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1 1 it ! i 4 TkortoV, January M, 19S9 I . MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Iveryone ic Southern Oregon Reads The Mail moune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. . 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-614t ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JK, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEB. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION SATES By Hall-In Advance, Copy 10c. T- l i ...jt c., Hv 1 var SIS ffl Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily ana una ay j mu. Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Ta!-nt and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 , Daily and Surnlsy 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers c o p J 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medforsl Official Paper of Jackson County . t 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. r NIWSPAPIR Si k PUIUSHERS "ASSOCIATION MAT! ON At EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from trie files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 TEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1949 (Saturday) Moore Hamilton elected chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee. Boy Scout Troop No. 5 is distributing bird seed to any one interested in providing for the feathered population. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1939 (Sunday) Patrons and patronesses are named for the annual Presi dent's birthday .ball. From -Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot": column: "Na ,tives wintering in the South land have started sending .'postcards home, wishing the addressee was there." 10 TEARS AGO 'Jan. 22.. 1929 (Tuesday) ' Phoenix residents .oppose a petition to annex part of that area to . the Medford school -district. ;The valley's pears are prais ed in the columns of , a Port land newspaper. 40 TEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1919 (Wednesday) , Citizens hope ..the P. Si E. railroad can be kept m op eration despite a' court order. Thelegislature is considing three bills designed to curb "Hhe paving trust." . . 50 TEARS AGO - - -Jan. 22, 1909 (Friday) TThe troupe to perform "Brewster's Millions" here is delayed by washouts down the line in California. - - i.i Some 200 freight cars will be' required to bring the para pbenalia for Medf ord's new water system here. What's Your I.Q.? Nmi or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five at six is good. 1 Bremerhaven is a port of what country? . . 2: In baseball slang, what is a1 "horse collar"? 3. Name the large group of islands which are bounded on the -east by the Pacific ocean and; on the west by the China Sea. ' 4. In which Psalm do these words occur: "Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me?" 5. Who lost his shadow? 6. In American history, to what territory did the cam paign slogan "Fifty-four, For ty or Fight," have reference? 7. What was St. Paul's trade? 8. How many cardinal points are there on a compass? - 9. Who wrote the music to "The Lost Chord?" 10. Name the Polish pa triot who had the distinction of being the first general of American cavalry. Answers: 1. Germany. 2. A time al bat without a hit. 3. Philippine Islands. 4. 23rd. 5. Peter Pan. 6. The Oregon Territory. 7. Tent-making. 8. Four. 9. Sir Arthur Sulli van. 10. Count Casimir Pul aski. Baghdad, Iraq (DPD The Iraqi government formally recognized Cuba's revolution ary government Wednesday. The Baghdad press has de fended the rebel executions of supporters of ex-President Fulgencio Batista. Snap Not long ago in this space there was a report on progress in thermoelectricity " one form of direct conversion "of heat into electric energy together with a forecast that it would play an in creasingly important role in the future, partic ularlv for low-power needs. Last week the government announced, far sooner than any layman' could have expected, a . ... -m m 1 1 1 jl significant new development in tnis iieia: uie use of atomic power as a heat-source, applied to a thermoelectric device, which works admirably. THE UNIT only weighs about five pounds, and generates about five watts'of electricity. It has a useful life of somewhere around a year. The government, said to power radios, in artiliciai satellites, ana wouia rln sn far more efficiently than batteries. But practical applications are far more wide spread than this one limited use. Developments - m, .1 m 11 if can, and will, permit tne use 01 sman power packs" to run radios, warning buoys, automatic weather stations or small household appliances at distances from commercial power. . . . Eventually it is not beyond the realm of prob ability that they can be adapted to power automo biles, thus furnishing an alternate source of power to replace the world's rapidly-vanishing petroleum resources. THE DEVICE is called Snap III (Systems" for Nuclear Auxiliary Power), and work on im proved versions (called Snap I and II) is pro gressing. American industrial firms are also at 1 1 1 M 1 worK on developing similar devices. As reported earlier, the principle of .thermo electricity is not new, but its application in work able devices is relatively new. The Russians have made significant progress, although it is not known whether or not they have succeeded in using nuclear power in this field. Snap