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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Tuesday, January ft, 1959 Med rTBIBUHS "Xveryone In Southern Oregon Reacts The Mail iriDune published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor ZARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c. "Dail- and Sundav 1 year $13.00 . Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 TO cm. 4.25 Sundav Only One year $450 By Camer 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 $18.00 : Dally and sutwzy l mo. Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash m Advance -Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of. fices in New York, Chicago. De- . Kn TrnnHwn Im Anffeles. Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1949 (Thursday) "Thp Rlppnv Hour" nuiz con lest to raise funds for finish ing the Hawthorne park swimming pool gets Its first airing tonight. "Shy" Morthland pledges "and requests cooperation for efficient county government as he takes over as a county commissioner. ' 20 YEARS AGO -Jan. 6, 1939 (Friday) Several punchboard oper ators tell the sheriffand dis trict attorney they will abide by the ban effective next week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Two measures are before Congress to remove "politics from relief- Relief from, politicians is also needed." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1929 (Sunday) All county officers elected at the last election are to be sworn in tomorrow. Talent Grange is to" give fi nancial assistance for the building of a Talent commun ity hall. ' 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1919. (Monday) Medford doughboys in France are reported on . their way home, and happy home fronters prepare celebrations to welcome them, y - - Normal business and social activity is resumed with the lifting of flu mask require ments. Vhal's Yonr I.Q.? .Nine or ten comer it superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which is the- Terpsichor lan art? . - 2. With what country; do you connect the name of the statesman William E. Glad stone? "' ' . r 3. What business, ' that Is still flourishing with branches in London and New York, did Louis' Francois Cartier found in Paris in 1847?., 4. Name the two cities that are referred to in Charles Dickens, "The Tale of Two Cities.". v 5. In what State are the Bad Lands? - . what: single acquisition of iarid almost ' doubled the area of the United States? T: In Shakespeare's play, were Romeo and Juliet ever married? ' : . 8. Does sound travel through a vacuum? 9. In the nursery rhyme, upon what did "Little Miss Muffet" sit? 10. Who said, "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct"? Answers: 1. Dancing. - 2. Great Britain. 3. A jewelry business. 4. London, England; and Paris. France. 5. South Dakota. 6. Louisianna Pur chase. 7. Yes. 8. No. 9. A luf fei. 10. Benjamin Disraeli. APPARTMENTS FALL Monterontondo, Italy ; Two persons were injured on Monday night when two an cient apartment buildings col lapsed in this small town 14 miles from Rome. The build ings, which house 43 persons, were evacuated earlier be cause they .had been Weaken ed by heavy rains. FAA's Tough Job The nation's airways are now under the con trol of the new Federal Aviation Agency. At 12:01 a.m. Dec. 31, it absorbed all of the personnel, functions and funds of the old Civil Aeronautics Agency, the rule-making functions of the bureau of safety of the Civil Aeronautics board, and it previously had absorbed the air ways modernization board, as well as some mili tary personnel and functions. The CAB is retained, but only has a limited function, largely that of determining probable cause of air accidents. y THE new agency has a big job. x It has air traffic control, the airways safety program, installation of air navigation facilities, procurement of equipment, rule making, and hun dreds of other functions. It has much authority. The new boss is E. Quesada,: former Air Force general and aviation advisor to the Presi dent, and the deputy administrator is James T. Pyle, administrator of civil aeronautics for the pastyear. " . - . - r- "IIHETHER it can do the job or not remains to ' be seen. There will be conflicting demands upon the FAA, as there were upon the CAA the demands and needs of the military, the needs and demands of the private and "executive" pilots, who account for a considerable percentage of all flying; and needs of the nation's airlines, which are compli cated hugely by the advent of speedy new jet aircraft in civilian service. ' It must, if it is to suceed, balance all the legi timate demands; make each segment of the air using public reasonably "happy; give the nation's defense needs a high priority and at the same time provide for the safety of air .travelers. THIS is not going to be easy to do. The CAA failed to do it That is the reason it was superseded by the FAA. And the FAA still has most of the personnel of the CAA including those whose failure was the CAA's failure. Changing the name of the agency, and giving it broader power and scope, is not going to change the men whose failure was marked in airline crashes, in f ouled-up regulations, in unimaginable overcomplication of rules and procedures. If Quesada and Pyle are to succeed, they will need to do some widespread and selective firing of men who are entrenched in their jobs, but