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4 Monday, April 13, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTBIBUIfE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HE KB GREV Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Editor KARL 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 Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year (15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. B.OG Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 Bv 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 Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper or jacnton county United Press International Full Leased Wire MX MB EH 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 April 13, 1949 (Wednesday) Medford city councilmea debate, but fail to decide, whether residents should be asked to help finance the Hawthorne park pool project, Tony Manno is elected new president of the Medford YMCA. 20 YEARS AGO April 13. 1939 (Thursday) The Holmes brothers de velop a subdivision at Stew art ave and Kings highway just south of town. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In answer to the farmers' pray ers for rain, a smattering fell Wed. eve on the Baptist church parking space grass, and the first straw hat of the season." 30 YEARS AGO April 13, 1929 (Saturday) Vagrant dogs in the city are to be held three days at the pound before execution. Rogue River cannery in stalls new machinery to in crease ita output. 40 YEARS AGO April 13. 1919 (Sunday) A labor shortage in the val ley inspires threats that loaf ers will be ordered to work or leave. The campaign started to finance the P. & E. road will be junked unless given fi nancial aid. 50 YEARS AGO April 13. 1909 (Tuesday) The Medford Commercial club considers asking Con gress for SI million to im Drove Crater Lake national park. The weather bureau flies flags from atop the Deuel and Kentner building to warn of frost. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. " 1. Jackson Day dinners are held by the Republican, or the Democratic party? 2. What famous baby is named Yasmin? 3. What is another name for the woodchuck? 4. For what object did Sir Galahad, in the Arthurian leg ends, conduct a successful search? 5. Copra is obtained from what? 6. On what date does the fiscal year of the U. S. com mence? , 7. A female sheep is a ewe; what is the male? 8. Correct the following: "Each of the soldiers must keep their uniforms neat." 9. Do you associate the name Daguerre with the de velopment of printing from moveable type, photography, or telegraphy? - 10. Are fresh fruits high in protein content? Answers: 1 . Democratic. 2. Daughter of Rita Hayworlh and Ali Khan. 3. Groundhog. 4. Holy Grail. 5. Coconuts. 6. July 1. 7. Ram. 8. " . . . must keep his uniform neal." 9. Photography. 10. No. STOCKBROKER DIES New York -DPD- William W. Peabody, 93, a stockbrok er here for 55 years, died Saturday. - What Is Education For? (Editor's note: The state board of education recently adopted a "Philosophy of Education," a statement of its beliefs about the nature of man, the nation's culture, and the role of the school. Because of its widespread in terests, the portion of the document dealing with the role of the school, and its objectives, is presented be low, slightly condused.) The school is a major institution through which our cultural heritage is transmitted and by means of which the members of society are pre pared to evaluate changes. The intellectual de velopment of each member of society, to the de gree that he is able to mary responsibility of the public school. . The school shares with other institutions and agencies such as the home and the church the re sponsibility for the physical, social, emotional, aesthetic, moral and spiritual growth of mdividu als. TTHE objectives of education grow out of and re fleet society's understanding of and beliefs about the nature of man, the nature of society itself, and the concept of the role the school plays in the culture. New insights or understandings growing out of experience or research in any of these areas are reflected in the objectives of the school. The following specific objectives of education in Oregon are derived man and his culture . . . and form the basis lor the framework of public school education. CITIZENSHIP: The good citizen knows his country its people, its histoiy, its geography, the structure and function of its government, and its internal and external problems. He understands the fun damental principles of American democracy political, economic, social, moral and spiritual. He is loyal to American ideals, is proud of his heritage, respects constituted authority, has con cern for the welfare of his country and of his fel low men at home and abroad, and seeks ways to increase world cooperation toward a just peace. He participates in the life of his community, state and nation by exercising his rights and as suming his responsibilities as a member of a free and self-governing society, and he strives to im prove it. D ASIC Skills of