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4 Thursday, March 5. 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDs?eTBIBUKE "Everyone ic Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by M7J3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North f'ii St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBH.PT W RUHL, Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor , EARL H ADAMS. City. Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. CirculaUon Mi?r An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter al Midforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8,00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday 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 Doily and SuniLsy 1 mo 150 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Papr of City at Medford Official Papei of Jackson County Uaited Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBEHOF 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 RATION At EDITORIAL 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 5. 1949 (Saturday) The Legislature's House state and federal affairs com mittee holds a lively" hearing on a bill that would lift the Rogue river dam ban and per mit a dam at Lewis creek . Thirty plasterers and six- painters from local unions do nate their time for work on the new YMCA building. 20 YEARS AGO March 5, 1939 (Sunday) Six new members swell the ranks of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland association. For Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The new grass is coming up fast . fine in the rural areas, and is much sought after by heifers and bullocks, and lithe young lambs." 30 YEARS AGO March 5. 1929 (Tuesday) Mrs. F.D.R. expresses ap proval of President Hoover's stand on prohibition. Medford stores hold a spring style show. 40 YEARS 'AGO March 5, 1919 (Wednesday) Congress adjourns without providing relief for farmers or railroads. The collection at the Pres byterian church totals $250. over 50 YEARS AGO March 5, 1909 (Friday) Medford residents' paving petitions are referred to the city council's street commit .tee. . County Commissioners Ow and Patterson postpone ens action on the Crater Lake road appropriation until March 20. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The game of polo is . played with a ball made from ivory, cork, or wood? x 2. Is the obverse side of a coin the front or back of the coin? 3. How many times does the word "America" appear ' in ' the stanzas of "My country 'tis of thee"? 4. In what historical novel is an exciting chariot race des cribed? 5. Name the capital of North Carolina. 6. What species of bird can fly backwards, and stand still in midair? 7. Would you most likely expect to meet a Pasha in Yugoslavia, Egypt, Indonesia, or Peru? 8. How many masts has a brig? 9. If some one gave you a stirrup cup, would you get a hunting horn, a drink, or a prize award? 10. .If a kernel of corn is planted two inches deep and it grows one-half the distance to the surface the first night, and continues to grow one-half the remaining distance each night how long will it take it to sprout? Answers: 1 Wood. 2. Front. 3. Does not appear at all. 4. "Ben ..Hur." 5. Raleigh. 6. Humminghird. 7. Egypt. 8. Two. 9. Drink. 10. It sprouts the- first night. Children and Five Mew Five Americans are in jails in Communist China. Their only crime, as far as anyone this side of the water knows, was to fall afoul of the se curity mechanisms of the Red regime. They have been accused of spying, and jailed for sentences ranging up to life. Their names are Richard Fecteau, John Dow ney, Hugh Redmond and Robert McCann, all businessmen or government employees, and Bish op James Walsh, a Maryknoll missionary. The United States government has repeatedly attempted to secure their release, without avail. , UP IN Eugene a man named Robert W. Prescott It line Kornrno rrt nckr nA nnfli V i c cifnoirr He has done considerable research on the men, the instances in which they were captured and imprisoned and has given thought to how they could be released. He feels the government has done all it can from a "position of strength." He now suggests that "Only frailty is left to get them home before they die." He adds: "And when one thinks of frailty, one thinks of a child and his capacity to act and to influence others when an injustice has been done. Working from the position of frailty our children can get these men home." H IS ideas appeared in the Eugene Register "Perhaps . children cannot immediately influence Peiping, but there is the rest of the world for-them to influence. ... . "There is a vast audience in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, all Islam. And in the non-communist world mercy and compassion mean something and our children can ask for it . . . "There is a redemptive character to children. No one can resist a child engaged in an act of redemption, and in time, if children elect to take the lives of these men under their protection, the men will live and they will come home. Even Peiping will find it more con venient to return our people. "The question is, assuming we elect to act as in dividuals, what comes first? "Probably the answer is here to take our children aside and acquaint