Til uses a pinch (one eighty-fourth of an ounce, valued as of today at about $30 million) of radioactive polonium as a heat source. There are other and cheaper potential radioactive heat sources most of them by-products of nuclear reactors, which up to this point have been a head ache to dispose of. (We have even read one forecast recently that fission power would soon prove to be impractic able because of the problem of disposing of the radioactive "ashes." It is doubtful if Snap ni and its successors will have sufficiently widespread use to take care of the vast quantity of surplus radioactive materials.) r IN THE long run; it is probable that the devel- velopment of thermocouples of the apparent efficiency of those used in Snap IH is more im portant than the application of nuclear heat to operate them. , Low-energy heat sources are almost univer sally available (the Russians are using kerosene lamps to power some thermoelectric devices, and a wood fire could conceivably be used for this purpose, to say nothing of trapped heat from the sun). One thing is certain we will be hearing more of thermoelectricity, and of other types of direct conversion of one form of energy to an other, more useful, one. E.A. Oregon Advertisement The January 12 issue of the New York Times carried a full-page advertisement of interest to Oregonians. ., It was-placed by the Oregon department of planning and development, and its message was one of encouragement to industry to seek new lb cations in Oregon. ; Here are some of the advantages Oregon can offer, as listed in .the ad: An abundance of pure water. Lowest delivered electric power rates in the nation. r Plentiful natural gas as well as readily available fuel oil, coal and wood wastes. 25 per cent of the nation's sawtimber sup ply, ' 22 per cent of all softwood lumber produc tion. 62 per cent of the nation's plywood output. 25 per cent of the country's hardboard pro duction. . A. vast and rapidly growing electronics industry. - - A cash farm crop of some $400 million a year. v - Generally moderate climate.. And so on. ' THE AD also shows some recent industrial -,f developments in the state, such as the big new Johns-Manville plant near Klamath Falls, the big Harvey Aluminum plant near The Dalles, the new Georgia-Pacific pulp and paper mill on the coast, and others. It is an effective ad, well done and persuas ive. And we agree that added industrial develop ment, up to a point, is probably both necessary and desirable for Oregon. But we cannot restrain the uneasy feeling that it would be too bad if Oregon ' ever became OVER-industrialized. And it also occurred to us that with growth of industry and population virtually inevitable here, we'd better get on with our planning and zoning so that the growth will be orderly and as little destructive to Oregon's present values as possible. E.A. III that it would be used Dennis the 'MtooYA 'SPECTMH T DO... tfUKWMYMVPS? Matter of Fact NIXON NOW Washington - President Eis enhower's second term has just passed its middle-point. Hereafter, un der the anti- Franklin R o-o s e v e 1 1 constitutiona 1 amendm e n t, the Vice Pres ident can re- place the President a t any time, JoiDh AJsnn wunuui sacri ficing his right to seek two full terms of his own. Furthermore, if the Presi dent laid down the heavy bur den of his office and retired to Gettysburg tomorrow morning, the vast majority of Republican politicians would be almost too overjoyed to be polite about it. Maybe this is one of those things that are better left unsaid; but it is also a cold, hard, ascertainable fact of considerable political significance. Last year, only the frankest Congressional and organiza tion Republicans would admit their hankering for the Presi dent's voluntary retirement. Today, there are very few who are not quite open about it, although only in their priv ate talk, to be sure. The only ones who would be really grieved if the President ' de cided to retire are the former bitter-enders for Robert A. Taft. The men of this small band fear that the Vice Pres ident would be a "spender." Meanwhile, the Eisenhower Republicans would be less grieved than anyone else if the President went off to Gettysburg. OF COURSE, no Republican politician in his senses thinks that the President re ally will retire, unless his health 'takes an unexpected and unhappy turn for the worse. Dwight D. Eisenhow er's pride, and the pleas of his entourage, will keep him on the job as long as he is cap able of doing the job. When the politicians talk of what might happen if "Ike would only hand over to Dick," they really mean that they have little hope of the Republican party being reinvigorated by the President's leadership. In contrast, they feel the Vice President might take the Par ty into the battle of 1960 with a fair chance to win. In these circumstances, it is ironical that the very same Republican politicians are also shaking their heads and mut tering that "maybe Dick Nix on won't be nominated in 1960, after all, unless he be comes President before then." Yet it is another cold, signifi cant fact that Richard M. Nixon's grip on the 1960 nom ination is not nearly as un shakable as it once was. Try and 1 yjg -By BENNETT CERF- GEORGE GOBEL invented a new egg-opener that cost only $200 to make. When his wife Alice scoffed, Gobel re minded her, "Okay, laugh. Every great inventor was laughed at m his day. Look