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4 MedfordTribune Friday, April 24, 1959 MEDFORDIrTRIBUNB "Everyone u Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" fublished Daily except Saturday by MJJJFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBLRT W RUHL, Editor HERB GRE'V Advertising Manager GEPAi-D LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W LLEN JR. Managing r.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Enterea to, second class matter at Medlorrt Oregon under Act o! March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai I In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.0t Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 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 routti. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Slinky l mo. Carrier and Dealers c o p f 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City at Medford Official Paper 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 BC 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 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 24. 1949 (Sunday) Costumes of 1880 vintage for the Civic theater's pro duction of "Agnel Street" here are being sought. Mrs. Ethel Yerkey of the upper Rogue is represented by five of her Indian portraits at the Medford Art Center. 20 YEARS AGO April 24. 1939 (Monday) A group of Jackson county truckdrivers and loggers to launch a courtesy campaign. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Fifty Portlanders were shaken up In a street-car accident Fri day. It was not generally known there were that many citizens in the metropolis, without an auto." 30 YEARS AGO April 24, 1929 (Wednesday) The county court approves the new Midway highway. John H. Carkin, Medford, resigns as a member of Jack son county's Legislature dele gation. 40 YEARS AGO April 24. 1919 (Thursday) Porter-J. Neff and W. H Gore will discuss the League of Nations at the public li brary tonight. Rogue River becomes the third county community to meet its victory loan quota. 50 YEARS AGO April 24, 1909 (Saturday) The Norris and Rowe circus arrives here, and the town turns out for the parade. Specifications for paving Oakdale ave. are . completed. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. How many Presidents of the U.S. have been of Dutch ancestry? 2. Who composed "Melody In F?" 3. Through what three ocean, does the International Date Line run? 4. At what festival was the "gift of tongues" given, ac cording to the Biblical ac count? 5. Correct the following sentence. "He. don't remem ber where he was." 6. Should green vegetables be placed in cold water, or in boiling water, to start cook ing? 7. Which of the earth's con tinents is largest in area? 8. What is the meaning of pro tempore? 9. When John Alden plead ed with Priscilla, whose mar riage proposal was he plead ing? 10. Is a marmoset a bird, fish, monkey or gem. stone? Answers: 1. Three, (Van Bur en and two Roosevelts). 2. Rubinstein. 3. Arctic, Pa cific. Antarctic. 4. Penlacost. 5. "He doesn't ..." 6. Boil ing. 7. Asia. 8. For the time being. 9. Miles Siandish. 10. Monkey. Dallas-IUPD-R. L. Thornton Sr., a bank president in civil ian life, won election to his fourth term as mayor this week. The chimes on his bank building have been playing for his constituents every day since: "I Love You Truly." The Good Ladies Convene The news dispatches report that the good ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion are again convened in solemn session in Washington, D.C., and, as expected, are again making solemn fools of themselves. (Before we lose our scalp, let us hasten to point out that our comments are NOT directed at the local unit of the D.A.R., that some of our best friends are members, and that NOT all members go along with, or even condone, the pontifical assininities of the national convention.) . The chief failure of the national convention's resolutions committee is the refusal to recognize that this is the 20th century. I TEM: The idea of "metropolitan" governments, worked out to meet, perate needs of metropolitan areas and their burgeoning fringes for orderly and responsive units of government, is, in the eyes of the D.A.R.'s coventioneers, "designed to regiment the people of our nation." Item : A cultural exchange program with Rus sia is opposed. One lady stated, "I want no child that has any connection with me or my family exposed to the culture of Russia." CHE doesn't have much confidence in the mem- bers of her family, does she? She distrusts this nation, and its abilities to claim the loyalty and allegiance of its people, in the face of some mysterious danger known as "Russian culture." .. . She can't believe that Russian students and artists coming to this country might find some thing good here ; find that democratic ways are better than totalitarian ways; find that Commu nist propaganda may, indeed, have misrepresent ed the United States to the Russian people. About 18 members of 2,357 voting delegates had enough confi dence in America to vote against the resolution. The others do themselves, and this country, no credit. E.A. Columbia Bridge A big bridge across Astoria is now virtually assured. The bridge undoubtedly will be a tremendous stimulus to travel along the Oregon and Wash ington coasts. It will, eliminate the rather long ferry ride which, while pleasant, tends to slow down coastwise travel to a marked degree. We are among the optimists who think that such a bridge will bring an increase in travel far in excess of current estimates, and that toll reve nues will thereby be greater than, expected. 