them with the problem. We can dis cuss the inner meaning of this problem in the homes and in small groups, possibly even the schools or the churches, and without cynicism merely give them the ' problem and see what they do with it. "They will probably write letters and the letters they will write will be much better than ours. They will state the names of the men, why they have been there all these years, and come in a rather abrupt way to the point, requesting help in getting them home. This help will be in the form of more letters from more children. The letters will be written to all accessible points of the earth, to editors, heads of government, politicians and statesmen, scientists, religious leaders, teachers. "Not having learned the arts of adult hypocrisy the children will not preach or scold or judge. While the rest of us might be. inclined to write very learned tracts on morality and justice, a child's misspelled and pencil-scrawled letter will come to the point: Mercy. ". . . Children are the one thing we have in common with the rest of the world." . DRESCOTT urges no high-pressure campaign to effectuate his suggestion. He presents his idealistic proposal as something about which he has thought and, if wTe read him aright, prayed. It would be sort of a lit a spark and resulted in his envisioned flood of letters, and if this flood of letters succeeded in swaying the Peiping regime. It is said that the age haps it is. But if it isn't, to happen. E.A. Momentous Question There may be some deep and significant rea son why Congress is now engaged in attempting to select a national flower. But if there is, it has escaped us. Proponents of various flowers have come forth to argue the excellences to dende the choices of other floral supporters. The rose has been prominently mentioned. So has the corn tassel. The carnation has been laud ed, as has'blue grass. With considerable sense, two Oregon news papers, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Bend Bulletin, suggest the dandelion's ubiquity and hardihood be honored by its selection as the na tional flower. , ' 17NGLAND has its roses, France its fleurs de lys, " the Tyrol its edelweiss, Japan its chrysanthe- !mum, and so on. Oregon A t- c luigct-mc-uui, auu umci isiaica nave other flowers, including Texas's yellow rose or, if purists insist, the blue bonnet. So, perhaps it is natural for the Congress to debate this problem. . . But it occurs to us that the United States has struggled along for some 170 years without a na tipnal flower. Perhaps it will survive even if Con gress can't make up its mind (which appears probable), and permits its constituents to con tinue admiring the flowers of their own choice. " E.A. Kapers' Double Purpose The annual presentation of the Kiwanis Ka pers .will be repeated tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night. It's good fun, but more than that, it has a ser ious purpose. This is a money-raising project, as well as an event which is fun for both spectators and participants alike: Some three-fourths of the proceeds will go to underwrite the Kiwanis club's children's free den tal clinic. Other funds go for operations, glasses, and other necessities for children who otherwise would have difficulty obtaining "them. Some $5,000 is anticipated as revenue from the Kapers. That will f ix a lot of. teeth. E.A. two articles published by - Guard. We quote: miracle if his suggestion of miracles is over. Per here is a miracle waiting of their candidates, and has the Oregon grape, 4- ,-- 1, . Dennis the W SUMMED TUB DOOR WO FAST!' Matter of Fact The Smug Risk-Takers ' Washington Vivid impres sions sometimes painfully vivid impressions-are the us ual result of first hand ex perience. A n outsize airplane-load o f such impres sions was the i result of this reporter's vis it to the Stra tegic Air Com- j m Joseph AJsop mdiiu. awu among them stand out with special vividness. On the one hand anyone at all who visits SAC is bound to be impressed by the sheer magnificence of this great force. But on the other hand, any reasonably sharp-eyed visitor is also bound to be struck by the risks our na tional policy-makers have been smugly taking in these last years. Another report has describ ed the greatest and most inex cusible of these risks-the fail ure to mount an air-borne alert of SAC while we have zero warning of a potential Soviet missle-strike. But that is by no means, the end of the distasteful story, indeed, it is fairly surprising that the qual ity of SAC has not been im paired already. Quality nor mally suffers when a force is simultaneously burdened with an almost unbearable respon sibility, and denied the means for carrying this responsibil ity with the fullest assurance of success. THE moment when SAC's re sponsibility became all but unbearable was the moment, in the late autumn of 1953, when the Eisenhower admin istration decided that a bal anced defense would cost too much. "The new look" that was then taken, the subse quent reliance on "a. bigger bang for a buck," really meant concentrating most of the burden of safeguarding this country and the free w.orld on SAC's shoulders. The degree of concentration is revealed by a single statis tic. We now enjoy what is ironically called