how they laughed at Robert Ful ton when he invented the cotton gin." "George," Alice reminded him gently, "it was Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin." ' "Whitney, hey?" mused. George. "No wonder they laughed at Fulton!" Robert Q. Lewis boasted that one of his newv pais in Dallas was so rich he flew his . own plane. "So what," scoffed a Los Angelite. "Lots of peo ple here fly .their own planes Robert Q. Overheard at the London opening of "My Fair Lady": "Is Rex Harrison his real name?" "Is Rex Harrison WHOSE real name?" C 1839, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate, Menace By Joseph Alsop ANE OBVIOUS reason for " this change is the emer gence of a major rival to Nixon, in the person of New York's Gov. Nelson Rocke feller. The other reason is the bad news for Nixon in recent public opinion polls. Far too much has been made of Rock efeller's threat to Nixon; and far too little has been made of the threat from the pollsters. Nixon himself has never concealed his opinion that "the poUs beat Bob Taft" by making it appear that "Taft was a sure loser.". Since Nixon holds this view, he must have been particularly impressed by the recent Gallup poll that ran him against Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, The poll gave Nixon 38 per cent of the vote and Kennedy 49 per cent, with 14 per cent undecided. In this paper race against Kennedy, in other .words, Nixon did worse than Sen, Taft, on the last occasion when the inquiring Dr. Gallup ran Taft against a Democrat. That was in June, 1952, when the poll gave Taft 41 per cent of the vote, against SO per cent for Sen. Estes Kefauver, with 9 per cent undecided. It is early days, as yet, to be worrying about polling re sults. But if the pollsters go on finding that Nixon is a weaker candidate than Sen. Taft was,, bad trouble can be expected, especially ' if the polls show Nelson Rockefeller doing rather better than Nixon. NIXON has always said a front-runner like himself, being well known to the coun try, is especially vulnerable to bad news from the polls. Politicians will not give the front-runner the benefit of the doubt. They tend to be more merciful to other candidates, because these candidates, be ing less widely familiar, have a better chance to come from behind by intensive, nation wide campaigning. If he de cides to seek the nomination, Nelson Rockefeller will no doubt argue that he has a par ticularly good chance to come from behind in this matter, because he came from so far behind with such spectacular success in his own state. Add that the great behind-the-scenes organizer for Nixon has always been New York's former Gov. Thomas E. Dew ey. Add futher that Rocke feller, not Dewey, will now control the big New York del egation, leaving organizer Dewey without a home base. Altogether, the last months have dealt some very hard blows to Dick Nixon. The odds still favor his nomination by at least two to one. But what seemed an absolutely sure thing before election is by no means a sure thing today. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Stop Me too." Inside the house?" asked mm M -k. M Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Pow Wow To the Editor: It isn't an appropriate time to talk tur key, but just the right time to tell our friends everywhere about the old red rooster, and Oregon's big birthday party this year. Let's get a few crows in about expositions, scenery, etc., and supplement our inducements with chicken and dumplings made from Or egon's own roosters, red, black, or any other color, sea soned with enthusiasm, the most potent ingredient in the world, we are told. The idea of making Med ford beautiful is wonderful, but would be insipid if it lacks enthusiasm. We will aU have to admit enthusiasm leads in every success parade. This is the time to accelerate it. Folks are writing they in tend to come and are enthused. The Grafton, N.D., editor men tioned the Centennial in his paper again and thanked me for Medford's Chamber Of Commerce sending him fruit. That was undeserved credit, but it pleased me immensely that Medford reciprocated. Don't forget, folks, to let your friends know Oregon is having a big pow-wow, and all the trimmings. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford. True Dog Lovers To the Editor: This is about a letter to the editor that ap peared in the Sunday, Jan. 18 issue of the Mail Tribune. If the dog is man's best friend, .1 would surely say that there are many cases where man does treat his best friend very shabbily. For in stance, where the mongrels are allowed to breed and in crease to the extent that they run in flocks out in the "dog patch" suburb districts of the city, tipping over garbage cans in search of food they are starving for, because of ne glect of the "man" they have befriended by committing all of the acts described by Mrs. Etna Ragsdale in the Sunday communication. I agree with all she has said, but remind her that she overlooked the fact of the all-night howling and barking at the moon, or the shadow of themselves or the other dogs. . A true dog-lover would be concerned enough about the welfare of the . dog to keep him at home, cleaned up,1 and out of garbage cans, vegetable gardens and off the neighbors' lawns. ' There are many who have the same thoughts as Mrs. Ragsdale on this, but hesitate to speak up for fear of being ostracized by the Society