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4 Sunday, April 12, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDrTEIBUNB "Everyone is Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBEP.T W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GErALD LATHAM. Business Mgi ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL 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 Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance.' Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.0C Dailyand Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year $450 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 SunUsy 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papet 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 EWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MATIONAl 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 April 12, 1949 (Tuesday) Medford city councilmen will convene tonight to dis cuss how to raise funds to complete the Hawthorne park swimming pool. Outboard races were held on Emigrant lake Sunday. 20 YEARS AGO April 12, 1939 (Wednesday) ; Ted Shawn's dance troupe presents a program depicting episodes of American history at the Holly theater. From Arthur Perry's "Ye smudge rot column: Quite i a number oi the Older uiriS are busy every afternoon playing conflict bridge." 30 YEARS AGO April 12, 1929 (Friday) The high school safe is blown and investigators find $100 missing. The state game commission turns down pleas for an earlier upcxixiig UX llie uuul scaauu. 40 YEARS AGO A 14-year-old local youth swipes a horse-drawn milk wagon and goes for a ride. Jackson county s quota in the victory loan drive $526,950. is ( SO YEARS AGO April 12, 1909 (Monday) Ashland seeks a new hos pital and a Carnegie library. Improvements for Crater Lake national parkv including blazing a trail for horses and the erection of new buildings, are announced. T What's Your I.Q.? Nine ar ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. If a person is reported to be in the arms of Morpheus, what would he be doing? 2. What is the name of the British national anthem? 3. Each year a "Mummers" parade is held in Philadel phia, Pa.; is this event in March, October, or January? 4. The flesh of calves when sold for food is called what? 5. Who was the only U.S. President to remain a lifelong bachelor? 6. Name the capital of Hun gary. 7. Correct the following: "Bacteria was found to be abundant." 8. Name the five senses. 9. The writing material in lead pencils is lead; true or false? 10. Where, in Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement made in America? 1. Sleeping. 2. "God Save the Queen." 3. January 4. Veal. 5. James Buchanan. 6. Budapest. 7. "Bacteria were . . ." 8. Sighi, hearing, smell, taste, touch. 9. False. 10. Jamestown, Va. Rubber Workers Strike in 1 1 States New York - (CPD - Rubber workers were on strike against U.S. Rubber company plants in 11 states Friday be cause of failure to reach agreement with the company on contract terms covering pensions, insurance, severance pay and working conditions. Two Approaches In a filing cabinet in this office, there is a fat folder filled with arguments, propaganda and information about automobile liability insurance. Much of it deals with two controversial pro posals with compulsory automobile liability in surance (as proposed by former Gov. Robert D. Holmes), and with a compulsory "uninsured mo torist" clause on automobile liability insurance policies (as proposed by Gov. Mark Hatfield, and as passed by the legislature last week). Both proposals seek to solve the same problem that which arises when an innocent person is hurt or damaged in an automobile accident, and when the guilty party has neither the insurance nor the financial resources to make it up to him. DUT they approach it differently. The compulsory insurance proposal, briefly, would require each motorist, before receiving a driver's license, to offer proof that he can compen sate anyone he injures through his own fault, either through insurance or some other means. The uninsured motorist proposal, on the other hand, requires insurance liability policies a clause tection to the policy owner for personal injuries inflicted by another motorist who is at fault in an accident,-and who has rio liability insurance of his own. 0 0 0 THE latter bill, as passed by the Oregon law 1 makers, in effect will charge conscientious mo torists an extra few dollars a year to protect them from the actions ' of motorists. ' This is the chief argument against it that it penalizes those who are responsibilities, and does nothing to penalize those who are not. There is nothing against such a clause . of itself. It offers a means himself and his family. it compulsory, that s something else again. . It could