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4 Tuesday, Mareli 3, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORD Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MUJfURD FKl.Mi.Nb LU. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBE.F.T W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN Jit, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHPJIAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.Z0 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 $13.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper or Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine 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)CTIN 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 March 3, 1949 (Thursday) Teamsters plan to organize workers in local pear packing plants. Ashland city councilmen move toward a compromise solution of that city's contro versy over creating and filling municipal vacancies. 20 YEARS AGO March 3. 1939 (Friday) Dr. M. A. Miller, Phoenix, reports he has a sow that gave birth to 79 piglets in five lit ters over the past two and a half years. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Alas ka mink for a mink farm here have arrived. Valley jackrab bits declare this is unfair com petition, and prevents them from going to a mink coat when they die." 30 YEARS AGO March 3. 1929 (Sunday) Revival services at Reese creek draw large crowds. Solons at Salem breath a sigh of relief as the Legisla ture closes up shop. 40 YEARS AGO March 3. 1919 (Monday) Jollification and speeches fill the air as Medford greets returning doughboys. A truck piled high with household goods becomes mired in mud near Gold Hill and defies efforts at extrica tion. 50 YEARS AGO March 3, 1909 (Wednesday) Crater Lake road boosters descend on Jacksonville to coax the needed $50,000 ap propriation from the county court. Pacific Telephone com pany's construction foreman arrives to supervise installa tion of new equipment. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Before blotting paper was invented, what substance was used to take up excess ink? . 2. Who said, "I am not a Virginian but an American."? 3. Does the warden of a prison have the right to re prieve or commute a prison er s sentence? 4. Lake Champlain lies be tween which two states? 5. Correct the following: "The book sets on the table." 6. On what sort of surface is the game of curling played? 7. With what form of popu lar amusement do you associ ate the name of Edmund Hoyle? 8. Are polar bears found in the North, or South, polar region? 9. In what city is the fam ed St. Peter's Basilica? 10. Is ambergris (used in the perfumery industry) ob tained from musk oxen, am ber, whales, or skunks? Answers: 1. Sand. 2. Patrick Henry. 3. No. 4. New York and Vermont. 5. "The book sits on the table." 6. Ice. 7. Card playing. 8. North. 9. Vatican City. 10. Whales. Tn Louisiana many of the old French laws of pioneer rfavc arp still in force and a considerable part of the pop ulation still speaks French as much as English. The Commune Zoo On Edward R. Murrow's "Small World" tele vision program the other jects of discussion was organizations for regimented living in Red China. Few if any American observers have been able to visit and study them. Not one of the three panel members Joseph Alsop, Lord Robert Boothby, and Han Su Yin has personally seen the communes in action. The only reports the west has received have come through the Red press, or from "neutral" observers. One such recently was Dr. Sripati Chandra sekhar, an eminent Indian social scientist, who spent some time in China, and returned with a detailed report of what CCORDING to the New York Times, which published Dr. Chandrasekhar's report, the workers living in the communes are provided with food, clothing, transportation to work, housing, medical care, and other services. They work all day and get lectures and "self abasement sessions" at night, and are always subject to the "incessant voice of the radio from Peiping." Dr. Chandrasekhar added : "This is the commune, where human beings are re duced to the level of inmates in a zoo. But there is a dif ference. The animals in a zoo do not have to work hard and, what is more, they do not have to listen to the quasi-compulsory radio. The lack of peace and quiet in the countryside, where one can retire and reflect, and the lack of privacy and solitude are to me more ter rifying than all the hells put together." TN THE absence of one-the-spot reports from American reporters (most of whom have been kept out of China bv the combination of a short sighted policy of the U. the harassment of Red must take at face value fied observers as Dr. Chandrasekhar. It is not a pretty picture' they paint. Such'human degredation of the soul and spirit are abhorrent to American tradition. And, if Joe Alsop is right, it will become equally abhorrent to the Chinese, given time. New Hazard As every parent knows, there are a thousand things which can be dangerous to small children -needles and pins, buttons, electrical outlets, knives, toys, stairs, abandoned ice-boxes, tools, automobiles, strange dogs, to name only a few. Most of these hazards are recognized, and their danger to little ones mitigated by parental watchfulness and precautions. There are some hazards, however, that don't look like hazards, and are erous. ")NE new one has shown up recently, a result of technical developments. It looks so innocent that few would even recognize it as a hazard. We refer to the thin, tic film which is formed into bags, and is usually seen as covering for clothes coming back from the dry cleaners, or as packaging for a variety of