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Monday, Janaary 19, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtWTRIBUNB "Everyone It Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GEHAU) LATMAH, Business nigr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing 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 faunday 3 mos. -o Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or J ac it ton 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 , troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, ; Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION MATIONAl EDITORIAL ASfsbctATitol 1 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 Jan. 19. 1949 (Wednesday) Medford's city council au thorizes City Superintendent Vernon Thorpe to call for bids on a medium-intensity lighting system for the main runway at the airport. Courtesy and good order, with no signs of the recent flareup between councilmen and Mayor Tom Williams, ", mark a city council, meeting in Ashland. ' 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1939 (Thursday) The Medford school district applies at city hall for a build ing permit to construct a $9,000 shop at the senior high school. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re ports show there will be con siderable rural building on the Pacific coast the coming spring. It is understood,, there are several service . stations with no rival straight across the road." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1929 (Saturday) The Rogue river fish war bobs up again In the state legislature. s The mercury here drops to 14 degrees above, the coldest of the year, with lots more snow predicted for the moun tains. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1919 (Sunday) Despite heavy rains this month, the farmers complain there still is a lack of water. The Elks lodge plans to en tertain returning soldiers at a smoker. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1909 (Tuesday) Will G. Steel heads a drive for a government ' study of Rogue river, fish life. ' The Medford Big Butte .Recreation club plans a sum mer colony on upper Butte creek "far from the madden- . ing crowd's ignoble strife." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. How many pawns does a chess set contain? 2. Who discovered the law ,of gravity? , 3. How many pips are there "on a face card in a pack of ; playing cards? ' 4. Name the South Pacific -island that was colonized by . mutineers from HMS Bounty. 5. Between which two of !the Great Lakes is Niagara Falls? 6. What men take the oath of Hippocrates? 7. Who went to sea in a . bowl? 8. Is a demoiselle a young -girl, a bird, a dragonfly, a 'fish, or a tiger shark? ; 9. How many linear feet of fencing are needed to enclose . a field 10 feet long, if the field is twice as long as it ;is wide? 10. What name is given to the boundary line between '.Pennsylvania on the one hand ;and Maryland and part of ; West Virginia, on the other? Answers: 1. Sixteen. 2. Sir - Isaac Newton. 3. Four. 4. Pit cairns island. 5. Ontario and Erie. 6. Physicians. 7. Three wise men of Gotham.- 8. All of them. 9. Thirty feet. 10. Mason-Dixon line. Massive Resistance Decisions The Virginia Supreme Court rules today on a whole package of state "massive resistance" laws opposing racial integration in publit schools. Included is one measure which closed nine schools in Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Front Royal, putting nearly 13,000 students out of classes. Negro schools as well as white schools in Virginia could be closed, ironically enough, if the court holds the "massive-resistance" laws un constitutional, as it is expected to do. The Nor folk City Council on Jan. 13 voted to cut off all operating funds for classes beyond the sixth grade as of Feb. 1. IT WAS understood that the council resolution would be vacated in the unlikely event that both state and federal courts found constitution al the Virginia package of laws opposing racial integration. In any event, court action is promis ed against the Norfolk move. If' allowed to stand, it would affect 36 white and Negro schools, clos ing classrooms to 7,173 children, 5,259 of them Negro. The council move was the logical outcome of a Nov. 18 referendum in Norfolk. Citizens voted, 12,658, to 8,781, to advise the council not to peti tion Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., to return six schools to city authorities so they could be re opened on a racially integrated basis. The referendum was "infoi national" and not binding on the council, but five of the seven members had announced in advance of the bal loting that they would accept the voters' verdict. The vote to cut off school funds was 6 to 1. , QOV. ALMOND observed on Jan. 8 that if the courts struck down the massive resistance package, the state would still have some say in the matter of school integration. If desegregation in any community was not peaceful, Almond said, he could invoke the police power "inherent in the office of governor." v Moreover, Almond has promised further leg islative action after the courts have ruled. He in tends to name a sizeable commission from the state