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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeeW, Ct. Tyesdey, May 5, 1959 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read Th Tribuix Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO. i 33 Korth fir St. Ph. SP 3-S141 ROBERT1 W RUHC Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM, Business Mgr SRIC W ALLEN JB Managing Rditor ' IARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor LI VI STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mg : An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oreeon under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES i By Mali In Advance. Copy 10c. :, i Ciul 13.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 8.0 Daily and Sunday- 3 mos. 12a Sunday only une yc""jr,;f;'. By Carrier' In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- ir.lMf mH mi mfltnr routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Tsiiv inri Suntlav 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c An Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper f City t Medford Official yaper oi -"""j United Press International full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUrEEATJ ur umiiu.1 Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices In Ne York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. T? NEWSPAPER PUBLISHftS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOtlAt AMCMTKMN 3 J Flight 'o Time Medford and Jacteon County History from the file ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 5, 1949 (Thursday) The Carl Norris' cow gives birth to twin calves. Local barber shop quartet conservationists call a meet ing to choose voices for a chorus. 20 YEARS AGO May S. 1939 (Friday) Pacific Tel and Tel an nounces plans to provide Medford subscribers with dial telephones. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Things might be worse. The smudge pot haze over the foothills is better than the smoke of battle." 30 YEARS AGO May 5, 1929 (Sunday) Local building to date is $30,000" above last year's fig tire. A mining expert arrives at the Blue Ledge to map re newal of operations. 40 YEARS AGO May 5. 1919 (Monday) A large crowd gathers in Medford for the opening of Victory week.' The war department states the last American will be home from France by Au gust. 50 YEARS AGO May 5, 1909 (Wednesday) Eva Patterson, a recent ar rival from Illinois, enters the Tribune free trip contest. The Bothwell orchard tract on the Big Sticky is sold to a Seattle group. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er fan correct it typerlorj avail er sight la excellent; five sis is feed. 1. Of which South Ameri can country is Santiago the capital? 2. Is mesquite an insect, a game, or a desert shrub? 3. Complete the proverb: "You can lead a horse to wa ter, but . . ." 4. What was the name of George Washington's mother? 1 5. Who composed the ora torio "The Messiah"? 6. Correct the following sentence: "I (aid down on the couch to rest." 7. In which state are the Black Hills? 8. Name the famous news paper established by Horace Greeley in 1841. 9. Is a bloodhound a large, medium, or small dog? 10. Aesop is credited as the author of what sort of tales? Answers: 1. Chile. 2. Desert shrub. 3. ". . . you can't make him drink." 4. Mary Ball Washington. 5. Frederick George Handel. 8. "I lay . . 7. South Dakota. 8. New York Tribune. 9. Large. 10. Fables. Wheat Commission Administrator Quits Pendleton-IUPD-Dick Baum, administrator of the Oregon Wheat Commission for the past year, resigned Monday to become exeutive vice presi dent of Western Wheat Asso ciates U.SA., Incorporated. Western Wheat is a newly formed market development group made up of the wheat commissions and grower leagues of Oregon, Washing tod and Idaho. 4 The Slow-Melting Pot 'America is a great melting pot. Every school boy is taught this early in life. It is less-well known that so is Oregon. This was drawn to our attention the other day in a press release issued by the Oregon Centen nial Commission, telling of the organization of an "ethnic advisory committee" which will counsel on the activities of various nationality groups. With very few exceptions, ethnic groups in Oregon have blended into the general populace with very little to set them apart. OUT THE committee will have. representatives of these groups: ' German, Baltic, Finnish, Indian, Irish, Polish, Chinese, Negro, Yugoslavian, Greek, Italian, Lebanese-Syrian, Japanese, and Basque. Except in cases where color of skin or other characteristics tend to set them apart, as in the case of the Negro, Indian, and Oriental popula tions, most of the representatives of these diverse groups could walk the streets of any city in the state, and be unrecognizable as anything but ordinary Americans: Occasionally a name will give a hint of national origin, but even names which were once "foreign-sounding," often these days are good, old American names. THE DAY is not yet here when prejudices based solely on ethnic or racial origin have disap peared. But it is coming, though slowly. Ancient national rivalries sometimes are at the roots ,of prejudice. Sometimes it is economic fears or population pressures, or other reasons, such as lack of educational opportunities. But human experience over the centuries has shown that people are people some good, some bad, some smart, some dumb no matter what their color, nor where their great-grandfathers were bom. And this fact is, though slowly, being recog