Communication: . . . The effective citizen has, to the extent of his ability, achieved proficiency in use of the basic tools of learning. He recognizes that communica tion is fundamental to intellectual development and has acquired skill in receiving ideas through reading, listening, and observing, and in express ing them through writing and speaking. He under stands the use of symbols from other fields such as - mathematics, science, music and the visual arts, and may have extended his range of com munication by mastering other languages. He recognizes that learning is continuous throughout life. He employs the basic skills efficiently to gath er, organize, and disseminate information, to think critically, to solve problems, and to gain en joyment. LIEALTH: The educated person knows the structure and functions of his body, is aware of hazards to his own and his community's well-being, and knows desirable mental and physical health practices . . . based upon factual information. FAMILY Life : The effective family member has knowledge and skills which result in the wise use of money, time and energy; the provision of adequate food, clothing and shelter; the care, training and guid ance of children; and the interrelationships among members of the family and with the com munity. He recognizes the family as the basic insti tution of. our society, and also its changing role ... He has an appreciation, respect, loyalty, and a sense of responsibility for his own home . . . CCONOMICLife: "Ll The educated person has a knowlege of our natural and human resources and of the necessity for their wise use and conservation. He under stands the workings of the economic system in our society and he has some comprehension of other systems ... He appreciates the satisfaction m doing any task well. He earns his way in the world . . . jyjORAL and Spiritual Values: ill ecucate(j person nas gained an insight into moral and spiritual values. He knows the main facts of the history of religions . . . and the role of our national ideals. He is familiar with the significant contributions of literature, art, rrlusic, science and other fields of learning to moral and spiritual growth. He seeks support in a virtues of goodness and morality and which ex plains and reconciles his relationship to fellow men and the universe. He regards devotion to truth and services to fellow men as a high goal . . . He places human values above material things. tie is numane and considerate . . . has sym pathetic understanding of differences and devi ations ... He opposes all forms of tvrannv over the human mind AESTHETIC Values: ity to aesthetic values. He He observes, appreciates, and wants to pre serve the things of beauty produced by man . . s profit thereby, is the pri from (our) beliefs about value of labor and feels faith that upholds the can discriminate . . . provided by nature or . f Dennis the Mr 'Dennis points a bold, jamsnative , commw UNINHIBITED PlCTURB. WHICH fiGUReS.' Washington Report By WILLIAM FACING THE FACTS Washington A great men tal expert once testified in a murder case that drunk- enness was "the tempor ary loss of the power of self criticism." On that m agnificently deadpan but very sound definition the R e d u h linan William S. ' . . White party is as so ber as a dozen judges, as tee total as any charter member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Self-criticism is going o n within the national GOP or ganization with an almost desperate candor. This was the real, the true, atmosphere as the Republican National Committee met over the week end to transact the traditional business of preparing for the party's 1960 national conven tion. Beyond a doubt, realism has raised its jjray, but never theless absolute necessary, head within the Republican party. This is extraordinary news in a quiet way. The GOP for the better part of 20 years at least has tended to be quite long on a hearty rah-rah optimism often hav ing little relationship to the hard facts. TTNTIL lately a bleak ob-- jective was, in private at any rate, . a fairly common characteristic only of the D e m o c r atic professionals Now, the roles have been all but reversed. If an unseem' ly political intoxication ex ists, it is among the Demo crats. The Republicans are so aggressively determined to cast Pollyanna out of their lives that they are making a positive virtue of emotional austerity. There are sound reasons And these reasons are being even more fully and starkly outlined by the Republican National Committee staff peo ple than by their Democratic opposite numbers. The Republican Congress ional defeat last year, coming atop two others in 1954 and 1958, has long-term implica tions that become the more chilling the more closely they are inspected. In sum, umm- peachably Republican re search studies now, plainly in dicate that a Republican Con gressional victory in 1960 is highly unlikely in any event and that a Republican Presi dential victory cannot ration ally be expected short of these pre-conditions: 1. A bitter and destructive North-South row among the Democrats that would leave the party altogether and not merely partly broken along Mason and Dixon's line. 2. The nomination by the Democrats of a Presidential candidate who was more the choice of a hopelessly dead locked national convention than of a convention willing to draw reasonably together for party victory. 