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4 Thandsy, February 19, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfore', Ore MEDFORBtiWrBIBUKB Tveryone tc Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6U1 ROB1.PT W BIFH7. Editor ! HERB ORE'S Advertising Manager ERIC W ALLEN JH, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor ' RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women1! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indetendent Newspaper . Entered sa second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday rnos. 8-00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4-25 Sunda Only One year S4.20 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 Sumisy I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms cash In Advance Official Paper of City at Medford Official Paper 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 as(spcEatic)n ' I v sr Flight'' o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The NAail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 19. 1948 (Saturday) Preparations are made for the Camp White veteranr domiciliary dedication tomor row. Sen. William McAllister says he is not sure he favors the bill that would allow a dam at Lewis creek on the Rogue river. 20 YEARS AGO Feb.H9, 1939 (Sunday) Jacksonville voters approve a special bond election to fi nance new water mains. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The county is fixing the road up the Applegate, so it won't be such a narrow squeak at the bends." 30 YEARS AGO Fab. 19, 1929 (Tuegday) Two state senators engage in a fist fight over the sal ary increase bill before the legislature. A public hearing on con struction of Midway rd. is scheduled. 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 19, 1919 (Wednesday) County agent recommends a new dormant spray, for or chards. D. E. Millard accepts the pastorate of the . Christian church; - " 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1909 (Friday) The Crater Lake road bill gains 23-7 approval from the state senate. The Portland Beavers ac cept Medford's invitation to conduct spring training here provided satisfactory arrange ments are made. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct is superior; sevan or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Salmon can buck a cur rent and swim 15, 20 or 30 miles per hour? 2. A nintail is a Western saddle horse; true or false? 3. A weapon known as a "claymore" was used where? 4. Name the capital of Florida. 5. The City of Galveston, Texas, is built on an island; true or false? 6. What substance, found in fruits, is important in jelly making? 7. On what island was Na poleon Bonaparte first sent into exile? 8. How many dozens are in a great gross? 9. About one-third of what important food commodity is imported by the United States from Cuba? Name the Secretary of the Treasury. Answers: 1. 30 m.p.h. 2, False. (Duck) 3. Scotland. 4. Tallahassee. 5. True. 6. Pectin. 7. Elba. 8. 144. 9. Sugar. 10. Robert B. Anderson. PLANE SETS RECORD Birmingham, Ala. (DPD A four-engine Delta Airlines DC7B set an unofficial flight record from Dallas, Tex., to Birminsham Wednesday of one hour and 27 minutes. It flew at speeds up to 600 miles per hour. SCHOOL OFFICIAL DIES Mineola. N.Y. - (DPD - Miss Loretto M. Rochester, 83. retired assistant superinten dent of the New York City schol system, died Wednes day, Laws9 A law is a weird and wonderful thing. Consider, for instance, a bill now before the Oregon legislature which would require railroad freight cars to be equipped with reflectors. It was motivated by a number of crashes, more than one of which was fatal, which occurred when a car approached a railroad crossing at night, failed to see an.unlighted "and unmarked string of boxcars or flatcars, and slammed into it. IXT'OULD IT do any good to pass the bill, or would it be harmful? The Salem Capital-Journal, the daily news paper in Oregon's capital city, declares that the bill is worthy, that it would in effect, become "national" legislation, for at one time or another cars of virtually every major railroad come into Oregon, and that since cars without reflectors are banned in this state, each railroad would need to reflectorize its cars. This, the C-J declares, would be a good thing, a safety measure, and a cause for rejoicing. . THE Oregon Statesman of Salem, the morning paper in the same city, takes a somewhat dimmer view of the reflector situation. While granting that the idea behind the bill is a good one, it fails to go along with the C-J's theory that it would have nationwide impact, and opines that, to the contrary, the law would either be ignored by out-of-state railroads, or that Ore gon would be "boycotted" by incoming cars. That's one of the difficult things about law making. No one knows, for sure, what all the implications of a new law may be. . And that's one of the reasons (there are oth ers) why we have courts of law. E. A. Too Many Words On this page some time ago was noted what was, up to that time, the shortest editorial we'd ever read. It appeared in the Capital-Journal of Salem, and under a headline which said some thing like "Still 100 Wrong" the text of the editorial, in full, said : "Robert Y. Thornton." We've found one that's even shorter. It is in the current issue of "Oregon Education," the pub lication of the Oregon Education association. It had a headline Message on Public Schools." The text of the editorial was a blank space i three inches