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4 Friday, Febraary , 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or., MEDFORBtSWTBBUKX "Everyone ie Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by " 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBLP.T W RUHL. Editor EKRB GREY Advertiiing Manager ULilAUl LUX X IXln, OUUKH RIC W ALLEN JH, , Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soortg Editor LIVE STARCHES Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday I year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.33 Sunday Only On year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle - Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Coye. Kogue Klv r. Talent and oik motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year S 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 ' Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms casn 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 New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At - lanta. Vancouver B.C. - NEWSMMR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfebcUTI Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribun 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 6. 1949 (Sunday) Ashland City Attorney William Briggs rules invalid a petition asking for a special election to fill any city coun cil vacancies thai may follow recall proceedings in prog ress against three councilmen. The Monica Lind ballet company of Portland Is well received here as it performs under the auspices of the Jun ior Service League. 20 YEARS AGO Fb. 6, 1939 (Monday) County Judge Earl B. Day . is reported by an upstate pa per to be in line for appoint- missioner. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "De spite the court ruling a Hus band has the right to slap nis wife, none of the ilk around here, have risked death or permanent injury . 30 YEARS AGO Fab. 6, 1929 (Wednesday) John Connor of Medford is ; recommended for "West Point. ' The Ashland hotel suffers ; $45,000 damage in a fire, to which Medford equipment is . called to help fight the flames. ,40 YEARS AGO :Fb. 6. 1919 (Thursday) ' Irvin S. Cobb will lecture at the Page theater next I week. Ed Brown, up and around again, denies he was a vic- tim of the flu. 50 YEARS AGO Fab. 6, 1909 (Saturday) A second Crater Lake road "delegation departs tomorrow for Salem. .... ' The city engineer tenders his annual report, stating he 'lacks an adequate force to handle his department's obli gations. . What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior sevtn or eight is excellent; five or six is good. : 1. What color is a sorrel horse? 2. What is the opposite of -climax? 3. Senator Morse. Demo crat, represents which State in the U.S. Senate? v 4. An unbranded steer is Tsnown as a M k? : 5. Complete the saying: "Time and wait 6. In which South Ameri can country is the city of Bo- cota? 7. What is the singular form of the plural noun ad denda? ': 8. A python kills its prey by striking with poison langs; true or false? 9. What is the difference -between a piano and a piano forte? 10. Of what book of adven ture is Daniel Defoe the author? Answers: 1. Yellowish ex reddish brown. 2. Anticli max. 3. Oregon. 4. Maver ick. 5. '. . iid wail for no man." 6. Columbia. 7. Ad dendum. 8. False. 9. No dif ference. 10. "Robinson Cru soe." ' "' Gambling, Legal And Illegal For the past umpteen have been a pain in the otficials, to say nothing merchants in whose establishments the flashing monsters have been ensconced. The crux of the problem is this: Are they, as advertised, machines "for amuse ment only" and "games and out gambling contrivances: If they are the former, that's one thing thejrre 04 legally. If join the outlawed slot laws against gaming. IT IS an open secret that in many instances pin ball machines, though and amusement, have in 1 ! 1 1 Dimg macnines, witn a won. The Grants Pass Courier comments: - "Obviously, few persons will feed nickles and dimes into pinball machines just to see the lights go 'round and round.' The gambling element has to be involved. Hence the common practice of "under-the-counter' pay offs to winners. "We have little doubt - in view of the preponder ance of legal opinion to this effect - that the Oregon high court ultimately will get around to deciding that free-play pin-ball machines are illegal. That, however, could open the way to further appeals that could be almost interminable. "The present legislature could dispose of the issue with neatness and dispatch, simply by amending the law to include freeplay pinball machines in the list of illegal gambling devices." llE AGREE with the "be done. The confusion should the status of pinballs, do it easily. While they're at it also eret the state out of of banning gambling on one hand, and officially sponsoring on the other, through the pari-mutuel windows at the horse-races at the state fair, and at the dog-races in Multnomah county. Gambline is ramblinp. and if public eraminer is to be forbidden, it should be banned all the way. But presumably the are in large part supported by the state's share of pari-mutuel earnings) is too strongly entrenched to permit such a clear-cut solution to a moral and legal issue. E.A. Freedom For Jackson county is in Dimes camoaien. It will The stated goal this year The money will be divided between the local chapter of the National Foundation (formerly the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis), and the national organization. The money will go for