Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1959)
4 Thursday, February 12, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTBIBUNS "Everyone to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBE.P.T W RTJHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL hTaDAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second elans matter mi Mediorrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 1 in Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talnt and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c m lerms casn in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford vmciai rape oi jscksou connry United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAT 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.Cj faatr- NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A OchrLT lr Flight fo 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. 12, 1949 (Saturday) ' The Civic Theater amateurs stage "The Male Animal," suc cessfully despite inadequate facilities. City crews place concrete blocks and sandbags along Bear creek near Portland ave. as a flood precaution. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 12. 1939 (Sunday) 1 Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg newspaper publisher, is to give the principal address at the Lincoln club's banquet here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Colds are quite plentiful. The cure u&eu uy Buiue ikiiuu&eu uui both the cold, and them selves." 30 YEARS AGO . ' Feb. 12, 1929 (Tuesday) i Local Kiwanians endorse the Medford airport bonds. ' A reward is offered for ap prehending thieves who have been breaking into summer homes on Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 1919 (Wednesday) Local public schools are to operate on Saturdays for two months to catch up with time lost during the flu epidemic closure. The legislature allots $7,- 000 to the Southern Oregon Experiment station at Talent. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 1909 (Friday) The Crater Lake road bill passes the House at Salem by a 45-14 vote. The new high school build- ing is ready for occupancy. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or in is good. 1. Who wrote "Kidnapped' 2. If one had a plank ten feet in length, and sawed off a foot at a time, how many cuts would it take to complete . the job? 3. Complete the following, "He spends money like 1 drunken ..." 4. What is the name for the great vein in the neck? 5. In what year did the Spanish-American war oc cur? 6. In which Southwestern State is the painted desert? I 7. What is the name of the , device, developed by the Ger mans, that enables submarines to run for long distances un- ; der water? 8. Correct the following, "He talks like he acts." 9. Still-life paintings depict animate, or inanimate, ob- - jects? 10. About what percentage of nitrogen does ordinary air ; contain? . Answer: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson. 2. Nine. 3.,". sailor." 4. Juglar vein. 5. 1898. 6. Arizona. 7. Snorkel. 8. "He ialks as he acts." 9. Inani mate. 10. 80 per cent. MEN ARE ADULTS Des Moines, Iowa fUPD Re publicans and Democrats joined forces todteyto defeat the so-called spouse consent section of Iowa's right-to- work law. The legislators feel that an adult man shouldn't have to have his wife's per mission to have his union dues deducted from bis pay check. The Legislatures Chickens We hear good reports of the legislature of how it is hard-working, dedicated, swift and ef ficient in organization, and determined to do a good job for the people of Oregon at a minimum of cost. All well and good if true. From the sound of the reports, this will be a good "housekeeping" legislature. But we have yet to hear of any broad, imaginative and for ward looking programs to put the state on the road to broader development, to greater utiliza tion of its human resources, to a fuller role in making the state a leader, rather than just an "average" state. 1X7ITH Oregon's Centennial anniversary only day after tomorrow, one wondere what this state's pioneers would do today, faced with such tremendous opportunities? Would they shilly-shally and say it's "too dif ficult," or "it costs too. much"? - , Or would they measure the costs against the potentialities, and then go ahead? They went ahead, against heavy odds. And the results we now see all around us in a state quite like no other. IT SEEMS to us the legislature is up against a somewhat similar choice. Last Dec. 31, we described the alternatives this way: 1. An expanded state program of services, taking cognizance of new needs, new population and new con ditions. This will be at a considerable increase in cost, and resulting higher taxes in one form or another. 2. A state governmental program on about the existing level, with moderate expansion provided. This top will cost more in taxes than is being paid now, because of expanding population and rising costs. 