even have a number of people buying cause of the extra cost. protection, it does nothing to get. at the heart of the matter the motorists who own no insur ance. ' - - YREGON at present has a "financial responsi bility" law. It does not require a showing of financial responsibility other provisions) for all require such a showing involved m an accident, cl&U"' proponents of compulsory insurance simply seek to extend this to require such a showing: 6f financial responsibility at all not after the first accident. Arguments against this, as marshaled by in surance companies, are impressive. And it prob ably is true that it would create as many problems as it would solves particularly for the insurance companies. They mention such things as "politi cally determined" insurance rates, difficulty of administration, the need to set up insurance pools for high-risk drivers, and so on. . . IN ANY event, Oregon will have a chance to try out the uninsured motorist clause for at least two years and see how it works. But we have yet to be convinced that a com pulsory insurance law, despite somewhat clouded records in Massachusetts and New York, cannot be written to satisfy many of the objections, and still place the burden of extra insurance where it belongs on those who do not now cany any for the protection of others rather than on those who already are carrying such protection. E.A. Insurance 'Merit Rating9 Another facet of the automobile insurance pic ture is attracting attention, in California. There, insurance companies are finally getting around to charging lesser premium rates for safe drivers than for those with accident records. There is, first of all, the "standard rate," which all new drivers will be charged. If a driver has a three-year record of no acci dent claims and no serious traffic violations, he will receive a 20 per cent reduction in his premium. T'HOSE who have one claim, or one traffic cita VU. 4-1 mi xi. uuimg Liie uuee-eeu penui, win pay uie standard rate. Butthose with two or more accidents or traffic convictions will pay progressively hieher rates. up to a maximum of just double the standard rate for those with five accidents or convictions. Such a "merit ratinsr" from time to time by a few companies, but it has not. been universally successful, without all com panies participating. If the California experiment proves effective, it will be extended to other states where records of drivers and accidents are kept. WE HOPE the plan is successful. ?? Not only is it fairer for safe drivers t.n pay less than for reckless ones, but such a sliding scale could well be an incentive for safer driving. Admittedly the reckless driver is not exclu sively motivated by his. pocketbook, but if he finds himself paying more than double thejnsur ance premium that his neighbor does, he might tend to slow down a bit. E.A. agents to include in all which would give pro other, less-conscientious attempting to fulfill their for -a driver to protect But when the state makes tendency to decrease the liability insurance, be And while it will increase (insurance, bonds, or motorists. But it does after a driver has been and before he can drive . before a person can drive svstem has been tried Dennis the THAT'S IN CASE I A POOT BEEP 0URIN THE NIGHT Washington Report By WILLIAM NEW CHALLENGE Washington - A great chal lenge to. American statesman ship, lying even beyond all Berlin crisis ' s o 1 u tions, is tant view. No solution over Gerrrtanv can i be good if it leaves the Western alli- ance less strong, less united. And it is increasingly clear that Al lied unity cannot be long maintained without revolu tionary changes in Western world trade policies. If armies must march on their stomachs, so must nations. And the free nations cannot march in useful comradeship until we make truly enlightened bread-and butter arrangements, trade arrangements, mat will re move the. ever-present pros pect of economic cold wars within the West itself. Indeed, the Western allies are divided now by more than their differences over the best political and military ap- proach to make to the Rus sians at the prospective sum mit conference. The United States is alone in its 100 per cent devotion to reunification of Germany as the absolute, top "must." This is conceded in official quarters here. (We are so adamant because we believe that without reunifica tion sooner or later the big war will come). T1RUE, the West Germans -S- aro frtv rpi inifinfinn Vnif really only for a kind. They have no wish to be dumped into a common German sea in which East Germany, with its hated Prussian tradition and its long indoctrination in Soviet communism, might control the common tide. The West Germans want reunifi cation only if it will not sub merge the civilized structure they fyave so