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4 Friday, Mjrch 6, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDf 3 Thibunx Tveryone te Southern Oregoa Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by Ml -Lit uhli rtu. 1 1- 1 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBEP.T W RUHL. Editor HXRB GRE"i Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Wgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCKER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as serond class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rt 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 $450 Rt Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv- Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and aunay i mo. Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paoer of City f Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or" AUDIT BUEEATJ OF- CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., LNC. 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 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 6. 1949 (Sunday) Jim Bidgood and Gordon Hudson announce plans to open a new drug store at 127 East Sixth $t. Good weather aids work on three Medford trunk sewer projects. 20 YEARS AGO March 6, 1939 (Monday) Three new WPA projects get under way in the Medford area, but no new jobs are created as the workers are being transfered from other projects. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A controversy is raging in the upstate press, over whether or not a cougar screams. Some say the beast is mute. Others say they scream like a taxpayer, when told the legislature will last ten days longer." 30 YEARS AGO March 6. 1929 (Wednesday) A malt extract for the making of near-beer becomes popular locally. The first lamb's tongue is picked in the Table Rock district. 40 YEARS AGO March 6, 1919 (Thursday) The county fails to meet Its quota in the drive to pro- SScSSZgng dustry radio requirements. ians, Southern Oregon cities plan a get-together here. 50 YEARS AGO March 6. 1909 (Saiurday) Yakima Nursery leases 300 acres near Tolo to provide trees, shrubs, et al for local horticulturists. , " Many sign petitions asking the county court to provide funds for the Crater Lake road. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. Molly Pitcher was famous in which of these activities; woman suffrage, war, the stage, medicine? 2. Is the larger portion of an ocean liner above the water line or below the waterline? 3. What is the capital of the Dominion of Canada? 4. How many stars are there in the Big Dipper? 5. What great document was signed in the reign of King John of England, in the year 1215? - 6. All snakes are hatched from eggs; true or false? 7. For what purpose was the great Spanish Armada as sembled? 8. Is ermine a species of beaver, muskrat, weasel, or squirrel? 9. What is a yellow ham mer? 10. What is the longest bone in the human body? Answers: 1. War. 2. Below. 3. Ollowa. 4. Seven. 5. Magna Charta. 6. False. 7. Invasion of England. 8. Weasel. 9. A bird. 10. Femur (thigh) RUN DIESEL EXPRESS Warsaw, Poland -(UPD- The first diesel express train from East Berlin to the Soviet bor der will make its inaugural run on May 31, it was report ed today. The Unions are Different A proposal to require that union elections be conducted by secret ballot is gaining in favor in Salem. Among its proponents is Governor Hat field. Down in Corvallis, Editor Bob Ingalls of the Gazette-Times wishes, rather wistfully, he could agree and support legislation requiring secret elections in unions. His objection, however, is that it falls too close to being class legislation. He wonders why, if secret elections can be forced on unions, why they could (or should) not be forced on the Kiwanis club or the League of Women Voters. TF HIS premise is true, however, there should be no labor legislation of any kind the Nor-ris-LaGuardia act, the Wagner act, the Taft-Hartley act : nothing. These laws and a multitude of others at both state and federal level arose when it became evi dent that labor has come to occupy a unique place in our social structure, and as such is just as justi fiably subject to regulation in the public interest as is, say, business. The conduct of the Kiwanis club or the League of Women Voters has little impact on the liveli hood of their members, on the economic stability of the community, on (potentially) the welfare rolls of the state. But the conduct of union business most em phatically does. rOWN in Coos County not long ago, Weyer haeuser Timber company fired a truck driv er, alleging a long series of accidents. The union disputed this action, and went on strike, claiming that the firing was a result of a personal dispute between the driver and his superior. The strike ended only Wednesday, when both parties finally agreed to arbitration. Meanwhile, about a half-million dollars in payrolls were dried up, strikers and their families went on welfare or dug into slender savings, business suffered, the company lost its profits. No one benefitted. We make no attempt to say whether or not the strike was justified. The point is that some mem bers of the union have indicated