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4 WafMesday, Dee. 3.1, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordSwTribuke "Evervone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune-; Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 DAn'rnT 117 UTTTT. "StHitir KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Businesa Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulationjlgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. rv.ii mrA ch l vur 115.00 Tiailv and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 w r . -.. t A A Tmrvf Merifnrn. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, ooia juh, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- Dally and Sunday 1 year S18 .00 1JH11 v ana auuuaj Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAl lU: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices rn New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAMt PUBLISH! IS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL NATION A I ASSOdrATfCto U J J XQ3 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. 31, 1948 (Friday) Work on rehabilitating the hospital at Camp White for a veterans' domiciliary is pro gressing satisfactorily. Merger of the Phoenix and Fern Valley school districts gains approval. . 20 YEARS AGO Dec 31. 1938 (Saturday) E. Clark Bobbett, the "Voice of Safety," is to pro mote his "Courtesy in Traf fic" campaign here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Out door enthusiasts are flocking to Ice Lake near Ashland, to cut fancy didoes on an icy surface, and respond to the law of gravitation." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1928 (Monday) The country court places $270,000 in O and C refund money in the county road bond fund. , ( A Chamber of Commerce committee to explore the pos sibility of a Community Chest here next year is estab lished. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 31. 1918 (Tuesday) Fancy, high-blooded fowls and finely-bred rabbits are gathered for the Southern Oregon Poultry association's show. Plumbers are much in de mand as freezing weather brings burst water pipes. Yhat's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is Europe's highest active volcano? 2. Wellington is the capital of which South Pacific coun try? 3. At what battle in World War I did the phrase "they shall not pass" originate? 4. Complete this saying: "Give me liberty or ." 5. Who was the Roman god of war? 6. Name the submarine in the novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," written by Jules Verne. 7. Quote the last six words of President Lincoln's Gettys burg address. 8. Which is lighter in weight, a fresh egg, or a spoiled egg? 9., If an Army, in column ten miles long,' marched ten miles a day, how long would it take a messenger leaving the rear of the column to reach the head, if he traveled at the rate of twenty miles a day? 10. Do bats lay eggs? Answers: 1. Ml. Etna. 2. New Zealand. 3. Verdun. 4. ". . . qive me death." 5. Mars. 6. "The Nautilus." 7. "shall not perish from the earth." 8. Spoiled. 9. One day. 10. No. EXTENDS VACATION Montego Bay, Jamaica (UPI) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has decided to extend his vacation here un til Saturday, it was learned Tuesday night. The secretary and his wife flew here from Paris at the conclusion of the recent meeting of the Atlantic Pact Council. They originally had planned to leave Tuesday. Legislative Dilemma Oregon voters this past year have been em phatic in their rejection of taxes and spending. There has been a hue and cry about "econo my in government," "cutting out the waste," etc. This "talks good," as the saying goes. But it is unrealistic to believe that costs of state and local government ever will go down materially, unless the people of Oregon suddenly decide they don't want many of the things which they have heretofore demanded. I TNDOUBTEDLY, some morfetary savings can be effected by "cutting out the waste,v for waste there is (although we suspect it is not as great as those who glibly use the phrase think). But if state and local governments were to continue operating at their current service level, and ALL "waste" were eliminated, the savings would be tiny in comparison to the overall costs AND the costs would continue to rise. That is the unpleasant reality that Oregon's citizens are going to have to face, sooner or later. And it is beginning to look as though it will be sooner. "THERE is the additional fact, which compli cates the dilemma, that new demands for new services some of them with considerable merit are constantly being made. Perhaps even more important, existing serv ices are expanding as a result of population and other pressures, and will need funds to put that expansion into effect. , The easy thing to do, obviously, is to say "NO !" to ail requests for added funds, whether they be for new services or for expansion of well established services. IXTHERE are government costs largest? In education, first. The students are here. Their numbers are increasing. Are we to say "NO" to their needs for an education, from first grade through college? In welfare. Are we to say "NO" to the in creasing number of elderly people whose social security or savings are insufficient to keep them in reasonable comfort and dignity for the final years of their lives? Or "NO" to children in need of food and clothing? In institutions. Are we to turn criminals loose because we have no place to imprison them? Are we to deny the mentally ill treatment because we "cannot afford" the treatment facilities? Are we to say "NO" to children who need institutional care (at Fairview, or Hillcrest, or MacLaren) be cause we refuse to pay for expansion? In highway construction and maintenance. Shall we reject newhighways, or better mainten ance for existing ones, because they cost too much? TPHE four categories listed above account for the biggest share of taxes. ' , The others which might be called "house keeping" or "service" functions while costly, take nowhere near the amount that these do. Such things as the state police, the departments of forestry and agriculture, the department of motor vehicles, the public utilities commission, the bureau of labor, the state library all these provide things that the, people of Oregon want and need, and if they were to be cut back ma terially there would be howls of anguish. The major difficulty is that when people think of "taxes" they rarely relate them to the services which the taxes pay for. It is far easier to say "cut out the waste" than to show where the waste lies; to say "cut govern ment expenses" than to point to a place they can be cut without damaging services which practic ally everyone agrees are vital. CO THIS is the problem the legislature faces. It can, conceivably, duck the issue for an other two years, as has been done at. prior ses sions, without coming to grips with the essential problem. It can pass a "barebones" budget which will keep governmental services alive. But that only would serve to pass the inevitable buck to future legislatures. Or it can take a realistic look at state gov ernment and what Jt does,- decide on a program for the future based on the needs of the people of this growing state, and come to a hard de cision on how much this is going to cost. And then it can fashion a tax program to pro vide what is needed. "THE PEOPLE, ultimately, will pass on such ' a tax program. If it is rejected, then the legislature will know either that (1) it is the wrong kind of tax pro gram, or (2) that the people do not want (or don't want to pay for) the level of state services that has been provided up to this point. But the alternatives should be made crystal clear. They are these : 1. An expanded state program of services, taking cognizance of new needs, new population and new conditions. This will be at a considerable increase in cost, and resulting higher taxes in one form or another. 2. A state governmental program on about the existing level, with moderate expansion pro vided. This too will cost more in taxes than is being paid now, because of expanding population and rising costs. 3. A curtailed state government, with ed ucation, welfare, institutions, highways and serv ices cut to the bare bones. This would cost about what state government does now, or conceivably a little less. These, as we see it, are the avenues among which the legislature will have to choose. E. A. Dennis the 'WUATTA THE SAY? OC Liberal Republican Hopes For Leaders Fading, Poll Shows By WILLIAM THEIS Washington (DPD GOP lib erals hope to win their party's Senate leadership with sup port from Republicans who will face a Democratic liber al trend in seeking reelection in 1960. But some conceded their hope of electing Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), over Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R 111.), has been trimmed to only a "fighting chance." ' Of seven Republican sena tors who could be listed in an uncommitted category, only three are up for reelec tion in 1960. Even if all three voted for Cooper, he would still be three votes short of victory, a survey by United Press International indicat ed. Six of the 11 Republicans who will seek reelection in 1960 are being counted in Dirksen's column. Two others are committed to Cooper. Dirksen appeared to be sure of 15 votes to 12 for Cooper, with seven in doubt. But pro-Dirksen sources felt he would be likely to get five of the seven for a total of at least 20 votes, two more than the required majority. Cooper's designation by the liberal bloc to challenge the candidacy of Dirksen, the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is" permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Sign of the Coming To the Editor: Sunday's paper carried a headline which has far greater signifi cance than the article below it and inside follow-up indi cate. The ten nations making up the European Payments Union are an indication of something far more important than convertability of cur rency to facilitate trade. According to the Bible, these ten nations can be taken as a sure sign of