painfully raised. The French are far more concerned in not weakening the West's military posture in Europe bythe withdrawal of single infantryman than in only German reunification. And the British, who are relatively the closest to our position here, are not by a long way so desperately devoted to reunification. There are two good reasons. Britain in all the West suffered more and longer from German milita William S. White Matter of Fact LONG ROAD FROM LANCHOW Washington . Among the tiny number of Americans who know the factors in the W nrobleml there is almost breathless ex citement about the rebellion in Tibet. It can, they say, shake the Chi nese Commu nist regime vastly -more e ,, a 1 Jos-pb Alsup lh ux u u xi u x jr than the rebellion in Hungary shook the Soviet regime. Everything depends, of course, on whether the Peking government can swiftly drown Tibet in blood, as the Moscow government drowned Hun gary. If that happens, the re bellion will merely have re vealed to Asia the ruthless ness of Chinese Communist imperialism.-Judging by Jaw aharlal Nehru's reaction, the Asians are more likely to be intimidated than indignant. But the war-like Khambas of Eastern Tibet have already maintained their rebellion for two years. The attack on the Dalai Lama is quite likely to inspire the tribes of northern and western Tibet to join the Khambas. Altogether, the odds would seem to be against Menace GET THIRSTY FOR S. WHITE rism in World War II. And the British, the historic world traders, are increasingly hard hit to make trade ends meet. . CONTINENTAL Europe, and West Germany in particu lar, are flourishing Incredi bly, West Germany has now passed Britain in total exports. This is not an easy thing for a bloodily drained ally to take from a country that helped wreck the British economy in war and has' since been brought to trade eminence by the generosity of those she so savagely fought. All this explains the obvi ous worsening in British-Ger man relations that now finds old Konrad Adenauer speak ing of Britain with open bit terness. And "matters are not being " improved by sugges tions that Mr. Adenauer has no intention of relaxing his control in kicking himself up stairs from the chancellorship to the presidency of West Germany. A Germany reunited by whatever means might soon put the British in an even worse competitive world trade relationship. To ask them to accept reunification as the highest Allied aim is to ask them to accept again, as re peatedly they have done for a decade, a disproportionate sacrifice in the service of high Western policy. , THUS, two enormous facts of life press against our in sistence that reunification must be the indispensable. The first, the memories of those who suffered from the. old Germany, is beyond help. But we can do nothing about the second. Our statesman can find a way not endlessly to put British economic life un der handicap from the power ful new Germany we have in mind. Militarily, the Western alli ance is one for all and ah for one; there is an assured help ing hand from the strong to the weaker. But no Berlin politico - military accommoda tion can properly alter the vast postwar change in the economic balance of power in Europe. It is this balance which must be redressed by the economical helping hand, if we are to maintain the mili tary balance of power that alone can give us some long term safety from the Russians. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Bv Joseph Alsop prompt suppression of the re bellion by t"he simple tech nique of human massacre. And if this rebellion, which has simmered along through the last two years, actually continues through another year, what then will happen? GEOGRAPHY is the only - reason why this immense ly grave question really ex ists as a question. Geography not only gives the tough Ti betan mountaineers an ines timable advantage over the better-armed Chinese soldiers, who are not used to a country with lowlands 14,000 feet above sea level. Much more serious, geography also quite fantastically multiplies the cost of maintaining adequate Chinese anti-guerilla forces in Tibet. The Chinese armies now in the country have been much exaggerated. They do not num ber more than 60,000 men; but they are now being has tily strengthened. They' can certainly suppress the rebel lion by next autumn at the latest, if they can only pre vent the rebels from planting their summer crops in Tibet's limited area of arable valley land. But 120,000 men is a' conservative estimate of the total force that will be needed In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In these days, how to get the money with which to pro vide the governmental serv ices that people want is a problem. Here's how one small community back in the Middle West has been solving it: Mayor Earl