3. A marked success by the Republican nominee, whether he is Vice-President Richard M. Nixon or Gover nor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, i n convincing great masses of voters that he would be far safer choice in a troubled world than his Democratic antagonist. ALL objective data gathered by the GOP National Com mittee itself suggest that the Republicans at best will have to fight uphill all the way. These surveys, based on last year's Congressional elections and the lessons drawn from ! them, . show that . while the J Menace S. WHITE GOP Congressional vote stay ed almost constant from 1950 to 1958, the Democratic vote rose by 5,500,000. They show, too, a heavy decline in urban Republican voting right alongside a sig nificant, if lesser, decline in rural Republican voting. Worst of all, from the GOP viewpoint, Democratic net gains are progressively ris ing in the part of the country that is growing the fastest, the area west of the Missis: sippi River. And this is not all. Census forecasts for 1960 indicate that old line Republican states like Ohio, and more-or-less Republican states like Penn sylvania, are falling far be hind in the population race. But traditionally Democratic states like Texas, and present ly Democratic states like Cal ifornia, are burgeoning be yond all previous estimates. Texas will vault into fifth place among the states, ahead of Ohio. California will pass Pennsylvania for second place. And so on. The new mood of self-examination within the GOP has not arrived a moment too soon. The party can thank its professionals for resolutely taking the facts straight. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Liked Parade To the Editor: I wish to congratulate the people of the Rogue valley who actively participated in the Pear Blos som Festival parade Saturday I am sure all who watched it felt as I did that it was one of the finest Medford has ever seen. The parade was obviously well planned in advance down to the. last detail. All the floats were painstakingly arranged, even the marching bands were dressed according to the "vogue of the day." All participants showed the originality and ingenuity I am sure our forefathers must have had. Mrs. L. Eisenstein 1110 West Ninth st. Medford A Last Warning To the Editor: Just one last warning before the Bear Creek overpass freeway be comes a reality. Word from Southern California tells of real danger troubles along the modern free-ways, heavy trav eled streets and parking lots. The deadly carbon monoxide gas, from car and truck, blank ets the ground in all directions near such locations. (It's the same gas that from a small engine is used to snuff out the lives of unwanted dogs, cats, etc.). It has long been known that houses breathe, heated air during the day be ing expelled and as it cools at night, is sucked back in, and with it, the lethal carbon mon oxide gas from gas-burning vehicles. New home - seekers from down California way tell of the problem it imposes on health authorities there. Re strictions in the past have been placed on the height of buildings because of earth quake risk. But the health risk of this exhaust gas is of even more immediate concern. So, plans are said to be afoot to encourage people to build two or even three story houses so people can sleep in the more gas-free upper floor levels, even if such type of house Kennedy, Humphrey Making Political Hay as Election Year By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-(UPD-Two of the Democratic senators who are most actively seeking their party's 19 6 0 p r e s idential n o m i n ation are making some early springtime po litical hay. Mass achu s e 1 1 s' Sen. John F. Ken nedy left le c. wiisoo w a s n i ngton last Thursday on a nine-speech swing through Wisconsin and m Matter of Fact THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND Madison, Wisconsin Bar ring unforeseen develop ments, Wisconsin is due to be the dark and bloody ground of the Demo crats in 1960. Here the bat tle of the can didates will first be join ed, long be fore the Dem ocratic nomi n a t i n g con vention. Joseph Alsop After a Siberian winter, this little state capital looks weather-worn but outwardly tranquil. Yet here in Madison, as elsewhere in the state, you can already hear the advance rumblings of the conflict that lies ahead. For instance, the astute young Democratic governor, Gaylord Nelson, is already rather nervously pro claiming that his party's Wis consin primary has got to be a free and fair fight, with all holds barred, and no unkind ly feelings about the outcome. Nelson has good reason to start talking early, too. The front-runner for the Demo cratic presidential nomina