treatment of polio cases (past, and, if any, future), as well as basic re search into virus diseases, birth defects and arth ritis. THE National Foundation has been under counts: 1. It refuses to join with united funds in money-raising campaigns, insisting on going it alone, and 2. It is perpetuating itself by broadening its scope, after its primary purpose, the conquering of polio, was largely accomplished through the Salk vaccine. We believe that there is some basis to both of these criticisms. DUT this is still a free country; the March of Dimes is as entitled as any other group to go out and ask for voluntary contributions, and there is no question in our mind but that it is still doing excellent work. The time may come, as is being ever more widely suggested, that a sort of "united fund" for medical causes be organized, to combine the various campaigns for cancer, heart, arthritis, rheumatism, and the more obscure diseases, so that there will be only two major fund drives each year one for medical purposes, the other for the charitable and character-building ones usually associated with community chests and united funds. This would have the added advantage of pro viding some logical way of allocating medical research funds to points where they are most needed, rather than having this allocation depend solely on who can raise tha most money. DUT there is no such plan in operation as yet. Most of the health-agency campaigns are independent, although a few have settled com fortably under the mantel of the united funds. All, as far as we are concerned, are doing the best job thev can. according to their Ho-Tits. and we would not urge a "boycott" of any of them as has been urged by some papers and individuals in the case of the March of Dimes and the Cancer society. One editor put it this way: "There can be no exclusive rights to solicitations for charity or philanthropy." We agree, and suggest that gifts be appor tioned on the basis of the generosity and sympa thies of the donor. E.A. years, pinball machines neck to law enforcement of many ethical retail of skill," or are they out the latter, however, they machines under Oregon's billed as devices of skill truth been used as gam- 1 mm m casn pay-on ior games Courier that this should be cleared up, regarding and the legislature could (faint hope), they could the hypocritical situation county fair lobby (fairs Fund Drives the midst of a March of last for another week. is $10,000. Dennis the '1 577 CDNT Sit KWA SOFT OCsmtMl COlSD 40 A IS A iiiilMAiii ........ Defense Minister, Malinovslcy, Man of Week, Newsom Says By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Man of the week: Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, de fense minister of the USSR. The hour: A speech before the 21st con gress of the Communist Party in Mos- fnw ovf nil in tr . , a ;j trie power 01 soviet mignx, especially mis siles. T1!. fHU Aewsom "is quote (directed to the Western pow ers): "Your arms are too short, gentlemen." A play on words? If so, a grim jest. A Play On Words? There is little suggestion of humor in the background of the bulky Malinovsky, who became a professional soldier at the age of 16 and who now is both a member of the pow erful' Central Committee of the Communist Party and commander of all the armed forces of the USSR. If there were a play on words at all, it was to com pare the West to the smaller, outmatched prizefighter who finds himself in a ring against an opponent taller and with a longer reach. For that was his theme. The West, he said, continued to make preparations for the war. But he said Western methods were obsolete and that the Soviet Union had missiles that could reach any point on the globe with pin point accuracy. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev opened the 21st party congress last week with a speech which ran more than six hours. As would any good politician, Khrushchev had a little bit for everyone. It has been left to speakers since then to spell out the meaning. Malinovsky's was the Soviet military voice. A Miss Is a Miss U. S. reaction was imme diate and skeptical. Pin-point accuracy? Even a miss of 10 miles over a 5,000 mile range still is a miss. Intercontinen tal missile superiority? Per haps in. number now, yet. But later, no. And for the present? Even now, fully operable 5U. S. in termediate missiles on Allied bases can reach any military target in Russia. Malinovsky, like Khrush chev, was born in the Ukraine. He is 60 years old and is re garded as the USSR's great Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A DVERTISING WIZARD Bernice Fitz-Gibbon describes the teenage period as "perhaps the most important in a life timethe bridge between adolescence and adulthood, between Maltex and Miltown, be tween Buster Brown and Balenciaga, between mud pies and mud-packs, be tween spinning the bottle and heating it at 2 A.M." "Cast your bread upon the daughters," Miss Fitz Gibbon advises prospective advertisers. "Teenage busi ness is almost recession proof. Mom may let out her old yellow, Dad may pull in his belt, but you can just bet sister's going to get a new dress for that Saturday night prom! Americans are that way." "This was rather a red-letter day in my life," boasted a manufac turer to his wife. "They gave me one of those new-fangled aptitude tests." "Good grief," gasped his wife. 