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4 Thursday, March 26, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MXJ3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fu St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBLP.T W RUHL, Editor ITERB GRETt Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business iir ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing F-ditor EARL H ADAMS. Cltr Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Enterea ai se-ond class matter at ilcuiorH Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 41 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUcy J mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City at Medford Official Papei of Jackson County United Press Internationa' Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Afvlisine Representative: WE5T HOLIDAY CO., INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta. Vanrouver B.C NEWSPAPER BilSHERS SOCIATION 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 26. 1949 (Saturday) Residents of school district 40 in the Applegate area plan a "clean up" day to clear land recently contributed to the Community by Ed Kubli. The Philharmonic Society of Southern Oregon plans a program of spirituals. 20 YEARS AGO March 26. 1939 (Sunday) Gov. Charles A. Sprague ex tends a message of hope at a Chamber of Commerce dinner-forum here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The country meadows are dotted with wobbly-legged calves and lambs, always crying for their Maws." 30 YEARS AGO March 26, 1929 (Tuesday) The Talent Grange plans a membership drive. A motorcycle speeder is sen tenced in a local court to 10 days on foot, 40 YEARS AGO March 26. 1919 (Wednesday) Nine measures are to be voted on in a special state election in June. ; The Jackson county speed cop resigns his post. 50 YEARS AGO March 26. 1909 (Friday) Many purchases of automo biles and typewriters in the Medford area are pointed out as barometers of local wealth. The federal government re ports it is standing by to con duct surveys for the Crater Lake road as soon as the com mission is appointed. .What's Yourl.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. ? 1. - In measuring for cook ery, is a teaspoonful 1-3 or Vz of a tablespoonful? 2. What is the common name for sodium chloride? 3. At Cock Robin's wedding who was the clerk? 4. How long did George Washington live in the White House? 5. With what day of the week does a month need to start, in order to have a Fri day the 13th? 6. In parts of the Sahara, no rain ever ' reaches t h e j ground; true or false? j 7. Persons born now in the Virgin Islands are citizens of the U. S.;. true or false? 8. Which of these is the most valuable metal in the world?; gold, platinum, or ra dium? 9. What was the first name of the composer, Chopin? 10. What leaves constitute the diet of silkworms? Answers: 1. One-third. 2. Salt. 3. The Lark. 4. Not at all. 5. Sunday. 6. True. 7. True. 8. Radium. 9. Frederic. 10. Mulberry leaves. QUESTION OF CLUBS Milwaukee, Wis. - HTD -Mrs. Zee Slater, 44. today had a divorce from husband John, 59 on charges the right clubs didn't belong to him. Circuit Judge Michael T. Sullivan accepted her compFaint that her husband, a golf pro, quit the game after their marriage and, sold her clubs without her knowledge. School Consolidation There are probably as many opinions on the various school consolidation and reorganization proposals locally as there are thinking people in Jackson county. . . Eveiyone is affected. But each is affected in a slightly different way. One may feel the proposed changes chiefly in his pocketbook, in tax changes. Another may feel it in the better (or vice versa) availability of good schooling for his child. Still another may be motivated by feelings of local pride or prestige. And so it goes. . - . "THERE have been, and there will continue to be, disputes over what are the best solutions to the situation facing the county's school districts. And it should be recognized that perfectly hon est, intelligent people can hold diametrically op posed views, simply because they base their con clusions on differing sets of facts. In a county as large and diverse as Jackson, there probably is no perfect school administrative set-up. The best that can be hoped for is to achieve a workable system, one which will do the best possible job in educating the youngsters of the county, which will cost as little as is commensur ate with good schools, and which is fair to all areas. . 117ITH that much out of the way, we should add that, based on the facts made available so ; far, we lean toward approval of the proposed con solidation of the Medford, Jacksonville, Ruch, Griffin Creek, Lone Pine and part of Howard districts, even though in common with other residents of the Medford district it will cost us ; a few cents a month more in property taxes. Our chief concern is; for the quality of the schools. And because of our observation of the Medford school system over the years, we are convinced it is a solid administrative base on which to erect the structure of the big new school district proposed. But "quality" in schools means a lot more than 'just a good administrative ! nil li i 1 a wen-inougnt-out ana supervised curriculum, adequate transportation, well-trained and effec tive teachers who are' adequately paid, an ade quate physical plant. v A LL these things are possible, but only in a "school district which has the ability, the know how and the financial resources to supply them. All these such a district as is proposed