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4 Monday, March 23, 195 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtWTEIBUNX "Xveryone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MKXFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ItOBEP.T W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mtfr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing fcditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Enterea as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3 18!7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Coov 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8 Of. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 bunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Fhoenlx Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year 918.00 Daily and SunUcy 1 mo 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms Cash m 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 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 23, 1959 (Wednesday) United Air Lines presents Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn with a sprig o' real shamrock, direct from the old od. Fishing interests make their last ditch stand at Salem against dams on the upper Rogue. 20 YEARS AGO March 23. 1939 (Thursday) The first bear crawls out of hibernation and ambles into Park headquarters at Crater Lake for breakfast. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The lady gardeners have started to cuss. The $7 imported pe tunia has peeped from the earth, and looks like a jimp son . weed." 30 YEARS AGO March 23, 1929 (Saturday) A campaign is opened for purification of the Rogue river to aid fishing. The state D.A.R. convention ends here and the ladies praise Medford's hospitality. 40 YEARS AGO March 23, 1919 (Sunday) Five new members join the Commercial club, with one woman paying dues six months in advance. The school board plans a meeting for consideration of hiring a new superintendent. 50 YEARS AGO March 23, 1909 (Tuesday) Medford's new gravity-con veyed water supply from Bradshaw drop is expected to be available by July 1. Desert Oil Co.'s well has been drilled to a depth of 600 feet, and indications for sue cess are reported brighter than ever. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which country has a unit of currency bearing the same name as our unit of 2. How many edges has a triangular pyramid? 3. If you received, as a pres ent, each of the following Royal Coachman, Black Gnat, Grayhackle-what would you get? 4. In three and three-quarters, how many quarters are there? 5. Explain the difference between the tarantula and tarantella. 6. What river forms the boundary between Korea and Manchuria? 7. An elephant can untie knots with its trunk; true or false? 8. What is the name of the home of Thomas Jefferson? 9. How many carats fine is pure gold? 10. Which of "these is the capital of Arizona: Yuma, Tucson, Phoenix? Answers: 1. Great Britain (oound). 2. Six. 3. Fishing fliss. 4. Fifteen. 5. Tarantula is spider, tarantella is dance. 6. Yalu. 7. True. 8. Moniicello. 9. 24. 10. Phoenix. Berrydale - It must have been with considerable gratifica tion that the majority of people in the Berrydale area finally saw the Medford city council approve the plans for a new sewer system in that area. The fight for adequate sanitation facilities has been a long and difficult one. But the city manager last week was authorized to call for bids, and if all goes well the system should be functioning within the year. ASA LETTER printed on this page today points out, the entire project took untold hours of time, both for citizens of the area who worked to obtain the necessary authorization first as a dist rict, and later through annexation and the use of city procedures and for the officials who cooper ated toward the same end. Other forms of sacrifice are involved, too, such as the relatively high cost of the project as it fi nally evolved, after years of delay. ' TPHE entire incident seems to us to constitute an almost perfect and virtually irrefutable argu ment in favor of planning and zoning, of looking ahead to solve the ultimate needs of citizens be fore an area is so far developed that it requires a herculean effort to get what is needed. If the area, when it first started to grow, had been subject to the controls provided by subdiv ision ordinances, planning regulations and zoning controls, the long fight, culminating in an expen sive but necessary project, would not have been necessary. The city and county, now considering the rea sonable reflation of future subdivisions, could well consider the history of Berrydale as an object lesson. Snp h rpcniTatfnns mnv meet with some short sighted opposition now. But their adoption would be a service to propertyowners throughout the county in years to come. Fresh View Flying over Oregon has always been one of our favonte ways to see our favorite state. From the air. the billboards and srarishness of fringe areas vanish. Mountains, farmlands, cities, forests and valleys blend in an ever-changing and ever-fascinating panorama ot the land, and the people who live upon it. One can see the immense stands of virgin tim ber still left as well as the hundreds of thousands of acres of once-forested land, bare and naked, some of it tinged with the green of tiny growing trees, some of it still barren and scarred. TTHE West Coast airlines plane we took to Port- land last week was one of the new F-27 turbo jet planes, which cruise at a fast 300 miles per hour, and convey one from Medford to Koseburg to Coos Bay to Eugene to Corvallis to Portland in 2V2 hours providing an amazing, vivid and rapid glimpse of mountain and seacoast sand dune, of forested hills and cultivated valleys, ot winding rivers and pounding surf. Fnr flnvnne enamnnred of Oreoon fas we have alwavs been 'I it is a trip it t A view, a new perspective, ation. Hi.a. 