nuclear plen ty; but even today, 90 per cent of our nuclear weapons are assigned to SAC. You might therefore sup pose that no pains or expense would have been spared to maintain SAC in the highest possible condition of fighting readiness. But any such sup position would in fact be grossly incorrect. Without en tering into the follies and in sufficiencies of the missile programs, it is only necessary to look at SAC's status as a great offensive air force. ANY such look immediate ly reveals a whole series of easily remediable deficien cies, which have been allowed to arise because the remedies cost money. They begin at the center, in the big, theor etically bomb-proof under- Try end L f ' 4 5 (I LMi -By BENNETT CERF- "T'LL TELL YOU how tough the new district attorney in our -I county is,' boasted Legal Eagle Engelbrecht. "In a speech at a banquet this D. A. pointed three times at the audience, and the next morning three of our leading citizens beat it out of town!" A Texas soft-drink mag nate initiated a prize con test for undergraduates. First prize went to the youngster who submitted three box-tops, and a short piece beginning, "I like Texas because . . ." limited strictly to 25,000 words. "It's a cinch to spot a for eign make auto these days," boasts Jan Murray. "They're the ones that have peculiar shapes before your wife drives them." Pretty young thing at a neighborhood movie got so annoyed with the attentions of the gent in the next seat she changed cars four time? ' Menace uuy 1 Bv Joseph Alsop gcound command post where SAC's vital brains are located. It was built when the power of H-bombs was already well- known, but the plans had been prepared in the A-bomb era. With his customary in effable wisdom, former Secre tary of Defense Charles E. Wilson would not approve the extra expenditure to give hardness against H-bombs Thus SAC's brains are now contained in an allegedly bomb-proof shelter, which is not proof against the only kind of bomb that is likely to drop on it. Even more important, there is the grave problem of the B-47s. x These medium range jet bombers still constitute more than two-thirds of the entire SAC force. Some have been replaced with B-52s, and some more will be in the fu ture. In 1960-'61, a couple of squadrons of B-47s will also switch to the new B-58 jet bomber. But for the whole period of the missile gap, at least half of SACs aircraft will be B-47s. TTNFORTUNATELY, the B- 47s were designed to op erate from overseas bases, which have now been neutral ized by the new Soviet capa bility in medium range mis siles. B-47 operations from bases on this side of the At lantic are also crippled, at present, by their dependence on the slow and obsolete KC 97 tanker. With KC-97 refuel ing, the B-47s can in theory reach their targets; but they cannot use the complex, fuel consuming tactics which will give them the best chance of penetrating the enemy de f enses and getting away again. In short, dependence on the KC-97s greatly increases the peril of the crews and great ly reduces their chances of success. The superb new jet-tanker, the KC-135, would almost completely overcome the B- 47s difficulties. The Pentagon has only to raise a finger to double- current KC-135 pro duction, but no finger has been raised. Thus the B-47 crews are being denied what they urgently need to do their job. But their awe-inspiring job remains unchanged. It is difficult to understand the psychology or even the moral ity of the men responsible for this sort of decision. The examples cited are not exceptional. They are typical. They do not necessarily mean, thank God, that SAC cannot perform its assigned task. But they most certainly mean that the Administration has not done everything possible to insure the fullest effective ness of the great deterrent on which all American policy de pends. Even today, when our danger is so apparent, every thing possible is still not being done. A clearer proof of penny wisdom and pound fool ishness could hardly be imag ined. - (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Stop Me 3- ewsom Visits Russian Embassy in East erlin; Describes Forbidding Appearance By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Berlin -(UPD The Russian pmbs.wv in Communist East "TSJMSl Berlin arises, great, grey stone pile, on what used to be Unter den Linden. Ber- ' t lin's most Jfashion- abie street De- . TIT 1 1 9 lore w o r i q War TT Mul N ewsom un au siaes is the still uncleared rubble of war. A quarter of a mile or so away near tne tsranaenDurg Gate, which is the boundary between East and West, is the hole in the ground where the American embassy once stood. It is marked now only by the jagged remnants of a foundation. Nearby, sealed by tons of rubble, is the entrance to the underground bunker where Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun died. From this setting, the Rus sians direct the strategy de signed to bring West Berlin to its knees and ultimately to en slave another 2,500,000 Ger mans. Sentry Checks Mission A sentry stands at the em bassy entrance. He stands stiffly, unsmiling in the peaked cap and grey green uniform of the East German army. He checks your mission and then stands aside. It is a warm, sunny, spring- in Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Somewhere