Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1959)
I ThariJay, Peeratry U, 19S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ' MnF0RS4i(TBisina "Everyone In Southern Oregon Omam Mail TrtktiM1 Published Daily except Saturday by MT.DFOHD PRINTING CO. : 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR . Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a 1 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. , Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 I Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier1 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 Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 ' Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford ' Official Paper of Jacuson 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, i Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At- lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL ASftpc5ATl(p, Z) sJ C7 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 26. 1949 (Saturday) Ashland city recorder re fuses an initiative petition fil ed by the Civic Betterment league asking a special elec tion for replacement of re called city council members, since the petition is mimeo graphed, not printed. Formal opening of the new YMCA building is held. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 26. 1939 (Sunday) Fire destroys four shacks in the hobo "jungle" at the end of South Grape st. near the Copco warehouse. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The voters are beginning to wish the legislature would do some thing, even if it is only coming home." 80 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1929 (Tuesday) , Property tax relief bill3 are presented to the Legislature A balmy spring day is rude ly followed by a 12-degree Jtemperature drop. 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 26, 1919 (Wednesday) i Fifty-four local women are given badges for their Red Cross war work. Medford soldiers are to re turn home next Monday on a special train. SO YEARS AGO Fab. 26, 1909 (Friday) , A total of 115 Medfordites pledge funds to finance the Portland Bears' spring train ing sojourn here. Pacific Telephone company receives the first shipment of plans and new equipment to modernize its facilities here. What's Your I.Q.? 'Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight b excellent; five ar 'tis b good. K Mm SmM 1. Is Percheron a name of a breed of horses, cattle, swine or dogs? - 2. Beekeepers know that a bee will not sting a person Vhile he holds his breath; true or false? i 3. In the year 79 A.D., two cities were completely buried ,Dy ashes from the eruption fbf Mr. Vesuvius; one of them was Herculaneum; name the 'other. " 4. In playing croquet, is Jthe ball struck with a racquet, bat, or mallet? 5. How many gills are in ne gallon? S 6. From New England icomes a syrup made from the 'sap of which species of tree? J' 7. Comedian Jimmie Dur ante recently celebrated his ;45, 56 or 66th birthday? ; 8. Is it easier, or harder, ;for a fat person to float than for a thin person? t 9. Was Becky Thatcher the child sweetheart of Tom Saw yer or Huckleberry Finn? i 10. If you had occasion to ;call officially at No. 10 Down ing St., London, England, .whom would you be visiting? Answers: 1. Horses; 2. False; 3. Pompeii; 4. Mallet; 5. :Thirty-two; 6. Maple; 7. 66th; )8. Easier; 9. Tom Sawyer; 10. Prime Minister of England. Marula-UPJ-Governrnent of ficials disclosed Wednesday Jthat a special mission would 'leave for Washington soon to "discuss the Philippines, $900 .million omnibus claim against the United States. Toward Mars... It was only a few years ago that this writer, in this space, ventured the thought that it might be possible for mankind to set foot on the moon before too many decades had passed, and the ten tative and wistful hope he'd be around to know about it. " We received several rather fishy stares as a result. Today, however, with a half-dozen artificial satellites in orbit around the earth, with two American moon-probes unsuccessful only for minor technical reasons, and with a Russian rock et circling the sun some millions of miles away, the wistful hope of being around when a landing on the moon is made doesn't seem quite so foolish after all. . fNE of the men most responsible for the pro- gress toward the stars now forecasts a man ned expedition to Mars by the year 1974 that's 15 years from now provided the United States made "all the effort it could and should." The speaker was Dr. Wernher von Braun, technical director at the Huntsville, Ala., Army rocket