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4 Monday, February 2, 1939 MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mjjr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor , KARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER. 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 RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mo). 8.00 Daily and bund ay 3 moi. 4-o Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. 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 Daily and SunOcy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in 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 Ne York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver B.C. 0!f NE WSPAPER v ruBLisncKi ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 2. 1949 (Wednesday) The bureau of reclamation, the national park service, and the fish and wildlife service in collaboration with state and local interests plan to conduct Rogue River basin studies. John L. Kraus, 22-year-old flyer, is rescued after crash landing and spending six cold days by Little Fish lake. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 2, 1939 (Thursday) . For the first three days of this week, not a single case has been brought into Med ford justice court, which is something of a record. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The legislature is seeking a 'pain less tax' method. This is what the dentist alleges, before he gets hold of the tooth.' 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 2r 1929 (Saturday) The groundhog sees his shadow, and six weeks of bad weather are predicted. Vic Meyers (lieutenant gov ernor of Washington) and his orchestra are to play at the Legion dance here tonight. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 2. 1919 (Sunday) The groundhog fails to see his shadow, and according to tradition winter is over. Dr. B. R. Elliott returns from Army service with plans to practice dentistry here. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 2. 1909 (Tuesday) The Citizens Telephone company asks the Medford city council for a franchise. High winds blow down 11 houses in Ashland. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Who is known as "The Father of Pennsylvania"? 2. Brazil is the only country in Latin-America whore cof fee Li crown: true or false.? 3. The summer resort play ground of the New York City area, known as Coney Island, is on what island? 4. Who wrote, "Early to bed. early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"? 5. Correct 'the following: "I contemplate going to the mov ies today." 6. The official language of Brazil is French, Spanish or Portugese? 7. In the nursery rhyme, what did the knave of Hearts do? 8. Does the name Laurita Melchoir suggest to you mus ic, politics, or religion? 9. What is the name of the bird used by the Chinese fish erman to catch fish? 10. Of what Nova Scotian city is Haligonian a term for the natives? Answers: 1. William Penn. 2. False. 3. Long Island. 4. Benjamin Franklin. 5. "I am going . . " 6. Portugese. 7. Stole larisv 8. Music. 9. Cor morant. 10. Halifax. RELIGIOUS LEADER DIES New York - l?D - The Rev Dr. Jonah B. Wise, 77, a lead er of Reformed Judaism, died Sunday night at Doctors hos pital after a short illness. Student Loans Congress is expected to receive very shortly a sup plemental appropriations bill asking, among other funds, an additional $25 million for college student loans, S4Vi million for more graduate fellowships, and an additional $37 million for purchase of equipment to improve science, mathematics, and foreign language instruction. Some 1200 universities will soon receive their share of the $8 million thus far appropriated for the student loan fund. The National Defense Education Act of 1958 is proving more popular with students than .had been expected and f or different reasons at the same time surprisingly unpopular with college and university teachers and administrators. Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Ed ucation, and Welfare, on Jan. 26 said that colleges and universities had requested close to $62 mil lion for the first year of the student loan program. That would be double the $31 million authorized. So far only $6 million has been appropriated. The college must put up $1 for every federal $9 received for the student loan program. A stu dent may borrow up to $1,000 an academic year on his signature up to a limit of $5,000 for the college career. The borrower starts repaying the loan one year after he or she stops attending college on a full-time basis. The repayment period is 10 years, and the interest rate is 3 per cent levied only after repayment begins. 