'Fantastic9 "Fantastic," Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson himself calls the government program of buying and storing crop surpluses. Uncle Sam will hold by July 1, outright or through loans, over $9 billion worth of farm products. Of the total $3.2 billion (35 per cent) represents wheat, $2.4 billion (27 per cent) corn, $1.2 billion (13 per cent) cotton. The government wheat would supply all the nation's consumption, export and carryover needs for a whole year if not a single new bushel were harvested. Storage alone on all government crop holdings is costing close to $1 billion a year. In eveiy way he can devise Secretary Benson tries to dispose of the hoards : Donations to school lunch programs, institutions, persons on relief rolls, relief programs at home and abroad barter and sales deals with other countries barter with U. S.' firms providing foreign strategic materials domestic sales that won't depress market prices. VET the surpluses grow and grow and grow. The A chief reason is that our agriculture becomes more productive all the time. For only two examples : Cotton yield per acre is ten times that of 30 years ago ; the average cow produces one-fourth more milk than 10 years ago. And a well-off family doesn't consume twice as much milk (or steak or bread) if its income has doubled. It's all pathetic as well as fantasic. There's pathos in the underfed peoples of the world need ing the U. S. surplus food, and more, if only it could be got to them feasibly. And there's pathos in realizing that if even all our own people hsfd adequate incomes, we'd probably consume 10 per cent or so more food right at home. But long-range factors don't solve an immediate crisis. E.R.R. Object Lesson E.A. of Oregon i which provides a fresh A . and a renewed appreci- Surpluses Dennis the VA NOTICE TrlEV NEVEf? PLAYW KXX'H ROLL?' M after of Fact ANOTHER SOVIET I.C.B.M. TEST Washington - Within recent weeks, another Soviet test of an international ballistic mis sile has been recorded by the Western watching sta tions. The fact is worth record- rA JLs ing two f fjH4 reasons. In the I ". ; 8 r I ftrst place, I this is the lostpb Alsop nrsi surety established Soviet I.C.B.M. test which has been recorded since April, 1958. (Another rocket shoot last July may perhaps have been an I.C.B.M. test, but strongly believed to have been an abortive moon shot.) In the second place, the American government has built such a weighty structure of life-and-death assumptions on the interruption of Soviet I.C.B.M. tests after last April. From the first Soviet test of a long-range missile in the summer of 1957, testing pro ceeded on a fairly logical pat tern with the culminating test last April. Ten I.C.B.M.s were fired. Four firings were abort ive. Six were successful. Most were over a range of about 3,000 miles, but the reduced range only meant that the Soviets were flying their I.C.B.M.s with heavy instru mentation aboard. IN SUM, there was a pattern of an average of just about one I.C.B.M. test each month. This pattern formed the basis of the American government's original, alarmingly high esti mates of Soviet long-range missile production. Then the pattern was broken. After April, long-range tests ceased. Almost entirely in conse quence of this interruption of testing, the national intelli gence estimates were "de graded" - which is Pentagon gobbledegook for "reduced." The alteration in the esti mates meant that the expect ed curve of Soviet I.C.B.M. production was considerably flattened out. It meant putting off the moment when the Soviets were predicted to have operational I.C.B.Ms in significant numbers. In other words, it meant that the pro jected dimensions of the "mis sile gap" were greatly dimin ished. This shrinkage of the missile gap from its former terrible dimensions was of course highly convenient, in view of the budget - first de fense policy being pursued. Appearances to the con trary, however, it can be taken as quite certain that C.I.A. Director Allen Dulles and his staff did not consent to alter the national intelligence esti mates in order to serve the convenience of the Budget Bureau. There were powerful reasons for changing the esti mates, which convinced Dulles. AMONG these reasons, the most solidly based was cer tainly the argument that you cannot have operational mis siles without trained missile squadrons. The missiles them selves can be produced, and produced in great quantities, without concurrent testing. If the Soviets went into produc tion on the basis of ten I.C.B.M. tests, they made this decision on the basis of more data than the American gov ernment possessed, when the decision was taken here to produce the Atlas I.C.B.M. But you cannot produce trained missile squadrons without a testing program to train the squadrons. Trained men are needed to fire accu rate, simultaneous salvos of large numbers of I.C.B.M.s. Hence the interpretation of Soyiet I.C.B.M. tests could quite legitimately be taken as proof of the