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4 Sunday, December 21, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFOl UNE "Everyone In Southern OrefuA .. Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Tu St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREYdvertising Manager OtttAUJ UAltlAin, J31UUCM ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at lied ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1857 SUBSCRIPTION PATES T -i 1 T A fHirnnf, fnnV IflC. Daily and Sunday 1 year (15.00 Tailv anH SunHav 6 mos. 8.00 Tlailv mil Sundav 2 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. 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PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assochtiQn U J 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. 21. 1948 (Tuesday) Various social agencies here report their Christmas cheer programs are now In full swing. , Th Medford cltv council Is slated to hold a public hear- j lng on the proposed vacation of a playground area on Ly man ave. 20 YEARS AGO Sec. 21. 1938 (Wednesday) Preliminary work on Med ford's PWA paved street re construction program is now well under way. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The general run of the population thinks as little of the recent fog, as they did the forest fire smoke last August." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1928 (Friday) Watercolor paintings by Dr. Alfred Schroff are on display at the Snedicor art studio in the Medford building. . The Copco Forum holds its seventh annual Christmas party for children at Hilarity hall. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 21. 1918 (Saturday) Only two new cases of flu are reported. Trains passing through Medford are crowded .with soldiers, either discharged or en route home for Christmas furloughs. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight it excellent; five of six is good. l. How many years is a millemium? 2. "Not a creature was stir ring" follows what line in a well known poem? 3. If you wanted your mail 4 r Vis-v nnctmoi'lrcifl ''Canta Claus," would it be sent to xiuiiuai vauiui 1110, vjx aajiu- ana? 4. Name the three wise men, who brought gifts to the Infant Jesus. 5. In world War II, was a "Flying Fortress" a B17, a B29, or a B25 bomber? 6. What season of the year Is now under way in South America? 7. Would you say that a dove's home is a burrow, a cote, or a nest? , 8. Name the capital of Ber muda. 9. What is the eauivalent rank in the Navy to the rank of major in the Army? 10. A gourmet is a person who overeats; true or false? Answers: I. Thousand. 2. ". . . when all through the house," 3. Indiana. 4. Balihas er, Gaspar and Melchoir. 5. B17. 6. Spring. (Summer starts Dec. 23) 7. Cote. 8. Hamilton, 9. Lieutenant Commander. 10, False. ' New Star .-. -The United States by Christmas should have a new state and, a new flag design. The legislation admitting Alaska as a state, approved at the 1958 session of Congress, instructs the President to proclaim statehood upon receiving from the terri torial governor certification of the results of territory-wide elections. One of these, a referendum, on questions in volving statehood, was held Aug. 25, and a sec ond, at which U.S. senators and a U.S. represen tative were chosen, was held Nov. 25. So the presi dential proclamation making statehood official could come at any time. It's likely that the President at the same time will issue an order decreeing a new design for Old Glory. Much secrecy has surrounded the de liberations of a presidential flag committee which has poured over some changes. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty ex plained that the White House wanted to pre vent any flag manufacturer from getting a jump on competitors by advance knowledge of the new design. THE U. S. flag is among the oldest of the nation " al standards of the world. In its development to a flag with 49 stars it embodies the military, naval, and political history of the United States from the struggling colonies to the present day. The red and white stripes, for example, go back at least to the flags flown by Dutch ships reaching this continent early in the 17th century. But the first official flag originated from a reso lution offered by the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress, adopted at Phil adelphia on July 14, 1777: Resolved, that the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constella tion. This flag was used until 1795, when, with the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Un ion, Congress voted a new standard with 15 stripes, also alternate red and white, and 15 stars, arranged in rows of five each. AS TIME went on little uniformity was shown in the flag, and at the same time the admis sion of new states was burdening the emblem with stripes. So Congress ordered that after July 4, 1818, the flag should have 13 stripes, symbol izing the 13 original states; that the union would have 20 stars, and that; whenever a new state was admitted a new star would be added to the union on the July 4 following admission. The new pattern of stars is authorized by ex ecutive order, inasmuch as no law establishes a permanent f ormula. No star in the flag is official ly identified with any state. Hawaii stands a good chance of achieving statehood at the next session of Congress, and that would mean another new national standard bearing a union of 50 stars, on July 4, 1960, or conceivably, by July 4, 1959. E. K. R. President