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Newspaper Page Text4 Friday, March 13, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Ireryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MKDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor EZRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W AULEN JB. Managing Editor IARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medforri Oregon under Act oi March 3 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, i.hlonH Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Riv r Talnt and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and surn-y i ma. aov Carrier and Dealers copy 10C All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medforfl Official Papei of jacKsun t-onniy United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ai4r,Hcinc RRnresentative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago, De-i-rti 1 Can Francisco. Los Angeles. Kattle Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ZJ yJ 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 13. 1949 (Sunday) William Briggs resigns as AshlanrL city attorney after 29 years of service. Ashland officials slate a spe cial election Thursday on the recall of three city council-men. 20 YEARS AGO March 13. 1939 (Monday) The Medford district of the CCC holds an educational conference in the courthouse auditorium. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This is Monday the 13th. The sun came up, and the metropoli tan papers arrived on time.' 30 YEARS AGO March 13. 1929 (Wednesday) Two days remain in which to pay income taxes without penalty. Midway road proposals are aired before the county court. 40 YEARS AGO March 13, 1919 (Thursday) North Riverside ave. resi dents are startled by the sound of revolver shots but no source Is discovered. Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass commercial clubs unite to improve southern Oregon. 50 YEARS AGO March 13, 1909 (Saturday) Southern Oregon Normal school boosters rally at Port land for a gallant fight. A new coal vein, the third, is discovered on Roxy Ann. What's Your I.Q-? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In American History, what is the significance of Appomattox (Virginia) Courthouse? 2. In the days of sailing ships, "rounding the horn,' was a familiar expression What did it mean? 3. Which silent motion pic ture actor was known as "the man with a thousand faces?" 4. Entomology is the study of insects; what is etymology? 5. In which state is Pike's Peak? 6. The head of a whale, is six feet long; his tail is as long as his head and half his body, and his body is half of his whole length. How long is the whale? 7. The primary pigment colors are red, yellow, and ? 8. What is the center stone of an arch called? 9. How many inches are there in one meter? 10. Vessels of which class in the U. S. Navy are named for cities? Answers: 1. Place where Lee surrendered to Grant (April 9, 1865); 2. Sailing around Cape Horn; 3. Lon Chaney; 4. Study of words; 5. Colorado; 6. Forty-eight, feet long; 7. Blue; 8. Keystone; 9 39.37 inches; 10. Cruisers. -PLAN NAVAL EXERCISES Yokosuka, Japan-UPD-U. S 7th Fleet Commanger Vice Adm. Frederick N. Kivette , announced today that U. S. and Republic of Korea forces would conduct a routine com bined amphibious training ex ercise near Pohang late next month. The exercise will be Bear Creek: Sewer or Asset? The findings reported Wednesday by the Sportsmen Club of Jackson County to the effect that fish 'in Bear creek are dying,, presumably from pollution are surprising only in two ways: 1. It is surprising that any fish at all can live in the stream. 2. It is surnrisinsr that the people of Jackson county have permitted Bear creek to be operated as an open sewer for so many years. The revolting condition of iSear creeK po tentially a valuable recreational and esthetic re source is no secret. Everyone we've talked to deplores it, and says, in effect, "Something should be done." But nothing has been done. WE SUGGEST: That the parks and recreation commis sions of both Medford and Jackson county con sider hqw Bear creek could best be fitted into a long-range plan of improvement for recreational purposes ; That the newly - formed pollution control board of the county, in cooperation with such civic-minded stoups as the Sportsmen and others concerned with such problems, find out what needs to be done to clear up pollution; That Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Medford and Central Point and the county back them up with whatever sort of support is needed ; That the state sanitary authority be contacted to see if it can be of assistance ; That the state highway commission be made thoroughly aware of its responsibility for beauti- f ication" of the Bear creek area, if and when it cleaves Medford in twain by using Bear creek as a freeway route; That all good citizens support such actions. "FHE upstream irrigation districts, Medford and Talent, might have valuable suggestions as i to how an adequate minimum' streamf low could 1 ... , . . . i be maintained to prevent tne creeK irom Demg nothing but a string of stagnant puddles in sum mertime, particularly in view of the possibility of more usable water resulting from the Talent project. The state water resources