tion, Jen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, stormed into Milwaukee on Thursday, and he has been attracting capa city crowds ever since. The other active Democratic can didate, Sen. Hubert Humph rey of Minnesota, is coming very soon. THE PRINCIPAL contest ants look eager for the fray, but they are not. Sen ator Humphrey did not want to fight for Wisconsin be cause of the fairly strong pos sibility of defeat. Hence Humphrey's political partner. Gov. Orville Freeman of Min nesota, tried to wrap up Wis consin by the favorite -son device, with the help of his friend, Governor Nelson That did not work, and now Humphrey has made up his mind to fight. But Senator Kennedy is now having his second thoughts. Kennedy wonders whether he needs to risk his massive support in other states in a messy chancy Wisconsin primary, All the same, the logic of the situations of the two ac t i v e Democratic candidates makes them the fore-ordained victims of one another. The inactive candidates may re main inactive, but Humphrey and Kennedy are all but forced to fight it out. Outside his home territory, Humphrey has almost no solid support anywhere. Fur thermore, his nomination will drive large numbers of South erners out of the party. Hence he must decisively prove his maenetism bv defeating the structure is more liable to earthquake damage. It is beyond understanding to this writer and many oth ers as well that the most val uable land in the valley can be had to bury in it those who are all finished with life, in cluding the hideous honey combed type receptacles, but none can be had to route the new freeway via the open hill country around the still pret ty and healthful city of Med ford, whose people, still liv ing, should have as much con sideration as the dead. As was so pertinently stat ed in a recent M-T editorial of the wishy-washy side-stepping legislature in the capitol in Salem, it seems to this writer there is much of the same going on in Medford. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F Central Point Ladies Fair To the Editor: In all the valleys of our land, no girls are half as fair, As they who live along the Rogue when smudge gets in their hair. (Name on File) Medford 3 Day Relief No Messy Salves New. easy-to-take tablets work from within to gin you relief from the agonizing pain of simple piles. Swelling reduces, pain goes! Mail $1.00 for 3-weeks supply to BELL-ETS. Orangeburg, N. Y. Satisfaction guaranteed by the inkers of Bill-ans for indigestion. . Indiana. He spoke first on Fri day at the University of Wis consin in Madison, and has continued to speak thereafter on just about all occasions. The swing is scheduled to end with a speech before Demo cratic diners today at Decatur, Ind. Kennedy was down for a speech Saturday at Appleton, Wis., hometown of the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has been gunning for Kennedy on charges that he is not forth rightly on record with respect to the issue she describes as Bv Joseph AIsop front-runner Kennedy in one or more primaries. It he shirks the test, Humphrey must finally give up his presi dential aspirations. 17ENNEDY, by the same token, has very wide spread support. But Kennedy still needs something extra to overcome his two handicaps, his Catholicism and his un naturally youthful appear ance. The surest way for Ken nedy to get that something extra is to show his stuff in one or more primaries; and Wisconsin is a tempting place to begin. There are other reasons, too, why Wisconsin is a nat ural battleground. For one thing the old state of Joseph R. McCarthy is now one; of the new states of the resur gent Democratic party. Partly this is because most of the old LaFollette Progressives, whom young Bob LaFollette fruitlessly led into the Re publican party in 1946; have now transferred again to the Democratic ranks. Partly this is also because the McCarthy wing of the Republican party here has put on the best imi tation of the Gadarene swine since the day the swine them selves frothed at the mouth and ran over the cliff. Mainly, however, the Dem ocratic triumph in Wisconsin has to be credited to able younger men of the type who have achieved the party's post-Truman rebirth in many other states besides Wiscon sin. Governor Nelson, Senator Proxmire, State Chairman Pat Lucey, and many more, have worked hard and long, beginning nowhere. Their re wards have been the gover norship, a majority in the lower house of the state legis lature, half the Wisconsin Congressional seats and one of the Senate seats. Thus Wisconsin is now a meaning ful scene for a Democratic presidential test. TN A chi ADDITION, Wisconsin should afford a fair test between Kennedy and Hum phrey. Superficially, to be sure, the locale of the duel would seem to favor Hum phrey. The Wisconsin pattern, of a union between the origin al Democrats and the LaFol lette Progressives, is closely similar to the Minnesota pat tern of a Democratic-Farmer Labor Alliance, which Hum phrey helped to bring about. When both Wisconsin Sena tors were Republicans, many