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4 Wednesday, March 11, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORO, ORE. MEDFORDtSiVrRIBUNB "Iveryone us Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by M.MJFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 " ROBLP.T W RTJHL, Editor KERB GRV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing r.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Enterea a second class matter al Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. 'Dail- nd Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mo 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 Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papei of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francico. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B C N ATI O N A t EDITORIAL AS3CTrN Piri,'glllf'LLL 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 11. 1949 (Friday) Speaker Frank Van Dyke tells the House at Salem he is "retiring from politics for awhile to make some money." The IJedford airport cafe, remodeled and re-equipped, opens today under new man agement. 20 YEARS AGO March 11. 1939 (Saturday) Medford theatergoers join Ashland residents at a perfor mance of "Dangerous Corner" in the Lithia hotel. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Orch ardists are getting ready for the annual visit of Jackson Frost, who if he never comes will be too soon." 30 YEARS AGO March 11. 1929 (Monday) A labor shortage for orch ard work prevails in the val ley. Ray Watkins, Central Point, beats Dr. W. E. Lantis in the city billiard title matches at Brown's. 40 YEARS AGO March 11, 1919 (Tuesday) The Greater Medford club plans to organize a permanent city band and male quartet. Bill Offutt, a local soldier, writes that he is still in France. 50 YEARS AGO March 11. 1909 (Thursday) Gov. Benson stands in the way of legislation perpetuat ing Ashland's normal school by having gained the legisla ture's pledge not to take up any new business. Col. Frank Ray completes arrangements for irrigating the entire north end of the Rogue valley. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Did Christopher Colum bus ever set foot on the main land of the continents of either North or South America. 2. Would you properly ad dress a Warrant Officer in the Army as "Officer;' "Mister," or "Lieutenant"? 3. What is the Roman nu meral for 500? 4. The record book kept at police stations is known as what? 5. In shingling a roof, should you start putting on the shingles from the ridge pole down, or the eaves up? 6. Air in sunlight is of higher temperature than air in the shade; true or false? 7. Was George Arliss an ac tor, anthropologist, or aviator? 8. George Washington did, or did not, have a middle name? 9. The famous paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine cha pel in Vatican City were exe cuted by what noted artist? 10. Correct the following. "By the time I leave he will call me." Answer 1. No. 2. Mister. 3. . D. 4. Blotter. 5. From the eaves up. 6. False 7. Actor. 8. Did not. 9. Michelangelo. 10. "By the lime I leave he will have called me." XS NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Duncan s Challenge In this space recently it was pointed out that "pure research" is a highly practical and impor tant activity even if it is not known immediate ly where it will lead. It is true that technological progress stems al most entirely from the untrammeled thinking of men touched with genius, men who are not in volved in any particular or specific problem, but who are curious about the basic whys and where fores of the world in which we live. CONSIDERATIONS such as these recently mo- tivated Bob Duncan of Medford, speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, to propose that the state make a modest investment in "pure research." The abbreviated wire - service stories from Salem didn't tell his proposal in detail, and were therefore somewhat misleading. What he was proposing was an attempt to apply some concen trated brainpower to the problems facing educa tion in Oregon during the next decade or two. His proposal was in the form of a letter to the money-allocating ways and means committee of the legislature, with copies to the presidents of the University of Oregon and Oregon State col lege, and to the chancellor of higher education. TITE CONSIDER his letter to be a significant contribution to understanding of the prob lems of education, and higher education in par ticular, as well as a suggestion as to one way of approaching them. Excerpts from his letter follow : , One of the biggest problems which this legislature has before it is that of higher education. All forecasts indicate that it will continue to plague future legisla tures for an indefinite time in the future, since we are told that there will be at least twice as many young sters seeking admission' to our colleges and universi ties by 1972. With infrequent but notable exceptions, the only solutions to these problems which have been offered resolve themselves down into "more money" for more teachers, higher salaries and more buildings. Without denying the need for adequate financing, it seems ap parent that, if our thinking is thus limited, we are pre doomed to failure no matter how much money we appropriate. I am told by responsible educators that it is an impossibility under present standards and methods to train a sufficient number of teachers to meet the projected student load in the time which we have. It