laboratories. German-born,- he was associ ated with the German rocket development before and during World War II, and came to this coun try later. He is responsible for many of the more significant developments in rocketry and space propulsion research. FIFTEEN years may seem a short period of time in which to develop space hardware sufficient to take an expedition to Mars. But let's see. Fifteen years ago (in 1944) few outside select scientific or military circles were even aware of the possibility of atomic bombs, let alone all the other developments which have stemmed from the discoveiy of atomic phys ics. The jet aircraft was still strictly in the experi mental stage. Helicopters were still to be perfect ed. The "mainstay" airplane was still the reliable old DC-3. The DC-4 now obsolescent hadn't even been placed in service yet. Many of the miracles sistor, the printed circuit, were yet to be invented. In 1944 rocketry, despite the fact that it was an ancient art, was still Germans were domg much about it m an or ganized manner, and that was still experimental. The V-ls and V-2s were to come later. IN retrospect, then, "there have been startling viictugo ah bcmiviugivai jl uvcuui to anu. iiiciyii- ods in the past 15 years. There is no reason to be lieve there will be fewer changes, or that they will come more slowly, in the next 15. To the contrary. It has that change begets change, and that the pace of development tends to increase, rather than to stay static or falter. And it is entirely within the realm of possi bility that von Braun is estimates. It is entirely possible that, while we once rath er wistfully hoped to live to see the day that man would reach the moon, we now may well be around when a man first sets foot on Mare. Things go fast, these days. E.A. ...and the Abyss While mankind, through his scientists, is looking upward at the planets, he also is taking a longer look downward, of the ocean. In some ways, less is known about the ocean floor and its mysteries than is known about the surface of the moon. One can, at least, see the latter, even if it is some hundreds of thousands of miles away. cut the ocean abyss which engages both the cupidity of humankind. C REAT wealth lies in Vast mineral deposits, some of them in the rocks but others brought eons of river flow await tion. The waters of the huge quantities of minerals which await only economic methods of extraction. Power of the future, hydrogen fusion, will de pend on the almost unlimited supplies of deuter mm in tne waters oi tne IN THE oceans is an almost untapped reservoir of protein foods. The world's fisheries have hardly scratched the surface of this potential supply, much of which lies in near -microscopic entities, both animal and There are also the clues, not immediately "practical" in themselves, which would help lead to discoveries of the nature and history of the planet. The committee on oceanography of the National Academy of of deep sea sediments, ocean, combined with of the living creatures of about the origin and evolution of life on earth, These considerations the considerations of national defense in subma rine warfare, which is practical consideration. As man looks to the the unpiumbed depths of electronics the tran are two examples in its infancy. Only the been human experience too conservative in his into the hidden depths "v remains a challenge one natural curiosity and the the ocean. to the ocean floor by discovery and explora sea themselves contain ocean. vegetable m nature. Sciences says that studies of the rocks under the studies of the waters and the sea, "will tell us much are entirely apart from an immediately pressing . stars, he must also look to of his own planet. E.A. Dennis the Z-26 ' 9ne?,7WErtt.8cflE,c-rHK I'M GONNA GIVE THE: GWAf?VA EMTH. WW?' Today & Tomorrow By Walter The demands for the imme diate appointment of a new Secretary of State arise,, so it seems to me, from an i n c o m p lete an a 1 y sis of the situation. The heart of the matter is that as Mr. Dulles has ad ministered the office under President Ei senhower, no man can replace him during his lifetime. What ever his nominal role, be it as titular Secretary of State or as senior advisor . to the President, the first authority in foreign policy will be his and no other man can expect to exercise it. The situation in which we find ourselves is unique in modern American history. For no President has ever before delegated to his Sec retary of State so much pow er over the issues of war and peace. This power, though it has been delegated by the President, has in