7 yHE bridge, of and by itself, is a good idea, and certainly has a place in Oregon's long-range highway development plans. Our objection has never been to the bridge, but to the way in which the legislature has in truded itself into the affairs of the highway com mission. It should be the commission's function to decide what priority the bridge should have. The legislature, we repeat, 90 harried and pressured people, without adequate opportunity to decide such things on the basis of long ex perience, considerable study, and expert advice, makes a lousy highway commission . THE Pendleton East-Oregonian puts it this way : This move by the Legislature to take over the re sponsibilities of the highway commission and the en couragement it has had from the governor's office is bad. This is the beginning of something that many states have sadly regretted. Members of the highway commission may feel they cannot speak out against this. But, others who want to keep Oregon highways out of politics should speak. If there is no protest now to what the Legislature and the governor are doing we shall see much more of It in the future. A little of it is bad. A lot of it would be terrible. ' E.A. Boards and Commissions We don't know why, but the current legisla tive session has shown a marked distrust of the boards and commissions which for so long and so effectively have been a part of Oregon's govern mental machinery. Not only is the highway commission given its marching orders (on the Columbia bridge and improvement of Highway 42), but the house has passed a bill to abolish the board of control, another bill would downgrade the state public welfare commission to make it an advisory body only, and the board of parole is to have several extra (and largely unneeded) members. THE board of control has tended to insulate the state's institutions from politics. If they were made the direct responsibility of the governor alone, mey inevitably would be dragged more and more into the political arena, with resulting pulling and hauling, loss of morale, and a more rapid turnover in top administrators. Ine welfare commission, by the same token, has done a remarkable job of keeping the touchy welfare programs out of politics. With the help of good and dedicated administrative officers, it has kept scandal from the programs, and built a system of which Oregon can well be proud. As for "packing:" the oarole board, we see nothing it can accomplish, Doara is current on its program, and, up to this point, hasn't called for help on its workload. We have no objection to chancre, if change is called for.- But change for 1.1- 1 1 J.1 ! nuuung Dut inrasmng arouna in tne aarK. JtLi.A. in some degree, the des of the convention out the Columbia river at the present three-man change's sake alone is - . . Dennis the j i b II i Who SAYS I gotta swy IN 6ED? Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington-The Republican party's new national chair man, Sen. Thruston Morton, is setting out with complete sincerity to do a job that sim ply cannot be done. His im possible goal is to maintain absolute neu trality within thp CXCYP fir. White ' ganization as between the 1960 Presidential possibilities-the open contend er, Richard M. Nixon, and the latent contender, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Happily for his state of mind, Kentuckian Morton comes from a state where politics is played for keeps. He is able, therefore, to con front his present task with philosophical awareness that no man can be expected to do better than his best. He knows quite well that real objectivity is found in Presidential politics as often as a Beethoven sonata is found in a roadside juke box. Nevertheless, he is going to give his top goal a determined try; this . is made plain, in his private as well as his public actions. All the same, candid conversation with him leaves the impression that his real ism has already told him that while it would be fine to do everything he 4ias set for him self he will be fortunate to reach two lesser, but at any rate actually attainable, goals. ABOVE all, he wants the 1960 convention to leave the GOP united. Specifically, he hopes the Morton adminis tration of the national com mittee will be able to accom plish these things: 1. To so guard the conven tion that no candidate can charge that he was "robbed" and no candidate can cry "steal" against any rival. 