3. A curtailed state government, with education, welfare, institutions, highways and services cut to the bare bones. This would cost about what state govern ment does now, or conceivably a little less. IT IS beginning to look as though the legislature will take the second choice. Gov. Hatfield's budget proposals certainly fall within that cate gory, as Ex-Gov. Holmes' within the third. No one seems willing and challenging first choice. bo we 11 probably have fied with second-rate standing in higher educa tion, in state support of the schools, in custodial care of our .unfortunates, for another biennium at the very least. CX-GOV. Holmes did" not like the budget he eiircmittorl rviif tn -falf Viof ln VnJ .nv Mumiwii-uj wuu iic itiu iuav nc uau a, man date" from the voters to be conservative in bud get proposals. So, apparently, does Gov. Hatfield. Hut the Eugene Kegister Lamely, legislators and the governor alike point out that their penny pinching comes in response to the "mandate' of the economy-minded voters last Novem ber. What they do not admit is that the voters gave what appears to have been a 'mandate' because no responsible leaders stepped forward to tell them that - there is no Santa Claus. For too long have the voters been conned into believing that it's possible to buy what they need without paying for it. The inadequate Hatfield budget, like the inadequate Holmes' budget before it, is the natural result of that kind of shell game." Even the essentially conservative editor of he Oregon Statesman in Salem, himself a for mer Governor, while he Hattield s snip and paste "I believe the legislature will be able to take the two budgets and piece them together to carry the state through the next biennium. But in 1961 the patching process will no longer suffice." IT IS disappointing to r,r,v,v.;i ,r jciiLciimai jcai, V-um-tnuuig Itseil Willi iX "patching" job. Maybe they have felt the pulse oi the people. Ur, again, maybe there has not been the visionary, idealistic and forward look ing leadership under which great things can be done. Hatfield's higher education building propos als are a little better than Holmes', but they still are far short about 50 per cent of what is needed. His salary proposals for higher educa tion are only about half of those necessary to put Oregon in a strong competitive situation among other western states. The state s custodial msti tutions also have pressing building needs. These are needs now. additional needs will have piled up to doubly con found and harrass the 51st session of the legisla ture. DUT, barring some totally unforeseen 'reversal J of direction of the current legislative session, it will, once again, postpone any basic decision on Oregon s needs, and how It will continue to eke paste and stretch. It will continue to squeeze salaries, cut build fng programs in half, neglect large numbers of the sick, the underprivileged, the needy. This it will do in the name of economy, and blame it on the voters who are against tax increases. In doing so it will close its eyes to the warning T- -t TT 1 1 1 oi HiX-UrOv. noimes, wno said: "The amount of money we are spending for educa tion is woefully inadequate now. We not only lag be hind Russia, we lag behind our own faith in the value of education in a democracy. We are not providing the money necessary to strengthen community services in the areas of health and welfare and to revise old and costly programs of vast institutions centrally located for the care of the physically and mentally ill. We are not building the roads we ought to build to accommo- date our own communities and our own economy. We . are hot facing up to the fact that the preservation of our cultural and political freedom is costly-terribly cosUy, and that it will cost us more and more for a long time to come." These chickens the have come home to someone else. E.A. budget fell mostly to take the adventurous to continue to be satis - Guard points out:. - approves more or less of budget job, concludes: see the legislature, this 4.: :i i at- And in two more years to satisfy them. out, make do, patch and legislature Js willing to Dennis the ffm Wl SZBHMY SKIN 0MN Matter of Fact STOPPING KENNEDY Washington - The forces of Sen. Hubert Humphrey are rather hoping to start a Mid- Western stop Kennedy m o v e m e nt, which might also become a move ment, at the Mid - Western D e m o c ratic conference in If S 1 T n ,1 1.BA I,.K Al. "1 1 " Wise, on March ' through 7. The conference comprises the past and present State Chairmen and other Demo cratic Party officials of 13 Mid-Western states. Sen. Ken nedy, who addressed the con ference last fall, will be ab sent this time. Sen Humphrey will be vigorously present, to address the main dinner meet ing. Gov. Soapy Williams of Michigan, who is not a strong candidate himself but just might help in stopping Ken nedy, will also turn up to make a speech. In addition, the Humphrey forces look for help from Wisconsin's new Democratic Governor, Gay lord Nelson. It is many months too early, of course, for anything like solid pre-convention al liances to be forced, either for any candidate or : against any candidate.' Sen. Hum phrey, who is one of the cleverest and most effective men in the business, wiU prob- ably persuade some oi tne Mid-Westerners of his own notential strength. He may also succeed in planting seeds, which will blossom into a stop Kennedv movement later on. That is the kind of start Sen. Humphrey hopes to make. ONE should not exaggerate trm thini in short. Yet it is still sienificant that the Humphrey forces are already, even at this unprecedentedly early date, letting the stop Kennedy idea influence their planning. It is a proof, if you like, of the length of the lead that Sen. Kennedy enjoys at present, in a Democratic pre convention contest which is already almost as hot as in a normal convention year. From the standpoint of his competitors, the annoying and dangerous point about the lead enjoyed by Sen. Ken nedy is its grass roots origin. By some means or other-per-haps because they just like his nicture on national maga zine covers - an astonishingly high number of voters all over this country have ac- miired what the Madison Avenue analysts call a "posi