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4 Tnunrfay, January T, l5f MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford&Tribuke "Everyone ir. Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dsilv except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 Ncrth Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR- Managine 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 RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International F"li Leaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER BLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1949 (Saturday) The first twins of 1949 are born at Sacred Heart hospital. Jackson county's third man drafted into the peacetime "Army" departs for induc tion. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1939 (Sunday) Boy scouts and scout lead ers attend their, annual win ter camp at Union Creek lodge. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The young intellectuals have all returned to their arithmetic at Eugene and Corvallis." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. I, 1929 (Wednesday) Hearing on Dead Indian road is held by the county court, and those protesting outnumber the petitioners. Medford welcomes the New Year with wild acclaim and many parties. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1919 (Wednesday) Many local groups journey to Hilts and other northern California points to usher in the New Year. American troops returning from France are stranded on Fire Island when liner North ern Pacific goes ashore. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Does the U. S. Govern ment fiscal year begin on Jan uary 1st? 2. When are "Watch Night" services celebrated by some churches? 3. Which of these is the cal endar we use: Julian, or Gre gorian? 4. Under the old Roman calendar, when did the New Year begin? 5. All horses have birth days on the same day of the year; what day? , 6. Who instituted the Ju lian calendar? 7. The U. S. population to day is approximately twice or three times what it was 50 years ago? 8. In how many States is today a holiday? 9. An annual book of facts is called an ? 10. The ringing of bells on New Year's Eve come? to us from what country? Answers: 1. No. (July 1). 2. New Year's Eve. 3. Gregor ian. 4. In March. 5. New Years Day. 6. Julius Caesar. 7. Twice. S. All 48. 9. Almanac, 10. England. OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S Tokyo -&?- Millions of Japanese packed the ap proaches to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples Wed nesday night and this morn ing in the traditional New Year's Day pilgrimate in spite of a cold rain. 1958 and 1959 January 1 is an arbitrarily specified day in an antiquated calendar for the start of the new year. As such it has, over the generations, come to be a time for looking back over the year just past, for taking stock, and for looking toward the fu ture. All-in-all, 1958 wasn't a bad year. It began in a "recession" which particularly affected the lumber industry; the economy, locally and nation ally, dragged along through the summer, but in the early fall things began to pick up. The year wound up with lumber markets bet ter, and a bang-up Christmas season. Optimism had returned. THERE were few really big "spot" news stories i'n TnrVcnn pnnnfv lief voor TYTncf r f V) a ci rr nificant news, and even the news judged to be most interesting, was told in a series of stories, a flow of related developments, rather than at one telling. The elections, primary and general, created much interest, naturally enough. There is some thing dramatic about elections, the one time when the "voice of the people" is really heard. The in terplay of personalities, the charges and counter charges, the claims and denunciations all these make fascinating, and in some cases significant, news. The other elections, too, are of interest to many people, particularly wrhen they generate real controversy, as was the case in the county tax base vote in May, and the city off-street park ing fight in November. DUT, as one person commented, the state and " local governments seem to go rocking along without too much change no matter what the out come of an election. Perhaps, she suggested, real significance in news lay elsewhere last year. Such things as the millions of dollars being spent in the hills of the Green Springs and Dead Indian areas out of sight of most people to bring the Talent irrigation and reclamation pro ject to completion; or even the constantly increas ing number of school children, who guarantee that the costs of schools wall continue to increase. In the annual poll of the Mail Tribune news room staff on the news of the past year, it was interesting to note that quite a few second and third choices as the most important news stoiy went to the Shakespearean Festival building fund drive. Without the new building, the festival will die ; with it the area is assured of a major cultural and tourist attraction, worth many millions of dollars to the region s economy. TTHESE, of course, are the obvious stories. Per- haps of even greater significance were the many stories, ostensibly re turning prosperity during the latter part of 1958 the reviving lumber market, the excellent shopping season for merchants, the smaller per centage of unemployed in the county, and of a fruit harvest which, while not one of the best, was far from being a really bad one. There