of Mongrel Lovers. Everybody likes a dog, even a cur or mongrel. The only contention I am making is that true dog lovers do not let their pooches run loose and wild, disturbing neigh bors all over the community, and I congratulate you Etna Ragsdale, for speaking the thoughts that are mine, as well as many others. ; Pat Graham, 175 Jeanette st., Medford. , Questions To the Editor: A few ques tions to the pseudo dogs lov ers: Why have we needed a dog pound? Why is it filthy and overcrowded? Why is it necessary to execute so many every week? Do you prefer turning them loose in the country to prey on wild game and livestock? Why do you permit your pets to roam free and cause ill will with your neighbors? Is it because it's so much easier? We need a dog ordinance strictly enforced. The dog population is increasing and so are the problems. What have the true lovers of pets done to have an ordinance? It would mean greater safety for them and much better harmony among everyone. We owe it to ourselves and man's best friend. Let's increase the dog tax to $5 for males and $10 for females. Limit one dog to a family in an area under five acres. All dogs, all ages kept on the premises by an enclosure or on a leash at all times and kept quiet. First violation, a $50 fine. Second violation, prompt removal of the dog. A well trained dog is a joy to his owners and. a good neighbor to everyone. Mrs. Frank Kula, 1634 Grand ave., Medford. ACCOUNTING PRACTICE WANTED Responsible, experienced Principals desire to purchase an accounting practice in Medford after the tax season. Cash or terms available Write Box D-1884, Medford Mail Tribune The Students Share To the Editor: The children of Mrs. Hohensee's room at Lincoln school have won the room count prize, of $2 for the largest percentage of par ents attending our recent PTA meeting. We feel that we have so many treats and pleasures that we would like to share it with people from other lands. For the past three years we have been donating our prize money to organizations that help less fortunate chil dren. This year we are going to give it to UNICEF and CARE. Glenna Eisenberg, Mrs.. Hohensee's Sixth Grade, Lincoln school, Medford. 1 Confinement Necessary To the Editor: Anyone who permits a dog to roam the streets is committing an act of cruelty. Its lot is eventual death under wheels; agony or death from spoiled and poi son food from garbage cans; infestation with fleas andor lice and a carrier of other dis eases. Certainly, not a safe or clean pet to be in contact with children. The dog license" drive was a small step in the right di rection, but a raise in fee to $5 or more, if necessary, would provide funds to sup port and maintain a dog pound in high style with ade quate personnel empowered to handle complaints and take proper control measures. Medford has passed the "little, country town" stage and it should be the duty of our officials to see that pro tection is furnished to the children, the animals, and the minority of frustrated people who are trying to maintain attractive and desirable neigh borhoods. Our own dog has always been properly confined to our premises, duly licensed and lovingly cared for. In other words, we haye tried to set an example of consideration for our neighbors in an area where the lawns and school yard are overrun by "packs" of roaming "pets.'.' Mrs. Frances Piatt, 1540 Oregon ave., Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In his annual economic re port to the congress, Presi dent Eisenhower paints for us first a bright and hopeful pic ture. The nation, he says, has SNAPPED BACK STRONG LY from last year's recession Production, he adds, is UP, unemployment is DOWN and there is reason for confidence that business will show fur ther improvement in the months ahead. But- He then warns- "U. S. economic health is jeopardized by an upward spiral of wages and prices that continued even during the re cession." He appealed to congress, to consumers, to businessmen and to labor leaders to "join in a relentless war against this creeping inflation." SO MUCH for the political side of the picture (we must remember that every thing that happens in Wash ington is dominated by poli tics). Let's turn now to a strictly BUSINESS view of what is going on. In its Business and Eco nomic Review for January 1959, the First National Bank of Chicago says: "Non-farm employment in November increased slightly as employees previously in volved in labor disputes re turned to work. (Employment usually declines in November, so a rise this year is a favor able sign.) Personal income rose almost 1 per cent above the preceding month to a RECORD annual rate of $360 billion. Increased wage and salary payments accounted for the $2.4 billion rise as sev eral durable goods industries resumed production following reduced output in October. "Consumer income for the full year is estimated at $353 billion, a new HIGH despite the lower over-all level of business activity." NOTE, please, that up to this point the Chicago bank Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE MORNING AFTER Mr. Anthony Nutting, writ ing from London on Mr. Mi koyan's visit, ; has succeeded in demonstrat in how hard it is for- even the friendliest nations to un derstand one another. Mr. Nutting re ports that it is being "seri ously debat Walter Lippmann ed" in London whether the United States is moving towards "a two-power