2. To make certain that the convention galleries are not "papered"-that is, packed -by the partisans of any can didate. In a word, Morton will be on the alert, in point No. 1, against any repetition of 1952 and, in point No. 2, against any recurrence of 1940. The 1952 convention deep ly split the GOP for a time. The Eisenhower - forces ac cused backers of the late Sen ator A. Taft of "stealing" delegates. The Taft people, on their side, were convinced that Taft had been defeated only by phony propaganda. In 1940, Wendell Willkie, an ex-Democrat, was nom inated in a convention made s h o u t-happy by clamorous Willkieites in the galleries. Their violent and endless ac claim of Willkie rather made it appear that the choice of any other nominee would be Try and By BENNETT CERF- EUROPEAN STUDENT, sadly confused by English spell-t- ing, submitted this poem hopefully to his professor of literature: The wind was rough And cold and blough; She kept her hands in side her mough. It chilled her through, Her nose turned blough, And still the squall the faster flough. And yet although, There was no snough, The weather was a cruel fough. It made her cough, (Please do not scough) ; Mr She coughed until her hat blew ough. 1959, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Menace S. WHITE un-American and "bossism." HOW then, will Morton make sure that in 1960 there is no 1952, no 1940? He believes that early preventive action is the answer. Thus, the two key convention com mittees - those on arrange ments and on credentials-will be appointed by him only after careful screening and also after checking in with both Vice President Nixon and Mr. Rockefeller. The arrangements commit tee issues the gallery tickets, These will be carefully con trolled. The number allowed to any state will be in propor tion to its population and its total pro-GOP vote in the last Presidential election. The credentials committee settles contests between candi dates for delegates. (Did this aspirant or that aspirant leg ally win the delegate strength of such and such a state?) This committee will be made up of men who are as nearly able as is humanly possible to de cide the issues on the evi dence. VTOW, all these Morton pre- AV cautions, given good luck, will indeed avoid another 1952 or 1940. But this is the very most they can do. For neutrality is an illusion. The Republican national commit tee itself is, on the basis of confidential inquiries, pro- Nixon by 4 to 1. And most state and county party units are in pro-Nixon hands. Moreover, the very prepara tions Senator Morton is mak-ing-particularly those against gallery-packing-will 'tend in evitably, though unintention ally, to favor Nixon. Why? Because Rockefeller will be an outsider running against an insider. To deny it to Rockefeller might well be to deny him . the best chance open to an outsider-that is, emotionally to blitz a conven tion originally determined to select another man. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Medford Girl Named Member of Board Eugene - A Medford girl at tending the University of Ore gon, has been selected as a member of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary. She is Till Hopkins, junior major ing in history. Miss Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Hop kins, 1353 East McAndrews rd., is one of J6 newly select ed members of the organiza tion. Mortar Board chooses members on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service. "Steel sandpaper" is said to be as flexible as the common kind as well as non-clogging and long-lasting. Stop Me w inston Churchill Still Towering Figure On World . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Man of the week: Sir Win ston Churchill. The place: Suburban Hall, Woodford, England. Wood ford voters cheered and shouted t h e m s elves hoarse Mon day night . in W o o d f ord's plain Subur ban Hall. The Phu Newsom stuDDy man in the polka dot bow tie standing before them had lived through and personally made more history than any other man now living. He was Winston Churchill and he had just an nounced that once more he would "offer' himself as a candidate for the House of Commons in the coming elec tions. 1 Most of those in the hall could not remember a time when this man had been any thing but a towering figure in British politics. On Nov. 30, Churchill will be 85. Time is catching up with his robust figure. His movements are slow and the mmunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the cas. "Feaiherbedding" Denied ' To the Editor: Any "feath erbedding" on the U.S. rail roads is right in manage ment's corner and cannot be charged against railroad workers whose productivity is steadily increasing, accord ing to W. P. Kennedy, presi dent of the 215,000-member Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Mr. Kennedy called atten tion to the fact that back in 1923 the railroads had ap proximately 1,800,000 em-ployees-with 16,000 of them in management posts. "What is the situation to day, 36 years later?" he asks. The B. R. T. leader points out that the railroads now employ less than half the number at work on the rails in 1923 (there were 811,776 employed by the railroads in February, 1959), but the total of em ployees in management posi tions has remained practical ly the same: "Facts