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Newspaper Page Textf MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL MedforivSWribuwb "Xveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ZKIC W. ALLLTi JK, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indesendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Aleaiora Oregon under An or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance. Cony 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 vear $19.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 3.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 ' Sunday Only On year $4 JO By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Earl ' Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, ' Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and en motor routes. . Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily ana &unuay 1 mo. uao Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacason county United Press International Full Leased Wire 3ER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago; De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. . 1 SflV NEWSPAPER Si PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL asbocUti Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 TSARS AGO Jan. 8, 1949 (Saturday) The Jackson County Dairy Breeders association files ar ticles of incorporation. "Weather too cold for pour ing concrete slows work on an interceptor sewer on Main $t- east of Bear creek bridge. 20 TEAKS AGO Jan. 8, 1939 (Sunday) The Jackson County Medi cal society calls a special meeting to mull over the state's new marriage license law requiring physical exams. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The marriage bureau at the court house is- still going along without a hitch." .... 30 TEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1929 (Tuesday) : Foggy weather grounds a "huge" plane at Medford air port. The state tax commission proposes a "prosperity tax" with no Income offset tax. 40 TEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1919 (Wednesday) Public schools of the city are re-opened. Miss Mary Haswell is sworn In as city treasurer here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even er eight is excellent; five er six is good. - - 1. What name is applied to female warriors? 2. To what does polyandry refer? 3. In which National Park is Quandrant Mountain? . 4. In what year was the most recent U. S. census of population taken? 5. Who was the composer of "1812 Overture?" 8. Who wore bells on her toes? 7. Who was responsible for popularizing the word "Ar yan"? 8. In what country would you expect to find a geisha? 9. What is the singular form of the word dice? 10. What name is given to a painting on a wall? 1. Amazons 2. Plural hus bands. 3. Yellowstone. 4. 1950. 5. Tchaikowsky. S. The Lady for Banbury. 7. Hitler. 8. Ja pan. 9. Die. 10. Mural, or fresco. . Grants Pass Firm Bidders for Project Robert Marsh, Grants Pass, was the low bidder for con struction of an office building at the Jeddeloh Brothers com pany in Gold Hill. The bid was for $10,245. Architect for the project is Robert ' Fisher, Grants Pass. Five other bids were receiv ed by the firm. Sub-contractors on the pro ject include Carl Sandeec, masonry; Better Roofing com pany, roofing; Modern Plumb ing company, sheet metal; Bob's Paint Shop, glass work; flnH fnlA n-nA Tnlrfnt. Hum. - vw IIIHI Vfc, uuu ihg. '" ' " " The Figures Are Impressive The coming decade will see more than a doubling of facilities, staff, and students at this regional college serving southern Oregon. The enrollment will exceed 2,500 be cause of the higher birth rate, greater immigration, wider services, and in creasing demand for a college educa tion. The professional and administra-. tive staffs will need to be increased to about 150 and civil service personnel to over 60. The campus boundaries will have to be expanded to include another 30 acres, making a campus of over 100 acres. More than nine million dollars,' two-thirds of it requested from the state legislature, for building space and , land, must be provided to adequately handle the enrollment and to provide fa cilities normally provided by a complete college. , The college, fast developing its re gional service, will need to expand its curriculum in a number of ways. Since teacher education is one of its basic functions, the professional degrees will be strengthened and an expansion of teaching areas into music, art, and phys ical education are next steps. Prepri mary education will be further develop ed. Teacher-librarians, school camping, and outdoor education will be given em phasis, i - - The offering in liberal arts will be expanded, enriched, and given empha sis. Additional short terrm (two weeks to two years) curricula will be initiated to meet the particular needs of the peor pie of the area in horticulture, wood utilization, tourist, and adult education services. The institution will continue its lead ership role in the cultural activities of the southern Oregon region. THE. quotation above is from Dr. Elmo Steven- son, president of Southern Oregon college, and describes his assesment of the immediate future of the college. Statements very similar, and some even more ambitious, have been made by the heads of other units of the state system the University of Oregon, Oregon State College, Portland State college, Oregon