would have. It could preserve even improve the gen erally good school programs of the existing dis tricts. There's one additional reason why we plan to vote for the consolidation. That is because it is proposed by school leaders in ALL the districts involved as the best solution available. They, rather than the state department of edu cation, are in the best position to know. And if consolidation is not accomplished on our own local terms, reorganization can be imposed by the state. We'll take the proposal which has been thought out here. E.A. . No Harm Done The Great Editorial Writers Intimidation of 1959 turned out to be a love feast or at least a forgive-and-forget session -Monday. J In case it had escaped' your attention, the four members of the editorial writing staff, of the Portland Oregonian were subpenaed by Rep. Clarence Barton, chairman of the House taxa tion committee, for. an appearance before the committee Monday afternoon. Barton issued the subpenas last week after expressing exasperation with the advice offered his committee by the Oregonian's editorials. The implication was, "If they're so darned smart, let them show us in person." IT WAS a petty display of temper, and we have a hunch that Barton (who is highly regarded by those who know him) regretted the outburst almost as soon as it was over. However, reports of the. Monday session ap pearing in the upstate press indicated that he at least had the courage to go through with the thing he'd started. The editorial writers brought with them pre pared statements softly reproachful about the subpenas; Barton explained that hie wasn't try ing to embarrass anyone or impair their dignity, and that was that. " -' IITE consider the subpenas to have been an out- growth of what, for lack of a better name, could be called "mid-session madness," ' and do not see in them any threat, express or implied, to the freedom of the press. It was just ill-tempered bad judgment. The function of an editorial column is to com ment, to explain, to propose, occasionally to ad vise, and once in a while admonish the same function that any thoughtful citizen performs in his assessment of the news of the moment. As the individual must stand up for his opin ions and take any consequences that come from their expression, so the editorial writer. If the consequences in the case of the editorial writers' subpenas had turned out to be harrass ment under threat of arrest, that would have been one thing. As it' was, however, it turned out to be nothing but an understandable, if ill-conceived, grandstand play dramatizing the extreme diffi culties and pressures under which the legislative tax-writers find themselves. E.A. organization it means 1 1 Dennis the MV.U" D0NT COUNT If I'M QOtm WRK M SLAVE FOR HEff. SHE'S GOTTA SM 'PAPA' TOOi' 9 Irrepressible Harold Sets Sights By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - UPI) - Harold Edward Stassen has lowered his sights somewhat and comes up now as a Re public a n Candida te for Mayor of Philadelphia. Stassen was governor of his native Minnesota 20 years ago .vi c. wiisan ana xne re- after three times a candidate for the Republican presiden tial nomination. Politics, like truth, is stranger than fiction. Stassen proves that. He will be 52 years of age on April 13, a youngish man still, but old politically before his time. If Stassen fails this time in his move for the mayoralty, your corespondent and others would not be astonished if he tried to seize a lower rung of the political ladder, county attorney maybe, municipal judge or councilman. Firmly fixed in Stassen's Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) ANTI-FARM REVOLT IN THE MAKING Washington - If - Congress doesn'.t soon rescue the Ameri can people from an irrational, unworkable, extravagant, and deteriorating mess of a farm program-the third most costly in the whole budget-something is going to happen. That, I think, is putting it mildly. What is going to happen if the farm bloc doesn't join with the rest of Congress to halt the Frankensteinian monster of mounting surplusses, aggra vated by price supports which pile up bigger surplusses, is that, as sure as a hangover follows a "lost week end," there will be a massive politi cal revolt by the voting con sumer. And then watch out. It won't be good. It won't be good for the farmer. It won't be good for the country. It will be a furious revolt against an evil too long tolerated. The effect will, be to strike down what is wrong-a nearly $9 billion agricultural budget which is making matters worse, not better-with little likelihood of putting something worthwhile and reasonable in its place. THE key fact to bear in mind is that the policy of paying farmers-mostly wheat, cotton, and corn farmers-to grow more crops they can't sell ex cept to the government which already has to spend a billion dollars a year just to keep them, is a failure. It is a failure because it is not solving the farm prob lem; it is aggravating it. It is a failure because those parts of the agricultural econ omy which are not living in the -oxygen tent of govern ment subsidy, are better off than those which are and they may soon be poisoned by the same medicine. It is a failure because, un less every American farmer is to be put in the vise of Federal control, high rigid price supports will continue to bring larger crops, more surplusses, more drain on the Treasury, and will keep more uneconomic farms farming. It is a failure because the bulk of the farm payments do not go to the little farmer, to the neediest farmer, or even to the bulk of all farm ers. Take the wheat subsidy, the biggest of all. The bulk of Federal payments go to 10 per cent of those who grow wheat. Those who least need the subsidy inevitably earn the most of it.