that, while they voted for the strike in open meeting, they would not have done so had the balloting been secret. THIS is the kind of situation which cries out for " the protection of a man's right to vote private ly in union affairs, as he does in political affairs. Would Beck or Hoff a have come into posi tions of power in the Teamsters union had mem bers had the secret ballot? We doubt it. If the time ever comes when the doings of the Kiwanis club or the League of Women Voters have the impact on society, government and in dividual rights that union doings do now, the time will have come to require a secret ballot for them, too. Meanwhile, rank-and-file union members, as well as the rest of society, need this guarantee of voting freely and without the possibility of co ercion. E.A. Space, Radios arid Logs What does the space age have to do with the logger? At first glance one would say they are totally unconnected. But a news release from the Ameri can Forest Products Industries points out that space-age radio requirements have hampered In Jackson county, for instance, it says there are three lumber companies and one industry association which operate their own radio net- works. In Oregon as a whole there are about 100 such forest-industry radio licensees, operating nearly 2,000 radio transmitters. TWO years ago these forest radio sets operated 1 on a total of eight frequencies, assigned for their use by the federal communications com mission. - The department of defense, impelled by the need for additional channels, not only for planes but for missiles and satellites, stepped in and pre empted four of these. This left the industry radio networks with only half the channels they started out with, just at the time of expanding needs. What to do? Well, theyv made a virtue of necessity, and, with the help of new developments in radio en gineering, came up with a "split channel" system which doubles the airwave corridors by narrow ing transmission requirements on new sets from one full channel to a half -channel. MOW the FCC has called a hearing for this spring; to work out plans for "overhaulino-" as signments of the crowded industry is out to protect its interests m the few remaining channels it has. Radio has become virtuallv in'disDensihle tn forest operations these usea oy tne ieaeral and state governments forest agencies, as well as by industrial firms and asso ciations. It is vital in coordinatinp; fire. - control work, but in addition it woods operatons of industry, dispatching trucks . J i i i . . ana equipment, coordinating logging witn tne needs of the mill, and so on. Jackson county was one of the pioneers in the forest-radio field, not only through the radio net work of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association, but also through the use of radio by Elk Lumber company, and later by Ober Logging company and Scott Lumber com pany. E.A. airwaves, and the forest days, and is extensively speeds many times the Dennis the GIRLS! A LWAYS DRESSN BIS. Congressional Leaders Debate Esoteric Realms of Geometry By FRANK ELEAZER - Washington -(UPD Sen. Ken neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) is an aminent lawyer, a war hero and brig adier general, and a politi cal genius who got elected to 'Mi the Senate as a Republican at a time when it look ed like no body but Dem- 1 J Frank Eleazer UUllu"u'" win election to anything. It is sad to report, how ever, that when they were teaching rudimentary phy sics in high school the dis tinguished senator from Ro- pi nrlp Washington- Report By WILLIAM SMALL CLOUD OVER L. A. Washington-Over the Dem ocrats' decision to go West for their 1960 National Conven tion in Los Angeles there hangs a small cloud that is much trou bling the par ty's more can did and real istic profes sionals. Priva t e 1 y, Wwhu2S- they are fac ing up to the unpleasant fact that geographical accident will offer undue room for the possibility of some nasty scan dal in connection with the ex penses of the delegates. The plain if little-known truth is that no Democratic National Convention ever meets with out a nagging fear among party leaders that some dele gates will later be found to have accepted tainted expense money from the camp of one or another of the party's Presidential aspirants. However much the Demo crats have overstated their claim to be the party of "the common man," there are cer tainly always more poor dele gates to Democratic conven tions than there are poor dele gates to GOP conventions. And poor delegates are sim ply, more likely to accept fi nancial assistance. I17HAT now raises special danger is the circum stance that Los Angeles is a long way from the homes of most of the prospective 1960 convention delegates. The vast majority of them -and they will number more than a thousand altogether-will need to travel 1,500 miles upward to and from the convention city. This, along with hotel bills and taxis and those pure ly medicinal spirits to which anybody attending a political convention is surely entitled, requires real folding money. All this is not to say that Los Angeles should never have been chosen. Nor- is any prominent Democrat known to this