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4 Mousey, Febmtry H, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore- "Zveiyone tn Southern Orefoa Reads The Mail Tribune published Dally except Saturday by 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBIHT W RUHL. Editor 1TZRB GREY Advertising Manager Uf.aAi .1 1 ininum, Business ais.r ERIC W ALLEN JE, Managlnc Editor .EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor aimiBn JFUrrTT Snr T.iiitnr 1UVE STARCHER Women'! Editor t DALE ERICK3QN, Circulation Mcr ' An Indeoendent Newspaper 'Entered aa second class matter at Meaiom urec-on unaer An ox March S. 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES -:T Malt In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 - Sunday Only On year $4 JO IB? Carrier In Advance Medford, - Ashland. Central Point Eagle ' Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- 1 er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Daily and SunOsy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms casn in Advance , Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jaenson county United Press International Fun Leased Wire MZMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UKLULAIIUK Advertisinf 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 WATIONAt EDITORIAL ASbClrAThH 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. 16, 1949 (Wednesday) The Medford city council underwrites an immediate alley now survey by the oil conservation service to ascertain the flood potential. Public and private housing officials and bankers meet here to discuss providing more low-cost housing. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1939 (Thursday) City Water Superintendent Robert A. Duff reports the water department's 1938 rev enue as $140,634.70. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A 37-year-old tree has been whack ed down to make a 6-year-old sidewalk level." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 16. 1929 (Saturday) The latest Rogue river fish war stirs the fighting blood of local sportsmen. The Chamber of Commerce endorses the proposed road to Oregon Caves. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1919 (Sunday) A downpour of rain floods southwest Medford streets and homes. The 65th Regiment, includ ing many sons of Jackson county, arrives at Camp Lew is for final discharge. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1909 (Tuesday) The Crater Lake road bill is reported to be a political football at Salem. The Portland Beavers are invited to Medford for spring training. What's Your I.Q.? ' Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Name the Chief Justice of the United States. $ 2. Lower California is a part of the Republic of Mex ico; true or false? 3. Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution authorizes Income taxes? 4. Correct the following: "He is a backwards pupil." 5. A sea horse is a fish, mammal, or reptile? 6. Is tetanus another name for diabetes, tuberculosis, lockjaw, or arthritis? 7. Do you connect the name Marquis of Queensbury with the rules of auction bridge, boxing, tennis or canasta? 8.. What is genocide? 9. Are dates produced com mercially in the United States? 10. Does Champagne con tain a maximum of 4, 14, or 24 per cent alcohol? Answers: 1. Earl Warren; 2, True; 3. Sixteenth; 4. "He is a backward pupil"; S. Fish; 6, Lockjaw; 7. Boxing; 8. De struction of a race or people; 9. Yes; 10. 14 per cent. CHUG. CHUG, CHUG Los Angeles (CPU Mrs, Rose Marie Montez, 21, ex plained to police Sunday how she started to make a left turn and accidentally knocked over a fire hydrant sending a gey ser of water 30 feet into the air. "Suddenly the car goes chug, chug, chug. And the next thing I know, it was like being under the ocean.' Sports And Pay TV Sports could furnish for pay television if a at all. Skiatron of America is readying a pay-as-you-see plan for both San Francisco and Los Angeles which would furnish major league base ball via cable television by July I. The same out fit wants to telecast college football into the same two cities. The use of cables would bypass regulations of the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC announced last July no permission for pay TV of the first session of the now sitting) in order to give the law-makers ad ditional time to study various proposals. The Commission earlier had planned exten sive tests of subscription television, beginning last March 1. Pressure from the House and Sen-' ate commerce committees, allegedly at the urging of the major radio and ceeded in putting the kibosh on this scheme. But a cabled transmission would avoid broadcasting and hence would not need FCC approval. Wired and cabled experiments already have been con ducted. CHAIRMAN Oren Harris (D-Ark.), of the House Commerce Committee promises early hearings on a measure that would prohibit ex cept for technical tests the operation of pay TV by wire as well as by broadcast. Before any fur ther subscription television could be instituted, Congress would have to set forth specifically the terms for such operations. Harris in discussing his measure warned that pay television, whether by broadcast or wire, would be likely to result in the imposition of great financial burdens on the public without bringing about a corresponding improvement of