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Newspaper Page Text4 Wednesday, April 22, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone id Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJ23FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KTRB GRfTV Advertising Manager GET-A-LO LATHAM. Business Mgr 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 Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8 .00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $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 Sunday 1 mo. 1.SQ Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or Jacmon 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 SCTsn 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 22, 1949 (Friday) Medf ord's new YMCA building swimming pool will be opened tomorrow for an inaugural plunge by members selected by lot. The Rogue Valley Develop ment association, formed to supplement chamber of com merce operations, adopts by laws. 20 YEARS AGO April 22, 1939 (Saturday) Glenn L. Jackson elected president of the Jackson County Chamber of Com-J merce. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The lack of frost so far, has pre vented the peaches from being killed six times, and the Old er Girls cleaning house the same number of times." 30 YEARS AGO April 22, 1929 (Monday) Carl Tengwald returns from an insurance conclave at Seattle. Rogue river is roiled, and fishing consequently poor, with more snow melting up in the hills. 40 YEARS AGO April 22, 1919 (Tuesday) Congressmen Hawley puts in a local appearance, speak ing at the opening of the vic tory loan drive here. Merchants decide to stage a "victory week" May 3 to 10. 50 YEARS AGO April 22. 1909 (Thursday) A corporation is formed to construct a highway up Mt. Shasta. Plans are laid for sinking an oil well in the Gold Hill area. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. From what portion of the carcasses of beef and mutton is suet obtained? 2. "Great Mogul," "Kohi noor," and "Cullinan," are well known names in connec tion with what precious item? 3. During World War II, the U. S. armed forces used hom ing pigeons for messenger service; true or false? 4. Which American states man from Nebraska was known as the "Boy orator of the Plattee"? 5. How many years com prise the term "three score and ten"? 6. "Satchmo," is a nickname of which noted trumpet play er? 7. Which northern city, be cause of its many scholars and educational institutions, fre quently is called "Athens of America"? 8. Name the capital of Hungary. 4 9. How many major planets are known to revolve around the sun? . 10. If an auto travels 30,000 miles, wearing six tires equal ly, how many miles would each tire travel? Answers: 1. Kidneys and loins. 2. Diamond. 3. True. 4. William Jennings Bryan. 5. 70. 6. Louis Armstrong. 7. Boston. Mass. 8. Budapest 9. Nine. 10. 20.000 miles. J Riding to Oregon No one pretends that the covered wagon cav alcade now plodding its way to Oregon from In dependence, Mo., is anything but a stunt to pub licize the Oregon Centennial. But it is a stunt with a purpose. And, further more, it is a stunt which involves considerable physical fortitude. . ' The "Indians" which have "attacked" the caravan were not out for blood, as was the case when the pioneers first came west. And if anyone gets sick, they can always be taken to a well equipped hospital somewhere along the route. MONETHELESS, riding 2,000 miles in a spring less, iron -tired wagon behind a couple of mules is not our idea of 20th century comfort, somehow or other. And riding outside, either on a wagon seat or on horseback, is not the best way to avoid getting wet and cold, or hot and dusty, as the case may be. Probably those who went along look on it as something of a three-months lark. But by the time the wagon train arrives in Independence, Oregon, we'll wager the Centennial pioneers will be ready for a hot bath and a. soft bed. E.A.- 'Riding to Corvallis We feel a bit differently about the planned 4-H wagon trek from Medford to Corvallis, somehow. These youngsters will leam things thereby that their elders on the longer wagon trip pre sumably already know some of the lore of the pioneers, the difficulties of travel of 100 years ago, and so on. Also there will be the mutual experience. This is something; more than a stunt it is a chance to learn by doing, and to boost the Cen tennial at the same time. Good luck, to them. E.A. Headaches A headache, according to a writer in the New York Times, is one of the most underrated of hu man ailments. Dictionaries slight it with but passing men tion. Our own desk-model Webster defines a headache as a "pain in the head," adding help fully, "cephalalgia." And that's all it says. The larger dictionary around the comer isn't much more helpful. It only adds, "a cause of worry or annoyance. Thus is mankind's most widespread physical bane disposed of without ceremony. "THERE are of course, headaches, and then again, headaches. There is the migraine king of them all. It not only virtually blinds one with pain, but brings with it, more often than not, nausea, spots m front of the eyes, and