were others with a similar optimistic tenor the Talent story of course, but also the new hospital opening, work starting on a big new shopping center, new business and entertainment buildings, new schools, new roads, new highways, the prospect of new industries. One might conclude pause, of regrouping, and of preparing for an even bigger future in Jackson county. A S IT was in this area, so it was throughout the state o-enerallv. Oreeon had a vear of reces- - o i o sion, then rapid recovery. Its future is as big as we want to make it. And 1959. our Centennial vear. offers us an unequalled chance to get The state has nroblems. it alwavs will have. But they are not unconquerable not if we go at the job confidently, and with an eye to the future. We should work at making our future; not just let it happen. fN THE national and international level, while 1958 was also a year of recession and recov ery, there were ugly signs of unsolved problems. And, worse, little was being done to solve them. It was a year of diplomatic defeats and minor retreats, of braised national pride and prestige, and of an amazing and disheartening drift in the conduct of international affaire. The lack of decisive, thoughtful and imagina tive leadership at the White House and Cabinet levels, with very few exceptions, reacted against the nation's interests, and, in our view, was large ly responsible for the radical change effected by the voters in November. ND what's ahead in Anyone's guess is good on January 1. Our guess, for whatever it may be worth, is this: A growing prosperity, both locally and na tionally; a slight tax increase on state and local levels to care for growth and expansion ; a strong er Congress and continued lack of effective lead ership in the administration ; a year of newr crises internationally; continued fights over integration in the south; of startling scientific achievements here and abroad. And, as always, it will it all uniold. L.A. unrelated, which told of that 1958 was a year of on with the job. 1959? be fascinating to watch Dennis the Gbb whiz,, dad! All i did was 0rop the capon tub toothpaste' Matter of Fact THE BIG NEW FACT Avon, Conn.-After a long journey in too many lands, the returning traveler always long to find everything at home exactly as it always was, from the i m m e morial worn patch on the back stair carpet to the view, through bare- bough ed trees, of the But although 4osph Alsop tranquil river. it is mercifully reassuring to find this farm entirely unal tered, it is not at all reassur ing to find that the U.S. gov ernment is equally changeless. In the period since this re porter went abroad, a wholly new kind of challenge has been offered which; almost angrily demands a wholly new kind of response Yet no such response is apparent. The challenge in question is of course mkita Krusn chev's threat to use his East German puppets to blockade Berlin. Fortunately, the signs suggest that Khrushchev's threat will not be carried out this time, if the Western pow ers that have guaranteed Ber lin stand absolutely firm. THERE is no certainty, as yet, that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be able to persuade his Western partners to show the needed, perfectly unwavering firm ness. There is no certainty, either, that the Kremlin's threat to Berlin will be even tually withdrawn if the West ern powers are firm. At best, this new Berlin crisis is a very ugly, chancy business. All the same, one can be rea sonably hopeful about it, on the basis of the evidence now available. But these optimistic calcu lations about the local, short range outcome at Berlin in no way soften the radically novel character of Khrush chev's threat. The threat's character is the real challenge that demands a new response. The novelty consists in the fact that for the first time in the 13 post-war years, the Soviets have sketched a move in the world chess game which can only be countered by complete willingness to fight a big, H-bomb war. In the era since the second World War ended, the Krem lin has indulged in every kind of aggressive maneuver, save one alone. Kremlin-directed aggressions and infil trations have led to one ma jor and prolonged war with conventional weapons in Ko rea, and to several lesser and more local shooting matches, ranging from the Indo-Chi nese fighting to the recent exchange at Quemoy. Very important political aggressions Try and -By BENNETT CERF- rpHE ARMY DECIDED to put a live mouse in the nozzle of a new rocket it was testing and borrowed one from the Har vard laboratory. The rocket was put into orbit without a hitch, and for three months whirled dizzily around the globe in outer space. Then it returned to earth, and, lo and behold, the mouse marched out in the very pink of condition! Returned to the Harvard laboratory, this mouse be came, of course, the hero of the hour. "What's it like," demanded a spokesman for the stay-at-homes, "to go spinning so long in outer space?" 