assembly to draft a program for the con sideration of a special assembly session. The Vir ginia legislature ordinarily meets only in even numbered years. . . .. ....... .... For all the violence and disorder in Little Rock, Ark., the Deep South to a large extent looks to Virginia for intellectual leadership in the fight against integration and for that matter in other civil rights issues. Virginia has been de scribed as "an upper-South state with a Deep South posture." ; . , "7IRGINIA was the first state to close white oiiuuis tu wmi;ii ltjuerai juages naa oraerea admission of Negro students. Virginia, unlike Arkansas, has had no racial integration in its schools. And Virginia pupils seem to harbor a deeper antagonism to integration than do those of Arkansas. ................ : , In only one "hard-core" Virginia community has an integration deadline been set. In Prince Edward county, in the southern area with the largest proportionate Negro population, integra tion slated to start in 196511 years after the original Supreme Court order on school desegre gation, r ' ' : ' r : ; . For one other reason the states of the Deep South are watching the battle in Virginia. Most of their own anti-integration statutes are based on those devised in the Old Dominion. E.R.R. Picketing and Mr. Hoffa "We may have to enact something on picket ing now because of how Jimmy Hoffa operates," some members of the new Congress are reported as saying. Hoffa's teamsters' union had threaten ed, in its now cancelled move to unionize New York City policemen, to picket the various police headquarters. , Hoffa knows only too well that when team sters picket, they may well deter non-strikers reluctant to cross any picket line. President Eis enhower proposed in 1958 a ban on certain types of organizational picketing. His proposal was absent from the anti-corruption labor bill passed by the Senate last year but rejected by the House. The Norris-La Guardia act of 1932 in effect legalizes, as far as federal jurisdiction is con cerned, any and all picketing that's peaceful and non-fraudulent. The Taft-Hartley act of 1947 left the 1932 act alone in this respect while specify ing certain labor practices as unfair. . MAJORITY of the police power, have that's illegitimate. Some many pickets may stand apart, picKets must march in line, whether threats and epithets constitute "violence," etc. Federal courts have upset state (and local) enactments that invade the field covered bv fed eral labor laws. Even so, six to mree on dune 4, iy56, upheld a Wiscon sin injunction against mass picketing, violence and coercion in the Kohler strike. Said the major- iiy . j. ne xctcb mai a umun commits a ieaerai un fair practice (should not) . prevent a state from taKing steps to stop violence." E.R.R. states, relvinjr on their laws aimed nr. nirVptino- state laws specify how at an entrance, how far the Supreme Court by Dennis the 'look mrntr vewwurs i cm Matter of Fact POLITICAL DARWINISM Washington - By now, a great many Americans have seen Anastas Mikoyan in ac tion and at close range. Most have been deeply impressed; but it is a safe bet that very few have given much t h o u g ht to what this man ii j Jnsepn Alsop reaiiy xa. The point is not that Miko yan has blood on his hands, as the Hungarian refugee pickets have justifiably shouted at him. Nowadays, in the comfortable Western so cieties, people forget that quite ! high-minded persons have frequently shed oceans of innocent blood, with per fect confidence that they were doing the right thing. Agricola is remembered as the model Roman pro-consul. Yet Agricola's" own son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, makes a British rebel chief describe Agricola's suppres sion of the second British re bellion in the terrible words: "(The Romans) make a soli tude and call it peace." Queen Victoria is certainly consider ered a model British mon arch only extreme in her preudery and propriety. But Queen Victoria positively howled for blood and then more blood when her Indian subjects indulged in mutiny. QUITE possibly, the masters of the Kremlin really be lieved they were massacring the Hungarians "for their own good," just as Queen Vic toria believed that downing the mutiny in blood was for India's good. But even if Mi koyan cherished this ma cabre but comforting belief, the real point about this man is quite different. After the French revolution someone asked the . cleric-politician, the Abbe Sieyes, what he had done during the terror; and he replied, "Ah, Monsieur, I survived." Surviv a I v was, Sieyes' point, and survival is Mikoyan's point. But how in finitely more Mikoyan has survived! , ," - The October revolution revolution and its accompany ing terror; the civil war that came after; the confused, im poverished, risky years be fore the Five Year Plans; the Stalin purges that literally decimated the Soviet Commu nist Party; the grim war pe riod, the last years of Stalin's growing paranoia; the time of deadly maneuvering . after Stalin's death; and then triumphant Nikita Khrush chev's brisk purge of all his former colleagues all this Mikoyan, and Mikoyan alone, has managed to survive. " Death by shooting, death