1XTHAT IS generating a considerable amount of heat on the campuses is a little-noticed provision requiring a disclaimer of subversive activities. Proposed on the Senate floor by Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.), and the loyalty requirement reads: No . . . funds . . . shall be used to make payments or loans to any individual unless such individual has executed and filed with the Commissioner (of Educa tion) an affidavit that he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organiza tion that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods . . . Dr. Hugh Borton, president of Haverford, on Jan. 22 announced that his administration felt that to file the disclaimer would be "tantamount to signing away one's right to freedom of thought as well as endorsing a government action which makes the individual's opportunity for education contingent upon his personal beliefs." Haverford will refuse to participate in the program until the disclaimer is removed, but will make loans to students at comparable rates. Also refusing to participate, reluctantly, is Bryn Mawr. Swarthmore, like Haverford a Penn sylvania Quaker institution while also protesting, has announced no decision on participation. Com plaints were lodged the same day in a joint state ment by the presidents of Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges in Maine. rN THE opening day of Congress, Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr. (D-N.J.) introduced a bill that has as one objective repeal of the affidavit re quirement. Other bills sponsored by Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Calif.) and (R-N.J.) would eliminate The Association of joined the 40,000-member of University Prof essors in protest, and individual complaints have been addressed to Flemming by the presidents of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Wisconsin, among others. Flemming himself on Dec. 15 said that the requirement would do little or no good, inasmuch as real subversives "have no scruples about signing such an affidavit and taking such an oath." E.R.R. Good But Not Gaudy . New American cars were selling in mid-January at a 17 per cent higher rate than in mid-January 1958. If that increase holds for the full year 1959, it will mean new car sales this year of about 5,000,000. This would be 10 to 12 per cent lower than the earlier predictions of 5.5 million and also than the average of the last 10 years. In the latter part of January the Buick plant at Flint, Mich., laid off 2,000 workers, to "gear output more closely to sales." All the same, 5,000,000 new car sales for 1959 would be well above the total for two years in the last ten (1952 and 1958). The production figures pretty well bear out the evidence from the sales. In the first 24 days of 1959 only 9 per cent more cars were produced than in the similar period of 1958. . UOWEVER, the Chrysler Corporation makes were slowed down by parts shortages due to strikes among suppliers. Omitting the Chrysler figures, production was 12 per cent higher than in the corresponding period last year. It's a kind of vicious circle, the relationship of the auto industry to the whole "economy. So many industries are tied in with autos notably steel, rubber, glass, upholstery that the economy bogs down when autos bog down. Conversely, auto sales begin to fall off when the national economy does. Be all that as it may, a 17 per cent increase over last year in cars, helping out steel, rubber, glass and upholstery, must be considered good even if not quite gaudy. E.R.R. HAPPY NEW YEAR Singapore - (UPD - One aged man and two elderly women were trampled to death in a week end stampede to collect Chinese new year money packets from a Chinese temple outside the city.. adopted by voice vote, Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. the disclaimer. American Colleges has American Association TOMBSTONE BEER MUG Sandridge, Eng. -(OPfl-Bert Gudgeon, a pub keeper who died in December, will get his wish, his widow said today. A half-pint glass beer mug will be incorporated into his tombstone. Dennis the I 'See? itM&Slike plastic. 6ut rrs called cgr Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON & ROCKEFELLER Washington - Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon's friends have no doubt what ever that Gov ernor Nelson Rockefeller of New York is already run ning at full gallop for the 1960 Presi dential nom ination as a Nixon rival. They con cede privately that Rockefel ler will undoubtedly be able to "lock up" New York state's huge delegation to the Re publican National Convention. Already, indeed, they are pri marily concerned simply with limiting Rockefeller forays for convention delegates to the East. The Nixon people now be lieve, for example, that they can largely halt the Rocke feller delegate - gathering movement in the East at the New York state line. They feel confident that Nixon will do extremely well in Pennsyl vania, at least fairly well in New Jersey and not badly in other nearby ' states such as Connecticut. THEY are, however, in a mood of complete realism. They see the Rockefeller chal lenge as serious at best. And they do not deny that it could become a massive challenge in some circumstances. Nixon's long and amiable talk the other day in New York City with former Gov ernor Thomas E. Dewey-and it will be followed by others should not be read to mean that Dewey will be for Nixon in 1960. The Nixon people assume that eventually Dewey's still-considerable in fluence within the GOP will be cast on Rockefeller's side. Dewey has strong profession al and personal connections with New York banking in terests that are close to Rocke feller. And in committing himself to the "anti-spending" line of the Eisenhower Administra tion, the vice president has knowingly taken a big risk. His advisers are aware that this could tend to link him in the public mind closely with the Old Guard wing of the party. The fact that this would not be an accurate linking is one thing; the fact that it could be damaging, all the