fact become deeply connected with the personality of John Foster Dulles. It cannot easily be disconnected from his per sonality, and there is no oth er man to whom the Presi dent can now delegate it. A new man will be subject to Mr. Dulles' actual views, or to the views attributed to Mr. Dulles by those who believe they know all that is in his mind. Once a man has ex ercised such a vast power for such a long time, he cannot readily put it aside. IN ONE way or another, therpfnrp. a wav will havp to be improvised by which for the time being, Mr. Dulles retains the final responsibil ity in the great decisions. It is an awkward arrangement. But in the circumstances it is at the present moment the best that is possible. It could not be cured by appointing an outsider, say Mr. Lodge, Mr. McCloy, or General Gruenther. For they would be as subject as is Mr. Herter to the over-riding au thirity of Mr. Dulles. In ad dition, they would need long months of schooling in the work of the Department of State before they could hope to administer it. What we must look for is a working arrangement between the White House, Walter Reed Hospital, and the Department of State-the arrangement to last as long as Mr. Dulles be lieves he can play his part and does not decide on a total retirement from public life, IT IS quite true,, of course, that at first it is harl to imagine how this hybrid ar rangement would work out if Try and Walter fjppmsjm -By BENNETT CERF- A N ENGLISHMAN was invited to dine with a very .rich sheik near the Arabian oil fields. Wine flowed freely for the non Moslems, but the water was handled with something akin to reverence, 1 import tnis drinking water all the wav from Scotland," explained the sheik. "That seems wasteful,' commented the Englishman. "Why don't you drill a well and get the water right here?" "We've tried that," sighed the sheik, "but every ill starred time we strike oil!" Horrified cop collared a cute young thing dressed in the scantiest of bikinis and de manded reproachfully, "What would your Ma say if she saw you m mat suit?" . . . "She'd say plenty," admitted the cute young thing. "It's her suit," Dick KoHmar has a friend who is a winetaster. "Only chap I know." insists KoHmar, "who is unsteadily employed," C 1389, by gtmttt Cert Distributed by stug restores SiTtfisais, Menace Lippmann we come to the Foreign Min isters' meeting which the Al lies have proposed to Mos cow. But it is not impossible to imagine it if we take a matter of fact view of the Foreign Ministers' conference. Had Mr. Dulles not been stricken, have we any reason to suppose that much could come of a meeting between him, who has political power, and a civil servant like Mr. Gromyko,- who is not in the highest ranks of the Soviet rulers? A true negotiation over the ultimate issues of war and peace need not be a spectacu lar public encounter as in Geneva in. 1955. But negotia tion about the ultimate issues of war and peace must be at the "summit," that is to say among those who have the final power of decision. This means that the negotiation must be with Mr. Khrushchev, not with Mr. Gromyko, with Mr. Macmillan,' with General de Gaulle, and with what we may call the regents who ex ercise the legal powers of Eisenhower and the personal powers of Dulles. - TT IS against the background of these considerations that we can most fairly think of Mr. Macmillan's visit to Mos caw. The visit was decided upon before Mr. Dulles be came ill. But now that Mr. Dulles is ill, it is most for tunate that Mr. Macmillan has been able to go to Mos cow. For while in the tech nical sense he is not there, as he has said -so many times, to "negotiate,", it is exactly the kind of communication which he is now having with Mr. Khruschchev which must come first if there is ever to be a successful negotiation. Indeed, it would be neces sary to have such communica tion even if the Kremlin had accepted at once the invita tion to a Foreign Ministers' conference. For the Foreign Ministers' conference would have little prospect of suc cess if no understanding is reached, first at the summit of the great powers. There is no use trying to guess what Mr. Macmillan will come home with. But, judging from the reception he has had from Mr. Khrusch chev, he is likely to come home with the clearest and the most reliable picture that the West has yet had of what is negotiable and how. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) WITHDRAW SAVINGS Valletta, Malta - (UPfr- Mal- teee depositors have with drawn savings from a govern ment bank in a new display of passive resistance against Britain, a bank official dis closed today. Stop Me O&AT (Tf OIL 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 pemissible. 