- Menace on Mayorality big, blond head is the idea that he will, sometime, be nominated and elected Presi dent of the United States. Others have had that idea be fore him and failed.' Few, however, have pursued the rainbow with greater enthus iasm. Three times elected governor of Minnesota, Stas sen resigned with most of a third term still to serve. He resigned for Naval serv ice, 1943-45 in World War II. Stassen's service was distin guished administratively and in combat. The young governor had identified himself with the maverick, unbranded ele ments of the Republican Par ty in 1940 when he floor managed the national conven tion forces which licked the party regulars and made the late Wendell L. Willkie the Republican presdential nomi nee. In 1944, aged 37, Stassen was a candidate for the nomi nation himself and again in 1948 and 1952. His great de cision, however, was that which shifted his voting resi- THIS is not going to go on forever. The American peo ple are going to call a halt to it and they will call a halt with a crash if Congress doesn't replace it soon with something rational. . No sensible persons wants to see' all Federal assistance to agriculture thrown out the window. That's not the an swer. But that will almost certainly be the consequence before long unless Congress begins to put some sense and sanity into the program. I hope we don't waste much time trying to point the fin ger at who's to blame. Both major parties have a large responsibility for the plight we are in and there are still some cynical politicians who suggest that there is perhaps one more election to be won -at least in their districts-by perpetuating the present un savory, unsatisfactory, and in solvent mess. TT IS well that Secretary A Benson is beginning to speak out more bluntly, as he did at Cornell University this week. Obviously he has been pained beyond endur ance by the crack that he has become the most expen sive Secretary of Agriculture in history. It hurts because it is true and it hurts more because, as some may not realize, he has been faithfully administering a set of laws and price formulas which this and other Congresses framed and w,hich neither the Presi dent nor he has ever had the power to change. I would like to see Secre tary Benson be given, for once, a chance to administer a farm problem he believes in. and which would adjust price supports to levels lead ing to the market place, not to storage bins. The premises of such a pro gram would be: (A) it mustn't cost more than the present program, preferably less; (B) should give the farmer great er freedom, not less; (C) should reduce, not increase, farm surplusses. Secretary Benson believes that a billion dollars can be saved and farmers greatly benefited by adjusting wheat supports alone to a point w'hich would lead to sales. My own conviction is that unless a workable and toler able program is forthcoming soon, a political rebellion hurtful to the farmer will be fanned into flames. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. vayjiuau, iidvj jdiu viiy ur y luicnte, Dust, Fear; Controlled by Communists By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Baghdad, Iraq - flitt) - This is a city of dust, violence and fear. An Iraqui armored car cariric pt the walled entrance to the United States Em bassy. Iraqi sol diers lounge S on either side -4 of the gate, tneir rmes at the ready. An Iraqi civilian, LI Tka .f!pr!!enJ,a i'tul rseusom wive i iuc Iraq government, examines passports of all visitors and carefully notes their names. The government says it is a necessary precaution for the safety of the embassy. Necessary or not, Iraqi troops are camped on what technically is U. S. soil. Guard Baghdad Radio Several miles away, and on the opposite side of the Tigris, Stassen dence from Minnesota to the East where in 1948 he became President of the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a big, in dustrial state, a power in the Republican Party which Min nesota is not. Stassen's pur pose in making Pennsylvania his base' of political opera tions was clear, reasonable and hazardous. The hazard was that the Pennsylvania regulars would not accept him, and they did not. Stassen did not figure much in the Republican polities' of 1951-52 which was centered largely on draft-Ike, stop-Taft maneuvers. Appointive office in and about the White House and the state department af ter 1952 failed to provide Stassen with the political springboard and identity He achieved that identity Matter of Fact aiop "LIBERATION" SIX YEARS LATER Washington - Although the Eisenhower - Macmillan talks explored many a byway, one question was central and f u ndamental. In blunter lan guage than the high-level talkers prob- tM ably used, this was me ques tion of wheth er to sanctify 4ns-ph Alson ulu quu in Eastern Europe, including the division of Germany. It has been pretty obvious from the outset that obtain ing the sanctification of the Eastern European status quo was the immediate , goal of Nikita Khrushchev's pressure on Berlin. While West Berlin exists as an island of freedom in the surrounding wasteland of ty ranny, East Germany's Com munist regime can never achieve true stability. East Germany's instability in turn affects all the other Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe. But let the light of freedom be dimmed out on the Kurfur