who have signally failed to do them well. 1 America cannot afford to do the job 1sss than well. Too much is at stake. E.A. Newspapers' Impact Even those of us who make our livelihoods working on a newspaper are not always fully aware of the impact which a newspaper has upon the community. U We know theoretically that it does fill an important role in the lives of those we serve, both advertisers and readers. But' tiie total pic ture is obscured by the fact that the services which the paper provides marked, unreported. DURING the strike which suspended publica ifiTi vf oil of i XtaiiT VrrV PiHV'a maivr news. papers last month the effects of these services showed up by being missing. They were demon strated statistically where they never could be piece by piece. - Here are some examples, as reported by . the New. York Times: ; Christmas retail sales were off 7 per cent. Candy sales dropped some 80 per cent People with rooms for rent found no rent ers; people looking for places to live, could not find them. . . --Real estate transactions were off up to 50 percent ; , . Attendance at' sports events was down 25 to 50 per cent . Attendance at the theater, motion picture and stage, slumped badly. ; - Attendance at funerals was down an aver age of 20 per cent ... Job hunters and "would-be employers 'could not get together. T"HE Times' story about ron 4a mnra rVion rVviTr Perhaps the most poignant paragraph was this: " "Another group that was perturbed by the absence v. of Sunday papers were the young women whose wed- : ding stories were scheduled to appear. Many seemed desperate in their telephone conversations. It was something they had counted on all their lives." " And, aside from the economic effects and those upon newly wed women, there were "other petty annoyances," the ;Times said:. r "There were people with ships to meet who did ' -not know where to meet' them. There were people -who wanted the score of a local basketball game and -did not know how to find it. And also people who just ; - wanted to look at a television schedule or find out . which movie was playing - at their neighborhood theater." ' - . THE impact of a small-town newspaper such A as the Mail Tribune: may not be of. the same magnitude as that of a it is of the same order. " And, because it is the' available, it has an even greater responsibility to those it serves, readers and advertisers alike. It is a responsibility put out the paper, and we share with our big-city colleagues their feeling of satisfaction that the presses are rolling again, and their sense of dedi- - A " 1 m . canon lo-a-joo which is today's fast-moving and often are small, unre the effects of the strike .liiTYina vf email Hmo metropolitan daily." But ... t : , only local daily paper keenly felt by those who still. very necessary m complex worldV E.A. Dennis the ! OIONY MIND HM CUTTlNS HIMSELF A THIRD SUCB OF CAKE. gUT kVHEN HE ACCUSED M OF IVAIEffNG THE COCOA... Matter of Fact MIKOYAN'S WELCOME Washington Anastas Mik oyan, the second man in the Kremlin, has come to smell the weather l in the street in the capital of the West. He wants to know which way the wind is blowing at this stage of the Berlin cri sis. rm.:. l : J....h Alton , UClIig Mikoyan's primary' , purpose, it is good news that the West ern Allies are said to be very close to final agreement on their "contingency plans," for the defense of Berlin. " At Paris, the Western Al lies beat their breasts and cried, "We shall be firm, we shall be firm." The Kremlin was sufficentty impressed to respond by asking for Mik oyan's 'American visa. But governments crying, "We ormii r firm." too often re- spmble fat ladies crying. "We must go on a diet," as they. reach for a second neiping of dessert. .... Bv the same token, govern-. ments actually agreeing o n nractical wavs and means of being firm in circumstances of desperate danger are like fat ladies actually eoine on strict diets. In this manner, in short, they show they mean wnat thejr have said. THE present case is the su preme test of Western firmness, since there is no way at all to honor the West's commitment to free Berlin ex cept by being ready to fight a big war, if need be, to keep the route to Berlin c p e n. Agreeing on what to do in these ugly and unprecedented circumstances was never like ly to be e a sy. -Difficulties were indeed encountered at the outset, in the first dis cussions at Bonn between the American, British and French ambassadors and the West German government, Apparently on his own in itiative, the British ambassa dor to Bonn, Sir Christopher Steel, somewhat rudely chal lenged the West German gov ernment's will and courage to support a truly firm policy. Reportedly, Sir Christopher argued that the West Ger mans might indulge in great talk now, but would retreat later when the crunch came. The sequel was sufficiently heated to cause a change in the locale of the planning talks. These have mainly cen tered in Washington, with par allel discussions taking place, of course, in the other capi tals A CCORDING to high author ities here, the planning talks have now produced rath er detailed and general agree ment of the right tactical re sponses to the several differ Try and W1 By BENNETT CERF- JACK BENNY, touring the vaudeville circuit many years ago with Ben Bernie, was seized with.an attack of indigestion on stage one evening, and