same, is another thing. Indeed, Nixon associates, in their private previews of the probable nature of the pre-convention Nixon-Rockefeller struggle for the nomin ation, see these as the prin cipal factors: ... ROCKEFELLER'S great ad . vantage is that his is a "new" face. The Nixon face is not only "controversial"; it has also been familiar for a decade now. The Governor, moreover, has the more read ily pleasing personality. Whether or not he is himself an adept practical politician, he has already shown skill in picking highly practical poli ticians as his lieutenants at key points. Too, the Governor will not have to face up to so many hot national issues as will Nixon between now and 1960. But if the Vice President is in danger of being classi fied as too far to the right, Rockefeller is in peril of be ing carried too far to the left by the inevitable pressures of New York politics. Nixon, for example, will support labor reform legisla tion of a rather hard kind. Rockefeller is seen as more likely to wind up close to the labor leaders. This, if it hap pens, will do him great harm at the convention, for GOP conventions are largely run by organization and not "mod ern" Republicans. William S. Wbite - " -' - Menace S. WHITE FUNDAMENTALLY, though, the chief reliance of the Nixon forces is in Nixon's greater experience in world affairs - and in GOP affairs. There is undoubtedly a wide impression in the country that he is "tougher" in the cold war with the Russians than Rockefeller would likely be. And the Nixon people fully expect that from among the Republican rank and file there will arise a growing demand for a far stronger and more partisan party leader than has been seen in the Eisenhower years. This is a bill the Vice President unarguably could fill. Whether Rockefeller could or would is open to doubt pending the taking of asgreat deal of future evi dence. Many Republicans want no more essentially amateur party leadership. The Nixon forces will exploit this feel ing all the way. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Old Time Store People To the Editor: The Mail Tri bune communication letter on Jan. 29 about Oregon's history by Mr. Frank Brandon, 93 years young, of 211 North Ivy St., Medford, must have been enjoyed by many, many peo ple . who remember C. A, Meeker's M. M. store . Where Woolworth's is located now. Mr. Brandon was in charge of all the shoes, and also the men's furnishings for over 15 years. Knowing Mr. and Mrs. Brandon since 1923, I can truthfully say they are the kind of people who are called "the salt of the earth." I think all who know them will agree with me and will also say the Brandons have lived up to the Golden Rule in every sense of the word. Here are a few more old time store people who belong in the same category: Mrs. Lena Greene, Mrs. Edna Pur sel, and Mrs. Florence Laing. They too are living in Med ford now. It gives me great satisfaction and pleasure to write this as I have worked with every one I've men tioned, both in Medford's late mayor's M. M. Store, and Med ford's Band Box, once located at 223 East Sixth St. Everyone mentioned have characters above reproach, which is the greatest of aU possessions, we are told. Emma Lou Carpenter 811 Sherman St. Medford Truth, Love, Honesty To the Editor: As this is the 10th letter I have written to this paper and you have printed, please print this. Peace will come when each man and woman has peace within him self or her self, and when we all lose our selfishness. Fear and selfish ness are nasty words. They can mean trouble. Selfishness has been in man ever since he came on this earth, and he was a savage and there is still savage in man, and today with all the crime in this country, and costing 15 to 20 billion dollars per year, how can we call this a coun try a true civilization? Many things we do are getting us along the way but building all kinds of war machines to kill, and discard everywhere. If we had only done what Jesus Christ asked us do when he was here we would not have had wars for 2,000 years since he has gone. Life Hint of 'Force' in Civil Rights Bill Center Of Blazing Senate Battle Over Enactment By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -flJPD- The civil rights dispute blazing up in the Senate will center on how much and what kind of federal force proposed leg islation could bring to bear on southern communities. Senate sponsors of a Democratic -Republica n Vie C. Wilson civil rights bill introduced last week are unhappy because published reports of their proposal called it a force bill. Fifteen Editorial 1 Comment OPPORTUNITY NO ONE SHOULD MISS Everyone in this area should make it a definite point to see the Vincent van Gogh paintings and drawings at the Portland Art museum. They will be here until March 1, and the museum will be open daily from noon to 5 p.m., and on Wednesday and Fri day from noon to 10 p.m. Anyone, whether or not he has had art experience or training, will appreciate the genius that is so evident in this collection. And it is the chance of a lifetime, because it is entirely possible that never again will so many Van Gogh paintings and drawings be together for a showing. They were brought from the Steelijk museum in Am sterdam, where they are on permanent loan from W. W. van Gogh, engineer son of the artist's brother Theo. Through the years however, it is entire ly