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3 4 TTiurtdjy, December 18, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE Medfo: ;UHB . "Iveryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORO PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Ms ,lgr. ERIC V. ALLEN JK, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of - March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES B Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos- 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4 AS Sunday Only One year $450. Bi Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Paint. Jacksonville. Gold P. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes DaKy and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1M Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Offt.-lal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver.- B.C. NEWS PA Pit k ruBiiSHi is "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASS0C3T Flight 'oTime Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1948 (Saturday) Jackson county extension agents and members of the Southern Oregon Experiment station staff return from the annual extension conference at Corvallis. Students are now returning for the holidays from various points of the compass.-' , . 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1938 (Sunday) The "marriage license strike" continues as prospec tive couples dodge Oregon red tape and go to Yreka, Calif, for official sanction. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A move is on foot to start the new year right, and get the Christmas greenery off the lamp posts before St. Patrick's Day." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 18. 1928 (Tuesday) Albert Burch is elected new president of the Jackson County Fruitgrowers league. Interest grows apace in the outdoor Christmas lighting contest here. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1918 (Wednesday) Flu mask opponents plead through cheesecloth in a vain attempt to persuade the city council to repeal the mask or dinance. The post office reports ex tremely light Christmas busi ness and expresses fears of an eleventh-hour deluge. Vhai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot six is good. 1. On what. British ship, under the command of Cap tain Bligh, did a notable mu tiny occur in the Pacific? 2. In scoring in tennis, what does "love" mean? 3. What is a codicil? . 4. Who was the author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?" 5. Anchorage is a town which U.S. Territory? in 6. What do the initials AS CAP signify? 7. If an animal were de scribed as innocuous, would it be harmless or harmful? 8. The Oberammergau Pas sion Play is scheduled at how many years' intervals, in nor mal times? 9. The famous "Venus of Milo" statue is notable in that its arms are folded, up raised, or missing? 10. In bowling "duckpins" what is the maximum score one can make in a single frame? Answers: 1. H.M.S. Bounty. 2. Nothing scored. 3. Supple ment to a Will. 4. Thomas Gray. 5. Alaska. 6. American Society of Composers, Au thors and Publishers. 7. Harmless. 8. 10 year inter vals. 9. Missing. 10. 30. "Why Should I. "Why should I give?" That is a good question, and one which should be answered by each of the many, many groups and organizations out to raise funds for this or that purpose. And there are lots United Medford Crusade, the Salvation Army, the Shakespearean Festival building fund, to name only a few of the strictly local ones. Coming up wall be the March of Dimes, and a host of other appeals, all of them with some validity, as the new year rolls around. 'T'HERE are, indeed, so many appeals for funds that the donation-minded individual must needs use some discretion, both as to cause and amount, or he'll find himself oversubscribing the amount in his budget allocated to gifts. Most of the appeals can make a good case for their causes. Most of them are worthy, in one way or another. The UMC, for instance, is the main support of more than a dozen worth-while organizations which are doing a job for the com munity and, in particular, its young people. The Seal sale, of course, supports the Jackson County Health association, which has done so much to limit tuberculosis, and to raise the gen eral tenor of public and individual health stand ards in this community. "THE Salvation Army, with its tinkling bells and its Christmas pots, is the most direct "charity" of the lot, and it makes Christmas a far finer time of year for many who otherwise would be faced with a pretty bleak holiday. The Shakespearean drive is in a little different category than any of the others mentioned,, and for some people it is easy to give a negative "Why should I give?". ' A communication on question, and concludes that other things a hospital in Ashland, for instance, or a Junior High school there are far worthier of gifts than is the festival. UR correspondent's motives are both worthy and understandable. The fact remains, however, that junior high schools are the responsibility of taxpayers of the school district, and no one has yet started a cam paign for a new Ashland hospital although that