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4 Weditese'ay, February II, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.. MEDFORDtgTBIBUNB "Everyone to Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBfcF.T W RUHL. Editor HERB GREK Advertising Manager utftrtLU LAimui. OIUUWH WI IRIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mr An Independent Newtpaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and bunday-3 mos. 4.Z3 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Surtu-y I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City af Medford Official Paper of Jackion 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. Lot Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c3fel lAc5"" 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. 18. 1949 (Friday) i Congressman Harris ' Ells worth has arranged to attend the official dedication of the Camp White domiciliary. A bill to permit construc tion of the proposed Lewis creek dam on the Rogue river is introduced at Salem. 20 YEARS AGO -Feb. 18. 1939 (Saturday) The Senate at Salem ap proves designating the steel head a game fish everywhere but in the Columbia river, by a 24-5 vote. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot'' column: "Pussy willows, cut the right length for punitive measures against the young, but used solely for decorative purposes . have Started adorning parlors." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1929 (Monday) A medical report shows the average life of Jackson coun ty residents to be 55.5 years. Guy Connor sells a car of D'Anjous that average $4.52 a box. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1919 (Tuesday) A mass meeting is held at the public library to plan the reception for returning soldiers. : The high school band is to give a concert soon. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1909 (Thursday) The Crater Lake road bill is reported out favorably by the Senate ways and means com mittee. The ladies of St. Ann's so ciety sponsor a dance tonight at the Angle opera house. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Was the mimeograph in vented by Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, or John Hays Hammond? 2. How many stars are worn as the insignia of a General of the Army? 3. Do ticks have four, six, or eight legs? 4. What country controls the Sea of Azov? 5. In which city was the first United States Govern ment mint established? 6V Was Percy Bysshe Shel ley a famous Swedish, Eng lish, or French poet? 7. Trees never stop growing as long as they live; true or false? 8. What breed of cat is tail less? 9. Would an invidious re mark be most likely to pro voke laughter, resentment, or indifference? 10. What State does Theo dore F. Green represent in the U.S. Senate? " Answers: 1. Thomas A. Edi son. 2. Five. 3. Eight. 4. So viet Russia. 5. Philadelphia ?a.-6. English. 7. True. 8. ?"anx. 9. Hesenlmeni. 10. Rhode Island. - -L ; - Draft Revision Needed If our information is of representatives has passed a four-year exten sion of the draft law, and it is now pending in the senate. Some 20 members of the house voted against the four-year extension, and at least some . of them voted thus not because they were against adequate defense, but for the contrary reason they believed that some workable alternative to the draft could and should be worked out, and that it could be done so For this reason they extention, hoping for one Qf two years. THERE is much to be said for their position. The draft law is uneven in application, giving some young men exemptions, while drafting oth ers. Ihe quotas are low now (only three to six Jackson county young men are drafted in an av erage month), and it seems unduly tough on them while hundreds of their classmates go undrafted. The draft law, of course, does encourage en listments in the armed forces, with many boys preferring to "join up," and get their hitches, either in the regulars or the reserves, over with out the uncertainty of waiting. THERE is the added fact, though, that . it is questionable if a two-year term of enlistment provides the armed forces with the type of man power it needs in this electronics-nuclear-space age. A man is no sooner trained to a demanding: specialty than his enlistment runs out, and the compensations for service are not sufficient either in terms of money or incentive or career opportunities to attract more than a small minor ity to re-enlist. "We are just as much concerned with the ade quate defense of the nation as the next person. But we wonder, if the congress, in perpetuating the war-time draft, isn't simply taking the "easy" way out, and wreaking an injustice on many young men as well as providing a source of man power which does not suit the nation's needs. -. We think the time for a new look at selec tive service has long since arrived. E.A. . ; ; Spotlight on Cancer Whatever one thinks of John Foster Dulles as a secretary of state (and opinions have varied widely), one cannot but have the deepest respect for the man as a courageous and dedicated public servant, and to hope for him the best possible suc cess in his battle against His illness, and the has waged against it, serves once again to empha size the disease and the fact that, while treatment for it is better than ever, it is a still-growning threat to the national well-being. The Health Information Foundation points out that the present death rate from cancer is about 60 per cent higher more than 250,000 Americans died of it last year, and that certain types of cancer have