need for a change in' the original American in telligence estimates - at least the estimates of Soviet opera tional capabilities. Hence the resumption of testing also has much significance, especially in combination with the Pent- - , -1 Menace Joseph AIsop agon's recent, reluctant admis sion that Soviet I.C.B.M. pro duction has now begun in deadly earnest. NOVEMBER is the month named in the new official estimates, for the beginning of Soviet I.C.B.M. output on a considerable scale. The basis for the November date is a slight but significant nuance in the language of Nikita Khrushchev's boasts. In the autumn, he declared the So viet I.C.B.M. "was going into serial production." Later on, he said it "had gone into serial production." Again, the deduction from the Jaet , seemed entirely reasonable But after the reasonable ness of the estimate had been conceded, one very big ques- tionj-emams. It is the question whether a government is justi fied in gambling the entire na tional future on any mere in telligence estimate, however prayerfully and astutely pre pared the estimate may be. You may think the estimate is very probably right, as this reporter does - for whatever that is worth. You may be lieve that the chance of error is no more than 5 or at most 10 per cent, as the estimators believe. But if there is any chance of error at all, basing our entire defense policy and strategy on a hopeful forecast of Soviet I.C.B.M. output is still like playing Russian rou lette, with the whole course of human history at stake on the gamble. (Copright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman it again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) WHAT NEXT OVER BERLIN? Washington Week after week, for at least the next five months, the biggest headline-news will revolve around the Berlin crisis. It isn't going to disappear soon. It isn't go ing to be settled quickly. In the wake of Premier Khrushchev's effort to force the West out of West Berlin as Sfalin sought to do 10 years ago; in the wake of British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan's reconnais sance tour to Moscow and the profitable conversations be tween President Eisenhower and Mr. Macmillan here this past week, it seems to me we are entering a new phase in our relations with the Soviet Union. This new phase may be better or it may end by being worse, but it isn't going to be the same. HERE is what I think we need to keep in the front of our minds in order to read the news now in the making: 1 For the first time since the beginning of the cold war 12 years ago, events are so in motion that significant ne gotiation between the Soviet Union and the Western allies seems attainable. B y again threatening West Berlin Mr. Khrushchev has so stirred things up that they are not going to come to rest again in the way they were before, no matter what happens. This means that some issues larger than Berlin are going to be in part resolved by negotia tion or, failing, the cold war is going to become colder and tougher. 2 A Big-Four heads-of-gov-ernment summit meeting Eisenhower Macmillan, De Gaulle, and Khrushchev is now a certainty. Mr. Macmil lan became convinced in Mos cow that Premier Khrushchev is the only Soviet .official pre pared to make decisions in foreign affairs and that he is not willing to negotiate through a mouthpiece. Presi dent Eisenhower has for all practical purposes embraced this view. You will recall that he used to talk about being willing to go to a summit con ference only if advance prep aration showed that some use How Much is U.A.R. On U.S.S.R.? Answer By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Cairo, United Arab Repub lic -(LTD- Is the Egyptian-Sy rian economy mortgaged into foreseeable future to the So viet Union? The Egyptians-here say it is not and that, instead, President Ga- al Abdel Nas- - ser nas exniD- .-f3 : I :j lieu cuiisiaer- able independ- ence of the PUil Newsom U. . S. JK. in his ' campaign against the Sy rian Communists and in his demonstrated affection for President Tito of Yugoslavia. There are factors to be con sidered in each argument. The combined Egyptian-Syrian army is equipped top to bottom with Soviet arms. The list runs from Mig jet fighters, through submarines, the latest Russians tanks and down to small arms. Further, these supplies are said to have replacement part to last five years. They cost in the neighbor hood of S250 million up. The total for both Syria and Egypt probably is close to $500 mil lion. Nasser Needs Dam In the works, but already agreed upon, are other vast projects. They include one which at the official rate of four rubles to one U. S. dol lar runs to about $100 million for development of the first stages of the Aswan dam. The dam is an absolute nec essity to Nasser, who depends on it to increase Egypt's ar able land by one-third. In both Syria and Egypt, together forming the United Arab Republic, are industrial ization programs calling for construction of railroads, ir rigation projects and wide spread factory production. Altogether, the figures add up to about $1 billion. But the figures fail to tell the entire truth. Most of the Soviet arms were obtained in exchange for Egyptian cotton which Nas ser was unable to sell any where else The rise in plastics and the consequent difficulties of the textile industry, notably in England, have made Egyptian long staple cotton a drug on the market even though it is considered among the best in the world. Parties Can Withdraw The industrialization agree ments all are subject to fur ther negotiation. Not a railroad spur nor an ful agreement could be reach ed. In his latest report to the nation he stated he hoped for a summit meeting "assuming developments justify." He did not say that advance develop ments would have to assure agreement. 