to drop service perhaps all these things would not be corrected overnight. But if 'those airlines directors became SP directors, we would undoubtedly see a startling change in the monolithic idity of the high profitable railroad empire. It would be refreshing, fresh air replace hot air in the sanctum of the railroad. We might even see some fast, modern, comfortable and convenient rail equipment in Southwestern Oregon. But, shucks. Pinch us, ing. E. A. - . ' Legislature After long and prodigious effort, a small group of members of Congress, led by Oregon's Sen. Richard L. Neuberger and California's Sen. Thomas KucheL.this year were successful in ob taining passage of a watered-down bill to make it easier for states to write rules and regulations limiting billboards on federal highways. The bill certainly was a big step in the right direction. But it left the initiative up to the states, of fering them the incentive of y2 of 1 per cent of federal highway funds in addition to regular al locations, if the states met the standards set up in the federal law. "THE time is fast approaching when Oregon's legislature will be asked to pass an Oregon law to take advantage of this. It should do so, we strongly feel, with decis iveness and dispatch. Oregon has more to gain, and more to lose, by action or inaction than most states. It has un matched scenery, it has a . burgeoning tourist trade, it has new highways as yet only lightly scarred by the encroachments of billboards. . "THE Oregon Highway Interim committee, after a study of highway and park needs, is quoted as saying "there is not yet sufficient information available upon which a proper decision concern ing legislation (on billboard control) could be made." The Oregonian calls this "patently absurd." The Oregonian is right, but doesn't go far enough. What added information is necessaiy, for Pete's sake? We all know what billboards are, don't we?. We all know what they do to scenic highways, don't we? IF THE legislature succumbs to the . lobbv. and fails to act, or acts only gap and half-hearted manner, the state stands to lose. If, however, it acts forthrightly and strongly, to place Oregon in the forefront of states which are going to protect their scenery for tourists and residents alike, going to serve notice that tax built highways are not going to be subsided alley ways for the promotion of beer, buns and Band Aids, the state stands to gain. It's as 'simple as that. E. A. J air transport is faster. Let equipment is expensive. there is nothing wrong, things, and the SP still of the fast-growing west and unshatterable stol to say the least, to see someone. We re dream Must Act billboard in a stop- Dreamer! Dennis the Menace 'Managing People1 Seen Future Task In Forested Areas San Francisco -(DPD Walter H. Reed president of the West ern Forestry conference, said today the problem of manag ing people will equal that of managing forests in the next few decades. Reed, chief forester for the Collins Pine Company of Chester, Calif., (a company affiliated with Elk Lumber Co. of Medford) made the statement in the opening ad dress of the conference's 49th annual session. "If we seem crowded today in California with 14 million people, think what it will be like in 1975 with 28 million people," he said. "Forty per cent of the future U. S. popu lation is expected to set up housekeeping in the West." Pressures To Build Reed said this would mean less acreage available for for ests, plus intensifying pres Signs of Kremlin Split Seen Over Tough Berlin Policies By STEWART HENSLEY Washington -(UPD- American authorities said today there is some evidence to suggest a split among top Soviet lead ers over Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's tough Ber lin policy and his handling of some other foreign policy matters. They reported credible signs in recent weeks that some members of the Soviet Politburo are challenging the wisdom of Khrushchev's ac tion in forcing the Berlin cri sis, including his ultimatum to the Western Allies to get out of the city within six months. There also is evidence, these sources said, that the two Russian delagations en- More Funds Urged For Oregon Dams Salem -(DPD The WiUamette River Basin Project Commit tee at its annual meeting Tuesday urged more funds for immediate construction of Green Peter dam on the San tiam river and Blue River dam on the McKenzie river. The committee also decided to ask Congress for more con struction funds for Hills Creek and Cougar dams. List, ed as next in importance by the committee were requests for continued planning money for Fall Creek dam on the middle fork of the Willamette and Holley dam on the Cala-pooya. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF FROM THE OUTSET of her career, Katharine Cornell was a dedicated actress. When she played in "Anthony and Cleo patra" in Buffalo, her home town, she performed her death scene perfectly, tnen lay motionless on the stage for several minutes while others of the cast delivered their final lines. Later, in Miss Cornell's dressing room, a friend commented, "Kit was su perb in her last scene. When she was supposed to be dead she never moved a muscle. You could only tell by- the slight tremor of her chest that she was alive at all." Miss Cornell's father cautioned, "Please, please! Don't let Kit hear you or tomorrow night she'll stop bream ing!" , Hugh O'uiu-, TVs "Wyatt Earp," told a gin ui me cast, "I'm spending my vacation this year in the Canadian Rockies. I've always wanted to see Lake Louise and Banff." "Sounds great," agreed the girl, "but how do you Banff?" 133S, fey Bennett Cert retributed by lUa Features Syndicate. r sures for water, timber sup plies, recreation, mining and grazing. He recommended that "we must demonstrate tolerance of multiple use." "We must inform the pub lic about basic forest values," he said. "We must not lock up timber for single-use groups to the economic detriment of an entire area." Forestry counsel H. R. Glasscock Jr. told the conven tion that despite a vigorous year of outstanding accomp lishment in western forestry, storm clouds looming on the horizon in 1958 include a growing timber taxation problem, some resurgence of insect attacks and renewed at tacks by groups seeking to zone forest areas for single use or restricted use. Asks Multiple Use Glasscock also called for the practice of multiple use gaged in disarmament negoti ations with the West at Gene va are not getting clear-cut di rections from Moscow at this time. ' Serov Show-Down Victim A power struggle in the Kremlin could explain the sudden removal of Gen. Ivan A. Serov as chairman of Rus sia's state security commit tee, the top police job in the country, auhorities said. Serov may well have been a casualty as Khrushchev and his opponents jockeyed for po sition in preparation for a policy showdown, they added, They pointed out that in power contests among offi cials in an authoritarian coun try the chief of the secret po lice frequently falls by the way because one or another of the disputants doubts his loyalty. There still is a considerable degree of collective leader ship at the top in the Soviet Union, officials said, despite appearance sometimes that Khrushchev is running a one- man show. And the possibil ity of a shakeup in the Krem lin is never ruled out here. The intelligence reaching Washington suggests that some Politiburo members feel that Khrushchev's probing ac tions at the Western defense perimeter and his tough atti- ture on Berlin are strength ening the ant i-Communist front. Colleagues Fear War There also are indications some of Khrushchev's col leagues fear he is courting the n.-io Mrs. Roosevelt Once Again Comes Out Against Sen. John Kennedy as Candidate By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (DPD - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has thrown her high hard one again at Sen. John Fitzgerald Kennedy which is not good news for the Kennedy for - president managers. The occa sion this time was last Sun day's TV Col lege News C o n f e rence le C. Wils WHUj. i n a i made it three times in nine months that Mrs. Roosevelt publicly has challenged the senator's fitness to be presi dent. First was last march in a Saturday Evening Post ar ticle which the magazine headlined like this: "Mrs. Roosevelt tells about her dis agreement with the former President Harry S. Truman and about the unheeded ad vice sne gave Aaiai oieveu son. As for the current front runner, young Sen. Kennedy, she takes a dim view of him." Mrs. Roosevelt charged that Kennedy had avoided taking a stand on the issue which she defined as "McCarthy- ism." She acknowledged that Kennedy was ill and hospital ized in 1954 by a World War II injury and, therefore, could not have been present in the Senate when the votes were taken on the McCarthy issue. forestry. "Cooperative effort is the answer to our problems," he said. "Private and public for- rest agencies have more in common tnan tney nave in controversy." The year's top award for achievement in western for estry went to Charles S. Co wan ol Seattle, wasn. ine Forest fire expert retired last April after serving 31 years as manager of Washington Forest Protection association Some 500 forest managers and tree farmers from 11 western states and British Columbia are attending the conference, which ends on Friday. possiblity of war if he goes through with his threat to turn East Berlin over to the German Communists and force the Allies to deal with the unrecognized puppets or fight their way into the West ern sectors of the encircled city. British and American offi cials have recognized the pos sibility that Khrushchev eventually may seek some face-saving way to retreat from his tough Berlin posi tion. This is one of the reasons they favor a counter-proposal for a Big Four meeting on the entire problem of German reunification instead of mere ly a flat rejection of the Rus sian demand. Unify of Arab People Inevitable Portland (DPD An Arab spokesman said