the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The explanation is found in Daniel 7. Here we are told that there will be four great kingdoms of earth, ending with the Roman Em pire. After its downfall, there will arise ten kingdoms out of the remains of theHoly Ro man empire of the time of Charlemagne, which would mean Western Europe. These nations will be ruled by the anti-Christ during the Tribu lation. I realize many people Try and -By BENNETT CERF- RUMER GODDEN, talented English author, received a tele phone call in her London home from an American woman who declared she was a great admirer of Miss Godden and had read every one of her books. Td love to drop 'round and pay my respects in person," she trilled. "Come by all means," agreed the courte ous Miss Godden. The lady thereupon turned up for tea with SLXTEEN other ladies! It developed that the Amer ican admirer ran a tour of Europe in which the custo mers were promised they would meet famous authors and be entertained by them in their homes! ' Miss Godden told Roger Smith, of Publishers' Week ly, about another "fan" who wrote to ask for her autograph. Miss Godden mailed it, and in due course received another note from the fan which read, "I have analyzed your handwriting. You are deceitful, selfish, and mean." O UU, fcjr SeaMtt Cert SUUibuUd by King fttturaa Syndicate, Menace IAHG LIMB? OC LONG present GOP whip, smoked out several senators previous ly uncommitted. Sen. J. Glenn Beal (R-Md.) made it known he would vote for Dirksen, as did Sens. Fran cis Case (R-S.D.), and Henry C. Dworshak (R-Ida.). Morton for Cooper The only convert nailed down for the liberals, was Cooper's Kentucky colleague, Thurston B. Morton, who had announced earlier he would be for Dirksen unless Cooper was chosen by the liberals. Eight self-styled liberals agreed to run Cooper for the leadership post being vacat ed by retiring Sen. William F. Knowland of California, and to put up Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R-Calif.), for the office of whip. . They postponed until next week the selection of candi dates for three other Republi can offices-policy chairman, conference chairman and con ference secretary. NAMES AMBASSADOR Mexico City (UPI) - Presi dent Adolfo Lopez Metaos has designated Rafael de la Colina as Mexico's new ambasasdor to Canada, the Foreign Min istry announced today. choose to interpret the visions in Daniel in a different way, and apply them to historical events occuring under Anti ochus Epiphanes about 165 B.C. I believe there is plenty of evidence to contradict this interpretation, but the final proof will be in the return of the Lord to take His church home and judge the world. Either it happens or it doesn't. I have no idea as to the day or hour, but I am sure it is near. If I am a fool to believe it. I am not fool enough to believe Commu nism can be stopped without Divine intervention. I choose to trust Jesus Christ to save me. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Parker Bailey 542 'A' St. Ashland They're All Burnt To the. Editor: The legisla tive mill will soon start grind ing out more laws. What kind of laws will they be? May I Stop Me Opponents to Federal Legislation Against Labor Violence Call on Local Enforcement By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPI) Secre tary of Labor James P. Mitch ell has another convert to his belief that it would be wrong to let the FBI loose on labor goons and racketeers who advance the cause of the working man with bombs and vyie c. wusod ouier violence. The convert is Sen. Patrick V. McNamara (D-Mich.). Mc Namara spoke last week be fore the criminology sympo sium of the American Associ ation for the Advancement of Science. Mitchell got on record last autumn at the Atlantic City convention of the steelwork ers. The steelworkers greeted Mitchell with some booing but warmed up considerably after he had outlined his policies. One of his policies was that there should be no federal leg islation to deal with labor mugging, goon squads and criminal tactics. "What we do need," Mitch ell said, '.'is a recognition at the community level that these local laws against such violence should be enforced. No one has to wait for Wash ington to pass a law to check these evils.v' Are Local Laws Enough? The record of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee presided over by Sen. John Li McClellan (D-Ark.) is suffici ent proof that local ' laws against labor violence are not properly enforced. Neither In the Day's News By FRANK I seem to be hipped on the subject o f communism these past few days. Maybe the Christmas season has some thing to do with it. If the world were all communist, THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTMAS and if there were no Christmas it would be a much drabber world. So, at this bright and won derful season, it may be that the dark and menacing thun dercloud of communism be comes by contrast even dark er and more menacing. AND xx It may be The brightness and the cheer and the wonder of the Christmas season are stim ulating the communists to even greater