may be coming some time in the future. So neither of these worthy causes is, as yet, a reason to turn down an appeal to give to the Shakespearean Festival building camapign. AS TO why anyone SHOULD give, that is of " course purely a matter of individual choice. But there are good reasons, both for those who DO like to watch Shakespeare's plays, and those who don't but who DO have a stake in this area's economy. It isn't limited to businessmen, either not by a long shot. If an brought a total purchasing power of some $4 to $6 million into the valley each year were threat ened with ruin, everyone would know how that would affect each of us whether we be busi nessmen, doctors, bus-drivers or office workers. It's the same with the festival. Happily, it is beginning to look as though the goal will be reached, with the last-ditch hard work of the vol unteer fund-raisers still to be done. The non-profit theater is not in the same class with hospitals or schools, but in its own way it is a mighty impor tant part of our community. b.A. - What About Beards? Well, men, shall we tennial? Let's 'fess up now. Every man-jack of us has wondered wrhat we'd look like in a Van Dyke, a goatee or full-blown chin-whiskers. Once we've found out, we're glad to lather up. But we'll never know for sure until we ve a few weeks. The last time Salem grow beards was during the city's centennial in J 1940. Quite a 'crop of chin shrubbery sprang up then, too. Since then, however, almost a whole generation of little shavers has come of age. This is about the last excuse we'll have for a while. The State's centennial just about winds up the 100-year observations around here. Itf will be another 30 years or so before, we start in on the sesqui-centennials. , "IITE EXPECT to get no encouragement from the ladies in this matter, but how will we know the tourists from the natives next year with out whiskers? Most men haven't got a strong enough itch to grow a beard to play a lone-wolf role. We'll have to bolster one another's courage. Talk about itches, though, there's nothing itches worse than a new beard. And that soft skin around the neck is just made for ingrown hairs. Those first few days, a man can't help but look like a tramp.-And when the weather gets hot, chins start to sweat. Then there's the "torture' of cutting the darn thing off and starting to shave cheeks and jowls that haven't been used to a razor. On second thought, maybe we'll go along with raising beards if everybody else wants to, but we'll be darned if we'll start the 1959 style. Oregon Statesman, Salem. 99 of them, these days. The the Christmas Seal sale, Festival building; fund answer to the question, this page raises -this industrial payroll which grow beards for the Cen put away the shaver for men had an excuse to Dennis the Menace 'OtiE THING COWERS MS- MOW COMB HE ALWAYS GAYS 'HA-HA-UA-ilQ'HO-UO' WHEN I ASK. HIM FOR A POHV?' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. although under certain circumstances 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 is often the cast Supports UMC Plea To the Editor: I would sin cerely endorse the letter from Mrs. Wimberley that you pub lished yesterday. I have work ed closely over a period of years with many of the ag encies included within United Medford Crusade. I know that even the relatively small amounts that will be neces sarily subtracted from their budget requests will seriously hamper their usefulness. The fact that they are included within U.M.C. means that their proposed budgets were carefully reviewed by a group of realistically minded, per sons and ascertained to be devoid of any unnecessary ex penditures. I also know that most of the persons hired by these agencies work at salaries gen erally below what they could earn in general commerce or industry. They are trained in their work, capable of organ izing the large number of vol unteers who actively carry the various programs. No better Christmas use can be made of money taken from reducible expenditures for social or perfunctory, recogni tion of the season. A hundred Christmas cards represents, at least, $4 postage. A gift of half the cost you had in mind will as adequately contain your remembrance. A large share of the cards or presents your business sends out are received with casual atten tion. For the good of our worthy services and charitable organ izations, I would like to see the fund deficit made up by extra giving from the whole community. It means so , much more in good will than just a tax deduction lump sum gift from "an anonymous donor." (N.B.-We will take them both, in that order). Seth M. Bullis 15 Florence ave. Medford Wagons To the Editor: A 1959 cen tennial booster friend pre sented the writer with a small replica souvenir of the fa mous "old Oregon trail" cov erd Conestoga wagon. Now that reminds us, how many young old. timers can name all the parts in the assembly of the complete "prairie schoon er" or the more modern farm wagon, without first consult ing a dictionary or encyclo pedia for assistance? We , can think of 28 names- of parts, but probably the correct num ber is around 35 or more. One of our prized relics is Try and -By BENNETT CERF- LEWIS NICHOLS tells of the stern, erect, conservatively at tired Bostonian who encountered author John Marquand at the Harvard club one afternoon and announced, "Ive read all your books, Mr. Marquand, and let me tell you this. You never wrote anything bet- ter than 'Sorrel and Son.' " N "Thank you," nodded Mr. Marquand with the trace of a smile, "but that Wasn't mine. 