become steadily more important causes of death in the last 25 years.. IT wasn't long ago that cancer was a hush-hush word, carrying with it dread fear as well as the same reticence of reference one applied to social diseases. But that fear is now the reticence has all but can be attributed to advances in medicine, and a realization that the hush-hush attitude was one of the greatest deterrents to treatment early enough to be effective. The illness of two widely-known public fig ures, the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, who died of cancer, and Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, who underwent surgery and radiation therapy and now hopes for a complete; cure, assisted in making the public more aware of the disease, of - its character, and of the- potentialities of cure or control. Dulles' illness will serve the same purpose. IT PROBABLY would be over-optimistic to pre diet that a "cure" for cancer will be found in the near future. But the battle is slowly being won, despite the fact that it is, percentagewise, a far greater killer than ever before. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the population is aging; that other ills have been con quered, and that today people are dying of can cer who a few decades ago would have died younger of other ills. There are other shifts in the pattern, too. Fe male mortality from cancer is dropping while male mortality rises. Some types of the disease are less-frequent than before, and others are in creasing. Modern treatment is making survival chances better. A few years ago only one cancer patient out of four survived five years or more. Today one out of three survives thus. f ANCER is being fought on a number of diff er- ent levels and with many approaches radia tion therapy, chemical research and experiment, virology research, surgery. Some day it will be possible for a cancer pa tient to have every reason to believe he can be treated and cured, or at worst have the disease curtailed and controled. But today, the best guarantee against death by cancer is a regular tall on the family doctor. The Health Information Foundation's advice is still good when it says: "The 'main hope for any individual lies in early detection . . . The person who fails to con sult a physician regularly is depriving himself of the benefits modern medical science could give him."-E.A ; : current, the U. S. house writhin a two-year period voted against a four-year cancer. grim and stoic battle he than that of 1900: that somewhat mitigated, and vanished. These changes Dennis the 'I hate cdlo mm. Heavy ciothes msm aomo6UUCfi Editorial Comment Misery Loves Company BY CHARLES V. STANTON Editor, Roseburg News Review When protests were being made here, and elsewhere in Southern Oregon, concerning discontinuance of the "Friend ly" Southern Pacific's Night crawler we received little en couragement from the Willa mette Valley. In fact, we oft en were accused of abusing a poor railroad company by in sisting on a train that didn't pay for itself. When we declared that the "Friendly" Southern Pacific was ' deliberately killing off passenger traffic in this area, by giving us lousy service and equipment, we were called in tolerant; , v Now, the same buys who took the railroad's side against Southern Oregon are squealing like pigs caught under a wire fence because they're getting the same treat ment we kicked about for so many years. They "Friendly" Southern Pacific proposes to reduce the schedule on its Shasta ' Daylight,' once Ore gon's finest train. The "Friendly- Southern Pacific quite obviously d6esn't want passenger service. It is making a lot of money out of its freight service in Oregon. In fact, here in Southern Ore gon were producing more freight than any like area on the system. But hauling pass engers is, not a big profit business. If passenger hauling barely breaks even, the company is lucky. Cer tainly, passenger traffic is a big loss if the railroad com pany uses old and dirty equip ment, advertises is competi tion and refuses to give serv ice provided by other meth ods of transportation. On Way Out Clifford W. Ferguson, coun sel-director of Oregon's Pub lic Utility Commission, said at a public hearing before .the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in San Francisco that the president of the Southern Pa cific railroad made the "pre diction" that railroad passen ger service is "on its way out." Mr. Ferguson recited that the "Friendly" Southern Pa cific has deliberately dis couraged passenger service, that it moved its Portland of fice to a .sixth floor, where every, other transportation company has a. ground, floor; that ticket offices don't adver tise railroad tickets but . do advertise airline arid bus tick ets; that car cleaning service has been' reduced; and that trains out of . Portland are dirty; that dining car service is unsatisfactory, that decent service isn't given at' some ticket offices along the line, that, trains aren't kept on schedule, that schedules don't fry and By BENNETT CERF- CHENESE FABLE: An ancient and revered emperor, awaken ing to the realization one morning that he was henpecked, decided to find out whether this shameful condition also was prevalent among his sub- . jects. He called every V.I.P. in the capital into solemn" conclave, then, ordered, "Every husband who knows in his heart he is henpecked is to stand over at the south walL" The entire assemblage, with one lone exception, sheepishly shuffled over to the south walL The emperor looked at the exception with obvious respect. "You are a lion . amongst a flock of sheep," he declared. "Is it possible that you are not henpecked?" , " "Well, Sire," hedged-the exception, "if I knew what was good for me I'd be over' with the others, but just before I left home this morning my wife warned, If you don't remember your allergy and stay away from crowds, I positively am going to knock your block off !'" ' . 