De Gaulle Gen. Charles de Gaulle is being elected Presi dent of the Fifth Republic by the French Elec toral College today. The President used to entirely, a figurehead and the Government was administered by the premier. But now the pre mier is largely, though not entirely, the figure head and the President pretty much runs things. As President under tution, the General will have much more power than President Eisenhower and in certain fields more than Prime Minister Macmillan. His term is seven vears, with no ban on re-election. He is commander of the armed forces and presides over the "higher councils and committees of na tional defense." THE PRESIDENT appoints the premier and but unlike British Cabinet members, do not sit in the national Parliament. The President, . not the premier, presides over Cabinet meetings. He may require the Parliament to reconsider any law it passes. In a time of "grave and immediate" peril, the President may take whatever steps are required. During such emergencies the National Assembly may not be dissolved. At any other time the Presi dent may dissolve it. Then new elections are held within 40 days, after which no new dissolution may be ordered for a year. The Government may- be overthrown only if a full majority of the National Assembly adopts a resolution of censure. This is submitted on pe tition of one-tenths of the members. If censure is rejected, no member who signed the petition may sign another during the same term. It's all a far cry indeed from the split respon sibility under the Fourth Republic E. R. R. Turn Back the Clock A proposal has been made, we presume ser iously, that the county abolish the planning com mission for "economy" reasons. Yep, it would save money all right. So would abolishing the schools, the fire and police depart ments, and the county road department. Then we'd all be "free" to do these things for ourselves. Planning and zoning are essential. The only question is whether we're getting too little too late. Note the comment of the Oregon Statesman (of Salem), elsewhere on this page. E.A. in the Flag 1,900 suggested flag be largely, though not the new French consti Dennis the Menace p- 1 1 1 Pip 5h iz-2o " - " 7)osa,7c rtm ioni.m.tM.(g 'The ones thwguroe abe tor m qad. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann BERLIN AGAIN It was evident from the be ginning, that is to say since the first Soviet note on Thanks giving Day, that the proposal about Berlin could not be and would not be accepted by the West e r n powers. The position Walter oi Vesl er" Lippmann lin as an is land deep inside the Soviet zone of occupation is indeed, as Mr. Khrushchev insists, "abnormal." But this abnormality de rives from the fact that Ber lin, the whole of it, was in the past and is bound acain in the future to be the capital, not of East Germany or of West Germany, but of a re united Germany. The Western rignts and the .Western obli gations in Berlin rest firmly on this obligation to restore Berlin as the capital of Ger many. The present situation of West Berlin is abnormal be cause the present division of Germany is abnormal. There is no way in which the situa tion can be normalized ex cept by the reunification of Germany. Until that is ac complished the Western allies are bound, as they have just said once more in Paris.- to maintain their presence in Berlin. If they are to main tain their presence, they must have free access to West Ber lin by road, rail, water, and air. THE crucial question then Berlin can be discussed sepa rately from the reunification of Germany - which is what Khrushchev seems to be pro posing - or only as part of the negotiations for an all- German settlement - which is our position. The problem of the statesmen is to find some way of building a bridee of negotiation between these two positions. ' Editorial Comment Zoning Avoids Future Trouble If it wasn't for the many other fringe area problems around Salem, one might be tempted to sympathize more with the plight of subdivision developer Felix Reidel. He has run afoul of the subdivi sion code in his Baxter Road addition south of Salem. He appears to be -the average man foundering in the regu lations of government.. Before we extend our sym pathy, however, let's feel a little sorry for ourselves. Look at the jumble of unre lated roads, the sewage and drainage problems that have accumulated on.the fringes of Salem. This is the result of failure to supervise subdivi sion development in the past. Riedel complains that he cannot provide homes for mid dle income families if he is forced to provide sidewalks, curbs, storm drains and play ground space in his subdivi sion. He says his subdivision's "city" problems are far in the future. Fifteen years ago many of Salem's present fringe area problems seemed distant, but they are plaguing us how.. Just this past week the state finished sidewalks lead ing to Hayesville school. Sev eral school areas around Sa lem are in genuine need of sidewalks, to protect children, because they were not in stalled when homes were built - . A few days ago the County If this can be done at all under present conditions, it will come from the unwilling ness of either side to let a col lision with military violence take place around Berlin. But both sides have now gone very far in staking their pres tige. Assuming that by May or earlier the Soviet govern ment hands over its powers to the East German govern ment, the avoidance of a col lision will depend on how Moscow instructs