thus seems self-evident that we must devise new techniques and reorient or redirect our thinking in this field ... The practical results of "pure research" in the fields of the natural Sciences are now generally ac knowledged. The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton ... is the leader in this field. I wonder if a similar program in the field of education, particular ly methods and techniques, is not badly needed ... I do not know the answers and I doubt if any layman does. The answers to these problems will undoubtedly come from the educators themselves. I suggest that . . . you give serious consideration to including funds for such pure research. This cannot be done by men who have lectures to prepare, classes to attend and papers to grade, nor do I envision a re accumultaion of statistics and questionnaires. Rather I have in mind a program where some top people with a pencil, some paper and time to think, can generate the answers for which we are all looking . . . , While this may be considered by some to be a new service and an additional expense, in my mind it is rather an investment in the future of the state which may result in savings of many times its cost. Such an effort we owe to those students who are still to come. Less than this we cannot tolerate. DUNCAN'S suggestion cioLctnce huiii many siues irom uiose wno think it is a sin to spend tax money on new and experimental ideas, from those who may feel they have a vested interest in the educational status quo, from those who fail (or refuse) to see the dimensions of the problems ahead. The suggestion is not exactly "pure research" inasmuch as it is designed to solve specific prob lems. But it could well result in daring and imagina tive programs in the field of education. ITT"- '11 i -1- j1 j i i i .i vve win waicn witn interest to see wnetner Duncan's challenge is taken up, or whether it is dropped with a dull thud a sound which is all too familiar to those who have watched legisla tures in action. E.A. 50th Star Near Reports from Washington indicate that state hood for Hawaii is closer to actuality than ever before. Both the house and terior and insular aff ail's have approved the state hood bill. The house bill was approved yesterday by the rules committee, where the chairman, an opponent to Hawaiian statehood, was thought to have been the major potential stumbling block to the bill. . Chances now look good for its passage soon perhaps even tomorrow. . CTATEHOOD has been proposed for the island group many times over the years, the first in 1919, only 19 years after the Republic of Hawaii jomed the U.S. as a territory. v Hawaiian statehood has been at least con sidered in the congressional session of every year except lyoz and 19ob since 1947. ' TlflANY of the arguments against Hawaiian ATA statehood have been knocked into a cocked hat by the admission of Alaska such as those of non - contiguity, too - little population, overrepre- sentation, and so on. The southerners in enders m opposition to stem largely trom its high proportion of non-Caucasian citizens. It looks like this year is statehood year for Hawaii. And none too soon, either. E.A. probably will find re- i j i.t ! senate committees on in Congress are the bitter Hawaii, and then feelings Dennis the CAN yOU IMAGINE SLEEPING LIKE THAT AFTER HAVING TWO FIST FIGHTS, GETTING VOIR fOOT CAUGHT IN A WASHING AtfCHlNB AND HAVING A NlGH03R THREATEN To PUT YOU IH JAIL? Adequate Research By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -(UPD- Any year now we (or more likely the Russians) will be shooting a space man 221,000 miles up to the moon. Yet we have not gotten around to sending any body seven miles down in the deepest hole in the ocean. And we don't seem in any hurry to Frank Eleazer do it. Man has been sailing since Noah. Yet here were some of our top sailors admitting to a House Merchant Marine subcommittee they know very little" about the seas that cover two-thirds of our earth. Subcommittee members were shocked at the news, and not too hopeful on what they could do about it. Warning Prompts Probe "You can get billions of dol lars to explore outer space" moaned Chairman George P. Miller (D-Calif.). "But we'll have a hard time getting mil lions to explore our own oceans." What prompted Miller's peering into the depths was a recent warning from the National Academy of Sciences. TVio enimiHsts sairl with missile subs and the lie the seas now are more crucial than space in safeguarding our country. National survi val may hinge on what we don't know about our oceans, they said. We are better acquainted with the surface of the moon than with the depths of our seas, the scientists said. Know Little of Sea Though we can direct sat ellites into orbit around the sun, we still can't navigate submarines under water with certain knowledge just where they are. Nor can we count on spotting an enemy's subs. Vice Adm. A. C. Richmond, commandant of the Coast Guard, and C. R. Denison, re search chief for the Maritime Administration, confirm ed the worst of what the scientists said. "We know very little about the sea," Richmond told the subcommittee. "What we do know is most superficial." "We must depend for bas ic research on other agencies," said Denison. "And then we go to them for information, often it isn't there." Russians May Be Ahead Miller hinted darkly that the Russians, already boast ing a lead in space, may also be pulling ahead under th e sea. He produced, from the Library of Congress, six vol Try