dizziness. Sufferers can console themselves that it strikes, usually, only highly intelligent and sensitive people. But doctors don't know enough about ;it, as yet, to be very helpful once it has struck. Other headaches come with the common cold, or with an overexposure to light, or with too much reading or watching TV. ZITHERS come with emotional tensions and this is the kind which presumably is the origin of the non-physical sense of the word. And some come with no apparent reason at all. Hangovers, we are informed, result in head aches. Others arrive with indigestion, or from a smoke-filled room, or riding too long in a car, or from the midnight barking of the neighbor's dog. You can take an aspirin, which might help. Or it might not. It depends on the headache. There aren't any good ones. E.A. Education Needs Courage! The great and crying need in Education to day is courage to throw out the pat phrases put forth by the educators and come forth with frank and plain words that fit today's system of need and challenge. , The whole educational framework seems pat terned upon easy words put forth by generation after generation of professional educators who have ran the gamut of hurdles set up by schools of education. 1iat education does not fit the need of the time appears of less importance than the desire to say things that fit the "pattern of conformity." "THIS then is the danger that lies in American A education. This is the weakening influence. This is the insidious danger that makes jobless children a bane upon society; that makes lack of guidance a pain to the thoughful ; that makes questioning citizens uneasy. If an educator was to come forth and sudden ly and frankly set up a philosophy of education that wTould be designed to educate the whole child he would be as revolutionary as a Horace Mann was in his time. There is too much today of bowing to the ac cepted ; too much for conformity's sake; too much to dodge argument and disagreement. EDUCATION is fluid; it is of its very sake, de batable and changeable. . Courage is needed. Educators must be in the advance ; not follow ing in the wake. It is time that school people set forth their aims and dared the public to keep up with them ! Coquille .Valley Sentinal i fellowship gained by a Dennis the 'this em oista a3AXgms,$o i told m m could lAKt a reirv KUrrt vn 7UUK Johnson Surviving Attacks From Left In Senate Position By LYLE C. WILSON Washington- (UPD -Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson is surviving thunder on the left to remain boss man of the U.S. Sen ate. Johnson is a tall, smil ing Texan with a knack for getting along with people aftd for get ting things done. When Lyie c. wuson the 80th Con gress adjourned last summer there were cheers for Johnson from just about all over ex cept from the politicos on the left. The cheers were for the job Johnson had done as leader of the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate. It was not much of a majority, 49 Demo crats to 47 Republicans. John son made it work, however. He made it work so well that national attention came to fo cus on the senator as an able, alert, middle-of-the-road Dem ocrat. And that was a boost for the Lyndon B. Johnson for president boom. It has been a quiet but consistent boom, no table for Johnson's occasional public statements that he is not a candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nom ination. The boom persists, however, and that seems to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is pemissible. 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 Wouldn't It Help? To the Editor: It is rather disturbing to see how one per son can misinterpret another person's words. I am sure that none of the writers of recent letters on smudge would have smudging abolished and the pear crop ruined. The fruit in this valley is a big portion of the economy of each one of us. The only suggestion was that a cleaner method of heat ing be used. Surely the orchardist them selves and their families have some of the cleaning, painting and doctor bills with which the rest of us are burdened, and if so, wouldn't it be ad vantageous to everyone, to considerably reduce the am ount of heavy smoke' that stains our fair valley and its occupants each spring? Mrs. Kathy Preston, 1417 South Ivy st., Medford. Try and l-f'rt?. By BENNETT CERF- rI"S HARD TO BELIEVE but director Josh Logan swears Mary Martin was a bundle of nerves before her London open ing in "South Pacific" despite the fact she had won cheers from audiences for over three years in the same role in New York. To reassure her, Logan recited these lines by William Blake: "He who doubts , from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately S out Miss Martin's fears, of course, proved groundless. The very rafters rang with applause from the ecstatic London audience. That Christmas, Mary Martin sent Logan a pillow with the Blake poem emblazoned thereon. She had spent hours in her dressing room embroidering it for him. 0 1959, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Jeataffea SyadicaU. Menace nrtz. be what all the thunder on the left is about. Series