such as these are not brought out by representa tives of management who are currently flooding the nation with propaganda that railroad workers are guilty of 'feather bedding.' " These same loyal workers who have been unjustly ac cused by railroad bigwigs, said Mr. Kennedy, have in creased their output per man hour at the rate of 4.8 per cent per year during the years from 1949 to 1958. . "The increase in the date of productivity of railroad workers is at its highest point in history," he declared. Charles A. Fisher, Legislative Representative Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, No. 314, 1310 West 15th St., Eugene, Ore. Teachers Praised To the Editor: In the past few weeks there has been much flu throughout the whole state. Our doctor told us many of the recurrent cases have been caused be cause the children over-exert themselves too soon after their apparent recovery. When our youngest returned home from her first day at school after having had the flu, she told us what her teacher had done. "My teacher told me not to run, so I didn't," she said, "but she let me walk in the sunshine once around the school at each recess. Then I had to come in the school and lie down until recess was over. She's a good teacher, isn't she?" This "good teacher" is Miss Eunice Gray of the Jackson school. We have been aware for a long time that she is a good teacher in many ways. The other evening I listened for a few minutes, before turning off the program in disgust, to a man explaining why he had given up teach ing. The excuse he dwelt on longest was that he felt he couldn't do justice to the chil dren with 35 in a classroom. TULIP SHOW Choose Your Bulbs From Fresh Flowers APRIL 24-25-26 Big Y Feed Stage; Seeks Reelection at 85 resonance has faded from the voice which in 1940 stirred a world caught in the toils of a massive war. Had the Rallying Voice "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he said then. At another time: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never sur render . . ." His was the rallying voice of the Western world then, and of those speeches it since has been said he "mobilized the English language." But whatever the infirmi ties of body or the declining resonance of voice. Churchill still has not been deserted by his sense of history nor the international scope of his view. "If the war left us poor, it left us honorably poor," Chur chill told his Woodford consti tuents. And to charges by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that he began the cold war, he replied: Points Out Perils . "I am certainly responsible We are thankful our child ren's teachers don't quit for this reason. Our appreciation of Miss Eunice Gray's concern, not only about our child's wel fare, but the many others in her care, cannot be expressed too often. Mrs. John B. Lynch 139 Kenwood Ave. Medford A Bouquet To the Editor: I warn to thank whoever is sending us the "marvelous Medford Mail Tribune!" It's not nearly so lonesome seeing all the familiar names in print. I honestly can't think of a nicer gift to give someone who is moving away from Medford, which, by the way, is the nicest town in the whole state of Oregon. The Tribune has more news coverage in it than both Port land papers put together. Gratefully yours, Mrs. Charles V. Herman, 4136 No. Longview ave., Portland 17, Ore. Yep. Still Here! Mr. Editor: Are you still there? Sitting in your M-T chair? Congratulations. The letter written by Mrs. Vachon may have your name go down in history as the editor whose policies were all wrong. Do you think they should receive a patience medal, for spend ing five years reading a paper whose policies they dislike? Perhaps they should go back to their fair and re strained Chronicle in San Francisco. As for me: v 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 Excise Tax Opposed By Telephone Firm The 10 per cent Federal excise tax on telephone serv ice is costing telephone users in Medford; Central Point, Gold Hill and Jacksonville an estimated $20,850.08 a month, J. H. Creager, Pacific Tele phone manager, said today. "Last year the company took in about $5,650,000 from telephone customers in Ore gon and turned this money over to the government in its role as tax collector," Creager said. s Pacific Telephone, other Bell System companies and independent telephone com panies are urging repeal of the telephone tax by Con gress. A joint resolution passed by the Oregon Legis lature recently also asked this action. Creager pointed out that savings brought about by elimination of the tax would go directly to telephone users. & Seed Co. for pointing out to the free world in 1946. at Fulton, in America, the perils in com placently acceDtine the ad vance of Communist imperial ism. It was in his Fulton. Mo.. speech that he coined the phrase . "Iron Curtain." And to his Fulton SDeech. he added the ironic touch on Monday night that it was not Britain who advanced her frontiers or who absorbed sovereign peoples after World War II. Such is Churchill's world wide stature that it made no difference that he stood upon a local platform, addressing