'Til tell you one thing. fellows," admitted the hero mouse nonchalantly. "It's better than this rat race!" New version of that murderous Russian roulette game has been in vented by a Parisian genius. This game is called Shower Roulette.! Six men have to take showers, and then are handed towels. In one of the towels is wrapped Brigitte Bardot. C 1853, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate, Menace By Joseph Alsop have also occurred, beginning with the abortive attack on the independence of Iran in 1946, and continuing down to the critically dangerous Com munist grab for power that is now going on in Iraq. BUT every one of these oth er Kremlin ventures had one crucially significant fea ture in common. They were carefully planned to avoid confronting the Western al lies with a naked choice be tween surrendering or getting ready to fight a big War. We have had every other kind of test of will, but never before Berlin have we had this ulti mate kind of test of will. The tactical reasons why Berlin offers this ultimate, wholly novel kind of test of will have been given at length in this space. Khrushchev knew all those reasons-he knew, for instance, that a Berlin blockade could not again be defeated by air lift when he began to threaten another blockade of Berlin. The fact that Khrushchev has done this wholly new thing will not be rendered less sig nificant, even if Western firmness wins the test of will about Berlin which Khrush chev has offered. THIS quite new fact signifies a vast increase of Soviet boldness, a terrible increase of Soviet confidence. This new boldness and confidence are clearly based, in turn, on the Kremlin's judgment of the change in the military balance between the Soviet bloc and the West. If the American nuclear lead had been maintained, no such novel test would have been proposed. It has only been proposed now because the American lead is now being allowed to turn into a Soviet lead in over-all nuclear strik ing power. Furthermore, the balance between our striking power and their striking power has not yet titled nearly as far as it is due to tut during the coming period of the "missile gap," unless the most urgent efforts are immediately order ed to true-up the balance Worse tests, much worse tests, have to be expected in the future, unless those efforts are ordered by President Eis enhower. Yet in these circum stances, the Eisenhower ad ministration remains absolute ly changeless,- above all in fearing adequate defense in vestments very much more than Soviet H-bombs. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. BAN TV 'DOCTORS' Washington (UPI) - A tele vision industry ban against using actors to portray doc tors, nurses or dentists on commercials goes into effect Thursday. Stop Me Today & Tomorrow By Walter TOO MUCH PERSONAL DIPLOMACY Mr. Rowland Evans Jr. wrote a story the other day about a big effort being made m in the Admin istration and among the Demo cratic Senate lead ers to work out arrange ments for the conduct of foreign pol icy. This is Walter Lippmann even when n e c e s s a ry, the Administra tion has a commanding ma jority in Congress. In the new Congress there could, at least theoretically, be a series of stalemates. On this or that measure, especial ly if it requires money, the Democratic majority could re fuse to support the President. And also, on this or that pro ject which the Democratic majority wants, the Adminis tration may refuse to act. FJURING the second World " War and after, when the principle of a bi-partisan pol icy was established, the basic problem was how to persuade a majority in Congress to support big programs initiat ed by the Executive. There was, of course, ihe conduct of the war itself. There was the question of adherence to the United Nations, and to the other international insti tutions, such as the World Bank, the Monetary Fund, UNESCO. There were the large reconstruction measures, such as the Marshall plan and the formation of NATO. In all these cases the prac tical political problem was how the Democratic adminis trations, Roosevelt's and Tru man's could obtain the sup port of the more or less pre dominantly isolationist Re publicans. During the war this was done by a general patriotic unanimity. After the war, it was done when Sen. Vandenberg, who had been an isolationist, changed his, mind, then carried with him the bulk of the Republicans. THE situation today is some what different. The Eisen hower administration's line of policy is not to initiate great international projects but to defend the status quo, to resist firmly when any non Communist position is "chal lenged but not to deliver any substantial challenge to any existing Communist position. Always there is some talk about German reunification, and there had been some talk about the liberation of the satellites. Yet there are no in dications that any moves are contemplated which will change the status quo and lead the reunification of Ger many or to national freedom for the satellites. Thus, we shall refuse to re move our troops from West Berlin. But nothing is con templated which would chal lenge the Soviet Union to re move its troops which sur round Berlin and hold East Germany and Poland and Eastern Europe in captivity. The Democrats will, of course, support Mr. Dulles in refusing to give up anything under duress. But, even .if they were agreed among themselves on some kind of constructive initiative, the Democrats will not be able to compel the Administration to adopt It. For Congress can lead the Administration to water but it cannot make the horse drink. Congress cannot conduct the foreign policy of the United States. And it ought not to try to do it. Its proper role is to insist on be ing informed, and in a posi tion, therefore, to hold the Executive accountable and to debate intelligently and re sponsibly what has been done or what Congress is asked to