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4 MonJiy, February 9, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTBIBDHB "Everyone tc Southern Oregon Reads The Kail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by M.HDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr EKIC W ALLEN JS, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only On year $4.20 Bv Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Feint. Jacksonville, uoia hiu, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunJy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of City "I Medford Official Paper or jacason 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 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL AsdhjmJgjN pmiiHis'MTnTii 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. 9, 1949 (Wednesday) - Ashland's Civic Betterment League announces it will in stitute mandamus proceedings to insure a special election to replace the hree city council men whose recall the league has requested. ' Medford's city council air port committee is to recom mend formation of a citizens' advisory committee to study airport matters. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1939 (Thursday) Intense c61d and heavy snowfall remind Medford and vicinity that winter's grip is still strong. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A new crop of corduroy pants wearers has blossomed forth with the transfer of grade school kids to junior high." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1929 (Saturday) Local fishermen are irked at reports of a fish poacher active on the lower Rogue river. , Abundant water for irriga tion is reported in the Eagle Point Irrigation district. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 9. 1919 (Sunday) The heaviest rain in many years deluges the county and causes a rapid rise on the Rogue river. Clara Kimball Young ap pears in "The Road Through the Dark" at the Rialto here. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1909 (Tuesday) Auto owners subscribe to a fund drive for improving the county's roads. The Oregon Senate kills a bill that would have excluded aliens from the state. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Upon whose land in Cali fornia was gold discovered? 2. What does the German phrase "Auf wiedersehen" mean? . 3. Is the eagle, elephant, or tortoise, reputed to have the longest life span? 4. Does a patent automatic ally expire upon the death of the inventor? 5. In golf, what is an eagle? 6. What Christmas decora tion grows as a parasite? 7. Complete the proverb: "Marriages are made in .' 8. Correct the following sentence: "His house is differ ent than my house. ; 9. Other than July and Aug ust, what two consecutive months have 31 days? 10. Who was the first Presi dent of the U.S. to live in the White House? Answers: 1. J. P. Sutler. 2, "Until we meet again." 3. Tortoise. 4. No. 5. Two strokes under par. 6. Mistle toe. 7. "heaven." 8. " . ,, dif ferent from . . ." 9. December and January. 10. John Adams THK T.OST CORD Surbi ton, England - (CPD -Robin Ellison climbed out of r.ri at 3 a.m. Saturday to give chase to a burglar he heard nrnwlinf? in his apartment. Ellison was in hot pursuit across the garden when the onri nf his naiama trousers broke. The thief escaped with NATIONAL SI I $23... - - Orderly Gains in Cuba - There is an increasing segment of responsible opinion in Washington which holds that in spite of the aberrations of military trials in Cuba, the new Urrutia government is steadily consolidating its position and gradually, if slowly, bringing order out of chaos. s Certain news reports of the military execu tions, these sources hold, have tended to discolor and black out the new government's accomplish ments. Evidence from both United States and Latin American sources confirms that a substantial start has been made in harvesting the sugar crop which supplies 40 per cent of the white sweetener for U. S. tables ... IN THE labor field a new 4 munist infiltration threat has brought quick action. Sources close to the state that Communist labor elements which at tempted to make capital of the confusion attend ing the last months before General Batista's fall have been effectively shorn of their power. A revolutionary labor front named FONU, or National United Labor front, on which Com munists had managed to attain several positions, has been summarily dissolved. RESPONSIBLE labor defeat for the Communists who are charging be trayal and unilateral action by the 26th of July movement. How vigorous the vigilance will be against rnTrimiinist Denetration into Cuba's labor unions remains to be seen, but labor sources here are cheered by first results. ' The new Tlirutia e-overnment is not without its many problems, as it strives to marshal up a Droeram in the wake of the corruption of the Batista dictatorship. Financial nrohlems administration, among other legacies, left a bud get deficit of some $50 million, and a huge na tional debt oi $i,iv),vvv,wv. Nnf. the least of the Urrutia-Castro erovern- ment's problems is the fact that until now it has been a military organization. . UNTIL it took power January 1, it had gjven nn T7ic?Vile rlomnncfrjitinn nf a ranahilitv of establishing political unity. Military discipline and imitv auicklv established order among rival factions in the first few - - . . of Havana, when it was teared wholesale siaugn ters such as took place with the fall of the Macha do dictatorship in the 1930's might