nized for the fact it is. E. A. - State of Mind The "State of Jefferson" otherwise classi fied as "a state of mind" Klamath Falls the other day, and Publisher Frank Jenkins, who doubles as a columnist for several southern Oregon newspapers including the Mail Tribune, was named its "governor." The mythical state has been kicking around for. a long time. It was back in the .1930s that there was a lot of aritation. with toneue firmly in cheek, for the secession of southern Oregon and northern California counties, ana tne iorma- tion of the new state The idea was to publicize the area (which it did), in part for the need for good roads. DUT WE discover that the idea of a separate . state in this area is far older than that. Lancaster Pollard, eminent Oregon historian, writing in the Oregonian, recounts of there was sentiment for a "Jackson Territory," and "State of Jackson," both before and after the state con stitutional convention of 1857. As early as 1853, Pollard writes, a resolution was entered in the territorial legislature provid ing that: "Our delegate in Congress be and hereby is re quested to use his best endeavors, and to act in concert with the senators of California, to procure the passage of a law creating and organizing a new territory to be known by the name of Jackson Territory." "Nothing came of that," Pollard reported. ....... A GITATION continued, however, until the Civil War put an end to it. It is also interesting to note that sentiment in the area was for the formation of a "slave" state, with sentimental and economic roots in the old South. The pro-slave state sentiment was also preva lent in northern California. It is possible that the recurrent proposals for a new state in this area actually stem from these early-day attempts the latter only partly serious, the original one apparently dead serious. AS FOR this newest "state" proposal, it is a "nebulous affair, designed apparently as a rallying-point for those who oppose what are feared as . encroachments on independence in thought and action of "big government," whether it be at the state or national level. t The Klamath Falls Herald and News ex pounds on it thus: " The State of Jefferson is . . .a State of Mind, and can be, accordingly, either a howling failure writ ten off as a civic gag, or a shining example of freedom and independence. . . . There's ho limit to where we can go. Not as long as we stick to the principles on which the state was founded-simply independence in all its beneficial forms. At least major portions of the nation outside the State of Jefferson have fallen prey - to the savage encroachments of organized laziness. The Wool of big government largesse has been pulled over their eyes and they can no longer see the shining sym bol of independence. ..." These are fine, ringing words. DUT WHAT do they mean? If we read them correctly, they translate into something like "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone, and spit in your eye to boot." There is another word beside independence in the successful operation of society. It is "inter dependence." . v It had its origin in the Biblical question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" And it is. enshrined in the national lore as "E Pluribus Unum" Out of Many, One. . . Go your ways, good people of the State of Jefferson. We choose to exert our independence by acknowledging that No Man Is an Island nor is a state, even a state of mind. E. A. was proclaimed over in Dennis the 1, V I A i Si 'REMX.JOgy I'M WXCMH'YA UK&A HAWK J Truman Doesn't Fit Pattern Of Usual 'ElderStatesman' By FRANK ELEAZER Washington-(UPD-They keep trying to make Harry S. Tru man into an elder statesman, which he says means a dead politician. For a while this week some of those who like Harry better alive and unchanged were afraid the reformers Frank Eleazer were gaining ground. -The old Harry S. Truman won out, though. Here he was, six years out of the White House, going on 75, and fresh from a series of university talks. He delivered, Monday, a history lecture to a group of senators, urging repeal of the two-term limit on presidents. Today he was recommending to ' House members non-partisan support of President Ei senhower's foreign aid plans. The lawmakers, not all of whom were known for their Washington Report By WILLIAM PEACEMAKER Washington-Harry S. Tru man, who spent much of his time as President in pleasur- J ably loud com- bat, has adopt ; ed for 1960 the -role of tranquil peace maker within i the Democrat ic party. Him self a scarred veteran of c r a r t oniilor William S. zy Z, " TV; White North - South Democratic splits, the. .former President's chief interest now is to avoid that kind of divi sion, first in the Democratic convention and then in the Presidential election. A conversation with Mr. Truman in his Washington home away from home, the Mayflower Hotel, finds this energetic private citizen of In dependence, Mo., infinitely more optimistic about, his par-4 ty's future than he was in 1952 or in 1956.