propaganda ef forts. At any rate, there has been a lot of communist hazard a guess? The State hired a Dr. Sly (fox) to suggest some enact ments regarding the levy of new taxes. He really came up with some pippins. So much so that, if levied and collected, they would rival the enact ments of Congress and no ceil ing to stop them. He, the Sly Doctor, already has gotten his fists into the pockets of the taxpayer as far as the arms reached. At least a hundred a day, if not a great deal more. And I think quite a lot more. Such parasites do not make suggestions for pea nuts. Take it or leave it. We had an experience here in Medford some time back by a self-styled expert and paid through the nose for nothing worth while. The people of this state has the remedy, if it will only use it. . Let us enact a referendum to the effect that the legisla ture MUST refer every tax raising law to the people for its approval or rejection. An amendment to the state Constitution, if necessary. We have found by long and disappointing experience that the legislators whom we elect cannot be trusted. Almost every one does just exactly the opposite to what he, or she, promises to do. And we have no redress. Never a session passes into history but a new tax is forced upon us. Why not do some of the things we know we can do? An Amendment? A referendum? OK, let it be so. We will have to do some of the work. Then let us do it and get a lot of bums off our necks. Andy L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania ave., Medford. DRY CEDAR BIG DOUBLE LOAD 16" SLAB ?12 McGINTY FUEL CO. 1805 Roberts Rd. Mitchell nor McNamara is likely to argue that enforce ment in local areas is ade quate. What McNamara said was this: "Theft, violence and extor tion are already crimes in ev ery state. Should Congress single them out for special federal penalties just because the culprit may be found to have a connection with a labor union?" President George Meany of AFL-CIO gave Mitchell's pol icy a fast okay shortly after the Atlantic City convention. Meany, as much as McNa mara, dislikes the idea of fed eral cops, probably the FBI, digging into the facts of labor violence. McNamara, like Meany, might be considered to be something less than an impartial witness in the mat ter." McNamara is- a lower eche lon leader of organized labor. At the time of his election to the Senate, 1954, McNamara was president of the Detroit, Mich., Pipefitters local No. 636, AFL. Precedents Already Set The argument that local law should prevail in local matters is a good one but as a precedent it has been shot down and riddled by legisla tive action which has put fed eral agents on jobs long re served for local enforcement officers. Moreover, if FBI di rector J. Edgar Hoover were invited to testify regarding legislation which would put the FBI actively on the trail of labor bombers, Hoover probably would oppose it. There is another factor, however. Building up now among members of Congress JENKINS news in tne papers ana on the air waves these past few days. A N INTERESTING thought: x- Why are so many people (slightly unbalanced . people, I'd say) so impressed with communism? It must be because commu nism seems to promise free dom from RESPONSIBILITY. On the surface, at least, it appears to relieve us from the necessity to make decisions. Making decisions means go ing out on a limb " deciding on a course of action and tak ing the consequences of the course one has decided upon communism seems to say LEAVE ALL THAT TO PA- rA. Don t worry your poor little head about it. To a certain type of mind, that could be appealing. T ET'S take a look at this red Chinese "commune" system that has been getting into the news of late. It promises the people housing. The housing, to bel sure, is in a beehive system of crowded little cells. But the tiny room is PROVIDED. The people don't have to hus tle around and provide it for themselves. Along with shelter, FOOD is provided. Not just rice. MEAT is promised also. No hustling around for it. When mealtime comes, the food will be there. Provided by PAPA. No worry about where - it is to come from. Papa will take care of all that,. - And, if one gets sick, there will be medicine and care at least care of a sort. No wor ry about paying the doctor bill and the hospital bill. Pa pa will take care of it all. Si THERE you are. SECURITY. Security from the cradle to the grave. Nothing to wor ry about. Papa will take care of it all. You must, of course, do exactly as Papa says. But, if you do exactly as Papa says, you will be housed and fed and clothed. No worries. No decisions to make. No RE SPONSIBILITIES. LL that is what the Red Chinese want, I suppose it is what the Red Chinese will get. If it is what the Russians j want, I suppose it is what the Russians will get. But I hope this thinking doesn't spread. If it spreads far enough, there will sooner or later BE NO AMERICA for what we call the Ameri can way of life involves TAK ING CHANCES. Without an America, this would be a grim and unprom ising world. Phone SP 3-6297 is a lot of enthusiasm for a federal