tive image of tne young Massachusetts Senator. As anvone knows who has done any doorbell-ringing, this posi tive image is by no means limited to the Roman Catho lics and members of other re ligious groups who naturally wish to see the end of the rule that Presidents must al ways be white, Protestant Americans. IlflSCONSIN, where the Mid-Western Democratic conference is to convene, is an interesting case in point. In this Mid-Western state with its heavy farm population, other Democrats logically ought to do a lot better than Kennedy. Pollsters this re porter has found to be care ful and reliable have made tests. All candidates were run against Vice President Rich ard Nixon. In the outcome, this Wisconsin poll showed Kennedy beating Nixon by a hair - 5OV2 to 49V2. But the same poll showed Nixon beat ing Sen. Humphrey rather badly, and defeating Sen. Stuart Symington by a mar gin just about 60 to 40. For precisely this reason, while Gov. Nelson is reported ly leaning to Humphrey, the Wisconsin State Chairman, Pat Lucey, is said to be lean ing rather strongly to Ken nedy. As long as Kennedy has such strong popular sup port, in fact, he is in the situa Menace i FLIPPERS? By Joseph Alsop tion of a sort of super-Estes Kefauver with none, or at least very few, of-the handi caps that proved fatal to the Kefauver candidacy. Kefau ver also had mass support, but he could not translate his mass support into support by convention-delegates, because he had done something or other to earn the bitter enmity of just about every Democratic leader all over the country. Kennedy has even more mass support, yet a minimum of powerful party enemies, and so he can attract backers like the Wisconsin State Chairman. THAT does not mean for one moment that Kennedy is a sure thing, or even an odds- on bet, to get the Democratic nomination. The Democratic party has seldom enjoyed such almost embarrassing riches in the candidate- sta bles. If Kennedy's popular support fades or falls off, or if the other candidates pro ject themselves successfully in the months to come, the odds will actually be against the Massachusetts Senator be cause of his youth, his limited experience, and his religion. But as of now, as the above cited Wisconsin poll suggests, Kennedy has a very excep tional asset to exploit if he has the necessary courage. His rivals can hardly refuse the contest, if he challenges them to primaries on theoretically neutral ground - in Wiscon sin and in Oregon, especially. And if he wins those . pri maries, as he would probably win today, the Kennedy-stoppers will have a job on their hands. t (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. From Auxiliary To the Editor: I have been out of town until this week, so haven't had an opportunity to write and thank you, Mrs. Starcher, and Mr. Vroman for the wonderful spread you gave our Auxiliary on Jan. 18. In the past your paper has been very kind and coopera tive in publishing news of our activities, and it has helped us to keep our membership and the public aware of our programs. Hospital volunteer service is goingto become increasing ly more important as hospit al costs rise, and we feel we have a good start toward ef fective service to meet these added costs without them causing a burden to the hos pital or the public. Thank you again for your cooperation. Mrs. John Winton, Past President, Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. 'Cite' vs. 'Arresf To the Editor: It is quite apparent that those on your staff (at least one of them) responsible for the reporting of traffic accidents, require further instructions in the ac cepted meaning of terms. I am referring to the words "cite" and "arrest." Each, of course, has several definitions, but the subject under discus sion is law, so we can dis card the various other mean ings. A young friend of mine was unfortunate enough to run into the rear of another car at a stop light, the sun shin ing in his eyes prevented his seeing the car ahead. According to the state po lice, this young man was trav eling 45 miles per hour in a 50 mile zone prior to the ac cident. The resulting damage was considerable, but the of-, Mounting For Increasing U.S.-Philippine Friction By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor A great number of Filipinos do not like the United States. : The United States is not en tirely happy with the re public of The Phil ippines, either. A. half-dozen issues di vide the two normally friendly na tions. No one Phil Newsnm OI I II C a C 19 likely to lead to any lasting rift, but all are illustrative of similar problems with which the United States has to deal in countries which do not have nearly the same close relationship. " It will be 61 years ago this Sunday (Feb. 15) that the bat tleship Maine blew up in Ha- va harbor and set off the shock -waves which resulted in the Spanish-American War and in U.S. acquisition of the Philippines. It was just over a dozen years ago the United States granted The Philippines full independence and promoted them as a practising example of American-style democracy in Asia. 1 Resent Criticism Some of today's issues arise from the honeymoon period immediately following inde pendence. Some arise from a vocal na Try and By BENNETT CERF- DID YOU KNOW that the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris was inspired, indirectly, by the Statue of Liberty? To facili tate work on the statue, Sculptor Bartholdi engaged Engineer Eiffel to build a steel scaf folding. Later, when the 1889 Paris Exposition man agers wanted something to dominate the grounds, Eiffel remembered that scaffold ing, and modelled his tower on the same pattern. It rose 984 feet and was the world's highest structure until the Empire State building was built Soon the Eiffel Tow er will be eclipsed also by a huge TV tower of steel in Tokyo, Japan. . There's one young man in New York who was simply furious when he was turned down by his draft board. "You can't do this to me," he exploded. "I've already proposed to three girls, told my .boss what I think of him, and piven up my apartment." 