M. Roudebush of the town of Canfield, in Ohio (population 1465 at the last census) admitted the oth er day that he has fined mo torists $202,000 in the past 30 months in what in Ohio is called the mayor's court. ' That's somewhere in the neighborhood of $140 per in dividual of his town's popula tion. So it stands to reason that he didn't confine his fining to the home town folk. They wouldn't have stood for it. If he had tried it, there would be another mayor by this time. THAT raises a question: Whom riiri Yio fine' One assumes that he levied the fines on outside motorists who went through town at speeds, higher' than the local limit. In other words, a speed trap. rpHAT suspicion is confirmed - by the fact that he made his admission before a commit tee of the Ohio legislature that was conducting an investiga tion of Canfield's traffic prac tices. Mayor Roudebush was equal to the occasion. He told the committee: ' "I don't do it for revenue. "It's for highway safety." TTMMMMMM. He has a point there. It is generally conceded that excessive speed contrib utes to highway accidents. And It is more or less general ly assumed that CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT causes peo ple to be more careful about infractions of the law. Sup pose you knew that every time you did something you knew you shouldn't do, you'd be hauled into court and fined? You'd be inclined to DO IT LESS, wouldn't you? Besides, the money came in handy. It paid for a lot of SERVICES that otherwise the people of Canfield would have had to do without or pungle up for themselves. rpHAT brings up an ancient tax maxim that goes some thing like this: i .,. .. "That tax is best which gets the most feathers with the least squawking from the goose." The mayor of Canfield has obviously been following that rule. , . for this kind of summer cam paign, if the. rebellion does not conveniently collapse. r N SUCH anti-guerilla oper ations, moreover, many of the guerilla-chasers will have to be widely dispersed in small packets. The packets will unavoidably require air supply from Lhasa and other Tibetan centers; so there will be an additional need for some transport aircraft and aviation gas. With their sup porting aircraft, the fuel for the planes, their own ammu nition and their food, forces numbering 120,000 men in Tibet will surely need a min imum of 10,000 tons of sup plies each month. That is the lowest tonnage figure, after a wide allowance has been made for the Chinese soldier's knack of doing much with little. The tonnage of supply may seem trivial, until you take a look at the best of the avail able supply routes. This is the new military road, running from Lanchow in northwest China, through the barren wastes of Tsinghai, and across uncounted terrible mountain passes to Lhasa. No road in the world traverses such fear ful terrain, so ideally suited to guerilla attacks on con voys; and the length of the whole road is close to 1,200 miles. Furthermore, a truck set ting out from Lanchow for Lhasa cannot carry a pound of other supplies if it carries its own fuel for the round trip. Thus the convoys of military supply trucks must be sustained by great num bers of additional trucks, to establish wayside fuel depots. Considering the character of Chinese transport, 10,000 trucks is a fair minimum esti mate of the over-all number needed to lay down 10,000 tons of supplies per month in Tibet. And this is no job that can be taken over by coolies, either. For there is no food along the road, and the A-frame brigades could not even carry their own rice requirement out of Lan chow. AGAIN, a special call for 10,000 truckss may seem relatively trivial, until you consider that this is nearly a quarter of the entire road Education Costs High, Going Higher: Here Are the Reasons By HELEN B. SHAFFER (Editor's note: Costs of t education are going up all the time-both the costs of educating boys and girls at home in grade school and high school and the later costs of sending them, away to college. The following article tells some of the rea sons why.) Washington - Spending on the education of American young people will ' total at least $20 billion in the cur rent academic year. The bill for public and private educa tion has jumped from $14 bil lion to $20 billion in only three years, and the forecast ers say it will go on up to at least $30 billion by the mid 1960s. This is plainly something more than a result of creep ing price inflation. The rea sons why school costs are go ing up much faster than other costs are not hard to find. There are more children to educate than there used to be; more of them are finishing high school and going to col lege; and more money is be ing spent on each pupil. All this requires more buildings and more teachers. And sala ries of teachers have had