College of Edu cation, Eastern Oregon college, the U. of O. Medi cal and Dental schools and the general extension division.,. , Even if the schools' roles as service and clu tural centers are to be denied (and we don't quite see how this can be done), the sheer statistics of enrollment, if nothing else, show what higher education in Oregon is In for within the next few years. I 0 OK at these figures: - In 1940, a total of 9,905 students were en rolled in all the units of the system of higher education. Thirteen years later, in 1953, the total was 12,945. Five years later, in the fall of 1958, this had jumped to 21,686. In 1968, only $y2 years from now, the pro jected figures show an enrollment of some 41,000 students nearly double the number today. And that 1968 total isn't a wild guess, either it is a solid projection of what is going to hap pen to children who are now attending elemen tary school. They are here; they can be counted; the percentages who will go on to college can be accurately estimated on the basis of experience. IF THE esimates err, they probably err on the conservative side. For more and more, a college education is becoming the sine qua non of suc cess in a career. Even a greater stringency in admission stan dards cannot hold down enrollments materially. And there is a question whether the people of Oregon want the standards raised too high, for traditionally they have approved the policy of admitting all qualified high school graduates, who can and want to go, to college. The enrollment figures are explicit in showing only one phase of the problem; but they indi cate related questions, such as: How many more buildings, how much more land, will be needed? Where are we to obtain the faculties needed, and how retain them? How- will this "quantity" education affect the quality of education? And which schools should handle what part of the load? HTHESE questions affect every citizen of the state in one way or another. One of the ways in which everyone is affected is the question oi how it is all to be paid for? These problems of higher education are only a part of what is meant when realistic people declare that the cost of state government cannot, in the foreseeable future, be decreased. Economy in government is important, par ticularly in these days of rising costs. But the blunt truth is that if Oregon is to maintain the services which she now demands, she's going to have to find a way to pay for them. This is true not only in the field of higher education (for highways, other institutions, and other governmental agencies are facing similai problems). But in higher education the statistics speak graphically and impressively for them selves. L.A. '" of higher education Dennis the )fouli find ourwfM smnN MERE AS SOOM AS TUB PHONE RINGS; Matter of Fact THE GENERAL DISCREDITED Washington -The latest and most impressive Soviet rocket launching is only one more proof that na tional defense ought to be the over -rid ing issue in the new Con gressional ses- ;J sion. For once in a way, moreover, what ought to loi-pb Alsop ppcu "i theory may almost happen in fact. All the ablest and best in formed leaders of Congress, reading from Sen. Stiles Bridges on the right to Sen. Hubert Humphrey on the left, have returned to Washington in a mood of active, vocal, al most angry disquiet about na tional defense problems. There is hardly a trace, any longer, of the old willingness to "leave defense to Ike." Ex cept for one or two old faith fuls like Sen. Leverett Salton stall, the more influential law makers all more or less deep ly distrust the President's budget - minded defense plan ning. ' . THERE are two quite practi cal reasons for this novel distrust. First, the Congress ional chieftains are far more aware than the general public of the enormous fraud prac ticed in the post - Sputnik period. They know, in fact, that the pretended increase of the American defense effort after the Sputniks was really nothing but an increase of de fense publicity. In the fog -of press releases, even the most knowing men on The Hill took some time to perceive that the Sputniks' challenge was not being an swered with any great effort or investment that had not been previously programmed. But they have perceived it now, as they could hardly fail to do. Three days after the Soviet moon probe, the Presi dent himself blandly told the White House meeting of Con gressional leaders that his 1960 defense budget would actually be somewhat less than his 1959 budget. The figures are $40,850, 000,000 of requested appro priations, against $41,140,000, 000 last time. These are stag gering figures. The Congress-j ional chieftains might worry less about the neglect of the Sputniks' challenge, if they were not increasingly aware of the detailed defense facts. a A YEAR ago, for instance, few people in Washington would have paid much atten tion to Brig. Gen. Thomas Phillips' article . on "T h e Growing Missile Gap" in "The Reporter," or to Albert Wohlstetter's article on "The Delicate Balance of Terror" in "Foreign Affairs." Now a great many people are asking Try and l -By BENNETT CERF- APRIM YOUNG MATRON dropped into a restaurant with her little boy for a snack. The proprietor took a liking to the kid and gave him an extra scoop of ice cream. "What do you say to the nice man?' prompted the mother. The kid said, "Charge it" "King Solomon," declares a little