by poison, death by . sheer , ex Try and -By BENNETT CERF- TV TECHNICIAN sought out the top heart specialist in town and ordered a complete check-up. "You're in fine shape," the specialist assured him at its conclusion but that was be fore the technician got his bilL It was for $500. "Cripes, doc," wailed the technician, "I'm just a poor working man. I haven''' got money like that" The understanding spe cialist lowered his bill $50 at a time, but when the pa tient still protested inability to pay even $100, the spe cialist lost his temper. "You must have known a man in my position charges high fees," he observed. "Why did you seek me out in the first place?" "When it's a question of my health," explained the patient defiantly, "money is absolutely no object." "Tell me Master Goober," ordered the teacher, "whether the fol lowing statement is true or false: from the skunk we get fur." "True," snapped Master Goober. "Aa fur as possible." C X8S3. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King geatttret Syndicate. Menace get oh my simsuarimw By Joseph Alsop haustion, or the living death of exile, have overtaken all those others who once ran equal with Mikoyan and Khrushchev in the great survival-race. At the end, only Mikoyan still stands next to Khrushchev on the pinnacles of power. INFINITE prudence, infinite 1 powers of calculation, in finite ruthlessness, this man must surely possess. But he must possess other qualities as well; Khrushchev himself has recently explained that the real reason for getting rid of the unfortunate Bulganin was simply his lack of ability. With tears in his eyes, he has described how B u 1 g a nin brought the news of the old est ; Khrushchev boy's death in the war. He' has declared his affection for his fallen comrade. But, he has said, Bulganin was not up to his job; so he had to go.' Com petent Western observers be lieve that this is not pure eyewash, either. 1 Of course, Bulganin's flirta tion with the "anti-party group" also had a great deal to do with his fall from power. Yet in this curious story of Khrushchev and Bul ganin, there is a kernel of vital truth. Besides the knack of finding a safe way through dark repeated nights of the long knives, a Soviet leader needs the very greatest ability in order to survive inde finitely in the cruel competi tion of the Kremlin. And those who have met Mikoyan judge him to be one of the ablest and most coldly intel ligent men one could imagine. ALL THIS provides what Sen. ; Vandenberg used to call "a vivid contemplation," if only because the. leaders of the free societies are not re auired to pass such terrible tests. The free leaders can reach and remain on the pin nacles of power, without be ing cold, hard, calculating, ruthless, and sometimes with out possessing conspicious ability and intellectual capa city. ; ' :- -:v ' Without mentioning Amer icans, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain are proof enough that the free societies' system of choosing their leaders can sometimes be very risky indeed. The counterweight is the free peo ples themselves, whose cour age and common sense will eventually rebel against weak leadership, as the British peo ple finally rebelled against Chamberlain. Or rather, this used to be the counterweight, before a vast system of gov ernmental secrecies began to conceal from the free peoples the ugly facts that might justify rebellion. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribunte Inc. Stop Me FBI Chief Not Overjoyed at Proposal To Use Agency For Anti-Bombing Work By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-OJPD-FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover will not be overjoyed by a proposal now awaiting Senate com mittee consid eration. This bill is No. S. 73 in troduced 81 Mk? I jointly Dy id I Senators rep resenting both parties. Its - i a .yle C. Wilson prime O D J e c- tive is to loose the FBI against the bombers of schools and places of worship and against other bomb tossers motivated by race hate and the intimi dation of minorities. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Our Responsibility To the Editor:, I have been reading with interest letters written to you in regard to the county dog pound. I feel that I must add something. During the warm weather we had in September, I drove out to the pound looking for a puppy for my. little boy. The place was a mess-hot, dirty, smelly, crowded. The water containers had been tipped over, hence there was no water to drink. Really, it was pitiful. I agree that the job the Dog Control Board does is a big one and thankless, but since we have domesticated dogs, w e should not treat them in this manner. We have a responsibility to our ani mals as well as to mankind. Evelyn Kreisman, 111 Bush st., Ashland "Sharp Politics" To the Editor: As state chairman of the Democratic party, I should like to make the observation that Gover nor Hatfield's inaugural ad dress urged the legislature both to reduce taxes and to provide funds for new spend ing programs such as a voca tional institution in Pftrtland and emergency agriculture re lief. He also would make ap pointive by him. virtually all state offices