board might have valuable suggestions, and furnish encouragement for the beneficial use of the creek. If the Izaak Waltonians, Sportsmen, garden clubs, civic organizations, PTAs, veterans organi zations and just plain people who are concerned make it known that's what they want, Bear creek could be converted from a 20-mile-long sewer in to a 20-mile-long asset. E.A. An Academic Distinction Senator John Kennedy may have won more hearts than votes during his visit here last week end, although it is fairly certain he gained to some extent in both categories. But to the young Democrat from Massachu setts labeled by pundits and pollsters as a leading candidate for his party's presidential nomination next year the distinction between hearts and votes may at this point be academic. After all, he has made it quite clear to the nation that he is not (yet) a declared candidate. HIS speech at the Roosevelt Memorial Dinner loof TTvnrlnTT otTonirifr ornvrnvioto1i7 OYinncrTl was an evocation of the New Deal spirit rather than a declaration of his positions on current issues. An exception was his brief discussion of the need for developing natural resources. Yet here perhaps significantly - he deleted from his delivery a passage in the prepared text dealing with his position in last fall s Bay btate senatorial race regarding: water resource development. The senator, in other words, was apparently avoiding any overt suggestion that he might be campaigning here. A WAY from the rostrum he was not aggressive in hand-shaking, nor so far as is known did he kiss any babies. He was dignified, yet not reticent; impressive, yet approachable. His tall, trim silhouette ; his bright smile on a tanned face these contributed to his personal charm. On the other hand, however, while Kennedy mounted no soapboxes in Medford, he did not place himself on a political pedestal either. Time was generously allotted for questioning: in particular, a 15-minute television interview right after his arrival; a 15-minute question and answer period following his speech at the dinner; and a 15-minute press conference the next day. In his answers to the many questions posed, including several on such controversial subjects as trade with Red China and the defense budget, Senator Kennedy let the public know where he stands on most important national issues. At the same time, the initiative for his statements lay with his questioners, x AN INTERESTING sidelight is the report that the senator had briefed himself on local issues and was disappointed at not being questioned on more of them. What placed his personal appearance here m still another perspective was the report that his political appearance was simultaneously dominat mg a conference of Midwest Democrats in Mil waukee. It was reported that mimeographed statements on many topics from "the man who wasn't there," including some on issues vital to the farm belt, were in plentiful supply. In Milwaukee, perhaps, votes rather than hearts were being sought. As we say, though, the distinction may be academic. Hearts won here last week end could well become votes next year when the hard campaigning begins. E.W. Dennis the Menace 'CAN I SWy HERE WHILE (W GETS OVER A BUSTED VASE? Facts Difficult To Come By in Blazing Controversy Over Budget vs. Defense By LYLE C. WILSON Washington- (UPD -Have pity for the earnest citizen who seeks the facts in the blazing defense - budget controversy between Presi dent Eisen hower and the D e m o c r atic Congress. There are too many experts; too many speeches; too many words. The contro- vle C. Wilson C"J ia hottest of our times. It is the most important. If United States defense policy is mis taken now and if the mistake is large enough, Red bombs may wither the flowers of spring in this country to say nothing of what they would do to earnest citizens from coast to coast. None but a hopeless cynic would believe for an instant that the politicians engaged Spy Thrillers Dime A Dozen In Frankfurt, Writer Says By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Frankfurt, Germany (UPD The writer of spy thrillers could have a field day here. Coded names, telephone calls from untraceable public booths, forged docum ents they're almost a part of daily life here on the fringe of the Iron Cur tain where the C o m m unists pay for in 'formation about Western defenses. Some of these cases, when the spies are caught, find their fhil isewsom way on to court records. Ed Beller is the United Press International editor in Frankfurt. As with any news man here, part of his job is to run these stories down and to report them when they can be told without involving West ern security. Recalls a Few He was remembering a few the other night. Since last October, German counter-intelligence has ar rested dozens of persons on charges of "treasonable ties to a foreign power." Most of them involve north ern defenses along the stra tegic Baltic Sea, where Rus sian submarines abound and in an area especially sensitive of 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 jnitia! 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. 