pleaded, "Is there a doctor in the house? He deeply resented the roar of laughter that en sueduntil Bernie remind ed him they were appearing in Rochester, Minn., where the famous Mayo Clinic is located. ' . A sinuous, bikini-clad young mermaid gazed around the pool approvingly and told her companion, "A lot of attrac tive new men registered here last night. I guess I'll have to learn to swim all over again this week!" . Portrait of a housewife by Paper Magnate Sam Himmell: "Within her automatic home : The housewife lolls and lingers, , No longer plagued by dishpan hands But bruised push-button fingers." ' 0 by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate Menace By Joseph Alsop ent sorts of challenge that the Soviet and the East German puppets may offer. Since these "'contingency plans," as they are officially calle4, have fully satisfied the greatest Western advocate of absolute firmness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, it may be presumed that they are not plans to duck or dodge or ignore a challenge at Ber lin. This interpretation is con firmed by the statement of the same high authority above-quoted, that only one matter remained open which must be decided "on the level of the heads of governments." A final decision of extreme gravity is implied by this need for the approval of the heads of government them selves. ' - - If this much progress had not been achieved already, Mikoyan's visit would be a cause for alarm.- A govern ment cannot speak. firmly as the leader of an- alliance, if there is any likelihood of sub sequent desertion by the other alliesUnless the -"contingency plans" for Berlin had been virtually completed, the lead ers of the U.S. Government would therefore have been forced to return uncertain an swers to Mikoyan's expected questions. Any uncertainty or hesitation would have been (and will still be) an open in vitation to the Kremlin; to carry out its Berlin threats. - ;. BECAUSE the planning for Berlin is so well advanced, however, Mikoyari can be an swered with confidence. But that is by no means f the end of the matter. When the Mik oyan visit was announced, the Soviets first - tried' to see whether the American gov ernment would show weak nerves, by falling all over it self to seize this opportunity for talks. Long mutual stone walling at last induced the Soviets to name the persons Mikoyan desired to see. There upon the Soviet Embassy set a schedule that will almost certainly bring Mikoyan to gether with the President and with Vice - President Nixon while Secretary Dulles is ab sent in Ottawa. The object, no doubt, is to see whether Dwight D. Eisen hower and Richard Nixon strike the same unyielding note in the absence of the Secretary of State. If this test is passed, further sound ing wiU surely be made, later on, at Paris and London and Bonn, to see whether the oth er allies strike the same note as Washington has struck. And even if all these tests are passed, it remains to be seen whether the Kremlin will be sufficently impressed by Western firmness combin ed with extreme American "defense economy" in the face of an open threat of war. (c) 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Los Angeles to Seek Law to Ban Sale of New Cars Los Angeles CP& City and county officials have agreed to seek a state law banning the sale of new cars in Cali fornia within a year unless the auto industry develops a practical anti-smog device for its automobiles. "If we are able to get the cooperation of the state leg islators in adopting this dras tic kind of legislation we can go a long way toward con vincing automobile makers that they must do everything within their power to develop some form of smog control device for motor vehicles," County Supervisor Frank G. Bonelli said. Bonelli was one of three supervisors who met with three city councilmen Monday to map out the area's latest approach in an intensified battle against smog. Dragging Its Feet S. Smith Griswold, chief of the Air Pollution Control dis trict which is in charge of enforcing anti-smog laws was asked whether he thought the auto industry was dragging its feets on developing anti smog devices. "I don't, think there's any question about it," he said. "I'm in favor of putting some heat on those guys," Councilman Everett G. Burk halter said of the major auto motive manufacturers. "Let's build a little fire and get the thing rolling." Griswold said four anti smog devices for cars were near the testing stage and seemed promising. They had all been developed by comp anies outside ci Detroit. He said he favored the state wide ban on new car sales because it might force Detroit auto manufacturers to do more research on smog de sign for new cars with space for anti-smog devices. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Well, the Russians are ahead of us again They have a rocket on it? way to the moon, and as this is written they say it is al ready halfway there. A RE we red-faced? V Of course we are. But it may do us no good. We've tended to identify Rus sians in our minds as felt boots - wearing muzhiks - and have inclined toward ignoring brilliant Russian minds. It comes to us with some thing of a shock of surprise, for example, that more than half a century ago a Russian, Ivan Pavlov, was awarded the Nobel prize in physiolo gy and medicine (in 1S04) and four years later another Rus sian, Elie Metchinkoof, won the physiology and medicine prize. Pavlov's award was for work on the physiology of digestion and Metchnikoff s was for work on immunity from disease through vacci nation and antitoxins. NOT too long after that com munism came along and SET RUSSIA BACK by kill ing of too many brilliant Rus sians and ushering in the cen tury of the common man, but even that couldn't hold back Russians minds forever. Bor is Pasternak, another Russian, has just been awarded, the Nobel prize for literature. It's high time for us to quit discounting the Russian mind and get down to reali ties. This latest Russian ex ploit in space may help us to do it. Nothing is more dangerous than underestimating one's enemy. ANOTHER serious thought: If you read and listen discriminatingly to the news of the day, you must have noted that PLAY is coming tr hold a BIG place in our life here in the United States of America. That . suggests these ques tions: If we're to compete suc fpssfullv with Russia, how much can we AFFORD to play? How much MUST we work? This much is certain: With the world shaping up as it is, we aren't going to be able to afford 20-hour work weeks. VITE are told that, one of our " 'big problems is what to do with our leisure time. Mavbe we'll have to get along with LESS leisure time. Maybe that might not be too bad for us. There is the ju venile delinquency problem, for example. There can oe little doubt that TOO MUCH leisure time (coupled with not knowing what to do with it) is responsible for a lot of this delinauencv. Maybe more work might help to solve this and other problems. At any rate, we'd better realize that winning the race we're in will require more work than play. , TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. 6. 1839 Quebec Mission: "The first mass is said at Wal amelle (today) in presence of the Canadians assembled with their wives and chil dren ... There (are) emo tional outbursts here and there. It (is) such a great day for them and their wivesl for them who (have) not seen priests for 30, 40 and 50 years; for iha wives that were beholding at last those who their hus bands had predicted so long ago!" JAN. 6, 1887 The Oregon Pacific Rail road company, which had its beginnings as the Cor vallis and Yaquina Rail, road, dedicates its bridge over the Willamette at Al . bany, and the first freight rolls into town a week later. Oil, Chemical Men Consider Atom to Recover Petroleum Dallas, Tex. -(DPD Some of the smartest men in the . oil and chemical industries meet in Dallas today to consider whether they can use atomic blasts to recover nearly, a tril lion barrels of oil in' Colo rado, Utah and Wyoming. If it is feasible to use un derground nuclear detonation to break up oil shale forma tions, it could change the whole outlook for the petrol eum industry. The meeting in Dallas fol lows an earlier one at Lara mie, Wyo., in which scientists and engineers for the Atomic Energy commission, the Ern est O. Lawrence Radiation laboratory at Berkeley, Calif.; and the Bureau of Mines all agreed that application of nu clear energy in the recovery of oil has "considerable prom ise." - : A-Blast Reports In a. paper prepared for delivery today to the meeting of the Bureau of Mines and the petroleum industry, Charles E. Violet of the Uni versity of California, reported on the first "completely con tained" nuclear explosion at the Nevada test site on Sept. 19, 1957, and on additional underground detonations in October, 1958. - It 'would be this or similar types of nuclear explosions that would be employed in the new method of oil recov ery! Violet said in his technical paper that in the underground explosion in 1957, code-named Rainier, that no radioactivity was discovered in the tunnel in excess of the natural back ground as measured prior to the blast. In Rainier, Violet said the energy released by the - nu clear explosions was equiva lent to 1,700 tons of high ex plosions. The blast was in a room six by seven feet, 899 feet under a rocky mountain and 79 feet back from the face of it.' Rock Vaporized Violet said the shock was sufficiently strong to vapor ize the rock for the first three feet and to melt it out to 15 feet. The rock was crushed on further out to a radiusof 130 feet. The scientist said the radio activity, with negligible ex ceptions, was trapped in 700 tons of melted rock. Violet said in a concluding section of his report that it is clear the complete contain ment of . all radioactive pro ducts can be expected up to a certain depth. The Rainier experiment was conducted in a volcanic tuff formation. Oil shale would produce different prob- Virus Infection Nursed by Dulles Washington -(UPD- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles nursed a virus ' infection at his home today but aides said the ailment was not a serious one. The virus sent the secretary home from his office Monday. It was the latest and appar ently the mildest of a series of ailments which began in November, 1956, with a suc cessful operation on Dulles for intestinal cancer. Dulles was hospitalized again with an inflamed intes tine last month, iust before i the NATO meetings in Paris. His physicians let him attend the sessions, but ordered him to take a rest thereafter. He spent the holidays in Jamaica. The cabinet member re- i turned from Jamaica Satur day, reported that he was "feeling fine," and