television programs. However, technical tests conducted over relatively short periods and supervised by the FCC might yield valuable results. A similar measure in the Senate is sponsored by Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.), and Sen. Ken neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), on Feb. 7 said that Congress ought to take a close look at Skiatron's plans for San Francisco and Los Angeles. TTHE FCC has been much criticized for backing gardless of the merit of pay TV it is a fact that the Commission put off a decision on controlled tests for seven years. Back in October, 1957, FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer had declared: "With respect to subscription television, I know that many members of the broadcasting industry would like us to kick that up into the congressional section of the stands. However, much as Congress is welcome to the ball, I am fearful that we would be remiss in our duty if we delayed a decision much longer merely upon such grounds." ' Nine bills were introduced in the 1958 Con gress to prohibit the commission from authorizing pay TV. The motivation free programs, Congress the setting of a price for what might turn out to be the same entertainment. An overriding ad vantage of introducing pay-as-you-see baseball on the West Loast would be that neither city has had free telecasts of major league games on a regular schedule. Much as Congress may the law-makers so far have refused to run with it. They just blow the whistle whenever the com mission threatens to take command. E.R.R. Saud Lifts Budget Curtain Saudi Arabia will have a balanced budget this year and is working its way back from near bank ruptcy, if we may believe figures released at Mec ca. King Saud's regime expects to spend the equi valent of $261 million, per cent, diverted to a "special budget, including royal family expenses. 1 At the same time, $62 goes to the Ministries of tions, Finance and National Economy, Health and Agriculture. Saudi Arabian budgets are rarely made public, but a study of the 1952-53 document showed nearly 20 per cent of the country s spend ing going to defense. Saud is counting on million of the total revenue of $261 million. This appears to represent a two years ago, when the estimated take from the companies exploiting Saudi Arabia's oil was $290 minion. 9 IN THE Middle East only the Sultan of Kuwait gets more money from oil concessions than King Saud. Unlike Saud, who is noted for his per sonal extravagances, Sultan Abdullah is a benev olent despot, turning over two-thirds of the oil revenues to welfare and the administration of the sheikhdom. Whereas the Saudi que indicates that no large public works or 1m provement projects are yet possible, Kuwait only last year completed a five-year plan costing $267 million. It encompassed new schools, public hous ing, hospitals, and a 2-million-gallon-a-day plant to distill sea water for the first break-through break - through is to come 25 that it would grant until after adjournment 86th Congress (the one television networks, sue is clear after years of is reluctant to authorize be welcome to the ball, with U3Vo million, or 17 million, or 24 per cent, Jiiducation, Communca oil income for almost $212 considerable drop from Arabian budget communi dnniang. KR.R. Dennis the That's tub Mitchell kid. He's soct of A SOUIC 30QM WITH OlRT OH IT. Washington Report By WILLIAM LANDON'S ADVICE Washinenn A "Romihli. can who took his worst lick ing iiKe a man in tne worst defeat ever suffered , b y the GOP has salty a d v ice for all pres ent aspirant's for the party's 1 9 6 0 Presi dential nom ination. He is A If W2S- M. Land on, the former governor of Kan sas. He carried only Maine and Vermont in 1936 as the for President against Franklin D. Roosevelt. The sum of Mr.' Landons current counsel is that the Re publican Congressional record and 1960 will be the most decisive single fac tor in determining KepuDii ran victorv or ReDublican de feat in the White House race. Madison Avenue advertis ing slotran won t Win. JLiaD- orate propaganda efforts by the GOf national commmee tn Hpvelon now narty "im ages" for the voters to gaze upon won t win. in tne .ban don view, in short, no man can successfully run for Presi dent by repudiating what his party has done in Congress. THUS, it goes without say ing that no man can win unless that record is accept able to the country as a whole. Alf Landon now lives quiet ly in Topeka, Kansas. Long since he has left the lime light, by choice. But his strongly ironic sense of hu mor has not been damaged by wry memories of the his toric landslide that burned him two decades ago. And he keeps a sharp, skeptical eye on the politics of today. In a letter to this corres pondent, from which he later authorized me to quote, Mr. Landon makes the point that the most dangerous error pos sible to the party is to. leave the people in doubt as to where it really stands. And the people inevitably are left in such doubt if an Old Guard line is taken by Congressional Republicans and a more lib eral line is adopted by a GOP Presidential candidate. Landon says frankly, for il lustration, that he himself had to be "equivocal" in 1936 on the issue of the reciprocal trade, or tariff-lowering, pro gram. He personaUy was in favor of it, and the country was, too. Still, as he puts it, he