and -By BENNETT CERF- rpHE EDITOR of a big rational magazine has hit upon a new -1- way of bolstering his sagging circulation figures. When a manuscript is turned down, the frustrated author receives not only a polite rejection slin but several subscription forms! Back from a short visit to New York, an English journalist assured his read ers, "Those tales you hear of juvenile delinquency in the States are grossly exag gerated. Why, I was there for eight days and didn't see more than a dozen cop pers and schoolteachers mowed down. Of course, the .rattle of machine-guns and the flashing of switch blade knives sometimes are annoying at night, but the bodies are always removed from the streets and parks by morning." A bookshop at Purdue lists "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "Count Your Blessings" under "Non-Friction." C 1959, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Menace li Funds for Oceanic Difficult To Get umes on ocean research which he said were published in Russia in the past half dozen years. All were in Russian. He didn't Iftiow what they said. Miller is a member also of the House Space Committee, which has been drawing good crowds to its hearings in the ommunications 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. Good Luck! , To the Editor: I would like to wish the Black Tornado basketball team and their coach Frank Roelandt, good luck at the tournament at Eugene. With everyone be hind them I'm sure they can win. Remember, "A team is only as good as its supporters." Good luck. Mrs. John Nolt, Medford. Medford High Class of "42" No Oregon Slogan To the Editor: KWG orig inated in the state of Wash ington by a Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. public relations man after severe public criti cism of forest destruction by big timber companies. Keep Washington Green sounded hopeful and patriotic. It was presented to school children, Scouts, et al, and by giving little children pretty green "badges" made them feel fa vored and as if doing some thing. The idea was brought to Oregon and persistently pro moted: In 1945, I believe it was, Gov. Snell wrote me asking that I serve on the Jackson County KOG commit tee. I thanked him and de clined as I did not feel that I could qualify as my obser vations were that loggers and lumbermen who should be do ing more than anyone else to keep Oregon green were not interested in the program further than that the woods be not burned before the lum bermen could get the timber removed. Governor Snell and I exchanged several letters. Finally I agreed to serve only with a hope that I might pos sibly help promote better for est practices, less destructive operations, better utilization of forest products. At one committee meeting discussion ran on for more than an hour about teaching school children and teachers not to burn the forests; one Stop Me Anti-Semitism in West Germany Creates Ghost of Germany Past; Laws Debatable By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Frankfurt, Germany -(UPD-A ghost of Germany's past has p".me back to haunt the peo ple of Ger many present. German courts are not PYartlv -full I these days of cases involv ing anti-Semitism, but there are enough of them to dis turb both gov trail .sewsom ernment f and Jewish leaders alike. There is not even proof that there is more anti-Semitism here than in many other places in the world. But be cause of the past, the recent rash of anti-Semitic occur rences in West Germany has sent a chill up the German spine and brought new guar antees from Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer. Adenauer, in an interview with West Germany's only big House caucus room. The Merchant Marine subcommit tee met in the smallest hear ing room in the House Office building. But it was no prob lem at all getting a seat. "Shooting off into space is exciting," said Miller, sadly. "Nobody seems to care much about what they can't see un der the ocean." member even suggested con tacting old hill-billies, 'warn ing them to be careful not to start forest fires, some hav ing been in the woods, maybe 30 to 50 years, and knew for est values better than some of us. Finally I remarked some thing about improved logging operations, slash burning, etc A lumberman remarked: We didn't come here to listen to a condemnation of our woods work. We'd better be about our business. I pointed out that this is your business and our business, and we should all be about it. Having known Col. Greeley years ago I wrote him, as a member of the committee, asking him, through his of fice as secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumber asso ciation for advice and help through members of WCLA to support the KOG plan. He wrote me a , long letter, but no help from that source. I'm sure all of us are in favor of keeping Oregon's green forests green, but wouldn't it be silly to put the suggested slogan on our automobile license plates? John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford Oueleife Wins Local Toasfmasfer Contest Cliff Ouelette, Medford at torney, Monday won the Med ford Toastmaster club speech contest finals. He spoke on "How to Win Friends and In fluence No One But Your self." Other contest speakers were Dr. Ralph Hibbs, talking on "A Grain of Truth is Worth a Bushel of Bunk," and Doug las Roach on "The Education of American Youth.'' Dwight Wilson, president, presided, and Dan Hull was master of ceremonies. Ouelette will compete March 21 with speakers from Klamath Falls, Grants