of Complaints The thunder on the left has been a series of complaints by left wing Democratic senators against Johnson and his lead ership. The complaints are di rected at Johnson's leadership of the Senate but actually seem to be more intended to derail the Johnson for presi dent movement. If that is not the purpose then they do not make much more sense, col lectively. Sen. William Proxmire (D Wis.) sounded off first early in the new congress. He raked Johnson on charges ot one man rule of the Democratic Senate majority which had zoomed to 62 after the 1958 election. Too much leadership and not enough democracy was Proxmire's complaint. Next up was Sen. Pat Mc Namara (D-Mich.). He com plained against Johnson on charges of too little leader ship instead of Proxmire's too much. McNamara's specific complaint was that Johnson had not led the Senate to pas sage of a certain unemploy ment compensation bill. Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D Pa.) is reported to have joined McNamara in this criticism of Johnson, but by private letter instead of a speech on the Senate floor. Proxmire re turned to the wars last week with a challenge to Johnson to make good on a long list of 1956 Democratic platform promises. This one was Prox mire's third speech attacking Johnson's leadership of Sen ate Democrats. Pattern Being Established All of these Democratic senators are of the left, inher itors of the New Deal philoso phy of FDR. Their maneuvers are beginning to establish a pattern. It is a pattern of re pudiation of Johnson not only as Senate Democratic leader but as a Democratic statesman who properly should be con sidered in connection with the 1960 presidential nomination. All of this is taking shape of a stop-Johnson movement a series of coordinated maneu vers by party left wingers to kill off early the only middle-of-the-road Democrat about whom there is much serious presidential speculation. The noncongressional left wingers of Americans for Democratic Action may be ex pected to get into the act be fore long. Back, in 1957, ADA was complaining that Con gress lacked leadership. The stop-Johnson movement had begun. The first section of the Mos cow subway was completed in 1935. Stop Me Humphrey Proposes To Aid Needy Nations, Aid Farm Surplus By ERIC WENTWORTH Mail Tribune Staff Writer (Story on Page 1 Also) Eugene-Sen. Hubert Hum phrey (D-Minn.) yesterday outlined his recent proposal for a "food for peace" pro gram to better utilize U.S. farm surpluses and assist un derdeveloped nations. He said it would involve spending about $2 billion a year over a five-year period. Its need, he said, arises from the fact that underdeveloped Foreign Ministers To Start Preparing For Summit Meet By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor On May 11, in Geneva, Switzerland, the foreign min isters of the United States, Britain. .France and Russia are scneduiea to begin their confere nee paving the way to a ses sion at the summit. It would be a sad day for the West if the conference were to start Phil Newsom tomorrow. For the West scarcely ever has been more divided on basic issues than now. Should the situation con tinue, it would fulfill a pre diction made by the late So viet Premier Josef Stalin. Shortly after World War II, Stalin wrote that a' war between the Soviet Union and the West was much less likely than a split among the West ern powers, brought about by their own conflicting interests. The present division among the Western powers arises from questions dealing with the future of Germany and is less a question of conflicting interests than one of conflict ing ideas about how the Ger man issue should be settled with the least risk of war. Meanwhile, the Soviets are grimly pursuing their usual divide-and-conquer tactics against the Western Allies and filling the air with ac cusations which later will be come part of their arguments at the conference table. In the space of two weeks, the Soviets have: -Accused the United States of deliberately trying to tor pedo the foreign minister con ference by insisting on main taining high altitude flights along the air corridors to Ber lin. . -Warned Norway that NATO bases on Norwegian soil endanger the peace. -Continued their stalling tactics at the Geneva nuclear conference where agreement is being sought to ban tests of nuclear weapons and set up 1ft J D.A.R. Ladies Put U.N. on 'Probation' By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (UPD It turns out that the Daughters of the American Revolution haven't forgiven the united jn a- tions after all. It's more that the DAR ladies have put the U.N. on probation for a year. Accord ing to Mrs. t i x t n Frank Eleazer Jonn n. rdue of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the resolution committee, we reporters had it all wrong. When her committee came in without a resolution like last year's, which called for with drawal of this country -from the U.N., we figured the DAR had decided to let up on the international statesmen. "Not at all," says Mrs. Pace. "A resolution once en acted remains in full force and effect until repealed. We haven't proposed to repeal it." Some