'Sorrel and Son' was written by Warwick Deep ing." "Nonsense!" snapped the Bostonian, and stalked off to the wash room. . "Junior!," exclaimed a shocked mother. "Who4aught you those disgraceful words?" "Santa Claus," responded Junior demurely. "What fantasy!" said the mother. "When did you ever hear Santa Claus use language like that?" "Right in this room last Christmas eve," explained Junior, "when those packages fell out of his hands and he knocked the whole tree ever." O 185. by Bennett Cert, Distributed by King Features Syndicate. the use of a pen name or initial a small book published around 1886, called "The Complete Wagon Painter," giving full details of the art of carriage painting, striping and so on, when Studebaker, Bain, Mitchell and a few oth er wagon companies were in competition in the wagon makers' market. Studebaker Brothers started wagon busi ness in a blacksmith shop in South Bend, Ind. Bert Kissinger 520'Boardman st. Medford Hospital, School, Theater To the Editor: Can anyone tell me why I should donate to the building of the Shake spearean Festival's new thea ter? Ask me why I should donate to help build a new hospital or junior hieh and I could give you the answer. A new hospital and junior high in Ashland is sorely needed. An,d not one dime can they get for a cause, to bene fit our children and everyone. . That "old hospital" is a fire trap. I understand the, doctors even refused, to operate in it, as the equipment is so out of date, they are afraid to take a chance 'with it. How about the junior high? Condemned as a fire trap. And yet they want us to do nate $275,000 to build a thea ter for a few people to go see a bunch of out of state "ac tors" perform, which I ran t understand. Who benefits? The merchants. Let them build it! Build a hospital in Ash land! I'll donate. I did for our hospital here in Medford. Don E. Tackly 127 Tripp st. Medford No Sales Tax To the Editor: I was shock ed by the position on taxes stated over KBES-TV Mon day evening by our chamber of commerce. From what I heard, this group of business men advocate the establish ment of a sales tax, and the elimination of personal prop erty taxes. Just another way of saying "Let the well-to-do folks with the fine cars and big houses get out from un der their share of govern ment costs, and soak the working-man." They want to substitute the sales tax so they can take away an even larger slice of the average man's income. The sales tax is, I believe, the most UNFAIR tax since England's tea tax. Mr. Aver age Man spends the greater part of his income on neces sities, plain food, work cloth- Stop Me CLUS i s u Highway Patrol Chief Writes To Defend Enforcement; He's Mad at Recklessness (Editor's note: The foU lowing letter, written by G. . R. Carrel, chief of the Colorado state patrol, first appeared in the Denver (Colo.) Post a few rears ago, and since has been re printed in a number of oth er -papers as a vigorous example of how law en forcement people feel about reckless drivers. It was most recently reprinted in the Corpus Chrisli (Texas) Caller, and was sent to the Mail Tribune by William Kzause, Gold Hill, now va cationing there.) It could just be that you are the , person who wrote me that letter the other day. You really told me off. You said one of my dumb high way patrolmen had given you a ticket for speeding when you had a legitimate reason for being in a hurry. According to your letter which you didn't sign, you think the highway patrol could make better use of its time by chasing down the real menaces to safety on the highways instead of bother ing upstanding citizens like yourself. Oh, you were quite indig nant. You went on to say that you were on urgent busi ness, that you never had been in an accident of your own making; that you are a fast driver but a safe driver, and moreover, that you are a more important man to the community than the stupid cop who gave you the ticket. He's Mad Too Well now, let me tell you something. I'm mad too. I'm mad all the time although Annual Yule Event Set for School The annual Christmas pro gram at Howard school will be at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, in the school, according to Principal Harold Boner. Parents and patrons of the district are invited to come at 7 o'clock to inspect the rooms, which have been decorated for Christmas. The program at 8 p.m. will feature students of the third grade music classes. ing, minimal housing, utili ties, and low to medium priced transport. He has little to spare for private swim ming pools, prestige cars, and estates on skyline drive. These same necessities cost the wealthy no more. Mr, "Gotrox's" higher cost of liv ing is principally due to his appetite for "the finer things", Cadillacs instead of Chevvies' , lavish