0 1349, by SeoaeU Oai, SittiibuUd by Hing Featani Syndicate, , , Menace link up with other trains, that porter service has been re duced, that advertising budg et has been cut more than half. That's only part of the complaint. -, The state Public Utilities Commission " is stirring its stumps because the "Friend ly" Southern Pacific is trying to reduce its Shasta Daylight out of Portland to three times a . week. The Willamette Val ley is up in arms because the "Friendly" Southern . Pacific is doing everything possible to discourage passenger service. . : . . But when "Bob" Ruhl tried to teU the public -the-same thing in the Medford Mail i Tribune, and when I said in The News-Review that even the ill-famed Nightcrawler was being deliberately mur dered, Willamette Valley edi tors verbally beat us over the head for persecuting the poor railroad. . Competitors Boosted The San Francisco hearing indicated quite clearly that the "Friendly" Southern Pa cific is doing its utmost to kill passenger trains by mak ing railroad tickets hard to get, while selling airplane and dus ticKets at its own ex pense. Ferguson even -introduced photographs to that ef fect as evidence. Yet Robert M. GUmore, S.P. vice-president, said people are not "responding" to railroad pro motion. While there is a good argu ment that travelers should be able to pick up tickets for the means of transportation they most desire, it is rather pecu liar the "Friendly" Southern Pacific would cry that it can't make its passenger lines pay because of airlines and buses, then sell its competitors' tick ets while making is own serv ice as rotten as possible. Down here in Southern Oregon we can have deep sympathy for our good friends in the Willamette Valley. We've been through the mill! It is a safe bet that the "Friendly" Southern Pacific will win in the end. At least we took a licking. Reduction of schedule on the Shasta Daylight will be followed by complete elimina tion, unless something is done by the I.C.C. The "Friendly" Southern Pacific then, I pre dict, will begin to kill off its night train, the Cascade. It won't be long until all passen ger trains will be gone. As I said, we have deep sympathy for our friends in the northern part of the state, but, after all, misery loves company.; At both the north and south poles there are about six months of midnight daylight and darkness at noon. Stop Me Kind Words Shower Find His Attitudes, By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (LTD - If a sense of humor can overcome for a moment so dreadful an affliction as cancer, then an occasional chuckle should be heard from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles hospital room. The ill man T , W v.irr u. H.nn would a c chuckling at the new image of John Foster Dulles which is shaping up in the published and word-of-mouth comment on his illness. Flowers for the living, these friendly bouquets might be called. Dulles has been a whipping boy for the Eisenhower, ad ministration. Editorial and other criticism of Dulles has not been abusive,, but it has been prolonged, severe and satirical. The trend, now, is toward a gee-whiz-what-a-man line of comment. . The new image of Dulles -the new perspective - seems to come from, realization all around that here is a man tempered by habit and exper ience to deal with the diffi cult problems of these explo sive times. He was most often adversely criticized for being inflexible - too rigid in ap proach to questions of foreign relations. ' . Inflexible In Character It is being recognized rather suddenly that Dulles' most in flexibly rigid characteristics were integrity and unshak able confidence in the moral Tightness of policies in behalf of free men. Such character istics tend to balance off mis takes, even grave ones. The new image of John Foster Dulles gains form and substance, also, by . realizing that no one, including Presi dent Eisenhower, himself, can come up with a successor who 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. Blazing Star To the Editor: "Blazing Star Reserve" is the name of a new ecological reserve. The data about it came to writer as one of the Board of Gov ernors of "Nature Conservan cy. It is a bit of Pennsyl vania prairie which annually is a blaze of color with bloom of blazing star. The Eastern plant with this name is of the sunflower fam ily. California also has a blazing star. It is botanically very different. It be called very ' different. It be longs to the true Blazing Star family. The Mexican-Calif-ornian . called it "buena mu jer," ("good ' woman who sticks to her husband"), This, because its seeds have stick ers to steal rides to better feeding by hooks which ad here to fur of rabbit or coy ote. Its blazing color and numer ous stamens gives one the im pression of a speeding meteor. Writer yesteryear had to use camels for African transport. There then were' no auto roads. His camel boys, in those wonderful desert nights, used to say when a meteor flashed: "Watch angels pelt devils!" A boy's home museum may possess a bit of meteorite etched to show the Widmann staetten figures. Then he has some thing about which, to boast. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Pollution Problem To the Editor: I am writing concerning the question of opening Rogue River for in dustrial purposes. The only industries exclud ed by our present law are those needing thousands of gallons daily and consequent ly a clean river supply plus a river channel available for disposal of polluted waste. At present only one such indus try, the pulp paper mill, has asked to come in. It is exclud ed by our present legislation. Therefore, I recommend a "Do Not Pass" for Senate Bill 183. As a member of the Pollu tion Abatement committee for the Jackson County Water Re sources committee, I have had the' opportunity for study of the problems. These conclu sions I arrived at from those opportunities, and they are my own and not necessarily those of the committee. I believe that an emergen cy exists due to the amount of pollutions and irritants in the air of the Rdgue River valley. The weather bureau has determined the extent of air inversion that holds all pollutants in the valley not ideally fits the job. The im pending problems in foreign affairs are staggering. No. 1 on a list which in cludes several problems bear ing directly on the future life and happiness of every family in the United States is this: -What specific proposals should be made to the Soviet Union with respect to the fu ture of Berlin and of Ger many, itself? This question is tied tightly to the overall problem of European security and world peace. Part of this problem is how to obtain Syngman U.S. in Uncomfortable Spot By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor That old friend of the Unit ed States, President Syng man Rhee of the Republic of UaylL I Korea, has put States in the middle again. The latest ac t i o n of the fir m-minded Dr. Rhee has to do with a Japanese plan to ship some thousands of Phil Newsom Koreans from Japan to Communist-controlled North Ko rea. Rhee has said he will use any means, including force, to prevent the repatriation. There is no doubt that Rhee considers his latest announce ments strictly a matter of Republic of Korea internal policy. However, it doesn't work that way. ; Since Korea became a free nation after the end of World War II, the United States has been recognized as its chief sponsor. It ; was the .United States which led other United Nations members to the de fense of South Korea when the Communists invaded it from the north. U.S. Chief Defender Not only on the battlefield, but in diplomatic and finan cial areas as well, the United States has been chief defender of the Rhee government. In the last four years, the Unit ed States has contributed more than one billion dollars to the Korean economy In international eyes, the United States is held respon sible for Rhee's and the Re public of South Korea's ac tions. Japan's position in the pres ent controversy is, that only those Koreans specifically re questing repatriation will be sent to North ' Korea. The numbers of those wanting to go range upward from 100, 000 and downward to around 1,000. Japan says it will ask the International Red Cross to oversee the operation and thus vouch for its fairness. Negotiations Fail For more than 10 years the United States has been trying to get Rhee to patch up dip lomatic relations with Japan. Negotiations have gone on by fits and starts, never with any very definite results Now they are at a standstill again. Japan wants to rid itself of the Koreans because in gen eral they are a poverty-stricken . group whose fathers or allowing them to rise and be dissipated. Available studies show the needs of plant and fish life for oxygen and the level of pollution at which they begin to suffer". It is nec essary for their normal me tabolism. Humans also need air with a certain oxygen con tent. Anything less causes up per respiratory disease, lack of oxydation, particularly of fats and acids, and general confusion, nervousness and half efficiency. Therefore, I propose we deal with the abatement of present pollution before we add more by the way of new industries. ' The economy need not suf fer by the lack of new indus try. Citizen support and un derstanding and legislative action can do a better job of making agriculture our num ber one industry. If you agree with me that the number one and number two duties of good govern ment are to feed its citizens and to provide the best possi ble conditions to promote health, we can bring about some revolutionary changes in our economy. Of course the agricultural industry will have to have as its primary purpose the promotion of maximum health, not merely producing dollars. Thus, agriculture can be come a health service, which can make sickness services diminish taking less portion of our money. I shall be very glad to hear of any legislation that is pro posed in these fields. Marie M. Bosworth (Mrs. Harlan P.) 2425 East Main st. Medford on Dulles; Many Now Qualities, Needed allied agreement to proposals which may seem to the United States to be desirable. Iraq Poses Problem -The Middle East: What ac tion, if any, should the United States propose to its allies if the government of Iraq con tinues to veer away from the free world until it is about to plump into Communist con trol?. That one is further away than Berlin, but quite as tough. -Far from the borderline of armed conflict, but vital to Rhee Again Places grandfathers were imported as enforced laborers by the Japanese during the years of Japanese occupation of Korea. Many were trouble-makers during the Korean war when the United States used Japan as a staging area. , They live in