'It's a lucky thing for us you own the company!" , C 1359, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate. - Menace est military authority on the Far East. He is also' recognized as one of his country's toughest, most brilliant field command ers. He has never visited the West, but in World War I had some contact with American soldiers and regards them as good fighters.' He has won the Order of Lenin at least twice. Some reports say, five times. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 6. 1926 News was brought to Baker from the Mother Lode of the opening of the Balm Creek) ore shoot at a point 80 feet farther west than any previous opening. The sorted ore gives a gross : value of $48.03 per ton. $3 of it in gold. Excited pros pectors are crowding Into the area. Editorial Comment DST AGAIN Keps. F. F. Montgomery of Eugene and Shirley Field of Portland, both Republicans, have introduced a bill which would put a daylight time measure on the 1960 ballot. The Legislature should pass this bill. It would not, in itself establish daylight time in the summer months, but it would give the voters another chance to express themselves. In I960 it will have been six years since Oregon voters had this chance. They voted for Standard time in 1952 by a margin of 8 to 5. They voted again in 1954, again approving mandatory standard time, but only by a margin of 6 to 5. This in itself represents a con siderable change in public opinion from 61 per cent to 55 per cent. In another six years as great a change, and likely a greater one, will have come about. This is especially true because television, a novelty m 1952 and 1954, but a part of life late in the decade. There is no point in argu ing the merits of either time system at this point. But it does seem reasonable that the people again have a vote in the matter. Eugene Register- Guard. Stop Me 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 Mines To the Editor: At the turn of the century the environs of Gold Hill, Ore., then a thriv ing community of 700 popula tion, were the scene of much gold mining activity and busi ness ventures. Among some of the early producing mines were the Braden quartz mine, one mile south. The Million aire on Blackwell hill, also the Centennial placer mine on Kane's creek. Other notable mines were the Lucky Bart and Corporal "G" mines on Sardine creek, the Sylvanite two miles east near the river and numerous unnamed one man operations. Around that era the late Judge C. B. Watson of Ash land and Gold Hill wrote a book on the geological for mations comprising the south western mining district of Oregon known as the Klam ath range and Siskiyou Island upheaval, which according to geologists was a large island surrounded by an inland sea The few remaining strata of sea shells found -today, seems to corroborate that statement. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, " Medford, Ore. In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS If you've been reading Ore gon newspapers in the past, you must have heard of Dr. John F. Sly. If you continue to read Oregon newspapers during the current legislative session, you'll hear about the Sly Report. You may ask: Who is this Dr. SlyT 1 What is the Sly Report? TR. SLY "is the director of " Princeton Surveys, of Princeton university. He is a noted tax expert. He was hired by the Oregon State Department of Planning and Development to tell us what we .can do to our tax struc ture without getting it out of balance with the tax struc tures of COMPETING states and thus SCARING AWAY the new industries we must attract if we are to have MORE PROPERTY AND MORE INCOMES TO TAX (Having more property and more incomes to tax is what is meant by the term "broad er tax base.") TN HIS final report, Dr. Sly - says there is "little leeway in the present tax structure for a substantial increase in expenditures." That is to say, if we increase expenditures materially under our existing tax structure, we will scare new industries away from Oregon. In explaining why that is so, he brings in a term, that will be over the heads of most of us. He calls it "tax sacri fice," and adds that Oregon is already making a substan tial tax sacrifice in terms of income. What he means by this term is that if your income is ris ing but your TAXES are RIS ING FASTER you are making a tax sacrifice. The tax sacri fice in Oregon, he says, IS increasing. In 1953, the Ore gon tax "sacrifice" was 10 higher than U.S. 17 higher than Far West. 13 higher than Washing ton. 22 higher than California. In 1957, the tax sacrifice in Oregon had risen to- 34 above U.S. 43 above Far West. 30 above Washington 53 above California. In other words, back in 1953 taxes in relation to in come were HIGHER in Ore gon than in the areas with which Oregon must compete for new industries and new population. By 1957, taxes in relation to income were MUCH HIGHER in Oregon than in the areas with which Oregon must compete for new industries and new popula tion. That isn't a favorable situa tion. If it continues, Oregon will LOSE OUT in the race for new industries and new population. Oregon can t afford tnat. SO The state of Oregon needs to spend 'pretty cautiously for the more we SDend the more we'll have to tax. The more we have to tax, the less attractive Oregon will be as a location for new industries and new population. TffHAT of Dr. Sly? He is an able citizen and a likeable character. He is as common as an old shoe. He is easy to talk to. . But- He knows his business. I think we'd better take his ad vice and not spend so liber ally as to tax ourselves out of the competitive picture. Ghost of Ed Starling In Georgia's Woods