stendamm. Then the slimy Walter Ulbricht will have no great difficulty in transform ing Eastern Germany into a tidy, profitable, dependable satellite, rather like Czecho slovakia, and the Kremlin's European problem -will be solved IZ'HRUSHCHEV said all this quite bluntly and plainly to the British Prime Minister, during the Macmillan "recon naissance" in Moscow. Natu rally, the language used by Khrushchev was of a rather different sort. He demanded the abandonment of "the pol icy of rollback" (which is Kremlinese for -what John Foster Dulles calls "libera tion"). He insisted that the political "facts of life" in Eastern Europe must be "rec ognized" and accepted. He in dicated that the situation in Berlin was intolerable to the Kremlin, because Free Berlin was a symbol and an instru ment of the "policy of roll back." Khrushchev has been hold ing forth on the same theme to this reporter among many others, on- aU sorts -of occa sions during the last two years. ,He has now gone on from words to deeds, as he indicated to Macmillan, be cause he thinks he is justified in doing so by the changes in East-West balance of mili tary power. THE Khrushchev complaints about Berlin, and his de mands that the West face the political "facts of life" were in fact sharply seasoned .with boasts about new Soviet of fensive weapons of immense destructive power. On this point, Macmillan is reported is an even more heavily guarded building. It houses the studio of Baghdad radio, center of the propaganda war being waged with Cairo. It also houses the office of the chief censor, the office which aU news corres pondents must visit at one time or another. Here also soldiers stand with rifles grimly at the ready. And here, the visitor is told by gruff gestures to raise his arms and submit to search for hidden weapons. A bulging card tfase in Sa hip pocket brings on a tense moment and the visitor pro duces the case quickly to prove it is nothing lethal. There is little laughter and much fear in this police state. And the mood of depression Is heightened by the dust. It hangs in a yellow pall over the city, clogging the throat and irritating the eyes. It drifts in with the wind from the surrounding desert, and even the green of the palms and hedges fades be neath it. This is a state divided. On the one side are those Arab nationalists who, if they could, would be followers of in 1955-56, however, by head ing up the public operation designed to prevent Vice President Richard M. Nixon from succeeding ' President Eisenhower in the White House or of being nominated if Eisenhower ran .again. Stas sen took a bruising beating on that one. . , Last year Stassen bid for Pennsylvania's gubernatorial nomination. P e n n sylvania's party leaders cut him down. Chose, instead, a political un known named Arthur T. Mc Goniele. The Democrats all but ran the Republicans out of the state on election day. That was Stassen's good luck. If he can now be elected mayor of Philadelphia, the man from Minnesota will be on his way again and the party leaders will be tipping their hats. .to have concluded that Khru shchev still greatly hoped and desired to avoid war. But Mac millan also got the impression that war would probably en sue if the Berlin crisis were ever allowed to reach the stage of the blocking of the West Berlin access routes, fol lowed by a Western attempt to open the access routes by force. - v Since these were the , re sults of the Macmillan "recon naissance, ' and since me President had agreed in ad vance to go to a summit meet ing, the pros and cons of sanctifying the status quo in Eastern Europe were bound to dominate the Eisenhower Macmillan meeting. The prob lem had to be explored, if only because it is also bound to dominate the future sum mit conference. - Even after the Anglo-American Summit at Camp David, howeverit is by no means de cided what the final Western line will be. For one thing, the British Prime Minister got a fairly sharp reaction from Gen. de Gaulle when he raised the question in Paris; and in Bonn, with Chancellor Ade nauer, he hardly raised the question at all. Adenauer is likely to react fairly violently to any sort of compromise proposal that would conceiv ably satisfy Khrushchev. For another thing, it is still an even bet that John Foster Dulles will resume his duties in April. If Dulles indeed comes back, Adenauer will have a powerful supporter. EISENHOWER'S and Mac millan's failure to agree on what to do at the summit was rather plainly revealed by the cheerful but exclusive empha sis placed on their agreement about going to the summit a point which had been con ceded by Eisenhower, for all practical purposes, even be fore Macmillan came to Amer ica. But these talks have at least revealed what the Brit ish would LIKE to do at the summit. They would like to leave the Western forces in Berlin and to fulfill the West's moral commitment to Berliners. But they would also like to pro pose a contraption giving de facto recognition to East Ger many and to the whole status quo in Eastern Europe. They believe that such a contrap tion can be devised. They cherish this belief, in part, because Khrushchev specific ally admitted to Macmillan that the West could not for mally recognize East Germany' -which seemed to suggest that a contraption would be ac cepted in the end. Only a little more than six years after John Fester Dulles's famous Senate testi mony on the moral compul sion of the "liberation" pol icy, this is where we now stand. - (c) New York . Herald Tribune, Inc. Egypt's President Gamal Ab- del Nasser. Arrayed