of the other ladies hinted discreetly that maybe there was a little more to it than this. After all, some resolutions, like the one com mending J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, get re-enacted yearly. Gels Off Light Any way you figure it, the U.N. this year is getting off NOTICE! Due to illness Don Byers Will not appear in Medford this evening Watch for Announcement of His Appearance at a Later Data. Prayer Meeting Tonight as Usual. CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST Central & Jackson, Medford nations in Africa and Asia that must spend their reserve funds on food for their people lose capital they require for economic development. He said tne food could be given away, if the situation demanded it, or could be sold to the nations in exchange for their own currency, on a basis of 40 or 50-year credits at an interest rate of 2Vi or 3 per cent. The currency and cred its, he continued, could then be loaned back to that same an international inspection system which would guaranty its being carried out. West At Odds It may be predicted w,ith some confidence that other similar tactics are in the cards which the Russians will play before the foreign ministers sit down to their Geneva con ference. Meanwhile, even without Russia's disruptive tactics, the Western powers continue at odds. West Germany's vacation ing Chanceller Konrad Aden auer recently used words against Britain which one commentator described as words usually reserved for an enemy. The British accuse the Ger mans of rejecting ramification, while the British, in the words of Prime Minister Harold Mac millan, seek: "Pacification by negotiation and reasonable agreement." Before "pacification" be tween even the British and Germans is achieved, another meeting may be necessary be tween Macmillan and Aden auer. Criticize U. S. Flights At the same time, criticism in the British press of the high altitude U. S. flights in the German corridors has been almost as strong as that carried by Pravda, the Com munist Party newspaper in Moscow. It became so strong that last week the U. S. State De partment took pains to make clear that the flights had the approval of the entire U. S. government and were not just the decisions of a few U. S. generals There are only two real questions so far as Germany is concerned. The Allies ai ready have expressed their determination not to be driven from Berlin by Russian threats. So the next move seems up to Russia. The next question deals with the terms and conditions by which it may be possible to reunify Germany. The present bickering only contributes to Russian diplo matic initiative. light. Only its children's fund (UNICEF) gets a rap on the knuckles, on the ground it spends a lot of its money on kiddies in Communist coun tries, promotes a world wel fare state, and through the greeting cards it sells tries to take Christ out of Christmas. So I guess they can rest a little easier at the U.N. head quarters now, as long as they don't do anything rash like letting Red China in as a mem ber. The DAR ladies of course are still against that. ' They are still dead against world government too, but the resolution on this doesn't even mention the United Na tions. Mrs. Pace laid her resolu tions before the DAR's 68th Continental Congress at Con stitution Hall with a warning that propagandists and dis ruptive influences threaten our 'society and nation. But she said the 62 members of her resolutions committee' were on to this danger. She said they considered 457 proposed resolutions, as submitted by members and chapters, and case in with 20 "based on proved facts, not opinions." The delegates seemed to like them. They in terrupted Mrs. Pace 11 times with applause as she read them. There were some old stand- 'Food for Peace' Plan country to provide the capi tal it needed for development. Expansion Advised Humphrey stated at anoth er point in the evening that he considered the present de velopment loan fund program "inadequate" in terms of out lay and long-term program ming. He said he favored a program of at least five years duration to allow such na tions as India to plan their own development accordingly. He said he believed Indian should be offered both loans and extended credits. Humphrey said he was "against recognition of Red China per se" at present. He said that prerequisites for dip lomatic recognition of the Peiping regime might include a reunited Korea and Vietnam to be guaranteed free elec tions and territorial integrity. Comparable guarantees for Formosa and assurances that the Communists would abide by international law. Should Make Efforts He agreed that efforts should be made toward mu tual understanding and the so liciting of such commitments from Peiping and recommend ed that the diplomatic chan nel currently established at Warsaw for seeking the re lease of U. S. captives would be appropriate for, overtures in this direction. Humphrey stated that U. S. trade policies toward both the Soviet Union and Red China should be re-examined with an eye to possible limited trade in non-strategic materials. Asked if the U. S. could trade with Red China while not rec ognizing it diplomatically, the senator replied this was "not an insurmountable problem." He noted that the U. S. trad ed with the Soviets for years before recognizing their gov ernment. 