possible the collection may be broken up. t The museum staff, headed by Dr. Max Sullivan, has done an excellent job of arrange ment and organization in pre. senting the collection to the public. Extremely well done are the slides synchronized with a tape recording dealing with the life, paintings, draw ings and writings of Van Gogh. It is a rare opportunity that has been offered to the peo. pie of this area to see so many works of this strange genius, who sold only one painting in his lifetime. It is an ex perience that no one should miss. Oregon Journal. is all any one has and when that is gone that is all. I was left an orphan at 6 years old, my mother died then, and I lived with my Grandma. At 7 years I was a news kid' 5 years, and helped to keep myself and Grandma. She died when I was 12 years old, then I did have it hard. She got a pen sion of $12 every, three months as my Grandpa was killed in the Civil War, so I learned a Jot selling papers. In the town of Millersburg, Ohio, I sold mqre papers in the nine saloons than any where. So I began to study people as a Sunday school boy, and went to school. I lerned the meaning of three words and that has been my guide and still is, Truth, Love and Honesty. I have made my own way since 7 years. I learned wag on and carriage building, then to school, became an architectural engineer, built as a master builder many fine buildings all over. This delinquent trouble of young people I know I have a good remedy, or a cure that will sure make a change and in life. I have never known of U. S. government doing anything of the kind. If some wants to ake me I will give details. I was 81 years old Jan. 24, 1959 and put in 67 years in the industrial world handling many hundreds of men, big jobs, buildings and ship building. So I think I have a cure for many young people. I lived a good life, no trouble, and if every one had life lived as good as I there would be no prisons in USA. William Ross Sharp General Delivery Gold Hill, Ore. AT&SF Chairman To Resign February 28 r.hicaeo-UPD-Fred G. Gur- ley announced Sunday night he will retire as chairman of the Atchison, Topeka .ana Santa Fe Railroad Feb. 28, but continue as a member of the board. The railroad made no an nouncement of a successor to Gurley, who is 69 and a vet eran railroader. Gurley joined the Santa Fe as a vice presi dent in 1939 after 33 years with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. OPTICAL HEAD DIES Palm Springs, Calif. - (OPT - Channing McGregory Wells, 88, former president of the American Optical Co., died Sunday. senators jointly sponsored this legislation which has been described as similar to Section Three of the 1957 bill which got through Congress in modified form. Section Three would have amended - legislation enacted in the 1860s and 1870s spe cifically to authorize the President to use the armed forces to enforce a score or more of civil rights which variously are on the books. This recourse to the armed forces provoked Sen. Richard B. Russell in July, 1957, to an attack on . the legislation which led to its very substan tial modification. The 1957 Matter of Fact HAVE A CHASER! Washington-A chaser is in order, after such deluges of Defense Department soothing syrup. As a j possible chas- ser, or maybe even as an antidote to all the syr upy assur ances that the missile gap really hardly matters at all, 4os-ph Aisop consider i n e the following true story. Not so long ago, the appearance in the air of the first Soviet jet fighter, the Mig 15, was taken in Washington almost as a personal affront. The Air Force view was voiced by the late Chief of Staff, Gen. Hoyt . Vandenberg. He declared that the new plane "could not be in quantity production, although perhaps the Soviets could turn out five or six a month by hand tooling." When asked for the justi fication of this opinion, Gen. Vandenberg angrily pointed to the difficulties the Ameri can Air Force was having in producing good jet engines in quantity. The General was strongly supported by George F. Kennan, the State Depart ment's leading resident Rus sian expert of that period Kennan then used to say-and believe-that "the Soviets can't even quantity-produce good bicycles." IN THIS atmosphere, after some time had passed, the Central Intelligence Agency came up with evidence that the Soviets were actually turning out 300 Mig-15s each month - and this at a time when the only comparable U.S. fighter, the F-86, was being produced at the rate of eight per month. Natural ly the CIA. evidence was ridiculed by all. Nonetheless, Paul H. Nitze asked the C.I-A. 