here Tuesday the unity of 700 million peo ple of the "Arab World" of North Africa and the Middle East is inevitable. Abdel Moneim El-Khedry, consul general of the United Arab Republic at San Fran cisco, said "Arab unity is on the move as a giant who is willing to share the responsi bilities inherent to civilization and to the destiny of man." He said there was no real struggle or fight between Arabs. "Certainly we quarrel, but like brothers. Nothing serious," he said. Postage Stamp Reminder Issued Washington -(DPD-A Christ mas reminder from the Post Office department. A four-cent stamp is re quired for unsealed Christmas cards mailed overseas and to Canada and Mexico. Last year unsealed Christ mas cards to Canada carried a two-cent stamp. The new rates on international printed matter became effective on Aug. 1. Unsealed cards sent to des tinations within the United States can be mailed with a three cent stamp. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat. talk, laugh er sneeze without fear of Insecure fate teeth dropping. slipping or wobbling. FASTEi.ru holds Dlat.es firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or iung. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTE3CTH at any drug counter. She complained, however, that when Kennedy was asked about the matter two years later he had not, in her judg ment, stated where he stood. She opposed, therefore, the 1956 effort to nominate Ken nedy for vice president. Kennedy Sought Support Mrs. Roosevelt's Saturday Evening Post article related that Kennedy sought her sup port in 1956 for the Demo cratic vice presidential nom ination and that she then asked him his position on Mc Carthy. "He replied," she wrote, "in about the words he had previously used in talking to reporters, saying that the Mc Carthy condemnation 1954 censure vote was 'so long ago' that it did not enter the cur rent situation. But he did not say where he stood on the issue and I did not support him." In her book, "On My Own,'' published this year, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the sub ject of Kennedy and Mc Carthy. She acknowledged in the book that she may have mis Hatemongering, Terrorism Rise Together in Crisis in South By WILLIAM R. McINTYRE Washington Dynamiting of public schools and of syn agogues and other Jewish cen ters in the South has gone hand in hand with an increas ing flow of anti-Negro and anti-Jewish literature. A direct connection be tween perpetrators of the bombing outrages and pur veyors of the hate publica tions is strongly suspected but not yet proved. Light may be thrown on the question dur ing the trial, begun Dec. 1, of the first of five men indicted on charges of dynamiting At lanta's Jewish Temple. Schools Blasted ' The Atlanta temple bomb ing, Oct. 12, caused $200,000 damage. Only a week earlier, the high school at Clinton, Tenn., suffered even larger damage from explosion of three charges of dynamite. An integrated school at Osage, W. Va., was virtually destroy ed in the same way on Nov. 10. In the past year or so, dynamite blasts have also damaged Negro or integrated schools or Jewish synagogues or community centers in Chat tanooga, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, and a few places outside the South. Each bomb ing has been followed by a rash of telephoned bomb threats or warnings. Most of the hate literature flooding the South has come from outside. It has been esti mated that around two score monthly or semi-monthly pub lications are currently in the business of fomenting racial or religious animosity. Those now circulating in southern states include several put out by old-line anti-Semetic agi tators. Inflammatory hand outs, flyers, and pamphlets supplement the other publica tions. New Audience Fears generated by the Su preme Court's desegregation ruling offered a fresh field for exploitation by anti-Jewish fanatics. The extremists at tracted a new audience simply by adding Negroes to the list of those they disliked. And the audience was expanded as the resylt of a shortage of native literature to support the White Citizens Councils that spread over the South. Members of the councils were segregation ists rather than hatemongers, but a lot of the printed ma terial imported to promote the cause was as much anti-Jewish as pro-segregationist. Given the intense hostility to school integration that ex ists in a large part of the South, it is logical to assume that publications lashing out at Negroes and Jews bear some of the blame for the re cent terrorist acts. However that may be, the outbreaks of violence have dismayed most southern leaders and caused them to repeat earlier warn ings to avoid lawless acts in fighting desegregation. May Need Legislation The F.B.I, has been cooper ating with state and local au OH, MY ACHING BACK Now ! You can get the fut relief von need from nagging backache, headache and muscular aches and pains that often cause restless nights and miserable tired-out feelings. When these discomforts come ea with over-exertion or stress and strain you want relief want it fast ! Another disturbance may be mild bladder irritation followingwrong food and drink often set ting up a restless uncomfortable feeling. 