deep. These two editorials those editorial writers (present company includ ed) who often use too many words to try to get a message across. L.A. Improper Function Two years ago the legislature refrained from passing a bill which would have forced banks in Oregon to close on Saturday. It was an improper function of the state's police authority, members believed, and was an unwarranted invasion of the freedom-of-choice of business establishments. This session, the same bill has cropped up again. It should be killed SOMETIMES it is necessary for the law to put be clearly shown to be fore this is done. Another freedom - would have forbidden dentists to advertise their services, was quite properly killed by- legislative committee this year. It appears at this writing that the current leg islature is in no mood to ilk. At least we hope not. We Disagree We have, in the past, agreed with Charlie Porter in many things. The "active, aggressive Coneressman from this district is usually both forward-looking and constructive in his approach to problems. We have also, on some few occasions, dis agreed with him. Now is one of the latter times. We think his idea for lift from the run of Crater Lake down to the lake itself is abominable. I T WOULD increase the says. Ana who says Lrater Lake is to be used in the same sense that Shasta, Emigrant, or Klamath lakes are to be used ? Crater Lake was created as a great National Park because it is one scenery; a place to go to by the utter magnificence of hod s handiwork; a place to see nature s To slap a mechanical contrivance on the slopes of that unsurpassed caldera; to permit any gum-chewing, beer-drinking yokel with tour-bits in his pocket, to ride down 'to the crystal -blue waters of Crater Lake, participation in the meaning and loveliness of it all this smacks of sacrilege in our book. .' "TILT with Trujillo, Charlie. Confer with Castro, A Build flood" control dams, pass housing bills, and open up Oregon's trade with the Orient, and more power to you. But put an aerial choo-choo train into the most beautiful crater in the world and we'll spit in your eye. L.A. Effects which said Governor s stand as a message to again. m the public interest be- limiting bill, one which pass many bills of this hi.A. a Disneyland-like chair- "use" of the lake, he of the world's gems of have one s soul refreshed unimaginable beauty. with no sense of effort or Dennis the Was that just thunder? 1 thought . IT m$ AT AST A ZA&WQUWBl" 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 i aper; in tact the contrary is onen Nation Under God To the Editor: According to the recent letter to the editor written by Mr. R. B. Watkins of Jacksonville, the dominat ing influence that has molded the lack of moral substance in South America and some of the European countries is the influence of Catholicism. I believe the crux of Mr. Wat kin's letter was his statement that: "Catholicism and Demo cracy cannot exist together." I am certainly happy to get this clarified for I always thought the persecutions against Catholicism by the Caesars, the Caligulas and the Neros was designed to stamp out this seditionist Christianity which was threat ening a Godless type of gov ernment. Mr. Watkms has shown me otherwise. I can see now that these persecutions by such benign emperors andi rulers was for the sake of pre serving the Democracy that existed. I can also see the per secutions, of Catholicism in Red China today. Undoubted ly the Mao government is doing this to preserve ; their Democracy which Mr.! Wat- kins says cannot exist with the Catholic church. Why, even in Hungary, Cardinal Mindzenty was imprisoned and tortured. Perhaps, there too, the USSR was fighting this Catholicism which was threatening the Democracy of Joseph Stalin. It's quite obvious that Mr. Watkins isn't averse to the Catholic' church. He even said so. And it is crystal clear also that the "unbiased" source of information Mr. Watkins re fered to is as unbiased as an appraisal of the Grand Duke Alexis would be in the ar chives of the Kremlin. We should be thankful for our democratic form of gov ernment. Here, no one person has any degree of power that cannot be moved by the vote of the people. This can only be lost by first losing the moral vertebra of government Christianity. Our founding fathers referred to it as a "Nation under God". We re move God and we have a "Na tion under." - Wayne Ratty 2970 Madrona lane Medford. School Consolidation To the Editor: This is in tended for the voters of Med ford on school consolidation, First we would like very much to keep our school in Jacksonville, not only because we prefer a smaller school that would give us a better scholastic record because there would be less students per teacher than in Medford, but we feel that it is and should be the cultural and en tertainment center of any community. We believe there is less chance of delinquency among juveniles in a school that our parents supervise by serving on the school boards and being able to have con trol through their votes of our activities. We can see no advantage Medford would gain by con solidating with Jacksonville, Ruch, Griffin Creek and Applegate, to offset the added cost of your district for new buildings, buses, teachers, and all the other expenses of oper ating that large a combined district that will have to come out of . your pockets in much larger taxes that there will be no end to. So please vote against con solidation and let us have a good school of our own. -Lynne