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4 Tuniiy, Febraary 10, 195 f MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtlTRIBUNB "Everyone ic Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager OfcKALU LAlrtA.l, tlUSineSS ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent NewsnaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat 1 In Advance. Cody 10c. DaU- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 nun. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, bhady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papei 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL cSfel 1AC5T," 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 Fab. 10, 1949 (Thursday) The first veterans arrive at the Camp White domiciliary to take up residence. Medford City .Superintend ent Vernon Thorpe is instruct ed to study the flood poten tial of the Bear creek basin and Investigate possible pre cautionary measures. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1939 (Friday) Pleasant Creek Mining cor poration's giant gold dredge is reported nearly completed at its location four miles from Wimer. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The frequent snow is still called 'beautiful and several other things, by valley populace." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1929 (Sunday) The Fruitgrowers' league favors a high tariff on bana nas. The messenger boys of two telegraph companies are to appear in uniforms next month. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1919 (Monday) A crowd of 5,000 people at the depot this morning wel comes 103 returning soldiers. A scarcity of labor in the valley for orchard pruning and spring farm work is re ported. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1909 (Wednesday) Will G. Steel delivers an il lustrated lecture at Salem in behalf of the Crater Lake road bill. A bill proposed by the Rogue River Fish Protection association receives a favor able committee report at the capital. What's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct is ' superior; even or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. What sort of sea birds flew inland and saved the Dioneers of Utah from the ravages of grasshoppers? 2. What is meant by a scratched horse? 3. An anchorite is a hermit; true or false? 4. If an individual is garru lous, he is quarrelsome, quick to anger, or talkative? 5. Complete the saying, 'The hand that rocks the cradle . . 6. What is a casus belli? 7. What is the capital of Maine? 8. Does sound travel faster in water, or in air? . 9. Is it true, or untrue, that a rifle bullet will not pene trate an alligator's hide? 10. An atom of uranium has a diameter of one-hundredth, one millionth, or one hundred millionth of an inch? I. Gulls, 2. One entered then withdrawn from a race. 3. True. 4. Talkative. 5. "rules the world.". 6. "Reason for War.". 7. Augusta. 8. In water. 9. Untrue. 10. One-hundred millionth. The Price of Progress We confess that it was with both shock and dismay that we saw the trees coming down in Hawthorne park just south of the Main street bridge, to make way for the new bridge which will bring Eighth street across Bear creek. Neither shock nor dismay is justified, of course, for the plans for the new bridge have long since been announced, as was the route and the necessity, and the Eighth street, one-way of the city s arterial street program. 1X7E KNEW it was coming, expected it, even anticipated the freer, flow of traffic which the development will permit. And yet, to see the decimation of the pretty the bridge was to become slightly sick. f-M , .1 met sometimes tne price pretty high. This is one And the far greater destruction to be done when the wide freeway sweeps along the western edge of the park will be IT IS things such as this necessary, even when that give us our f urn conviction that the city and the country, in cooperation with the state, must at all costs salvage what can be salvaged of na tural beauty before it is all gone; must expand and develop our park and recreational resources ; must recognize that one of the chief reasons why the Rogue valley is a delightful home is just be cause of the natural beauties with which we have all become so familiar. The city has a planning commission, a parks and recreation commission and a street tree com mittee; the . county has a planning commission and is in the process of organizing a parks and recreation commission. Their services are needed now as never be fore, and will become more so in the future. But they cannot function and serve us as they should unless they have the cooperation and the support of the people of the community, city and county alike. E.A. . Roxy Ann Again The action of the Medford Welcome Wagon club, in offering to join agencies in doing what Prescott park on Roxy Ann butte a more attrac tive affair, brings this subject up again. Prescott park has been kicked around for k. T I .1 . 