products, from1 shirts to inis newspaper carried a nine siory poinung out the hazard some weeks ago, but one of our subscribers believes the danger should be widely circulated so that parents of small children will be aware of the danger. THIS is the problem : The thin, transparent material is attractive to small children. They like to play with it, hold it up and look through it, and so on. But it will develop a small electrical charge as it is handled the same type of electrical charge which affects a comb when it is rubbed, and which will then attract light objects. The plastic, when so charged, will cling. And if it happens to be near a and stick to the face with as one medical man put it, effectively shutting off air from the nose and mouth. Babies do not have the quickness of mind or coordination to escape, and throughout the nation have come re ports of many deaths by suffocation. E.A. Tricky Wording A telephone call from a subscriber threw us into a state of confusion yesterday. She asked for an explanation of one item in last Sunday's " What's Your I. Q.?" feature. It took a little do ing, but we've got the answer. The question was this : If a pen and ink cost sixty cents, and the pen costs fifty cents more than the ink, what does the ink cost? At first reading, one would be apt to think the answer should be ten cents. But the wording is tricky. JET'S go at it this way: "- The puzzle doesn't say the pen cost fifty cents-; it said it cost fifty cents more than the ink. If the ink cost ten cents, and the pen fifty cents more than the ink, the pen alone would cost sixty cents (ten plus fifty). But we are told that both together cost sixty cents. Therefore the ink must cost five cents, and the pen fifty-five cents (that is, fifty cents more than the ink) , for a total of sixty cents. Everyone straightened away now ? E. A night, one of the sub the communes the new he saw. S. state department and Chinese red tape), one the reports of such quali E.A. therefore doubly dang gauzy, transparent plas cauln lower. child's face, it can cover a diabolical tenacity. Dennis the I'M STILL SO EXCITED ABOUT HARDLY KNOW WrWT IM uQiNQ Washington Report By WILLIAM ARE WE MATURE Washington What is the truly significant news from Washington? It is not the pos- 1 turings of those seeking petty mean, 1 personal po litical or party advantage for the President- 4 ial e 1 e c tion year ot iaeu. It is not the run nintt Hp- Wllllam S. , . White bate over "spending" and "savin g," though this is not unimport ant. And it is not even the fact that the world may be apr proaching the ultimate war over the determination of the Russians to drive the West Allies out of vital German positions bought long ago with so much Allied blood. No, none of this is the real news from Washington. And though only a happy fool could describe the real news as good news, it may fairly be called decent news and, in its way, actually hearten ing. It is this: WE HAVE reached, in this crisis, a political maturity that we have not known be fore, in this generation at least, in any time of such peril. Indeed, there are grounds to suspect that this new maturity an obvious adulthood among our leaders and perhaps even among most of our citizens may actually be the true "conformism" of 1959. To be sure, there is soft ness in that conformism. And it may be that among some there is too great an interest in the country club and too little in the country. But it begins to look possible that this is one of the compara tively small prices we have paid for the larger political maturity that is ours. For if too many people are over-relaxed, far fewer than in the past are over-tense. If fewer dreams are being dreamed, far fewer witches are being burned. Never be fore, in any comparably menacing hour in this century, for example, has national dis cussion over what ought to be done been so free of the "either-or" mind. (This was the mind that used to want to call the police or the FBI when the neighbor disagreed.) And while it is a fact that we have little politicians seek ing to forward themselves by dividing the country on shrill and relatively minor issues, the wonder is not that there are so many of these, but rath er that there are so very few. And the higher wonder is that they have had such piddling success. Tlf ANY believe the Eisen- 1TA hower Administration to have been weak most of the time. This correspondent, for one, has been so convinced, and he does not take back this conviction. But the Eisenhow- er Administration, in these days, deserves the support of every American willing to put his country above himself, his ambitions, and even his no doubt far superior ideas as to how things really ought to be run. And the Eisenhower Admin istration is receiving just that kind of support, particularly from Congress. For if the Ad ministration has not been strong in the past, it surely is strong now in its cold-war policy as we as a nation look in anxiety but in resolution across the region of the Rhine. It is not impossible that some of this new strength is being drawn from a nation now showing itself to be grown up at its core, if a bit squashy i V,. - SS 45 i and dipsy-doodle around the edges. And even if one thinks the Menace m IS THE 045, HENf?y, THAT I THESfc VMS'' S. WHITE Administratiop is still not as strong as it ought to be, Con gress hearteningly and al most amazingly ' strong the Democratic side and the Re publican side alike. VTOBODY hears now the ill- thought and irresponsible Congressional backseat clam ors do this, don't do that, turn this way, veer that way that the whole country heard from the Capitol when inescapable decency was re quiring us to stand up at last against Hitler. Better yet, no body hears now from Congres sional floors voices 'imputing treason to honorable men for different views, as we all heard from those forums in the Korean war. The crackpot far-right wing has gone from our national political life. A remnant of the crackpot left wing is still around, but it amounts to little any more. In a word, the earnest opinion of one reason ably skeptical political writer is that every man in any gen uinely responsible place in the Administration and in Congress is doing his duty and accepting his responsibility, including the responsibility of self-restraint, like a man. This, then, is the news from Washington. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words Knowledge From Parents To the Editor: With my most enjoyable moments here in our pioneering adventure at the pine and oak studded cor ner of Gregory and Pinehurst, is the revealing information of nature's ,own children's conduct in the simple obeying of nature's own children's a flock of noisy ducks, grow ing noisier with signs of re turning springtime. The clam or was loudest with the bring ing of their breakfast as day light glowed to the east. Some of them would stand with spinning wings so like the pro pellors of a warming up plane. The big white Pekins were soon showing their inherited polygamous traits. They were sold "down - the - river" to the poultryman. The mallard shows early signs of segrega tion. Soon two of the drakes were being followed by two hen-ducks each which seemed to please ttie males mightily as it does all males. That left three mallard bachelors who seemed to accept their isola tion with the usual duck cheerfulness. It's a regretful, mean task to consign them to the deep-freeze. But such it is on the farm. Three of the hen-ducks lay their large white and green eggs around the edge of the little pond that is being drain ed for excavating. But the fourth one has accepted the hide-away we prepared, bury ing each egg down in the damp chill ground, hid away from the sharp-eyed pilfering jay-birds, civit-cats and other varmints. Such careful proce dure aiso noias incuDauon in abeyance until there is a suffi cient number for the all im portant chore, when they will be billed up among the litter of grass and leaves for hatch ing. Where did this young hen duck, (hatched last June) gain this knowledge, which is real ly wisdom that is of purely birthright giving? It was giv en her by parental-acquired knowledge of trial and error of countless generations of her kind. Now this will be con- Legislative Tabling or Editor's note: The follow ing story, reprinted - from the Salem Capital-Journal, is by thai newspapers' poli tical editor, Douglas Sey mour. It explains a little understood function of the committees of the legisla ture, that of tabling or "killing" bills which it be lieves are bad legislation. It is reprinted slightly con densed. By DOUGLAS SEYMOUR Capital Journal Political Editor Some were introduced with fanfare, others were quietly slipped into the hopper; some were close to the heart of their sponsor, others were in troduced at the request of some other person or group and actually meant little to the person who introduced them, but all of the bills which have been tabled by the various committees of the le gislature have one thing in common they are dead for this session, unless the com mittees have a change of heart. For weeding out bills which committees feel have little merit is as much a part of the legislative process as adding new laws to the books. The casual observer has lit tle idea of the way lawmak ing works. 'What're They Up To?' When he reads or hears "The legislature was in session for 40 minutes today" there is a tendency to say "What are those characters doing up there anyway?" Actually most people do not realize that the hard work in the le gislature is done in the com mittees where hearings are held on proposed new laws when any person can give his views. People with particular in terest in bills, lobbyists, state officials and just plain citi zens give their views and are questioned, many times very closely, by the committee members. Then the committee discusses the proposal, hash ing over the meaning of every word and phrase for the meaning of the entire propos al could be changed by s demned as rank heresy by higher echelons in biology who hold that acquired paren tal knowledge of the parent cannot be transmitted to their offspring. Well, they can hold it. My hold will continue on lowly but dependable grass root kind, rather than that of book theory. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Bulldozer No Answer To the Editor: Over the years since the advent of the wonderful claims made both pro and con for the effectual use of the modern "bulldozer" to determine the prospecting value of quartz ledges, is still in great odds in comparison to the usual old reliable method of taking hand sampling from the "strong arm" of pick and shovel days. Having observed a number of years ago the results of the mechanized system on quite an extensive scale on a gold quartz lead situated in Siski you county, California, show ed very easily that much re maining virgin ground below the stripping for some dis tance had been covered too deep to do any post-hole dig ging for further determina tion to locate any hidden stringers that may be connect ed onto the main ledge. The sad results are, any fu ture prospecting is hampered because of mixed up confus ion. The "bulldozer" is not the infallible answer then. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman St. Medford. Slow Burn To the Editor: Having read the article in the Wednesday Tribune concerning the school consolidation, I have been coming to a slow burn. I am primarily referring to the Phoenix district. It seems obvious to me that the feel ings of the majority of the people were clearly stated in a poll taken a few weeks ago. I personally would like to keep the Phoenix district as it is now, but since it seems we must consolidate, the pref erence for Talent was made quite clear by myself as well as a good many other people. I would like Mr. Beddoe to clarify his statement as to what constitutes a leading cit izen and the majority, which he definitely did not .repre sent. Our children, in my opin ion, lose their individuality, as well as a fine agricultural program which we now have at Phoenix. We would not lose this in a Talent consoli dation. Let us, the real majority of the Phoenix district, make ourselves heard before we get railroaded into something that none of us want. Donald E. Fredenburg 341 South Stage rd. Medford. Committees Have Chore of 'Killing' wrong word It is then the committee de cides to recommend to its house that the bill pass, or ta ble the measure, which means it will not receive further con sideration or delay any action on it. Although debate on a meas ure when it is being consid ered by the entire member ship of one of the houses of the legislature may be articu late and eloquent, more times than not it has little effect on the way the vote will go. Work Important The importance of the work done by the committees has led one freshman legislator to observe that much of the for mal session was a waste of time. The tempo of committee work is increasing, with well over a thousand measures now introduced. Hearings go through the day and into the night with at least two or three groups meeting every evening. Some are recom mended for approval while others find their place on the committee tables. First of the measures to fall by the wayside was a propos al that women dye their hair red for the Oregon Centen nial. Since then 70 other measures have been put on the table by committees rang ing from matters such as al lowing an employee time off from his job so that he will have up to four hours to vote, to increasing the pay of cir cuit judges to $15,000 a year. An example of one reason a bill is sometimes tabled is the action taken by the Senate State and Federal Affairs committee in setting aside a bill to create a legislative fis cal officer and the committee in choosing between the two -which did virtually the same thing - decided for the measure which had been pro posed by its interim commit tee. Half Have Tabled Bills Exactly half of the 40 com mittees in the legislature have thus far tabled bills which have come before them. To date the House Judiciary com mittee is the leader in tabling bills which it has considered Included among the eight it has put aside are measures which would have prevented dentists from advertising, pro vided for permission for alco hol tests for drivers at any time after they get an opera tor s license, establishing a statewide curfew and allowing children over 16 years old to smoke. The House Highway com mittee has put seven measures on the table including one which would have required buses to have an exhaust pipe discharge fumes from above the top of the body of the ve hide. A similar number of bills Diamond Lake Camp Soap Sales Start The YMCA Diamond Lake Camp soap sales began Satur day, Feb. 28, Herb Partridge, camp director, has announced Any member of the YMCA or non-member may sell soap in order to earn part or all of his way to camp. Any boy or girl who is 8 years old or older may sell soap. Fifty per cent of the purchase price for each box of soap goes toward the camping fee for the sales man. Any youngster who wants to sell soap must first have a parent sign a soap sales con tract. When this contract is on file at the YMCA the youngster can check out a case of soap. A youngster who sells four cases of soap earns a full week at Diamond Lake Camp. Last year more than 60 boys earn ed all or part of their way to camp by this means. Additional information on the soap sales can be obtain ed at the YMCA. Mrs. Luce 'Happy' Over Bazilian Post Phoenix-IUPD- Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, commenting for the first time publicly on Pres ident Eisenhower's nomina tion of her as U. S. ambassa dor to Brazil, says she is "tre mendously pleased the post is in that country." The former ambassador to Italy (1953-57) and wife of magazine tycoon Henry Luce said at her winter home here Monday that she would try to carry on the fine work of Ambassador Ellis Briggs in Brazil. "This magnificent land (Brazil) has always challeng ed the imagination of Ameri cans of the north as well as the south," she said. "Cer tainly if the history of our western hemisphere is going to be a fruitful one, we must hope that Brazil and the United States will always work harmoniously in this undertaking." Bad Proposals have been tabled by the House Alcoholic Control com mittee. Among the measures rejected are ones which would allow a 10 per cent dis count to purchasers of 60 or more bottles of liquor and one to permit the sale of beer by the keg by taverns. Fish Bills Killed Among the six bills reject ed by the House Fish and Game committee are those which would allow the gover nor to extend the hunting season if he has been forced to delay its opening; require a license to fish in the ocean, merge Fish and Game com missions into one agency rath er than the two separate bod ies presently in existence and make "it unlawful to catch steelhead in the Columbia riv er during February except with a hook and line. A bill tabled by the Senate Labor and Industries commit tee would have brought nurs Matter of Fact ONLY 150! Offutt Air Force Base, Om aha, Neb.