girl in Sunday School, "I like because he was so kind to ladies and animals." The startled teacher demanded, "Who told you that?" "Nobody told me; I read it myself," asserted the litle girL "It says Solomon kept 700 wives and 300 porcupines." CasWe Stinnett has dlscov- - ered an art school in Chicago that has opened a new afternoon class for children, dealing only with the primary colors. It's called what else? "Three Little Pigments." Epitaph for a hypochondriae: "I TOLD you I wasn't feeling well!" 0 1959. by Beanstt Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Menace By Joseph Alsop questions about these articles, and so 'they should. General Phillips, one of the best defense experts in the business, paints the darkest picture of the missile gap that has been traced by any in formed brush. Some of Phil lip's facts are questioned at the Pentagon, quite probably as a result of the corruption of complacency in our current intelligence analysis. But as Chief of the War Projects Di vision of the semi-"official" Rand Corp., Wohlstetter be longs, in effect, to an annex of the Air Force Planning Staff. Not even a Pentagon press office can question Wohlstetter's knowledge of the defense facts. After denouncing this al- legedly gloom-prone reporter as an "unwarranted optimist," Wohlstetter, the government employed expert, bleakly re marks that "we must expect a vast increase in the weight of attack which the Soviets can deliver with little (or no) warning." Therefore, he says, "strategic deterrence, while feasible, will . be extremely difficult to achieve." He con cludes, in effect, that the United States "may not have the power to deter attack" at "critical junctures in the 1960s," if we go on as we are going. THIS plain warning of a possible failure of the American strategic deterrent is plainly confirmed by signs in the Pentagon such" as the rising talk about "minimum deterrence." Minimum deter rence means nothing more nor less than a strategy of killing the Soviet Union with a few big, dirty H-bombs, thrown in the death rattle after this country and almost all its striking forces have been killed already. Behind the theory of minimum deter rence, there is nothing more nor less than flabby, helpless acceptance of the gravest sort of inferiority to the Soviets in strategic striking power. Wohlstetter's warning is also confirmed by the Krem lin s threat to Berlin, which can only be countered by com plete readiness to fight a big war. N i k i t a Khrushchev would hardly be making this kind of threat if he did not think the military balance was sharply tilting in his fav or, and if he did not expect the West's answer to be in fluenced by the tilt of the military balance. In this, one hopes, Khrush chev has miscalculated. Thus far, the Western response to the threat to Berlin seems likely to be completely firm. The crisis arising from this threat is also likely to give just the needed extra push to the existing Congressional im pulse to do something about national defense before it is too late. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Nixon-Johnson Squared Off in Struggle For Power in Senate; 1960 Stake Seen By WILLIAM THEIS Washington flJPD Two men with a great stake in 1960's presidential contest-Vice-Pres ident Richard M. Nixon and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson have finally squared off . against each other in the Senate. "This will not be a panty waist fight," one intimate of Johnson's told United Press International. "This is a plain struggle between Johnson and Nixon." Senate GOP Finds Unity But Scars of House Fight By RAYMOND LAHR Washington - (DPD - Repub lican senators emerged today from their leadership contest without visible scars, but bit terness threatened to linger indefinitely among GOP House members. Supporters of the deposed House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin read all sorts of meanings into his de feat two days ago by Rep. Charles A. Halleck. They pro fessed to see evidence that Vice President Richard Mi Nixon and Thomas E. Dewey, twice the GOP presidential nominee, had played a part in Martin's defeat. The White House explicitly denied Martin's assertion that three White House aides -but not President Eisenhower - had worked for Halleck. Denies Nixon Role Sources close to Nixon also denied that he had taken any part. One informant said Martin telephoned Nixon to ask if the vice president were helping Halleck and was as sured that Nixon was not en couraging the anti-Martin campaign. Rep. Robert C. Wilson (R Calif .), a friend of Nixon, said it was mere coincidence that Nixon's friends in the House were on the Halleck band wagon. He said they wanted a younger leader than the 74-year-old Martin. "This was no Nixon move ment," Wilson said. Reports of pressure from the Dewey camp were at tributed to private explana tions within the New York House delegation for, giving support to Halleck. ; Dirksen Beats Cooper Halleck helped Dewey win the 1948 presidential nomina tion and expected to get second place on the Republi can ticket - a prize which went to then Gov. Earl War ren of California. . . r Only time would tell how much time would be needed to heal the wounds left by the Halleck-Martin contest. In contrast, Senate Republicans TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. 