'TiHIS suggests to me that Mr. Eisenhower has con cluded that events in Eastern and Western Europe, as they affect both sies, are so in flux that it is in the inter ests of the West to Meet with Mr. Khrushchev to explore them at the highest level while they remain in flux and that a preliminary meeting of the Foreign Ministers will not greatly bear on the de cision to hold a summit meet ing. 3 We need to see clearly the nature of the impasse over Berlin- in order to see through to what kind of larg er agreement with the So viets could remove the im passe. The impasse is this: the Soviets want all of the occupying powers out of West Berlin even if Germany re mains dismembered. We will not leave West Berlin until Germany is reunited, because the present East German re gime is a creature of Moscow. When President Eisenhow er and Prime Minister Mac millan say we will not budge an inch on our rights of access to West Berlin, they do not mean that the Berlin matter is not in any way negotiable. They mean that we will not be pushed out of West Berlin by Soviet threats. They mean that we will not leave West Berlin on any ba sis without protection for the independence and freedom of the 2,000,000 people in West Berlin. They mean that the Soviet made "Berlin crisis" is not ne gotiable by itself, that a set tlement can be reached only if the Soviets and the West can find a way to reunite Germany acceptable to both sides. The West wants to guard against the resurgence of Ger man militarism just as much as tne Soviets ao. bo aoes y tr Phanrpllnr Adenauer Tf this Pwder nolJs false teeth more firmly unanceuor Aaenauer. ii xnis and more comfoy No gummy, is MOSCOW'S real purpose, then gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not wp mav hp at thp rnint of sour- Checks "plate odor" (denture we may De ai ine pomi oibreath) Get ASXEEXH M productive negotiation. ny drug counter. irrigation ditch will be built until each detail is agreed upon specifically. Either party can withdraw at any time. But the Egyptians say this: Nasser is anti-Communist in his own country but still can not afford to be anti-U.S.S.R. This condition will continue until he can be certain of no- 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. Sees DST Trickery To the Editor: I invite you to reconsider your editorial on Daylight Saving Time. I object particularly to your opinion that the proposal now in the legislature is "fair and logical." In light of the decisive re jection of DST by the peo ple of this state in the recent past, it seems to me a very unfair procedure for a few political tricksters to try to clamp it on us again as an "emergency" measure, be fore opposition can be mus tered against it. What is this "emergency?" What is the great danger facing the state? The alleged inconvenience to tourists in this Centennial year can hardly qualify as an emergency. It is even more unfair to impose DST with the pro viso that we cannot vote against it until 1960. We had it during the war. When the war ended we got rid of it. A few years later we had it again. We got rid of it. Does anyone really be lieve that we don't know what DST is? That we don't know how we feel about it? This is not a contention that DST should never be brought up again. The gentlemen who are so desper ately anxious for it have a perfect right to bring it up at any time. But they do not have the right to slip it over as an emergency where no emergency exists. Nor do they have the right to saddle us with it for two years and then ask us how we like it. I think that the "fair and logical" way for these des perate gentlemen to proceed would be to try to put it on the ballot for next fall. So that the people can choose whether or not they want to try Daylight Saving Time for two years. Now I challenge you Mr. Editor. My proposition is the opposite of the one you en dorse. If, as you say yours is fair and logical, then mine must be unfair and illogical. Tell us please why it is un fair, why it is illogical? Spell it out. In conclusion it is only fair for me to say why I am so opposed to DST. My part ner, Jack Putney, and I are the owners of the Lithia Drive-In Theater. DST if in stituted will cause us (and all other drive-in theaters in the state) severe financial loss. The biggest part of our patronage are working peo ple, who because of the necessity of getting up early in the morning, cannot be expected to attend a movie that won't even start before 9 or 9:30 in the evening. Jim Selleck Lithia Drive-In Theater Ashland Sewer Finally Approved To the Editor, and the citi zens of the Berrydale com munity: The publicity given the criticism and the critic in Friday's paper, in the report of the Berrydale Sanitary sewer approval by the Med ford city council, disturbs me, in view of the fact there are so many facts, figures, reasons and common sense behind the project as accept ed and recommended by the Citizens Advisory Commit tee. (1) The city council would have contributed more than $29,000 to the project if the money had been available. It wasn't. (2) The city applied