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4 Friday, December 9, If 38 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE, "Everyone la Southern Orefva Raaria TVia Mail TiriViiia7' Published Daily except Saturday by JHUJtUKU riU.Ml.NU CO. 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-0141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. I. nil- IV. ALLL.l JH, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsoaner Entered as second class matter at Met ford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Cony 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 0 mot. S CO Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes Dal.y and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y lite All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jaeksoa 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. NEWSPAPEt . rUBHSHEIl "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASodj-JlgN December 19, 1958 Hint to the weatherman : We could use just a little less of that nasty, cold fog, please, particu larly from now to Christmas. Only four more shopping days. Is it really true that Christmas comes faster each year? Or is it only an effect of getting older? Each year at about this time, we hear people moaning about how Christmas isn't the way it used to be, and that it's too commercialized, and that they can't get excited about it any more, and why doesn't it come in July and so on and so on. We note, however, that these Scrooges, most of 'em, are pretty well softened up by the time the Big Day comes, and are just as sentimental as ever when the youngsters get those stars in their eyes at gift-unwrapping time. It's odd to read of brush fires in southern California the week before Christmas. And that 68-degree temperature in San Francisco yester day well ! Dennis the Menace Construction on the new Sears Roebuck and Company store on Jackson street continues de spite the fog. It s just a bit eerie to peer through the white blanket and dimlv discern the figures of construction men moving around, sort of like ghosts. Conflicting Stories Told of Dulles' Illness; Need for Frankness Emphasized By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - If there be occasions when it is right and decent to join in the cir- culation of rumors, per haps this is one of those occasions. The rumors concern the health of Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. A re- yle C. Wilson sponsioie dip lomat told a United Press In ternational reporter this week that Dulles' condition was such as to require delayed surgery on his return from the Paris NATO talks. Other equally responsible and presumably well inform ed news sources, much closer to the secretary, instanUy told UPI men that no surgery was in prospect. None claims, however, that Dulles is a well man. He was accompanied to Paris by a physician. Best judgment here is that his ill-ness-inflamation of the colon -just before leaving for Paris was quite serious, that his re cuperation was not complete Matter of Fact Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. It amazes us that more than $221,000 has been raised in just a little over a month for the Shake spearean Festival theater building. It's amazing and Heartening. Just a little more effort on the part of the fund-raising volunteers, and the goal will be achieved which would be a real New Year's present from the Rogue valley to itself. And how about a little extra boost for the United Medford Crusade? It's SO close to its goal! 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1948 (Sunday) The local Red Cross con tinues to dispatch Christmas gifts to the Roseburg Veter ans hospital. Prospect students prepare for the annual Christmas pro gram, which features a play about Mrs. Claus' entertain ing the toys Santa leaves be hind. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 19. 1938 (Monday) A reactorrter to test au tomobile drivers' reaction apeeds is being used for stu dents at Medford Senior High school. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The sales tax has two mean fea tures: it works, and nobody can get out of paying it." We wonder who is responsible for that tri angle of black asphalt at the corner of Eighth and King streets? Shouldn't that have been a little, landscaped park? Couldn't it still be? Can't the highway department do something about it? Can't the city ask them to? - Odd story, that one about prisoners in the county jail having a rather considerable sum of money. We've had a couple of telephone calls, protesting that no one could smuggle that much money in without its being found when the prison ers were searched before being admitted. But we got the story from those who did the searching, and stick with it. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1928 (Wednesday) Outdoor fog is more than matched by smoke from cigars doled out by Mayor O. O. Alenderfer at the city coun cil meeting. The Medford traffic depart ment starts a drive to relieve downtown parking congestion by tagging cars for parking violations. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1918 (Thursday) Mayor Gates raises hopes that the flu masks may be dispensed with in a few days if all goes well. Prominent Christian Scient ists here deny that they op pose the flu mask ordinance, What's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct is superior; even or eight it excellent; five of ix u good. the 1. Edmond Dantes is hero of "The Count of .... " by Dumas, the elder? 2. Would an anthro pophag inian be a prehistoric mons ter, a cannibal, or a henpeck ed husband? 3. "Little Necks" are young clams, or oysters? 4. Lacrosse is a sport that was originated by the French, British, or the North Ameri can Indians? 5. "Bojangles" was the nickname of which vell known Negro tap dancer? 6. In which Western state is Mt. Rainier National park? 7. Is the flageolet a precus sion, or a wood-wind musical instrument? 8. Name the capital of Greece. 9. Biceps are the muscles in the upper leg, or upper arm? 10. What is the opposite of flood tide? 1. Monte Cristo. 2. Cannibal- 3. Clams. 4. North American Indians. 5. Bill Robinson. 6. Washington. 7. Wood-wind. 8. Athens. 9. Upper arm. 10. Ebb tide. The 21st traffic death of the year was record ed Wednesday. And it was another case where it probably could have been avoided. If 21 persons were killed all at once, the whole county would be shocked right down to its toes. But apparently when they're killed one by one, we just get used to it. Our conscientious chief of police has again pointed out one of the principal traffic hazards the guy who has had too much Christmas "cheer," but won't admit it and insists on driving. And don't depend on coffee to sober you up either. It doesn't work. HAM FOR NERVES Jackson, Miss. - (UPD - Nerv ous? Try ham, not Miltowns, says Roy Cavender, pork mar keting specialist at Auburn Polytechnic Institute. Accord ing to Cavender, one serving of ham will provide 68 per cent of the daily thiamine needs of the average person. It's the thiamine content of tranquilizers that calms jit tery nerves, he said. We like firemen. We particularly like Med ford firemen. And we like them especially well at this time of year when they're completing their annual, selt-imposed job of collecting and repair ing a whole raft of toys to be distributed at Christ mas to youngsters who otherwise wouldn't have any. The same goes for the Lady Lions, who do the same thing with dolls. Bless 'em. What do people expect to accomplish when they write anonymous letters? It only reveals their own cowardice in failing to stand up for what they believe. Most of these letters, incidentally, are vicious and stupid, like the one sent to a Med ford woman this week in response to a perfectly intelligent, decent letter she'd written to this paper. When we get unsigned letters here at the paper, we chuck 'em in the waste-basket which is where they belong. We are tired of reading stories about Liberace and his family fuss in the paper, and we are also tired of reading about Elvis Presley. They have been fewer recently the stories, that is. One of the things we can be thankful for at Christmas. We received (and printed) a letter recently from Bemal S. Quayle, a real nice guy who is passenger traffic and public relations manager for the Southern Pacific company in Portland, in which he chided us for chiding the SP for its lack of rail passenger service in this area. In the letter he points out that competing airlines receive fed eral subsidies, the implication being that railroads (or at least the SP) don't. How about all those thousands upon thousands of acres which the SP and its predecessors received as land grants (sub sidies) in the early days? The SP still receives a considerable annual income from them at least in California and other southwestern states. In Oregon, the federal government took them back again when the railroad violated its original agreement as to how they could be sold. Four more shopping days! Hope the family secretary of health, education and welfare is doing well on her list. Best news of the day for those at the paper: Mrs. Earl Adams became the mothsr of a 10 pound boy this morning. Earl is the Mail Trib une's city editor. E.A. MEETING UNDER THREAT Paris -The Foreign Minis ters of the West are meeting under threat of a new Soviet offensive on all fronts con siderably worse than the o f f e n s i ves launched by Josef Stalin. The menace to Berlin, which is the all-absorbing topic 4osph Alsop nere,. la umjr another, particularly ugly chapter in a long, somber ptory. Very few people in Amer ica have grasped these un pleasant facts, partly because Nikita Khrushchev bubbles over with such jolly bon homie between thrusts at our vitals, and partly because Sec retary Dulles has exiled our best qualified analysts of So viet behavior. The sharpest American eyes are in Manila or elsewhere, so we have been half blind. But by now the facts are too big and too black to escape notice any longer. The beginning of the new Soviet offensive may be roughly dated from the sum mer of 1957, after the defeat of Khrushchev's enemies of the so-called "anti-party