to be raised. In the end, the addi tions along the whole line translate into dollars-billions of them. Figures Show Why A few figures demonstrate why the costs of education are rising so rapidly. Total school enrollment, from kindergarten through college, has shot up in five years from 36 million to 43 million. The proportion of children 14-17 years old who are in school has risen from 79 to 90 per cent since 1940, and in the same period the proportion of young peo pie 18-24 years old who are in school or college has risen from 13 to 22 per cent. Aver age expenditures per pupil in public schools have increas ed in ten years by 72 per cent. Average salaries of class room teachers have gone up 75 per cent in ten years. Nearly one-half of the cost of higher education) is defray ed from public funds, but stu dents at state universities are far from being wards of the taxpayer. Unless they live close by, they have to pay out substantial sums for board and room. A government sam Dling survev indicates that total expenditures of college students, including tuition charges, run on the average at about $1,700 for the aca demic year in public institu tions of higher education and at about $2,200 in private in stitutions. Tuition Fees Differ The difference is accounted for mainly by larger tuition fees in private colleges and universities. The average tui tion charge in state universi ties is only $225 as against nearly $800 in private univer sities. The fee m many cases is considerably higher. Prince ton's tuition of $1,200 is going up next year to $1,450. The minimum inclusive fee for tui tion, room and board at Vas sar is $2,550. Increased college costs are offset to some extent by in creased availability of schol arship funds for able and needy students. The Office of Education found that $66 mil lion in scholarships was dis tributed to 237,000 students in 1955-56, and both totals are undoubtedly larger today. Though scholarships rarely pay all student costs, college men often are able to find jobs that will pay as much as one-fourth of their total expenses. Various loan pro grams, federal, state and pri vate, provide another source of aid. Opposition Stirred Costs of education could not transport capacity of Commu nist China. Fuel for transport, air transport, and road trans port in fact constitute the three most critical shortages in China today. A prolonged and obstinate rebellion in Tibet will impose an increas ingly unbearable strain in all three critical shortage areas. And this strain will come just when Communist China's mo rale and resources are already strained to the uttermost by the vast upheaval of the com munes program. Certain results are easily predictable. The inhuman dif ficulties of the communes pro gram will at least be doubled by continuing rebellion in Ti bet. The difficulties between Russia and China will also be increased, since Russia will surely be asked to help out. And if, if, if the Tibetan re bellion is really long continu ing, the equation ot tne com mune plus the strain of Tibet can just imaginably equal a general explosion. "Tiis sounds like daydream ing, and at tnis stage it is daydreaming. But it is some times useful to contemplate the other side's troubles, when the Western alliance has so many troubles of its own. go up the way they have, however good the reasons, without stirring strong oppo sition. Most of the controversy now is overv the amount of spending necessary to main tain educational facilities of high quality and over the ex tent to which higher education should be subsidized. Some persons insist that a good deal of school money is going into luxury facilities and frill courses not essential to a good education. Others question the advisability of trying to give (By M-T Staff They're fewer, but longer and bushier, these days. Beards, that is. The men, apparently, are being separated from the boys. Those with the determina tion (and adequate hirsute tal ents, too, of course) have stuck with the Centennial beard raising bit. Those without suf f i c i e n t determination, or whose wives have equal deter mination, or those who suffer from itchy faces - haven't. The select few are sporting what are, by now, some pretty im pressive whiskery displays." One of these hardy souls, who" dubs himself "Old Snort er," and whose name would be familiar to Mail Tribune read ers if he permitted us to print it, is reported to have a rather astounding growth. In com menting on it, he wrote us the following note: To jabs at whiskery you and me. To heed them, should we orter? But let me say to kith und kin (No matter if a her or him) Much longer is my beard lo be Before it's any shorter. We learn by a clipping from the Denver Post, thoughtfully mailed to us by Mrs. W. D. Cousineau of Roberts rd., that people in the