occur. It has become apparent in recent weeks that the 26th of July movement, while effective as a military organization, still needs to learn the po litical skills of accommodation and compromise, and to establish a national economic program. . a k . It Latin-American statesmen, wno Know now deep the Castro revolution has cut into the cor rantion and crueltv that surrounded the Batista regime, are concerned for lack of political experience. --. IT CAN be stated authoritatively that these frn that OtdtCClllCll CllC 0J ,UiiV.Vi livu. uvvu va-i vm men like Gov. Munoz Marin, of Puerto Rico; President-elect Betancourt, of Venezuela; Presi dent Lopez Mateos, and ex-President Jose Figuer es, of Costa Rica, are prepared to take Fidel Cas trn "nnrler their arm" and teach him some of the nolitical arts needed to the independence movement. Currently, Major uastro is in Caracas, v ene rneln. where he was invited to attend ceremonies celebrating the deposing ez last January 27. While there, Major Uastro was highly critical of certain U. S. Congressmen and elements of the U. S. press which he felt had distorted the news from Cuba in recent weeks. Bertram B. Johans son in the Christian Science Monitor. Pupil-Placement Laws The 1958-59 school year is now half over. So far it has produced no inter-racial violence at public schools. JNor has it seen troops aispatcnea to any community either to enforce or to block compliance with federal desegregation orders. The administration civil rierhts bill will be concerned principally rights. It is expected to maKe no direct contnou tion to solving the school problem in the South. Placement laws of Virginia and Louisiana have been invalidated as designed to nullify the Rnnreme Cnm-t.'s deseoree-ation order. However. vv.w O the Court has upheld the bama and, indirectly, that oi - JNortn Carolina. Neither mentions race or color. ' MOW, there's not the bama adopted its mixing races in the schools. Nor is there any doubt that it will be ruled against if used to in elude Negro children from white schools on the basis of race solely. The Supreme Court various criteria over a dozen of them prescrib ed as standards for admission. If these and other provisions of the Southern pupil placement laws are indeed applied, without discrimination, the courts will.be unlikely be true even if few Negro children are not ap proved for admission proved to be the case in awareness of the Com- Cuban labor movement sources opine that a new are lerion. The Batista days of the occupation -m 11 1 1 1 lest it should falter now, preserve the reforms of of dictator Perez Jimen with protecting voting O ' placement law of Ala- slightest doubt that Ala- law as one way to avoid made no objection to the to interfere. That would to white schools, as has North Carolina. E.R.R. Dennis the 0 W0W!tofo 6BT IN W Washington Report By WILLIAM MODERATION Washington The extrem ists on the civil rights issue are being isolated in both par- ""1 ties and the men of pa tience and rea son are com ing their own. This corres pondent sug g e s t e d two weeks ago that we might n on ceivably WwmSS- be approach ing the end of the beginning of this sad dilemma. Now it can be said that we have in fact entered just such a phase. Much trial and trouble no doubt still lie ahead. But it is possible, for the first time since the Supreme Court's 1954 decision outlawing ra cial segregation in the schools, to report this: The. precondi tions for averting a national crisis, in a period of vast world peril, have at last been reached. It is a t triumph for bipartisan leadership which may turn out to have been of measureless importance. President Eisenhower has asked Congress for only mod erate expansion of-the Civil Rights Act of. 1957. He has thus rejected the urgent de mands of one wing of his party for "tough" legislative proposals that could never have been adopted, simply be cause they would have been intolerable even to the bulk of the Republicans and all the moderate Democrats, quite apart from the Southerners. , SUCH proposals could have been useful only for mak ing a shouting show of ' poli tics; they could only have in flamed the central problem. Too, by pressing them, the President could have driven a bitter wedge into the Demo cratic party, considering its North-South split personality. From tins sort of politics the President has refrained. Indeed, there are grounds to say that he has made it per fectly clear to associates that he will not tolerate this kind of . politics, And he has made it possible for the advanced Republican liberals on this is sue such as Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Sen ators Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey to speak here for more than a fraction of the GOP. The President in spirit has adopted the approach earlier taken by the Senate Demo cratic leader, Lyndon B. John son of Texas, and his middle road associates in both houses of Congress. (In fact, the President gave Johnson an ad vance look at his program). 