1 years, jno agency 01 government nas yet received a sumcient stimulus to do much ot anything about it and yet the park has one of the finest poten tials of any piece of real estate in the west. HAVE a hunch that if only two obstacles were cleared away, the park's popularity would zoom, and the people using it would prove that it merits fuller attention. The first is a better ably with a hard surface. The second is the re moval of the poison oak which now scares off many potential picnickers and sight-seers. Both steps are feasible, and the expense would not be prohibitive. With the welcome attention being given to parks and recreational development by both city and county (see above), we would like to see these two agencies of government get their heads together to work out a plan, perhaps a coopera tive one, by which this exceedingly valuable, re source could be developed as it should be. They would be assisted in doing so if groups and or ganizations of the valley; and interested citizens, let it be known they favor such a move. E.A. - Who's Rain, snow, sleet, hail any form of precipi tation when accompanied by cold, sloppy weather can be disagreeable. But under the circumstances this year, we hope that there will be more, although we'd be just as happy if it stayed in the mountains. . For the snow cover in the hills is far below average for this time of year, and it is upon this snow cover that we depend for irrigation water during the irrigating season of April to Sep tember. AT LEAST we think it is. " We've been a bit confused, lately, by the sometimes conflicting forecasts of water supplies issued by the U.S. soil conservation service and allied agencies, on the one hand, and the U.S. weather bureau, on the other. t In last Sunday's Mail Tribune there was a story quoting the two agencies. The soil conserva tion service predicted a "short supply" of irriga tion water for the coming summer. The weather bureau said the supplies would range from "above" to "much above" the 15-year average. THE PRINCIPAL difference, seems to be that the SCS bases its forecasts on snow surveys taken in the mountains, and that the weather bureau bases its on a rather more complicated formula which takes into consideration not only snow supplies and water content, but also ground-water supplies which carry over from one year to another. Who s right We don t know. But with two governmental agencies spending public funds to duplicate each other's services, it's about time someone found out. The forecasts are too important to be the subject of intergovern mental friction and pride. E.At fact that the extension of across the bridge, is part arboreal carnage and the little park area south of 01 progress comes of those times. an even higher price. expected and probably essentially destructive with other groups and can be done to make road up the hill, prefer Right? Dennis the 'Al?. Wilson's car MeGorsomHiH'AfjflVixm lUBFei HB CALLS it a CltTCfff Matter of Fact THE CASE OF HENRY LABOUISSE Washington - Henry La- bouisse is a genial, unassum ing. deceptively ordinary- seeming man who belongs to a very spe cial category the category of Americans to whom ev ery citizen of this Republic ought to feel personally in- 4ns-Db AlsoD UCDiea. In the earliest stages of his career, in the Foreign Service, and for a time in the Foreign Aid Administration, he turned in a most notable perform ance; but it was not this which created the debt each one of us owes to him. The debt be gan to be incurred when La bouisse accepted one of the most difficult and heart-rend ing posts in the world today, the Directorship of the United Nations Relief Agency for the tragic Arab refugees from Palestine. There was no need for La bouisse to leave everything friendly and familiar, and go to the Middle East with his beautiful and brilliant wife, the former Eve Curie. By any ordinary standard, the ap pointment Labouisse accepted was both repellent and terri fying. rpHE MILLION uprooted Arabs who are condemned to the grim, death-in-life of the refugee camps were then suffering from extreme mass neurosis. Their resentment against the world's injustice was too bitter; their suspicions were too inflamed. They would begin one of their wolfish riots on almost any pretext. The refugee problem was in fact a gigantic ulcer, on the very point of bursting with unforeseeable conse quences. When Henry Labouisse took over, it was, physically dangerous for the U.N. per sonnel to enter some of the refugee camps. As an Amer ican, a Representative of the nation held responsible for sponsoring the Palestine par tition, Labouisse was under extra suspicion. Yet by tact and humor and cool courage, by wonderful impro vising from small resources, by model administration under the worst conditions, and above all, by back-breaking, unending, gruelling hard work, Labouisse won the day. HE COULD NOT cure the ulcer that is the refugee problem. No one could do that. But he won the confi dence and even the affection of these tragic people. He im proved conditions in the ter rible camps in many different ways. He reduced the inflam mation of the ulcer, by these means, to a point that was no longer acutely dangerous. And all this he did without any great increase of the nig gardly pittance of a few cents per person per day that the United States and the other contributing nations gave to the U.N. for refugee-care. Such, then, was the achieve ment of Henry Labouisse when he came home at last some months ago. Such, then, was the man whom Deputy Secretary of State Douglas Dillon requested to take over the International Cooperation Administration, when Dillon learned that the foreign aid job was about to be vacated by James H. Smith. The foreign aid job is no toriously the hardest major post to fill in the government today; and it was something of a sacrifice on Labouisse's part to agree to leave his well earned retirement for this new post. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the whole State Department high command were enthusiastic for the appointment. La bouisse's name went to the White House with the highest recommendations. Menace Bv Joseph Alsop A T THE White House, how- x- ever, the nomination ran, head-on, into the peculiar sit uation created by President Eisenhower's positive detesta tion of his secondary role as leader of . the Republican Party. Despite his semi-annual exhortations to the party rank and file to get out and work, the President notorious ly avoids the normal political tasks of his office. But in or der to justify this avoidance and to control the party of ficials, the President has done something that his most po litically active predecessors never did. He has given the Republican National Commit tee and its Chairman, Meade Alcorn, a right of veto over all appointments. Alcorn's files of job-seekers of course contain no remotely suitable candidate for the for eign aid job. A score of men were begged to take the job and refused it, before James H. Smith was finally induced to serve. And above all offi cials, the foreign aid chief needs to enjoy bi-partisan con fidence on Capitol Hill. Despite these important considerations, Alcorn furious ly vetoed the Labouisse ap pointment on the sole ground that the wholly a-political La bouisse was not a Republican. The President, despite his re peatedly professed enthusi asm for the foreign aid pro gram, has been too remote from the struggle, too little interested in the problem, too busy quail - shooting with George Humphrey, to bother to over-rule the National Committee Chairman. When you recall the great public servants Harry S. Truman re cruited 'from Republican ranks, it seems a little odd to see the Eisenhower crusaders enforcing the crudest rules of old-fashioned pork-and-patron-age politics, with certain det riment to the public service of the United States. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, 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. Flation-In and De To the Editor: At the end of the first world war, I returned from France on the S. S. Hav erford. When I got on the boat, I had three silver dol lars, a five franc piece and my rabbit's foot. The first thing I did was to buy an ap ple pie for $2 and I sat right down and ate the whole pie. That is inflation. When we hit the ocean, I got sick and lost the pie. That is deflation. Today I still have the five franc piece, one silver dollar and my rabbit's foot. The franc is worthless, the Amer ican silver dollar is worth 48 cents, and is still going down. If the Democrats and the Re publicans don't quit spending so much, plenty soon have only rabbit foot. Everett Acklin. Ashland. An Appeal To the editor: I would like to bring to the attention of the many readers of the Mail Tribune that there is an old man living in Jacksonville by the name of Tom Bornstin (South Third St., Jackson ville ) who has lived here most of his life and is now about to be sold out for taxes. He has a one-room cabin and is too old to work. But this is his home and he would not like to lose it. The amount he needs is $33. Won't some one donate this amount or part of it, so his taxes will be paid? Mrs. N. Hollis, -112 West California st. Jacksonville. Who Is Khrushchev Kidding About This Business of Trusting' the Russians? By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Either Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev has a short memory or he believes the Western pow ers have. One of his J C?? favorite j"f thenies when fe jl 1 he accuses the West of pro wl o t i n g the cold war is the need for trust among nations. He is LY fiui xsewsom also fond of citing homely little Russian parables to il lustrate his points. In that vein then, we may say that the moment he has donned grandmother's cap, pulled the covers up high and is running through the little Red Riding Hood and the wolf routine as regards Berlin. All that is necessary to set tle the Berlin problem, he says, is for the Western Allies to have trust in Communist good faith. With faith, his story goes, the Allies can abandon West Berlin with per fect confidence that it will re main a free symbol of the cap italistic world 110 miles in side Communist territory. Cites Examples Western trade routes to Ber lin will be guaranteed but Washington Report By WILLIAM CHANGE POSSIBLE Washington A quiet but vital change in emphasis in American foreign policy is in T t h e making should the Soviet Union become wise enough to put an end to its -i s i n i ster off- J again-on-again attitude of al ternating ap n p 1 and White threat to the West. All but one of the pre-con ditions now exist for a shift on 'our part to an essentially economic from a basically military diplomacy in the cold war. The one missing pre-condition is a demonstrated wil lingness by the Russians themselves to cooperate in what they have long claimed passionately to desire-an im provement of world trade as a step in easing World ten sions. The coming mission to Moscow of Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, is the most visible of current proofs that the West is ready to do this kind of honorable business. Mr. Macmillan is, at bottom, an economic-bal ance politician rather than a military balance-of-power pol itician. XTO less important is this less obvious fact: the Sen ate Foreign Relations Com mittee has now come under a leader. Sen. J. William Ful bright of Arkansas, who also deeply believes in economic as distinguished from mili tary solutions to world prob lems. Mr. Fulbright is an aid-and-trade man far more than a military-alliance man. He is an authentic symbol of the very old-fashioned Southern Democratic doctrine that made the party strongly for free trade more than a cen tury ago. It so happens that the at mosphere in the Foreign Re lations