the East Germans to exercise their powers. Moscow knows that a blockade, denying free access to West Berlin, will be re sisted by the West. The ques--tion is whether East Germany - if and when it is given the powers now exercised by the Soviet government - will in fact use those powers to inter fere with free access. fPHE best that could come of such a development would be a prolongation of the status quo in a condition of chronic crisis. The better way to pre vent a collision in Berlin would be to set in motion a campaign for a settlement of the German question. This is, of course, easier said than done. For there is no such unanimity of opinion in the West on the German question as there is on not surrender ing West Berlin. The time has not yet come for the Western powers to form a common policy on the reunification of Germany. There are too many in high places who do not really want a reunified Germany, and there are few, if any, in high places who are willing to pay the price of reunification. The air in the room in which we live is stale, and nobody is daring to open a window on the future. If one had to bet, it would be, I think, that on our side at least we shall not take the initiative and shall simply stand "firm where we are, leaving the initiative to the Russians. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Park commission recommend ed acceptance of two park areas in South Salem to fill a growing need in the suburbs. All of us recall the annual news pictures of houses sur rounded by water because of inadequate storm drainage. Sewage drainage remains a problem on all four sides of the city. Salem's early plan ners laid out wide, arterial streets, but their plans have been sabotaged by those who subdivided the areas around the center of the city. The subdividers who are turning the country into the city must bear the burden of city-type development, pass ing the costs to the home own ers. Once the lots are sold and homes built, government has few means of bringing pres sure to bear to solve side walk, sewer drainage and park problems.- , The subdivision code may be detailed and demanding, but it is specific. Any subdi vider who bypasses it, runs the risk of being pulled up short by the Planning commis sion. If modifications are needed, they should be made by changing the law rather than circumventing it. Certainly it costs a lot of money to bring farmland up to subdivision code standards. Our fringe area problems stand as mute testimony of what happens when that mon ey isn't spent. -Oregon Statesman, Salem Washington Report By William TWO CITIES Berlin Though the Berlin of 1958 is certainly no. the London of the blitz in the early 'forties, they'- do form in some senses a new tale of two cities." -' Berlin is an island of ten sion and poised- danger, sur rounded by a ; gray menace made up of 'Soviet Russiants and their East German satel lites. London was an island of actual and nightly danger a decade and more ago. All the same, if fighting should break out here under modern atomic conditions no body is foolish enough not to know that the death and des truction of the second World War would look small by com parison ' ' And there is now in West Berlin, as there was so long ago in London, a quality of stoicism, mixed with heady gaiety - a gaiety expressed in the old saying that you should eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you may die. THIS correspondent recently reported from Heidelberg that West Germans in that area seemed largely indiffer ent to flhe crisis This is not at all true here, where the people live on the very rim of a cold-war volcano! They are completely aware that the eruption could come at any moment.- " And the Berliners face the reality with the cheerful im pudence that the London cock neys showed when German bombs were falling upon their stout city. Indeed, the Berlin ers are a breed apart in Ger many, as the Londoners are a breed apart in England". There is an urban toughness about them, a sophisticated accept ance of the facts of life. One need not love them or like them or forgive them for what Germany did to others in the past to salute their courage how. " ' ' Our small but crack mili tary force here respects the civilians who surround them- ahd the troops, too, refuse to "take it big." They joke among themselves about the crisis and reject any sugges tion that this may become a heroic city. But they are good troops and they are " ready troopsr - ' '" rTiHIS bit of ground called West Berlin is the scene of one of history's most momen tous contests. "If the Russians should succeed in pushing us In the Day's News . By FRANK There is startling news from the farm front today. In the 1958 crop year, American farmers produced the biggest crop ever grown in the U.S.A They did it on the SMALL EST PLANTED - ACREAGE IN 40 YEARS; HOW was it accomplished? Good weather and MOD ERN TECHNOLOGY account ed for it, according to the final 1958 production report just issued by the U.S. De partment of ' Agriculture. Good weather, of course, is something that is PRES ENTLY beyond man's con trol, but to good weather in this record " crop year were added better seed, improved fertilizers and advanced culti vation techniques. All this resulted in new yields PER ACRE. THIS "technological revolu tion that is taking place in American agriculture was dealt with in somewhat more detail a few. days ago by Rog-4 er Fleming, secretary treas urer of the American Farm Burean Federation. In his re