deal" with the Soviet Union. After a long report on how much our motives are sus pected in Europe, he proceeds to lecture us on what we must do to make our EuroDean friends feel better about us. What we must do, accord ing to Mr. Nutting, is pre cisely what in fact we have been doing day by day, name ly, to make "a full and reas suring report" to all our NATO partners, and to dis cuss arid agree with them "on future policies and proce dures.' A failure to do these things which we are doing, says Mr. Nutting quite sol emnly, "would be playing Russia's game beyond the point of safety." If this is the kind of unin formed suspicion which exists in London it is enough to make anyone despair of the effectiveness of a free press. Here are two allies, both speaking the same language, both enjoying free institu tions, both able to print and to read whatever they choose, both committed to the same international ideals, and yet a writer with connections in official quarters in London suspects us of being so foolish and so disloyal that we are contemplating a two -power deal at the expense of Europe. FOR my part, I do not expect us to be understood or trusted ' in Moscow. But we have, I submit, earned the right to be trusted by our closest allies. We do not be tray our friends, and the sus picion that we are so gullible that Mr. Mikoyan can "sell" us into betraying our friends is an affront to the honor of America and an insult to its intelligence. The public part of Mr. Mi koyan's visit seems to me to show that between the Com munist world and ours there can on the great issues be lit tle free and open communica tion. We live in very different worlds. We see things with very different eyes. We judge them with very different minds. The best we can do is to negotiate cautiously more or less at arm's length. But the kind of full under standing is needed for politi cal cooperation is a very long way off. It is, therefore, ab surd to invite Mr. Mikoyan paints a bright picture, as does the President. It then adds- "However, prices have in creased SOMEWHAT FAST ER THAN INCOME with the result that purchasing power DECLINED SLIGHTLY IN 1958." THAT is to say: We're getting MORE dol lars. They BUY LESS. That's inflation for you. F CONCLUSION: In principle, we're against inflation. In practice, we're for it. That's why inflation is a tough problem. Avow from th RANK MORGAN . HAROU) SNODGRASS. FUNMAl DKf CTOtS DAY OR NIGHT JjsAsdi PHONE SP 2-8030 Lippmann to subject himself to a public exhibition like "Meet the Press" and it is absurd for Mr. Mikoyan to accept the invitation to do that. The show on Sunday was as useful as an attempt to mate a whale which lives in the sea with an elephant which lives on the land. Those who have studied carefully the problem of com munication between the So viet Union and the West know that the communication can not be general but must be specialized. The mathematici ans and the physical scientists can communicate with one an other. So can the engineers or the agriculturists. So can art ists. So can experienced and sophisticated statesmen. So can ordinary tourists, meeting ordinary people. But Mr. Mi koyan cannot talk to . the American people in the mass nor could Mr. Nixon talk, even if he had the freedom of the Soviet radio, to th Russian people in the mass. AS TO the results of Mr. Mi 'fi koyan's tour, they cannot be measured by the crowds and the headlines, by the curiosity of the people who saw him or by their courtesy. The results of the visit will be tested as we see whether or not we are moving towards negotiations on the whole German question. For surely that was the real objective of Mr. Mikoyan's visit, as it is the objective of the Soviet gambit in Berlin. His purpose cannot have been to enter a popularity contest, for which he is as little qualified as he would be for a beauty contest. If the purpose of his visit was to open up the German ques tion, he is not going home empty-handed. For the Presi dent and Mr. Dulles have shown that they hope to make the German question negoti able if Moscow is seriously interested in negotiating. Copyright 1959. New Yorfe Herald Tribune Inc. . Vandenberg Delays Launching Attempt Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -(DPD- The Air Force prepared today for another attempt "soon" to launch the first sat ellite in the "Project Discov erer" series. The long-awaited initial shot set for Wednesday had to be postponed for technical reasons. The Air Force said another launching attempt would be made soon but de clined to specify a date. Project Discoverer is the program in which mice and monkeys eventually will be used to blaze the trail for manned satellites into space. The initial launchings, while they will be "firsts" in having a satellite fired from the West Coast will be the first man-made moons to go into polar orbits, will not in volve animals. BATISTA ASKS ASYLUM Paris-ITD-President Charles de Gaulle's government has received a request for asylum from former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista and will give it careful consideration, informed sources said today. Batista is living in exile in the Dominican Republic. PIANIST COLE ILL Burbank, Calif. Pianist arranger Buddy Cole, 42, ya reported in serious condition today at St. Joseph's Hospital where he was taken Wednes day following a heart attack. A NAME YOU CAN COUNT ON CourthovM 4