group." The first incident was the Syrian coup d'etat, organ ized by the Kremlin with the help of its unsavory Syrian agent, former Defense Minis ter Khalid al Azm. THIS little - understood but crucial coup in Syria had two altogether novel aspects. First, it revealed the adoption of a new and more aggressive Kremlin line in the Arab lands. Second, it led on to Nikita Khrushchev's use of military menaces of a previ ously unprecedented charac ter. Khrushchev charged that Turkey was thinking about reacting to the coup d'etat by invading Syria-and there was more foundation for this charge than appeared at the time. He therefore massed his armies on the Turkish fron tier, and roared that if Turkey invaded Syria, Turkey would also be invaded. ' This reporter well remem bers George F. Kennan, one of the brilliant exiled ana lysts, worriedly remarking that he "wished for once he again had access to all the intelligence, because he was puzzled by Khrushchev's roars, which struck a really new and very alarming note." The coup d'etat in Iraq pro vided the next climax. Once again, Khrushchev freely and violently talked of resorting to military measures. His menaces continued until he was sure that the relatively meaningless Western troop landings in the Lebanon and Jordan were not the first phase of an attack on the new Iraqi government. That By Joseph Alsop incident left the Western po sition and the Western policy in the Middle East in utter, irremediable ruins. There fol lowed the grab for Quemoy, the first open aggression any where since Korea. ... rpHE firm line of Secretary Dulles caused the grab for Quemoy to be frustrated in the end, after a good many breathless weeks. But the fact that the offshore islands are now being shelled only every other day should not distract attention from the extraor dinary signs of growing So viet boldness in other areas, In the few weeks since this reporter was in Iraq, the Com munists seem to have strength ened their grip on that un happy country to a point that is likely to be fatal. This is the new Kremlin line for the Arab lands-to have the Com munists take over themselves wherever possible, if need be in open opposition to Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab nation alists. In Iraq, the Nasserites have been jailed by the score, There is no military risk, of course, in this new Commu nist line in the Middle East, But it is none the less amaz ingly daring to offer this kind of political challenge to the undisputed leader of Arab na tionalism, the most powerful figure among all the Arabs Egypt's Nasser. The daring is underlined by the fact that the Kremlin plainly expects Nasser to ignore the chal lenge, and to go on helpfully attacking the remaining West ern positions in those parts of the Arab world where the Communists are not yet strong enough to act alone. In part, one suspects, the Kremlin's Middle Eastern gamble is based on the new Berlin gamble; for Nasser will never break with his Soviet friends if the Western pow ers finally surrender at Ber lin. This kind of shattering and terrible Western defeat, if it is permitted, will surely start a whole series of politi cal avalanches. . The ava lanches will occur not only in the Middle East, but also in the Far East, in Africa, and no doubt in South America too, not to mention Europe itself. ... INCE again, the outstanding feature of the Berlin crisis has been Nikita Khrushchev's flagrant, incessant use of the naked menaces of military force. In the last 18 months, in short, the Soviet bloc has openly resorted to force once, at Quemoy, and Khrushchev has used menaces of force three times. Furthermore, his language about Berlin has been more shockingly unre strained than ever before. That is the record. It is a pretty disturbing record, and the spectacle of the wor ried huddle of Foreign Minis- Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- THE MANSERVANT of a wealthy Eastern potentate tendered his resignation at Monte Carlo, and asked for a letter of recommendation. This is what he got: "To whom it may con cern: The bearer of this note has served me for three years to his complete satis faction. If you are contem plating giving him a berth, be sure it's a wide one," A steel worker on a new project on Park avenue is beginning to think Ms wife is planning to give him the air. All last month she wrapped his lunch in a road map. Harvard upperclassmen are exchanging notea about a Cambridge siren who treats her gentlemen callers like dirt She hides them under her bed. Renwicke Cary has a name for the person who's afraid to become embroiled in the Christmas shopping rush: a Noel coward. O U5S. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kinf Feature! Syndicate. - - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, altnough 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 tact the contrary oirsrt sn cu. i On Nursing Homes To the Editor: First let me School Defended To the Editor: In answer to W. O. Burns' letter in Com munications Dec. 16: "Outdated" school system? Really, Mr. Burns, can't you do better than that? Even the students know that Medford has one of the superior sys tems in Oregon, if not the country. What sort of segregation to keep slow students away from those with high IQs? Haven't vou heard of major work group classes in the elemen tary levels and academic classes in the high school? You mention the article "High Schools Too Easy." Yes, Mr. Burns, some schools, but not Medford Senior High, Those in the college prepara tory division at Medford must have earned, before they are allowed to graduate, 3Vi units in English. 2 in math, 2 in a foreign language, 1 in science (either chemistry or physics), Vi unit in home nursing for girls, first aid for boys, 1 in American History, 1. in government problems, and 2 in physical education, a unit indicating a year's work. The majors that stu dents in this division have to pick from are science, lan guage, math or social studies Many major in more than one of these. Does this sound easy to you, Mr. Burns? Another interesting point: most colleges accept Medford college-prep students without requiring an entrance exam, they are that sure they are qualified students! But Medford isn t just a school for students who are interested in the sciences, math, etc. Music students are in excellent hands, shop stu dents have a variety of classes to choose from, business ma jors have modern, efficient classrooms, and so on. We have our share of students who won't work, but this is their fault, not the school's. Everyone has a chance to study in the field he is most interested in, at the level he can cope with. I have one more thing to say, in defense of the Tribune. I read it daily, from cover to cover, front page news, fea tures, comics, Dr. Alvarez, editorials, c o m m u nications, etc., and I certainly don't feel any more inclined to ward delinquency than if I didn't read it. Nor do I find any evidence, period, of con doning juvenile delinquency in the Tribune. Perhaps I'm just an uninformed, unedu cated high school sophomore (due to our "outdated" school system) but at least I've sup port behind my statements. Miss Dayle Ann Stratton, 804 Bennett ave., ' Medford. say I don't know the man that wrote the article in Sun day's paper. Second let me say the ar ticle was good. But the writer was misinformed. There are nursing homes in Medford where the guests get a snack at night before going to bed. Because I believe that if you're hungry you're hungry, doesn't matter where you are. And any time in the day if you want a cup of coffee, again it doesn't matter where you are a nursing home or hospital you should be able to have that cup of coffee and many places here in Medford, both hospital and nursing homes, get it. Now for the rates at the farm home, $130 per month. They pay no taxes, everything is furnished, and at the Coun ty Farm home it costs them just as much and according to the budget, which is always in your paper in July, it costs more per patient than in a private owned nursing home. And who makes up the differ ence? We the tax payers. Who is paying for the building, the upkeep . and all, the differ ence is made up by us the tax payers. At Eugene they finally woke up to the fact tht pri vate owned nursing homes were cheaper than a county farm, and they sold the coun ty farm and the man that bought it is the president of the Nursing Home Associa tion of Oregon. So tell your reporter to visit nursing homes here in the vaUey and see for himself which are the happiest guests, those in private owned homes or out at the County Farm Talk to people who have had loved ones in different homes and come up with the right answers. Find out who takes care of the patients that the County Farm won't take. Good time to clear up this $130 a month deal when some of us get $124 a month for patients. Why not give it a try to come up with a just balance? Mrs. Erma Milledge Milledge Convalescent Home 12 South Orange st. Medford and that he made the Paris trip with reluctant medical consent. Dulles' Statement Dulles himself took note of reports about his health and authorized this statement from Paris Thursday. "There is no basis in fact for speculative stories appear ing in the press today that Secretary of State Dulles is expected to re-enter the hos pital following his return to Washington with a view to surgery. In fact the secretary has almost completely recov ered from the inflammatory condition of the colon which required treatment in Walter Reed hospital, Washington." The health of Dulles' colon is peculiarly his own person al concern except for this fact: Dulles is a public servant engaged in diplomatic nego tiations of the most urgent importance to millions upon millions of free people. A fair question would be: Is that a job for a man who is not phy sically fit? Author-doctor Hugh L'Etang wrote a year ago in a British medical journal that British and American statesmen con trolling the destinies of mil lions over the past 50 years were ill, even dying, men at times of crisis. He cited: President Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stanley Bald win, Neville