'Shocking Politics' To the Editor: The Senate Democrats on the Natural Resources committee partici pated in a shocking bit of pol itics by failing to confirm the appointment of L. C. "Jack Binford to the Water Resour ces board. Mr. Binford, cour ageous and outspoken, has been called "controversial" because he calls issues as he sees them without putting in with any pressure group. Anyone who does not agree whole-heartedly with the "all out public power boys" in the Democratic party is deemed to be controversial, and con sequently, not fit to render public service. Are we, the public, who have no desire to see Oregon a complete public power or private power state, going to sit idly by while these ruth less Democrats attempt to de stroy anyone who displays in dependence of judgment? have heard many of my Dem ocratic colleagues complain about conformity and its deadening effect upon mo dern life. If this is not an ex ample o f their headlong plunge into exacting con formity, I don't know what is. Shirley Field, State Representative Portland, Ore. Fishicide To the Editor: Little Fishie in Bear Creek Rainbow trout, with rosy cheek Vibrant as a waterfall, Ain't you got no life at all? Now the irridescent scale Flashes bright from snout to tail; In perfect health he up and died, The victim of mass fishicide. George W. Rode Fluhrer Building Medrord (Trout have no scales; this is poetic license). Clark St Crossing To the Editor: Don't you think a little editorial on the proposed closing of the Clark st. railroad crossing might be newsworthy before the coun cil meets on April 2 to dis cuss the question? Clark st. where the cross ing is now was in use in 1872, 10 years before the railroad came to Medford, and farmers to the west drove their wag ons to Bear creek, then a respectable stream, by this route. Mr. Carl Pearson, who has lived on Clark st. for 35 years, comments that old timers tell about the track crews pulling up the planks laid between the rails, and of settlement of the trouble by agreement with the rail road in the late '80s. . Clark st. on the north, serves a function identical to rose ave. crossing recently authorized by the council for the south side-an "area relief for traffic." Despite the lack of signals (the R.R. crossing sign was put up only a few years ago), the crossing has an admirable safety record, even th'ough the S.P. daily holds freight trains on the crossing for lengthy periods, legally only on the technicality that the State Commission never rec ognized the crossing. For about 50 years, the S.P. maintained a siding here for loading lumber, but since 1956 that activity has been trans ferred to White City. If, dur ing that period, the city had acted to close the crossing, S.P. would have been the loud est objector-it was making money for them! Now their position is re-versed-no money, no interest. In fact, last summer their pro posal was to close Clark st., and S.P. would pay for sig nals, actually their responsi bility, at the other crossings! The crossing has a volume of approximately 550 vehicles, plus 200 pedestrians crossing daily. It materially relieves congestion in North Central and West Jackson, particu larly at the peak traffic hours. Too, numerous business places in the area will suffer. The police, fire and engineer departments find the crossing indispensible for quick access to the area, as do the electric, gas and telephone service trucks. As one city official said, "close it, and within two years to the Russians because their work on rocketry. Last October, intelligence picked up a pilot in the Ger man naval air force. He had been leader of a squadron of what is reported to be NATO's most versatile anti-sub- de fenses - the turbo-prop "Gan net" planes packed with secret electronic equipment. In December, intelligence picked up the editor of an information service. He sup plied a popular service on Communist-bloc navies, but the intelligence service said that was only a front for espionage against the West. $125 Per Picture In January, (they picked up a private pilot, his wife and a photographer. They had been using a surplus British World War II airplane to take pic tures of ships, ports and bridges. The going price was said to be $125 a picture. The battle being waged by West German counter-intelli gence is mostly a silent one. (The news of these arrests, if it comes out at all, comes slowly and is confirmed only after inquiry. Last month, - 60 - year - old Carl Helfmann was sentenced to 4V2 years in prison by the federal court at Karlsruhe. He confessed he had worked for the Communist East Ger mans for five years. He also claimed he had worked for the Americans part of that time as a double agent. The Karlsruhe court did not press the latter point. The prosecution asked for a comparatively light sentence in his case because they said his quick confession enabled them to arrest many Commu nist agents. But neither names nor numbers nave been re vealed. in tnis aelense-spending con troversy merely are playing politics for partisan advantage. It is their country, too. They, have wives and families and homes. If Eisenhower is wrong his grandchildren are as like ly as any to be crisped by nuclear fire. That goes, equal ly, for Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State, whose damning criticism of admin istration defense policy is di rected mostly to the imme diate problem of the Berlin crisis. The Great Question The inquiring earnest citi zen cannot cope with the flood