correspondent now re fusing to join in the jovial chorus: "California, here we come!" Indeed, the vote of the Democratic National Com mittee to meet in Los Angeles seems clearly sound on any objective balancing of all con siderations. In the first place, Califor nia ,is now by all odds the premier Democratic state, quite apart from the fact that it is tied with Pennsylvania for second place in total vot ing strength. SECOND, the Democratic party has clear need for expanding its new salients in the Far West, if only in the light of its loss of a few sig nificant positions in the ur ban East last November. California has become as dominant on the Pacific slope : Menace UPAN'j&IH' TO PRSTEtfD Chester must have been out playing hookey. Keating, who was a mem ber of the House for 12 years before his graduation to the Senate last November, like all ex-House members prob ably finds the rarefied air of the Senate hard to take as a regular thing. Anyway, he can't resist going back to the House now and then. So there he was Thursday, in the role of expert witness before the House Space Com mittee, of which he once was a member. Argues For Agreement He was arguing, most per suasively, the need for quick world agreement on control S. WHITE as New York has been for a hundred years on the Atlantic seaboard. It is more than merely one state; it is a vig orous tail potentially able to wag a very large dog, which is the Pacific Coast. Again, though this is cer tainly not mentioned in Dem ocratic Dress releases, it is perfectly obvious that Cali fornia is a rich new source of legitimate big-money strength to the Democrats in the com ing Presidential campaign. Most any Eastern industrial ist, if only because of habit, is still an extremely poor bet when any Democratic fund raising group passes the hat among the so-called fat cats. The California fat cats, on the other hand, are not nec essarily solely contributors to the GOP. They are a newer breed, and their money is quite as good at the bank as is the money of the old GOP industrial breed in the East. SO THE logical position now taken by the Democratic pros is not to buck at the se lection of Los Angeles for 1960 but rather to forearm against any financial hankey pankey among the delegates that the Republicans later could call "the moss in Cali fornia." To this problem, and in this spirit, some of the ablest Democratic professionals are giving the most earnest atten tion and care. A delegate is not a public official. And there is no way in law to ov ersee his pocketbook. The way out now being dis cussed' is to 'find some means by which the Democratic Na tional Committee or the par ty's various state committee organizations might guaran tee in advance the pure source of travel funds of all the dele gates. This would be a big job, without a doubt. But it would not be an impossible one. And the alternative could be im possibly embarrassing to the Democratic party and to whomever it may nominate. Copyright 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Rosary Tonight For Lou Costello North Hollywood, Calif .-(UPD Rosary will be recited tonight for rotund comedian Lou Cos tello who died Tuesday of a heart attack. He would have been 53 today. Funeral services will be held Saturday at- St. Francis de Sales Church in nearby Studio City with the dead funnyman's long-time partner, Bud Abbott, serving as one of the pallbearers. Entombment will follow at Cavalry Ceme tery. Los Angeles county super visors adjourned in memory of the famed comedian Thurs day, calling his sudden death a "tragic loss." Deputy Mayor of Berlin Deplores Talk About Crisis; Doubts Reds Would Shoot By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Berlin (UPD West vBer- lin's Deputy Mayor Franz Amrehn has a solution if the East Germans try to stop an Allied Berlin convoy. Don't talk. Just ram f the convoy through. The Russians won't shoot. The 46-year WJold Amrehn 'pSu'tSSSSm inherited tem porarily the job of ad ministering West Berlin s city affairs in the absence of Mayor Willy Brandt, who is on a world tour. And his . dislike for the Communists is based on just as tough a line at Brandt's. This straight-talking mem ber of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Demo cratic . Party, makes no at- of space. He said this ought to be a lot. easier now than it will be after the Russians, or even the Americans, land a man on the moon with a flag and maybe a gun. Keating said international law now is that each nation controls the "air space" over its territory. He said nobody knows where this quits and where "outer space" starts. Unless we get an agreement on this he said people may start extending their air space toward the stars. And this is where he ran into trouble. "Because of the curved sur face of the earth," he said, "the extension would produce an inverted cone which would grow bigger and bigger. At some point these cones would overlap and more than one state would be occupying the same air space As any space-minded school boy could have told him, and as Rep. James G. Fulton (R- Pa.) did tell him, this wasn't right. Fulton Takes Issue '"At one time," said Ful ton, drafting and