port to r the Farm Bureau's 40th annual meeting, held in Boston week before last, he said: "American farmers are pro ducing, today twice as much wheat on 17 per cent LESS ACRES than in 1939; more cotton on about HALF v as many acres and 50 per cent more corn on 17 per cent FEWER ACRES than in 1939." ' In addition to these big staple crops, he said, dairy men have about three mil lion fewer cows than in 1940, but, each cow produces TWO THIRDS OF A TON MORE MILK. -For every two eggs a hen laid in 1940, her de fendant is laying about three eggs today. .; rpHAT is what is happening to American, agriculture. WHY is it happening? This, I think, is the reason: THE .American farmer is in genious, capable and am S. Whit out with threats or bf neu tralizing our power here by high - level political agree ments ;V the resulting catas trophe would be worse than losing a hundred Quemoys or a dozen Formosas. . . The military view is unani mous that if we back down in any way here we must even tually back out of Europe and leave it to the Russians. And just as Europe was the theater of real decision in the last war, so Europe today is the real theater of decision. For Berlin is the place of the payoff. This is the real showdown after 11 years of cold war. This is the moment of truth,' In a way all these years of the cold war have led inevitably to the grappling for position that is going on here now. For, after making all due allowance for propaganda, the difference between Allied-, occupied West Berlin and So viet - occupied East Berlin is staggering. It is easy to see how the Kremlin must flinch at the prospect of the indefi nite maintenance before the world's eyes of this show win dow of contrast. I F LONDON and Berlin do indeed tell a tale of two cities, West Berlin and East Berlin are a tale of two monu ments. West Berlin is a monu ment to a bursting capitalism almost vulgar in its vigor. But the point is that it is a place of food and warmth and life and even luxury. Call to mind the dreariest mining community . you ever saw on a glowering December day. Wherever this place is, it is positively radiant compared to East Berlin . - the monu ment to imperial .communism To go-along the streets over there 4n: the east city even on Stalin Alle, which the Rus sians have rebuilt upon Mos cow's hideous architectural lines to be their symbol of .progress - is to walk into a nightmare of pinched desola tion. What a triumph it has been over there for the new Com munist master state that squats upon the rubble left by the old Fascist master state of Adolf Hitler! ' -(Copyright, 1958, by United ' Feature Syndicate, Inc.) At least 95 per cent of American families include some kind of canned goods in their regular diets. JENKINS bitious. In addition he is by nature a FREE ENTERPRIS ER. Under the system of subsi dies that has prevailed since the war, he could have sat back, taken his subsidy, turn ed over his crop, whatever it might be, to the govern ment to be stashed away in bulging warehouses and let it go at that. INSTEAD, he kept on. try ing to beat the system working, studying and GET TING THE MOST OUT OF HIS LAND. When govern ment cut down his acres, he made his acres PRODUCE MORE. His instinct is to PRO DUCE. THAT'S the free enterpriser for you. I have the feeling that the American farmer, taking it by and large, has reason to be proud of the fact that he has been an irrepres sible free enterpriser instead of a mere subsidy-taker. HOW will it all turn out? Will the American, farm Try and -By BENNETT CERF- YOU WANT TO KNOW how to make a fruit cake for the holiday season? A TV personality on a morning show posed that question and answered it: "Okay, let's go. Wel'll start by digging up a great big mix ing bowl. You'see, it's fully four feet across. A sturdy canoe paddle for mixing and we're ready to pour in the ingredients. First, three pounds of dates. Next, two quarts of brandy, (Now, taste.) Four pounds of mixed nuts, two quarts of brandy. (Taste.) Three pounds of dried plums (mix well). .Three quarts brandy. (TasteSay it's-really get ting that oId: flavor.) Now, two rounds paisins-uh two ' , pounds raisins. -Three quarts brandy. (Taste. S wunnerful, huh?) Ten pounsh sherries, five quarsh branny. Make it ten. Wix mell (sorry) mix well and tashe. WOW! Two cans deter gent. Fifteen quarsh byooful, golden hooch. Tashe! HOT DOG. Lean over and take another ta . . . WHOOPS, there you go into, the bowl! Stay there, pal s'glorious way to spend the holi daysl". ... . PTlUeG (By M-T Staff and Contributors) MEMBERS of the. Jackson County Stockmen's asso ciation have proposed, at least half seriously, that hanging be revived as the penalty for cattle thieves. ENFORCEMENT of . such a penalty would, in the eyes of the office philosopher, have a number of interesting-even salutary-effects. For instance: ROPE manufacturing could well become a new indus try in the valley - the kind the chamber of commerce looks for, employing a lot of people, but no dirty smokestacks and air pollution. RESULTING, also, would be the long - delayed enlarge ment of the courthouse park ing facilities - for more park ing would be needed not only to handle the cars of the addi tional deputies needed to pre vent a lynching, but also to handle the crowds who would come from miles around, not only for the trials, but for the hangings. YES, the town would pros per, all right, and not least because of the well - known historical fact that the crowds attending such public events are traditionally in a gay, free- spending, holiday mood. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed - in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the ease. Fog and Smog -. - To the Editor: Did youiver miss the highway and drive into a sawmill at 2 o'clock in the morning on a real foggy night, and find yourself sur rounded with huge piles of lumber, logs, logdecks, log ponds and sawdust burners? Then try to find your way out? Maybe you have, but not in an early model automobile with carbide lights, no tail light, no windshield swiper and no yellow line.- Maybe you have, but did you ever try it with your head sticking out through a hole in the is inglass of the Jiffy-snap-on side curtains and two back seat drivers in the back seat, both Chinamen? If you have and got out, you should be the Commander on the Nautilus Everest Acklin, Ashland. . UMC Greenery To the Editor: Alas! My Christmas cards are all mail ed. There is one left though. 1 guess I'll send it to the Med iora urusade and tuck in a bit of "greenery." Hats off to Mrs. Wimberly for a wonder ful example. Mrs. Paul Norris, 1481 Ridgeway Medford. er, over the long pull, be bet ter off or worse off because of his devotion -tothe basic prinicples of free enterprise? Let's risk a guess: When we get a quarter of a billion people in the United States, which, the statisti cians tell us, will be only a couple of decades or so hence and -when because of new highways, new airports, new factory sites and the burgeon ing of the suburban, areas around our cities we have cut down materially the acreage of our best farm land, the American farmer will get his reward in the form of markets for EVERYTHING he can Stop Me CALIFORNIA college stu- dents who, much to then surprise, found themselves the heroes in the capture of an armed bandit in the middle of a heavy fog the other night, werent so sure about the meaning of the big "Welcome, to Oregon" sign they passed shortly before. (They say we've got fine policemen in Oregon, though.) r . TTERE we are, with Christ mas almost upon us. Which make appropriate a couple of post office, stories we've heard, about how the clerks in the local P.O. some times go beyond the call of duty to insure that the mails will go through. The first in volves a woman who address ed a letter of greetings to a friend in Norway. She-placed the name - a long, difficult and "foreign" one - on the envelope, but, things being the way they are at Christmas, forgot the address. Instead of putting the impersonal "Re turn to Sender" rubber stamp on the envelope, the clerk took the trouble to look up her name, her telephone num ber, and to call her about the oversight. She gave him the address which he placed on the envelope. And at the end of the conversation he wished her a Merry Christmas -which she returned, with real sincerity. TJIGHT after we heard that " story, we found in the Mail Tribune's box a letter from one of the city's doctors. It contained a news story about a professional meeting, and the sender's address was on the top-left of the envelope. But he d forgotten to put any name or address - or even a stamp- on the face of the envelope. ; How it found its way to us is something of a small mystery unless that same thoughtful clerk (or a' colleague) called the good doctor; told him about the blank envelope, ' and asked him where it was to go. It ar rived with the single word, "Tribune," scribbled in pencil on the outside. FIS to be hoped that the doctor rushes out and buys a stamp, then tears it up, to reimburse Uncle Sam. - SEVERAL weeks ago, ourx city editor began growing a beard, which by this time has reached rather impressive proportions. Well, he took his wife to the hospital Thursday morning, and about 26 hours later became a father. What we're wondering, however, is about other, late-arriving ex pectant fathers, who took one look at Earl and thought to themselves, "Good Lord, how long does this take?l" " THAT brings us to our week ly Centennial whisker count for the M-T. It has been a week of defeats. That im pressive, red, Henry VHI-type beard we told about in the cir culation department has van ished (it created a sore face), two other' chin-beards in the same department .nave van ished,' leaving only mustaches, for an overall net loss. The only gain are a few unshaven ' cheeks in the back - shop which may be intentional, or which may be simple over sight. Our photographer'! beard, however, has lengthen ed. He looks less like D'Artag nan today than he does like a rather young prophet. . MEDFORD police report that two men got in volved in a religious argument not long ago, and that one asked the other to leave his premises. This he did, but he promptly returned and de clared, "I have two cheeks and you can have two swings and will have the third." Then he left. But he came back a third time, forgot all about Biblical injunctions, and start ed swinging, first. ' . . ARCHIBALD, amythical pixie who helps a Salem newspaper columnist, is quot ed as asking, ten years agq who would have believed that the time would come when both husband and wife would give each other an electric razor for Christmas? S O, TO wind up this bit ot we shall conclude with a bit of pre - Christmas nonsense verse, brought to us under the guise of having been written by a child. (This we doubt.) Anyway, here it is: Tis a week before Christ- - mas, yet what do I hear? ; -Roof-taps on the roof-top? Can Santa be here? Alas, Daddy tells me, "Tis only, I fear, The rain, dear." ,