8, 1846 Congressman John A. Mc demand of Illinois rises from his desk in the House of Representatives, delivers his eloquent opposition to the, settlement of the Ore gon boundary at the 49th parallel, and adds his voice to the rising cry for "50 40 or Fight!" Jackson Predicts Hawaii Statehood Washington -(DPD Sen. Hen ry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), pre dicted today that the new 86th Congress will grant state hood to Hawaii. Jackson, chairman of an interior subcommittee on terr ritories, said Alaskan state hood paved the way for Ha waii and "the makeup of the new Congress strengthens the outlook." He said he would join in sponsoring a Hawaii statehood bill identical to the one ap proved by the committee last year. He said hearings on the measure should be relatively brief becaus" "the facts are well-established." Three-fifths of the grapes exported by the U.S. in 1957 went to Canada. Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID QUICK RELIEF OR NO COST -V Over five million packages of the WILLARD TREATMENT have been sold for relief of symptoms of distress arisinf from Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers due to Ex cess Add Poor Digestion, Sour or Upset Stomach, Gassiness, Heartburn, Sleep lessness, ete due to Excess Acid. Ask for "WiHard's Message" which fully explains this home treatment free at CENTRAL DRUG WAINSCOTT'S PHARMACY WESTERN THRIFT STORE McLAIN'S DRUG CENTRE Phoenix: GIER'S DRUG STORE His reference was to the Senate's opening day show down between Johnson and Senate forces battling for a far tighter gag on filibusters, with Nixon in the forefront for the latter. - The long-awaited test of po litical personalities arose through the Vice-President's series of advisory opinions and tentative rulings on re vision of Senate rules. For months it has been no secret that Nixon was ready, were talking unity in the i wake of Illinois Sen. Everett M. Dirksen's 20-14 victory Today & Tomorrow By Walter ARGUING WITH SEN. DOUGLAS With all due respect to Sen. Paul Douglas, whom I admire very much, the question at issue in the Senate is not whether the majority shall rule. The ques tion is what kind of major ity shall rule. For there are many sorts of mainrifiisc i Walter - Lippmann ... " o e n a t o r Douglas wants one more than half of the Senators elected to rule, which would be 50 Sen ators. But on most of the busi ness of the Senate on more than half of a auorum. which would be 26 votes, can pass a bill. Thus Sen. Douglas him self recognizes that on a ques tion of closing debate, a big ger majority should be re quired than for ordinary leg islation. The present rules of the Senatte require 66 Senators to close a debate, and excludes closure of a debate on a change in the rules. The John son - Knowland amendment, which will probably be adop ted, require a two-thirds ma jority of - those present and voting,- whoch can theoretical ly be as many as 66 and as few as 34, to close debate. Sert. John . Sherman Cooper has now suggested that the majority be three-fifths, which would, theoretically, permit closure by as few as 30 Sen ators up to as many as 59 Senators, depending on how many Senators were present and voting. , -. . SEN. Douglas is, therefore, begging' the question when he talks as if "majority rule" were something simple and obvious to all men. Moreover, he ignores the nature of the Senate, which is the represen tative in our system of a fed eration of states. In the Sen ate, what does it mean to speak of "majority rule?" A majority of what? A majority of the states or a majority of the people of the United States? In the House of Representa tives and the members repre sent, more or less exactly, the voters themselves, and a mem ber from New York and a member from Alaska or Ne vada represent approximately the same number of people. But this is not true of the Senate. Thus when Sen. Douglas wants 50 Senators to be able to close a debate and to pass a bill, he calls it majority rule which is "the basic prin ciple of our government." But suppose the 50 Senators rep resent the 25 smallest states? Taking the figures for the cen sus of 1950, the 25 smallest states which have 50 Senators, represent 29,000,000 people, or less than one-fifth of the population in 1950. Against these 25 states there were It's not It's not 4 A"v4 WK-ft if not anxious, to back up a ruling his feeling that a majority of the Senate should be- able to change its own rules. And behind this has been Nixon's strong support of civil rights legislation to as sure Negroes and others their full equal opportunities under the Fourteenth Amendment. As the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 1960, Nixon already is credited with broad backing among Negro voters. Friends Stay Wednesday over Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky for the GOP floor leadership. Lippmann three states, New York, Cal ifornia, and Pennsylvania, which had 7,000,000 more peo ple m them than all the 25 combined. e e rpHE moral of all this is that - in the Senate, "majority rule" is not something which all good men must favor and only reactionaries or worse can oppose. The question of what kind of majority " shall prevail is not one of simple arithmetic or of absolute prin ciple but of political wisdom. For those of us who prefer the Johnson to the Douglas amendment of Rule XXII, there are two outstanding con siderations. One, which refers to the civil rights of Negroes, is