Chamberlain, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Harry L. Hopkins and Lord Keynes. These men were ill when the people and events demanded their best, vigorous judgment and ac tion. L'Etang said illness signifi cantly affected the efficiency of these men and he urged full publicity of the illnesses of statesmen. Otherwise, he said, the public could not know that they were being represented in critical times by men more or less seriously incapacitated. Wilson, FDR Illnesses Of Woodrow Wilson, he wrote: "After the partial paralysis which developed in 1919, his actions destroyed any hope of the Senate ratify ing the German peace treaty and entering the League of Nations He said of FDR: "It has been said that the concessions made to the Russians at Yalta were the mistakes of a dying man." L'Etang noted that FDR nominated Harry L. Hopkins to act for him - "A man so debilitated by sickness that Roosevelt, himself, referred to Hopkins as 'half a man'." It is a matter of record now that some of FDR's friends know him to be ill and per haps nearing death before his fourth term reelection in 1944. William D. Hassett's fas cinating "Off the Record with FDR," just published, relates that shortly after the return from Yalta the Presidential party arrived on Marcv 30, 1945 in Warm Springs. Bill said to Dr. Howard Bruenn: "He is slipping away from us and no earthly power can keep him." Dr. Bruenn was non-com mittal. Bill adds: "I reminded him that I gave the same warning when we were here last December." That was some weeks be fore Yalta.. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More about Mr. Dulles to day. He's our boy, you know, and he's a long way from, home and he's in an awfully Dig poker game. Our lives and our fortunes are all tied up in the way he plays his cards. And - after all - he's 70 yean old. He s no sprmg chicken. How s he doing? THE dispatches from Paris w v va.v.. inui mug were a little upsetting. They" con tained this statement: "The 70-year-old secretary. only three days out of the hospital where he was treated tor inflammation of the colon, looked gray and a BIT PEAK ED when he flew in from Washington." TTNLESS you come from the right . environment, that word "peaked" may throw you off. If you pronounced it m one syllable - as one speaks of a peaked roof - it will be a sure sign you're missing the point and may be misled as to the secretary's condition. It should be pronounced PEAK-ED - in two syllables. When thus properly identi fied, it describes a physical condition that is not alarming. Perhaps I can best illustrate by repeating a conversation with Aunt Sally Cozad, who lived down in the creek bot tom when I was considerably younger than now. It occurred reasonably often and went something like this: HOW'RE y'aU this morn ing, Aunt Sally?" "Oh, Ah'm feelin' mighty po'ly this mawnin. Ah ain't up to mahself." "Ummmmm. That's too bad. How's Uncle Tom?" "Well, when he got up he was lookin' pretty peak-ed, but after he et his breakfast he perked up and now he's feelin' right peart." THIS is the point: "Peak-ed" and po'ly" aren't synonyms. . ..; j One LOOKS peak-ed. ' : One FEELS po'ly. rpHAT brings us back to the Paris dispatch that started off this piece. After relating that Mr. Dulles looked "a bit peaked" when he got off the plane, it went on to say: "But this morning his aides reported he 'was feeling pret ty good,' and that 'he seemed to be getting into his old form again' " maybe after he had had his breakfast. Anyway, let's hope Mr. Dulles doesn't reach the point where he is "feeling po'ly." That would be disconcerting news. Editorial Commenf ters here does not tend to be calming, either. What is a little calming is the memory of the final outcome at Que moy. Yet the record says, very loudly and clearly, that the Soviets are now acting in the belief that the military bal ance of power has sharply shifted in their favor. And the record further says that a pe riod of acute danger will be the smallest price to be paid for the budget-first American defense planning of the last six years. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Ine. ASHLAND'S SUCCESS Ashland's belief in its own future has been' demonstrated in the magnificent results achieved here in raising mon ey for the building of the new Shakespearean theater. With an original goal of $50,000, our community has pledged more than $69,500 for the project and before the campaign is finally closed at the end of this month, the to tal will undoubtedly be com fortably over the $70,000 mark. There should be satisfaction for everyone in Ashland over what has been occomplished here in the last month for eve ry community takes deep and quiet pride in achieving a goal. The success demonstrates many things an appreciation of the economic value of the festival, but equally as im portant, a recognition of the festival's cultural advantages. Scores of men and women gave a great many hours of their time in the solicitation of funds and to them we all owe a debt of gratitude. Ash land Daily Tidings. LAST CALL! 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