with them, by necessity, are devout Moslem groups who have no liking for Communism and now have no liking for the direction taken by the regime of Maj. Gen. Abdel Karim Kassem. Commies Surround Kassem Against them are the Com munists and the "front" or ganizations who have sur- Communications Students' View To the Editor, and parents and voters of Jacksonville district. Subject: Consolidation with Medford. We the undersigned would like to caU to your attention the following basic facts. The individual attention given to each of us as we need it plus the good advice and encouragement by our teach ers cannot be maintained in a large school. At any time in our school you as parents can come down and discuss any problem that occurs with your children and work out a solution with our teachers. This of course will be next 'to impossible in a large school. Wouldn't we be segregated by the other students and maybe by the teachers and made to feel we weren't want ed in the school which will cause skipping or even fail ure to graduate? Won't you still have high, if not higher taxes? Who will pay for the new junior high? The possibility of any of us participating in any sport over there is out, we just won't make it. Do you want to lose your center of recreation for your selves as well as for us, which is our school? Do you want to do away with our spirit of companion ship and neighborhness by splitting us up? The parents do too little with their chil dren as it is. Think of how it will be if the school is moved. Who is going to take time to go to Medford to see a game with their, children when they aren'J even participating in it? Haven't the students who have graduated before us, who have gone to college, not only passed the entrance ex amination but continued to keep up with their classes with a base of education from right here? , Are the few mills you think you will save, which you won't in the long run, so im portant as to do away with our school? Are you putting a price on your child's happi ness? Please consider, and re consider before we lose our school. We are your children and your neighbors children. Joyce Hawkins Kathleen Davell and 15 other Jacksonville students. Re Pride of Opinion To the Editor: It is a well known fact that one never has the last word in any argu ment with a newspaper editor, and I should know, but some of my friends insist, that I make some sort of comment because of your editorial. So- Your statement that "It must have been with con siderable gratification that the majority of people in the Berrydale area finally saw the Medford city council ap prove the plans for a new sewer system in that area," was, 1 believe, just wisnrui Aoom from FRANK MORGAN HAROU) DAY OR NIGHT W if c j m rounded Kassem. In the Middle East it is said that whoever controls Baghdad, also controls Iraq. Baghdad's streets are control led by the Reds. Communist monitors con trol the movements of the mobs. At their word, a mob's whole fury can be directed against a single victim. Or at their word, the mobs silenUy disappear as if they never were. There are few anti-American or anti-Western signs in Baghdad today. The fury mostly is directed against Egypt. But Iraqi propaganda now links Nasser with the West, and at night, when the youthful home guards take over the streets, it is better to be inside. thinking. No gratification was evident at that time. I wish it could have been otherwise, but the ruinous high assess ments make for an unhappy feeling for all concerned. It appears that the council was not aware of the large number of hardship cases the high assessments will cause. Coercion is proper in our present society in order to provide for the common health and welfare of com munities and to regulate for the peace and happiness of all concerned. The main re quirement in its use is that it must be fair, equitable and just. If not, we have a situa tion much like the present. Berrydale is not the only area affected; the island which ap pears on the new city map in the northern part of the city, businesses outside of the pres ent city limits and commun ities which dump their wastes into Bear creek, subdivisions which provide low cost hous ing for those who can afford no better, are all affected by the present city policies which deny water and sewage fa cilities unless annexed. The time comes, as it must, when people can 6ee what the results are and they are most unhappy because they have been fooled. Perhaps it is for the best if it is the only way to make people realize that the time comes when toler ance should give way to a good hard look coupled with action to replace the status quo. Criticism can be" step to ward betterment and that is what my criticism is meant to be. Usually, persons holding the upper hand in any con troversy think that they have the wisdom of a higher being, and have the utmost faith in their own judgment. Pride of opinion seems to be his dom inant characteristic. Small wonder Berrydale is in a bind. This letter is meant to be offensive to no one, but to appeal to the better side of the persons involved. William Doernbach, 143 Mace rd, Medford Yep, We're Slill Herel Mr. Editor, are you still there? Sitting in that M.T. chair? Or are you lost somewhere in the goo That Mr. Harger just poured through? My paper I must have on time, . - Whether it be in prose or rhyme. Editorials, comics it must all be there; So please get back in that M.T. chair. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. th CeurlheuM SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS PHONE SP 2-9030 i