presently oc cupied by elected Democrats. The Governor urged no fewer than three specific tax reforms, all of which would cost the state or local govern ments substantial '? revenues. Then he would offer tempt ing programs that will cost a good deal of revenue to put into effect. At the same time, he stressed economy, gov ernment - without specifying where the economies should take place. Nearly all ' state revenues go for four major purposes (1) basic school support (2) higher education (3) welfare and old-age assistance (4) state institutions such as Fair view and prisons. If eco nomies are to amount to any thing except lip-service, they must occur in these areas or merely be trivial. Yet Hat field actually , has criticized ex-Governor Bob Holmes for reducing the higher educa tional budget. If Governor Hatfield wants to advocate more spending, he at least ought to tell us where the money will come from. In stead he actually proposes re ducing state revenue. Governor Hatfield's in augural address was an ex tension of his successful cam paign for office - less state revenue and more state pro grams calling for spending. No politician in history has yet devised a way to collect less taxes and spend more money. Governor Hatfield evidently wants to shift to the Democratic legislature the responsibility for keeping our state on an even keel, while he tells the voters he sought to reduce their taxes and in crease their benefits from state government. It's sharp politics - if he can get away with it. But it isn't statesmanship. Dave Epps State Chairman, Democratic Party of Oregon 429 Governor Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JANUARY 19 1892 The January 19, 1892 edition of the Oregonian rolled off a new double supplement stereotype per fecting press, in the base ment of its not yet finish ed fireproof nine - story building at the corner of Alder and Sixth, in Portland. The bill is so drafted, how ever, that it would apply equally against bomb throw ing in labor disputes-persuasion by bombing as it some Washington Report By WILLIAM HARD LINE SOFTENS Washington - The hard line so long maintained toward the Soviet Union over Ger many is being i m m e n sely soft ened be fore the very eyes of all who care to look at the plain, if not overly adver tised facts. " Before this. WWniSS- - of course, we have seen tentative attitudes of U.S. concession toward Moscow abruptly arrested by the protests of old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany. And this conceiv ably could happen again. If, however, Adenauer, is not able again to turn our (-course back to the old tougn position-and he is not likely to be able to-this may be said: we are entering a great turning in the 12th year of the cold war. This is one of those one-man's-meat-is-anoth- er-man's-poison things. What in one perfectly honorable view is a valid approach to a solution to a dangerous area of tension is in another per fectly honorable view simply appeasement. THIS correspondent does not pretend to be wise enough to know which view is cor rect here. This whole business is one of the most wretched and enigmatic dilemmas in re corded history. But it is upon one or another of these things -at best a fateful relaxation of a firm policy, at worst the first step toward soft surrender-that we are embarking.. This is the meaning of Sec retary of State Dulles' decla ration that free elections are not the "only method" for a reunification of Communist East Germany and free West Germany, Repeatedly hereto fore we had proclaimed that free elections lay at the heart of any plan of reunification. So settled was this theme that only three, days before Mr. Dulles' change of front our British allies had described free elections as an "indis pensable prerequisite." (The embarrassed British have now dropped this language.) Why has the United States shifted ground so much? (And that this shift has occurred is quite certain, even though from time to time there are official indications to the con trary and some tactical zig ging and zagging.) rpHE Eisenhower Adminis- - tration will not concede that the obvious propaganda success of Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mi koyan's tour of . this country has been a factor. The Ad ministration certainly would never agree that budget-balancing policies limiting our military preparations have been a factor. Nevertheless, both probably have been. At any rate, here are some other considerations that are authoritatively conceded to be involved in our official rea soning: 1, From the viewpoint of our highest aim for Germany - a - truly reunited country bound up in the modern com plex of Western Europe - a reunification by any valid means would be good enough. This might be accomplished, it is suggested, simply by Man Cfed Fofowng Collision in City Dewey Alfred Penrod, route 1, box 411, Talent, was cited by Medford police fol lowing an accident Friday for failure to yield the right of way and not having an oper ator's license on his person. His pickup truck and a car driven by Miss Marilou N. Garner, 619 East Main st., Medford, collided at the inter section of 8th and Fir sts., Fri day afternoon. No injuries were reported. Miss Garner, county 4-H agent, was driving a state car at the time of the accident. How To Held FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your false teeth annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat. laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor"' (denture breath) . Get FASTEETH today M any drug counter. times is called. Some leaders of organized labor will like this bill even less than will Hoover. Those who especially will not like it are the leaders S. WHITE agreements (with no popular voting at all) between the East and West German re gimes. These would be back ed up by some exchange of Russian and American or Al lied guarantees. 