dissecting with radial lines a reasonable facsimile of a globe, "I was going to be a scientist and a math teacher. I don't believe the gentleman is correct in saying the cones would over lap." o "The idea is not original with me," replied Keating. "I picked it up from a scientist' Fulton, obviously entertain ing the hope this scientist was one working for the other side, explained that perpen dicular lines drawn from va rious points on the earth's curved surface would diverge rather than meet. Keating wasn't so sure. Neither was Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.). He said Einstein demonstrated that parallel lines eventually meet. Fulton said Keating's bound ary lines weren't parallel. He asked Keating where they they would go if extended downward into the earth. Calls For Vote "I'm not going that way at all," said Keating, who seemed a little disturbed at the thought. "I'm going up.". Fulton, who favors settling things in an orderly way, called for a vote on the issue. Chairman Overton Brooks (D Ia.) turned aside the demand. "Let's ask our physicist," demanded Fulton, indicating and at the same time promot ing Richard Hines, a staff con sultant who is an engineer but doesn't quite rate the term physicist. Hines, who would rather have been somewhere else, held reluctantly that Fulton was right. Brooks still wasn't sure. "I'll appoint a special sub committee to look into it,"j he announced, adjourning the session. j try and By BENNETT CERF- A NEIGHBOR went .to & venerable Turkish landowner one day to ask for the loan of a donkey. The landowner ex plained he had loaned his donkey to somebody else. The don key, however, chose that moment to bray loudly in his stall. "You should be ashamed to lie at your age!" exclaimed the neighbor an grily. "Your own donkey testifies against you." The. landowner replied disdainfully, "I refuse to argue with a person who gives greater credence to the braying of a donkey than to the words of a fellow-man!" Another neighbor ap proached the same doughty Turk with, "I understand, my friend, that you have vinegar which is 40 years old. Will you please let me have some?" ' Sorry," said the Turk,- "you see, it wouldn't be 40 years old if I kept giving it away all the time." jg 1959, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kiss Features Syndicate, tempt to hide the depths of the crisis to which he be lieves West Berlin will be plunged May 27. Lay Up Slocks On that date, he firmly ex pects the Russians to carry out their threat to turn West Berlin's communications life lines over to the Communist East Germans. He does not deny the So viet ultimatum against West Berlin already is having its 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 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 the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Vote It Down! To the Editor: Does educa tion mean consolidation? . Phoenix is a self-supporting and a growing district and we see no need for consolida tion with anyone. We have lived in Phoenix school district for five years and for five years have been very satisfied with the educa tion of our children. This so called "majority group" (which in our estima tion is falsely stated), which is in favor of consolidating Phoenix with Medford, does it have the welfare of our children at heart? Taxes, real estate sales or politics? Yes. But education? We wonder. Vote consolidation down! We can remain "Phoenix School District" if you remem ber that your vote is a first class citizen's vote. Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Miller Route 1, Box 329, Keep It To the Editor: Having read Mr. Fredenburg's .letter of March 3, (you bet we want to keep our school at Phoenix and school staff. We are proud of them and our town. It's just all right the way it is, or bring Talent in. Let s keep out of Medford. But Mr. Fredenburg, if the whole community can't make them understand I wonder what we can do to make it clear we feel the same way you do? We've got a fine school. Let's fight to keep it. J. Higginbotham Route 3, Box 233 Fern Valley Rd. Phoenix, Ore. Seeks Interim Study , To the Editor: The need for a thorough study and revision of Oregon's code of criminal law and procedure was recog nized by the 1957 Legisla ture which created an interim committee to ' study, among other things, "improvement of the administration of crim inal justice in Oregon." Unfortunately, , the interim committee was barely able to scratch the surface of the problem and devoted its ef forts largely to matters other than the administration of criminal justice. It did con elude, however, that our crim inal law and procedure is m many instances , "incomplete or vague, confusing or con flicting, unsound or outmod ed" and in some respects is subject to all these defects. SJR 24, introduced recently by Senator Francis (R-Dayton) and myself, would authorize an interim committee devoted exclusively to the programs of criminal law and proced ure. Many citizens interested in the just, efficient and eco nomical administration of our criminal law have urged such a study. The sponsors are unanimous in their beliefs that the small appropriation reauired