was "tied" to the contrary position of the Congressional Republicans because he knew that "no national candidate could successfully break with that record." AGAIN, he goes on, in 1944 he himself "got through a Try and -By BENNETT CERF- TTUMORIST HARRY HERSHFIELD, visiting Israel, encoun O. tered a frail old rabbi and asked, "What is your weekly salary here?" "Five dollars," sighed the rabbi. "How can you live on that!" exclaimed ' ' Hershfield. "The lucky thing," ex plained the rabbi, "is that I'm a very religious man. If I didn't fast three times a week, I'd go hungry." A very stout, very agi- tated lady rushed up to a train gate at Grand Central and gasped, "Can I still catch the 4:30 for Boston?" "That depends on how fast you can run, lady," the guard informed her. "The train left here two minutes ago. Heard about the poet who quit writing verse to become a crooner on a TV show? Yes, sir, he went from bard to verse. 0 1959. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Eyadjuta. Menace S. WHITE weasel-worded resolution" at the GOP convention on recip rocal trade which was the best he could do but which enabled the GOP President ial nominee of that year, Thomas E. Dewey, to make only a rather cloudy appeal on the issue. Too, Mr. Landon continues, WendeU Willkie, the 1940 standard bearer, could not convince the country that the GOP had any real firm posi tion for the military draft be cause Republican Congress men were at home opposing it. "To come down to the pres ent," Landon concludes on a gloomy note, "the Republican party is tagged in the minds of one large group of voters as an anti-labor group, tagged in the thinking of another large group as an anti-farmer party and a third large group wonders what the Re publican party really stands for." HE makes no mention of the Eisnehower Adminis tration. The omission is sig nificant. It is interpreted by this columnist to mean that Mr. Landon assumes, as do a large and probably a prepon derant number of "regular" Republicans, that the Admin istration's final two years will be largely discounted in the 1960 convention and will not have much weight in its choice of nominee. At aU events, if there is a single truly expert witness anywhere on the ways in which a party may lose the Presidency it is surely Alf Landon. It is possible that the Congressional R e p u b licans will ignore at their peril this old voice from Topeka. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Sound politics note: Republicans found lessons in the life of Lincoln the other day (February 12) on how to fight back from de feat and how to support Presi dent Eisenhower's stand for a moderate and BALANCED budget. These themes were conspi cuous in Republican oratory at hundreds of party dinners observing the 150th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, first Re publican president. There were frequent re minders that Lincoln came back from defeat in the 1858 senatorial election to win the presidency in 1860. 11THY Lincoln won: " He BELIEVED IN HIS CAUSE. He wasn't just gunning for Stop Me Hi Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to 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 of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Warns About Bill To the Editor: The sharp impact of strikes this past summer was a grim warning of what is in store for people of Oregon if House bill 360 is passed by the legislature. This bill is still under discus sion in the house so far as this writer knows. If it passes then the state of Oregon loses all rights of hiring or keeping on the rolls its many hun dreds of long time loyal high way workers, for all highway construction work of $5,000 or more must be submitted to contract. People should not be misled by this $5,000 limi tation. But they have a joker in Sec. 3: "It is hereby de clared the policy of the state that work to be performed shall not be done in lesser amounts so as to evade the purpose of this Act." Such obscure wording would imply that unions, es pecially the ruthless team sters, could easily hog all highway work through threat of strikes, especially in times of emergency when flooding water and winds disrupt traf fic, possessions of people, or their very lives. Now all that mentions the hiring of public employees for road or any other construc tion work applies to Jackson county, whose highway em ployees number well over a hundred, and who will lose their present jobs by July 1 if House "Bill 360 becomes law, for contractors bring along their own trained per sonnel. We must ever bear in mind that the contractor's price in cludes a substantial profit above costs. Also the work must be engineered out and put down in black and "white to the last piddling detail, all of which is tops in expense. To this is added the expense of an inspector and another inspector to inspect his in spection. All this is minor expense to the county that has its own engineers and other long time workers, who see to it that roads-are built to stay, for they are the ones they them selves must use. Knowledge of widely varying soil-earth structure is of vital impor tance in road and bridge build ing, all of which will go down the drain if House Bill ' 360 becomes law. .All this, let me remind again, applies to every county more or less, in the state, every irrigation district, ev ery school district and all cit ies big and smaU, removing the general public more and still more from ' long estab lished contact which keep them in touch with what is going on and is to be. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point votes on ANY issue that at the moment seemed most like ly to bring them rolling in. If the GOP will stand firm on sound issues it believes in as strongly as Lincoln be lieved in preserving the Un ion, it can win in 1960. If it doesn't If it goes chasing after will o' the wisps such as promis ing to outspend the Demo crats It can pass out of the po litical picture as the Whig party did. ODD tale in the news: About 25,000 Russian girls are going to be shipped to new farming areas in the Soviet Asian republic of Kaz akhistan to make the Russian boys there MIND THEIR MANNERS, among other things. Soviet papers recently printed complaints that young males in the Kazakhistan frontier territory were' get ting sloppy in their dress and manners because no young women were around. Hmmmmmmm. D'ya reckon they fell? Or were they PUSHED? It's a fair guess that they were given a choice under the allegedly milder policy of Khrushchev slave labor in Siberia or helping the boys in Kazakhistan to "mind their manners." ' ANYWAY It looks like Russian pol icy may be changing. It used to be the iron, hand alone. Now it's the iron hand in the velvet glove. Maybe the Russian big shots have been reading the Ladies Home Journal and are impressed by its famous slo gan: Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman. These modern Russkies are smart operators. No Commercial "Courses? To the Editor: I would like to know why the Medford Public school system does not have commercial courses in their adult evening classes. They are offering many courses on various subjects but only one class in begin ning typing. I'm sure there are many people who are interested in learning business machines, shorthand, typing, bookkeep ing, etc., who cannot afford the tuition for private instruc tion. Should they be denied an opportunity to learn a vo cation that would provide a livelihood while other classes are given in profusion? I'd like to know the reason and I think many other peo ple would too. Jerry E. Howell, 2025 Sunset dr. . Medford Centennial Headquarters To the Editor: When and how will local citizens learn that we have an attractive Centennial Hea dquarters building, with qualified at tendants ready for visitors? It is beautifully situated, in its forest setting, and eas ily found. ' We drove out and secured the literature to mail to out-of-state friends, and found much of interest there. It is surprising how few residents know or seem to be interested in visiting this headquarters. In answer to our inquiry, we got one answer, "Yes, it is on Siskiyou summit." Perhaps this information has been published, but would it rate more publicity? Also, are there highway signs at the outskirts of town? Signs at the northbound en trance, and southbound en trance would also help. By the way, this building was formerly the Ground Obser ver Post on West Jackson st. (Name on file) Medford - Editor's note: The Centen nial Headquarters building is just across from Maple Park grove, on the county fair grounds north of the Armory. Visitors are always welcome. A dedication ceremony is planned for spring time. Reason and Rhyme To the Editor: The follow ing is a little something I jot ted down with perhaps a lit tle more "reason" than "rhyme:" Now, look here, Mister! It seems to me, If we were meant to be "moonfolk," that's what we would be, The old moon's been shin ing for many a year Miles away from the earth's atmosphere. In this age of sputniks, jets and such It seems to me that we'll be in "dutch" If we don't quit letting our money wander, Blowing up in the wild blue yonder. Better turn our tax money to creating employment For "down-to-earth" folks who need some enjoyment. If our nation, from starva tion, is "six" feet under," Who'll care what's out in the wild, blue yonder? Mrs. Tom Robnett 2350 Meadows lane Medford Church It Blamed To the Editor: Your editor ial on what is wrong with our Latin American neighbors leads me to believe that you are not a deep student of mor ality as it exists in different parts of our globe. This same lack of moral substance exists in all of South America, Spain, Portu gal and even in The Philip pines yes, even France to a lesser degree. There is one dominating in fluence that has molded the moral and economic fibre of all these nations. That influ ence is Catholicism. There has been controversy over this for years, but the evidence is so concrete as to both moral and economic conditions as to be indisput able. The truth of the matter is that Catholicism and Democ racy cannot exist together. Unbiased literature on the subject is hard to find but "From Ape to Angel" by H. R. Hayes, pages 60-61-62 makes one more positive than ever that we should never al low anyone of Catholic per suasion to attain any degree of power in this country. It isn't the religion I am averse to it is the many oth er machinations that concern me. R. B. Watkins Jacksonville Matter of Fact Bv Joseph Alsop VOLCANO WARNING Washington - If the Presi dent of Venezuela briskly dis missed the independents in his Cabinet, and replaced them with C o m m unists and allies of the Commu n i s t s, we