Committee at the top will now be very similar to the atmosphere at the top among our closest allies, the British. This is the factor of cru cial and central importance in Senator Fulbright'i ascent to the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Commit tee on the resignation from the post of the aged Sen. Theodore Francis-Green of Rhode Island. Of comparatively little im portance is the circumstances that Mr. Fulbright has been a persistent and at times a bit ter critic of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Many have not too well un derstood the nature of the Fulbright-Dulles relationship. rIS quite true that these two vastly different men have not at all liked each other. But this is most of all simplv because Fulbright be lieves that trade and aid have been played down far too much by Mr. Dulles in favor of military facts and military assistance. Thus it is a great deal too dramatic to suppose, as many do, that we are in for a klieg lit collision in which a man of new power, Fulbright, will be cuffing Secretary Dulles about the head and giving him various quick and sim ple marching orders. What will, in fact, more likelyt happen is interesting there will be no need for mili tary supplies since there will be no Western troops there. Simultaneously these ex amples of Communist "good faith" occur or are disclosed: In Washington, the State Department released tape r& cordings which tell in Rus sian fighter pilots' own words how an unarmed U.S. trans port was shot down over Rus sian territory with 17 men aboard, 11 of them still unac counted for. The recordings proved the Communists lied when they denied that they shot the plane down. They proved that Soviet Deputy Premier Anas tas Mikoyan also lied when he repeated the denial during his recent visit to Washington. At Geneva, the Communist delegate to the conference seeking to ban nuclear weap ons tests disclosed the Rus sians made major gains in the perfection of their atomic weapons as result of tests last October. - These tests occurred after both the United States and Britain had announced cessa tion of tests and at a time when the Russians themselves were demanding a permanent ban. Further on the matter of trust: The West insists that in- S. WHITE enough in itself. The strong probability is that-if the Rus sians will be sensible enough to allow it-we shall see these developments: ' 1. A slow but important rise in American economic, as opposed to strictly mili tary, aid to allies; and a marked stepping up of econ omic assistance to neutrals. 2. An increased Senate in terest in, and concern for, the development of more in ternational credit. 3. A steady relaxation in restrictions upon world trade, even directly with the Soviet- Red Chinese bloc, assuming the Kremlin is in .any way really prepared to make this kind of trade decently possi ble, t A LL this will not be accom- companied, however, by any weakening of America's military strength, so far as the controlling Congressional Democrats are concerned. On the separated issue - of the President's domestic military budget they will continue to demand more rather than less. And all this will represent not merely the influence of Fulbright himself, significant though it will be. For the fact is that in nearly the whole of the Democratic par ty in the Senate there is a long pent-up desire to try the trade-and-aid way to a de gree it has not yet been tried. On this point the most con servative Democratic lions are quite willing to lie down with the most liveral Demo cratic lambs as a consider able number of powerful Re publicans. ' In the realities of political power Mr. Dulles will bend to these facts of life, whether he really wants to or not. And it is not even certain, in all the present circumstances, that he will be too reluctant about it. (Copyright, 1 9 5 9, by United Feature Synficaie, Inc. Editorial Comment SOC'S FUTURE A definite outline of the fu ture of Southern Oregon col lege, which before the end of the next decade could become Southern Oregon State uni versity, was presented last week by Dr. Elmo N. Steven son, president of SOC. Dr. Stevenson's predictions are based upon census re ports, school enrollment, data and established trends of stu dents to seek higher educa tion. Here are highlights of his report: Physical expansion of SOC will continue; The campuswillbe en larged to cover 112 acres; By 1970, the building pro gram will require more than a dozen new buildings for col lege purposes and a nine-unit dormitory for students living on the campus; , Enrollment by 1961 will reach 2.000 students; By 1970, enrollment will be , at a minimum of 4,500 with a I nrobable maximum of 7.000. I The population of Ashland will increase by 1970 to 20,000 and the faculty at SOC will nearly triple in number. These are figures most en couraging to the future growth of SOC and Ashland, but they will not materialize spection teams to check on possible violations are essen tial to any agreement to a permanent ban on weapons tests. The Russians agree in principle but are equally in sistent that any such teams in Russian territory be manned by their own people. To do otherwise, they say, would be to open Russia to a vast Western spy network. This is Soviet trust. The East Germans also are in on the act. Release Americans - Last week they released five Americans they had held prisoner and then promoted the act as proof of the reason able attitude they would main tain once they took over con trol of the communications In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written in San Fran