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Rockefeller, the Republi can Gov.-elect of New York. She replied she hoped no such choice would be made, add ing that she would do all she could "to have us (the Demo crats) nominate for president someone at least, who we felt did not have any of the diffi culties that might possibly come up if Sen. Kennedy were nominated." Packed a Wallop Mrs. R. did not mention the McCarthy issue on TV, but thorities attempting to track I down persons responsible for the bombings. But because some doubt exists about ex tent of the F.B.I.s authority in cases of this kind, Congress may be asked at the coming session to make it a federal crime to transport explosives in interstate commerce for the purpose of damaging religious or educational buildings. Dy namite used in such bombings would be presumed to have been brought across state lines. Cracking down on hate lit ererature is harder. Use of the mails to transmit indecent matter is prohibited, and the term "indecent" has been de fined to include "matter of a character tending to incite ar son, murder, or assassina tion." A proposal now under In the Day's News By FRANK The people of West Berlin held an election on Sunday. Technically, it was an elec tion to choose city officials Actually it was a straw vote (plebiscite is the fancy word the diplomats use) to find out what the PEOPLE of West Berlin think of the Soviet pro posals to drive the West out of Berlin. 1IELL,. they found out. " At Sunday's election, 93.1 per cent of the TOTAL ELECTORATE went to the polls. Of those who went to the polls, 98.1 per cent voted against the Soviet proposals. The communists got only 1.9 per cent of the votes cast - and this came from a sec tion of the city that was known as a communist strong hold even in Hitler's day. These West Berliners don't scare very easily, do they? THE big question: What shall WE do about it? THIS is the situation: West Berlin is the resi dual mess resulting from the Allied decision to turn the bulk of Eastern Europe over to Russia. When we and the British and the French re alized what had been done, we tried to back up a little. The result was the Russian i agreement to a four-power oc cupation of Berlin, witn the British, the French and the Americans occupying West Berlin and the Russians tak ing over East Berlin. Under Western administra tion, West Berlin became an island of liberty and prosperi ty in a sea of communist slav ery and poverty - meaning poverty of the PEOPLE. As such, it has become a thorn BEAUTIFUL Mountain View CHAPEL Nestled near the pines, overlooking the eternal hills. Quiet, peaceful c M. Litwiller surroundings with adequate off-street parking. Serv ing all who call, with dignity and reverence. Superior funeral and ambulance service since 1935. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close her words packed a lot of wallop. She called Kennedy a charming young man whose father had been spending oodles (her word) of money all over the country and in whose behalf there probably now is a representative in every state. She summed up, however, by saying she did not want in the White House a president "who understands what cour age is, and admires it, but has not quite the independ ence to have it." There is reason to believe that Kennedy's position on McCarthy is firmer than Mrs. Roosevelt suspects and, per haps, not far from her own. It appears, however, that the young senator must state it publicly to convince her, if he desires to do that. Beyond dealing with the senator, Mrs. R. opined that Stevenson, a two-time loser, would not be nominated again. Her 1930 choice as of now appears to be an am bitious and aggressively able Minnesota Democrat, Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey. Hum phrey also is young, 47 years. discussion would extend the definition to include matter inciting violence against pub lic or private property. An other proposal would bar the mails to material defaming racial or religious groups. The trouble is that such prohi bitions might some day be used to suppress legitimate criticism. In the end, public revulsion may do more than legislation to put an end to acts of sheer hate like the school and syn agogue bombings. When all southerners realize that de nunciation of dynamite crewi and hate cabals does not en tail acceptance of racial inte gration, public opinion may become so aroused that the fapatics and extremists will no longer dare to go against it. JENKINS in the Russian side. It has to be eliminated in order to get rid of the unfavorable com parison between communism and freedom. That's about the size of it. WHAT to do? Shall we run? Or shall we stand pat? IF WE run, we'll lose face throughout the world. 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