should all sit up a n d take notice and and even worry a little. S o m e t hing ioi'.ob Alson c i j 5UIUU1 has now happened in Iraq. Besides being the second of the Arab lands, next in influ ence to Egypt, Iraq has ex actly the same practical im portance as Venezuela - the importance that goes with oil wells. Yet the same develop ments that would focus the whole nation's attention on Venezuela, are treated as quiet inconsequential in Iraq. Maybe this is because what has happened in Iraq is not merely far .away, but also obscure and confusing on the surface. In distant' Baghdad, one group of ministers with doubtful affiliations and dif ficult Arab names is replaced by another group of ministers with equally difficult names and even more doubtful af filiations. So why worry? THE reasons to worry ,are smiarelv rooted in the his tory of . the revolutionary Iraqi government of Brig. Abdul K a r i m Kassem. In brief, when the old regime was overthrown last year, the new government was com posed of two different ele-ments-the army officers who had led the revolution and the politicians of the clandestine National Front Committee who had led the secret agita tion for a revolution. The politicians' National Front Committe was in turn composed of representatives of four parties, the Baath, the Istiqlal, the National Demo crats, and the Communists, who had formed this grouping after the Suez crisis. Finally, there was a sharp distinction betwen the first two non-Com munist parties, the Baath, and the Istiqlal, and the third in the group, the National Demo crats. Having m a d e a pact with the Communists some years earlier, the National Democrats were already heav ily infiltrated. But the Baath and the Istiqlal parties were not yet Communist-infiltrated, and were closely linked to Egypt. ORIGINALLY, then, the new government of Iraq in cluded all the former opposi tion parties, but was domin- r ated by the army officers who I had overthrown the old gov ernment. A struggle soon broke out betwen the two most important army officers, the head of the government, Brig. Kassem, and his former chief collaborator, Col. Abdel Salem Aref. Aref, who sought to gain support by calling for union between Iraq and Egypt, was eventually arrest ed on a treason charge. He has been tried and sentenced to death. On the announce ment of the death sentence of Aref, all the ministers of the two parties free of Commu nist influence, the Baath and the Istiqlal, were removed or resigned from the govern ment. The Communists and National Democrats who held office meanwhile stayed on; and the resigning ministers were replaced by additional National Democrats and some men vaguely classified as "leftists." This change can only mean Reasonable Funeral (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, ft . ' up f, if W4h Wi an enormous increase of Com munist influence in the Iraqi government. In addition, scores of persons who were likely to oppose the growing Communist influence have been summarily arrested on xague charges. Finally, the army, which used to be at least 90 per cent nationalist and non-Communist, has also been infiltrated in recent months by more and" more Communists and Communist sympathizers. DRIG. KASSEM, who is po litically inexperienced, al ways accepted Communist support against Col. Aref. But he has also made occasional gestures towards controlling the Communists, when they too seemed to threaten his per sonal authority. For example, he suppressed the popular militia which the Communists were organizing in competi tion with the army. But after the changes in his govern, ment, it is hard to see how Brig. Kassem can make such gestures in the future. His own power depends too much on Communist support. In short! the surge of Arab nationalism in Iraq destroyed the government of old Nuri Pasha, because he was too sub servient to the British. But this same nationalist surge has now produced another weaker man like Nuri, even more dependent on the Krem lin. The story is not quite over yet. Despite his cheerful ac ceptance of lavish Soviet aid, Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser has thus far reacted with sur prising violence to the growth of Communist power in Iraq. One last, desperate effort to dislodge the new Communist bridgehead in the Arab world is still likely to be made by Nasser and his friends. But the ultimate nightmare of the West's Middle Eastern experts is already pretty close to com. ing true. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 16, 1885 The county of Morrow, named for Jackson L. Mor row, long-time resident of the area and a member of the present stale legisla ture, was created today. A move to substitute the name "Gilliam" for the name "Morrow" was de feated. The new county was created out of a west ern portion of Umatilla county. The' county seat will be Heppner. Honolulu-To-U.S. Flight Record Set Los Angeles (DPD United Airlines reported one of its DC7 passenger planes set a record Sunday night by fly ing from Honolulu to Los An geles in 6 hours and 15 min utes with the aid of strong tail winds. v The four-engine craft with 40 passengers and a crew of seven landed at International Airport more than two hours ahead of schedule, chopping six minutes off the old record time for the 2,620-mile trip. 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