law to punish persons who bomb schools or chur ches. Hoover probably would be against that, too, if the FBI were involved. But many a member of Congress with large racial or religious mi norities back home would not dare to vote "No." Scientific Outpost In Antarctic Region To Be Ghost Town Little America, Antarctica -UPD- The final stages of turn ing this big U. S. scientific out post into a ghost town began today with the close of the In ternational Geophysical Year. The next three weeks will see the complete evacuation of more than 100 scientists and base personnel and the transfer of hundreds of tons of equipment, including valu able scientific instruments. The base built by navy sea bees in early 1956 is the fifth U. S. expedition camp in this area of the Ross Ice Shelf since Adm. Richard E. Byrd's historic first expedition to the Bay of Whales 30 years ago. Completely Covered Like that first base named Little America I Little America V already is com pletely covered by the relent less accumulation of ice and snow. It will be closed up tight by Jan. 20, although pre cautions will be taken for a speedy reopening, if neces sary. The icebreakers Staten Is land and Northwind are ferry ing priority cargo from the edge of the massive ice shelves near here to the big American station at McMurdo sound, 450 miles to the west. This base will be completely deserted with the departure of the icebreaker Glacier next month. Plans to make an overland evacuation across the ice shelf were called off when a trail blazing team ran into an ex tensive crevasse area near McMurdo. Two men were in jured slightly when their 38 tcn tractor plunged Into a 55-foot-deep crevasse. Program To Continue -. Thursday the task of pro cessing information from the bases issuing weather reports will be taken over by the weather team in Melbourne, Australia. With the closing of Little America V and the turnover Fog, Ice Main Highway Hazards Salem -UPD- Fog and ice were the main hazards to Ore- gon motorists today, The State Highway depart ment reported icy spots at Siskiyou summit, Piospect, Coquille, Santiam pass, Ocho co "summit, Lapine, Willam ette pass, Chemult, Bly, Mea cham, Seneca and Burns. There was thick fog at Warm Springs junction and fog also was reported at Port land, Astoria, Salmon river, Roseburg, Siskiyou, Green Springs, Coquille. The Dalles, Chemult, Klamath Falls, Bly, Lakeview, Baker, John Day, Seneca and Burns. Vice Probe Staff Offices To Close Portland -(CPU- Two offices now occupied by the attorney general's Portland vice probe staff in the Multnomah county courthouse will be vacated this week. County Commissioner Jack Bain said that Attorney Gen eral Robert' Y. Thornton agreed to make the move to the nearby State Office build ing. The county commissioners had given Thornton's staff un til Jan. 1 to vacate the court house offices aue to a problem of space. mm I"!.. M. Litwiller Happy, happy New Year! As the bells ring out, we chime in with hearty good wishes that you and yours may enjoy the best of everything in 1959. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape Hwy, 66 at Jslormal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close If such a law is passed, the) question for McNamara and. others to answer will be this: If federal protection against racial or religious violence is good and necessary why not against labor violence? There is plenty of local law against bombing schools and churches. of two other bases to Aus tralia and Argentina, the con tinuing American Antarctica research program will be car ried on at the South Pole base, Byrd station in remote Marie Byrdland, McMurdo and the Cape Hallet station operated jointly with New Zealand. Little America V already Is showing signs that its dayg are numbered. The wooden beams which support the cor ridors and tunnels linking the 20-odd snow-buried buildings are sagging and cracked in some places. Alaska Statehood Stamp Sale Slated Washington (UPD A com memorative Alaskan state hood airmail stamp will go on sale Saturday-the day Presi dent Eisenhower proclaims Alaska the 49th state of the union, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield an nounced today. The seven-cent stamps will be first placed on sale at Ju neau. It marks the first time a commemorative stamp has been issued on the actual date of admission ; of a territory into the union. The stamp features the Big Dipper and North Star of the Alaskan flag superimposed on a map of Alaska. Wooded hills and snow topped moun tains form a background. An initial printing of 90 million stamps has been authorized. Flight Engineers Willing To Talk By United Press International Striking flight engineers of fered to reopen negotiations to end a 38-day-old walkout against Eastern Airlines to day, but there was no break in the strike of pilots against American Airlines. A spokesman for the Engi neers Union at Miami, Fla., said the union would accept proposals to resolve issues in the walkout made by a fed eral mediator "with only min or changes." 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