'THE Johnson group, by its new, moderate bill, had al Try and -By BENNETT CERF- -"LARENCE D ARROW, famous lawyer, was never known as Vi a Beau Brummell. One day, however, he tired of the con tinuous joshing about his careless attire. "My suit is just as well cut as any of yours," he told fellow lawyers in a celebrated case. "My shirts are just as clean, too. The only difference is that you fellows take your clothes off when you go to bed!" . The noted French author, Anatole France, who wrote "Penguin Island" and "The Red Lily," once was asked by a persistent journalist why he was a socialist when he earned over a $100,000 a year. The cynical writer replied, "When you're as old as I am you'll .. ' - f nA realize umt a mail vn a. fivu,- 000 a year salary can be anything ne aaran weu i" w Irv Kupcinet defines a second-story man as an unfortunate mal whose wife didn't believe his first story. -....C1S59, bjr Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features . . Menace MIDDLE OfWOMWl CATS!' S. WHITE ready neutralized the two ex treme factions among the Democrats the advanced Northern liberals on the one hand and the deep Southern standpatters on the other. Mr. Eisenhower has now done ex actly the same thing to the "hard" civil rights extrem ists in his own party. What the President asks oh civil rights is a bit more than what Johnson has proposed. But it is vastly less than has been demanded by a Northern two-party extremist group headed by Senator Paul H Douglas (D-I1L). In a single sentence, the meaning of both the Eisen hower and Johnson plans is this; The South must . give ground, yes; but not all its ground all at once.. It may safely be predicted that the outcome wil be this; Congress this year will strengthen the Federal gov ernment s power of moral and economic suasion to bring about school integration wher ever it is resisted. It will not, nowever, go so far as to au thorize the Justice Depart ment to step into a community to force integration by in junction and on its own mo tion. TT WILL not set up Federal - compulsions, as distinguish ed from Federal persuasions, against job discrimination among private employers. And it will add to the government's present powers to enforce the right to vote, against all racial discrimination. These are go ing xo be quite genume pow ers, and the South will have to bow to them soon rath er than later, as will be the case with integration. Southern die-hard resist ance in Congress has been de stroyed, as of right now, by what amounts to an Eisenhower-Johnson collaboration Equally, the bipartisan Nor thern extremists, running from Vice-President Nixon on the GOP side to Senator Doug las on the Democratic side, have no place to go any more, in Congress at least. In short, the great contro versy is being resolved, as a legislative issue, on the side of moderation. The Southern extremists will lack the pow er even to renew it usefully at the 1960 Democratic Na tional Convention. The Nor thern extremists in both par ties will have that power and will use it in both conven tions. oui, come wnat may in 1960, there is every prospect that in the critical next two years the country will not be torn apart by this issue. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me - , . Clarence J Foreign Desk: Hungarian Pressures; Split In Italy; Macmillan's Political Troubles By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor From the foreign news edi tor's assignment book: The Hungarian Reds are putting new heat on the American Embassy in Buda pest. The ac tion has not been clearly defined but will in clude new re strictions on movement of American Hinlnma tin kjJW:s. d , fail AewsOln ciouluici iu- side Hungary. This in turn has given rise to speculation that efforts may be renewed soon to free Cardinal Mindszenty from his virtual prison inside the American Embassy in Buda pest. One posibility: The Vati can might name Mindszenty to a post in Rome, appoint a new cardmal for Hungary. In return for this, the Hungar ians might let Mindszenty go. The catch: Mindszenty so far has refused to leave his na tive Hungarian soil. The badly split Christian Democratic Party of . Italy will hold a party congress in Florence in April in an at mosphere of bitterness among both "left" and "right" fac tions against former Premier Amintore Fanfani. Fanfani resigned his party leadership shortly after the fall of his government which in turn led to the present Italian govern ment crisis. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouqh under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The 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 ot the paper; in fact the contrary is often McCalllster Story To the Editor: McCallister Springs, in last Sunday's paper, Feb. 1, I was very in terested to see the basin built by my father, C. M. Pheister, out of sandstone which came out of a quarry on Griffin Creek belonging to Mr. True in 1900. " He also carved the 1900 on the stone. It ' is not con crete as there was no cement in the vallev at that time. In 1936 there was nothing on .the stone but the date 1900. Anything else now there has been put on since that time. Mr. Houser, who was mayor of Medford at that time asked my father to do the work and wanted to pay mm but he donated it, as lots of people, including our famuy vacationed up there, once 1R9Q and 1902. McCallister springs'was the end of the road then, and we had to walk 12 miles to Fish lake from the springs to fish As to cement, dad used the first four barrels that were shipped in to Medford. It was shipped from Germany in ballast to San Francisco and was used for sidewalk at 12th and Central ave. for Dr. Arn old, a dentist in 1901. My father was a fine stone mason and stone cutter, and carved many stones, built stone fireplaces and left many beautiful land marks in the valley. ' I enjoyed the picture in the paper very much. Ernest W. Pheister 1345 Brookdale rd. Medford. Leave Clock Alone To the Editor: In