looked it. Then, he contracted the new ailment on his first day back at work. Party Labels Only Thing Changed in New, 86th Congress By Congressional Quarterly Washington -(CQ)-A more than casual glance at the per sonnel of the 86th Congress which meets Wednesday re veals that the recent Demo cratic landslide changed little more than party labels. Mr. Lawmaker, 1959 style, is about the same age as his recent predecessors; the chances are better than 50-50 that he'll be a lawyer, just as in other Congresses; and its a good bet that he'll be a veteran. A Congressional Quarterly survey shows that the aver age member of the 86th Con gress will be 52.7 years old -about a year younger than his counterpart of a year ago. The average senator" will be 57.1 years old, while in the House the norm will be 51.7. lems, Violet said. The oil recovery program is being advanced on the theory that by nuclear explo sions oil sands may be heated until the viscosity of oil is lowered, making its entrap ment easier in a well. Five Airmen Die In New York Fire Syracuse, N.YOPB-At least five airmen were reported dead today in a fire which de stroyed a barracks at a Syr acuse University housing area. Four others were re ported missing and another 15 were treated for injuries at five Syracuse hospitals. . Capt. A. J. Del Signore, in charge of a detachment of air men taking part in special language courses at the uni versity, said five were known dead and four remained unac counted for. The names of the dead were withheld until relatives are notified. The fire broke out at 5:36 ajn. The barracks occupied by the military personnel were among buildings used by married students at the un iversity. Del Signore said there were 43 airmen in the barracks which burned. Some of the injured were carried out and others es caped unaided. The injured did not appear badly hurt, of ficials at the hospitals said. Ice-Breaker Used To Clear Inlet Anchorage, Alaska (UPD Dockage of the first freight barge in Anchorage during any January was made possi ble Sunday by use of an ice breaker, John Hartf of Alaska Freight Lines, Incl, reported. The ice-breaker was a con verted LSM which the com pany bought from a broker in Yokohama,' Japan. This is the first winter for the use of the ice-breaker in Cook Inlet. During the sum mer and fall, it was used in the Bering Sea hauling freight to military bases in the Far North. The vessel is captained by Ray Thurston and carries a crew of 12. Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I.), continues to set records as the oldest sen ator in history at 91 plus, and Sen. Frank Church, (D-Idaho) still is the baby of the Sen ate at 34. In the house, Rep. Brent Spence (D-Ky.), is the" oldest at 84 and Daniel D. Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), sports a youthful 30. Professions Virtually all of the sena-tors-98 per cent-and 86 per cent of the representatives have had some experience in politics or civic service. About half the house members arid almost two-thirds of the sen ators are lawyers; about one toird of the members of both chambers show a background m banking or business. . . About 17 per cent of the senators in the 86th Congress call themselves farmers as against 21 per cent in the 85th Congress. The figure in the house will stay at about 10 per cent There will be the usual scattering of journalists, teachers, doctors and engin eers in the new session of Congress. There are two min isters: Rep. Walter H. Moeller CD-Ohio) and Rep. Adam C. Powell Jr. (D-N.Y.). More than half of the rep resentatives and about, two thirds of the senators have had some military service. Seniority The CQ study also shows that speaker of the house Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) continues to lead the seniority parade. His 45 years' continuous ser vice in the house, stretching back to 1913, - shades Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.), who began in 1919. The Number One man In terms of seniority in the Senate again is Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.), who has represent ed his state in Congress ever since it was admitted to the Union in 1912. Hayden's sen ate career began in .1927, but this was preceded by . 15 years in the house. The man on the top of the Republican seniority ladder in the senate is Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), a comparative newcomer who was elected in 1937. (Copyright 1958, Congression al Quarterly Incorporated) 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 forpublica tion is permissible. The MaU 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. Butt Falls Library To the Editor: We have a new library and city hall, of which the community is very proud.' The library is essen tial in Butte Falls, as we have quite a number of readers. We, as a whole, want to thank Miss Webster and staff for the congenial service they have given us, especially Miss Webster. She is wonder ful to work with. We feel that the library, is a necessity in this outlying town of Butte Falls. City Recorder; Butte Falls. Ore. Magnavox Leads the Field in Stereophonic Sound 55 Phonograph mod els to choose from. See Them At PURUCKER'S Fred Brennan '59 WILL BE JUST FINE ... if your insurance coverage Is as up-to-date as your new calen dar. Replacement costs change just like dates. BE SURE YOU'RE PROPERLY INSURED.. Bill Fish