entertain ment, furs, jewelry, and ten derloin instead of hamburg er. Yet, our chamber of com merce cries that the "Got- roxes," poor people, are un able to bear the heavy load of personal property taxes, and that we working folks should take their burden on our bowed shoulders,-by way of the sales tax on our necessities. Another point: Sales taxes are tremendously expensive to collect and administer. They are collected daily by the merchants, who must then spend extra for book keeping, and report (and pay) then to the state bi-monthly. Do you think br'er merchant is going to take this cost out of his own pocket, fr.ee, out of his great love for his fel low men? Haw haw haw! Sucker! He ups the price of beans, and YOU, friends, pay BOTH the tax, and the extra cost of handling it. In addition, collecting six times a year instead of once means much more cost to the state, so that it is very un likely that even one-half of the tax you pay will ever be available for any useful purpose. It will be eaten up by administrative costs and waste, just as it has hi Wash ington, California, and every other sales tax-ridden state. No sales tax, friends, and refuse to trade with those who would hang it around your neck!!!! Glyndon O. Loomer, Route 1, Box 182, Rogue River, Ore. Vicious and Anonymous To the Editor: Here is the original, unsigned and ignor ant letter I received after writing a Communication in your paper. If this is an ex ample of the "yes" side of the parking problem, quote me as saying "I am glad to vote no again," and J. also have the unashamed audacity to sign my name. Mrs. Howard Glascock 233 Beatty st. ' ' Medford ' The letter received by Mrs. Glascock follows: , Old Lady Glascock: It's people like you who hold back progress. Living in that area is for bums and I guess that is trouble with world today. Once a bum, al ways a bum. my anger is not directed at you alone. So far as you're concerned, I'm happy that we were able to catch you in time. I hope we taught you a lesson, although I'm afraid we didn't. I hope we taught you something before you have to learn it the hard way in a hospital, or you wind up on a morgue slab. It makes me feel good that we were able to slow you down before you killed your-self-or maimed somebody else who was driving care fully to protect both himself and you, too! What makes me mad? A lot of things. I'm burned up be cause people as intelligent as you sometimes behave like idiots, I've seen a lot in my service with the highway pa trol. I've had to look at things that would turn your stomach. They made me sick, too, because I'm not different from you except that it's my business to keep you alive while you're driving, even if I- have to stop you and haul you off to jail. . . I wouldn't have to be so harsh, perhaps if you could see at first hand the murder and savage mutilation on our highway-your highways. Go to Scene I wish some time you would have to go with me to the scene of an accident. I would like to make you stand, as I have had to do, and watch the pitiful flopping of a man dying in a barrow pit, or help scrape the . bits of bone and mangled flesh of a whole family into bas kets at a grade crossing. You'd vomit as I have done. But you'd think differ ent the next time you got behind the wheel of an auto mobile. If some foreign power kill ed and wounded as many of our citizens as our motorists do each year-you would be ready to take up arms and fight to stop it. . And yet a great many who are responsible for this ter rible loss of life. and limb and lifelong suffering are in dividuals like yourself-'fast' but safe drivers and impor tant people in a big hot hurry. . . . The trouble with so many drivers is that they have dual personalities. Too often, a highly respected business man, a gentleman in his pro fession," and a social leader in the community, becomes a dangerous egotist behind the wheel. The respect he normally displays for his fel low citizens becomes sub merged in a conviction of su periority arising from his con trol of two tons of steel and 150 or 200 horsepower. He blows his horn at pedestrians or drivers who threaten to interfere with his lordly Droeress. Whatever lane he chooses is his exclusive property, and sometime he takes part of two lanes. He picks any speed that suits his fancy. He's Too Big He is too big to be any thing but contemptuous of the traffic officer who ques tions his driving ability. His favorite retort is 'I'll have your job for this, copper.' Maybe you're one of these big shots and that's what's bothering you. Or maybe you're one of the truvs who snends his life taking Milquetoasts-the meek little orders from the boss but who becomes a tyrant when he's driving. All he has to do to get even with the world is sten on the eas. He has as much right as anyone else and he will assert it even if it means killing himself or the other fellow. t Do you wonder that I'm mad all the time? So many of the people I do business with are downright stupid for no good reason. Yet any where but behind the wheel of a high-powered machine they're normal, intelligent, thinking, considerate humans. Then there are kids who should not be