of argument about defense and spending unless he under stands that there are two sep arate areas of dispute. The first is how to meet the crisis coming in West Berlin if and when the Kremlin hands over its responsibilities to the pup pet East German government. Acheson put it this way in a casual conversation this week: The great question is wheth er Nikita Khrushchev realizes that Eisenhower means what he says - means that the West will not give an inch on Ber lin. Eisenhower evidently is convinced that the Russians are aware of his frame of mind. Acheson doubts that Khru- schchev is convinced. Ache son would convince the Rus sians by positive action, such as a massive re-enforcement of U. S. military strength in Western Europe. Once the Russians are convinced that Eisenhower means what he says, Acheson believes, Khru shchev would come to the brink and stop. The former secretary believes, also, that unless Eisenhower orders such positive action the Russians will come to the brink' and go over - World War III would be on. Ike' Reply Eisenhower's answer to Acheson's demand was made with convincing vigor at this week's White House news con ference. He said it would be futile and foolish to attempt to stall the Russian ground farces on the plains of West ern Europe with ground forces of NATO. Ike will loose atomic war against the Soviet Union if Khrushchev forces him to do so. That should be clear enough, even to the Kremlin. The other phase of the defense-spending controversy is on the longer haul. Is the United States spending enough now to overcome the Russian lead in missiles? Could the United States now or in the future defend itself with what it has or will have against Russian attack? The facts on this, also, are hard to come by, especially facts relating to what striking force , the Russians possess now and what they are likely to possess at any time dur ing the next five years. The simplest estimate of the situa tion was made by the Chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Na than F. Twining. He said he would much rather be an American facing the Russian menace than a Russian facing what this country can throw. Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE HANG PORTRAITS Washington-(UPD - The Sen ate has opened its own gilded hall-of-fame with portraits of five great senators. The "fa. mous five" are Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, John C. Cal houn of South Carolina, Rob ert M. La Follette of Wiscon sin and Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Their portraits were un veiled Thursday in the Sen ate reception room. that 'hoped-for' by the Mel- at most, the city will buy a right of way, at more expense, for needed access." We agree with the embat tled property owners, busi ness people and residents of the area. Approve and im prove the Clark st. crossing. D. W. Robertson, 1020 West 11th St., Medford In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What of the revolt in Iraq? It has been in the news for days, but the news has been confused and contradictory. What happened-and why? THIS seems to be the , story: Mr. Nasser, who aspires to be the boss of the Arab world, got to fooling around with Mr. Khrushchev, who IS the boss of the communist world. Between them, they cooked up a revolution in Iraq and threw out the gov ernment that was friendly to OUR side-meaning the West. Mr. Nasser thought he had cut a fat hog for himself. But- Mr. Khrushchev outfoxed Mr. Nasser. He took over oil wealthy Iraq FOR HIMSELF, and put his stooges in charge. MR. NASSER didn't like that. So- , He cooked up a SECOND revolution, his hope being that he could GET IRAQ BACK. His revolt appears to have been a total flop. His rebel army took a bad beating at the hands of Mr. K's stooges, and dispatches from Cairo this morning report that 60 of its officers have been exe cuted without a trial-following the pattern set by the com munists in Hungary. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF HELEN PALMER tells of a new maid in Denver who watched in awe while her competent mistress baked a cake. "Eloise," instructed the mistress, "open the oven door now and see if that peach cake is baked. Stick a knife in it and see if it comes out clean." Eloise returned presently, beaming with pleasure. "The knife came out so clean," she reported, "that I stuck in all the other dirty knives too." Choice specimens of cam pus wit: 1. ome scoundrel broke into a history profs pigpen last week. "Now," wails the prof, more." 2. Teacher: How would you punctuate this sentence, "Mar ian went swimming and lost her bikini?" Freshman: I'd make a dash after Marian. A little shop featuring materials used in ladies' dresses has opened in Tulsa, Okla. It's called "The Tulle Shed." O 1959. ty Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, O "I haven't got mahogany WILBUR LANDREY, UPI correspondent in the Mid dle East, reports that: "Political implications of the Iraq revolt are becoming plainer every day. Defeat of the rebellion came as a vic tory for communism and a DEFEAT for the Arab nation alism of U.A.R. (United Arab Republic) President G a m a 1 Abdel Nasser." THE SOLID UNCLE Washington A long time ago in Texas a boy usually knew that the family or some part of it somewhere was in trouble when a