approve before it is done: THERE is no mechanical for mula by which relations between Congress and the Ex ecutive can be organized. Mr. Evans said in his story that some Administration officials are thinking about "the re creation of an elite corps of totally-informed legis 1 a t o r s who are continuously privy both to basic Administration designs and to the informa tion on which policy is being based." If what the officials have in mind is to give mem bers of Congress all they want or need to know, they are thinking of something that ought to be done as a matter of course. But in doing it, there ought to be no talk about setting up "an elite corps of specially privileged Congressmen. The true elite in the formation of foreign affairs are the mem bers of Congress who will take the trouble to study for eign affairs and to keep them selves informed. THE problem of Congress ional - Executive relations Lippmann is perennial. But it is com plicated at the present time by the way Mr. Dulles con ducts his office. Washington is the center of a world-wide coalition, and Mr. Dulles for obvious reasons is in com mand of our foreign relations. As such, he needs to be in Washington most of the time, all of the time, one might say, except for extraordinary oc casions. Why, for example, should he have thought it necessary to travel from Mexico City to San Francisco to deliver a speech which could just as well have been delivered in Washington? And why does he fjpw have to go to Karachi jusv as Congress is about to meet, while Cuba is in tur moil, as Mr. Mikoyan is about to arrive, as the situation in the Middle East is so con fused aSd so explosive? IVf R. Dulles has often defend "'ed his travels on the ground that face to face with foreign statesmen he can set tle problems quickly which cannot be settled so quickly through diplomatic channels. But the fact is that while he is off to Karachi, or to Par is, or to Manila, to settle this or that, he is really out of personal touch with what may be happening in a dozen oth er places. And in his absence there is nobody at the center of things in Washington who has genuine authority to make a decision. A most undesirable conse quence of his personal dip lomacy is that it down-grades our Embassies abroad and all of the foreign Embassies in Washington. Mr. Dulles has taught the world to think that nothing or real importance can be settled except by him personally, that all other Con tacts, except at the summit where he is, are of secondary importance. rPHIS is the fundamental cause of the discontent within NATO, not only of Gen. de Gaulle who has not been consulted nearly enough but also of the smaller NATO Dowers who have to get too much of their news of the al liance from the newspapers The remedy is not to set up another committee of con sultation. It is to up-grade the existing diplomats, and-- this can be done as and wben Mr. Dulles, sitting at the center of things, communicates seri ously with the foreign Em bassies in Washington and through the American Am bassadors abroad. For if this became the practise, it would no longer be assumed that nothing of first rate impor tance can happen except when the head of a state or a for eign minister embarks in an airplane for a flight abroad. And if our diplomacy were conducted in an orderly fash ion, with the Secretary of State in the capital of the United 'States, there would be far more opportunity for those informal contacts with Congress upon which under standing and good feeling de pend. (C) 1958 New York 'ierald Tribune Inc. College Growth Leads to Change Eugene- Rapid growth in enrollment and a parallel in crease in the counselling pro gram here have led to a ma jor administrative change in the office of student affairs, at the University of Oregon. J. Spencer Carlson, who for seven years has been direc tor of admissions and head of the counselling program, will now devote full time to coun selling. He will hold the title of director of counselling and associate dean of students. He will also continue as associ ate professor of psychology. The counselling load has tripled in the past seven years has been director of ad missions and head of the coun selling program, will now de vote full time to counselling. He will "hold the title of di rector of counselling and as sociate dean of students. He will also continue as associ ate professor of psychology. The counselling load has tripled in the past seven years. Testing services have also ex panded, with increased use of placement and rating tests. The university has made its testing services available to other educational institutions in the state, through the Ore gon Cooperative Test service, which is supervised by Carl son. We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under, cer tain circumstances the use of a 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. Two Million Pennies To the Editor: Regarding: the cry for and against a! sales tax, I wish to take no sides. Taxes in Oregon are prohibitive and our economy will finally choke to death on the dust of the dragging feet of the parasites who are throttling our initiative. When a man paints his house and builds a fence he is guilty of improving the place and making it better than he found it. This is a crime that is punished by hitting one in the only place it really hurts, and that is in the pocket book. This is wrong and I will not pick the scab from this