regard to the proposal of Representat tives F. F. Montgomery of Eugene and Shirley Field of Portland to have introduced on our 1960 ballot a "Day light Saving Time" measure, I'll bet a hard days work and or the product thereof, these twn Dersons do not do any manual labor, and usually be gin their day from one to three hours after the labor ing man starts his. In order to have a few more hours of daylight at the end of their day, they have only to set the alarm for from one to four hours earlier. But no they can't imagine begin ning their day when a labor ing man begins his. Oh no they want to change the clock. I've never yet found a la boring man who favored the so - called "Daylight Saving Time." It appears the only ones in favor are white col lar workers and merchants in stores. Many times I have wanted to purchase items in town and had to wait until 10 or 11 o'clock to have the doors open. Then, how about the log gers? The white collar work ers never see them head for the woods they're getting their "forty winks." Most log gers begin work at daylight. Would it help for them to string lights through the woods to see to fall timber and skid loes? No. if anyone wants to get up earlier I have The rightists claim Fan fani put them on the spot, de liberately setting out to prove they could not successfully run the party between now and the Florence meeting. They say Fanfani gave them less than three months to do what he could not do in five years as party secretary and nearly seven months as pre mier namely, 1 unify the party. The Christian Demo crats have been among the West's strongest supporters in Italy. When British Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan goes to Moscow later this month, he will be thinking about politics as home as well as world peace. British public opinion polls have shown Macmillan's Conserv ative Party popularity going down as unemployment went up.- If a national eletion were held today, British labor might win. A spectacular success for Macmillan in Moscow or in a possible summit conference to follow, might reverse the British - electoral trend at home. . Insiders in France say more scandals involving national figures are due for an airing. The "Lacaze affair" and the "rose ballets" have provided spicy reading, with plenty of big names, sex and, in the best who-dunit tradition, charges of murder and black mail plots. The next one may involve reports of financial killings by big names who Mail Tribune reserves the riaht to the case. no objection. But leave the clock alone. I've always found Standard time perfect ly satisfactory. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Route Butte Falls, Ore. "Beatniks' To the Editor: I have sent the following letter to Time magazine, regarding a recent article they printed concern ing the "beat generation," and how it is being feted: When the Beatniks of our generation can usurp a promi nent piace in the National Af fairs section of a magazine like Time, I shudder.to think 'how miserablv we'vp faiiori in teaching many of our young peopic- tne true value of their great heritage. There is an indisputable re lationship between privilege and obligation, and if we are to enjoy the privileges of this great country, surely every one of us should be willing to assume at least some small responsibility. Since the Beat niks have been elevated to prominence by "the literary upper crust" in places like Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, and now Manhattan's Colum bia University, what incentive is there for the poor strug gling student who aspires to something INSIGNIFICANT, like searching for a cure for one of the .diseases that still ravage our country . . . or lurtnering the cause of science in the interest of mankind? Hats off to instructor Wil liam Haskins, Northwestern's English instructor who had the courage to admit that all that Beatnik stuff didn't get through to him, and to dub it irrelevant. In our little citv of somp 25,000 people Student Gov ernment Day was held again last week, an annual event when the city oficials share their respective offices and re sponsibilities with the stu dents elected bv tho hinh school student body. Possibly Meaiora is too backward to realize that this sort of jazz is only for the Door stunirl fools who believe our young people snould begin early to learn what rpcnnnciKilifv I means. Mrs. C. Ivan Burton 26 Richmond ave. Medford Man Beaten Over Head By Own Artificial Leg Compton, Calif. - (UPD -Robert E. Banagas, 27, yank ed his brother's artificial, leg and clubbed him over the head with it during an argu ment Sunday night, sheriff's deputies reported. Robert, an assembler, also broke an empty bottle over the head of the brother, Ar-! mando, 24. Robert was book-1 ed on suspicion of assault ! with a deadly weapon. . j CONTINUE BEGGAR DRIVE Karachi, Pakistan-WPD- Citv I police said today they were , progressing in- their drive to J clear Karachi's streets of beg-; gars. The crackdown netted i 255 . beggars during the last j week of January, they said, j knew in advance of the plan to devalue the French franc and who profited either by selling the franc short or by importing huge quantities of goods whose value automa tically ' increased 17.55 per cent after devaluation. Speaking of money, Oki- nawan businessmen see Oki nawa's future as the "Switzer land of the Pacific." With the introduction of the American dollar as the Ryukyuan (Okinawan) currency last fall, banks now offer 6.5 per cent on