- He is undoubtedly fully convinced, not just for the record but in his bones, that the Democrats are going to regain the White House in '60, and certainly so if they remain reasonably united. ACCORDINGLY, he has set as one of his main tasks an accommodation of the civil rights issue that will rest upon the compromise plank adopt ed by the' 1956 convention. Mr. Truman does not want the party to go significantly be yond that plank in 1960. He knows, of course, that some extreme Democratic liberals (this description being this cor respondent's and not neces sarily Mr. Truman's) are de termined to go far beyond. These," indeed, would like to drive even the moderate Southerners from the conven tion. The former President, in short, is the kind of working liberal who believes that slow progress, even if imperfect progress, is better than shout ing demands for the impos sible. It is easily possible to draw the impression that Mr. Tru man is not enchanted with any of the liberal extremists. And he hopes this kind of liberal will not dominate the conven tion's platform committee. Ac tually, Mr. Truman himself expects to have an important hand in that committee, as he did in the 1956 compromise. If he himself is not a member, he will have well-briefed friends there. ' ' Menace warm .feelings for Truman in his latter years in the White House, greeted him like an old and dear friend. They re: spectfully sought his opinions. Gives Reminder He gave 'em, of course. Nobody will ever stop Tru man from that. But it was mostly pretty serious, solemn stuff, and most of it sounded ominously statesmanlike. He did remind the senators, with a grin, that he was the only one of 175 .million Americans not precluded by the Constitution 's 22hd Amendment from seeking a third term in the White House. - - "- - Truman-like, he neglected to say he won't try to avail himself of his specialconstitu tional privilege. And there are some, of course, who wouldn't put this , beyond him. -. . This mild display of the old Truman form heartened his supporters considerably. It was a few minutes later, though, that they got a real assurance that passage of a few years hasn't really S. WHITE TTE SEES the 1956 compro "mise, in fact, as a decent one for 1960. He does not, of course, want the party to run away from the issue to please the South.But he does not see the point of unnecessary prov cation of the Southerners. And he is aware that more import ant than any platform, and almost as important as the text of any civil rights law, is the kind of administration to be -had of civil rights laws already enacted and to be en acted. What Mr. Truman wants, in sum, is for the Demorcrats to draw together on the many issues on which at bottom they are united and not to overinf late the one issue on which they really are apart. He thinks the party should run against the GOP next year basically oh the traditionally "gut" issues-public power, farm . relief, housing, . labor where he believes the Repub licans to be most vulnerable. He deeply hopes that for eign policy can be kept out of the campaign, genuinely kept out. In foreign matters, he will follow the wholly re sponsible line to which he has clung since leaving office. He has never -once refused to back up the Eisenhower Ad ministration when the going has been tough for us abroad. H E WANTS to hit the GOP on the bread-and-butter do- Try and Stop Me - By BENNETT CEfcf WC. FIELDS, recalls Fred Russell, rockily entered a neigh-. borhood- tavern about 9:30 one morning, and anxiously appealed to the bartender. "Did I come in here last night?" in quired Fields, "and break a . hundred -dollar bilLthen spend it all on liquor?" ; 'Tm afraid you did," nod- ded the bartender. "Thank heaven!" ejacu lated Fields happily. "I waj afraid I had lost it." Two diners at a Broad way restaurant could not agree on the merits of a certain politician. "He re minds me of Abraham Lin coln," maintained one. "I see your point," said the other bitterly, "if you can conceive of Lincoln as a short, fat, dishonest Abe." Then there wsx the 4-year-old who toddled into his dad's study, ruffled his dad's hair, and observed suddenly, "Hey, Deddy, your head is coming through." UsS, by Stuett Gtr& distributed by Xing Features Syndicate. Cracks Still Evident Of West Over Geneva Ministers' Meeting By PHIL NEWSOM - UPI Foreign Editor With the Geneva foreign ministers conference only days away, cracks in the wests so called solid front con tinue to be distressing 1 y evident. Despite as surances from Washing ton, London. Paris Phil Newsom the Western ministers would be in full agreement by the time they meet. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva May 11, it also is evident that not one of the Western pow ers has switched from the basic stands that produced disagreement in the first place. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, British Foreign Secretary changed Harry Truman. Not only is he the only American free to seek a third term in the White House. It developes he undoubtedly is the only American who can blithely pass up an invitation to dinner with President Ei sensower and W-i n s t o n Churchill. ''I 'couldn't go," he told newsmen. "You couldn't go, or you didn't want to go?" demanded a reporter, mindful of the fact Truman hasn't returned to the White house since that cold day in January, 1953, when Eisenhower took " over the lease. "I said I coudn't go," the ex-President said. "You can put any construction on that you want to." ... He grinned and added: "You always do anyway.' No Grudge Holder Truman swears he doesn't hold grudges. He does seem able to get along surprisingly well, though, without visiting Ike at the White House.