By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington -UPD- If ghosts do walk, then the shade of Col. Ed Starling will be down there in 5 'v w If iulKJ wuuus ef f Cv M this week end f'ieW Ll where Presi dent Eisen hower is shooting quail. Ed was a Kentucky i i Vrl C. Wilinn cuiunei woo looked like a general and act ed like a field marshal. He was a sharp shooter. Ed abandoned ordinary shooting habits in his early youth and went into the brush for quail with nothing heavier than a .410 shotgun. For your information, a .410 is almost a rifle with a bore slightly larger than cigarette. The number of shot in a .410 shell is mighty few and the number of shooters who can knock over quail with such, brief armament probably is fewer. It is a re markable feat that Eisen hower sometimes guns with a .410 and gets birds, too. Taught Cal To Fish Ed would like that. Ed al ways got quail when he hunt ed, an almost perfect shot. It was Ed who interested Calvin Coolidge in fishing. The colonel was a lifetime Secret Service man - better with a pistol than a shoulder gun. Back there in 1923, Coolidge had been asked about fishing on an upcoming vacation. "Don't think I'll fish," Coolidge replied. "Fishing is for small boys." There was an election on the next year and Starling, a member of the White House details, persuaded Coolidge on vacation to pose- with rod and reel just to humor Amer ican fishermen who didn't like that crack about their favorite sport. Coolidge not only posed, he caught some fish. Thereafter, Coolidge usually vacationed where the fishing was good. Good fishing was not the only vacation factor. Coolidge was a close man with a dol No Hint of Crash By Airplane Crew, Enqineer Asserts Chicago-flJPD-The American Airlines plane which crashed in New York's East river was "dead on" course and the crew had no hint of impending dis aster, according to a crew member who was handling the throttle at the time. Flight Engineer Warren Cook, one of eight survivors of the Tuesday night crash which killed 65 persons, told his story of what happened in the cockpit of the ill-fated turbo-proD airliner to his wife, Flora. Cook indicated that a "mix- Snow Deposited In Plains States By United Press International A snowstorm swung south ward out of Colorado today, depositing two to three inches of snow across Northern Ar kansas and Southern Missouri and into Tennessee and South ern Kentucky. In the north, a numbing cold front sent the jnercury to near 30 below zero in Northern Minnesota and to 20 below in the Dakotas. The storm swept out of Colorado Thursday after piling up snow depths of more than two feet in the Rockies, 14 inches at Steam boat Springs, Colo.,. 8 inches at Denver and a half-foot across the Eastern Plains. At Little Rock, Ark., a B25 medium bomber crashed during a sleet storm Thurs day night while coming in for a landing, killing one of five crew members. Audrey Hepburn's Injuries Revealed Hollywood-OTD-A complete physical examination of Au drey Hepburn has revealed the 29 - year - old Academy Award winning actress re ceived two fractured verte brae and a sprained ankle in her tumble from a horse while on a film location nine days ago in Mexico. It was at first feared Miss Hepburn had received four fractured vertebrae. Doctors said Thursday that the petite actress was free of complications and probably would be able to sit up and perhaps walk in about 10 days. She was returned here Monday from Durango, Mexi co, by an ambulance plane. lar - his own or the tax payers. It was his habit to re quire merely a special car at tached to a regular train when he travelled. He and Mrs. Coolidge were content with a table in the regular dining car, and ordinary passengers could use that table after the President and his wife had dined. Coolidge liked free board and room. If his on the cuff vacation visit became a part of a big real estate sales ballyhoo, as one did in Flo rida, for example, Coolidge could overlook it and hope that the suckers would get their money back, in time. Pictures Can Lie It was that way toward the end of Coolidge's elected term when he and Mrs. Coolidge were persuaded to spend a free Thanksgiving at an enormous Virginia plantation Washington Report By WILLIAM SPENDER VS. SAVER Washington The two out standing 1960 Republican Presidential possibilities are setting out in the most sharp ly separate ways to ex ploit what is, after, all,' usu ally the "gut" political issue the pocket book issue. vice - presi dent Richard 1J Hivnn TlfiC Williams. " white turned up not to his vast surprise, since this was exactly how he want ed it as top man on the anti-inflationary board Presi dent Eisenhower has establish ed to be the Administration's high council on economic matters. It is more than possible that before it is through this "Cabinet Committee on Price Stability and Economic Growth" will be speaking in tones louder than those of the White House itself. It is weighty group to begin with. up" in reading new type alti meters in the Electra jet air liners might have been re sponsible for the crash. The account was printed Thursday night in a copyright ed Chicago Tribune story and by the Chicago Daily News. Cook, who has been ques tioned several times by avia tion officials, gave hi wife virtually the same report as he gave investigators when she visited him at a New York hospital. Sitting Between Pilots The Tribune quoted the 35' year-old airman from Aurora, 111., as saying he was sitting between the two pilots main taining 140 knots air speed as the big craft approached La Guardia field. The crew members were "completely astounded when the plane hit the water," Cook said. He said the pilot, Capt. Albert DeWitt, "told me to maintain 140 knots air speed and that's what I was doing. "So far as anyone of us knew, this was a perfectly routine approach.