your money if you leave it in the bank for a year; a Matter of Fact The Missing Measures Washington - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has been asking our allies to il agree to meet any Soviet c h a llenge at Berlin with out temporiz i n g, without cijuivocat ion and head-on. Under the Dulles pro gram, for in- 4nsnh aisod stance a enai- lenge of the Western allies' right to use the land-routes to Berlin is to be answered by sending an armed convoy. This program in fact de mands the will to fight a big war-an H-bomb war-for the defense of Berlin. Neither a single tank column, nor all the Western divisions in NATO, can possibly open a road to Berlin against the op position of the massive So viet armies in East Germany. Hence humiliating retreat or a big war will be the only way out, if a convoy is sent and is halted. The thesis of Secretary Dulles and his strong support ers, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff, is that the Kremlin will not risk a big war for Berlin. Therefore, the Dulles- fentagon thesis continues, the Kremlin will not press its Berlin claims to the utmost, if we show that we prefer to run this risk rather than to surrender. AT -LEAST until Secretary Dulles's visit to London, the British government was unwilling to accept the Dulles-Pentagon thesis. There was a strong impulse in Lon don to base the Western plans for Berlin on dodging a direct challenge, by resort to an air lift. The American pressure for acceptance of the Dulles Pentagon thesis was mean while met by a British counter-demand, that the whole problem be "staffed out" in careful detail. A leading planner from the British War Office staff was actually sent to Washington, to conduct preliminary staff talks with the planners at tached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This high-ranking offi cer kicked his heels here for a week, and then went home after accomplishing nothing. One therefore suspects that the proclaimed accord be tween Secretary Dulles and Prime Minister Harold Mac millian took the form of agreement by Dulles to open staff talks after all, and a statement by Macmillan that the British might accept the Dulles-Pentagon thesis, after satisfactory staff talks. i TF THIS suspicion is correct, - the British may also reject the Dulles-Pentagon thesis at i the end of the "staffing out" Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, Pff '''' ""' r ' 'J ' - ' I V' . - - -' Frank Perf JSESk JmWWfm9fmW f full 7 per cent if you leave it two years. You can send a check for $1,000 from New York and two years later withdraw $1,140. Bank as sets and deposits already total $32 million and the figure is rising fast. Tokyo is considering a limitation on automobile li censes. A government white paper said recently that if the present traffic congestion trend continues, it will be faster to walk than ride in Tokyo by 1965. Tokyo's prob lem is extreme but not uni que. By Joseph Alsep processBut at least one point is already pretty clear. Secre tary Dulles will hardly secure final allied agreement for his "contingent" plan for Berlin, while the Pentagon carries on business as usual. In this respect at least. there is no logical answer to the British doubts about the Dulles approach to the Berlin problem. Business-as-usual at the Pentagon which is plainly inconsistent with the whole Dulles approach, depends on convincing the Kremlin that the West is in deadly earnest, and will fight a big war, if need be. In these circumstances. there are certain practical measures that plainly need to be taken without much further delay. If an armed convoy is planned, some re inforcement of the divisions in Germany is surely essen tial if only to prove that the plan is serious. For the same purpose, rather special preparations and training ex ercises are needed, to show that the West's engineering troops can surmount any pur ely physical obstacles to the convoy, such as broken bridges. - ABOVE all, however, adop tion of the Dulles approach imperatively demands bring ing the Strategic Air Com mand to a state of full readi ness. At present, despite the widespread impression to the contrary, SAC maintains no air alert. Experiments with an air alert were made in the autumn. It Was found to be practical to keep a high pro portion of SAC's planes al ways in the air and always ready to attack their targets. But this way of keeping a sub stantial striking force beyond reach of enemy attack was al so found to be costly. Hence a 15-minute ground alert plan was chosen. As the SAC Commander, Gen. Thomas Power, vefy clearly pointed out, the 15 minute ground alert offers no protection at all against a So viet missile-strike. The air-missile warning system is not yet complete, and it will not be completed for some time to come. Thus the warning time for a missile-strike will be zero. With zero warning time, SAC's planes on the ground would be destroyed by any successful missile- strike whether there was a 15-minute alert or no alert at all. In truth, if SAC is to bear the main burden of bridging the missile gap, a permanent air alert is necessary in any case, quite without regard to the threat at Berlin. It is all the more urgently necessary, if the American official poli cy is to risk a big war, if need be, at a time that is no longer very distant, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Hear your fav- -orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by 'Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