1: - " - 0 1959, by Bennett Csrt. J?Iitributei by King Features Svnllc. ; In the Day's Hews By FRANK Let's devote this space to day to a discussion of infla-tion-a subject that is widely discussed but fundamentally very little understood. I'd like to cite here a couple of opin ions about inflation. They are interesting because of their source. - THE first is that of a window washer. He works in a big building. He starts in the morning and he washes win dows all day. He is getting along in years. He has to pause every now and then to recharge his batteries. In one of these pauses, he remarks: "Wages used to be too low much too low. I started out as a youngster, a long time ago, for a dollar a day. Now, as an old man, I get a dollar ficer did not consider it nec essary to detain him. The Mail Tribune stated that the youth was arrested, nrVion Via ajaa nnlv "pited ." rgiving the impression that he might have been belligerent and abusive, necessitating an arrest, instead of a mere cita tion for violation of the basic rule. His friends, including my self, feel that the Mail Trib bune should correct this dis crepancy, and in the future teach your reporters to make the right choice of words, and not cause embarrassment unduly. I would venture to suggest that attending the fourth grade for a few days as a re fresher course in English might help your reporter: The irony of it all is that it was this young man who call ed the state police to the scene of the accident. H. W. Barker, Route 1, Box 55, Jacksonville. Editor's note: Our reporters are under instructions to use the word "cited" in cases of minor traffic offenses, rather than the harsher term "ar rest," and these instructions were not followed in the case mentioned. However the word "arrest" is correct, both as to the dictionary definition, and as used on official police rec ords. We regret the use of the harsher term in this in stance, but published no "cor rection" as the story was cor rect as printed. Nationalism Party Responsible tionalist minority who resent Philippines dependence upon the United States, and who re sent criticism, implied or otherwise. And some comes from Fili pinos who feel the U.S. takes The Philippines' friendship for granted, granting less, aid to The Philippines than to. other nations of much more questionable attitude. The issues between the two nations now have come to" the point where both ambassadors have been called home for explanations and consulta tions. In general the issues are: Philippine complaints that the United States is dragging its feet on economic develop ment loans. Of $250 million promised, only about $45 mil lion has materialized. ; ' Demand Jurisdiction Philippine demands for greater criminal court juris diction over U.S. armed forces personnel in the islands. " Philippine plans to raise its special import tax on Ameri can goods. Demands by some Philip pine Congressmen for abrogation- of the agreement which requires the Philippines to pay local costs of the U.S. military advisory group. One of the early agree ments negotiated between the U.S. and the newly-independent Philippines government granted the United States 23 Stop Me JENKINS an hour-which is the mini mum waee. "That's a lot of difference But. you know, I'm not sure but what wages are getting too high. As wages go up. prices have to go up-and Drices are getting pretty high. I sometimes wonder if I didn't have as much left at the end of the week' back in those days when I ' was working for a dollar a day as I have now when I get a dollar an hour. rpHE good old days! In retrospect, they are golden." In the good old days, we were young-and in youth the world is rose-tinted. That makes a difference. rpHE other opinion is that of -- a rhamriprmair! in a hotel. She, too, wonders if maybe wages aren't getting a bit too high for the good of every body. Especially the wages re ceived by OTHER workers. She says: "Look at the wages the steelworkers and the automo bile workers get. They get better than $20 a day. That can't help meaning that the prices have t o go up. Those of us Who don't get so much -I get $10 a day which doesn't sound too bad-have to pay the same high prices as those who get much more than we do. I don't envy other people's good fortune, but steadily ris ing prices certainly make it hard on people in my wage bracket." WELL, that's the wage-price sniral in action. As wages go up, prices have to go up. As prices go up, wages have to go up. Where will it all end? Let's be candid: I don't know. I doubt if anybody knows. OIL WELL HONORED Austin, Tex.