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. Only Hope - To the Editor: Mrs. Powell's letter of February 24 plus William S. White's column in the same issue , de serve comment. I too listen to Dan Smobt, but he is trying to save the wrong thing. America already is dead. This happened in 1949 when General Marshall al lowed the Red sympathizers in our government to use him to hand China to them. This went according to a plan made 31 years before that by Lenin. The men who pre pared intelligence reports used by Gen. Marshall knew that plan to the letter and worked to see it through. This is a matter of record. It is unfortunate that men like Senator Jenner and the late Joe McCarthy were more interested in headlines than in laying it out in plain facts which anyone could read then, and can today, in the Public Library. I personally read them three years before McCarthy entered the U. S. Senate. Many others knew them long before 1947. Amer icans were taken for a ride by International Communism in the 1930's, and sold out in 1949. General MacArthur was fired in 1952 for daring to oppose it. Briefly the Reds planned to (1) get into China, (2) get the U. S. into a World War, (3) center attention on Eu rope after that war and take China and Asia unmolested, (4) bankrupt the U. S. with brushfire wars nd by de veloping raw materials in China and Siberia and dam aging them on world markets to dry up American exports by forcing our high cost (due to union wages) goods off the market. They now are weU on their way to finishing this last point while we worry about peace talks in Berlin and moon rockets. I personally am not wor ried. I believe the Bible is the Word of God. If so, the one who can be saved is you and me - not America or the world. I am trusting Jesus Christ to take me out of it. It is my only hope. Parker Bailey, 542V& "A" St., Ashland. Opposes Chair Lift " To the Editor: As a former superintendent of Crater Lake National Park for some 15 years, I was pleased to see your editorial of Feb. 19 dis approving of the suggestion of Congressman Charles O. Por ter that a chair lift be in stalled at Crater Lake be tween the Rim area and the waters of the lake, to enable visitors to more easily get down to the lake to enjoy boating facilities. I have written to Congress man Porter to point out why such an installation would be objectionable. Mr. Karl W. Onthank, 1653 Fairmont Boulevard, Eugene, Ore., president of the Feder ation of Western Outdoor Clubs, has written to me to ask what I think of the pro posed chair lift in Crater Lake. I have sent him a copy of my letter to Congressman Porter as my reply. I appreciate your quick de fense of Crater lake and its superb values which must be kept inviolate. Ernest P. Leavitt, (Retired) Route 1, Box 230-A Old Stage Rd., Central Point, pre. Seeks Correspondents My dear Mr. Editor: If you can spare a little of your pre cious time, I would appreciate it very much. What I want is this: I al ways wanted to make some friends in your country through letter-writings. But I did not know how to do it. Recently, however, I was told by the Youth Council for International Contact that the best way is to write to the newspaper and gave me your name. So, I am writing this letter to you. If you can insert this letter some where in your pages so that I can start communica tions with your readers, I would appreciate it very much. If such insertion was not able to be done, then may I ask you to pass this letter to some schools or cultural organization or some indi viduals? That will help me. Let me" introduce myself briefly: I am 17 year old Japanese girl and am attend ing high school. Teruko Hasegawa 54 Saikaishi-cho Awata, Higashiyama-ku Kyoto, Japan Reo Record To the Editor: A former Medford resident passed through Medford the other day on his way East. I did not get to see him, but he was inquiring about the man Matter of Fact Bv Joseph Alsep OPERATING ON EZRA Washihgton-"Let's not be coming up with our scheme, Herman, until we've had a chance to op erate on Ez ra." The mak er of this c h eerf ully b 1 o o dthirsty remark was Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, in council with his new ally, Talmadge of Ezra destined Joseph Alsop Sen. Herman Georgia. The for the operating table was of course the nation's leading Ezra, Secretary of Agricul ture Benson. The operation is likely to be performed with out sloppy concessions to sen t i m e n t