mile-high city are having their Centennial- whisker problems, too. With at least one Denver resident, it . took a reverse slant. This man had worn a mustache for 11 years, but as soon as everyone else started growing face hair, he shaved it off, and was quoted by the Post as saying, "I didn't realize how uncivilized face fur look ed until all this Centennial whisker-raising started." And he added that, given time, he might grow it back again - but NOT before the Centennial is over and all the beards shaved off. Mrs. Cousineau wonders, "How many 'native whisker raisers here feel the same way?" Do you suppose it's just jealousy? The new styles for ladies, we are led lo believe, call for short skirts and stock ings of various hues from blue to red. One olderster, on learning this, was over heard to remark, "And I thought her legs were blush ing because her skirt was so shorll" , Last week we discussed cat nip briefly, using as our au thority the Oregon department of agriculture and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. John Q. Stewart of Grants Pass read our paragraphs, and contributed some additional information of his own, as fol lows: "Catnip has a small white flower with dark-colored dots in the throat of the corolla. In Sunday's M-T your column stated that the flower is blue. There used to be lots of it in western Pennsylvania. As far as I ever observed, cats were indifferent to its pleasant odor. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF CAMPUS CUTUPS: 1. He: May I borrow your handkerchiei.' She: Got a cold? He: No, my shoes need polishing. 2. Hinkle: Can you think of anything worse than raining cats and dogs? Hankie: Yes. Hailing taxi cabs. 3. He: Honey chile, will yo' all marry me? She: Oh, Truman, this is so Southern! K lot of money was riding on a set of doubles coming up on a Palm Springs tennis court, and an argument de veloped on who was to get the first serve. A big producer finally pulled a quarter out of his pocket. "Only one way to settle this," he announced. "Everybody will throw up." 0 1959, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Syndittt a full high school education to pupils obviously not equipped to benefit from it. On the college front, ob jection is voiced to proposals for federal scholarship aid. Some estimates place as high as 100,000 a year the number of able high school students kept out of college by lack of financial resources. But crit ics of mounting educational costs contend that where there is a will to obtain higher education, the student will find a way. and Contributors) Of all the 'yarb' teas, catnip was the mildest of all. Forget just what it cured, but it was good." There's been considerable sound and fury in the de bate over school consolida tion and reorganization, lately, and the comment we like best about it is the one reported to us by one of our young men. who overheard someone declare: "I've list ened lo both sides so long that I'm as confused as they are!" Members of 4-H clubs in the county who are planning to go to Corvallis via wagon this summer are getting ready for the big trek. Among the busi est is Glenn Klein, county 4-H agent. Recently he's been scouting the route, looking for suitable camping places. He isn't doing this in a wagon, or even on horseback as the pioneer scouts did, but in his tail-finned Dodge. Also, we have it on good re port, he's making sure that all camping sites have showers or baths nearby. Which mo tivated our farm editor, who has a small streak of cynicism in him somewhere, to remark, "We hope the group can at least find a good supply, of buffalo chips for their camp fires." . . It is interesting to watch the current promotions of automobiles, one one hand, and boats, on the other. They're not exactly in com petition with each other except for the consumer's dollar. We have heard it sug gested that while the auto men sloganize "Live Better by Far. With a Brand New Car," the boatmen should come up with one of their own, perhaps "Sign a Note and Buy a Boat." There has been much fren zied activity this week end, what with the Pear Festival, Sportsfair, and all. One of our staff members, ruminating on this, looked moodily up into a flowering tree the other day, then wrote down the following: BLOSSOMS AND TRANQUILIZERS Pears may suffer from decline. But never do their spirits sink. In fact, they seem so sound of mind I sometimes wonder if they think. "Our lives are fruitless," men may say, , But pears, sun - smooched,, on pliant boughs, Sway in the gentle breeze all day, And never wrinkle up their brows. Parasites may plague them, true, But all neuroses they avoid. I've never seen a peer grow blue. I've never seen a pear an noyed. A word lo our teenage friends: Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career. i