cisco, where the California Newspaper Publishers associa tion is holding its 71st annual convention. These conven tions are held alternately in the North and in the South. This is the North's year. 1 The association includes in its membership both weekly and daily newspapers. Here again there is alternation. One year a weekly publisher is president. The next year it must be a daily publisher. One year the president must come from the North. The next year he must be from the South. In choosing the member ship of the board of directors, the same system of alterna tion and division prevails. For each weekly member of the board, there must be a daily member. For each- member from the North there must be a member from the South. And so on. A SOMEWHAT complicated system? The answer is yes. TOO complicated? The answer to that must be NO. The California Newspa per Publishers association is not only one of the largest in the United States, it is also one of the most effective. Its standards are high. Interest of unless the college administra tion has full support of the community. In outlining the growth ahead, Dr. Stevenson pointed out that Southern Oregon is one of the most desirable areas in the west for good liv ing; that it is in the heart of a vast recreational area and Californians are already mov ing here to enjoy the many advantages. A factor which is resulting m increased college enroll ments is the requirement in so many businesses today for col lege educations. Young men and women who formerly could get satisfactory work with a high school diploma now find that they must have a college degree. This trend will increase, believes Dr. Stevenson. With the growth of the col lege, there will come prob lems for Ashland as well. While additional dormitory facilities will provide for on campus living, hundreds of students will commute each day. Student cars will have to have space for parking and this will be one of the prob lems which college and city will have to work together to solve. It is time for all of us to recognize that Southern Ore gon college is our biggest sin gle asset and around it we have the opportunity for sub stantial, wholesome growth for the entire community. -Ashland Tidings. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. route to West Berlin. One of the prisoners, Sgt, Kenneth G. Carlson of San Leandro, Calif., had been in terrogated 69 days simply be cause he boarded a wrong-way train which carried him into the Eastern zone. Last week also, the Russians finally permitted a four-truck U.S. convoy to proceed after holding it 56 hours at the Helmsteds check point. It wa a blatant warning to the West of what can happen at any time to the Berlin supply routes. . Certainly, it must be admit ted that neither the West Ber lin situation . nor a divided Germany can exist forever. A new approach must be found. But it doesn't seem that it can come through faith. the members in their associa tion and in their profession is keen. The sectionalism that rules California - which is sharply reflected in its news paper association-results in heightened professional com petition rather than in mere destructive rivalry. TiHAT, I think, is true of California as a whole. Its sectionalism tends to promote constructive competition. That is interesting because Ore gon's economy is also tending to divide on North and South lines-perhaps because in the North the rivers of Oregon flow generally northward and in the South they flow gen erally southward. In these modern days, water is an im mensely important factor. - All in all, it seems probable that Oregon's present tenden cy to divide at about . the point where its waters begin to flow in different directions will prove to be healthy and stimulating. The rivalry be tween North and South cer tainly hasn't done California any harm. ANE of this convention's " most interesting sessions was a panel discussion enti tled "The Newspaper of 1970." The panel included three newspaper editors (one from Los Angeles and two from intermediate-size cities) and a sociologist. The consensus was that the newspaper of a decade hence will be smaller in format that is, its pages will be nar rower and shorter, so that it will be physically easier to manage. The type will be larg er and easier to read. More of its advertisements will be produced by photographic processes. In content, the newspapers of tomorrow will tend less toward pure enter tainment and more toward in formation. , That is to say, the newspa per's basic function is to IN FORM. Its basic raw mate rial is the NEWS. There will be more interpretive writing meaning less what, when and where and more WHY. There will be less repetition in run ning stories-meaning that in stories that have continuing developments over a period of several days there will be less tendencey to bore the reader by going back every day and summing up what had hap pened previously. OLD-FASHIONED APPROA London -(UPD- British Over seas Airways Corp. is using an old-fashioned approach to a jet age problem. It has issued earmuffs to members of its London Airport staff and ear plugs to men working near jet engines. Area of Rhode Island, the smallest state, is only about 1,000 square miles. TWO FAMOUS ADDRESSES Countless students remember the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS of Lincoln and scores of satisfied insured remember this address, 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. If you're interested in the many new types of insurance recent ly introduced visit that second iddress. Bill Fish i i , i -i . i , i ,i i t.i, i