would be more than repaid in the form of a bet ter system of criminal justice in Oregon. George Van Hoomissen State Representative Multnomah County Stop Me effect, but he says the city cannot be caught unpre pared. For many months, long be fore Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's announcement last Nov. 27, West Berlin has been laying up stocks. The last public figures were that 200 million dollars worth of esential supplies al ready had been stored here against the possibility of a blockade. And that figure has First In Peace 10 tne Editor: first m preparation for war." Why not give Russia that honor? "First in Peace," would be worth working to obtain and according to our American tradition. There are enough atom bombs in existence now to destroy the whole world in a nuclear war. There would be no winner. Why not let Russia have glory of destroy ing the world if it is to be destroyed. Why develop more devices and put our economy deeper in debt? Our Atomic Subs and Jet Bombers can retaliate now, so no one wins Positive work on Peaceful solutions and the bettering of living conditions among the underprivileged people of the world is a far better goal. Let's help nations bring up their standard of living and teach them to combat their health problems. We'll be sorry if we don't As their productivity in creases, they will enter the world market and undersell us so badly, we'll be lost We must remember God didn't "create the earth and all the abundance thereof," just for the United States. For those very reasons we'd better start down-grading our prices or our high priced-living is going to boomerang in our face. And that day is not very far off. Will we choose to be blind and commit nation al suicide or will we see the "Handwriting on the wall" and act now while there is yet time? Frances Ray Ralston, Wash. Sea Lion Caves Resolution OK'd Salem-(UPD-A resolution di recting the State Highway Department to take steps to make the Sea Lions on the Oregon coast a state park was approved unanimously by the Senate Highway Committee Thursday. At the same time, the State Highway commission, meeting here, asked the parks depart ment to make a study to de termine if the Caves might be added to the parks system as a self-sustaining project. ?ffiygjgO'L HI! IJIH JL Jl IMIIH.WWIIIII. New girl in town. . .and all paid for. v An addition to the family or any other special event is easier to pay for when you save in advance. Then you have the cash to pay your bills promptly. No debts. No worries. You pay no interest or carrying charges. And the ideal place to save is at our Insured Savings and Loan Association. "iour savings . . . managed by experts in home financing under government supervision . . . are safe and earn excellent returns. FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager been increased vastly since. West Berlin plans include any eventuality and it is esti mated they city can live within itself six to eight months. Says Talk Complicates Issue "Of course," Amrehn says, "no one can be sure that the Russians won't shoot if the Allies choose to ignore an attempt to halt their con voys." "But," he told this corres pondent in a city hall inter view, "the Russians will shoot only if they already have made up their minds to do so." Talk, Amrehn says, will only complicate the issues. Amrehn is both surprised and proud of West Berliners calm approach to the May 27 deadline. ' A few more families than usual are leaving the city about 250 families per month as opposed to a normal 150. No Flight Of Industry But there has been no flight of capital and West German industry has . con tinued its firm support of in dustry here. Big West German industry, he says, has placed orders which will take months be yond the May .27 deadline to fill. He admits, however, there has been some falling off of orders in small industry. Amrehn calls Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' ill ness tragic to the United States and to the world. But he believes there will be no weakening of U.S. policy. To abandon Berlin, he says, would mean the death of NATO and a U.S. retreat clear back to its own con tinental bastion. Gearhart Scene Of DAR Convention Portland -(DPD- The annual convention of the Oregon So ciety, Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, will be held this week end at Gearhart. The "Newell House" lunch eon on Saturday will honor Miss Susan Warren, senior a,t Roosevelt high school in Port land as state winner of the "Good Citizen" contest spon sored annually by the DAR. She will be presented with a good citizen pin and a $100 U.S. savings bond by Mrs. Herbert W. White Jr., Pendle ton, chairman of the good citi zens committee. "Susan is the daughter of Mrs. Dorothy J. Warren, teacher of remedial reading at Jefferson high school, Port land, and William A. Warren, wtih the Portland bureau of United Press International. HE DID-THEY DID Yokohama - (UPD - Jobless Yashlmasa Sunazawa, 38, told police today he falsely con fessed to murdering his fath er, who had committed sui cide, because he wanted to go to jail so relatives would have to pay the funeral ex penses. He did and they did.