- He makes no bones about not having forgiven Vice President Richard M. Nixon for Nixon's campaign charges against nim. Ike, for his part, is said to feel that. Truman said some mighty unkind things aboutrhim. Ike has, nevertheless, invit ed Truman several times to the White House. Truman is said to feel the invitations haven't been very warm ones. HST may have been sorry to miss the dinner with Churchill. He didn't say . a thing about his regret at not dining with Ike. mestic issues everywhere and all the time. But he knows that for the Democrats to make trouble for the Repub licans abroad will only make trouble for the country, too. Harry S. Truman is a far bigger man, casts a far taller shadow, now as always, than most of his critics have ever realized. As to who should be the Democratic Presidential nomi nee? Mr. Truman is not com mitted. He is, however, quite interested in Sen. Stuart Sym ington for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the plain fact that Symington is, after all, a fellow Missourian. But the Truman policy here bas ically is to lie low and most of all to keep himself sympa thetically open to every party leader who might wish to talk to him about either candidates or issues. He sees his role, in the end, as that of party elder, party moderator, and party umpire to draw the heat from every available party feud. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville met in Paris in a pre-conference ses sion designed to erase their differences. No Alternate Proposal The result was a vaguely described "package plan" to be presented to the Commu nists, wrapping up as a whole the questions of Berlin, Ger man reunification and Euro pean security. Each one of these has de fied solution singly. Yet we now propose to set tle them together. Further, it has been ad mitted that forits "package plan" the West has no alter native proposal. s Yet, from the Western posi tion it is difficult to see how there could be much room for compromise. . The Russians have de manded the Western Allies remove their 10,000-man oc cupation force from West Berlin or face the possibility of war. They said that by May 27, or on a date soon after that, they will turn over to their East German satellite land and air controls to West Berlins And they have de manded 'agreement on some kind of plan for Germany as a whole, on .the threat that, in the event of failure, they will conclude on their own a sep arate treaty with East Ger many. . ... No Agreement Necessary The Western Allied posi tion now is that we will not be driven from West Berlin by threats. The United States, France and West Germany believe that no new agreement is necessary on West Berlin where Western troops now are Stationed both as a result of post World War II agrees ment and by request of the West Germans themselves. ' The British, with the same end in view, would be willing to negotiate on Berlin if it would encourage a larger agreement. On German reunification, the Russians speak of "con federation'-meaning interna tional recognition of a perma nently Communist East Ger- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of e 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 Tribute to Mr. Bevis To the Editor: The many friends of Vincent Bevis will carry his memory in their hearts and minds as a visible footstep he left on this world, not to be erased by the many storms of life. The . children his love and thoughtfulness touched through the years in this community will be his living memorial. To fulfill the immediate needs of the children he knew who came to school with no breakfast, no lunch, and in adequate clothing, was always his top assignment for him self. He went on feeling re sponsible for their health by doing what was possible to see that they procured glasses, dental work, or doctor's care when needed. It would be im possible to enumerate the many other deeds of care and concern for children that he took time to do. His prin cipal's position provided daily opportunities for him to ex press his compassion for chil dren. . Mr. Bevis could never do enough in cooperating with PTA and other community groups working for the wel fare of children. There are few volunteers to fill Vincent Bevis' footsteps and accom plish the goals he set for him self. - As a visible monument for those who did not have the opportunity to ' p e r s o n ally know Vincent Bevis, we, and we are sure many others, would like to see Medford name one of their new schools in his honor and memory. Mr. and Mrs. John Benson, Box 1175, Medford. Durno Opposes Scholarship Plan Salem -(UPD- The Oregon Senate Monday approved cre ation of a state scholarship commission. It would coordi nate dispensing of scholar ships to Oregon students at tending state schools of higher learning. Five members appointed by the governor would make up the group. Sen. Edwin Durno (R-Med-ford) was the only opponent, saying he feared possible po litical manipulation of schol arships since the Commission would be- appointed by the governor. in 'Solid Wall' many under some kind ot loose economic and cultural link with West Germany. Any other arrangement would be totally unacceptable to the Russians whose great est fear is a unified, hostile Germany. The British would negoti ate on some sort of military disengagement in Europe, possibly leading to a neutral zone. Such a plan is opposed by the U.S., France and Ger many on the basis that it Matter of Fact Bv Joseph A (sop BRITAIN'S RECOVERY London - Britain today pre sents a picture of vigorous recovery, which contrasts re- f'mm marknhlv with the confusion and defeatism that prevailed for so long after the Suez disaster.' In the main, this British re covery is eco nomic, at least 4oiph Aisop as yet. its in dices are rising hard currency reserves, declining unemploy ment, - a stable - price - index, exports that compete success fully even with West Ger many's, and a living standard that begins to compare even with the. standard in the United States. And this Brit ish recovery is important news,, for two quite different reasons. On the one hand, very few people . realize, even ' today, how near Britain came after Suez to actual public bank ruptcy. There were moments when the run on sterling and the' drop in the reserves seemed quite likely to leave the British treasury powerless to meet its obligations. The cards inherited by Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan were about as poor as they could be. But the Prime Minister and his quietly effective Chancellor -of the Exchequer, Derick Heathcoat Amory, have played their bad cards with great coolness, verve and success. Thus Britain's recov ery is noteworthy simply as an important feat of political economic leadership. AN THE other hand, how- ever, It is also noteworthy for another much more funda mental reason. One has to keep one's fingers crossed, 1 A. XI . . . . . dui me present British re covery looks very much more solid and enduring than the other postwar recoveries. In those earlier cases, the flush of seeming prosperity always turned into the fever of a cur rency crisis. i - Except for 1953, in fact, uritain nas had a currency crisis in every odd-numbered year from 1949 onwards. In 1959, in contrast,' confi dence in the currency is high. More important still, almost all the costly, overstraining postwar tasks, in industry, have been completed and paid for. With these domestic tasks out of the way, the desperate ly precarious period of hand-to-mouth planning would seem to be over. This was the be lief that was implied by the budget recently presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Heathcoat Amory, with its enterprise-stimulating tax re liefs. All this does not mean, of course, that Britain is now in vulnerable" to the shocks of economic fortune. In the first place, as one high official has ruefully remarked, "In the country, it's politically dis astrous to have more than 500,000 unemployed, and it's economically disastrous to have less than 250,000." . TN OTHER words, the British voters fear unemployment Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE . AGENCY 17 NORTH HOLLY ST. could only lead to new ad vantages to Russian forces vastly superior in manpower; -Many Western diplomats already are predicting freely that the Russians will reject at once the western package plan. Christian Herter's job now is twofold: First, to parry the bayonet thrusts of Soviet Premier Nikita " Krushchev, and second to prevent, the Western wall from crumbling from within. , so greatly that the Tory party suffered heavily when the rate of unemployment rose to 2.8 per cent-much less than half the maximum rate of U.S. unemployment in the recent depression. Yet if the rate of unemployment drops much below 1.8 per cent, a job squeeze and inflation tend to set in immediately. The mar gin is painfully narrow, and any British government will always find it painfully diffi cult to avoid the two extremes. In the second place, Britain remains particularly vulnear able because of her contin uing dependence on profits from old investments in raw material sources in ex-colonial areas like the Middle East. which are now in full nation alist ferment. The oil invest ments, bringing in about $1, 000,000,000 dollars a year, are the largest single item. If all profits from such investments in all politicaly insecure areas are lumped together, that total income now runs close, to $1.5 billion a year. This is about 14 per cent of Britain's total earnings overseas. That is an enormous per centage in the politicaly in secure category. It means, for instance, that if the Kremlin's agents can ever get a grip on Middle Eastern oil, they can use their oil-control as a powerful instrument of political-economic blackmail in London. The passivity and di vision of council in London, after the terrible defeat of the revolution in Iraq, were the main causes of the sense of impending defeat that was so strong here only a little more than a year ago. TN THE interval, the situa A tion In the Middle East has worsened and the situations in Africa and other ex-colonial areas have also grown more threatening. But the pic ture has changed for the bet ter in two other ways. Al though heavy British losses in the ex-colonial areas seem no less likely, it now seems likely that these losses will occur piecemeal, in a gradual manner, thus adjustment will be far more easy. - - " At the same time, this kind of gradual piecemeal adjust ment begins to seem quite possible, because of the vigor ous British recovery. The out look would "be even more hopeful if the American gov ernment were capable (at is may be capable in another 18 months) of developing a con structive, unified policy to wards the ex-colonial areas. Britain han have no inde pendent policy, but the two countries working together can still achieve much, even in the Middle East. " ; Meanwhile, it is already very hopeful that so much has been achieved here on the home front. . (c) 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. TOOTH STAINS TOBACCO - COFFEE 65 is recommended -df by dentists to remove stoins from teeth. Stain-free teeth look bright, feel wonderful. ffepcr.49&79 A REAL HOT DEAL Someone must always lose. When FIRE and WATER 1 clashes. But rest assured, IF YOU'RE INSURED. You'll be well paid for the ashes.. Bill Fish