Smith Judy Matheny and 18 others Box 443 Jacksonville, Ore. Menace tne case. Two Jacksonville To the Editor: A letter, (en closed) and brochure has just reached me from the Jackson ville (Florida) Area Chamber of Commerce. The brochure invites the reader to "Walk through the pages of History"; the ancient fishing village of Mayport, and Fort George Island, and a 'pirate heaven' called Fernandina Beach. Photographs show skiing in the waterways, speed thrills in the greyhound racing track, and the famous Gator Bowl. Mr. Kelly, of the Jackson ville Chamber of Commerce, was familiar with the Jack sonville promotions problems. In earlier correspondence, 1 explained that when traveling to Nevada, Calif orma and other areas and towns of his toric interest, I often asked tourists if they had ever been to Jacksonville. The imme diate reply came in form of a question "Florida?", and I was forced to a lengthy ex planation of the fact that Ore, gon had a Jacksonville most outstanding. Mr. Kelly seems to have had this same trouble, in re verse, having for his reply "Oregon?", and of course since he represents the Chamber of Commerce in Jacksonville, Florida, he has felt no small curiousity concerning our own historic Jacksonville. In view of the interest shown by Mr. Kelly and as sociates in our own Jackson ville, I hope their Chamber of Commerce may be included on mailing lists for Centen nial invitations and brochures. Mrs. Virginia Card, 105 North Oregon st., Jacksonville, Ore. Parade "Thanks" To the Editor: We express our thanks to the 4-H clubs, Sage Riders, Junior Posse, and all riders and people who participated and helped to make the Centennial Parade a big success, also the crowd that jammed the streets to watch. The Medford Trail Riders By Mrs. Ray Barnard, Central Point, Ore. Two Budgets To the Editor: Governor Hatfield and some newspa pers have attacked former Governor Holmes for present ing what they have called "spite" budget-a deliberately scaled-down budget from what he would have proposed had he been re-elected. Hatfield is trying desper ately to divert attention from his own $314 million budget . But the fact is that Holmes budget as presented is less than $2 million lower in areas where he had control than. the budget he had planned for 1959-61 m September, 1957 At that time, his finance de partment director, John Rich ardson, listed controllable op erating expenditures (which excluded basic school support and the building program) for 1959-61 at an estimated $181.3 million. Holmes' final budget for this area calls for $179.4 million, only $1.9 million less than he had counted on 17 months ago. The real difference be tween Holmes' present budg et and the one he had plan ned is in immediate expendi tures for the building pro- eram. He had expected to ask for about $33 million. Instead, seeing that the voters had not only elected Hatfield on an economy plat form, but also had turned down every money measure on the ballot, he quite natur ally assumed that the public didn't want to spend money now. Still he didn't scuttle the Honeymoon Between Not Over - By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The honeymoon isn't over yet for Gen. Charles de Gaulle and la belle France but the marriage is showing signs of strain. The bride is growing rest ive under de Gaulle's edict t h a t the couple must live within its income, and they're also fail Newsom having trouble with the rela tives in Algeria. France was . on the verge of civil war last May 15 when de Gaulle anonunced he was ready to come out of retire- building program, as Hatfield has charged. Instead, Holmes' simply asked that the build ings be built immediately, but be financed through bonding, to be paid off grad ually over the years. From all of this, Holmes emerges as the man who 1) told the people truthfully during the campaign that the budget couldn't be cut, 2) said after the election that if the public didn't want to spend money immediately, he'd " cut the cash building program, and 3) stuck to his guns that the buildings were needed, and called for a bond ing program to build them. Hatfield shows up as the man who 1) told the people untruthfully during the cam paign that he could reduce the budget, 2) said after the election that we had to have buildings and we had to pay cash, so he'd have to increase the budget, and 3) has tried to dump his whole mess into Holme's lap. Ken Johnson Public Information Director Democratic Party of Oregon 360 State st. Salem, Ore. Schools' Policy To the Editor: Our atten tion has been called to a re cent "Letter to the Editor" which commented on the lack of business education classes in the second semester adult education program of the Medford Public Schools. Pre vious publicity had indicated announcement of additional classes to be given later. These additions include com mercial courses for those in terested. Information on fur ther classes will be announced later. Last school year over 1,000 adults took advantage of 75 adult evening classes pro vided in our adult education program. These classes are self - sustaining as to cost, as the school district only pro vides facilities and the per sonnel services involved in administering the program. Instructor . salaries and ma terial costs are cared for through tuition charges ' and funds received from the Di vision of Vocational Educa tion of the State Department of Education. It is Board pf Education policy to provide classes for adults in those areas where a sufficient demand