for federal assistance on this project but it was denied be cause of lack of funds. (3) The committee and city officials turned down several proposals for con struction entirely within the city limits because of ridi culously high costs. The city would not have participated in any of these plans, nor How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your false teeth annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat. laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates This alkaline (non-acid) Economy Dependent Said Important strings support from the West. In this connection, the U-A.R. looks wistfully toward the Western help given Tito. As proof of Nasser's anti Communism, Egyptians point to Nasser's roundup of Com munists in Syria, risking what ever deals he may have with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. would it have been possible to apply for federal assist ance. The project now ordered in is $70,000 cheaper than the next lowest proposal. Acreage costs on two of these declined proposals run as high as $300 per acre. I must sfdmit one thing. Our critic is consistent. He led the opposition and criti cised the Elk City Water dis trict, the Howard School dis trict, the Berrydale Sanitary district and two annexation proposals within the past five years. Ask yourselves, who was responsible for the area outside the district boundaries, that would yield 65,000, being left out? Let's see if our critical mathematician can come up with an answer for increased construction costs and ma terial over the past three years. Don't you suppose that the annexation proposal begun in 1955 and defeated in 1956 would have been to great advantage, in more area served, at less cost and earlr er construction? I wonder if everyone realizes the hours and hours spent by the Citizens Com mittee and Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Duff studying this proj ect over and beyond the call of their duties? I want to thank you, Mr. Editor, for your wonderful editorials during the cam paign for annexation to the city. I want to thank each and every one of you, my friends, who worked so hard for annexation and for the sewer. And let's not forget a group of our neighbors who1 started working for a sewer 10 years ago and were beaten down by opposition and criticism. The only criticism I have to offer is tragic. If it hadn't been for opposition and criticism, the sewer would have been constructed sev eral years ago. N. F. Gier Chairman, Berrydale Sanitation Committee; Chairman, Berrydale Annexation Committee; Citizens Advisory Com mittee Consolidation Questions To the Editor: Here are some questions regarding the Phoenix consolidation issue some of us have been wonder ing about. How long can Phoenix re main an independent grade-A school if we vote to remain independent? Do we want to vote every year with the resultant con fusion and controversy? What happens at the 1962 deadline for district reorgani zation? Does our Wagner Creek section want to go to Ash- Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Frank Perl j3Hl FRIENDLY. Egyptians say the Russian economic squeeze may go on at any time and a publisher here says he already is getting vague replies to inquiries on long-promised shipment of newsprint. land? Does our industrial area want to join Medford? Medford officials haven't made a definite statement on the Vocational Agriculture program. What happens to the students now enrolled in the Vo-ag program? What about the students who will want these courses in the future? In past years, how many students from the outlvinff areas have ever made the varsity team in the various athletic programs? How many the main band? What would be the chances of our Phoenix students? With all the proposed con- solidations to Medford it will increase their school district from 22.2 square miles to 361.2 square miles. How early will some of our students have to leave for school? How late before they get home? How good will the transportation system be and how costly? Will our assessed evaluation change in any way if we join a larger district? How effic ient and economical would a school district of this size be, especially with such widely varying interests? If we consolidzte with Tal ent we will be able to offer our students more courses, al though they now have the necessary courses for college admission. But more important, our children will remain individ ual personalities and not be come just one more face and name. And we will keep our communities' interests and money - in our communities. Mrs. Donald Fredenburg, 341 South Stage rd., Medford. Use Real Leather To the Editor: It was Inter esting reading an article in your publication of the 19th stating that "the American hide market was in danger" of its export 'market. ' Well, that problem could be taken care if our shoe manu facturers would start using real leather in shoes and not so much cardboard and other imitations for which the American public is paying a handsome price. E. F. Halgren, 315 Portland ave., Medford. STRIKE OLD LAW Des Moines, Iowa -IUPD- The Iowa Senate erased from the law books Friday a statute de fining as vagrants "all per sons camping on any public highway t the purpose of trading he f s." EASTER is almost here! Send us your family's Wardrobe Tcrmorow! Phone SP 2-6500 MEDFORD CLEANERS 34 North Holly Hear your fav orite hymns on .KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