'Better Balance' On the subject of defense, Sen. Humphrey said this country should develop "a better balance of forces." He said the Navy should be mod ernized, particularly for ef fective anti-submarine war fare, and that mobility of troops should be increased He said he disagreed with any cutback in the strength of the Marine Corps. "In the next three to five years we must not just be equal, to the Soviet," he said. "It would be foolish of us to be anything but ahead of them." Turning to the revolt in Tibet, Humphrey said, "The President first of all should have filed a formal protest with the United Nations." he said the United States should have made known "pointed ly seriously and forcefully," its disgust at the tactics of the Chinese Communists. Fur thermore, he said, this coun try should offer resistance to the refugees fleeing Red rule. Favors United Germany On the Berlin crisis, Hum phrey said he believed in a united Germany, which he said, "lends itself to a stable Europe more than a divided Germany." He said he sees hope for such reunification possibly in the long run, but "surely not in the short run." He said any danger of a re united Germany becoming bys among the resolutions and some surprises too. Efforts to promote metro politan government in some places they call it "metro" -were deplored as a step to ward world government. Per sonality tests in the schools were view with suspicion. The ladies were asked to come out against the farm program, for right-to-work legislation, against double jeopardy, for internal security and immigra tion and passport controls, and against so much federal spending. I'll say this for the Daugh ters. Of the more than 3,000 here this week, there were a larger proportion on hand at 9:30 a.m., to hear reports like Mrs. Pace's, than at any other convention I ever saw. Maybe the punch they served at their parties the night before had something to do with this. Pure juice. WE NEVER CLOSE c. M. Litwiller For nearly 24 years our door (downtown) has never been locked. A real personal service. Not always easy but cheerfully v given to all, regardless of social position or financial condition. To merit your confidence is our aim. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close once more an aggressive farce in Europe would be tempers by the presence of a far great er force of Russia. With respect to his recom mendation that Sens. Alexan der Wiley (R-Wis.), and J. Wil liam Fulbright (D-Ark.), at tend the foreign sesion at Ge neva May 1 1 to personify U.S. party unity on the Berlin question, Humphrey said he intended that they should serve "as advisers and not ob servers,' not as delegates or voting members." $3 Million Added To Forest Budget Washington-flJPD- Sen. Rich ard Neuberger (D-Ore.), Tues day announced Senate appro priations adding $3 million to the Forest Service budget, in cluding $500,000 for access roads and trails. The action came in a sup plemental fund bill for the Interior department and the forest service. The Appropri ations committee said added money was to be used in areas that are especially burdened with unemployment "where such work will be of benefit to our forests from the stand point of conservation." Neuberger said Oregon areas which probably would qualify for participation in the added funds include Mt. Hood, Siuslaw, Willamette, Umpqua,' Siskiyou and Umatilla nation al forests. These forests are located in areas designated as having la bor surplus by the Depart ment of Labor. The committee also added $1 million to the Bureau of Land Management access roads program and $100,000 to accelerate timber sales on O and C lands. U.S. To Use Afont For Polar Power Sydney, Australia -(Scinc Service) - The U. S. plans to install four small nuclear poor er stations in Antarctic i the next three years to ji vide heat, light and povt for U. S. bases. The U. S. vill be the first country in t R a world to use nuclear pow in the Antarctic. Geologists ho found 178 different minetl in Antarctica, but geologictlly, have surveyed less than on per cent of the 6,000,000 square mile continent. To ex ploit the minerals, including iron, coal, gold, silver, tin and lead, cheap electric power is needed, said Rear Adm. George Dufek, commander of the U. S. Operation Deep Freeze, in an interview here. 05C Professor Pleads Innocent Corvallis - (UPD - Dr. David C. England, Oregon State Col lege assistant professor, Tues day pleaded innocent to a charge of involuntary man slaughter in connection with the death of an adopted son Feb. 8. The trial is scheduled to begin on June 17. England, 37, father of four other adopt ed children, is alleged by a Benton county grand jury to have struck Charles Edwin England, 12, about the head, causing his death. -England is free on $10,000 bond. Record SALE WIDE VARIETY SWEM'S RECORD SHOP 217 E. Main Medford Mrs. Litwiller tit i?-Jr-k -yt--r: ., "It is better to know us and not need us than to need cs and not know us."