festering sore, because I have no medication for it. I have no medication for the sales tax cancer either. I would call attention to one fact. A merchant pays on a 3 per cent tax, 3 per cent of his gross, to the state tax col lector. When a state is cursed with a 3 per cent sales tax, it is often the practice, to tax 20 cents one penny, some times 15. The merchant will, oftimes collect as much as 6 cents on a dollar in odds' and .ends of merchandise. This will leave him an average of 2 cents on each dollar that does not have to go anywhere near the tax man's musty cellar. . Briefly, the merchant can steal 2 cents on each dollar of gross bus iness. His gross can be a mil lion dollars. Does anybody know how much two million pennies are? The merchant who wants sales tax does! Pete Logan, Route 4, Medford 4 Sno-Cats Needed To the Editor: It is my op inion that the lost family, Mr. and Mrs. Martin and their three daughters, can be found in isolated woods in the vicin ity of where their car was last located at a service sta-. tion. As stated, the family was headed out to gather Christmas trees in their sta tion wagon. I base my theory on my personal experience and op inion that the driver of this automobile knew where to get nice trees, and that would be in the extreme high moun tains were no man has a right to jeopardize his life and fam ily by such undertakings. - This is what I learned as a young man when I was rais ing a family. We went out to get nice Christmas trees our selves and more than often we had serious trouble get ting stuck on county roads. Now I believe that the greatest possibility of locat ing these people, and I be lieve they will never be re covered alive, is to comb the back trails. This car could be 40 or 50 miles back into the interior, and should snow start falling and continuous rains fall, it is impossible to get a heavy car out. There is only one solution, and that is to take a Sno-Cat and comb such country and logging roads to the ends. This will require a competent man to drive a Sno-Cat and search to the ends of these trails. There are numerous Sno-Cats in this near-by vicin ity, and I would be happy to pay gasoline for a maximum search of 100 miles by such a competent driver. E. M. Tucker Sr., Pres. Tucker Sno-Cat Corp., Medford. had no clocks or caieno forthctegmningofthe" So'r took office c RuTtreV called January I. Ttty beginning of e new Year happiness i AoM from lh MANX MOCGAN HMOID DAY OR NfGOT In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS jfainiui noie in uie news: " Movie actor Charles Chap lin," from whom the U.S. gov ernment has just " extracted $425,000 to settle an income tax claim, entered a London clinic for treatment of a badly abscessed wisdom tooth. There ought to be' a smart crack in that somewhere although one guesses that Chaplain sees nothing funny in it. HTHE latest on Berlin: The Western Big Three powers (Britain, U.S., France) have dispatched their "hands off Berlin" notes to their en voys in Moscow for delivery to the Kremlin. The notes flatly reject Rus sia's near ultimatum to turn West Berlin into a "free city" and suggest that any solution of the Berlin problem must "be found within the wider framework of an all German settlement." IT SOUNDS vague as, of course, it is intended to. The Western allies want to prolong the talking as much as possible. What they are really pro posing is that the question of re-uniting Germany both East Germany and West Ger many shall be submitted to the people of both areas at a FREE ELECTION, with the majority to rule. That Russia can't stand for, because -she knows the vote would be overwhelmingly favorable, in communist East Germany as well as in the free Western area. The allied strategy is to keep Russia refusing to per mit free elections which is good propaganda for the West. HOW will it all turn out? . We'll see what we'll see. But the longer we can keep Russia talking the -less likli hood there will -be that she will start shooting.? - IN CONCLUSION, a word about Marie Toree, the New -York Herald Tribune reporter who has chosen to go to jail rather than reveal the source of the information upon which she based a story. Newspapers generally re fuse to reveal their sources of information, their reason being that in very many cases important and respon sible sources will talk much more freely for publication if their identity is not to be re vealed. The business of a good newspaper is to get the news and get it., straight. News papers are responsible for what they print. If it is false and libelous, they can be sued. Their job is to tell the news as accurately as pos sible, a"nd so they seek to pro tect their news sources. Their reasons for doing so are en tirely legitimate. THIS Torre case, however, isn't wholly typical of the newspaper principle of pro tection of responsible sources. Miss Torre's story concerned Miss Judy Garland, who was suing her employer, the Co lumbia Broadcasting System, for breach of contract and li bel. The "source" in this case was sought to be established as material in her suit. Other wise, the testimony in ques tion would be hearsay, which isn't admissible as evidence. .Because of the principle involved, newspaper people are inclined to sympathize with her but their sympathy would be stronger if her story had been concerned with straight news rather than the gossip column type CourihsuM SNODGt ASS, FUNHAl DWCTOK PHONE St 2-8030