exists and where a qualified instructor is available. We welcome sug gestions as to ways and means by which we can bet ter serve our community through the adult education program.' Further information may be obtained by calling adult education office at Medford Senior High School, SPring 3-5341. Lindsay Vinsel, Director Adult Education Medford Public Schools Do Unto Others To the Editor: Last night my neighbor and I were stand ing on our front porch when we saw a man leading a dog down Columbus. He led that dog right up on the lawn of the house at the end of Bry ant and waited while the dog did its dirty work, then went on. Wasn t that a nice trick? The other day I got out of the car at home when some little neighbors kids said "Our dog went to the bathroom on your lawn and if you kill our dog for doing that our Daddy is going to come over and kill some of you." Now these little kids aren't old enough to go to school, so you know they had to hear that at home. These dogs cause more fric tion among neighbors than anything else. If the ones that don't want a dog wanted to clean up dog messes, they would have a dog of their own. - They say if you don't want the neighbor's dog, well, fence. Well that isn't fair. -If the dog owners had to fence and keep their dog in and clean up the mess or have the lawn not fit for the kids to play on, they wouldn't have a dog, but as long as they can go to the door and kick them out and say go to the neighbors and do your dirty work, they will have a dog, and if they see the neighbor chase them off they are mad. We always had a dog be fore we moved to town, but But Marriage Shows ment and take over the gov ernment of France. Committees of public safety in Algeria were in outright revolt against the weak Paris government of Premier Pierre Pflimlin. There were ominous signs that French paratroops in North Africa were ready to invade the mainland, link up with other dissidents there and march on the capital itself. Planes Fly Over Home In those closing days of the French Fourth Republic, French air. force fighter planes flew in symbolic Cross qf Lorraine formations over de Gaulle's home in open in vitation for him to take power by whatever means he chose. And so, whatever regrets or misgivings the professional politicians had, it was in an atmosphere of general rejoic ing that de Gaulle first took over emergency powers and then on Jan. 8 qf this year emerged as the first president Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE SHIP OF STATE The decision taken by the President on Saturday morn ing, when he refused to accept Mr. Dulles's resig nation, was most surely the right one. For granted that Mr. Dul les cannot ex pect to be the kind of Secre tary of State that he has been before, accepting the time to come be under treat ment and withdrawn from ac tivity, there is "nevertheless reason to hope that he can This is to assure the world that the ship will continue on the course in which he himself in the past give this assurance, and without it there might well be confusion, miscalcula tion, and suspicion abroad and at home. There are, of course, o5- vious disadvantages in a situ ation where the Secretary of State is ill and inactive while the actual conduct of affairs is the responsibility of his subordinates. But it is hard to imagine any good alternative, given all the circumstances of his, unique relation with the President, his record and his reputation, and the fact that we are approaching one of the many climaxes of the cold war. ONE THING is, I believe, quite plain. This is not the time to think of appointing a successor drawn from outside the existing hierarchy of the Department of State. There are many reasons fcr saying this. The positive reason is that in the President's second term the Department of State has improved very greatly and now is in its top men as highly qualified, so it seems to me, as It has been in its best days. Herter, Dillon, Henderson, Murphy, Merchant, Reinhardt and Cumming, to name only the key figures, are a strong team. In them there has been repaired not only the ravages of McCarthyism but also the political bumbles of the . Re publican Party after 20 years in the wilderness. It is no mere accident, nor is it a sign of the fickleness of public opinion, that even be fore his present illness there had begun a marked change in world sentiment about Sec retary Dulles. This change of public opinion is not due only to his indomitable personal behavior. It reflects a change in the temper and tone of his diplomacy. It is a response to the sign of "flexibility" which Mr. Dulles has judged to be prudent and desirable both in the Far East and in Germany. In 'l.iese changes the rejuven ated Department of State has played its necessary part. . THIS IS the first reason why it would be a mistake to bring in from the outside a new and" eminent personage. There is nobody on the out side who now possesses the kind of experience needed for negotiation in the current phase of our encounter with the Soviet Union. Whoever he was, he would be a novice, and long before he could hope to master the situation in his own mind, the climax we : are now approaching would have come and gone. There is now a well-qualified professional team in charge of the central issues in Europe, and what this team needs is the confidence and we took care of it and didn't let it bother the neighbors. If these dog owners would do unto others as they would like others to do unto them, neighbors would get along