out in space as this is written an American satellite is rocketing toward the moon, which it is expected to pass Wednesday afternoon. It will miss the moon by the relatively narrow margin of 35,000 miles - which, in the illimitable vastness of outer space,' must be regarded as a mere hair's breadth. It will then streak to its final rendezvous with the sun, around which it is expected to go into orbit. There, presum ably, it will - join Russia's Lunik. It is a robot. Like Percy the Iron Man of an earlier day, "brains it has nix." Being brainless, it will be immune to the amenities of courtesy. Otherwise, let us hope, it would waggle its wings ..in greeting, "just to show the Russians we are good sportsmen. , Besides, it has no wings. piONEER IV (that is the satellite s name) was ex pected to go within 15,000 miles of the moon. But there was a slip somewhere in the calculations. The scientists tell us that at the lunar distance of 230,000 miles an error of one degree (there are 360 de grees in a circle) in aiming would mean a miss of 4,000 miles. Also, the ball (earth) from which Pioneer IV was fired was spinning round and round like a top. The target at which it was aimed was moving at 88 feet a minute. And it was 230,000 miles away when the firing crew pulled the trigger. Between the pulling of the trigger and the arrival of the missile at the moon, about a day and a half would elapse. So - if you're a duck hunter you won't be too severe with the scientists because of their 20,000-mile deviation. A RE there hazards out " there in space? Ye-e-e-e-s. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration) scientists say Pioneer IV might collide with a meteor. In that event, it could be diverted from its charted course. QIO- You'd better warn your grandchildren that when in the future they take off for the moon or some other planet on a week-end space excur sion tUey will be facing the same problem that annoys plane travelers in these days. When one takes off for Chicago, one never knows but what, considering fogs, storms and such, one may be landed in Memphis, say, there to be transferred to a bus. Hence the cynical crack: "If you've time to spare, travel by air." IN CONCLUSION, I suppose that in your reading and listening you've noted that Pioneer IV is GOLD PLATED. Don't let that upset you. The gold plating isn't (as a disgruntled taxpayer might be warranted these days in suspecting) used just to make Pioneer IV cost more. Gold is an excellent con ductor of radio waves So the gold plating is used to elimi nate the need for antennae sticking out awkwardly from the cone - shaped instrument package. With the thin plat ing of gold that surrounds Pioneer IV's fiberglass cov ering, its whole shell serves as an antenna. like day in Berlin, but there is little warmth here. " This embassy has been re build since the war and it spawls four stories high over more than a city block. Reiterates Russian Demands Broad stone steps lead to the massive doorway at the entrance. Just inside, a broad-faced male receptionist looks up im passively. He checks your mission and speaks on an in ner house telephone. There is a quick exchange of Russian and then he waves you to a high-ceilinged reception room decorated with wood trim. Minutes pass,- and then the man you came to see enters. He speaks German and Rus sian and through an interpret er ,he reiterates the Russian demands, tapping out his points with a well-manicured finger on the round mahog any table. : To ihe. Point He is to the point. Russia will hand over to the East Germans on May 27 land and air controls of Berlin. Berlin must be a free, demilitarized city. If West German Chancel- Editorial Comment REASONS ENOUGH Through the years we've read a lot of long-winded af firmations of the wisdom of long-range community plan ning. Now we have on the desk before us an extremely briei one which we thinK is as good as any we've ever seen. " It comes from Mississippi, where the state s economic council and its chamber of commerce have jointly pub lished a guide booklet for communities. A publisher's "ad" for the booklet lists five reasons why planned development should be attempted by every town city and metropolitan area They are: 1. -To save money, by being sure that every development is properly located and will not have to be replaced or re located before it is worn out, 2. To preserve and enhance property values by assuring investors in property what type of development will take place in a given area. 3. To make the community more attractive to industry. 4: To solve traffic and parking problems . . . 