local Democrats actually treated Humphrey of Minne sota as their own Senator. Moreover, Humphrey has powerful support in the labor groups, in the farm coopera tives, and in the rural electri fication associations. Rather surprisingly, how ever, Kennedy still quite clearly has the edge, at least as of now. A majority of the Wisconsin politicians are leaning his way. Even those who are for Humphrey tell you, "Yes, Kennedy's ahead today, but wait and see how it shapes up after Humphrey has done some of his old- fashioned, hard-sell campaign ing in the state." Part of Kennedy's edge de rives from Wisconsin's nign percentage of Roman Catho lics. But in the main, accord ing to the local politicians, the Kennedy edge has to be attributed to his remarkable general appeal to all groups in the voting rank and file. If the appeal does not weak en, that is a pretty useful sort of edge to have. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. CALL TRANSIT STRIKE Rome - (LTD - Rome street car and bus workers nave called a strike for Wednesday. They are seeking higher wages. FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of falae teeth have suffered real embarrassment because their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at Just the wrong time. Do not live In fear of this hanrjenlne to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH. the siKaiine (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, . so they feel more comfortable. Does i not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den- i ture breath). Get FASTEETH at aaj drug counter. "McCarthyism." Kennedy was hospitalized at the time the McCarthy censure resolution was voted in the Senate. His illness had developed from wartime injuries. Mrs. Roose velt has indicated that she would oppose Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination but would accept him as the vice presidential nominee. Her Favorite Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) looks more like Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite and the favorite of the left wing, in general. He spoke in West chester County, New York, and in Boston last week end. Humphrey will address a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Minneapolis on April 18 and thereafter take off on his first big scale invasion of the West. Press aides and the retainers usually in tow of a presiden tial aspirant will accompany Humphrey. He will speak in Russia Asked To Agree To Ban on High Explosions Geneva - (UPD - The United States today asked Russia to accept an immediate ban on atmospheric atomic explosions and settle the question of un derground tests later. The U.S- move to break the long-standing nuclear confer ence deadlock was put for ward by Ambassador James J Wadsworth as the three power discussions resumed here after an Easter recess. Uy To 30 Miles The atmospheric ban, which would reduce the problem of radiation danger, would cover explosions up to 30 miles in altitude. It thus would not cover the type of outer-space shots com pleted last September in the U. S. Argus Project. Western sources said after a short 70-minute conference opening session that Wads- worth had indicated if the Russians accepted the atmos pheric ban, a further agree ment on stopping underground explosions could be worked outlater. Major Shift The U.S. proposal appeared to signal a major shift in western nuclear policy work ed out during the three-week Easter break. Both the American and British delegations have in sisted in the past that only a comprehensive ban on all atomic weapons tests, both above and below ground, would be acceptable. . Graham's Eye Giving Trouble Sydney, Australia - (UPD -Evangelist Billy Graham has a recurrence of an old eye complaint but will not restrict his Sydney crusade, it was re ported today. But after Tuesday when he addresses a special convoca tion of students at Sydney university he will not speak at any additional meetings. He addressed 100 clergymen today on evangelism. Graham has been under strict medical supervision for eye trouble since he left America in January. The ail ment delayed his Australian tour of two weeks. Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, V - Springtime Looms Washington, Oregon, Califor nia, Utah and Wyoming. Humphrey should find the far westerners congenial, at least, although they may not yet be ready as a body to climb aboard his bandwagon. The left wing is on the up among western Democrats, however, and Humphrey should feel pretty much at home. His prin ciple political problem lies in the South. The problem in the South seems to be less whether Humphrey can get or expect any delegate support from southern Democrats than it is a question whether or not a great many of them would bolt a presidential ticket if Humphrey had the top spot There are Democrats in the South who do not care for Humphrey. They are the party men and women who remem ber well the Democratic na tional conventions of 1948 and 1952. 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