a 1 humanitarianism timental humanitarianism, Hatchets will be the instru ments employed. - Secretary Benson is ripe for the operating table because his farm program has finally got absolutely out of hand. A few comparisons tell the fair ly horrendous story. IlfHEN all conservative per- sons were aroused by the extravagant farm subsidies paid by the Truman spenders, the total cost of the subsidies never passed $1,250,000,000. Again, the Brannan Plan was expected to strangle Ameri can agriculture in the em brace of creeping socialism and bankrupt the American! Treasury in the same breath. But the Brannan Plan's total estimated cost was no more than about $2,000,000,000 -and this would have covered all the planned wickedness. In contrast, the conserva tive, sound-dollar, free enter prise policies of Secretary Benson have produced .a re quest for just under $7,000, 000,000 of agricultural appro priations next year. The $9,000,000,000 worth of sur pluses the Utah free enter priser - has managed to ac cumulate will cost above $1,250,000,000 in mere stor age and handling .charges-a larger sum than the spender, Truman, ever paid out to the farmers themselves. Since the spenders were driven out of the Agriculture Department in 1953, administrative costs have , also risen by close to 900 per cent. And the Utah free enterpriser's bill for farm subsidies next year is in the neighborhood of $4,000,000, 000, or about twice the esti mate cost of the nefarious Brannan Plan. "EWEN the farm-state Sena- " tors, never before accus tomed to be .tender in their dealings with the public purse, have begun to be alarmed by this monstrous inflation of the expense of the . farm program. So they are not merely preparing to "operate on Ezra"; they are also getting ready a substitute program of their own. The groundwork is being done by the administrative assistants of Sens. Talmadge, Humphrey, Symington of Mis souri, and Proxmire of Wis consin. Sen. Talmadge, one of the sharpest intellects in the modern Senate, is the main director and inspirer of the effort. Since the Congress is rarely able to impose brand new major policies on the ex ecutive branch, it is doubtful whether the effort of the four Senators will bear immediate legislative fruit. But even if the bill they are preparing does not pass, it is virtually certain to become the Demo cratic farm plank in 1960 Omitting the technicalities, the four-senator scheme is simple enough. Existing spe cial schemes for tobacco, wool, and other special crops, will be retained. But all other crop controls will be jettison ed, and all the main crops will be sold on the free mar ket, at home and abroad. Sub sidies in the from of parity payments will then be given to producers of wheat, cot ton, rice, peanuts, corn, and milk. But only on that share who drove the old Reo auto mobile. I drove this old car, when I was going to high school in Ashland. Many people re member it, and many people rode in it. It was my first taxi car. It had pasteboard doors and body, and came equipped with high pressure tires. Every day we had a boom and a bust. We stopped that. We installed hard rub ber tires. They shook the pasteboard doors off the card board body and the cardboard body off the tin chassis. We did something about that too. Some of my teen age friends helped me install a spare porcelain bathtub on the car. The next day after we installed the tub on the tin chassis, I made the first of my many records. I am the first person in the world to hit a cow with a 35 horse power porcelain bathtub. I am the first person in the world to fall out of their portable porcelain bathtub into their cow pasture. Everett Acklin, Ashland of their crop consumed in this country. IN OTHER words, if our wheat output is a billion bushels, and America con sumes half a billion bushels of this output, a farmer who produces 1,000 bushels of wheat will receive subsidies to. bring the price of half his crop up to 100 per cent of the sacred and mythical "pari ty" price. Special arrange ments are provided to liqui date the Utah free enterpris er's staggering surplus stores in a gradual manner. Above all, it is provided that no individual farmer may re ceive a subsidy-payment in ex cess of $12,500. Mainly be cause the big farmers are left to shift for themselves, the whole scheme is estimated to cost only about $2,000,000,000 at present prices, or half the cost of subsidies requested by Benson. . The scheme's real interest lies in its single-mindedness. It is solely designed to pre serve and assist a sorely en dangered American asset, our independent