allowed the use of the family car until they learn common sense. ; I went home the other night saddened. I had listen ed to a father blubber like a baby. The last time I talked to him before that, he was lecturing me. His son was a good driver, he said. Sure, weaving in and out of traf fic, digging out on the green. Well, we had picked up the boy on two occasions and were ready to ground him for keeps. Then before we could do it, the serious smashup that we had anticipated hap pened. The boy's body was being wheeled out of the op erating room to the morgue when the father broke down and cried: 'I killed my own son trying to prove that I was right. I hate myself.' Just a Warning . Let me ask you: Do you belive we should allow some idiot to risk your life and the lives of your family mem bers just because he wants to be there in time for the kickoff? Would we be doing our duty in letting him off with just a few words of warning? What do you expect a cop to be anyhow? Do you want your highway patrolmen to be a bunch of weak-kneed, jelly-spined apologists who smile at a speeder, knowing that sooner or later he will cause an accident? Suppose we allowed every body else to drive the way you were driving when the patrolman stopped you. It wouldn't be long untif you and one of those others met met head on. And that would be that. Look in the truck cab at the roasted body of a driver In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: The East German commun ists tpid the West Tuesday morning that TIME IS RUN NING OUT for West Berlin and that the city's future MUST be negotiated. THAT'S one side of it. Let's look now at the other side. The Atlantic Pact council (which represents our side) unanimously rejected the Kremlin ultimatum on Ber lin after hearing U. S. Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles express confidence that Russia will not RISK WAR ON THE ISSUE. ' Dulles told America's allies who are meeting in Paris, that we are strong enough to ignore the Kremlin's propa ganda threats. He added: "We do not need to worry about Soviet threats. I am quite certain the Soviet Un ion will not risk war over Berlin. Therefore, we can proceed with confidence." THOSE are bold words. Are they justified? " In an effort to answer that question, let's turn to' Mos cow, where the Central Com mittee of the Communist party is meeting in the midst of Western speculation that it is. about to OUST former Premier Nikolai Bulganin from the party's ranks. Last spring Bulganin was fired as Soviet premier and was suc ceeded by Khrushchev. Yesterday's meeting of the committee was highlighted by a bitter blast by Mr. K. at Bulganin and the other anti party members, whom Khru shchev called 1 a "despicable group of wretched splitters O f ? ? ? ? ? Well, it's obvious that at the moment all isn't sweetness and light in the Kremlin When bitter hatreds are float ing around at home isn't a good time to start a war. If the Kremlin, presently bossed by Mr. K., should go to war over West Berlin this group of "wretched splitters" might take advantage of the flurry to trip up the anti-splitters. That wouldn't be good from Mr. K.'s standpoint. DIPLOMACY is a strange business. It's intricacies aren't understood by the gen eral run of us. What we don't understand, we are apt to be suspicious of. But it is well for us to remember that KEEPING ON TALKING is one of the prime objectives of diplomacy. As long as na tions can keep on talking they aren't too apt to fight. Even when they talk a bit To please accepted Ao-ou (rem WANK MORGAN - H Alt OLD DAY OR NIGHT V . . tW , '-tfOjT jazz. m mm who overturned while trying to let a hurry-boy pass with out crashing into the oncom ing automobile. Smell his hair burning, experience that nausea that comes from smell ing burning flesh, and then tell me to let a reckless driv er off easy. You tell the widow of the truckdriver that. Go to her house as I have had to do, and tell her that her man has been killed because a light-hearted bunch of fun-seekers were in a hurry. Look the truck driv er's kids in the eye and try to explain why their dad won't be-home. You tell 'em Buster. I'm too mad and too busy! rough, as Mr. Dulles did this morning. Jim Bishop, a Hearst syn dicate writer who often has some pretty good things to say, puts that thought thus in a recent column: "War is phenomenon that occurs when angry governments RUN OUT OF WORDS." He adds: "There are two ways to start a war by accident or by design. In this decade war would be unprofitable, even to the winners, and that is why most military men be lieve war will not come soon. "It could be started by ac cident an ambassador shot by a maniac; a bluff from which there is no return; a small war running out of con trol. But it isn't likely to be started by deliberate design." evenings POIVRE Caron captures in crystal all the dark enchantment of the East. A great crea tion exotic, spicy, inscru table, endowing its wearer with mystery and magic, suggesting subtle questions only she can answer. EXTRACT HO to (32.50. NOB PRESCCIPTIONSi DRUG CENTRE V FIRST f'oo Oat! you is our responsibility. the Courthouse SNODGRASS, FUWRAI DIRECTORS &