-If the National In telligence estimates are just no more than n o rmally wrong, this country may soon be nak edly exposed t o something infinite ly worse than Pearl Harbor. Only one 1 " A 4nsph Alsop imm e a i a i e measure can be taken to re duce the risk. The Strategic Air Command can be ordered to mount an immediate, max imum air-borne alert. SAC's brilliant commander, Gen. Thomas S. Power, has already begged the authori ties in Washington to put SAC on an air-borne alert status. But mounting a con tinuing air-borne alert will cost money. Hence Gen. Pow er has been turned down, for the usual budgetary reasons. These are the terrible facts that have been all but burned into this reporter's mind, dur ing his days here, in the head quarters of the great deter rent force that carries the main burden of guarding the United States and the free world. The grim mathematics that prove the facts, are in deed that, and not mere fig ments from a nightmare, can be summarized as follows: "CURST, SAC is already main taining a 15-minute ground alert of one-third of its air craft, but the existing warn ing system does not "see mis siles. The new missile-seeing radars will not be in position until 1961, on present projec tions. Thus SAC now has zero warning against a Soviet sur prise attack with ballistic mis siles. In these circumstances, the whole SAC force can be surprised on the ground if the Soviet has the missiles to do the job. Second, the Pentagon lead ers have admitted in their re cent testimony that the So viets may well have enough medium ranget ballistic mis siles to destroy all of SAC's overseas bases. Third, only one question then remains: whether SAC's bases in this hemisphere are equally vulnerable. The num ber of Soviet ICBMs needed to strike at this hemisphere is proportional, of course, to the target system. Most prob ably the Soviets would wish their first strike to destroy all of SAC's 30-odd bases on this side of the Atlantic, plus the national command post in Washington, plus the main nodes of the communications net of the American Air De fense Command (in order to clear the way for a potential Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. es, nurses aids, laboratory technicians and social welfare workers under unemployment compensation. The House Elections com mittee put aside a measure which would have required an elected official to resign from his job if he decided to run for another office before he had completed his term. Judiciary Bill One of the five measures which has been tabled by the Senate Judiciary committee would have put a person re leased from Falrview Home under the jurisdiction of the county from which he was a resident before he was com mitted. A measure which would have established a tax super vising and conservation com mission in Marion county as well as all others in the state over 50,000 was among those tabled by the Senation Tax ation committee. By Joseph Alsop second strike with aircraft). This gives a total of approxi mately 50 targets, all of them completely "soft." Assuming 33 '3 per cent reliability for the Soviet ICBM, a stock of 1550 missiles would be enough for the purpose. On the basis of the Nation al Intelligence estimates, the President and the Pentagon leaders alike assert that the Soviets uo not have this stock of ICBMs at the present time. On the face of the known facts, the arguments for this estimate appear less strong than the arguments against it. For example, the only sensi ble explanation for the shut down of output of the "Bison" bomber is the conversion of the Soviet's heavy bomber factories to ICBM production. In addition, it is well to re member the persistent opti mistic errors in previous na tional estimates. F. ANY case, the Tightness or wrongness of the esti mates does not need to be ar gued. The whole American future is now being gambled on a guess that the Soviets do not have a few score weap ons, which they have the means to produce and have been working desperately hard to produce. Whether the guess is good or bad, this is a criminal gamble. Only the same psychology that begot Pearl Harbor would permit such a gamble, and especially after this country has receiv ed the clearest kind of strate gic warning at Berlin. While we have zero tactical warning, and no missiles of our own in hard pads, there is only one way to reduce the gamble. The maximum feasi ble percentage of SAC's great force must be kept in the air, with targets assigned, bombs aboard and ready to go. The word maximum needs to be emphasized, since the much easier and cheaper sort of air alert confined to SAC's B-52 squadrons will provide no more than "minimum deter rence" which is not real de terrence.. The cost, though . . i -ii i j consiaeraoie, win De unaer one billion a year; but intense efforts will also be needed to increase the flow to SAC of replacement parts, spare crews, jet tankers to improve the B-47 capability, etc. It seems a small price to pay, when you remember General Power's remark that "Pearl Harbor, though a high ly successful surprise, was really like stamping on a strong man's little finger." The surprise we are now risk ing would not just mean the beginning of an ultimately victorious war. It would mean the end of these United States. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) MEN FOR SALE! Actually when shopping for insurance you select the agent who buys it for you. Our experience, with no side lines enables us to spend your dollars wisely. Bill Fish if in --wm-i innA Efc Til