'to make a theoretical deployment of So viet Mig-15s, based on an as sumed production rate of 303 monthly. In those days-as can be told now-extremely high altitude photo reconnaissance of the Soviet Union was not difficult. Nitze therefore ar ranged for photo-reconnaissance of the airfields includ ed in the C.I.A.'s theoretical deployment plan for the Migs. The photographs revealed ex actly 50 per cent more Mig 15s on the airfields than the C.I.A. had said would -be there. And in the end, the Soviets built 10,000 of these Migs that Gen. Vandenberg had been so sure they would have to "hand-tool." ' THE story suggests how grossly honest men can undertake Soviet military-industrial capabilities,' merely from pride and prejudice. But this is not the story's only point, the truth is that the fantastic misjudgement of Soviet Mig-15 output was a fairly typical performance. As in the case of the Mig 15, the raw material brought in by the C. I. A. has gener ally been pretty good. But the American government has consistently read the raw in telligence through the most rose-colored spectacles. For this reason, from the first Soviet atomic bomb down to the first Soviet inter-continental missile, the American government has regularly been taken by surprise. The Soviets have regularly turn ed out new weapons sooner, and they have regularly pro duced them in larger quan tities, than was forecast by the American official esti mates. So far as is known, there is only one major exception to this melancholy rule. The Soviets designed and built their B-52 type "Bison" bomb er in about three years less time than the American "na tional estimates" allowed; but they decided in the end not to produce as many "Bisons" Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel Ul-at- ease because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FAS TEETH, an Improved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer eo they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get rooxjusixn Ka&y any arug countec i f y project was passed finally as merely a voting rights bill with certain trimmings but without the all-inclusive Sec tion Three. Blood Would Flow Russell startled the Senate in 1957 with his explanation of how the bill would author ize a president to order the Army, Navy and militia to enforce integration in all public places in the South. He jarred his colleagues with an unqualified warning that blood would flow in any such process, that concentration camps would have to be set up to hold the overflow from southern jails. By Joseph Alsop as the American estimates had forecast. The Eisenhower administration i s obsessed with this past error, which drove even Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson to or der -an increase in B-52 pro- auction. The "Bison " story is constantly cited at the Pen tagon, nowadays, to justify the happy, happy, happy of ficial estimates of the Soviet missile program. npo begin with, however, we -1 had better thank God for this solitary divergence into pessimism. Without it, the United States would have far less of the long-range air pow er that the President and Sec retary of Defense Neil Mc Elroy now swear is a com pletely satisfactory answer to superior Soviet power in the longe-range missiles. More over the pessimistic mistake about the "Bison" program was directly related to an even greater mistake on the optimistic side the Ameri can government's gross un-der-estimation of Soviet prog ress with ballistic missiles, which permitted the Kremlin to cut down "Bison" output in favor of IRBMs and ICBMs. There are also two further things that also need saying. In the first place, the likeli- hooa of optimistic error is certainly greater today than ever before, because of the intense White House and Bud get Bureau pressure to think happy, happy, happy, money saving thoughts. And in" the second place, if errors in the intelligence estimates are now being made in the old way, tney are nonetheless errors of a wholly new character. They no longer concern Mig 15s, solely useful for the de fense of Soviet territory, or even atom bombs lacking any efficient means of delivery. These new errors, if made, concern weapons which can write "finis" to the story of this Republic and the history of human freedoms, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Hear Your FAVORITE HYMNS on KM Every Sunday, 10:35 a.m. Sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, The burden of Russell's in dictment of the 1957 proposal was this: That the adminis tration bill was deliberately and craftily written for such purposes as the forcible inte gration of southern schools,, hotels and swimming pools whereas it was being pre sented to the public as mere ly a bill to make it possible for eligible negroes to vote. .. Russell will not like the new Democratic - Republican proposal any better than the 1957 Section Three. A Presi dent would not need any spe cific authority, if the new proposal were adopted, to use armed forces in all civil rights matters involved. The authority already exists, else President Eisenhower could not have sent federal troops to Little Rock. Federal Injunctioni The nub of the new pro posal is that it would author ize the attorney general, after a stipulated legal process, to start "civil actions against those who deprive persons of their rights to equal protec tion of the laws because of race, color, reilgion or na tional origin." That means that the fed eral government could seek in federal courts injunctions against denial of civil rights. A president would have am ple authority i to order the Army to marcnxand the Navy to sail for the enforcement of any such injunction. That would appear to justify term ing the new proposal a force bill. It also would appear to a sure a bitter Senate debate at this session and an all-out test of the new Senate rule de signed to curb filibusters. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worth while purpose on your FURNITURE AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly ln- staliments. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. 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