5. To anticipate and pro vide necessary public facili ties ... Dozens of other reasons can be cited in" support of the idea of using foresight in commun ity development. However, were these five the only reas ons, it seems to us they'd be enough, more than enough to make every resident of every urban settlement vitally in terested in both the central idea of planning and in his home town. Eugene Register Guard. ' Feasibility of Power Inter-Tie Slated for Study . Salem (UPD A da y-long meeting of natural resource experts of Oregon, Washing ton and California produced an agreement to study the feasibility of a power inter change among the three states here Wednesday. A coordinating committee of three representatives ap Dointed by the governor of each state will formulate the study program. "It is the concensus of the group that an inter-change of power appears to offer suffi cient promise of economic benefits to the states concern ed to justify a feasibility study," a statement issued at the end of the meeting said. Full Use of Power- It is also hoped that by de veloping a power inter-tie, the three states will be -able to make full use of their surplus power at any time of the year. The experts said that now millions of kilowatts of pow er were just "flowing into the sea" at certain times when there was a power surplus. The group will meet again within 30 days, subject to the call of the three governors, af ter making efforts to line up personnel and funds for the study in their respective states. Larry Tweedy To Talk At Group Meeting Larry Tweedy of the Jack son county welfare commis sion will speak on foster homes at a meeting of the Applegate Parent Teacher association meeting at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, in the Applegate school. The motion picture, "Treas ure Island," will be shown for children. lor Konrad Adenauer wants a unified Germany, he must ne gotiate with the East . Ger mans. He suggests that East Ger many may demand payment of a toll for use of the roads to Berlin. , 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 ripht tc 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 th paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Act Now To the Editor: L. H. Valen tine's letter of Mar. 2 on House Bill 446 (not 466, as erroneously printed) has, I think, reflected the true feel ings of nearly every bonafide sportsman in uregon. The right of search and seizure by game enforcement officers is a serious enroach ment to our. constitutional right to bear arms. The second amendment to the United States Constitution reads in part; "A well regulated Mili tia, being necessary to the se curity of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Now this bill does not keep you from "bearing arms" yet - but you can be assured it is a pretty big step in that direction! . So now, and I do mean NOW, is the time to write your representative in the legislature, or to W. H. Holm strom, chairman of the house committee on fish and game. Remember, if you are a sportsman, in the true sense of the word, you will act, but fast! William O. Burnette 655 Pine st. i Medford Bill "Subversive" To the Editor: House Bill 466 is another subversive bill As I mentioned before Stalin said he would take this land by law, because the Anglo Saxon race has become a sorry bunch of weak-kneed human ity. This bill is deliberately meant to protect the criminal, to attempt to disarm the American citizen. Amendment II says, "A well regulated militia, being ne cessary to the security of a free state, the right of the peo ple to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." No state legislation, no city ordinance, can override this amendment in the bill of rights. Who does is worse than the thief or burglar, he is a traitor to the American citi zen in this nation. The red Trojan horse is in this nation. I say guard your arms faith fully because I am sure you will need them before long to destroy the subversives that are working very efficiently today to destroy everything in the land that is for freedom and individual rights. G. S. Reilly , 338 North Laurel St. Ashland . . HALTS SUDDEN BREAKS Atlanta (UPD Personnel of ficer Vaughn Rice of the Georgia Revenue department said today that the practice of checking in for work at 8:30 a.m. and going directly to the coffee shop for a coffee break will no longer be condoned. Avow from h M so a H wise : f,p FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY CX NIGHT Then he suggests you re turn in two days and perhaps more information will be available. You do, and are told the man you came to see has been called away. You wonder, if he really was. N , Phoenix Questions To the Editor: Several prop erty owners in the Phoenix school district feel as I do about consolidation. Phoenix should stay the way it is for the present. However, we are trying to keep open minds and would like a few questions answered. '- If consolidation does take place: How many students would be required to include instruc tion in agriculture in the Med ford school? What transportation would be provided for Phoenix stu dents participating in after school activities such as band and athletics? . Would Phoenix junior high remain in .Phoenix: it so, would it include the ninth grade? Are the grade levels the same in both Phoenix and Medford districts? Can the industrial area of Phoenix school district be legally withdrawn without vote of the whole district? : Mrs. A. J. Barklow Pioneer road Phoenix, Ore. CANNED WRISTWATCH . Hollesley, England - (UPD -Mrs. George Last reported to day that she had found a woman's gold-plated wrist watch in a can of pears from Australia. You're af your anywhere you go. Turn to Sonotone's latest eye glass hearing aid for good looks, smooth hearing. Slim-trim tem ples for both men and women. 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