Pass, Yreka, Calif., and the Jackson Toastmasters of Medford. Chrysler Ready With Economy Car New York -(UPD- The Chrys ler Corp. will produce a small economy car if its competitors do, but it won't be much cheaper than the present small Plymouth. L. L. Colbert, president of the auto company, said Tues day that Chrysler will not pioneer the field but would be "ready to follow if our competitors come out first." Colbert said the economy Chrysler probably would have a six cylinder engine in front, carry six passengers, and run 25 miles on a gallon of gas. He said it would cost only S125 to S150 less than the cur rent small Plymouth. Li Jewish newspaper, declared that the German people had reacted with disgust to events of the Nazi era and that this fact could not be invalidated by isolated acts of anti-Semitism. Will Not Repeat Policy He added that the policy of the Nazi regime toward the Jews had brought disgrace on "all of us" and would not be repeated. Adenauer's refrence was to the six million Jews who died in the gas chambers or by worse means under the regime of Adolf Hitler, and to the government's present deter- Editorial Comment THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MILD Oregon ranks sixth among all the states in its use of tran sient labor in agriculture. It was primarily for that reason that former Gov. Robert Holmes asked that an interim committee make a study of Oregon's use of transient la bor in agriculture. After some 15 months of study the in terim committee prepared a report of its findings and of fered some recommendations which were put into six legis lative bills. The bills cover: 1. Licensing of labor con tractors and registry of crew leaders. 2. Standards for safey in transportation applying to every motor vehicle used to transport one or more work ers to and from their places of employment. 3. Minimum housing and sanitation standards with re quirements of pure water for drinking and domestic pur poses, sanitary sewage and garbage disposal. 4. Provision for tax relief for construction of farm hous ing. 5. Provision of $50,000 to finance a pilot program in education of children of farm migrants. 6. Continuing and strength ening of the governor's inter agency committee on migra tory labor. The report of the interim committee does not sensation alize its findings. Its recom mendations are rather mild They do not propose to re move all the bad spots with one big swipe of the legisla tiye brush. Because the recommenda tions are not extreme it had been expected that the legis lation which covers them would have little or no oppo sition. Such was not the case, however, when the. first hear ing was held recently on the committee s r e c o m m e nda tions. The most significant oppo sition was voiced by repre sentatives of the American Farm Bureau Federation. We suppose this should have been expected because the AFB has consistently opposed any correctives for the abuses that exist in the handling of mi gratory labor when those cor rectives have been consid ered in the Congress. The AFB's opposition as it was presented to the Oregon legislature centers primarily upon No. 3 of the committee's recommendations which deals with minimum housing and sanitation standards. Accord ing to AFB spokesmen, it would be too costly for many farmers to maintain such standards. We trust legisla tors will not be misled by this opposition. If they will look closely at the commit tee's proposals in regard to sanitation they will find that no more than one would ex pect to have for his own fam ily is asked for migratory families. One wonders whether the AFB of Oregon feels called upon to oppose these legisla t i v e recommendations be cause the recommendations for Oregon ask so little. -Pendleton East-Oregonian BLASTS DISCRIMINATION Washington -(UPD- Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare Arthur S. Flemming says job discrimination against older workers is "absolutely indefensible" and a "disserv ice to the country." REVOKE SLEDDING LAW St, Helier, Jersey-OJPD-The island of Jersey in the Eng lish channel has revoked a law forbidding use of sleds unless there are three inches of snow on the ground. Average year ly snowfall on the island is 2.81 inches. FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth hav suffered real embarrassment because their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at just the wrong time. Do not live in fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH. the alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get rASTEETH at any drug counter. mination to re-integrate West Germany's remaining 30,000 Jews into West German life. Most West Germans seem to approach the problem today with the grim fascination of a man drawn irresistibly to the edge of a cliff. He doesn't want to go there, but he does anyway. There is no chance that the West Germans will be allowed to forget the atrocities of the Hitler regime. In the pleasant little town of Dachau a few miles from Munich, the gas chambers still stand as a grim memorial, as do others throughout Germany. Laws Against Anti-Semilism Written into the constitu tion of the West German re public are laws against anti- Semitism. And the laws are enforced. Here are a few recent cases: A Bavarian sanatorium at tendant who said he'd volun teer for duty in death camps if they were reopened three months in jail. A textile salesman who said that the Jews should be wiped out seven months in jail. Two officials in the state of Hesse reparations