-dlPD-The Uni versity of .Texas is building a permanent campus memorial to an oil well, the Santa Rita No. 1. This is the well that "blew in" May 28, 1923, on land owned by the University of West Texas-long consid ered an "oilman's graveyard." The oilmen who leased min eral rights to the land called the well the Santa Rita after the Saint of the Impossible. But their success provided the university with the first reve nue to a fund that now totals about $300 million. military bases for 89 years. This is another issue of the Nationalist minority group which is demanding that the terms be shortened to 25 years. Today & Tomorrow By Walter ON FLEXIBILITY The new word in Western diplomacy is "flexibility." It has become fashionable be- cause just under the sur face of the of ficial formu lae there is going on- in Was hington, in London, and in Bonn, a reappraisal of the Ger man problem. It is a wholly false picture of what is going on to suppose that the issue in this reap praisal is between surrender ing and standing firm, be tween appeasement and prin ciple, between being soft and being strong.- The real issue, to which the reappraisal . is addressed, is whether to stand pat on posi tions that have become un tenable or to move to new positions from which the Western Allies can recover the political initiative. T ET US take Berlin for a " concrete example, remem bering, of course, that it is only the focal point of the whole larger German prob lem. At present there are two streams of traffic between West Berlin and West Ger many. One, which is much the larger, is civilian traffic. This traffic is regulated by an agreement between the West German government and the East German government and it is by this traffic that the civilian population of West Berlin lives and does its bus iness. The other traffic is mili tary. It is between the Brit ish, French, and American forces in West Germany and their garrisons in West Ber lin. This, traffic , is regulated by Allied agreement with the soviet union.; ' Moscow has now said that if there is no other negotia tion about the status of Ber lin, it will on May,; 27. turn over to the East German "gov ernment its authority-, over the military traffic. If this is done, it will mean that at the check points on tne highways and railroads and canals Allied military traffic will be met by East German rather than by Soviet officials. The immediate and specific questions about Berlin are (1) what will we do' when we meet these East German of ficials; and (2) what will the East German officials do about our military traffic? . THIS IS where the difference between an "inflexible" and a "flexible" policy shows itself. The inflexibles say that we do not recognize the East German government, and that we cannot, tnereiore, auow them to have anything to do with our traffic to Berlin. The flexibles reply that as long as no one interferes with our traffic to Berlin, it does not make any difference whether the official who stamps the papers wears an East German or a Soviet uni form. They add that if Dr. Adenauer can allow East Ger We have Walter Lippmann for your thoughts, your feelings and your wishes Act ot, from Ik WANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAl DKfCTORS DAY OR NIGHT In fact, it may be said that mounting Philippine nation alism is at the core or at least a complicating factor In al most every issue between the two countries. Lippmann man officials to stamp his papers for the civilian traffic, he is in no position to insist that President Eisenhower be more inflexible than he is himself. F SPECULATING about the use of force to keep open access to Berlin, the first question to be decided is whether we ought to be ready to go to war if we meet an East German official at the checkpoints on the highway. Do we fight because the of ficial who wants to see the papers carried by the truck wears an East German uni form, or do we fight if he . closes the highway? The flexibles say that a blockade of West Berlin is a fighting matter but that whether the official is East German or So viet is not a fighting matter. The flexibles say, more over, that to announce you will fight about the official at the check point is not a strong policy but a foolish one, and because it is foolish, it is weak. It is weak because the people of the Western world cannot conceivably be united to fight a world war on such an idiotic issue. AS WE know, the Mayor of West Berlin, the hiehlv oik. teemed Willy Brsfndt, can be counted among the flexibles. He has suggested that the East German officials might be recognized as "agents" of the Soviet Union. An easier, and as good a way, to accom plish the same result would be to ask a Soviet guarantee of access to West Berlin until a new status can be arranged by negotiations covering the two Germanys and the two Berlins. What we want is that West Berlin should not be blockaded and strangled, and that Berlin should become again the capital of a reunited Germany. This flexible position is a. strong one. We stand firm on the substance, which is that West Berlin is not to be block aded. We are , indifferent to the formalities which do not matter as long as access to West Berlin is open. We keep alive our real objective, which is not to maintain West Berlin as an island within East Ger. many, but to restore its status as. the capital city to which all parts of Germany must have equal access. IT MAY well be that the So viet Union will refuse to guarantee access during the period, which would have to be a long one, when the whole German problem is being ne gotiated. If that is what hap pens, the Soviet Union will find itself in a dangerous po sition. It will have given the East Germans a free hand to impose a blockade, which would be an act of war, and it will be committed to come to the defense of the East Ger mans if they provoke a war. This is a much bigger gam ble than Moscow has ever tak en before, and we need not jump to the conclusion that it will take the gamble now. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. A PENNY the greatest respect . SI Courtfiout PHONE SP 2-8030