a local constituency. For when he came to the German prob lem, he actually was address ing the men who will sit down in Geneva next month as rep resentatives of world govern ments. He said the Western powers Editorial Comment NOT REPAIRS BUT A WHOLE NEW HOUSE - What are we to say about the apparent shape of the new state tax program? An asso ciate, a fellow of infinite jest, suggested, "We might just de plore taxes altogether. That'd be popular." But that we must not do. This is what the Demo cratic Legislature and the Re publican governor have been doing. The price of their popu larity is too high. It's a price that must be paid again and again, every time we come up against a real need that this Legislature chose to leave un met. We do not quarrel with the gross income tax plan of Gov ernor Hatfield. It's probably a good idea, rounding out the tax program so that it is based not only on the ability to pay, but also on the premise that every citizen ought, as an ob ligation and privilege of citi zenship, to pay something. And probably it is well that the Legislature is about to eliminate some of the inequi ties irr' a tax program that has discriminated seriously against the single person. That person is not likely a gay blade with a big income and no obligations. More than likely he (or she) is elderly, or handicapped or the sole support of children or par ents, or otherwise obligated. This is an adjustment that is probably long overdue. Senator Pearson's sales tax "for the schools" may yet be referred to the people. But this is not a good "package," nor is it definite that Oregon needs any sales tax as yet. So, the tax progarm, if "program" is the word for it, is a patchwork. The old house has been remodeled and tack ed on to and re-wired and re plumbed for years. The tax eating family continues to grow. More children arrive, oldsters move in. Some of the tenants are ill, some not quite respectable. Yet the old house is made to function. Preju dices of many years' standing prevent any radical changes in design. Those who manage the house, if "manage" is the word for their function, can look ahead. When they do, Death rate in the U. S. in 1954 was among the lowest on record, estimated at only 9.2 per 1,000 persons. ':::::-:v:":::::-Xv::'-:-:!:-:: : ' w'-iv:- : ; k h It han rn'Y.'.S "Make The Check Ou! To The Dog Food Company" Admittedly few dogs create financial emergencies like this! However, countless other occasions do arise that call for cash in a hurry. When this is your situation, see us . . . for cash on a prompt and convenient loan ... on terms that you can handle. LOANS from $25 to $1,500 On Auto Furniture Signature LOCALLY OWNED CRATER FINANCE CORPORATION 135 PINE CENTRAL POINT NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking No Meter should never seek to make use of Germany as an offen sive base against Russia. He said Soviet fears of a reborn Germany are "reason able even if they are not justi fied." "We must look through oth er people's eyes as well as our own," he said. But he added the West could not contemplate "a fur ther increase in the number of countries and peoples they so tyrannically control." And the man who foresaw the outbreak of World War II told the Russians it was not necessary for them to say the use of armed force over Berlin inevitably would lead to a general conflict. "We are aware of this," he said. "We are well aware, too, that there is no chance of the world being spared the use of nuclear weapons if war came." they shudder and look ahead no more. The old house just won't do another biennium, and they know it. They fix the roof and prop up the foun dations to get us through each emergency, hoping against hope that repairs can make it serviceable two years hence, when it will again be too small, too awkward. We need a new house, a new program. We need one built from the bottom up, right from scratch. Its design should be such that the pe culiar needs and abilities of the tenants are recognized well in advance. It should be designed by architects who are not scared to death of the old wives' tales about what the people will or will not stand for. The designers must be courageous men, men with enough faith in thfe voters to present, to them, with confi dence, a workable, adequate program, along with the rea sons for its perhaps drastic design. The designers should be articulate men, who can ex plain the consequences of try ing to make the old shack serve yet another biennium. Now, after more than 100 days of legislating, we admit we're apparently stuck for another two years with a patchwork. Let's hope the next Legislature is less the prisoner of its prejudices and . its campaign promises. The same goes for the governor. The old pile's going to fall down around our ears one of these days, unless we move out while the moving is good. -Eugene Register-Guard. SPRING CLEARANCE SALE! WHILE THEY LAST! Reg. Pyrmedalls 4' -..$4.00 Now $2.75 3.00 2.00 2.00 Berk man Arborvita 4.00 2.50 2.75 Pfitzer Juniper Acuba . r Many Other Good Buys Brewington Nursery 2605 Tennessee Dr.-Off Debarr SP 3-3971 VV'" ' Vv