-We expect ed to break out of a cloud and see the runway lights ahead. "The pilots were using the instrument landing system and were dead on. The next thing I knew we were in the water. "The only thing I can sug gest is that they might have had a mixup with those new altimeters. They are a new type and there was some diffi culty reading them." Cook told his wife the alti meters, which tell the pilot the plane's altitude, might have been misread because "it isn't easy to cross check between the pilot's and co pilot's Instruments in that big Electra cockpit." Misread in Training The Tribune said the cock- pit contains two of the new type of altimeters, one tor each pilot, and. they are re garded as the best instruments in their field. . . . However, they were mis read by American flight crews training in the Electras, wmcn only recently were put into service, and American Air lines had planned to install a third altimeter in the center of the instrument panel, ac cording to the Tribune. The newspaper said Eastern Air Line crews who are fly ing Electras also have com olained that the new altime- i ters are easily misinterpreted. Cook told his wife there was "absolutely nothing wrong with the airplane and the way it was operating." May Be With Ike for which a smart promoter needed some fast publicity. The promoter was about to transform the big . house and spacious ground into an ele gant and expensive country club. Ed Starling went along to Virginia as a member of the Secret Service detail. Newsreels of that holiday showed Coolidge on the trap range, crumbling clay pigeons to dust like a Massachusetts Daniel Boone. It was the first Washington had known that Coolidge could handle a gun. I saw that newsreel and won dered. Long years afterward, I asked Ed Starling about it. "Ed, I didn't know Cal was such a great shot." "Couldn't hit a barn," Ed replied. "I was standing there just out of camera range with my .410. Every time Cal shot, I shot. And I don't miss." S. WHITE And Nixon, it may be report ed with total confidence, cer tainly has not joined the en terprise for the purpose of hiding it, or himself, from public attention. GOVERNOR Nelson Rocke feller of New York, for his part, has offered the high est spending budget in that state's history, $2,041,000,000. And he has accompanied this with a demand for the biggest tax rise ever asked of a nerv ous New York l egislature, a $277,000,000 increase. All this means that the country is to be treated to a rare spectacle before the 1960 GOP National Conven tion. It will be a contest be fore a nation-wide audience as to which of the two most favored youg men in - the party can show the most vir tuoso skill in handling the economy. Nixon has made one of the truly basic decisions of his career in deciding to identify himself all the way with an essentially conservative pol icy of public spending. The Cabinet committee, of which he has been appointed chair man, is loaded with "sound" Republicans of the anti-spend- ing school. It includes the four most conservative mem bers of the Eisenhower Ad ministration Secretary of the Tresurery Robert B. Ander son, Secretary of Commerce Lewis Strauss, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son and Postmaster-General Arthur E. Summerfield. GOVERNOR Rockefeller, on his side, has equally made a profound choice. He is going to be, frankly, a "spender," and thus make from the start a powerful ap peal to the "modern" or lib eral Republicans. But he is also making some appeal, if a rather diluted one, to con servative Republicanism m calling for more taxes while he calls for more spending. The first political com mandment to the Old Guard Republicans is: Thou shalt not spend. The second com mandment, though it has far less impact with the Old Guardists, is: But if you are absolutely determined to spend then, for heaven's sake, at least don't further run up the deficit between income and outgo. Thus it is that Rockefeller intends to have his cake and eat it too: To go along with the spending demands of the modern Republicans, but to be one of those rare politi cians who will ask for more taxes as well as.Tnore appro priations. mHERE are elements oi great opportunity and great risk in both the Nixon and Rockefeller approaches. The Nixon way is more like ly to be helpful to him at the National Convention; the Rockefeller way is more like ly to be helpful to him in the Presidential elections if he gets that far. For the convention will be lareelv run by regular and Old Guard Republicans who are deeply committed, in pol itics and in human fact, to budget-balancing. The dele gates on the wnoie are rareiy the "spenders." But the history of at least two decades indicate mat the voting public is far less interested in a balanced budget than in dams in the Far West, reclamation in the arid states, farm subsidies most everywhere, and wel fare in the cities. Thus, the Nixon policy risks some alienation of the public as the price of holding the affection of the conven tion delegates. The Rockefel ler policy risks some aliena tion of the convention dele gates as the price of holding the affection of the public. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