slums and are a natural prey to Communist propagandists, thus their wil lingness to accept the North Korean offers of repatriation. Rhee attacks the Japanese plan as an act of cruelty, and also sees it as an addition to the Communist labor force. Has Tiny Navy It is unlikely that Rhee can carry out his .threats of di rect action. His tiny .navy, with nothing in it bigger than a destroyer escort, is under direct orders of the United Nations Com mand. . But Rhee can continue to stir the international waters, as he has before. Rhee is accustomed to high handed tactics. Toward the end of the Korean armistice negotiations, he almost upset the Allied applecart by arbi trarily releasing some 25,000 anti-Communist prisoners of war. The result was many more weeks of negotiations which frequently threatened to break down altogether. Rhee has a lifelong habit of blowing on his fingernails, House Committee (Ho Hum!) Meets Washington-(UPD-At the first public meeting this year of the House Education and Labor committee , nobody punched anybody in the nose. Nobody got mad, at least not audibly. Nobody stalked out in a huff. Several members did leave when they found out nothing was cooking. Except for this, it was just like old times. That is, everybody talked and nothing whatever was done. There were" signs the com mittee may have reformed, and may even act on labor reform legislation. - But this will take a while. If this doesn't happen, House leaders will be mighty upset. It's what they had in mind when they loaded the committee this year-20 Demo crats to 10 Republicans, as against 17 to 13 last year. Enters Vacant Room Chairman Graham A. Bar- den (D-N.C), called Tuesday's session for 10 a.m. At that hour the hearing room was vacant. Barden ambled in at 10:08, commenting: '"I knew I'd be in plenty of time." By 10:18 Barden cpunled a quorum. He started the ses sion by announcing he had nothing to say. "Does that mean no bus iness is pending?" asked Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich.). Barden said that's what it meant. Hoffman, who is 83 and likes action, got up and drift ed away. Rep. Adam C. Powell (D N.Y.), who ranks next to Bar den among the committee s Democrats, wasn't present. Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey (D- W. Va.), who at a committee meeting three years ago belt ed Powell right out of his chair, was. He had a problem. He said the school bill en A Home Atmosphere C. M. Litwiller Beautiful weddings surrounded by palms and flowers, grow ing plants and rock waterfall. For that long to be remembered occasion . . . arrange now to have your wedding at Litwiller's Mountain View Chapel! LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main . ASHLAND We Never Close United States welfare, is the problem of improving U.S. re lations with South American nations. Eisenhower and his brother, Milton, will help on that one shorUy by visiting Mexico. -Still unfixed are the ulti mate policies by which the United States shall solve jts numerous problems in Asia. -The offshore island, Que moy, is a smouldering time bomb which the Chinese Communists undoubtedly will set off the next time they need a diversionary issue. as if to cool them, while he thinks. It is a memento of his days of torture under the Ja panese occupiers of Korea, and a symbol of his unceas ing hatred for the Japanese. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 18. 1910 Williameite University defeated the University of Oregon tonight in a nigh scoring basketball game played at Eugene. The score was 20 lo 9. The game was rough and many fouls were called on both teams. The Capitol City team excelled in team work, and time after time passed the ball the length of the floor des pite Oregon's efforts. Ore gon only showed superior ity in dribble. For William ette, Mclntyre played a great game and his basket throwing was a feature. Editor's note; Sports Editor Dick Jewett points out that ' the Mclntyre mentioned above later became Adm.-Ross Mc lntyre, personal physician to President Franklin D. Roose velt. acted by Congress last year, carrying student loans and fellowships, hadn't amounted to much. He said the reason was -money, and he will ask Congress this year to provide some. "Then how are you going to balance the budget?" asked Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R Pa.). "I'm not worried about that," Bailey replied. Barden, who thinks the government ought to keep hands off the schools, hoped the committee wouldn't start anything new .until "we find out what we've already done." Bailey also noted that un employment is bad. He moved that the committee look into it. Barden said unemployment is not in the committee's jur isdiction. Bailey said it ought to be. He proposed that a sub committee headed . by Rep. Roy W. Wier (D-Minn.), take over this chore. , Questioned About Trips "You have any trips in mind?" inquired Wier, when pressed whether he - wanted the job. "No," said Bailey. "Not even to West Virgin ia?" asked Wier. "Well, maybe," said Bailey. "Well, don't you agree with me," said Barden to Bailey, "that we can't do anything about it this morning?" "Well, I guess that is so," replied Bailey. Barden, at whose head a disaffected committee mem ber is said once to have hurl ed a dictionary, although in accurately, said mildly that maybe the proper solution was to name a small group to think about Bailey's pro posal. He named one. The committee adjourned. ! -.til 'Ha fr Mrs. Litwiller (3 o 'It is better to know us and not need us. than to need us and not know us." 4. I