better. Ethelyn Lehman, 1518 Bryant st., Medford. , Walter ' UppmanB France, de of the French Fifth Republic. DeGaulle, backed by new powers which placed him in a position similar to that of the president of the United States and by an overwhelm ing majority in the French Assembly, announced three main 'objectives. They were: To restore France to its place among the great na tions. To place the nation on a pay-as-you-go basis, removing her from the list of Europe's sick nations. To end the uprising in Al geria. Meets Opposition Before he could attain his first objective, it was neces sary for him to be successful in the other two. At home, his austerity cam paign already is meeting widespread opposition. In industrial Lille last week several thousand heavy industry workers went on strike to protest the lay-off Lippmann the advice of the President and of the Congress. There is no one available from the out side who can do this better than, or indeed half so well as, the President himself-es- pecially if Mr. Dulles is able from his sickbed to watch over the general line of policy for which he has set the direc tion. If this were a new adminis tration at the beginning of its term, and if there were no climax ahead in Germany, the President might look around for a Secretary of State who in the old tradition of the unite was a political power in the land. He might think, let us say, of Gov. Dewey. But not today when knowledge and . experience are so neces sary, and when there is so good a team already in the field. TN ALL of this, it. Is neces- sary to remember that Mr. Dulles's extremely personal way of conducting his office has been unique, and it can not be duplicated even if it were desirable to attempt it. It will be necessary, there fore, to put more trust in the Ambassadors we sent abroad, or to send abroad Ambassa dors that we can trust. It may be desirable to have one or two roving Am bassadors where the problems at issue cover a whole region rather than a single country. It will be desirable to talk things out more at length than is now being done with the foreign Ambassadors in Washington. In the special case of the Soviet Union, exceptional pro cedures are probably neces sary. For with rare excep tions, with only one exception that I know of, the Soviet Un ion will not rely on the nor mal diplomatic channels. For that . reason Mr. Mikoyan's visit to this country was al most, certainly necessary in order to convince the Krem lin that it knew the situation here. For that reason Mr Macmillan's excursion to Mos cow is a good idea, and we might well turn over in our minds a visit to Moscow by Mr. Nixon, or perhaps by one of the distinguished outsiders who are being talked about for Secretary of State. (Copyright 1959, New Vork Herald Tribune, Inc.) Affou from FRANK MORGAN H AX 010 DAY OR NIGHT mm m Gaulle, Strain of more than 800 workers in a plant making steel ma chinery. It was a token strike but it could establish a pat tern for others. The cause is two-fold: First the de Gaulle austerity cam paign which virtually decreed a halt to pay increases while at the same time increasing taxes; and, France's entry into the European common market which lowered French tariffs and forced French manufacturers to convert to more efficient methods in order to compete in the com mon market. The result has been wide spread layoffs in such key industries as textiles, auto-' motive and electrical home appliances. It has given the Commu nists their first real campaign issue against de Gaulle. Algeria Still Restless Opposition to de Gaulle policies also has neared the violent stage in Algeria, not from the political left but from the extreme right. It is made up of French settlers, who, outnumbered almost 10 to one by the Moslems, see total integration with France as their only salvation. De Gaulle has refused to meet their demands, insisting that while Algeria must re main French, its political tie with France will be deter mined after peace is restored. The result was that when French Premier Michel Debre visited Algeria last week, he was met with cries of "down with de Gaulle." Those are only two of de Gaulle's pressing problems. In addition, of course, he is beset by all the others hang ing over nations today. There must be many a night when the bridegroom WOnders why he married.. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 19, 1923 Political affairs dominat ed state news today. ' The state legislature killed two bills, sponsored by legisla tors dependent upon sup port of the Ku Klux Klan. One would have done away with the chaplain at the state penitentiary and the other would have eliminat ed Columbus Day as a legal holiday. Meantime the Port land Telegram conducted a man-in-the-street survey and reports almost unanimous disapproval o f Governor Walter Pierce's proposal for the levying of a stale 'in come tax. Nuclear Sub To Join Pacific Fleet; Washington (UPD A second nuclear - powered submarine, the 2,310-ton Swordfish, will be added to the Pacific Fleet in April. The Navy announced : the Swordfish will shift its home port from Portsmouth, N.H., to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The nuclear-powered sub marine Sargo, which was built at the Mare Island, Calif., Naval Shipyard, al ready is on duty with the Pa cific Fleet. The Atlantic Fleet has three atom-subs Nautilus, Seawolf and Skate, all sailing out of New London, Conn. th Ceurihovt SNODGRASS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS PHONE SP 2-8030