2. We will, at all events, demand "real" reunification, with the restoration of Berlin as a genuine national capital. It is said that we would not, for illustration, accept any part of a Russian notion for a "reunification" that actually would leave East Germany as East Germany and West Ger many as West Germany with some thin, alleged link of "federation" running be tween them. . 3. We are prepared to ac knowledge that the Russians- and others, too-have a real basis for their military fear of a revived Germany. Thus, we would be willing to go pretty far toward guaranteeing -and pressuring Germany to guarantee as one of the prices of reunification - . that the new Germany would not de velop aggressive mil itary forces This might be a tall or der to enforce, remembering the past - but there it is. . TF GERMANY did become reunited she would have to be left free to join "either our Western alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or the Soviet bloc alliance, the Warsaw Pact It is our deep assumption, of course, that the Germans would go our way. If they did not, the result would be unimaginable disaster to all the West-but we feel certain, on the point. The official argument for a new emerging policy, ' in short, is that it would: (a) Re lieve legitimate Russian fears of a militarily restored-Ger many, (b) Put the- country back together again in cir cumstances assuring that the Germans would not then turn against us. (c) File away the sharpest area of friction be tween Russia and the West d) Thus liquidate the crisis over Berlin, from which the Russians are attempting "to drive our troops. What happens, in all this to the old democratic concept of free elections? It would be an obvious casualty-about which we would not care to talk much. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Hear Your FAVORITE HYMNS on KM ED Every Sunday, 10:35 a.m. Sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Frank Perl taffi ... .... and mayhem to recruit union members. Hoover certainly is no front man tor bombers. If he is summoned to testify before a Senate committee, however, he is likely to express doubts about the proposed - legisla tion. Hoover is chary of the FBI becoming a national po lice force, of the FBI assum ing responsibilities which properly belong to local law enforcement and of the FBI ever being put in the position of supervising or checking on local law enforcement agen cies. Hoover's doubts, if ex pressed, may be sufficient to defeat this bill. Organized la bor more likely than not will go all out against it even though all unions do not arm their organizers with fire bombs and explosives. A great many members of the new Congress were elected with substantial labor support, al most all of them Democrats. If organized labor puts the pressure on them to keep the FBI off the necks of labor goons, these Democratic con gressmen with obligations to labor union treasuries are more likely to explain a vote against the bill in terms of Hoover's judgment than in terms of any obligation to vote the labor party line. Would Define Crime The bill would reach labor violence by bombing by its definition of a federal crime. This new federal felony would be a transport across state lines or to possess any explosive with "the intent or knowledge that it will be used to . damage or destroy any building . or other personal property for the purpose of interfering with its use for educational, religious, chari table, residential, business or civic objectives or of intimi dating any person pursuing such objectives." The, key language with re spect to labor violence is "res idential, business, or civic ob jectives or of intimidating any person pursuing such objec tives." The penalties , pro posed are severe. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R. N.Y.) one of the sponsors, told United Press International that the bill clearly could be used against labor hoodlums. Now will come the pressure of organized labor to get that language out of the bill fol lowed by the contortions of 1 a b o r-oriented congressmen to vote it out without appear ing to cast a vote in favor of bomb tossing as a union tech nique. The McClellan committee has substantial evidence of bomb tossing by labor goons to spread unionism among the unorganized." PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6673 LADY ATTENDANT oi unions wnicn utilize vio lence such as bombings, arson FRIENDLY, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