laconic uncle or cousin sud denly rode in to the V a r - v M V f UUiJlk and walked into the house as though he 1 3 1 naa Deen ex- pectea. tucn a southewestern rriH ft 7U n s William S. . . white against out side dangers were infrequent and never lightly held. Every member of the family had an equal right to a welcome and to put such a powwow into motion. But some had," so to speak, more equal rights than others. Such and such an uncle or cousin, though always backed up in the outer world, was not felt within the lodge to be really quite sound. So, when he came, all would listen politely, but with some inner skepticism. Tech nically, he was given a full hearing. But it was not nearly so thorough a hearing as that given to another uncle or cousin whose personal solidity and stability were considered to be of a higher order. T1UT the very fact that the -t sounder relative was priv ileged to have a more atten tive audience put a special responsibility upon him. He was granted a leadership that automatically would have been withheld from the less sound relative. He was. ac cordingly, put under a special burden to offer only wisely considered proposals and, above all, proposals with which all could go along in the end. For all were well aware that the actions he was recom mending would commit not merely the main family but all its second-cousin connec tions. These, too, had to be considered. British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan is now prepar ing to open a rendezvous of the Anglo-American alliance, in Berlin crisis talks with President Eisenhower here later this month. Macmillan will not, of course, saddle a horse and ride across two or three counties. He will take an airplane across an ocean that always shrinks, as those counties used to shrink, when grave matters had to be talked over with special in timacy. BUT, apart from methods of transportation, the Prime Minister will be in about the position of the sound uncle who rode up and dismounted at twilight. This side of the Anglo - American community regards him as a solid man, not given to undue alarms or imprudent solutions. The fact that he is a British Conserva tive and not a Laborite will be immensely helpful. Whatever he has to say to the President -and no doubt also to the Dem ocratic Congressional leaders -will be heard with particu lar respect on this account. The bulk of the American government, in both parties and in both executive and leg islative branches, is of dis tinctly conservative tone by British standards. ' Indeed, Macmillan's opposition, the British Labor party, has no counterpart at all here. In the American leaders, therefore, he will meet men who in gen eral political terms talk pretty much his own language. But precisely because he is so acceptable, to the dominant American political viewpoint, the Prime Minister will be under heavy necessity to have a plan for dealing' with the Russians that will be tolera ble to all the rest of the West ern family. TpHE second-cousins who fill -- out the Anglo-American core of the alliance-the West Germans, the French, the Bel gians, among others - are in this thing, too. And as it hap pens they stand nearest to the bright eye of danger around Berlin. For one example, the second-cousins are already un derstandably alarmed at Mr. Macmillan's references to the possibility of a "thinning-out" of Western and Soviet forces somehow and somewhere in Central Europe. The West's troops are all too thin already. And any foreseeable thinning out of Soviet forces would still leave great masses of them only a longish leapfrog jump from the heart of Germany. Mrs. Macmillan, in a word, comes here under the. best possible omens and in the best possible human atmosphere, given the fact that this is difficult world. His task, how ever, is hardly less delicate and fateful than were the mis sions here of Winston Church ill before we had yet made a national decision about World War II. For there are no more severe critics than critics within a family, especially in so large and mixed a family as the Western alliance. The only thing more vital than preparing an effective plan against the Russians is not to prepare one that could rupture that alliance. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Luxury Mofel in Portland Planned Fortland-UPD-A Portland In vestment company has re vealed it wants to build a 250 unit, $2.5 million luxury mo tel on a site in the South Au ditorium Urban Renewal area in Portland. The Harsh Investment Com pany made the proposal to the five-man Portland Develop ment Commission Thursday. The president of the firm, Harold Schnitzer, said the huge motel would include an outdor swimming pool and a small convention hall. can of THE moral: I think perhaps it be found in this jingle: "A smiling young lady Niger "Once went for a ride with tiger. "They came back from the ride "With the lady inside "And the smile on the face of the tiger." ANYWAY That has hppn thp fafp of EVERYONE who has gone for a ride with the commu nist tiger. Let's hope WE don't get taken for a ride in Berlin. Electrical Wiring & Repair Industrial Commercial Residential Call Jack Henbest ROGUE ELEC. SERVICE SP 2-6603 104 S. Grape fVi. . i - L i II 1 jM Look before you leap! 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