office who allegedly sang anti - Semitic songs and made anti-Semitic statements in their office suspended from their posts pending investigation. A Frankfurt state's attorney who allegedly made anti-Se mitic remarks suspended pending investigation. Suspend Teachers A teacher who cast doubt on tne authenticity ot the Anne Frank diaries suspend ed pending investigation. These cases, and others like them, tend to throw a harsher light on events here than else where where there are no such laws. There are those Sterilization of Delinquents Urged Raleigh, N. C. -(UPD- The North Carolina Legislature today studied a bill that would provide for sterilization of women who have proved to be "grossly sexually delin quent." , The measure, introduced in both houses of the General Assembly Tuesday, would re quire any woman giving birth to a third illegitimate child to show cause why she should not be sterilized. Rep. Rachel Davis, a phys ician who co-sponsored the bill, said it was designed to be "more therapeutic than punitive." The measure also would provide psychiatric treatment at state expense for women having two illegitimate chil dren. The sponsors said the bill should cut down on welfare payments on behalf of illegit imate children. The State Welfare Department has re ported there are 145,000 such children in North Carolina and that about 13,000 receive their support from the state. Gin Rummy Play Resumes in Nevada Las Vegas -(UPD- Ten more games were scheduled for to day in qualifying competition of the 1959 International gin rummy tournament. Five men fought to a tie at the halfway mark Tuesday, but Chester Wanzer, Fuller ton, Calif., the 1958 tourney champion, was not among them. Some 550 players com leted 10 of 20 games. The 16 will qualify for the, championship finals Thursday and play to 500 points for a . top award of nearly $20,000. ! Wanzers' mark for Tuesday's games was 4-6. j The leaders were Cesare Longo and David Gertler, both of New Orleans; Harry Wilmarth, Portland; Ray Friedman, Sioux City, Iowa; and Bruce Thomas, Long Beach, Calif., all with nine wins in 10 games. Cars entering Canada on travelers' vehicle permits to-j taled 2,555,000 in 1957, a gain j of 50,000 over 1955. j 24th Anrtiversary We again renew a pledge which was first made 24 years ago, and repeated each year since. We regard this pledge as a sacred obligation. c M. Litwiller "Always to serve our clients as their needs require and their wishes dictate; to put service before price; quality before profit. To be guides and counselors to those we serve, seeking always to act in their best interests. To be honorable and fair in all our dealings and never to violate what once we have promised. We are deeply appreciative of the loyal support extended us for nearly a quarter century. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Mountain View Chapel Hwv. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main Ashland here, including some Jewish leaders, who believe that so much attention may only en courage other incidents. Others feel that even strongert counter - measures should be taken and that new means should be found to im press upon a new generation of German youth the inhu humanities and ultimate fail ure of Nazism that today's nightmare from yesterday should not become the reality of tomorrow. ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There's an ancient wise crack to the effect that it takes all kinds of people to make a world. True enough. And- It takes all kinds of news to make a newsday. THERE'S t he Burlingame man who was coming home late Saturday night. He made a wrong turn onto a bumpy road. Then he looked up and saw a big motorcycle headlight coming toward him. The man behind the light was stubborn. He wouldn't give an inch. So the motorist jumped out of his new station wagon just in time to avoid a collision that demolished his new car. ITHAT was it all about? Vl WpII it developed that the bumpy road was a rail road. What he had taken for motorcycle headlight turned out to be the headlight of an approaching freight train. What about the motorist? The police version of it was that he was just a guy who had taken too much before starting to drive. THEN there's the willowy Kinnrlp who robbed a bank in Las Vegas the other day, getting somewhere in the neighborhood of $1700, most of which she had in her possession when the police ov erhauled her a few hours la ter. Her side of the story? "I'm sorry I did it," she told the cops. "But I needed the money." The trouble was she got caught. Otherwise, she might not have been so sorry. It hap pens that way very often. SENATOR Jacob Javits, of New York, gets into the news this morning with - a statement that arrests of teen agers may soon total a million a year in the United States unless steps are taken to halt a sharp rise in juvenile delin quency. What's his solution? Well, he says he will intro duce a bill in congress to pro vide 39 million dollars in FEDERAL AID TO STATES during the next five years. HIS theory? It seems to be that SPENDING MONEY - espe cially federal money - will cure anything. It's a prevalent theory. But -I think -It's full of holes. THAT'S one trouble with th modern world especially the political side of it. It's so full of theories that are full of holes. Have that NEW Easter ward robe look the inexpensive way! We'll revive your clothes to sparkling newness! Call SP 2-6500 MEDFORD CLEANERS 34 No. Holly Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us.' Wt NEVER CL03E