farming popula tion. Socially, biologically, his torically, this is a name well worth national investment. All previous farm programs, Science Teachers' Salaries Compared With Secretaries' By FRANK ELEAZER Washington - (UPD - No case was cited wherein a high school physics or chemistry teacher has quit his job to run errands for Congress. But there did seem to be a connec tion somewhere. The witnesses said most states have lifted the starting salaries for such teachers to maybe $3,600 or even $3,800 a year. Though they didn't say so, a congressional page is paid at the rate of $4,047. As everybody knows, there is a shortage of scientists. The only way to get more is to teach them. Unfortunately there also is a shortage of science teachers and the testi mony was that maybe half of those now on the job don't know their business. The House Space Commit tee was exploring their prob lem with Dr. Herbert A Smith, president of the Na tional Science Teachers As sociation, and Robert H. Carleton, the association's executive secretary. Discuss Use of Paddle Besides the low starting pay, they listed a number of current headaches in the teaching game. Included in Dr. Smith's qualified view, was a possible need for occa sional use of the paddle on students who don't get pad dled at home. But the talk kept return ing to money. Carleton said good science teachers ought to get, eventually, $10,000 or $12,000 a year. He didn't say specifically what's the most they can hope for. But he said the average pay for all high school teachers hit $5,000 for the first time last year. "You gentlemen know how much you have to pay to hire secretaries," said Carleton, putting his finger, however innocently, on a very sore spot. Not only did the space com mittee members know. So did just about everybody else in the country who can read. It's been in all the papers for days how hard it is for con PRICE can't replace 'service" ....... PRICE can't replace TO" BE SURE OF DEPENDABLE SERVICE REGARDLESS OF PRICE Aoeu horn th Courthouse WANK MORGAN . HAROLD SNODGRASS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT .jjllsll TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 26. 1907 Governor Chamberlain to day vetoed the road bill in troduced by Senator John son of Benton County. Th bill provided for stale,; county and local coopera tion in permanent road im provement. It carried an ap proriation of $200,000, but the governor expressed the opinion that it would cost the state $400,000 for the year 1908-09. The governor' had several objections to the neasure and complain ed that the legislature was making large appropria tions without providing for the necessary additional taxation. having no limitation on the subsidy check, have instead mainly assisted the big, semi industrial farmers. This one is shaped to aid only the family-sized farm. Whether or not the scheme's machinery is well-designed, its principle is surely correct. Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. gressmen to get adequate help. Wives On Payroll Rep. Leonard G. Wolf (D- Iowa), one of the space men. had found it necessary, for in stance, to pay $13,344 a year to get a qualified helper, in the person of Mrs. Leonard G. Wolf, his wife. Rep. George P. Miller (D Calif.), another member of the space group, had got out a little lighter than Wolf. His wife, Mrs. Esther P. Miller, agreed to work for $10,042. Plenty of House members have to pay their chief assist ants $-13,344, the maximum allowed in the House, and a bill is in the works now to raise the top pay to $14,162. A senator can pay as much as $16,300. No doubt Carleton has been too busy trying to scare up new science teachers to read much about such things as this in the papers. Otherwise, I'm sure he wouldn't have brought up the subject. " ; Reynolds Fraud Hearing Delayed San Francisco -(UPD- The Se curity and Exchange commis sion hearing against Reynolds and company on charges of "fraud and forgery" has been postponed until April 14. The hearing met briefly on Wednesday and disposed of a few minor matters before examiner Robert N. Hislop adjourned the meeting. v Hislop said that lengthy stipulations in the case are to be completed and filed in the Washington, D. C. headquar ters of the SEC before March 16. He explained that they will then become public rec ord and will be served on all interested parties. Reynolds and company and Cleek-Tindell of Spokane, Wash., have been accused of fraud, deceit and forgery in the handling of the uranium stock of U&I Inc. dignity" PRICE can't replace "perfection" PHONE SP 2-6030