that we wish the Federal govern ment to proceed if not with the consent, then at least with the assent, of a large body of Southern opinion. We think that legislation ; which does not have at least the assent of the liberal South will prove to be unenforcible. - The other consideration which moves us is that we do not wish to entrust the civil liberties of all our peo pie, not only under the 14th and 15th Amendments, but under the whole' Bill of Rights,, to simple and narrow majorities.. We. live in a time of danger 'when panic is al ways possible and panics can easily produce a stampede away from liberty. rpHE Johnson amendment to -- the rules, which requires at the most 66 votes to pass a controversial measure, is a reasonable rule. .Legislation could be blocked by an un ending filibuster only if all the Senators of 17 states par ticipated in - it. This would not, as some have suggested who side with Senator Doug las, give the South an abso lute veto on legislation to pro mote the civil rights of Ne groes. In the deep South there are only seven states in which there has been no desegre gation at primary or secon dary level and they have 14 Senators. In 10 other states of the South and the border land there is some desegrega tion. All of these states would have to combine with the deep South to impose a "veto." Now legislation which is op posed by all states of a whole section of the country, includ ing the states which are be ginning to comply with the new principle of desegrega tion, is very doubtful legis lation indeed. It promises more trouble than anything else. ' . Presumably the Johnson amendment will be adopted, as Senator Douglas himself forecast in his appearance on "Meet the Press" on Sunday evening. When it is adopted, it will not stop his long, pre sistent, and invaluable labors on behalf of civil rights, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. sasaaeav 'SJafeJ'''5w?"; UeA 5 so much the biautv or the place ... so much the size of the firm ... It's not so much a matter or iAcu,rnS . . . i What really counts is... not material things ...but service to our fellowmen. Hohakel ' JMiaiy , ' Across from the Courthouse FKANK MOtGAN - HAROIO SNO0GRASS. FUNERAl DWECTOxS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 believe he has everything to gain and nothing to lose politi cally oy his stand on ; the rules-civil rights issue. Rulings Hit It was Nixon's willingness to rule on the current Ques tion that dramatized Johnson's own stand against him. The lanky Texas Democrat, -smilingly caustic, told the Senate he thought the presiding Vice- President was "giving rulings pretty freely." Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) an old hand on par liamentary procedure and a Johnson tutor, challenged Nix on s rulings more bluntly. He suggested the Vice-President was taking on "judicial pow ers" he lacks. In their first show-down, Johnson displayed his own power as leader. He adjourn ed the Senate out from under Nixon and others supporting the conviction held by the Vice-President. 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 Tor 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. Gasoline Smog To the Editor: We are read ing of smog conditions every day, mostly in Los Angeles. We in Medford are certainly blessed with our share, espe cially on foggy days. The Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles is planning on stopping the sales of automo biles unless the manufactur ers develop an anti-smog de vice. . Have been wondering if there has ever been any study made concerning the possi bilities of the lead in ethyl gasoline causing the sickness during smog weather. Francis Shorty Hibbard, 1302 Saling aye., . Medford Vocational Aid ' To the Editor: The Altrusa club of Medford, a classified service club for business and professional women, has an nounced that a local vocation al grant has been set up to aid older women in need of employment. This grant will be available at once to some Jackson county woman needing assist ance to train or retrain her self for earning a living after several years' absence from the business, professional or industrial field. Any woman who finds she must support herself or family but who has no business experience and has never worked for a living will also be eligible for con sideration for this grant. Equipment instead of training can be given if it will aid the applicant to become sell-supporting. There are no special educational q u a 1 if ications needed for eligibility unless required for the training course requested. We are very anxious to make this offer known to as many people as possible be fore the closing date, which is Feb. 2. 1 Adversity often strikes sud denly, taking a wage earner from a family and making it necessary for an older woman to go back to work to support herself and dependents. She will meet employment bar riers, and will need training to overcome them. If she is able to apply for such voca tional training this grant will help her. All applications will be treated as confidential, and your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Please mail all correspondence to: Altrusa Club of Medford," Vo cational Committee,' 228 North Holly street, Medford, or telephone SP 2-6371 or SP 2-5627. Mrs. Wallace Haskins, Vocational Information Chairman, Medford Altrusa Club r - 'mm aVjvSsaPsai a ' JESS '' afsnhel p1 1 "!'.